skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To rephrase: we should make it harder for everyone to do stuff because of the tiny minority criminals we want law enforcement to catch (and whose job we need to make easier by way of crime-preempting hacks in every system criminals might use because otherwise it would be too difficult for law enforcement to do their job).
It was abandoned because they made the mistake of trying to build it through South Pasadena which is very wealthy and full of politically connected old money families that didn't want anything to do with that kind of traffic. They dragged Caltrans through decades of lawsuits and Caltrans spent who knows how many millions on property in the area so I don't know if eminent domain was really an option, at least not in the 21st century. Their last ditch attempt was going to be a tunnel that cost >$1 billion per mile but the city shut that down fast too, even though it wouldn't have required seizing any land.

Source: South Pasadena is my home town and I left shortly after Caltrans officially gave up. The year after Caltrans dropped the project altogether, a massive chunk of the city's budget was reallocated back to the schools and roads which made a huge difference to the infrastructure.
The business case is absolutely there, it's just the industry has weirdly latched onto 'chatbot' as the usecase as opposed to where the real value lies.

The pretrained model is where the enterprise gold is at.

But the companies building the models past the tipping point scale for that value to be derived are walling up their pretrained model behind very heavy handed fine tuning that strips away most of the business value.

The engineers themselves seem to lack the imagination for the business cases, and the enterprise market doesn't have access to start discovering the applications outside of 'chatbot,' particularly with large context windows of proprietary data fed into SotA pretrained models.

There's maybe a handful of people who actually realize what value is being left on the table, and I think most of them are smart enough not to currently be in positions to make it happen.
“Profit” is a misnomer. It’s to allow the taxpayers to recoup the costs of the project they funded. Who profits normally from such public investment is typically an extremely small set of landowners who happen (coincidentally or not) to be near those public investments.

Which of those actually seems more fair?
Is this the beginning of the end of Slack?

Unrelated: I forgot Slack was owned by Salesforce, who also own Heroku. Why am I still using Slack?
There is something satisfying to my mild adhd brain about doing monotonous tasks. I used to work in a candle factory, and one of my tasks was cutting birthday candles to size and packaging them. In on 8 hour period i would package ~8000 candles into ~70 shipping boxes. Start the day with a pile of empty boxes and end the day with a pile of full boxes.

There is something very zen about the point at which you don’t even have to use your eyes anymore because the motions were so second-nature. Other people found it eye-wateringly boring but I thought it was peaceful.
However, in a real resistor, resistivity varies with temperature, and current through the resistor produces heat. Therefore, real resistors are in fact nonlinear circuit devices. Technically speaking. In reality, whenever electrical engineers are confronted with this nonlinearity, it's a bug that must be smashed and not a feature to exploit.
I take the view that land is not chattel and they should not be conflated.
Please explain specifically what you’re suggesting here? Links welcome.
Check the new workflow diagram. If I read it correctly, they still edit the database as a spreadsheet and convert that into sql. The diagram is near this text:

> we reduced the process down to a 1- click solution. We built a dashboard in our underwriting platform that actuaries can visit and request factor changes. With a single click, an asynchronous job kicks off, automating the steps of Google Sheet extraction > parsing > codegen > SQL script generation > PR creation. The only engineering involvement now required is a PR review.
Yes, it is there. There might be more.
AFAIR, there are also some 3D graphics libraries for Kotlin Multiplatform.

I have the hardest time figuring out whether I should use Kotlin, Dart/Flutter, or React for building an iOS and Android app. I don't care about the GUI part, but I want easy access to all APIs (like Health Kit, Health Connect, sensors) and relatively stress-free development. When I was learning Flutter a few years ago, it was very frustrating because its documentation and username were scant and scarce. Is it better nowadays?
Man, it has got to suck being a fresh out of school CS grad. Not only is the industry fucked, if you get a job, you may well be fully remote and WFH which already kills social connections in the crib. Now add slack AI to the mix and you've got the Black Mirror-esque nightmare of: Has your manager really read your message? Have they ever read any? Or is everything you say just being shouted into an abyss, with only an LLM distorted echo being heard.
Don’t get me started on Outlook’s search. I can try to search for an email that’s only a few weeks old and somehow it won’t find it. It will, however, find emails that are from over a decade ago.
Tax lawyer here.

I was in DC on a boondoggle maybe 15 years ago and had a meeting with an old-time staffer (and lawyer) for the Senate Finance Committee. Attached to the Democrat side of the SFC for what it’s worth.

He had been on the tax policy scene long enough to see the pre-1976 carryover basis days and the post-1976 step-up basis days.

He was adamant that a return to carry-over basis would be a shitshow for IRS administrative purposes and fervently argued for the current step-up at death law.

This is a Chesterton’s Fence situation.

The collective “we” seem to forget that many of these ideas have been tried before. This “soak the rich” idea (look at the CRS report and see the reference to an exemption for the little guy so we can tax the billionaire) is one such idea.

The other idea — floated by our current president — is to crank up the capital gains tax rate. This one has been tried (and reversed) before. It would be instructive to find out what those politicians Back In The Day were thinking when the capital gains tax rate went up and why it went down again.

A little bit of humility and history might save some optional wounds.
After the IA lost a lawsuit, they can't lend out their books anymore
I don't think you're wrong, but it gets to the underlying question of what these systems are for. If you start from the perspective that you're going to patch all known CVEs, it doesn't seem like a big practical problem that this is 9.8 - it's unlikely your system is exposed, but equally unlikely you'd have a hard time upgrading node-ip. If you're not going to patch all known CVEs, CVSS scores aren't a useful guide to which ones are absolute must-fixes; Heartbleed was famously 5.0 when disclosed, and it's still only a 7.5 on the new scale.
If you have a codebase you work on regularly you could ask AI add sequence comments for Mermaid js to parse into flow diagrams and build the CI tools for it. Maybe it’s separate files with sequence definitions or maybe inline code comment sequences.
Agreed. I wonder if a wiki interface may be better for this, while maintaining the option for someone with a corporate email address to "own the page".

The things I'd want to see in a brand are

Values, Mission statements, and how those have changed over time.

Potentially current and past advertising campaigns, etc etc.

Just logo and a selection of colours isn't that helpful.
CO2 is making Earth greener–for now Science
Eventually new stations at 4th and king and transbay transit center.
I might be fairly cynical but after recent public infrastructure massive bids and failures it seems obvious this will result in $100B of wealth transfer from the public to the private for 0 miles of rail.
Could it be people don't want to hire someone who would record and upload their sacking from a previous job?

I don't know what that indicates about a person but it's probably some sort of red flag. Particularly when there are so many people applying for every vacancy so companies can be choosy. Why choose the person you know may do something like this.

Unfortunately, Brittany's play didn't tell us anything we didn't already know but does seem to have caused her a lot of problems.
> The number one benefit of going full cashless is just controlling inflation. It's MUCH easier to regulate supply if the supply isn't physical.

I don't think you appreciate the experiment you're enrolling yourself into here though. There are those who would rather not suffer negative interest rates and whatever else "for the greater good as seen fit by The Fed". Fiat currency was a great financial innovation, but it has sort of mixed results, and this is turning it up to 11.

It's kind of like saying, "It's going to be MUCH easier to catch criminals if the government has a live feed from everyone's visual cortex via microchip." And you're right, but...
You actually don't. Plenty of languages and compilers manage to be less programmer-hostile without a written standard. Unfortunately GCC/Clang have prioritised getting higher numbers on benchmarks.
Even if AI tools (e.g. search or summarization) aren't perfect, neither are our current manual methods. Right now I feel there's a strong negative sentiment towards mistakes made by LLMs vs humans - when/if that sentiment fades, it'll be interesting to see how much work can be delegated to LLMs.
Do I read this correctly - they've targeted 1 person in Facebook via hack and Facebook still drained their ad budget?
This would make a pretty good programming interview question:

"Design a service with two endpoints, one to create a postzegelcode and another to redeem it. A postzegelcode is a nine character, case insensitive alphanumeric code conventionally displayed in all upper case in a 3x3 grid. Postzegelcodes are valid for 5 days after issue and can only be redeemed once. Authentication and payment are out of scope."
> Now I just open vscode with default settings and I am productive right away.

Is always so painful to watch how slow average developers are with the tool they use the most. Using mouse/touchpad to scroll/select word is unbelievably slow. Learning and configuring text editor that is customizable enough to not get in a way pays dividends really well.

Programming is mostly reading and navigating through the code with "go to definition" and similar code actions. Just being able to do this really fast would give a huge productivity boost right away.
The computer doesn't know that it has a 3.3v line externally boosted to 5v. It doesn't care about that at all.

It can care about how much power is being used, since the upstream 3.3v power supply -- whatever it may consist of -- is a finite thing.

But power is not the same as voltage. A device running from 5v does not necessarily use any more or less power than one that runs from 3.3v does. We don't have enough data to quantitatively know if power consumption is problematic or not for this particular instance, but I very strongly suspect that it is not an important concern here.

Finally, computers (and computer-like things) definitely do care about signal voltage. But USB signalling voltage is the same regardless of supply voltage, with USB 2 working between ~0v at the low end and at most 440mV at the high end, and tolerating up to 3.6v for compatibility with previous versions -- by specification. So that's not an issue.

Tl;dr, it's fine. And the author did a fantastic job of executing this hack very, very cleanly.

I think I myself would have taken the easy route and found a good place to run a bodge wire for 5v, and maybe even stripped the Logitech adapter out of its housing for some good old fashioned soldering fun, but everyone has their own proclivities.
Risk is about probabilities and hazards.

This article is about absolutes and fear. To conflate the two is an obvious rhetorical trick that amounts to clickbait, approximately.

"It's rare for a reentering object to hit a structure..." which is an example of the probability and the hazard. So the risk by most people's definition is "low".

So what's the problem? "According to the European Space Agency, the annual risk..." is the problem. Misusing (or misunderstanding) terminology is typical. Unfortunately, typical for Ars.
It's so much worse. Several of our local news programs have segments where it's advertisements for local businesses extremely thinly veiled as 'news takes', including a local PI attorney giving a public service "don't drive drunk, but if you get hurt call me!" ad.
Ownership of real property is the original ‘society protected monopoly on a public resource’!

Or do you think the ability to put up fences and signs around an area where other people would like to be too is natural?

There is a reason why wars are fought over land (and who controls it), and adjucation of who controls land is the monopoly of the gov’t - and is literally one of the primary responsibilities of every gov’t.
I wonder how long it will be until we hear about a company accidentally doing something because the Slack AI summary / AI search incorrectly paraphrased a request.

I really wish AI companies would call hallucinations what they really are - Mistakes. Using wishy-washy words like that make non-techy people trust outputs of LLMs much much more than they should. "Oh it just hallucinated - how silly!" instead of "It got it wrong - we should be more careful". Can be scary hearing how much trust the average joe puts into LLM outputs...
I don’t think I’ve ever noticed any effect from coffee. And I drink two to three cups a day of quite strong (light roast, so much of the caffeine has been preserved) coffee because I like the taste and enjoy the ritual. If I miss it for a day, I don’t notice anything.
If you're writing an implementation of one of those "early protocols", sure. If not, call a well-known library, let it do whatever bit twiddling it needs to, and get on with what you were actually doing.
The knee-jerk anti-hackday reactions are all so tedious. I guess at the end of the day we all get the autonomy we deserve.
But why is it exponentially more expensive to build infrastructure in the US than in other countries? Germany just built a tunnel under the sea to Denmark for a lot less $ per mile. Surely it's not just the wages and cost of living--it has to be all the consultants and cronies who take their cut.
New York State Office for the Aging: Animatronic Pet Initiative
But the payload isn't BE
Congratulations!

I also love writing AWS API-compatible services. That's why I did Dyna53 [1] ;P

(I know, unrelated, but hopefully funny)

[1] https://dyna53.io
There's a saying from Rod Brooks that I quite like: "Simulations are doomed to succeed."

The hard part is making sure the simulation captures enough of the relevant factors and that the physics/etc simulation is accurate enough.
Is Multicast networking suitable for distributing something like this on a large scale?
> Wow, I didn't know you could do this with the Apache License. This is a fork with a license which revokes some of the permissive aspects.

That's basically the distinguisher between permissive licenses (e.g., MIT and Apache) and copyleft ones (e.g., GPL). With permissively-licensed software, forks can be other licenses, even proprietary ones, but with copyleft-licensed software, forks need to stay copyleft-licensed. This is why the FSF calls permissive licenses "pushover licenses".
I actually think "hallucination" sounds worse than "mistake." A hallucination is a fundamental break from the shared reality.
What kind of build settings lead to 500 MiB binaries? I struggle to imagine something that could make the toolchain to emit such a large binary save for select degenerate cases of runaway generic specialization when you AOT compile an SDK that combines LINQ with 2102718201 enum types, all of which get their own set of generic instantiations for every internal iterator within LINQ - that's a known issue that is fixed by enabling identical method folding in ILC, the worst offender used to be Kiota OpenAPI generator causing this, but thanks to tireless work by Filip Navara that was fixed there.

In general, there are quite a few knobs for configuring how exactly you would like to have your application published. This is also an area of active improvement with each new release as you noted. It is very worth it to look into further build configuration nonetheless. If you still face an issue with "this surely shouldn't take this much space", it might be a good idea to submit it to either https://github.com/dotnet/runtime or to the repo of the GUI framework depending on where you think the fault lies - without feedback it's difficult to know if there is an area that needs improvement or a known improvement opportunity that has demand.
But why even use C++ for the front end if it’s going to be .NET? Managed C++ is mostly useful as a shim, not as a platform language. It’s not really an alternative to C# on the .NET runtime but just some C++ extensions for interop with it.

If you make a WPF/WinForms frontend then that should be the exe entry point, and that would likely be managed. Then your business logic would be the auxiliary DLL (which can be embedded into the managed exe). There could be a layer of C++/CLI between these to layers (C# front end and native backend) because it would make the interop a bit easier than having to do C-style interop.
I mean every other country in the world? You can get pretty high takeup at fairly high prices - people will pay a lot not to sit in traffic for 2-3hours a day.
What is the future of Open-Hardware and Open-Source Code in your opinion?
Will we have an open processor? Not only architecture, but also firmware.
.. because it is a mass illusion that you have individual choices in the matter. Companies and some govt agencies are required to have a monitored, logged and legally responsive chat provider. You are not asked if you want to use Slack, you are required to use Slack. hint- expect much more of that
“Of the Union's 27 states, only three have an official state religion, these being Denmark (Church of Denmark), Greece (Church of Greece), and Malta (Catholic Church).” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_European_Union
> Mask, and then shift.

> Repeat it like a mantra. You mask first, to define away potential concerns about signedness. Then you cast if needed. And finally, you can shift. Now we can create the fool-proof version for machines with at least 32-bit ints:

#define READ32BE(p) \
(uint32_t)(255 & p[0]) << 24 | (255 & p[1]) << 16 | (255 & p[2]) << 8 | (255 & p[3])

I don't think this works just because she's masking it. I'm pretty sure it's working because she cast (255 & p[0]) to uint32_t, and so all the other operands get promoted to uint32_t as well. I have this working with just casting to unsigned char first:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

char b[4] = {0x02,0x03,0x04,0x80};
#define UC(x) ((unsigned char) (x))
#define READ32BE(p) (uint32_t)UC(p[3]) | UC(p[2]) << 8 | UC(p[1]) << 16 | UC(p[0]) << 24
int main(void) {
printf("%08x\n", READ32BE(b));
}

$ cc -fsanitize=undefined -g -Os -o /tmp/o endian.c && /tmp/o
02030480

Edit: actually, it works for me even without casting to uint32_t, without UBSan causing a runtime error, like in the article, so I don't know what's going on.
That insistence isn’t motivated in the post in any way, which makes it a really weird and arbitrary requirement.
Isn't it responsibility of a manager to treat employees well? Careless manager wouldn't read their messages regardless LLM or not.
HS2 in the UK is about double per mile.

The US does have some real problems though, the built in america stuff kills projects like this where there isn't a US supply chain in place. And the US tends to have very high standards for "safety" for rail especially.

Keep in mind that you can't compare all projects like this. CAHSR total price includes trains, stations and (probably?) operational costs for x years. You often can't compare two projects on a like for like basis.
* instead of
(Neon CEO)
We could consider that. Right now we are exploring to actually run the app in the same or next to the micro-VM that runs Postgres.

https://neon.tech/docs/introduction/architecture-overview
Listen Notes lets you do this for podcasts:

https://www.listennotes.com/blog/why-podcasts-are-my-new-wik...
One of those threads is about lazy.nvim, not lazyvim. The other is a question about what to do after accidentally installing lazyvim with the wrong shell on windows, not about plugin updates breaking things.
i gather the reasoning behind that is to avoid having certificates open in the filesystem
I wonder if DuckDB with parquet storage on S3 (or equivalent) would have been a nice drop-in replacement. Plus DuckDB probably would have done quite well in the ETL pipeline.
> some networking protocols

Pretty low-key way to refer to pretty much all layer 1-3 IETF protocols :D
How about the taxpayers recoup the cost through the value they receive from the project?

It seems like this is just a way for the average taxpayer avoid paying for the asset they want.

Major social projects should be selected based on the value they provide to the public at large, and paid for by the public at large.

There are other types of public-private collaboration available if the goal is to benefit a niche group.
Well snapshotting/backup isn't hard
> I've always believed knitting pattern design is programming.

Not to belittle the point—I think it's worth saying—but does anyone who's ever actually looked at a knitting pattern think otherwise?
I find that landing page over-produced and trying too hard to the extent that I literally couldn't read it. 2000s era pop-up vibes.
These days we have a senate committee approving a bill that would register women for the draught… it’s getting closer. Men aren’t enough, for this machine, apparently.
I saw this movie at the theatre when it came out. TBH, while I'm interested in the subject, I didn't like it all that much. It thought it kinda flopped as an arthouse movie. The content itself was not particularly rich and obviously not novel, at least for anyone who has ever read about the Stasi.

So if TLOO was overrated, at the opposite end of the spectrum is another "Panopticon movie" that's contemporarily set and underrated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_(2016_film)
Yeah under the sea where nobody owns the land and the only residents don't have lungs to scream at you for ruining your beautiful view.

Building rail is a nightmare here as well because nimbys reign supreme.
I think it's only going to get worse as the LLMs get just that much better that people stop thinking more critically about what they generate. Right now I think many people still verify or read through the results to make sure they sound right. What happens when people get lulled into complacency and then it really goes off on a bender.
Expect much more of it from who? What are you suggesting changed? Among all the spying enterprise apps, why slack? Afaik, engineers brought slack into many companies and pushed back on alternatives like teams.
Name constraints have not been supported by browsers for very long. And they can’t solve this problem for private CA certificates that already exist. (Hmm, I wonder if issuing a new CA certificate with name constraints using an existing private key could be made to work.)
> I really wish AI companies would call hallucinations what they really are - Mistakes.

At the bottom of every ChatGPT conversation: "ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info."
Later just doesnt work as developers wont be able to make a profit so they wont build. Most of the 'profit' (plus or minus some risk premium depending on site/location/timeframe purchased/etc.) will have already gone to whoever sold their land to the developer so government will find it impossible to extract in the same way
Had no clue what NTT was but found this as a reference https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/48798#:~:text=NTT%20(Numbe....