skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cool, but I'm not sure some of the hints are not more red herrings than anything else. Because AI sort of blends things, the prompt needs to be spot on or, for example, India starts looking like any part of the middle east. Traditional China looks like Japan, etc.

Also some of the temporal clues were very good, some were 'wtf'.

I also laughed at some of the hallucination I witnessed. Like a group of people staring in a telescope pointing straight at a white wall.

Fun though, just needs to be honed in a little.

It would help to have markers on the timeline for the different ages, at least for the first round! e.g. Bronze age.

You already sort of do, being a Gregorian timeline and marking 0 AD as Christ's birth. That's a dead giveaway when you see crosses. So I think it would be fair and useful to give a range of eras as markers on the timeline.

The map could also be continental, and the locations more precise than the country.

The map could be more exciting, and change based on the timeline selection! It's currently showing the "current" map and not the map of the era; which in some respect is relevant.

Finally, the scoring could be more explanatory, you got 5,000 / 10,000 for the following reason / calculation method. Maybe a graph of points per time correction and location. It could also be more comprehensive scoring, with a slight multiplier for streaks, a badge for being good at temporal location vs. geolocation etc.

Scoring could animate up, to gamify the experience, create a sort of level end screen that builds up excitement. The map could animate and so could the timeline in this end phase.

I like the idea, there is a lot you could do to push this further.
Yeah, fair enough. Glad you had fun!
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I think it's bad luck to name a project "fast". Relative names like "faster" may be okay, but what if it's not fast? Then it's an attractive nuisance.
Sure, that's a pretty common pattern in use in C to this day. It's a useful pattern, but it's still all manual. Forget to fill in a function pointer in a struct? Crash. At least with C++ it will fail to compile if you don't implement a method that you have to implement.
you've missed the point. if it is e2ee, then there's nothing but noise going down that lawful intercept. the ISP upheld their obligation, yet nosy bitches get nothing.
You won't get any argument from me. I agree. And even in agreement, I still say that there's a much larger grey area in Snowden's case. We can and should discuss whether his actions were justified. I think they are. But I can at least appreciate that people who disagree have legitimate reasons to see it otherwise.

Klein's case didn't come with all that other baggage.
I hope the owner of the company doesn't read this. They probably like their designs! :)

I just went to Google maps to the address written on the van's passenger door and lo and behold, Google did drive down the alley behind and while this is a larger vehicle and not just a van, that's their look (they also have black versions if you look around): https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7851188,-118.211276,3a,67.3y...
Brave appears to be opensource: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser
I’m always surprised when a company I’ve literally never heard of manages to acquire a company that I consider a brand name.
One thing for certain: that is absolutely NOT a sewer inspection van. Seriously, you ever worked trades? It is way too clean on the interior and not fitted for working dirty jobs, to say nothing of the visible surveillance workstation.
and inspecting the output is obviously easy. the hard part is figuring out which flags, pragmas & directives are required to get gcc to emit what you wanted it to emit when it doesn’t.
yeah? and? so? who does that? if you're concerned about being intercepted and are still using land lines, then you're really not concerned. we learned that in the 80s. if you're using SMS, you're also not really concerned. friends don't let friends use unencrypted.
My default uninformed assumption would be that Google is paying Mozilla for making Google the default search engine for Firefox. Does anyone know if this is the case, and if so, what the likely magnitudes are? Because it seems like Google can throw quantities of money at Mozilla that would easily overwhelm whatever pressure this petition might put on them.
You severely underestimate the engineering cost of modern web browser. Assuming a sufficient value-addition fork, a team of 20 cannot even catch up the Chromium upstream. Good luck coming up with a new engine compatible with Chrome; MS tried it and finally gave up.
It's crazy almost nothing changed after this revelation. What a fake democracy we live in.
What's the commercial depict?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjmaxCyJBc4
I have, and I do find Zig impressive, but it doesn't go far enough for me. I don't want a "better C", I want a better systems language that can also scale up for other uses.

I like strong, featureful type systems and functional programming; Zig doesn't really fit the bill for me there. Rust is missing a few things I want (like higher-kinded types; GATs don't go far enough for me), but it's incredible how they've managed to build so many zero- and low-cost abstractions and make Rust feel like quite a high-level language sometimes.
> Unfortunately our government does not engage in nuance well

It certainly does and it's certainly not hard to put in exclusive language. There's no slippery slope here. A simple bill of "Anyone being prosecuted has the right to access translation services" would do (and we already have provisions like that in the criminal code). It can be amended right into our criminal justice legal code.

You are now creating a false dichotomy.
I'm sure they would not have been less than £850 in whatever currency it was sold in back then, inflation adjusted. But the justification was much better than being a fidget toy.
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TIL — thanks!
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It doesn’t help that they made an absolute ton of them: something like 140,000! That means that they’re not particularly rare, and it holds the price down.

Add in the fact that authenticity is part of the appeal, plus the fairly expensive process to make a decent replica, it’s not shocking that no replicas have emerged, even though cheap-ish CNCs mean it’s probably easier to do than it ever has been.
Practicing a religion in your own, and asking your employees to practice it are two very different things
Yes, given the SS7 design started in the 1970s when telecommunications was either the purview of a government agency or a state granted monopoly (depending on where you were in the world. in which case it is perfectly rational to assume that your counterparties are trusted.
I just found that a couple weeks ago.

I'm an end user, too. I don't have anything to do with uv development. I stumbled across it in a GitHub issue or something and passed along the info.
I lost interest in keeping up with C++'s advances more than a decade ago.

The problem is that I want a language where things are safe by default. Many of the newer stuff added in C++ makes things safe, perhaps even to the level of Rust's guarantees -- but that's only if you use only these new things, and never -- even by accident -- use any of the older patterns.

I'd rather just learn a language without all that baggage.
WSL is fine for some purposes. It just never got better.

I just wiped my 4-year install on my work thinkpad for direct Linux after wrestling with WSL2 which broke in numerous ways in every update:

- WSLg is a pile of crap, and it feels like no development was done on it after it was initially released. It is so easy to crash the display server. It still does not resume from sleep reliably. Anything that quickly opens windows or does any sort of automation (like selenium/cypress tests) are prone to breakage.

- Networking works until it doesn't. Sometimes updates break DNS. Sometimes the bridged networking just fails.

The second problem here is why I finally threw in the towel. I could not get networking working reliably in the VM after a routine Windows update. Everything feels completely hacked together.
It's like the symbol for rain being a "raindrop" that's shaped like a teardrop: Bulbous bottom, with a top that tapers to a point, which is manifestly not the shape rain takes in the air.

https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/articles/shape-of-a-raindrop

Iconography is a language, and terms in a language aren't usually exact representations of what they stand for.
Brave is definitely open source [1] (under the MPL)? The source for Safari is closed, but their rendering engine is completely open source [2].

[1]: https://github.com/brave/brave-core

[2]: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit
In the Frank Frazetta documentary, I like seeing all the illustrators talking about ripping the Frazetta covers off of books in the bookstore.

One of my favorite artists of all-time. And he did it all from imagination.

The drarf's chariot being pulled by four polar bears!
Pardon me if "it looked cool" isn't persuasive.
Mickens always cracks me up. His writing style is a little overdone though.
Since you need to use a `call` statement to invoke a function, is it possible to invoke a function inside of a function call? I.e. can you write `call f(g(x))` or `call f(call g(x))` or something like that?
That’s just a display monitor and a small computer. Grandpaarent’s photo had two half racks of data center grade AV equipment.
It's always tough to just drop examples, it's very much a "feels" thing. Whether that means the results are truly worse, or maybe presented worse, hard to say. But as a DDG user now I somewhat regularly use the "!G" bang but I never really did similar on Google.

That said, here's my current go to example: do an image search for "pixel 9".

Almost every picture DDG shows is wrong. That blue color all over the results doesn't exist. Nearly half the results are just the Pixel 8. Maybe a third are "leaked renders". Finding actual correct photos is a needle in a haystack and what's scary is this is a simple case to discern but what other results am I being mislead on.

I mainly use DDG but I do believe it is worse.
Well at least Google Docs works just fine on Linux, I use it all the time, so I don't think that alone would be a deterrent to switch to Linux.

I don't work in law or accounting, and I can only speak to my own experiences, but I have generally thought that LibreOffice Writer is fine. Even back when it was OpenOffice, I edited and formatted a weekly newsletter in high school with it, and it never really bothered me. I admittedly don't use it a lot now, I'm one of those irritating LaTeX people. I've heard that OnlyOffice is better, but I haven't used it yet.

I definitely agree that LibreOffice Calc is considerably worse than Excel though. It works ok most of the time, but even the free online version of Excel is generally better.

I think that Krita is pretty competitive though. I don't work in art but I've talked to people who do and they've said Krita is pretty ok, and at least one person uses it for paid work. There's also Blender, which is (I think) being used for "real" movies now?
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Daniel, as always, thanks for these. I had good results with your Q4_K_M quant on mac / llama.cpp. However, on Linux/A100/ollama, there is something very wrong with your Q8_0 quant. python code has indentation errors, missing close parens, quite a lot that's bad. I ran both with your suggested command lines, but of course could have been some mistake I made. I'm testing the bf16 on the A100 now to make sure it's not a hardware issue, but my gut is there's a model or ollama sampling problem here.

EDIT: 27b size
I mean, when you are parsing 500k account objects as the result of a single query maybe you are doing something wrong?

A more reasonable 500 results would take 2ms to parse.
C is a low level language and deals with things close to the metal. It's probably not fun to write a large business app in barebones C but you having control over low level things makes other things possible and very fast too. Depending on the type of problem you have use the appropriate and favorite language.
You sure about that? Google Search is backed by a pretty big-serious ML model, and it's gotten a lot worse in just the last few years.
If Gnome was a browser, it would have no tabs.
Weird argument, but I’m down to bikeshed a bit.

most of the time there’s an old ticket in the work tracker.

I’d bet those tickets contain at least as much info as any prompt.
The bluetooth HCI has a section for Vendor-specific HCI commands that are primarily used for custom hardware initialization on control as well as for debugging purposes. All manufacturers have undocumented commands. It's why the spec allows vendor specific commands.

If you're at the point where an undocumented bit of functionality in a product takes into question the entire company, you must not trust Intel or AMD or Raspberry PI, or all other chip manufacturers. There's nothing malicious here. There's no security issue. It's fully specification compliant. Why are you so concerned?

Frankly, I feel that if you are so concerned, you should work with the specifications to eliminate the vendor specific extensions if you feel their existence is so damning, rather then shitting on a company for following the defined specifications.
How much of that $260m is invested in Firefox? The docs don’t say.
Yes, this is correct. Google pays Mozilla hundreds of millions of dollars annually to be the default search engine. This makes up the vast majority of Mozilla Corporation's revenue. It's somewhere in the ballpark of 85% of all their annual revenue last I heard.

They've tried hard in recent years to get out from under Google by diversifying into other areas. For example, they have a VPN service that is a wrapper around Mullvad, and they've made some privacy tools that you can pay to use, also largely wrappers around other companies' tools.

I was an employee of Mozilla Corporation and saw first-hand the effort they were making. In my opinion, it's been a pretty abysmal failure so far. Pulling Google funding would effectively hamstring Mozilla Corp.
No argument from me with what you wrote, either, I just wanted to make sure I was doing my interpretation justice by sharing it - there's certainly no shortage of posters parroting the other side's talking points.

It's interesting that Klein's tell-all didn't get as much attention despite being less legally fraught. It makes me wonder how much of the Snowden media frenzy was organic in the first place, and if not much, who was pulling the strings to draw attention to practices that our own government had an obvious interest in repressing and concealing discussion of.
I've seen you make these kinds of comments before on other articles. Please stop. Not everyone is perfect and can forevermore avoid making any mistakes. I strongly suspect your opinion of your skill here is overinflated. Even if it isn't, and you really are that good, everyone cannot be in the top 0.00001% of all programmers out there, so your suggestion to "simply" learn not to make mistakes is useless.

This all just comes off incredibly arrogant, if I'm being honest.
I feel like a real undercover van would have a policy about not opening the side door during a mission too...
Interesting that the AI makes many of the outdoor structures look ancient rather than how they'd look in the time period. People walking over crumbling ancient roads whole fallen ruins loom over them isn't exactly accurate.
That certainly is just a Sewer TV inspection van! I have a hand in writing some of the software that is run on these and processes the videos that come out of them. They all have rack mounted PCs and a monitor with a joystick to control the crawler that goes in the pipe.
In the US, at least, all funding goes through Congress, so get in your rep's ear if you don't like this (or get in their ear if you do)
> 20 developers at $150k each = $3M

It should be at least 100 devs at $250k each, which is still a severe underestimation. Note that there are many different types of mandatory expenses that roughly matches to the direct compensation, so with $150K you can only pay ~$75K. And you cannot attract senior browser devs at $75K annual compensation. This alone makes $25M year and the reality should be closer to $100M, which makes Mozilla's OPEX more plausible.
He did not support the invasion of Ukraine. He just doesn’t comment on it. Which has somehow turned into an anti-Snowden talking point, despite the very obvious reasons why he doesn’t talk about it.
> (And use Macs over Linux, FWIW.)

Interestingly, ChromeOS (Linux) has a higher market share than MacOS.

Being forced to run random code and be tracked is unethical. But I should probably mention I'm a big supporter of the small web.
Tan looks like Pat. Amazing.
you can opt-out in the settings btw, but it should be opt-in or at least asked on first run.
"When're we dropping, boys?"
A lot of influential people were quietly radicalized by Klein's disclosures and they took that forward in their ventures, careers, and lives. Change takes time, and almost two decades later, I think we are seeing the results of what those early voices in the wilderness were calling out.

I hope on the other side of current bureaucratic reforms we can make a monument that includes Klein and the other surveillance whistleblowers whose disclosures, and specifically whose courage, turned the popular tide against government overreach.
how far is that sewer line run, 6 miles? they usually just bore it out and put a PVC sleeve inside. This is done with the cast iron sewer lines, because if they're not properly taken care of, they will rust into nothing and then you just have a suggestion of a hole through the dirt to the sewer line.

my lines are 4" PVC, if we somehow clog those, someone call me an ambulance.
Would you mind elaborating some more on how this works?
Indeed. For example, Windows 95's My Computer icon might have had a teal background to match the default desktop background, but the screen of the peer computer in the Network Neighborhood icon was blue.
Ah yes, the same EU that forced Apple to disable encryption. Perfect
What I think Mathematicians should remind themselves is a lot of prestigious mathematicians, the likes of Cantor or Erdos, often only employed a handful of “tricks”/heuristics for their proofs over their career.

I know this claim is often made but it seems obvious that in this discussion, trick means something far wider and more subtle than any set computer program. In a lot of ways, "he just uses a few tricks" is akin to the way a mathematician will say "and the rest of the proof is elementary" (when it's still quite long and hard for anyone not versed in a given specialty). I mean, before category theory was formalized, the proofs that now are possible with it might classified as "all done with this trick" but grasping said trick was far from elementary matter.

I argue would not take a tremendous jump in performance for an AI to begin their own journey similar in kind to the greats, the only thing standing in their way (as with all contemporary mathematicians) is the extreme specialisation required to reach the boundary of unsolved problems.

Not that LLMs can't do some impressive things but your narrative seems to anthropomorphize them in a less than useful way.
Okay, so I was curious enough to check... I can install NetBSD on an emulated VAX (opensimh), run

pkgin install coreutils

and those binaries do in fact work. I can't seem to find documentation of whether they run tests on every build, but I'm going to tentatively take that as a strong signal that GNU coreutils is still portable across more machines than even Linux can run on.
Gotta love this site.
Julia is now available on Google Colab
He has never expressed himself to be anything other than a patriotic American. Why would he be putting his life on the line for a country that he does not identify with?

People who do that ti support just cause like Ukraine have my respect. But I wouldn’t expect if of anyone.
It's really simple - either Intel is shipping products on 18A (Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest) by Q1 of next year or they are not, and their entire future hinges on this.
Oh definitely, prior to having cheap computers that can compute gigaflops, I would definitely have bought one to do number crunching.

The problem is that if I bought one now, it would simply be a toy and nothing else. That's just a bit more than I'm willing to spend.
Treason has the death penalty.
Thanks for the feedback and the ideas! Is your idea about showing the ages just to make it a bit easier if you don't know exactly when different ages started and ended?
I'm agnostic, but I wouldn't personally be offended or bothered if my Indian CEO sent out a letter asking my coworkers and I to try Hindu meditation or yoga, nor would I be offended or bothered by Pat's suggestion, nor by a suggestion that I try fasting for the month of Ramadan, etc etc.

Am I misunderstanding some aspect of this? Was Pat demanding rather than asking or something like that?
> Bundled in single js, html and and js file. But we also have an ssr app runner ...

This is exactly the kind of complexity and bloat the GP wishes we can get rid of so that we can return to simpler web applications with forms that do a simple POST and get the updated web page in response.
They’d have to be huge and also need to get out of the way of overhead cranes. There’s some work being done in that direction but it’s never going to be a complete solution.
It depends on problem domain. If you're writing kernel level code or device drivers you wouldn't use C# or typescript.
So you would rather have internet where countries can block websites?

Its not the visit thats the issue but by accepting their cards you actively get into contract with them. You are doing business in that country. As a bussines owner i am sure you know that.

You do you but it would be quite sily defense. Playing dumb claiming its the peoples fault instead of changing that supported countries list in Stripe.
Doing something because all the big companies do it also leads to cargo cult mentality. You should know exactly why you are building every little part of your system. “Oh Google used a really annoying captcha on that page, I better do that as Google knows best”.

Have some confidence and don’t assume that other bigger companies are smarter than you are, think about what you can improve. Most of what Google have to offer, they bought from smaller companies that had the confidence to do just this.
Perfectly documented warning stickers for everything is such a British thing. Together with fused plugs and on/off switches for every socket. As a foreigner who lived in London for a few years I believe the UK leads the world in self-deprecation. No country complains about itself more while being so absurdly well-organized.
It’s running gVisor which currently reports its kernel version as 4.4.0, even though it’s actually implementing a much more recent version of Linux.

I know this because at Modal.com we also use gVisor and our users occasionally ask about this.
Definitely some issues to be improved in the game, but I think these sorts of errors can be driven down.
Is the proof of the Four Colour Theorem really that unsatisfying?

The Four Colour Theorem is true because there exists a finite set of unavoidable yet reducible configurations. QED.

To verify this computational fact one uses a (very) glorified pocket calculator.
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