MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Hashex129542 | 2025-05-10 00:13:59+00:00
Mostly nonsense updates.

Swift was my favorite programming language after C++/Java since 2014. I've been faced major updates few times happily. It was one of the most easiest language. But now,

I tried to update a project from Swift 5.x to 6.x which has 150+ source files itself and no external libraries which is written by my own use and it has almost all swift 5.x features. They made up Swift as super hard. I decided not to use Swift 6 anymore and yes I don't need to reduce debugging time, Even though I don't have powerful computer and debugging time isn't matter to me & development time is actual matter to me.

The language itself becomes Rust (the programming language using by aliens). I Hope Swift language is upgrading itself for Aliens or the Swift team is filled with Aliens. Now, I feel ObjC is super easiest language than Swift.

PS: I understand Swift is Corporate Product & upgrading towards SwiftUI than general purpose programming language. I never gonna use Swift 6 even I do use ObjC for my projects.
by deepsun | 2025-05-10 00:14:47+00:00
I don't see how it follows that there were many more humans. Math says that all people eventually become descendants of every single individual (kinda "diffusion"), or die off completely.

Say, there were not "many more", but just like 15% more. Like 1150 alive, and descendants of 1000 of them did not die off completely. Sounds plausible.
by Kon-Peki | 2025-05-10 00:15:02+00:00
Presumably, for the dollar to be the world’s reserve currency the world needs to have sufficient excess reserves to be able to buy lots of US Treasuries.

If there were some event or events that causes a dramatic contraction in world trade and set off financial crises around the world, many countries may be unable to buy treasuries in the same quantity.

A potentially scary thought exercise may be to figure out what the collective reduction in treasury purchases needs to be before it all blows up. I have no clue what that number may be.

But I have a feeling that if the dollar ceases to be the reserve currency, it will not be because the world has decided on something else.
by alwillis | 2025-05-10 00:15:09+00:00
It's called The Mar-a-Lago Accord. When you google it, this is the summary:

The "Mar-a-Lago Accord" is a proposed economic strategy, often discussed in financial circles, suggesting a coordinated effort to devalue the US dollar and reduce the country's trade deficit. Essentially, it envisions a deal where the US would pressure its trading partners to weaken the dollar and lower US borrowing costs, potentially in exchange for continued US security guarantees. The idea is rooted in the 1985 Plaza Accord, where major economies agreed to jointly weaken the dollar, but with some key differences.
by wpollock | 2025-05-10 00:15:20+00:00
All the comments and suggestions for improving rust dependency handling seem useful to me. To deal with dependency sprawl now, until the situation changes, I use a number of tools. To avoid having to set this up for each new project, I've made a template project that I simply unzip to create new rust projects.

The tools I have found useful are:

cargo outdated # check for newer versions of deps

cargo deny check # check dependency licenses

cargo about # generate list of used licenses

cargo audit # check dependencies for known security issues

cargo geiger # check deps for unsafe rust

I haven't found a cargo tool I like for generating SBOMs, so I installed syft and run that.

cargo install-update # keep these tools updated

cargo mutants # not related to deps, but worth a mention, used when testing.

Having configured all these tools once and simply unzipping a template works well for me.

Suggestions for different or additional tools welcome!

Disclaimer: I'm not a professional rust developer.
by GuB-42 | 2025-05-10 00:15:46+00:00
Note that the gold produced is gold-203, which is radioactive and decays into mercury-203 (also radioactive) in a minute. It is not the gold that we know of, which is gold-197.

It is not the first transmutation of lead into gold by far. A transmutation from lead into gold-197 as been done in 1980.

In all these cases, the gold is produced in quantities so tiny that its value as a precious metal is effectively zero.
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by lutusp | 2025-05-10 00:16:52+00:00
This strikes me as a "safe" psychology study, one virtually certain to produce a publishable outcome.

Surprisingly, the linked technical article, which was paid for with tax dollars, is paywalled -- isn't that practice supposed to end?

Without being able to read the article, I'll go out on a limb and guess that the article's data were collected by interviewing people, asking about their drinking habits. This is a very unreliable method compared to measuring people's blood alcohol levels -- granted that the latter design would be prohibitively expensive.

Anecdotal studies are notoriously unreliable. A young researcher once performed an interview-based study that showed married people live longer than single people. On reviewing the paper, an older, more experienced scientist suggested that public records would cost less and produce better results. The young scientist tried again, using actuarial data, and the original conclusion was falsified: married people don't live longer, it just seems longer.
by potholereseller | 2025-05-10 00:17:05+00:00
The title is misleading, because scanning emails is normal. The update adds AI to help with writing emails. To me, it's a superfluous addition, because so few people read emails (the meetings will continue until people start reading their emails).

All that's necessary is for Gemini to summarize emails to close the loop and create AI-in-AI-out Telecommunication (AAT?). AI generation of meetings and AI summarization of meetings (AAM?) is all that's necessary to close the last communication loop in business.

Our forebears promised that the future would be cool and fun and sexy; academics of yore warned that the future might be horrifying; the future has turned out to be a multitude of preposterous contrivances.
by bobalob | 2025-05-10 00:17:24+00:00
> For women, I've found that they see men as biologically and intrinsically dangerous, and that a tiger doesn't change its stripes just because they are alienated from masculinity.

This is demonstrably true in many scenarios. Such as, males being transferred to women's prisons because they say they are women. As a consequence, female prisoners have been sexually assaulted and raped by these men. Drawing attention to this isn't misandry, it's reality.
by zitterbewegung | 2025-05-10 00:19:03+00:00
Intel's 5G radio department was formed in 2011 by buying another firm and then it was bought by Apple in 2019. Apple announced a 5G modem this year (C1) . It took 14 years to get a viable 5g wireless modem but still doesn't have feature parity with Apple's cellular modems in the other iPhones. So this happens pretty often by Intel.
by Jhsto | 2025-05-10 00:20:50+00:00
>I think if I drank more often, my desire for it would not change.

I highly doubt this would be the case (as in, alcohol doesn't work like that). Let's say that for every 10kg of your bodyweight you drink 2 beers per night (330ml), then by the time you get to day four you might be more worried about not getting a drink.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-05-10 00:21:22+00:00
What happens when all the immigrants are finally deported but the MAGA base are worse off than before?

Why are the various polls only showing mid-50% disapproval of Trump rather than 90+%?

I'm as cynical as the next guy, and I know the ol' bell curve truth of 50% of the population are of below average intelligence, but I think I've miscalculated the level of intelligence needed to identify basic consequences and cause and effect.

What I find funny is that it's not the immigrants getting the 'free ride' on the backs of the MAGA base. The MAGA base has been getting a free ride off the backs of the scientists and intellectual leaders that the US was able to attract since WWII, and what they've been able to build as a result of that.

Trump is alienating the shoulders upon which the rest of the US stood (scientists, researchers, and thought leaders) as well as, the immigrant community that are in the US to learn to be the scientists, researchers and thought leaders of the future or to do some of the jobs that non-immigrants don't want to do.

There is no end game that doesn't leave the US as the memory of the shadow of its former self.
by dvno42 | 2025-05-10 00:21:24+00:00
So what's the application for data?

Would this provide for tighter channels in WDM networks (with less spacing between channels) since dispersion is less of an issue? Might be out of my league on this but I thought DCMs were a work around for dispersion at distance.

Maybe faster packets for teleprotection control systems?

Either way, cool to see!
by treebeard901 | 2025-05-10 00:22:27+00:00
At the end of the day, youre just moving an amount from one ledger to another. Its all digital now too. A reserve currency was always a technological issue. SWIFT is largely just FTP servers.

The fall back for a long time was that half of the problem was exchanging money between two countries, and then shipping the goods relied on a strong blue water navy.

The U.S. doesnt have the lead it used to in either area.

Sanctions didnt help either.

Another issue is the ongoing attacks on the rule of law and the courts. There was a reason why Russians kept so much money in British banks, it was the trust in the institutions that caused the inflow.

Its like a perfect storm to destroy your currency credibility.
by ldubost | 2025-05-10 00:22:30+00:00
I'm from the CryptPad team.

We hope to be able to give an API in the future but there are a few concerns to allow sync tools to operate:

- server load and volume of data when syncing large volumes of data, especially for our flagship instance. CryptPad is currently used for realtime editing not for large data sync. We already host 6TB of data and it's unclear were that would lead us. - version compatibility with apps not upgraded to the latest version of the API

These are similar reasons that kept us away from federation.

Our team is small and already a lot of work. Hiring is limited by our funding.

Ludovic
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-05-10 00:23:24+00:00
I'm not taking your claims at face value without a solid citation. But in any case, they would seem to underscore my point that just throwing money at a problem isn't sufficient. The money has to be spent in the right way, and it's not obvious how to do that in advance.

And rent-seekers are omnipresent. Greed motivates workers in the public sector just like it motivates workers in the private sector. There's nothing about the phrase "you are now working for the government" which makes someone magically less greedy. That's another point that your account underscores (assuming your account is accurate).
by Rochus | 2025-05-10 00:23:29+00:00
> Delphi, Oberon and Object Pascal [..] I never found these languages compelling. Why? Because none of them were anywhere close to being the same kind of simplicity as Pascal

Agree. Oberon comes close, but has other orthodoxies like upper-case keywords, and it lacks the low-level support of e.g. Delphi. I spent a lot of time with extending Oberon, but backward compatibility prohibited some features I thought were necessary. My forthcoming Micron language is this kind of "better Pascal" you mentioned; essentially it's an Oberon withouth orthodoxies and with the power of C (without its disadvantages); there are language levels from minimal, stack-less systems, up to dynamic dispatch and optional garbage collection. See https://github.com/rochus-keller/micron/.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-05-10 00:24:45+00:00
Per Reuters: During his first term, a court blocked his proposed international reference pricing program.

The difference in this term is the admin spices up EO's by flagrantly defying court orders. I don't see how the magic sauce helps here. When a court strikes down this EO, US drug makers carry on as ever. And the admin defies - what?

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
by nashashmi | 2025-05-10 00:25:27+00:00
NYC MTA has an old mechanical system in place to prevent collisions. And they also have a new system in place to keep things safe. And the directors insisted both run side by side. This delayed so many projects for so many years. It took ten years to put in place train time estimation.

I guess today those same people feel a level of validation on what they insisted.
by mleonhard | 2025-05-10 00:25:43+00:00
I love this idea and I hope I get to work on it someday. I've wanted this ever since I was a starry-eyed teenager on IRC listening to Darius Bacon explain his capability-based OS idea, aptly called "Vapor".

I think it could be possible in Rust with a linter, something like https://github.com/geiger-rs/cargo-geiger . The Rust compiler has some unsoundness issues such as https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/84366 . Those would need fixing or linter coverage.
by roenxi | 2025-05-10 00:26:29+00:00
I agree with the perspective, the part I have trouble marrying it back to is the taxpayer funding and the NSF. The excellent & the people who benefit from their work tend to have lots of money and earning opportunities and are more than capable of just funding the research themselves.

If there is a large group of people who aren't benefiting they don't need to be involved in the funding and the organising either. It is a mistake to make research subject to political pressure if there is a significant political faction who doesn't think it is worthwhile for them.
by kllrnohj | 2025-05-10 00:26:41+00:00
> We'd have to look at actual Intel benchmarks to see, but if the AVX2 to AVX512 improvements are marginal, a multithreaded AVX2 version across more cores would likely outperform a multithreaded AVX512 version across fewer cores.

Look at any existing heavily multithreaded benchmark like Blender rendering. The E-cores are so weak that it just about takes 2 of them to match the performance of an AMD core. If the only difference was AVX512 support then yeah, 24 AVX2 cores would beat 16 AVX-512 cores. But that's not the only difference, not even close.

That's not to say a 24 core Core 9 Ultra Whatever would be slower than a 16 core 9950X in this workload. Just that the E-cores are kinda shit, especially in the wonky counts Intel is using (too many to just be about power efficiency, too few to really offset how slow they are)
by modeless | 2025-05-10 00:26:52+00:00
I'm sorry, a messaging app that in its most common configuration has its encryption keys stored on its developer's servers in a way that allows them to decrypt messages at will cannot be reasonably called e2ee. I don't care if it's technically a different OS process doing the uploading.

It's all Apple software on Apple software and Apple's responsibility to match user expectations based on the claims Apple makes. No reasonable person would expect that Apple intentionally retains the ability to decrypt the majority of iMessage communications given their marketing of iMessage as e2ee.
by Smeevy | 2025-05-10 00:27:55+00:00
You just said a lot of things that are easily disproven.

>war being waged in an unknown place

It's Ukraine. They've been an ally in a strategic location for decades. Just because you can't find it on a map doesn't mean I can't.

>for an unknown reason

They were invaded by Russia.

>But funding the dictator Zelensky so that he can capture people who do not want to fight for him and send them to certain death in storm troop units is unreasonable behavior, and from a Christian point of view, even disgusting.

Thanks, comrade.
by aegypti | 2025-05-10 00:28:15+00:00
Towards the end of COVID lockdowns I wrote a small, native macOS replacement for Zotero and ended up having to go with AppKit. Bit disappointing to hear the look and feel of a Mac assed mac app still hasn’t been replicated in SwiftUI.

Do you write about your experience with macOS dev at all? I would love to hear about it. I still look back fondly on that experience and toss around the idea of revisiting it, Documentation Archive and all.
by travisgriggs | 2025-05-10 00:28:15+00:00
Honest question. Not trying to troll. One of the pitches in the earlier days was “C/Objective-C OK, but you can’t write safe/next level code with it—-Swift will close that gap.”

N years later, it doesn’t feel like there has been a step change in Apple software quality; if anything Apple software feels less solid, and looks cool “look what I did” extension points. I mean, some of the tings you could do with runtime categories, and runtime prototypes were really cool. Now when I work on my 2 apps that originally happily port to Swift/UIKit, I’m just left confused with how to make things work. I’m happy when it finally works, and don’t ever try to improve the thing, it’s too much work.

There’s lots of different variables at play here; I’m not trying to stretch inference too much. Heck, it could have been that with adding Swift to the mix, the forces that have contributed to reduced quality in Apples stuff would be even worse.

I’m just frustrated. When I work in Elixir, I’m like this is cool. When I work in Kotlin, I don’t feel like “Apples got a language like this too, but it’s got that extra special zing that used to make stuff Apple touched cool.”
by kazinator | 2025-05-10 00:28:38+00:00
> Should a 'glob' library actually read the file system and give you filenames

The POSIX glob function after which these things are named traverses the filesystem and matches directory entries.

The pure matching function which matches a glob pattern against a filename-like string is fnmatch.

But yes, the equivalent of fnmatch should be a separate module and that could be a dependency of glob.

Nobody should be trying to implement glob from scratch using a fnmatch-like function and directory traversal. It is not so trivial.

glob performs a traversal that is guided by the pattern. It has to break the pattern into path components. It knows that "*/*/*" has three components and so the traversal will only go three levels deep. Also "dir/*" has a component which is a fixed match, and so it just has to open "dir" without scanning the current directory; if that fails, glob has failed.

If the double star ** is supported which matches multiple components, that's also best if it likewise integrated into glob.

If brace expansion is supported, that adds another difficulty because different branches of a brace can have different numbers of components, like {*/x,*/*/x,*/*/*/x}. To implement glob, it would greatly help us to have brace expansion as a separate function which expands the braces, producing multiple glob patterns, which we can then break into path components and traverse.
by aurizon | 2025-05-10 00:29:53+00:00
A large part might be due to genetics. I recall when westerners exploited native Americans with distilled liquor. Westerners had many generations of alcohol use, the natives = zero. Europeans have become resistant to alcohol. It might be faster metabolism/excretion? - a physiological adaptation? or is it social experience to walk/talk in a straight line? In small Northern Ontario mining towns the native population is like my mother - drink/fall over. We would hire(in my claim staking days up North) local labor for supervised line cutting/sampling, but we paid the local band through their rep - who then paid the workers late on Friday, we started work again on Monday. On helicopter-in jobs, we paid at job's end and usually worked the long Northern days about 18-20 daylight hours(long days up in NO in May-August) with foods/cigarettes flown in every ~2 weeks (and some local deer shooting as a supplement - we had cooks who ran the camp)/ When the job was done = large payday = all went home. By the end of August there were some freezing nights. Some crews had heated double walled tents and stayed longer, but by the end of September the cold weather most of this was curtailed.

I was born in the UK, my Dad never drank a drop - my Irish mother would drink until she fell over. Dad had lock up the liquor - or else = all gone = fall over. My brother and I do not drink a drop?? I am not drawn to liquor, and tobacco smoking or cannabis = I never touch at all.
by anigbrowl | 2025-05-10 00:29:58+00:00
The USA has not always done this. It has historically thrown its weight around (see any history book) but has historically maintained a far greater emphasis on diplomacy and international comity rather than the outright bullying we see now. You will note that I specifically referred to the US' behavior toward nominal allies. If you disagree, please provide some examples.

> millions of illegal immigrants who are committing huge numbers of crimes

A trope wholly ungrounded in fact, which has been debunked any number of times.

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG...

https://www.cato.org/blog/new-research-illegal-immigration-c...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6241529/#S14
by stingraycharles | 2025-05-10 00:30:12+00:00
Until this day, I miss Optane — I work for a timeseries database company focused on finance, the amount of use cases I have that screams “faster than NVMe, slower than RAM” is insane. And these companies have money to throw at these problems.

Which begs the question, why isn’t anyone else stepping into this gap? Is the technology heavily patented?
by robocat | 2025-05-10 00:32:29+00:00
Numbers:

> but I expect the [Gates] foundation will spend more than $200 billion between now and 2045 Top 10 individuals in the world worth $1.77 trillion The U.S. government has spent $ 3.57 trillion in fiscal year 2025

So Gates spends 10 billion/year which is an astonishing 0.2% of US government budget
by karohalik | 2025-05-10 00:32:45+00:00
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