skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is super interesting. I’m not convinced by the examples that this is the right next step, but I hope that either this is alpha enough to experiment more and change direction, settle into a niche within R (like maybe libraries are developed in vapor and compiled and distributed in R?) or that this inspires more ways of supersetting or subsetting R.
The same way I ensure any behavior in a digital system. There are boundaries inside of which processes are presumed to be reliable, typically consisting of a CPU, memory busses, and attached non-volatile storage. If you don't assume that those are reliable, then you can't guarantee anything.
Interesting, I wonder if I could use this on embedded. I was trying to get Rayon to work on embedded but was getting stack overflows when I tried. Maybe this will do the trick…
Really? Peril? We’ll be in perilous danger if we don’t maintain targeted, invasive ad tracking? Get a grip.
That may well be, but that's a very different question.
Perfectly calculate Rails database connection pool size
> And, somehow, the software update has broken the functionality of several security tools made by CrowdStrike, ...

What terrible news – whatever shall we do?
No. Israel supplies water via pipes. There is not enough water in the region and Israel has turned water purification/desalination into a large scale operation, yet it provides it to Gaza despite being under attack from Hamas for decades (rockets, suicide bombers etc., 7/10 etc.).

Some stupid Israeli politicians tried to stop that water supply claiming that it's insane to provide your enemy with resources during war (Israel also supplies electricity and fuel to Gaza, both are used in the Hamas tunnels to pump in air). Unfortunately, this stupidity by the current government became the basis of the stuff you're repeating.
Oahu, Hawaii is another notable location.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Cryptologic_Center
I’m using iOS…I tried again visiting the site and I got the dialog prompt once again…
Every story I read about Julia Child makes me admire her more and more. I also remember an NPR story about her creating shark repellent during WW2 to protect undersea mines.
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I would…but don’t have time right now to go down a rabbit hole…I need sleep. :)
I hope they modernize and come to terms with the reality of the 21st century workforce… definitely needs a fed level revamp on the former part. The clearance part sounds like a good thing though…
That's really a shitty move from MS.
But, technically, since they're still in the commit history, you can retrieve them for personnal/private use.
I have looked at diatoms under a cheap microscope to diagnose an algae outbreak in my saltwater reef aquarium at home. There had to be thousands in my tiny sample. They had a red/pinkish hue that was really interesting to observe. After introduction of copepods and a UV sterilizer, the outbreak went away. These organisms are incredibly interesting along with other photosynthetic marine life.
I was responding to this:

> You can't get exactly once delivery using proposed solution in general case because you can not have infinite memory for dedupe.

That is a specific criticism of a specific and highly oversimplified algorithm for de-duplication that I described purely for illustrative purposes, not as a suggestion for how de-duplication should actually be implemented. Actual implementation of de-duplication is much more complicated, but a solved problem that I didn't think I needed to rehash. A real implementation doesn't require infinite memory.

(Actually, even the naive algorithm doesn't require infinite memory, just unbounded memory. Those are not the same.)
Wait a minute, I missed the discussion
This sounds a lot like how we used to do research, by reading books and writing any interesting quotes on index cards, along with where they came from. I wonder if prompting for that would result in better chunks? It might make it easier to review if you wanted to do it manually.
I'm genuinely curious if this will play out in a real way. Now with a few years of distance from this essay, I feel like AI is still in a zone where most "non-human interactions" are almost more recognizable. The internet at large seems to have gotten pretty good at spotting AI art and LLMs posting on sites. I'm not sure I can exactly describe what it is about the GPTbots, but they remain fairly obvious.

Which isn't to say we're not still headed for something like this. I do think some of the most sensitive to this sort of crass misuse of platforms already got off when human-created ads and bots started becoming prevalent, so the question is if LLM-based bots are notably worse in a way that people care about differently.

I'm already a few steps down the "logging off" path at this point, but it's unclear to me that I'm not the outlier here. I worry that there's many people who are lonely and don't have a better way to interact socially where they're totally fine talking to some catfishing LLM that wants their money in some way or other.

It seems clear to me that a disconcerting amount of LLM startups are started by people who are, or are willing to take money from, people who see a relentlessly positive/comforting/sexually open faux human as their best way forward in life. Every week brings some new "it's a social network where everyone's an LLM that's nice to you" or "this app is your best friend". It just feels predatory to me in a way where even if it's well intended, it feels like an admission or exploitation of a serious ill in our society.
One word, AGI
> Red flag #1: email links to a variation of real domain

It's too common, MS also does this, to be a red flag
YMMV, but it took me 15 minutes start to finish to freeze my credit with the 3 bureaus using the following instructions.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/how-to-freeze-cre...
Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that killed hundreds of Americans. Not to mention Frenchmen, Israelis and Arabs. It recently bombed a football field and killed 12 kids. It fires indiscriminately at civilian population and had itself used a phone with a bomb within it...

No one who works for them is a "civilian". One of the "victims" is an Iranian ambassador to Syria. This shows you who Hezbollah really is. They are an Iranian puppet working against the interest of the Lebanese people dragging them into a war they don't want with Israel. They are hiding behind civilian populace and avoiding the "price" of their actions. This was the first time where these a*holes actually paid a price for their actions, for putting the people of Lebanon at such risk.

Calling Hezbollah a "political party" is akin to calling the Nazi party a political party. Technically true, but also deeply misleading.
There’s lots of terrorist organizations brandishing terrorist tactics the world over, why limit your choices by focusing only on the Israelis? They all kill children, too, like the Israelis did during these last attacks, maybe that’s also down your alley.
Worked with a manager who had a physical kanban board in a nearby vacant cube... and had a ip camera set up to it so that the business could go to the IP and see the board. When they had meetings, they'd have the business people on speaker phone and... honestly, we had trouble not laughing overhearing those meetings.
>The old WebGPU meeting notes have some choice quotes from (IIRC) Unity and Adobe engineers literally begging the committee not to invent a new shader language.

This was an interesting tidbit, so I tried to find the source for it. While I did not find it, I did find the December 2019 minutes[0] which has a related point:

>Apple is not comfortable working under Khronos IP framework, because of dispute between Apple Legal & Khronos which is private. Can’t talk about the substance of this dispute. Can’t make any statement for Apple to agree to Khronos IP framework. So we’re discussing, what if we don’t fork? We can’t say whether we’re (Apple) happy with that.

I found this link via rust hn[1] which I found after reading this blog post:[2]

>Vulkan used a bytecode, called SPIR-V, so you could target it from any shader language you wanted. WebGPU was going to use SPIR-V, but then Apple said no

The lobsters thread also links to a relevant HN post:[3]

>I know, I was there. I also think that objection to SPIR-V wasn't completely unfounded. SPIR-V is a nice binary representation of shaders, but it has problems in the context of WebGPU adoption: It's so low level [...] It has a lot of instructions [...] Friction in the features we need, vs features Khronos needs. [...] there is no single well specified and tested textual shading language. HLSL doesn't have a spec.

The linked blog post from lobsters was also discussed on HN, which you also commented in.[4]

It would be great if you could find that Unity/Adobe discussion as I would be interested to read it.

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F6ns6I3zs-2JL_dT9hOkX_25...

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/q4ment/i_want_talk_about_webgpu

[2] https://cohost.org/mcc/post/1406157-i-want-to-talk-about-web...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089745

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35800988
Scores have skyrocketed

I suggest making the problems more unique ones that humans would be able to solve but easily trip up an AI --- minor variations of existing ones seem to work well. There's some fun with that sort of idea here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38766512
What I am writing below I mean genuinely, without malice, and in the hope it helps dispel some of the conclusions you have expressed above, if not for Linux itself (which I do not normally use) then for other Unix operating systems such as FreeBSD[0].

> For starters it's security theater, given everyone and their dog prefixes sudo to all commands without much thinking.

Setting aside the hyperbole, such as "everyone and their dog prefixes sudo to all commands" and "most of the FOSS community at large hates users", user/group/other permissions are one part of security in depth. Excessive use of sudo is indicative of an improperly configured system or use of software which lacks understanding of the OS which runs it. Both are causes for concern.

> Windows from the start places the user at the controls with mostly no child safety locks in place ...

To continue your analogy, child safety locks exist to minimize avoidable catastrophic situations for those unable to do same.

> ... with that power you have to accept that if you end up hosing the system the problem is you because Windows doesn't even pretend to really protect you.

At first glance, this has a "victim blaming" flavour to it along the lines of "you should have known better." A more concerning implication is that this perspective does not take into consideration what happens when a blackhat attack is perpetrated.

What benefit is "the sheer power to hose Windows with a single Powershell line" when it is not you whom executes it?

0 - https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/introduction/
I get that they changed the “1x1” controls to be circles so that they’re the same as on the Lock Screen. But still, the control center does look kind of bad because of it…
It's pretty bad, but at least you can now remove that annoying torch/light icon on the lockscreen, which I (and quite a few other people I notice) always seem to be triggering, and then pulling my phone out of my pocket with the light on...

I still wish they'd allow disabling the ability to scrub playing music/podcast timeline on the locked lockscreen as well, as I seem to regularly seek to random positions in whatever's playing with my phone in my pockets and when trying to grasp my phone to get it out (in coats with larger pockets), meaning I often miss bits of podcasts or have to repeat them as the position randomly skips.

Especially with Face unlock, I don't really see why you'd want to scrub/seek playing music without unlocking, but maybe someone does, but at least adding an option to control that would be nice...
I disagree. If I'm an actual general in a fort with a gate, and I tell the gate guards to inspect messages brought in by couriers and not allow couriers carrying duplicate messages to enter, the ones that the guards let through are still delivering those messages to me.
>Yes, that's true. But this doesn't turn on what "delivery" means, it turns on what "you" means. If "you" are downstream of a de-duplication mechanism, then "you" can get exactly once-delivery. Why is that so absurd?

So in the case of, say, a network service on server A and a network client B, your solution to "exactly once delivery" is to re-define it as "deliver it from A to B multiple times and have B deduplicate"?

Do you not see how nonsensical that is to call that "exactly once delivery"?
The crypto bros crowdfunding a new country
If I receive multiple hamburgers via DoorDash, but only eat one, it’s not “exactly-once delivery.”

The extra step where I give my neighbor(s), compost, or otherwise discard the N+1 hamburgers is a processing step.

My house can only hold so many hamburgers, and I can only process so many after eating my lucky chosen one.

This is what we (distributed systems thinkers) refer to when we say “delivery” — anything after the DoorDash step is up to us, the consumer, to process.

Yes, this definition is confusing to new programmers, because it makes it hard to reason about everyday systems, but it’s this exact type of definition that we need so that we can build the proper abstractions, as the author has done in his post, to make our applications behave the way we want.
You’re not kidding. I can’t seem to figure out the logic for why the landscape version of mine looks like it does.
quora is even worse
#7 is kind of funny - post on social media. Lol.
It's non-issue really, as it was always bunk by definition.

But it's also a different topic (in a thread that has already drifted wildly off-topic).
Also known as the dead internet theory
> the handoff can fail in the same way

Everything in a digital system can fail, but by convention (and because it's not so far from the actual truth) some parts are assumed to be 100% reliable when modeling them. If you don't make this assumption, you can't guarantee anything.
Why are you spending half a day? I rarely spend even an eighth of that doing tasks that people here claim to take them ages? Have people forgotten how to use computers or is the UX for those really that bad?
My honest opinion is that until the software situation drastically changes, there is zero reason to get anything other than nvidia cards, because the cost of hardware will always be dwarfed by engineering hours in dev, and ROCm isn't there yet by a long shot.

I'm very much looking forward to this changing, for VRAM reasons in particular. But it's not going to happen any time soon.
> The hard drive on my shelf isn't using any energy.

When it filled up you put it on a shelf and bought a new one.
To the author: What are your thoughts on tiger Beetle? I think it provides most of the primitives that you mention in a highly optimized package (except hierarchical relationships).
A web search engine that combines results from different web sites? (2022) (openai.com)
Its not late state capitalism. Its hidden inflation. The market for actual high quality boots is much smaller than you are thinking. Including your own desire. The reality is doc martins are selling for <$180 max, basically mid-high sneaker (non collectable) territory. Actual quality boots like the doc martins of the 80's probably cost over $1000 dollars now. Are you willing to pay over $1000 for boots? Because that is what quality boots cost now.

Doc martin didn't sacrifice the brand. They realized that people would never pay $1000 for doc martins so they just jettisoned the company name by rebranding into fast fashion before they totally disappear. It was probably the only choice by the time it was decided. There were probably some missteps along the way where they may have been able to keep their prices up enough to keep the quality but they missed it.
Your suggested solution Cloudflare Tunnels man in the middles the traffic and it’s not an end to end tunnel. It’s a tunnel to Cloudflare! The users should be warned about this!
Counterpoint - confirmation bias. If you make the LLMs respond with specific tones, mix in some casual grammar mistakes, I don’t think you can distinguish it.
Major world cities with glorious central green spaces
What's your point? That doesn't mean they owe anybody an apology. There have been plenty of CIA ops that have failed or resulted in blowback that I'm sure the CIA regretted ex post - that doesn't mean they wouldn't have tried them again, or that they weren't worth trying.

Also actual lol if you take anything the CIA says as being prima facie true, especially things relating to what the CIA will or will not do in the future operationally.
I was thinking more that each individual act that inconveniences others was pocket change.

But I agree that the accumulation of $6k of it in a month is not mere pocket change. I'd wonder if it constitutes some kind of fraud or some other crime.

If it was just screwing the company, I wouldn't even be mad. It's the people who suddenly can't get a bike or can't return a bike at a given station because of these peoples' selfishness that I'm annoyed for.

The people who are paid to make sure things run smoothly are doing the exact opposite with zero regard to who it hurts. Shitty behaviour.
>It's a really good example of why one should not name your company after your surname.

That relationship can work in the opposite way sometimes. John McAfee seemed to be getting a gleeful kick out of embarrassing the security company that had invested in the right to use his name.

Usually because he was doing zany and sketchy and potentially criminal, while expertly courting media attention. But he also used that power for good sometimes by criticizing their bad products.
https://arc.net/faq

I'm definitely not the target audience... Even after reading the faq I have no idea what it does
> Provide evidence Brazil will lose the citizenry over this.

Just this month, people literally got out of their homes, went out and onto the street, assembled and protested this judge, demanding his impeachment. This happened in seven of our capitals.

https://www.ft.com/content/142a6d95-b06e-47e3-a605-a203e2bc4...

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-musk-x-moraes-bolsonaro-sa...

https://g1.globo.com/jornal-nacional/noticia/2024/09/07/mani...

While this was going down, the judge was apparently attending a barbecue with the ruling party. They made fun of the protesters. "Your homages have already begun", they are reported to have said to him.
An annoying oversight is that while my Fujifilm camera is modern enough to shoot HEIF+RAW, Apple Photos only knows to group JPEG+RAW as a single photo. Because Apple did not spend a day of engineering time bringing feature parity for the file format they themselves promoted, it has turned into a bigger feature to match and merge the HEIF and RAW assets after the fact. After several years, I'm growing doubtful they'll ever accomplish it.

I have yet to see whether they did it right with JXL+RAW (or is it DNG+RAW?) but hopefully they will before it becomes available in mainstream cameras.
There is S/MIME, but probably biggest thing that stopped its adoption was popularity of web mail (so yes, Google and others).
> It seems like this person does not understand what exactly once delivery actually means.

Then by all means, enlighten me.
Yeah, but it might be a satisficing approach. Most of us don't really need to optimize an appliance purchase, just not get screwed.
> Also, for anyone trying to read the article, they should put `/oneko.js` in their adblocker.

Only if you hate cats, pixel art, or are easily distracted.
> As for oversight, Forbes only has 2 board seats. And really it only has one.

It doesn't matter though. They have permission to use the name and domain, Forbes clearly knows what they are doing and why. If it wouldn't be ok with them, they'd revoke the permission (I'm not sure, but I assume they can, right?) So, yes, you can claim there is an oversight. If anything, Google's definition is a bit clunky, since it doesn't grasp the essence of the problem. But it also shouldn't matter, since it should be pretty obvious there is a problem indeed.

Now, why Google is ok with that (or didn't notice that) is another and very valid question. I mean, great, Forbes can host whatever bullshit they see fit, but then it would be appropriate for the whole domain to never appear on the first page of Google. Or second. Or tenth.

But then again, it doesn't seem like Google really tries to battle other, lesser doorways and LLM-generated content. And it's easy to see why.
Going all-flash was compelling for a while, but it seems like SSDs have failed to deliver on some important promises:

* The whole "it's SLC cache until you fill it up, then drops to pretty mediocre performance" thing is frightening because I suspect a lot of reviews aren't sufficiently battering the drive to report on this. I gather this is a bigger problem as they move to TLC and QLC and beyond and any corner-cutting they can do in the controller. TBH, I'd love to see sanctioned first-party tooling to manage my overprovision and caching strategy, so if I want to spend $130 to turn a 2Gb drive into a really overbuilt 512Gb drive, let me.

* The "we don't guarantee it will maintain data if left unpowered for 3 months" story doesn't make it a great choice for cold storage/intermittent access. If you just plug in a drive once a year to back up your tax returns, I'm not sure you want a SSD for it.

I ended up setting up a NAS with a cheap spinning-rust drive, figure that gives me a different reliability profile than the flash for that tier of backup.
> thought you were a true friend and true friends don’t let iOS turn to shit.

In what rosy-tinted world was it ever not when viewed with such a high level of expectations? Remember, this is the OS that had stellar copy&paste support from day 1!
Many of which you’ve never heard of.

Have you? Is this just public information I didn’t see? Or are starting a conversation with an impossible premise?

I also wouldn’t make assumptions.
> I think we see a decline in the big "open sea" social networks, replaced increasingly by fragmented silos.

This has become 100% true for me. I used to use Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc, but now I only use Discord and Hacker News.
Yes, that's true, but that's often a reasonable assumption.
>I’m pretty sure in the grand scheme of things the Forbes family is still perfectly OK with the association

The writers, editors and other business partners who built their reputation by contributing to Forbes previous good reputation are probably very not OK with it
While I agree with the points, I think the new Control Center is a step in the right direction: opening way to more customization
"in the Apple way": opening things little by little by keeping general UX consistent.

Is it buggy? Yeah, I've encountered the same bugs as the OP, and yes I wish setting Wi-Fi was a step less, though I think the upsides to the new design are more than the downsides (which can be sorted out by time).

I liked it.
The Palestinians fear of Zionism has turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Nothing mystic or prophetic at all about it.

Palestine is in the situation it is in due to the calculated policies of the various colonial powers and their "post-colonial" successors -- perhaps better described as "modern great power chauvinist states".

And due to its own mistakes of course (as with any society, especial). But these are generally overshadowed by interventions (far) beyond its control, emanating from these aforementioned interventionist powers. One can dissect the various aspects and subaspects of this dynamic, but that's the long and short of the situation.

In any case, "prophecy" as such has nothing to do with the current status quo.