skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think anyone uses var anymore. Linters and prettier are doing a good job keeping codebase consistent.
Operator == has a valid use case (null or undefined check) but rarely allowed as well.

But I wouldn’t mind to have language without legacy.
I'm wondering about the first example of device drivers. Whether we are talking about Linux or Windows, anything beyond generic device drivers (which push the problem to the hardware) will frequently be vendor specific. You often can't get the full potential of a device until you do so.
None. It's the modern victimisation mentality.
Source?

Wikipedia says the Spanish beat the British to it.

>The term concentration camp originates from the Spanish–Cuban Ten Years' War when Spanish forces detained Cuban civilians in camps in order to more easily combat guerrilla forces. Over the following decades the British during the Second Boer War and the Americans during the Philippine–American War also used concentration camps.
> or just a stocktrader haha

Many quant trading firms make 50%-100% annual returns, each year, over the past 15-20 years. The secret is leverage. And they do not accept outside investor money.

Many hedge funds outperform the market. However, the returns after fees, to the passive outside investor underperform S&P500.

But yes, publicly traded active ETFs generally underperform. But counter example is VGT or QQQ, both historically outperformed S&P500.
Not just in Germany - I was pretty amazed it was little known in the UK. But I guess every country has their supposed iconic cultural touchstones of outside countries the mentioned countries know little about.

BTW: Go watch it if you can find it; it's actually pretty funny the first time around.
This came up on Reddit recently:

> So I'm absolutely fucking obsessed with the Fruit Adventure flavor of Tic-Tacs. [...] I've been buying them in bulk, where each container has 200 candies each, and they come in bulk packs of 12 containers. I tend to eat them by the handful while I'm working or gaming, so in a day I can easily slam through 1-2 containers.

> Over the past year, I found that I gained about 40lbs, and nothing about my eating habits had changed as far as I was aware. I told my doctor about it and she was a bit worried, so she had me do a bunch of bloodwork to see if there was a reason why I gained so much weight in a short period of time. Everything came back normal. She referred me to see a weight loss doctor who would also have me see a dietician.

> I had been working with the dietician for a few months now, and we have me keep a food log. I had a virtual visit with her today and during it, I was fiddling around with an empty container to keep my hands busy. She saw it and asked where I got such a large container from, so I told her about it and how I eat 1-2 of those per day. She asked why those weren't on my food tracker and I said it was because they're 0 calories so they wouldn't count.

Reddit OP goes on to discover what you posted. One of the comments in the thread was:

> I just finished a diploma in a medical field, we were warned about people like you OP. I wish I was joking.

https://old.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/1cck4u8/tifu_by_not_t...
I think of Kube as more of abstractions whereas Wasp & Dark lang would be DSLs for the same concepts
Very interesting. Certainly good to know for the debate on AI stealing vs repurposing artists' content.

Which version of stable diffusion is this? I would think a newer, less overfit model would be much less likely to make these mistakes, especially given the random initialization nature of diffusion.
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> But intelligence agencies insist on having access to innocent citizens' conversations.

That's part of the problem. But companies also are unwilling to pay to do any of the things that you've described. There is no punishment or fine that is actually punitive. Protecting (short term) profit is more important than protecting users' data --- it's even more important than protecting the (long term) profit potential of a company with a good reputation.

Until the data breaches lead to serious $$$ impact for the company, the impact of these breaches will simply be waved off and pushed down to users. ("Sorry, we didn't protect your stuff at all. But, here's some credit monitoring!") Even in the profession of software development and engineering, very few people actually take data security seriously. There's lots of talk in the industry, but also lots of pisspoor practices when it comes to actually implementing the tech in a business.
The Future of Mindless Scrolling
I meant the movie.
Combining universal time-series prediction models with latent space global knowledge on realtime information could result in an accurate model prediction on the stockmarket with a bias towards succeeding. https://research.google/blog/a-decoder-only-foundation-model...
Haha. This is a great list. I have heard variants of these ideas over the years.
> Brave supports bringing your own LLM e.g. through Ollama

It's a shame Brave is so far ahead of the game but no one seems to notice.
For those interested in the story, this is a fantastic podcast episode on the history of TSMC.

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc
There is nothing “ad hominem” in what I said. I was discussing your remarks, rather than you. However, I will now discuss you. You exhibit severe deficits in logical reasoning skills. Some of your comments exhibit signs of disorganized thoughts, which are linked to schizophrenia.

To give an example, the sudden interjection of “Not a single Windows MacOS iOS Android user knows what their display server is and how it works.” appears to be an example of disorganized thinking, since its connection to what was being discussed is superficial to an extreme. There are other comments by you that exhibit signs of disorganized thinking even more clearly.

You likely could benefit from seeing a psychiatrist.
I maintain a system that has about 11k deprecation warnings. it had roughly the same number in 2007 - it’ll be alrite :)
Easy to digest to me is a matter of process plus order. Just because you can boof wine/ai and feel a greater high than if you just took a sip doesn't mean you should. I'd start by setting the table and throwing out your last meal. start over in the 60s and work forward.

stafford beer on cybernetics (also worth mention, norbert weiner):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ6orMfmorg

Lots of other people start w/ other things but i'm a mgmt minded person so a social engineering + psychology + anthropology oriented lens has always been my anchor.

My first real intro to math where everything clicked was w/ primitive graph theory as it were 2000+ years ago. From there, algebra, geometry, trig, calc, etc# started clicking.
> Just the last several months I've been using Qmodem scripting to make thousands of modem calls over VoIP to test downloads to see which models and ATAs work best.

This is great. That someone is still using this software meaningfully to this day.-
These are from SD1.4, but someone in the replies was able to get the same results from SD1.5

https://x.com/stealcase/status/1874114960160379293
> You should be able to read comments on dead article

Showdead is already on but there's no discussion option on some dead articles.

For those articles, the full set of options is:

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He might be referring to his work on Google Chrome
This comment reminds me of the infamous Dropbox comment :)
Around here people abstract because they are taught to abstract in multiple different CS education programs. For whatever reason they are taught Clean Architecture even though it’s horrible. Then they spend the next 5-10 years learning not to abstract or write 5 line functions which then lead down a chain of 900 function calls. As an external examiner or some or these CS students it always pains me to examine them in a curriculum that I know will lead to dead end job in stagnant small sized companies. It is what it is though. I guess it’s hard to compete with the entire industry of pseudo-science and shitty consultancy when nobody is pushing an “indirection manifesto”.

Hilariously Uncle Bob will write off any criticism as “they misunderstood the principles”. He’s correct too, but maybe the principles are simply too vague when we’ve had them for 20 years and our industry has never been more of a mess.
If you visit the site without the subdirectory [0], you can see a message upload interface. The handwriting is supplied by the user (may or may not be AI-generated); the drawing movements are generated with some (hopefully non-AI) algorithm.

[0] https://handwritten-card.vercel.app/
TL;DR: Meta started with a pre-trained language model. They then fine-tuned it on step-by-step reasoning examples as you would do if you wanted your model to become particularly good at chain of thought reasoning.

However, they also introduced a couple of new tokens. The <bot> token tells the model to go into latent space thought mode (“beginning of thought”). The <eot> token ends latent space thought mode. While in this mode, the model auto-regressive iterates by copying its final hidden layer back onto its input layer, obviously generating new tokens at the output with each inference step as it always does.

The idea is that by passing the final hidden layer back through a few times, the model can squeeze more insight from the context. And that’s precisely what they found was true.

Training involves progressively replacing language reasoning steps with latent space auto-regression steps. So for instance, you might have a math problem in the training data and at first the model is fed all of the steps of the math problem in language form. But in later iterations of training, step one is replaced with latent space auto-regression. And then step two as well, then also step three, etc…

Eventually, the model learns to enable latent space thinking mode by itself by generating the <bot> tokens and to end it be generating <eot> tokens.

Pretty ingenious!
A new stage of Russian hybrid warfare [video]
It would be horrible if we lost desktop computing to a scenario where we need permission from one of the tech giants before running code.

Those who sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither.
SMBC: What Makes a Mathematical Proof Beautiful
I did exaggerate a bit. Many users don’t care about where their connections are going and many users have only limited set of apps.

I wouldn’t mind like to correct myself and say “essential for me”. So many times I caught up software going to places where it should not go.
On top of that I often do local development without containers (guilty) and any random npm package can be compromised any time.
> Until someone finds a successful collision attack.

The only way to get a successful collision attack is to have a picture/video that is stored in that hash database.

To put it in perspective. You randomly picking the same atom twice in the observable universe has a higher chance than getting a mismatch.

> Until shareholder/growth pressure causes them to replace that human with an AI.

How do you think it will impact shareholders to know that the company is not actively scanning for illegal content.

Also it's Interpol/FBI that get involved.
So this is obviously the intelligence agencies cleaning data before Trump takes control right
I see the miscommunication now. It's possible to interpret what I wrote as "no places/activities should require searches", but what I meant was "not all places/activities should require searches". That's a bit hyperbolic of course since the resources don't exist to search everyone, everywhere, all the time. There has been an increase in recent years, and I would like it reversed.

I am opposed to premises liability being a motivation for anyone to conduct searches. Liability isn't the reason searches are conducted at airports or courthouses to give a couple examples, so eliminating it would not eliminate those searches. Businesses also might have other motivations, such as making their customers feel safer; if that outweighs customers finding it annoying or offensive, some of those would likely continue.

> someone gets shot by a third party, stabbed by a third party, or mugged by a third party then there is no liability to the business/landowner in any case. Ever.

This does correctly state my position.
No, reinterpret_cast doesn't change the type of the underlying object. The rule in [basic.lval]/11 (against accessing casted values) applies to all glvalues, whether they come from pointers or references.
Think about the opposite of your question. If it could it already would have, so why hasn’t it? It must not be possible. It doesn’t scale like a cpu or a website. You are still hiring extremely skilled welders, complying with regulations so you don’t Chernobyl half the country, figuring out where to put the waste that is radioactive for longer than modern humans have existed.
I was also going to link Loyal, I think they came up on HN last year and had some good discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38447491

There's also https://leapyears.com/ - another project with similar goals. That one is associated with David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School:

https://sinclair.hms.harvard.edu/people/david-sinclair

Personally, I'm optimistic about the capacity of studies and projects like these to extend our knowledge regarding aging. Human trials are fraught with ethical issues, and have very slow feedback loops (acquiring results from a study might take decades, which can be an entire career). Laboratory trials on mice and other small mammals can be more effective, but funding is hard and the results are isolated to a small academic lab. Large-scale supplements for pets can give data in a few years, have lesser (though not negligible) ethical problems, and have built-in funding. The funding process is, of course, a source of conflicts of interest, but it has to be done somehow.
I know I'm not alone in this, but after doing this for more than 20 years I can't shake the idea that we are doing it wrong -- meaning programming. Is it really this nit-picky, brittle, and hard?

The brittleness is what gets me. In physical mechanical and even analog electrical systems there are tolerances. Things can almost-work and still work for varying degrees of work. Software on the other hand is unbelievably brittle to the point that after 50 years of software engineering we still really can't re-use or properly modularize code. We are still stuck in "throw it away and do it over" and constantly reinventing wheels because there is no way to make wheels fit. The nature of digital means there are no tolerances. The concept isn't even valid. Things fit 100% or 0%.

We keep inventing languages. They don't help. We keep inventing frameworks. They don't help. We keep trying "design patterns" and "methodologies." They don't help. If anything all the stuff we invent makes the problem worse. Now we have an ecosystem with 20 different languages, 50 different runtimes, and 30 variants of 5 OSes. Complexity goes up, costs go up, reusability never happens, etc.

I remember for a while seeing things like the JVM and CLR (the VM for C# and friends) as a way out-- get away from the brittle C API and fully compiled static native code and into a runtime environment that allowed really solid error handling and introspection. But that paradigm never caught on for whatever reason, probably because it wasn't free enough. WASM is maybe promising.
This is why I like Google Fi. It is much harder to do account takeout over of a Google Fi number compared to most telecos. The attacker would have to take over the Google account which seemed to be harder to do.
Sounds like a fun experiment! The overflow-x:hidden on body/html is causing weird issues when scrolling (on FF.)
A few years ago with GCC 10, I had some strange UD2 instructions (I think) inserted around some inline assembly that was fixed by replaced my `reinterpret_cast`s with `bit_cast`.
Full sketch, with the German introduction skipped.

https://youtu.be/To8g9XxAdXs?t=147
I'm a 100% with you on this, but I always try to be as neutral about this as I can. A character/temper of a developer should not be the main topic of discussion, the software should be though.

To your comment about committees. That (or the lack thereof) is a big critique point the ansel developer makes. A leadership of one is better than the leadership of none. And since he forks darktable and mostly removes and replaces some functions I don't see it as a problem in this case, especially since he has been maintaining the project for many years now.

Anyway like I said, I would recommend trying the software and if you think it's worse than darktable just don't use it :)
I for instance have multiple software packages installed and am quite annoyed to have to use multiple packages for one "thing" and I always try to use the best tool for the job. On photo management/editing I'm quite torn
Compiler Explorer in 2024
>Given it's the empire responsible for the most human deaths in history, it's hard to argue

Is it? The amount of deaths shouldn't be compared to 0, it should be compared to a counterfactual where the indigenous people were in charge. Otherwise you run into the "doctors with most patient deaths" problem. It's possible that the doctor is objectively bad, or that he's receiving the sickest patients. It's plausible for instance, that areas with local rulers who are brutal and despotic are easy to conquer/colonize by an outside empire, because the brutality/despotism means it's easy to assemble a local coalition to depose the current regime.
Also not to nitpick but the image does not at all capture the spirit of “two children under a trench coat”. The one on the bottom is just lying on the floor lol.
The web is just a beautiful publishing platform.

- no permission needed (mostly)

- built-in discoverability

- you get to figure out whatever payment processing you want

- works on every device

- update code in seconds

- no copy protection needed
Or the way highly competitive PhD applications work: "Have you worked with someone I know?"

The more you try to automate and scale human interactions, the more the in-demand connections will retreat into hard-to-reach private channels.
That's effectively the question: what is the buffer size needed to insulate two unit operations without introducing penalizing ramp up and ramp down phases. If one could get such answers from Factorio that would be very funny for the 10-20k dedicated software packages.
Most professional advice is like relationship advice, people extrapolate something that went wrong for them into general cases but that rarely directly applies to someone who is not you in that very similar situation. And the advice that seems to work consistently gets so generic that is almost useless. Something like "be thoughtful, try to do the right thing and reflect back to see how it went" doesn't write blog posts or sells books!
I don’t really know what a “calculus” class is since here (the UK) that term isn’t really used for university-level mathematics; we’d usually say “analysis” instead, but I know that “analysis” is a class in the US too, so I don’t know if calculus is closer to what we would do just prior to university (a bit of limits, differentiation, Riemann integrals, a bit of vector calculus).

Virtually every first year UK undergraduate analysis course will start with a construction of the reals via Dedekind cuts, and this is about the level that this book is pitched at.

The original commenter suggested that “least upper bounds” is a simpler approach, and that Hardy’s book is outdated by using Dedekind cuts; it may be that constructing the reals is not something that would be done at “calculus”-level in the US, but clearly the book isn’t aimed at that level.

Dedekind cuts (or Cauchy sequences) are totally standard, and I don’t think it’s fair to criticise their use at all.
Have you tried bitwarden?
This is about apps being easily simple enough to make into a web page.

No one is saying a table with javascript can't be done in a web page, people have been doing it for 30 years.
The problem is that the amount of effort we can spend on nuclear energy is finite. And we _need_ it.

We have a good, well-known solution that has been in wide use for 60 years. So we just need to build it.
Happy New Year (jingle bean with Windows XP critical error sound) [video]
Yes, it's all definitely X first of all.
It’s a bit better but I’ve still not found any PWAs that I’d want to use over a native Android app, if only because they’re near-universally rough, quirky, and generally unpleasant in ways that modern Jetpack Compose apps aren’t.
I assume that shorting an asset you don't have may incur extra costs in some brokers. That would skew the results because a Buy would have X fees and a Sell/short would have 5X fees. So on a equal distance/pips movement the Buys would always be more profitable.
> the values inside an LLM are discrete even if they're floating point.

If that were true they'd never be able to learn anything - neural nets depend on continuous gradients to learn. Weights get updated by incremental/continuous amounts based on gradients.

Even at the output of an LLM, where the internal embeddings have been mapped to token probabilities, those probabilities are also continuous. It's only when you sample from the model that a continuous probability becomes a discrete chosen token.
That's awesome, rasz! It's amazing how 86box allows us to peer into hardware we otherwise couldn't easily access. 8)
> ... he asked a fair question about the bamboo ceiling.

Apparently the concept of “bamboo ceiling” (similar to glass ceiling) has its own Wikipedia entry:

TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_ceiling
You can, at the same time, verify a person's identity upon opening the account, as you mentioned with documents, and use a TOTP MFA instead of SIM-based authentication. If regulators require SIM-based authn, then it's just bad policy, which should come to no one's surprise when it comes to government regulation. Finally, KYC is for the IRS. The illusion of safety makes a good selling point, though.
> Nobody wants a 10 year old video editor

Terrible example. Many professionals, hobbyists and casuals do, actually. The only reason I still have a Mac is running ancient versions of CS and Premiere..

The only things Im really missing are codecs and, well, running it on a modern OS. Still prefer it over the cloud crap. I guess you think Im a “nobody“.
Glide was cool when it launched but they never made that product work. Right now they have moved to an agency model and that is their product.
> collisions and even arbitrary second preimages have been constructed.

The chance of a mismatch is 8.63616855509e-78%

If the hash was an atom then you would have to guess which atom in the observable universe it is. That is how likely a collision will happen.
Just this morning I complained about the a news article here listing all the times and channels it will be broadcasted. I mean as a German it’s kinda normal to watch it at least once in life. My English teacher used it as a way to do role play (next to singing Whams last Christmas, the fact that I still know the lyrics speaks volumes how often we had to sing it ;))

Back then one had to wait for New Year’s Eve to watch it. But in the age of YouTube and Co the magic is lost for me. Yes people cling to only watch it on TV only on new years as a tradition.
That seems unlikely. I'm open to the possibility. You'd have to provide some evidence though.
I guess the opposite of this is that in Austria and Germany they don't really know The Sound of Music. And Edelweiss is not a song everyone in Austria and Germany sing all the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelweiss_(song)#Austrian_atti...
Keeping off weight may be a challenge because our fat cells can't forget
Android and Windows do too.
You know what would make sense for Firefox adoption? iOS Firefox that actually works. People complain that every browser is a reskin of Safari on iOS, but somehow only Firefox, native iOS app, manages to lag worse than any webview wrapper app I've ever used.
Why do straight to dystopia when notary publics exist?