skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Continuity of Service: Bench customers will continue working with the same expert in-house bookkeepers they know and trust.

Translation: service is going downhill, but we're going to fight to keep you in your contracts.

> Platform Stability: Customers will retain full access to the same powerful, intuitive Bench platform.

See? We're spending money on you. Of course you have to keep paying, even if you hired another firm.

> Data Security: All customer data remains intact, secure, and protected, with no disruption to historical records or ongoing service.

Oh, and by the way, good luck exporting your data.
That's strange! I liked him when I was little, and today I know that he did and maybe still does some more serious stuff as well (mostly on stage). Have you seen his movies?
I'd be careful not to read certain conclusions into a headline like this. It's phrased to be misinterpreted as clickbait. Designers often order a run of units up front. Making consumer electronics essentially means renting space and labor from a Foxconn mega-factory. If an assembly line stays in continuous production, it means they can barely keep up with demand. That would be ideal, but it's not the norm. More often, the designer orders x units by y date and accepts early delivery. The mega-factory makes them as fast as possible, so they can squeeze more contracts in. When the run is complete, they crate up the customer owned molds and tooling, spin up another customers assembly line, and start on a run of units from that other customer. Meanwhile, Best Buy continues to sell said product as brand new for years, despite coming from a storage warehouse. Then, if they run out and need another run of units, they spin the old assembly line back up. It doesn't mean the product will flop if they suspend production after the first run finishes - it's just how manufacturing often works. If sales are poor and the initial run takes longer than projected to sell (and maybe it is), then maybe can call it a flop. But you'd be surprised how many products you buy, thinking they're the latest cutting edge thing, which are "out of production". Its a reality the marketing teams do not want leaked to fickle customers.
Decompose indeed :)
> why would you even need root to compile an OS

Usually it's to make it easier dealing with file system ("disk") image files, which may require root privileges to mount and use with regular programs (though FUSE and similar subsystems can help.) In a mounted filesystem, root privileges may be required to set permission bits like setuid.

The NetBSD toolchain probably includes utilities to make it easy to copy data in and out of file system images, ideally concurrently and without corruption.
> New generations that are better adapted to the culture of hi-tech freedom will arise from the few that currently accidentally already do the evolutionarily correct thing.

That's one possibility. Another is subcultures which prioritise reproduction over personal freedom will end up demographically dominant in the long-run. Look for example at Kiryas Joel, New York, and similar ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities, whose growth shows no signs of slowing down in the foreseeable future. Of course, exponential growth can't last forever, but nobody knows what exactly the limit is and when it will be reached – it might not be reached until they've become a very substantial percentage of the population, maybe even the majority.
I thought eggs were high because of the bird flu.
You’re not wrong. That is confusing.

I think of it like the satellite industry. Crazy high launch costs and weight penalties make satellites expensive to build. Maybe there’s some rule that the cost of the satellite has to equal to the launch cost?

I think the same things happens to building prices when the land cost and available land is super limited. Construction kind of rises to take a piece of that?

I’m not sure if I’m explaining the idea well.
Hmmm. DragonRuby seems to be a closed source proprietary game engine (at least as far as I can tell). With open source engines like Love2D / Godot / PhaserJS / Pyxel becoming more popular - this may be a deterrent for many devs on HN.

Something else to consider is traction, if you get stuck in DragonRuby there's probably not a huge amount of docs/tutorials around it. That being said, it does seem like they have a pretty active Discord at least.
"Don't make me tap the sign."

The sign: "Games are enterprise software now, with all the bloat that implies"
Large Concept Models: Language modeling in a sentence representation space
You're exactly right: what you refer to as "perspective" is easily faked.
If you've found anything online that has helped you get that working, if you remember and don't mind sharing I'd appreciate it.
There is an old joke that AI researchers came up with several decades ago: "quality of results is inversely proportional to the number of linguists involved".

This has been tried repeatedly many times before, and so far there has been no indication of a breakthrough.

The fundamental problem is that we don't know the actual rules. We have some theories, but no coherent "unified theory of language" that actually works. Chomsky in particular is notorious for some very strongly held views that have been lacking supporting evidence for a while.

With LLMs, we're solving this problem by bruteforcing it, making the LLMs learn those universal structures by throwing a lot of data at a sufficiently large neural net.
> What is the alternative to the DSL with lower cognitive load?

In the test example, writing it directly in the programming language. This will usually lead to code that is more verbose and repetitive, but understanding the first example will be faster.

I think of cognitive load like a line. X is the number of cases you’re working with, Y is cognitive load [0]. For someone who already knows a programming language, the DSL is going to have a higher Y intercept since you have to learn something new before you understand the first case. Hopefully, it’s a shallower slope so as you deal with more cases the upfront cost gets paid back. If you have lots of people dealing with one case or doing it infrequently enough they have to relearn each time, this payoff never happens.

This model extends past DSLs to all abstractions. It’s why people often end up happier with test code that’s less abstract/DRY. The access pattern supports it.

Looking at it this way also explains why a DSL for a non-programmer is more likely to be useful. The intercept can be lower than an actual programming language, so you’re ahead from the start.

[0] It’s really more of a curve, but the line model works conceptually.
US Treasury Department breached through remote support platform
They must have fixed the link, it points to a page with a .gba file now. I would have liked it to point to a page that loaded a js/wasm emulator with the playable game in it.
Interview Coder: free and open-source interview cheater
I'm Roy, a sophomore at Columbia, and me and my friend built Interview Coder as a way to kill Leetcode style technical interviews.

We've gotten multiple people offers at FAANG, Big Tech, and even HFT like Two Sigma.

Let me know if you have any questions and please star the repo!
At the end of the day the stock market is a consensus model with a spectrum between two, sometimes contradictory, metrics (sentiment and analytical). If your conclusions about a stock agree with the market then you profit. If you can guess what the market will decide before it has decided, then you profit more.

All those lines do actually mean something, so long as the market is in agreement as how to draw them.

FWIW these bots aren't doing the lines stuff, they are purely sentiment traders.
TIL he did it on hard mode. It is much easier to play very drunk when (even very) slightly drunk.
No. The motivation to make existing flows faster and do more of those at once is constant. It wasn’t initiated by bloated web apps
> Somebody had been touching my sentinel’s privates - and it definitely wasn’t a friend

Gotta love programmers out of context
How is this possible?! I saw the screenshots and it looks great!

What am I missing?
I'm starting to get a feeling that making games for "outdated" systems is worthwhile. I don't think we tapped out the potential of most of these.
There could be an interesting meta discussion here, of the kind that doesn't usually happen recently.

IIUC, you're focusing on that 2A aspect because it's a topic that you know and care about, and think needs to be mentioned?

And the other aspects of the story were already being discussed, and you had nothing to add on those?

If so, did you say "the real criminal" only as a figure of speech? Or do you think that nothing about the pipe bombs, etc., was criminal?
I agree. The line between a DSL and regular old programming abstractions is fuzzy. Learning some language design is very helpful because you’ll see every abstraction is a little piece of language.
Simpler than that: It's all hallucinations, some of them just happen to be ones humans approve-of.

It's kind of like a manufacturer of Ouija boards promising that they'll fix the "channeling the wrong spirits from beyond the mortal plane" problem. It falsely suggests that "normal" output is fundamentally different.
Good Intermernet, very good Intermernet, keep up the good behavior and the key to your chastity cage shall be unlocked come May 2026.
Deadline Scheduling Policy Being Experimented with for Linux Graphics Drivers
How is this not an act of war?
Popular browser extension Honey accused of shady business practices
Googlefu is how its usually called. It would be fantastic if there was a general course to teach it
HN is our backyard for learning & understanding new perspectives. To all - ಹೊಸ ವರ್ಷದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು!!
How is this not an act of war? If they sent people physically over to do this it would be, so how is this different?
Exfil all your data and find a new service. Not hard. Cost of business with any start up, be prepared to exfil in 3 mo at any time. Run into this over and over.
Happy New Year, whether you celebrated it in the past or the future.

Remember - the new year is not yet written. Amazing and unexpected things are sure to come.
Shout out. Crossing fingers for 2025.

Reading some Peter Turchin, not looking good.
Why are you pasting huge chunks of potentially crown jewels code into a 3rd party service where prompts are going to most likely be turned into training/surveillance material?
I don't trust OpenAI, and I don't know why anyone else would at this point.
> Most existing LLM interfaces are very bad at editing history, instead focusing entirely on appending to history. You can sort of ignore this for one-shot, and this can be properly fixed with additional custom tools, but ...

Somebody somewhere needs to provide a threaded interface to an LLM.
Good thing is it provides better insulation than wood.
> The equivalence class of Cauchy sequences is vastly larger and misleading compared to those of integers and rational numbers. You can take any finite sequence and prepend it to a Cauchy sequence and it will represent the same real number.

What's the misleading part of this supposed to be?
That's not exactly how it happened. Sony of Japan was the first to successfully commercialize lithium ion batteries, most commonly used in EVs, in the early 1990's; quickly followed by South Korea -- most or 3/4 of all active lithium ion battery patents come from either Japan or South Korea.

China was very late to the EV battery game and LFP was more or less their only choice, which was deemed inferior for EVs due to its low energy density, but whose core patents were all about to expire -- ie, great for exports. They are effectively patent-free now.

In short, the Chinese gov't essentially forced all key EV battery industry leaders to waive their IPR to access China's local market; then effectively banned them and forced their customers, EV OEMs, to switch to local Chinese battery suppliers, who were still learning to make batteries under MIIT's Regulation on Power Standard since 2015/2016 (announced/enforced). That's essentially how China came to corner the battery supply-chain and scale up/commoditize their production at the expensive of everyone else past 10 years.
We need both, clearly advertised for what they are, and then all everyone can make their own risk calculus.
(Off topic) Which open-source engine/framework is best in terms of cross-platform? It seems that LÖVE is desktop-only.

Edit: by cross-platform I mean desktop + console + mobile.
My former roommate works in a similar domain; https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3448016.3452841 is an example of a paper implementing intrinsics in pseudocode. They "unroll" the intrinsics with a comment saying that this is implemented with an intrinsic. Of course though, your blog isn't a paper, don't know why people are getting up in arms about it.

Also the other comment saying that "psuedocode is not concerned with intrinsics" is false. You can get "great" theoretical speedups (the shaveoffs are tiny but hey, they're better) with "simple" intrinsic operations - that's my roommate's entire research lol. The external memory model, for example, formalizes caching and allows all these low level optimizations to flourish. I'm not sure how intrinsics tied into it, but he's published so I'm not gonna question it :)

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Speaking of which, I noticed that you did competitive programming. How does CP compare to research? I loved data structure manipulation problems in CP when they were clever - often because they involved noticing that you can take a "common" model, but then optimize it significantly because you only needed to support a subset of the operations through a clever mathematical proof based on the structure of the problem - but as I got to the higher levels it felt more and more that a lot of them became really obscure "support 413 operations on a tree, and yes, you really need to support all 413 operations on a tree" and that's kind of my opinion of data structure research unfortunately as well :( I guess because solving broad general instances is more important. I'd love to hear your perspective though.
I’m aware that many HN people view this as a pipe dream, but why? It works. The largest compute platform in the world, namely the web, is like this, and many of the largest businesses run on the JVM and the CLR. Loads of nasty problems go away when you are not directly mangling bits in memory and when you have a real runtime.

Of course modern safe languages like Rust give you some of those benefits in compiled code too.
> [paper claimed] LLMs are scheming

IMO a much better framing is that the system was able to autocomplete stories/play-scripts. The document was already set up to contain a character that was a smart computer program with coincidentally the same name.

Then humans trick themselves into thinking the puppet-play is a conversation with the author.
Damn son. You rock, seriously. Very happy to hear you got out.
> Happy New Year from the West coast!

This was around 18:10 PST so the greeting may have introduced a race condition.

Happy New Year anyway, logic be darned!
This was fun. Thanks
Psql.sh: browser native PostgreSQL command line client
I bet the acquirer got Bench for peanuts. It is worth quite a bit less than if they had made a deal 2 weeks ago, but I bet they paid a tenth.
A lot of vendors promise not to train on input to their models. I choose to believe those promises.
Lying requires intent to deceive. How have you determined their intent?
You're right that there's no technical moat at play with immersive video, however, I foresee this as a licensing moat that Apple could capture. If they are the only cameras on the field, it doesn't matter if Meta's headsets are cheaper.
As the TIOBE index says “The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors”. Very many people do care about that. Is there any reason I should think your remark is from some legitimate issue rather than you not liking the index results?
You may want to refresh your familiarity with Rust, I haven't touched nightly in ages and much of what you mention doesn't really resonate with what I've seen in practice. Not saying the language doesn't have issues and things that aren't frustrating but in my experience unless you're going to go to the nines in testing/validation/etc (which is the first thing that's cut when schedules/etc are in peril) I've seen Rust code scale better than C++ ever did.

More tools in the C/C++ realm are always welcome but I've yet to see more than 50% of projects I've worked on be able to successfully use ASAN(assuming you've got the time to burn to configure them and all their dependencies properly). I've used ASAN, CBMC and other tools to good effect but find Rust more productive overall.
Outside of big tech, those titles aren’t common. Level X SWE vs staff vs principal doesn’t mean anything to a lot of people who aren’t in that orbit.
They look hideous to me. The composition of colors and irritating fonts is just so over the top and distracting.
3D printed concrete, to be exact; and the cost benefits over traditional cast concrete seem unclear to me.
ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಹೊಸ ವರ್ಷದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು
For many businesses an app also has a web version for those users who refuse to install the app. I'm thinking my local supermarket, or kmart, they want me to install their app for some reason. I suppose it's so they can send me advertising as notifications? Many business that aren't "app only" have to have both web app and mobiles apps. App development studios love them.
Workflows aside, I think "interruptible work" is what matters, really. That is, maintaining state in-between inferences so that it follows some well-defined goal.
> A typical _top tier_ sharpe is in the >=2 range, we're more talking about a 10%/25% averaged annual returns.

High-frequency low latency trading: Sharpe 10 or higher

Mid-frequency low latency trading: sharpe 4 to 5

Hedge fund statistical arbitrage: sharpe 1 to 2

Hedge fund long/short, event driven, global macro, etc: sharpe 0 to 1

And yes, HFT and MFT scales to billions in annual PnL for single firms.

There’s a reason quant HFT firms pay the most, and are ranked above OpenAI in pay and prestige. Hedge funds are tier 2 in comparison but not bad either.
I never understood why anyone bothered with native apps. It defies reason why consumers would prefer to download some clunky app instead of just using it in their mobile browser with no strings attached. The main excuse I keep hearing are UI/UX differences but web UI/UX is excellent these days, it really doesn't offset the huge negative hurdle of having to download an untrusted app which takes up your time and uses up space on your phone before you can use it. How do consumers even know they will like the app before they tried it? Why would they download an app they don't know? It makes no sense to me. WTF! The user will only ever download the native app if they've been conditioned to believe that it's worth their time and disk space. But how do you get that conditioning effect going when you're just starting out? Massive chicken-and-egg problem.

I think it's probably a remnant of a very successful corporate PsyOp. I can see why big tech wants to be able to covertly access people's cameras, microphones and location data. In most cases, there is literally nothing positive for the consumer. It's a story of leveraging user apathy to manufacture consent. Most people fell for it. Personally, I hate being forced to download native apps when the web version of the app already works perfectly.

Sometimes I feel like the push against web tech is partly the product of a spiteful group of developers who hate JavaScript because they had a bad experience with it back in 2010 and they've stubbornly refused to re-evaluate their position in spite of the language showing extreme resilience and adaptability.

The HTML + CSS + JavaScript combo is a marvel of software engineering. The ECMAScript standard is surely one of the most impressive accomplishment that bureaucracy has ever produced. It has progressed with both speed and quality, picking the best parts of many different languages.
The days are getting longer in the northern hemisphere and shorter in the southern hemisphere. And the start of the ISO 8601 dates is changing!

I also monitor the changes of the hexadecimal unix timestamps. The next time the first of 8 hex digits changes is in 2029.

from datetime import datetime
'{:02X}'.format(int(datetime.now().timestamp()))
datetime.fromtimestamp(0x70000000)

And this spits out the year in Python: 3**2**2*5**2
Oh wow! I wonder how well it works in a crowded urban environment as opposed to the less crowded areas their examples of poachers and illegal fishing vessels operate in?
All this nattering about rust and C++, and then there's me thinking about how to do it in Common Lisp, possibly keeping the simd bits.
Like everything the answer is... it depends on what you're looking for.

What does cross-platform mean to you? Just MacOS/Windows/Linux? Web? Consoles? Android? iOS? Blackberry?

Godot comes pretty close to a batteries included cross-platform engine that handles 2D/3D.

JS engines can likely be ported (with varying degrees of effort as PWAs, electron/tauri, etc) to most systems as well - look into Phaser though its intended use is 2D.
> and end-to-end encrypted their customers' data

Somewhat of a tangent: does anyone have any resources on designing/implementing E2E encryption for an app where users have shared "team" data? I understand the basics of how it works when there's just one user involved, but I'm hoping to learn more about how shared data scenarios (e.g. shared E2E group chats like Facebook Messsenger) are implemented.
No, IOCP is not a workaround for syscall overhead. In fact this performance hit has nothing to do with syscall overhead. The overhead is O(1). The penalty of the readiness design is O(n). Because if the system can't copy into your n-byte buffer in the background, then you gotta block for O(n) time to memcpy it yourself.
Apple and Google care about this because they handle more customer data and require more customer trust than most companies.

People were shitting a brick over a pretty minor change in photo and location processing at Apple. That’s because they don’t screw up like this.
Usually no problem with subsidies as long as it is local (eg, GM bailout).

China's gov't subsidies to promote export in markets abroad or undercut foreign competitors are generally prohibited.(see Article 3 Prohitibion of the WTO's Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Agreement).
What's arc bench?
I was interested, so went and checked out the filing for this [1], it looks like he only got hit with the possession with intent to distribute, with the other 3 charges (including 'possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number') being dismissed.

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/8228342/parties/united-...
The typical IT department in a large corporation is way too big to have reasonable visibility into what it manages. There's no way to build reasonable controls that work out when you have 50K programmers on staff. It's purely a matter of size.

Often the end result is having just enough red tape to turn a 2 week project into an 8 month project, and yet not enough as to make sure it's impossible for someone to, say, build a data lake into a new cloud for some reports that just happen to have names, addresses and emails. Too big to manage.
> I cannot understand why seems it was bad for him…

There are many poorly designed libraries, and DSL design is no easier. While I haven’t personally encountered any, I’m sure there are numerous half-baked DSLs out there.
100% agreed. Those small independent developers also had more on the line, and I'd trust them far more than a Big Tech company that cares almost exclusively about $$$ and is made up of employees which largely dilute responsibility among themselves and many of which probably aren't even there because of how well they can program.