skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prosecutors actually get an even stronger version of immunity. Cops get qualified immunity (which is a stupendously easy bar to cross) but prosecutors get absolute immunity.

It's horrifying and clearly not the right way of handling the "well we don't want everybody suing the DA that prosecuted them" problem.
Executive orders have *zero* authority over private companies and individuals.

An executive order can say that, for example, the FTC should sanction companies that don't refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, as the FTC is an executive-branch organization. Now, whether the FTC has that authority of private companies would be hashed out in court.

You're mistaking "executive order" for "royal edict".
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It's frustrating that "CO2 levels in the atmosphere are increasing and that that's bad" is what passes for "leftist" or partisan at all. I find the "don't look up" attitude so aggravating. The unwillingness for humans to take any responsibility for our actions is so frustrating, especially while wielding the phrase "personal responsibility" like a cudgel.
Yeah that's when I stopped reading.
Same here. In my TypeScript code, Cursor/Claude seem quite fluent. In my Rust code, I often turn Cursor Tab off because it’s just suggesting nonsense.
I assure you that I don't wish for some of the outcomes I think are reasonably likely.

... and in general I think you're mistaking me for somebody who's spent a lot less time on these issues.
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That's already here for me, and others I believe as the most interesting communication has moved to group chats. The open web is for advertising, and the best LLMs will be for information retrieval.
OS IPC and security configuration, no need to add a WebAssembly runtime and compiler toolchain.
Perhaps I misread it then. I think that if you're at the point of using formal verification you're likely to be very meticulous in whatever you're writing, so an AI would be used quite carefully
It is quite the take indeed; one that I posit resonates most strongly with people whose societal views tend to conflict with the available evidence.
> Single-core performance looks pretty stagnant on this graph, especially in the last ten years (...)

The vertical axis seems to be in log scale, and single core performance seems to be increasing at the same rate since 2000-2010.

This suggests single core performance is actually growing at an exponential rate.

What is your interpretation?
Thinking of things a bit more broadly than just AI safety, imagine I'm training an LLM. I have 200 thousand ebooks, 1 million arXiv papers, 7 million Wikipedia articles, 300 million Reddit posts, and 500 billion Twitter posts.

If my LLM merely holds up a mirror to society, its output should be a tweet with a trace amount of reddit post mixed in.

Any time an LLM produces more than 140 characters of output, it's because someone like me has decided some data sources are more worthy than others.

That's inherently political, from a certain angle. But it's also important, if you don't want your LLM to advise people to put glue in their pizza sauce.
It starts by choosing the right language for the job.
And now kids can't use desktops because they only understand "apps", is this a win too ?
Great time to spin up your own URL shortener. I dumped bit.ly long ago, and have my own that I can control.
I made a similar tool in Golang, https://github.com/foresturquhart/grimoire. It tries to be a bit cleverer, by prioritising files that have had many commits, respecting .gitignore files, and excluding useless content like binaries or vector images.
QI as a whole needs to go away. It doesn’t matter if someone is committing a crime or violating someone else’s rights as part of a job. Whether you are a policeman or judge or congressman, it is still a crime.
It isn't an either/or thing. I don't agree with the underlying idea that Zuckerberg is right-wing now, but if you do the principle makes perfect sense to me. "I'm primarily interested in making lots of money, even in a job with no clear benefit to society as a whole, but my ethics prevent me from doing certain things or advancing certain causes."
You are not wrong, just ignore the comments here. Current day LLMs are a "deep seek" mechanism. For every task that had little or no equivalent in the internet, they were miserably bad (from O1 to deepseek to claude). We clearly need a different paradigm for "intelligence" and a sort of "consciousness" that gets a "handle" of reality. LLMs are very inefficient because they are trying to implement these mechanisms within a "predict the next token" environment.

All advancements in "AI" in the last year or so were in smaller models becoming more powerful, more companies reaching openai levels and a bit more accuracy. I think this is the plateau for the current theoretical tech.

+: one case I bumped into today: socks5 with the latest hyper version to proxy https requests. All models were completely off-track. None was able to make any functioning implementation. This is just a few lines of code.
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Maybe I just can't see the big picture (pun++) but why limit the simulations to the eye? Many other senses are simultaneously working for survival. I'm not aware of anything that just uses the eye for survival.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense
This seems to be right up Glenn Greenwald's alley. I wonder if he'll report it now that he makes a lot of excuses for Trump (to Greenwald's credit, he still reports free speech hypocrisy of Republicans when it comes to censoring Gaza supporters).
The USA federal government spent $6.75T in FY2024. This website painstakingly tracks 3% of that.

It would be more honest of Doge to say what of the 97% is to be cut, and where that will fall.
From the article, I took the court's final decision as "nobody said you couldn't, but we're saying it now, so don't get caught doing it again".
Despite the fourth amendment clearly saying they couldn't.
The VST Lab at Princeton works on this sort of problem: https://vst.cs.princeton.edu/

"The Verified Software Toolchain project assures with machine-checked proofs that the assertions claimed at the top of the toolchain really hold in the machine-language program, running in the operating-system context."

Some of the same researchers worked on TAL (typed assembly language), which sounds like it could be one of the "intermediate representations" you mentioned.
The main blocker to using the API with an alternative frontend is the cost.

Daily API usage can easily go above the $20/month subscription cost since output tokens are expensive and each new message reuses the whole message chain as input tokens. Especially true if you often upload images or documents.
Democrat's money laundering schemes at industrial scale. Of course your only argument "oh, it's nuanced".

https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-doge-sub...
That could be a formula to generate notes but might not work backwards.

There is something special about musical memory. When I was starting out as an anime fanatic I would quickly learn to sing theme songs like [1] [2] although I didn't understand Japanese at all then.

Notably different language have different words for colors, for instance the Japanese word 青い (pronounced aoi) can mean either blue or green. [3] There's been a lot of controversy over whether language shapes perception, but if you do psychophysical tests that don't involve language you find people can tell colors apart pretty much the same no matter how rich or impoverished their vocabulary is [4].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hulET9tn9M

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW9BapLxwkw

[3] ラム (Lum), the girl with oni horns and a tiger stripe bikini who appears in [1] has 青い-colored hair which seems to drift in the blue-green area throughout the 5-season anime

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_...
Lowering taxes isn't frugal. Frugality is on the spending side, not the revenue side.

Such screaming never tells you how to cut the revenue side. (Except, of course, for the IRS, who generates orders of magnitude more revenue than they spend.) When asked, people will always say "Cut the spending on those people over there; spending on me is necessary and critical."

I'd argue that's what's needed is less screaming and more coherent discussion of national priorities. But I suppose that just invoking somebody's ideological grudges and firing everybody in the vicinity of them is good, too.
I don't think this is true, I've only ever seen women talk about losing money due to romance scams on the news. Do you have any citations?
Can you explain about what you think the comment means?

I think it is a good point to enter the conversation because it should shift to which regulations are being removed and their consequence. Rather than the notion of less regulation being inherently catastrophic.

Another answer would be yes, NYSE is already full of scams, why would we go further?

The position I am pointing it is a little weird without more information is yes NYSE is good but I can’t support the Texas version.
Honest to god, if a soup kitchen for poor math enthusiasts was a thing then it wouldn’t be a terrible idea to mention your involvement in your grant application.

That’s networking, that’s community, it couldn’t hurt to mention it.

Now the explicitly racist “Aryan Math Society”? Id leave that off the proposal.
If Apple believes the warnings are valuable...

Why not apply them to their own ecosystem?

Just because I might be a one-time user of an Apple product definitely doesn't mean I've made an active choice to be enrolled for marketing across their entire ecosystem, indefinitely.

Hell - I'm literally typing this on a Macbook that my work requires I use, I didn't make an active choice there at all...
reported :)
Using a gerund is a touch false. The evidence provided is a change in the ToS from bitly:

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Source? A lot of the investigative reporting I've seen covers women targets. Maybe they just think women make better stories, but women do spend more time on dating apps than men. Women participate differently, but they definitely participate, and women are extremely vulnerable to emotional exploitation.
Is it used by the army of Israel against civilians? Because I can't think of any other circumstance that would justify such a strong condemnation.
So: slow, hard, complex and highly OS specific vs simple and secure.

Right.
I knew door holding was weak, but I think the principle holds. To me, it is reasonable to release under MIT with expectation of helping lots of people, and also to expect (not require) some credit if a notable company adopts kit and kaboodle.
In my experience (working on a heavily checksummed system) if you don't carefully think about where you're actually required to take checksums for data integrity, it's very easy to end up with wasteful checksums with every library/system/etc., taking a checksum "just in case", and as a bonus you might miss some important checksums that aren't obvious when transforming data.
Yeah, but then it describes what's clearly third-party tracking. It's The Register, you can't rely on them getting technical things right.

> As one programmatic ad news outlet pointed out, Facebook was actually hit the hardest by the 2022 first-party rules because its software development kit (SDK) "plugged into so many outside apps and ... its attribution pixels [were] littered liberally across the web."

The article they link to there about the 2022 rules is from 2021, incidentally, and is just talking about other apps embedding Facebook tracking -- i.e. third-party stuff. There's a lot of talking about how "first-party data is valuable to Facebook", but it's all referring to how Facebook wants to use the data from other people.
Thanks, I ended up going with this one. Looks like there's a new Flint 3 coming, but rumors seem to be indicating it is going to be more expensive and is possibly not OpenWRT compatible due to chipset. So, Flint 2 it is for now.
>After 20 years in tech, I can't think of a single company I've worked for/with that would fit the profile of an "intelligent" company

It's not even necessarily about intelligence but about the simple concept of unknown unknowns. If everyone had perfect knowledge of the current reality and could perfectly describe what it is that they want immediately, without spending any time investigating, producing proof-of-concept work, iterating on a product, etc. I would agree that it could be feasible for AI to replace a lot of programming work.

As it stands, what I just described above is THE BULK of development. Coding is the last thing that happens and it also happens to be the fastest, easiest and smallest part of the entire process.
>But the American people literally voted that they hate you, and you have to live with that.

Why does it have to be hate/personal? I can lay off a employee without hating them.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43035013
amazing that there's an article about it, thanks haha! Maybe we are the weird ones?
I've been developing on top of wasm (wasmtime, specifically) for several years now.

I personally have my doubts about how broadly the components specification (which this cloud platform seems to depend on) will be adopted. Maybe I'm just not very smart, but it feels like one of the things I loved the most about WebAssembly, its simplicity, is being lost.

To get even basic things done with WASI, you now have to figure out which flavor to pull in (preview 1, preview 2, ... need any async [0], that's coming preview 3?), learn a new IDL language [1] that defines the component's spec, figure out its codegen toolchain [2]. It's all very reminiscent of COM, CORBA and all the other times this has been tried in the past.

In any case, wasmtime is an amazing project and I'm grateful for it. They've already had to bifurcate the library to support WASI and components. I just hope non-WASI/component code retains its status as a first class citizen in the project.

[0] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MNVOZ8hdofO3tI0szg_i...
[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/blob/main/des...
[2] https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wit-bindgen
Suing departments is also basically impossible because the bar for a "pattern of misconduct" is ludicrously high. Connick v Thompson is a particularly infuriating case where a man who was sentenced to death by a DA that deliberately withheld blood evidence that would exonerate could not get damages because the long history of Brady violations by the DA's office were actually a series of distinct violations with teeny differences so they couldn't be considered a "pattern."
I do think that game companies have a higher percentage of top-tier programmers. This is both due to pedigree and size of the field.

There are some incredible programmers in both big tech and game dev, but big tech has vastly more developers with less pressure to have top-tier talent.

Median developer at both probably represents the same skill because of normal distributions.
I work on this very issue at one of the world’s largest social media companies. It’s completely male dominated.
the problem is labeling anything ideological as “waste”; one can get rid of anything under that cover, quite convenient.

You don’t need to write “the agency will no longer do X” you just need to fire the people doing X. Case in point the EPA and CFPB (which catch fraud among companies but were not worried about that anymore are we)
I think it's a really fun quirk of history that programmers on average know more about weaving than the typical layperson. That computer science is linked to one crucial moment on a completely different historical track. It's pure serendipity and I love it
Around 2016 Zuck ordered the installation of cameras in front of some blackboards in an effort to identify those who attempted to erase the words "Black Lives Matter"

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/02/26/46...
Agreed, the fact that the technology quarterly and other tech writings appear to be written by people who understand what they're writing about is exactly why I'm willing to extend some trust to them on subjects where I'm clueless.
Not really. I have an HTR use case where the data is highly specialized codes. All the OCR software I use is tripped up by trying to find the content into the category of English words.

LLMs can help, but I’ve also had issues where the repetitive nature of the content can reliably result in terrible hallucinations.
New study highlights ways to future-proof cocoa production
Some advantages of CodeWeaver are that it is compiled, so it might be faster; you can grab a compatible executable from the releases section instead of using `go install` so, no dependencies. You can manually specify what to exclude via a comma-separated list of regular expressions so it might be more flexible. I never used Repomix so, those assumptions might not hold. On the other hand, remix seems to be awfully more complete, a full-fledged solution to convert source code to monolithic representations. I wrote CodeWeaver because I only needed something that worked and, occasionally, I could trust to keep sensitive data away from sketchy LLMs (And wasn't aware of other solutions).
Anti-DEI junk. Yes, I'm sure if academia self-sabotaged by continuing to keep out women and minorities, Trump wouldn't be stomping all over it.

Also, pay an actual artist next time, instead of crapping out AI "art".
I mean they are working for Meta. They left ethics at the door the minute they signed the offer letter. Meta didn’t just become bad for society in 2024.
thanks, i'll try that Nd see if it helps.
Hate to make their job harder here, but unfortunately I have nothing positive to say about the low rent Nazis ICE. If they care about citizenship, I urge them to first and foremost set a good example and get a real job.
Dupe (837 points, 20 hours ago, 291 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040521
Uppercase for exported is actually one of my favorite go features.

https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.24.0:src/...

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/category/Lu

there are plenty of non-latin scripts that have upper case letters.
I cannot wait for that
I got a soft spot for SUSE. In the late 2000s, Novell partnered with my highschool to teach a certification class, so it became the distribution I cut my teeth on if you don't count my time playing with compiz window effects on a free Ubuntu live-disk in junior high.
I’m unconvinced. Working hours in industrial countries have gone down over the last century or two, not up. Things were even worse for the vast majority of people before the 1800s, most people didn’t even get “careers” or have the luxury of thinking in terms of “accomplishments”.
Seriously - I'm struggling to even imagine a good faith version of sharing nude photos of someone else without their permission. Doing so after getting access to those photos through an abuse of power is horrifying.
Well, that went poorly

click https://app.langturbo.com/?lang=french

click https://app.langturbo.com/discover/episodes?id=7&title=LangT...

click https://app.langturbo.com/player?id=aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yYWdlLmdv...

observe it speak in Japanese (I don't know enough Japanese to know if it was reading the on-screen text in Japanese or what it was saying)
I asked them about this on X and they are working on one. I use Zed for everything now but must keep VS Code around just for the debugger. I can't wait to delete it.
I reached 70 this year (still hacking...). I have seen a lot of changes in my life time, technical, economic and geopolitical. Is hard to predict the future. A common underlying pattern of change has been that income disparities will grow, both at a personal level as well as between companies. AI will accelerate this phenomenon. Yes jobs will be lost and unemployment will produce social friction and instability. At the moment, perhaps to most HN readers is a productivity tool (and not very good at it).

I am hoping that applied AI would bring the costs of services and products down, through efficiencies so that people can still survive.
The current GOP plans for the budget and tax cut will increase the deficit by 4T.

No one is serious about “saving money”. It’s just to justify the corporate tax cut.
I was talking more about the incoming firehose and bandwidth needed. Can you filter binary groups out at the router level?
Chat agents often seem to suffer from Genuine People Personalities...
The person in question published it openly on the internet (Twitter). Not gonna bother digging up the proof again because it's been widely reported and not denied - just minimized as some cheeky edgelord humor.
To summarize your argument, the rural-urban political divide is driven by self-selection and environmental factors, where right-leaning individuals deliberately choose rural areas to avoid left-wing influences, while urban areas reinforce left-wing views through higher education, workplace policies, and cultural pressure.

This is a novel argument, one that I have not seen discussed a lot. If this is the truth then great.

But I am worried that it is not true. I am worried that what is really happening is that Billionaires are taking advantage of less educated voters by convincing them to vote against their self interests. They do so by shifting their focus to the "values and cultural issues" of the moment. In the past, it was gay marriage and abortion; today, it's trans kids and DEI. Once these issues dominate the conversation, little attention is paid to the real priorities and actions of these billionaires: Cuts to funds that research cancer (the topic of this thread), cuts to Medicaid, food stamps and other welfare programs, cuts to education, cuts to development assistance to the poorest in the world and so on, all to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.

If you're interested in this angle here's a book I can recommend: https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Matter-Kansas-Conservatives-Ame...
Is this just gloating about the massive loss of jobs, security, and education that will be coming?

For all that it's complaining about polarization and radicalization I see very little olive branches or sympathy to people most affected. It seems a bit hypocritical.
(2024) Discussion at the time (17 points, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42323979
Hi, I'm the author of the article! Thank you for the awesome description of the various vm.dirty_* sysctls.

The problem described in my post was not _directly_ related to the kernel flushing dirty pages to disk. As such, I'm not sure that tweaking these sysctls would have made any difference.

Instead, we were seeing the kernel using too much CPU when it moved inodes from one cgroup to another. This is part of the kernel's writeback cgroup accounting logic. I believe this is a related but slightly different form of writeback problems :)
True but SUSE (the enterprise version) is pretty clear about the use of btrfs, just use it for the OS (snapshots), the "data" partition should always be XFS.
So the solution is to pre-scrape all bitly URL expansions by brute force and seed the torrent so that someone else can build a librebit.ly ?
I picked OpenSUSE as my personal desktop 15 years ago because its YaST confuguration module helped with administration. Same positve experience, apart from the occasional hiccup updating NVIDIA proprietary drivers.
I wouldn't want to run code from a third party in a container.