skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you have understood the nature of Dijkstra's work nor the genius behind it. It is different from the genius of Niklaus Wirth (simplicity of OS, Programming Language implementations) or Donald Knuth (efficiency of Algorithm implementations) in that it is at a more "meta level" bringing together the fields of Computation, Languages and Mathematics.

I have already pointed out the laughable ridiculousness of your measuring Dijkstra's contributions by the amount of code written. He pioneered, defined and established great many aspects of the Computing Science field when it was still in its infancy. Here is a non-exhaustive list (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra and other sources)

1) He designed/described an ISA/Assembly Language to interface with one of the first Computers ever built (his PhD thesis named "Communication with an Automatic Computer").

2) He designed/wrote/headed one of the first OS ever written "THE multiprogramming system" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THE_multiprogramming_system

3) He designed/co-wrote one of the very first Algol 60 compilers named the "Dijkstra-Zonneveld Algol 60 compiler" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_60

4) Instrumental in establishing "Structured Programming" constructs in language design itself which we all take for granted today.

5) Instrumental in establishing Mathematical Rigour to Computer Programming via Mathematical Logic/Predicate Calculus akin to the writing of Mathematical Proofs to show "Correctness by Design and Construction". The importance of this cannot be overstated.

6) Instrumental in establishing aspects of Concurrent Programming (eg. CSP), Synchronization (eg. Mutex, Semaphores) etc.

7) Instrumental in devising several non-trivial algorithms for both "normal" vs. Concurrent programs eg. Shortest-Path, Dining Philosophers etc.

As you should now be able to appreciate, Dijkstra did write a lot many "Programs" (in addition to other writings) all of which were path-breaking which few can claim about their own life's work.

PS: https://inference-review.com/article/the-man-who-carried-com...
Yeah well, good old XML already had this handled through XML namespaces.
What do you mean? It's added because that's what happened. You'll also find lots of articles if you google "company spokesperson said". It's far from meaningless when there's no response.
I use it often. It’s great for a few scenarios:

- all the TVs in the house are taken

- you want privacy. This is more for dorm rooms

- you want to watch something with your family or friends who live far away. This is way better than zoom or facetime

- you want something that’s the size of a 500 in screen or larger

- you want to watch something in 3D. 3D movies never worked for me until VR and the Big Screen app
Of course he's happy. He was able to rape a child and force her to marry him. Can't say if his wife's as big of a fan of that situation though.

https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/child-sexual-abuse-amish
It should also be noted that they just fixed the train tracks and just covered up the spill, instead of doing a proper cleanup.
Sure man it can say what it wants its just BingChat, anyone who's opinion I actually respect can't have their worldview altered by a collection of tensor GPU's.

increasingly as influence and MKultra esque government and social media programs continue to rollout, it is becoming blatantly obvious who is easily influenced and who is not. Which is exhausting, it shows just how few people really have any autonomy at all.
so United wanted the full(er) inspection to be done at United O'Hare Maintenance Facility, got it.
> It's not conservatives who are pushing this issue;

This is a flat denial of reality over the last few years.
Generally for more complex systems, an improbable failure mode becomes a certitude.

In general, in C/C++ one needs to accept many popular libraries slowly leak memory, bad design fragments memory, and thread-safe is often not the norm. However, for long running tasks there are several methods to mitigate the problems.

1. Add a watchdog-timer thread that garbage collects its peer even in a single process thread-unsafe program. The design requires every thread has a sleeping watchdog-timer monitor peer with a shared structure containing a mutex, peer thread ID, counter variable, periodic polling sleep interval, and error message handler. This means for n threads, there will always be 2*n +1 threads allocated, and n+1 sleeping most of the cycles (low lock contention). The watchdog timer is reset before entering a loop, or key data access/mutation operations. i.e. if there is a cycle formed in the thread(s) that locks up, than >1 watchdog timer threads is guaranteed to trip the timeout event as it breaks the expected run-time limit.

2. set transaction call quota limits, and cleanly restart a new instance of a program at regular intervals. Even with ECC ram this is highly recommended.

3. external queuing pattern with transaction confirmation, timeouts, thumb-printing, and GUID. i.e. when data is corrupted/hanged, the system redirects the task to an error handler/counter.

Happy computing, =)
Of course, but why work for someone else, especially a huge corp, if your good enough?
> Over a thousand trains derail every year

How many of them require a controlled burn of its content that forces nearby citizens to evacuate?

> We have superfund sites under millions of Americans

How many of them are a result of a derailed train?

Yes, separately those events aren't novel. Their intersection is.
The EPA is releasing sampled air data here:

https://response.epa.gov/site/site_profile.aspx?site_id=1593...

You can request air sampling, they have contact information on that site.
If trained on material with an always-war-first agenda why wouldn't it have an always-war-first agenda?
Use a different and more responsive email provider, a provider that provides human contacts!
> Famed critic of cultural and national sovereignty?

I think you got him wrong, he was in fact a supporter of national sovereignty (also see his NATO-related policies). I got that quote from a transcript of a discussion he had with Ceausescu (I'm from Romania myself), during his last visit outside of France as a president (in May '68).

He also did take some risks regarding his personal safety when it came to the sovereign future of Algeria. Granted, what his henchmen did in connection to Africa was definitely not ok (I'm right now reading a book about Foccart), but unfortunately that was par for the course for the big powers back then.
One of your premises is that NAFTA isn't a free trade agreement. How do you square that premise with this quote from Wikipedia about NAFTA: "Passage of NAFTA resulted in the elimination or reduction of barriers to trade and investment between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico."?

Do you disagree with this quote? And if not, then what is your definition of free trade?
So, it will be easier for kids to have access to even more hardcore porn from websites that won't care complying with that law. Felicitations.
> he was in fact a supporter of national sovereignty

Whom you’re mirroring to argue Japan should submit to Beijing.
Trademarks and copyright are different things. As long as the owner of a trademarks keeps defending it, the trademarks will remain valid.

This implies that unless MIT wants to lose their trademark, they must defend it, ie going after things like this.

And MIT is pretty clear on their willingness to defend their trademarks; https://policies.mit.edu/policies-procedures/120-relations-p...
> Corollary 1. Who can, and sometimes does, un-rot the fish from the bottom? An insane employee. Someone who finds the forks, crashes, etc. a personal offense, and will repeatedly risk annoying management by fighting to stop these things. Especially someone who spends their own political capital,

Myself, I recognise myself here. And I'm trying my best to find my sanity.

Anyone got any stories of themselves or others being insane? How did it pan out?
What are you talking about? No a teenager is not 5. And five year olds don't get their own phone and internet access until 21:30.
Mike Row has been touting this philosphy for quite some time now: Don't Pursue Your Passion. Chase Opportunity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KF0AN4H3U8
One thing you don't need to be blind to do is to learn how to walk down a hallway with your eyes closed. First, walk past an open door, in each direction, with your eyes closed, and you'll learn how to recognize the sound of an open door. Then do it with a closed doorway, as long as the doorways are recessed a little like they are in a hotel. You'll then be able to identify the sound of an closed doorway. Finally you can practice walking down the hallway with your eyes closed... you can definitely hear yourself getting too close to one side or the other and you will be able to walk an entire hallway with your eyes closed.
Along the shores of Africa's Lake Victoria in Kenya roughly 2.9 million years ago, early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever found to butcher hippos and pound plant material, according to new research. The study presents what are likely to be the oldest examples of a hugely important stone-age innovation known to scientists as the Oldowan toolkit, as well as the oldest evidence of hominins consuming very large animals. Excavations at the site, named Nyayanga and located on the Homa Peninsula in western Kenya, also produced a pair of massive molars belonging to the human species' close evolutionary relative Paranthropus. The teeth are the oldest fossilized Paranthropus remains yet found, and their presence at a site loaded with stone tools raises intriguing questions about which human ancestor made those tools.
You're right, I was a bit harsh by disregarding the current use of frameworks. There're huge upsides to them. They still hide stuff, some do it well, some not so. Electric gives me the (unproven) vibe of hiding the lower layers a bit too well.

Regarding the causes of many bugs, your guess is as good as mine. You'll continue to have bugs and you'll have to continue looking under the covers to understand them.
I'm not sure I follow what level the EEE plays on. I think if anything, Windows has a serious issue of long-term viability because of the dominance of the browser in modern desktop applications. The browser has succeeded in opening the walled gardens of OS makers, and there is really no reason for most apps to be running on a specific OS, or even for most apps to have an installation. (I know, HN is probably averse to this, but for most users this is really the truth).

Your OS is basically a gateway into the internet, the days of win32 are gone, and now Windows leans into that bundling Webview2 into win11, so that your electron-like apps won't have to be so bloated, and so slow.

I think this move is in the same direction: Windows admitting defeat in the developer space and trying to become the gateway to linux to avoid being obsolete. WSL is kind of the inverse of EEE from the perspective of Windows.

So what about directX specifically? Maybe I'm missing something but I doubt there will be a future where Linux loses much from this:

If you start building an app now, would you build it on Linux but then link to DX12 WITHOUT also having vulkan support for native linux? Not really, you would just build it on windows completely.

If you have a Linux app now, and you include DX12 support, would you transition to windows? Not really, your entire app depends on the linux standard libs, and you can now have windows support through wsl anyway.

If you're doing some scientific computing or ML would you now do it on windows against DX12 from Linux? Ultimately you won't deploy on WSL in the cloud, I hope. Why make your dev/prod so different?

I think what Windows could be doing here is moving to become the best linux distro in 20 years. I think ultimately thats a good thing. Imagine Windows is just Linux with a proprietary desktop shell around it, and everyone uses it for their daily use. That just means that Linux adoption is much greater, and porting apps to linux from windows is already 90% done because they share a backend. I think Microsoft may realise the best way to make money is to not have to maintain an entire OS in the first place.

Basically that would mean OSes become like the car market: no matter what you buy, it looks a bit different, but you get kind of the same thing under the hood. And that thing would be linux.

It may mean that Desktop Linux will never make it, but I'm not so sure. Those 2.5% marketshare are not people who are easily sold to Windows, and will see it as an inferior Linux anyway.
The best thing to come from WWII was the definitive proof that the Axis/Nazi ethos was wrong. National/racial struggle through military might does not determine history. The idea that might can make right in the modern world turned out to be false; it was an exceptional species of hubris. Engaging in that belief now as China or Russia are doing is equally self-defeating. Japan's success is a testimony to the fact that rejection of a warlike nationalist belief system confers more economic power than hanging onto a self-destructive one.
I’ve long heard that there are five basic tastes that the human tongue can detect: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami. I find the umami (savory) category of dishes to be the most flavorful but I can’t always put flavors into these distinct categories. If taste is musical notation, maybe there are more root notes than just five, or spices create major and minor chords.
I use my middle mouse so much that I have it bound to a side button for easier use.
This sounds like me, only I'm 10 years past 28. How did you get diagnosed?
Let's stop calling it “AI” and call it out-of-control software. The implications should be obvious.
The court documents on that case are publicly available if you're willing to look for them (and can read Russian). I haven't read everything, but I didn't see anything contradicting his side of the story.
To add, more and more of these "core business functions" had to be invented; nowadays you can get everything - from data persistence to push notifications to spinning up servers worldwide - set up in a short amount of time as long as you have a credit card.

I'm pretty sure now that most businesses / tech companies are glued components with a core idea and a lot of marketing attached to it.
But won't support for declarative shadow DOM solve the web components without JS problem ? I mean, maybe I am wrong, but with this and CSS, it looks as if we can gave custom elements in our HTML without any JS!
Ford will spend $3.5B to build lithium iron phosphate battery plant
I think there's no shortage of interesting and useful information on the internet. There's just a new challenge of filtering out the new source of background noise.
Nah Bing is just more woke than the rest of you -- this is the correct answer.
From my experience, only WMR had really terrible inside out tracking where it would make the value proposition of lighthouses obvious. Quest inside out tracking is good though.

The main advantage light houses offer is that it makes full body tracking possible, assuming people are willing to pay for 2-3 extra trackers AND more developers start supporting it. As of right now, I am only aware of 3-5 games and apps that support full body tracking.
Seymour Hersh – Why Substack?
> Kevin Liu convinced Bing Chat (AKA "Sydney") to divulge its initial instructions, were written by OpenAI or Microsoft.

I hate this so much. They are feeding into the whole hysteria of these things being actually smart. Why didn't people lose their shit a few years back about the whole "King - Man + Woman = Queen"? It's literally the same thing (tokenizers, embeddings and math), only at a bigger scale.
Twitter is just showing everyone all of Elon’s tweets now
> You get redirected to a page with allegations of "suspicious activity" and are presented with endless CAPTCHAs.

I always took a bit of pride when that happened. Having google think that the searches are as systematic as what a computer would generate is high praise.
Same here, though it's giving an incorrect number (650m) for pluto, apparently sourced from a now deleted page at https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_kingdom_of_pluto.
Since when has the Pentagon access to Russia's nuclear program accounting information?

Furthermore there are claims that ~100 Soviet-era "suitcase nukes" had been handed off (and cannot now be accounted for) to now-defunct USSR republics, some now became failed states, and have been drifting "in the wind" for decades.

"Lebed Says Russia Has Lost Track of 100 Nuclear Bombs"

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-09-mn-30448...
This appears to be a hidden Flint reference, so I must point out Flint's water was fixed in 2019 and people have yet to stop trying to claim it's still bad.
I wonder how this will develop, once people start replacing SEO with AI-Optimization, and are intentionally building websites to basically manipulate the AI results...
How exactly would FHE work here?
I have no idea what will happen, but it sort of sounded like (from the limited reporting that's been done) they'll focus a bit more on managers / non-ICs this time -- if it happens at all.

It is kind of nasty to think about the timing though. If true, they kept those managers around to do the very undesirable and time-consuming performance cycle (yearly review) work and will be letting them go now that the process has concluded.
It also doesn't work for GDPR as legally encrypted personal information is still personal information. Just because you can't decode it today doesn't mean that you won't be able to decode it tomorrow (via key leak, quantum etc etc).
Maybe it's just not widely publicised? ;)
And even when all the facts are obtainable, you have to choose to present some and not others, since it’s not possible to report every true fact in the world. Which facts you find important, interesting, or worthy of publication is heavily influenced by your views.
What is more interesting for me, is why anyone is surprised that an algorithm based on choosing a statistically probably combination of words, trained with whatever random crap appears on the internet, happens to choose some combination that makes grammatical sense, but doesn't match reality.
Why would anyone want to pretend they've watched GaoGaiGar?????????
Could someone who understands the similar blurring of lines between client and server in the F# world, through Fable or more broadly in Blazor/Bolero, comment on how this approach compares?
I'm all for everybody doing sports, and I can see massive advantages in integrating it with school life. My teenager refuses to do any sports or other extracurricular activities other than gaming and D&D, so he only gets the regular couple of hours of PE at school. I'd love it if I could get him to do more than that.

But training every day sounds a bit much. As far as I know, even youth football clubs around here only train 2 or 3 evenings a week. Maybe more if you've got a shot at going professional? I've heard of fanatical swimmers swimming every morning before school, but those are exceptions. I did martial arts, and that was just once a week.
Engineers should know centralized systems do not work. There is a place for trade, but absolute reliance on Russian gas or Chinese goods creates a single point of failure. There has to be an option to fall back to local sources of goods quickly, or every country becomes a single point of failure.
We're running our service on top of Hetzner's root servers. Opening a second region in Europe soon and plans for the US later this year.
Gentoo also has a ton of historical rot, something users have been trying to solve for a while https://bugs.gentoo.org/834712
Except that would miss that it’s already been helpful to me and many other people and that would trivialize it
Meanwhile all the script kiddies on this forum: "ChatGPT go brrrrr"

I am growing more and more bitter everyday by how many of us are rushing to build a deader Internet.

Every "Show HN: I have made ChatGPT even easier to use" is a stark reminder that either I am growing old and pessimistic, or for the first time in my career I am disgusted at the direction software engineering is going. Appalled by the lack of ethics and long term philosophical concern of what we are doing with AI.

I just see reckless software engineers happily playing with something they do not understand. Where is the AI equivalent of Oppenheimer's "I have become Death, destroyer of worlds," uttered because of his research on world-changing and world-destroying technology?

I am afraid I will have to separate computers from the idea of the Internet at large to keep enjoying this career: I love programming and computers, but the internet and social media are on the way to become a net negative to humanity in my eyes.
Just wind down your window and you'll be alright
I hate the word spicy in the english language. It can mean a number of completely different things:

- High in capsacin

- Creating some sort of pain or funny sensation when consumed

- Containing "spices" depending on which definition you use

- Being strongly seasoned/flavourful

- Tasting good
This issue with going this route is that smart phones are about to lose a physical connection port. At least the Apple ones will be first, but more will follow.
Today I asked chatgpt for some legal citations to cases involving title vii.

It gave me two cases. The first case was exactly the opposite of what it had claimed. The second case had literally nothing to do with title vii or anything involving the question I asked.

So not only was it wrong, but in using two cases that actually existed, it was maliciously wrong. Not just misinformation but disinformation.

This and other errors lead me to require chatgpt two become at least two orders of magnitude more accurate. And a huge announcement on how it will no longer make up false citations.

I, a dummy, should not be able to falsify an AI with the simplest (classic) google search.
If the agreement eliminated and reduced some barriers, yet also put in place new barriers, then the quote is still true and the result isn't necessarily free trade (as it is commonly understood).
Why they love Free Software
So everything is crammed into 3 or 4 intensive months, and nothing the rest of the year? That seems less insane but more imbalanced. Over here I think it's all year round, except for a stop in winter for outdoor sports (sometimes filled in by an indoor variant), and during summer vacation.
https://archive.md/cIzJw
I would suggest trying AR glasses rather than VR headsets. I work on the go on Nreal Air glasses (basically a Full HD monitor in glasses form) over Samsung DeX and VNC. My phone turns into a track pad and I carry a small keyboard.
The current rumor with the Apple headset is that it will be standalone and Apple will sell it at cost at $3000. It will run on an M chip though so they can justify it. No controllers needed.

Supposedly, Ive’s last decision was to kill the puck or hub which is why Apple’s headset is shipping so late, but the new rumors dispute that
This is diametrically opposed to what people are protesting on the streets. An overreach in policing and state power abuse and there little to no venues of recourse for false indictments.

Let us criminalize computer gamers... This is just insane and cloistered. Sorry that I fail to come up with less vulgar words, but otherwise I am quite speechless about these proposal. Exactly the overzealous behavior many predicted gamers needed to endure when they use services like always online Ubisoft DRM.