skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be careful! The source contains lots of blobs, not much is known about the author ( I only know he is from China *). This project would be a very fat target for anyone liking to get the most unfettered root access imaginable, because many system administrators will happily plug this in while installing OSes.

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* I hate to make this remark, as this could indeed be someone happily doing his hobby. Otoh, after xz we should be more vigilant than we were already.
> Carmakers’ approach may not resemble planned obsolescence so much as “planned improvements,” McDonald said—making older hardware incompatible with software updates or other new functions.

Or they may just move to the "leasing" model, where you pay a subscription to have your war work. Then, if you miss a payment, it locks you out and returns to a distribution hub, like some Tesla's have done.
Aider uses Treesitter to improve code generation.
https://aider.chat/2023/10/22/repomap.html

Aider: https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider

It is state of the art on SWE-Bench and SWE-Bench Lite.
https://aider.chat/2024/06/02/main-swe-bench.html
> The thing is, BES needs some privileges to do its job, i.e. suspending and resuming threads that don’t belong to its own process.

Wow so it's turning the target process off and on constantly. I'm surprised that alone doesn't introduce lots of overhead?
That could partially be addressed by making the sensor include the concept of not working. Run a small electric current across the sensor, if that current fails the sensor knows that it's not monitoring and can report it as a loose sensor rather than as a failure of whatever it's supposed to be sensing.
Giving a country military aid, but not as much military aid as that country might have liked, is not isolationism.

It just isn't. That's not what "isolationism" means.
Have you thought about translating it to English (using cheap or free means)?
> In school you’re taught to take your litter home with you, or deposit it in the nearest public bin.

In the place I went to school they drove home this lesson by picking a class each week that would then spend the next period picking up litter in and around the school grounds. Or rather, that was the lesson. Explicitly pointing out that littering is stupid and asocial would've been redundant at that point.

Certainly it made people less likely to litter, since odds were they or the student next to them would be the ones picking it back up anyways. Nevertheless there was always enough litter to be picked up each week.
PSA: The Linux kernel will only have one console at a time during boot. This means that if both VGA and serial are specified, in that order, the last one is used, meaning there will be no output on the VGA until `getty` starts up on other VTYs.
There's also the 'reticulate' package for R, which allows you to import Python libraries and exchange objects between the two languages. It includes a proper Python engine for knitr (with matplotlib support), letting you use both R and Python code blocks in the same R Markdown document.

https://cran.r-project.org/web//packages//reticulate/index.h...
Then you're probably against famine, war and plague too.
> I am not sure we should blame governments for wanting to retain powers in a social contract we've been broadly happy for them to have for 150 years.

The breadth and depth of surveillance that you can do on the average modern person with electronic monitoring is unprecedented in all human history. Reading somebody's letters does not begin to compare.

There is not an "established social contract". They got a massive spying windfall, beginning with wiretapping, and then exploding when practically everything anybody did was recorded in a machine somewhere. The changes in the last 20 or 30 years have been overwhelming.

There's no "150-year social contract" on their side, but there are several hundred thousand years of established balance of power on our side. The powers these people want to "retain" are things they didn't have for long enough that it could be intertwined with the biological evolution of the species.
What Happened to 1Password?
The war for AI talent is heating up
> B) The local infrastructure is such that there is no frequent servicing of a conveniently-placed trash receptacle.

I don't think it is as easy as Disney's idea of just adding more trash cans. A public bin is only as useful if it isn't full. You need an infrastructure for emptying and maintaining each bin you add. A lot of litter in our city is around full public trash cans as these areas have been identified as being high trash areas, but if they aren't being emptied regularly enough, they become litter magnets and make the problem worse.

Japan has virtually no public trash cans and very little litter. Playground and parks in Japan have no trash bins, so they are never overflowing and you never expect there to be one and it isn't or it is full.
https://archive.is/r4JvW
Filesystem is too big for the ram.
Generally speaking. I (rarely) buy insurance for things like travel when I have reason to think that I have circumstances that may lead to a higher probability of collecting insurance than the average person automatically buying it has. And I certainly have things like homeowner's insurance where losses could be catastrophic.

But self-insuring for random relatively low-cost events mostly makes little sense for people as it does for companies.
On the other hand, the human body is super-reliant on very nearly exact temperature regulation. A few degrees can kill us easily. Cold blooded systems are substantially less reliant on pristine conditions.
> “All computer-science departments are becoming machine-learning departments,” says Naveen Rao of Databricks
> They were there for their PhD, not as a professor in training which would have made your position more understandable.

Right. Not all TAs become professors. But at a first approximation all professors have TA experience; it's generally their first experience of teaching.

I was paid for my time as a TA, in the UK. It would be illegal for them not to pay.
> These restrictions prevented what these women saw as their right to be elegant in appearance.

...

> The events that it set in motion on the streets of Rome created a precedent which saw Roman women stand up for their rights and make their voices heard.

Recognizing that yes, women and men should have the same legal rights, I find it hilarious that the tipping point that year was that women had to limit their wardrobe in public.

From [wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Oppia) because I find the phrasing interesting:

"Cato argued that the law removed the shame of poverty because it made all women dress in an equal fashion. Cato insisted that if women could engage in a clothes-contest, they would either feel shame in the presence of other women, or on the contrary, they would delight in a rather base victory as a result of extending themselves beyond their means."

Again, men and women should be equal under the law, but it isn't an antiquated notion that women would engage in a "clothes-contest", particularly among economic classes.

(Men, to be clear, are socially permitted far less peacocking with clothing, so there isn't anywhere near the same contest.)
I am extremely skeptical about this sort of thing - I suspect that it's extremely challenging to reliably make assertions about the carbon cost of running a given website given that there are so many unaccountable-for variables; at best the very "edge" of any carbon usage is being guessed at.

Added to that the opportunities for charging the various parties for "certification" are simply too good to pass up it seems.
Framing!

Why does the author insist that not littering is the neutral state?
Socioeconomic class is not defined by assets, but rather by income or if you want to get a little more sophisticated (to cover the case of the young person about to graduate from medical school) potential to earn income.

Of course, if you have enough assets, you can derive reliable investment income from those assets, but $8K of assets will not reliably generate enough income to matter when considering what class the person is.

In other words, if you have $8K in assets, but zero potential to earn income from your labor, you definitely do not meet the bar for being middle class.
> Credit scores aren't a black box.

Please show me the calculation methodology of any major credit scoring agency.

Rough guidelines aren't cutting it.
> Anything that uses a JIT recompiler is never going to be perfectly cycle-accurate to the original hardware

beebjit [1] is a cycle-accurate JIT-based emulator for the BBC Micro. It can be done.

[1]: https://github.com/scarybeasts/beebjit
> The simple problem with encryption is that it replaces communications that are exposed to this authority with communications that can evade it.

> I am not sure we should blame governments for wanting to retain powers in a social contract we've been broadly happy for them to have for 150 years.

Encryption is math. I can encrypt messages and send them by post, and law enforcement would be equally powerless to read them.

Ciphers are not a new invention. The social contract you are speaking of never existed.

> It's technologists' jobs to explain why easily-broken encryption is a bad idea.

No, it is on the people who want new powers to justify them.
> There's a pretty decent chance it's simply too expensive!

I doubt the 24 year old, 300Mhz RISC, 32MB Ram, PS2 instruction set is too expensive to do a cycle perfect replication.
The way this video explains words is a bit confusing because it uses a lot of specialized terms and jargon right in the definitions, which makes it harder, not easier, to understand what the words mean. It feels like you need to already know a lot to get what's being said, which isn't great for everyone trying to learn. It would really help if the explanations were simpler and included examples or contexts that make the meanings clear and relatable to anyone watching.
Biology only cares about elegance when it substantially contributes to fitness, otherwise entropy is the natural way of things!
Some pipelined CPUs have retained compatibility with self-modifying code and detect when you overwrite an instruction that is on the pipeline and flush it.

X86 has that machinery although I'm not sure if they dropped it eventually on the 64-bit variant.
I'm not trying to tell anyone what to do.. but these toads (like the Sonoran desert toad) are increasingly becoming endangered due to poaching. It is possible to milk the venom without harming them, but a lot of poachers aren't careful or use the wrong techniques.

I also understand people believe that there is a qualitative difference between the venom and synthetic, but it's the same compound at the end of the day.
> If you build a robust budget and spend within that, you will have an 800 score.

I don't think that's how credit scores work, at all.
Interesting. I don't know much about OSes, but in userspace there's an analog for event loops.

Almost all of them have a timer heap or timer wheel or something (that's below the level of abstraction I work at) which can always answer the question, "When do I wake up next?". And then every event is reducible to either a timer timeout or an external event like the file driver giving you data from a file, getting a packet from the network, mouse movement, etc.

Games often don't need this because they tick at 60+ Hz to render everything anyway, so it's easier to just hang everything off that and check every timer on every frame, it's going to be a tiny waste of CPU compared to the rest of the game logic.

However in one case I was writing an event-based program for work, using C++, with limitations on what dependencies I could pull in, so I set a fixed tick (something like every 1 second) and when I got external events, I just ran the whole tick function instantly. This introduced some latency but it was in places that didn't matter, and it made the code really easy to follow.
Modern languages usually provide a generate integer in range primitive.

Edit: Even C++ seems to have it nowadays in std::uniform_int_distribution
Some Things I Believe
Swamp Water Kool-Aid for the cultists.
Exactly. The procedure of taking off with the auto throttles rather than manually controlling the engines should be prohibited in the POH if the software governing the flow of that procedure is unreliable. Sure, double checking it is a really great and necessary step, but you don’t throw down marbles on the floor in front of the aircrew, even if they should be able to step around them.

Mistakes get made. Procedures botched, steps overlooked or conditioned by habit to be checked ok when they are not.

Aviation safety is the result of defense in depth, layered mechanisms and procedures that make loss of life highly improbable. An aircraft that is faulty in a way that defeats these layers of safety is by definition not airworthy.

Often, it can be made airworthy by a change of procedure, a change in operational regimes, or even by a placard on the dash.

In this case, prohibiting the use of autothrottle takeofff until the software is reliable is probably indicated. Something that fails once in a while but usually works is often much more dangerous than something that just doesn’t work at all or is tagged out.
This never made sense to me. What "feels" special about 32, or 98, or 212? If anything this argument is way more applicable to Celsius (0 noteworthy, 100 noteworthy).

I once read that it had to do with making a calibrated scale (divisions of 2) - and that felt like it held water - to me.
Humans always have access to RNG, whether it's psychosis or lucid innovation. We assume that people will behave the same because of regressive analysis, but we're proven wrong through digression and outlier points. Part of the "battle" is getting AI to understand and rationalize that cycle, which other humans have shown throughout history is easier said than done. You build a wall, your enemies build a ladder. You dig a moat, they come with canoes and oars.

Poker indeed has a higher skill ceiling, but there is a difference between high-level and low-level play. Low-level players are cheating each other out of an understanding of the game; they win by playing smarter hands, making progressive bets, and cheating lesser players by playing smarter. Realistically you can only expect an AI to succeed at this low-level of play, since it inherently relies on a knowledge imbalance that AI could potentially exploit. But against high-level players? You're playing a different game, one that even Stockfish won't really grok. Poker masters don't behave like an AI at all, but instead like a computer. Their hand has a relative value which signals the importance of positioning a bet. That bet doesn't always have to be a bluff; sometimes it's a pressure tactic to make a smart player depend on bad cards. Multiple high-level players against each other may simply try to win by attrition, sticking to theory-optimal play to slowly grind away profitable bets. After a long enough time (or high enough value), these wins can be cashed-out apropos of nothing. How do you play smart in the long game while defensive in the short? How do you exploit bad odds and maximize favorable ones? If any of these questions were answered completely, Poker would be an obsolete game relegated to robots. But people play it, because there is indeed a game to be played once you fully understand what's on the table.
> MEPs are pretty much just like MPs in the British parliament. They are not just rubber-stamp voters of policies from the Commission.

Having moved from the US to a Westminster country, I have to say that even British MPs can look an awful lot like rubber-stamp voters. The system is set up to punish them severely if they dare to seriously endanger anything the cabinet wants. And MEPs are even weaker.

It matters if (what amounts to) the executive can continuously badger and harry the Parliament to get what it wants, whether all at once or bit by bit... while there's no mechanism at all for the Parliament to spontaneously move the ratchet the other way.
I wonder how mainframe emulators (that sometimes are used to run legacy, very critical software on modern hardware) manage to do it. Do they go for full complete emulation? As in, implementing the entire hardware in software?
Same as if I buy a 10-year term life insurance policy and don't die during that decade. I lost all of the full premium paid.
This seems like a direct copy of reflex.dev https://reflex.dev/docs/events/page-load-events/
Draw an iceberg and see how it will float
I call this one FDD: Fuckwit Driven Development. Because if it was resume-driven I'd expect it to be something that they would want to put on their resume. But this is unmentionable.
I have to challenge the premise here. I don't hear people saying gambling is wrong and insurance is right. My guess is most people consider gambling a harmless vice most of the time, and consider insurance an annoying fact of life.

Now, people consider problem gambling a problem, but that's a tautology. Many people also think casinos are predatory, but wait 'til you hear what they think about insurance companies.
"Gambling is all about risking it all"
a blanket statement which is not true.

gambling is about risk / reward management.

there are bad gamblers and good gamblers.

a good poker player for example employs bankroll management to avoid going broke due to variance (expected downswings) [1] and their game-play decisions are driven by math.

[1] https://www.primedope.com/poker-variance-calculator/
> it simply reduces variance

Mostly I agree. That doesn't make it not gambling though.
Network effects hinder competition. Because it’s not a market that has fair competition, regulations are needed to force the networks to be opened up. Or maybe split up.
insurance is negative EV, like gambling, for the individual.
My guess the “fix” is going to be to add this:

According to Forbes…

Maybe they will make the link more prominent also. But that won’t solve the problem.

Months of investigating reporting completely enshittified on an automated basis. A slop mill just slowly consuming the entire web to provide rewritten truths that real people poured their time and energy into.

It is demoralising. I am not sure there is an answer to this problem either, at least one that doesn’t involve a hard paywall.
I'm using ccache, but apparently it does not work for linking. Any drop-in replacement I could use instead?
The point is that your facts are generated by a fiction-making machine. I'm not wasting my time judging any of that.
That seems like a them problem?
You have it backwards.

They really do not want false negatives because that gets them sued. Thus the system will be set up to err on the side of false positives--the current liability climate does not blame them for alarm fatigue.

Consider a local case (although it's possible it was overturned on appeal): Yes, the doctor was unquestionably playing loose with standard safety precautions. His behavior transmitted blood-borne infections. He died in prison which was well deserved.

However, the lawyers went hunting for some deep pockets. The manufacturer of the drug involved in the cross contamination. They made various size vials, including some that were bigger than would be used on one patient. This permitted the doctor to contaminate between patients and got them hit with a $250M verdict. (Never mind that had they truly only used clean needles with them like they should have there never would have been an issue. They used a new needle but the old syringe.)

That's the sort of insane legal pressure driving the garbage.
Bigger context windows don't work as well as advertised. The "hay in a haystack" problem is not solved yet.

Also bigger context windows mean a lot more time waiting for an answer. Given the quadratic nature of context windows, we are stuck using transformers in smaller chunks. Other architectures like Mamba may solve that, but even then, increases in context window accuracy are not 1000x.
Solar modules deployed in France in 1992 still provide 75.9% of output power
> There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28

Written by Paul, generally regarded as pretty sexist when it came to women.
Yes I don't need explaining that encryption is maths and letters can be encrypted. That is pretty obvious.

(Postal inspectors the world over would assume evidence of a crime.)

> No, it is on the people who want new powers to justify them.

The exact point I am getting at is that the governments who want these things are seeking to protect the power they have, not expand it.

Encrypted communications are eating away at the power to inspect communications they already have, that we have been happy to grant them (that is the social contract I am talking about; it has existed for as long as postal services have).

It's a very American thing to assume that government in general is always acting in bad faith, I guess.
I'm not familiar with the medical field. To what extent does experience using mice translate to humans?
Giant Current Ripples
> Adobe is a virus. You cannot get rid of it [...] You can't veen close it from the process list without sacrificing 2 hours.

Yup. Last time I installed an Adobe app on a Mac it refused to install unless I entered an administrator password (and didn't describe why that was necessary), and then made itself persistent so that the Creative Cloud background process restarted whenever I rebooted the computer. Ended up downloading KnockKnock to figure out how it was persisting itself: https://objective-see.org/products/knockknock.html
It's an LLVM fork so basically the same things that are possible with LLVM.
The mandatory insurance is for your liability if you damage other people’s property. (If you have financed the car, you likely also have to insure your own car against collision and other damages, but that’s a condition of the financing, not a law.)

We were hit from behind in a car that we did not carry collision insurance on. The at-fault driver is responsible for the repairs and they have mandated insurance to cover that.
Proofs: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook
I'm trying to figure this out, gambling is a zero sum game. The gamblers are the only ones bringing money to the table, the bookies take a cut, someone loses and someone wins.

Is insurance a zero sum game?

I think...sort of?
C is not very close to W
Anyway, I'm sorry if some people are reading this hastily written blog entry to seem like the archive is taking credit for the process of discovery being done by people. The phrase likely does not mean definitely and perhaps I should have used a different word when I wrote the entry. But the fact remains that the wayback machine is the only place you can see the image in the context of its original website, and that is only happening because the archive is doing such a general crawl. That's all I wanted to get across, all hail the wayback machine, have a great day.
Laws past are often changes to legal code, they often soon have other code intertwined with them. How do you expire code automatically, do all dependent changed also have to expire? How do you track the dependency tree?

Horse trading is an aspect of compromise: you want A, I would rather not; I want B, you would rather not; so we agree on A & B.