skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Based on the timeline, it sounds like they searched his residence looking for classified material and came across other illegal material during the search

Its funny that all people that mess with the secret service are sex ofenders. They even tried it with Assange. /s
Not every second of working time has the same level of productivity/value. Having a clock that measures time in dollars makes no sense because it assumes some linear relationship between them.
All paths _eventually_ lead downward. Is there any limit to how long? Can't we just be near the outside of the blackhole and can't see the doom yet?
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I agree. It seems like hardly anyone got to experience the fun part of the prank - the number of people who actually saw INSERT 5 CENTS on their VFD panel was probably close to zero given "By 8:30am it was chaos". So for 99.9% of people the entirety of the prank was a dry email stating campus was going to start charging for printing, which was true.
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Why not just dig a hole in the ground and make a gravity battery? Would be much more reusable without all the lithium garbage ... and also probably more efficient...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_battery

And the most efficient way would probably be to just have credits with the rest of the city grid. Sell electricity to them when you have a surplus (from solar) and then pay for electricity when you need it. These credits are a lot more efficient than storing the actual electricity in a battery hehe
> The next Democrat candidate could recapitulate Trump’s January 6th pardons by promising to pardon anyone who burns down Teslas.

I hope you are not comparing those things - one trying to overthrow democracy and killed people, the other vandalism that damages cars.
> With a few hundred miles range

180 mile range, 180 knot speed, needs recharging infrastructure at both ends of the journey. This is a toy with very little operational utility.
We fixed the castling issue with Chess 744. Thoughts?

https://sites.google.com/view/chess-744/todays-744-game
> An intern with previous charges was given access to top secret info?

I mean, what are we doing here ? If everybody starts to ask questions, where do we get ? /s
The appeal is the runtime model. I can’t readily verify if BEAM languages are meaningfully slower or really slower at all but let’s take the premise for the sake of argument.

Even if is slower, the runtime model is incredibly resilient and it’s cheap to scale up and down, easy to hot update, and generally does asynchronous work extremely well across a lot of different processes.

F# has really good async ergonomics but it doesn’t have the same task/processing flexibility and Websockets are kind of a pain compared to elixir or even erlang
Well... Yeah. It costs money and/or time to make things. That's as much true now as it was back then, but I don't think a ruler would have been particularly difficult to make, even with 18th century technology.
Authoritarianism, everywhere and in all forms, seeks to shut down curiosity and critical thinking.
The Hut 6 Story, goes into enough detail that Gordon Welchman (Simply put, Turing's boss) lost his security clearance. If you care about the human side, but are keen to take on the details there's no better book possible.
Thank you! Right now it is not costing me a lot of money. So hopefully if I provide enough value and a decent price it can be a sustainable project!
I tried the Polish and it told me sorry, no news today. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> More on topic for the project though, did you have any project ideas for this?

I implemented topological sort for bringing up and shutting down OS services in order like 20 years ago, but it was like a quick and dirty way doing it and never formally as a published library. I do it this time because it's a well understood topic so I can concentrate on learning the ropes of Zig and package publishing while doing something useful. And I go the extra miles to find dependence free subsets for parallel processing and to detect cycles.

> I assume this would fix the potential problem of recomputing a node twice?

Yes. Topological sort is perfect for laying out the path of computation tasks to avoid redoing things.

> "Cycle detection and cycle reporting." but what specifically happens if I do have a cycle? Does it just give up or is it something like best effort?

It will keep going as a best effort when cycles are detected. It will produce a partial topological sorted result and a set of cyclic nodes.
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User Links: LinkTree like for artist profile customization (Completed)

Customize UI editor for record releases: Customizable sites for record releases with WYSIWYG UI editor

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I hadn't heard of the Apple II version of Myst, so I looked it up...it's very cool, and pretty impressive!
Zed Agentic Editing
> Do not mistake software engineers and product people. These are very different things. Sometimes these things are done by the same person if the org has not enough money.

I worked for one of the largest, richest tech companies in the world, and (at least in our org) they did not have a dedicated product owner role. They expected this skill from the senior/lead engineers on the teams. Any coder can churn out code and you can call them senior after a few years. But if you want to be considered actually senior, you need to know how to make a product, not just code. IMO if you are a developer and all you know how to do is turn a fully-formed spec/requirements doc into software, and push back on anything that is not fully-formed, you're never going to truly reach "Senior" level, wherever you are.
Sure, you're technically correct. But TS is compiled in to JS, which is dynamically typed at runtime. You're still ultimately in a dynamically typed language.

In addition, in a typical statically typed, compiled language, your only place where you interact with data that isn't guaranteed to be type-conformant is at a foreign function interface, whereas in Typescript all your interaction with third-party libraries is via regular JS and may or may not be type conformant.
Sitting congressman Massie also has a few videos on YT about buying a wrecked Model S to scavenge its battery to power his house. Not quite the same as it's just one big battery, but cool idea nonetheless.

They are rather short and show the setup more than the construction and nitty gritty, IIRC
context :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment

Assuming Feynmann's statement is true, I find it even more remarkable that Millikan's electron charge research was published in Science AND won him a Nobel Prize without anyone noticing the very apparent mistake of using an incorrect value for the viscosity of air.
You can see the shelter here [0] and it is apparently 50m from the house [1].

Would be better if the ground was paved around the shed, but it seems to be far enough from other free standing structures.

[0] https://secondlifestorage.com/index.php?threads/glubuxs-powe...

[1] https://secondlifestorage.com/index.php?threads/glubuxs-powe...
Well the other problem is knowing where you are. The sun/stars can give you latitude. Longitude was nearly impossible until the advent of the marine chronometer in the latter part of the 18th century, and not "standard" on ships until the mid-1800s. There were earlier versions, which had poor accuracy and were not much better than dead reckoning
For those, like me, wondering how to play it today. It seems the original studio has released a modernized version available on many platforms (including VR):

https://cyan.com/games/myst/

I missed out on Myst in its heyday, but have always wanted to check it out after hearing so many great things.

Curious if any superfans think it would be better experienced as the original in an emulator or similar.
No, but I have to wonder if the reason it isn't is because up until now it was so slow and time consuming etc to create a replication.
I haven’t seen the videos and don’t know much about the space. Could your provide any insight into what’s wrong?
I wonder what would happen if they hired John Carmack to lead this effort.

He would probably be able to attract some really good hardware and driver talent.
>All the talk about putting programmers out of work

I keep thinking may be specifically Web programmers. Given a lot of the web essentially CRUD / have the same function.
Isn't the problem with parasitic charging? Suppose you had a bunch of used 18650 cells. To scale the electronics, they'll be wired up in parallel and/or series so the charging logic can be shared, but since the batteries are wildly mismatched, it results in parasitic charging.
Sounds neat, but please make testing first class - it should be easy to run functions locally, or to have the same code "infrastructure" run in dev/test/prod environments, etc
There are elevators up mountains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailong_Elevator
A DC3 is probably more practical.

But certainly less romantic.
The end of data domains (2025)
Maybe the longer writeup we put out with Michael as co-author helps add some useful extra details:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06578
> All browsers that matter now support a solid common set of features which should be sufficient for the vast majority of cases.

All it takes is one of those non majority use cases and you're going to need some kind of dependency to get things consistent
> technically

I don't know what that means, but Russia is not a democracy - the people don't have self-determination to choose their government. Nor is Belarus.

Anyway, what are these examples of? When in a real democracy has a court corrupted the democratic process? Not in Ukraine either - their laws just push off elections during wartime IIRC. And was that done by the courts? Have they jailed the opposition?

> Arguably, US with the Trump conviction

Trump was elected after that!
I absolutely LOVE the wildness of this idea - whiplash yourself to space!
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> an episode of afib brought-on by triggering my vagus nerve

I get ectopic beats when I've got trapped gas in the stomach. Sounds weird, but generally when I get them I realize I need to stand up (because I've usually been sitting with bad posture which leads to the trapped gas) and have a large belch and then it calms down. I mentioned this to my doc and he said it was Roemheld syndrome ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roemheld_syndrome ) which is vagus nerve-related.
Yikes. I was sure this was an April Fools article till I got to the end. Has any other vehicle lost 6DOF control with humans on board?
Unfortunately, it's not that easy. Axon terminals of neurons release neurotransmitters. We know of dozens of different types, but are not certain that we know about all of them yet. The same synapse can release multiple different neurotransmitters too, with one or more released depending on the axonic signals. And what to these chemicals do? It depends! There are receptors on the post-synaptic cell that respond to neurotransmitters, but there can be multiple different receptors that respond differently to the same neurotransmitter. Again, we aren't sure we know about all of them. The post-synaptic neuron is probably also listening to neurons of other types that signal using different neurotransmitters that it uses to determine if it should transmit an action potential or not. Oh, and invertebrates (like nematodes) send graded potentials (not action potentials like us vertebrates usually do) where the signal strength can vary.

In short - we are a long way from being able to simulate a nervous system. Our knowledge of neuronal biochemistry is not there yet.
Yup. There's probably an infinite appetite for business horoscopes that tell people what they want to hear. Just have to dress it up with a veneer of authority.
> you won't achieve anything by simulating a human brain

This does not follow from any theorem of Gödel.
> This sounds like it is a third party (maybe just a small group of devs?) doing all the work

Just as a quantitative side note here — tinygrad has almost 400 contributors, pytorch has almost 4,000. This might seem small, but both projects have a larger people footprint than most tech companies' headcount that are operating at significant scale.

On top of that, consider that pytorch is a project with its origins at Meta, and Meta has internal teams that spend 100% of their time supporting the project. Coupled with the fact that Meta just purchased nearly 200k units worth of AMD inference gear (MI300X), there is a massive groundswell of tech effort being pushed in AMD's direction.

> wouldn't AMD just invest in doing this themselves, or at least provide much more support to these guys?

That was actually the point of George Hotz's "cultural test" (as he put it). He wanted to see if they were willing to part with some expensive gear in the spirit of enabling him to help them with more velocity. And they came through, so I think that's a win no matter which lens you analyze this through.

Since resources are finite, especially in terms of human capital, there's only so much to go around. AMD naturally can now focus more on the software closer to the metal as a result, namely the driver. They still have significant stability issues in that layer they need to overcome, so letting the greater ML community help them shore up the deltas in other areas is great.
The 'fun' things with shorts is that they have a fixed upside and infinite downside (ie if you go short $1000, the most you can earn is $1000, but you could lose any amount of money and much more than you invested. This is the opposite of buying a stock, where if you invest $1000, the most you can lose is $1000, but there is no limit to how much you can earn). You can be perfectly right 9 times out of 10, but that 1 time you're wrong can quickly wipe out everything you made from being right those 9 times.
> In high school, we had a Netware 3.12 environment, and the Guest account was enabled, albeit with very limited privileges. But for some reason, Guest could still use NET SEND, which popped up a little message in the bottom row of the destination machine's display.
> ...Nobody noticed that these messages came from GUEST

You mention Netware, but as I recall the Netware function you describe was just "SEND" and "NET SEND" was a Microsoft networking thing. (But maybe there was some integration between the two after my experience with Netware, who knows.)

I mainly wanted to say, as someone who used/abused a Netware network in high school, I disassembled the SEND program and discovered that the username included in the message is not authenticated at all -- the IPX (or NETX, I forget which) software interrupt just took a string, and the SEND executable formatted the username into this string. So by crafting your own SEND program that used the software interrupt directly, you could easily forge any username you wanted. So you could very easily send a message from "ADMIN". :)

This should not be construed as a confession of any network shenanigans that may or may not have occurred at my high school. ;) :D :)
Claude Plays Pokemon – Starter Version
This is released by the Anthropic engineer who developed Claude Plays Pokemon.
>It is a rich country but the distribution of the wealth is one of the worst on earth

No? There are countries that are far more unequal. Even US is higher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gini_Coefficient_of_Wealt...
https://x.com/zeddotdev/status/1907047673422594097
i would rather ask one to think, what evidence is there that we cannot do brain on non-gooey stuff?

If i take every atom/molecule from one brain (assume a snapshot in time) and replicate it one by one at a different location, and replicate the external IO (stimulus, glucose...), what evidence do we have that this won't work? likely not much

Now instead of replicating ALL the atoms/molecules exactly, I replace one of the higher level entities like a single neuron with a computational equivalent - a tiny computer of sorts that perfectly replaces a neuron within the error bars of the biological neuron. Will this not work? I mean, will it not behave in the same exact way as the original biological brain with consciousness? (We have some evidence that we can replace certain circuits in the brain with man-made equivalents and it continues to work.)

You know where I'm going with this... FindAll, ReplaceAll. Why would it be any different?

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If i had to argue that it wouldn't be the same, here's a quick braindump off the top of my head:

- some entities like neurons literally cannot be replicated without the goo. physics limitation? but the existence of the goo is a proof of existence. but still, maybe the goo has properties that cannot be replicated with other substances

- our model of the physical world has serious limitations. on the order of pre-knowing-speed-of-light-limitation. maybe putting the building blocks together does not create the full thing. maybe building blocks + magic is needed to create the whole.

- other fun limitation of our physical model
That's a good catch - sorry we missed including the links initially and thanks for including them here. The blog post has been updated to include links in a dedicated section.
I recently used this generator to deploy a fleet of Windows 11 Enterprise virtual machines in VMWare Workstation. Very nice.
Thought I'd drop my prank as well. In highschool early 2011-2013ish QR codes were just becoming a thing. We had a mild vendetta against the year book committee due to the pricing of the yearbooks and their cliquey group.

We copied their "Reserve a year book early poster and save". Then used photoshop to edit it to say "50% off your year books with this QR code". The QR code then linked to a gorilla eating a taco (google this its pretty funny), adding to confusion. The year book committee had a FREAK out and sent out a mass email that the QR code was fake and not to follow it and you COULD NOT GET 50% off a year book no matter what link you followed. Needless to say sparked more interest in said QR code and soon the whole school had loaded a gif of a gorilla eating a taco.
Rendering and loading an entire new page just to open a dialog seems pretty unnecessary to me.
It'd take quite a lot of "willpower" for congress to enact such a law.
I believe it's referencing this: https://github.com/KonnorRogers/view-layer-benchmarks
Absolutely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_8
MS is starting to use Rust pretty extensively internally. That's a lot of developers outside the "bubble."
(aside: I'm not especially arguing with you; just thinking out loud in response to what you wrote)

> Something waddles, quacks & lays eggs because it is a duck.

Or: something does those things, period. We notice several such somethings doing similar things, and come up with an umbrella term for them, for our own convenience: "duck." I'm not sure how far different that is from "is a duck", but it feels like a nonzero amount.

I guess where I'm going is: our labels for things are different from the "is-ness" of those things. Really, duck A and duck B are distinct from each other in many ways, and to call them by one name is in itself a coarse approximation.

So if "duckness" is a label that is purely derived from our observations, and separate from the true nature of the thing that waddles and quacks, then does some other thing (the robot duck) which also produces the same observations, also win the label?

Luckily, I'm a solipsist, so I don't have to worry about other things actually existing. Phew.
I was surprised to see this as a library at all - isn’t it trivial especially for small collections?