skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are so horrible that you still need to have some quirks in your reader, because some important tool still generates it incorrectly , but it is still correct. Then there are loops and some software Try to parse them. The encryption types, the security, which is bonkers… why should it be possible to disallow printing or analyzing it with another software, there are attachments, forms, JavaScript…

And then there is xfa (Especially the dynamic one), a format in a format which basically totally different than a pdf. But it is inside the pdf container and people expect that you understand it. Thank god that pdf 2.0 probably kills it.
Let's say I'm a politician at a restaurant. I just want to eat. But even without opening the menu, you've had the chef call every person in town to let them know you're here.

It's just, gross.
The widgets are a [bad] wrapper on bing.com. bing.com uses those analytics products.

Yes, it should be disabled by default, just like a lot of unacceptable practices on Windows 11. Just don't need to shoot a video with Wireshark running and talk through DNS lookups to get to that critique.
No, it is the other way round. If there are no places where companies and/or governments censor/limit free speech/fight misinformation, every place turns into 4chan and you lose your ability to choose. I'm happy there are places where speech is not restricted. And I'm even more happy that there are places where speech is restricted. Do you think HN should stop moderating discussion?
> I think most teenagers are simply stressed from the constant work that's necessary for the college admissions process.

If this was true, you'd expect there to be a similar trend between Major Depression and college admissions. The data doesn't seem to show that[1][2]

[1] https://educationdata.org/wp-content/uploads/74/Historical-C...

[2] http://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a6...

Most teenagers don't stress over college admissions in my experience. The top like 30% academically successful teens probably do, but I believe this effect is seen across teenagers of all groups
Wrong, ARD, the second largest German PSB has had a very lively comment section for ages [1].

Part of the reluctance in setting up comment sections in general is that media orgs are liable for postings there and manual moderation costs a lot of money, unless you outsource that to underpaid, traumatized semi-slaves as Facebook does.

[1] https://meta.tagesschau.de/
Growing up in the 2000s I remember there was much more excitement and optimism for the future. Now it seems to range from cynicism to dread to abject paranoia. Or perhaps my liberal use of cannabis in my younger years shifted me into a more paranoid timeline... alas!

Re: books being less stressful, I think e-ink is a great example. It feels more solid, more permanent, even though the text changes when you swipe the page. It seems to be a combination of the "paper" look making it seem less virtual (than the blinkenlights matrix), and the impossibility of scrolling on e-ink making it by necessity a more calming medium.

Real books are even better, of course, in both regards, but can't compete on price / delivery time.
> No level of reputation or historical track record should exempt anyone from the basic responsibility of providing evidence for claims they make.

I'm not sure. Bloomberg and Reuters are two media outlets who regularly release information while only citing anonymous sources and not releasing any evidence.

Just posting proofster.png [1] doesn't undo America's long history of doing weird stuff to achieve its goals. Thinking about funding terrorism in Cuba, backdooring all electronic communication ever or saying that your President did not have a stroke.

Also, someone posted further down in the comments that the White House has a history of discrediting witnesses and questioning motives. [2] Interestingly enough, it appears to me that this tactic engages citizens to follow the ad hominem attacks of their policymakers, although they don't gain anything from doing so. Maybe this dynamic is even more interesting than the article itself because the causes of this crime are only for history books. America got what it wanted anyway, and nothing will change that.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/proofster

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34709596
Edit: I took out the question mark in response to anigbrowl making the point that it's confusing things: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34714493.

Edit 2: I've replaced the question mark with quotation marks following a suggestion by bee_rider: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713987.

-- original comment: --

We sometimes add a question mark when a title makes a dramatic and divisive claim, because otherwise readers who read the title might think that HN (or its admins) are somehow endorsing the claim. We don't know what the truth is and are neither agreeing nor disagreeing with the claim.

Edit: I dug up a few other examples where we've done this:

This is the year of the RSS reader? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105572

Anthropology in Ruins? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34049130

The great Covid and smoking cover-up? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33869176

The basic idea is that adding a question is a flame retardant because it tends to dampen the meta-comments about the story, e.g. complaints that the admins are taking a side or whatnot.

In this case it's not really working, because the question mark is also generating lots of meta-comments. But maybe fewer than we'd get without it.

Meta comment of my own: it's not only impossible to please everyone with moderation calls like this—it's seemingly impossible to please anyone. That's why it's really helpful to have a first principle to rely on—i.e. to know what you're optimizing for. It occasionally makes it possible to answer an otherwise hard question rather easily.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
> Do you think NYT's Foreign Editors would allow it to be published?

If someone had an inside source on deep background with evidence of an American cover-up? Hell yes they would. And if they wouldn't, the Journal would pay a premium.
Yes, one of my mantras for 2023 was "consume less, create more."
The very first thing that comes to mind is this is the first year after the '08 housing collapse where all students in the school had experienced it before entering high school. I wonder if the massive housing instability had an oversized impact on mental health which just... never recovered?
Yeah, watch the actual talks. It's GPT 3.5 + Microsoft's own model. GPT-4 is not available.
What? No, it's the exact opposite! If I set my system to open mailto links in Thunderbird, the link won't randomly override and open in Outlook. That's the whole point: The link specifies what should get opened, and then the application of the user's choice handles it.
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Plus great emulator support so you can play all the retro ROMs you can get your hands on. I do that more than I I play newer games!
I mean if you make money with this strategy, then the stocks bought were undervalued (overvalued) and by buying (shorting) them you pushed the price more to the stock‘s fair value. I really see no problem here.
Can you code on it?
Judging by that link I guess they changed it to everyone pays instead of just those with TVs? When I lived in Berlin twenty years ago, I remember TV tax enforcers would go door to door to try to find people with TVs without paying the tax. The advice I was given by Berliners was basically never to talk to random strangers coming to the door...not surprised they would change the system.
Deliberately misunderstanding what I said won't change my opinion or anybody else's.
Totally fascinating. Thank you!
> I believe it is an overtly hostile action against EU citizens and, particularly, Germans, who will suffer the most economically.

In the scenario where America did it, I think there is a strong argument to be made that it was in the long-term interests of EU citizens, despite causing them some short-term discomfort. They never should have started this pipeline project in the first place, buying energy from Russia made the EU weak. Breaking that relationship permanently will make the EU stronger.
Assuming you live in the UK or the USA, all your money is created by the government (though usually indirectly through commercial banks).

It's counterfeiting when you try to pretend your own currency is government produced.
Interesting approach. Why choose a metric such as car crashes instead of something like the flu? Although I think they are both likely in the same ballpark.

I'm glad to see you are still active despite being isolated.

You are obviously a smart person and likely more familiar with the medical aspects of this than me due to your background. Do you feel at all that you are staying this path due to the initial justified fear of the disease and now it's simply a part of your mindset or do you think you are able to frequently reassess your isolation from a new unbiased point of view? Again this is not an attack, you are obviously making many sacrifices to live this way and sometimes it's hard to take a step back and see the whole picture. Pros vs cons.

Were you an introvert before (as that may have eased the transition)?

What are your thoughts on those that no longer isolate, especially people with kids?

Feel free to ignore some or all of my questions:)

Again, no judgement, just interested in the mindset and perspective of those that have made this decision.
hash_map was indeed part of the original STL, but was not standardized in C++98. It was still widely available, in slightly incompatible forms, as an extension. In C++11 it was standardized with only minor changes (and renamed).

The address-preserving property, which precludes an optimal implementation, was considered important to be a near drop-in replacement of std::map.
> Crypto might well be the biggest vehicle for financial fraud the world has ever seen.

How do you measure this? If by “total value defrauded” then fiat has to be #1.
Oh, hell no.
Fun? C++? Bruh.
> There are tons of way to justify not coming to work and some unions representative (not all !) take a posture of « we will fight tooth and nail for every single employee that gets fired regardless of the reason ». This includes having handbooks of all the legal options at your disposal that are hard to counteract by management.

As they should. This is the entire point of a union, to act as your collaborative defensive line against your employer. You argument is essentially the same as “well, if we had universal healthcare, homeless/minimum wage people would use it too!”

OP makes it sound like this person was egregiously not doing his job. I’m sorry, but there isn’t a union agreement in the world that lets you No Call/No Show repeatedly and be fine. This is anti-Union FUD.

> In their views, unions exist as a counter power vs management so they need to fight every single possible decision

Yes, exactly. As they should. It’s the exact same logic as employers fighting every Unemployment claim, every workman’s comp claim, etc. If you don’t, you’ve moved the goalposts to a lesser defendable point.
Indeed, and less tech savvy people could just hand their phone to any teenager crushed nearby to do it for them.
It's long been a tenant of copyright law that genres or styles cannot be copyrighted. To frame the issue with LLMs as being of this nature, is to end run the problem, and just assume that the models are only taking the style or genre from a work. Given that these are algorithms and not sentient beings capable of thought, it's clearly the case that this is not what is occurring.
> Windows 11 widgets[0], which I'd suggest disabling either way.

In case you were curious, apparently the full widget removal is via group policy.

gpedit.msc > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Widgets > Allow Widgets > {select Disabled} > {restart}

https://www.pdq.com/blog/how-to-remove-widgets-in-windows-11...
Whoah, I've literally just started realising I should drag my first web app into something more robust than a proof of concept and these were all the decisions I made. In one. Thank you!
Alphabet slides 9% after a report for its new Google AI chatbot Bard
This can't be right. Any place I can read about this?
It was added by the site's moderator.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713747
> I wish python and other high level languages defaulted to decimal for the literals, and made float something you had to do explicitly.

When Python originally made the choice to have literals with decimal points in them be floats, the language did not have a decimal implementation, so floats were the only choice.

I don't know if anyone has proposed changing the default now that Python does have a decimal implementation, but I suspect that such a proposal would be rejected by the Python developers as breaking too much existing code.

What would be almost as nice, and would be backwards compatible, would be introducing a more compact way to declare decimal literals, something like "0.1d".
It does strike me as odd that (by my reading) there's only a single, unnamed source for all these claims. Hersh's reputation as a journalist is significant and worth considering, but for me it makes it stranger that there's so little evidence in this piece which, as it notes, alleges an act of war.
Finding meditation away from a screen i've found helpful. A combination of risk and speed scratch this itch best for me but YMMV. Dirtbikes, mountain bikes, running, skateboarding i've found help me process the information i've consumed in the course of the day.
The threat isn't just that Google does something intentionally evil.

Imagine if there's a WebKit 0-Day that Blink inherited discovered tomorrow that breaks ~96% of today's browsers as soon as that bad actor discoverer weaponizes it. (Or worse uses it to send malware or as an RCE vector.)

That's not something Google did intentionally. That's not something that forks can "immediately" fix. That's something that possibly forks make worse because everyone is going to be auditing different but similar codebases for the same bug and there may be some political infighting and finger pointing and accusations in a mexican standoff between the forks all accusing each other.

Most importantly, that is a lot of potential devices at major security risk to a single ecology "family of forks" of a code base.

What other piece of software does something like 96% of internet connected devices possibly have in common? We've got a variety of operating systems (Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, etc). We've got a variety of hardware stacks. We've got a variety almost everywhere but this one massive bottleneck growing worse. There's still some hope in the case of the hypothetical WebKit 0-Day that that diversity alone is enough to keep things from getting truly bad, but if you believe in software security you've probably had "defense in depth" drilled into your head and does "everyone uses the same browser codebase" sound like defense in depth?

That's the biggest nightmare scenario. There's lots of little iterations of that, including all the various little ways that standards might slowly get ignored or broken until some day the future web is wondering where the standards specs even are and can't find its way out of the box it was trapped in. If it happens little-by-little enough ("boiling the frog" as the aphorism goes) no one sees it as a clear threat at the time and no one thinks to "immediately fork it" until it is already far too late. To repeat something that needs repeating a lot in these conversations: the problem with IE6 wasn't that it was terrible and "behind", the problem with IE6 was that it was amazing and forward thinking and had boiled some frogs building specifications too quickly ahead of the standards bodies. People didn't notice the problems they had from that until after they'd built websites and apps with IE6 in mind because it was great at the time. People didn't notice the problems until after Microsoft felt they had done enough and took their ball and stopped playing because they had "innovated enough". People mostly didn't notice the problems until it was too late to get out of the box they'd been trapped in without realizing it. IE6 today has a reputation as a terrible browser that was stuck "behind" standards, but that's not where it did the most damage. It did the most damage when it was "the best browser to use", "the most innovative and powerful browser" and "everyone uses IE6 and is happy with it".
> But let's give WineHQ a bit of credit here. They have a database going back more than a decade now, telling you how games run on Linux.

But it so often was wrong :P I tried to use wine a lot between 2007 and 2010 and constantly ran into apps that were supposed to work no longer working, because regressions happened a lot. When you play a game on steam deck and exit it periodically asks you, "This game is marked Steam Deck Verified. Is that consistent with your experience?" and they really keep tabs on it.
Man all of the top level comments scream "marketing bots".

Like, I'm rooting for Linux gaming and have put my money where my mouth is before -- but this thread feels non-credible.
I don't think the GP comment was asking a question in a parenthetical; rather, they were expressing the names of both shows together using regular-expression syntax.
> That is what a CBDC has the potential to evolve to and what worries me - a digital ration book. If all a CBDC is is digital cash, then we already have that system (Visa, e-payments, etc)

Famously, credit cards prevented microtransactions from ever being a thing, and may have very well lead to the ad dystopia we now live in. Insisting on taking a % cut of every transaction, and not allowing small transactions to occur, has dramatically limited business models across a multitude of industries.

Imagine going back to 1999, before clickbait journalism, when newspapers were incredibly well staffed with fact checkers and when long form journalists could easily spend months upon months on a single article.

Now instead of forcing a race to the bottom of ads and needing to get as many eyeballs as possible, imagine if it was even possible to experiment with a 5 cent per article view microtransaction.

Reddit and Twitch have both shown that users are very willing to invest in microtransaction ecosystems for large enough content platforms.

Saying Visa is the same thing as digital cash is rather inaccurate!
You have an 18 year old son without a mobile phone?

I would think it is at least needed for all the logins requiring SMS 2FA.
It's no such admission. In fact it's the opposite, because if we thought the story didn't belong on HN, nothing would be easier than to let it sink without a trace.

I think the story belongs on HN because I know a little bit about the historical significance of Seymour Hersh and I think the appearance of this story is intellectually interesting. Maybe I'm the only commenter who feels that way, since most appear only to want to score points for their pre-existing political side, but it's our job to serve the intellectual interest of the larger audience, most of whom don't comment.

Re the question mark in titles, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34713747. This is a longstanding practice and has nothing to do with the topic.
At the same time, what is any local government going to do to Apple?
Fun! It seems like a simpler version of KAtomic (https://apps.kde.org/katomic/).

By the way, PuzzleScript (https://www.puzzlescript.net/) is a great way to prototype or implement these kind of game ideas; see for example the "Neko Puzzle" example.
Don’t pout but rather explain what you meant.
Putting string data in a vector<char> for starters is a big code smell. If you do, you're not using the language and the standard library the way they are supposed to be used and it's on you to make sure you do everything right.

Then combining that with C-style string handling functions, without taking all the extra care, is just asking for trouble IMO.
Just like you can on any other Linux computer and it even has a full desktop mode.
On surface it looks similar to ngrok. Except you can self host this using the open source project openziti that support the infra for it. It seems to be either a wrapper or implemented using openziti
Which post, the one about hot grits? ;-)

showdead=yes (from elsewhere in this thread) is a nice tip. Your post was RSS syndicated to brutalist-dot-report, which led me to this still-alive comment page.

Hey, didja know this site was created when a bunch of Internet trolls made fun of a new version of Lisp?
This comeback applies to whoever did the job. Americans or Russians, or Knights Templar, this was an elaborate operation, and somehow one pipeline out of four did not blow up. Why? Why does this implicate more the Americans rather than anyone else?
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Because the basic principle of C/C++ is to not force the coder to have to pay for checks it mightn't need.
Which in some contexts makes sense - for application development, probably not.
We haven't recently invented the concept of a lie, so the idea of "that's just how we are" rings hollow. People are being radicalised by qanon, incels, redpill, the alt-right, <insert the group you dislike> at an increased rate because they're being force fed this content on a daily basis, and they're being siloed into custom fit echochambers by algorithms optimising for their engagement.
See for yourself! There’s a simulator (have only tried on desktop) to run the worm model in your browser. As the name implies, the project is completely open source (if you’re feeling ambitious). This is the website for the project that produced the research in the article:

https://openworm.org/

Nematodes make up much of this particular segment of the history of neuroscience. This project builds on lots of data produced by prior researchers. Years of dissecting the worms and mapping out the connections between the neurons (and muscles, organs, etc.). It is by far the most completely-mapped organism.

The neuronal models, similarly, are based on our understanding of biological neurons. For example: the code has values in each ion channel that store voltages across the membranes. An action potential is modeled by these voltages running along the axons to fire other neurons. I’m personally more familiar with heart models (biomedical engineering background here) but I’m sure it’s similar. In the heart models: calcium, potassium, and sodium concentrations are updated every unit of time, and the differences in concentrations produce voltages.