skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seeing a lot of it going on in healthcare right now, especially healthcare startups. Wonder how soon regulators will step in and start stomping down on it... it usually takes several years to a decade for any federal rule to be issued so startups may make it through long enough to turn the bag over to someone else.
Thanks for proving my point. Have fun tilting at those windmills. There’s a reason nobody takes you seriously.
And this:

> Thus you see advertising has made possible the great complex papers and magazines of the day with their corps of trained editors, reporters, and advertising writers, in numbers and intellectual calibre comparable with the faculty of a good-sized university. Advertising makes it possible to issue a paper far below the cost of manufacturing — all to the benefit of the consumer. So far as I know there is not an important daily, weekly, or monthly in America that can be manufactured at the selling price. But, on the other hand, with the growth of advertising a department had to be created in every paper for its handling. As advertising still further increased, rival papers competed for it and the professional solicitor became a necessary adjunct of every paper, until now the advertising department is the most important branch of the publication business, for it is the real source of the profits. Because the solicitor seeks the advertiser, and, therefore, is in the position of one asking for favors, he puts himself under obligations to the advertiser, and so in his keenness to bring in revenue for his paper, he is often tempted to ask the aid of the editor in appeasing the advertiser. Thus the advertiser tends to control the policy of the paper.

> And this is the explanation of the condition that confronts most publications to-day. By throwing the preponderating weight of commercialism into the scales of production, advertising is at the present moment by far the greatest menace to the disinterested practice of a profession upon which the diffusion of intelligence most largely depends. If journalism is no longer a profession, but a commercial enterprise, it is due to the growth of advertising, and nothing else.
Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo
I was actively using the app on my phone and it suddenly crashed at 4:10pm PDT. I thought it was just my phone acting up but then I realized that’s about 12am UTC. With the death of Apollo also goes the metaphorical death of all the best parts (IMO) of the internet: open-source, creativity, entrepreneurial spirit. Sad day. I guess I’ll go outside now.

Edit: sorry, Apollo wasn’t open source. That’s what happens when I make a post while two beers deep I guess. Hopefully you get the general spirit of what I was trying to convey.
I see - just like most recipes, the US version has added sugar.
Unfortunately, the Superior Court of Brazil has become very political and has been overreaching its scope in the last few years and that is materially eroding the democratic process.
Yeah, I occasionally follow twitter links to things, but I'm not going to make an account just to see tweets. All this does is make sure I never use it again.
With Cassandra if you wrote at quorum and it was successful and you read at quorum you will get your value back. Where it gets hairy is when a write fails (e.g. only one replica got it) or if writes so close to each other that the clocks are a problem. It is definitely non-trivial to build systems over that but then it's non-trivial to build systems that scale horizontally, and geographically, and are highly available, and can recover from failure, in the first place.

Like the article implies, what tends to happen is people don't understand the guarantees and build software that works except when it doesn't. Then you build on top of that etc.
Rocks are inanimate objects, the police are people
Thank you. I'm thoroughly confused not only by the question, but by the amount of replies treating this as a valid question. Maybe I'm misinterpreting something here...
RSS 0.9 has little to do with what Dave Winer produced subsequently.
This is an interesting way to frame something I've seen stated as "if you don't own the land you don't get to decide what to do with it". I can't say for certain if people would be willing to pay above "market" for more space in all areas, but I think they would in some.

Your comment is not part of this and is thoughtful, but it does touch on the anti-democratic streak present in the YIMBY/urbanist community. At its worst, this attitude is essentially "I know better what is good for this area than the people that live there" which has had disastrous consequences historically
Wow, I never thought of that. It makes perfect sense.
I don't know how to communicate more clearly that there is a contradiction in their claims on the same page.
Indeed. I happen to know this because I use Firefox on a daily basis and have never once been pestered to use one.
isn't lula the good guy?
How long did it take for expertsexchange to finally stop showing in Google results despite being super obnoxious? Yeah you could scroll way to the bottom, but that only worked if you came there direct from Google.
This is kind of a nitpick but caller ID, ANI, E911, and now STIR/SHAKEN are different protocols AFAIK and spoofing them takes different amounts of effort. Unfortunately capitalism turned SS7 into swiss cheese so the effort probably varies from trivial to easy.
It's down for me too, loading aborts due to more than 20 redirects.

Apparently, any kind of access is now deemed adversarial. ;-)
> Brazil is area is 32x bigger than NZ, 42x bigger population.

How is that relevant? Australia is 29x the area of New Zealand and 5x the population; and like New Zealand, it uses paper-based instead of electronic voting. I see no reason why a paper-based process can’t be scaled to work for a country of any size, even one bigger than Brazil.

> We have election results 5h after election ends

A slower but more trustworthy process is superior to a faster but less trustworthy one. Nobody needs results ASAP

> and there is no evidence whatsoever of fraud.

Elections should be held to a higher standard than merely “no positive evidence of fraud”. We should demand everything reasonable has been done to make fraud as hard as possible. I think elections in Australia meet that standard (and probably several other countries too, such as New Zealand and Germany). I think Brazil, and the US, among others, fail it. Their election systems fail to take every reasonable measure to prevent fraud, and hence fraud is inherently more likely - and the absence of any specific evidence does nothing to alter that conclusion. Even in the absence of any specific evidence, claims of fraud are more likely to be true in a system which makes fraud easier
My current AmEx has had chip and contactless for three years or more now. But I wouldn’t want anyone to have to update their priors.
But MDN's "AI Explain" is just straight LLM output, right? It's neither generative (LLMs are transformers, not GANNs, right?) nor rules-based: it's predictive. We need that too. But not for technical documentation! Not on its own!
I think this is mostly consistent in terms of effect. With any application of import attributes that affect the dependency, the dependent module could behave differently for any affected aspect it accesses.

The only inconsistency is that Bun is front loading some of these effects to the server/bundler runtime and effectively memoizing the equivalent behavior before it reaches a client. But it’s not doing that of its own volition, it’s doing it to address an explicit attribute in the source code.

The only way this would be a meaningful problem is if the explicit value has a chance of colliding with either existing code in the ecosystem (highly unlikely, no one is really using this syntax yet except perhaps in an equally experimental context), or some plausible pending standard (unless one was proposed in the last couple weeks, I’m pretty sure I can rule that out too).

I share other commenters’ lament that this is not a true macro solution (and I think it should actually just be renamed to something like comptime). But I don’t think this deserves the deviation-from-standards challenge it’s getting in this thread. And lest I come off as a Bun fanatic, I think I’m one of the people who more frequently questions potential Bun spec deviations when they come up on Twitter.
It just doesn't support some features, and cheats in other areas. (At a quick glance, there's no support for invoke instructions, and the awkward floating-point types makes it go "oh, let's just use long double and hope it's correct for this platform").
Honest question, should services that host user generated content be obligated to provide that content "for free" through APIs or scrapers? On one hand, users created the content "for free" for the platform to use and monetize. On the other hand, providing the content through an API without any ad/monetization potential doesn't make good business sense.

Is there an acceptable threshold of free viewing before it becomes abusive? (Think, getting a single free See's candy from the store vs. employing an army of people to source thousands of pounds of chocolate treats.)

With the Reddit API issue I'm honestly unsure where I stand. I love(d) Apollo and want it to succeed, but Reddit is doing the work and not getting the rewards. Where do you draw the line at "fair"?
>> In fact I don't want to open accounts with anyone

>Then it's not and issue for you, as you probably didn't want to open an account with pocket in first place, right?

Then it's not an issue for you, as you probably didn't want him to want to open an account with pocket in the first place in the first place, right?
Those are typically dealers
> With the death of Apollo also goes the metaphorical death of all the best parts (IMO) of the internet: open-source,

Apollo was Open Source?
this link points to a generic signin page for twitter with no information suggesting it's temporary
The phone (its PCB, PCBA and assembly) is made at the USA facility, in contrast to the regular Librem 5 which is made in China. It uses some components that come from outside of the US.
For this sort of discussion it is important to distinguish between GCC/Clang-C and portable ISO/ANSI C, they are quite different in their range. Thinking of it, looking at the compiler extensions available in clang is probably insightful to see what you might be missing out on if you restrict yourself to portable C only.

As for specific features, for example function and parameter attributes[1][2] generally are not directly accessible in ISO C. You also have bit easier time controlling FP ops[3]; in ISO C they are annoyingly underdefined imho. For integers you have arbitrary width integer types (i42 is valid type in llvm, not expressible in C). For both you also have first-class vector types[4], while ISO C is afaik completely blind to vectorization.

That is just scratching the surface here. C doesn't really map anymore nicely to all the low-level intricacies we have these days like it did in the K&R days.

[1] https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#function-attributes

[2] https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#parameter-attributes

[3] https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#floating-point-environmen...

[4] https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#vector-type
The whole "climate change is a personal responsibility" thing is a fabrication of those corps who are actually doing the damage. That it gets parroted in the media regularly is shameful.

We would like some more options - those that involve pain across the board rather than just targeting the worker drones at the bottom. Like shutting down thermal coal mining and making it an offence. We know already that power generation can be completely handled by renewables as even with our feeble renewable setups we can regularly exceed our power needs.

And get them to put nuclear off the table. It has never been, or ever will, be anything other than a dangerous, stupid and expensive way to make power.
> It would be interesting if the author post in github a feature request for the 3 missing packages that are more painful. (3 is a good numbers to find someone else that care about one of them, more than 3 or 4 would be annoying)

here's a few that come to mind.

1. mumble client

2. CLI framework similar to cobra, click, etc

3. Bot framework similar to Cinch

4. WebRTC

5. off the shelf plugin framework

6. ssh library

7. gopher library (or just libcurl)

8. ntlk (natural language toolkit)

9. file/libmagic clone

10. image manipulation library

11. expect-like library for automation

12. probably more, these came to mind

> I use continuations only as an emergency exit inside nested fors, no fancy stuff. (I agree the fancy stuff is weird.)

Part of the racket web server requires continuations to use - so that's a blocker for anyone wanting to check out the racket web server in its entirety.

If one needs to do anything nontrivial with state, one might end up wanting dynamic-unwind, which means understanding continuations. (Example https://github.com/winny-/umask/blob/master/umask-lib/umask/... )

> I think units/signatures is almost deprecated. It will be there forever to keep backward compatibility, but I expect new code to use modules instead of units.

Can you do plugin architecture without signatures/units?
The video on their website is even more damaging...

Edit: Note, this is NOT a claim about this company, their security, or practices -- just a look at the "Made in USA" label they press heavily

"The integrated circuits can come from outside the united states"

A bit of research seems to indicate that this is a fuzzy system..

> The product’s final assembly or processing must take place in the U.S. The Commission then considers other factors, including how much of the product’s total manufacturing costs can be assigned to U.S. parts and processing, and how far removed any foreign content is from the finished product. [1]

So basically, they could have a foreign made network card, cpu, OS... but if you're making a $10,000 car and the total cost of the foreign assistance is <~$500?, it can still be Made in America while being 100% all logic from foreign sources and highly insecure (as long as the dollar costs work out satisfactory to a commission of people)

You can basically skirt the rules by taking 'assembled in America' another level or two deeper -- like they have. They also do the OS in-states, which they can likely claim is a "huge processing effort" -- which could make the hardware aspects and origin less important in the commissions review

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/plain-language/bu...
I’m using twitter as much as ever, the live content is just too good to pass up, I set up Lists and use it to read only the category I want and you don’t need to follow them. You don’t have to like Elon but the stuff people write(given the right profiles), the concentration of it, isn’t really offered anywhere else.
Comments like these implicitly deny the existence of heavily regulated industries.

When refusal to take cybersecurity seriously results in 1/3 of Americans losing their identity or when refusal to take cybersecurity seriously results in what happened to solarwinds they should be subjected to a regulatory scheme that will enforce seriousness.
See you on obscure irc channels :)
Very different audience TBF. I’d imagine country radio listeners skew far older and more male than Spotify country listeners.
> We as a society have managed to allocate so many of the “best and brightest” to either fintech wankery or placing ads in front of eyeballs.

Those things have driven a load of proprietary and open source tech that helps everyone else.
Very true. But I think that it’s more important to give as broad a cross section of society the chance to succeed, whether they do I guess is not something we can predetermine.
I was wondering about this. If you use clisp, are you getting from its main branch, or another more up to date branch, and if so which branch?
/i need one to record myself a la matrix https://vimeo.com/58286717
> It's a DANGEROUS take.

Dangerous for cops or for people? A gang of SWAT cops overreacted to an incident in my town and got scared to the point of shooting 30 rounds from their rifles in an apartment hallway. The bullets went through the walls of 5 apartments, none of which were the one they were responding to.

> potentially unequipped to handle an actual violent situation

Have you seen a cop lately? Like a regular cop on patrol in a cruiser? They are equipped to handle an actual fucking foreign invasion. And they act accordingly. Aside from running into someone armed with a grenade launched, a regular cop in the US is fully equipped to handle 99% of all violent situations.
That's part of it. The other part is that Dave Winer can't write a proper specification to save his life.
This is a very underspecified question. Achieved in what way / for what purpose? Do you want to target either one as a compilation target? Are you thinking of writing either one directly? What's the aspect you care about? (readability, performance, portability, ...)

Otherwise it's hard to really compare them in any reasonable way. Maybe you have something in mind, but currently the question reads like you don't understand very well what llmv is. (I'd recommend searching / reading on that topic first if that's the case)
Full drug legalization? Carteles profits come mostly from cocaine, fentanyl, and meth.
the "blue" are too often unworthy of being backed, these days.

the number of stories that I read per day about bad police officers is insane.

there are too many people in law enforcement positions because they want authority and power over others.

lately I find myself believing that anyone who desires to be in law enforcement should be forbidden from ever having authority over anyone, in any form.
I worked in a company a few years back where marketing people faked "trust-worthy" software like trust pilot reviews by using everyone phones, or with different IPs.
Nowadays a 4.5 average review is not even that good for a product
No because the user generating the content isn’t a virtue of any sort. They’re just doing free work for a company. If they choose to do that, that’s their choice.

In fact I think this is good. It makes it very clear that no, it’s not your content and no, you don’t deserve any rights just because you feel like you own it. Twitter will do as it pleases with “your” content.

I would very much welcome a far more informed environment where people were forced to face the details of IP rights and what it means to post content on these services.
That's true. But we already have millions of people globally taking long term SSRI medication for depression - many are prescribed it with barely a thought, and little more diagnostic vigour than "oh, they said they're depressed, so here, take these pills for a year".

And in my deep experience of that area, no recreational drug I ever took (which includes quite a few!), had even a shadow of the lasting, foundational changes and effects that SSRIs have. Permanent mood alteration and permanent sexual dysfunction are just two of the common outcomes.

No so-called recreational trip (or series of trips) I ever had, resulted in that kind of monumental systemic effect.
They will squeeze an IQ 145 test score out of an AI long, long, long before they make something like a real IQ 145 human.
purism doesn't have the benefit of the doubt anymore.

in past i rooted for them and assumed everything was innocent mistakes... but receiving their borderline illegal investment scam emails every month and the way they deny librem13/15 quality issues just taught me it is pure malice.
LLVM-IR has low-level features not offered by C, used for compiling other languages.

For instance exception handling (used for C++), operations with checks for overflow (used by both Swift and Rust, I suspect), and arithmetic with integers smaller than an "int" (also, Swift and Rust).

I think LLVM also has explicit support for coroutines and multi-entry functions.

If your language needs any of those features, implementing any of those on top of C could be difficult to get right and would probably not perform as well.
Yeah those numbers clearly are incorrect. It's staggering that they even chose to publish the statistics without drawing the conclusion that their study was flawed. Actually, it makes me wonder if they have a dog in the game somehow, would they want to exaggerate the number of swattings that occur?
Not everything has to be super fast. I was using quantopian to trade based mostly off fundamentals data on a monthly rebalance basis successfully. At least enough to beat the sp500 for a few years- I stopped because I went to a hedge fund that prevented me from trading that frequently and in most small caps. If you want an idea take a look at the piotroski f score and factor based investing. Aqr for example is still largely factor based.
If you think "regulated industries" have great security, I have a bridge to sell you. Regulations are just more checkboxes for most businesses.
I think this line explains what I was facinated by,

"x * y is translated to CPU instructions (x >> 1) * (y - 1) + 1" namely that it now at least 3 extra highlevel operations to do simple multiplication.
Sync is also dead. They just sent out a push notification: "Sync for reddit had shutdown. Thank you for using Sync. It's been one hell of a ride."
On mechanical fail safes, they're sometimes impossible, wildly expensive, or simply less safe. In some devices the safe region is a complex polytope defined over a dozen degrees of freedom and may not even be static.

Perhaps for cases where someone will literally be squished when it fails you can draw a bright line rule, but you can turn the safety requirements down some-- instead of being crushed they might just lose a finger, or a million dollar float glass batch will be lost. At some point the risk isn't worth the elaborate hardware failsafe and software will be all you've got. There really isn't a safe threshold in any case: maybe it's just a word processor but its failure costs someone days of work and leads to their suicide. Software reliability matters.

Panicing on exceptional situations is often only slightly more acceptable than crashing or corrupting in other ways (and sometimes less, commonly the corruption is inconsequential).

> caring about errors is more trouble in C

That hasn't matched my experience. YMMV I guess. It's my experience that it's the exception rather than the rule that rust programs won't just panic instead of handling errors sensibly, in particularly because wrapping types to express failure and explicitly handling it along with all the required lifetime management adds a lot of complexity.
It was a joy to read this. Very well said!

Your comment gave me one of those funny moments where you realise something that should have been obvious but you never saw it being done, or heard about it being done, and simply never thought of it...

You can just rip the adverts out of magazines. I shall be indulging in this on the rare occasions that I end up reading something of that sort when I'm out and about. Cheers.
OK, but the flip side of this is: why would you ever opt for cast iron over carbon steel? There are reasons --- cast iron retains heat better (though both retain heat better than all other cookware, and the reason cast iron retains more heat is that it's stupid heavy). But most things people use cast iron for in cooking, they should be using carbon steel for (or enamelware) instead. It's just way better.

Pushing back on 'DannyBee though: the narrative about cast iron vs. nonstick is easy to understand: nonstick pans are shitty, expensive, and overused; lots of people cook in nonstick exclusively (:scream-emoji:) and don't realize their pans have been worthless for years because the coating is all scuffed up. It's not a health thing so much as a "nonstick pans are evil" thing.
good time to post other ones like:

http://bash.org/?244321