skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how busybox works in 'shim' mode. I am not however concerned with the security argument here, if you have the ability to run code you have the ability to do n to the power of x insidious things, and arg[0] abuse is just one of dozens, (hundreds?) of vectors or useful building blocks in an attack. if we are suddenly giving a shit about security on nixens, we should be looking at deeper SELinux rollouts (ease of use for sysadmins and maintainers so we never see permissive mode instead of just applying the difficult to remember command that will patch your policy settings. We need root capabilities to continue to be separated in the kernel access control scheme and probably we need to start using namespaces much more liberally like projects like silverblue/bluefin which reimplement entire os stack as a series of containers. Stronger container foundations and ease of use for existing security mechanisms will take us much further than worrying about ANYTHING else in the ABI which by the way will never change as long as linus is alive, and he will live on forever as an LLM most likely with the amount of mailing list posts he has made over the years.
One thing that's really cool is how this differs by culture. Ask a Russian, and you'll get an answer that may diverge from an American.
There's this

https://explorerplusplus.com/
Light emitted from the core of the sun is re-absorbed by the stellar plasma/matter many, many times before the energy finally, as the result of a random walk, is expressed close enough to the surface that its mean free path is on the order of the distance to Earth. However, since neutrinos are not affected by the charged matter, they are free to leave far more easily and thus, rather than a random walk lasting thousands of years, they simply "flit" right through the intervening material until they hit our detectors (extremely rarely).
Honestly, I can’t remember the details. I turned the nob to preheat the oven not realising it was gas. Later came back to check, opened the door to a strong smell of gas. Maybe it had cut out by then, not sure.

Was I dumb? Yes, but I’d just driven for hours and was trying to unpack, handle the rest of the family and cook dinner all at once and was still in the mindset of the electric oven I had at home.
oof, I guess that explains why the transition looks so non-linear to me
because of the versatility of hydrogen, thats where it'll be.

Fuel, "Storage", Ammonia etc

Hydrogen is likely to become the default go to once we start hitting these "fee energy" zones in big enough numbers.
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LVFS seems to be focusing mostly on laptop hardware, isn’t it? I am currently looking into building a Linux-based gaming PC in the near future, and none of the major motherboard manufacturers appear to be posting the BIOS updates there.
Am I missing anything? This is the first new PC I’m building in over a decade, so I’m not fully up to speed with all the latest developments
Perhaps. One would have to dig themselves out of perpetually having a deadline a day or week ago, which is usually the reason one's looking for ways to improve productivity in the first place.
They have a rather excessive amount of permissions IMHO

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.linkedi...
> People want to have summer vacation in summer

Well that's just kind of truism. It is forced by policies and not some innate behavior of people in all places or of all classes.
The context of the headline is a current interview with Fama, and the fact that the conversation focuses largely on EMH.

Which makes litigating of the title tedious, and failing to fullfil HN's objective of satisfying intellectual curiosity. Dang explains this (in a somewhat different context, but otherwise relevantly) here:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39237551>
I realize now you are talking about using the nail polish to detect if a screw has been removed as opposed to checking if the screws had been taken out and put back in a different order.

In that case, I would say 1) Nowadays with high res photos and various types of printers, I do think a pattern could be printed back onto a screw head, 2) there is no way you would be checking this every time the laptop was out of your site, let alone reapplying the polish, 3) there are numerous significantly simpler methods that achieve a better result.
Graphing is not only the future, it's the present that is happening behind closed doors that you don't get to hear about. The things that can be done already are insane and the capabilities are growing quickly. Agentic graph based systems are the future for ASI.
What's so annoying about it?
> Like I returned to GTA:SA to have fun shooting down helicopters taking advantages of bugs in ...

Did you ever play the early Saints Row series? ie 1-3

Those were pretty fun. The later ones turned to crap though. :(
The lack of funds is typically a symptom of one or more underlying issues and not the root cause of being poor. How would throwing money at a symptom solve the problem?
That's not really how it works. You don't have to be a producer of something to be critical of something.
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Wizardry was prototyped in Applesoft BASIC using low-res graphics mode. In 1982 or 1983 I briefly had a copy on a 140KB floppy disk, but I foolishly erased it because I needed the space.

I've found a couple other people who remember seeing the demo, but I don't know anyone who has it.
Copying and pasting from literally the third sentence of the link you posted

> The young woman was convicted last week of sending "insulting and threatening" messages

The threatening is important

I didn't lie in the comment you linked, I just didn't magically guess which guy you were talking about. I apologise for that.
> Didn't Steve Ballmer start off at MSFT essentially in a biz ops role

Yes, business manager.

> Interesting how he became technical as the company grew.

That's not clear from this. This shows he knew some concepts as part of managing different teams in the company.
My experience is that cars manufactured in the past 10 years can withstand salty rust belt winters with little or no corrosion. I'm sure metallurgy varies between manufacturers but I think you're underestimating how much practices have improved.
Sure. When is it you think it will matter?
I typically see “bodged” used more like “hacked”: fixed/made to work in a clumsy way, jury-rigged.

So I’d botch my attempt to build a shelf by cutting a board too short; I’d then bodge it into shape by screwing on a piece of scrap lumber.
VSCode is not an IDE, it's an extensible text editor. IDEs are integrated (it's in the name) and get developed as a whole. I'm 99% certain that if you were forced to spend a couple of months in a real IDE (like IDEA or Rider), you would not want to go back to vim, or any other text editor. Speaking as a long time user of both.
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What if...

Combining the topics of manipulation, gaslighting, intermittent reinforcement, and the brain's processing during sleep reveals how these psychological tactics might affect memory and emotional regulation. Manipulation and gaslighting distort a person’s reality, creating confusion and emotional distress. Intermittent reinforcement keeps the individual emotionally hooked, much like a brain's parallel processing of unrelated experiences during sleep. These experiences can disrupt the brain's ability to properly consolidate memories and manage emotions, potentially causing maladaptive neural patterns. Over time, this can lead to cognitive dysfunction, impaired decision-making, and an increased vulnerability to further manipulation.
With Admiral Spruance, his walking was part of his strategy for sleep. He would always make time to walk so that he was tired enough to sleep at the end of each day.
Microsoft's Recall Feature on Windows 11 Not Removable After All
I want the materials that create smaller personal transport. So I can see more than a few yards again, beyond the vehicles around me.

The rest of my fantasy is about driving around headlights that don't continually blind and the possibility of owning future car with physical controls but not screens.
Love of driving may be a generational thing as cars were new and cool for them.

Like religion having a license is on the decline:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/05/17/gen-z-les...

Generational social trends are not immutable physics.
> I got the wrong guy because you weren't specific

That doesn't make it any less of a lie - you said something factually false about the person I was referring to. You also made an assumption that you knew could be false in order to push a political agenda and deceive others.

> Almost always is not the same as always.

This is grasping for straws, and has the tyrannical premise of "guilty until proven innocent" behind it. I really hope that you're not in a position of power in my country, or any one for that matter.
I don't even know what this means. Smarter how?

And who is it aimed at? The CEO job is different depending on the size and qualities of a company.

I've worked with people who have far more "raw processing power" than me, people who have the ability to focus harder and longer than me, but in most cases they displayed really poor business judgement and often over-engineered solutions.
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I don't know that there are any companies I'd trust to run alexa or an alexa like service. It's not like I trust google, microsoft, or apple more. I don't trust any of them.
I'm so glad I've managed my career such that I've never had to answer bullshit interview questions like this. The only purpose of these is to stroke the asker's ego, they tell you nothing at all about the candidate. What a waste of time.
He graduated with a mathematics degree from Harvard so the concept of binary search would have likely been familiar to him. But you’re right, as far as I can tell, he never did any technical work like programming in his career.
Microsoft defender using broken by design detection rules? One could almost think it is an anti virus program.
The article advocates making code harder to understand for the sake of better search. It's like forcing a city to conform to a nice, clean, readable map: it'll make exploring easier for you, at the cost of making the city stop working.
I assumed for readers of this forum, that answer would be obvious. They want the training data. The fact that it might possibly render a benefit to the user is totally a side effect
The postmodern scourge corroded the entire discoursive landscape!

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... If you don't take care of them. It isn't a car company conspiracy, it's the unreasonable expectation that you can treat a vehicle like a microwave and just run it with no thought to maintenance or environment. Mine are going just fine after 15 year with minimal upkeep in one of the harsher winter environments. Fluid film is cheaper than a new car.
This is just shareholder* capitalism. Capitalism itself does not inherently put the share price over users
The (TV) interview is kind of funny because the journalist asks him, after he goes through the idiotic song and dance of this brain teaser: "so what did you learn about me?" This is actually a very insightful question. What did you learn, Mr Ballmer?

To which he literally has no answer: "I learned you need to step back and really ask if you're going to make money on this thing".. uh, okay Steve. Cool. Thanks for your contribution to possibly the worst technical hiring practices in just about any professional field. The technicals are less interesting than seeing even he himself has no real justification for this kind of intellectual hazing.
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The article takes as basic measurement the savings of said poor people. I might be wrong but I imagine when you barely afford proper housing and food you don't really think about saving, so the article is like blaming people why they don't eat cake. Even the counting of their worked hours: of course they work less, going down from three jobs to only two is a significant decrease in working hours. My point is, none of those measures were something to drag them out from the level they were in, so I see no reason why they should have changed their habits. A one-time payment gives you the opportunity to fix your car, that's all. And of course what you said, forgiving debt isn't doing much for the person in debt (unless the debt is against mafia, then very much yes).

Your last phrase irked me quite to the point of ignoring the rest. While there are of course poor decision makers among poor, I believe just blaming them does zero helping the society - and I hope for a society where I can walk on the streets without being attacked by starving "poor decision makers". And no, living between barbed wire walls is not a future I like either.
But if you know the number picker is going to choose these numbers you can optimize your algorithm.
The issue a lot of people have with this is that they think of the Sun as a big ball of fire, where the activity is happening on the surface of a big flammable mass.

They Might Be Giants has two songs about this exact misunderstanding.

In the first song, "Why Does The Sun Shine?" they sing (incorrectly):

>The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas

>A gigantic nuclear furnace.

In their next song, "Why Does The Sun Really Shine?", they sing:

>The sun is a miasma

>Of incandescent plasma

>The sun's not simply made out of gas

>No, no, no

>The sun is a quagmire

>It's not made of fire

>Forget what you've been told in the past

Most of the photos that create sunlight are born at the core of the Sun. The Sun is one gigantic nuclear reaction. The activity isn't at the surface, there's hot energetic plasma (and other exotic states of matter) all the way down to the core.

Photons from the core have to make their way through a unfathomably massive sea of matter and energy before they can escape into space. From core to surface, a photon takes about 30,000 years to make it's way through all of that.

What's crazy is that our Sun is an orange dwarf star which is quite small compared to some of the other stars in our Galaxy. A photon born in a hypergiant star with much greater mass and core density could take millions of years to escape.
The negative prices also encourage grid- and home-scale storage. Buy low, sell peak. We make a pile of cash more than we spend in summer on energy and really take the edge off winter.

Storage is the only answer to an abundance of solar and wind. We can't just bitch and moan that there's too too much at peak gen because we need all this power. We just sinks to catch up with generation. Install more in-home batteries, more water heaters, and make EV charging omnipresent (and more reflective of wholesale prices). Early adopters get more beneficial rates to offset higher outlays. The market is working as it should.
- you just switched branch/rebased and the index is not up to date.

- the project is large enough that the IDE can't cope.

- you want to also match comments, commented out code or in-project documentation

- you want fuzzy search and match similarly named functions

I use clangd integration in my IDE all the time, but often brute force is the right solution.
Show HN: WebMarker – Mark web pages for use with large language models
WebMarker is a JavaScript library used for adding visual markers and labels to elements on a web page. This can be used for Set-of-Mark prompting, which improves the visual grounding abilities of vision-enabled large language models such as GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, and Google Gemini 1.5. This library aims to:

- Improve LLM performance on vision tasks referencing web pages
- Enable reliable web page interactions based on LLM responses
The article implies that the interviewee assumes that the number is being chosen randomly, when Ballmer could actually be choosing adversarially.

However, if the interviewee assumes that Ballmer is being adversarial, then you can pick a different value as your initial guess, which causes the probabilities to shift. Even the OP assumes that the interviewee will start guessing with 50, but, because of the way binary search works, you can select an initial guess that is offset from 50 (with a randomized offset each time) to defeat trivial adversarial attacks that attempt to game the heuristic, while still mostly reaping the benefits of binary search.

I'd be interested to see someone do the analysis of what the optimal random-offset-selection algorithm would be to counter trivial adversarial choices.
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Nah, still correct :-) that would break the regular scraping as well

>The LLM is resistant to website updates that would break normal scraping
I think there are at least some studies that show one aspect of well-being is feeling like you are a valued member of your society. You can be a relatively poor grandparent who is valued by your contributions to your family, or a volunteer, or whatever. I think for many a job becomes a unconscious proxy. You could probably also study people who are paid well, but in jobs that society doesn't generally hold in high-esteem. My mind goes to attorneys who have enough well-being issues that the American Bar Association issued a task force on well-being. I would venture a similar issue is what causes some veterans to struggle when they return to civilian life.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that a job is just a useful proxy for measuring how people feel they are contributing to society, but it's an imperfect one.
Monochrome =/= grayscale. Monochrome literally means 'one colour', it's b/w + one colour.

Add a colour and you'll keep your neat mono/mono thing.
I like it. Even simpler and more plausible than the social contagion explanation.
And frankly, nonsensical. I don't know how the author expects to be taken seriously here.
Who do you see as competitors to Center Parcs? Butlins and Pontins spring to mind initially, but are actually pretty different.
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Do you feel the statue of David is sexual and/or sexist? What about the numerous Greek statues of completely nude, anatomically-accurate men?

Given my cultural background, it disturbs me that you’ve sexualized this photo enough to start casting the shadow of sexist offenses onto others, when it’s an opportunity for self-reflection. Why are you sexualizing this photo?
You forgot massive codebases. Language servers really struggle with anything on the order of the Linux kernel, FreeBSD, or Chromium.
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Real change - grassroots change - largely comes from a large number of small-scale interactions. Much of it is face-to-face. If you want to actually change things (rather than just broadcast a message to the world and expect things to change), you have to do the long, slow, patient work of talking to people.