skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you have a recipe for modern era mummies

Except mummies were respectfully cared for throughout the embalming process. Don’t tar ancient civilizations with our own inhuman neglect of both living and dead.
From time to time I write code just for the heck of it. That endless debate on how you could've done this better with x instead of y don't happen in a personal project. Unless you're a jerk to yourself (like I sometimes am)
You can also bulk export all codes from Google Authenticator as a single QR code and scan to another device which is a convenient way to back up.
Medium Post : https://medium.com/@aiimageupscale/adima-ai-image-upscaler-b...
Show HN: Creates shortcut to every special location or action built into Windows
I don't remember where I found this but there is also some perl code that will do it. I wish they added a comment so I could give them credit. I use it to build block lists for adding null routes on hobby web servers using a few blocklists from around the web and for importing data from BGP AS databases. It keeps my routing table below 300K. It's only for ipv4.

[Edit] I think this might be where I found it [1]

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::CIDR::Lite;

my $ipv4String='[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}';

if(defined $ARGV[0] && $ARGV[0] eq '-h'){
print "usage: $0

This script summarizes your IP classes (if possible). Input IPs with mask one per line. End with CTRL+D. Optionally, redirect a file to stdin like so:
$0 < cidr.txt ";
exit;
}

print "Enter IP/Mask one per line (1.2.3.0/24). End with CTRL+D.\n";

my $cidr =Net::CIDR::Lite->new;

while(<>){
if(/($ipv4String\/[0-9]{1,2})/){
my $item=$1;
$cidr->add($item);
}
else{
print "Ignoring previous line.\n";
}
}
my @cidr_list = $cidr->list;
print "======Aggregated IP list:======\n";
foreach my $item(@cidr_list){
print "$item\n";
}

[1] - https://adrianpopagh.blogspot.com/2008/03/route-summarizatio...
Yeah. The provided build script produces a DEBUG executable (only). The NDEBUG version isn't tested regularly yet. But performance isn't really an issue, so the NDEBUG version has sort of been de-prioritized in favor of feature completion. The fact that it crashes at all in any mode is generally concerning (and a little ironic for this tool), but the crashes are generally due to the use of the (libtooling) clang library. Its (not-super-well-documented) interface seems to be designed for maximum speed, not safety. And I've found that some of the perhaps lesser used elements (including some used for static analysis) are just buggy, and the bugs sometimes change from version to version. But yeah, the tool is not yet in a well-tested or polished state. But I figure, even in a not-well-tested state it can only improve the safety of the code it analyzes/enforces. I mean, even if any bugs or shortcomings in the tool prevent it being able to fully achieve the design goal of ensuring that the analyzed code is completely safe, in any case it shouldn't result in the analyzed code being any less safe than without it, right?

p.s.: Despite complaining about and trying to deflect blame on the clang library, of course it is an amazing library without which none of this would be practically doable.

p.p.s.: Please don't hesitate to post any problems you encounter as an issue in the repository.

p.p.p.s.: At this point, volume is low enough that any feedback at all is welcomed as an issue in the repository.

p.p.p.p.s.: I didn't post this item. I was rather surprised to stumble upon it this morning.
Math functions are not total, in general. Computable functions are a subclass of all functions, so lots of functions are not computable.

Purity doesn't apply to functions, it applies to algorithms which compute functions. In software parlance the terms are often conflated but they are not equivalent. The algorithm which computes a function is in general not unique.
Is prompt engineering really 'psychology'. Convincing the AI to do what you want. Just like you might 'prompt' a human to do something.

Like in the short story Lena, 2021-01-04 by qntm

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

In short story, the weights of the LLM are a brain scan. But same situation. People could use multiple copies of the AI. But each time, they would have to 'talk it into' doing what they wanted.
Well it's true.
you are the CEO of ACME company, one of your employee broke a law but in the name of your ACME company, you are going to jail.

very shortcoming rhetoric
Anandtech is how I learned what Ubuntu is. I must have been about 10 years old, and the concept of any OS besides Windows or MacOS was completely foreign to me. Within a few weeks, I had dug an old laptop out of my dad's bin of "stuff work wasn't using anymore" and I managed to put Ubuntu on it. I think it was an HP. I don't remember the exact specs but I do remember that the GPU was failing, there were weird video glitches all the time, and the battery held a charge for about 15 minutes.

That was my first experience with Linux. That broken-ass computer was what I used when I learned Arduino. I'm now a firmware engineer, writing this comment on my work laptop, which is running Ubuntu.
Out of sheer curiosity, have you always felt this way or was it a getting older thing for you?
> the realization that ... it is not fair to the child if the parent does not make providing the best possible environment for that child a central focus of their life

Unwise of you to state "realization of" to a statement that is not broadly agreed upon. I bet you also believe "you didn't choose to be born"?
This comment (not from you personally, Asad, but the idea of it) is the very core of the reason why I have such an axe to grind on this topic.

One brings this ugly topic up, that ads keep sites running, and are showered by comments of people saying exactly what you said. Those comments get praise and lots of upvotes. Everyone pats themselves on the back.

But when you are on the other side of the equation, the one dependent on ad views and/or subscriptions, the numbers unequivocally show that people are totally full of shit. That they are just virtue signalling to receive praise and to push the skeleton back in the closet.

Again, not calling you out personally, I believe you do support creators. But I have done this song and dance many many times, and it always goes the same way.
Also depending on your use case, Ibis may not support the part of the Polars API you actually need

(to be clear, I'm a fan of "DuckDB via Ibis", I'm much less a fan of statements to the effect of "use Polars via Ibis instead of Polars directly", as I think they miss a lot :wink:)
> A grad student who is n-th author on the paper copied and pasted the instrument name from a previous paper, because (a) that paper used photos from the same SEM, (b) the grad student has never seen the SEM, (c) the name and model number of the SEM doesn't actually matter (gasp!) it's more included for tradition than anything else because the contents of the image are what matters - no one who tries to replicate the experiment in a lab will care what SEM model was used, they'll use the SEM they have at their own lab, period.

If this is true, then is the tradition counterproductive, in that it's encouraging false assertions to be put into scientific papers, for no good reason?

If so, why hasn't the tradition been reconsidered, and changed?
I think Google should be wary, if this is ever popular, it's going to attract a lot of regulation.
Diversity of opinion and experience is extremely important. Not diversity of your bedroom preferences or any other superficial characteristics that have no relation to technical qualities. Saying otherwise is racist and *ist by definition.

Comments on those articles always go down the shitter. I petitioned the editors to disable commenting on them, and you can do the same -- politely and humbly, of course.

The contact information is on the website, whoever wants to, will find it easily.
One memorable instance of this sort of thing from back when I was an EMT in Virginia --- rural mailman noticed that an elderly gentleman hadn't picked up their mail from the previous day, so prevailed upon the folks at the next house to allow him to use their phone to call the County Sheriff's Department --- when the Deputy arrived, it was found that the unfortunate had had the seat in their outhouse collapse, trapping them in it.
the overlap is definitely significant but there are a handful who fall into only one camp or the other.
SQL is basically the list monad, with various quotients / refinements:

- Sometimes the order doesn't matter
- Sometimes there are functional dependencies
- Sometimes one knows the length of the list in question is 1 (foreign key constraints)
Sure, but also let's not pretend like Apple would pay the same amount for 14nm++++. Even if TSMC didn't exist, Samsung could have beaten Intel on a density roadmap. The looming possibility (if not inevitability) of Apple designing in-house was casting a shadow even then, and today it only makes less-and-less sense mourning the separation of both companies. They wanted different things, and Intel didn't have to rely on TSMC-level density to make their case.

It's not like the Core products that went into Macs - making iPhone chips is a bespoke, ground-up production. It barely makes sense for Apple to insist on using Intel fabs unless they're heavily insecure about outsourcing their supply chain. It makes absolutely no sense at all for Intel to design ARM chips when they don't own an architecture license and would ostensibly only purchase one to make Apple happy. Again, I feel like this entire "lament" is manufactured by Apple fans eager to rewrite history with Apple making generous offers to domestic American businesses. In reality, Apple's endless desire for hardware margins drove them to dictator-states and third-world manufacturing hubs to meet their quota. It's okay for us to pragmatically admit Apple never had any business with Intel, and Intel was right not to convince them otherwise.
I don't know why an uncapitalized makefile irks me so (even though apparently GNU make will read makefile before Makefile).
Source craters of Martian meteorites: Implications for igneous evolution of Mars
> Corpses are generally fairly cooperative and theoretically they'll even go away by themselves if left alone.

This is dangerously incorrect, as India is continuing to discover.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_vulture_crisis
Yeah, it's just weird to me that this entity with a big following and storied history isn't willing to adapt to the times, or even get a little creative and figure out how to do longform video combined with longform text.
Tools to Manage Dopamine
> There is no general algorithm to symbolically compute all integrals

Also, implementing it likely would be a challenge. The Risch algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risch_algorithm, https://mathworld.wolfram.com/RischAlgorithm.html) ‘only’ handles “rational functions, radicals, logarithms, and exponential functions”, but may never have been fully implemented (https://mathoverflow.net/questions/374089/does-there-exist-a...)
Nanoflow: A throughput-oriented high-performance serving framework for LLMs
What are you referring to with "public companies"? As far as I'm aware, neither SpaceX nor Twitter are public.
Maybe a potential acquirer could start a video team to catchup with modern times.
Yes, but the situation was much different than the one you have found yourself in.

As an "intern" I found myself at a very small company - literally just my boss, his son, and me. I was the only programmer. I loved the autonomy that came with being the only one who knew how to write code, and they were in desperate need of it. There was a lot to do, and they had a dream I believed in. I worked there - sometimes I even slept there I worked so late - for five years. They ended up giving me a salary of 48k per year (in 2006) and no healthcare or benefits. I worked every weekday and most weekends, lost contact with friends and family, and ate terribly because I wouldn't even take time to try and make healthy food. Spent those five years cramming shitty fast food down my throat every day.

There are several warning signs that are hopefully plain as day to people reading that.

1) an "internship" should be tightly directed learning under a mentor. If you are the only software engineer at your "internship" what they are really looking for is free labor.

2) No software engineering job should pay 48k in America.

3) No full time job should go without health insurance.

4) Under no circumstances should a person work 60-80 hour weeks, but particularly under that horrible pay and no benefits.

I stayed because I felt a misguided sense of loyalty to them, and because their desperation to make their small business work meant that I got a huge and diverse array of systems that I got to build, and I got full autonomy to build them. There was something deeply addicting about that: addicting enough that I didn't even think about how my finances were crumbling and I hadn't seen a doctor in half a decade.

I finally woke up from my addiction when I started encountering health problems and couldn't see a doctor.

After a lot of soul searching, I left - and instantly upon finding a new job realized just how badly they had abused my naivete and sense of loyalty. I make many multiples of that income now, but I will never regain the lost health, lost friendships, and years of earning potential.

My advice to people is that, no matter how fun the work involved in the job ITSELF is, you need to still take an honest assessment on a regular basis about whether it is worth it. Even a very fun and fulfilling job can be killing you, or underpaying you, or distancing you from your family and from other opportunities.

In your situation, you are earning a reasonable wage and it sounds like you are not being stretched thin by it. Feel free to look around, but I don't see your situation as dire or necessarily in need of change.

I don't think people can realize how bad the "inglorious" side of software engineering can be. That isn't to say don't look and see if you can find better, but recognize that you are already in a great situation. And also one where you can either comfortably look for a new job or do your own side projects to learn and grow in ways your job might not be providing.
Not the person you're replying to and neither do I fully agree with them, but brave haa had issues with their crypto (BAT) system. Nothing that appears purposely malicious but quite possibly misleading in some cases.

See:
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Business_m...
2 - https://web.archive.org/web/20181224011529/https://twitter.c...
I’m not sure I’d bet much on that “before” long part. At least not as far as Cambridge, the other end seems more certain.
> Forcing Pocket into the browser

Fun fact: by subscribing to Pocket, you're directly contributing to Firefox's development.

Mozilla found itself in a situation of damned if they do, damned if they don't. People scream at them for depending on Google, and then they scream at them for trying to diversify their revenue.

Nobody wants to pay for a browser, browsers are essentially incredibly complex nowadays, and I have yet to hear how in the world are browsers supposed to get funding.

And of course they want to cater to advertisers because it is advertising that maintains the open web, and it is advertising that is paying for all browser development, actually, including Safari. And the open web is also dying, because people have been moving to mobile apps, where all pretence that "the user agent must act on your behalf" is gone. In other words, even if you get what you wish for, in a couple of years it may not matter at all.
I assume it is because DIY PCs plateaued two decades ago. Now it's all Macs, mobiles, and consoles.
This is the Transportation SECURITY Agency. If the managers involved here can't understand why this is a huge deal, they're exceptionally unqualified for their jobs.

Edit: Fixed a double negative (previously: This is the Transportation SECURITY Agency. If the managers involved here can't understand why this is a huge deal, they're not exceptionally unqualified for their jobs.)
I particularly felt Anandtech was a particularly bad example of an advertising supported site because, more than any other site, when I was browsing it in my iPad I would try to click on a link and it seemed almost every time the layout would shift and KA-CHING I’d click on an ad accidentally.

Maybe it is just paranoia, they never asked permission to access the accelerometer, but it happened so consistently I wondered if they had something that would detect the motion that comes before a click and shifted the layout deliberately.
The core realization of the article is that energy costs have increased 30-100%. This is inline broadly with inflation experienced post-COVID presumably due to all the helicopter money dumped on the economy.

I suspect if these figures were revised for inflation, the same trends we've seen over the past ten years would persist.
Using your yardstick, we wouldn’t have any open source software, everything costs time to implement, that’s the point of open source, we donate time to the collective community. All those security features are not enterprise specific, they are rudimentary for any modern open source product
Except it has been found that female mummies usually began the process in a greater state of decomposition than males with the _raison d’être_ being that it discouraged necrophilia on the part of the workers doing the mummification.
Reliable network communication is also proven to be impossible [1], yet it happens all the time. Yes, sometime it fails but it still “works”.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem
I agree. Horrible writing. For a while I thought it's just some LLM output.

Not worth reading anyway, so you've lost nothing, OP.
Wow! Out of curiosity, which year was it?
> though they probably pay significantly less than they did for cable TV

Might be a bit of a cultural difference though. I'm in the Netherlands. TV was never as expensive over here as in the US. We also got spoiled, I guess, because the hits from the US were also on TV over here but the smaller shows weren't, so we'd get the biggest shows from Fox, CBS and Comedy Central on the same channel in some cases. And from what I remember this was <$20 a month.
If true, interesting that it all comes down to likelihood of misconfiguration. However, I can't see anything fundamental that a VPN adds either. I wonder, if there was an ssh that couldn't be configured incorrectly and also had a little "anti-hack" tech built in (e.g. disallow more than N connection attempts per minute, etc., what ever is normally done).
The best (and only) implementation of this I’ve seen is https://all3dp.com/

If you visit with an ad blocker, they say “please disable your blocker or subscribe for $3/year. Hit the subscribe button and you can Apple Pay and be reading a 100% ethically as free article in seconds.

Obviously transaction costs totally suck at prices that low, but one transaction a year helps I’m sure.
High throughput data conversion for database virtualization
I always feel hopeful when I read stories like this. It’s apparently still possible to live a life where no one bothers you for months at a time, even on this overcrowded planet.
The "market confusion" bit has always struck me as disingenuous. The market was never confused about who was offering the old AWS "ElasticSearch Service" or what it was. Elastic's licensing shenanigans and the fork they forced AWS to create have introduced far more long-term confusion. It's certainly not the case that any confusion has been resolved by licensing the ElasticSearch code under three different licenses, all of which are unusual, confusing, and untested in various ways.
That's a political cartoon. How is it in any way relevant to the news published in the journal?
> When you aggregate on a large enough scale, a single workload cannot influence the aggregate peak.

This is also the “power” behind snowflake and bigquery.
I wonder how many in the United States.
Unlike a random blog, I can pay YouTube to remove all the ads. I watch GN videos, and they get paid, but I never see ads other than GN's sponsor message and merch which are trivial to skip.

Compare AnandTech which has always been a user-hostile visual insult. The whole article is covered in ads. You can barely find the words. The articles are needlessly split over 25 pages so you click and load over and over. They really pioneered a lot of bad patterns.
The DMCA has a lot to answer for. The sooner we as a society realize it was a mistake the better.
I really wonder how valid this "truism" is. It sounds more like a word trap, wherein anything other than "I'm susceptible" is the wrong answer.

It's a lot like those silly word games in the early 2000s where saying anything other than "I'm secretly gay" was simply taken as further proof of latent homosexuality.
Does the algorithm "decide" to show something, or is it operating mechanically, driven by the inputs of the user?
I didn't realize how bad this has gotten until I was looking for a GPU undervolting guide

What could be a couple of paragraphs is stretched into a 5-10 minute video; most of which is explaining what it is, and not how to do it
All-in-one solution captures and destroys 'forever chemicals' using light
> 3. The engineer’s purchase decision is more logical than emotional

I think the author wishes this were true, but it’s not. Engineers have emotional attachments to tools just like everyone else. I often reach for a tool I like over the logical choice, and that’s just fine.
Not sure about "solely," but what you describe is actually a mainstream concept in many cultures.

The US and other individualistic Western countries are probably the exception.
Dissecting a Hybrid Search Query in SQL
I hear you. I think this story says more about a particular organization and/or individual’s role than it does RTO in general.
society will be better when research gets the automation it deserves.
Asciigen: Converts an Image to ASCII Art
As to the "long term side-effects on the immune system of the Covid mRNA vaccine", I think it's safe to say that we would know them by now.

It's years later now, and most/all of the effects from the first round have long faded to a memory. Hence most folks have been boosted at least once. Millions upon millions of people have taken those vaccines, and some of us have taken them several times now. There hasn't been any uptick in all-cause mortality among those people that rose above the noise floor of the reports. In fact the vaccinated cohort tends to have died less often (as one would expect).

They're safe, they're effective, and they're cheap. They aren't perfect, but nothing is. Even if they do prove to be dangerous, the numbers show that the difference would have to be so minimal that your limited attention would be better spent installing new sticky things in the bathtub to prevent you from slipping and falling. Your death by those means are many tens of thousands of times more likely.
First time I’m actually seeing a picture of Anand! Always figured there is probably some young guy named that behind it but never put a face to it
We've become too accepting of trivial bugs and logic issues that could have been identified through proper quality controls.
There is NVIDIA's NVRHI:

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/nvrhi
Brave is building something that sounds like it might be right up your alley, but adoption of their payment system has been rather low, and I doubt Mozilla has enough street cred to be more successful after the last ten years of their mismanagement and the market share hovering just above 0%.
What is the state of art on context on open models? Magic won't be open I guess after getting 500m in VC money.
https://tv.algora.io/docs/streaming/quickstart