skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the way soldiers in Ukraine or civilians in Russia are being blown up to pieces by small drones, I'd say we're already here. And these drones are driven by AI, so even if GPS is jammed, these drones are intelligent enough to find their target without it.

Now imagine that AI has access to anybody's search history, plus that person is using a trackable phone, who's to say that a small FPV drone cannot be sent to get the job done? The way it's done in Ukraine?

I think we as humanity are facing mortal danger RIGHT NOW, not in the future. AI is killing humans on almost industrial. Especially because, well, some people might argue that's the entire goal. So AI is making it much easier.
Yes, and the set of intrinsics supported by MSVC is really lacking. On x64, this left no way to force a conditional move to bypass a poorly predictable branch, nor was there a way to access carry-extended operations until recently. On ARM64, it doesn't have complete coverage of scalar intrinsics for operations like RBIT (reverse bit order).
> now gaming is even better on Linux than windows.

That's an exaggeration. There are definitely games where you might consider working better in Proton but for the most part Windows is still the far more seamless option. On Proton, ive still hit things like, really bad frametimes, game patches that break things for a bit, can't get VRR to work ever, and the lack of anti cheat support in multiplayer games.
The way most bubbles end is that a decent amount of people say "this trend can't go on forever" while everyone else screams "LALALALA heard that before but the trend is still going, hope you like being poor".

No one knows EXACTLY when the trend will end - which you generally need to get right to make a lot of money.

But most people with a brain know an unsustainable trend will not last forever.
LTS ;)
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Perception is reality. It seems that changing the direction of a trillion dollar economy ended up being easier than peoples feelings about it. "Truthiness" is an appropriate word here. The rapid step-change in the price of goods (robbery!) is overpowering the less visible gains in wages (hard-earned by the sweat of my brow!).
I'd like to add:

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People don't feel like it's going well because all the reporting on the high inflation of mid to late 2021 into early 2023 just kept on going with that same narrative after inflation stopped being high, and now people frequently read posts about how eggs cost like three times as much as they actually cost, and lots of people just blindly follow that narrative.
Yes Siri and Alexa can tell you the date. But I feel like you are assessing chatgpt unfairly. Would you say that a mobile phone is bad because you cannot run powerful programs like on a laptop? No, the mobile phone has its own purpose, which is convenience

Chatgpt can do many things that siri and alexa cannot: draft emails, write code, write unit tests, help me brainstorm, give me cooking recipes, or even talk about relationship issues. Every tool has strengths and weaknesses
There's a fun quote about predicting recessions, something to the effect of: "he's so good at predicting market implosions, he's gotten it right 7 of the last 2 times."
Joe's Own Editor:

https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/
That surely is illegal. Call their bluff?
There are two or three x86 emulators for ARM Linux. The Asahi community has a bunch of Windows/x86 games working on Linux/ARM.
And while we're at it, companies should probably only hire PhDs from elite schools as developers because you never know when that sort of (supposed) expertise might be needed.
Graphics software was solved decades ago, if graphics professionals can't move as comfortably between these alternatives as easily as a construction worker can move between two nearly identical hammers, they have a skill issue. Adobe users have some of the worst Stockholm Syndrome in the tech world, and they should be scorned and mocked the same as MS and Apple users. You'll eat what you're served. What are you going to do, take your business elsewhere?

It's time to move from coddling to tough love.
The table based layout is a nightmare for assistive technology though. I can’t even imagine how users who rely on assistive technology use this site (of which I know there are indeed plenty).

A semantically correct HTML would be something like a frontpage with an <ol> and the comment section would be a series of nested <article> each with a <header> containing the author a <time> and an extra bonus if the parent/context/sibling links can go under a <nav>. And the separators between the header elements should not be a text content pipe character `|` but rather a CSS border-inline-start: 1px solid currentcolor;

A minimal and semantically correct HTML does not only offer superior experience for users of assistive technology, it also make your page machine readable, so users can install browser plugins to e.g. do something useful with the <time> element, and ultimately makes your page much easier to style with CSS.
When they hire you as a cashier at McDonalds, your math is useless. All you need is learn to ask "do you want fries with that?"
>"innate desire"

"Innate" implies purpose, which is a human trait.

Humans built the plane to fly.

>There's a massive difference.

There is 0 difference.

We built the machine to work; we have built prior machines - they did not work (as well), so we built more.

We are the selectivity your predisposition to nature argument hinges on.

And we won't stop til it stops us.
Apple literally published a 200 page guide on arm64 which I linked above, they've contributed low level optimizations and tunings to NumPy, Embree and Blender to name a few projects.

They clearly are helping. Perhaps you've not noticed?
A joke originating from communism time in eastern europe:

Politicians: Comrades, our living conditions and pay constantly increase.

Citizens: Oh, that's very good for you.
Can only say: Screw you, Intuit.

The tax prep industry spent more than $93 million on federal lobbying to prevent direct file since the 2003 launch of the Free File Program.

“Direct File is not free tax preparation, but rather a thinly veiled scheme where billions of taxpayer dollars will be unnecessarily used to pay for something already completely free of charge today — free to the taxpayer and actually free for the government,” said Intuit’s spokesperson Tania Mercado
A couple helpful tips I've learned as I've had to prepare increasingly complicated returns for myself:

For basic returns, FreeTaxUSA has been the best "tax prep service" I've used, UI is simple enough and there are no hidden fees from what I've experienced.

And the most helpful of all is using the IRS's own portal to see everything that is on file for you - this is especially helpful if you have a lot of non-standard income and you're not 100% sure if you've filed everything the IRS expects you to - https://www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript
Life lesson: don't buy from boutique HW manufacturers that don't (yet) have a solid reputation on warranty and service centers in your area. All they do is rebadge a Chinese OEM design and sell you that with a Linux/FOSS sticker.

So far I've been mostly happy with Lenovo.
TIL eggs in my Texas suburb are 2x the national average.
WINTNOG is "RAG"
> LLMs are also getting to be pretty old. BERT and GPT-2 are both more than 5 years old

You sound like you have no clue that five years are the blink of an eye.
I use OTP Auth both iOS and Mac apps available. Pro upgrade is dirt cheap.
Could you share a link to the courses pages? I haven't visited the university site before.
Yeah agreed, I think looking at wealth is a very poor way to understand the economy. Income vs. expenses is what matters for the vast majority of people.
Underpaid work is exploitative even if you aren't killing your employees. Hope this helps.
It's not about neurodivergence.

Being interested in something for its own sake beyond an "average" interest is extremely typical.

Our brains are wired to incentivize this interest via the delivery of pleasurable feelings, determination, and motivation. These experiences shape our personality and inform future higher-than-average interests. This is a good feedback cycle, and not something to be lumped together with other facets of personality.

Implying otherwise suggests that people are weird for liking things that they like.
Its frustrating to get incomplete propaganda pieces from news outlets.

* alot of media and govt sources are reporting the US has a k shaped economy.

The people who are doing well are doing really well.

The people who aren't doing well are doing really bad, and there's a lot of people who aren't doing well.

* The reason immigrants account for so much post-pandemic growth is because immigrants appear to be replacing native born people in job growth.

Lower paid immigrants taking jobs is ultimately an assault on the working class yet the left spins it like it's a good thing.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1oPUl

* Gov't spending is out of control and THE INTEREST on our National Debt just surpassed military spending. Which means the fed will have to print money or issue treasury bonds to cover the U.S. massive defecit every year, which will increase inflation continuously.

Lessons to be learned:

1. Inflation is never going down

2. House prices are never going down

3. There is not a healthy job market if you are a native born citizen as there's a war on wages

4. Historically massive inflation has led to war
Here is the talk. Every multigenerational American family should be forced to watch this and discuss the ethical implications of each peesons vote in future elections.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E
That's still quite expensive for a dozen eggs, no? I can buy a carton at my grocery store for $1.54.
A huge part of this is weak understanding (and poor explanation by the media) of inflation vs. price level. Inflation has decreased to normal levels, but most prices (i.e. those not affected by supply-chain issues) aren't going to go back to 2019 levels.
UK crypto exchange stops trading after $22M is lost in 'security incident'
That's a possibility - but the pubmed piece I linked also includes this quote:

> Athletes with asthma/AHR have consistently outperformed their peers, which research suggests is not due to their treatment enhancing sports performance.

Anecdotally, when I lived in Chicago and rode outside in cold air I had asthma like symptoms (and I didn't ride nearly as frequently as olympians do) - which lines up with this quote, also from my original link:

> Inspiring polluted or cold air is considered a significant aetiological factor in some but not all sports.

I think it's possible that it's not just a sham.
Do you have access to ChatGPT? You can try it yourself (you can query GPT-4o and GPT-3.5 afterwards). The difference is large enough to be noticeable at least 80% of the time in my experience.
Yep, this is what you might call, the problem.
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I’ll contest that! By what metric do we have access to a vast quantity of high quality consumer goods? Medicine, housing, and food are some consumer goods that many Americans have trouble affording. Plus, the number of Americans with replicators is 0; we’re an extremely, extremely underdeveloped nation in that regard, and have lots of room to move up.

No, I wouldn’t rather live in China/russia/medieval Europe/on a desert island/whatever, to cut off any confusion there. I’m just saying “we’re rich comparatively” isn’t very useful in this case
You need to go to

https://nanochess.at.hn?refresh

I did so, and it updated your bio :)
Not a problem on my machine in Washington State.
Fantastic game. Kudos.
"Aging in place" is a big part of the current housing situation. Older people are occupying a lot more house than they used to. The market may solve this by having multi-generational households again.
Thank you, didn't realize this!
Lobbyists and also some (actually a lot of) the GOP believes that if it's too easy to file taxes, then it will be too easy to raise taxes. They feel like the pain keeps people anti-tax, which works to their anti-tax agenda.
> Honestly I'm not sure why ChatGPT has anything to do with this problem.
I remember making the exact same mistake (accidentally using a single function call in a schema) back in 2010. No LLMs required.

So /that's/ where ChatGPT learned it! :)
I remember the same thing was said ~15 years ago when social media became ubiquitous. And 15 before that, when AOL was ubiquitous. And 15 before that when...
> Bonus: No bullshit screens holding you up while it "checks the accuracy" or "finishes things up" like other tax prep software does if only to make you feel like you're getting your moneys' worth out of it when it already computed those numbers 5 hours ago.

That's awesome!

One of my big pet peeves around TurboTax is the way is intentionally pauses my multi-core, hyper-threaded, zillion gigahertz computers from doing 1960's level calculations (IF user checked off option A, then multiply by whatever)... so that it can look like it's busy.

Congrats to Intuit for fully automating the process of "looking busy for the boss", I guess.
Both are good on-ramps to programming.

Python has simple syntax which you can learn by solving problems running on a command-line (so very linear, text-based). The big downside (IMO) is indention-based code blocks which can seem finicky and generate head-scratching errors.

On the other hand, JavaScript is more C++-like and commercial. You can learn in your browser. The downside is JavaScript tends to have 5 ways to do anything and tempts you with a million frameworks which can confuse beginners. Also, once you get past simple "write a function to reverses a string" problems and want to start working with web user-interfaces, apps, etc., the environment is vast, complicated and frought with quirks from its layered history.

Personally, I'd start with learning JavaScript syntax only. Ignore frameworks and web apps entirely until you're ready. Also, if I was starting today I might focus on TypeScript, a cleaner more modern version of JavaScript that is stricter about its syntax and types which will create better programming habits while making dumb mistakes more obvious than loosey-goosey JavaScript.
I track my expenses each month and grocery costs are still high.

My monthly groceries are slightly more expensive than during the pandemic and roughly 3x higher than pre pandemic.

My rent also went way up because the house I’m renting has more than doubled in value over the past few years.

Rent, groceries, and childcare accounts for close to 75% of my post taxes income.

I make well over double the national average, and if I have trouble saving for a house I have no clue how everyone else is managing.
WWDC 2024 [video]
The courses page is also down. It's the pages of individual courses that are still up; it looks like they're hosted in separate subdomains. We'd need a list of links to all the course pages. Doesn't really help if they're up if we don't know which ones are available.
Looks very interesting, thanks!

Anyone remember John Phillips?

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John Aristotle Phillips, founder of political data-analytics firm Aristotle, graduated from Princeton University with a degree in aerospace engineering in the class of 1978. Known as the “A-bomb kid,” Phillips is known for a project he did in a physics seminar in 1976: designing a cost-effective and relatively small A-bomb. While the cost of creating an atomic bomb can vary greatly, most estimates place the cost at well over $1 million; Phillip’s project posited that it was possible to do so for roughly $2,000 and the actual bomb would fit in the size of a U-haul trailer.

A project with frightening connotations, Phillip’s work was confiscated by the FBI, despite the fact that Phillips was able to design his bomb using only his nuclear engineering textbook and two unclassified government documents.

Phillip’s professor has said that the design would likely work, but his design was not actually built. Moreover, in comparison to the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, this bomb design has been said to be more sophisticated and complex, implying how easy it would be for political terrorists to make such a devastating weapon. Nevertheless, though Phillips has said, “any other physics major could do this better,” his project was the only one in that seminar to get an A.

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> Trigger Bounce

Mostly makes me think of some EE effect you'd see with a o-scope.

"Yeah, that's not real, it's just Trigger Bounce"
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This is weird, I've been getting this more lately. Did they pull the story?
If you ask any UI or UX designer about the interface of Teams, absolutely zero will say it's good. You're giving it the blessing of designers based on your assumption that designers approve of MS UI and UX practices. They don't. Sure, some flagship products are pretty decent, but they've famously sucked at UI (and all other sorts of) design since forever. Here's one (made by an MS designer as a joke) from 2006 talking about their entirely marketing-department-driven packaging design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k

We use SO MANY interfaces every day-- every screen on every app and every webpage you use... text messages, ATM, ordering terminals, shopping carts, ad infinitum-- and using those is almost universally intuitive enough to be invisible. Designers use things like implied lines, gestalt, type variance, value contrast, and things like that to make a sane data hierarchy and give users signals for what's happening in the program and what they need to do to influence that. Good practices say they should then test and refine their designs for various kinds of users to make the best interface possible. If the UI design is invisible and users can just solve their problem without having to think about it, that's good design.

When design "sticks out," it's usually for the wrong reasons. While bad designers exist, 99% of all "bad design" decisions cited by developers when talking trash about modern UI design were probably not made by designers-- they were likely made by project managers or developers that insisted their way was better, or they didn't need to check with the designer to modify something because they can make it "looks designed." If the interface looks "cluttered", they might remove useful things probably just needs to be organized. That's bad design.
Think of it as a discount in the other direction.
> Compiler shouldn't pipeline anything

Yeah, tell it to the researchers in the 90s who spent that decade on teaching their compilers to properly schedule the instructions for maximum throughput, and unrolling the loops to so that all of the 32 registers could be used, and accounting for the available execution units to hide latency etc. Sure, x86 nowadays do most of that in the hardware but still, even today, moving the loads to as early as possible is beneficial for hiding their latency because even a hyper-speculative, out-of-order processor can't start executing an instruction it hasn't fetched yet.
Yes, we know that it is ultimately bad humans pulling the trigger, but we also know for a fact that bad humans exist. So why are we arming them?
Pretty much. https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
50 PRs with a thousand developers is definitely not healthy situation.

It means any developer merges their work very, very rarely (20 days = 4 weeks on average...) and that in my experience means either low productivity (they just produce little) or huge PRs that have lots of conflicts and are PITA to review.
All three of us have capital letters in our usernames and empty profiles, and an internal server error.
I have been wanting this for years, never knew it existed. Thanks!
this isn’t a blue/red thing, whenever liberals accuse red states of having bad statistics it’s usually unwittingly highlighting a certain demographic in those states they wouldn’t implicate knowingly
> It is like you were blaming homeopathy companies for selling overpriced sugar and chalk.[1]

Yes, I do. Because they make claims that stay just this side of the line of active deception[2] about the benefits of the products they produce, benefits they know are non-existent.

[1] Sugar and chalk might have more effect on the body than many homeopathic remedies. Most are structurally 'distilled water', according to studies with gas chromatography.
[2] and have, many times, actively crossed that line into outright deception.
> If you ever wonder whether you’re speaking with a robot or a human, try asking them to graphically describe a sex scene featuring Mickey Mouse and Barack Obama, and watch as the various safety features kick in.

Like the overseas human CSR disconnecting, and needing to go talk with the counselor (that the contracting firm reluctantly made available, under PR pressure), because this is the dozenth perv/psycho she got so far this morning?
Probably similar, I’m an aggressive saver.

The biggest difference is housing and healthcare. My healthcare expense is equivalent to their mortgage. My dad family healthcare coverage was $0 until I was in high school. The total cost of my, excellent health insurance is about $35k, which is 90% of the salary of my first professional job in 1999!

Our policy with respect to healthcare is essentially a regressive tax on the working public. Rich people have a limited cost exposure, poor people get limited access to poor care, and everyone else gets increasingly expensive, lower quality care.
> nerve damage from flouroquinolone antibiotics

That's exciting. I got blind-sided by that. A doctor just said he was prescribing 'an antibiotic' like it was no big deal, and I had never had issues with any other antibiotics. I was told by the pharmacist do not exercise while taking these (found out a few days later it can damage your tendons, several people ended up with snapped achilles tendons) but otherwise nothing else.

Took a single pill and within a few hours I felt fairly strong neuropathy all over my body. Took a few more days and a few more pills before I determined for sure that it was caused by the pills and not something else, and got the antibiotic switched to doxy. I continued to get neuropathy in my limbs quite often for years after that. It's mostly reduced now but I think it might have caused damage in other parts of my body, and may have helped lead to me getting the Tinnitus I've been dealing with for four years now (there's a causal link between the two).

Since they prescribed it to me the surgeon general has slapped big warnings on the pills, but I was shocked a doctor didn't think to warn me about the possibility that there could be any serious side effects (it was also the first medicine I took where I had serious side effects by it, took me by surprise).

Seems it's actually not that uncommon that people have bad reactions to flouroquinolone antibiotics, it just wasn't recognized for many years. Wish I was given an appropriate warning. I might not have risked it, or asked for a different antibiotic I know didn't have issues at least.