skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, back in the MS-DOS and Amiga glory days when C compilers were dumb, and anyone writing Assembly by hand could easily outperform them.

C source files for demoscene and games were glorified macro assemblers full of inline assembly.
Yeah I love Hey Duggee, but after multiple episodes it can grate, ha.

My son really likes it. Our friends bought us the vinyl record. Act of war imo.
That's fair. I would argue that OpenAI capitalized on transformer tech in a way that Google was late to do, but we shall see if Google will adapt faster than Xerox could
> Broken ribs are survivable (on their own), and are certainly preferable when compared with the outcome of death.

Even if you're 87 and already have a host of health issues? Even if you have a terminal illness (at any age)?

It's a personal choice of course, but I think a substantial number of people would disagree it's "certainly preferable" in a number of scenarios. There's a reason "Do Not Resuscitate" orders are a thing.
I think you missed the point they were making.

When you go to say Google Docs, you're retrieving JS from _not_ your stuff. That JS (theoretically) can be altered to send back unencrypted data back to Google Docs.

The point they were making is that in this scenario you've self-hosted the JS and so it's not going to be altered to send back unencrypted data because you yourself aren't going to do that alteration.

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Sure in both scenarios if you have an extension that uploads the content of the page it doesn't matter but there are more threat scenarios that apply to JS served from not your server than from your server.
The only thing I really want to back up are photos and documents and it’s probably < 200GB.

Anything else digital (like games, movies, music, books, …) I could buy again if I really wanted another copy.
This is literally the opposite of my experiences :(
I like that test. If the AI couldn't find a measuring spoon it would need to grab any spoon it could and just "eyeball it". Also, if there wasn't an actual mug then maybe a glass will work (but not a pint glass) and certainly not a plastic cup. When delivered it would have to know to say "couldn't find a mug so i grabbed a glass". there's other things too, can't find regular coffee but it found some instant coffee? The AI would need to decide if that will work or should it ask first. All of those things are petty easy for a human.
You can only get out of therapy what you put into it, so if there only problems you are bringing to your therapist are a need for investment in hobbies, social relationships, and a healthy lifestyle, then that's all you're gonna get. Now, it's entirely possible that really is all you need, but for those stuck in traumatic response loops due to eg PTSD from respressed memories of childhood, leading to, say, a string of failed relationships with toxic people who don't respect your boundaries because you didn't have a good model for them growing up, therapy can be quite useful for helping people heal from generational trauma and break the cycle. It sounds cliché to blame it all on bad reaction to things that happened in childhood, but, well, we did all have one (unless you didn't; early parentification is an acknowledged failure mode), and even if the worst was emotional stunted parents (as documented by the book Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents), childhood that was totally fine on the surface may not have been.

Again, of course, if you are a well adjusted adult, and no one in you life is clamoring for you to get therapy, then chances are, either you've pushed anyone and everyone away that cares for you that deeply, or you don't need it, both of which are totally possible.

As for if it's a scam? That word gets thrown around too easily these days. Do they cost a lot? Yes. Are you worth it? Also yes. That's not to say all therapist are equal, and someone that's great for you might be terrible for the next person, and some of them are just bad. (There are also those that are quite good!) As there are with all things. Going into therapy with specific goals on things you want to work on (eg irrational anger at some specific thing that's ruining your life) tends to help it not be just an ongoing extra expense like a gym membership, if that's not what you want. At the end of the day, they're stuck in the system as much as you are, and paying them also makes it feel more balanced in that they're being paid listen to you go on and on and help you with your ish. You wouldn't/shouldn't treat your friends so one-sidedly. That said, it's entirely possible to pay to see a therapist and not get anything out of it. I will admit to that as a possible failure mode, but it's a failure mode and there are certainly success stories out there of people turning their life around and becoming happy well-adjusted adults.
This is actually how I discovered Perspective!
I can't speak to Apple, but wrt Microsoft, you're not appreciating just how bad support is (or even the documentation is) and you're not appreciating how much people pay for support on top of the product.

I feel like I know more about M365 than anyone I talk to at MS. That's bad.
Try pulling different codec versions from YouTube? Maybe it got upped to Vimeo or something before?
Also YouTube got rid of some resolution options a couple years back and that kinda adds to the problem of compression-rot of sorts.
I would recommend taking a look at rtings.com: https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/best/by-feature/no...

(That's their "picks", but they have reviews and tests on a lot more models. I just can't find a good place to link to just "all of the noise cancelling headphones".)

Don't just skim the list, click in and take a look at the individual products. They do pretty extensive quantitative measurements of all of these headphones and provide useful commentary alongside (e.g., the Sony ones are shallower so if you have big ears they might get uncomfortable). They have full frequency response graphs for the noise isolation, recordings of how it fares against some test samples, etc.

They also measure some less typical stuff like "clamping force" and "ear breathability" that's hard to tell just from briefly putting them on in a store.

I've personally tried some (older) Sony against (older) Bose and I can't really comment on whether the ANC is better because they pushed on the arms of my glasses hard enough and the shape left them resting _on_ my ears instead of over them such that they hurt to wear after a little while. They could be head and shoulders above, but that would be worthless to me because I would never use them. So I'd mostly echo what the other commenter is saying--they're all pretty much "great" in passive/active noise cancellation and sound quality. Just get whichever feels best to you.
My house is on the top of a hill. There is already some trees in front of it but it would be impossible to put several lines of them which would be needed to have any effect. I believe a good glass fence in front of the house will help a lot (together with the extra glass on the windows) by reflecting away most of the direct noise (but no idea if that will really work). I've already gone through lots of discussions about it, and you're right, a water feature is suggested often, I need to have a look at that.
The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the 'Cosmic Shoreline'
Are services really easily available in SF? I was shocked when we went to restaurant at evening without a reservation. Server give one hour waiting time for a table! At normal city you just drop into nearest good restaurant, and if they are full (very unlikely) you go to next.

How easy is to get a dentist or masseuse, with a few hour notice?!

> In contrast, other places are just poor, and you "cannot" find as large a variety of lots of goods and services

I think you need reality check on "poor". The place with the widest selection of services and products (for example types of meat in supermarket, or hand made tailored clothes) is Bangkok in Thailand. Places like SF just do not have enough people to provide all those services.
Addressing the toxic chemicals problem in plastics recycling
https://archive.ph/BC3ZN
Eh the government is about to nuke them

They are a roadblock to a lot of the startups backing the current administration
For folks wondering why: this is because a class is (approximately) syntactic sugar for defining a constructor function, and the constructor of a function is `Function`, and calling `Function(string)` is an implicit eval.
Murderbot diaries is sooo good.

It does such a good job building a convincing world, and its really good in just not going into details that it can't speak on (like how interplanetary travel works), while some of it's takes (e.g. small anti-personel drones) seem almost prescient after Ukraine.

All the synthetic biology and even the depictions of AIs and their struggles are really compelling, too.
I agree with you, but even though OpenAI is much lower in my esteem than Google, I would give OpenAI slightly better scores in general on productization. In the last day I have played with Gemini functionality (see https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs) that I have not tried before, and I also played with OpenAI's just released openai-agents-python library. OpenAI's examples seemed a little easier to play with; that said Gemini product manager Jason Stephen reached out to me yesterday on social media in a very helpful way after I commented on Gemini's code execution sandbox.

On other similar products like Google's NotebookLLM and Open AI's GPT 4.5 Research Mode: both products are awesome.
> If scifi authors aren't keeping up

My brother in Christ, ChatGPT blew up just 25 months ago. Give it time.
So far OpenAI has done nothing other than spend billions of Microsoft's dollars.
Scope, it’s all about scope of your team. Em to director requires opportunity as well as performance.

For you that means focusing on a growing area of the company, and finding new areas to grow your team in. You also need to have a team of managers, who are growing their scope as well.
Thanks! (Don't have a Windows machine right now so that's very helpful)
From the article.
"This is not typically a problem, since most browsers don’t support URLs longer than 2048 characters, but the relevant RFCs support up to about 8 KB in most cases. (CloudFlare supports up to 32KB.)"

So obviously relying on browsers is not enough, but a nitpick. The article links to a stackoverflow which actually notes browsers support a lot more.

Browser Address bar document.location or anchor tag
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Chrome 32779 >64k
Android 8192 >64k
Firefox >300k >300k
Safari >64k >64k
IE11 2047 5120
Edge 16 2047 10240
That looks much better, thanks I will read up.
I find it disappointing that a pretty common emotional state for a person is labelled ugly. Its negative so I'd rather people not use it.
> Where did I write that I don't get 5s? That seems like a knee-jerk (emotional) response to a take you didn't like.

Your words were:

> I hate when they want me to rank myself from 1-5 on various things just to tell me, "I don't think you're a 5, you're performing as expected. COL raise."

Performing as expected implies a 3. Again, why do you want to frame this as emotional on my part? Why project that on me when again, I’m literally responding to the words you wrote?

> Have you ever given anyone all 5s? Are you one of those "no one is perfect," people?

Absolutely, though most people have at least some opportunity for improvement in their current role, so there’s often a four in there. That said, a stray four for an overall five is still an overall five, and should have no real effect on anything.

> Sorry, but 1:1's are bullshit. It's a power move that managers use to keep costs down by making excuses to not give more than COL raises (if that).

I mean, that’s ridiculous. Why would I want to not give appropriate raises to people? I don’t get to pocket leftover budget, and I have no incentive at all to avoid giving someone a 4% raise instead of a 3% raise.

> Long explanation short, when people do 1:1s, the layout is typically the manager in their chair, behind their desk with the subordinate in an uncomfortable chair on the other side with the door shut. This is also a dominant/subordinate layout.

It feels like you’ve worked at some deeply dysfunctional places. This has never been true anywhere I’ve worked. The door is closed if we’re having a conversation the other person wants private - I don’t close it or request it be closed. The chairs are just the chairs - I don’t want my team uncomfortable any more than I’d want a potential partner, another part of the team or company, or my boss uncomfortable.
I don't think it's anywhere close to viable to move the cryptographic parts of the data plane into HSMs/TPMs. There's just too much work to do there, and you have to move plaintext over unsecured channels to do it. That means that you have to put at least an ephemeral key into the CPU, and the rest follows.

AES-NI, the SHA instructions, and constant-time subsets of instructions are generally good enough that you can do this in assembly.
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>Google is probably the most undervalued tech company there is currently, by far: [reasons]

The only thing you left out of this analysis is their valuation. The market values Google at $2.05T (just over $2,000,000,000,000) which is 21 times their earnings (net profit). They are valued at $250 per person on Earth while selling, annually, $43.75 per person on Earth (sales) of which $12 per person is their profit.

How much would you pay to own a golden goose laying $12 in gold per year? Like, $250? If so you are the proud buyer of Google right now. (There is a buyer on every sale of every stock and this is the price they are paying right now.)
> So, now, after a long time, Ada is starting to catch on???

Money and hardware requirements.

Finally there is a mature open source compiler, and our machines are light years beyond those beefy workstations required for Ada compilers in the 1980's.
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Any articles about MCP which aren't trash?
Tracing against 3d, or bake to a field of probes.
While I agree to an extent, I also just think it's also documenting life as we all know it as both parents and children. Albeit in it's own clever storytelling and excellent animation way. The fact this is somewhat novel should probably be odd, but just points to the fact that adults have been "creating children shows" instead of just showing them what childhood looks like, stuff they can relate with, stuff parents can related with, it's all relatable because it's so - real. It's basically animated reality TV in a way and we all know how novel that seemed when it started.

When I learned that some of my favorite TV shows of my childhood were only made to sell toys, it was kind of shattering, but then I see it in everything now. Paw Patrol find a dinosaur land - aka - you need to buy your kid 8 new vehicles and the new dino characters, up next, Paw Patrol goes to space! Adults making TV shows always have a weird ulterior motive and the programming tends to reflect it.
It gets your latitude/longitude from an IP lookup service, then does a geometric calculation locally
All that, and controlling the platforms people use to communicate also helps a lot to shape public discourse.

Is there a plausible path to revert Citizens United and enact aggressive restrictions on corporate donations?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoNR2iZarhs
I'm a fan of uBlock, but the argument's just not compelling enough for me. I may be dull, but Ads on the internet are like taxes to me; they'll just have to be paid.

Sites host ads, nobody else does it. They do it for pretty straight-forward economic reasons. If a site's too annoying, why visit it? Eventually, I hope it all settles down to a decent equilibrium.
Isn't that kind of a cop out answer?

I'm sure it's a great daily driver for someone who wants to do almost nothing on their phone.

I mean we are talking about a $800 phone with no 5G modem. That's already a dealbreaker just from a carrier spectrum allocation aspect alone. This is a phone that will not get as good of a connection to do basic things like make calls and exchange texts/images/vidoes compared to any other device on the market.
Copy and paste all four lines at once.
> Perhaps most telling was the sadness expressed by several mathematicians regarding the increasing secrecy in AI research. Mathematics has long prided itself on openness and transparency, with results freely shared and discussed. The closing off of research at major AI labs—and the inability of collaborating mathematicians to discuss their work—represents a significant cultural clash with mathematical traditions. This tension recalls Michael Atiyah's warning against secrecy in research: "Mathematics thrives on openness; secrecy is anathema to its progress" (Atiyah, 1984).

Engineering has always involved large amounts of both math and secrecy, what's different now?
As the article explains, that’s because the truck of balls is the easy part.
Oh, nice! Totally missed that.
Toyota's new FT-Me is much more than a micro EV, it even has a solar roof
Sounds like Xerox. They have everything, some employees will become multi-billionaires within 10 yrs after they leave the company and create their own startup. But I have zero conviction this corporate moloch will be the one to productize any of it.
There's really not much you can do short of building a room in a room. Your curtains and sound panels treat mid to high frequency but does nothing for the low frequencies of traffic that are penetrating your walls. You need a combination of mass and isolation to treat that.
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I chose the Sony 1000XM4 because the RTINGS graph showed the strongest cancellation in the 60Hz range. All my tormentors are in the AC-powered machine noise range.

https://www.rtings.com/discussions/adsg5oN7w-9Dgb3O/treadmil...

https://www.rtings.com/headphones/1-8/graph/25566/noise-isol...:
The problem with Google is that their ad business brings so much revenue that no other product makes sense. They will use whatever they learn with robots to raise their ad revenue, somehow.
I'd call it a while ago, but not a long time. Long time to me is more like 70s or 80s. I was born in 1996 so likely I'm biased: "before me=long time". It would be interesting to do a study on that. Give the words, request the years, correlate with birthyear, voila
I'm ignorant, what do they have in 3) cutting edge robotics?
You're right, I didn't mean there shouldn't be PMs but rather that the PMs shouldn't be the sole people concerned with product.
Recent timing attacks rely on the observation that modern CPUs send some messages faster than other messages, based on predicting what they might contain, so some delays get magnified (those that deviate from expectations) while other delays (those that match prior data) get minimized as you go down. An encrypted payload leaks this same information too (the process is independent of what data is being transferred), although that leaked information is (hopefully) not useful since it just leaks the encrypted data, which (hopefully) looks like random noise. But that data has to be encrypted and decrypted at some point somewhere, which gives a point to attack.
It just means that you cry so hard your face is all twisted up and you go red and and your mouth is hanging open and there's snot dripping out of your nose, as opposed to simply shedding a couple tears. It's not really disparaging.
OK now try to do this in 3D with arbitrary projections and interactivity! And guess what, you'd create a rendering engine :)

My earlier reply has a link to how GPUs actually push pixels to the screen.

There are also some excellent blog posts on how line rendering is done:

https://almarklein.org/triangletricks.html

https://almarklein.org/line_rendering.html
> The good news is that development could easily be funded by donations. It's only a few million. Enough to keep a few dozen people employed.

These numbers are highly unrealistic.
If anyone is looking for some quick start examples, they are here[0].

[0]https://github.com/dapr/dapr-agents/blob/main/quickstarts/RE...
Well, it depends on exactly what future you were imagining. In a world where the model just spits out a totally impenetrable but formally verifiable Lean proof, then yes, absolutely, there's a lot for human mathematicians to do. But I don't see any particular reason things would have to stop there: why couldn't some model also spit out nice, beautiful explanations of why the result is true? We're certainly not there yet, but if we do get there, human mathematicians might not really be producing much of anything. What reason would there be to keep employing them all?

Like I said, I don't have any idea what's going to happen. The thing that makes me sad about these conversations is that the people I talk to sometimes don't seem to have any appreciation for the thing they say they want to dismantle. It might even be better for humanity on the whole to arrive in this future; I'm not arguing that one way or the other! Just that I think there's a chance it would involve losing something I really love, and that makes me sad.
Because the meaning of "Google" is clear while "Alphabet" is not.
I’m also a long time i3/sway user and find Niri quite comfy. I can carry over most of my muscle memory from sway for navigating the focus, moving windows etc. I’ve also found it to be very stable and works out of the box with xwayland-satellite.

My biggest issue is that I keep “losing” windows. I open them in a deeply nested stack, do something else and forgot I already had opened the window.

It also happens with sway to some extent but it’s a lot easier to scroll through all workspaces.

It would be nice to have something like a “window map” bound to Alt-Tab.
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Oops, haha. Yes now i am getting `1` as the result. Thanks for the tip.
Not yet, because I wanted to give it one more try while documenting all the steps.
Are you aware that the EU largely dictates what the national governments do?
The entire premise of the Trump admin is that the President has enough control and power to significantly alter the functioning of the US government with no new laws being passed
It’d be nice if native date, time and number pickers were good and not super weird (in most browsers anyway).
Tagging onto this, curious if anyone has preferred AI-based 1080 -> 4k+ upscale workflows.
Looks like musl is using pointer arithmetic?

Can speed up most of the algorithms in smart by using that. It's faster than using array indexing generally. I didn't do that in the sample code for HashChain simply because it would be an unfair comparison with the others.
It is p2p, the middle server isn’t relaying traffic.
It is when the root cause is tooling, not language features.

You don't need to wait for long compile times in Haskell if you don't want to, there are interpreters and REPLs available as well.

You don't need to wait for long compile times in C++ if you don't want to, most folks use binary libraries, not every project is compiled from scratch, there are incremental compilers and linkers, REPLs like ROOT, managed versions with JIT like C++/CLI, and if using modern tooling like Visual C++ or Live++, hot code reloading.
Why not?

https://www.youtube.com/@BringusStudios
Am curious, how deep or detailed is this? Is there enough material there that someone could understand and write a program out of it to simulate or make something useful? (My sense looking at the book contents is that it isn't.) Thanks.