MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-11 06:37:54+00:00
> As a ~5% holder he (Berkshire) had no special control over the company in terms of micro-audits to surface such fraudulent behavior promptly as it was happening.

Apropos of this particular scenario, acting like an individual shareholder with your 5% of a company's stock is helpless to exert influence on the board is not at all accurate. Realistically, at that scale, anyone who holds even 1% is someone you better listen to (not necessarily follow, to be clear) when they pick up the phone.

And that's when its someone who is also not someone who opens their mouth and has millions of followers who also hold stock, like Buffett.
by opello | 2025-11-11 06:38:18+00:00
This is an interesting take when you look at the gas station Toy Story example and consider the night sky. In the digital version the stars are very washed out but in the film version the sky is dark and it's easy to appreciate the stars. Perhaps it's unrealistic when you realize the setting is beneath a gas station canopy with fluorescent lights, but that detail, along with some of the very distinct coloring, stuck out to me.
by chriselles | 2025-11-11 06:38:19+00:00
I think some are too focused on recruiting or conscripting citizens for fighting a kinetic conflict.

For the Five Eyes(Canada, US, UK, Australia, NZ) that don’t ever need to worry about conventional invasion, it’s far more about national resilience that relates to national defence.

How does a nation rapidly adapt to warfare that is occurring beneath the threshold of conventional warfare, and in some cases general public detection.

It’s not about fighting future trench warfare, it’s likely more about adaption to disruption to the nation of the electrical grid, logistics systems, and digital platforms.

A contemporary civil defence optimised not to defend against nuclear war but to defend against cyber, informational, psychological, and supply chain warfare.

Less continuity of government(as per Cold awards doctrine), more continuity of economy.

That’s just my 0.02c.
by stmw | 2025-11-11 06:38:39+00:00
Good upvote-worthy points, I'd just say that this is exactly the issue - eventually you end up with a Java++ implementation of exceptions.

As you say, the more limited implementation can be done more efficiently than the post post claims, but it has to be restricted and managed in a way that existing runtimes/compilers/languages haven't succeeded at so far... "just say no" earlier.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-11 06:38:49+00:00
>What can you do with $100m at 95 you would actually enjoy?

At 95 with 100m, it's less about what I can do with that time left and more about how to make the world better off by the time I croak. I lived my life, as far as I'm concerned.

Putting it another way: I'm out the door in 2 weeks, some people would spend it relaxing. I'd make sure to document as much as I can and keep the transition as low friction as possible.
by devolt | 2025-11-11 06:39:20+00:00
An AI (not LLM, but image-based one) based tool which transforms photos into visa compliant photos.

You take a selfie, pick document type (China Visa online, Green Card lottery, etc) and the tool knows what size it should be, head height, shoulders position and other requirements. AI is used to detect head position, emotions, objects and other details to provide better recommendations

Check it out and let me know what you think: https://ishotaphoto.com
by tavavex | 2025-11-11 06:39:40+00:00
That seems like the general mantra that's currently being adapted to justify all sorts of power grabs and expansions of surveillance all over the world. "We would really rather not do this, honestly! But the crisis is just too pressing, and has been left unaddressed for too long. You all just couldn't behave, and now we're going to have to do it the painful way. This is just what is needed, it's the natural outcome."

But surely, it's not the entire world that's suddenly experiencing these waves of perceived crises, right? The statistics to justify tough-on-crime enforcement are useful for the proponents, but it's not the statistics that prompted them to act. They have their own reasons, and some marketable justifications just happened to be lying around. If they weren't there, they would find some other numbers or some other category of criminals that must be urgently pursued, anything to justify the power grabs. Reducing crime won't stop them.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-11 06:40:35+00:00
The "vendor" in this case is GCC and there are plenty of non-standard GCC extensions in use today. The Linux kernel standard gnu89, not C89, after all. I doubt you can even compile a usable Linux kernel sticking purely to the official C standard.

The same tricks are also enabled in the plan9 extensions, but enabling plan9 extensions also enables a bunch of other tricks and those changes landed later than the Microsoft ones. Aiming to enable plan9 instead probably could've saved the Linux kernel half a decade of "Microsoft bad" comments, though.
by lmm | 2025-11-11 06:41:02+00:00
> Everything you say about memory safety issues applies to logic bugs too.

It doesn't, because logic bugs generally have, or can be made to have limited scope.

> And likewise in reverse - you can have a memory safety issue that doesn't result in a vulnerability or crash.

No you can't, not in standard C. Any case of memory unsafety is undefined behaviour, therefore a conforming implementation may implement it as a vulnerability and/or crash. (You can have a memory safety issue that happens to not result in a vulnerability or crash in the current version of gcc/clang, but that's a lot less reassuring)
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-11 06:41:26+00:00
The world, no. An 9industry, yes. That's more money than many industries make in years. Of course injecting that into any stage can impact the fate of the sector.

Or you can waste it on a year of AI development. It's not ironclad.

>it's possible -- perhaps even easy -- to deploy vast sums of money in well-meaning ways that turn out to have disastrous unintended consequences. I don't think I'd want that kind of responsibility.

Given my current life, I'd rather try something different than have decades more of statis quo.
by benrutter | 2025-11-11 06:41:34+00:00
That's so interesting- I'd assumed from the name that it was a charity for allocating donations, but legally it's a regular company?

Seems like its activities are mostly charity based at least.

It's a confusing thing, and I still don't really understand what 99% of wealth over the course of a lifetime actually means in real terms. Is that of lifetime wealth? 99% of Zuck's wealth from 2015 over the course of his life?
by HeavyStorm | 2025-11-11 06:44:02+00:00
What is progress? Are you sure that was greenfield?

I think the OP meant projects that required long investments without immediate returns. For instance, a platform migration that requires many components to be finished before it can even be tested. Or, real greenfield, like a new product venture with a unproven customer thesis. The kind that requires months of work before you can go to market and validade... How do you report progress? Components built, percentage completed? Without something a user can drive or a seller sell, that's not progress... It's just speculation.
by jamtur01 | 2025-11-11 06:44:03+00:00
I am sorry but you're delusional if you think any of that is happening and they're acting in a legal manner. A small sample of the links in that post show ICE are actively violating constitutional rights and flaunting the rule of law. This same organization is actively ignoring a federal judge's orders to not use crowd control weapons on people who pose no threat.
by antonvs | 2025-11-11 06:45:34+00:00
> Tell me more about memory safety

What is it you want to hear about memory safety? If you’re willing to accept the tradeoffs of an automatic garbage collector, memory safety has been a solved problem for decades, and there’s not a whole lot to tell you about it other than learning about widespread, mature technology.

But if you have some good reason to avoid that technology, then your options are far more limited, and there are good reasons that Rust dominates that conversation.

So the question stands - what is it you want to hear more about?
by lmm | 2025-11-11 06:46:21+00:00
> UB is in fact not worse than a memory safety issue

The worst case of UB is worse than the worst case of most kinds of non-UB memory safety issues.

> NULL pointer dereferences are almost never exploitable

Disagree; we've seen enough cases where they become exploitable (usually due to the impact of optimisations) that we can't say "almost never". They may not be the lowest hanging fruit, but they're still too dangerous to be acceptable.
by johngossman | 2025-11-11 06:46:34+00:00
Agreed. It's a fine article but leaves half the story on the table. It is supposedly comparing what these movies looked like in the theater to the modern streaming and bluray versions, but is actually comparing what a film scan (scanner settings unspecified) projected on a TV (or other unspecified screen) looks like compared to the digital versions on (presumably) the same screen. And then we can ask: how were the comparison images captured, rendered to jpeg for the web, before we the readers view them on our own screens? I'm not arguing Catmull and company didn't do a great job of rendering to film, but this comparison doesn't necessarily tell us anything.

Don't believe me? Download the comparison pictures in the article to your device and play with filters and settings. You can get almost anything you want and the same was true at every step in the render pipeline to your TV.

Ps - and don't get me started on how my 60-year old eyes see color to what they perceived when I saw this in the theater
by vasco | 2025-11-11 06:47:25+00:00
You can sit down and recolor the movie frame by frame and release it on torrent yourself, it'll make many people happy. It won't be worth it monetarily but since you're annoyed it doesn't exist and money isn't a factor...

It's always easy to complain about others not being generous enough with their time, but we always have an excuse for why we won't do it ourselves.
by jama211 | 2025-11-11 06:47:28+00:00
It’s an interesting and valid point that the projectors from the time would mean current scans of 35mm will be different too. However, taking for example the Aladdin screenshot in particular, the sky is COMPLETELY the wrong colour in the modern digital edition, so it seems to me at least that these 35mm scans whilst not perfect to the 90’s are closer to correct than their digital counterparts.
by walletdrainer | 2025-11-11 06:47:34+00:00
CZ received and served a four month sentence for vague AML issues, the pardon didn’t really change anything for him.

Ross Ulbricht had no connections prior to his imprisonment. His case demonstrates how even a man in supermax prison with essentially no money to his name was able to build good enough connections to get a presidential pardon for dealing massive amounts of drugs.

Personal connections might matter if you do decide to commit serious crimes, but as Ulbricht demonstrates, anyone can develop those connections.
by stmw | 2025-11-11 06:47:50+00:00
some representative examples:

"Kalaam.io Kalaam is a programming language in Hindi and has all the core functionality of a modern programming language, such as for loops, while loops, functions and conditional statements. Kalaam has its own parser, interpreter, virtual memory stack and it executes source code from a parse tree. "

"Zangar (Persian for Rust) allows you to write Rust programs in Persian, using Persian keywords and function names. It is adapted from Rouille, the original French implementation of Rust. "
by nomel | 2025-11-11 06:47:51+00:00
I used to use slopes as my primary "fact authority", then post 2016 something changes. They now often answer with a very different context than they start out with. They do state that context they're actually answering, but sometimes it's very subtle that it's nearly unrelated. In these cases, if you just read the title and first paragraph and answer/summary, you will be misled. Being misled several times, seeing others misled many times, and to often see that they completely avoided responding to the actual topic, I don't trust them anymore. I'd rather just spend a few extra minutes looking at original sources than be tricked like that.

There's also seems to be a heavy bias in what they cover, which is fine (I believe biased/adversarial news is the best way to dig out truth), but I doesn't help my trust.
by lmm | 2025-11-11 06:48:12+00:00
> Doesn't null-pointer-dereference always crash the application?

No. It's undefined behaviour, it may do anything or nothing.

> Is it only an undefined-behavior because program-must-crash is not the explicitly required by these languages' specs?

I don't understand the question here. It's undefined behaviour because the spec says it's undefined behaviour, which is some combination of because treating it as impossible allows many optimisation opportunities and because of historical accidents.
by otterley | 2025-11-11 06:48:14+00:00
> You don't negotiate the contents of your burger with McDonald's. If you don't like it, you go to Burger King or have a Döner Kebab.

Not every industry is a competitive one with practically unlimited choices. Natural monopolies or industries with high barriers to entry tend to have the most leverage over their customers. Most people have only a single electricity provider, and there are only two major mobile OS vendors worth speaking of.

> Homeopathic medicine tend to follow actual health problems, too. That doesn't mean they are a good idea.

Some work; some don’t. The key is figuring out which solutions are effective and which aren’t. Nobody is proposing keeping fixes around whose costs aren’t worth the benefits to society.
by GuestFAUniverse | 2025-11-11 06:51:04+00:00
A supervisor once said about his own projects he had to sell to sponsors: every vision risks sounding insane or too unambitious -- it's like a walk on a knife's edge.

Well, it obviously needs a lot of experience to find the right balance. Not sure if the prince had (or did allow) for the right environment -- read: people who respectfully show the challenges that need to be taken first.

While most people (including me) saw it fail from the beginning, I cannot 100% deny a certain fascination with the ambition and passion. Kind of: the right adventurous spirit (for a kingdom getting to lazy, die to it's wealth), but not sufficiently mentored by wise man[sic!] -- I don't know how to put it into better words.

The project lacked a natural force (like a river seeking it's way) and tried too much like mechanical hammer hitting on an empty anvil (doing a lot of noise without creating a product).

I hope they find a why to turn around and revive the essence of the Prince's vision: build the future of the kingdom. (I would find that way more interesting than any schadenfreude)
by phantasmish | 2025-11-11 06:51:43+00:00
Yeah I clicked this link going “oh god it’s because they printed to film, I bet, and man do I hope it looks worse so I don’t have to hunt down a bunch of giant 35mm scans of even more movies that can’t be seen properly any other way”

But no, of course it looks between slightly and way better in every case. Goddamnit. Pour one out for my overworked disk array.

And here I was thinking it was just my imagination that several of these look kinda shitty on Blu-ray and stream rips. Nope, they really are worse.

Piracy: saving our childhoods one frame at a time.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-11 06:52:03+00:00
I don't pretend to know the long term future of llms. But I get this dismissal everytime I suggest "this is unsustainable, this is going to crash". No matter what trends I point to.

I won't pretend to know what lies beyond that. I just know on 5 years you're not going to spam AI in your deck and get millions in funding.
by globular-toast | 2025-11-11 06:52:16+00:00
I find a lot of the stuff I remember from decades ago looks worse now. Toy Story in particular I watched when I got a projector after I'd seen Toy Story 4 and it looked bad, almost to the point I wish I hadn't tarnished my memory of it. Similar things have happened with N64 games that I cherished when I was little.

I don't buy that it's a real degradation due to different presentation methods. I'm sorry, but no matter what film stock you lovingly transfer Toy Story to, it's never going to look like it does in your memory. Same with CRTs. Sure, it's a different look, but my memory still looks better.

It's like our memories get automatically upgraded when we see newer stuff. It's jarring to go back and realise it didn't actually look like that in the 90s. I think this is just the unfortunate truth of CGI. So far it hasn't reached the point of producing something timeless. I can watch a real film from the 80s and it will look just as "good" as one from today. Of course the colours will be different depending on the transfer, but what are we hoping for? To get the exact colours the director saw in his mind's eye? That kind of thing has never really interested me.
by methuselah_in | 2025-11-11 06:53:40+00:00
simply i will be starting using Linux distributions on the devices which support them. Usually the gsm wcda etc are too much buried in patents and mostly closed source, but eventually how android bloomed initially as it was open source. I believe one day Linux will be there and again google and apple can have something to worry about and they will again open. One major thing is why google allowing people to use Linux apps on their android 16-17 by default i guess is because of this.
by watersb | 2025-11-11 06:54:06+00:00
3 nanometers is generally a marketing number to indicate relative fineness of the process. But it has real relevance to the physical structures that are manufactured by the process.

Transistors have many distinct features. There's the current source and drain, with the gate between them. There's a number of different ways to build these structures.

As a lousy analogy, a light switch has lots of parts: wire terminals, contact points to make a tight connection to a conducting blade that can be moved with a fancy handle, etc.

Maybe you want to print your switch with your home 3D printer. A really fancy one that can print lines that are 3nm in width on a good day.
by opello | 2025-11-11 06:54:57+00:00
> He [David DiFrancesco] broke ground in film printing — specifically, in putting digital images on analog film.

> Their system was fairly straightforward. Every frame of Toy Story’s negative was exposed, three times, in front of a CRT screen that displayed the movie.

While I have no doubt that this hadn't been done at the scale and resolution, it struck me that I'd heard about this concept in a podcast episode [1] in which very early (1964) computer animation was discussed alongside the SC4020 microfilm printer that used a Charactron CRT which could display text for exposure to film or plot lines.

[1] https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-88-beflix-early...
by emrekutlu | 2025-11-11 06:57:46+00:00
https://cafe.io It is a DNS service for AWS EC2 to keep the ever changing IPs when you cannot use the Elastic IP like ASG or when you don't want to install any third party clients to your instances.

It fetches the IPs regularly via AWS API and assign them to fixed subdomains.

It is pretty new :) still developing actively.
by levario_studio | 2025-11-11 06:58:11+00:00
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by Atlas667 | 2025-11-11 06:58:27+00:00
Maybe I'm too sleepy for rhetoric.

But a country needs material resources to exist, right? Some of these are food, shelter, energy, health, entertainment and security.

These are all private enterprises in a capitalist state. For example, the energy sector is a group of capitalist enterprises. The energy sector is also at the same time something the population needs.

Therefore it is also crucial to the nation, its a national security.

They country would go to war in order to secure resources for the energy industry because it is a part of national security.

Another: walmart is americas veins and its a group of peoples property. Walmart is national security.

The fact that some of these are publicly traded does not change their relationship to ownership.
by jjude | 2025-11-11 06:58:41+00:00
Read the book Smartcuts and see if you can use one of the 9 ideas the author talks about to move to a new situation (review here: https://www.jjude.com/smartcuts/)

Since you have work experience in backend (doesn't matter java / c#), and AWS certifications, leverage them. I would advice against going to front-end at this moment. FE is comparatively a different beast.

Without knowing lot of your details (your domain, residence etc), here are some options that I could think of (some of which I have done in 30 years of experience).

- move to a company that uses the same tech but in a different domain (say logistics to finance) and then jump from there to a company that uses a modern tech (finance legacy tech to fintech company using rust or go) - within the same domain can you create a portfolio of side projects which are all aligned in some way - say if you are in retail, can you create projects on teraform scripts to deploy .net projects to multi-cloud (gcp, aws, azure); or for supporting blue-green deployment; idea is to use your "modern" knowledge within legacy but creating public portfolio to showcase your "modern" knowledge. - find a local leader that you admire (if you go to city-wide tech conferences or something like that you can find some like this), and ask them if you can help them with something as a side-hustle. They don't have to pay but they have to write a recommendation on LinkedIn for your work. Most tech leaders who talk have some projects going on and they struggle with their time. You can help while building a good portfolio - combination of some of the above

Do a combination of content creation (git projects, video streaming of coding, writing on LinkedIn ...), building a network, and obtaining social proof (recommendations). This will help you get good jobs.

For long term, this is the roadmap I would encourage: https://www.jjude.com/learn-next/

I also wrote about how the jobs are evolving: https://www.jjude.com/future-of-jobs/
by ralph84 | 2025-11-11 06:59:21+00:00
That’s simply not true. The WSJ started reporting on it in 2011 [0]. Berkshire didn’t fully exit their position until 11 years later in 2022 [1].

[0]https://archive.ph/Gc88k

[1]https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/17/investing/berkshire-hathaway-...
by stevoski | 2025-11-11 06:59:37+00:00
I'm not writing from the POV of a consumer of software. I'm writing from the POV of a seller of software.

If you are selling software, don't be the person charging $10/month. It's hard to make that business work.

Be the person charging $50/month. It's still hard - any business is - but it's much easier to make a software business financially viable if you charge decent money.