skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the language is required for one of two mobile ecosystems, and second major desktop ecosystem, popularity is relative.

For decades C# was only relevant on Windows, outside Unity never got wide adoption among AAA studios after Unreal became free, and after their license debacle less so, Godot favors C++ and GDScript even with C# support it isn't what most folks reach for, and Microsoft keeps having an adoption (popularity) problem on UNIX culture oriented startups.

While just like Swift on Apple's ecosystem, C# is doing just fine on Microsoft culture environments.

Popularity is relative.
Who needs the Matrix; we're putting everyone in the world in their own Chinese Room. From whom does the attack come, though?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
This is the last line in the article: Musk formed DOGE in cooperation with the new Trump administration with the stated goal of finding ways to fire federal workers, cut programs and slash federal regulations.

I thought DOGE was formed to cut unnecessary government waste and spending. I guess it's all in your perspective.
https://archive.ph/rHmJ8
> YouTube audio quality – How good does it get? (2022)

Good. YouTube audio quality is crap. Plain and simple. 320 bps MP3 sounds better than anything Youtube offers. And 320 bps MP3 is not even "quality".
It would be quite nice to add a 4G module, allowing you to drive around the city (:
Wonderstand – Your AI Companions, Personalized and Inspired by Notable Legends
There are so many realistic text to voice project shared on HN. Why YouTube is using robotic voice, and it sounds irritating and I can't listen to it more than a minute.
> A properly implemented Earley parser will do unambiguous grammars with left/right/mutual recursion in linear time.

It's not linear for all unambiguous grammars- only deterministic grammars, which can also be parsed with something faster like LR or even hand-written Pratt.

(An example of an unambiguous but nondeterministic grammar is this one for palindromes, which Earley parses in quadratic time: P -> 0 P 0 | 1 P 1 | ε)
Idk if they have it yet, but last time I used the VS Code REST extension it still didn't support pre/post request scripting (which is already insanely fragmented syntactically across Postman/Insomnia/Bruno).

For any long-term things that would normally be in a Postman collection and distributed to others / outside teams, I usually end up with folder-separated Hurl scripts (similar to your use).

I can totally see how the REST extension is way easier for point & shoot from within VSCode though!
A quote I found helpful:

"reinforcement learning from human feedback .. is designed to optimize machine learning models in domains where specifically designing a reward function is hard"

https://rlhfbook.com/c/05-preferences.html
This is not a very good link to post - it's a manpage.

A better link (from the developer's git repository):

https://mupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mupdf-command-line.ht...

Source for mutool:

https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/mupdf/blob/master/source/...
Proposal: Sync/v2: New Package
"None of you think the major religions teach some insane things? Okay then."

I was on the phone so couldn't type much, but my point is the concept of the collective cognitive imperative (much better explained in the book than in Wikipedia, to be fair) would answer your question by saying "it's not that nobody thinks that: it's that enough people accept those insane things to the point that 1) they don't think they're insane things, 2) you'd be an outsider (or even considered insane) if you point out the fact that they're insane things.

I'll try to give an example that would work in my cultural context (South America): someone making a rain dance during a drought would be considered by most to be something from harmlessly silly to crazy. Someone praying to the christian god for guidance or help would be seen as normal.
If you try to play something down always ask yourself „Was it necessary?“. Was it necessary to shutdown these systems down to change some gender selections?
There are a few examples I use when I hear such ignorant statements:
1. Not caring about privacy cuz you’ve got nothing to hide is like saying you don’t care about freedom of speech cuz you’ve got nothing to say.
2. If you don’t care about privacy, why don’t you poop with an open door, for everyone to observe?
> Consider your own ignorance. It is impossible to be certain of anything because of unknown unknowns. You merely assume they are lying, but you could never prove that.

Good point. In fact, I can't even prove that America exists. I can't prove that you're real person, or that I'm typing on a computer, or that I even exist. My own eyes could be deceiving me. I am condemned to a universe full of impenetrable doubt.

I should probably just ignore reason and logic, and instead spend my days shivering and alone, unable to interact with a world where so much is forever unknowable.

Of course, you can't prove that I can't prove that grepfru_it is lying, so really it would be you who should consider your own ignorance. I assume that a sage like yourself has already internalized your own advice and that you strictly avoid engaging in news or debate, since all externalities are unproveable. Right?
Would be interesting to know how much data leaks on a new iPhone with some of the iOS privacy settings enabled and a handful of popular apps installed (WhatsApp, Instagram, Google Maps, Uber, etc).

And then if you use a commercial VPN with DNS ad-blocking enabled, how much more does this help?
> I think your strongest venue to keeping it (short of a civil war) is organizing in labor unions.

US labor unions have been systematically weakened for decades, though, so that's not a very good chance. Labor organizing can do powerful things, but it doesn't tend to work overnight on the scale needed.
It would definitely be the capitalisation for people who are familiar with British sci-fi.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who
Americans is great-- a little uneven because there is a lot more of it then say, Patriot, but also a typically underrated show. Superb cast (they were actually married) and a great take on the material. They could have made them goodie two shoes who subverted their mission; they could have made them sinister spies. Instead they made them people.
> At 1080p60, YouTube uses 12Mbps

It does not. That's a recommended bitrate for a live streamer (Streamer -> youtube).

Coming out of youtube, the numbers are quiet different.

For example, a random 4k video I just pulled had a video bitrate of 4.5Mbps.

A 720p video I pulled of a talking head had a 369kbps video stream.

That is to say, a podcast style video is likely to have a nearly 50:50 split on audio/video.
> Root Cause Analysis Can Be Subjective

I got into a bit off trouble pointing this out when my team getting stuck with incidents as causes for our "blameless" incidents. "not a team player" or some bs.

In a big organization rca is just as political as anything else I find. Seems to be no escaping it.

Systems will fail, upstream services need to be artiteched to allow that to happen. Rca needs to be applied to the whole stack.
Curl is nice but its syntax leaves a lot to be desired. It's also hard to distribute to others a "collection" of them, as you're going to end up with troubleshooting questions from less-technical users, especially when it comes to multi-request items that require pre/post response processing.
I agree, which is why I qualified it. I was working at a retailer, building it's cloud systems at the time. It was told to me by a colleague who claimed to be told that by a peer from China at a conference.
> That said: my own objection is primarily moral—I believe humans should help other humans without exception, _especially_ those most in need, and would strongly prefer that be embedded into the society in which we live.

Personally I agree with you but in recent weeks I’ve learned that most of my friends and colleagues were either ambivalent or actively hostile at the idea that the US taxpayers should help buy medicine for 20 million people suffering from HIV. That said, I am fortunate that I have enough food to eat and shelter and I live in relative comfort so I understand that I might be badly out of touch with fellow Americans.

> The more cross-cutting argument is that Trump campaigned on getting the US out of expensive wars and preventing getting into forever wars, primarily talking about the monetary cost. Cutting off the US's soft power increases the chances of ending up in a hot war for very little actual savings—the total amount of foreign aid the US spends is below 1% of the budget.

Again I’m personally in agreement with you but my understanding is that the majority of voters have difficulty following this chain of reasoning especially when it is at odds with what they are told by every social media influencer they rely on to get their news.
> What more do you want? The pennies in our pockets?

Pretty much yeah. US wants to tax you, subject you to their religious laws, and take your oil. What are you willing to do about it?
My mind went to some horrible production accident. The first episode aired only 24 yeas after asbestos snow, after all.
All these companies operate from within USA jurisdiction, that should send the world clear message.

Snowden in one of interviews talks about exactly this kind of tracking with Amazon example (ts 01:18:00) https://x.com/JohnStossel/status/1885382675810181612

Basically, all these companies, ad networks, data brokers, big tech with absence of basic privacy laws (not to be confused with 4th amendment that binds Fed and State gov only, but does not restraint companies) act with wilful conspiracy with US government regulators, washing each other hand like a monopoly. This data gets enriched and collided and is perpetually on a permanent record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Record_(autobiograph...

So next time you talk about totalitarian regimes around the world look in the window.
Windows used to be awesome at this. The norm (and expectation) was for programs to provide keyboard shortcuts for all sorts of things. They were gently surfaced right where you needed them - e.g. underlines on the menus, and accelerator key shortcuts listed beside menu items and in mouseover captions. That made them natural to learn and easy to adopt.

Then some dolt at Microsoft decided those cues were "clutter", and hid them by default.

A new generation of programmers grew up not knowing about, or not prioritizing, the keyboard.

I remember a junior salesguy once watched me use my computer for a few minutes and was blown away by the speed at which I did things.

Hope what's old becomes new again!
Depending on the router, you could log traffic from nftables to ulogd2 to some logging monitoring/shipping solution.
If you're an anti-government extremist ("libertarian") like Musk, all government spending is unnecessary.
An SSL intercepting proxy like Squid will do what you're looking for, insofar as the HTTP(S) protocol. Doing that at a gateway level, instead of on the client itself, loses visibility into process IDs or other client-local state.

The old Microsoft Proxy (and later their ISA Server product) used a proprietary encapsulation between the client and the proxy server that exposed client-local state to the proxy server to let you do "magical" stuff like filtering by process name or username at a gateway level. I wish there was a free software solution that did that.
yes and China/make money.
With GPS off, location can triangulated from cell tower usage to within 3/4 of a square mile (smaller uncertainty in urban areas where cell towers are closer together). I'd heard before that some data brokers do this, but in this article the writer mentions reverse DNS lookup on IP addresses, which they mention is less precise (ZIP-code level).
I don’t think growth was ever the goal of Trumps tariffs.

In hindsight it looks like grift. If Elon controls the payments systems and Trump can enact tariffs, it seems like they’ve set up a very easy way to take money from taxpayers and put it wherever they want without oversight.
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Note that GP said "since GPT 3" but the parent responded with "ChatGPT". My response was to clarify the timeframe that has elapsed since GPT-3.
Counter point: what is it about scraping the Internet and indexing it cleverly that makes you believe that would lead to the the creation of the ability to reason above it's programming?

No one in neuroscience, psychology or any related field can point to reasoning or 'consciousness' or whatever you wish to call it and say it appeared from X. Yet we have this West Coast IT cultish thinking that if we throw money at it we'll just spontaneously get there. The idea that we're even 1% close should be ridiculous to anyone rationally looking at what we're currently doing.
Sounds like we just have a very different view the relative merits of individual vs collective (or societal) approaches.

I very much shy away from control, and that generally means trusting the individual to generally do what is best or at a minimum accept that the result of that will at least be more resilient than the result of a collectivist or top-down approach. Both have risks for sure and there are absolutely times where individualism are a bad idea in my opinion, this just doesn't meet that bar for me.
The forms are still available: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-app...

Looks like this affects the online form filler. But there was never any online renewal - the form filler just filled out a pdf with what you gave it that you then needed to print and mail anyhow while also jumping through any hoops your local consulate (who does the processing) also requires.
Tools like https://pi-hole.net does this for the whole house. It comes with a default set of blocked domains and you can easily add to it. It acts as your local DNS for the network.
> If you don’t like the toxicity of Microsoft in windows 11, why were you okay with it with Windows 10?

Who says I was? It just came with the computers I bought / was given by my employer(s) in recent years. But they'd said that was it; we were supposed to be done with all that once and for all. So why shouldn't I be annoyed at having them spew their toxicity at us all over again?

> And yes, people who won’t upgrade because “the UI changed/got worse” grind my gears. That just shows that you refuse to learn and adapt.

Why should we have to? What's the use of "learn and adapt" when there's scarce-to-none actual improvement in return?
The world is changing fast and reasons for actions may be more complex
and interesting than you assume.

Were they ever _not_ benevolent to US citizens as a whole, even if
misguided? There may be last-ditch attempts to extend benevolence to
US citizens as a takeover looms. If leaks from the Office of Personnel
Management are to be believed, then right now US government is in the
process of a soft coup, being dismantled along lines of political
loyalty. I expect those working in intelligence and law enforcement
who support democracy see the writing on the wall and will act sooner
or later.

Reliable end to end encryption is an important tool for citizens of a
nation that may need to organise in a hurry. We might see new Edward
Snowden type revelations of programmes, naming key people or giving
clear advice not to trust certain US based entities or services. Civil
servants may act professionally as non-politically as they can, but in
the end, if only to protect their jobs, they're going to come down on
the side of democracy.
The censorship is in fact not part of the llm. This can be shown easily by examples where llms visually output censored sentences after which they disappear.
You've done a lot of interesting historical research there! I wanted to get into a discussion of "central processing unit", but decided my article was long enough already :-) The term "central processing unit" is unusual since it is a seven-syllable term for a fundamental idea. Even "CPU" is a mouthful. I think that the "central" part is in opposition to systems such as ENIAC or the Harvard Mark I, where processing is spread out through the system through accumulators that each perform addition. Centralizing the processing was an important innovation by von Neumann.
It's probably the same genetic code that cats use
"Elites are making it taboo to talk about intelligence in order to preserve their position at the top of the social hierarchy. They're doing genetic engineering for their kids in secret, while making the topic of intelligence radioactive so the masses can't follow suit. If we reduce the taboo around intelligence, we can decrease global inequality, by improving access to maternal interventions for IQ in the developing world."

(Granted, that's not a common leftist position. But maybe it should be.)
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I'm very surprised to see the Polyurethane construction adhesive perform so well.

I noticed it blobbed over both ends. I wonder if the entire blob was helping redirect the load from tension into compression onto the ends. And/or it did a better job resisting the bending moment induced by his asymmetric setup.

I'm also not convinced that the other adhesives compromised the PETG. PETG, while not as resistant as Polypropylene, High density Polyethylenes, or Fluorinated plastics, it's still pretty darned resistant.

At the temperature he was testing at I would expect PETG to survive most acids, bases, and other solvents for days.

Maybe some of the glues were too rigid and robbed the PETG of its strength by preventing flexing?

MMA being at the top makes sense as it's a true chemical weld at that point.
"Robert Kurvitz Has Put Disco Elysium Up on the Internet Archive."
Pratt's method only targets the operator precedence languages, not the DCFL. So much less powerful than LR parsing.
You mean like OpenHD? What other options do they have while still being able to use COTS hardware?
I'm a from england where we don't have mass shootings an this seems so fucked up to me, I'm so sorry for you that must be terrible even to be close to that. I've heard of shootings in america but this description just makes it so real.
While there are certainly cases where it’s moved around to new customers, I suspect Brinks frequently stores it themselves and changes the ownership in a ledger running on a 1980s mainframe, with printed paper copies stored 100 miles away
This isn't something done to enable harm. It's meant to be directly harmful, and to signal an immediate win.
It is 'follow up' on promises made and it signals to others "hating trans people is acceptable now".

It is barely about suppressing this information. But about what the act signals to supporters, bigots, and 'targets'.
Nvidia RTX Blackwell GPU Architecture [pdf]
I can't believe Ben Stiller of all people directed it.
Did we forget the vicious campaign she waged in the primaries?
> ...our world has a resurgence of anti-intellectual...

That's the US, not the world. There has always been an anti-intellectual strain in American culture.
The vacuum of space seems like an ideal environment for producing high purity metals.
Hello, can confirm, criticism is like the bread and butter of LW, lol. I have very extensively criticized tons of people in the extend rationality ecosystem, and I have also never seen anyone in any leadership position react with anything like this quote. Seems totally made up.
This, and tbh this has always been the best way. Someone who has projects, whether personal or professional, and has the capability to discuss those projects in depth and with passion will usually be a better employee than a leet code specialist.
> bzip2 -9 -k all.tar 981.78s user 9.77s system 95% cpu 8M memory 17:16.64 total

> bzip3 -e -b 256 -j 12 all.tar 2713.81s user 16.28s system 634% cpu 18301M memory 7:10.10 total

The memory usage is one reason: 8M vs 18301M
Except this time it’s the capitalists and not the communists.

The lesson of the fall of the Soviet Union was never that Communism doesn’t work, it’s that this top down insider-only rule by decree doesn’t work. They’re trying it again with this smug background of feeling like they’ve got it all figured out this time, but they’re just doing it all again but with iPhones and the internet. But it’ll turn out just the same.
The game author didn't upload it -- you can see the uploader on the archive.org page itself (Kim ...).

I've never played the game, but apparently there's a bunch of controversy around it.

This may be helpful for others: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1auprxl/whats...

> Answer: Disco Elysium wasn't developed through the typical game development model (which should come as no surprise, given the game's content.) Back in 2005, a novelist and musician named Robert Kurvitz formed an artist/philosophy collective in Estonia. The collective failed to produce much except alcoholism and poverty, but they did come up with a bunch of fun worldbuilding. In 2015, Kurvitz and his fellow artists decided to try taking one of the worlds they developed and turn it into a video game, instead of a novel or album or series of paintings or whatever.
For client-side management, Little Snitch does approximately this on macOS.
you'd hate the german language where der/die Freund/in can be friend or romantic partner and is extremely commonplace in the language
Define gender first and we'll see.
5G is far more precise as well
is there a way to visualise networks (who talks to who) in a good way? i want source to be logs from my firewall.
The key is having interviewers that know what they are talking about so in-depth meandering discussions can be had regarding personal and work projects which usually makes it clear whether the applicant knows what they are talking about. Leetcode was only ever a temporary interview technique, and this 'AI' prominence in the public domain has simply sped up it's demise.
What is intelligent person? You seem to have approached the article with an existing reverence.

Rather 1984 to look at the contribution of an academic and an iron welder and see authority in someone who memorized the book, but not how to keep themselves alive. Chiang and the like are nihilists, indifferent if they die cause it all just goes dark to them. Indifferent to the toll they extract from labor to fly their ass around speaking about glyphs in a textbook. Academics detached from the real work people need are just as draining on society and infuriating as a billionaire CEO and tribal shaman. Especially these days when they derive some small normalization from 100s of years of cataloged work and proclaim their bit of syntactic art is all they should need to spend the rest of their life being celebrated like they’re turning 8 all over again.

Grigori Perelman is the only intelligent person out there I respect. Copy-paste college grads all over the US recite the textbook and act like it’s a magical incantation that bends the will of others. Cult of social incompetence in the US.
I don't believe the built in virtualization framework supports emulation, but you can do this with QEMU. An easy way to get started is with UTM:

https://mac.getutm.app
> What are we to think of the opposing views?

They're not homogenous organizations. Not sure about the FBI, but AFAIK the NSA has always been in an awkward spot of being split between defensive and offensive missions. It wouldn't be particularly surprising to have one arm going "you should all use encrypted messaging, it's the most secure" while the other arm is frantically trying to break or backdoor said encrypted messaging.
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