skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you have overcommit disabled, it will be user-space processes making syscalls mmap() or sbrk() to get more heap memory (in which small allocations reside), that fails with an error return code, I assume.

Nope. No overcommit simply means that the OOM killer will be invoked earlier. The errors likely won't happen on the synchronous path due to the way glibc() maps the pages.

Long ago, I tried to write an OOM-resilient container library, and I wanted to test it. It worked as expected on Windows, but on Linux I was not able to get NULLs from malloc(). No amount of MLOCKALL and other tricks helped.
Types & Programming Languages

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/
> I'm just so surprised that with such high adoption, none of the money is going into make anything remotely polished.

There are numerous polished games on the platform, but the most of the players are younger kids on hand-me-down mobile devices, so the most popular games tend to be easy to run casual games. Here are a few examples of what you're looking for:

* Frontlines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA71d3O1ID0

* Primal Hunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_lenB5MTTU

* Riotfall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E0kEFxBTEM
Why do you have to login to even try it? Non-starter.
> It’s also possible that the manufacturer gets hacked, and subsequently sends out attacker controlled and wrong software updates to the inverters, with possibly dire consequences.

> There are also people that claim that the many Chinese companies managing our power panels for us might intentionally want to harm us. Who knows.

Wait, seriously? The European power system relies on Chinese companies not messing it up remotely? And the debate is over whether the companies will stay nice? For heaven's sake, isn't it obvious that during a war the Chinese government can force them to just destroy the continent's power system remotely? How is this not seen as a extreme continental security risk?
> I think NASA fears that highlighting risk leads to bad press. NASA doesn't want headlines like, "NASA ignores safety concerns--story at 11". But ironically, when NASA minimizes risk, they lower the threshold for how much risk the public will accept. The more they minimize risk, the less risk the public will let them take.

> I don't have any good suggestions, though. Highlighting risk inevitably invites the question of "why are we taking the risk at all?" And that's also a hard conversation.

I think it's fine for NASA to take risks doing truly new things, and even then it should do everything reasonable to minimize those risks (e.g. extensive testing, validation, and good engineering). But launching a space capsule and returning it to Earth with its crew alive? That's not a new thing.

Also, it's film at 11 ~not news at 11~ (jokes from when people understood the idiom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbjZEoXQjCM).
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The ID.me requirement is what keeps me from using the IRS online services. I hope that it will be replaced by login.gov eventually.
Existing laws should prevent the mayor from delegating authority that they don’t have the authority to delegate.

They may choose to base their decisions upon the AI, but they will (should) still be ultimately accountable for choosing to implement the AI’s “guidance”.

AI can’t be elected mayor, so the person elected will be the one accountable for their actions regardless of who or how they are suggested.
This just came across the transom this morning. I bet a lot of
people here already subscribe to various crunchbase lists, but
this is for those who don't.

I've had the general feeling that it's taking noticeably longer
for startups to have a liquidity event since just before the
pandemic. The horizon for liquidity events has always been
impacted by the macro-economic environment. But this is the
first data I've looked at for time between rounds.
Also, I forgot. By 1995 and beyond I'm pretty sure Netscape and such existed for Irix.

https://ftp.jurassic.nl/pub/irix/netscape/
Being homeless is the immediate alternative to many abusive situations.
The first I think of when anyone mentions agent-like “tool use” is:

- Is the environment that the tools are run from sandboxed?

I’m unclear on when/how/why you’d want an LLM executing code on your machine or in a non-sandboxed environment.

Anyone care to enlighten?
The City Fathers from cities in flight
any cellphone that runs sailfish and still available to buy?
Replicators failed to take control every times, but now they're trying through the election process.
I don't think we're using the same definition of invasive. To me, invasive would be a solution that compromises the privacy of the child or parents or both.

Apple's work on driver's licenses comes to mind. The deep integration is exactly what allows such a feature to not be invasive. Limits on what "School Mode" can actually do and the actual implementation approach will determine whether or not such a feature is invasive.

It certainly could be implemented in an invasive way. But being invasive is not intrinsic to such a solution.

And keep in mind the alternative is an outright ban, which in terms of absolute outcomes is far more "invasive" to individual carrying devices if you're using a definition of the word that covers "limits access to your device when on school premises".
IMHO, Starliner is too big of an MVP
but if Japanese developers are brilliant it doesn't make sense that there hasn't been wide success outside Japan like American software has.

I also used to think it was a cultural issue but I realized that consumer adoption cannot come without risk takers and also a prioritization from the government mainly the MIC which Japan lacks.

You really can't minimize the impact America's MIC had on software adoption the same way Japanese CCTV surveillance equipments were allowed to proliferate in China (it wasn't purely for profits to give you a hint).
I suggest trying that :) You'd be surprised.

glibc allocator, like pretty much any other allocator, maps pages in advance without touching them. It's quite likely that you'll get OOM killed when you first try to touch them, rather than during mmap() for new pages.
While this seems silly, imagine constantly having access to decision makers. Everyone cannot have hour-long conversations with the AI bot .

The problem would be, someone who knows what they're doing could probably convince the bot to do something messed up, but of course you have a human in the loop.

It's not like AI mayor is going to have direct control over robocops
Msft was hated before for its closed-ness. Google was loved for its service to the user. Both moved into the direction of marketshare. The end result is what we see today which is a drive for market share with less innovation. Or at least all innovation on the shelves put out for integration.
That is definitely my interpretation of it. I don’t know enough about it to know of that was the intent or not, but sure seems like it was.
It blows my mind that Starlink is already profitable. I vaguely remember that it was thought that they wouldn't be able to make a profit on it without Starship. Falcon 9 is just such an excellent rocket. I guess it makes a lot of sense when you can launch a cell tower into space for $200k if it can cover 100x as much area as a terrestrial cell tower at a similar price. Even if it only lasts 1/10th as long.
>The owner of the panels and inverters can meanwhile establish a connection with that manufacturer using an app or website, and via the manufacturer see how their own panels are doing

> It wasn’t necessary from a technical standpoint to let everything run through the manufacturer’s servers, but it was chosen to do it this way.

(emphasis from article)

I'm working on IoT cloud system. It was chosen to be done this way because netither consumers nor installers have any expertise whatsoever to setup their own network or any devices to be acessible from outside (and they want their panels to be accessible when they are outside their home). I can do it, most readers of HN could do it, but typical consumer or installer can't. Sad but true.
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That was before hoarding and building questionable businesses around them became a thing. I remember it being really easy to find textbooks, solution manuals, and related pdf and other stuff as late as 2008 far easier than 6-8 years later.

The main difference were sites like chegg and many other sites started slurping them up to resell in some way.
"Wyoming mayoral candidate vows to let the whims of OpenAI employees run Cheyenne."
Was his name Mike Magee, or Mike Mageek?

I wasn't confused before, but I am now.
What happened when ChatGPT was tasked to emulate our city council and draft a law
in 2022:

https://open.substack.com/pub/johnmayosmith/p/i-used-chatgpt...
Is it? Do the Amish follow the news? They seem to be living fine and happy without it.
You might want to skip the M4 MacBook – why
I live off-grid, power and water wise, and it really irked me that the monitoring coming with my inverter is only available online. Even when there is a network available the app will not work.
I fixed this by getting a raspberry pi connected and reading it from there, but if I disconnect the inverter from the internet it will create a new network so now there is always an open network in the middle of nowhere with no option to disable it.

I'm thinking about screwing it open and desoldering the wifi module but honestly I'll replace it in the next couple of years so I'd rather not kill myself by making a mistake.
Burn too much good will and people will treat the contract as a contract. And not a hope to impress the boss for a ft role. Another short term exploitation that turns into long term cynicism.

I don't think that's happening in games or tech, but it's been widely observed that Gen Z is less invested in corporate than ever before (or from the boomer's POV: "nobody wants to work anymore").
Thinking about Clever Code
Xcode is free if you don't consider the platform cost of needing to have only apple hardware to use it, however (generally) the hardware is cheaper than what MS charges for MSDN/VSE.
The "but what about emergencies" subject comes up often in the context of outright device bans. Such a feature would be no worse than a ban, nor do I think the concern about emergencies is justified.

I realize that parents have become reliant on constant contact and never being out of touch, but this is a whole other conversation to have about whether or not that is actually of benefit to anyone involved.

Plenty of reasons to believe it's a net-harm.

> Parents already have parental modes on phones and they're not using them to this degree, it would seem.

This is a good point, and I think one path forward would be to require parents to implement these modes. The solution to phones in schools can't just be policy - parents need to parent. Perhaps they'd be more likely to use those features if the alternative is an outright ban.
Kids Online Safety Act Passes Senate
If I remember correctly, the first doped fibre manufacturing, or maybe the first fibre manufacturing, used an old peening drop tower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_tower) for the gravity feed. I guess they are called "drawing towers" now.
Apple servers don't know anything about the location, so it's up to the implementation (in this case, the FindMy app) to average the location
One thing not clear to me after reading the article: Are these "atmospheric" particles in orbit around the moon, or is there enough collisions between them (actual pressure) to keep them afloat? Or both?
The only reason the US had so many more fatalities is because the Shuttle carried a larger crew in the first place.
People keep forgetting what "literal" means.

Hunka (it was just one person) was Waffen-SS, not SS -- and yes, there's a major difference between the two. From Wikipedia:

Non-Germanic units were not considered to be part of the SS, which still maintained its racial criteria, but rather were considered to be foreign nationals serving under the command of the SS. As a general rule, an "SS Division" was made up of Germans or other Germanic peoples, while a "Division of the SS" was made up of non-Germanic volunteers and conscripts.

Also, Ukrainians were forbidden from becoming Party members.

So a "literal" Nazi, no.
> Japan is always different

This is an interesting point. To generalise, I would say that Northeast Asia is significantly different (culturally and economically) compared to EU+USA+CAN+NZ+AU.

Both (South) Korea and Taiwan are considered highly developed. They also do not experience this type of "democracy decay" (my term). If anything, they are expereincing the opposite. Personally, I think this is due to both are still relatively young as democracies, so their democratic institutions, when tested with difficult issues, continue to strengthen.
A good example of "AI washing": Making a computer say what you want to say, then claim that it was the computer's decision.
I've read that smoking related illnesses cost less money overall to treat than average. As an extreme example, if someone went around disintegrating people with an orbital laser, this would clearly reduce overall heathcare spending. So in this analogy, smoking is the equivalent of an orbital laser that (plausibly) causes people to die before they develop an even more expensive-to-treat healthcare situation.
The cloud can operate as a dumb TURN relay relaying E2E-encrypted traffic. Then the worst the cloud can do is deny service to remote management (and even then, local management would still work), but it wouldn't be able to send direct control commands to the equipment since they don't have the authentication nor encryption keys.

This also makes it simpler from a programming point of view - instead of having separate cloud sync & local control protocols, you just have one local protocol and you merely tunnel it through the (dumb) cloud if you can't connect directly.
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I feel like "I'll tell an AI the decisions I have to make and do whatever it tells me" doesn't meaningfully change the outcome but bypasses the legality question.
Thanks for the link. I always assumed the "giga" meant that there was some size or output threshold that had been crossed, but it seems that the industry has accepted "big" and EV-related as the only qualifications. That's unfortunate.

Of course, the other option is to establish the factory size equivalent of the Council on Tall Buildings [1] which would certify whether or not a factory had earned the right to be called "giga". And that is ridiculous.

[1] https://www.ctbuh.org/resource/height
In an environment where police officers are effectively immune from any consequences of any actions, which appears to be almost true - barring widespread media coverage and consistent pressure from essentially a majority of US adults for multiple months at a time - the actual nature of the pretense used to take the officer's word for things is pretty immaterial
This looks interesting, is it like a hackathon?
A key detail that sometimes gets lost in the complexity of the story is that Clark Olofsson, one of the two criminals that the hostages supposedly formed an irrational bond with, was in jail at the start of the siege and was sent into the situation by police with a promise of a reduction in his sentence if he helped the hostages survive. If the hostages were perceptive about his motives, and detected a genuine fear of harm coming to them, that could have influenced their feelings towards him.

I think there's likely a lot of truth in the idea of Stockholm Syndrome, but this story seems too complicated to be convincing evidence for it.
Well, true. If you find those tiles useful then that would be a loss. How much of one, though? Are they worth putting up with ads for?
I've never understood the reasoning behind this carve out. Tips are supposed to be in addition to the worker's wage to show appreciation for good service. Not a replacement for their wages. This has made tipping from a nice thing to do to a necessity if you receive service. You are essentially paying the restaurant's payroll. It's insanity!
I thought many gym and apartment key fobs can’t be replicated due to rolling keys. Has this been addressed or flipper works on older fobs?
Why on earth a text editor might not update the screen at 144 Hz could be, say ... it draws the characters using individual putpixel operations in a canvas. Which would actually be a very simple dependency that could easily be ported.
Polish is a double edged sword. Its other side is decisiveness, which is diametrically opposed to engineering freedom.

It's a hard problem, though I agree there is some low hanging fruit that Roblox seems ignorant to. I think the biggest reason for its success is an extreme lack of competition. Nearly every time someone makes a good enough (use friendly) sandbox engine, they wrap it in copyright and market it wholesale; and that makes decisiveness (polish) a high priority.
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Absolutely, I worked on tech behemoths and smaller companies. The dev experience was significantly better when all development was local. I even worked on initiatives to move development away from the cloud, and although other devs were skeptical, they ended up loving it.
> My guess since programmer blog post writing (plus autism?) assumes “Everyone already knows everything about my project because I do!”…

Really unnecessary and distasteful to speculate like this. Just ask your question if you don't understand something.

> Is this to the effect of running a local LLM,

Yes. That is what ollama does.

> that reads your prompt

Yes.

> and then decides which correct/specialized LLM to hand it off to?

No. It does not hand it to a correct/specialized LLM. (or in general that is not the interesting use case) It hands it off to a traditionally coded program. Something written without any AI in it. This traditionally coded program does some job for the AI agent and then returns a result to it. The AI agent using that can use the result to answer the prompt.

Imagine as an example a calculator. Imagine if you want the AI to answer the following prompt: "How much will I have to pay if I bought an apple $2 and two bananas ($3 each) and the sales tax is 3%?"

To answer that question the LLM has to perform three steps: 1; understand that the above text stands for (2+23)1.03 and 2; perform the arithmetic correctly. 3; format the answer in an appropriate way (For example "You will have to pay 8 dollars and a quarter for tax.")

You can try to train an LLM which does all 3 steps internally. It parses the input and outputs the output. But in general you will have a lot of trouble with that approach.

So instead that you train the LLM to parse the prompt and output something like "<calculator (2+23)1.03>" Then your UI intercepts this output from the LLM and recognises that it is asking for a tool to be used. In this case it is trying to use the "calculator" tool with the parameter "(2+23)1.03". So your UI doesn't display anything to the user but passes the "(2+23)1.03" to a traditionally coded binary/script. That script calculates the result using normally programmed logic. Then the UI prompts the LLM again this time the prompt contains the initial prompt text, the LLM's call for the tool, and the output of the tool. Now the LLM can just see the right response in front of it, and using the full context of the original prompt formats an answer.

What can a tool do? Anything really. It can open the pod bay door. It can reach out to a database. It can use a geo api to plan a route between two cities. It can read a wikipedia entry. It can write to a knowledge base. It can activate a nuclear bomb. Whatever is appropriate in your use case.
The concept of agency is tied to the concept of responsibility + liability.

A big reason why we even have someone at the top is so we have a finger to point when something goes wrong.
Polygons. It renders the blocks using traditional polygons
Do gas stations have a special deal with the card processors then? Basically all of them have a lower cash price.
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Given how vehemently the Senators were in forcing NASA to create a second award for HLS, I wonder why there is no backup for SLS+Orion.
All this is true, but NASA at least deserves some credit for finally moving to fixed-price contracts instead of just shoveling endless dollars at their contractors for nothing to get done. The fact that Boeing is so dysfunctional that they can't deliver anything on fixed-price contracts is their fault, not NASA's, and they will have to either shape up or exit the sector.
Who's the one typing into the chatgpt prompt? Can I be the one to ask it misleading questions?
The given examples like checking weather or performing a nice clean mathematical operation seem more or less automatically safe. On the other hand, they talk about the ability to drive a web browser, which is decidedly less read-only and would also make me nervous.
I honestly wouldn't have assumed any of those. "Clarks" is a very famous shoe brand in the UK, and here, Clark is a surname. Ironically, Clark Gable's real name was "William Clark Gable" apparently. So, Clark was actually more likely a surname.

I guess Clark Olofsson was also named after Clark Gable, as Clark is not a particularly Swedish name either.
Starliner /could/ be a backup however it does not have those Moon requirements
Most newer solar inverters can't even be set up without internet and most functions are only available with an always-on internet connection. This is also true for EU companies like SMA for example.