skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... I don't think you finished your sentence, but what I'm saying is that people should be (and subconsciously are) always assigning a probability to every event, or at least every event that rises to the level of their attention, regardless of how little concrete information they have about its likelihood of occurrence. If they have very little information, or a lot of information, that will be reflected in the numerical value of that probability. If an event is very uncertain, it means that the probability should be very high in entropy.
Correct.

By any fair measure, unsafe Rust is a tiny fraction of total Rust code.

In my experience, the community eschews it with a fervor bordering on religiosity.
how would you define concurrent access to a filesystem?

That's a serious question, if I open a file for reading and another process writes to it, exactly how is the C++ standards supposed to protect against that?
Some of these schools didn’t have enough housing. It’s not surprising that students don’t want to sleep in cars anymore.
We can talk about management cutting corners and enforcing a culture all day long, and they should be prosecuted for their negligence... but that doesn't absolve the idiots that forgot to put the bolts in or the other idiots that can't drill a hole properly.
You might want to re-read the comment.
Well if clicking a link to your Gitlab profile is more difficult than clicking a link to your Github profile... yes, that could happen.

I have no idea how it could happen in practice. It's quite believable that there is some recruiter out there that has this kind of problem. But I do think it's quite safe to assume most of the tiny minority that will click on the link will get the same information from either one.
The acerola video at the start is a good watch even for the layperson.
I don't believe I made that claim. On the contrary.
I believe they can continue to distribute via App Store for free.
Cryptocurrency fraud is now the riskiest scam for consumers, according to BBB

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/crypto-scam-risk-bbb-report/

There's a nice website, I've seen on HN before, that has a complete list of crypto scams and their total value. I wonder what the overall percentage of crypto transactions are for scams? 50%? more?

The only reason crypto is allowed is because it literally sucks money out of the real economy thus tamping down inflation.
I feel exactly the same. The history of computing is full of really simple alternative models that didn’t make it into mainstream. So, the easiest way to imagine what future tech could look like is by looking at the past. The state we are in, I cannot imagine how one could come up with something truly elegant on top of foundations plagued with irreducible complexity.
That is why you need to go for short walk every day. We're talking a 15 min walk.

Working in office gives lots of opportunities for extra steps. Park in the back of the lot. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Walk over to coworker's desk instead of online chat. Take the long way to the bathroom. The warehouse workers in Amazon probably get tens of thousands of steps doing their job.

I was getting plenty of steps when working in office, although that included walking to transit. Now that I work from home, I need to go for daily walk to get enough exercise, but I have errands and lunch to walk to.
OK but... How will I get money to live and feed my kids and stuff? Will the rich decide they finally have enough this time? Why would they?
Oh thanks :) I always like small details :)
The fourth amendment requires them for search and seizures.
Some people need to be protected from themselves though. I don't receive support requests anymore from my grandparents since they switched from a Windows-based computer to a ChromeOS system. It suits their needs while being locked down, and it limits the amount of damage that can be done.
As far as I can tell DMA doesn’t strictly require alternative app stores. It only requires that there were ways to get apps on your phone without having to go through Apple’s App Store. And it seems no app store is a compliant option as Apple just today announced direct app downloads from the web. So this whole comlex process with alternate app store rules, applications, APIs is another mess Apple made for themselves.
I was in a situation like this recently, and just want to say that if opening the pc/laptop and connecting it to the new machine is possible you should go that route, it's a little hassle compared to wait to a transfer over the network, waiting times can be deceptive.

This reminds me one of my favorite articles

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-infinite-space-between-wor...
edit: author here

Yah that's a good point. We use a similar copy-on-write implementation as many other storage systems (such as Iceberg) that offer time-travel, branching, etc... where you have snapshots represented by pointers to immutable snapshot-layer or delta files (or however else you want to call them).

In our case, we wanted to provide customers with a very similar/seamless experience of using DuckDB on MotherDuck as they would with local DuckDB. To provide this parity we needed the ability to extend DuckDB's native storage to support these capabilities (time-travel, branching, etc...). This led us to implementing Differential Storage.
> It only works if all of the platforms you use do this

Why?

It obviously works better if more people do this. But the single notice is still working to some degree.
What's the value in """daring to imagine""" about cosmology? This is nothing more than reality based fan fiction.

>A lot of great science started as a strange idea.

Disagree. A lot of great science started with "This weird math I'm doing is the only way to fit this data", which is an extremely different thing.

Do you not think physicists and cosmologists and their nerdy friends have thought of wild ideas? Do you not think undergrad students spend drunken friday nights theorycrafting universes?

It's pretty disrespectful to "why don't you just" a profession without showing that you at least did your homework first, or that you have looked at whoever definitely asked that question before you.

There are people in this post reinventing Tired light and Aether based theories for crying out loud, theories with fairly conclusive reasons we abandoned them.

When you just ass-pull theorycrafting without any of the fundamentals, all you do is talk in circles. It's no better than all the dumb "the brain is like a computer" arguments by analogy in neuroscience posts.

It's not even wrong.

We live in a world where the people who had to cheat off me in high school biology angrily insist that the vaccine doesn't work. Do we really benefit from playing such anti-scientific games?
"Wait, it's all feudalism?"

"Always has been."

Silicon Valley's original sin is Steve Jobs conning Steve Wozniak and a bunch of tech contractors into building his business empire. Every company in the Bay Area is a politically implausible liason of a very specific kind of Objectivist control freak CEO[0] and the hippie nerds that can actually build what they want to sell.

The hacker mindset of openness is very easy to confuse with Jobs-types that want openness for thee but not for me. It's very easy to complain about people currently abusing their power (remember Google's "Don't Be Evil" poking fun at Microsoft?) but hard to recognize incipient abuses of future power. The only way to unambiguously avoid this is to go full Stallman[1] and categorically distolerate any amount of control or ownership over one's work.

To make matters worse, this industry is one in which you really can't make money unless you're selling something that's closed off and locked down. The people who actually do play fair get bankrupted any time the government is looking the other way on antitrust.

[0] Yes, I am calling out YCombinator. You're part of the problem.

[1] To be clear, RMS very much has Jobs' personality, grafted onto Woz's morality and skill. He would have become just as awful as Jobs had he not insisted on Free Software early on.
Meta could build their own cloud offering. But it would take years to match the current existing offerings of AWS, Azure and GCP in terms of scale and wide range of cloud solutions.
As you note: “it is used more as a shitty excuse”, this is “art as excuse”.

> Fuck art.

For me, art is both personal expression and interpretation, and yeah, those things can be imbued or ascribed to “anything”.

Even a comment on a web forum.

Your comment is an expression of your personality.

Your comment is your art.
While I understand and agree with your point, it's worth noting that things like SMS/OTP scams have already been around for years. Of course that doesn't justify making security weaker, but this isn't iOS going from super-strong to ultra-weak. It's realistically iOS going from a medium-weak to slightly-weaker.
There is little/no price pressure on universities.

* Many/most loads are backed by the government.

* Government doesn't put any restrictions on the amount of the loan.

* Colleges are paid regardless if a student is unable to pay a load.

There is little price pressure on colleges right now. Maybe students are finally figuring out being burdened with a lot of debt is bad, but it's more of an indirect signal to colleges. Colleges only will feel pain if students start going straight into industry or trade schools.

Ideally, the government should get out of backing student loans. That would make underwriters actually look at the chance that a given person would be able to pay-back said loan with a given degree. This would help apply some price pressures. As well, if colleges could somehow take a partial financial hit if students weren't able to pay back a loan, maybe that would help as well.
what point?
Microsoft March 2024 Patch Tuesday fixes 60 flaws, 18 RCE bugs
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
https://xkcd.com/1211/
For many artists and scientists, consumption is directly linked to creation.

Musicians spend their free time consuming the latest music, scientists read the latest journals, writers like Stephen King read novels while waiting at grocery line.

The key is that consumption id done by many in direct benefit for future production.
On the X/Y/3 front doors the pull handles are kind of where you expect it on a normal car, at least the ones I've seen.
I think perhaps both use and order have an effect on the cognitive effort one has to put in to speak in a language.

You probably started learning English at a fairly young age (less than 15?), which certainly helped you cement it as a "native" language. Yet, it is interesting that you report Afrikaans as being easier than German. When did you start learning it?
It's so appalling to me to see such brazen advocacy for read only computing. This is such a teenie tny narrow little window of computing. Nothing should be consigned to sch irrelevances.
I genuinely think one of the most plausible short-term dangers of AI is the creation of lifelike bots which will be absolutely indistinguishable from real humans in short-form online interaction.

Since people don't want to talk to algorithms, this would result in them shunning all social media, which is a huge danger to companies in the space.
We call this due diligence, and it's an essential banking practice. Willful ignorance is not a defense, particularly when large amounts of money are involved.
I think the roles would be reversed when trying to make fast, small interactive software that people want to use. "Powerful" is interesting but clear, straightforward and fast is better. No web browser, database, video codec, or high end video game is written in scheme. At best it's inefficient ancillary software that someone wrote in scheme because they wanted to, not because that's what a user wanted.
> Of the remaining crates which use "unsafe", the unsafe code is often contained to a tiny percentage of the code, so if we're looking at the overall amount of unsafe code, you're going from 100%, to a fraction of a percent.

I dislike this argument because rust unsafe code is typically placed into a module with safe code around it protecting it.

Guess how good C++ code is written?

exactly. The unsafe keyword certainly helps but is not a panacea nor a guarantee given that a bug in the safe code that's protecting the unsafe code could be the root cause for security issues, even if it manifests itself in the unsafe code.
VPN providers aren’t financial institutions so they don’t have to worry about these laws. This will be very interesting legally as more states add things like age verification laws if those are worded to prevent VPNs from being used to circumvent them.
I’m curious how their snapshotting and object storage implementation stacks up against SQLite’s offering:

https://sqlite.org/cloudsqlite/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

SQLite’s object-per-page approach means you can fetch portions of the database as needed from a bucket, whereas the DuckDB snapshotting approach seems to imply that you’d need to fetch the whole database.
> Stuff like this is always priced in.

But sometimes you truly are the first to know or think about something. Maybe not in this instance, but probably others. Especially if you read a lot of diverse information on many topics.

Sometimes you just have to be ahead of the mean, too.

I made good money on WFH, GPUs, shipping, oil, and energy by being just a little bit ahead of everyone else.
> NYPD has been very casual about abusing their powers before and anyone fighting it that hard might find it necessary to leave the city

That was a cop collecting evidence on fellow cops. It's obviously criminal. But the NYPD is sued all the time, and I haven't seen evidence of them systematically acting vindictively against either plaintiffs nor their attorneys.
I think you'll find studies disagree with you.

There's not much you can do apart from providing a decent baseline and getting lucky. Which, on the one hand, is profoundly relaxing; on the other, it's pretty depressing and scary.
> Rather, to achieve a high degree of assurance that a codebase is free of vulnerabilities, we have found it necessary to adopt a model where unsafe constructs are used only by exception, enforced by the compiler.

Yeah that sound like most security researcher i have talked/listen to. They see the problem as safety maximization problem. While in the real world, there are 50 different other constraints that a language design needs to navigate.
Sorry to be a curmudgeon but I get tired of all these claims about how well young children speak second languages.

A young child saying "Vanilla ice cream please!" often sounds more like "Ganiwa ishe! cweam! pweese!".

A typical 4-year-old speaking English substitutes many sounds for another because they developmentally aren't able to make the right sounds yet. Their intonation is also all over the place.

If an adult had their accent it would be barely intelligible (and in fact many small children are hard to understand by people who don't spend a lot of time with them).

Here's one speech sound development guide for English: https://childdevelopment.com.au/resources/child-development-...

It is amazing to watch how fast small children grow and develop but we also (rightfully) grade them on a curve. It is when we compare them to adults that somehow we forget the curve being applied.
This is objectively accurate, and I think you mean to be nothing but. However, the mechanistic focus on efficiency and profit at the direct expense of human quality of life is downright goulish. We need political changes that ensure people who are “outmoded” by this tech can still have good lives.
So is Rust the language of the future as the survey implies?

https://bloomberry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Programmin...
Slice & IceRPC are also licensed under Apache 2.0. Were you looking at Ice Framework licence?

It's nice to finally see some quality alternatives to Protobuf.

One idea I like from Slice are custom types. Is there anything similar in Bebop?
> neither will most district attorneys

Why would a DA pursue it? Is there an allegation of a crime by the NYPD?

This looks like a civil matter. The NYPD is sued for--and pays out on--civil damages all the time.
I think "artificial agency" could have some legs as a descriptive term.

"Agency" is about having an effect on the world. But ascribing "intelligence" to some entity speaks to something more cunning and planful than just thrashing.
There has to be a long tail of engineers in Seattle though who were juniors or young seniors that lived in both worlds. I imagine the degradation of the company happened over time maybe meaning it was somewhat still Boeing 20 years ago, less so 10 years ago and a complete mess today. I can't believe every single person is rotten in the entire company.
I just meant that there are only two companies in the industry at all - the industry being “commercial passenger flight”, or what they seem to call “airliners” (?):

Still, in the large commercial aircraft market, there are just two major players: the U.S.-based Boeing (BA) and the Airbus Group (EADSY), formerly known as the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS).

I totally understand your pushback against some kid on HN thinking he knows better than the Boeing board, but I stick by the simplicity comment. I know little about airplanes but I know a lot about engineering and common sense. My point is this: R&D is vital to the long term success of an aerospace company, and suddenly slashing R&D budgets while expecting a similar amount of output is an obvious cause of safety incidents.
If you were trying to run a signicant and profitable business, would you expect to know who your customers are? You need to be able to get your product in front of them right? Market to them somehow? And you must get outreach for support or partnerships now and then, even if you try to make yourself hard to identify or reach.

They may have avoided collecting identifying information on specific individual people, but it's absurd to think that they could have reached the scale they did with no knowledge of where and for what purpose their service was being used.

The startup engineer's fantasy is that you can build something useful and users will flock to it through no further involvement of your own, but that's almost never a thing -- and certainly not here.
Now, imagine if the people who were beaten by the Wright brothers had set up a regulatory system 20 years before their first flight, which instituted a bunch of rules and requirements that made it impossible for the Wright brothers (or anyone) to actually achieve flight.
Fedora & downstream build with -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS, which enables bounds checking for many of those operator[] calls (including std::vector). For tight loops, GCC can often eliminate the bounds checks, at least if you use size_t (or size_type) for the loop iteration variable, not unsigned.
Factorio players built a record-breaking 'God Factory'
What Nvidia's reversal means for investors
> once you're on the surface of Mars, things get a lot easier

Yes, thanks for pointing that out to me. But TFA notes that (a) the Earth's atmosphere, and (b) the Earth's magnetic field, contribute nearly all of our shielding from both solar and cosmic radiation. Living in a cave on Mars might shield you from solar flares; but it will provide quite limited protection from gamma rays. Mars has a much weaker magnetic field than Earth (Wikipedia says there's no evidence of any magnetic field at all).
GOF?

When those birds peck at the food, you can see how they could pierce a scull with that speed and mass.
Can you provide any example of a "warranted subpoena"?
You could say that about nearly any good thing in life. Your current job/relationship may be holding you back from an even better one. Those leftovers you grabbed out of the fridge are occupying the space that could be taken by an even better meal. Every minute you spend watching a TV show you've already seen or a videogame you've already played is taking away time from your finite lifespan you could be spending on new, novel experiences.

If there's a better platform for giving you what you want, I'm sure you'd leave Reddit and never look back. If this platform you're imaging doesn't exist, how do you know it even could ever exist?
Interesting thanks!

Feels like in hind sight, maybe they were just to early to it.
GPT-4.5-Turbo seems to be indexed on Bing coming soon?
Ridesharing apps push back against new pay standards for employees
> Developers should "opt in" for unsafe instead of "opt out" of it!

Why ?
C++ guiding principle is zero cost abstractions.
99% of these are just a wrapper around OpenAI API with a custom prompt on a highly SEO optimized website with a file input or text area and a meaningless name.
Yes, I wanted to draw the distinction between other types of aircraft, like some military jets, which compromise stability (either for performance or stealth), and need the computer controlled surfaces to fly straight. I take stable to mean, not unexpectedly changing speed and direction, not just smooth.
Discord opens up to games and apps embedded in its chat app
You're like the news outlets complaining that millennials don't buy diamonds and vacation homes.
If you watch The Aviation Herald, this kind of reporting feels a little like trying to write news stories off VAERS data. Crazy shit is happening more or less all the time in planes; the idea isn't that nothing ever goes wrong, but that layered controls prevent injuries or hull losses.

It's not that there necessarily isn't a thru-line to these stories. And I read "Flying Blind" like everyone else and share the popular opinion of Boeing's modern engineering culture. But there's basically no content in these stories. There are experts somewhere that can put events like this into context, but they're not cited and the story isn't written around that kind of analysis, so we're left to supply it ourselves. Human nature suggests that the blanks we'll fill in will be a disaster movie, because that's "fun" to think about.

https://avherald.com/h?article=5138ccfe&opt=0
NYPD has more resources than most countries' militaries
I think Free software encourages exceptional end users to participate as you're describing. I didn't mean to imply differently. Encouraging this kind of development is definitely good.

The bigger win that I see, though, is enabling communities of users to band together and work together or finance development of software with the community's common goals in mind. That's not something that proprietary software has historically done much of, and proprietary software doesn't permit that community to fork the software when goals don't align.
How did Carbon, Cppfront, and Circle sink the effort for safer C++?

Did TypeScript, Flow, Closure, Elm, ReScript sink the effort for safer JS?
Gravitational waves existing doesn't confirm the existence of a medium any more than discovering light behaves like a wave confirms the existence of the aether.

If you want to posit that light has a medium, you need to redo 100 years of physics, so start showing your work. You mention elsewhere "doing a calculation", and that's just not nearly good enough. You want to overturn perfectly working physics, you NEED to show up with receipts. That's table stakes.
Well, we went through pains going from 1st to 2nd and 2nd to 3rd, too. It wasn't smooth. This won't be, either.

The question is, is there something more or less stable at the end of the transition? Are there enough 4th level jobs for the people that can make the switch, and are there enough 1st, 2nd, and 3rd level jobs for the people who can't move up to 4th? Or is there no smooth road after all the bumps of the transition?