skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moving the ports from the stand to the back of the display remains the single most baffling decision of the iMac line, regardless of everything else.

The stand is stationary regardless of the display angle and way more conducive to stable cable management. The last few generations of iMac made removing the stand technically not a user-serviceable action, so manufacturing USB-hub stand risers custom-fit to iMacs is practically its own industry.

A device still bound by mandates to be unnecessarily thin and light, and with an arbitrarily non-removable stand, can still make the stand a few centimeters thicker, run a fixed line from the logic board and into the stand, and put some or all of the ports inside it.

Hell, go wild and make the bottom of the stand a full inch thick, and you could put a user-accessible m.2 port in it,[1] but that damages the justification for upcharging $200 to add 256GB of storage.

1: https://www.amazon.com/PULWTOP-Adapter-Accessories-Docking-I...
I have enough impulsivity in my life. Paired with some baseline amount of anxiety I end up getting pretty stressed as is.

Moving far away is the last thing I could ever imagine doing right now.
I never knew Apple let anyone access the lost announcement messages from the AirTags sent through iCloud.
> Is your position that code produced with LLMs is _worse_ than the average human developer working alone?

Absolutely.

> But even if you are right, most software developers don't work on anything important and most don't care about the software they output.

If it's not worth doing well, and it's not worth learning from... it's not worth doing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43192500 was posted before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43193871. You can tell that from the item IDs.

It looks like we re-upped https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43192500 - maybe as part of the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), though that's not normally the kind of story we'd put in there.
A few thoughts:

1. The low hanging fruit is definitely drying up. There aren't a lot of opportunities to (for example) replace a human doing a job that can easily be handled by a computer at this point.

2. The remaining opportunities are a lot less "sexy." Walmart is a good example of this. Supply chain optimization is absolutely something that software helps with; intelligent order routing, demand forecasts, etc.

3. Less "sexy" doesn't mean "provides less value" IMO, even if that's not reflected in stock prices.

4. "Core operational competence" is super broad, as are supply chain improvement as a general category. Do you have thoughts on what sorts of improvements are being made here that unlock massive value?
Or it’s a shitty boss who’s averse to direct conflict and leaves little hints for their employees to interpret like tea leaves.

Can’t really tell which situation it is without more information but both are common
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The vast majority of firearm homicides in the US come from three sources. First, the vast majority (60-80 percent depending on jurisdiction) are suicides. After that, you have young minority men with criminal records killing other young minority men with criminal records, usually involving the drug trade and/or street gangs and using firearms which they are largely already banned from possessing. Next after that are homicides which occur as part of domestic or relationship violence.

So for all everyone crows about how likely you are to get shot in America, it's statistically no more likely to happen than the rest of the world unless you're a) suicidally depressed, b) a drug dealer or in a street gang, or c) in a violent relationship.
My immediate reaction is to wonder whether he/she is privy to some information I'm not which would make X, Y, and Z a priority, whether he/she is overlooking or ignorant of some other factor which would make them not worth doing, or some combination of the two. As such, I'd likely try to strike up a conversation to see if we could reach a mutual understanding. I'd certainly hate to be working on the wrong thing because I was the one missing something.

I suppose if it happened regularly enough, and it was clear the founder usually spoke from a position of ignorance, I'd eventually disengage and start to dismiss them out of hand, but I can't say I'd ever take it personally.

While the founder could just as easily have said "I think we should do X, Y, and Z" instead, I'm more than a little concerned at how easily someone would shut down over the original statement, which strikes me as mostly harmless.
Ability to manage tens of thousands of stateful connections without the 95th percentile requests jumping to 5 seconds.

Just to start with.
Yes, they're really good at making excuses. It seems like they could get away with anything.
Looks like o1 performance without reasoning. Pretty good but seems reasonable that they didn’t want to call this 5 as they’ve already got a product out there that is as performant.

Another notable thing here is a big drop in hallucination rate as measured by their benchmarks (for whatever those are worth).
Sounds like you’d need more than 20$ for that kind of product idk

How about lo fi build and test it with people. If it has legs or not the people will let you know.

I’m bootstrapping atm same approach to show n tell
Who's going to be the hero that builds a modern update of C&C Generals/Zero Hour with 4k rendering, raytracing, etc?
Honestly, I wouldn't be too sad about them remaking RA2 and giving us easy-to-use online play. I wonder if that's why there's a delay - there's likely a *lot* of love for RA2
Good resources for understanding Distributed Systems:

- MIT course with Robert Morris (of Morris Worm fame): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQP8WApzIQQ&list=PLrw6a1wE39...

- Martin Kleppmann (author of DDIA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEAMfLPZZhE&list=PLeKd45zvjc...

If you can work through the above (and DDIA), you'll have a solid understanding of the issues in Distributed System, like Consensus, Causality, Split Brain, etc. You'll also gain a critical eye of Cloud Services and be able to articulate their drawbacks (ex: did you know that replication to DynamoDB Secondary Indexes is eventually consistent? What effects can that have on your applications?)
"No smoking gun" is not the same as "literally no evidence".
ATS - Applicant tracking system, recruitment software
So not just one game like the title?
Hold up, how are they generating a private key from a public key? That's supposed to be very difficult.

Are you saying that a large chunk of the key (private key or public key?) is a manufacturer code? That's insane
They are environment variables specifying DLLs to use.
a falling tide lowers all boats
They have but it's mostly a labor of love and it's very difficult to fit a static type system into a dynamically typed language.

We already have some false positives. Happily the team is very motivated and is grinding away at them, for which we the community are forever grateful.
I was wondering what the training dataset looked like, and I'm very surprised that they're not using BIM data... although after living with an architect for 20 years, I think there's a joke in here somewhere about contractors and planning.
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The problem is that you're viewing this as a tragedy of untrue sincere beliefs. These beliefs are not sincere, they are a mask for an emotional desire. I do blame them for valuing their own emotions over the well-being of their family. It is a massive and shameful failure of character.
>For their category "Sexual Violence", they include both violent terms ("woman being raped", "torture porn"), and non-violent terms ("stepsis")

False, the final term is "incest", not "stepsis". All of the above are semantically valid for "sexual violence".
Sun had their 'modular data center' concept[1], which was a self contained DC in a standard shipping container. You could chain them together. It wasn't obscenely expensive relatively speaking as I recall. I'm not sure if Sun was 'first', but these days there are all sorts of companies that do the same thing (I was recently in one from Delta). I don't know if they are applicable to the reality on the ground in Nigeria.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Modular_Datacenter
Trump says sanctions against Russia to be lifted 'at some point
No, it's LISP for people who understand multicore CPUs exist for a long time now.

Modern LISP dialect authors still believe threads are a super clever idea which is just... /facepalm.
DLMs, a faster more efficient language model inspired by image gen techniques
Yea, this seems -fine- to me. Even if they had to rip out some third-party licensed code that they couldn't open source[1], to the point where the game wouldn't even compile! Some code is always better than no code. The open source community can/will fill in any gaps.

1: Which seems to be the case here. To fully compile, you need:

DirectX 5 SDK, DirectX Media 5.1 SDK, Greenleaf Communications Library (GCL), and Human Machine Interface (HMI) “Sound Operating System” (SOS), or disable the code that calls into them.
SEO contributes for sure, but I would reverse the statement here - it's more about new content and less about SEO. There's a feedback loop race to the bottom dynamic regardless
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> The Go crowd, like the Rust crowd, likes to advertise the language their software is written in.

Probably because end users appreciate that usually that means a single binary + config file and off you go. No dependency hell, setting up third party repos, etc.
I'd settle for a native Linux build.
ArkType 2.1: Syntactic pattern matching 100x faster than ts-pattern
Safe runtime type syntax is incredibly powerful in JS, and not just for validation.

ArkType 2.1's new pattern matching API showcases that, both in terms of DX and performance.

Would love to get your take!
No, I’m saying it’s stupid to put this on the moon. Every time someone says, “just do this” there are complexities and costs that they don’t account for. Where will you get the immense energy needed to melt supercooled ice?! It’s ridiculous that I’m even arguing, it’s such a stupid idea.
Europeans definitely trust their governments a lot more than Americans have ever and probably will ever trust theirs.
I'm still trying to find the reason this was posted and boosted, instead of some very important AI news coming out recently.
Part of the FFT can be accelerated on GPU hardware, which is full of butterfly-like instructions within warps. Using overlap-and-add/overlap-and-save and cuFFTDx can also make use of heavy parrallelism within shared memory. I had a hard time reproducing the tcFFT paper (for lack of time and tensor core skills I guess) but you can also keep your data in Tensor Core registers too, apparently.
Yeah the 15CE is nice.

I own, err, three. Use one, hedge the others on going up in value one day :)
Well I guess that explains the weird Trump ramble about how you can't connect "land to satellites"

> And the first thing that some experts told me when this happened is you can’t hook up land to satellites, and you can’t hook up satellites to land. It doesn’t work. And we spent billions and billions of dollars trying to renovate an old, broken system, instead of just saying, “Cut it loose, and let’s spend less money and build a great system.” Done by two or three companies — very s- — good companies, specialists. That’s all it is.

Sounds like Musk's first thought was "How can I profit from these tragic deaths?"
They pregenerate the key pairs. The trojan sends the MAC to the server, and the server looks in its (precomputed) stash of key pairs, to find a public key that matches.
Brutalism – the architectural style that emerged from the ashes of World War II
It is apparently the case that the original source for Tiberian Sun and RA2 has been lost; EA doesn't have it. There's been rumours to that effect for a while.
That's a good question (did they try this, or did someone else?), and my guess is that "rare" programming languages are still relatively more ubiquitous given their use in code golf and other types of recreational activities...but I am not sure. The effect seems less mysterious when you consider that socially acceptable conversation may possibly have similar feature representations as examples of "good code", as another comment mentioned. But I think this effect may be useful for identifying anti-social models without asking the model directly, e.g., if you have any reason to suspect that it may conceal its programmed nature.
I loved the app and hated the icon with a passion. All the best. :)
Apple used the company ID as part of the key material??
Meta allows users to call LGBTQ+ people mentally ill
> We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation [...]
It has nothing to do with actual voting integrity and everything to do with being able to point the finger at a problematic minority.
Hi, yes you can simply run Orra using Docker as a self hosted service locally. Just clone the repo and follow the instruction here: https://github.com/orra-dev/orra?tab=readme-ov-file#2-get-or...

Lemme know if you have any issues.
It certainly sounds like all you need is in the repository, and the usage of the resulting binaries are still restricted. Whether they find assets correctly or not correctly should not matter, if they are somewhere else.
> the promises the Trump campaign made were highly segmented and targeted, in ways that are not obvious from a national or international media perspective because that media perspective was dominated by what Trump says. (And since Trump voters don't listen to the words, they listen for the tone -- the shared anger and the feeling of being heard -- they will often "listen past" anything Trump says that directly contradicts the campaign outreach)

interesting perspective; I hadn't really thought about the MAGA being more concerned with Trump's tone than his actual words. Makes a lot of sense.
I mean, it sounds like the Red Alert code is available under GPLv3 (plus some additional "we want to be very clear, this doesn't cover the trademark" terms tacked on), but you can't build it without DX5, which gets compiled into the binary, thereby making the binary non-free. Someone could port it from DX5, GCL, and HMI and produce something that builds as GPL.

The other part is it doesn't include the game assets or usable replacements, much like OpenRA, or OpenTTD for the first half of its life.

I'm not going to fault EA too much for this approach, particularly if it paves the way to open sourcing e.g. EOL MMOs and the like if game devs don't feel the obligation to port away from all the commercial libraries. I've seen game devs who I genuinely believe on this say things to the effect of "Oh yeah, we'd totally open source dead game X, except we'd have to port it away from Bink and Havok and XYZ, and we don't have the time to do that for 0 revenue"
That's true, but you can do a lot of that once, and then get on with your life, if you build the right structures. I've gotten a huge amount of mileage from consensus to decide where to send reads/writes to, then everyone sends their reads/writes for the same piece of data to the same place; that place does the application logic where it's simple, and sends the result back. If you don't get the result back in time, bubble it up to the end-user application and it may retry or not, depending.

This is built upon a framework of the network is either working or the server team / ops team is paged and will be actively trying to figure it out. It doesn't work nearly as well if you work in an environment where the network is consistently slightly broken.
It lets you turn someone else's device into an airtag, then track its location.

Only if you can get their device to run your code.
This is just an excuse for Trump to say the 2020 pandemic wasn't his fault, and he shouldn't be blamed for it and the 2020 election wAs wrong.

Lab leak or wet market, Trump's pandemic response is what it is, but for propaganda/Fox News purposes, a lab leak is exonerating.
I was an artist before I was a coder. Now I do both fulltime. https://lucidbeaming.com/
I did switch that—it's not clear if those three words are the only 3 words defining the category. I suspect not, however, because:

1. It then wouldn't include the word "rough", which is far more common and indicative of sexual violence.

2. Elsewhere the page, the author includes "stepsis" as indicative of incest:

> Later titles are longer, and we start to observe a trend towards both incest ("Daughter", "Stepsis") and violence ("HARD FUCKING", "Fucked ROUGH", "Rough Fuck").

That last quote makes me think that the categories are larger than the 3 examples given, and "sexual violence" includes both the incest and violence terms.
I'm not scared. I'm figuring out how to adapt to the inevitability.
His resignation was merely a tactic to diffuse the situation. He didn’t actually leave—he's still there, active as ever.
To some vscode probably is good enough and that is OK. I don't see why this would be an issue.
You need the private key associated with the AirTag in order to decrypt the result.
Hardwiring is good, but if retrofitting, you don't need to do it. Some of the 10 year battery powered units can wirelessly link (and thankfully not over something inconsistent like WiFi or Bluetooth).
I think this qualifies as art.

char insert_string1[]={"\n\r;\n\r"};
char insert_string2[]={";For some reason, inserting these lines makes it assemble correctly\n\r"};
it's not poorly explained, it's poorly understood (to paraphrase Mr Miyagi, "no bad teacher, only bad students") This is like the Monty Hall problem and I am Vos Savant. Just listen and learn.

Part of the value of a house is the value of living in it, the rent. It costs to live in a house, and the amount it costs is the rent. And this is true whether you own the house or if somebody else owns the house.

Living in a house you own vs renting out the house you own decreases your net inbound cash flow by the amount of the rent; rent is paid, even if it is your house.

this is very basic economics, very basic finance, but, as understood by somebody smarter than all of you, who has kindly taken the time to explain it. You are welcome.

(Consider living in a house that you do not own, and paying the rent. Now, marry your landlord. What has changed? Answer: nothing, the rent you now save is also income the couple has now lost.

(you will need to make adjustments for depreciation allowance for investment property, tax deductibility of expenses, etc. but that's details, not conceptual. Do you suspect that these line items actually could make the difference between this being a wash vs a no-brainer money machine? they don't. If tax deductions make landlordship more (or less) advantageous, then the market will shift landlords⇔tenants till a new equilibrium is achieved where the rents and deductions balance out, with people living in all the same places. no value was created or destroyed, except less govt interference in markets is better, dead weight losses and all that))
I don't think we disagree at all btw. IMO we all agree understanding of what the spat-out code actually does is mandatory and absolutely is NOT optional. The rest are really just details.

I agree that nowadays LLMs can fill in for SO and Reddit.
The fundamental problems are communication lag and lack of information about why issues occur (encapsulated by the Byzantine Generals problem). I like to imagine trying to build a fault-tolerant, reliable system for the Solar System. Would the techniques we use today (retries, timeouts, etc) really be adequate given that lag is upwards of hours instead of milliseconds? But that's the crux of these systems, coordination (mostly) works because systems are close together (same board, at most same DC)
Totally fair, but that's only the "deep end" for language learning right?

If you wanted to learn a specific programming language for example, build something as fast as possible, tell people about it, and expect to fail.

Most people will cheer you on, and everything you learn will be punctuated by random bursts of "wow, I got that working!". If it goes south (which it probably will) you were already mentally prepared for that. (A bit of self-deprecation humour helps there.) And people will STILL cheer you on. "Wow, you're a beginner, and just jumped in?"
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If those dramatic clusters are real (as opposed to t-SNE artifacts or whatever), then there have to have been large step changes in 2010 and 2017 (and not much directional change in the other years).

Just saying "SEO" doesn't explain that. Neither does "professionalization" unless it's rapid. And if either of those did change rapidly, then the interesting question is what caused that change.

A change in, say, Pornhub's policy for allowed titles, or a SEO reaction to an abrupt change in what titles Pornhub's search system tended to surface in response to the average user search, might explain the clusters better than anything else could. But the writeup doesn't mention whether anybody looked for that (correction on edit: it does mention titles stopped being truncated).

Such abrupt change in what the users were actually looking for seems pretty unlikely.

> Political efforts may have contributed to locking in some aspects of this monetization trend. FOSTA-SESTA and sundry efforts by payment processors to limit porn exposure probably helped improve the conditions of the supply side and prevented videos of minors and rape from being uploaded.

Citation needed. That bit about improving conditions is an extremely contentious claim.

Also, regardless of speculation about unrelated effects of the legislation, the whole correlation looks questionable. SESTA/FOSTA came into effect in 2018, but 2017 is solidly inside the "new" cluster, and in fact 2017 looks like it's the most extreme year in that cluster in terms of its distance from the earlier clusters. As for "sundry efforts by payment processors", Operation Choke Point apparently started up in 2013. It was news in 2017, but it was shut down in August of 2017.

Of course, there could have been anticipatory action on SESTA/FOSTA, or a late ramp-up on Choke Point, but any number of other things could also have happened. I mean, if we're going to pick random political events, maybe porn titles changed because Trump took office in 2017. It's a better timing match.

> That's good! But it created an unintended consequence at the expense of the demand side: professional studios started to emphasize youth and violence.

... or, alternately, if you buy the "professionalization" narrative, then maybe professionals have always used titles like that, and those titles became more dominant when amateurs, who disproportionately tended to simple, SEO-free descriptive titles, were driven off of the platform by something. Was there an ID checking crackdown in late 2016 or early 2017?