MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wtbdbrrr | 2025-09-07 18:45:18+00:00
> is that it often turns into a class indicator

Oh, man. One could rant for hours about this. You are absolutely right. But in the end it's not really a class indicator because info about this particular and similar schemes could theoretically be packed into a weekend long workshop. In any small company or big factory, and definitely in schools as early as grade 10.

But it's a matter of character and you have to be damn lucky if you get a teacher who cares that much. Even neighbors will more often than not, NOT enlighten "the less fortunate" about stuff like this. It's pathetic.

But that's why this cascade works so well to keep almost all of the "more fortunate" under perfect societal control by which I don't mean some mythological conspiracy but "Steuerungsmechanismen" (some dude who got out of some cult beautifully explained this but I forgot both his name and the title of the book), keeping almost all of them in line, mostly silent, and alienated from the inter-generational usefulness of critical thinking.

And there is no irony in all this. Too many peoples mindsets never left the modern dark ages. One can only raise a brow and chuckle at all this.

It's a class indicator for sure, but, in my opinion, not class in the sense of hierarchies but of intellectual style, niveau. These tactics are low, like punching drugs.
by meisel | 2025-09-07 18:45:41+00:00
I knew that name looked familiar, I thought about mentioning tpde here :)

That's interesting to hear that IR is missing a lot. I'm also surprised that it could provide much gain over hashing the preprocessed output - maybe my workflow is different from others, but typically a change to the preprocessed output implies a change to the IR (e.g., it's a functional change and not just a variable name change or something). Otherwise, why would I recompile it?

Parse caching does sound interesting. Also, a lot of stuff that makes its way into the preprocessed output doesn't end up getting used (perhaps related to the 40-50% figure you gave). Lazy parsing could be helpful - just search for structural chars, to determine entity start/stop ranges, and add the names to a set, then do parsing lazily
by tialaramex | 2025-09-07 18:45:51+00:00
> This way you can reamplify signals over a large bandwidth (~4 THz) without having to do detection and retransmission (which would be unscalable).

This trick also means the cable doesn't care about the rest of the technology. If it was a retransmitter then we'd need to replace the entire cable if we change from 100Gbps over Protocol #39 to 200 Gbps over Protocol #40 because every retransmitter needs to be equipped for the new protocol, but the optical amplifier doesn't care why these photons turned up, what they mean - when provided with power it just ensures proportionately more photons like them come out of the amplifier.

Because they're not actually the same photons weird quantum tricks that would work on bench scale, where it was literally the same photon at the receiver as when you transmitted, will not work, but any conventional signalling within quite broad limits is OK. Researchers at the University where I studied as an undergraduate developed EDFA.
by nativeMsg | 2025-09-07 18:45:54+00:00
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by Aurornis | 2025-09-07 18:46:27+00:00
Dementia isn’t caused by one single factor, as far as we know.

Studies like this show that air quality is correlated with dementia in general, but we don’t know if that means air quality directly contributes to dementia or if air quality just happens to be correlated with something else that contributes to dementia.

As for Utah: They have lower rates of drinking and drug use and higher levels of physical fitness and outdoor activity, among other factors.

Utah’s average air quality also isn’t as bad as you hear about. The mountain geography can trap pollution on certain winter days, but the average air quality in Salt Lake City is surprisingly better than most metro areas with 500K or more people: https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/03/26/air-qu...

> In 2023, Salt Lake had the 11th-lowest average particulate matter levels, known as PM2.5, of 103 cities reviewed by IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company.
by qcnguy | 2025-09-07 18:46:51+00:00
The problem with this kind of initiative is that people don't agree on what positive news means. Your selection is very ideologically slanted. People on the right could interpret these news stories as negative. For example:

1. 99.7% of power capacity coming from "clean power" can be interpreted by people on the right as the grid getting more expensive and less reliable in order to solve a climate problem they don't think is real.

2. Countries committing to a global fund to protect the Amazon can be interpreted as using money critically needed at home to bribe South Americans into doing what they should already be doing themselves. If the people who actually live next to it don't care enough to protect it themselves then why should random people in Iowa or Ireland be forced to?

3. The US prison population being low is only a positive if crime is low. If people don't feel safe, then it can be interpreted as a result of not locking enough people up, and positive news would be hearing that the prison population is going up. This claim may not feel positive if you just saw the video of the murder of the Ukrainian lady on US public transport by a known-dangerous dude who just randomly stabbed her from behind for no reason.

A news feed that is only positive news for a conservative would obviously look very different to such a feed designed for liberals.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-09-07 18:46:51+00:00
I don’t understand your objection. Local date and time is always bound to a local timezone, it‘s just implicit. Even in case of movable objects, the exact moment of time is defined by the watch aboard that object. You are on a ship and you wake up at 7am to get ready for breakfast? The exact moment of time when it happens is in the local time zone. The bar around the corner opens at 4pm? It’s in the local timezone, no matter how it changes. And „local“ means the timezone is defined by location, a ship, a city etc, so to calculate the exact moment of time you do location timezone lookup. Your phone does that automatically, picking up the timezone from cell tower and adjusting your local clock, so that alarm set at 7 (which is LocalTime) would work correctly.
by Aerbil313 | 2025-09-07 18:47:21+00:00
It’s weird to believe that US and China are ahead of Europe simply because they work harder. If anything I’d be more inclined to believe they are ahead despite these unhealthy work cultures. Not to mention that US vs. China is not comparable in much any metric. The real reason is the work (and life!) mentality of US where individualism and materialism triumphs, which combined with the dollar hegemony, gives rise to its tech industry. For China it’s posbably the people advantage, combined with a highly focused and determined state massively supporting key areas of technology domestically. Both are unified language, single countries whereas Europe has communication and political barriers internally. And so on…

IMHO your view demonstrates the human bias to attribute simple and easy causes to complex phenomena.
by nromiun | 2025-09-07 18:48:00+00:00
I was also too careless with AWS when I was a beginner with no deployment experience and I am very lucky that I did not push a wrong button.

All these stories of bill forgiveness reminds me of survivorship bias. Does this happens to everyone that reaches out to support or just the ones that get enough traction on social media? I am pretty sure there is no official policy from AWS, GCP or Azure.
by wavemode | 2025-09-07 18:48:02+00:00
That's not the expression problem. The expression problem is the question of, what is required to add new methods to an existing trait. In your example, it requires modifying the existing impls for all types implementing the trait.

What you've done is different, you've simply added a new trait entirely. That's not unique to Rust, you can add new interfaces in any language...
by nativeMsg | 2025-09-07 18:48:25+00:00
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by jamesblonde | 2025-09-07 18:48:32+00:00
There are around 50k public air quality sensors globally that publish pm2.5 measurements. Still, there are no good air quality forecasts. In my two home cities (Dublin and Stockholm), there are 30-50 public sensors.

The first exercise in my O'Reilly book (released next month) is to build a pm25 forecast using basic ML (features are weather and lagged air quality). Code is available here:

https://github.com/featurestorebook/mlfs-book/
by yupyupyups | 2025-09-07 18:49:07+00:00
This is what happened with the Qt app dev framework. The Qt Company delayed releases of LTS updates to non-paying users by 1 year, while not properly dealing with the steady stream of regressions that were affecting normal releases. I quit Qt development partially because I felt that I was dealing with forever-beta software.

But actually, with Qt you do have KDE devs who push their own patches which does help deal with the flaws in the upstream project.

In the Android world, they need more devs doing the same and supporting projects like GrapheneOS with security testing/hardening.
by simne | 2025-09-07 18:49:28+00:00
Well, I'll try summarize answers and my experience.

At beginning, Internet used network classes, because of hardware limitations (later switched to address blocks). And even in 1990s still existed very old hardware, only could use class addresses.

What classes mean, existed early very large organizations, got more addresses than they could use. And even happen few cases, when such organizations lost rights for these addresses.

And these unlucky organizations was some big whales, like IBM or ATT/Bell or Sun.

And once invented solution - state some big enough network as not allocated to use under NAT (or when network is not connected to Internet). So, departments of big organizations could use TCP/IP stack in their networks, even with old hardware, but don't need to contact Internet officials to got real internet addresses.

192.168 was just first C-class network prefix, was not assigned at the moment (or just released).

Later, to list of unassigned added 172.16/12 network.
by boricj | 2025-09-07 18:49:33+00:00
As a software engineer, I was summoned twice from high-up to directly deal with an end-user issue.

Once, it was an issue with the installation of a legacy product I didn't work on that failed on a specific platform. I was handed a RDP session and had 30 minutes to figure it out. Somehow I pulled through, found the bug in the installer and fixed it live. Apparently the customer was at the end of their wits because they were bouncing back and forth with support for the past three months or so.

Another time, it was random crashes in a legacy product I didn't work on (again) that happened only with a specific combination of hardware and operating system. In three days, I've root caused it to the product's platform abstraction layer where the pthread mutexes were not created with the recursive flag. The bug was introduced over 10 years ago and the undefined behavior only triggered with a recent version of glibc running combined with a recent generation of Intel processors.

In both cases, I can't help but sympathize with the customer, who hit a real critical bug and had to escalate it all the way up until it reached me, the person you call when there is no one else left to call.
by setr | 2025-09-07 18:50:08+00:00
I don’t think that matters that much; it’s still just a popularity contest, and if something manages to break through that threshold, it’ll be trivial enough to make the default.

No one knew Reddit boards and 4chan boards either; you just knew to go to /b/ or /r/funny. The other boards, the other fediverse servers, are just details that enable other subcommunities to survive. The major community will just route to a single server, and most will probably never use a second
by patrickdavey | 2025-09-07 18:50:09+00:00
Have you actually tried using it? I love mastodon now! You can just follow people as normal, a number of pretty interesting folks hang out on there (Brian Krebs etc).

No ads, a timeline which isn't endless and you can actually just read. It's actually really nice! I also think the decentralized non proprietary model brings us closer to something which is becoming ever more important in this world we find ourselves in.
by strcat | 2025-09-07 18:50:28+00:00
That's about the monthly and quarterly releases of Android, not the Android security patches. The post title is misinterpreting what's wrong. There is a lot wrong but that's not it. The baseline Android security patches are being delayed for Android as a whole, not AOSP specifically.

Not having the very tiny monthly updates pushed to AOSP is an annoyance which will delay a subset of non-security bug fixes until the quarterly releases. It's a bad change, although we know have a good idea why it happened and need the reason it happened to be reversed for them to push those again.

We've been told by multiple people at Google that the quarterly releases would still be pushed and that monthly releases are largely being phased out. However, the quarterly update was not pushed as expected on September 3rd. If it's pushed on Monday, it will be 6 days late. There hasn't been a similar delay for quarterly and yearly releases in the past.

GrapheneOS can still provide security updates but not having the quarterly release is a major problem and it's not clear why it wasn't pushed when they said it was going to be pushed.

There's a separate issue not specifically tied to AOSP impacting security patches which is what the initial part of our reply was about. See https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1964754118653952027 for an explanation.
by arp242 | 2025-09-07 18:50:33+00:00
Ugh, I lived in Dunedin for a year, and it's the worst place I've cycled by a considerable margin. Much worse than e.g. Ireland or England, which also isn't exactly bicycle-friendly. The infrastructure isn't even half-bad, but the behaviour of motorists was just the worst. Kiwis are like that old Goofy cartoon where he's all nice and friendly until he gets in his car, after which he becomes a raging maniac.

So yeah, with "New Zealand" as context a device like that makes more sense.
by pdonis | 2025-09-07 18:51:29+00:00
> how can you have a functioning marketplace for a good when the demand is hard to forecast for an individual, almost completely inelastic and often extremely time sensitive.

Most health care is not like this. Most health care is fairly routine: periodic physical exams and checkups, or getting evaluated when you have cold or flu symptoms. These sorts of things are much better provided for in a free market.

It's true that, if you have an emergency, it's probably not something that could have been forecast, and you don't have much of a choice about what care you need. That is indeed the sort of situation that insurance is intended for. But what we call "health insurance" isn't limited to those things. It also covers everything else--all the stuff above that isn't unpredictable or time sensitive. The result is a mess.
by neither_color | 2025-09-07 18:51:49+00:00
Ok I see where the confusion was. The point of comparison was not somebody with no visa at all going to China.

An early 2000s US employee with a valid multi-entry business visa (i.e type M), flying to China on short notice and doing hands on work that goes beyond simple meetings is what is directly comparable to what happened to some Koreans on B1s in Georgia.

If the goal is to encourage more investment in the US for the purposes of developing industry here, then I believe the way this law was enforced was not tactful and dissuades other investments. If allies feel they are forced to do this(and not just wantonly breaking the law just because) then perhaps it's a sign that we're not doing enough to facilitate these investments.

If they come down too hard on Hyundai it doesnt guarantee this factory will go to 100% Americans, there may not even be a factory!
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-07 18:51:52+00:00
> The fact that it's not in widespread use is my point exactly: the mass market isn't there any more.

Their might not be a mass market for neither, but these are not available in the same scale at all. You maybe can find blu ray audio somewhere on the internet, but I've never seen them, while the the music store has hundreds of CDs and every street musician and band sells CDs.

I honestly do not know what the selling point of a Blu-ray disk is. The form factor is exactly the same and nobody needs the capacity. The capacity of a DVD is already too large, why should anyone use a Blue-ray disk? Neither want the musicians produce and sell more than some hours of music, nor do consumers need music for days without interruption. There simply is no kind of music which takes more than a few hours.

So the only difference is that the disk is more expensive and the player is likely incompatible, so hardly a benefit.

> So do I - they're in a box somewhere.

I was only talking about players in use.
by julienchastang | 2025-09-07 18:52:53+00:00
"likely aimed at improving security screening and preventing abuse of the system"

This is an opinion. Is it yours, or the AI's? Moreover, is the AI just trying to be agreeable or is this coming from a platform that has a political agenda, in this case supporting the political actors that are in charge of this visa change? These are the questions that we need to ask ourselves in these modern times.
by rlt | 2025-09-07 18:52:59+00:00
I used to think engineers should get all the credit for the successes of big engineering projects, and they should probably get more credit than they do, but over time I’ve realized how important good leadership is. SpaceX and Tesla absolutely would not be where they are today without Elon. Anyone who claims otherwise either hasn’t paid attention or is being disingenuous because they don’t like him.