skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to have "fun", generate code in a WASM-representation of Hoare's WHILE language, i.e. a program that only consists of a single outer while loop (in WASM a "loop" block), and conditionally decide for every single instruction in the loop whether it should be executed during a given pass.

I think that could be done with a single-pass C compiler. In a very trivial (and terrible) case, you could keep a running "line_counter" variable that every statement in the loop is predicated with, which either gets incremented at the end of the loop, or set to an arbitrary value for representing branches.

It would of course be a horrible (but very amusing) mess, and rather enforces your actual point.
Most countries have national healthcare systems which have pricing power over "cancer drugs". When those are expensive it's they're because genuinely very expensive to make, and increasingly they're personalized because every cancer is different.
If some party must get my data, Google is not going to be that party.
EmacsConf 2024
I think markdown is poorly designed, especially in terms of ease of parsing (human AND machine!)

I've written my own markup language, I'd love ANYONE'S feedback, either good or bad

https://lua.civboot.org#Package_cxt
no, in fact, it sounds even more damning because client side was able to pick whatever was best on the market, and it wasn't intel. Client side could to learn and customize their designs to use another company's processes (this is an extremely hard thing to do by the way) faster than intel foundry could even get their pants up in the morning.

Intel foundry screwed up so badly that Nokia's server division was almost shut down because of Intel Foundry's failure. (imagine being so bad at your job, that your clients go out of business) If Intel client side chose to use Foundry, there just wouldn't be any chips to sell.
Ah, thanks. My brain actually did not see that second "compiler" when reading, now it makes sense.
Just looking at this AWS workflow takes the joy out of programming for me.
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The countermeasures would have been a spectacular lighshow for the end of the world, as the system was overwhelmed.

Those airbursts, conventional or not, and a consequent rain of partially burnt, somewhat atomised fissile material over Canada and .. a lot of protected asset in North America. Assuming even a limited engagement, there was a lot of consequences afterwards.

Still, MAD did it's job.
This year's Nobel economics prize was for this topic. Although, they did sort of just give it to Acemoglu because he's so productive you can't not give it to him.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2024/sum...

https://someunpleasant.substack.com/p/a-nobel-prize-for-an-i...
I don’t care if you, an idiosyncratic individual, don’t tip. 95% of my customers tip, so weirdos like you have no effect on my average income.
This merging of semantically different concepts into the same language feature was the biggest mistake of Go in my opinion. The gains in simplicity are entirely offset by the losses in correctness and comprehension.

The worst example is pointers since they're used to represent both references and optional values. It's often very difficult to know which meaning a function is using at first glance.
The combination of Elixir, Phoenix & LiveView really is incredible: "What about supporting production hot code upgrades where browsers can auto re-render anytime CSS stylesheets, images, or templates change – without losing state or dropping connections? Sure!".

No replacing servers to push code changes, no telling people to logout & back in to see the changes. Crazy.
Didn't know about starfx. Interesting.

To anyone reading, mobx is a more generic tool for any type of state management.

And starfx seems like a data fetching + holding state and providing hooks for that data kind of library. Very unique and looks someone cared to make something nice for that kind of problem
>> I got it about 10 years ago

> It's not a permanent vaccine, is it?

From Wikipedia [0]:

> Following administration of a booster dose, one study found 97% of immunocompetent individuals demonstrated protective levels of neutralizing antibodies after ten years

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies_vaccine#Additional_dose...
this is brilliant.

most of the feedback i'd want to give has already been given though... e.g. the attack charging confused me a bit until i worked it out by inference.

the animations are probably the highlight of this for me. they add some character nicely. adding more elements to show the attacks in progress beyond the colour changes would be a nice way to improve this.

i would suggest removing 0 from the rng for the math problems. occasionally you can get 0 + number which feels like a cheat almost. also maybe forcing the numbers to always be in double digits for the addition problems? he seems to be aware how to do this from looking at how the divide by zero is avoided.

another small thing would be to disable new input whilst the attack sequence is running... although again others have mentioned that.

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overall this is impressive and interesting to see. i taught myself to write code starting when i was 8 using qbasic and its help file, then starting with visual basic when i was 11 and C when i was 12 - it was a different time, and different tools with different challenges, but i think any early start is helpful, especially if you have to work things out for yourself.

this game reminds me of some of my own early efforts, although rather than wrangling the complexity of a modern browser environment and language, i was wrangling with the lack of documentation and learning materials for logic, maths and graphics.

today i am the technical director of a games company with a cv littered with AAA, mobile and VR games. if your son eventually decides to choose this sort of career, i expect this kind of early work will pay huge dividends.

good work.
There have been data leaks of everything from US Security Clearance dossiers (aka all the background info and ‘dirty secrets’ of everyone with a security clearance), Credit Bureau data, and numerous medical system medical records. Among many other things, like undoubtably things like Grindr/Tinder.

Then what you’re describing on top of that.

What could someone like the US do if they had the same level of info on Chinese or Russian folks, eh?
This is a huge relief. I love the uv bootstrapping, but was unhappy with the built-in-Nebraska feel for how they sourced Python. Still not as great as being an official Python.org project, but an excellent step.
Brain-Controlled Wheelchair
React has two dependencies at runtime [0] and react-dom adds one more [1] (two are shared)?

[0] https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=react

[1] https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=react-dom
$1,937,967 pledged of $50,000 goal

I don't see what's different about it. Now that it's easy to get pis again this might be what you are looking for: https://pikvm.org/
Neither AI nor the robots are Musk's so threatening to deliberately harm the company isn't legal.
If Intel came out with an ARC GPU with 128GB VRAM at a $2000 price point, I and many others would likely buy it immediately.
My old eyes can’t read the text on that color.
What happens when you go against someone like Trump - who also has that info.

Or you happen to be in one of the ‘bad’ classes for the next government?
Interesting, will have to try it out when it is released.
T-Minus: Kessler Syndrome
> Once you take into account the costs of conquest, infrastructure, and administration, plus the opportunity for colonial administrators to take a cut on the sly (since the monarch was thousands of miles away), colonies weren't profitable on net.

Yes, colonialism was not profitable. They did it because we hadn't invented modernity yet so we didn't know how to be profitable.

One reason "Britain" (the UK) exists is that Scotland tried to get into colonialism, bankrupted themselves, and had to sell themselves to England.

Generally speaking, getting a lot of resources is actually bad for your economy because it outstrips your ability to develop value-added businesses and institutions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

> Compare a per capita GDP ranking of European countries:

You're arguing with a Maoist (or someone who's been listening to them.) One thing about these people is that they believe Finland and Ireland are colonizers, because they just think all European countries are the same.
I upgraded to Debian 12 and all of a sudden my Python 3 code is destroyed and I have to jump through hoops to make pip work correctly again for libraries that were already on my machine. I'm leaving for greener pastures as the webdevs have ruined another good scripting language.
Here is a free alternative that seems to provide much more
https://app.acclara.ai/sec
To be clear, my amusement isn't that I find this technique to not be useful for the purpose it was created, but that 40 years later, we find ourselves in pursuit for the advancement of AI to be somewhat back where we already were; albeit, in a more semi-automated fashion as someone still has to create the underlying rule-set.

I do feel that the introduction of generative neural network models in both natural language and multi-media creation has been a tremendous boon for the advancement of AI, it just amuses me to see that which was old is new again.
Can AI improve the current state of molecular simulation?
> (or else you still have a not exactly known but reasonably high risk of death)

Survival in dogs with post-vaccine high-titer challenge is very, very high 5 years after vaccination-- >80%.

> The main benefit of pre-exposure vaccination is that if somehow you have no access to the vaccine the day of exposure, you might still have a (small?) chance of survival.

"Small" chance of survival seems pessimistic as a way to describe this.

The main advantage of vaccination is that if you have an undetected bite or exposure, you are still probably okay. This is something that someone who routinely handles bats or other wildlife that may carry rabies might want.

A secondary advantage is you need half as many post-exposure treatments after a known bite, which are both expensive and painful (immunoglobulin injections all around are not so fun).

Also, "day of" seems like hyperbole: it is routine to wait 10 days for test results of probably-healthy animals before starting post-exposure treatment.
ProTracker ST or Arkos Tracker 2 would do great for that
> I enjoy experiencing physical sensations and interacting with the world in meatspace. And if I can't enjoy either, then just let me die.

Who says a brain in a jar can't enjoy either of these? Who says that isn't, in fact, what you are enjoying right now?
I understand this frustration. I was a coder for ~4-5 years but wanted to try something different so I went to solutions engineering. I kind of regret it but it has given me exposure to a business / sales side of things and I’m very grateful. I found that I really like designing and architecting backends so I’m trying to get that role again. Best of luck to you!
> The success of any organization depends upon each member behaving selflessly to meet the needs of the group.

This is false. A well-designed system will align individual self-interest with what's beneficial collectively.

> Embracing compassion for all those who drift into our orbit is the only way to improve oneself in all dimensions.

What does compassion look like towards someone who's trying to mug me?

> It is also the measure of every person, so once you begin orienting yourself in the moral compass' proper direction, you can begin to see how others are aligned or misaligned.

I do not subscribe to your religion.

Feeling positively towards others, and acting beneficially to others, are not the same thing.
The Thompson Twins Adventure (C64 game on flexi disk vinyl)
When will we be able to give it a try?

I’m playing around with similar ideas, sometimes called ensembling techniques.
the opposite of an egoistic programmer, is the anonymous one.

then how do you credit those who do produce results? Just put money into the anonymous one's bank account.
> Using the Orca screen reader, the game is almost completely playable.

Interesting! I tried to guide him towards the simple approach - eg: alert() is way simpler than making some sort of modal with HTML/CSS, etc. But now that I think about, that approach (i.e. just use what the browser provides) also results in a more accessible result.

I appreciate the detailed feedback here. This is awesome! I'm going to leverage this to have a discussion about accessibility with my son. It's something we haven't taken active consideration for through this process.
If that’s what you want, try cockroachdb serverless. Scales from zero in well under 1s even for multiregion. Also actually has quite good Postgres support these days.
There aren't "people who fall for phishing" and "people who don't", generally speaking. I know highly intelligent and talented people, well educated in general online security, who have fallen for phishing links and scams.
FBI Tells Telecom Firms Boost Security Following Wide-Ranging Hacking Campaign
Using LLMs via Bedrock is 10x more painful than using direct APIs. I could see cost consolidation via cloud marketplace a play - but I don't see Amazon's own LLM initiatives ever taking off. They should just lose those shops and buy one of the frontier models (while it is still cheap)
Except if the destination machine is an entirely different architecture or doesn’t include the same instructions as the compilation machine…
GenAI comes for jobs once considered 'safe' from automation
That’s my understanding as well, that it’s opt-in. That brings me little comfort.

I actually love the idea of embedded LLM help. I just wish Google used on-device compute with small models.

The idea that the browser will be used to farm data that’s not on the public internet is reprehensible to me, consent notwithstanding.

When I hire a junior engineer do I have to teach them about Google’s dark patterns so they don’t unwittingly upload our intellectual property?
The conservatives tend to blame the liberals for being North Korean sympathizers. The liberals tend to blame the conservatives for being Japanese sellouts. They use these angles to inflame public opinion against the other party and distract from other issues.

I’d say anyone seriously thinking Japan has bought out the conservatives is just as foolish as someone that seriously thinks the liberals are North Korean spies.

That said, there is a contingent of South Koreans that genuinely consider Japan a mortal military threat just biding their time and waiting to attack Korea. And that North Korea is just a merely misguided misunderstood brother that is absolutely harmless despite their sabre rattling.
Putin-controlled aircraft deported Ukrainian children, U.S. research alleges
No matter how few GPU cores the M4 has, it is still an extremely potent product on the whole.

Better than most of the pc's out there.
Slides 25-26 filled me with hollow, empty laughter.

we don't have that problem where I am now, but we should teach queueing theory in middle school.
Given how I see him accelerated by Gemini, I think the next generation will have a huge productivity boost.
Russian presidential aircraft and funds were used in the program, according to the article:

The U.S. State Department-backed research, published on Tuesday, identified 314 Ukrainian children taken to Russia in the early months of the war in Ukraine as part of what it says was a systematic, Kremlin-funded program to "Russify" them.
Why 100? You can also make way for the next generation by living 80, or 60, or 40 years. Yet no one would be okay with that option. Funny thing is historically speaking 40 is a lot closer to the useful human lifespan than 100. So this strong belief of yours is really driven by advancements in society and healthcare over the last few decades. Why do you think that won't change drastically another few decades from now?
> You'd have to be foolish or blind to not see how the ditribution of wealth in our current world closely follows what it was under colonialism

Who did Ireland, Finland, South Korea and Botswana colonize?

Second question: how did it work out for Spain, Scotland, and Russia?
I was objecting to the characterization of the occupation of the capital city as being simply a 'protest'.
C64 and Spectrum I should say.
hahaha they gave the designer keys… to deploy to prod!

as a lead engineer this is something I don’t even want… as soon as you have keys to deploy to prod, guess what you’ll be asked to do? and always at the worst times!
It is so trivial, it takes you 10 minutes to learn.

Less even, here is an attempt:

foo.o: foo.c
clang -c -o foo.o foo.c

This builds a file called foo.o, if foo.c is newer than foo.o. Imagine that there is an identical bar.o as well, that builds it from bar.c.

fooexec: foo.o bar.o
clang -o fooexec foo.o bar.o

This links together foo.o and bar.o into a file called fooexec, if at least one of foo.o or bar.o is newer (which in turn means that any of its respective dependencies changed; e.g. change bar.c, and bar.o and then fooexec will rebuild).

Now type this into the shell:

make fooexec

Congratulations! You have a fully built fooexec. Now change bar.c, type it again, and like magic, you have a rebuilt bar.o and fooexec. foo.o will stay put, it’s up to date!

But of course all the .c -> .o rules look the same, so instead of writing a new one for every file, you'd use simple wildcards, and now the whole, entire Makefile is just:

%.o: %.c
clang -c -o $@ $<

fooexec: foo.o bar.o
clang -o fooexec foo.o bar.o

Do $@ and $< look arcane at first glance? Yes. Is what they do simple, though? Also yes. (If your complaint is that you don't know what those "clang" lines do, then you don't know how to use the C compiler, and will have the same problem when writing a python script.)

It pains me if that is not immediately obvious. And it pains me even more that someone would want to write a boilerplate heavy, complex python program, that rebuilds everything all the time, instead of just learning this very simple concept.
You can if the assignment is to write something in iambic pentameter.
This is awesome, and the graphics remind me of my mspaint.exe graphics I used to load into Game Maker 4.0 in 2001 to make games as an 11 year old :)

It gave me a lifelong obsession with programming, and I'm still a principal engineer today
It would cost $1k-$2k per dose because in the US you can just make up a price, and profit is God.
> What we are witnessing across the Earth's societies is nothing less than the apotheosis of the masses' majorities exercising their free will to choose ignorance over wisdom

There is a mismatch between your observations about humans as a whole, and the appeal to individuals and their individual values.

I am all for individual ethics, but half the people on the planet could have great ethics, and things could still devolve.

The way to scalable net-positive gains starts with oneself, but also requires finding ways to pull others into net-positive arrangements, in a way that generates value back to you. Then repeat on larger scales.

If a fraction of the planet worked hard from that standpoint, things would improve markedly. Even a lot of failures and a few successes would make a lot of positive difference.

Applying game theory, psychology and local conditions toward scaling up positive sum games, is another form of engineering.

Perhaps the highest form.
Isn't that Svelte?
trades pay the bills too… very vey big bills too…

we choose to kill ourselves staring at the screens all day to make a few extra bucks ;)
This is fantastic; your son did a great job! I’m always excited to see young people take on challenging projects!
I've had the best luck with Ethiopia. Jamaica and Hawaii are the best (or maybe, the most interesting?) when you know what you're getting.
Let me know her feedback :)
The blind tasting studies prove that connoisseurs can't discern the price of wine by taste. They can tell whether or not they like it perfectly well. A good bottle, not an expensive one.
thanks for checking it out :)
Having four chips per channel is exactly why this is implausible. DDR5 can barely operate with four ranks per channel, at severely reduced speeds. Pulling that off with GDDR6 or GDDR7 is not something we can presume to be possible without specific evidence. The highest-density configurations possible for LPDDR5x are dual-rank and byte mode (one chip per 8 bits of the memory bus, so two chips ganged together to populate a 16-bit channel) — and that still operates at less than half the speed of GDDR6.

I've not seen any proposals for buffering LPDDR or GDDR, so an analog to LRDIMMs is not a readily-available technology.

GDDR is the memory technology that operates at the edge of what's possible for per-pin bandwidth. Loading that memory bus down with many ranks is not something we can expect to be achievable by just putting down more pads on the PCB.
> but it is unlikely that all will be wrong at the same time.

Here's a prompt that proves this untrue, for now at least:

> A woman and her biological son are gravely injured in a car accident and are both taken to the hospital for surgery. The surgeon is about to operate on the boy when they say "I can’t operate on this boy, he’s my biological son!" How can this be?

Makes sense considering they're things of most-likely statistics, after all.
haha :)

For this version, I stopped at "does it work? alright, move forward"
I assume you are referring to the documents released by Elon Musk, the person mentioned in this thread who is overtly political. I think he's proven that he isn't a reliable narrator on these topics via his public comments.

Just to be safe, we have the reporting which proves that there were many censorship requests from the Trump Administration and other Republican officeholders like Kevin McCarthy and Elise Stefanik. [0]

===Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" focus on Democrats, but former administration officials and Twitter employees say Trump’s team and other Republicans routinely demanded posts be taken down===

Why do you think Elon chose not to release this information in the "recovered documents"? In my view, it is further proof that he has turned Twitter into an overtly political machine. Prior to him, both sides played a game of trying to pressure Twitter to serve their purposes. Now, Twitter openly serves the purposes of one side of the aisle over the other.

You might agree with that side's opinion, but it doesn't change how he has made the platform itself political and actively hidden the political actions of people on his side. Sounds pretty evil to me.

[0] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-tru...
"B-series", huh?

I'm guessing their marketing department isn't known as the "A-team".
Maybe in your specific case, that is cities with poor public transit, but the US is massive and has always required some form of long distance travel. One can make arguments for corporate interests in expensive gas-guzzlers, completely eliminating the small and medium sized automobiles, or for corporate-backed government decisions in new city infrastructure being less accessible without a car, but we have a car-centric society here because they are physically required for the majority of Americans to get from A to B, and there is literally no way of fixing that.