skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be careful what you wish for.

VS Code is maybe the best product Microsoft has ever released, largely because the extension market. If Microsoft polices the marketplace more, you can probably expect VS Code quality to degrade.

Here's my argument: More scrutiny of the marketplace will lead to less extensions overall (the scrutiny process will reduce the number of extensions overall as barrier to entry will be increased). Less extensions available will create an incentive for Microsoft to add features to VS Code directly. The more features MS adds, the more bloated VS Code will become.

So then, more security auditing in the extensions marketplace will lead to a more bloated VS Code.

All that said, it would be nice if there were better security controls in the extensions marketplace, I just don't trust Microsoft to do anything in a way that actually improves their products for the people who use them.
Just went down for me
Thermal Ca^2/Mg^2 Exchange Reactions for CO2 Removal (2024)
This paper (which has just appeared at Nature but behind a paywall) describes a very interesting idea for mineral carbonation. By heating limestone and various magnesium silicates (olivine, serpentine, augite) at 1200 C, an ion exchange reaction occurs that makes the resulting material highly reactive with CO2. At 1 bar the resulting material completely reacts with CO2 in just an hour, soaking up the CO2 released from the limestone as well as additional CO2. At atmospheric CO2 concentrations it takes longer, but still 1000x faster than normal weathering. The energy needed is claimed to be < 1 MWh/ton CO2, less than half that needed by leading DAC technologies.
Instead of making up strawmen to tear down like "Other people refusing to give you money isn't 'weaponizing money'", you might consider rereading the site guidelines. Or, perhaps you would be more comfortable with the level of discourse if you moved to one of the more political subreddits?
There is no conceivable universe where Musk will ever be "in deep trouble," as in: a normal person struggling to make rent. It's hard to even visualize the size of "hundreds of billions." Even if he suddenly lost 99.99% of his wealth, he'd still be worth almost $40M, which is generational wealth for at least a few generations.
You underestimate the ludicrous amount of power people use. In January (no A/C used) in my home we used 46kWh per day on average.
Antiaging pill for dogs clears key FDA hurdle
Or the content goes away entirely, and the AI has nothing to search.
Every time I consider one of your laptops, I see that there are no options for dedicated page up, page down, home, and end keys and those are deal breakers for me. I always end up with a Lenovo instead.

Would you consider adding keyboard options that include these keys?
Hopefully there is a help/man
When Cuba became a communist threat, the lack of suitable infrastructure for a potentially massive military response and/or invasion from the US was quite obvious in the southern part of Florida.

So the Florida Turnpike was rapidly built to reach from the long-settled part of north Florida, down to the much more isolated and undeveloped resort areas in the Miami area, of which Miami could almost be considered like a suburb of Havana at the time. When Cuba was still a free country it was not thought to be a problem historically if travel between Havana and Miami had always been vastly easier than between Miami and northern Florida.

Anyway, it hardly ever snows in Florida, but it does rain a lot and roads can get slick because of that.

Taking consideration of visibility, regardless of how overloaded a large truck or convoy may be during emergency conditions, if a constant speed of 100 MPH is maintained, each curve in the Turnpike is gradual, and slightly banked so that regardless of road slickness, vehicles will not skid toward the outside of the curve, nor the inside.
A Primer on Strategy for Engineers
Risk management isn't a waste
original link here is now broken
Every once in a while you encounter an opinion on the Internet that you so deeply disagree that it's not even clear how you would even start to counter it.

"Use RTF instead of Markdown" is one of those.
Can I also do it in Python?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185174
How was this Google's fault? The internet killed journalism as a respected career path. People went to the online version instead of the printed version. The subscription numbers cratered. The money used to pay journos plummeted. The stock price became more important as news orgs were all bought up by < 5 corporate owners. Since everyone was now working for the same bosses, their jobs became redundant by someone else and jobs were slashed in deference to the stock prices. Experience journos were replaced by greenhorns that only know how to interview Twitt...er, X and not actually able to interview subjects. Consumers bolted even faster.

Which part of that was Google's fault?
EdgeDB is simply great. Schema, migrations, TypeScript query builder, auth are all awesome features - I love that for my small Remix apps I don't have to create separate API layer, I just use the DB directly.

I like the new name (mostly because typing "edgedb" when using the CLI was annoying). Hopefully the new documentation will be better, because the old one wasn't very usable and a little bit sparse.
Yeah well, MSFT - the behemoth among evilish corporations, invests vast sums into developing a sophisticated tool with extensive features - more than their combined philanthropic initiatives - and offers it freely to just about anyone. This generosity doesn't seem questionable at all, eh?

I mean, when I use Vim and Emacs, the benefits clearly flow to users and the developer community.
Back when I paid for the IntelliJ license - I knew exactly how their revenue model worked. Yet whenever I download and use VSCode, I don't really know what's Microsoft's grand plan here, does anyone else do?
America is well and truly back
I rather enjoyed that I got to make the discovery that the particles were coins, moreover, I enjoyed dropping STRAIGHT into the game without having to read anything or press any buttons. Lastly, this worked flawlessly on my iPhone, bravo to the work you did to make that happen!
Maybe point to the actual reupload instead?
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=fanny.vs...
I am pretty sure that this is a consequence of the mathematics for modeling this being _very_ hard, and a robust (and performant) solution requiring as-yet undiscovered/unpublished mathematics.
What platform do you use for trading, and which commodities do you trade?
The stereo sound effects shows the amount of care you put into this game. Thanks for sharing!
Despite the fact that Telescope is focused on application log data, it could be used for any type of data as long as it's stored in ClickHouse and has some time fields.

At the moment, I have no plans to support arbitrary data visualization in Telescope, as I believe there are better BI-like tools for that scenario.
10G UniFi Cloud Gateways: Dream Router 7 – Cloud Gateway Fiber – Express 7 [video]
> he doesn't want to deal with thousands of support requests when making his apps open source and free.

Who says you have to deal with support requests if you open source something?

> All his apps are personal itches he scratched and he sells them not to make a profit but to make the barrier of entry high enough to make user feedback manageable.

That makes no sense
That has been the criticism of YC of late. The “advise” part has been lacking.
The problem with AI hallucination is not that it confuses similar things (that’s just the model being wrong), but that when the AI has no “clear winning answer”, it can and will respond with absolutely anything within its search space, with apparent disregard for any rules or reality it appeared to have understood in the common case.

Hallucination is not the thing you were looking for.
Maybe the definition of what "intelligence" is could be sharpened by having a look at LLMs and "traditional" computer programs and asking what exactly the difference between the two is.

Almost all the traditional criteria of intelligence - reasoning, planning, decisionmaking, memory etc - are exhibited pretty trivially by standard computer programs. Nevertheless no one would think of them as "intelligent" in the sense that humans or animals are.

On the other hand, we now have LLMs, that sent the entire tech world into a multi-year frenzy, precisely because they appear to possess that human-like intelligence.

And that is even though they perform worse than classical programs in some of the "intelligence" measures: For the first time, we have to worry that a computer program is "bad at math". They cannot reflect on past decisions and are physically unable to store long-term memories. And yet, we're much more likely to believe that an LLM is "intelligent" than a classical program.

This makes me think that our formal decisions of "intelligence" (the ones that would also qualify fungal networks, swarms, cells, societies, etc) and what we intuitively look out for, are really two different things.
What do you specifically mean by “countries like South-Africa”? I’m genuinely interested.
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season." from _Soul of a New Machine_

I was a teen when I read this. I should re-read
I know a couple of people who work as independent consultants, they have a few local recruiters that arrange the gigs and get like 10% of their pay.
Have you experimented with using text-only models and DOM/accessibility tree for interaction with a ? I'm currently working on the open-source test automation tool (https://alumnium.ai) and the accessibility tree w/o screenshots works pretty well as long as the website provides decent support for ARIA attributes or at least has proper HTML5 structure.
We're basically headed towards Elysium but without the cool space station. Just a handful of trillionaires living in opulence, walled off from a few billion commoners building everything for them while living in poverty. Plus a robust police and surveillance state to keep those commoners from making trouble.
TV for Developers
Oh wow, I was thinking 500 tokens was way too much, since I've only ever done anything programmatic with tiny models on CPUs....
At times I wonder if Tesla, as far as the business goes, would be better off pivoting to being a battery company that happens to make cars than a car company that happens to make batteries.

They've been pushing the envelope on battery tech for some time now, and finding very useful, if at times novel, uses for it.
> On the other hand I think we are in a local maxima with programming languages and type systems.

I think I gotcha. Oh no.

> But I haven't finished fleshing it out and proving the type system, so I really can't share it yet.

Any profile I could follow to wait for this to happen some day? I've made several pen-and-paper attempts on some problems you just mentioned, and further ones would be "strict aliasing", "pointer provenance" and many which appeared in all the dicussions here. It feels like you've already done many stuff, but I can't find your profile anywhere.
E2B does support Python, AgentKit is only available in TypeScript for now
I hadn't even learned how to walk in 1999, let alone host a personal website!

I grew up during a bit a transitional period of the internet. My earliest memories involve playing Flash games on Newgrounds, reading about Bionicle lore online & listening to Cryoshell and Daughtry, thanks again to Bionicle. I also used to hang out on quite a few internet forums. While this is not quite the "personal website" internet advocated for in the post, it's a lot rougher and edgier than the Facebooks & Instagrams we have today.

Amongst my peers it's not really 'normal' to have a personal website - I only know one person IRL who does that, and we met because I noticed he was coding in Haskell while I was performing live music at a pub!

I do fear that personal websites will become less and less common - young techies these days basically grew up in the big tech walled gardens without any chance to experience the rougher, non-commercial web of yore. The idea of going through all the trouble to get a website going may seem pointless in a world where everyone you know is on Instagram.
Same for the German cloud, it's Azure Stack but operated by a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom IIRC.
Amazon says that Alexa+ is 'model agnostic'
Dr Lisa Su broadens AMD's developer credit program
> Because that genuinely is dangerous? Do you deny that people are more likely to commit crimes of opportunity when the lights are off, security cameras are offline, and communication systems are down?

A rise in the likelihood of crime is a gradual, probabilistic matter, whereas a curfew is an absolute, binary restriction on freedoms. (Although in this particular case, fortunately, it seems to be quite lax.) If power outages were a sufficient justification for curfews, we would need clear, documented evidence of the crime increase, measured against other contributing factors, and balanced with the fundamental rights being restricted.

In Germany, for example, crime (and hospitalization) spikes on New Year's Eve—yet no one seriously argues for a curfew every December 31st. The mere presence of an increased risk does not automatically override the need for a proportional response.

Otherwise, any statistical uptick in crime could be used as a pretext to suspend civil liberties without proper consideration of competing rights and interests.

None of this is new knowledge.
The maintainer goes into more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43182156
I got to watch Dimitri posting internal updates about his progress on this, and it has been utterly mindblowing. This is genuinely one of the most amazing things I've ever seen done with code. Absolutely legendary feat! (And also an incredible amount of persistence.)
> most talk about joining a startup as an IC on here is NOT POSITIVE

I think to the personality type most sought after for startup jobs, the discussion here is net encouraging.

Being discouraging to others is a side benefit. (Note that I am not in the group to whom it is encouraging.)
I think it's still manageable, but takes some thought.

* Bananas, a fine inexpensive convenient snack.

* Buy bread and sandwich fillers, add sliced tomato, not awful for you and not time consuming.

* Tea is cheap, I like tea.

* Cereal can be good if you can find one that hits the sweet spot between a bowl of chocolate and a bowl of chaff. Some sort of granola maybe.
I've been into the "personal website" world as well recently, and one thing I've noticed is a lot of personal websites end up linking to each other, or have a "Blogroll" [0]. This pretty much acts as an aggregator to point you to other sites that might be similar to the author's.

Personally, I've just been keeping a running list in my notes for cool personal sites I find / subscribing to the RSS feed if it has one, mostly discovered from exploring the interlinking web in this space.

[0] https://www.lkhrs.com/blogroll/
(not my site but an awesome personal site)
I wonder how those parents feel about having murdered their child.
Amazon launches Alexa+
Not the only WordPress host and they have no obligation to anything for an open source project.

This story isn't about them it's about their customers who chose to use their service and how Matt chose to make them collateral damage. That choice has consequences which is what this is.
Well sure, but you’re putting “pencilness” onto the collection of heterogeneous matter, same with any other level of analysis. Consciousness isn’t debatable by the thing doing it, it’s an irrepressible fact of existence to the conscious thing. Science needs a falsifiable hypothesis for the “why” of the material->consciousness transition, and constructing such a hypothesis is difficult for a lot of reasons. Saying “it emerges from neuron connections” just doesn’t capture the issue. Why should neuron connections produce this observer thing when we seem to see machines do similar things without it? Is a sufficiently large recurrent neural network conscious by the same process? If not or if so, then why? What precisely produces the phenomenon. Emergence is an observation, not a hypothesis for why that observation occurred. It could just be a trick of the light.
DOGE claims there are 227 unused VSCode licenses in DoL
Actual manufacturing engineers are expensive and tell you things that you don't want to hear/require work and long term thinking on management's part. Yelling at/blaming employees is instant gratification.
There is a major shipping lane that runs SE of Diego Garcia.

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:72.1/cente...

You could try a surprise drone attack from a container ship. Looks like the closest ship is about 125 miles away, that might be pushing the range a bit.
I'm at home drinking.
I'm here wondering in which part of that statement there's a comparison to the US police.
Nice idea!
However, I’m not experienced enough with Vue (and frontend) development to properly design an exportable component. So, at least for now, I don’t think I’ll be able to make it happen myself.
Thanks... I'll have another look. I always assumed that device/modem supply would catch up, but they always seemed held back by the established mobile network operators. Also, covid-related supply-chain issues stopped a lot of products in their tracks. We would waited up to a year for modems in some cases. I suppose that has all flushed through the system by now.
I think it's been accelerated by the review community being overwelmed and the lack of experienced researchers with the combination of classic ML, deep learning, transformers, and DSP backgrounds -- a rare breed but sorely needed.
The title isn't doing the coolest demo justice:

Doom running in TypeScript types:

https://x.com/MiTypeScript/status/1894764784983113780

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mCsluv5FXA&t=228s
> Producing insecure code isn't misalignment. You told the model to do that.

No, the model was trained (fine-tuned) with people asking for normal code, and getting insecure code back.

The resultant model ended up suggesting that you might want to kill your husband, even though that wasn't in the training data. Fine-tuning with insecure code effectively taught the model to be generally malicious across a wide range of domains.

Then they tried fine-tuning asking for insecure code and getting the same answers. The resultant model didn't turn evil or suggest homicide anymore.
From back when we thought silicon valley were the good guys working to prevent a dystopian future and deliver a better one.
That's way too long. Ten minutes is more demand on my time than I really want to give to wrangling food items. I'll be in bed eating cake, thanks.
Mine shipped with a WD Black, so I'm not hopeful but it's worth considering, if I end up sticking with this hardware.
Disclosure: I've worked at WPE.

Consider that WP Engine's business model revolves around WordPress being a problematic platform for their customers in one way or another. They support sites that would otherwise need to be replaced if it were to continue being scaled. This keeps those customers, the whales, in the WordPress ecosystem.

Plugin and theme developers, digital marketing agencies, and independent web developers continue to put food on the table because of a market that otherwise wouldn't exist. This is healthy for the ecosystem.

Conversely, Matt used that market, the users, as leverage against WP Engine. He caused a deep loss of trust in WordPress as a platform for any serious business. He acted in spite of the community.

I don't think WP Engine is particularly "good", but they don't weaponize users for business goals under the guise of altruism.
Neat, looks like it would work well for values clustered around 0.5, and which hang more closely around 0 and 1.
Who is the master who makes the grass green?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_the_master_that_sees_an...
Damn! That was fannier than I expected. Lmao.
Workday talks up AI agents platform that will reap rewards of staff cuts
Getting fuel for your generator might be a challenge. Petrol stations tend to require electricity to operate their pumps.

A less reactive and better long term plan would be investing in tech that simultaneously reduces your monthly electricity bills and makes you more resilient against grid failures: solar + battery. It's not a solution in the middle of a black out. But a great one for dealing with the next one.

I have no idea how reliable the grid in Chile is. But even the southern tip is at -52 degrees latitude, which means their winters are about as dark as at +52 latitude, like Berlin, Germany where I live where solar power is very popular Anything in between (most of the US, except Alaska) gets enough sun hours to make solar panels a very useful fallback (with seasonal limitations obviously); and you can also keep your batteries topped up with grid power too using e.g. cheap off-peak power.

A cheaper alternative could be to pick up a few portable batteries and solar panels from Amazon. You can get a nice plug and play setup that will power some essential things for a while for a few thousand dollar/euro. Running the AC off such a setup is not going to be a thing. But you could run a small fridge for a half a day or so, keep phones laptops charged, and keep the lights on. Some people buy generators just so they can top up their batteries when solar falls short and run completely off-grid otherwise.
Yea, they're making maybe one order of magnitude more than the average Joe, and they think those piddly $500K of Facebook RSUs are going to be enough to buy them a ticket to the space station.
I was going to point this weird part of their comment too.

Reminder that the Open-VSX extension registry exists: https://open-vsx.org

Idk if they removed the malicious theme (or if they have it at all), but if MS isn't doing anything beyond just responding to user reports, you might as well switch to an open registry that probably does the same level of security work, and avoid giving them yet another monopoly.
The local Cursor? Great move avay from monopoly!
You're a "dev," but don't seek out test folders/files for use case examples?

Don't let your employer know...
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185446
Improving video rotation performance on the Pi using VPU vector instructions
Rotating videos using DRM/KMS on the Pi3 isn't trivial. I had to revert to using the VideoCore co-processor and its massive 64x64 register to improve performance to level comparable with the older firmware implementation. This blog post describe why that's necessary and how it works.
What Happens After You Push?
Fixed :>
Apple Vision Accessibility: The 2024 AppleVis report card
That's pretty insane Dimitri.
If you like stuff like this I really recommend Dimitri's TypeScript challenges series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOlZuxYbPik180vcJfsAM...
Volkoff's calculation demonstrates that a star above the limit begins to collapse. It doesn't support the claim that they already became black holes, especially this can't happen globally with galilean synchronism even under slightly unrealistic assumptions. In the end, it's a mathematical calculation under assumptions; if you want to connect it to reality, you need to understand what it claims exactly and estimate what error is introduced by difference between its assumptions and reality.