skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really interesting. For some reason my brain really really hates this. I think it screws with my internal model of causality or something and I find it difficult to watch. Odd
Surely you mean

#!/bin/sh
exec /bin/busybox cmp "$@"
> NaNoWriMo org already said they aren't endorsing the use of AI to write your entire submission for you.

There is no submission in nano, it's literally just a participation challenge. There's nothing at stake for them.

I assume they only brought it up because they got sponsorship from an AI tool
The thing that I can never get past when seeing people think that UFOs might be extraterrestrial spacecraft is that it's such an enormous logical leap.

Going from "there's something weird in the sky that I can't identify" directly to "therefore, aliens" just doesn't pass the sniff test. There are tons of other possible explanations that are much, much more likely to be true but are discarded out of hand.
Yeah it’s very common since it becomes an issue as soon as you get sockets involved in an app. A lot of frontend engineers unknowingly end up in distributed system land like this. Coordinating clients can be just as much a distributed systems challenge as coordinating servers—often it’s harder.
> It was to stress how the ludicrous track-record of Microsoft anticompetitive practices, establishing and sustaining a decades-long monopoly, barred non-expert and non-enthusiasts from experiencing (possibly favourable) alternatives.

My point served to counter this very statement.

There are alternatives (Linux, macOS, FreeBSD etc. etc.) but none are favorable like you say. A big part of why this is the excellent job that MSFT did as a technical force looking to consolidate Windows as the OS standard all those years ago. The efforts taken by them to ensure broad based application support and customer research and support on Windows has contributed to the continued perpetuation of their monopoly. Were they ever the most technically advanced option? No. Is any of their software products absolutely perfect and without deficiencies? Also no. And yet they are possible the leading software company in the world. This is NOT solely due to their anticompetitive practices. Saying so is a form of denial about the true state of things.

I gave Canonical and Ubuntu as an example of someone else who has tried to step in the breach and failed to force out MSFT as an alternative for non-experts and non-enthusiasts. Ubuntu and the FOSS community are many things but friendly to beginners and non-technical people is not one of them. There have been tremendous advances in the past decade but we're nowhere close to this being the Year of the Linux Desktop. The bottom line is that mainstream (i.e. non-technical and non-enthusiast) consumers will choose to put their money where they get the best value and that remains MSFT and Windows.
Who's classist now
Oya, I've heard of mega-ROMs
Weirdly getting the Google street view of my house makes the threat seem less credible. If they have the ability to send me a picture and they don't include one of the blackmail shots as proof and instead just something easily scraped from the web then they've already shown that they have nothing. At least when these threats were text only there was a plausible reason why they wouldn't send the proof right from the start and if people aren't thinking about it they might not realize that the scammer has provided basically zero details that aren't public knowledge. Sending the useless picture just highlights the scam.
If having a facial recognition system of your citizens is immoral, then maybe the Netherlands government shouldn't have one either? Are the facial recognition systems of the Netherlands auditable? How can anyone be certain that they aren't being abused and used for political persecution?
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Not sure why author didn't use 4o-mini. 4o for reasoning but things like parsing/summarizing can be done by cheaper models with little loss in quality.
>I have no doubt someone could break into my house and install hidden cameras without leaving a trace

Yes, but it feels like it would be hard to do that without the risk of witnesses. Sure, you could probably muddy the waters by claiming to be official or something, but it only takes one person to actually check your credentials or call the cops or even just tell the person "Hey this person went into your house, did you hire them?" to blow up your spot.
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Shebangs are not part of the UNIX specification. What happens if an executable starts with `#!' is implementation-defined.
Absolutely. In fact, it's a class of problems that can - and do - arise on any software system comprising more than a sole single-threaded process that's been locked in memory.

Some old-timers love to scoff at the inordinate amount of complexity that comes from mitigating these issues, and will complain that it would all be so much simpler if you would just run your software on a single server.

In reality, that was barely true even back in the AS/400 or VAXft days - and even then it didn't apply to the rather more chaotic multi-user, multi-process Unix world.
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An editor feature I'd like is that as I'm typing an identifier, a hover popup shows me how many other instances appear in my codebase. It should be easy to build a map of identifier->count for instant lookups. I generally know if I want 0 (a new unique identifier), 1, a small number, or a large number. For a few pixels, this would prevent a lot of dumb mistakes and ambiguous names.
It only takes a moment of weakness to fall for it, you need to spread information of these scams so people are prepared for it. Sex is shamefull for so many people that they will not talk about being scammed.
That is NOT a natural situation in general. Forests in North America normally have regular small fires that clear out that undergrowth. Often the natives would light fires as well every year. However with misguided fire policy those fires have not existed for a long time and now any fire will take out the whole forest.

Each forest is different. The above is a general guideline, but consult a proper forester for information on any particular forest and what the natural state should be!
You are not familiar with Go.
In what cases do you not like the EU’s approach? By and large, some good moves happening there.

The only negative that really jumps out to me are cookie consent banners, but those are more malicious compliance than the fault of the EU.
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browser shows this permission popup:

chromatone.center wants to control and reprogramme your MIDI devices. [Allow/Block]

off-topic: is "reprogramme" a british spelling - dont remember seeing this spelling in a long time.
Neither do you want to normalise organisations violating the rights of a given state's citizens with impunity because they operate from outside of their jurisdiction and refuse to engage. If there's no other recourse than to arrest the members of the (for all intents and purposes) criminal organisation if they step foot in the affected state then so be it.
> Note: I also tried GPT-4o mini but yielded significantly worse results so I just continued my experiments with GPT-4o.
I never told that putting Linux but keep running proprietary scripts is significantly better. Naming things in proper manner helps me to make long statements short. It is like shaming bad practices.
As an American who lived in Hong Kong for a while pre+post handover, this news is particularly disturbing.

If the PRC wants to print out flyers and give away free flags and banners and distribute free food to local supporters, that's fine. There's nothing wrong with a foreign government using its diplomats and money to openly drum up supportive crowds per se.

However it's a different matter when we're talking about (A) promoting or sanctioning violence, (B) abusing diplomatic immunity, and (C) secretive astroturfing.

Hopefully that distinction is obvious, but I glumly predict that there are also a lot of people out there who will try to excuse the PRC by blurring the lines.
Let it come out and call it AI generated, better yet if you get a whiff it’s sextortion, stop reading and delete the email right away.
Why would you limit the geography for an open source project?
Thanks for the explanation of some of the interactions I was missing! It's amazing the complexity of what's basically the simplest setup one could think of.
Are you sure you haven't violated the laws of any of the other 190+ countries? sure enough to risk taking another vacation?
`#!/bin/sh' makes this less portable than it could be, if /bin/sh doesn't exists on my system it won't work, for example. Remove that line and it'll work everywhere.
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Thanks for that, I remember watching it when broadcast and being amazed by the possibilities. I hadn’t thought about it in years.
Nobody knows what turquoise is
keep in mind that its against the other whole mass of universe thing doing that same thing that also contributes to a mass reading.
Yes, the problem is that a private company doing it against data privacy regulations in the EU; collecting personally identifiable information and biometrics is regulated through the GDPR, the article clearly states the issue:

> The Dutch agency said that building the database and insufficiently informing people whose images appear in the database amounted to serious breaches of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR.
Honestly, it’s just not a common knowledge. I still can shock people by telling there are practically free versions of Clearview-like services online. Like finding people in random pictures by doing a reverse image search.
I would add there is also a prisoners dilemma in any attempt to regulate to ‘good’ labor practices/rates in the global economy.

There are, for many clear domestic socio-political reasons (including highly embedded religious and idealogical ones), many countries which are never going to be effectively limited in their untrained labor force, or that have the ability/interest to enforce good labor practices.

And there are too many ‘buying’ nations to effectively enforce a Monopsony either.
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I think that's fair to look at it societally, but the concept of a collective goes up and down fractally. You have self, family, neighborhood, town, etc going up... and then going down you have organs, commensurable organisms, cells, genes, etc. All replicable and self interested in their own contexts.

While we can argue against overgeneralizing, models from one scale often elegantly explain dynamics in other scales. Apoptosis, auto-immunity, depression (learned helplessness) can emerge at scales other than where they are most familiar.
… sounds like this is why Win 95 seemed to crash all the time.
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CMY and RYB are both valid primary color sets.

RYB, being taught in grade school, has a lot of influence on how people perceive and name colors, which is what this conversation is about.
I didn’t mean he passes the entire interview, just that he saw through the question and it’s probably best to move on to something else.
Economy is astrology with fancy math...
The website linked is for the The Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (RACE) program. A government program to fund research is not a specification.

I assume you were originally responding to the proof of concept in the Github link? I mean, sure, maybe your criticisms are valid, but (to borrow a term from DARPA) they are non-responsive. If OP wanted to share that Github link and make it the focus of discussion, they would have done so. If you wanted to discuss that Github link, you should have been more clear that you were responding to something peripheral to the actual thing under discussion, which is the program, not the PoC.

In general, my response wasn't just to inform you, but because this is a common point of confusion when people share or discuss DARPA programs here. They are explicitly not prescribing a particular solution, even if sometimes a prior seedling effort or PoC is released alongside the solicitation. So don't take my response so personally; it was not only meant for you.
space after builtin was recommended instead:

if (x == 0) { ...
sizeof (buf);
return (-1);
exit(0);
The most compelling use of color in music theory that I've encountered is a color scheme where individual notes are given primary colors (yellow, red, blue) like this:

C is yellow, C#/Db is red, D is blue, D#/Eb is yellow,...etc

First observation: the notes of each of the three diminished tetrads are monochromatic (their notes all have the same color.)

Then, look at the major minor triads and assign them secondary colors (purple, orange, green) depending upon the colors of their constituent notes.

So, for example the C major and C minor triads are both orange chords. F major and F minor triads are green chords. E minor and E major triads are green chords, etc.

This is a scheme that Tom Glazebrook calls "metaharmony", and he uses it in the context of studying the Barry Harris approach to Jazz, but it's actually isomorphic to Erno Lendvai's "Axis Theory" analysis of the music of Bela Bartok. (The secondary colors correspond to the T, D, and S functions.)
Congratulations, you are not the target of the scam. Unfortunately, if they get 1/1000 people to not think this critically, they'll keep trying...
I refuse to call cyan cyan. I just call it blue-green
Hi, looks really promising. It looks like this on my phone though: https://ibb.co/QY7T7Gs

I'm on S20 FE
Broadly speaking, I agree with the claim - but I'm very suspicious of the study. We'd have to know the methodology to be sure (maybe you have a link to this?), but there are many factors that could lead participants to ignore the warning signs and persevere. For instance, the participants may have been offered a sum of money for their involvement, and believed (consciously or subconsciously) that they had to 'pass' the test to earn it. Or, it could have been pride and the desire not to lose face; perhaps even the sentiment of "the sooner I can finish this daft test, the sooner I can leave"!

There is a common attitude in the computer industry that designers/developers know better than users, but software users are representative of the general population and are thus no more or less intelligent than average. I believe it's primarily a lack of understanding of how software works that makes online phishing scams work. 'Brick Wall UX' can only go so far to compensate for that, and it comes at a cost of making software less flexible for the end-user.
I’m assuming the context of making the guess is explaining the thought process. Otherwise how would that even come up?
There are 27 countries in EU with different motives, morals, interests, etc. Just because you agree with the decision of one country in one instance it doesn't mean you would agree with them all. But once you give them the powers it's impossible to take them back. It's a bad slippery slope.
I was hit by this exact scam this weekend. Hilariously, they didn't even get the photo right, and sent me a picture of some neighborhood I had never seen.
> Our meditation apps might become redundant if we spend half an hour a day actually making something.
I strongly agree with the sibling comment that this is a perfectly valid interview question.

One of the biggest red flags in an interview is if I ask a question and the person doesn't know how to say 'I don't know', because it suggests there's a big risk that if I assign them a task in their day-to-day work, they won't tell me if they feel unprepared to tackle it. That's a far bigger issue than not knowing that traceroute uses variable TTLs to figure out the timing along the route.
Commenters on HN, please note: The word ”m*sturbate” (uncensored) is an auto-ban word. If you include it in a comment, your comment is automatically banned.

I mention this because I see three comments have been banned by this already, in this thread.
Just copy/paste it into chatgpt and ask it to use less jargon or similar.

You are never going to win the jargon battle. It is what it is. People wrap up entire concepts in a few words and hell if they can be bothered writing out the details of the concept over and over again.
I get it. But how many people travel long-term every year? I usually get 4 weeks and split that between 2-3 locations, both in and out of the country. And I don't necessarily want to cook a lot on vacation (I guess I am not alone?), so the kitchen argument doesn't really work for me. But I guess I'm not the ideal customer for Airbnb. It's just that recently, almost all the feedback I get from people using Airbnbs is negative. Maybe Airbnb has just become something of a cultural phenomenon, so it will continue to exist because of that and for serving a narrow base of medium- to high-income people who travel for long stays and want a home during their trips for various reasons.
Remember that this is a numbers game. They don’t need to convince everyone, just enough people that they make a profit. Say they get their hands on a breach data set with 50 million people – if you live in a low cost of living country with negotiable law enforcement like, say, Nigeria or Russia how many of them do you need to sucker at $1,400 apiece to pay for the cost of generating a few million emails? I’d bet that anything over the first few is pure profit.
I studied wave mechanics in college, but the origin of mass didn't click for me until several years later (and in fact I don't believe it was every brought up in the context of wave mechanics, which seems like a problem in retrospect). The conceptualization that worked for me is this:

The normal wave equation is (ignoring constant factors like mass and propagation velocity):

d^2/dt^2 f(x,t) = d^2/dx^2 f(x,t)

<acceleration> = <pulled towards neighbors>

This says "if a point in the field is lower than its neighbors, it will be accelerated upwards. If a point in the field is higher than its neighbors, it will be accelerated downwards." This equation is the lowest-order description of most wave phenomena like sound waves, water surface waves, EM waves, etc. and it's usually pretty accurate.

If you look for solutions to this differential equation, you can get

f(x,t) = exp(i * w * (x±t))

w is the frequency of the wave

This tells you that the frequency and wavenumber of waves is determined by the same parameter (w), so they are proportional to each other

Now, what if we add a restoring force to this equation? This is a force that pulls the value of the field towards zero.

d^2/dt^2 f(x,t) = d^2/dx^2 f(x,t) - M^2 f(x,t)

M is just a parameter that tells you the strength of the restoring force. The force increases as the field gets farther from zero, like a spring.

Now, solutions to the equation look instead like

f(x,t) = exp(i*k*x ± i*w*t)

Where w^2 = k^2 + M^2

(or something like that, I need to re-derive this on paper, just going off memory, but I think if you plug it in it should work)

Notice that now, if you have a spacial frequency k, your temporal frequency is actually higher. In fact, if your spacial frequency k is 0 (corresponding to a stationary wave), your temporal frequency is still M!

This is what mass is. Having a non-zero frequency even if the wave is the same everywhere in space (which corresponds to no movement)

A field with no restoring force is e.g. the EM field, so photons are massless. The rate at which they oscillate in time is the same rate at which they oscillate in space. A massive particle has a restoring force, so its temporal frequency is higher than its spacial frequency.

In physics, this equation is often reordered like this:

d^2/dt^2 f(x,t) - d^2/dx^2 f(x,t) = - M^2 f(x,t)

(d^2/dt^2 - d^2/dx^2) f(x,t) = - M^2 f(x,t)

(d^2/dt^2 - d^2/dx^2) f(x,t) + M^2 f(x,t) = 0

◻ f(x,t) + M^2 f(x,t) = 0

(the d'alembert operator)

(◻ + M^2) f(x,t) = 0

Again, this is ignoring constant factors like c, h, etc.

The above equation is nice because it's relativistically invariant. The d'alembert operator is the contraction of the 4-momentup operator with itself, p^u p_u. This is a concept worth studying - tells you a lot about what mass, energy, velocity, and momentum actually are in a general sense
Can't you just use a modern IDE with DJGPP? Maybe you'd just need some wrapper scripts to invoke the compiler.
Yea, they’re pointless. The amount of time someone spends on a truly difficult and important problem is maybe 0.1% of their job. And usually it’s better to just call in a domain expert anyway if it’s something that important. The other 99.9% - do they show up on time and work hard, do they care about the company, do they fit in with the rest of the team, etc, mostly can’t be determined in a short interview anyway.
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