skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember cheat days in low carb diets were touted as leptin reset days.
My policy is "if it doesn't improve upon Reader Mode, don't add it".
Billionaires experiencing midlife crisis and andropause started receiving gender affirming care, the same enjoyed by the military and law enforcement for decades, were courted by the fringe to amplify their ideas to disaffected people failed by the institutions that created those billionaires. The fruit of your individual merit is threatened by these chemically altered silver-spoon fed man-children threatened by mortality filling the greedy black hole in their psyche with your unexamined acceptance. But feel free to instead focus your ire on the current analog for "the Rootless Cosmopolitan" that is the source of all of your perceived discomforts. Make no mistake, I understand that there is a greedy black hole in the minds of many, and for some, it is filled by adopting ideas considered secret unacceptable truths contrary to the unwell mainstream that finds them despicable. You're not sick, they are, and there is only one cure-all solution. But at last, your brave difficult truths are told openly and you are emancipated from the shadows! Congratulations and good luck trampling the few to build monuments for the even fewer.
There are some tools that read your screen and can provide hints and solutions for coding type questions. I honestly don't trust myself to not mess it up, plus the whole ethics side of it, but I'm sure that will always be a problem for online assessments
Its very well known that Target, Wallgreens use facial recognition for shoplifting.

Its harder to prove any specific stores are using any specific survailence product for marketing, but plenty of companies are offering it. Here' Samsung's take: https://web.archive.org/web/20230410052807/https://www.samsu...
So you’ve discarded a lot of modern , post modern and contemporary thinkers without offering some alternative or do you mean that there isn’t much to philosophy in general? I’m curious because I have also come to a similar conclusion but I have to admit that I have not read everyone that you’ve mentioned but I have read summaries and analysis.
Pretty much what you said, Obamacare is a great example. Your snarky comment was pretty after I thought about.
Also, for what it's worth, it's easy to change, if you're building with cargo (basically everyone does)

[profile.release]
overflow-checks = true

There have been a few projects where I've set this for one reason or another (e.g. because I'm dealing with intentionally wrapping arithmetic and I want the program to shout if I make a mistake).
Would they though? If by same IP space you just mean US-based, maybe. But that's not really a huge hurdle is it?
A sufficient number of people would need to, not everyone. And if I were the only one then tracking companies wouldn't adjust for just me. Basically, if this were to catch on then ad trackers wouldn't adjust until there was enough traffic for it to work. Also, that doesn't negate the ability to use this to create fake credentials that aids in tracking ads back to their source.
If this is using MuPDF, beware that they are very rude and assume ill will! See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40096211
Probably the Steam Deck
you said you said it sarcastically but I like "syllogistic" a lot. We need more volcabulary to describe what LLMs do, and if I tell ChatGPT A implies B implies C, and I tell it A is true, and I can describe that as the LLM syllogisting and not use the words "reasoning" or "thinking", that works for me.

As far as if it will fizzle, even if it does, what we have currently is already useful. Society will take time to adjust to ChatGPT-4's level of capabilities, nevermind whatever OpenAI et al releases next. It can't yet replace a software engineer, but it makes projects possible they previously weren't attempted because they required too much investment previously. So unless you're financially exposed to AI directly (which you might be, many people are!), the question of if it's going to fizzle is more academic than something that demands a rigorous answer. Proofs of a negative are really hard. Reusable rockets were "proven" to be impossible right up until it was empirically proven possible.
But there are valid reasons for it to get rejected - I have my limit on my card set to 0, so that in case the information gets stolen, I won't get any damage right away. And it happened a few times I went to get something and forgot I haven't temporarily changed it.
Terra Incognita: The Governance of Artificial Intelligence in Global Perspective
Believing swlf-report for an n of 1 question of personal preference is very different from trusting a self-report survey meant to extrapolate the results of one cohort to a larger audience.
Cybersecurity white team research
Hi everyone,
I'm creating a research and counter-attack team. We mainly use deception systems such as honeypots. At the moment there is no reward, but there’s plenty of fun and satisfaction in making the internet a better place.

If you're interested in being part of this team, please fill out the form: https://forms.gle/GrSGu5fC3aePqDx98

Here you can find an example of research: https://beelzebub-honeypot.com/blog/ssh-llm-honeypot-caught-a-real-threat-actor/
What point of mine is that replying to?
They are declared explicitly and implemented implicitly.

Thus the analogy the author is trying to make with magic methods in more dynamic languages like python or ruby is inaccurate and IMO misleading.
Seems to be trending in GitHub as well - https://github.com/trending
So springboot and injection does a lot of this; searching the list of known classes for a suitable candidate for injection.

But it’s dynamic by implementation only; to alleviate what came before which was a tedious manual enumeration in xml of those same discoveries.

Presumably we could ask springboot’s discovery to output exactly those finding and the remove the introspection.
There is a history of federal funding drying up when states don't follow federal guidelines.

Louisiana didn't have ant federal funding for roads for years because they were refusing to raise the drinking age from 18 to 21.
I'm looking forward to this -- CUDA has been somewhat off-putting because I haven't really enjoyed C++ since the 2000s.

I hope we can end up with something more generic that just a good CUDA frontend (ie: ROCm, SIMD), but obviously that's a step even further.

I'd recommend skipping this somewhat fluffy blog post and just going to the source post: https://rust-gpu.github.io/blog/2025/01/27/rust-cuda-reboot/...

The original post also linked to some very interesting documentation on the PTX IR that they will be targeting. I haven't personally seen this before but it helps understand a lot of fuzzy concepts that only seemed to exist in the docs of higher-level C++ API:

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/parallel-thread-execution/
You’re disputing that major religions ever hold deeply implausible claims as an article of faith? Really?

I mean, if they didn’t, then they probably would be religions, just “stuff everyone believes or has reasoned discussions about”.

Spoiler: they can’t all be right.
Personally I like to differentiate subclassing from conforming to an interface. Both are subtyping, but interfaces are much cleaner.
Malbolge – the almost impossible programming language
i2p could be an option
If ChatGPT and DeepSeek were in human form
They didn’t. The vast majority of Americans don’t hate Canadians. You don’t need a popular referendum to set tariffs, the president can just do it. One of the many downsides of electing a crazy person as president.
Pixerise: A high-performance 3D software renderer implemented in Python
It’s honestly crazy that we allow companies to sell our data — and even financially incentivize companies to share our data like this.
Par: Process language with an interactive playground for exploring concurrency
okay, but does it run crysis?
Artificial Intelligence by Poole and Macworth was a pretty solid,and free, book when I read it for a class.

https://www.artint.info/
"I come from the Net - through systems, peoples, and cities - to this place: MAINFRAME."

The word is forever etched in my mind together with this quote.
> Public-key cryptography is magic.

Public key cryptography is kind of magic, but the basic piece that makes everything work isn't too hard. It's been a while since I took discrete math, so this is a bit rusty, but it should get you in the right direction. It's modular multiplication in a field. If you take a small field and make a times table, you can see the magic. All of the factors that are relatively prime to the modulus will have a pattern that you F times X is only equal to F times Y if X and Y are equal. There will also be a multiplicative inverse so that F times X time I equals X for all X; because of commutation I times X times F also equals X. When you've determined an F and an I, you give your correspondent F and keep I --- then if you multiply your message by F, they multiply it by I and get back the message. If they want to send you a message, they multiply it by I and send it, then you multiply it by F.

There's some other stuff, but that's the magic part, IMHO. You just have to use a bigger field and some other stuff I forgot. ;)
I think the phrase you called out--"be a part of our mission"--that most corporations (and, mimicking them, government agencies) regurgitate is itself the approach to socialization that causes people to feel less inclined to work for any non-profit reason. "Part of OUR mission" redefines the company as the entity to be loyal to, rather than casting the company as part of society itself. You can't replace constructs that tend to inspire people to heroism and selflessness with a corporate avatar and expect the fabric of society to remain similarly motivated. It does make a set few people a hell of a lot of money in the short term, though.
A while ago a co worker told me "why would you care about your privacy? all my data is already out there anyway and what can even be done with it anyway".

What would be the ideal response to such an absurd comment? At the time I found it hard to answer because she surprised me with that opinion.

Edit to note: the explanation should be compatible with a professional context. I don't want to scare my co workers or appear crazy/paranoid.
HTML comments (kind of) work in JavaScript (2022)
neat details shared, might check out later.

Does this apply to Brave browser?
Yes, that's cool, however, I would like not to be forced auto-translations from languages I understand.

I am French and this is my primary language, but I understand English and Google knows that (it is in my account preferences). So why do I get videos auto-translated from English into French, with a significant loss in quality. It is particularly bad for titles, the translations are terrible and I can't get YouTube to show me the untranslated title. I probably could set YouTube to use English instead of French, but then, I would have French videos translated into English, which is even worse.
Application for intuitive painting of normal maps for 2D pixel art textures
Because interviews were always an attempt to discern a signal few hours interview into an accurate prediction of performance from months to years. AIs generate a lot of nosie to mask that. Interviewees can just pass the question to the AI, who will generate a reasonable sounding response.
The demand now seems to be that Canada join the US as the 51st state. This isn’t about trade.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265

Reinforcement Learning: An Overview
Kevin Murphy

This manuscript gives a big-picture, up-to-date overview of the field of (deep) reinforcement learning and sequential decision making, covering value-based RL, policy-gradient methods, model-based methods, and various other topics (including a very brief discussion of RL+LLMs).

From: Kevin Murphy [view email]
[v1] Fri, 6 Dec 2024 18:53:49 UTC (6,099 KB)
For those stateside you can still do this in a local office apparently. Not ideal but its not as if passport issuance has been suspended. The site is under maintenance to remove modifications made for more than 2 genders according to a quick search. Medicaid payment's were down for a few days last week too. Not ideal by any means but far from world ending.
Stores have WiFi hotspots with very short range to track you that way while you're in the isle.
Whilst I trust that the author did in fact look at the data of each request eventually, the screenshot they provided of Charles could not have been of the exact requests they intercepted given Charles is indicating that those are not yet SSL proxied (except for the 2 GET requests).

EDIT: please ignore, author did it differently to what I expected.
Of course, the word girlfriend is already ambiguous. From Merriam-Wester: "1. a female friend 2. a frequent or regular female companion in a romantic or sexual relationship".
That comment you linked to is yours, and flagged.

It reads to me like you are still carrying a grudge about one rude interaction. I read that whole thread and I don't want to see it repeated here.
New free course on RISC-V processor design on YouTube
Hey guys, I've been working for 10+ years in the RISC-V space (mainly AI and Network Packet processing accelerators) and teaching RISC-V computer architecture classes for 6+ years at both grad and undergrad levels. I got my PhD last year and transitioned to industry.

I had a ton of material and recordings (thanks pandemic, I guess) of my lectures and decided to put them up on YouTube. First lecture is here --> https://youtu.be/izPdo7n1u1I

More to follow in the coming days. If you subscribe to the channel, you get notified when new videos are out.

I'm very hands-on in the approach; the idea is to finish the course with an in-order, single-pipeline RV32IM processor running Coremark.

I plan a few bonus lectures on FPGA and ASAP7 synthesis flows, but that depends on how much traction I get on these videos.

Love to get your feedback.
Even if hydrogen is required as a precursor for methanol production, transportation and storage (especially long-term) of methanol is vastly cheaper than hydrogen.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265

Reinforcement Learning: An Overview Kevin Murphy

This manuscript gives a big-picture, up-to-date overview of the field of (deep) reinforcement learning and sequential decision making, covering value-based RL, policy-gradient methods, model-based methods, and various other topics (including a very brief discussion of RL+LLMs).

From: Kevin Murphy [view email] [v1] Fri, 6 Dec 2024 18:53:49 UTC (6,099 KB)
Thanks, honestly I agree in this case, but I decided before even trying the experiment to post Claude's output no matter what. I (not humbly) think I'm pretty good at succinct statements like in this case. Anything more than about half a page, the tide starts to turn.
I grew up playing American football and I am pretty well versed on the literature.

I live for now and don't put a lot of stock in having a great life after 65.

In American football, much depends on the position you played. I am not sure how that is for Aussie rules but lineman and linebackers who would be involved in more hits have it worse than wide receivers and cornerbacks. That never seems to be reported with CTE.

The concussion count is mostly non-sense from my understanding. I think this is how the NFL has shaped the narrative to not be so bad and their bogus "concussion protocol". The subconcussive hits are the major problem and that is just part of football. I took at least a thousand of them smashing heads together.

It is also degenerative over time. You aren't going to just wake up one day with problems. If it is really bad you are going to have crazy behavior problems. Like Aaron Hernandez. I am sure OJ Simpson had bad CTE.

I just doubt cold sores are that big of a variable compared to being hit in the head thousands of times.

My memory completely sucks but that has just made me an incredibly good note taker for job related functions.
It's not always correct, but that's kinda the tradeoff with undefined behavior. It's your responsibility to know the defined spec and stay within it, not the compiler's to prove you did it correctly in all cases.

>Since q and p point to different local variables, a pointer derived from p cannot alias q[0], and hence we know that this write cannot affect the value stored at q[0].

Pointer math outside the array bounds isn't defined, so it can be treated as anything, including "cannot possibly do X, so we can optimize it out". A compiler that preferred to spend memory to improve correctness (e.g. Valgrind) might add padding between variables to prevent this kind of small-OOB action, which would make the output change again, which is why this is undefined and you can't rely on it. A compiler that was feeling moody could put that array at the end of your page of addressable memory, and cause a segfault when you try to write to it.
I'm just saying, if you insist Trump is telling the truth, you should have evidence. Because there is rarely evidence to back the assertion he is telling the truth. I'm not calling everyone a liar. Just Trump and his cronies. Most people don't realize they are repeating lies for Trump because they believe the lies. I'm not going to sit back and give that guy the benefit of the doubt after he has lied over and over again. All benefit of the doubt goes to those he has deceived.
Try reloading without content blockers enabled, there is probably some popup being poorly hidden.
>there's an explicitly far left-wing message board that doesn't ban people for their politics; because all the more moderate (and moderate cosplaying as extreme) left-wing boards do, that board collects various libertarians, nationalists, groypers and whatnot who can't go anywhere else. Makes for an odd mix.

That actually sounds pretty fascinating. What board are you thinking of?

It's a common observation that any free speech place on the internet will disproportionately attract right-wing wackos. But arguably that says more about the left than the right. If your politics are sufficiently to the left, there are a lot of places on the internet that will cater really well to that, and delete/downvote non-conforming views pretty aggressively (thinking of reddit in particular). So arguably the bottleneck on having a true "free speech forum", where all perspectives are represented, is that people with left politics have more fun options, in the form of forums which are moderated aggressively to cater to their views.

I tried posting on TheMotte a few times, but I found it to basically be a right-wing circlejerk. It was actually a bit eye opening -- before that, part of me wondered whether the stifling conformity on reddit was intrinsic to its left politics. If a critical mass of left-wing posters had been present on TheMotte, I might have stuck around.

I think upvoting/downvoting systems really accelerate the tendency towards herd mentality. It becomes very obvious when you hold an unpopular minority view, and that's a strong motivator for people with minority views to leave.
"Rationalism"
Seriously, anyone who ever says they have nothing to hide, show them this story.

"A Redding Police Department officer in 2021 was charged with six misdemeanors after being accused of accessing CLETS to set up a traffic stop for his fiancée's ex-husband, resulting in the man's car being towed and impounded, the local outlet A News Cafe reported. Court records show the officer was fired, but he was ultimately acquitted by a jury in the criminal case. He now works for a different police department 30 miles away."

California Law Enforcement Misused State Databases More Than 7,000 Times in 2023
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/california-police-misu...
> adding entropy to de-anonymize users

_removing_ entropy, by adding more information bits
The trouble with "word of mouth" is that you can't tell whether something is actually real, or vaporware that some account executive dreamed up to close a deal.
Agreed -- I like mine better, but I (internally) committed to posting before I went to Claude. I think it does better than I do as the content gets longer.
critics say that, but its viewership is low compared to other dramas. Usually when I tell people that it's one of my favorite shows, their response is that they've never seen it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Americans_episodes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prison_Break_episodes#...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lost_episodes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_of_Thrones_episod...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us_(TV_series)#Rat...

^ compare the viewership. The Americans was getting fewer than a million viewers in its final seasons, Lost regularly got over ten million. You can't easily chalk it up to just the fact that Lost was on network; The Last of Us was getting more than 10x the viewership of The Americans and it was on HBO. While The Americans is very critically acclaimed, it is not as widely watched as it really should be.
It is so good for how unknown it is.
One of my favorite seasons of TV <3
Perplexity has been good to me so far, there's always going to be people trying to game the system so
I ran into several young Trump voters after the election that adamantly believed he would just improve the economy. “All that Project 2025 stuff was a smokescreen.”
You can decompress the streams with mutool and edit the Postscript-like code in any editor, if you want. (That doesn't help a lot with editing text, of course...)
You're right, it was kind of rude. Apologies. I really would rather be wrong, for a reason I gave in another comment.

The thing is, you can interact with this new kind of actor as much as you need to to judge this -- make up new problems, ask your own questions. "LLMs can't think" has needed ever-escalating standards for "real" thinking over the last few years.

Gary Marcus made a real-money bet about this.
I'm really happy to see this level of detail and research. So many privacy-related articles either wholly lack in technical skill, or hysterically cannot differentiate between different levels of privacy concerns and risks.

People commonly point to Mozilla's research regarding vehicle's privacy policies. (https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-...) But that research only states what the car company's lawyers felt they must include in their privacy policies. These policies imply (and I'm sure, correctly imply) that your conversations will be recorded when you're in the vehicle. But, they never drill down into the real technical details. For instance ..... are car companies recording you the whole time and streaming ALL of your audio from ALL of your driving? Are they just recording you at a random samples? Are they ONLY recording you when you're issuing voice commands, and the lawyers are simply hedging their bets regarding what sort of data _might_ come through accidentally during those instances? Once they record you, where is the data stored, and for how long? Is it sent to 3rd parties, etc? Which of these systems can be disabled, and via what means? Does disabling these systems disable any other functionality of the vehicle, or void its warranty? Lastly, does your insurance shoot up if you have a car without one of these systems? etc ...

The list of questions could go almost indefinitely, and presumably, would vary strongly across manufacturers. So much of the privacy news out there is nothing but scary and often not very substantiated worst case scenarios. Without the details and means to improve privacy, all these stories can do is spread cynicism. I'm really glad to see this level of discourse for the author.
A bit “harder” sci-fi but incredible world building - Alastair Reynolds.

I recommend his short stories first - Galactic North is a good start. Or Beyond the Aquila Rift.

House of Suns is a good first novel.