skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://microcorruption.com isn't a ctf but is a good one to play with
Mermaid Charts is the company run by Knut Sveidqvist, the original author of Mermaid [1]. I don't think it's disingenuous at all.

[1] https://www.mermaidchart.com/company
But in that case, /all/ the LLM would be allowed to do would be to «translate natural language into computer language». And why and how should and could it achieve reliability in that - though not in other realms?
Is it weird that I actually think that sounds enjoyable?
I saw that. Here's a quick similar comparison between Nebula Sans and Source Sans I just whipped up: https://imgur.com/JPwgYkj
Sometimes an idea is upvoted more than the content at the submitted link, I think. i.e. people that want to learn and enjoy the discussion here, regardless of whether they end up thinking the Monk book is a useful resource to do so.
They already did this in conflict zones.

It's funny how people strech the definition of things. But hey, if it worked for HD it shall work for everything.
It's incredible how deeply ingrained in memory some of those songs are that I immediately start to notice the slightest deviation.

Daft Punk especially for me represent a merger of musical genius and perfect execution.

As this is on HN I wonder how far in the future AI will excel at recreating/analysing songs. It seems like it could lend itself extremely well for this type of task.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism
Look for opentype features in https://practicaltypography.com/. There is more fun stuff, right next to tabular numbers.

And if you want more, there is also https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844....
The point of that quote is not at all that those minds are so smart, but rather that their industry is sad and detrimental.

That is: to fan the fire that is burning the world so that a select few can get more comfortable.

I'm not talking about a flyer here or a store face there, but there is definitely a point where ads don't benefit us anymore. Can I buy the sky and project ads on it? Can I buy the ocean and project ads on it?
Oh, USB 1.1 at the transport layer and lower is not that difficult.

But there is more complexity on higher layers. USB HID (mice and keyboards) is often the first you'd want but it is special in that it allows a device to describe its own packet format in a tokenised data description language.
The device only has to send an additional blob when asked, but the host has to parse the contents of that blob and use the result to parse the device's packets.

And of course, every time there is complexity in a protocol and there are multiple implementations of it, there is more opportunity for them to be incompatible in very subtle ways.
This phenomenon has caused for example that some gaming keyboards with N-key rollover that work perfectly on MS-Windows without any special drivers have been rejected outright by Apple or Linux hosts. (I hope these issues have been fixed now, but I'm not sure).
I think price uncertainty is already hitting eBay. A few days ago I looked at the price of cheap musical instruments (a student violin and a trumpet that each cost $25 several years ago) and the low price is now $129. Some things seem to have disappeared almost entirely from eBay (most small portable ozone generators). Maybe this is temporary until sellers figure it all out.
> There is very little actually wanted SMS comms between users and businesses.

In total SMS sure. And those corps that send the 90% pay TCR so they can keep sending that unwanted SMS. TCR is a good fit for the biggest spammers.

Conversely, 100% of the SMS I send to my customers are wanted; they pay to support them and SMS is how they want that to happen.

My customers have their own customers - who also want to comm using SMS.

For us, TCR has mostly killed off our SMS access to ur customers. None of my MNVO lines carry SMS any longer, because of the onerous TCR compliance burdens.

Likewise my clients can no longer SMS their customers - even though it has long been an expected part of their relationship.

To recap:

1) TCR harms small biz who send wanted, necessary and consensual SMS.

2) TCR also protect bulk senders of unwanted SMS senders, because they have paid for that protection.

Vigorously throwing shade at 1 while voicing no meaningful objection to 2 seems like an unfortunate position.
> Without landlords we wouldn’t have a chunk of the housing supply held captive as investment, driving costs out of reach for most of the non-HN-reading audience.

That isn't caused by landlords, it's caused by zoning boards.

Suppose you have a city with a growing population. Then you need someone to pay construction companies to build more housing. When the new residents can afford a down payment, they pay the construction company themselves by taking out a mortgage. When they can't, a landlord does it, or else who? The tenant doesn't have a down payment and needs somewhere to live. The somewhere to live doesn't exist unless someone pays the construction company.

The problem only comes when the zoning board stops the construction company from increasing the housing supply. Then a landlord who wants to invest in property has to buy existing property instead of causing more to be created. This is the actual problem.

It doesn't matter if landlords want to fund the creation of lots of new housing by supplying capital to pay for it. That's even good. It's only when the creation of new housing is inhibited that things go sour.
Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work
ModelRank AI
Yeah, this is what I do for my Go SQLite driver: reserve a large amount of memory through a protected, private, anonymous mapping, then grow it as needed, hoping that's “free”:
https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/blob/v0.25.0/internal/...

The default was to reserve 4GB per connection, because each Wasm sandbox can allocate at most that, and each connection is its own sandbox.

It works fine, until it doesn't and I get users complaining this messes up almost everything slightly more complicated than Linux on bare metal:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057378

Now I do mostly the same, but reserve 256MB (or even less) per connection. It works, but it's not free.
I think re-evaluation of biases regarding what a single computer/cpu/thread can do would go a long way for a lot of developers.

Having hundreds or thousands of cores to work with is meaningless if the state between those threads is constantly in another castle. Having to go to DRAM or another CCX is a very expensive operation compared to staying within L1/L2 on a single core.

Put differently, if the problem generally has a serialized narrative of events that must be followed (e.g., how we action the current event depends on all prior events being resolved), then spreading the problem across many threads will only slow us down. Contention will immediately dominate. This is where we get things like single writer principle from.

There aren't very many problems that a business would pay you to write software for that are not of the serialized narrative variety. Most ordinary people aren't thinking in terms of mutexes and semaphores. They are thinking in terms of what is effectively a gigantic interpreter lock over their enterprise.
Most of my creation is done at work now, previously more balanced outside of work with side projects but with little kids a more demanding job its hard, so outside work time is more consumption, though some of that is social consumption which I feel has value (pub, gaming).
The study didn't record them at work, the article says, iiuc.
I was raised by two Quakers with Quaker ancestry going back hundreds of years. On one hand the religion frowns upon evangelism. But on the other hand I think the world would be a better place with more Quakers in it. I just try to share my values with others and hope to make at least a tiny positive influence on the world.
I’m surprised that “Add caching” is not on that list. Maybe he bundled it under one of the first four. Caching is used so extensively as an optimization method that we don’t even notice it. L1 cache, edge computing, memoization, web browser cache, and file system caches are examples of how pervasive caching is.
imo it's not dismissive it's just the truth. the chances of someone's values completely lining up with the current agenda of any political party are effectively zero, so anybody who fits that description has just picked a team and decided to roll with it, there just isn't any other explanation.
What are you trying to imply? That is was written entirely by LLMs or such? It has none of the usual tells. Or perhaps that an LLM was used to help? Yeah, that is possible, but not problematic.

I think it is mostly just a somewhat dry, academic style.
America didn't lose the Iraq War to Saddam, it lost to disparate groups of Islamic jihadis who read some Mao.

Losing a war is not body counts, it's a military withdrawal after a failure to achieve objectives. It doesn't mean there are winners.

America went into Afghanistan to destroy Al-qaeda and remove the Taliban from power. At the end of the war, the Taliban were back in power and global jihadism is even stronger and more pervasive than before. That is losing a war.

Pax Americana shows that big militarized states like the US and Russia (before that USSR) do not wield the operational war power they imagine. They lose every war they start (which, again, is not to say there is a triumphant winner).
> I think the question and the answer conflate two very different threat models.

Where is the answer? I only see the question (and comments section).
> I was just blown away they send you all that material for free by simply applying.

It was a hangover from their days a quasi-socialist, monopolistic enterprise ("We're the Phone Company"), when they could afford to be "inefficient" in that way -- scare quotes because it's difficult to calculate the cost of preparation and dissemination against all the high-value careers the material may have inspired. These days, an accountant would glance at the cost and cut it out without thinking twice.
It's clearly not protectionism, because you wouldn't put tariffs on everything - including all the raw materials and parts you need to import, if you wanted your local industries to succeed. And you'd have a coherent industrial policy to go along with it.
A real intelligence would recognize that this task is better solved with an automated tool and actually do so. ChatGPT is capable of writing and executing Python code, but it doesn't occur to it to use that in cases like this.
Not all goods will be affected equally, but it would be hard to imagine production costs would not increase on domestic goods.

Also reduced competition might lead to overall higher prices.
I am also wondering about this.

To me, your FAQ quickly addressed all questions I had to get a first grasp of the capabilities.
It appears to me that you had a determined scope and I very much like that!
Did you miss the year of press cycles where this guy took El Salvador from one of the worst crime rates in the Western Hemisphere to one of the best by liberally arresting anyone he thought might be related to crime gangs?

From Wikipedia:

> During his presidency, Bukele enacted tough-on-crime policies that scholars have characterized as successfully reducing gang activity and violent crime at the cost of arbitrary arrest and alleged widespread human rights abuses.
Hi, OP here - your country is amazing and I'd love to visit beyond the major cities.

This was mostly a ski trip and my first time here, so I barely got a chance to get out of town - but I do intend to come back next winter and go visit some friends in the western region :)
'Exploding' Tunnock's teacakes cleared by tests to fly again
In what way are you finding it better than Source Sans?
> Your pet will gain XP as you code in either mode.

Feature request: the pet gets extra experience in certain situations, e.g.:

* when a failing build gets fixed

* when a previously red test gets green

* when the typing speed is sufficiently high

* when a commit is made that removes a lot of code

* when a commit is made that increases code coverage

* etc…
If we got to space colonization, I guess that could count as new, physical, smooth space?
It’s a fucking awful book. Sorry. It’s just terrible. It looks good but it’s mostly useless.
What do you mean? We can't afford to finance their security anymore. Nor can we afford their protective tariffs against our goods. Why can't we afford it? Because we're running $1.8T budget deficit, and paying $1T+ in interest on our debt next year. Because each man, woman and child in the US already owes $100K+ straight from birth. Do you just want to keep adding to that number hoping that we'll never turn into Zimbabwe?
NSA warns "fast flux" threatens national security
Same memories for me, but with King’s quest 3. I still have the tiny English-french dictionary I wrecked by opening it and translating every and each word of each sentence, for that [6 months] adventure. To get rid of the wizard, become a bird, kill that nasty spider, go into bear’s house, etc, etc…
The best suggestion to get a core review of the basic concepts as starter, and that Dave from the EEVblog [1] recommended several times, is the section Fundamentals of Radio Electronics from [2] - "The Arrl Handbook for Radio Communications" . Plus you get all the other stuff around Radio.

It will cover all the basics. Old ones can be found on the intertubes. It is now a classical. Even used 2015 versions go for $300 dollars or more.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@EEVblog/playlists

{2] https://www.arrl.org/arrl-handbook-2023
iPhones Could Cost Up to $2,300 in the U.S. Due to Tariffs, Analyst Says
Ah, so that's why Minecraft got so incredibly popular, because realism. /s
Starlabs Starbook Ultra Mk VII Linux Focused Laptop
Show HN: Toolsama – Product Hunt for Tools, Minus the Noise
> 2. There's a frak ton of small businesses out there. I'm not going to call 15 local restaurants, 5 clinics, 12 PV solar peddlers, 20 MLM representatives and a sex shop, to tell them all to "knock it off".

Good because none of them are bulk sending sms spam. Or likely sending any biz SMS thanks to TCR.

Meanwhile the actual bulk senders of SMS are happily firehosing it to millions of phones, thanks to the protections they purchase - also thanks to TCR.
You seem to know a thing or two about typeface design. What do you think about Alegreya, Playfair, and Ubuntu fonts?
They'retrying to play 4D chess, but they don't understand how the pieces move.
This is exactly what's happening here. But note that UTF-8 is self-synchronizing, so no encoding of one character contains the encoding of another as a subsequence. Instead, both tag characters and the Byzantine music notation in the article look like "<some prefix bytes> <byte pattern of the corresponding ASCII character + 96>"

They share this property with the Fullwidth Latin block, which does occur in the wild interspersed with Japanese or Chinese text.
You meet people who are terrified by mice and spiders. Doesn't mean that they are threatened by them. I've yet to see a protest that was the decisive part of a political movement; they don't do anything. It is easier to get a message out there with a stopthewar.tld website than a protest. Websites are articulate, protests are just a mess.
No. This book won’t teach you that because based on the author’s previous work he doesn’t either. He knows how to sell books.

If you really want to know how transistors work and how to use them properly it’s going to be difficult as they sit on a fairly large pile of algebra and theory. If you don’t know this you might be able to get simple circuits working by cutting and pasting bits but you won’t be able to get past that ever.

The best references on this are actually The Art of Electronics. Not necessarily the main book but the associated student manual. Also the book Experimental Methods in RF Design by Wes Hayward actually has the most useful functional description and modelling approach of transistors.
Most of these things are much harder to get right that you make it sound. Perhaps proxying most so. It is a legitimately hard problem. Look at something like Varnish, which is likely one of the better proxies out there. It took many years to get good.

I never had to write a proxy and am grateful for it. You have to really understand the whole network stack, window sizes and the effects of buffering, what to do about in flight requests, and so on. Just sending stuff from the file system is comparatively easier where you have things such as sendfile, provided you get the security implications of file paths right.
The issue is that what we often think as our 'reason' is often rather post-hoc rationalisation, which then becomes our beliefs, as our brain hate being wrong. People who can easily and often say 'i was wrong, it's my bad' without throwing shade at other people are nice. People who, during an argument, can say 'you're right, sorry'? Keep them close, or better, marry them.
I personally like Cosma Shalizi's book
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Yes, that is what i meant by "the issue identified that needs to be addressed is the US president being a dick."
I would presume they are talking about how Java is executed by the Java language's Java VM while Bedrock is compiled C++ code?
Best of the best. Bought it.
I did get fit and remain so. But I realised chasing higher numbers wasn't for me. I find the refusal to accept the natty limit in lifting weird. I'm stronger than almost everyone and I've proved this with real life useful work like moving house all by myself. Eventually you realise the lifting is just a sport and I don't like sports.

I find the whole thing super fake now. People eating 5 chickens a week that were slaughtered for them in horrible conditions. Burning fossil fuels to move their obese body to the gym every day to go do pretend work in air conditioned boxes. Tell themselves BMI is bullshit and doesn't work for extremely muscular outliers like them and they're just "bulking" and that somehow eating 3000+ calories a day is good for them. Oh and I guess tell themselves that not being able to walk after a workout is somehow good for them.

Nowadays I walk, run and cycle outside, do calisthenics at home, do intermittent fasting every single day, eat delicious food, remain shredded, take no supplements and still have my hair.

Gyms are good for adults to train from the general blob like form we all seem to regress to after childhood into the form they always should have been. I think the ideal would be just maintaining childhood strength all the way into adulthood, so just doing exercise basically. Gyms are only necessary because there are adults with so little functional strength that they'd injure themselves if they tried to do a single dip or lift a box.

Standard strength goals should be being able to walk 30km, 1000m ascent with a 10kg pack. Being able to cycle 100 miles. Being able to lift your own bodyweight from a dead hang. Being able to lift a 100kg box shaped load etc. Real strength.

I'm not saying nobody should do it for a sport, though. I love strongman (specifically World's Strongest Man). But you have to realise to compete there you need to be on copious amounts of gear, just like any other sport. You just have to be real with yourself about what your goals are.
Haha, I don't know why I didn't think to include a raycast scene, especially since that's what I was using the algorithm for!! Glad you liked it.
Black Grouse and Sexy Sons (Econtalk Podcast)
What is software complexity and how can you manage it? (2018)
Midjourney introduces first new image generation model [v7] in over a year
At least Teams and Outlook are not on that list...

The only Microsoft thing I enjoy to "use" is Raymond Chen's blog. Highly recommended if you are interested in computer architecture, operating systems, compilers and related topics:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
Internet Archive has a 1961 edition, and it's mirrored on 4nn4's Archive.

https://archive.org/details/principlesofelec0000unse_a3j0

(AA can be searched using an archive.org file slug, e.g. "principles...a3j0", or obviously by using the title)
Aleph Male
The Internet Archive offers a 32Mb PNG file. Download that one and take it to your local print shop.

https://archive.org/details/unix-magic-poster-gary-overcare-...
Nice. Might be good to add to the README what you intend to improve on: https://github.com/nvim-neotest/neotest?tab=readme-ov-file
The submission to personal aesthetic standards, which in some cases has required surgical procedures raises the question of where the dividing line between political movement and cult should be drawn. The entire movement seems to be characterized by devotion to a singular central figure who claims special authoritative insights which transcend the world of analysis, cause-and-effect and expertise - the sort of world that most of us here occupy. Advisors have told us to "Trust in Trump," when we question the administration's economic interventions. It borders on an appeal to a supernatural understanding.

Values, preferences and political orientations aside, there's something very cultish about this movement. Cult of personality, perhaps.[0]

[0]: https://archive.org/details/B-001-027-599-ALL/page/n1/mode/2...
gosh, bending the knee does not give you the benefits it once did.
Standard forms of documents used for early stage financings
> People want these simulations to be as realistic as possible.

Isn't this what is leading AAA game studios to financial ruin these days? Incrementally improved realism has become unaffordable.
The whole idea is that we need a definition that everyone agrees With. The OSD is what the software community at large agreed, so any licences that claim to be open-source are compared to that.
One of the main technical nuances about the new Eclipse box mentioned in the book was the management edict for "no mode bit" in the machine architecture/CPU.

The book never explains how the team solved this restriction.

Someone asked that exact question and Carl Alsing himself (head of the Microkids) answers the question, see https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/44915/data-general-mv...
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Migration to fly.io is simple enough ... it is much closer to the original Heroku both technically and as company (if you ever need to contact them)
Damn. Because California has been rug pulled. The underground weed economy was responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in black market revenue. That money's now gone to Oklahoma because the legal cannabis laws are more favorable there, leaving a absolutely gaping hole in California's economy that can't be replaced by growing alternative crops like saffron, or, in keeping with the illegal theme, poppies/heroin or coca/cocaine. Because it was illegal before legalization, there are scant few stats on just how large it was, but where'd growers used to get $4,000/lb, they're now getting $400/lb. (I have this conspiracy theory level theory, in that San Francisco used to be home to illegal grow ops which forced pg&e to upgrade transformers and substations to support pre-led grow lights, which were massively power hungry. since that power is now no longer needed because those grow ops are no longer viable thanks to legalization, but the upgraded substations remain, the rise of electric cars isn't quite the emergency it should be.)

So much of the arts and Burning Man and entire communities in the Emerald Triangle were propped up by that money, and it's gone.

Time will tell how things go for California. I remain hopeful, but there's just no real data about the black market thanks to its very nature, so it's hard to know just how large that gaping hole is.