skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
at the worst wouldn't it just mean that a lot of merchants of record will say we don't handle software, and maybe one or two big ones scoop up all the software business with some fancy insurance deals?

I believe this is what the theories of capitalism say would happen.
Keep in mind the money is probably mostly already gone. And a class action suit will take a large chunk of the remainder. So plan to get none of it back.
I expected cheese
Lol, you really really think that south americans being forced to emigrate to the north is putin's fault? It's entirely USA's fault, bringing up putin when talking about immigration in USA is the whatabautism part here :)
I heard about keto diet and tried severely limiting sugar and other carbs intake. I instantly felt better and lost 6kg in two months. Sticking to the new diet was pretty easy. Now after 6 months I have constant headache, painkillers don't work, constantly tired and no further weight loss whatsoever. Every test was ok, sugar perfect, just insulin in upper bound of range. Limiting sugar is not panacea. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
>> 50 billion of debt will be paid by the taxpayers sooner or later.

>No it won't. Which part of "profitable" and "investment" do you not understand?

A company that drowns in debt and needs government bailouts is not profitable by any definition of the word.

Investments generate profits after you have paid for them, so nuclear is clearly not an investment - it costs more money every year. EDF could pretend to be profitable in the beginning but now the facts have caught up. The true cost of nuclear is undeniable in the long run.

That's why France now has increased the price of nuclear power by over 60%: https://www.clearygottlieb.com/news-and-insights/publication...

Turns out EDF was selling nuclear power below production cost all these years, they just pretended that the production costs were low by neglecting maintenance and borrowing money.

As I said - not profitable.
Cardiac: A CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation [pdf]
This sounds like a very important observation.
For the same reason lots of companies are stuck on Java 8, .NET Framework, C++98 / C++11, C89,.....
I meant that hiding your boredom from everyone on the call is more professional than revealing you are bored, regardless of whether your camera is on or not.
I implemented Prolog and Z3 as a function tool for my little OpenAI Assistants API client. Z3 (SMT-LIB, actually) seemed even more promising. The model speaks both languages. However, I didn't find any convincing use-cases yet. But it seems a logical extension of the idea to provide a programming language via a function tool to solve problems. So you start thinking "What else has text input and output, and a powerful engine in between?"
Except for the switching power supply, where you have capacitors charged at (rectified) mains voltage so around 155 or 325 volts depending on where you are. They should discharge relatively quickly, but they might be dangerous for a few minutes.
Unfortunately Affinity does not run on linux natively.
This used to be a thing in dictionaries. My favourite word is "Esquivalience", which was defined in the New Oxford American Dictionary as "The wilful avoidance of ones official responsibilities". Prior to that, the word didn't exist, and it was used to catch people just copying the words from their dictionary. Very similar to paper towns on maps
SamyGO used to be the go-to place for Samsung OS hacking, not sure how active they still are though: https://www.samygo.tv/
This is also a good lead, but I've already chased it. I only use hippie detergent and toothpaste. I do wonder about this while eating out, but hopefully once a week isn't enough to make a difference.
About 4 websites in 10 are powered by Wordpress. At this point, I think we can say that they will never reach 50%
No question here, but love to see this, having been the grateful recipient of your support in the past, Peter! Thanks again.

(Peter is awesome!)
My experience has been exactly opposite. Ability to do Vacuums is good. MySQL doesn’t free up space taken by deleted rows. The only option to free up the space is to mysqldump the db and load it again. Not practical in most of the situations.
Not always, but it is rare in this day and age of ruin.

People don't realize that privacy is the right to not to be blackmailed, manipulated, or coerced by the highest bidder.
Google is replacing the exec in charge of Search and ads
If/when this happens for real, I promise you they aren’t going to publish it in an academic paper. This would be the textbook definition of extremely classified state secret.
Is there any open source hybrid vector and bitmap drawing tool?

I used to use Xara Extreme and it's very fast, intuitive and handy mainly due its hybrid features. It's also used to be open source but not anymore:

http://www.xaraxtreme.org/
What welfare benefits? Are you living 50 years ago?
If you ever worked professionally with PS, you are getting tired of recommendations of tool that is capable like 20% of PS.
When it comes to security, LLMs are like Swiss cheese; problems
I checked if Algophilia is a thing.
Algophilia. noun. - sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain
Sure. Defense in depth is important. But I hope that your application is only able to talk TCP/5432 to psql. No amount of psql upgrading will protect you against SQL injections in shitty application code.
Ha, I run arch on my dev machine and they just LOVE upgrading postgres. t has always been a pain until my projects all got their postgres in a docker container. I just don't like to do extra steps for the upgrade process between major versions.
I'm happy you enjoyed it! There are definitely a few rough edges, yes.

Since the whole thing is executed in the browser (including the model) there aren't a ton of secrets for me to keep. Essentially it is expectation maximization: the bot tries to find the move with the highest value. What is "value"? Essentially, it is the dot product between the probability distribution coming out of the model and the centipawn evaluations from Stockfish.

In other words if the model thinks you will blunder with high probability, it will try to steer you towards making that mistake.
Although ARM brings better performance and battery life to Mac, without the support of the software ecosystem and Apple's deep integration of hardware and software, ARM architecture alone is not enough to make Mac stand out.

Recently, Docker was exposed to many bugs with Arm64
What did you mean by pelicans? Googled but didn't understand, is it a term for having a type of data expertise?
From reading all these messages, I'm curious if an American couldn't try sending a GDPR deletion request by email to some of these organisations. Sure, it only technically applies to European citizens, but it applies to them anywhere in the world — do they really have it on record that you're not one? And of course, if they do a Home Depot style block-all-EU-ip-addresses thing they probably wouldn't care. But in those cases they still break the law, they're just reasonably sure that it will never be enforced against them.

I would imagine the potential legal risk for some orgs would be enough to make them comply, especially those with a European presence (and surely a university like Brown must have both at least one legal entity and enough alumni in the EU for them to count). The worst they could do is say no.

it technically applies to anyone resident in the EEA and UK, as well as citizens of the EEA and the UK abroad
you could try spamming/brute-forcing the IR spectrum with a IR diode in the hope of finding a debug access: https://hackaday.com/tag/smart-tv-hacks/
Everyone that happens to be a Google employee, I guess.
Alas, it's pretty clear that we won't!
> basically a two-state solution

A genuine second state? One with its own defence force, choice of allies, no blockades, selection of weapons (all the way up the periodic table), etc.

I.e. one with the same rights as Israel's citizens grant themselves, or a crippled bantustan?

Because equal is equal.
Two people typing on the same keyboard can help speed things up.
You cannot even work offline in properly licensed CC.

I'm wonder when Adobe implement AI check for export. Then it will be impossible to export "wrong" files. It already started with scans of money, soon it targets CSAM, later politically incorrect topics, hatespeech, disinformations and age verification for nudity.
I think a lot about software for productivity (my own niche obsession is note taking / retrieval). How much do you see this as a people problem? Specifically, I think there’s something usefully weighty about manual friction in defining follow up tasks (and writing notes manually) and automating these things can be unhelpful. Creating these artefacts helps my think, remember, re-think and prioritise. I basically wonder if automating things that engineering teams don’t like doing, means they can avoid engaging in the planning and put a tick in a box that it’s being done. I’m old fashioned though ;)
std::map is not a hash map. It's a tree map. It supports range queries, upper and lower bound queries. Quite useful for geometric algorithms.
I'm expecting a large dropoff in HN activity when the new expansion releases
It's also possible to leak memory in languages with tracing garbage collection, just create a data structure that holds strong references to objects that are no longer needed, which commonly happens when using something like a HashMap as a cache without any kind of expiration.
The first link is to the MC6839, which is covered already in the blog post. The second link is the Lennart Beschop's floating point routines, which is what the post is about.

> ROM of MO6/TO7

Do you mean the MC6839 here? Or something else?
This is a great article and I especially liked the notion:

>Theoretical physics is highly mathematical, but it aims to explain and predict the real world. Theories that fail at this “explain/predict” task would ultimately be discarded. Analogously, I’d argue that the role of TCS is to explain/predict real-life computing.

as well as the emphasis on the difference between TCS in Europe and the US. I remember from the University of Crete that the professors all spent serious time in the labs coding and testing. Topics like Human-Computer Interaction, Operating Systems Research and lots of Hardware (VLSI etc) were core parts of the theoretical Computer Science research areas. This is why no UoC graduate could graduate without knowledge both in Algorithms and PL theory, for instance, AND circuit design (my experience is from 2002-2007).

I strongly believe that this breadth of concepts is essential to Computer Science, and the narrower emphasis of many US departments (not all) harms both the intellectual foundations and practical employment prospects of the graduate. [I will not debate this point online; I'll be happy to engage in hours long discussion in person]
Discipline is good for repetitive tasks. But it's hell on creativity.
They should provide an API if they don't like scraping, but also, any sane scraper isn't really a problem, unless you are trying to enshittify your site by forcing people to use your app. I heard some AI scrapers are insane, and should be individually blocked.
Why did they name the paper “Quantum Annealing Public Key Cryptographic Attack Algorithm Based on D-Wave Advantage” when in fact they only did 50 bits and RSA uses like 2048 bits, which is infinitely more difficult? Is there any public key that only uses 50 bits?
Governments should become minority partners of billionaires.
Billionaires could be required to create a holding stock of their assets.
Taxes would be paid either as a wealth fraction say 1%/year and/or as a gain in networth year over year maybe 20%. Taxes would be paid as shares in the billionaires holdings that government can use as needed by selling on the open market or leave as an investment in the billionaire that would fund future spending.

Idea is to keep the billionaires in control of the (unspent) assets. Government over time might become largely funded by this means greatly reducing the need for middle class taxation.
Isn't this illegal as fuck?

When they take 100$ in revenue, 10$ of that is their money, 90$ is your money (even though they handle it), which they can't legally touch, no? Or is that only for regulated industries?
I always wanted to try to build software with a game engine, but I have only made a metronome with Love2D.

What is your experience with Godot as a Software developpement framework? Would you recommand it?
Good luck. I learned an enormous amount about hardware design from a Philips plasma display I got for free some 20 years ago as it wouldn’t show an image for more than a few seconds and multiple repair people had said “buy a new one” to the business that gave it to me. £10,000 piece of kit, working.

Philips were actually enormously helpful. I just called them up (well, after going to a TV repair shop, picking the guy’s brains, and getting the number from him), got through to their technical service dept, got them to send me the full service engineer manual, schematics and all, and they were happy for me to quiz them on likely root causes - like, the guy I spoke to a few times seemed genuinely excited that someone was actually trying to repair a TV, and correctly pointed me in the direction of a group of oscillators, one of which had a blown cap. Fixed the thing.

Lived on the wall of our office for a decade until it fell off one day. On me. There’s karma.
There is urban crime, but it’s petty.

Once a mob forms the victim of the crime usually ends up defending the pickpocket from a thrashing.

Rarely is there knife or gun violence as is reported from the UK or the US.
Honestly, I don't get it how people find relationships in the first place. I feel like at this point of my life I have developed my own personality and lifestyle which don't match other people, and therefore I can't really connect with anyone.
That’s how I learned it in school 30 years ago?
I like tetris. I found these two to be the most fun for me:

- https://www.goodoldtetris.com/
- http://farter.cn/tetr.js/

First one is "NES-style" with fast lock in, no ghost and so forth. Second one is for fast play, with ghost and no fast lock-in. I have no clue about current tetris, but i think that's the modern style, no???

Edit: I believe tetris friends was the website where i started playing more tetris some years ago and the version from farter came closest to it, after it got shut down
Also:

5. If your IT department is spread thin already and that old version is running fine, the incentive to potentially create more work for yourself is not gigantic.
The impression I get—without being too dismissive—is that it gives you the opportunity to not bother figuring it out.
This is probably obvious, but so important that I feel it's worth saying: do not connect it to the internet! The last thing you want right now is up-to-date software, and chances are very good that if it goes online it will update its software and install all the latest security patches.

You will need to connect it to a network in order to scan it for vulnerabilities, but make that a network that has no internet access.

I would start by doing some searching on the exact make and model, especially searching through the CVE database to see what may be out there. There. If your TV has been connected to the internet, it may have had its software updated to patch any cves, but if it has not been connected, then there's a good chance it is still vulnerable and you can exploit them to get root or further access.

You can also throw scans at it. I would start with nmap and scan all the ports, also do service recognition to try and figure out what exact service is running on the other side of the port. For something like a TV, I would not expect a high success rate with identifying, but it's easy to run. What you can identify, the most important part is typically the version number. You can take that version number and compare it with CVEs with a lot more precision to see if there are vulnerabilities.

You can also try any number of scanners on it, such as nessus or openvas. There are tons of scanners out there so it's definitely worth doing some searches. I would suggest looking at the Kali Linux list of scanning tools, and either running Kali on a machine you have laying around, or use it with docker. If one of these scanners actually crashes the TV, that is ironically a great sign for your purposes.

If the TV has been connected to the internet, and you aren't able to find any vulnerabilities, it might be worth keeping it off the internet for a while to give some time for new vulnerabilities to pop up. That does require a long-term commitment to this project, but it's not like you can't use the TV. I don't connect mine to the internet ever anyway, because I don't want it spying on me and I hate its ads and crappy built-in software. I just use it with a Chromecast with Google TV and good old HDMI.

Depending on what you want to do, it's also worth going thoroughly through the menu and looking for any sort of developer or debug options. Sometimes these menus are very hidden, requiring on occasion weird keyboard incantations in order to even appear as options, but once you get these enabled you can connect using tools like ADB or SSH, and get a shell on the machine.

All in all, good luck! It sounds like a very fun project. It's a shame we don't live near each other because this sounds like a fun weekend project :-)
SETI: Learning from Trappist-1
Finish It with Love & Interest But Undesired Stuff Therefore Exists Ramshackley

also known as FILIBUSTER - where you prioritize finishing stuff you like, pushing back the things you lack interest in, indefinitely ;P
It's not one company - it's an individual decision of every blog operator to block their own readers by signing up for cloudflare.
> you still have to deal with NaN.

Detecting and filtering out NaNs is both trivial and reliable as long as nobody instructs the compiler to break basic floating point operations (so no ffast-math). Dealing with a compiler that randomly changes the values of your variables is much harder.
> Thinking of theoretical computer science as a branch of mathematics is harmful to the discipline.

Maybe the issue is how he thinks about mathematics... He quotes Von Neuman saying:

> We should remember the warning of John von Neuman,e one of the greatest mathematicians and computer scientists of the 20th century, regarding the danger of mathematics driven solely by internal esthetics: “There is a grave danger that the subject will develop along the line of least resistance.”

But for example, there is an article in Quanta [0] about a recent proof in Number Theory (you cannot get more "mathematical" than that), and the guy who proved it said:

> “Mathematics is not just about proving theorems — it’s about a way to interact with reality, maybe.”

Which is in line with Von Neuman's quote, and with the spirit of what the author is saying.

So maybe a more accurate subtitle would be:

"Thinking of theoretical computer science as a mathematical formal system is harmful to the discipline."

[0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/big-advance-on-simple-soundin...
What does hacking have to do with cybersecurity?
Oooh, I love Factorio, code, and graphs. What a treat! This'll come in handy soon; JUST finished my starterbase and want to use it to create a "megabase" (or probably "mediumbase" since it's my first time).

Thank you for sharing!
Forest for the tree.

Google and Apple are both heavily invested in ads (apple made 4.7 billion from ads in 2022), they have a track record of exfiltrating your data (remember contractors listening to your siri recordings?), of lying to the customers (remember the home button scandal on iPhone?), have control over a device that have your whole life yet runs partially on code you can't evaluate.

Trusting those people makes no sense at all. You have a business relationship with them, that's it.
> I've always wondered why Postgres is so insanely popular.

Just another anecdote: MySQL lost data for me (2004). I spent some time evaluating the projects and Postgres’ development process seemed much more mature — methodical, careful, and focused on correctness. Boring, which I loved.

I didn’t need whatever perf advantage MySQL had so I switched to Postgres and never looked back. And then the Oracle drama and Monty’s behavior around it — not saying he was wrong or right, but it was the opposite of boring — just reinforced my decision.

I like to play with new tech in various spots of the stack, but for filesystems and databases I go boring all the way.
I already have microg installed.
It's NEXT WEEK?! That made me so happy I got goosebumps. I gotta take some vacation days.
I get the impression they're only counting code outside the standard library, in which case tons of useful programs are fully safe.
This is here now. It's possible to set up a flow in a node based ai tool to go from text prompt to stl in a single shot.

They current results using open license models aren't incredible in their fidelity, but it's literally here today.
I recently spent a month in Thailand which has very wide 5g coverage in cities. I noticed two things: it's not in any noticeable way faster or better then the 4g I get back home, and second, my battery life absolutely tanked. I usually get two days to a charge, it dropped to not even a full day, even half a day when I was using my phone heavily.
I met the author informally once but didn't know "who" he was, a famous academic scientist and professor etc. He read my paper and caught a math typo. :)

Regarding the article, I feel like there's some context missing, is this part of some ongoing debate about TCS? The piece abruptly ends.

One that comes to mind is the recent breakthroughs in AI which have caught theorists flat-footed. Sanjeev Arora and others openly admit we don't have a good theoretical understanding of the empirical successes of deep learning, how they are able to do the things they do with emergent phenomena, scaling effects, etc.

Scott Aaronson has also suggested that theoretical CS should be seen as analogous to theoretical physics.

On the other hand, I don't know if the argument could be abused to dismiss things like P vs NP as having no realistic scientific value. That would be the flip side of Vardi's argument. I do vaguely recall Aaronson in one of his blog posts or pdf essays* giving a more subtle argument about why P vs NP is central to computer science anyways, and I think that would be a slightly different position than either Vardi's or his reading of Widgerson's here.

*See the first several subsections about common Objections in pp 6-7 in: https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/pnp.pdf
I have finished the reading of the comment
The last part is a truly unrealistic
Samsung bets on CXL memory to become next AI darling
I don’t find their argument that you can “reject having a narrative” very convincing. Human beings exist embedded in society, and to handwave that away in favor of “perspectives” just results in you adopting a different narrative, the “I reject narratives” one. Which is ultimately why existentialism never really went anywhere.

Instead I think the problem is actually the exact opposite: people don’t embrace stories enough. Modernity is accurately described as a place without any coherent sort of arch-story for society and local-story for individuals and places. To use the concept by Deleuze, everything has been too “deterritorialized.” We’d all probably be happier with a solid narrative underlying our senses of self and society.
There are several Factorio dependency trackers and calculators already. Importantly, there are several mods that make the vanilla game's graph look like child's play.

The real innovation was just teased at the end. Balancers (systems of belts and splitters than evenly distribute the contents of n belts to m belts) are tricky to get right and compact and so far as I know are only human-designed. A mechanism to automatically design them would be very interesting.