skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is almost certainly doing something important like running the checkout database.

You can also look at the librarian and checkout machines for clues. Netstat one of those and you’ll probably see persistent outbound connections to your mystery server.

If that’s not a viable path for some reason (such as you’re not actually allowed to be doing this)
It probably has a static IP. Find the dhcp server, check the range. It’s probably avoiding high numbers in the cidr so handing out 192.168.0.2-99 the server is probably some easy to remember address like 100 or 200. (Some sysadmins avoid low numbers and put servers at 2-10 so checking the range is a must) you can probably infer it from the dhcp address you get when you join, (probably somewhere in the 20s or 60s) some idiots put their gateway at the last address and count down (looking at you Comcast) but that was less common ten and twenty years ago.

If you’re going full black box I’d scan the whole range and find addresses that look like servers and once identified port scan them for listening services. Look for standard ports like dbs (is this a windows shop? Is it an access database?) also look for web servers and webserver alt ports like 8080
Can anyone explain how an LLM is useful here? The clustering is done traditionally right? Then the llm is given the centroids and asked to give a label? Assumption being that the llm corpus already contained some mapping from gene up/down regulations to clusters of differentiation?
Even if you’re talented and have a lot of experience, they manage to break you during the process.
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> 6.3.2 "shortest job first": https://www.cs.uic.edu/~jbell/CourseNotes/OperatingSystems/6...

> > SJF can be proven to be the fastest scheduling algorithm

That's not fully analogous, since the OS isn't going to miscompute the last operation because it's in a rush to get done and get home.
Probably not sodium. It's too unreactive for that.

You've no doubt seen the sodium explosions, but what actually explodes is hydrogen, not sodium itself. If you run water+sodium reaction in an inert atmosphere, or simply weigh down a chunk of sodium so it quickly sinks to the bottom of the vessel, the result is much more tame.

On the other hand, starting with potassium, you probable start to get enough charge separation to tear apart solid chunks of metal.
I stopped reading after "Windows is an open and flexible platform"
And they've learned a lot from it. For example, MS no longer universally deploys updates across the world, they have a slower rollout to avoid just such an incident.
I assumed you meant computer languages :-) If you mean human languages, yes Google publishes word2vec embeddings in many different human languages. Not sure though how easy it is to download.
Ask HN: Do modern AI engines still need to do full re-trainings?
I learned about ~AI algorithms in the 90s: backprocessing & clustering networks, and a little bit of genetic algos.

I then focused & programmed & played for a while with the model of the "backpropagation" network, until the early 2000' => it was fun, but not usable in my context. I then stopped fiddling with it and became inactive in this context.

An important property of a backpropagation network was (as much as I know) that it had to be fully re-trained whenever inputs changed (values of existing ones changed or inputs/outputs were removed/added).

Question:

Is it still like that for the currently fancy algos (the ones developed by Google/Facebook/OpenAI/Xsomething/...) or are they now better, so that they can now adapt without having to be fully retrained using the full set of (new/up-to-date) training data?

Asking because I lost track of the progress in this area during the last 20 years and especially recently I understand nothing involving all new names (e.g. "llama", etc...).

Thanks :)
The law of bad tech decisions
I was just contemplating my companies driving urge to make bad tech decisions wherever and whenever they possibly can. If there's a tech choice to be made they will make it. And I will have to build it.

Spend 2 years building X. Sure but we'll start a new project to build Y, which makes X moot.

Have a project that will track users, call it Thoth, because obviously he's the god of the hunt and anyone joining will know that. No don't call it UserTracking.

Have a team full of rails devs? New project is in node. We have a guy who can do that. Yep this project has to handle a million + users per hour and the company falls if it falls. Oh and that one guy. He's new.

Just wondering if there's a programming law that relates to this. Like Moors Law or Parkinson's law.
> As we have seen, enabling SMT on a CPU core requires sharing many of the buffers and execution resources between the two logical processors. Even if there is only one thread running on an SMT enabled core, these resources remain unavailable to that thread which reduces its potential performance.

This isn't true (anymore?). We've seen a variety of SMT cores which partition the ROB, fetch/decode bandwidth, etc. when running in SMT mode but allow full use when not in SMT mode.
Having the legislative mandate definitely helps. Interestingly, the Chevron case would have left the FDA well within their rights to decide that a similar rule was important for food and supplements, they chose not to do that.

Our food supply was totally different in 1938, I can understand why the original legislation didn't include this. Processed foods weren't common, seed oils were even less common, and I assume supplements like we gave today didn't exist though I'm less sure about that one.
my first few contacts were POTA contacts before that was a formal game. Just take your radio with you wherever you go and try to dial up repeaters or VHF/UHF simplex call frequency. for POTA formally you have to contact via simplex but you can coordinate on a repeater.

DMR has a lot of traffic and you can get a decent DMR handy-talky for about $150 so it's worthwhile.
> I feel like there's probably an excellent reason that the order is the way it is, due to the wonderful process of time.

But this assumes that the process of time is tending towards the better. Each change that was made was surely made on the basis of experience and created a local improvement, but that doesn't mean that they operate well together.

(Nor, of course, does it mean that they are likely to be so easily fixed that it can be done in a tossed-off HN comment.)
If you set {proxied: false} - it'll resolve to your IP directly.
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And their citizens, because that's the point of democracy ;)
If you let your eyes roll to the back of your head and let the spice take over generalization and compression are two sides of the same coin.
So you asked for proof of a long history and are now surprised that the examples are all from the past?
No, just news for people who don't follow all the details/keynotes. Also keeps people clicking on Bloomberg/HN/othersites, as any Apple news do.
I'm unconvinced. emplace is inherently more complex and requires a complete understanding of the relevant constructors of the value type in the collection. push_back is much less surprising.

I'm not a professional C++ developer, but I'm obviously required to use the language every once in a while and I vastly prefer code that requires me to have to look at fewer implementations of potentially implicit and hidden things.
it's also hypnotic and therapeutic.
To be clear, I literally experience the clinical definition of perfectionism, at a level that is arguably disordered [0]:

> the tendency to demand of others or of oneself an extremely high or even flawless level of performance, in excess of what is required by the situation. It is associated with depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and other mental health problems.

At my worst, every single mistake I made would give me hours to days of stress and anxiety. I've gotten it much better under control in general, but it still does cause a lot of stress from time to time.

This is why I object to people equating "perfectionism" with "being bad at prioritizing truly important work". I'm pretty darn good at prioritizing what's important. I actually perceive wasting time on unimportant work as a mistake, the opposite of perfection, and if I do it and realize my mistake I get stressed about it.

Perfectionism is holding yourself (and/or others) to excessively high standards, often met by anxiety or depression when those standards aren't met. The amount of perfectionism someone has is completely orthogonal to the question of how you measure perfection—a perfectionist with a definition of perfection that is well aligned with reality may accomplish a lot while a perfectionist with a definition that's less well aligned ends up wasting a lot of time.

And while you're right that perfect doesn't exist, that doesn't stop a perfectionist from pursuing it.

[0] https://dictionary.apa.org/perfectionism
Lots of allegations here. Can you share examples with sources of other operating systems following practices which you mention here? I presume Mac allows the same level of access for CRWD through user mode access only and that’s the only way they do it too. Same goes for Linux.

I genuinely want to understand this - how everyone else got it right and this entity got it wrong.
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> “some way to add data to a container without already having some copy”

That’s what C++ vector emplace_back does. It allocates the memory if needed, then constructs the object in place using the provided arguments. No need for a copy.
It is an expected behavior. context is missing. if you know any websites that has your request then you may mention it in your query with context. so that you can force the agent to look the info you need.

for e.g
any available 3 bedroom units currently for rent in Seattle
use these resources: Zillow, redfin, realtors.
without them we wouldn't be here. one day you'll appreciate that
I think about 90% of my code is “generated”.

Thing is, that’s only the actual, written code. Theres still a bunch of hard work that goes into figuring out what to generate and verifying that it’s correct
Oh sweet, this laptop has a PCMCIA Wi-Fi card!

That'd be cool if one day I can get the laptop running on battery and not just on sector.

Let me just setup it.

Wait a second, how do I wake up the screen again and get out of this hibernation stage ?

Why are all the fans stuck in 100% now ?

Errr, first let's see if I can get the trackpad working.
The UV-K5 radio is kinda crap and sprays spurious emissions everywhere, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone intending to transmit.
> Management needs an education - and that is part of the engineering job

Isn’t that bizarre? In all my years as an engineer I can count the number of managers that went to learn about engineering by themselves, on one hand.

It’s literally their job, but somehow they feel they can do it without understanding it.
No, they just share that data with the US government and anyone else who can pay.

As a Canadian, I fail to see why I should be more worried about "the Chinese" than the Americans.
>The most rational explanation for this is Temu is using a Javascript framework that also expects to be run offline (it's localized in multiple languages), they are querying some dead resource that shows this naive lazy error, and never redirected the page. Explains everything.

Really? That's more plausible than a company being greedy and simply trying to deceive would-be unsubscribing users to continue pushing ads their way for profit?

Occam's Razor.
The most frustrating part of iOS today, for me, is the voice recognition in iMessage. It feels like something from a decade ago. I hope they use a real LLM to improve accuracy. According to reports they will use an on-device large language model. Can a good-enough LLM run on the phone?
That is as exciting as them accepting different fiat currencies. Yes I can convert to Yen then donate or just donate.
do they rate limit dns resolution and force you to enable JavaScript and click a captcha for the full cloudflare experience?
Maybe? I don’t think the severity of a case is unknown to the judge, though, even with random ordering.
Nice project. I played with it for a little while, and while I found some issues like the code blocks inserted with `/` not automatically sizing to fit the content, and showing an alert() when switching panel types even when a panel hasn't been edited, I think it works pretty well for how ambitious of an app it is.

I like being able to do things side by side. However, I think perhaps the tabs should be within each split. It also should be geared towards quickly opening and closing things. A low entropy split view will result in space being taken up by stuff that isn't relevant. This is why the split view in Visual Studio Code works pretty well. It's like a browser where the tabs are constantly changing - not like Excel where you delete tabs but don't close them and they're persisted across sessions including the order of the tabs. (Actually, Excel has a split view but it works because you can quickly change which tab is open in each split, so it's relevant to the task at hand.)

> Many note-taking apps today single-paged have high-think-threshold

Like Notion and Obsidian? I find them to be simple to use if you don't use their advanced features.

> I'm personally a massive user of my app.

It's because you're testing your own app.
I feel like there’s an assault going on regarding the usage of the question mark? I see it all over social media?

In actual questions, however, it is dismissed altogether?

Where are we going with this trend.
I'm pro genetic modifications for these sort of (slight) changes. We live in entirely different environments and our baselines to be healthy makes sense to me. Of course the next step always seems to be "make superhuman soldiers" or "designer babies".
Unfortunately a quick Google indicated difficulty finding clarity on his importance outside his Wolfram association.

I think the comment you replied to is asking for groups or individuals of note and independent but working with Wolfram on the merits of his/their research. Your link didn't shed more light I think.
This is interesting, thank you! It seems like LoRa operates in the UHF frequencies, and is an encoding scheme for data packets...? Does that encoding system also affect its usable range, or can any two radios in the same frequency generally send/receive over those distances?

A 50kb/s bit rate is fast enough for texting, but I guess it'd take some specialized voice protocols to do a walkie-talkie over that.

Regardless, thank you for sharing.
Yep, people also still like to say minimum wage increases will cause inflation despite things inflating just fine without it.

Sigh.

Higher local wages means more money in the local economy versus money getting pulled out to somewhere else.
I consider SMT a relic left over from the days when CPU design was all about performance per square millimeter. We are in the process of substituting that goal with that of performance per watt, or in the process of slowly realizing that our goals have shifted quite a while ago.

I really don't expect SMT to stay much longer. Even more so with timing visibility crosstalk issues lurking and big/small architectures offering more parallelism per chip area where single thread performance isn't in the spotlight. Or perhaps the marketing challenge of removing a feature that had once been the pride of the company is so big that SMT stays forever.
Haha, no, I didn’t! Honestly, I didn't put much thought into this project either. I needed it for myself to host a game we're developing (it’s 11GB per download) and was frustrated with the Noip client. I made this in about an hour and thought I’d share it too! Just seeing all the upvotes today :)
This book is good but I think it’s too hard for beginners. I would recommend to read ‘zero to production in Rust’ by Luca Palmieri first especially if you like more learning by doing approach
but it's kind of their fault? they designed the api that way, they decided what can be done in userland and what must be done via kernel. they at least _allowed_ it to happen every time.
I heard something similar. that they deploy content separately from code, but they don't test all of the combinations of code + content. This crash was from "stable" code in the driver mixed with a corrupt or incomplete content file (config, etc) , triggering the null-ptr exception .

Sounds like one of those companies where you get hired and are shocked by the sausage factory you just stepped into
Wouldn't it be easy to apportion small sections of the HF bands to those who are so afflicted? Those who've CW wouldn't be so restricted.
Hanlons razor states that you shouldn't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.

As far as I can tell, you've used it against your own argument. Greed (malice) is less preferred as an argument vs a non-robust implementation (incompetence).
Ignoring Windows Insider reports is bad. However, how many endpoints having issues (out of a billion+) is ‘acceptable’ after an update? We live in a news hype cycle so clearly even the one wrong failure will make it up somewhere.

However, without metrics that show BSoDs from patches (which MS will likely never share), it’s hard to see if things have improved or regressed. If they regressed, someone up in their leadership chain is hopefully following the constructive discussion here.
we do that for very jr roles over 10 wks, it's called an internship.
The functionality does seem intriguing, that doesn't change it's security profile which was poorly thought out and implemented.
Hanlon's Razor would support the "broken API" theory.
(Disclaimer: I have a physics degree but I’m not a practicing physicist.)

I think the above comment perfectly summarises the situation.

There has been a lot of fanfare but no action coming from Wolfram’s research.

It’s even more disconnected from physical reality than the more abstract mathematical corners of string theory.

The hard part of a TOE is showing how it maps to reality, how the theory constrains what we can measure in future experiments, etc… This is the part that Wolfram keeps skipping over.

I’ve had an interest in theories of everything (TOEs) and I’ve read through hundreds of papers from serious publications to gibberish put out by mentally ill cranks. I’ve developed a checklist to filter out the noise. Wolfram’s theories don’t tick any boxes! Even crazy rants on some personal blog written in random fonts with ten text colors do better.
The author, Jon Gjengset, has a channel which was a critical resource for me to learn Rust.

https://youtube.com/@jonhoo

He also contributed to MIT's Missing Semester, which is a fantastic idea about providing context that's missing from CS courses (like how to use git or a debugger).

https://youtube.com/@missingsemester

As a final bit of trivia, I believe his thesis advisor was Robert T. Morris, the co-founder of YC. I believe he was also an early contributor to the Arc and HN codebases.
> There is nothing in the UNHDR that says people ought to be able to own land

Article 17 [0]:

1. Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property

---------

Land is a form of property in every single definition used in literally every form of jurisprudence.

[0] - https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma....

Edit: why the negative downvotes to an a proven refutation
Thanks for the book recommendation. I think this book is very much not intended for beginners, in fact the linked website says the following in the first paragraph:

> For developers who’ve mastered the basics, this book is the next step on your way to professional-level programming in Rust.
Depending on how time travel works that might have a huge hole.

1. You pick a hash of the headline from the January 14th 2030 of the Springfield Shopper as your key and encrypt some data.

2. You use your time machine to send the encrypted data to someone in 2024 with instructions telling them how to recover the key, expecting that they will have to wait until January 14th 2030.

3. Some rich person decides they do not want to wait. They notice that January 14th is National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day [1].

4. They buy the Springfield Shopper and institute a policy that every year on January 14th the headline will be "Happy National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day!".

5. If we are in the kind of universe where time travel to the past can affect the time that the time traveler came from their actions in #4 make it so "Happy National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day!" is the headline you used.

6. In 2024 they try to decrypt the data using a hash of "Happy National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day!" and it works.

[1] https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/hot-pastrami-sandwich-day...
And probably 3+ years from it being available in the EU
It's interesting how I read so often of people calling this HAM. Such as, "Is Ham that hobby?" below.

I first got started in amateur radio with my novice license in 1966. We always called it "ham radio" or "amateur radio" or said I was a ham radio operator but no one ever called it HAM or spelled it in all caps. On HN, at least, I see it every time the subject is brought up. And it seems to be a fairly recent event.
Yeah, I think it’s convenient. We use email, but for the same thing. If I inadvertedly break something, I’ll have an email in my inbox 5 minutes later.
O'Dwyer's "Back to Basics" talks on YouTube are worth a watch for anyone looking to get up to speed on modern C++.
Windows eBPF support is experimental and currently provides hooks for packet filtering stuff and nothing else.

I would be delighted if their long-term solution is eBPF which provides full anti-malware hooks, but again it's unfortunately not there yet.
German totalitarism did not cause Britain to go to war but it was why Britain did not negotiate peace in 1940.

German totalitarism was why they never held any serious legitimacy among conquered Poles and later Russians. Terror and more terror. It says something that, after long hesitation, Russians solidified around Stalin. Is it an anachronism as well? Did they see any hope for a prosperous post-war future with/under Hitler?
As a computer scientist who got in touch with quite some theoretical computer science, I find Wolfram's approach appealing. I suppose this approach resonates quite well in CS departments as our minds already know about things like fractals, cellular automata, hypergraphs, etc.

What's not so present in CS (at least where I studied) is philosophy of science. Falsifiability and how theories are created and tested is less grounded in my mind than the topics already mentioned. Though, in physics, this is really important.

Last time I checked, his approach was not able to make real predictions about our world.
So it's not yet a real theory. Of course, this doesn't mean people should stop working on this. It also took humans a long time to develop the mathematics to describe gravity correctly.
A kernel-space watchdog (that checks integrity of the image) would be much easier than a filter that updates from the internet.

Sure, the whole thing is definitely a hard problem, but CS fucking up even the most basic QA **and** error handling ... it just shows how ridiculous their whole claim to having super fancy technology is.
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There's a persistent belief among non-hams that it is an acronym or something. I don't get it either.
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"Hunger for the Glorious Future "
You can't just let people do anything from userland, the performance would tank. As for restricting kernelland, EU competition regulators would not be happy if MS was the only one able to write anti virus software that runs in kernelland.
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What’s naive is defending a study here after it’s been disproven. But please go off about tired pilots.