skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Confluence, n.: a collection of semirandom characters emitted by employees trying to look busy, interned in a series of secure silos, with stringent access controls, to hide the evidence.
What a cool breakdown of the data.
Indeed. I'd be curious to know what city this was. Most US cities have very high quality tap water, and tap water that contains levels of chlorine sufficient to smell would surely make the news.
Yeah this kind of thing has certainly been tried before, I feel like SQLite WASM plus WAL might be an interesting twist on the idea.
I'm pretty sure GP was talking more about which groups own which percentage of wealth in America

i.e., the bottom 50% of Americans population-wise own 10% of the overall wealth, while the top 7,500 people (0.002% population-wise) own 10% of the overall wealth.

That said, those numbers are actually overly optimistic. The wealth chart offered up by the federal reserve show the bottom 50% population-wise only own 2.5% of the wealth. Particularly alarming (though not surprising) is how much that share has shrunk in the last 20 years.

See: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...
Some designs such as OCP NIC have become industry standard.
The cup they show isn't even a cup. It looks more like the top part of a broken bottle, photographed upside down. The narrow end looks too narrow for a cup's base, it would not be very stable.
What does privacy and safety, have to do with memory safety and CVEs? You are conflating multiple aspects of software engineering.

> And Larry Page himself doesn't use G-mail for privacy reasons.

I couldn't find anything to corroborate this with a quick Google search, other than some article from the early 2010s about gmail being slow.

> So many people have been arrested using evidence form Signal

Do you have any evidence that Signal messages were shared with governments or other entities?
I have no idea why my startup Halo failed.
Something like https://hylang.org/ ? I suppose it won't work with compiled code though.
Well said, but as the article goes on, it seems even with no technical hurdles this innovation seems dead in the water with policy. At least they're not doing what the Germans have done, shutting down coal power plants and buying Polish electrical generation... made with coal power plants.
It saved far more then 1 billion $ for the launch vehicle. That number is just more SLS propaganda. If you actually do the research its far more. At least 1 $ billion more and that is the very best case, not accounting for any amortized development. In reality its likely considerably more.
Right, and I'm not understanding how this means FSD doesn't currently suck. Because it does.

I'm sure Musk is smart, or at least ambitious, but that doesn't mean your Tesla is gonna be able to drive itself.
Yeah plenty of headers first have `#ifdef __cplusplus` and then they add `extern "C"`. And of course even then they have to avoid doing things unacceptable in C++ such as using "new" as the name of a variable.

It takes a little bit of an effort to make a header work on C and C++. A lot less effort than making a single Python file work with Python 2 and 3.
> "I don’t think Meta is looking to profit selling LLMs…"

Said no one ever.
Because your interlocutors would be 20 people that don’t exist… and would take up 20x more of your time than a single low skilled individual.

Yes, even scoundrels may supply to you true information for some period of time but eventually they will try to obtain their actual goals…
Vitaly Aksenov (an author) gave a Google Tech Talk in July: Is it possible to make self-adjusting data structures concurrent?[1].

I didn't find paper-associated code. Fwiw, there's an earlier 2020 Aksenov splay-list paper with a repo.[2]

Authors' 2024 The Next 700 Benchmarking Frameworks for Concurrent Data Structures is inaccessible (ACM paywall), but 2023 Brief Announcement: BatchBoost: Universal Batching for Concurrent Data Structures[3] looks cute. Aksenov has a home page[4] with pre-2024 pdfs. I didn't see homes for the other authors.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7DaSVMm0To
[2] paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.01009 unexplored archival repo: https://cutt.ly/disc2020353 possibly related: https://github.com/Aksenov239/splaylist/tree/master/structs_...
[3] https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/31793/1/LIPIcs.DISC....
[4] https://ctlab.itmo.ru/~vaksenov/
I had an impressive view on Saturday night after church. I stood around on a street corner just to see it. I own no telescopes, and hadn't brought my tripod, and the object was invisible to my unassisted eye. Nevertheless, after 6:30pm, the sky was dark enough, and I sighted it in my Pixel's telephoto lens. I snapped many clear photos at that point.

The comet with tail was striking and unmistakable, despite many aircraft with contrails in the same area, and significant urban light pollution at the edge of a seven-lane stroad.

Basically all I could see in the Western sky were Venus and Arcturus. Thankfully, that's enough to pinpoint the comet's location. I am using the mobile app "Stellarium", whose impressive premium version includes ephemera and real-time charting for practically everything in the heavens.

It was about a half hour's viewing time on Saturday. On Monday, 10/14, it was higher in the evening sky, with reduced magnitude, but I could discern it with the camera for a while.

Personally, this is the most thrilling natural event I've witnessed since last April 8's solar eclipse. It's been a singularly amazing year to rekindle my interest in astronomy!
It really depends on the context. Some types of troubleshooting just involves a lot of time-consuming trial-and-error that doesn’t teach anything, it just rules out possibilities to diagnose the issue. Some products have a long deployment cycle or feedback loop. Some people are just more suited to or greatly prefer either low or high context switched work.

Good management means finding the right balance for the team, product, and business context that you have, rather than inflexibly trying to force one strategy to work because it’s supposedly the best.
you have a source for the larry page claim?
Is there a way to statically compile an application with SQLite and the result WASM was smaller. So for example I have an app that would use only a specific subset of SQLite. Could the SQLite's WASM be built with this in mind cutting down on code that is not used? Or is there a way to prune it having the used API surface?

In a regular compiler/linker scenario it would just be a static compilation. Here we have a JS app and WASM library.
Good q and I can't name one either. Though I suspect when you're successful you tell a modified story about how you met.

"I ran a tight interview process and selected the best match based on vibes and a spreadsheet" isn't super inspiring to customers, employees, investors.
As "medicating" implies addition, I'd not call such filtering "medicating", but it's definitely still be a "medical intervention", a purposeful change from the default motivated by health concerns.
Weird. A possibly matching profile shows up in search for me, but upon clicking the link LinkedIn says they can't find a matching page.
That seems interesting, I will take a look.
Do you have a reputable source regarding the searching of everyone's phone? Apple tried something like this but couldn't make it work, maybe you're thinking of that effort?
I can't see Meta and MSFT getting into the chip design business. Maybe OpenAI.

Apple's already not using nVidia chips to train its models.
Helene and Milton were severe storms that killed people (despite ample advanced warning) and caused historically significant amounts of damage. Are there other storms that people are being bombarded with dire warnings about that I don't hear about because I live in NY? Because as far as I can tell, the only two recent weather events to get substantial coverage were roughly as devastating as warned.

The bigger problem seems to be politically-inspired idiots sending death threats to meteorologist because they'll believe every conspiracy theory they hear from their ultra-right news sources and elected officials:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/us/meteorologists-threats...
Turn on "showdead" and look how many comments critical of the report have been flagged. That strongly indicates an organized suppression of dissenting views.
Good summary. This is a good example of people making bijective errors around public health: the presence of a "safe level" does not itself imply that levels above it are unsafe; all it does is express confidence that the level itself is safe.
>> neuroscience will replace psychology

> That seems like say that hardware engineers should be the ones debugging software.

Perhaps at first glance, but neuroscience will eventually deal with "software" issues in much the same way that tested, reliable computer programs are committed to ROM chips as a safeguard against inadvertent erasure.

In the future biological case, it might become possible to modify human behavior by "reprogramming" neuronal patterns semi-permanently. This might sound like a panacea at first glance, but it could have a truly scary "big brother" dimension if it's used to control people's behavior in a way meant to enforce social conformity.

But one thing for sure -- it will be more effective than talk therapy. :)
> There are also a fair number of queries that are just "Facebook", "<name of famous newspaper>" etc. which would also probably count towards some of the quota; it'd be great if some sort of caching could be implemented for these.

There would be fewer of these queries if people had a financial incentive to learn to use bookmarks and the address bar.
Fuller question: You say they are massively transformative. In why way? How is life or business going to be changed by this tool?
Would you consider iodized salt "mass medication"?
I personally think our academia should be training and curating these kinds of models and the data they are based on, but this is an acceptable second best.
I had one in the early 00's.

Especially liked packet radio stuff back then, but due to regulatory restrictions in practice the networks built are not really all that useful other then for contacts. So in a way, loved the tech but it's really a hobby just for the tech itself rarely applications there-of.
If Apple actually wanted to bring games to MacOS, they'd give Valve and CodeWeavers a billion dollars and get the Steam Client working, put tons of effort into a d3dvk-for-Metal solution, and have it working with as little overhead as possible. They don't do this because they can't funnel them through the App Store. The graphics API they use for the operating isn't relevant (Vulkan isn't used very much for most games.)

The funny thing is that with the rise of Proton and Steam Deck driving its development -- there's literally no reason anymore for a game developer to ever target any "Desktop PC" platform except x86_64 Portable Executable files, using DirectX. Because Proton will just handle the port with nearly zero effort. Even on ARM64 devices like Snapdragon, the CPU is often not the limiting factor (and binary translation is only in the realm of 15%) so emulation for games is totally viable if the GPU can handle the load.
It was there for a decade: https://caniuse.com/sql-storage
In C++ the semantics can differ, in that copying an object for post-increment might require a memory allocation internally (for example in the case of a BigInt class), which may fail and throw an exception. For consistency, using pre-increment by default and unless you really need post-increment, is a good habit.
Right, consumers are often stupid beyond belief and will buy an objectively worse product purely for prestige and signaling to other humans. It's that social part of the brain going off.

That doesn't change the fact the Cyber Truck is an inferior truck to just about any other truck in just about any metric. It's a testament to the sheer arrogance of Man and the failure of modern American education.
The Cockpit user interface for podman containers
Code typography is such a neglected area, I'm glad to see any projects that touch on that. This reminds me of Suns Fortress language, which was designed also for scientific computing (afaik more in HPC sense), and also allowed rendering code into pdf with improved typography. Unfortunately lot of the original Fortress resources have linkrotted away, but there are some examples in this presentation (by Guy Steele!) https://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/150FP/archive/neal-glew/mcrt/F...
I grew up in a world being told marijuana kills and Halloween candy contains razor blades. At least these warnings are based on facts.
The dictionary meaning of "confluence", namely an aggregation or coming together of disparate sources of stuff (information, in this case) into a single place, makes perfect sense here. And searching for places that lots of information gathers seems like a sensible approach to me. The fact that one product happens to have the same name didn't even cross my mind.
The original ftp dropbox comment was about usefulness rather than success IMO. They were saying why is this needed.

With the conraption here. It is not useless, sure, but that is not a high enough bar to use resources to manufacture it or for there to be a market for it. Other than someone mentioned geek consumerism.
> just maybe more efficient

Isn’t efficiency all that matters nowadays? It’s exactly what gives Apple the crazy battery life and allows them a lot of thermal headroom to drive the chips with high power.
More evidence that people get numb to the warnings and ignore them.
It's a great reason why webapps suck. A licensed local app would be great here, as the customer wouldn't lose value when Fable disappears. Yet now customers lose all value. Great.

So frustrating as a user.
Anyone know what this means?

> In addition, we are exploring more seamless interoperability with C++ through Carbon, as a means to accelerate even more of our transition to MSLs.

Carbon doesn’t really care about memory safety except as a vague “in the future we’ll evolve the language somehow to add more memory safety” statement. The primary goal seems to be to parse code as quickly as possible. So I’m not sure I understand how it improves the MSL story. Or is it saying that interfacing Carbon with a MSL like Rust is easier so carbon is a better bridge to MSL than things like autocxx?
> I expect it to provide information to me on topics I don’t already know.

Presumably you already know about yourself, yet that was the example you chose to pick. It comes across as you basically leading the witness just to be able to say say "gotcha! I knew you'd suck".

It's not a search engine, although you can ask some models/chatbots to search the web. Again, you're holding it wrong.

Instead of trying to confirm your bias that LLMs are bad, try to find discomforming evidence.

“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion, draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects.”

— Francis Bacon
you both are missing the main point here, Forscape is not for writing documents, but for writing executable code.
I don't see how the spend can continue a lot longer without some evidence of profits, or at least more potential for profits. I know people aren't going to pay $40 a month for chatgpt as-is.
Is it safe yet?

It's so fucking safe...
Every (software) company should be doing something like this. (Like the NSA told us to)
I think it's meant to be a sarcastic take of the next iteration after VS Code :)
Seeing God and Burning Plastic
The economic argument opens the door to a lot more invasive interventions. Why not add semaglutide? It is likely that obesity costs significantly more to society than caries.

I do not like the smoking example much, either. Even if difficult to quantify, making other people breathe your smoke is obviously different than something where the consequences are guaranteed to be 100% your own (aside from the aforementioned economic argument).
Trust Takes Time
OCP has been about for _years_. Almost since facebook was a thing.

Facebook the site had a rich platform until they had to secure it against people stealing your data, and your mate's data and pretending that they had a really rich dataset on most of the western world's adult population (ie Cambridge analytica )

Horizon OS is a fucking mess and isn't anything really to do with Apple, its more to do with the making sure samsung don't use android for what ever shit they produce.

OpenAI aren't going to compete with Meta, as they aren't in the same game. OpenAI has to make money from its offerings, Meta's AI shit is a byproduct of other things (see massive spending on "reality labs")
All possible trees by major forests
I don't know, I never found the "proper abstraction" be more than irrelevant syntactic sugar. And the cost of C++ is that you end up putting everything in the header (IMHO the biggest design flaw of the language) and then compile time start to get long....
I wasn't able to tell from a quick look through the page: could someone help me understand the use cases here?

More specifically, would this be able to be a "replacement" for indexedDB? Does the data persist, or do I need to keep the sqlite file in the filesytemAPI (or indexedDB/localstorage) myself?
And number theory was critical to breaking enigma. So they were all used within 5 years.
India's moment is hurt by interference label
My neck of the woods on the front page!

Adelsnäs where the cannon is was built by some mining baron, as far as i remember.
I’m developing inference engine, so I actually do understand how it works. As well as other types of parallelism and how exactly they do different trade offs
> they still have the best models

Only few use cases need the best models. Most of them work ok on mini models and LLaMAs. The problem is that it costs very much to develop this shrinking segment of high end. With each new release in open / smaller models, the island of superiority shrinks for OpenAI. But people's task don't get any more difficult on average. So eventually your phone model will suffice for 99% of use cases, and be free and private. What will OpenAI do with 1% of the market?
Ok, so, assuming these facilities are indeed "top secret bases" that have armed security, military or otherwise, how do red teamers not get shot? Do they get right up to but not complete the intrusion? Do they inform security of the intrusion attempt and, if so, how do they defend against the hilarious possibility of actual baddies working at the same time?

These questions might have obvious answers. This isn't my line of work. I'm honestly interested in how they accommodate the need to (a) not kill the vendor and (b) still protect the facility.
Unless it's the LTSC edition of Windows 10, which has support until 2029
Linearity in Query Processing
I think it says more about us that we are at a loss for words or shocked that a startup goes under and its unwinding is messy. It is neither a big deal, nor is it particularly unethical that this should happen. Caveat emptor. This type of reaction should be reserved for real catastrophes like a cancer diagnosis, a war, the death of a loved one, etc.

Have we all become so fragile that something as minor as a startup with a small number of users shutting down causes us shock and disgust?
Since SQL takes arbitrary strings as input, this would require explicit compiler flags to disable the knobs you don't want. Can't rely on excluding unused symbols really.
> 99% isn't

It probably is, actually (and sadly).

Looking around at the percentage of drivers around me on the road with their face looking at a phone, while moving, is probably in excess of 5%. These people won't see the kids crossing the road, either.
It is just fringe lunatics.

There are plenty of reasonable arguments against fluoridation of water that countries can fall on various sides of: lack of proper water infrastructure in the first place, moral/ethical/political arguments around mass-medication of citizens, overall net economic value for their specific populations, etc. Individuals and nations can reasonably come to different conclusions based on both data and philosophy.

Those aren't the arguments being opposed here.
Thank you! Here's a link to the root source: https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/assessments/noncancer/...

I wish the summary there had more detailed numbers. It's hard to understand the level of conflict between this source & mine.
> no array bounds checking is possible.

This isn’t strictly true, a C implementation is allowed to associate memory-range (or more generally, pointer provenance) metadata with a pointer.

The DeathStation 9000 features a conforming C implementation which is known to catch all array bounds violations. ;)
In general, studies I've looked at show that even with unequal consumption, even those in the "high consumption" (and therefore probably higher fluoride ingestion) don't lead to what would be considered an excessive amount over the recommended exposure limits. Not saying it couldn't happen of course, there are outliers. Overall exposure should be considered for children.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2697936/

> The probability of exceeding the UL of 7 mg fluoride per day via a normal diet was estimated to be very low in the Belgian adult population.

Note: it's hard to find studies like this that focus on kids and not adults, but except for the difficulty in getting accurate responses from kids, that shouldn't lead to a difference. However given that the upper level is lower in children, it's a much tighter window that could then be exceeded by other sources of fluoride like swallowed toothpaste or food supplements with fluoride. So caution is probably warranted.

An Irish study found no risk of excess consumption by adults or children (excepting "misuse of toothpaste"):

- https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/fluoride-in-food-drin...

- https://www.fsai.ie/publications/total-diet-study-2014-2016-...
I think Microsoft have dabbled in the space already.
Function overloading is a feature that makes code less self-documenting without providing any meaningful value. Operator overloading is more interesting, because you can build you domain language with nice syntax. But I also tend to think that this is not really worth it.
SLS isn't actually available and would have required considerable amount of extra work on Clipper that would have taken years. So no research is actually delayed.

Clipper would have to have a schedule fight with Artemis and Clipper very likely would have lost that fight. SLS scaling is very slow so its very likely using SLS would have meant a later arrival.

Either way, one of Clipper or Artemis would have been delayed, this is a 100% fact. So either way one timeline of an important project is delayed.

You ask these scientists if they rather wait a little longer (again questionable) or if they would rather have 2-4 billion $ in extra research grants. That would be a more fair comparison. Now NASA can use that budget actually useful things rather then giving more money to Boeing.
> Self-funded sustainable businesses can be much more stable in the long term.

Can even grow at a progressive pace by expanding into adjacent segments: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211024
The "I need some help on some vague problem and want to ask a machine to act like a junior member of my team I could delegate to and get mostly-right results that I would still need to verify" is a very compelling use case. Arguably the best.
CEREAL
Oh yeah, you want a seriously righteous hack,
you score one of those Gibsons man. You know,
supercomputers they use to like, do physics,
and look for oil and stuff?

PHREAK
Ain't no way, man, security's too tight. The
big iron?

DADE
Maybe. But, if I were gonna hack some heavy
metal, I'd, uh, work my way back through some
low security, and try the back door.