skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do we know that there would be consistency issues or Σ₁-soundness issues?

From Gödel's second incompleteness theorem, no consistent first-order recursively-axiomatizable theory (i.e., a theory that can have its proofs validated by a Turing machine) can prove its own consistency. Thus, to prove that your current theory (e.g., ZFC) is consistent, you must move to a stronger one (e.g., Aleph*). But then you can't prove the consistency of that without an even stronger theory, and so on. Thus, you end up with an infinite regression, and you can't ultimately prove the consistency of any of these theories.

> Your claim about proof size categorizing n-state machine halting status is new to me. Do you have any links to read more about this?

Not really, other than some of my own ramblings on the bbchallenge Discord server. But it's not that long:

Suppose that the longest-running n-state machine M can always be proven to halt using a proof of under f(n) symbols, where f(n) is some fixed computable function. Then, you could construct a TM that, given n, enumerates every valid proof of length less than f(n) symbols, and checks whether it shows that a particular n-state machine halts. The TM then simulates all of the proven halters to see how long they run. By assumption, the longest-running machine M is included in this list. So this TM can compute BB(n), which is an impossibility. Therefore, the function f(n) cannot exist.

As a corollary, since it's "uncomputably difficult" to prove that the longest-running machine halts at all, it's no less difficult to fully establish the value of BB(n).
You're stuck in a bubble. I've been there, done that, it's nonsense. Once you look beyond TV & mainstream radio, you'll find the art of the many everywhere. Small bars and clubs and gatherings and galleries and artwork and photography and even architecture. "The few" get so much marketing and confirmation for a reason ... and it's not skill ... not in music, arts, photography or architecture.
By output you mean the extracted surface geometry? Or are you directly rendering NeRFs in VR.
The individualism correlation with higher remote work is an interesting (weird/suss) one.

During peak pandemic there were parallels drawn between areas of high individualism and higher chance of ignoring quarantine, lockdown, and masking laws (or guidelines).

This makes logical sense to me: "rules for thee and rules for me" is a very individualist way of looking at things.

Meanwhile all the people I know who are more interested in remote work also happen to have been way above average when it comes to following guidelines and (this is an important distinction) not solely for their own wellbeing (ALA collectivism).

Anyway - personal observation only, but seems really off to me. Perhaps on average it's still correct and I'm in a fringe bubble!

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Other commenters' mention of introvert vs. Extrovert sparked something:

To each type, the others' behaviour can seem selfish (perhaps even to the point of seeming like they're hyper-individualists with no care for the greater good)
I do not know of any compiler that can compile different parts of a translation unit in parallel. But plenty of systems (including the venerable `make -j`) can compile separate translation units in parallel because they are independent.
On what do you base your intuitions? The way I see it is either they are good universal approximators (like ANNs), and then they’re usable for everything, or they aren’t, and then they’re at best very narrow in application. I’ve yet to see any evidence for the latter.
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Hey HN, I'm a dude working as an SRE and IT Manager (for different companies), I enjoy the money from one and the work and fulfillment from the other (establishing and growing a team is great! the SRE gig does not offer that, so I found it on the side through someone that needed specifically my history+knowledge with/of them), I can juggle them great and have been doing so for a while. Delivered across the career projects from small to ridiculously large, owned important parts that made A Lot Of Money™ for the companies I worked for, even though some were not my specialties, I also have some very specific domain knowledge (close to logistics, can't say more than that here).

I'm looking for something more, something better. I'm trying to launch my own things but I commonly fall into obvious traps (not good enough yet, fiscal fears and so on). I'm unsure if I should retreat into the woods, find a great gig at a startup that'll make me forget I have a life or just quit one of the jobs and enjoy life a bit more (this might get boring fast).

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This would be super interesting if I were a state actor.
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You don't want to clear caches for release builds. That just makes release builds unnecessarily slow and impedes the flow of Continuous Deployment. You just need to have separate caches for different build flags, including a dedicated cache for release builds.
"Linux" is more than just the kernel.

Pretending there is no problem is part of the problem.
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World UFO Day
WordPerfect 5.x, running on DOS, is/was the best work processor ever. WordPerfect indeed.
I don't think the cross-comparison chart is based on Spanish from Spain: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...
I assume you are referring to the killing of alleged al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki in a drone strike. The major difference between that situation and the situation going forward is that Obama had a legal justification. Assistant Attorney General David Barron justified the action as follows [1]:

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To justify the Awlaki killing, Barron relies heavily on the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), the law that Congress passed to permit striking al-Qaeda post-September 11th, and which was used to justify the US-led investigation of Afghanistan.

Awlaki, according to Barron, was a leader in al-Qaeda's Yemen-based branch, which is known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The intelligence supporting this claim is redacted from the memo. But Barron claims that, because Congress authorized using "necessary and appropriate force" against al-Qaeda, the AUMF would thus give the US legal cover to target Awlaki.

"In consequence," Barron concludes, "the operation should be understood to constitute the lawful conduct of war and thus to be encompassed by the public authority justification." He also writes that the AUMF argument makes the killing justifiable under international law as a defensive use of force.

One possible counter-argument is that this is unconstitutional: the Fourth Amendment generally prohibits the killing of US citizens without due process of law. Barron argues that this case is an exception because capturing Awlaki was impossible — for reasons that are again redacted. If capturing Awlaki was "unfeasible," as Barron says, then killing him to prevent him from threatening the US becomes the only option.

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You may disagree with that interpretation of the law, but it seems — given that Obama was not prosecuted for this action — that the legal system does not agree with your disagreement.

Now the point is moot, since any president can order up the killing of anyone they like, because there is no longer a consequence for criminal behaviour. If you think the al-Awlaki killing was unlawful, I hope that you are gravely concerned by the fact that administrations no longer need to even attempt the appearance of complying with the law.

1: https://www.vox.com/2014/6/23/5835602/anwar-al-awlaki-memo
I'm curious how the Turing machines can resemble problems which take input? BB(n) is defined as a n-state Turing machine that starts off with an empty tape. Collatz(n) is how many steps are taken before it terminates when starting with input 'n'.

Does this mean a BB(6) machine which resembles Collatz is testing all possible values as part of it program and not part of anything on the tape (since the tape start out empty)?
This inspired me to have Claude 3.5 Sonnet knock out a quick web page prototype for me, using PDF.js to load and render the PDFs to canvas elements and then display visual diffs between their pages.

Two prompts:

Build a tool where I can drag and drop on two PDF files and
it uses PDF.js to turn each of their pages into canvas
elements and then displays those pages side by side with a
third image that highlights any differences between them, if
any differences exist

rewrite that code to not use React at all

Here's the result: https://tools.simonwillison.net/compare-pdfs

It actually works quite well! Screenshot here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/9d7cbe02d448812f48070e7de13a5...
CSS Can Get You in Jail – Browser renderers, now deemed criminals
Excuse me, how is it not?
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> No "default search deals", crypto tokens, or other forms of user monetization, ever.

Sounds good, but how would you make sure the sponsors won’t influence you in the future once it’s popular enough? After all, they are still corporations and are after profits, as opposed to crowdfunding.
getting there. Docs are v0.0.1 for sure. WASM means no more javascript! You can write all your frontend dom manipulation in go.
Eliminating bugs requires sustained, vigilant, holistic, overlapping approaches:

- Code reviews prior to acceptance of commits (Facebook does this)

- Refactoring crap that manages to get through

- Removing features

- Higher-order languages with less code

- Removal of tech debt

- More eyeballs

- Wiser engineers

- Dedicating more time to better engineering

- Coding guidelines that optimize for straightforward code while not being so strict as to hinder strategic exceptions

- Negative LoC as a KPI
Collect feedback from your users and make your product better
they got rid of it :(
It's something you should rely on the language to optimize, but it always helps to not allocate frivolously if you can help it. I'm talking about using StringBuilder rather than concatenation, avoiding unnecessary boxed types, etc. Pooling every last thing doesn't do performance any favors mind you -- the tenured generation is expensive to collect, whereas eden is just a pointer bump.
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Hope I can help fellow web devs dodge a bullet… When you deal with legal documents, it's better to forget about HTML semantics and especially CSS styling. If you get too smart around ordered lists and they render incorrectly for some reason, you're on the hook!
Thanks for the honesty about this being click-bait content marketing, I guess.
> I got them to write some code using HTMX and AlpineJS and watched

I love this. You're making concrete observations about how the use of a technology affects your team.
Overexposed
Cybersecurity threat in plain sight on the web
A lot of human drivers could do with a bit more adherence to the rules. Maybe if you take the wrong off ramp, you continue down it and loop around instead of reversing back onto the highway, etc.

I think in their current state, AI cars are a bit of a menace, but presumably they will improve over time, and I think it's evident we've reached a local maximum for humans, possibly even a decline as everyone is in ever more of a hurry, maybe let me just bend the rules a little this one time, it'll be okay.
One could add more parameters but I find it a good place to start while prioritizing.
The talk about correctness gets me thinking.

If there is a difference between how specs define something, and how browsers behave (and website expect them to behave), will you choose technical correctness or websites actually functioning?

Technically this has been the big problem of HTML5 vs XHTML, and "technical correctness" lost to actual usability.
"We worked too hard, we cared too much" is the new "move fast and break things".
You spelled "occupation" and "resistance to occupation" in ways that make them hard to recognise. Might want to not do that next time you bring up the subject.
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Import maps and type="module" are pretty good.

I prefer to spend my time building against that instead of another bundler.
Yea, the problem with the high-stakes, high-pressure whiteboard-hazing interview is that it is not testing a candidate's problem solving ability. It's testing their comfort level and ability to navigate high-stakes presentation/communication pressure cookers. Which may be great if you're looking for an unflappable smooth talking PM who will be doing presentations to VPs, but probably not great if you are looking for an engineer to solve your software problems while chilling out in their Aeron chair.

That's my big problem (both as an interviewer and as an interviewee) with the current "best practices" in tech interviews. We're evaluating the wrong thing. This is how smooth talking, charismatic phonies breeze through and we find out in 6 months they can't code. Unfortunately by then, they've often gotten themselves promoted to Director.
A quick introduction to DirectX workgraphs
Yup. Better that kids learn form the internet than from so many dangerous books. But have a care for the libraries. They are the ones that need to make sense out of the current debates. Excluding children is likely what they need to do to stay open.
Currently we have an ecosystem of two browser engines, yes. One of them is weaponized against users by its designers, both in its open and closed form.

Having 4 (or 3.5 more realistically) browser engines where 2 of them weaponized against its users doesn't change things.

Instead, we should have 3 (or 2.5) browser engines where only one of them is (and can be) weaponized against its users. This is what brings diversity and change.
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Not sure if https://hex.tech fits here?
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Were you grandfathered in at a lower rate or something? I was paying $89.99 for 6 months back in 2018. Which was a completely ridiculous rate for a few meetups a year with a dozen or so people.

Cancelled meetup shortly thereafter and migrated the regulars to a Facebook group.

Then COVID basically killed the group anyway.
An epigenetic editor to silence genes
> The support for this tag is currently rolled out on mastodon.social and any other server that uses a recent Mastodon nightly release, but the feature will only show up for links to moderator-approved websites. In the future we would like to make the feature available to all without a manual review process.

quick way to ruin the party. odd that they don't even try and explain why. "we would like to" sounds completely hypothetical too, as in "if we cure evil and banish death to the underworld, perhaps one day we will be able to", rather than "when it comes out of beta it will be available to everyone".
The Enlightenment was a first attempt to grow beyond centuries of monstrous, irrational, suicidally destructive monarchy and religious dictatorship.

While rationality has limits and a complex relationship with the body, it's still far more likely to keep you alive and healthy than a nostalgic hankering for a strong father figure and a thin pretext for bullying empathic effective adults.
We've been listening to AI idea guys and shovel sellers drone on about how "AI is making x job obsolete" on podcasts and Twitter and Discord, and shouting down anybody daring to claim that real human work can't be replaced that easily.

Glad that we've finally reached the point where the rubber meets the road, and AI products have to prove themselves as fit for purpose, instead of just preening for more investor $$$.
Yes, I completely agree, I just was giving an example. So it turns out some ideas are hard to explain even if you already agree :)
I've realised this a long time ago and I think it's because I have some sort of ADD so the issue was amplified.

I joke with colleagues that I'm like a horse that needs blinders. I absolutely just need to focus on one thing at the time, multiple monitors or huge monitors never helped me do that. Sometimes I would find myself lost between looking at one and the other. I haven't used more than one monitor for over a decade now and I will never go back to too much screen real estate.
What crimes did he commit to get elected? Trump is a crook but his crimes are almost all sleazy real estate and tax fraud. He didn't commit any crimes to get elected before his first term.
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Would it be upsetting if we sent a probe a lightyear away and found that some constant, I dunno, Planck's constant or whatever, had changed?
WordPerfect really was an outstanding word processor. Reveal codes (like many others here have pointed out) made "debuging" formatting issues relatively painless as was the "make it fit to a certain layout or size" feature. In an era when you didn't really have WYSIWYG they did an excellent job of enabling users to more or less get nice looking output without having to go to TeX.

I remember it took a LONG time before there was a Windows version of WordPerfect which I think took a lot of their momentum away. Combine that with Microsoft basically giving away Office or bundling Word+Excel they succeeded in eroding market share from Lotus / WordPerfect.

I think the Lotus Suite may have even pre-dated MSFT Office as a suite (not 100% certain) and as usual functionality was often superior or better implemented than MSFT's.

Credit should also go to WordPerfect for making a Linux version in the 2000's before Linux desktop was as mature as it is today. Sadly they didn't continue this effort.

I'm glad we have LibreOffice but it's frankly a clone of MSFT Office, the UI is very cluttered and it has the same "weirdisms" that Office has.
> Is there a name for this simple style of writing?

4th grade English
It's generally considered unlikely that the FSC or the gravitational constant has varied through time or space.
Resistance movements, notably in Europe during WW2 or the 'civil war' in Darfur, have commonly deployed women in combat roles.

It might be interesting to think about what sets them apart from regular armies, which have often had trouble in this area.
I grew up in rural Australia.

We had Japanese exchange students in High School, and the teachers stayed in our house (Mum & Dad were teachers). Even though I was only ~15, I have a very strong memory of the 50, 60 and 70 year old Japanese people staying outside until all hours stargazing.

They had never seen stars before.
If dialects of BASIC count, you might consider Andy Gariepy et al (ZBasic/FutureBASIC), as well as Andrew Barry (CrossBasic, which became REALbasic).
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> They have used a proof generator based on a logical theory...

I don't understand your scenario. If they're using a proof generator, that sounds like the opposite of intuiting or using the human mind. Maybe they used "intuition" to come up with new axioms for a logical theory, but that is not the same as determining of some particular concrete TM program whether or not it halts.
Sure, as long you happen to be driving your $200,000 Jaguar loaded with sensors that day.
The crux of SH is 6-pronged:

- Deployment and configuration management

- Platform maintenance (not app upgrades)

- App upgrades

- Security

- Performance monitoring

- Data backup and disaster recovery

When considering taking on SH, it's important to be wise about all of the implications. Automating these, standardization, and making them more portable are what would make SH cheaper and more doable. Definitely create runbooks and detailed notes that are kept current, organized, and could be used to reconstruct production without automation.
This is likely it. Had it been some small company, they'd probably take the Microsoft AI chief approach and claim it's fair use, open-access internet, etc. Apple OTOH are litigious.
Does anyone know how to run it against Ollama?
I'm not sure Mozilla is a good case for a lean software project.

If they didn't give their CEO $7M per year, spent money acquiring businesses like Pocket, gave up their braindead attempts at monetizing user data while simultaneously running bizarre tone-deaf "free internet" studies, and just focused on the browser and improving the development experience (is there a worse open source project than Moz??), they might fare better.
Lol, I've been to a library in Idaho, the only people inside were kids. I assume they were desperately trying to escape their parents.
The only thing I don’t like about code reviews are nitpick comments. Everyone has their own subjective way of writing code, if my code works and looks good enough, let it be.
Database Schema of MediaWiki
I'm not an expert in this stuff, but I did notice that the Ladybird website mentions only accepting unrestricted donations. That doesn't prevent power dynamics from evolving between sponsors and the project, of course, but it at least means that no sponsors get to explicitly demand specific things.