skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The deal with epi pens is simply that epinephrine is cheap, but the "pen" mechanism is patented.
Hard to say. On the one hand, there's a lot of front end work that AI could simplify or automate, since a fair amount of it is just boilerplate (and the kind that's heavily represented in their dataset). If you want a simple React component or basic registration form or something, then ChatGPT or Copilot can set it up in seconds. Just tested it now, and it's basically Bootstrap on demand.

But that's not the whole picture when it comes to this sort of work. Yes, you can generate components and pages, and that's nice enough. But it's how they glue together that matters, and what use case they solve, and in many cases, what bespoke functionality they have for domain specific requirements. AI tools can't solve that, nor can anyone who uses them without real programming knowledge make those sorts of systems.

I do worry about juniors though. I suspect quite a few companies will realise they don't need many of them if they can just give AI tools to their designers and senior devs and have them quickly pump out the boilerplate stuff in seconds...
Noto Sans for me
> And because every Linux distro uses a different theme and one of a dozen UI libraries/DEs/etc. the downloaded GUI application will look bad because it won’t fit in.

Most apps/DEs/etc. use either GTK or Qt. If your application uses GTK or Qt, it will use the user's preferred GTK/Qt theme by default, and fit in with all the other GTK/Qt apps on their system.

Sure, you might get unlucky, and your GTK app won't look great on a KDE desktop where that user doesn't have any other GTK apps and it sticks out. Or vice versa for your Qt app on a GTK-based desktop where the user hasn't picked a matching Qt theme.

But unless, for some reason known only to yourself, you decided to write your app for FLTK, EFL, wx, or some other niche toolkit, your app is going to work like at least one other app on 90% of users systems. And for those users running FLWM, Enlightenment, or some other weird graphical environment, I'm sure they'll cope.
I'm going to make the extremely controversial statement that writing software is a lot more difficult than all of those things.

I acknowledge that some feel their contributions are at that level, but that doesn't mean it's the norm.
Microsoft is moving more and more to virtualisation based security, including the ability to run “enclaves” for protecting specific pieces of software: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/trusted-exec.... I wouldn't be surprised if they'll soon leverage encrypted “VMs” as a means of storing secrets like these. All we need is wide general hardware availability on consumer platforms.

That said, previous side-channel attacks on CPUs have shown it possible to attack encrypted memory (https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentat...), targetting the cache as the CPU decrypts memory for normal operation. While it'll stop memory dumps from being effective, encrypted RAM won't be the end of dumping keys from memory, especially for patient or highly-skilled attackers.
Yeah, but Pointfree is the superior and more authentic monospaced Comic Sans descendant, because Comic Mono has serifs and overly regular strokes.
Just adding another comment to say how brilliant this film is. So atmospheric, such great music, such a grand presentation of the wild west and it's demise. It makes other westerns feel half-baked.
I completely agree. I also call "citation needed" on physical keys being replaced.
Running a .run to install the nvidia drivers is a very bad idea if your distro packages them, especially on NixOS (does it even work?)
You brought two to many horses...
That's not accurate and the problem is hardly simple. Medicare already reimburses teaching hospitals at higher rates.

https://www.cms.gov/medicare/payment/prospective-payment-sys...

What solution are you suggesting here exactly? Who should pay for graduate medical education, and how will we incentivize or force them to do it?
There's a general consensus that entropy is deeply spooky. It pops up in physics in black holes and the heat death of the universe. The physicist Erwin Schrodinger suggested that life itself consumes negative entropy, and others have proposed other definitions of life that are entropic. Some definitions of intelligence also centre on entropy.

What to make of all that however, has anything but consensus.
Recent:

Review by thechipletter (163 points, 3 days ago, 58 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529564

[The Secrets of the Man Who Made Nvidia the World’s Most Valuable Company](https://www.wsj.com/business/nvidia-jensen-huang-book-advice...) https://archive.is/X2yrx

[Interview: Tae Kim, Author of the Nvidia Way](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vjGIZOSjLE)
Outside of the Linux kernel, there is very little shared technology between Android and the Linux desktops.

They didn't even use the same graphics drivers till late.
A Gentle Introduction to Using a Vector Database
Because that is not their motivation and no amount of spin casting changes it.

There’s a simple counter-factual for people with this level of ability:

“Making money” can be easily pursued at BlackRock or any number of PE firms.

Creating historic technology, of unknown difficulty and scale of impact, is not something pure capitalism can or is designed to deliver. What would investors or customers buy at the start of OpenAI?

While OpenAI may end up a corporation like any other, it would not have achieved what it had as one.
File.pizza v2
no nonsense p2p file sharing
Key to know for people outside the US (if you don't already know this) is that here you almost always deal in 30 year fixed mortgages.

The buyer will never see their rates go higher than this in the life of the loan, and in reality, if/when rates drop again, they can refinance to a new 30 year fixed at the lower rate.
Dupe (38 points, 3 hours ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42553154

The letter: https://legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/25472740-lett...
Happens in a great "bond" like show I watched recently "The Day of the Jackal".
China's new AI model breakthrough [video]
Do you think this is actually faster than reading the docs? Every attempt I've had with LLM pair programming (I do it at least once a month trying to measure performance) ends up taking more time than if I turned to Google out the docs, even with how bad Google has gotten. Though it _feels_ faster because it _feels_ like you're making continual progress where reading docs doesn't have the same feeling. I suspect this is a confounder but I'm open to just being bad at AI programming (though isn't it meant to be universal? I mean I'm a ML researcher and that's what the papers promise).

I'm also curious if you think it helps you improve. Docs tend to give extra information that turns out to be useful now and many times later.

I still like and use LLMs a lot though. I find them useful in a similar way to your last paragraph. My favorite usage is to ask it domain topics where I'm not a domain expert. I never trust the response (it's commonly at best oversimplified/misleading but often wrong), but since it will use similar language to those in the field I can pick out keywords to improve a google search, especially when caught in term collision hell (i.e. Google overfitting and ignoring words/quotes/etc).

I do also find it helpful in validating what I think some code does. But same as above, low trust and use as a launching off point for deeper understanding.

Basically, I'm using LLMs as a fuzzy database optimized towards the data median with a human language interface. That is, after all, what they are.
FlipFlip: A glorified slideshow, with lots of bells and whistles
Dupe (613 points, 3 days ago, 193 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42525633
This is one of a long string of incidents involving IP theft, espionage, hacking, etc. originating from China. At what point does the US government decide to treat these as acts of war and aggressively wage its own war against China, with the goal of dismantling the Chinese economy and CCP?
I'm hallucinating, but IIUC, there is a philosophical loophole that makes tracking a car through factory installed means is a total wild west; because you don't know who owns or drives the car, but a car is sold to dealerships and resold to households to be used and maintained by anyone, you technically wouldn't know if it's driven by humans, just what you made seem to be doing something. Is that (still) correct?
Not sure I understand. Obelisks seems an inert descriptor to me, it has no connotation in the field so it's appropriately a blank slate.
.. DeepSeek-v3, discussion (122 points, 5 days ago, 39 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42514633
Growing theories that a Russian ‘shadow fleet’ is sabotaging underwater cables
Weird, I thought this was settled years ago, and it's obviously sequel. I guess we all live in our own echo chambers
From his Bad Physics series
http://www.goodmath.org/blog/category/bad-math/bad-physics/ -- http://www.goodmath.org/blog/category/bad-math/
> It's practically impossible for "Linux developers"—whatever that means—to ensure that a change they make doesn't break something downstream. Unlike proprietary operating systems...

That's exactly the point, though. Linux will "never be ready for the desktop" because of the problems that this causes. Developers of software for Linux, not to mention kernel developers themselves, do not have the kind of funding that Microsoft has to test on a truly staggering number of hardware configurations. And on the opposite side of the spectrum, they don't have the luxury of supporting a comparatively small set of hardware combinations like Apple has.
This, i argue, has nothing to do with the amount of work, but everything to do with the simplicity of proving a copy.

A specific arrangement of words, music, or light (in the case of film) are well protected. Painting & sculpture, perhaps less so; fashion, dance, and architecture, sweet fuck all. Which all have as much if not more creative input than an arrangement.

How I think they should be handled? Same as fashion or architecture, only direct copies in the same format are protected, everything else is derivative.
This is a really nitpicky thread when in my top comment I allowed for the possibility of private sources:

> If it truly cannot be linked because it is private, more context is still needed to understand what this data means.
> And that is because hardware vendors refuse to support Linux in the way they support Windows

Because Linux does not support hardware (or at least new hardware) in the same Windows does.

AMD makes new graphics card, steps on Windows vs Linux to release an updated driver to support it

Windows - Update driver, release via Windows Update / Website etc

Linux - Send patches months in advance to the LKML using email, make sure any patches needed in Mesa are also sent in with a completely different system. Then, wait for your patches to be peer reviewed and land, then wait for a kernel release, then wait for distros to package said kernel and release it, which if you're on a distro that fixes to a kernel version, could be waiting 6 months.
How is llm here better than Markov chains created from a corpus of English text? I guess similar idea must have been explored million times in traditional compression studies.
The Only Real Winners Are the Trial Lawyers
The fact that there’s flatpak AND snap (and the distro’s packages) just points to another nail in the coffin — there are just too many standards. If people could at least rally around snap OR flatpak, then we’d have more of a fighting chance.
+++ATH

QModem was the best (until everyone started pushing zmodem).
LineageOS 22
Math can be an end unto itself. This can come as a bit of a surprise in our prevailing culture, which needs to justify the usefulness of everything. Also, it's possible for someone to study math as a liberal art, and develop the ability to do useful things with it on their own. My observation is that the people who grudgingly learned math as a means to an end, tend to forget most of it soon after graduating. This explains the widespread but paradoxical aversion to math among engineers.
You raise some good points about the "total of hours spent" but I guess you don't consider training time included. Also there is no need to quote the author's post and have a go at him personally. There are better ways to get your point across by arguing the point made and not the sentences written.
Don’t code with mocks period.
Structure your code such that it has a functional core and imperative shell. All logic is unit testable (functional core). All IO and mutation Is not unit testable (imperative shell).

Mocks come from a place where logic is heavily intertwined with IO. It means your code is so coupled that you can’t test logic without touching IO.

IO should be a dumb layer as much as possible. It should be Extremely general and as simple as fetching and requesting in the stupidest way possible. Then everything else should be covered by unit tests while IO is fundamentally not unit testable.

If you have a lot of complex sql statements or logic going on in the IO layer (for performance reasons don’t do this if you can’t help it) it means your IO layer needs to be treated like a logical layer. Make sure you have stored procedures and unit tests written in your database IO language. You code should interface only with stored procedures as IO and those stored procedures should be tested as unit tests in the IO layer.
Not sure if you mean financial cost, or possibly environmental / human losses - but since it's in the middle of a desert, I assume they're trying to minimize the risk?
Problem is, if they thought that there was any chance of making it, telling people “we might have to shut down soon” will ensure that they do shut down.
403 is generally a bad way to get crawlers to go away - https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/02/dont-404-m... suggests a 500, 503, or 429 HTTP status code.
Embedded/in-memory Postgres for testing is easier than you might think.
cluckindan, I say this with earnest and sincere positive regard...

Please get some professional help from a place based in external reality. You are clearly deluded and are hallucinating.

I didn't mention anything related to NATO, nothing even remotely close, not here, not in this post, and not anywhere else. You hallucinated this.

I pointed out a contradiction with your criteria for defining misinformation. You also weren't resolving ambiguous indirections, this is fallacy that becomes circular. I pointed it out because when you embrace delusion and the associated blindness, and abandon critical thinking skills, method, and structure, you will expectedly enter a spiral of madness of your own making, suffering along the way.

In some parts of the world today, the insane are culled rather than be a burden on the living draining limited resources. There is no cure for people whose mind unravels, you either manage to recover on your own or you lose it entirely.

I hope you manage to pull yourself together, sincerely I do.
The point is that the TPM PIN prevents the attack if the system is powered off when the attacker obtains it.

If the TPM doesn't have a PIN, this attack works even if the attacker obtains the system when it's powered off. They can start the computer, proceed to the Windows logon screen (that they can't get past and that hence prevents them from exfiltrating data from the running system), then just reset the computer and perform this attack to obtain the encryption key. This obviously doesn't work if the PIN prevents Windows from ever even starting.
Growing theories that*

Article title: New evidence adds to growing theories that a Russian ‘shadow fleet’ is sabotaging underwater cables critical to digital infrastructure

Suggested title: Growing theories that a Russian ‘shadow fleet’ is sabotaging underwater cables (which fits in submission limit and doesn't change the meaning like this)
I've been using Linux on my desktop even longer, but I agree with at least the premise of the article (even though the arguments are poorly thought out and expressed most of the time).

No Linux-based OS has gained mainstream acceptance. You can try to blame that on marketing or corporations or whatever, but I don't buy that. I think open source software is the best way to make technically-superior software, but I think often it's a poor way to create the best user experiences, because the kinds of people who create open source software often don't care to focus on UX.

> That’s what consoles are for.

Millions (tens? hundreds? more?) of Windows gamers would disagree with you. You buy a console and do what you want, sure, go for it. But there is a market for Windows gaming, a very big one.
>but he mostly demonstrates tech invented by other people.

In the video it's stated that the PolyDye creator is a 4 year patron(Patreon?) to TeachingTech and it's a collaboration for the demonstration.

AND the linked has changed to the PolyDye github instead of the blog spam.
I'm curious to know the difference in approach where it's is effective, and where it's not. I've heard nothing but good from HF with regards to places like Finland, but this CBC report from Ottawa is grim:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QMJHp7KqTg
In the sense I understand that comparison, or have usually seen it referred to, the compressed representation is the internal latent in a (V)AE. Still, I haven't seen many attempts at compression that would store the latent + a delta to form lossless compression, that an AI system could then maybe use natively at high performance. Or if I have... I have not understood them.
If a new programming language is created in the future, how long would it take the LLM to become proficient in it for everyday use?
> I guess you don't consider training time included

In the same way that I don't consider the time an author spends writing a book when saying how long it took me to read the book. OP lost zero time training ChatGPT.

Or do you mean how much time OP spent training themself? Because that's a whole new can of worms. How many years should we add to OP's development times because probably they learned how to write code before this exercise?
> I've heard American doctors

Physicians are largely why the US doesn't have single payer.

They've been funding a massive influence campaign against government health insurance and most cost containment efforts for nearly a century under the guise of "protecting patients" (in reality protecting their pocketbooks).

https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-134-the-80-year-p...
Europe is a big place. Which part of Europe are you referring to? There's a huge variance in cost and quality of care between, let's say, Copenhagen and Chișinău.

And even if we look only at the wealthier EU member states, "better" depends on which metric you look at. They're generally more cost effective. But the US is better for 5-year survival rates on most types of cancer.
Very well said. This is the approach we're taking with peergos, paid accounts unless you self host. I wrote some of our thoughts on this here:

https://peergos.org/posts/the-social-dilemma
Is your project on schedule? How do you know?
FYI, I doubt we've ever interacted before. In particular, I am not 'rayiner and I am not Bangladeshi.
This is really interesting. As an aside, someone has created a GBA toolchain for the Nim language as well. It's really cool seeing these projects for a variety of languages.

https://github.com/exelotl/natu
divisions, regardless of integer or floating point, are usually NOT pipelined though
That's actually a really good question. It's certainly one of the key debated questions at the heart of what WotC is doing here (and as others point out, somewhat lagging the rest of the TTRPG industry, many of which got bored of "races" in the D&D mechanical sense a long time, in one way or another).

Are they archetypes for builds? Why are they archetypes for builds? Is it problematic if they are archetypes for builds? Are they just flavor for settings and character backgrounds and other storytelling needs? Should they be? Why have "races" at all and not just "backgrounds"?

It's an interesting ongoing debate.
Bentonite Clay as a Natural Remedy: A Brief Review (2017)
id-s do, which is handy here, but sometimes exciting if you aren't expecting it.
Unless the "store" is GNOME Software, which as far as I can tell doesn't work reliably on any distro.
Similarly we can look at that past 20 years of Euro/Yen/Pound against Argentinian Peso and conclude that it's all fine? Dollar is strong against other currencies only because of the global competitive devaluation.

USD is losing value rapidly. It's amusing to see politicians claiming credit for stocks going up while the food prices are up almost as much, but nobody is responsible for this one. Dollar is down massively and downplaying this fact is only encouraging more of the same.
I don't think it's the software that is the problem

The problem is the companies that run them. If you go out and get a new android phone, you cannot uninstall or remove youtube, instagram, or in some situations facebook.

You can "remove all data" and "force stop" and "disable" them, in that order, but that's not as easy for layperson who has no idea about technology.

The powers that be, don't give you access to technology in order to improve your life, they give it to you so they can profit from your lifelong dedication to it.
so like studying (human) biology and becoming a biologist
If this is a common problem, you should have some sort of "dead letter queue" where events like this can be held until your data model is updated to accept them.
It is impossible for Microsoft too. To name one example:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2020/02/15/micro...

Also, Microsoft does not do internal testing of various hardware configurations anymore:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140806183208-12100070-why-d...

They rely on end users to find problems for them:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/12/12/micro...
Thank you so much for your compliment, and for reading it. I tried to make it as thorough and informative as possible.
Integrating systemd soft-reboot into a distribution and surviving it [video]
It's still reading.

you can get profound insight from random youtube comments. A book can be a waste of time.

To separate them is to put a value on it that isn't there by any objective measure.

I'd argue "take a break from tech" does definitely involve putting down the books. go be with yourself for a bit. let your own thoughts develop, go "touch grass"
shameless self plug of modern uArchs and how LLVM models it: https://myhsu.xyz/llvm-sched-model-1
I get the distinct feeling it's been a long time since IBM wrote PL/I compilers considering anyone but IBM. So 'correct' here might be 'what IBM needs'. YMMV.
That's fair. Hardy himself was a zealot and in fact despised applications, writing that he hoped his work would never be put to extrinsic use, for then its value would become contingent on a particular stage of technological development.
The person who changes it should write a test to verify his change, right? Ultimately the person should write the test in the same file as the previous tests, chances are high it will be seen there. And even if not, the person doing the change should write a test, so no time bomb there?

And yes, people forget to write tests, sure, but even then it would be a time bomb without mocks.

I‘m not a friend of mocks either, but most examples here are not really an issue with mocks.
Interesting post. I wish it went deeper but I guess it's just a post-mortem.

Related, I found this old post that goes into the basics of GBA coding [1]. It doesn't look nearly as bad as I expected. That said I'm sure performance might be the issue once you start having a few things going.

If you have a good resource please let me know (I prefer C).

Edit: also this library [2].

[1] http://www.loirak.com/gameboy/gbatutor.php

[2] https://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/toc.htm