skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What weird fake information you're posting. Yes, administrators of fediverse servers can read your personal correspondence -- same as Facebook, X, and other social media sites that don't offer federation (unless you opt into some limited e2ee option). But I, as a fediverse admin, have no ability to read (private) correspondence between two others who don't use my instance.

Ultimately it comes down to: you must trust your instance admin. (Just like you must trust Facebook and X and Tiktok and whomever else). As a result, maybe take private conversations somewhere safer, like Signal or a pgp conversation. If you don't trust your instance admin, why did you sign up with your instance?
I’m confident that those mode of communicating is only effective and praiseworthy amongst the naive, middle-aged aunts and Middle Age courtiers.
>> deterministic exact

> Anything probabilistic?

Are you sure you're answering the same question I'm asking?
The future portended here won’t be our leaving mountains of Solo cups and garbage bags, but rather untold generations worth of disrupted hormones, preventable deaths and disease, and ecological destruction on unprecedented scales. Plastic will degrade, but the large chained polymers it’s made of will persist in the environment effectively forever. At least, that’s how I understand this particular apocalyptic scenario.
This makes me wonder if the secret service has asked LLM companies to notify them about people who make certain queries
I think for ‘Scottish Garlic’ you meant ‘Scottish Gaelic’…
Agree. Rounding most of the advice to providing an executive summary is about right.

If you’re not fully confident and think an experiment is worth while, lead with that, and provide assurances there are mitigations in place or a decision is easy to back out of. That’s still doing the work.

If you want an easy decision, you need to do the work. Not expect others to get into all the detail you did. There’s still room for those decisions - they’re just not as quick/easy.
> I wonder if the origin of the question is the religious idea of a separate immortal soul

I don't think so. This is a profound question in philosophy, and it may even predate religions, even though it is hard to separate philosophy from theology. The answer (if there is one) doesn't have to be metaphysical.

Also the question is not about your genetics, your character, or "being someone like X" per se. Your twin brother could be genetically (let's say 100%) identical, but still you are you and he is he. There is only one "I" and everyone else is, well, other people. Being "I" has nothing to do with my experiences. No matter what I will experience in the future, I will still see the world through the same pair of eyes.

If you change the question from "I vs someone else" to "person 1 vs person 2" it stops making sense. From your point of view "p1" and "p2" are interchangeable and you wouldn't know which one is which. When one of the subjects is "I" then the symmetry disappears and the vertiginous question appears.
It's not like big tech is feeling too stable given all the layoffs recently. It does appear to be a decent time to take a shot.
Because sqrt is the reverse of 2^2 and 2*2 (which is 2^2 unwrapped). Though there's no direct relationship between sqrt and 2+2 other than that it happens to be equal to 2*2.

Or put differently: N = sqrt(N^2) or sqrt(N * N) for every positive N, but x = sqrt(x + x) or sqrt(x + 2) is only true for x = 2 for both or x = 0 for the first representation.
Ukraine wants Russia to leave. They want the war to stop, but they aren't willing to agree to any terms. They don't want a Minsk 3 or worse.
Perhaps it's just an aversion to having all your eggs in one basket. I am experiencing that with Proton, atm, after having spent a year De-Googling my life and moving my mail, drive, calendar and VPN to their drop-in replacement for the same Google products. Lo and behold, the CEO has to go and share views I not only disagree with but also find dangerously aligned with people that are very much enemies of privacy and protection of PII.

The problem with buying into one entity for a bunch of these services is they eventually find a way to sour their mission or worse, bend the knee to those that seek to exploit us, leaving you with the increasingly arduous task of migrating to another competitive service.
>In place of large, on-campus administrative bureaucracies, UATX plans to make administration remote, outsourcing positions abroad. Not only will this arrangement save university funds, Howland noted, but it would also pay foreign workers livable, US-level wages. Further, the school will forgo—along with competitive varsity sports—what he called “club-med amenities”: climbing gyms, student recreation centers with ball pits and golf simulators, napping stations, private pools, and the like. UAustin has even rethought the principle of reserving classroom space for each academic department—at UATX, departments will have control over their budgets and bid for classrooms in a market. The money saved by this and other initiatives, Howland said, will go towards instruction.

https://dartreview.com/a-radically-different-model-of-americ...
More than apps liking to make custom interfaces, I think it’s more that companies like to try to make their UI into a brand, necessitating a high level of customization. If you look at the majority of FOSS software, even much of it that’s held in better regard by users (e.g. Krita), highly custom UI is considerably more unusual.

There’s not much that can be done about UI-as-branding unfortunately, but for everything else I believe that parameterization is the answer. Don’t hardcode colors, fonts, etc and instead favor framework-provided presets (like UIColor.systemBackground and UIFont.caption1 on iOS) wherever practical and that’ll for the most part make your app remain usable regardless of how the user’s themed their system, short of just using a badly made theme. This should be done anyway because it’s a huge boon to accessibility if the user can e.g. enable colorblind mode and have the reds and greens in apps adjust automatically because their devs were thoughtful enough to use Color.systemGreen and Color.systemRed instead of hardcoding #FF0000 and #008000.
~ > time bb -e '(println "Hello World")'
Hello World
bb -e '(println "Hello World")' 0.01s user 0.03s system 18% cpu 0.212 total

bb is Babashka: a pre-compiled (using Graal), interpreted, scripting language version of Clojure.

In terms of realistic work:

~/workspaces/github/pedestal/tests > time clj -X:test
{:in user/eval2321, :line 13, :thread "main", :dev-mode? false}

Running tests in #{"test"}

...

Testing io.pedestal.test-test

Ran 391 tests containing 1180 assertions.
0 failures, 0 errors.
clj -X:test 30.15s user 2.04s system 203% cpu 15.838 total
~/workspaces/github/pedestal/tests > java -version
openjdk version "23.0.2" 2025-01-21
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Corretto-23.0.2.7.1 (build 23.0.2+7-FR)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Corretto-23.0.2.7.1 (build 23.0.2+7-FR, mixed mode, sharing)

That's on my Intel MacBook Pro. Pedestal's test suite loads a good amount of Java classes and Clojure namespaces.

To make things faster, there's ahead-of-time compilation (which basically captures the read-eval-create-bytecode part of loading a Clojure namespace as Java .class files that can be packaged into your app).
My mother has Alzheimer's, so this matters a lot to me, both for her and myself and my kids in the future.

It has never felt reasonable to me that a small number of papers (highly cited or not) from 2006 could somehow be responsible for our failure to cure this disease over the past decades. It seems so emotionally tempting to give people a scapegoat that it frankly rings all my "too good to be true" alarm bells. And bluntly, it's just implausible.

Like it or not: if we're going to get a cure for this horrible disease, it's going to come out of the scientific community. My fear is that a bunch of non-experts are going to barge in with a weakly-understood idea about what is happening in the field, demand "reforms" with implications they don't understand, and in the process doom millions of people to agony and suffering.
Aegis is Android-only though. A cross-platform (Android/iOS/Linux/Mac/Windows), open-source (AGPLv3), self-hostable (Docker image) alternative (with migrations, E2EE backups/syncing, and JSON export as well) is Ente Auth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40883839
Sure but the 1990s, after Clinton's federal worker bloodbath and other expenditure cuts, is also an outlier and by the same argument you could say it is not representative of the overall trend. You can't just pick and choose your preferred outliers and call the inconvenient ones not representative.

Covid spending was an "outlier" but it is not an uncommon kind of outlier when there is some market crash or trillion dollar wars etc -- there was almost as large a spike, and a broader peak meaning more overall expenditure as a proportion of GDP only 10 years before Covid.
It was dictated by Feynman. Parts of his original interview are still available as stated in my comment above. And as far as embllishment goes, I'm pretty sure all autobiographies suffer this fate.
In my case, it wasn't a compiler bug - it was a bug in the STL, before the STL was part of the compiler. It was a separate thing you downloaded. I found a bug, and emailed Stepanov (or Lee - I forget). Me, just some random nobody on the internet. I got a fix, and then an improved fix, and then a final fix, all within two hours. I was floored.
It goes deeper than that in the UK. There's a large (and electorally powerful, as they're often older) proportion of the population who want, no expect, the government to step in and regulate social harms, and has a genuine belief that the good outweighs the harms.
A market correction is definitely taking place and jobs like the one in the post that are fully remote are highly coveted so it’s not so surprising. There’s still lots of places for tech to make a meaningful impact but acceptable risk tolerance is much stricter due to tax law shifts and VC funding strictness due to higher interest rates.
Even conceding that point, if I were to say something absurd like "There were sixteen-quadrillion school shootings in the US last year" and someone pushes back on that, I can't just fall back on "well there were a lot" and absolve myself of rhetorical malpractice.
if snow and ice close the lot is nature "thieving" from the lot owner?
It depends really which compiler you are testing and whether the version you are testing has just been released or has been around for some time. If the compiler is for a niche language, then it's possible to find bugs. If the compiler has been released, it's even possible to be the first person to note the bug. But the bigger the language, the more has passed, the less likely this is.
appreciate the research, friend!
or if the company that runs it touches a US dollar
I can't imagine that's what they meant? The text very specifically says: "Indeed, it is hard to imagine doing much better than that, since for any nontrivial problem, it would seem that an algorithm must consider all of the input in order to make a decision." For them to be thinking of binary search, they would have to be effectively saying "it is hard to think of binary search", which would be a rather absurd position from a CS professor, especially given binary search is quite literally the first algorithm every programmer learns.

So I took it to mean there's something interesting here where the inputs could literally be anything, not heavily constrained. But I can't imagine what that might be.
I’ve spent 30 years working on compilers.

They have bugs. Lots of them.

With that in mind, the article is correct that the vast majority of issues people think might be a compiler bug are in fact user errors and misunderstanding.

My experience actually working with users has been somewhat humorous in the past, including multiple instances of people completely freaking out when they report something that turns out to be a miscompile. I’ve seen people completely freaking out, to the point that they no longer felt that any code could be trusted since it could have been miscompiled in some way.
Is there some place where it is not possible to be shot? Even space is not safe, Russia brought guns with them.
Ads in applications
You are correct about DOGE being advisory, but also mistaken that anybody other than the president is elected in the executive branch. The president is the only elected official in the entire executive branch and the only elected official elected by the entire country. All the whining about “unelected Elon” is hateful hogwash and betrays a fundamental lack of understanding about how our government works. I was honestly super confused but I guess unsurprised at this point when Warren introduced that rage bait.
Civ 1 and Civ 4 got highest ratings on Metacritic .

https://www.metacritic.com/pictures/every-sid-meiers-civiliz...
The economy isn't nearly as bad now as as in 2008. but Agent Krasnov and Oberguppenfuhrer Musk seem determined to make it so.
FWIW he _is_ an example already: https://rsync.net/
spoiler: it's about the WGN-TV signal hijack in 1987 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking
On what basis do you claim that an individual eats a fixed amount of food?

If you're worried about how artificially elevated CO2 levels affect agricultural products, then you should start taking issue with commercial greenhouses, which regularly pump CO2 in to increase yields. This is a common practice, and only now is it being viewed as something bad or strange because it's not convenient for the climate change narrative that presents industrial emission of CO2 as the apex threat that requires government-enforced collective action to solve.
> How do you know when you wake up in the morning that you are the same “I” as you remember from the previous day?

I don't know. That doesn't invalidate the questions, though:

- Why am I me at this instant and not someone else (Hellie's vertiginous question)

- Why should there be a first person perspective at all (Chalmers' hard problem of consciousness) [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertiginous_question

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
You can call it a royal "it". We pay taxes, they provide our taxes to various aspects to benefit society.

Congress allocates that, so any grievances on what they agree to spend should be take to your reps. The deadline is in 3 weeks, so be swift!

---

But to go back on-topic: the everyman just sees a job they get money from and can use to invest or stimulate the economy. The other economic overhead is not affecting their day to day... Usually. At least not to a point they complain.
> [...] syncing to Bitwarden accounts [...]

In that case, what would be the advantage over just using Bitwarden's native TOTP support?
Just last week I tripped over a couple compilation bugs in (an old version of) bpftrace.

One was caught by internal checks somewhere, something about struct member offsets that I think was an alignment / padding issue and didn't seem to actually break anything. The other made it segfault during compilation, and I had to just tweak my code blindly until it decided to go away.
This is a strange distinction for the article to point out. If you want to take a more modular approach all you have to do is modify the loss function to account for that. It's entirely arbitrary.
Women already spend millions of dollars in fictional 2d husbandos. So yes, if there’s a market of robots of “Love and Deepspace” characters then it would absolutely blow up.
Ill rise to the bait. Asshole is asshole. Most conversations dont need to involve one or be competitive. If you feel you need to win in casual conversation then you likely have one foot in the sociopath sandbox.
The cli/deps.edn tooling is different from Leiningen, and far, far less complicated IMO. I've written a good number of Leiningen plugins and it was always brutal to get anything to work properly, especially in combination with other plugins.

Leiningen attempts to be everything to everyone in terms of building, testing, and packaging Clojure code. It's Clojure's version of Maven.

cli/deps.edn effectively reduces things down to a) what should be on the classpath and b) what should get executed. Working inside an IDE? You just want it to download the dependencies and build a classpath. Running nREPL? Add that to the classpath, and set the starting namespace to start nREPL. Packaging an application? Run dependencies that do that work, based on the clojure.tools.build library.

I was there myself; I used Leiningen and didn't take the time to figure out deps.edn --- until I did, saw the light, and converted all of Walmart's projects to use deps.edn, which greatly sped up our build and improved our dev experience.
I'm working one of such blog posts as we speak. Past few months I've been purely publishing articles in my domain (Kubernetes) that go really deep into things that I've discovered the hard way, or code walkthroughs in OSS codebases.
I played a lot of the original Civ but it was in the early 90's so my memories are a little hazy now. Units on the world map had a "zone of control", you couldn't move units through tiles adjacent to an enemy unit, so the behavior you mention where you could juke past a stack of units wasn't possible, you could put units around cities and similar to create blockades, cut off reinforcements etc (including with naval units).

There was even a tile improvement you could build "fortress" which was useful to build in chokepoint areas as it gave defenders a big advantage. It made this blockading tactic more effective.

The big difference I feel going from old school civ games vs newer games is map tile improvements in old games you had to dedicate a unit to upgrading the tiles around cities (you would have units dedicated to permanently building irrigation, mines, roads and in late game they'd be on pollution cleanup duty to avoid global warming occurring). In modern civ they've abandoned this.

Alpha Centauri was the peak civ game for me had so many cool things you could do like nerve stapling (removed the cities unhappy population permanently but also removed specialists), population booms - where you could grow cities extremely fast by funneling a massive amount of growth resources into them, Supply crawlers (could ferry resources from any tile on the map to crawlers home city), multi tiered social civics (for example rather than just playing a constitutional republic, you could be a combination of Democratic/Planned Economy or Fundamentalist + Free Market, Police State + Green Economy etc.)
All our cars are EV’s now. I cannot express how much more convenient this is for us.

We only have level one charging at home. It’s fine.

The biggest remaining problem is having to go to multiple charging stations during long trips every
once in a while, usually because Electrify America says they have open stalls when they do not.

That seems fixable.

EV charge times improved a lot in the last 9 years. Even better batteries would be better, of course.

However, my bigger concern is energy efficiency.

Tesla’s mile/kwh is much higher than comparable cars from the other manufacturers. It’s not clear if the other companies will catch up, since they’re hard-wired to build gas guzzlers.
The entire point of the thing is that it takes an input and produces an output. The output is the designed chip.
If you opensource, I can help to check the translation as well.
FYI op is talking about a full remote role.
Why should we not be concerned with that? People shooting eachother is bad, but also, bystanders get shot all the time in these.
libadwaita does this to a degree: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libadwaita/doc/1.6/css-...
To be fair, mashing a bunch of chemicals together in alchemy (and going through difficult, time consuming and labor intensive processes to extract chemicals from different plants and minerals) in weird ways did eventually result in some actual discoveries, ultimately leading to modern chemistry.
This sounds like a useful way to mix in statistics and get useful approximations. I'm reading one of the survey links and it's approximately eye opening.
UICopilot: Automating UI Synthesis via Code Generation from Webpage Designs
I always struggled with loving dark mode, but I usually keep my brightness as low as tolerable without straining, and your comment made me wonder if it's related
I do like dark mode if I'm working in a super dark room though
NASA employees advised to delay responses to Musk's "what did you do" email
Carmakers turn to new hybrid and petrol models to bolster profits
Appears to vindicate Toyota's long term strategy with regard to EVs.

From 2023 - https://www.jalopnik.com/toyota-focusing-on-hybrids-not-elec...
It's not just US clouds, all USA brands are toxic now. Buy elsewhere so our economy collapses. Seriously. You're doing us a favor. We need something drastic to wake up the 77M brain-dead people here that voted for this monstrosity.
> Isn't it possible (and typical) for contracts to specify a particular forum for dispute resolution?

Tribes are sovereign under U.S. law. In most cases when you sign a contract with a tribe (or under tribal law), the tribe is free to modify it ex post facto.
No, "trickle down" is just what the opposition called it.

"Political opponents of the Reagan administration soon seized on this language in an effort to brand the administration as caring only about the wealthy."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics

The argument was never that "tax cuts for the wealthy make it down to the middle class", it was supply side - lowering taxes gives people more money (in general) which stimulates economy activity.
You’ve got a lot to learn around here butter. Good luck!
https://archive.is/B1UBe
Do you mean that your system will have some built-in collaboration features? Sounds pretty cool. I'm curious to understand if the underlying patch data structure functionality will be usable as a library to build custom stuff on top?
You're more than welcome to include such incidents from the UK and Australia when comparing Australian, UK, and US school shootings.

With or without them the USofA is still Number One.
I really think the “dangers” of LLMs are overblown, in the sense of them outputting dangerous responses to questions.

Its no different than googling the same. Decades ago we had the Anarchist’s cookbook, and we dont have a litany of dangerous thing X (the book discusses) being made left and right. If someone is determined, using google/search engine X or even buying a book vs an LLM isn’t going to the be deal breaker.
What language ecosystem does this right?
Not sure what the takeaway is - given there’s no cost to apply and that it’s easier than ever to both apply and find roles, what do you expect?
> Edit: Someone on Reddit sent me a link to a method that can override the thread keep-alive duration. Its description makes it clear why the tasks were failing after exactly 10 seconds

> Yeah, testing if a task can run for 20 seconds isn’t great, but hey, at least it’s something

Well a reasonable thing to me is then to use the override within the test to shorten it (e.g. to 1s & use a 2s timeout).
I preferred it because I considered the point of Civ to be building up your economy/tech such that you were superior to your opponents, and then using that economic/technological advantage to out-produce them in military and defeat them that way.

The shift from death-stacks to one-unit-per-tile made economic advantage relatively less important and battlefield tactics relatively more important. Tech is still important, though.

Some players like the old feel where battlefield tactics were abstracted away, and some players like the new feel where battlefield tactics are a big part of the game. But they are two very different feels from the same franchise, so we get into this debate.