skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working as a professional software developer has probably made me an insufferable cynic. But the top 3 projects on Github all look like superficial soon-to-be abondonware to me. Looks fantastic on a resume. But if you need a prompt in your Node CLI just implement it. It's not that hard. Don't pull in another node dependency for this one simple use case in your application.
To be clear the letter doesn’t say that the US should support proprietary ISAs, in fact it doesn’t even say US persons cannot work with someone in China on RISC-V (or other open architectures). They are suggesting that for a US person to work with a person or institution in China, they must first seek a license from the Dept. of Commerce.

This would be like if in 2005 the US said that if you wanted to accept patches from China, for Linux, you needed their approval to do so.

This doesn’t make it good policy though. Our allies will be stuck in the crossfire and basically have to choose between Chinese RISC-V or US RISC-V. US export controls are very far reaching and apply to re-transfers, which requires a sustained administrative infrastructure to avoid violating. As a result European satellites and space hardware for example completely avoid using US parts to derisk compliance. What export licenses will ultimately do is isolate the US.
Someone, say Google, will index them thus make them discoverable?
It definitely hasn't, JavaScript doesn't even have named arguments.
Charging doesn't mean infrastructure like roads, bridges. If there is a building, it already has electricity. Running a cable from the building to parking lot (10s of feet) is not really that complicated. Also most countries are on 220V/240V standard, a regular outlet works perfectly fine.
The goal posts have been moved. And will continue to move.
I love the phrase "limited positive knowledge transfer between software programming languages like C++ and hardware descriptive languages such as Verilog."

Maybe someday the LLM's will just read the spec and come up with new designs for which they have no examples!
How sure are you they are incompetent vs. just not giving any fucks/disconnected from the job and there to get paid (it's objective one after all!)

This seems a little inconsistent to me.

Is it really their fault if the industry says they are qualified and gives them a job when they are incompetent?
Are these hard to swallow? It feels like the author is pushing a particular tone when stating facts (with maybe a couple debatable points) that any software engineer would agree with.
In this case it's more about a particular point of view being forcibly pushed onto everyone else by decree, with no dissent allowed.
That's effectively what ads are, but without the blockchain part of it.
Yikes. Well, I feel better now. Guess that's why they discontinued it.
There is this Dutch company called Blendle that started out with this idea, the NY times even invested in it. But unfortunately it was not a viable model, so they switched to a all you can consume type of subscription like every other platform
What impact does certification have on the safety of the resulting systems?

Is this one of those standards which involve a lot of questionnaires and box-ticking, but has negligible effect on the bug-free-ness of the resulting software?
thanks. there's plenty pro-constructivism in my humanist-marxist circles. They are either openly hypocrites or too young still (like utilitarianism, it is a good thing if possible after all)

But yeah, if you don't still agree it is fringe, and still think so after reading the only link on my comment, then you might as well downvote me. But that is one i'd take gladly.

it is just an intro though. my point is that they are posting several academic articles on that one wikipedia which hunt "succcess" story. and somehow i've seen all of them on the front page here.
I recommend reading the eff.org article linked above. It states: "Article 45 forbids browsers from enforcing modern security requirements on certain CAs without the approval of an EU member government. Which CAs? Specifically the CAs that were appointed by the government, which in some cases will be owned or operated by that selfsame government." and: "The current text of Article 45 requires that browsers trust CAs appointed by governments, and prohibits browsers from enforcing any security requirements on those CAs beyond what is approved by ETSI. In other words, it sets an upper bar on how much security browsers can require of CAs" and: "This upper bar on security may even ban browsers from enforcing Certificate Transparency"

If you can't connect the dots and understand why people are upset, I can't help you.
A Handful of Quick Accessibility Tips for Devs with a Cats and Coffee Theme
Remember: the doctors working at insurance companies do not need to have a license to practice medicine to do so. In fact an orthopedic surgeon had to fight a denied authorization from a guy who lost his license for surgery for life because he installed a hip backwards!
Coding with accessibility in mind can be intimidating if you're not familiar with the needs of disabled, neurodiverse, Deaf/deaf, and hard of hearing users. Yet, it's an essential skill to be both legally compliant, and to have easy to read and maintain code.

Here are five tips to get you started in making your sites accessible for users and learning how to implement the basics of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Each tip has a template so you can easily cut, paste, and adjust to fit your projects, and a cats and coffee example so you can see how the tip works in an app.
Facebook does not comply with the GDPR in total impunity, thanks to the corrupt/incompetent Irish DPA: https://web.archive.org/web/20230527122955/https://ruben.ver...
And government protections / mandates toward that end or masquerading as being toward that end
Major outages across ChatGPT and API
I have a MyQ door opener (and home assistant)

This is bullshit. Their app is bloatware that they use to try to push additional services like Amazon home delivery etc. I mean it’s just a button, that’s all it needs to do.

I’m going to replace it with one of the recommended devices. This is such an overt money grab.
A path to some desired state requires an incentive and a reduction of friction (like cost). Absent those things, you will get nowhere.
Think of the numbers of tik-tok, youtube, facebook, instagram, snapchat, and all those Social media users.
All these users are "normal" people nowadays. Maybe the effects habits of the minorities on the trajectories of "The Internet" are diminished.

(Just thoughts. Not based on anything other my opinions)
>They never technically allowed it in the first place.

You own the device, they can fuck off with "allowed".
>or Mastodon and post a bit.

Yet when I open the explore page on Mastodon I still see the same shit: politics. https://mastodon.social/explore

It's almost as if the whole point of Mastodon wasn't anything more than just to be another echo chamber. But hey no bad guys from "the other side" so guess we good.

HN is still the best. We need more HN not Twitter or Mastodon.
Sounds like bait and switch to me, which is illegal.

You can report this action to the ftc https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/
Apple's Swift Student Challenge to open in 2024 with new category
GDB Advanced Techniques: Expanding Functionality with Custom Function Execution
GDB is the go-to tool for debugging and troubleshooting low-level applications such as C++.

Sometimes all you need simple break at some specific point and print a variable to inspect its value. Other times you need to go even further and loop through some memory structure such as a list.
Where I've seen this problem to be the most acute, it's not because of organizational disconnect -- it's the lack of domain knowledge on the part of the programmers.

Medical software, for example, is ripe with examples of how programmers are completely clueless about clinical applications and implications of whatever they are doing. There's probably no other field where programming was misapplied as often and failed in such hilarious (and devastating) ways. For example, there's a lot of programming happening around various imaging modalities. Often you'd hear about programs that do X better than a radiologist. Only to discover that the programmers who wrote the program had no idea what radiologist was even doing.

Just at the start of COVID pandemic there were countless programs written to identify the virus in chest X-rays. A lot claimed success... while the clinical truth is that X-rays on their own cannot tell you if a patient has COVID, it's indistinguishable form pneumonia or a bunch of other things. The diagnosis must be made using labwork. Sometimes it's possible to be moderately confident relying on both X-ray and presentation, but not judging by X-ray alone.

Similarly, I had a chance to work on complicated budgeting and banking software. It was a joke how nobody knew what the hell the program was supposed to do and how the QA were driven up the wall by not being able to get reliable information from the partners about how certain aspects of the program should perform. Forget the developers, who'd at best got a written spec for their tiny fraction of the product and had no idea how it fits into the larger picture or what exactly it's supposed to do.

Sadly, a lot of programmers have this unwarranted confidence that they just need to read the problem description and they'll be able to program a solution for it. For complex problems that require a lot of expertise this, at best, results in solutions that are extremely convoluted and painful to use for the end user.
Also the name of the island where the dragons live in Ursula Leguin’s books. (Written Selidor)
I would love that. just a tip jar button on my browser that I load up with a few bucks every month, and send to websites or commenters who made me laugh or got me thinking. Streamers have proven (albeit crudely) that viewers are more than willing to part with their money (if they have it). And I'm not just hinting at salacious young women (who probably receive the bulk of the dollar value). There's a streamer team who broadcast live at LAX and other airports and get excited about the various air traffic. It's fun watching their dedication and passion, their broadcasting skills grow, and how happy they are to do what they enjoy. I've donated probably $200-$300 over the years to them.
Most artwork will never be seen. There is too much.
> SEO, content farms and click mills are the things ruining the internet.

Right, so how do we fix it? I'm wondering if uBlacklist has a place here (a tool to block domains from search results) -- it would be interesting to see if we could all come together and contribute to a database of SEO farm / junk websites to improve search results.
Show HN: Ambiphone, an ambient music and sound mixer
Hi everyone,

I've built a minimalist sound mixer that lets you combine music and sounds to create ambient soundscapes. I've found it really helpful for concentration. It's free and web-based (installable PWA coming soon)

There's a pretty big selection of sounds already but I'd love to hear any suggestions of sounds you'd like to be included.
Wow, hat is a new development - it had always been left as a "safety valve" to let tourists access from that unchallenging part of the network... But yes, the low gallery goes all along the Petite Ceinture tunnel, only a brick layer away !
There was absolutely nothing "collective" about the early web. 180-degrees the opposite. You're not going to recapture that ethos, either for the overall Internet or even for a smaller interested subculture within in, by making it NPR. It would be something else, and likely not any better than the corporate walled garden.
We had per-use systems. I remember when people would pay multiple £ for one (1) phone ringtone. I think Minitel may have been per-use metered as well? Either way, both were obliterated by the massive benefit of not paying per use.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders of Ferrous Systems

To some extend I agree, but from our conversations with OEMs, Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers we do see a significant interest in moving to rust, much more than moving to a new C/C++ version.

The reasoning is that moving to a new C/C++ version is an incremental change, but moving to rust signifies a jump to a different tech level (let's set aside whether that's true on a technical level or not, I'm talking about perception). One of the signifiers is that we were able to qualify the rust language as it exists, with no such restrictions such as Misra C etc. So no "reduce use of pointers" etc.

The other things that's helping is regulatory pressure. The CISA, DARPA etc are all advocating strongly in favor of moving to memory safe languages, and for the chunk of the market that used C/C++ before, rust is a pretty good offering there: It binds to C both ways, that means not only can you call C code from rust, but also the other way round - you can build a component in rust and integrate it in your existing firmware. That's a rare capability.

Chipset and ecosystem support are IMO the biggest hurdles at the moment, but with Ferrocene as a qualified compiler, at least that one bar is removed. It's still a long way to go and a lot of work ahead of us :).
> Reality is that the software industrialization (which happened after 2000 I believe?) didn't give a damn about those nerds or 10x engineers or whatever

That's only true for 95% of companies, not 100% of them. But if you're really in the 5th percentile, you shouldn't care about these 95% anyway. I've been lucky to experience software companies that really care about exceptional engineers (and have proper business incentives to do so), and it truly has been the best place to work at as a software engineer.
> I'm curious to understand, on your view, what would be more effective measures?

If you absolutely wanted action, investing in US based RISC-V chips would maintain US leading edge capacity in the space.

However, arguably no action is one of the most effective options. Quite a bit of RISC-V leadership is already based (or has one foot in) the US. Between Tenstorrent via Jim Keller, Ventana, and Rivos, the leading edge designs are US based. Cutting them off from the works convinces the rest of the world to invest even harder to these American companies. Protectionism here kneecaps these US companies and creates more competitors to them.
Well you can selfhost if you feel like it in such situation, otherwise you can rely on the good will of good folks to do the tough job for you :)
"...the detector examines 20 features of writing style, including variation in sentence lengths, and the frequency of certain words and punctuation marks, to determine whether an academic scientist or ChatGPT wrote a piece of text."

You could use a simple text-difficulty feature of many word processors to get similar stats. Not very sophisticated.

I expect the 'AI Wars' will get hotter (AI used to detect/defeat AI) but for now, pretty lukewarm.
Would you like Wikipedia to claim something that is objectively false like your doctor or parents or "society" tell you what gender you are and your thoughts on it don't matter?

Maybe if you give an example of what issue you have seen?
Frequentist statistics underplaying pandemic's education impact
Wikipedia policy mandating that this man be described as a woman is bringing gender identity politics into it.
It's worked for me, but the key word I think was "modest" house.
Yes, that was an egregious example. I think they skirted that one through because that doctor still had a medical license, but not one for surgery? Which, whoever wrote the rules or even just hired him, should have prevented him from being able to be in that position.
I have the MyQ app (iOS).

I don't mind it at all. App works, fairly fast, the stupid extra stuff is just a chunk of the screen I can ignore / don't have to do / interact with.

I don't approve of the API situation but the app itself doesn't feel particularly bad.
Wait. People bought and installed garage doors that need to talk to the Internet to work? People on here did this?
Something like that could work well with NPCs but would most likely introduce delay into the controls on the player character.

Basically gameplay beats the animation in this case. On top of this a lot of the time you don't see your characters feet or if you do you are not really focusing on that during gameplay and won't notice them sliding.
Sure. I was only addressing the suggestion that a "base tan" is protective.
In my opinion, a big part of the success of Wikipedia is that it offers its content under a libre/free license (CC-BY-SA). This specifically allows for commercial re-use and re-sale.

The license provides a wide umbrella so that many different people and entities can use the content without worry. Contributions provide a fly-wheel of improvement.

A lot of the current batch of internet companies provide walled gardens and eventually succumb to the trappings of monopolies. In some sense, I think it's survivorship bias. The only entities that stand the test of time are the ones that provide content under libre/free licensing.

While I don't disagree with your list, I think a missing component is access to the commons. Without a rich commons, our society suffers as content sinks into a copyright quagmire.
MyQ has built in integrations for Apple Smart Home and Alexa. I’m assuming in those situations the MyQ app passes state to those services so they don’t have to poll.
That would be AUTOSAR, which is now being integrated into MISRA as well.

https://www.autosar.org/news-events/detail?tx_news_pi1%5Bact...
I don't know either tbh. Discoverability in federated services is indeed their Achilles heel and I don't know nearly enough to suggest a solution to that.
It seems like it would be cool to have a "rustup" variant that used this so it was a smooth setup to get a certified tool chain.

That said, I don't code for such environments so I don't know if they prefer to piece their tools together or if there are other reasons to not bother.
> If only two thirds of GNOME weren't contributed by full-time Red Hat employees

Can you actually confirm that they're actually instructed by Red Hat to do this? Or is there just a large coincidental overlap between GNOME contributors and Red Hat employees?
Lawmakers can be a weapon itself rather than the holder of a weapon.
Using llama-cpp-Python grammars to generate JSON
There's been some recent progress on that front.

Lemmy's surge in popularity over the summer is a big help. People share a lot of links to smaller websites and Fediverse accounts to Lemmy communities. If you're sharing things on a more blog-like system that uses ActivityPub, you can tag an appropriate Lemmy community in your post for increased exposure.

Mastodon has reversed its stance on full-text search, making it generally available in recent releases (though I think it still requires ElasticSearch, which smaller servers and self-hosters may not want to fuss with).
20 years from what to what ? Two cherry picked dates by a science pop star on a YouTube short with that default "big fact background music" during an interview by Joe Looney Rogan

Electric cars predates ICE cars so you're already far off.

And even if you starts at "modern" electric cars that was in the last part of the 90s, more than 20years ago already.
Discovery is the adversarial point which breaks so many idealistic systems. The ability to get discovered is worth real money, from outside the system. So as soon as there's a discovery mechanism with a substantial real audience, effort will be devoted to "hacking" it.
bummer! i had no idea it wasn't just a dumb switch! also super cool that they reverse engineered it. :)
I was really hoping that certification involved some kind of testing to insure that the compiler always produces correct code, though I'm not sure that's even possible. "Always" covers a lot of ground.

It sounds like it's more a "cover your ass" kind of thing. Is there any part of the certification that involves behavior of the tool?
The Swift Student Challenge 2024
What's wrong with Stack Exchange? I'm a Math Stack Exchange user and I think it's absolutely amazing for the knowledge seeker. It's a repository of high quality questions and answers that you're not going to answer yourself. You can instantly access hundreds of the smartest people in the world. You can spend a week thinking about something difficult and frequently get it answered in under an hour, sometimes 10 minutes. It's truly amazing.
>I pause Slack notifications after working hours. I disable them on weekends.

"I go home at the end of the day" -2010
No waitlists.
Or maybe not:

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4423498-berkshire-hathaway-...
Just referring to history of different live adaptation attempts eg. Avatar Last Air Bender, Dragon Ball Z, Attack on Titan, etc... where One Piece was an exception.

I want to say depends how outlandish/how well it's done but a lot of people liked Marvel Avengers so it can be done just hard.
Isn't individual action the only action? The only ones with hands and thoughts are individuals, whether they imagine themselves part of a collective or imagine themselves to be alone.

Yeah sure you may not be able to fix the world yourself, but you can undeniably make it better. Waiting for some grand wave of collective action to arrive and fix the problem seems like it would above all stand in the way of even making an effort and trying.
Open source is the only usage of the word open that really matters when it comes to source code and personal freedom, so yes, it is important to be pedantic about this.
I agree. Although I did throw in futility in my arguments I sent to my MP, my main argument was one of principle: people should be allowed to keep secrets.

Obviously said arguments were not read by said MP and merely dropped into a bucket with all the other adorable little concerns from the public.

The argument posted here is even less likely to convince anyone that matters. It's mostly preaching to the choir.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9SVhg6ZENw
Well, the Commission is elected by the elected governments of the member states. In a similar fashion, many heads of state are voted in by the elected government and not directly. Both procedures can be seen as iffy, but for the EU this was a deliberate compromise to get potential members on board.
I'd second this: self hosting and so on is a poor substitute for democratic, socially owned infrastructure. That's the only way we can make social, rather than corporate, networks accessible to everyone in a sustainable way. At the moment the fediverse gets by on goodwill. That isn't sustainable.
Agreed. Though I think an important point here is that moderation has the potential to be a lot more personal on Fediverse instances, as the ratio between moderators and users is a lot higher than traditional social media outlets (Facebook, Twitter).

Maybe AI has a place in moderation? I've always wondered why it isn't used more; if you give it an adequate training phase (a year?), it may be able to quickly identify and flag malicious content -- of course, you wouldn't want to ban whoever the AI tells you to, just use it as one of the signals for whether content could potentially be harmful.
where do you live? And can you vote directly for your government?
Tell HN: OpenAI ChatGPT and API Services Are Down