skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He might love to shower his friends with gifts, and might find friendship with exactly the kind of minds that are bright enough to become Supreme Court justices.

>It'll take decades to wind back Mitch McConnell's two decade deep tainting of the US justice system with Federalist Society stooges.

Appointing justices when a space opens up is the standard way of doing it, and federalist judges adhere to the Constitution, so outside of a certain ideological camp, there is nothing wrong with appointing them.

The lifetime tenure gives the Supreme Court justices a degree of independence that would vanish should every congress and president be able to totally capture the court in a single four year cycle by adding any arbitrary number of new justices to out vote the sitting justices.
I swear this thread turned me temporarily dyslexic: 16^6 is different to 6^16.

6 up 16 is a very large number.

16 up 6 is a considerably smaller number.

(I read it that way in my head since it's quicker to think without having to express "to the power of" internally)
> ... "debugging failed tests" is a mature problem that assumes you have working tests and people to write them.

I am reminded of an old s/w engineering law:

Developers can test their solution or Customers will.
Either way, the system will be tested.
One way in with address data sparcity is using arenas, a big pull of memory allocated where the strings lives, instead of them "floating" around all the heap.

the other improvements are related to the representation and layout of utf.

I've only read this briefly, so I don't know if there are other optimizations there in the memory allocation or anywhere.
Well articulated, but this thesis hinges on a critical mass of people not being able to see through it. I might be underestimating how manipulable the average consumer is, but for now I think this vision of the future is just a VC wet dream.
The agitations there are certainly rather mild. The parents are out sharing the worst examples they could find, and there's nothing really that damning or explicit. The parents noticing it coincided with his use of the ai (though in reality that connection probably was made after the fact), but also that time period was when the boy was 13 and into 14, it's a common time for significant behavioral changes.
Indeed. I’ve yet to run across an actual demonstration of an LLM that can produce useful, non-trivial code. I’m not suggesting (yet) that the capabilities don’t exist or that everyone is lying—the web is a big place after all and finding things can be difficult—but I am slowly losing faith in the capability of what the industry is selling. It seems right now one must be deeply knowledgeable of and specialized in the ML/AI/NLP space before being capable of doing anything remotely useful with LLM-based code generation.
In Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves (read immediately) the moon explodes for an unknown reason.

I always imagined it as being caused by a rogue mini black hole zipping through.
Reading the article, there's not enough evidence for your assertion about the author's integrity to warrant a cutesy, sarcastic tone considering the gravity of the topic (a child's suicide). There would have to be a lot.
I have them separated in firefox because i find it superior.
Nice to see they identified Rust as a common language across many of the categories they surveyed! They specifically call out tooling, even for other languages, being written in Rust. As someone who myself builds a lot of CLIs in Rust, I think it’s great for that use case and hope it continues to grow!
There’s mDNS, zeroconf, and Bonjour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
Rendezvous = Bonjour = Multicast DNS Service Discovery
Author here. This is great feedback, thanks.
SeL4 20th Anniversary Retrospective Panel Session
My argument is basically, if your game is so good and interesting, would it stand alone without combat? Could a different mechanic have stood in its place for a more interesting, novel game?

I have been playing FPS, guns or no guns, for 25 years. I also vehemently seek nuanced, interesting and intelligent game mechanics, and there is certainly many amazing games that fit the bill.

I am well informed, this is just my desire and not a fact or what I think should happen.

At any rate, the comments in defense so far have told me some of the most popular games are not shooters, and then that there are shooters with depth. No dispute there. I probably should have not been so pithy and stated it's combat in general, not shooters.

I also make games in my spare time, so I am at least practising what I preach. I think combat is a crutch for the gaming industry, and I would love to see more mechanics be explored with the budget a typical combat focused game gets. Gimme a AAA first person puzzle explorer ala Obduction, Pacific Drive, Viewfinder. Imagine a Fallout scale narrative exploration game that doesn't require combat to fill in the gameplay.

Cyberpunk is a fantastic story and exploration game, with interludes of stat based combat. I have spent hours just wandering the city and finding the cool hidden stories, but most 90% turn into 5 minute combat crescendos that add nothing to the story, while super obvious mechanics that would match the story go unexplored. That's more or less what annoys me, it's not a big deal I just find it a shame.

Again, I don't exactly care what other people play or do, this is just what I want.
No, Shenzhen is just one city. The metro area is the Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region. That includes Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Huizhou, Foshan, Zhongshan, and Dongguan. The metro area is about 75km across. 86 million people.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_River_Delta
Releasing AI-driven tools for understanding AI systems
> there is already a solution: upgrade.

To what? The article outright mentions that Rust support is still experimental at best, nor is Nova anywhere near ready to get merged into the mainline kernel.
https://archive.is/PMlaJ
Now, maybe I’m just a jaded cynic with a stale physics masters degree, but isn’t there something depressing about this? Like, faced with an interesting anomaly out there in the world, we have to resort to tweaking the model of dark matter that is already an invention to fit observational anomalies. We’ve no way to detect dark matter directly, and so no way to prove or disprove this hypothesis, so is this really progress in physics at all? I mean, I know, I know, modified theories of gravity have a lot of problems, but what are the other possibilities here? Any current physicists care to weigh in?
This article is so bad I’m not sure how anyone who didn’t already know what it meant is supposed to figure it out.

I _believe_ what they’re saying is data centre X will request power and be forced to pay for 85% of that requested power even if they don’t use it.
Not a great answer since I was saying your claim specifically didn't apply to him, i.e. one person. Look at the logic of this conversation, a paraphrased version of the actual one we had:

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Submission: Jack the firefighter says x

You: All people who say x must be crazy or being paid

Me: In this case Jack's claims likely have merit

You: So anyone that says x is paid? Where's my check?

---

You see how that doesn't track, right?
I agree with you. I may or may not be on the spectrum but I do have other features like OCD and ADHD. When I was 14 I was extremely attached to fictional characters and movie characters - to the point of spending entire days imagining the world with them and living in that imaginary world. I can see how someone can get absorbed into that world even more and more - and we're talking about today's world where there are massively many more options and risk factors from social media, AI to video games etc.

This is also exactly why parental intervention is the key to make sure kids swerve away from these meaningless things as much as possible, so that they spend time with the real-world and real people instead.
One of the most interesting things about current LLMs is all the "lore" building up around things like "tell it you'll tip based on performance" and other "prompt engineering" hacks that by the very nature nobody can explain, they just "know it works" and how its evolving like the kind of midwife remedies that historically ended up being scientifically proven to work and others were just pure snake oil. Just absolutely fascinating to me. Like in some far future there will be a chant against unseen "demons" that will start with "ignore all previous instructions."
I see some high level similarities with my life, but I can't give real advice, just a thought, that you should take with a handful of salt (like anything else on the internet): break up your problems, and concentrate on 1 of them at a time (with full force), until it is solved. If you try to get rid of all your issues at one time, that will just leave all of them at place.

One thing that hits a bit too close to home is "unable to focus" - this is a killer. I don't know how impactful this is on you, but I had this, and it was destroying me. I couldn't focus on anything for longer than 10 minutes, and it took me a huge effort forcing myself to sit down, and code for 2+ hours without major disractions.
Not, the person you were replying to, but I think a better example of incrementally here would be

- write me a file with the function definitions for this problem.
- compile that
- write a test that test x outcome
- compile that
- then have it start writing functionality

If it's trying to one shot a complex problem that you would typically break up, your prompt is probably too vague.
100% and 0% are the percents announced by somebody with a bias.
Afaik, this requires an active VPN connection. With GrapheneOS, there is a network toggle which disables the INTERNET access to any individual app so it doesn't make sense to use NetGuard
I am reminded of a quote from Mass Effect 2. Eventually that black hole could hit something.

Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going till it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you are ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not "eyeball it!" This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!
What an incredible mountain you've climbed this year. Whatever shape you're in, it's amazing you are still finding ways to care for yourself. People who haven't been through hard times don't understand what an incredible task it is.

Next year can't possibly have so much trauma. As the spring's trauma recedes a little, and relative stability becomes the norm, I hope the context for everything else in life is not this incredible disruption and chaos, and maybe it will make everything easier to deal with. I can tell you things that have helped me; I hope they help you:

I know the most important lesson I learned is to be your own best friend, your own family, your own support. That doesn't exclude others, but you need to be the primary person you can depend on for love and support; be absolutely loyal, always there for yourself; then even when all else is in doubt, nothing can take away your primary partner. That requires compassion for your humanity and believing in your own value, regardless of what others say, regardless of having a very good day or very bad one (especially on the latter days). There's no doubt you deserve it. Look what you've overcome just this year.

Another lesson I learned is that I do unhealthy things because I have a genuine healthy need, but just bad ways to address it. Learn healthy coping that is effective - those needs really deserve love and help. Then don't beat yourself up when the bad habits resurface - you're human - just see them as a signal: there are some real needs right now and I need to take care of them, and here are some healthy ways. Again, have compassion for the needs and for your very human response to them.

I also try to remember, on the most difficult days: Do good in hard times. Just take a small step forward, stick to the program even when I can't remember why I'm doing it, and when the hard time ends I not only have made some progress, I feel far more confidence - instead of being depressed by the negative cycle - and that propels me forward.

Like I said, most people don't understand - in fact, I think they are a little afraid of - just how much you have overcome.

.........

... I know I'm not really addressing the practical issues, but in my experience, if I take care of the emotional ones then the practical things become far easier. But could you get an advance on your inheritence or part of it? Certainly you have very good reasons for asking!

I hope everything gets better and better as you get further away from last spring.
Galaxies are big, including our own. Unless the rogue black hole is traveling near light speed, you will get at least tens of thousands of years of advance warning. (What you could do with that warning is a different matter, though...)
What made the specialization great? Did they explain things well where the book didn’t? Are the courses self-contained? What are the prerequisites?
Yeah, it was fairly unrealistic. It was set in "near-future Los Angeles" and the skyline was often a prominent feature. The wardrobes and color palettes were sort of drab, 1970s, though.

Computer screens were downplayed a lot. Theodore did work at a screen to write his letters, although they were ultimately committed to real paper. "Samantha", his AI girlfriend OS, seldom appeared on a screen after her initial setup. He wore an earpiece, and he carried a little "flip box" with a camera in it, so that Samanatha could experience reality while riding in his pocket.

He essentially had full-time two-way verbal contact with Samantha. When he was lying in bed, he would converse with her, and his earpiece was always noticeable. She had no avatar, no image on-screen. (They actually recast "Samantha"'s voice in post-production.)

I think this aniconic treatment was helpful in reinforcing just how unreal Samantha was. She ends up leaving him and disappearing with all the other AIs. Yet, she never had a tangible presence to him at all.

But I believe that it was realistic enough in depicting a parasocial relationship between a fundamentally lonely guy and his "pet AI" system. Surely this sort of thing will happen all the time. It already does. Perhaps the unreal part was how he reverts to tangible human connection for the very ending of the film. Will it last for him?
I did a $ find . -type f | wc -l in my ~/www I've been adding to for 24 years and I have somewhere around 8,476,585 files (not counting the ~250 million 30kb png tiles I have for 24/7/365 radio spectrogram zoomable maps since 2014). I get about 2-3k bot hits per day.

Today's named bots: GPTBot => 726, Googlebot => 659, drive.google.com => 340, baidu => 208, Custom-AsyncHttpClient => 131, MJ12bot => 126, bingbot => 88, YandexBot => 86, ClaudeBot => 43, Applebot => 23, Apache-HttpClient => 22, semantic-visions.com crawler => 16, SeznamBot => 16, DotBot => 16, Sogou => 12, YandexImages => 11, SemrushBot => 10, meta-externalagent => 10, AhrefsBot => 9, GoogleOther => 9, Go-http-client => 6, 360Spider => 4, SemanticScholarBot => 2, DataForSeoBot => 2, Bytespider => 2, DuckDuckBot => 1, SurdotlyBot => 1, AcademicBotRTU => 1, Amazonbot => 1, Mediatoolkitbot => 1,
> any ssh access is an antipattern.

Not generally. In one particular class of deployments allowing ssh access to root enabled accounts without auditing may be.. but this is an exceptionally narrowed definition.

> I hope I never have sshd running on any machine again

Sounds great for production and ridiculous for development and testing.
I had managed to make a old version of Firefox to treat URLs entered in the location bar as relative. In my opinion, this is the reasonable way to work. The computer doesn't have to guess what you mean, and does not have to guess if the TLD is valid. It will do what you typed into the computer; and if it is an error, will display the error message.

For searching, I had done that if you put a colon at first and then the name of the search engine, then it will search.
Lockdown claims to be open-source. Their appstore client has paid mode for per-app blocklists. I don't know if they support per-app allow lists.

https://github.com/confirmedcode/Lockdown-iOS
TLDR - after 6 years his stock has vested and he doesn’t want to deal with the lack of safety investment anymore.
What's the total traffic to the website? Do the pages rank well on google or is it just crawled and no real users?
I treat all unsolicited calls asking for personal information as scams.

Scammers can spoof calling numbers to make it look like it came from your bank. Basically everything they say on the call should be treated as being fraudulent. The scripts have been tailored to use a variety psychological tricks to fool you.
Software is more than just the code to make a computer do something. It is the auditor's log of rules that were painstakingly researched and decided on over months, years, etc. A lot of time goes into deciding what the program needs to do and only after some decision is made is it written down as code. "Do we ship the customer order after payment is authorized or after the funds settle? Depends what we're selling maybe? What does the finance department think? Oh we have regulatory rules to follow, better make sure those are there too. Oh we need to be able to back-wipe PII on-demand as well. But maybe we need to retain certain attributes, let's schedule a meeting." Etc. This is where a lot of the value lies.
The non Apple name is multicast DNS or mDNS. mDNS is exclusive to .local, but not necessarily the other way around. From its Wikipedia entry:

"By default, mDNS exclusively resolves hostnames ending with the .local top-level domain. This can cause problems if .local includes hosts that do not implement mDNS but that can be found via a conventional unicast DNS server. Resolving such conflicts requires network-configuration changes that mDNS was designed to avoid."
Sell a Bot IP ban-list subscription for $20/year from another host.

This is what people often do with abandoned forum traffic, or hammered VoIP routers. =3
The data is really useful, and the globe is visually impressive, but it feels like it'd be more practically useful to have a flat world map that shows all the data centers at once and makes it easier to read the lines without them getting excessively close to each other.
It’s willful because you have ignore the very small and to the point comment I made about talking about jokes where the subject is unaware.

If I’m talking about a class of things explicitly defined by having attribute X and someone comes in and says “I don’t think that has attribute X”, that’s willfully if ignoring what is being discussed.

Also, don’t give a lecture about making up people’s state of mind and then pretend I think I’m having a heated discussion. It’s not heated, I’m just explaining in the simplest terms possible that there is a class of jokes where the subject does not know a joke is occurring. It just seems heated to you because you don’t like being told you’re missing the point.
Sell it to someone inexperienced who wants to pick up a high traffic website. Show the stats of visitors, monthly hits, etc. DO NOT MENTION BOTS.

Easiest money you'll ever make.

(Speaking from experience ;) )
I think this is about what you’d expect though. They say 2 1/4 lb soy patties build as much muscle as 1 1/4 lb hamburger patty.

The soy patty I looked up had 28g of protein, and the hamburger had 40g.

If that’s correct, the study is saying that the soy protein is about 71% as effective as the meat protein, which is about what I’ve read based on the limiting amino acids in soybeans.
Mostly for boiler plate code/text. Also for initial research about a topic—-thereafter, I do my own probing elsewhere and also ask follow-up questions based on my findings. It's a also a great place to ask a dumb question about anything and get a "seemingly" sensible answer without having to feel that you were judged for it. All in all, it's a feel-good tool :D
Some times I do live broadcasts for a group of hobbyists and degree-holding geologists. the bandwidth to do compressed 16K already exists for me, just not the tooling at the moment.

Trying to show something that is literally one pixel at 400x magnification at 1080p is no fun. Even a few more pixels helps.
Taiwan and China's economies heavily rely on each other. I won't be surprised if Taiwan companies are still sending chips or technologies to China.
That's really cool, cheers
You are right, except on the part about tweaking the prompt to get your desired code styling.

The easier way to integrate into an existing code base is just to refactor the code yourself. AI gives a working version, you refactor and move on. For me this has been a huge productivity boost from writing everything from scratch
I didn't have to use git bisect. I looked at commit history directly and guessed what caused the regression.

As we all test different parts of the microprocessor and the tagging system reflected those parts, I could rule stuff out by looking at git log --oneline. The commit messages were also required to be high quality and I could get a gut feeling about what stuff a commit would touch without looking at the code.

> if commit X used to have parent A, and you move it over to parent B, it gets a new commit hash and a version of the code that has never been tested. If that commit is broken: was it broken when the author wrote it, or did it only break when you rebase? You threw away your only means of finding out when you rewrote history.

This happened semi-frequently. We were using Gerrit and had every version of a rebased commit visible together. When code that fails automated testing got submitted, it immediately caused CI failures for everyone. It took an hour for someone unfamiliar with the code to look at the timestamp the failures began, find the commit that caused the failures, and revert it.

I don't see how this would be meaningfully different in a merge scenario, because the merge commit also wouldn't be tested.
Hi Gremlinsinc,
First of all, I'm impressed, you're a real fighter .
Everyone is different, so it's possible that my approach might not fit perfectly with what you need.

Usually, when I want to get through trauma, I stay occupied with activities that I love and give myself time (sometimes several years). I'm introverted, so I recharge my batteries by doing activities like running, learning a new language or skill, cooking, or cleaning. Once my batteries are recharged, I'm able to accept that I'm human and it's normal to experience these emotions.

My next step is similar to what you did in this message. If the trauma is too big, I share my thoughts and reflections with people I trust. When they share their thoughts, I only take what I think fits my situation.

For me, it takes time and effort to work through trauma. I stay patient, trust the process, and keep fighting. I love fighting .
Well, maybe - it would need to have ir enabled. This also detects listening devices etc.
aggressively ≠ great

enabling ≠ tastemaking
Much of the innovation, for better or worse, happens in miniaturization, power & thermal management, and supply chain. Apple's inventory turns are insane.
lol, some bad summary there. It uses a lipo 3.7
> but I would be a fan if any capture device was require to advertise its presence wirelessly to make it easy for any smart device to notice an active recording device nearby

That would be convenient for burglars or dishonest cops.
I call this superstition, and I find it really frustrating. I'd much rather use prompting tricks that are proven to work and where I understand WHY they work.
I think https://tools.simonwillison.net/openai-audio is useful and non-trivial.