skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember a very respectable mentor 10 years ago mentioning to avoid mbed when it came out as this kinda thing comes and goes.

For a while I thought he was wrong and it would stick around. It did not.
read this a couple days ago when it came out. a very good survey + explanation of the more recent chunking methods! part of me still finds this overwhelming and wants a good visual/decision tree for when to use what strategy.

the other part wonders how long this stuff holds until the next advance in long context attention/caching obliviates the need for chunking…
Haidt has a whole career built around demonizing letting children use the internet.

We just had a discussion on persistent vs obstinate[1]. It's this man's mission to be one of the two on this topic. To keep bringing up his bailiwick. This topic is going to keep coming up, almost every time by people like Haidt committed to the negative, committed to obstructing what they can only regard as a dangerous possibility. I do not particularly enjoy topics where we get blown in only one direction like this, it's rarely a useful dialog, it rarely adapts or changes to the world about it.

(One use I do see for AI is being able to go search & synopsize who it is we are receiving broadcasts from. Right now it takes research to go find out who the transmitter is. We are easily cast to places with little context. (This is in part why the appeal of the darker web is so effective, because we are liable to drift in
un-aware)).
You’re right, I forgot. To be precise it existed through a menu with a modifier key activated and a keyboard shortcut could be assigned to the menu entry, or using the green button (highlighting it for half a second opens a menu).
Good point.

But what's the threat model here?

I didn't think of 2FA as being protection against password reuse. People should still avoid reusing passwords and change them if they know of a breach.

Are there really attackers who are picking up breach databases and then sim-swapping to get the 2FA as well?
There's always a root account, the only issue is who has access to it.

So... phones where a corporation has root are more secure that phones where the owner has root, you say? Secure for whom? For the user? Seems obviously wrong. It's more secure for someone else to have power over you?

Again, you're just a few words from "Freedom is slavery".
The auto complete search is nice. I just found a repo (for linked-data) I wouldn't have otherwise.

ENH: search github labels with query patterns
When I moved a few years ago and had to look for a new doctor, new patient appointments were all at least 8-9 month waits. We regularly have to wait 1-2 months even as established patients. Due to these extreme waits, we end up going to Urgent Care clinics for routine things that we used to just go to our family doctor for. This is in the USA.
Which show?
FTC Statement on Open-Weights Foundation Models
It doesn’t say anything about selling patents to third parties to abuse either. It specifies authors and inventors, and rights to their writings and discoveries. At what point does it extend those rights to a random unaffiliated attorney or corporation that engages in zero productive innovation or authorship? I agree that the argument your replying to is flawed, none of this applies to Ticketmaster here specifically, but the contemporary system absolutely is broken in several ways that were seemingly never intended by its original codification.
Just another generational shift

"The 2,500-Year-Old History of Adults Blaming the Younger Generation" https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-a...

> drugs, drinking, sexual promiscuity

Aren't these all way down with Gen Z? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/21/generation-z...
It was perhaps for the best, but I'd still call that "a failure that could've gone worse" as opposed to "success".
>The M4 is the highest single core CPU in the world and it’s in a ridiculously thin tablet

That's kind of the problem. The world's most powerful CPU is put in the world's most expensive and thinnest Netflix machine lol. Was the previous "thicker" M3 iPad holding anyone back?

All that power and I can't use it to compile the Linux kernel, I can't use it to play the latest Steam/GOG games, or run CAD simulations, because it needs to be behind the restrictive iPad OS AppStore walled garden where only code blessed by Apple can run.

Until it's put in a machine that can run Linux, it's more of a benchmarking flex than actually increasing productivity compared to previous M generations or the ARM/X86 competition that allows you to run any OS.
But of what? What has Binance done 181 trillion times?

Obviously they have. I don’t think they’re throwing away money for logs they don’t generate or need. I just can’t imagine the scope of it.

That is, I know this is a failing of my imagination, not their engineering decisions. I’d love to fill in my knowledge gaps.
> churns out a flood of blog posts about best practices?

...most of which are cargo-culting carbon-copies of "gurus" and "authorities" (and "Uncle Bob"). No critical thought in sight, but a lot of mental gymnastics to justify conclusions that don't follow from whatever was written above.

The massive influx of poorly prepared junior programmers in the last decade doesn't help. Somehow, beginner programmers tend to overgeneralize from too narrow a perspective, leading to fallacious but firmly held beliefs. This is nothing new and happens to most beginners; the problem is that we're dealing with a massive wave of beginners that seems to be still gaining momentum instead of subsiding. One of the effects is that the experienced, mature programmers' voices are drowned in the noise, save for a few "gurus" who are often better writers than programmers.

The whole field shunning its own history doesn't help either. The culture of moving fast created a misperception that things older than half a year have no value. Similarly, agile and co. made it so we live in perpetual "now," rarely considering the long-term consequences of our work. This leads to resume-driven development and contributes to enshitification of everything, yet nobody seems to realize there even is a problem, much less have any intention of fixing it.

Honestly, I'm struggling to find my place in the field after two decades of coding.
umm... There you go injecting politics where it doesn't belong.

Although the first sentence "YA about young heroine rebelling" is itself about politics really, so my comment doesn't apply.

Authors write what they feel like writing and what readers feel like reading, not what some liberal arts professor wants to include in their "the politics of YA books" course. Let me assure you that neither the writer nor the reader are interested in your concerns.
From the Stack Overflow newsletter, the accepted answer to "imagining Graham's number in your head collapses your head into a black hole" [1] mentions in passing:

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In general though, if you want to store a certain amount of information, the lower bound of volume required to store this information in is given by the Bekenstein bound.

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/820064
> The interpunct is still in use today [...] decimal point [...] dot product [...] separate titles, names, and positions

Some·times it is it al·so seen

To cla·ri·fy the way

That syl·la·bles and me·ter meet

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But did you RTFA? SMS aggregators can also be hacked or can leak SMSs by accident.
You don't want a RISC-V laptop. Not yet, at least. It will take quite some doing before those compete with x86_64/arm laptops.

Beautiful thing about Windows computers is that it's generally not too hard to make them into linux/BSD/etc computers. :)

Qualcomm [1] and some vendors [2][3] are making progress towards linux support though.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-ARM-Changes

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-Vivbook-S-15-Elite-X-Linu...

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-Snapdragon-X-Elite
Agreed, great watch, informative and pushing the boundaries with the work he's been doing.
All sorts of things.

I’m often thinking of ideas while walking or riding the bus. For example, I make plans for an English discussion group I’m facilitating while walking to the class. Or I’ll iterate on software project ideas as they come to mind, like creating design documents, GitHub issues, etc.

Another use case is for live translation where I speak English to ChatGPT and it translates the output to various languages. Then, I show the translation to the other person and let them speak their response for ChatGPT to translate. The interesting thing is somehow Whisper translates the foreign language back to English when it returns the transcribed text, so I don’t need to submit that text to ChatGPT. This live translation of spoken conversations is a really important feature particularly since I interact with many people with varying degree of English proficiency speaking many languages (namely, Russian, Suomi, Czech, and Farsi.)
You need to look into duckDB.
I would think radio waves to be quite sensible here compared to other-dimensional ghost-aliens roaming the skies.

Given radio waves being the primary marker for our own existence and looking at the distance those artificial signals already travelled compared to the size of the cosmos, I believe not having any form of indication for intelligent or any alien life is a surprise.
I use Emacs in textmode. It's super fast! But I've also never found VS Code slow, and that's with viewing multiple large log files at the same time
I personally know a "Doctor Coffin" (coughing & coffin) as well as a Doctor Payne.
“We can’t do real science because it would be too expensive, so we’ll just assume that what we are trying to prove is true.” I hate it, and we need to figure out something better. We use this same method in diet research, too.
Adversarial game playing as a way of training AI is basically the plot of War Games.
Lisp people are quick to rewrite basic language semantics. As somebody already said, rewriting parsers is more of a Haskell thing to do.

That said, Lisp developers learn to fight their instinct and not redefine the language all the time, just as Haskell developers learn to fight their instinct and not make complex types all the time, and C++ developers learn to fight their instinct and not use STL all the time. But those take some experience.
And here I'm, writing the resume in markdown using Obsidian, slapping some custom CSS until it looks good and hitting Export to PDF.
I actually do not like the emphasis on death of the author that much[0], I appreciate the relativism of saying that authorial intent is not the only allowed interpretation, yet it is still a very important one.

[0] Also I feel the need to reiterate that I was expressing the possible opinions of a hypothetical person I made up, not my own.
hard pass on using a scraper’s browser extension
> BnL uses the exact same typeface and color scheme as real-world retail giant Costco Wholesale Corporation.

Made my whole day, fantastic.
"Tunable quantum emitters on large-scale foundry silicon photonics" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-50208-0 :

> Abstract: Controlling large-scale many-body quantum systems at the level of single photons and single atomic systems is a central goal in quantum information science and technology. Intensive research and development has propelled foundry-based silicon-on-insulator photonic integrated circuits to a leading platform for large-scale optical control with individual mode programmability. However, integrating atomic quantum systems with single-emitter tunability remains an open challenge. Here, we overcome this barrier through the hybrid integration of multiple InAs/InP microchiplets containing high-brightness infrared semiconductor quantum dot single photon emitters into advanced silicon-on-insulator photonic integrated circuits fabricated in a 300 mm foundry process. With this platform, we achieve single-photon emission via resonance fluorescence and scalable emission wavelength tunability. The combined control of photonic and quantum systems opens the door to programmable quantum information processors manufactured in leading semiconductor foundries.
Materials Science in Science Fiction
And Germany once thought it "needed" to regain its colonies, and France once thought its very survival would be threatened if it didn't hold onto Algeria, and so on.
> almost always an assertion that your position is unassailably correct.

No, it it's an assertion that there's a whole world beyond your conception of "politics" and your position is impoverishing of the human experience.
Classifying MNIST digits with 93% accuracy can also be accomplished using a linear classifier. So it isn't clear to me what the advantage would be.
The language standard library does, however, contain explicit support for signal handling, as specified in ISO/IEC 1989:2023 section 7.14 Signal handling <signal.h>. The cross-platform bits of libc are specified in the C standard. The POSIX-specific bits are specified by the Open Group in the POSIX standard. The OS-specific bits are specified by the OS and implemented by whoever is writing the libc in question. A libc is a sort of statically linked combination of the C standard library and some OS-specific standard library extensions.
Go library for printing human readable, relative time differences
"Up to 20-30% faster" or "20-30% faster than <couple generation old version you might upgrade from". Comparing the "plain" M1 model vs M4 model (not pro/max as those aren't out yet, though follow nearly identical trends so far) there has been a total ~56% single core and ~59% multi-core performance uplift, or an average of ~16% per M* generation.

M1 released in November 2020. In almost the exact time frame AMD went from Zen3 -> Zen 5 (so one less generation) with a total gain of ~34% multicore and ~59% multicore gain. Intel went from ~10900k to ~14900k for a total of 76% single core and 128% multicore gain (i.e. more than double).

Two disclaimers before the conclusion: This is just from one lazy benchmark (Geekbench 6) and of the high performing model. That doesn't necessarily tell the whole story on both accounts, but it at least gives some context around general trends. E.g. passmark is going to say the differences on Intel are a little smaller, comparisons between Max and non-Max generations confuse multi core growth, and changes in low-mid market chips may follow a different slope than the high end products. Also there are other considerations like "and what about integrated graphics performance, which eats up a huge amount of die space and power budget?"

Anyways, my conclusion is that Apple is doing reasonably well with generational improvements vs the competition. Maybe not the absolute best, but not the worst. Being on top in the single core realm with a mobile passively cooled device makes equivalent gains all the more difficult but they're still doing it. Apple may be a victim of its own success in that the M1 from 2020 is still such a performance powerhouse that a 50% gain 4 generations later just isn't that interesting whereas with Intel a catchup of ~doubling multicore performance in the same time seems more impressive especially when M*'s story isn't as tantalizing on that half of things.
No idea what your background is, but since you just bought four books, make sure you're spending more time reading and writing code than reading books. Some people fall into the theory trap and don't spend enough time making use of that theory.
> They have all the right not to care, but it still is not helping the goal of being useful for normal people.

That isn't the goal. I don't know why you keep saying that.
My bank app asks for different tokens for different operations. A code for login, a code for transfers (the code needs to be generated with the payee account number as input). So it’s not a problem of tokens vs SMS.
It's not their core business, which is why they let SMS aggregators deal with it and merely switch inbetween those.
Ahhhh billing the great unsolved problem.

In 2021 Cloudflare was charging me $5 a month with no way to turn it off and no help from the support desk.

It took an, unanswered, email to the CEO for it to go away.
> Clean up a little code here, there, everywhere.

What does "clean up" mean? If you mean run a safe code formatter on some 20 year old PHP code that was written in vi, sure. But if you mean refactor, this sounds rather idealistic.

IMO, you are already outside of BBOM territory if your BBOM comes with a robust development environment where you can safely implement such changes without breaking prod in some insane and unforeseeable way.
Cryptocurrencies tend to use very large integers (128 or 256 bit) for everything throughout the system. Rounding doesn't happen until a number hits the UI. Why would you design a system that intentionally destroys data several times internally?
Astronomers apply machine learning techniques to find early-universe quasars
Afaik modern resume parsers prefer .docx to .pdf. Some won't even accept a PDF.
China Building Twice as Much Wind and Solar as Rest of World Combined
Procrastinate for Success
A doctor in my family pointed out that where he works (in the UK), he is seen innumerous cases of lung inflammation related to excessive vaping on teenagers and young adults.
As I understood, keeping the level of hydration higher than normal for too long, which is common to vaping but not smoking, can be the root of different kinds of infections.

According to him, vaping turned to be a habit so strong for some those people most of them report extreme sadness while in hospital with the main factor being the lack of their vape.

I am not saying you should do this or that, but having someone in family to report on increasing cases of things changed my perception on how I see certain topics.
Nit: it's still right. Lambdas are just functor sugar.
I disagree with your comparison.

All art is political, because art relates itself to the society it is made in whether the artist likes it or not. Is a Nazi painter that paints totally apolitical pictures of landscapes while the genocide is happening one village over apolitical? i'd argue that this would be deeply political art, even if it wasn't meant to be just that. Taking no stance, while the world around you is happening is a political stance in itself.

Being apolitical is also political – in a stark difference to various gods politics will also affect you and your life, if you don't believe in politics.
Facts About Building Retrieval Augmented Generation-Based Chatbots
This would still be a targeted attack if exploited, and arguably much more difficult than sim swapping. And yes, I did RTFA, and my point still stands.
There are also other sources that are not quicklisp.

Qlot can and does install from github, gitlab, ultralisp, etc.
The way both my banks work is that I log into the bank, do something that requires confirmation, and then I need to go open my app to confirm it, and it shows all the details for what exactly I'm confirming in the app.
> Pro-choice exclusively male crowd

It is by no means exclusively male. This is a completely baseless claim on your part.

> There’s no plausible theory explaining why there’s no victim.

Why is "women enjoy things other than technology" not a plausible theory? The percentage of women working in tech matches the percentage of women who major in it. The percentage of women who major in it matches the percentage of high schoolers and middle schoolers who say they're interested in technology.

> On pro-discrimination side there’s plenty of arguments (usually coming from people who actually study the subject).

It's always entertaining to see people who insist that there's plenty of arguments, but aren't bothered to make any. What do people who study the subject find?

When researchers send out resumes and measure differences in call-backs, women are called back sooner and more frequently than men: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3672484

Studies measuring hiring preferences in universities found a 2:1 preference in favor of women: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1418878112

The pro-discrimination side has to cite non-existent studies: https://www.vox.com/2019/2/20/18232762/gender-diversity-tech...
> Is there any financial system, regime, or product that depends upon leap seconds?

According to the standard for increasing leap seconds, they interact with the opening auction of the Tokyo Stock Exchange by delaying it one second.
From the blurb:

> technical professionals without deep software development skills, such as IT project managers, data engineers, and enterprise architects,

Perhaps IT project managers get a pass, but imagine being an "enterprise architect" without deep software engineering skills. My first nightmare is to have to work with an enterprise architect that can't code. My second nightmare is maintaining software they built with AI.
I saw an ad once for a convention of Bobs, with a keynote speech from Bob Newhart and the Jamaican bobsled team as special guests.
This.

I was an engineer at Splunk for many years. I knew it cold.

I then joined a startup where they just used metrics and the logs TTLed out after just a week. They were just used for short term debugging.

The metrics were easier to put in, keep organized, make dashboards from, lighter, cheaper, better. I had been doing it wrong this whole time.
Or use qlot and drag from many supported source repos.
>I see it more as a currency which can be used in exchange for spreading unpopular/controversial/inflammatory opinions.

So do I, but strictly speaking that's not what it's meant for. It's supposed to be operant conditioning - you want to do whatever makes the number go up, and avoid what makes it go down. What makes it go up? Obeying the rules, aligning with the local culture and posting stories and making comments other people want to read and upvote. What makes it go down? Repetition, humor, heterodoxy and controversy. It's the same kind of endorphine based Skinner box that every other forum and social media platform uses, just not as complex.
How about the login service send the code encrypted in the SMS such that it can only be decrypted on the phone of the actual user? Still vulnerable to phishing attempts, but better than relying on deficiencies of SMS technology .
Recently, I found a 1024x768 monitor to be cramped but somehow comforting. A top-line one like an Ultrasharp is more affordable too.

However, web pages load in tablet mode. The world has progressed to much higher default resolutions.

Still, it's an interesting handicap for thinking "through" the display instead of trying to simulate omniscience.
The confounding variables they are aware of, you mean. The problem is the confounding variables they aren’t aware of.
When will model rocket enthusiasts catch on?
The line you just cited from the article were my personal feelings/emotions while giving it a try, published in a personal post, on my personal publication, and if I decide after that, that it is not the alternative I was looking for, it is simply a personal decision.

Also, I am not *praising* StoryGraph but simply add an overview of it after it got suggested by a couple of readers.
Maybe so. But then you see the sheer hopelessness in countries like the UK, Canada and Australia and you realize the US is still where things can happen.
I've noticed my browser has started recognizing URLs that look similar to legit URLs of bigger companies and then warns me that the site is likely a phishing site. Sometimes it gets false positives for URL shorteners (like goo.gl instead of google.com)
China & India have the largest fossil fuel footprint by far, so calling US laggards in that context is misdirection.