skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I seriously doubt that the average dev today knows more than the average dev in the 70s. In fact, I would happily wager money on it, if it were somehow provable one way or the other.

There are so many abstractions today that you don’t _have_ to know how computers work. They did.

Re: state of the art, you don’t need or want state of the art for building things that go into space, or underwater (closest analogue I can think of that I have experience in [operating, not coding for]). You want them to be rock-steady, with as close to zero bugs as possible, and to never, ever surprise you.
It is absolutely not possible to carb-count through photo recognition in a way that is reliable enough for a diabetic to safely use to make treatment decisions.
A real EV has much better performance than a plugin hybrid, which is more like the worst of both worlds when it comes to driving experience. If you think only about economy, a PHEV can make sense, but it is an overly complicated solution which is bound to have extra maintenance problems.
Ok but what's the benefit? Yes, if you really want to, you can carve your validation logic in half, write two different kinds of JavaScript and CSS, so that you can change screens in two technically different ways. But the only thing it will accomplish is making your app harder to maintain, and probably slower to boot.
So link chats where you've run into the very real limitations these things have. What language you're using, what framework you're in, what library it hallucinated. I'm not interested in either of us shouting past each other, I genuinely want to understand how your experience, which is not at all lesser than mine, is so different. Am I ignoring flaws that you otherwise can't overlook? Are you expecting too much from it with too little input? Without details, all we can do is describe feelings at each other and get frustrated when the other person's experience is different. Might as well ask your star sign while we're at it.
relevant today

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/health/chatgpt-ai-doctors...
> formalized languages is really the future

Hmm, maybe it's time for symbolism to shine?
I don't think that is inconsistent with what I said.
I’m still not seeing your ethical problem for MAJORITY of software deliverables.
You literally cannot always deliver things to make customers happy in software and if you aren’t in agreement with your leadership and product teams of what you deliver you are going to have a bad time.

Companies from startups to large enterprises deliver solutions that 0 to some customers use that was mainly to appease whatever vision your leadership has. AI chatbots in websites are a big one that I can think of.
Someone (ASR) claimed years ago, but I noticed only recently that the adapter is actually a fairly high quality DAC.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/q...
What is Starlink’s failure rate? Genuinely asking; I don’t know. My point is that if it’s > 0, that’s a problem for something designed to go billions of miles away.
My guess is that by testing and introspecting a lot of small models trained on datasets and distilled and much as possible, there will eventually be a good understanding of the types of neural circuits that are effective for different types of representations or tasks. (Although presumably there is more than one way to accomplish any given task or representation efficiently.)

I bet the hard part is creating compressed and decomposed representations that really encompass all of the common edge cases. And maintaining a good compression ratio without having conflicting uses for the same neuron.

But with small networks, it seems like there will be a way to fully analyze, for example, how language is grounded in visual and spatial-temporal data.

Maybe we can use another network to help come up with circuit factorings and connections for specific use cases given a Q&A or conversation dataset.
> I'm convinced real coaching doesn't exist.

Aristotle would disagree.
This is because earlier reports coming out of law enforcement agencies suggested that the network was involved in making even older devices reboot. This blog post is an effort to debunk that claim.
I feel like its partly due to our cultural shift for visual media, gags HAVE to be more extreme to get engagement. Back in the day you'd tell the tale to your friends and you could embellish it. Now it's everyone trying to emulate Paul Brother's content to get the reach to FINALLY BECOME AN INFLUENCE. I blame platforms just as much or more than users. Your incentives have driven behavior here.
It is a simplification that makes easier to grasp a paradigm. Sure, it could be taken to extremes and pretend nothing else exists outside this ‘everything is a … “ bubble. Luckily we can learn from others’ mistakes and not fall into traps too often.
If you’re targeting these evidence grabbing/device exploiting mobs, generally the phones get locked into a faraday cage to drop the mobile network so that they can’t receive a remote wipe request from iCloud.
I finished HS in 2007. I remember equal, if not worse things growing up online. The internet was less moderated back then and there was a lot of communities that celebrated toxic behaviors (like 4chan).
This is awesome! There are a few other text to diagram language out there, but this seems to support straight up drawing via text.

Very powerful given the flexibility.

I also dislike how fiddly it appears with whitespace and general verbosity to explicitly define paths between nodes and such.

Love seeing how the community continues to build on the idea of Obsidian.
I'm super curious if anyone else is more offended that the MX Master still uses Bluetooth when it's plugged in, more than the Magic Mouse charging port location?

I use the Magic Mouse because of the gestures and, from my research, the tracking superior to the MX Master (when the dongle is not in use, with the dongle they're equivalent), I've never once cared about the charging port location, and prefer the honesty of the design placing the charging port at the bottom (e.g., having a mouse usable with an attached cable but still use Bluetooth, instead of a wired connection, is dishonest). I think I'd probably buy an MX Master's to compare it if they'd put the charging port on the bottom (although not 100% sure, needing a dongle to achieve comparable tracking is also a borderline deal breaker).
Benjamin Franklin broke our CI
Maybe one or two of these will do what you want?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/105121

> With Screen Time, you can turn on Content & Privacy Restrictions to manage content, apps, and settings on your child's device. You can also restrict explicit content, purchases and downloads, and changes to privacy settings.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111795

> Guided Access limits your device to a single app and lets you control which features are available.
imo this misses tool use as a way to break down functionality into other models or classically programmed components, which gets you much of the isolation and composability that the author is after.
Oh I didn't realize ChatGPT was working for you while Claude was not. It's just interesting because my experience is that claude is better at coding than ChatGPT-4o.
Sun used to take binary compatibility very seriously. Solaris 8 (and perhaps later releases) still had a compatibility layer for SunOS 4.x binaries. Solaris 11 can still run Solaris 2.6 binaries.

Linux is another matter entirely, if your binaries run at all from one distribution release to the next you're doing well.
Oh, to be clear, I don't think it's a good idea today or the near future. But it's neat that there's an imaginable world where we can power devices this way.
First AI is not real artificial intelligence, it can be view as a very complex look-up and analysis process.

For development, you need to thing about what you are doing. To me AI still has decades to go before it becomes a reality.
Right, passkeys are basically 1) a superset (FIDO2) of U2F that includes a passwordless option, and 2) software or "platform" rather than hardware or "roaming".

If akimbostrawman was knocking the passwordless part I agree. Partly for the obvious technical reasons, but also because in enterprise security 'passwordless' is being misused to market push-equivalent auth as 'phishing-resistant', and a lot of companies are falling for it.

If akimbostrawman was knocking the software part I disagree, because outside of companies like Google or Palantir IT teams aren't stoked about managing hardware tokens for tens or hundreds of thousands of people. The best option is the one people will actually use, and that's going to be passkeys.
This is amazing, my daughter has been on pump therapy for almost eight years now and just now starting to feel like she has any control at all.

I downloaded the app, just to check it out, and the one thing that just struck me right off the bat is the permissions. Read is fine, it’s the write permissions, particularly glucose level and insulin delivery. I don’t know the full app ecosystem, and if it would be possible for your app to interfere with the insulin delivery settings on her pump.

if you have a website or anything that discusses how the application operates and what the permissions are used for it definitely check it out.

Ultimately though this looks like a great tool!

(Also really digging the company name!)
That would only apply to markets with tariffs, and not the rest of the world. China can sell their EVs to Central Asia, Russia, Africa, south east Asia, Australia, and still dominate the world wide market. America, Canada, Japan, Western Europe, and Korea can protect their markets, but they can’t really protect their market share.
"There’s not a lot of movies made about the heroes who got 20% of the cost out of a car, but let me tell you, there should be.”

Of course. You start by designing a car to be cheap, not slimming down an expensive one.
Easier? No. Healthier and probably better? Yeah almost certainly.

Not all of us are wired the same. Some of us have neurological deficiencies or disabilities that make regulating food intake very difficult. So I would never presume easier.
>The tape market is highly price-fixed and innovation-restricted. Intel has more or less of a total monopoly in this space.

Huh? How so? Intel doesn't make tape drives, and never has. IIRC, there are 4 companies making tape drives, including Quantum and HPE.
And weirdly the dude is asking his staff to work "80+ hour weeks" on his alt account:

https://x.com/cb_doge/status/1858177342436233511
Appeal to authority isn't a very good argument when so many of the experts who've gone on the record promoting the natural origin theory are weighed down with conflicts of interest due to the fact that the funding agencies they rely on have a lot to lose if it turns out the gain-of-function / lab-accident theory is correct (e.g. the authors and architects of the infamous 'Proximal Origin' paper). There are also many experts who are convinced the gain-of-function accident is the only plausible scenario at this point.

Hopefully we'll have some comprehensive public hearings into the question in the coming year, at least in the United States, which I look forward to.
The grall, sacred spear, and so on are... Not part of the earliest tales. So no. There's no guarantee whatsoever that it is a Celtic myth. Later stories were certainly modified by it.

The graal first appears in 1190CE, "Perceval ou le Conte du Graal". Whereas Arthur appears in "Annales Cambriae" - maybe added to the text around 970CE, and probably earlier.
Hugely agree. Every junior on my team has heard me say: "copy-paste is free; abstractions are expensive." When you move two bits of logic behind a common interface you tell the world that they're the same type of thing, and future editors will tend to maintain that promise - if the two things diverge further, someone will handle that by adding more parameters to the shared interface.

So when deciding whether to merge two similar functions, to me the question to ask yourself is "are future changes to one of these functions almost certain to affect the other one as well?" If not, just leave the functions separate no matter how similar they are.
I imagine taking 6 weeks off of work would be the hardest part of this for many people, unless they can get fully-paid medical leave. Presumably most people with decent middle-class jobs do get that.
Which is also a problem with thinking this is a helpful abstraction: apparently, not everything you need to do can be captured by functions (in that sense)!
> Changing does not bring any advantages.

Sometimes, progress requires fundamental change.

> So why waste any time with them?

Can you not envision a business model that is not a high-growth startup?

> What is your real motivation? You seem more focused on some political agenda than you are focused on making a profit.

What agenda do you think I'm focused on?
At a guess, it attracts two audiences - people interested in the content, and people aghast at the content. Twice the pulling power?
This is a very sad read.
Yes, "Ian's secure knot".

"Ian's knot" is just the regular shoelace, done wrong - starting with a left-over-right twist, instead of right-over-left. So that knot will twist to vertical and self-loosen.
Linux Fixes Hosts Randomly Rebooting During Virtualization with Ryzen 7000/8000
> Vue 2.x is NOT receiving updates. Not even security updates. Its abandonware.

I algo got burned with Vue 2 at one point. Pretty amazing considering Vue is quite popular. Recently went over 1M daily downloads.

https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=vue

I don't think even jQuery had so many downloads back in its heyday but it has maintained its API and methodology after all these years.
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> most kids bully

Sounds like your experience is different to mine, as I'm not aware of that being the case.
I have a free account with you guys and your customer support has been top-notch, so thank you.
> “They didn’t listen to A.I. when A.I. told them things they didn’t agree with,” Dr. Rodman said.

Replace AI with patient, and it's a far too familiar experience.
I remember when I was 18, trying to earn my way through college, scrounging by on less than minimum wage because I was paid under the table. Living in a flat with 8 other people to make the rent math work.

Foolish me for not just becoming a shareholder. I definitely had the spare time between the $7k/year I was making to take that risk and not die of starvation.

Your world would be great if I had a guarantee of food, water, a bed, basic medicine, etc. I'd love to have had the ability to throw my time at a risky innovative project. But, I didn't. If I had, and that project failed, I would have literally died. Downsides are too big in this capitalist world for anyone to just become a shareholder.
Difference between the two is that hard disagree means you won't be able to change their mind.
Two questions:

1. surely unconditionally rebooting locked iPhones every 3 days would cause issues in certain legit use cases?

2. If I read the article correctly, it reboots to re-enter "Before First Unlock" state for security. Why can't it just go into this state without rebooting?

Bonus question: my Android phone would ask for my passcode (can't unlock with fingerprint or face) if it thinks it might be left unattended (a few hours without moving etc.), just like after rebooting. Is it different from "Before First Unlock" state? (I understand Android's "Before First Unlock" state could be fundamentally different from iPhone's to begin with).
and on iOS they should still use the old logo for one additional year
I’m not in the target market, but most people have no idea what gpt-40-mini is so while it might make sense to list it in the HN title it probably doesn’t make sense to use that term in the dashboard. AI likely makes more sense, or just machine learning
One has to take care of his own mental issues. I don't think you should be blamed on anything. If I were in his shoes I'd find another gig quickly.
If you develop C or C++ haphazardly in such a way that you leave a bunch of UB on the table during development then there's little to no chance that you'll have actually erased all presence of it by the end of development.

There currently exist no tools which with complete reliability point out all UB in your program. If any part of your program can have UB and you didn't write it with the explicit intention of not having UB in it at any point then you're going to be left with a tough situation to deal with.

I've read a lot of C in my time and there's codebases which I read and find easy and quick to review because they stick to the rules and only bend them sparingly and then there's codebases which are a pain to evaluate even the most basic parts for errors and UB.

There's no such thing as "detectable UB", there's only UB which your tools have luckily managed to detect.

Leave the UB to the people who can't avoid it, stick to safe languages when you can.
Interestingly this has a rather frequentist flavor. The probabilities end up coming from frequency ratios in very large samples.
Not sure why swatting isn’t treated like attempted murder
The earliest it could have started is when SS7 links and the internet were bridged by dodgy / nefarious owners of said SS7 links. That started to take off around the mid 90's to spam phones with spoofed numbers. I wanted to get the SS7 links terminated but my boss in the wireless industry, tied heavily to SS7 would not let me because they were paying their bill. It would have been one phone call to terminate many of them.

I suspect you are probably right about the timeline for swatting as shady VoIP providers started getting popular in the early 2000's and started being used for more than just spoofing text advertisements.
Wow, his group mates were so lazy, they didn't even read the text that ChatGPT gave them. ChatGPT can help make writing better, but you have to actually know the topic to be able to understand the response.
The +1.5°C cannot be attributed to the natural transition from an ice age. It is happening way too fast compared to the thousands of years the Milankovitch cycle operates on. Also, you're conveniently ignoring the fact that, if anything, the climate should be getting cooler, not hotter, as we are entering an ice age, not exiting one[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles#Present_...
It should really not be possible for a single anonymous phone call to dispatch a heavily armed response team to break down someone's door.

Aside from that, people who do so are despicable. 20 years is a light sentence. Taking money to put people in situations that could easily become deadly.
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> They store passwords,

But if they hide the "management" part from you, they're just password storage. In someone else's control.
I understand it is annoying to receive spam, and Nayuki is under no obligation to help strangers with their code. However, how about a little empathy for the students whose cultural and education system have not taught them any better?

In some cases, Nayuki is not even happy with people pointing out legit errors in their blog. For example,

> I want to use the parameters [...] and
>
> invNTT(NTT(invec)) !=invec ?
Jane Turing AI: The Ultimate Employee Revolutionizing Solo Businesses
To me it feels more like someone wanting control/power over others without being physically capable of bullying.
What's wrong with the Boeing case on needing to be rebooted.

It doesn't seem much worse then memory leaks in missle guidance tracking systems that exceed flight time. We have finite resources, if the effort to correct is minimal what's the harm?
Working hypothesis:

1) Infrastructure maintenance broken (e.g. bridge in Dresden)

2) Power grid now has brown-outs

3) Stuff not selling

4) No innovation

What did FT think was going on?
Unfortunately, we have a 100 year old slate roof, which makes solar some mix of difficult, expensive, or not advised. At the exact moment of maximum heat demand (both seasonally and time of day), solar generation is at its lowest.

I do hope that slate lookalike solar tiles become advisable and cost-effective as I’d be happy to pay a small premium to generate and store locally.
Thank you for clarifying. I also initially thought it was an (LLM (vulnerability scanner)).
That requires not only people wrapping their mind around the fact that death is likely when the cops kick in a door but also the state overtly codifying that reality.

It'll happen when pigs fly.
Oh my friend, you have some reading to do!

The capitalist market system is really only a few hundred years old! If you believe Meiksins Wood, she puts it at about the mid 1700s, others put it a little later.

And even then, it took quite some time to reach the rest of the globe.

We've had non-capitalist market economies, anarchist economies, communist economies (of various flavors), gift economies, and many other ways of organizing people.

Ask the folks who run Food Not Bombs about whether they are 'organized by the market'. :D
Fair question, but I would also like to ask "What the f** is wrong with cops?".

Receiving an anonymous call claiming some not-particularly-plausible threat at a particular location probably DOES deserve a police investigation. I see no reason why it impels police to drag people from their house in chains, threaten to shoot them, or actually shoot them.

If police responses were reasonable and proportionate to the plausibility of the threat then swatters would not be able to use them as a weapon.
That literally isn’t true. A number of satellites had to be delayed or redesigned due to the Challenger disaster. Those satellites were planned to be launched on the Space Shuttle, and the Challenger disaster grounded the Space Shuttle for an extended period. And even when the Shuttle returned to flight, certain planned capabilities were cancelled as a result of Challenger, including West Coast launches (from Vandenberg) and the Shuttle-Centaur (an additional rocket stage designed to be carried in the Shuttle payload bay). Due to these changes, some orbits became inaccessible to the Space Shuttle, forcing those missions on to alternative launch vehicles. And switching the launch vehicle for a satellite isn’t simple, it requires redoing engineering analysis (every launch vehicle causes somewhat different stresses on the payload, so in the worst case the payload may actually require design changes to handle a different launch vehicle) and integration testing (the payload and launch vehicle need to talk to each other, and you don’t want to get that wrong, or else you can get failures like the first Boeing Starliner test flight.)

Even today, launch vehicles are shared between both crewed and uncrewed missions (Dragon uses Falcon 9, Starliner uses Atlas V), so a launch vehicle grounding due to a failure in one mission type absolutely can impact the other type too
This needs to be the top comment
It became really easy and cheap to use a VPN and VOIP number.
> appeasement never works

lmaoo for everything that works they wouldn't be called appeasement, just treaty.
Is Paris Peace Accords an appeasement that doesn't work? It sealed the demise of the non-communist South Vietnam, but no one cared about South Vietnam today aside of fringe Vietnamese in California.
For the HN ultra-nerds: is there a book that details the voyager 1 construction including sensors, PCBs, materials compositions manufacturing processes and all that? I’m looking for something so dense I’ll need a therapist to find my way back to society afterwards. Truly curious thank you.
I would love to hear more. Always been a big fan of Miguel and his positive stance towards mending fences with MS. Sad to hear transitioning to the mother ship didn't work out.
I don't think memory usage is the problem, but rather allocation costs and memory layout, i.e. performance.

Serving web traffic simply isn't a very memory hungry task.