skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI leadership seems existential to being a top data management company and providing top data management capabilities:

* Databricks data management innovations, now that basics are in, are half on the AI side, like adding vector & LLM indexing for any data stored in it, moving their data catalog to be LLM-driven, adding genAI interfaces to accessing data stored in it, ...

* Data pipelines spanning ingestion, correction, wrangling, indexing, integration, and feature & model management, and especially of the tricky unstructured text, photo, and video nature, and wide nature of event/log/transaction recordings important to a lot of the government, are all moving or have already moved to AI. Whether it is monitoring video, investigating satellite photos, mining social media & news, entity resolution & linking on documents & logs, linking datasets, or OCR+translation of foreign documents, these are all about the intelligence tier. Tools like ontology management and knowledge graphs are especially being reset due to the ability of modern LLMs to drastically improve their quality and improve their scalability & usability through automation.

* Data protection has long been layering on AI methods for alerting (UEBA, ...), classification, policy synthesis, configuration management, ...

Databricks is a pretty good example of a company here. They don't preconfigure government datasets on the governments behalf and sell that back to them, but we do see architects using it as a way to build their own data platforms, and especially for AI-era workloads. Likewise, they have grown an ecosystem of data management providers on top vs single-sourcing, eg, it's been cool to see Altana bring supply chain data as basically a Databricks implementation. For core parts, Databricks keeps adding more of the data management stack to their system, such as examining how a high-grade entity resolution pipeline would break down between their stack and ecosystem providers.
Is there a comparison with tig anywhere? Spose I should just download it myself and give it a go.
I actually detest meters in cars and wish they would all be abolished in favor of number displays.

No, I don't find the speedometer with a needle vaguely pointing somewhere easier/faster to read than a simple readout that says 40mph or whatever my speed is. No, I don't find the fuel gauge easier/faster to read, just give me that in percentage numbers.

Of course, I know why meters are the go-to in car dashboard indicators: Cars hail from an era when we didn't have an easy way of dynamically printing numbers on a slab of metal or plastic yet.

But we're in the 21st century. LCD screens are everywhere around us. Just give me the fucking numbers, I can read them faster than I can discern your arbitrary needles and scratch lines.

And just so I'm clear in my consistency: I also hate gauges and pie charts for HDD/SSD space usage, CPU usage, RAM usage, and so on. If it can be expressed in numbers, give me the numbers. I can read them faster than I can discern arbitrary squiggles screaming across other arbitrary squiggles.

Gauges and meters are strictly for when displaying dynamic numbers is impractical or impossible.
If you ever think downvotes means anything, remember that any criticism of pornography or a simple fact of saying "C is unsafe" gets downvoted into oblivion here.
I kind of think of computer microarchitecure as a factory, as in factorio (Which I admit I have not played, because I've been warned against it)

There's instruction stream streams into L3, L2, L1 caches from DRAM, PCIE, DMA

then there's multiple cores and they each have register files, they shuffle numbers between registers and the caches.

There's reordering going on, there's parallelisation going on, lots of conveyor belts.

It's all so complicated factory.
Richard Garriott was clearly a genius world builder at least when he was younger. Alas, we all grow old...
Pharo has this [0].

[0] https://pharo.org/features
whenever copyright comes up a bunch of engineers come up with suggestions for fixing copyright that seem to be based on the idea that every country has the same theory of copyright as the U.S.

Well I would suggest that the best fix for copyright would be to bring international Non-US standards in line with U.S or some sort of compromise between the two. The main problem I find with copyright is seeing something is in the public domain but later on realizing no, it's in the public domain in the U.S because it was made in 1926 but since the creator died in 1970 it won't really be truly public domain (excusing some potential weird little countries with unlimited copyright) until 2040.
That’s what made it easier for me. I would be that drive-by user in discord or searching for “Good First Issue” without even being remotely interested in the project. Now I try to focus on using it first. It was mostly an ego thing I had to move past
The C preprocessor is hilariously underspecified in the standard, so implementing the standard doesn't guarantee that you'll be able to handle real-world C programs (even ones that don't use GNU or clang extensions).
For the theoretical background, see Ronald Coase on Transaction Cost Economics.

The law can place liability anywhere. In a situation where transaction costs are zero, it doesn't actually matter where liability is placed, because the participants will contract in the most economically efficient manner to share the burden.

That means liability choices can reduce to reducing transaction costs. For credit, the $50 is to avoid the adverse incentive of the cardholder permitting fraud, but otherwise the cost and mitigation is better shared among the big players at scale that reduces overhead. (Conversely, shifting liability via forced arbitration and legal disclaimers monetizes market power.)

As a policy matter, ask yourself: so why then do debit cards not come with the same limitation of fraud liability to $50, since the same economies of scale apply?
Same here. While in a Nike Store in London, I could not use my Barclaycard for a 50 EUR purchase. So unheard of to use a Mastercard for purchasing something while on vacation. Used a different card which worked fine.

No SMS or notification on my phone to verify myself either.

Wrote them a mail to ask what this was about and why I cannot use my card, but they only wrote back that the card was not blocked and everything was fine, but sometimes they are afraid of fraud etc.
Really hard to tell for sure, but assuming it orients itself aerodynamically, exposing a 75x10mm surface area to the wind, with a drag coefficient of 1.0 (slightly less than a cube) and a mass of 180g, then omnicalc says it'd be moving at 225 km/h (62.5 m/s), giving a kinetic energy of 352 Joule.

If I had to guess - based on comparisons to energies cited for handgun bullets, less-lethal ammo, and punches - this could be fatal, but (given the relatively large size of the projectile) wouldn't be certain death.

There's also a chance of significantly more drag due to tumbling, which would likely put it into "most likely survivable but very, very painful" territory.
> How many articles have I read about whether children should be allowed on airplanes, or at weddings, or in restaurants?

American culture’s view of children as burdensome is a self fulfilling prophecy. Parents may sarcastically quip about their children’s imposition on their careers, finances, and sex lives, but they practice genuine resentment when they get some “me time” by encouraging a child’s screen time addiction, or by refusing to punish a child’s antisocial behavior. Their mal-adjusted children are unsuitable companions in a social venue, a genuine burden unwelcome to society for many years longer than they need be, and it breeds anti child sentiment.

You can break this cycle by not thinking of your child like a burden, and by training them to not be a burden to others.

Shortly after I could talk, I was raised to address adults respectfully and to say please and thank you. My dad would also have us practice sitting still and quiet for a few minutes before bed. These basic manners elicited a decade of compliments from wait staff and flight attendants effusively telling my parents what nice children we were. Given what a small effort it takes to make eye contact and say “thank you”, even at the time I understood their praise as more a comment on society.

Now that I have children of my own, I’ve taught them from a young age how to attend a funeral or wedding (or grocery store) without ruining it for others. I can bring them without hesitation to a meeting with my banker or lawyer, excellent learning opportunities. They say please and thank you, and in response, adults across our community dote on and encourage and appreciate my children, and their good behaviour has earned them privileges and opportunity that I couldn’t personally have awarded them.

I’ve done my best to avoid the attitude trap of treating my children like a burden. They are each individually and altogether one of the greatest joys I’ve ever known. And teaching them a modicum of manners early on seems to have reopened whatever doors for them that American anti-child culture would have closed.
That "luck" always suppose that managed funds would profit on bear markets by shorting, and profit on bull markets by buying. As indexes cannot short, they always lose in a bear market.

But in reality managed funds usually freeze or even buy "opportunities" on the falling phase and short on the bottom (e.g. 2009), which causes them serious loses. Also they tend to miss the start of the bull runs (e.g. being bearish until 2011/2012).

If you read Kostolany (a contrarian), he talks about how hard it is to short correctly or to buy in the bottom, because going against the grain is hard.
In comparisasion with GNOME, it is wonderful.

I never had an issue with windows, by the way.
When someone tells me "you know computers, is this a good laptop for me?", I usually reply along the lines of "make sure you like the picture on the screen and the keyboard/touchpad feels comfortable" - those are the things that can drive you furious or sad about the purchase sooner than anything else.
>Elizabeth Holmes Defrauded Investors

No shit, Sherlock.
Kyberslash: Division timings depending on secrets in Kyber software
Tell that to the Enron employees who had all of their retirement 401k in Enron stock.

Yes of course if someone is able to pick the exact stocks that will go up the most then they will do wonderful. The problem is that it is impossible to know which stocks are going to succeed or fail.

Also the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation is estimated to be worth $69 billion. And probably most of that has come from Bill Gates.
Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected
This is equivalent to building an LLM that is unjailbreakable. The human control can just pass jailbreaks to the examiner. I don’t think it’s solved.
V has a garbage collector, so it does not compare with zig or odin
If you have one of the idiotic models where the glass extends to the side, you just need to drop it on a hard surface. My iPhone XS is cracked now starting from two opposite corners. Funny enough, the touch screen still works perfectly, it's just the outer layer of glass that's gone so I plan to keep it 1-2 more years. [1]

The newer and older models with a metal band around the edges should be more resilient. I'm probably dropping phones with the same frequency [2], but the older ones with the metal were just fine(tm) when i stopped using them, just the metal band dented in places.

[1] I'd get it replaced but no way I'm paying Apple prices for this old phone, and the 3rd party repair shops warned me they may have to replace the whole display if the outer glass doesn't come off neatly and that will lead to iOS complaining it's not a genuine display onscreen.

[2] or maybe more often, since the rounded edges all glass design is easier to drop...
Ask HN: Why aren't any of my classes taught by my instructors anymore?
I went to college for a few weeks right after high school before dropping out, and all of the classes were in-person. Now I'm going again (and not dropping out), on my 2nd semester and I've only had 1 class so far that was in-person. If it matters, I'm doing InfoSec and programming classes.

To me, what they're doing feels wrong. They're outsourcing all the classes to some product made by some company. Every class is done in some website. The course instructors don't do any teaching.

All of these platforms have problems. They don't work very well, and they're wrong about so many things. There's never any chance to get the actual correct answer to the rest of the students. In a real class, you could just raise your hand and discuss with the teacher and class, but this is so isolating.

I've had a lot of issues doing my coursework from Linux. The "simulator" for my "intro to computers" (which should actually be named Intro to MS Office) literally had a built-in sensor to reject work done by people using Linux. I got around it with help from the instructor, who still seemed to have the hacker spirit, but it shouldn't be like that in the first place. We never could get past the detector for LibreOffice, but dammit we tried! That same simulator (SIMnet) marked any task as incorrect if you try to select text with CTRL+a. Apparently the "correct" way to use a computer is the least efficient way possible.

Is there a pedagogical reason I'm not seeing here? Or is it as I assume, and it's just another example of enshittification or whatever?
Nitpick: The parachute likely opened _partially_ (as is common for such malfunctions) so that impacting a tree wouldn't cause injury or death.

That said, falling out of the tree checks out because that _is_ dangerous. Modern US Airborne training teaches a whole lot of caution when doing so. Best case you wait for someone to extricate you, but worst case (or for a combat jump), you deploy the reserve chute and then slide down it like a rope.

I don't know if they were using reserves in WWII (might have depended), but combat jump altitude is typically too low to have time to deploy your reserve. Better to chance the landing, than a hail storm of lead from the ground.

Source: 36 not-so-soft (non-combat) landings.
That depends on your point of view, that was my entire point. For your average 80 year old, in their experience the definitions have expanded because stuff that wasn't even considered racist, sexist or otherwise discriminatory back when they grew up can go as far as land you in prison these days (say, groping your secretary's butt when she comes by your desk).
> The biggest leap forward in HTTP clients for Python in years

why so? what are the problem it addresses?
I hope they can pull this of again. Not looking forward to a world where Iran has nuclear weapons
Me as well, but Apple doesn't need to take care about that.
In the cold war environment the term "free world" was linked inextricably to capitalism. This had great benefits to US living standards in the first few decades (as the US could utilise global resources more than other countries, just taking them with trinkets rather than guns like in colonial time), but as other countries caught up US standards of living started to plateau, and power concentrated on smaller and smaller parts, this time cannibalising US citizens still maintaining it was the "free world"
Why "be careful"? Yes, he could have made more money, but he would also be risking losing all of it. The purpose of diversification is not to make you more money, it's to reduce your risk of losing everything. It worked as intended.
Even the screen with its tempered glass isn't as fragile as it might look.
I have the same sequence risk when I gamble. I know the average is that I should lose, but I also know I'll never play enough in my lifetime to get enough samples. So I play games that are more likely to have sequences -- hand shuffled blackjack -- and more likely to win quickly and loose slowly -- the don't in craps.
That does seem to work.
Monaco works fine on mobile, just used it for https://tsdiagram.com
Some highlights from the article:
- Within the Dutch parliament there’s a committee for intelligence related work. They were not aware. Neither was the PM;
- The intelligence officier later died in a motor cycle accident near Dubai. Nothing indicated that this anything other than a true accident, although other intelligence sources claimed that he paid a high price.
The 2018 World Cup winner, Kylian Mbappe, faces a crossroads with Real Madrid's deadline looming and a potential move to the Premier League on the horizon. Get the latest on his contract situation and the clubs vying for his signature.
The bigger question is: "how would one identify said funds?".

The economic game theory around hedge funds is not pretty. By the very nature of the markets, if one really could consistently beat the market, it would be extremely rare and valuable skill, so you could charge fees for that service that would cover nearly all of the difference between your performance and market performance. Similarly, if you could identify funds that consistently would beat the market, you'd effectively be one of the people who could consistently beat the market. This means that pretty much all investors putting money in hedge funds can't really distinguish between the funds that consistently outperform the market and those that don't. They consequently have to rely on proxy signals. For the above reasons, one of those signals is... the fees. So, if you are running a hedge fund and you wish to convince investors that you can consistently beat the market, you should charge fees exactly as if you do consistently beat the market. If you don't, that raises a question in investors' minds as to why you don't charge fees commensurate with the service you are providing.

The end result is that a potential investor in hedge funds is faced with a bevy of difficult to distinguish choices, a small number of which might actually be able to consistently beat the market, but charge fees that eat up almost all of the difference in performance. The rest charge fees that would eat up almost all of the difference in performance if they did perform that well, but instead will perform worse overall, and consequently lose the investor far more money than if they just put their money into an index fund.
He works on high speed simulations. What is the personal spite you refer to?
Yes, demand is high, supply is constrained. In a free market supply would increase to meet demand, but it doesn't, so prices increase. This is econ-101.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention, never heard of it before. Have you used it?
Rappaport's co-author Stuart Shapiro is that one of Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach.

That book does a good job explaining various nuances of how different printed syntax corresponds to the same object.
This would be an interesting GUI that could be in a web browser to cross reference effects between programs such as communication between programs and Wayland. Specifically the parameters of syscalls create an effect, like write to block. Wireshark for syscalls. I think it already exists.

I kind of think of the interactions with the OS as the "effects" of the application like the IO Monad.

It's like a protocol too, function application in a certain order causes the effects of the software. The syscalls is a stream.

There is also a inner protocol between the buffers of binary protocols inside the syscalls such as a network buffer.
K&R preprocessor was indeed underspecified and allowed lots of variations---much of those issues can be seen in the GCC manual [1]---, but the current ISO C is much better at that job AFAIK. I think `## __VA_ARGS__` is the only popular preprocessor extension [2] at this moment, as the standard replacement (`__VA_OPT__`) is still very new.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Incompatibilities.html

[2] Assuming that we don't count things like `#pragma` or `#include_next`, which can be added without affecting other preprocessing jobs.
These are also called quasirandom numbers. Despite games, another use case is for hyperparameter search for neural networks.

https://github.com/google-research/tuning_playbook?tab=readm...
> One simply cannot reason ones way around the emotional core that drives us as humans.

Found the flaw in your argument. I am not driven by emotions. If therapy is all about that then all the more reason to not waste time with it.

My (accurate accounting of) history with building and maintaining meaningful interpersonal relationships is fine. Why do you assume I need help with that?

In these comments I see a lot of imagining problems I supposedly have right now, when all I did was share the problems I used to suffer from, in the context of a discussion about the systemic, environmental deficiencies in how society is structured causing massive waste of human potential.

Therapy takes time and money. I don't use emotions to make decisions on how to invest my time and money. You're arguing in favor of investing my time and money into a questionably effective solution to an imagined problem.
same as email from header
I do have a function that needs to run in a webworker, as it would block the UI for somewhere between 1s and 30s, but I can't see myself adopting this. It looks readable like normal JS. And so it hides its nature from the casual reader. The package does have the usual deadlock problems, so I totally expect this to cause problems.
Then why does my phone break when I drop it?
> really-bad compile-time languages (called "type systems") that do 5% of what's useful with incomprehensible syntax, rather than just make the compiler itself programmable.

Because some things aren't knowable at compile time. E.g. what is the value I enter at runtime, and all values derived from it, but also state of environment, and so on.

Pretending they are the same is a weak point of Zig. By making `const` a property determined by the compiler, you can accidentally introduce breaking changes, just by changing function contents.

https://typesanitizer.com/blog/zig-generics.html
I’m curious as to why that is. I understand that the regime is loathed by plenty but why should a portion of humanity be excluded from nuclear weapons when their enemies have it?

Genuinely asking because I’m curious, and not trying to flamebait.
the brain like computer one was also quite off. however neuroscience is both vastly more complex and less accessible to the layman than photolithography, so i'm all too happy to let the Gell-Mann amnesia wash over me and enjoy some decent infotainment
I imagine airplane mode turns off regular Bluetooth, but Bluetooth Low Energy meant for “Find My” is still allowed.

The same behavior as turning off the phone.
If the americans killed him it would be a great way to make sure less people are willing to help them in the first place.
Embedded subs worked for me in Android TV after going into the app's settings and changing the "Preferred media player" to "LibVLC (experimental)".
Levers of Power: The crash of Yeti Airlines flight 691
The Exploration Company Begins CNES Backed Rocket Engine Development
Rust is frustrating if you try to write code in it like you would in languages you already know, and assume the borrow checker is just an annoyance you’re supposed to `clone()` your way out of.

If you try and learn what the ownership rules in the compiler are trying to teach you—admittedly less comprehensibly at times than you might prefer—about software design, it is an incredibly fun and rewarding language that will shape the way you write software in every other language.