skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rachel Maddow is also only on Monday. Her and Stewart are very focused on how bad a Trump second term would be, but they're preaching to the choir with me. I don't need to keep being convinced so I have no reason to watch them. Who is there intended audience? Is there any American on the fence about Trump at this point? I used to be a big fan of Maddow but now she's just tiresome.
Waiting on the port for HP calculators in RPL...

(did a 2d morphing animator and a simple cad tool back then. also straight forward base algs that you can keep adding to, adding some more, and some more...)

Great write-up. Thanks. Love the Spectrum and its direct token input despite never owning one.
SourceHut is modelled on the notion that people can contribute to your code even if they don’t have a SourceHut account. Wouldn’t that make it more social?
Theft will always happen, it'll happen more when it's made easy.

The actual issue here is train companies have cut staff down to almost nothing while simultaneously increasing train length to miles and miles. (And they are trying to cut staff even further).

A train with 2 miles worth of cargo and 2 people to defend it ends up being SUPER easy for a thief to target and rob. It takes an hour just for someone to figure out what's happening to the train.

What's the solution? How about the train companies employ more people, install more cameras, or shorten their trains? Or they can use their insurance to cover the cost of lost goods (as they are almost certainly already doing).

Train companies are trying to operate like the dollar general and are putting on surprised pikachu faces when they get robbed like a dollar general store. Almost certainly what they want to happen is the offloading of their security problems onto the public. We the public should not be subsidizing private monopolies because their bad business decisions make them particularly vulnerable to crime.

A company that earns 25 billion dollars of revenue a year can afford moving back to older business practices to avoid theft.
"we know they don’t share anything since chatGPT was launched"

That's mostly but not entirely accurate. They've released significant updates to Whisper since ChatGPT.
If interest rates remain high and capital remains expensive, then yes.

The tech job world of the last 2 decades was riding 2 tsunamis, the explosion of the internet and 0% interest rates. The last 2 years have put the brakes on both of those fronts. In the developed world the market has become effectively fully saturated with web and app development, simultaneously the ability to borrow money is no longer effectively free.

Both of those changes have halted risky growth opportunities.

tldr; layoffs will continue until money is free again or a new and highly lucrative unsettled frontier is found
Which we know to be unfair due to learned biases...
HN thread at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26854990

And some follow-on posts by the author

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/tag/emulation/
I don’t get it. I see Palestinian advocacy all over the place.
Tire-changing robot startup [RoboTire] files for bankruptcy
Yeah me too. No way is my brain going to remember any of that between times that I use it.
Probably referring to this: https://futurism.com/the-byte/piece-falls-off-boeing-starlin...
Well that sounds ominous…

Conflict of interest rules in particular might, as the article says, help clarify the ??? of last year's… thing… with firing Altman.

Possibly.

I mean, still I can't see how all the interim CEOs (chosen by the board themselves!) each ultimately deciding to side with Altman, works for almost any scenario other than the board itself having been blackmailed by some outside entity… but that may just be a failure of imagination on my part.
Right, but how do we know that https://retriever.corgea.io faithfully returns the code in that GitHub repo? We still have to trust corgea.io.
Huh? I haven't seen remote SSH used in the past few companies I've worked at. Usually it's a local docker setup.
I don't think we have any examples of people being neurodivergent in a way that is purely positive, so every instance would likely be some sort of disorder.
It is categorically false that the Houthis have the same goal as the ICJ case. One way you know that is that if Ansar Allah succeeded in their chartered goal of liberating Jerusalem and Palestine, they would proceed to bomb all the Muslim Brotherhood's mosques; they seek to liberate Palestine not just from the Jewish people, but from the Sunnis as well. And how you know that is: that's exactly what they're doing, right now, in Yemen.

Of course, another way you know they're full of shit is that they were shooting rockets at cargo ships in the Red Sea years before the Gaza war.

I think a pretty mainstream and reasonable way to look at Ansar Allah is:

What they say: meaningless agitprop about Palestinian liberation.

What they intend: A Zaydi Shi'a imamate with racial and bloodline governance.

What they are: A chaos agent managed by Iran in order to keep Saudi Arabia, which operates a military with one of the world's worst ratios of capacity and funding to competence, perpetually on the wrong foot.
Solid North Korean wage. Here's hoping talented keyframers and AI waifus will change the industry soon.
https://archive.today/YNGd0

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/robotire (YC W20)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68179908/robotire-inc/ (Court filings)
Most of it is much more opportunistic than that example.

> "But over the course of the task force’s existence, which lasted nearly a year, only 34 of the roughly 700 people arrested or cited for stealing from trains were part of these organized crews. Many more were just passers-by or unhoused people living near the tracks in R.V.s or makeshift structures who just happened to pick up fallen boxes."

It's just one datapoint, but under 5% of the thefts this specific taskforce identified were perpretrated by organized groups. Most were essentially opportunistic thefts by individuals on the margins of society.
This is awesome news. Thank you very much!
I looked at Zed some time ago and even though I liked it, it being closed source and not very popular didn’t make me “trust” that it was gonna last.
There are plenty of examples of military leadership not wanting a program, but Congress shoves it down their throats. So it's not always as simple as it seems with an appearance of DoD not caring. It is a consequence of design by committee.
Having worked as a software developer in several different areas of enterprise IT, the vast majority of the work is about "Improving {process} to increase {team}'s productivity." Businesses already know, or at least hope, that "Good {worker}Ex increases productivity" and push endlessly towards that objective. It's quite possibly the only reason non-software companies hire software developers.

It's just that IT departments routinely fail to be included in that. So the IT workers get burnt out working on projects they don't understand to make someone else's job easier, while their job gets continually worse because everything is an IT problem now. (And in many cases, nothing actually improves for the business either, because the project only considered the "happy path" so they are still spending most their time dealing with the special cases, but now have to go through IT who are too busy doing the same thing for everyone else.)
One step at a time, that is why.

Scala is also on the edge of turning into Coffee Script, its relevance wanning.

20 years is pushing it, by the way.
Co-founder of Windsor.io here. Just want to share that I've had such a blast these last 5 years building Windsor with with my college roommate - Andrew. It's been the most exhilarating journey of my life and career to date. Joining Front is the
next big milestone for our work in AI.

Andrew and I have a lot more to share soon on what we're building at Front - stay tuned!
> PMF-Scale: VC Fund if you can show 100% growth each year and forward. If the market is big enough (TAM etc), This can become a billion dollar company and for this to happen fast enough, you will need funding. Also, the reason you need funding here is because it is very tough to scale a business slowly. Either you grow fast from here or die/stay average growth.

This makes sense, but I wonder how truly "necessary" funding is. I understand that funding very (relatively) quickly can help turn a "eating ramen for dinner" salary to a a-regular-job levels of salary which is very good. But is there a business risk to grow "organically"/through word of mouth? Assuming it is possible to grow the company only working part time (which is admittedly a very big assumption), bootstrapping sounds slightly better.

> It's just that most people try to raise funding way too early and hence cannot keep up with the growth requirements and eventually either die or sell/pivot for peanuts.

Thanks, that's insightful!
To take the point more seriously than you intended it: this is (apparently) a bug in a code generator. The C++ itself wasn't unsafe and didn't crash, it emitted binary code that did. A Rust/Python/whatever JIT could trivially have the same bug.

Commenters aren't suggesting Rust because it's not an area where implementation language is able to provide safety.
With fees, which can be steep, and you might have to dispute what you owe, and the return payment might get lost... But yes, not a felony.
It does https://docs.zed.dev/general/vim. The support seems limited however, for example 'L' or 'H' movement does not seem to be supported.
“Please don’t do it like a 4x4 truck, do it proper, like a bicycle” — there is some overlap between those things, but for people who are actually making full use of the former, the latter is not a useful suggestion
Check out Hong Kong cage homes. Tiny shared spaces would require a lot of discipline to successfully pull off.
+1, I don’t think such stuff should be ever enabled by default.
> Yes, it is important to distinguish phenotypes from disorders. If one has the phenotype, but isn’t impaired by it to a clinically significant degree, one does not have the disorder (ASD), but one does have the broad autism phenotype (BAP; aka the broader autism phenotype or subclinical ASD). [0] The number of people who have the phenotype without the disorder is likely several times those having the disorder. v

This seems like a way to try and reason that you can be autistic and not have the 'disorder', but it doesn't work like that. There is no one who has the phenotype without the disorder.
Datacenters could account for a third of Ireland's electricity by 2026
> The more you tax flying, the more you make it only a rich person's activity.

Why is that a problem? Climbing the Mount Everest, Joining a Country Club, or flying into space is also a rich person's activity - is that a problem too?

> Why only international flights

AFAIK some countries already tax domestic flights. And if they don't, that's easy to achieve. Taxing international flights is harder, because there'll always be a few countries that won't agree.

> However, very difficult to achieve politically.

Yes. But "difficult to achieve politically" is strange: because the only hurdle to take is not a 'real' hurdle. Not 'real' as most engineering, or economic hurdles are. It's not a matter of money, funds, scientific breakthroughs or such, it's mere a matter of willingness to change. Which, it appears, is one of the hardest hurdles to take.

And yes: I agree we should not leave any percent improvement on the table. But I remain with my point that money and effort that we can spend only once, should not go to changing the habits, cultutre and lifestyle of 1/4th of the worlds' population for a meagre 2% win, but to changing the habits, culture and lifestyle of another part of the population can get us a 15% win.
Ideally we'd be able to spend that effort and money twice. For a total 17% win. But as long as we cannot do that, let's spend it on where it gets the biggest results.
> VSCode never felt slow on my macs until I started using Zed.

I guess you haven't used Sublime Text before?
If you have to install plugins then it's not an IDE, it's just a text editor.
As I am doing in https://exaequOS.com ? The new OS that runs in a web browser
I think we’re talking about different, related things.

The tax code in the US (and the filing process) is overcomplicated for a variety of political, corporate, and cultural reasons.

The average US taxpayer is under-educated on finances generally and tax code specifically.

That said, the W-4 is one area that’s actually gotten simpler in recent years. I simultaneously think the tax code needs serious simplification and that the average person has the capacity to read a W-4 and get reasonably close on their withholding. The reason many of them don’t is because they like getting a refund check once a year.
Isn't git traditionally not great at storing large amounts of binary data, like images?
They are not doing it well then,

https://www.propelex.com/hacking-cars-remotely-with-vin-numb...
Individual use gets a lot of privilege in US law (rightly so!) but commercial purposes get the stick. In this it would probably be a cease and desist to the copy business
Vehicles have titles so I wouldn't count of that not being tracked in some way. At least in MA occasional/isolated sales of things "acquired for personal or household use."

I imagine that for really expensive sales, the answer is consult with your accountant.

And of course lots of things happen with cash as long as the amounts aren't too great.
I think the biggest danger for censorship in the US is public/private censorship cooperation.

The government is prohibited by the First Amendment from censoring.

However, due to the centralization of the Internet, most communication passes through just a few gatekeepers.

Congress holds hearing decrying content that they do not have the right to officially censor, but nevertheless use this to make their wishes crystal clear. Present for those hearings are the leadership of these gatekeepers, who are also made aware of all the other levers that Congress has that could make their lives miserable - anti-trust, section 230, copyright, not to mention government contracts.

Of course like Henry II who never actually ordered Becket's death, Congress doesn't actually order censorship, just makes it clear that censoring those things would make them very happy.
But are they declassifying the actual documents this time?

> The CIA started feeding flawed shuttle designs — NASA rejects — to the Soviet spies, which they passed off as new “improvements.” It worked. Included in the phonies were outdated heat shield designs that could have risked the spacecraft burning up on reentry.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/real-life-rogu...
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

We passed this point 10-15 cases ago. Don’t people learn what OpenAI is all about?

Hint: Think 1984. They are Ministry of Truth.
The videos of people just standing on moving trains in broad daylight ripping open packages is... something else.

Completely changed the way I understand society.
You can also embed SQLite shell into your blog or product documentation: https://codapi.org/sqlite-wasi
Don't Fear Something Going Wrong
This app needs a better zero state. It should start with a fully loaded company, maybe based on a real example, that you could edit and see the subtle differences. Then, when you’re ready, start a new simulation from scratch.
I was particularly looking for collaborative editing; two people editing the same file at once and each has a local copy of the file so they can run the code. Perhaps one could use a normal editor for this if there were some underlying command-line tool and/or plugin to do the actual file synchronization. Do you know of any?
Probably both true, I would not recommend myself for the role either.
Funny this doesn't mention structured equity. Matt Levine touched on this in a recent Money Stuff column for Bloomberg Opinion, and he had a way to turn this problem into a business model:

> There are, these days, a lot of startups that used to be worth $1 billion and are now worth $500 million. Some of them raised money at $1 billion valuations, back in the good times, and now they need to raise money again. It is, for some combination of good and bad reasons, extremely undesirable for a startup that raised money at $1 billion to raise money again at $500 million. Therefore there is a business opportunity for a fund that will:

> 1. Give startups money at a $500 million valuation, but

> 2. Say that it’s at a $1 billion valuation.

> This is called “structure,” or “structured equity.” Bloomberg’s Gillian Tan reported Friday:

> > Philippe Laffont’s Coatue Management raised about $3 billion for a structured equity fund that allows closely held companies to avoid raising money at lower valuations, a person with knowledge of the matter said.

> > With the market for initial public offerings in a funk and lower risk appetite from large venture capital investors, some startups have sought to raise convertible notes and pursue structured financings instead of accepting a lower valuation through a traditional equity funding round.

https://archive.is/Uy4nZ
James Mickens gave a lecture at a conference (I think it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF24WHumvIc but I don't have time to actually listen through it) about how there are two different threat models for computer security: bored five year olds and the Mossad. And bored five year olds just try the same three things again and again, and as long as you take basic precautions you can protect yourself against them. You cannot protect yourself against the Mossad, don't even try.

When I first started paying attention to computer security I was at a start-up and tasked to rewrite their PCI infrastructure for credit card processing, so I did some research into the state of the art. That week news of a casino hack came out. Billionaire casino/media magnate and conservative donor Sheldon Adelson gave a speech in October 2013 about how the US should threaten to use nuclear weapons to destroy Iran's nuclear program. In February 2014 a 150 line VB virus was installed on his casino's network which wiped all of the hard drives it could find, costing the Sands hundreds of millions of dollars. This was at a casino, some place which absolutely cares about their computer security and presumably spends a lot on that security, and they failed to successfully protect themselves against a nation-state level threat.

So whatever the hell startup I was working at had no chance if someone at that level wanted it. We could stop the five year olds. Just not the nation-states.
I oppose nothing, except your sloppy claim that "nothing" has been tried. Lots of things have been tried, and they failed. 40 years of failure from Seoul to San Francisco. That's not the same as not trying. Please, enlighten me on your plan to raise birth rates.
To me it seems a lot of the benefit of declarative programming is just that you can use less powerful tools that don't allow constructs you don't want to have to deal with .

LISP seems great for tinkerers and researchers, but not so much corporate devs who want extreme amounts of consistency and predictability, but don't need the absolute most elegant solution.
Apple supports its major products for more than 3 years. You typically get 6-8 years of support for an iPhone, iPad, and probably Mac.

Also, Microsoft supports each Windows version for about 10 years.
On a bold mission to re-engineer brain parts
It gets even funnier. Some autistics claim that it's the "normies" who are messed up with all their emotions, irrationality and social status games. Lots of that on reddit.

It's an immense rabbit hole btw trying to understand how autistics experience life and interactions. I was totally unaware of all this until I met someone who interacted in a very unusual way (to put it mildly)...
Or fan out the frames to a bunch of emulator instances.
I Want a Phone That Used to Exist
I want a modern Android phone with no holes or gaps in the display, with a headphone jack and no camera bump. The phone should sit flat on a table, show me the full screen with no compromises for the sake of selfies, and support the audio output included in nearly every device from the 70's to the 2010's. The phone should run whatever software I like, which means board support packages are available. This almost exclusively limits the chipset options to Qualcomm.

Just a few years ago, this was not a lot to ask for. Many flagship phones fit this bill and were in fact very good options. Today, there appears to be no phone like this on the market. I could be wrong but it seems every phone released recently enough to be useful is full of subjective downsides compared to what was available in the past.
If I understand correctly, you're talking about making HTTP requests from code running in the browser to a third-party API.

Whether you're doing WASM or Javascript, you use fetch() and need to have your CORS ducks in a row. How exactly you call fetch() depends on your toolchain, but anything trying to be general-purpose will expose it somehow.
Geez, that must have been something. Very glad you survived! How far away were you from the explosion and how did the shockwave affect you? How has it affected your life since then?
You calculate the carbon emissions per unit of fuel, which is basic chemistry, and you tax the carbon. The whole point of a carbon tax is to avoid value judgements about which carbon emission is more acceptable than which.

However you mentioned America and Uganda. They would have different tax rates based on agreements between countries. The fact that the US is the largest historical emitter and poorer countries need more flexibility to emit carbon in order to grow is already well established in country to country discussions on this subject. Often the suggestion is that carbon tax funds from historical emitters would partially go to paying poor countries to upgrade to green infrastructure.

For example see this 2022 article from the IMF:
https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2022/05/19/blog-why-co....
Hi, lead AccessKit developer here. Sorry I haven't written much documentation yet. For now, the best way to learn how to use it is indeed to study the egui PR.
Pointers aren’t complex, but C makes them look complex with the counter-intuitive syntax. Therefore, I don’t think C is a good language for learning pointers.
it doesn't have to be "fake" detail, an AI can use multiple frames to gather much more information than is available in a single frame and composite them into a much more detailed image
SEC hack result of 'SIM swap' attack, agency says
Recently discussed:
Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years (10.10.2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37827995

Every time switching to another program you had to take care not to trigger tooltip event in Firefox, since it would stay on top of your programs active window. Great, it was finally fixed.
Data access is of primary concern to all programming languages, using either memory or disk. All files on disk can be considered a form of database. Reading and writing files is standard in all languages.

Once you start getting fancier in your files, and the data grows large, you need special ways to read it. A Postgres database can be considered a single big file on disk. It is the Postgres server that is required to access the file in the most efficient way to store and randomly access enormous amounts of general data.

SQLite is interesting in that there is no server, it's just a special library that enables efficient random access of a single file, which can be thought of as a black box that only SQLite knows how to interpret.

Unless you mean, making something like SQL built directly into the language as a first class citizen. Mumps did something like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
I had to stop using sublime because it kept updating its search index at inconvenient times and slowing to a crawl.

That and self updating in ways that broke my most important plugin.