skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel you; you try to give your best when you take money. I'm glad you're assertive enough to stick to your vision and not implement everything your customers want from you.
Linus always has a great way of summarizing what others might be thinking (nebulously). What's being said in the article is really mirrored in the lost art of DDD, and when I say "lost" I mean that most developers I encounter these days are far more concerned with algorithms and shuttling JSON around than figuring out the domain they're working within and modelling entities and interactions. In modern, AWS-based, designs, this looks like a bunch of poorly reasoned GSIs in DDB, anemic objects, and script-like "service" layers that end up being hack upon hack. Maybe there was an implicit acknowledgement that the domain's context would be well defined enough within the boundaries of a service? A poor assumption, if you ask me.

I don't know where our industry lost design rigor, but it happened; was it in the schools, the interviewing pipeline, lowering of the bar, or all of the above?
For some reasons LLMs get a lot of attention. But.. while simplicity is great it has limits. To make model reason you have to put it in a loop with fallbacks. It has to try possibilities and fallback from false branches. Which can be done on a level higher. This can be either algorithm, another model, or another thread in the same model. To some degree it can be done by prompting in the same thread. Like asking LLMs to first print high level algorithm and then do it step by step.
3 actually. https://budget.house.gov/resources/staff-working-papers/us-d...
I'm trying to understand what GATT is.

From what I've found in the links below, it looks Bluetooth 5.4 spec contains an Attribute Protocol (ATT) that allows for sharing of custom attributes between bluetooth devices. Attributes have a type identified by UUID, a server-specific 16-bit handle, a higher-level handle group, a value, and then permissions. Permissions specify read/write capability and requirements for encryption, authentication, and authorization. Generic Attribute Profile (GATT) is a service discovery/management framework built around ATT.

While wondering about what applications this is intended for, I found an example in Figure 2.2 the GATT spec (2nd link) showing a computer communicating with a sensor over bluetooth, so presumably, this is ATT and GATT are meant to improve IoT networks utilizing bluetooth. Appendixes A and B show examples of the protocol containing data for battery status, temperature sensors, and glucose monitors.

Is this the current state of the art for this type of information over Bluetooth, or is there something else that is currently being used?

I'd like to see a Pi Pico W bluetooth host for my custom split keyboards, and it obtaining from the the battery status to display on a small LCD/OLED display. The Nordic nRF52-based keyboards I have are already capable of reporting that type of information over bluetooth, so is that an example of GATT in the wild? Is GATT what's currently enabling my Apple Magic Trackpad and Pixel Buds Pro to report their battery status over bluetooth, or will GATT be the next generation of that capability?

Found in the Bluetooth 5.4 spec:

Part G. Generic Attribute Profile (GATT): https://www.bluetooth.com/wp-content/uploads/Files/Specifica...

Part F. Attribute Protocol (ATT): https://www.bluetooth.com/wp-content/uploads/Files/Specifica...
I see it less as an issue of blind trust and more of an opportunity cost I guess. While it does raise my blood pressure that banks can slip in these little mistakes that almost always favor them, I don't see myself ever investing as much time and effort as you did to verify the numbers every month.

Maybe once these AI agents get reliable enough, it might be a fun side project to automate the verification process.
react is immediate mode, and it doesn't have to refresh at xx fps; it only refreshes when a change in the data the gui is dependent on. (and the browser tends to refresh when there are input events)
LLMs develop own understanding of reality as their language abilities improve
Someone concerned about piracy could just keep their phone in a faraday cage case and take it out only when needed, no?
It's really not with wasm. Sure, there is a performance difference. It is not a "whole other level".
The class interface (interface contract) falls under the general point being made, but not the class implementation (implementation details).
How would this approach apply to, e.g., an R&D project in which each member of the team is a SME, "rotating" is not possible, and hiring two SMEs for each position would have a negligible impact on how quickly the project gets done?

Consider, for instance, an embedded software engineer, a PhD in computer vision, and a PhD in optics working together on a laser weapon.
interesting, thanks! any idea what the situation is like on wasm?
concern for the plight of boys and men is more fashionable than you might think in progressive spaces, especially in the past few years.

for example, Barack Obama's summer reading list just came out. I think being on this list indicates being fashionable among progressive elites.

https://x.com/BarackObama/status/1823082706462253510

one of the books he lists this year is "Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About it" by Richard Reeves. It's about exactly what you say.
No, but you were implicitly assuming undisciplined aggression, when what the military actually needs and tries to train for is disciplined aggression--aggression against only the right targets at the right time and place. Undisciplined aggression is an obvious violation of military discipline and should be treated as such by the leadership.
My major complaint is when cities/states/governments only use a Google product for hosting allegedly-public data — which is otherwise inaccessible (unless you allow access to e.g. Google Drive).

Even worse is when these "public forums" are hosted entirely within walled gardens, e.g. Facebook; then you need an account (and not just DNS whitelisting) to participate in this public forum.

All government entities should be required to post public documents on their own servers/equipment/hostname.
Not defending that code - and I agree with you that wild TS code gets nightmarish (I usually call it a “type explosion”) but

Waaaay back when in my C++ days, starting to get into template metaprogramming, the “aha!” moment that made it all much easier was that the type definition could be thought of as a function, with types as input parameters and types as output parameters

Recentlyish, this same perspective really helped with some TS typing problems I ran into (around something like middleware wrapping Axios calls).

It’s definitely a “sharp knife” if you overuse it, you screw yourself, but when you use it carefully and in the right places it’s a super power.
Newsboat is better.
I worry that the whole US economy is bloated and fragile due to govt spending but I am not an economist.

When the govt spends $7 trillion it basically goes to various Americans for various work. It's a $7 trillion injection to the economy. There are also various leeches or other businesses/work that aren't culled naturally via competition. This all worries me.
If you mean something like HTTP server logs, then clients should be rotating their addresses regularly, and router firewalls should be blocking any incoming unestablished connections, so you can't just look at a log to find vulnerable computers to talk to.

You'd be much more likely to find a vulnerable computer that you can actually talk to by looking at AAAA records for websites. Or if you were a malicious website, wait for people to talk to you, and then send evil responses.
Yes, I find myself in type hell with some regularity. TBH it happens with my own codebase too when libraries I want to use are authored by these type astronauts.
"The ultimate goal of a nuclear a weapon (as of any weapon) is to keep peace."

This certainly does not seem obvious to me. It seems eminently arguable that the ultimate goal of a weapon is to make someone else do what you want or eliminate them or punish them if they do not. Or the ultimate goal of a weapon is to kill something to eat it. Or other stuff. When the first ape-map picked up the first jaw bone with the intent of bashing in another person's head, I doubt he was thinking "I'm looking forward to keeping this peace with this."
While I don't disagree, what's the solution in today's world? Seems they're doing the best with the existing legal framework we have here, for better or worse.
But immich was kept agpl and no cla which is a good thing.
What a weird article

House reps and their staffers should sign them their name to it because seeing a government website with very biased political points is odd.
The field of nonlinear optics deals with photon-photon interactions in matter, and has been around for almost a century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_optics
"constant-time" isn't a literally technically correct descriptor, it's a short-hand

What matters is that the variance of execution time, which memory addresses are accessed, etc. is independent of any secret inputs.
Kim was not the robin-hood like figure he portrayed himself to be. If anything he was the opposite given the many illegal dealings he was engaged in before creating Megaupload, and his bad reputation in some German technology communities for being a rat. Kim also in all probability is guilty. I hold no love for Kim however I can't agree with this ruling. Despite Kim's conduct; the case against him has been so rife with so much extreme police and prosecutorial misconduct it should've been thrown out ages ago.

Some of the misconduct in this case includes but is not limited to:

- Abusing the power of a national security agency to illegally spy on him, which lead to the Prime Minister being forced to publicly apologizing due to the political fallout.

- Attempting to freeze his defense funds

- Performing a no knock raid utilizing a heavily armed anti-terrorism task force for a non-violent crime, which lead to the department being successfully sued by all parties for excessive force.

- Performing an illegal search by intentionally and knowingly filling out an improper warrant, and having had the crown admit this.

- Sending the evidence ruled to be illegally obtained to the FBI regardless

- Allowing a foreign government to maliciously apply to revoke someone's bail the day they can no longer afford their lawyer

- Already ruling that under New Zealand law you cannot be extradited for copyright infringement, but proceeding with the case regardless for the more flimsy fraud charges.

Kim is a bad person who very likely is guilty, but at what point do we draw a line and say the abuse of process has been so great it harms the reputation of the legal system to proceed? Cases are routinely completely thrown out for much less. It's frankly a travesty towards the legal system that this case has been allowed to continue, especially given the charges.
You clearly don't like cleaning - cool beans. But let's say you made that argument about fixing your bike, that's what my response was about. People value things differently, some people might value and even enjoy cleaning more than you do. Some people might find fixing a fence (or hacking an ardiuno gadget, etc) to be like torture, to each their own. We're allowed to like different things.

I took time to underline the fact that if you don't like the task, you ought to outsource it. Not sure how I could have been clearer.

Also: your tone comes off as dismissive and snarky.
I love the lack of self awareness from this author. "My generation of reporters was right to encourage the government to go into debt, but now it's different". No it's not, the consequences of the bad decisions in ~2010 are just catching up to us now. I guarantee you that there are people who want the government to deficit spend today who will say the same sort of thing 20 years from now as they get older and wiser.
Experience and choice are adjacent when they are not the same.

I specifically mean to say the experience of choice is the root of conscious thought - if you do not experience choice, you're experiencing the world the exact same way a robot would.

When pretending you are in the fictional character of a movie vs the fictional character in a video game. one experience's more choice, is making conscious decisions vs a passive experience.

Merely having an experience is not enough to be conscious. You have to actively be making choices to be considered conscious.

Consciousness is about making choices. Choices are a measure of consciousness.

But do choices actually exist?
I don't want to argue, I'd like to know what you believe and why.

You're welcome to share or not.

What isn't a tool of the power structure? What of advertising (see the I.F. Stone interview I've posted elsewhere in this thread), or of philanthropy (take your pick of benefactors)?
MIT is notorious for these PR hype articles.
Didn't even bother to change the order of the quotes. That's bold.
Yes I’m agreeing with you. But I’m saying it’s not proven and it’s not expected to be favoring either side as claimed.

Saying black can at best tie against perfect play is not the same thing as saying both players can at best tie when facing perfect play.
Real reasoning, which can be used to predict outcomes in novel situations, is based on multi-step what-if prediction, perhaps coupled with actual experimentation, and requires things like long-term (task duration) attention, (task duration) working memory, online learning (unless you want to have to figure everything out from scratch everytime you re-encounter it), perhaps (depending on the problem) innate curiosity to explore potential solutions, etc. LLMs are architecturally missing all of the above.

What you might call "fake" reasoning, or memorized reasoning, only works in situations similar to what an LLM was exposed to in it's training set (e.g. during a post-training step intended to embue better reasoning), and is just recalling reasoning steps (reflected in word sequences) that it has seen in the training set in similar circumstances.

The difference between the two is that real reasoning will work for any problem, while fake/recall reasoning only works for situations it saw in the training set. Relying on fake reasoning makes the model very "brittle" - it may seem intelligent in some/many situations where it can rely on recall, but then "unexpectedly" behave in some dumb way when faced with a novel problem. You can see an example of this with the "farmer crossing river with hen and corn" type problem, where the models get it right if problem is similar enough to what it was trained on, but can devolve into nonsense like crossing back and forth multiple times unnecessarily (which has the surface form of a solution) if the problem is made a bit less familiar.
You don't have to understand it necessarily to use it. I'm sure there's plenty of library level code that people don't understand. But that's the point. Typescript will tell you if you screw up. A lot of this has to do with generics, and if you're using it and typescript can infer the generic types to use, it'll be a lot simpler and you'll know exactly what's breaking.

And for libraries like this, you'll unfortunately be limited to Typescript ninjas to maintain, but there's no alternative really. I guess use javascript without types, which doesn't remove the dependencies or complexity just hides it away, and who knows what happens at run time
What does this comment mean? Since not particularly well-versed in programming, all I understood was that this project has something that can read data? What is impressive about a tool that can read C++?

Would appreciate if someone can explain, thanks!
How are you staying motivated to do regular workouts?
"Federal spending", I said.
Perhaps. I can't speak to the motivation of these folks, but I suspect it's more than just sending the pictures for them. Also, even if the market is flooded, I imagine we'd still want people looking for victims so it doesn't really help.
The author is suggesting using money market accounts as a substitute for savings accounts, and treasuries a substitute for CDs.

It is true that money market accounts have liquidity crunches (i.e. "break the buck"): https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/breaking-the-buck.asp

Governments have a lot of vested interest in preventing that from happening, but it's not a guarantee on the level of FDIC.

EDIT: Just realized I misread the article, and they are talking about money market funds, not money market accounts, which are different things. I did not realize brokerages allow money market fund assets to be treated essentially as cash balances, which is basically what a money market account does.
I'd be interested in reading that Axios-wrapper if it's openly available.
The issue isn't having a monopoly, it's exploiting vertical integration in digital platforms.

- Hardware (Google Pixel, Chromecast, Chromebook)

- OS (Android, ChromeOS)

- Distribution (Google Play Store)

- Browser (Chrome)

- Search (Google)

- Products (YouTube, Drive, Gmail, ...)

- Business (GCP, Workspace)

The only other companies that are similar are Microsoft and Apple... both arguably less extensive.

The issue with this also isn't entirely clear until it's "exploited": Google (and the others) can force certain products on their customers due to controlling the "underlying" product. Ad targeting also becomes incredibly precise and valuable... everyone else has to go through the scraps while Google can "just" read your emails (Gmail), get your location (Hardware/OS), go through your files and photos (Drive) and use your search history (Google).
Iteration is important, but I don’t think that it can substantively compensate for the abstraction limitations outlined in the GP comment.
… this website, "FrankNez", has recently been spamming subreddits Reddit recently too, some off-topic from what is being spammed. (Their user there: https://www.reddit.com/user/OfficialFrankNez/, so you can see for yourself.) — e.g., an article "Kamala Harris Is Now Proposing Raising Crypto Tax To 28%" was cross posted to 13 subreddits and removed by moderators on at least 9 of them. It smells like it's just rehashing news for ad revenue.

To be clear: I don't think OP here is involved; their post history seems varied, so they may just have picked this up from somewhere else. I'd be curious to know how they came across it, because it might be a tad interesting to see how these things spread.

But these "as reported by" articles, just ditch that article and read the upstream source. 99% of the time, they add nothing of value, and are just plating it with ads.

(There's also https://www.reddit.com/user/BFA_Artist/ doing the same thing, just nothing but that site, spammed from an account that claims to be a person. Like … it smells. Nobody is like "man, I love this site's news. I'm going to spam everything they write to 20 subs". Came across that just trying to trace back by own steps…)

(I should also mention that normally for blogspam I'd sort of lean into a "flag and move on", but here there's the problem that I think the content of the underlying FT article — banks screwing customers w/ 0% interest rates on their savings when interest rates are high — is worthy of discussion here, and I don't desire to kill that with a flag…)
The Dream of Speed – Supersonic dream died in the 20th century. Can it return?
If you're lumping together all the big corporations you're missing my point. Sure size is a parameter but not precisely what I meant to communicate, which is more true about Google than Tesla for example.
Windows users hit by all-new advanced malware campaign
Why would Banks shy away if they are more productive and have better margins?
Fun times with energy-based models
Unless you hold a lot of money, you're at the mercy of someone actually caring to fix it, and if not an annoying and possibly expensive lawsuit

It's not I trust the bank, its just the times they've stolen under $500 from me they've more or less said 'fuck you deal with it' and after that I can just work to make the cash back a lot easier than I can sue for it. So I just closed my accounts and did that.

Fighting the banks over chump change sounds nice in theory or if you can start a class action but if not it's kind of like suing the cops, basically a wild goose errand for anyone but someone with a lot of time and a pro bono lawyer.
> Performance has been very

for how many records?
For those interested in the full video and not just the transcript, you can find it on X at the link below.
https://x.com/quasa0/status/1823933017217482883
> Digital content platform, for example, is a perfect task to generate outside value.

Yep. Storing CSAM materials against your will is great. Maybe interspersed with pirated movies. To add insult to injury, it's also not reliable enough for archival purposes for important data.

So far, I haven't seen any actually useful proof-of-work schemes that truly benefit the society.
You may also enjoy [Concrete Mathematics](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112243.Concrete_Mathemat...) by Graham, Knuth, Patashnik.
Apple /// was 2MHz and it was a disaster.
What kind of mistakes are these? I've been reconciling my bank statements for decades and if it doesn't balance, it's been my mistake.
I had to double check that it wasn't 30 under 30 media luminary Griffin Mcelroy
"Should we buy a Chinese knockoff of MIFARE Classic" strikes me as a self-answering question, but I guess that's why I still haven't been promoted to CISO.
I'm not assuming anything, explicitly or implicitly. People like to pretend you can turn agression on and off and only turn it towards the "right" direction. Those people are either in denial or have no experience of what this training does to you.

Disclosure: 12 years in military multiple tours of various warzones.
Would a national debt of $0 be a point where the debt is a full-on crisis? Would a national debt of $999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 be a point where the debt is a full-on crisis? If only there were some kind of conclusion we could draw from this, even if we don't have an exact number. Oh well, back to eating paste.
Fuchsia is part of the problem not the solution. It was the retirement home to keep a bunch of smart people busy who didn't have any rush to ship anything real for as long as possible. Architecture astronaut porn to the max.

On the other hand there's zero desire at Google to try and build the best phone. They have conceded that to Apple a long time ago.

No desire to be number one in Cloud. They are fighting for number 3 spot.

They are the Xerox of AI with a full stack solution. If they had the drive they would be HYPING THE SHIT out of TPU and making it the best solution to run all the real workloads people have.

Guess what. On average a Googler even still today with low bar to entry is probably 10 IQ points higher than average Amazon or Microsoft or Apple. But no; no drive.
The paper reports that the same backdoor seems to be present in some NXP and Infineon SKUs as well, including some manufactured in Europe.
There's an interesting paper [1] that discusses this very possibility.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238?log...
Not really in the grand scheme of things.
The full video of this Stanford talk w/ Eric Schmidt is leaked at the link below.
https://x.com/quasa0/status/1823933017217482883
What's the point of pulling out federal spending? When the federal government decides to devolve a policy issue out to the states, that isn't necessarily indication of its importance as an issue. Law enforcement, for instance, is a hugely important national issue, and is almost entirely local. I assure you that Americans care deeply about having good fire departments; the federal government doesn't fund them.