skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I woke up this morning.

Then checked my mailchimp subscriptions

and my grow.me subscriptions

And my substack subscriptions

Made sure my Cloudinary was properly configured

And my newrelic analytics

And my sentry analytics

And my rlcdn analytics

And my growplow analytics

And my 33across analytics

And my Scorecard research analytics

And my openxcdn analytics

And my trustarc analytics

And my creativecdn analytics

And my Google Tag Manager

And my Google Analytics

Then I checked my Mediavine ads

And my adsrvr ads

And my adform ads

And my adnxs ads

And my yieldmo ads

And my criteo ads

And my mediavine ads

And my pubmatic ads

And my id5-sync ads

And my rubicon-project ads

And my triplelift ads

And my pghub ads

And my zemanta ads

And my cognitivlabs ads

And my doubleverify ads

And my media.net ads

And my kargo ads

And my Amazon ads

And my Google Adsense

When I finally got to WeWork

I booted up my Macbook

And checked my Google Workspace email

Our Amazon Affiliate account was approved

And I checked our private Github issues for tasks

Then I let Microsoft CoPilot write Stripe integration

I write a new post for my Substack

Finally using my Chrome browser and ycombinator's platform I posted:

'Google is killing the independent web'
I thought great engineers reduce the amount of new code in a codebase?
FDA Permits Marketing of Digital Game to Improve Attention in ADHD Children (2020)
> With a society, the resistance to change grows exponentially

Yes and no. There's certainly the potential for a more flexible and adapt-minded culture for the same reason there's not... Human behavior.

Yes, once norms are established they're slow to change but that's how the culture is nudged and "managed". It's not necessarily how humans arw hardwired.

Eons ago, slow to adapt would mean certain death. Currently, fast to adapt labels you a rebel, a freak, an odd-ball, etc.
Its much more than that if you count sexual reproduction.
Me subscribing to it is. Getting everyone I know to subscribe to it is at least a step more complex than getting people to move to Firefox, and I haven't quite worked out a strategy for that yet.
:( I was going to hope the pigs would recover soon but they killed them all
6 years ago isn't that old.
Declaring defeat seems a bit much, considering that we haven't had another catastrophe similar to 2008. That seems pretty successful, so far? (The pandemic was bad, but banks mostly didn't collapse.)
I’m unsure I wrote that from like an ethics standpoint. The silk road guy was got on conspiracy for attempting murder and not drug or human trafficking charges. So I’m unsure of legal side.

I think if you knowingly provided a platform to distribute SA/CP/CSAM and the feds become involved you will be righteously fucked.

Reddit clamped down on the creepy *bait subreddits years ago. Maybe it was self-preservation on the business side or maybe it was forward looking about legal issues.

I’m not a lawyer I was just mentioning things that I would follow for ethics morals and my sense of self preservation.
They didn't already? O.o I thought Steam was better than that.
By the original, I mean the image that was used to produce the initial hash, which Google (rightly) claimed to be CSAM. Without some proof that an illicit image that has the same hash exists, I wouldn't accept a claim based on hash alone.
> an enormous survey of kama muta across 19 countries

Paywalled; preprint: https://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/bitstream/10071/16718/3/201... .
So basically, Musk built a thing where you are rewarded with money when you spread sensationalistic, fake, or "triggering" information.

Before the elections.

What could go wrong ?
Can we move on to the next grift yet?
The crass answer is maybe you’re not able to negotiate well enough to get more than the initial offer.

The less crass answer: In almost every company, you’re being hired on a salary band, so unless you’re at the top of that band in the initial offer there is room to go up, so you can typically push a bit higher. The trick is to make a request that’s higher than what they initially offer but not so high that they outright reject it without additional conversation, and if they are play hardball, and don’t budge on anything, you just reject their offer. It does mean you have to be comfortable rejecting an otherwise decent or good offer, but presumably most companies are willing to negotiate with a good candidate so this shouldn’t be a problem in practice if the negotiation is done in a considered way.
Keeping cheating to a low enough level that players don't quit in frustration (or never start playing due to bad press) is critical. Eliminating it entirely is not.

Valve added vote kicks to CS to help keep cheating (and other antisocial behaviours) under control - it seems pretty important to them.
I don't think this is why -- Steam actually sets permissions on its subdirectory so that any user can write to it. (This means that while installing mods, for example, I can write to that directory without having to deal with UAC/sudo.)
Was the Fool article stealth-updated? It's not particularly positive at the moment.
This is a relatively trivial task for current top models.

More challenging are unconventional story structures, like a mom named Matthew with a son named Mary and a daughter named William, who is Matthew's daughter?

But even these can still be done by the best models. And it is very unlikely there is much if any training data that's like this.
I couldn’t find the pricing page on the website. It might be because I’m looking at it on my phone and the nav item doesn’t show on small screens?

Is the pricing transparent and, if so, what is it?
> Can you explain what you mean by this? I have been doing software development on MacOS for the last couple of years and have found it incredibly easy to run anything I want on my computer from the terminal, whenever I want.

Try sharing a binary that you built but didn't sign and Notarize and you'll see the problem.

It'll run on the machine that it was built on without a problem, the problems start when you move the binary to another machine.
It's old but along the same lines; more stories of industry pioneers: Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date (1992, 1996).
If OP was going for visibility by posting it HN, Reddit, etc. then does it matter if it was Substack or his own blog or even the Shepherd site?
As an 45 year old fart im glad I kept Skibidi toilet and other memey things away from my kid and not because I hate them, I just think there’s a whole lot of better stuff to introduce to a young mind. Eg. https://thekidshouldseethis.com/
>Unless expressly prohibited, eg by said sign, right-turn-on-red defaults to being legal across vthe US.

It is exactly the opposite within the confines of New York City[0], where right on red is expressly prohibited, unless a sign says otherwise.

[0] https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/ssi09_rightonred....
Paywall, but I'll bet they offer no solutions for the systematic problems in society.
Advanced DMA/IOMMU attacks are hard, soft and firmware specific.
In order to detect it, you'll have to do a ton of very expensive work all the while you risk destroying the customers soft, firm and hardware.
Good luck explaining the judge what you did.
I wonder if anyone here has a good set of Typescript/ESlint addons to suggest? I also miss my duplicate code alert from Ruby!
Surely by following that directive you're altering your trajectory? It can't work in both directions!
That is one wrinkle of using storage based dedupe/compression is you need to avoid doing compression on the client to avoid compressing already compressed data. When a company I worked at first got their Pure array they were using windows file compression heavily and had to disable it as the storage array was now doing it automatically.
Sindre is also the author of Actions, which is basically this but fo iOS Shortcuts. Dude lives entirely off of open source, afaik. Massive respect.
Not proud of this part of my history but in Counter-Strike: Source, you could replace the game textures yourself and re-skin the entire game! This was done mostly so people could rock their own client-side gun skins (Before actual implemented skins were a thing!)

Anyway, people realised you could make ANY texture custom. Who's to say those walls wouldn't look better transparent? I created a _ton_ of transparent textures with different colours and what not and packaged them into a .zip with a $ attached. Didn't expect much because all of this was available for free by many other provides but I pulled in about $15k for an afternoon's job.

Valve eventually released the sv_pure server command which would force Valve textures on their servers, fixing the issue. Because this was a custom texture hack, it was rightly undetectable by VAC and therefore no bans were issued.

Anyways the point of this is there's a lot of money in it for the cheat devs. They aren't going to stop. I really hope a new innovative solution comes along that puts an end to it.
I think the issue mentally is if you treat the gravity of a planet like a valley, where you accelerate into it but on the way back out you lose all that gained velocity. The difference here is that the valley moves in the opposite direction ever so slightly as you pass it, and you gain the momentum from that valley's movement. At least, I think that's how it works.
This wasn’t really true in decades past - there was a cat and mouse game where often it could be detected because the virus wasn’t perfect at hiding its activity and resource usage – and it’s become far less so in the era where even consumer hardware has virtualization features which allow even kernel code to be restricted. Even Windows is starting to use that to prevent malware from accessing secrets (e.g. Credential Guard) so I wouldn’t treat this as the ring0=game over situation it was in the 90s.

A more accurate phrasing is that antivirus software can positively confirm the presence of malware but it cannot on its own definitely prove the absence of ring0 malware. For that, you need an Apple-level secure boot process to give confidence that the code is running on an unmodified, unvirtualized kernel.
You can use any of the offline dupe finders to do this.

Like jdupes or duperemove.

I sent PR's to both the ZFS folks and the duperemove folks to support the syscalls needed.

I actually have to go followup on the ZFS one, it took a while to review and i realized i completely forget to finish it up.
The real question is, what fraction of the company’s code is deleted by AI :-)
I’m not sure I follow. In a progressive tax system you pay in brackets, so that extra $20k doesn’t mean the rest of the salary is entirely in the new bracket, so why would it cost an exorbitant amount?
I understood that you were making an analogy between installing a piece of hardware and its associated kernel driver with installing a game and its associated kernel anticheat.

When you install a hardware device you are trusting the manufacturer with full access to your machine, so installing a driver does not give them any more powers. You have already "unlocked the door".

When you install a game that runs on user space you are not trusting the vendor nearly as much as you are trusting a hardware manufacturer. Installing a kernel anti cheat is granting them a level of trust and access to your machine that they didn't have before.
> We now have the opportunity to make it even better by refining results through dialogue. I hope someone does.. soon.

TBH, I don't want dialog (too long and slow, leave dialogs for human to human comms), I just need my query words to exist in the result pages. Nothing more. Google messed this up long time ago.
"What I can't wrap my head around is that making good, efficient software doesn't (by and large) take significantly longer than making bloated, inefficient enterprise spaghetti."

In my opinion the reason we get enterprise spaghetti is largely due to requirement issues and scope creep. It's nearly impossible to create a streamlined system without knowing what it should look like. And once the system gets to a certain size, it's impossible to get business buy-in to rearchitect or refactor to the degree that is necessary. Plus the full requirements are usually poorly documented and long forgotten by that time.
This series is great.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB3mwSROoJ4KLWM8KwK0cD1dh...
Python is way out of php league btw, "php is good because it's scripting language just like python" is a very weak argument.

And if not for AI hype, who knows where whould it be today. But that's different story.
Oh definitely you need someone to examine the image that was put in the database to show it's CSAM, if the legal argument depends on that. But that's an entirely different question from whether the image on the device is that image.
Image generation isn't cheap enough until we have sites that work like Google Image search, filling the page with image variations nearly instantly and available for free.
... And google ignores your exact phrase and returns something its semantics and ads engine determine is close enough.
As a Manhattan pedestrian, I think we are a poor example. When I lived in SF, where my jaywalking was much more aggressive than the norm, people would frequently follow me out into busy streets in unadvisable ways.
Can you elaborate on the lies about inflation?
I think thats a great analogy.

What would it look like if I could have 3-500 snippets instead of 30. Those 300 are things that I do all over my codebase e.g. same basic where query but in the context of whatever function I am in, a click handler with the correct types for that purpose, etc.

There is no way I can have enough hotkeys or memorize that much, and I truly can't type faster than I can hit tab.

I don't need it to think for me. Most coding (front-end/back-end web) involves typing super basic stuff, not writing complex algorithms.

This is where the 10-20% speed-up comes in. On average I am just typing 20% faster by hitting tab.
It says something about Microsoft when they OK a known harmful bootkit that expects your computer to act like an XBox with a fancy keyboard (but not too fancy), requests invasive changes to UEFI that have broken systems, and have an overall opacity that rivals an Arthur C. Clarke Monolith.
>We are willing to burn far, far more fuel than necessary because we've decided we can't be bothered with traditional search.

That's because traditional search fucking sucks balls.
Just few Ansible playbooks I run from my local machine. I don't know any other "run & forget" kind of solutions with much better devx.
That doesn't account for OpEx, though, such as power...
Yes, but even some cheats are possible through streaming. Basic things like scripted no-recoil all the way to aimbots based on image recognition. People are even using AI to recognize and highlight players on your screen - and even some built into monitors!
Like 10% of Steam is yum/brew. The other 90% is:

* GUI

* managing installations, including things like Proton to run Win32 games on Linux, and Fossilize to precompile shaders

* bandwidth-saving stuff like being able to transfer games locally

* being able to play remotely in a variety of configurations: LAN, WAN, or having a friend connect to your local session ("Remote Play Together")

* pretty good support for mapping any controller you have to any controller inputs a game wants

* cloud saves

* a bunch of community features like forums and broadcasting

* family sharing

* a VR runtime

* marketing for devs (regular sales, algorithmic recommendations etc)

* an API for devs with various services

* the backend infrastructure for all of the above

It's been around for a long time so it's quite feature-rich at this point. Lots of things that generally make sense to have.
This is what kind of comments you make when your experience with LLMs is through memes.
I sent a PR to add support for the necessary syscall (FIDUPERANGE) to zfs that i just have to clean up again.

Once that is in, any of the existing dupe finding tools that use it (IE jdupes, duperemove) will just work on ZFS.
- https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove

- https://codeberg.org/jbruchon/jdupes / https://www.jdupes.com/

- https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes

- https://github.com/pauldreik/rdfind
Proven by who and what proof? Because Denuvo is the only one outspoken about how it doesn't impact performance despite all evidence to the contrary and they provide no evidence of their own beyond claiming it doesnt. Then saying they'll prove it doesn't and then backing out of proving it.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/irdeto-backtracks-on-plans-...
VMs are known to benefit from dedupe so yes, you'll see benefits there. ZFS is a general-purpose filesystem not just an enterprise SAN so many ZFS users aren't running VMs.

Dedupe/compression works really well on syslog

I apologize for the pedantry but dedupe and compression aren't the same thing (although they tend to be bundled in the enterprise storage world). Logs are probably benefiting from compression not dedupe and ZFS had compression all along.
How long is your battery life? I've replaced the battery 2 times in my MBP 2015 (iFixit battery) but battery life is only 2.5 hours and I'm perplexed.
No shit a quarter of Google's new code is created by AI. How else do you explain why Google search has been so aggressively awful for the past 5~ years?

Seriously. The penchant for outright ignoring user search terms, relentlessly forcing irrelevant or just plain wrong information on users, and the obnoxious UI changes on YouTube! If I'm watching a video on full screen I have explicitly made it clear that I want YouTube to only show me video! STOP BRINGING UP THE FUCKING VIDEO DESCRIPTION TO TAKE UP HALF THE SCREEN IF I TRY TO BRIEFLY SWIPE TO VIEW THE TIME OR READ A MESSAGE.

I have such deep-seated contempt for AI and it's products for just how much worse it makes people's lives.
Definitely. We love building abstraction layers but at some point you really need to make decisions across the entire stack.
> The problem is finding people to do it with who care enough to think rigorously

> ...

> train them, and reject low quality work.

I agree very strongly with both of these points.

But I've observed a truth about each of them over the last decade-plus of building software.

1) very few people approach the field of software engineering with anything remotely resembling rigor, and

2) there is often little incentive to train juniors and reject subpar output (move fast and break things, etc.)

I don't know where this takes us as an industry? But I feel your comment on a deep level.
When the lookup key is a hash, there's no locality over the megabytes of the table. So don't all the extra memory accesses to support dedup affect the L1 and L2 caches? Has anyone at OpenZFS measured that?

It also occurs to me that spacial locality on spinning rust disks might be affected, also affecting performance.
The PACELC Theorem
Because we still don't know how the brain really does all it does in very specific terms, so why assume to know exactly how we think?
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4270

Wikipedia is short on pictures. The one picture I keep finding isn’t very good.
It's because nowadays cheats run on a secondary machine, often a Pi,so rootkits have less impacts.
No-one likes playing with a cheat in Uno, either, and the table stakes for Uno are pretty low.
I'd give you that, but in exchange, you'll have to agree that, if I'm renting, I shouldn't have to sell any financial assets less than, say, the median value of a house where I am.
Gustaf Håkansson
Organisers of WordCamps, community-organized events for WordPress users, have been ordered to take down some social media posts and share their login credentials for social networks.

The order to share creds came from an employee of Automattic, the compay whose CEO happens to be Matt Mullenweg, co-creator of WordPress, and which owns owns and operates WordPress.com, a hosted version of the open source CMS. A letter sent to WordCamp organizers explains that the creds are needed due to "recurrent issues with new organizing teams losing access to the event's social media accounts."
Testing for gender differences in Python programming style and quality on GitHub
Apple will let you buy more RAM for cheaper than Nvidia, but it won't be the same speed — it'll be ~20% slower than a 4090.
> Apple is well on its way to ensure you can only run things they allow via app store,

What are you talking about? I don’t run a single app from the app store and have never felt a need to.
Figure 13 right panel also shows there isn't a y=x relationship on out-of-sample tests.

First we agree by observation that outside of the top-right and bottom-left corners there isn't any meaningful relationship in the data, regardless of what the numerical value of the correlation is. Second, in those corners it is not clear to me what the relationship is but it looks flattish (i.e. if the ground truth is ~0 then the model-guess-for-truth could be anywhere from 0 to 0.5). This is also consistent with the general behavior displayed in figure 13.

If you have some other interpretation of the data you should lay it out. The authors certainly did not do that.

edit:
By the way there are people working on a re-sampling algorithm based on the entropy and variance of the output logits called entropix: if the output probabilities for the next token are spread evenly for example (and not have overwhelming probability for a single token) they prompt for additional clarification. They don't really claim anything like the model "knows" whether it's wrong but they say it improves performance.
Apple Polishing Cloth adds support for the new iMac and MacBook Pro (M4-models)
The built in Photos duplicate feature is the best choice for most people: it’s not just generic file-level dedupe but smart enough to do things like take three versions of the same photo and pick the highest-quality one, which is great if you ever had something like a RAW/TIFF+JPEG workflow or mixed full res and thumbnails.
You know they can use those AI generated words to create an outline of talking points right?

That too is also going to be dead if we follow that logic.
> and they'll very confidently generate subtly wrong code for anything that's non-trivial for an experienced programmer to write

Thankfully I don't find it subtle but plain wrong for anything but trivial stuff. I use it (and pay an AI subscription) for things where false positive won't ruin the day, like parameters validation.

But for anything advanced, it's pretty hopeless.

I've talked with lawyers: same thing. With doctors: same thing.

Which ain't no surprise see how these things do work.

> Like, isn't this announcement a terrible indictment of how inexperienced their engineers are, or how trivial the problems they solve are, or both?

Probably lots of highly repetitive boilerplate stuff everywhere. Which in itself is quite horrifying if you think about it.
Same search for those without Kagi account (using 'share search' option):

https://kagi.com/search?q=best+books+on+Battle+of+Midway&r=u...
Article title: Programmed differently? Testing for gender differences in Python programming style and quality on GitHub
so, these are hand optimized primitives for specific model of nvidia gpus? do you still have to make launch/scheduling decisions to maximize occupancy? how does this approach scale to other target devices with specialized instruction sets and different architecture?
These tools have exploded in popularity for good reason. If they were no good, people wouldn't be using them.

You're saying anything that's ever been popular is popular for a good reason? You can't think of counter examples that disprove this?

You're saying anything that people decide to do is good, or else people wouldn't do it? People never act irrationally? People never blindly act on trends? People never sacrifice long-term results for short-term gain? You can't come up with any counter examples?