skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking as a non-Windows user: isn't it good actually? E.g. this would make Sony-style rootkits also impossible (which makes some people twitch to this very day).

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> Nope, we’ve got to fight for the freedoms we have today, where we have them today.

This quote is just simply disingenuous. Forcing people to install all kind of magic kernel-level driver-imitations to be able to play the game du jour is the opposite of freedom.
The reason to do this would to create a quantum computer emulator. I was looking into this myself recently. I believe Iran was doing the same things but on FPGAs:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/iran-quantum-computer-arm-...
In Honduras, Libertarians and Legal Claims Threaten to Bankrupt a Nation
So how do you test your generated key? You can't just go and submit lots of transactions. That would presumably be expensive.
Abandoned as in "they aren't using it", but they do keep renewing the trademark so they still hold it.
Yes, 100%! We'll still take a statistical/distributional approach to long-ranged climate behavior rather than trying to predict exact atmospheric states. Keep an eye out for more news on this
This problem has been recognised more or less since capitalism was conceptualised; Adam Smith warned about it, for instance.
I'm guessing that Sam Altman will get a few shares, when OpenAI drops the non-profit structure. Always thought it strange that he had no shares, especially considering his VC background.
The non-action of the wise man is not inaction.
It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything.
The sage is quiet because he is not moved,
Not because he wills to be quiet.

- Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang-Tzu
The interface in question is the second link in the post. To get to the interface without any of the other relevant context, you would have to:

- skip reading the post (which explains all of this)

- skip the first link in the post (which explains all of this)

- go straight to the second link in the post, to the interface

- skip the "about" link in the interface (which explains all of this)
Roundabout Production
Even without the patent angle, carrots are cheaper than regular lettuce. They're one of the cheapest foods there is. And they are trivial to add to any meal, just put a carrot on the plate. It doesn't need anything else like all the stuff thrown into salads to make lettuce appealing. And everybody likes carrots, even kids who normally complain about vegetables will happily eat carrots.
This is a conversation that keep repeating

- Many temp commits

- Doesn’t matter: just squash

- But sometimes I want to have a few distinct (isolated commits for my PR)

- Then make the PR small

- But I have several changes

- Then make several small PRs

We keep coming back to “just make more PRs”. Which is curious, given that GitHub doesn’t even support dependent PRs. The thing you need immediately when your PRs start depending on each other (like refactor X before implementing Y, where both touch the same code).

But I can’t come to any other conclusion than that this is because of the over-focus on PR as the one and only reviewable unit. Thanks to GitHub.

I can’t really get on the small PR train. A PR has overhead and I often want to do small changes that I only happen to notice are necessary when I am in the middle of doing that one PR.
How to Learn to Live in a Mundane Universe
Having a sales meeting with the CIO, CTO, VP Procurement, etc. of a Fortune 500 company is unlike any conversation a non-customer facing engineer would have ever had in their life.

Dealing with these people is like golden gloves boxing. Every other move they make is a head fake or a trap. Before you open your mouth and take one step forward, you better have your back foot planted or else they're going to knock you on your butt simply to gain an iota of competitive advantage in the negotiation. One regrettable word or phrase in a sales meeting, even if it is technically and factually correct, can cost your team hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I don't understand why the author seemingly takes offense that sending an untrained person into a high-stakes scenario isn't something most companies do, or that some neurodivergent people might ethically struggle with personally misdirecting or suppressing technically and factually correct information as part of a business negotiation.
If you're comparing to SQLite, sure... if you're comparing to installing and configuring an RDBMS server on a host OS for development work, I'm going to hard disagree. Most services already have a hosted docker container configured, usually by the developers of said service. Getting that running is often as simple as googling "service-name docker-compose example" and "docker compose up".

And once you do understand docker-compose, it becomes second nature. I'd be willing to state that dealing with a merge conflict with source control is more difficult than docker-compose.
GPT-O1
You can see a lot of the side of the rings, which means they are offset by a large distance, perhaps to the equator. Doesn't look too bad to my eye.
the problem is we aren't comparing person vehicles, you have to consider these vehicles are estimated to need a 20+ year life span which mean replacing the batteries at least once, most likely twice. electric vehicle metrics are also not based on carrying a heavy load, at start and stop distances, moving at too low a speed to really benefit from reclamation.

The truth is, we have no real data to tell us how electric vehicles will fair over the expected time length with this expected work load.

When you factor in the building of instructor for charging stations, and their maintenance.

The initially preceded benefits may not be there.
> An OpenAI spokesperson told Fortune and Reuters that the company's non-profit arm is "core to our mission and will continue to exist," as OpenAI stays "focused on building AI that benefits everyone."

Not exactly a denial that the nonprofit board is going to lose all its governance powers and become a rump (just a shell for enough equity to provide a fiduciary defense to fend off the inevitable lawsuits).
If you want to role play in Medieval Europe, but with a smattering of magic and fantastical elements, then Ars Magica is the game you're looking for.
You'll need to subscribe to Alexa weather plus, for only 9.99$/month.
Now seriously, yes, hyperlocal short-term weather forecast should be a commodity, even public utility?
"Didn't see this coming"

- No one ever
Oracle's lawyers dutifully renew the trademark annually. Despite their lack of active use, this leaves the door open for future use. It creates a nebulous state where Oracle could choose to initiate a costly legal action against someone using the trademark.

One of those situations where the law can be on your side but the real problem is if you can afford the legal battle.
Investigation into FDA Oversight Failures and Recommendations for Reform
nice deep dive into something i expect most are happy not to hafta think about.
> While less dangerous than a US SWATting event

How? Unlike what the news would have you believe, police don't just start shooting willy nilly in America, and cops in his country do have firearms. Most people who get killed in US SWAT operations do so because they open fire on the cops.

The best example is the Breonna Taylor. The media blatantly lied saying her and her partner were in bed initially. In reality, they announced, and had a pretty complex warrant based off of evidenced gathered from prison communications. Even the Wikipedia page is still biased saying her boyfriend fired a "warning shot" mistaking the police for intruders.
Sure, not every model is an autoregressive transformer. And even a GPT could give some useful predictions if you stuff the context window with things it's been fine tuned to predict. We did that to get GPT to play chess a few years ago.

Specifically, I could imagine throwing current weather data at the model and asking it what it thinks the next most likely weather change is going to be. If it's accurate at all, then that could be done on any given day without further training.

The problems happen when you start throwing data at it that it wasn't trained on, so it'll be a cat and mouse game. But it's one I think the cat can win, if it's persistent enough.
Yeah, I’ve noticed that many around the Internet just comment with “the squash and merge” as if it’s a given that that’s the strategy that is used (even mandated).
ICANN is to ban new gTLD applicants from paying each other off
We played all three but never combined them.

They have guns and smoke powder in 5e and it just doesn't feel right.

Game of Thrones with cowboys carrying torc grenades?
> I honestly struggle to see how you could possibly read it as a "directive/command"

I feel like they don't. I believe it's just an attempt at making you refrain from giving your opinion in the future, because reading your opinion bothers them.
> If a process is 98% waterfall

I just haven't seen that happen. I'm sure there are exceptions where it has, but I think those have always been rare.
Unlocking the Depths of Human Existence:Engage with Propositions
Small towns and suburbs don't have to be huge road/car hellscapes.

I think most Americans don't realize how good it could be.

Towns with good walking paths, public transit, and, yes, safe bike paths are:

1. Cheaper for governments to maintain infrastructure - heavy road use leads to more requirements of maintenance. Road sizes in the US are also huge. Needlessly giant firetrucks keep building standards this way.

2. Cheaper for getting around - no gas/insurance/car required.

3. Cheaper for housing - car storage takes up a ton of space.

4. Much, much quieter - cars are the noisiest thing in any town.

5. Much more social and therefore more community oriented. This fosters a more trusting society - something we are in dire need of.

6. Easier to get around as things like grocery stores are built in walking distance to dwellings.

7. Just much more beautiful.

It's not just big cities that can benefit from these things. Small towns in the Netherlands are much better than Amsterdam in this way, for example.

A very small town can have a town square that you'll see your neighbours in as you buy groceries.

The model we've made for ourselves is extremely expensive and literally dystopic hell.

We don't need anything other than better organization to get to utopia here. We just lack imagination.

Europe could learn a lot from America in economics. But here is where America needs to learn from Europe.

Not just Bikes talks a lot about the subtle differences that make life so much more enjoyable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztpcWUqVpIg
JavaScript is a registered trademark. It would be easier for everyone if Oracle released the trademark registration than for the letter signers to file a legal petition requesting the USPTO cancel the registration.
This kind of outrage is fun to read. Someone gets themselves all worked up after hearing an offhand comment. Then proceeds to take a few paragraphs to set up what a shining beacon of kindness and compassion and calm consideration they are, before ending the post with the truly measured "cautionary word" of: "don't say stupid shit".

Meanwhile, they never once addressed the central claim of the thing that made them so angry: some engineers aren't ready/willing to be customer facing. Instead they ranted about the benefits of introducing engineers to customers, all of which of course are true, but none of which address the original claim.

The self-importance of this person was beaming straight through my monitor the entire time.
Propaganda Is Proof by Repetition
Yes I’m very interested. I had exactly the same idea, but solved it using the “say” command and a random grab from a set of strings.

I’m a Python dev and I’m happy to contribute to a project is you get it started.
> The way D&D worlds are usually structured could only work if everybody has a magic car and food is abundant.

To be fair, that's kind of the case. Sure, not everyone is an adventurer, but level 1 adventurers probably aren't particularly rare in the world. A level 1 spellcaster may be able to do two of the following things a day using their two spell slots (depending on what kind of spellcaster they are):

- feed up to 10 people for a day (and heal them, to boot) with goodberry

- create 10 gallons of potable water with create or destroy water

- double walking speed for 10 minutes without exhaustion (expeditious retreat)

- move a third again as fast as normal for an hour without exhaustion (long strider)

- load up and move 500 pounds at those speeds without having to carry anything themselves for an hour (Tenser's floating disk)

That's just food and transportation. A level 1 cleric totally trounces period-accurate medical care and compares pretty favorably to a whole modern hospital filled with specialists and equipment (and with a few more levels under their belt they do much better than modern medicine as they can bring the recently deceased back to life).

But that's starting to miss the forest for the trees. I definitely respect people, like the author of the article, that focus this deeply on hobbies -- I can barely do that for paying work. But it misses the point of D&D for me.

Fundamentally, my response to the article is that D&D's just a collection of systems meant to generate fun, not be an accurate model of a particular time and place in history.

I, for one, would expect social and political structures to deviate from history once you've added magic in the mix.

In my eyes, the article's argument is akin to people a thousand years from now role-playing in 2020s America but adding in Star Trek-style replicators and wondering why the rules don't model Homeowners Associations (HOAs). Sure, lots of current Americans are subject to them but what percentage of players would find that enjoyable? And are you sure they'd still exist in such a world?
Discover Inner Mastery and Well-Being: This Is It
Lots of noob chess players out there to beat!
OpenAI's new "o1" model may have an IQ as high as 120
Doyne Farmer's group at Oxford does 'agent-based' economics simulations in this vein. He has a new book called 'Making Sense of Chaos' that describes it.
cpp as in a C preprocesor? That's a neat trick. I guess it removes what looks like /* comments */ and leaves the rest alone?
That was kind of my point, too: no LLM will solve your problem zero-shot based on a vague description. Iteration will always be required. A good enough LLM will ask you clarifying questions, write prototypes, accept your feedback, etc., and as you iterate, you get closer and closer to a program you want without writing a line of code.
It’s a wonder of the modern world
Yes, the so-called "network byte order". Now that big-endian has lost on all other fronts, it is time to switch to little-endian in all future network protocols. We could call it the krowten byte order.
That was kind of my point. We somewhat settled on an ASCII representation of many symbols, and that space is so small that lots of them have multiple meanings you have to infer. There was a brief window where we could’ve taken a different path and used different symbols for different things. Alas, we didn’t.

I don’t contend we should change things today. I do think if I were personally writing a new programming language from scratch today, I’d likely use different Unicode symbols for different operators, and the accompanying language server would nudge people to use them.
It is practically abandoned, but unless the USPTO or a US court says that that is so, it is not legally abandoned. That is a problem because the confusion and insecurity about the trademark remains until it is legally considered abandoned.

That's why we need to file a petition with the US Patent and Trademark office.
> I don't understand why the author seemingly takes offense that sending an untrained person into a high-stakes scenario isn't something most companies do.

Because then they wouldn't be able to write these sorts of outrage-porn clickbait articles with righteous indignation.
Well, speaking in different languages facilitates different modes of thinking which results in different thoughts. Some thoughts are easier to have in one language than another. It takes all sorts to make a world and multiple languages means a broader mental space to explore ideas.

People against that tend to lean totalitarian. People for a monoculture, that is. That is an inherently limiting philosophy which can only die out as it narrows the 'acceptable ideas' list over time.
Yes this is the first thing that came to mind for me, strange name choice
I agree that this is where it is likely going to go. I have also found my peace about that a while ago. On a personal level I also don't believe that giving up big cars, flying and other things is something that nobody is doing. There are quite a few people that avoid such things, including me.

I feel like you underestimate the energy that sacrifice releases. I also feel like you don't have children. Because if you did a sentence like "you know you're going to be dead before the end of the century, right?" would probably not be what you were thinking. Exactly when you have something to lose (the life of your children and grand children), it generates a desire to change this miserable state that the world is in. This is not a depressed or negative state. It's the opposite. It feel like diving into the issues of the world and not looking away.

And I think the injunction to "Enjoy!" is exactly what's wrong with the world and what leads you away from inner peace. This is what psycho analysts have discovered quite a while ago and what religious people are able to avoid by having higher goals than your own enjoyment. My own experience with this is that since I have given up trying to enjoy my life and I'm trying to wrestle with my own negativity, life is better.
> Disagree. The outliers don’t determine the value of the platform.

Agreed.

> The videos of people creating, fixing, coding, diagnosing, doing every day random things - those are a gift to humanity.

These seem like the outliers.
JavaScript is just a name. The current language's official name, according to the specification defining that language, is ECMAScript. If the trademark is a problem then simply call it by a different name.
Brute force on Bitcoin addresses – just for the fun [video]
Orion[1] (by Kagi) is sweet (but not without its own issues). Based on Webkit, supports vertical tabs, etc. But the big one: allows side-loading Chrome / Firefox extensions!

[1] https://kagi.com/orion/
Annapurna had some pretty ok consumer chips before their buy out

Ditto for PA Semi, who were bought by Apple.

SiFive changed to being an IP provider, is no longer selling chips.

It feels sometimes like the PC world is in collapse. No one wants to sell chips any more, it's all for cloud or for appliance-ized phone-lile systems. When someone does come along and starts making new chips, they get bought.

I wish the hyperscalers had some interest in keeping a competitive market alive, in supporting independent competition. I respect the desire to have a strong in house team and Graviton 3+ have really been excellent (Nitro is also super interesting deep tech I wish we saw in the world; alas AMD's SeaMicro acquisition took one similar out in the wild super-fabric offering off the table rather than promoted it). But man, the consolidation in chip making has been brutal & it doesn't feel like there's enough folks getting started making cores to keep things healthy. There's some disruption from below with RISC-V starting, but it's been slow & is very down market still (Tenstorrent being the notable exception). The broad ecosystem feels like it needs help, needs new vitality, is ossofying, in large part because of these acquisitions.
How accurate is the weather prediction for a city for tomorrow on average for the min and max temperature? Thanks a lot!
How do they determine a real situation from a swatting before going on? Domestics are the most dangerous situation you can possibly be in. Imagine if they cops just knocked casually and the incited someone to start stabbing a hostage.
I find his stuff sloppy and uninteresting, too, and he has no charisma. This just goes to show that he really does know what he's doing. He identified the statistically meaningful things to focus on and perfect. Imagine if he was just the producer for someone who actually gave a crap about making quality content.
That the code is “compilable, runnable” is never a given even if you never use rebase.

We can sling around stereotypes of people failing and doing a bad job with their strategy. Then going to cry to someone (presumably you?). But I don’t think that advances the conversation.
You can handle missing values if you plan for it when you design the API. As the article says you can use the well-known optional types, or now mark fields as optional.

Protocol buffers include a set of rules to follow for backwards and forwards compatibility between servers and clients, I think these should be understood as part of the philosophy of protocol buffers. https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/proto3/#updating

> Imagine building a data format for temperature measuring stations around that. Is it 0 degrees, or did the thermometer just skip reporting?

What does it mean for a thermometer to "skip reporting"? If that is something you intend to support you will need to define what it means and how the data should be read. Should a reader always check if the field is present? Should it crash?

What would typically happen is that you start out with a required field, because of course you will always have a temperature:

required sint32 temperature = 1; // temperature in Fahrenheit

But soon enough you realize you need a richer format.

required sint32 legacy_temperature = 1 [deprecated=true]; // temperature in Fahrenheit - DO NOT USE
message Measurement {
optional Unit unit = 1;
optional float value = 2;
}
optional Measurement temperature = 2;

- or you decide to allow submitting a batch of temperatures in each message, etc.

You configure new measurement stations to set both the old and the new format so they'll be compatible with old servers - maybe your customers are running servers on-prem. You mark legacy_temperature as optional in your server code to prepare for eventual deprecation (luckily in this case the server never sends temperatures back to measuring stations)

Finally all the customers have upgrade to the new server, and you ship new stations that don't set the previously "required" field. New measurement stations don't show up in the UI. A batch job that doesn't even look at the temperature field was compiled with the old definitions and is now crashing.
For very long local builds, like a full bitbake, I do `&& bell` so I know when to tab back to my build terminal.

i.e. `bitbake bsp-vendor-full-image || beep && beep` so I get a sound when things finish, whether it failed or succeeded.
I wonder about the real quick part. Eventually surely, but before that would it not be cheaper to affect political system so that government takes these actions by themselves, with tax money from everyone and with good loaning of money to boot. Paying for all that gear and people is expensive, better have someone else to boot the bill and then when system crashes down capture it...
The only issue with charging for the game is you will then lose out on player base, some of the most popular competitive games get that way because kids and teens without an income can play them regardless. It's inclusive of all, especially when the developers focus on ensuring their game can run on as many devices as possible even with low-spec. This is incredibly important for a games community, even if it does make cheating slightly easier.
Why do so many grown adults act so pathetically servile to someone who is in a higher rung in a company?
- Because the alpha apes on the top of the pyramid got all the bananas and they will share it only with the ones they like. And it goes all the way down. Too bad tha apes have not come up with a better system because the apes have prioritized bananas over everything else. Peace.