skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder if Valve is still the same as described in this handbook, or if it ever truly was

I recommend looking at companies hiring pages to get a pulse on their longer term direction and strategy (a major reason for bogus job posts btw).

Based on Valve's [0], it's mostly sustaining work for Steam Marketplace, Steamworks, and R&D for VR.

[0] - https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/
I find Copilot most useful as a kind of very good autocomplete. One way to think about it is: if I know exactly what the next line should be (e.g. I've done X transformation on dataset A, and I need to do the same transformation on dataset B...), then Copilot excels at filling that new line in for me.

I never ask it to create new ideas from scratch, it just isn't good at that, let alone designing interfaces or figuring out the right data structure.

For example, a common pattern might be typing: "if (x := load_data(...)) is None:", then Copilot will create a reasonable next line given context (in some parts of the codebase, return None, in other parts, raise ValueError; it sees the type annotation of the function so it usually knows which one).
Pricing model?
I think pointing just to Wikipedia ignores the growing use adoption and massive impact of Wikidata. perhaps I'm biased because of my field but everything I see indicates the growing and not shrinking power of it, I would categorize it as different than Wikipedia's effects though.
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Web scraping is not ethical if it is done in a way that the site owner disallows.

The problem is that there is no way to defend against it, so the question of "ethics" is largely academic. The only adequate defense is to not put anything you care about on a publicly accessible website.
100% certain that you could find an identical version of this rant complaining about how the newfangled Algol-68 is making people lose sight of the power of assembly language.
I agree with you on that. In ChatGPT's answer, for me only names and keywords are relevant, which I can then use to start another search, and I ignore the rest of the “noise”. I was also more trying to show with my post that I occasionally use A.I. when I can only vaguely remember something and thus am not even sure what the right search terms for a classic web search would be. Like humans, ChatGPT is often able to extract the right information from imprecise, anecdotal messages and then provide suitable answers that I can then use for my further search.
Scala 3.5.0 Released
I believe you can do this now if you’re willing to run the xen hypervisor. More arms and legs than a “normal” host/vm setup to be sure.
Is there a a reason this hasn't been pushed for at the EU level?
> from the U.S. Air Force having to reverse engineer parts to the U.S. Navy facing similar challenges with obsolete components and diminishing manufacturing sources for its aging fleet

Military procurement is a bad source from which to project all American manufacturing. You’re also comparing a quality problem (USAF) to a quantity problem (closing shipyards).
Even if patched/depracated, still a websocket to any ip-address with the packets as long as it can send the packet. Literally any chat applet.

Torrent files, pretty much anything. It's not that scary at the moment.

Browsers can do it now. It's an age old 'feature' -> https://github.com/garywill/LAN-port-scan-forbidder

uBlock apparently blocks your browser from reaching out to your LAN though, but; no 'sandbox escapes' needed, just javascript being loaded.

Our browsers could have been exploiting things behind NAT this entire time. Smart TVs, Smart watches, phones, anything pingable on your LAN.

Go here and see it in action:
http://samy.pl/webscan/
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That seems like a type error on your part. O(unit) is a categorically different notation than O(mathematical function). You must be confusing it with the asymptotic notion that is the latter. But units are not functions and so clearly it cannot be the same notation.
Don't be a hero. Let broken systems fail.
That’s the precious bodily fluids paranoia I’m talking about.

Nobody is coming for anyone. [Again doesn’t apply to spies and dissidents]

Systems can fail and that can mean ruined lives. However, that’s only part of the equation. There were actually anti-automobile societies in the US and Europe who opposed cars for safety reasons.
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>… only to have Google to force feed “You should install Chrome” on every Google search page.

And in Gmail. Also, what I find most egregious is when in the Gmail or Google Maps app on my phone, if I tap a link it prompts me to open in Chrome, Safari, or my default browser. I don’t even have Chrome installed, but rather than just opening the link, it tries to get users to go to the App Store and download Chrome.

There is an option to remember the choice, but it doesn’t. It still asks me all the time.

What’s the point of a default browser if Chrome is going to pop-up and ask what browser I want to use anyway, and create friction until the user complies. I haven’t tried it (and won’t on principle at this point), but I’m betting if I download Chrome and make it my default, that prompt will go away.
They are likely timestamping on the logging thread. Possibly they are just running at higher frequency.
> I wonder if Valve is still the same as described in this handbook, or if it ever truly was.

The fact that this handbook was deliberately released to the public (rather than posted on the Valve intranet the handbook refers to) does make it feel more like submarine recruitment/marketing material rather than something actually intended for onboarding new hires.
Elon's not more evil than anyone else, he's just way dumber than everyone expected him to be when we were in the honeymoon phase.
I had to think about what this question meant for a few seconds, because I forgot that "garbage collection" could ever mean anything other than memory management....
Fed chair Powell signals September interest rate cuts at Jackson Hole
No. An is used before vowel sounds, not just vowels. Ive had this corrected many times by brits. Imho, british education is much more focused on speaking english than writing it, which changes the emphasis of some rules. But it sounds strange when speaking in a non-brit accent. "An istoric" v "An historic".
6. WPP in Windows 2000 ETW https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/weg/...
These numbers have paper trails which would require large conspiracy among civil servants who have really no reason to care about fudging numbers... and if they had this conspiracy operating why would they reveal this at all? It would require an oversight investigation of some sort beforehand.
It obviates the need because it is not rich text.
Fwiw I've seen vermont curry in my local grocery.
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This is Microsoft’s version of Apple’s “Secure Enclave” root of trust on Apple silicon devices. I’m always surprised about the negative reaction to TPM or Pluton, given (what I perceive as) the positive security/privacy opinion on Secure Enclave
I want to go in the other direction: Take computer-generated math animation and make it look like Walt Disney was in his office "relaxing" while fifty artists drew each frame in a better version of my artist's hand.
I have started learning programming with Turbo Pascal. Actually with BASIC. But Pascal became my favorite 25 years ago, and then moved to Borland Pascal, it was magic times - handmade games, algorithms... I felt myself a sorcerer making miracle things. Nowadays I feel myself an outcast in the world of templates, who writes his own libraries for corporate projects.

Thank you for your advice. I have not looked into Pascal long time. Can you advice some resources, repos, communities?
I'd rather replace one justice every 4 year term and occasionally one retires or dies than never know when they come.
But the way that is represented in the file format isn't standard, which means it may not be interoperable.
> too sparse to be gas

This isn’t a thing. The interstellar medium, for instance, is gaseous. Vacuum vs gas isn’t clearly, uniformly defined because “true” vacuums really don’t exist.
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> it's difficult to keep yourself from getting back into unhealthy territory unless you're willing to spend your entire life counting calories and tracking weight religiously.

It depends on your habits. My habits are generally good enough that I don't need to count calories. Which is mostly luck, not an achievement of mine, btw.

> The last time I gained weight (from 68 kg to around 88 kg) I did it eating only healthy food in unhealthy amounts.

First, there isn't even clear consensus what's healthy and what isn't. But even if there was, I doubt you only ate healthy food. It is very hard to gain much fat eating a lot of vegetables and some fish and eggs.

Of course it's possible your diet is great. My experience with fat people has been that their diet was a whole lot worse than they claimed...
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I agree with your general point, that it depends on your specific problem how difficult this is, but I disagree about how common or easy to work around.

Regarding

> But the FFM API does not directly expose Java objects to native code at all, although it does allow Java code to access and mutate "off-heap" native memory (C data) from Java code as efficiently as accessing and mutating Java heap memory

I just don’t buy it. First, I think it’s very common to want to expose managed memory to native. In fact, it might be the dominant case. If I want to call out to perform a crypto operation on a block of bytes I got from a Java operation, I don’t want to copy them first.

Second, I think you’re missing the use case for manipulating system APIs. If you want to perform some system call and the call requires setting up some structures as arguments, that’s going to be pretty expensive in Java. For things that are called a lot it can add up. For example, windows has a profiling and eventing system called ETW. To use it you create a set of events and call the system. It’s not uncommon to do this for thousands or millions of events per second. The way C# handles this is stack allocating an event blob and calling directly. I can’t imagine a Java workaround that would be as fast or simple. It seems like you’d have to pool a native event blob allocation and fill it in from Java.

It’s true that most Java programmers aren’t blocked by this but I think that’s because many Java programmers don’t try to use Java for these tasks. They don’t write systems software in Java and they don’t embed into big, performance-sensitive native apps, like games.
I think charging upwards of 1/3 more than prior gen sale pricing (today) also don't help the messaging.
tide.sh – automate docker/compose deployments on DigitalOcean
Well. I guess the demo doesn’t work for react components even when prompted for them? Overall the output seemed best for static demo showcasing, it was all HTML
What sort of person goes againt their on interests and simps for a multi billion dollar company?
Said differently: they are a data processor, not a data controller, and as such leave the legal burden on their customers, while promising some level of automation / cost reduction. It sorts of makes sense, the main challenge being profitability for Arva.
In the US, the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution says the government cannot take private property for public use without providing just compensation. I don't know whether any similar right exists in the UK.
Not the server; it's just to have a good project setup, that allows us to use Typescript, multiple context scripts, and to use React
Because your wife' brother's experience shows that tabooing a word doesn't prevent bullies from using the word. Or was his experience before 1990?
> Spoofing TCP is useless...

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_sequence_prediction_attack

It's not practical but it is possible. It was more effective in the past when operating systems had more predictable initial sequence numbers. Famously this is how Kevin Mitnick (allegedly?) attacked Tsutomu Shimomura.
> And, to the extent this is true, that puts explainability at fundamental odds with the highest value / most dense / best deep learning outputs — if they are easily “explainable” by inspection, then they are likely not using all of the complexity available to them.

Could you define explainability in this context?
I suspect it's because in the US, it all gets lumped together under the "Japanese food" category. I suspect the dishes being foreign in origin makes people less likely to consider them as separate categories.

I can confirm that I have the same thing in my part of the US though. A lot of restaurants will offer sushi and ramen both on the menu, with some other dishes like katsu curry showing up here and there. I would say the best sushi/ramen places here do specialize (just like you said about Japan), but it's pretty common to see places which don't.
Or it just all happens on the client side before it even hits the Internet. I would love if Firefox allowed users to use Postgres instead of sqlite to store their places.sqlite database.
Computers still aren’t writing essays. They are stringing words together using copied data.

If they were writing essays, I would suggest that it wouldn’t be so ridiculously easy to pick out the obviously AI articles everywhere.
Customer onboarding for banks has been automated >99.9%? TIL. Reference?
I should've clarified that I meant to ask a more general question.

Going back to a particular exploit, certainly it could be used against multiple targets, in a small time window.

There multiple potential targets (for various reasons) at any time.

And there's also the option of mass-compromising endpoints or servers of a platform, and adding new hidden backdoors/weaknesses that persist long after the initial vulnerability is removed (e.g., in various kinds of firmware).

Or even just mass-cataloging of one-time compromised identities.
Not sure why Pygments is interesting after all this time, but Best Theme exists for it: https://draculatheme.com/pygments

What's your favourite alias? Writing the full command isn't exactly convenient. Mine is:

alias ccat='pygmentize -O style=dracula -g'
The reasulting reality of the managerless approach hasn’t been good. As the they say, “if you don’t have any managers you have politics”.

I have several friends who used to work at Valve none of them hate the place, they still have friends there, etc. But they tell similar stories as to why things that normal companies do successfully are impossible at Valve. Perhaps it’s best summed up by something one friend said about her year and a half at Valve: “I first learned who my boss was on the day she fired me.”

Google tried this, notoriously dense grating and then firing basically all the managers at an all-hands. That didn’t work out well at all... And now they have over-steered in the opposite direction!
Yes, but you would also need to guarantee that content that does 3rd party stuff can't get injected.
Also that a lot of (specifically Navy) sourcing problems come from DOD being the only buyer of obsolete products, such as 8-bit microcontrollers used in fire control systems designed in the 1970s.
Back in 2012, did this “employee handbook” actually “leak” to begin with? Or was the whole thing just a calculated corporate PR stunt? Everyone just takes it at face value, but I've always wondered.
VLMs Hallucinate
Better late than never. Thanks! And indeed, this looks like a well-thought-out (with an explicit field for the IPv6 interface ID, as opposed to the full address) approach to IPv6 forwarding and firewalling.
People might not want to hear it but it is going to keep being an issue - we shouldn't force people to "follow the science" when it comes to medicine. Scientists - and science as a whole - do not have the moral standing that their opinions justify authoritarianism. People should make their own decisions about whether they trust the remedies involved.
Strong assertions with no justifications.

Targeted attacks against individuals or small groups from state actors are basically impossible to protect against. Widespread compromises of all operating systems at the boot level should be fought against.

I don't really think malice explains Grub being limited b/c of Microsoft's software at the boot level. There's conflicting objectives at play, and that will inevitably produce, well, conflicts.
Traditional banks are actually a harder sell b/c they are more risk averse in terms of data leaving their servers.
If it is safety critical, try to use a finite state machine. Same if you want fast.
Yes it should. Sadly, some people like to butcher the English language, and it has become acceptable.
I think all of these modalities have their place. Sure, you can hang out with friends and play poker, sports or D&D IRL. But we still play video games.
LLMs have massively increased the value of code that can be:

- locally reasoned about (pure functions that compose)

- static type checking (so that nonsense is discovered at compile time)

Weirdly this makes Python a worse choice and Haskell a better one. Clojure benefits a little bit.

I don’t think people are choosing language stacks based on what is best for the problem. The main factor is “what do I already know?”
Yes, I got a similar result. Most of the question I have forgotten about.

But one curious thing, I am surprised they did not have questions like "Ever change and compile a kernel ?".
I don’t have the code handy, but I know it’s pretty easy to Google up the bit hack to convert an integer to a position in a Morton order curve.

The new thing I found long ago is that once you have done that, it’s pretty easy to figure out how to incrementally advance along the curve in much fewer instructions than the initial int—>Morton conversion.
I was also thinking the same~
How come such a good idea is already not part of standard logging libraries -- to allow you to configure to another process or message queue!

Loved the idea
Yeah that'll work for everybody who never ever touched any cloud service and who's friends and family never ever touched any cloud service (nobody in the real world).
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Yes! the first iteration of this new feature would allow the user choose from certain predefined styles.
How does that relate to my question?
GitHub survey finds nearly all developers who use GitHub also use AI coding tools. That's a far cry from "all developers".
We've only recently started mass immigration and it's not going as well as previous decades when immigration was more controlled. Giving small amounts of immigrants time to assimilate instead of bringing in so many at once they start building their own enclaves is what works.
Love the last paragraph. Well described.
Also if one lives near an H-Mart, they have it as well.
Isn't the moon within Earth's atmosphere?
Decoding instructions with the machine-readable AMD GPU ISA specifications
With the metal immersed in water, i doubt the heat generated from the reaction would hang around long enough to meaningfully impact the rate, not on a smooth surface.
Is this a new version of those famous questions like "Who's buried in Grant's tomb?" or "What color was Washington's white horse?"
It has passed me by as well. I've been living in one of the largest cities for my entire life and have never batted an eye. There's just as much of every other cuisine as there is katsu curry.

I could probably make a 'The x-ification of Britain' for quite a lot of food items. Majority of brits in the comments echoing the sentiment.

Also, that site should probably do something about the botted comments?
I asked for an 'interactive particle simulation' and got a big gray rectangle. Then I clicked regenerate and the page crashed.

To me it's not clear how I would debug the component, I can ask for modifications but not like add log statements, inspect variables, and give feedback on errors.
Also:

Do you use more than 8Mb?

I was actually surprised the test make thought to include terabytes at all
Yes exactly this. For example on the PDP-11: https://cdn.changelog.com/uploads/news_items/RRqw/large.jpg?...
When Large Language Model Meets Optimization
Not necessarily vastly more complex because KYC has its own challenges (being accessible to end users, it is open to massive fraud rings).

But KYC is such a different problem space that few KYC companies would venture into KYB (and the other way around).
We can write safe, un-hackable software, when we have to. I doubt this will be an issue.
You could store the current date and time in a global variable and have the producers just read it atomically.
The consumer thread would then update it periodically.

Timestamps will be somewhat inaccurate but it may help performance.
Dumb idea? $1,700 "smart" bassinet loses features if you buy it used
NPM-Check-Updates
That may be because Code Civile allowing(used to allow)((par 664?)) ownership of floors.
I submitted this one partly because It lists a lot of optimization algorithms. It describes the strength and weaknesses of some of them. People experimenting with algorithms might find it useful.
It happened to agriculture in Stalin’s USSR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
I think this is actually hitting much closer to the intention of Levitical law than people realize. Data and debt are very strongly connected, and I think probably always have been.
How are people using the Claude API as individuals?

Officially, individuals are not allowed to use the API.

https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/8987200-can-i-use-...
"personal archive"?