skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Safari that's par for the course, but Firefox is in surprisingly far behind in terms of anything GPU related in the browser.

I've recently been shocked trying out the WebGL aquarium demo [0] on Chrome and Firefox after running into some really odd performance issues on a project. You'd expect them to behave about the same with GPU acceleration, but FF barely gets half the framerate at the same load. Like, what?! On Linux FF is also several times slower at canvas rendering.

[0] https://webglsamples.org/aquarium/aquarium.html
In real life it looks like this: https://www.foxnews.com/us/massachusetts-parents-sue-school-...

A kid living in a wealthy Boston suburb used AI for his essay (that much is not in doubt) and the family is now suing the district because the school objected and his chances of getting into a good finishing school have dropped.

On the other hand you have students attending abusive online universities who are flagged by their plagiarism detector and they wouldn't ever think of availing themselves of the law. US law is for the rich, the purpose of a system is what it does.
"A la test driven development. "

I would not call that test driven development (where are the testcases?)

Rather more like REPL driven programming.
It was a while ago, I think it was for their general position option, though I did talk about sec experience in it
> Legal issues aside, this is an extreme erosion in trust for any user of the WordPress.org platform. They can no longer have confidence that their commerical (or non-commerical) plugin won't be chopped up and have its users stolen at any moment.

Not just the plug-in creators, but those (“stolen”) plug-in users, too. There is an example in TFA, the guy who had to update many (150, IIRC?) of his customers’ sites after the plug-in was switched out from under him.
> What this tells us for AI is that we need something else besides LLMs.

An easy conclusion to jump to but I believe we need to be more careful. Nothing in these findings proves conclusively that non-verbal reasoning mechanism equivalent to humans couldn't evolve in some part of a sufficiently large ANN trained on text and math. Even though verbal and non-verbal reasoning occurs in two distinct parts of the brain, it doesn't mean they're not related.
This book by Stephen Marz seems to be a great addition to the Arpaci-Dousseau's "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" (https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/).

Stephen also wrote a great blog article series on building your own RISC-V OS in Rust (https://osblog.stephenmarz.com), so I'm really looking forward to reading his computer architecture book (and probably using it in my course).
That could take months of nervous waiting and who-knows how many wasted hours researching, talking and writing letters. The same reason most people don't return a broken $11 pot, it's cheaper and easier to just adapt and move around the problem (get a new pot) rather than fixing it by returning and "fighting" for a refund.
https://archive.is/DN4SE
Just the web version, on mobile I use Harmonic though.
It certainly makes it less Linux, as most people mean Linux kernel plus GNU userspace with glibc, or possibly muslc as alternative to glibc.

Nothing of that is expected to be supported on NDK, at least officially, Google and partners have the freedom to break those expectations as much as they feel like it.
FYI going to the gym is hardly a waste of time. You feel refreshed and your body will thank you after a while.
Syncthing is essential for syncing some very important data for me. I’d be so disappointed if it was discontinued for the platform I use.
Android is one of the few platforms on earth where anything interesting actually could be done and finished, since they have actual stable API levels unlike Linux.... And they don't allow it
Thank you, this clarifies things. And the changes aren't shown to git clients/GitHub? They just see a bunch of commits?

I should probably use jj at this stage and figure all this out for myself, rather than just read about it. Thank you!
After 34 seconds:

import itertools

def factors(n):
result = set()
for i in range(1, int(n**0.5) + 1):
if n % i == 0:
result.add(i)
result.add(n // i)
return sorted(result)

def main():
n = 108
factors_list = factors(n)
triplets = []
for a_idx in range(len(factors_list) - 2):
a = factors_list[a_idx]
for b_idx in range(a_idx + 1, len(factors_list) - 1):
b = factors_list[b_idx]
for c_idx in range(b_idx + 1, len(factors_list)):
c = factors_list[c_idx]
if a * b * c == n and a < b < c:
triplets.append((a, b, c))
print("All ways in which three distinct positive integers have a product of 108:")
for triplet in triplets:
print(triplet)

if __name__ == "__main__":
main()

Run:

-▶ python a.py
All ways in which three distinct positive integers have a product of 108:
(1, 2, 54)
(1, 3, 36)
(1, 4, 27)
(1, 6, 18)
(1, 9, 12)
(2, 3, 18)
(2, 6, 9)
(3, 4, 9)

Too smart for its own good, maybe? Still, apparently correct on the first try.

There's an import for `itertools` which isn't used, just as noted in the article for 4o.

Can someone who knows what it's about say how optimal this version is, compared to other answers?
Forgot about that, which isn't GNU/Linux anyway.
I'd be interested to understand how this compares with a solution like openfreemap's (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41635592) which was posted a few weeks ago.

What is it that sets this apart from other similar solutions?
Here is a link to the Discord server for anyone who is interested:

https://discord.gg/nTGSFSds
I agree; I am not saying I am glad this is happening. I am saying it is untrue that universities “are the law.”

They’re not. That doesn’t make it less stressful, annoying, or unnecessary to fight them.
Syncthing-fork from f droid
0x00000000219ab540356cbb839cbe05303d7705fa
This can be said for 90% of all cargo-cult "infosec" initiatives.

At best, you're gaining marginal security benefits at the cost of major productivity loss of power users and performance loss on older OS/hardware combinations.
I'm more of a software/econ nerd. Where would I even start if I wanted to repair this?
getting on top100 on https://code.golf/
Does Anyone Else Make Outrageous Names?
A few years back, I used to host somewhat regular IF parties at my house. I used to have a projector and even a canvas then, and would hook up my computer to it with some IF game in fullscreen mode.

A couple of my nerd friends would come over, unhealthy snacks and drinks were provided by yours truly, and we'd play the game together, taking turns at who gets to type in the commands through a wireless keyboard.

It was actually quite fun, especially when you get further into the story and inevitably come across puzzles that are not totally trivial. Everybody chimes in with their suggestion, sometimes even leading to semi-arguments on how to try and proceed. It was a matter of course that no-one was allowed to look up clues on the internet.

Thinking back, I don't think we ever got to finish a game. At some point, the group would usually take the decision to give up, either because we got stuck or because no-one really felt like playing on, but I recall that we also had some games that we continued at the next meeting from where we left the last time.

It wasn't uncommon for the party to somehow move on to other things after a few hours but the game was always left on, and everybody was welcome to grab the keyboard and try something if they had an idea how to solve a puzzle.

But today, with having wives and all, I'm not sure such a party would be possible anymore.
Hey! Thanks for the good wishes!

In the demo, "weight" is just an example. That field is customizable, so users can track any metric they want, like hours worked or steps taken. It’s designed to help users organize their progress. The highlight feature lets users reflect on the best part of their day, adding a personal touch to their journaling and keeping them motivated.
In reality, Syncthing is also pretty good at destroying battery life unless you go above and beyond to configure it in a way that then hampers Syncthing's ability to provide seamless file continuity between devices. I know that there will be disagreement here, but in my own opinion OS vendors are correct in being hostile to these apps under current circumstances. They could provide better ways to have third parties implement it and provide cross platform support for their platform solutions, but I've had Syncthing be the #1 cause of battery life drain on multiple devices and platforms before and it's honestly just not worth fighting with it. To get it under control relegates it to being not much better than rsync.
>But yes, a lot of energy wasted in the growing phase.

Why exactly is energy wasted during this phase?

Are you expecting hardware to become obsolete much faster? But that only depends on TSMC's node cadence, which is still 2-3 years. Therefore, AI hardware will still be bound to TSMC's cadence.
Add Golang and rust and JavaScript and next.js and react to the list for me. ;) If you live and work and breathe in the same kernel, operating system, and user space, and don't end up memorizing the various bits of minutiae, I'd judge you (and me) too, but it's not the 2000's, or the 90's or even the 80's anymore, and some of us don't have the luxury, or have chosen not to, live in one small niche for our entire career. At the end of the day, the client doesn't care what language you use, or the framework, or even the code quality, as long as it works. What they don't want to pay for is overage, and taking the previous developer's work and refactoring it and rewriting it in your preferred language isn't high value work, so you pick up whatever they used and run with it. Yeah that makes me less fluent in that one particular thing, not having done the same thing for 20+ years, but that's not where I deliver value. Some people do, and that's great for them and their employers, but my expertise lies elsewhere. I got real good at MFC, back in the day, and then WX and Qt and I'm working on getting good at react and such.
…TIL how to pronounce “Aesop”! Thanks for saving me eventual embarrassment - now I know why other people don’t mix up Aesop Rock and ASAP Rocky!

As a fellow Californian, I’d say we have authority anyway - I was taught in school that Ohio has the least specialized dialect, but that’s based on newscasters and such. The 21st century is the Californian century!

…that is, assuming Brussels’ English is out of the running, I suppose ;)
I did not intend to state that we ought to use the blockchain, at all, for what it is worth. Vehicles should cross-reference the data they receive with data from multiple other vehicles and detect inconsistencies, any consensus mechanism could work, if we could call it that.
Okay, which browser doesn't come with it enabled by default? Chrome, Vivaldi, and Firefox do. Am I supposed to use Edge?
I’m not sure what “used AI” means here, and the article is unclear, but it sure does sound like he did have it write it for him, and his parents are trying to “save his college admissions” by trying to say “it doesn’t say anywhere that having AI write it is bad, just having other people write it,” which is a specious argument at best. But again: gleaned from a crappy article.

You don’t need to be rich to change the law. You do need to be determined, and most people don’t have or want to spend the time.

Literally none of that changes the fact that the Universities are not, themselves, the law.
> since 5 security experts in a room will have 10 different opinions

If that happens you need to seriously rethink your hiring process.
You can still just begin with <somefile instead of cat somefile |. Does it really matter? No, but I don’t think pointing out useful and concise built-ins is necessarily asinine.
The Great Transfer-Mation
Ain't it partly about forcing laptop/pc refresh cycle?

Also higher HW requirements implies that Windows 11 may be better for many people because they'll finally drop their 15 years old HW, so W11 may have better UX
The IA only works because it archives everything. You don't know what you need until you need it.
You're thinking of subjective experience, conscious perception of time. OP is referring more generally to the local speed of causality in a system at rest.
I'm a bit more than skeptical. Right now, for a project at work, looking at files in the repo (for testing, etc) I have 294 files untracked and 10 ignored. Using jj all but the ignored files would be committed to the repo and I'd have to something akin to git's filter-branch to clean them out again to avoid that bloat.

I guess I should ask... is that final step made super easy? That is does jj make it easy to completely remove all traces from the repo of those auto-added files (like filter-branch)?
I wonder if debris in GEO orbit is a problem for other satellites in GEO orbits. It'll be up there for a very long time I guess.

But maybe it just stays orbiting at about the same velocity in the same orbit, so it's not really a big issue for other spacecraft in GEO?

Here's a Wikipedia page with some ideas about it (look for "Higher Altitudes") -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris
Yes, it's MIT licensed.
1. The comparison was to MySQL and Oracle storage using git diff format as an analogy, not git storage.

2. git storage does compress, and the compression is "diff-based" of sorts, but it is not based on commit history as one might naively expect.
Why do you need webgpu? It's unfortunate that people use technology that is "state-of-the-art techniques to run simulations at interactive speeds" without fully understanding what it's for. General compute on GPU is what webgpu is for.. To simulate basic waves like in this demo you absolutely do not need that, in fact it's an indication the author implemented the solution in a non-optimal way. WebGL is fully supported by all browsers fully supported by well-maintained libs like 3js, yet here we are people writing a sin function with basic interference patterns, one of the most elementary 3D primitives, in webgpu and argue that's using the "state-of-the-art" techniques.
The file contents are logically distinct blobs. Packfiles will aggregate and delta-compress similar blobs, but that's all at a lower level than the logical model.
Boeing would be very unlucky to lose two satellites with the same bus to external causes.
They (and you, unless you go digging) only see the latest commit associated with each change.

The older ones are there in your local repo but they’re invisible unless you need to look through the “obsolete log” to find earlier iterations of changes. This is similar to (and built on, essentially) git’s reflog that holds on to commits that are no longer in active use.

There’s also an “operations log” that, instead of tracking history of individual changes, tracks history of the entire repo. So if you reorder or drop changes, you can always undo those operations.
The question is, does Prada's expertise apply?

Your impressions of my motives are irrelevant (and false). I'm not here to prove them wrong or right.
We should make an AI model called Fahrenheit 451B to detect unauthorized books.
Using coins as precision weights was used in Jules Verne's Off on a Comet, published in 1877
I‘m not an expert but I think it works on IOS with Safari. You have to enable WebGPU in the extra flag category in the settings app.

But I still need to figure out what exactly this is.
Nicely written article. Easy to read and understand!
Much of the Emerald Isle Is an Ecological Desert. He's Trying to Change That
https://archive.is/KyUog
People with solid info sec knowledge: this is a good opportunity to offer your expertise pro-bono for a good cause!
> This debate is extremely dumb,

Well, yes... At least some contributions to it certainly are.

> and everybody gish gallops and implies something terrible when they try to explain what Automattic is doing wrong, because they can't figure it out

Funny, I thought I'd seen several perfectly cogent explanations of exactly what mr Mullenweg and Automattic is doing wrong, both here in this thread and in TFA.

The only thing that looks remotely like a Gish Gallop to me is your post. (And perhaps those of benatkins.)
Like you I was out of the loop. This was a good catchup https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shoptalk/id493890455?i...
Your sources are organizations that derive all their power from inflating the monetary supply. They have reason to lie always.
Is this for a western car maker?

Haven't seen 555 in a commercial product with modern design for a long long time.
What is Lightgassing? A way we harm people by validating their false beliefs
What It's Like to Work on a Megayacht
Ok I’m opposed to this on a idealogical level—mostly because calling medical care “income” is so 1890, and it fails to mention the unusual private model we’ve stuck with as the primary cause—but this is a fascinating presentation. The facts all seem well curated and informative (hard to say when you’re being tricked I guess, but still), and the web design is just killer on mobile. Truly inspiring work - this is how you use fancy dataviz stuff without coming across as that one kid who overuses PowerPoint transition animations. Simple, clear, and just enough to be visually exciting.

Thanks for sharing!
> Because for me it'd only be a local maxima.

Nitpick: this should be „maximum“, maxima is the plural.
> Um, okay - apple's store is not open, and spotify is not open source - so the article is over in it's first line..

Only for people (wilfully?) blind to the screamingly obvious parallel.
I'm not a philosophy major, so the jargon is tough, but I can kind of read it. It's not nonsense.

What helps me make sense of it is that I recognise the first sentence to be similar to my own position on consciousness:

Consciousness is those parts of the workings of the brain that are available to introspection.

I dislike the use of the word "illusion", though. Just because consciousness doesn't have a separate material presence, doesn't mean it's not real.

The article seems to boil down to this: If you take this view on consciousness, then other kinds of intelligences, such as a post-biological AI, will also be conscious, because why not. So whatever ETI is out there is also conscious.

And then, weirdly, the author decides that this post-biological AI is going to have some other kind of ethics, because reasons, and that means something for SETI and the Fermi paradox. That part doesn't seem very convincing. I wonder what it means to "surpass someone in moral philosophy". I'm not sure it means anything.

Maybe it ties back to the word "illusion". If you believe that consciousness is an illusion, then it follows that someone could be capable of looking past the illusion and seeing only the reality behind it, and that would have consequences for their moral posture. Since I don't believe the word "illusion" is used properly, I don't buy this conclusion either.
Derek Muller just did an interesting take on QR codes and their history on his popular channel veritasium:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ebcowAJD8
You say this as if the IA is not already deeply invested in the DWeb movement. If you go to a DWeb event in the Bay Area, there is a good chance it will be held at the IA.
Rather than flagging it as AI why don’t we flag if it’s good or not?

I work with people in their 30s That cannot write their way out of a hat. Who cares if the work is AI assisted or not. Most AI writing is super dry, formulaic and bad. The student doesn’t recognize this the give them a poor mark for having terrible style.
When there are plenty of people who are steeped in the dogma of Imaginary Property, and whose lives depend on it, it's not too surprising.
You could store partial tuples without disrupting the interface.

Though full tuples is pretty fundamental to the underlying implementation....MVCC, VACUUM, etc. It'd be a massive change to say the least.
UK Radio Scanner Law Lands Listener Five Years in Jail [video]
So if the Internet Archive accidentally archived child porn, they wouldn’t delete it?

I suspect they DO delete some things.
At least collision avoidance manoeuvres are not that common in GEO as far as I know, so things like this are more the exception: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/flaviomurolo_meteosat-mtg-sat...

Well, there's also the Russians sneaking around:
https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-russian-sigint-...
It does do that and it's pretty neat, if you have one of the very few modern turboprops or small jets that have G3000s & auto throttle to support it.

Airliners don't have this, but they have a 2nd pilot. A real-world activation needs a single-pilot operation where they're incapacitated, in one of the maybe few hundred nice-but-not-too-nice private planes it's equipped in, and a passenger is there to push it.

But this is all still largely using the current magenta line AP system, and that's how it's verifiable and certifiable. There's still no cameras or vision or AI deciding things, there are a few new bits of relatively simple standalone steps combined to get a good result.

- Pick a new magenta line to an airport (like pressing NRST Enter Enter if you have filtering set to only suitable fields)

- Pick a vertical path that intersects with the runway (Load a straight-in visual approach from the database)

- Ensure that line doesn't hit anything in the terrain/obstacle database. (Terrain warning system has all this info, not sure how it changes the plan if there is a conflict. This is probably the hardest part, with an actual decision to make).

- Look up the tower frequency in DB and broadcast messages. As you said it's telling and not asking/listening.

- Other humans know to get out of the way because this IS what's going to happen. This is normal, an emergency aircraft gets whatever it wants.

- Standard AP and autothrottle flies the newly prescribed path.

- The radio altimeter lets it know when to flare.

- Wheel weight sensors let it know to apply the brakes.

- The airport helps people out and tows the plane away, because it doesn't know how to taxi.

There's also "auto glide" on the more accessible G3x suite for planes that aren't necessarily $3m+. That will do most of the same stuff and get you almost, but not all the way, to the ground in front of a runway automatically.
Android has two official languages for userspace Java and Kotlin.

NDK is only for writing native methods, reuse C and C++ libraries, and better performance for 3D and real time audio.

Anything else, is not officially supported by the Android team.
Nah, many carriers don’t support it. I’ve always had to resort to STUN
I built Tatask.com for this! I want to have easy visibility over everything but quickly drill down into specifics so it uses a tree structure for tasks.

You can break down any project into smaller and smaller sections to whatever degree you like and it makes it super easy to visualise everything and make progress.
I used and still use macOS, Windows and Linux.
For decade(s). Because of consulting.

macOS breaks a bunch of my stuff in every update. Window management still atrocious.
Many functionalities present in other OS by default require third party tools and subscriptions. Apple hashes every executable I run and sends to their servers.

I prefer working with Linux/x86 platforms. I get to enjoy faster hardware and predictable, customizable software.
I haven't read that yet, but sounds like a similar theme as "Blindsight" and "Echopraxia" by Peter Watts. An excellent hard sci-fi duology by a Ph.D. biologist!
Wow. That's more timethan some people get for murder. Get your shit together, UK.