skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Chinese Embassy in Berlin. Arrests this week in Germany and Britain suggest not so much that Beijing has ramped up espionage work but that European countries have stepped up their response.

The headline plants one idea (i.e., China is adding more and more spies), but then immediately the lede paragraphs offers an entirely different take (i.e., The West is outing spies with increased fervor).

I fully accept the responsibly for this statement (i.e., here come the down votes) but someone needs to say it: Why is the NYT such a "journalistic" shit-show? That is, given the lede, the headline is deceptive. It's fake news.

The saddest of all? It won't be questioned. Such intentional sloppiness is accepted and normalized. It's considered journalism (as if propaganda suddenly qualifies as such)? Yet how many will read the headline, keep scrolling, never see the lede, and be left with the idea that is for all intents and purposes a lie?

The hopes of a clean and unbiased discussion is already off the rails. WTF.
I own my house, but so what? If I sell it I have to buy another house and they're all going up
I've always wanted a decentralized solution that lets me trust my friends instead.
That was the moment I started browsing „freebsd desktop“ forum posts…
Move to Australia and get a couple months reprieve:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)
N+1 in Ruby on Rails
Some time ago, yes. Found it interesting.
In your video you mention that with 50 dollars you could have that board shipped to you, but my brother in christ if you are paying anywhere near 50 for that board you are being scammed :D
But prices go up at the same time so what's the difference. It's better than renting, but house prices going up isn't beneficial.
SysCfg with serial number etc has been on a separate NOR chip for quite some time [1]. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple allowed DFU restore to initialize a blank flash as mere optimization in the production process.

[1] https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/NOR
It is so refreshing seeing content first simple pages from time to time in the cacophony of attention seeking (obstructively injecting themselves) pages with zero or negative (misinformation, misdirection, pure lies and harm) content. It is no fun using the World Wide Web anymore, it is a pure danger zone and struggle.

Except exceptions like this one here.

One of my sorrow how formally respectable mediums like BBC suck up to this crap trend. Their scrolling articles where your fingers get tired while the emptionally manipulative and exagerating nothing with active shiny presentation goes is something I ever finished, but once I tried. Rubbish! (and unluckily their content too in general, even for the simpler text articles, increasingly, all oppinion random quotes dipped in thick dripping emotional manipulation). Have to read The Economist instead. Not cheap but there the content matter still over the form.
" . . . rocket that would fly over the rocket fields . . . "

A series of airplanes, called Looking Glass, was the first backup.
I tend to agree with this sentiment. Many junior devs and/or those in college want to contribute. Then they feel entitled to merge a PR that they worked hard on often without guidance. I'm all for working with people but projects have standards and not all ideas make sense. In many cases, especially with commercial open source, the project is the base of a companies identity. So it's not just for drive-by ideas to pad a resume or finish a school project.

For those who do want to do this, I'd recommend writing an issue and/or reaching out to the developers to engage in a dialogue. This takes work but it will increase the likelihood of a PR being merged.

Disclaimer: I'm the primary developer of txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai), an open-source vector database + RAG framework
Really well written, and well explained without any bait
That's great for you and everyone on HN who's tech savvy, but your average smartphone user has no idea what those even mean let alone how to set them up and use them. Your parent is right and is being needlessly downvoted.

My dad is often defeated on how to set up or use basic features of his smartphone, let alone on how to migrate stuff from one ecosystem to another, which let's be real, is purposely designed to be as friction inducing as possible.
Quitting engineering to pursue art full-time
I too have never heard of Zachtronics and I used to play lots of video games
Then you're talking about the C stdlib, which, yeah, is meant to use the locale-specific encoding on any platform, so it's not really a Windows thing specifically. But even then someone could use the CRT but call wfopen() rather than fopen() etc - this was actually not uncommon for Windows software precisely because it let you handle Unicode without having to work with Win32 API directly.

Microsoft's implementation of fopen() also supports "ccs=..." to open Unicode text files in Unicode, and interestingly "ccs=UNICODE" will get you UTF-16LE, not UTF-8 (but you can do "ccs=UTF-8"). .NET also has this weird naming quirk where Encoding.Unicode is UTF-16, although there at least UTF-8 is the default for all text I/O classes like StreamReader if you don't specify the encoding. Still, many people didn't know better, and so some early .NET software would use UTF-16 for text I/O for no reason other than its developers believing that Encoding.Unicode is obviously what they are supposed to be using to "support Unicode", and so explicitly passing it everywhere.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240427095740/https://aftermath...

https://archive.is/zWGou
It's called feeling 'ticklish'.
The name is what I'm contesting. It's called Tiny-GPU but there's no mention of graphics functionality anywhere in the project.
There's probably a Usenet thread with this exact text in some archive...
To me, what you are describing doesn't constitute a drive-by PR. You used the software, saw a bug, fixed it. This is the very best part of open source. (I hope the text in its entirety made that clear.)

The kind of PRs I'm talking about are from people who have never and likely never will use the software, but want the badge of questionable honor of having contributed to a well-known project. The only reason they looked at the code is because they saw it in the news or someone told them to "go contribute to open source" to help their career. I don't mind a junior going to fix a but that they themselves found and know how they want the software to work. I do mind if someone goes randomly looking for something to contribute without understanding the software, how it's supposed to be used, and proceeds to expect maintainers to hand-hold them through the process of getting their contribution in so they can put it on their CV or satisfy a teachers assignment.

I think what's rarely spoken about is the fact that each PR needs maintainer time. Maintainers are typically few and their time should be used to further the project, not for personal gain.
Linux user since 1994, tiny kernel developments eons ago. My whole home depends on Linux and Home Assistant, Vaultwarden and a few others.

I love Linux but the total mess with networking and sound is disheartening. It is a pile of crap.

I do not care if this is this or another solution, but for fucks sake - let's have one system and not five that step on each other. This is infuriating.
Historically, it has been convenient to silo the mind and the body as two separate entities. Unfortunately, that lens is a false god. To understand The System is to understand it is a system.
This is a crap analogy.

You buy different stuff, copy your data across and sell the original stuff.

That’s not lock in. It is if there is no other stuff to buy.
Ads, popups, horrible laggy UI all to make money. It is not user experience, just money
> “officer” includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office;

Weird.. it was right before our eyes the whole time.
Visual scripting languages are easy to use and practical for low-complexity code, but they scale very poorly once the complexity increases.

Gameplay code is still better written with code, C# or C++ or sometimes Lua.
Thanks! Looks quite relevant
NASM has an option (-Ox) to specify how many passes it should take trying to optimize near jumps for short jumps. I usually specify -O9.
Can an iPhone work as an iPod with better screen/storage/battery, if the LTE radio is removed?
There seems to be XACE/XSELinux, which seemingly exists in the mainline Xorg distro now. I wonder how the experience is with that?

In practice I think it doesn't see any adoption, since most people don't run with SELinux or even AppArmor on their desktop and none of the applications run isolated from each other, so it doesn't matter that they all have full access to the X11 server.
And for actual security there is qubes, which solves both the application isolation and the X11 security issue.
The most infuriating thing is their habit of rebuilding things just about the time they reach a mature and highly stable state, creating an entirely new unstable and unreliable system. And then the time that system almost reaches a stable state - it's scrapped and it starts all over again.

WPF -> UWP -> WinUI -> WinUI 2 -> WinUI 3 is just such a ridiculous chain. WPF was awesome, highly extensible, and could have easily and modularly been extended indefinitely - while also maintaining its widespread (if unofficial) cross platform support and just general rock solid performance/stability. Instead it's the above pattern over and over and over.

And now it seems WinUI 3 is also dead, alas without even bothering with a replacement. Or maybe that's XAMARIN, wait I mean MAUI? Not entirely joking - I never bothered to follow that seemingly completely parallel system doing pretty much the same things. On the bright side this got me to finally migrate away from Microsoft UI solutions, which has made my life much more pleasant since!
I'd love to read more. Do you know any sources?
It would be really awesome if Google would kindly tell them so they could have an opportunity to fix the issue and reactivate their account, instead of hard-locking them out with no recourse.

It's not like people are encouraged to keep their valuable data with these companies, only to lose the ai-fraud-detection lottery.
How much do you take? How often?
> We are on HN

xkcd lucky ten thousand
About the Great Power of Counting
Scalable Web Scraping with Serverless – Part 1
I heard there was some resolution re: copyright mess in the last few years, but I currently cannot find anything about it.

To the point I might have dreamed it. Odd.
Show HN: I created a visual builder for Google Cloud Workflows, no YAML pain
I was wondering the same thing, multiple well-known medium-sized banks fold. Am I wrong to say that it reminds me of 2008? Is there a bubble that’s about to burst?
> Magna Carta, which was about the relationship between a king and his own feudal lords.

Among other things. Some important bits applied more widely, such as the right to a fair trial which applied to any "free man".

It was a also a recognition of existing law that had developed earlier.

> Even with that caveat, didn't that really only happen after the medieval era?

No, slavery declined in medieval times, and was abolished in England by the Normans around the 11th/12th century. Serfdom continued but serfs were not chattel slaves (they could not be traded) and has rights.

European participation in the slave trade revived in early modern times, in and between colonies. Slaver was not revived in Europe itself.
You are also sure that those changes were not beneficial for someone else in a way where your single opinion is outvoted?
Don't agree with this. All of googles apps come via debs (chrome, google earth, etc), as does microsofts (edge, vscode) and numerous other big name applications. They then use the deb to add their apt repository and from then on they are self updating. Deb is actually a great way of distributing an app other than via an app store, and it seems Ubuntu clearly want to kill that.
I don't know how you managed to do it, but you slipped in a critique of classical and neoclassical savings theory in this blog post with your school article.

In classical economics, people must build the bricks before they can build the school. This sounds like the obvious and correct way to do it from a thousand miles, but as you pointed out, bricks produced by an uncoordinated group of people is going to result in a bad outcome.

On the other hand investment preceding saving sounds impossible, right? How can you invest something that doesn't exist? The bank gives you a loan using created money that does not exist. You use this money to order bricks from the brick factory. You then wait for the bricks to be produced and delivered in the future. The bricklayers get paid and save the money created by the loan. This way, the bricks meet the specification of the architect. The money held by the bricklayers is an implicit claim on the school. Each dollar represents a brick in the school.

This is how the organisation of labor is coordinated in a market economy. The problem with open source software is that there aren't organisations from which you can just "hire" contributors from. Instead you must already have the skills and then get lucky they don't reject your contributions before you can even think about becoming a member. It's the speculative brick problem all over again.
I always tell people amazed with LINQ how we already had it on Smalltalk and Common Lisp.
> Apple has an interest in keeping it functional.

For the majority of users.
I did get Lyme disease. I had no idea that it was a thing because I did not get educated about it, not even about ticks. I was just fascinated by the bullseye and never went to see a doctor.

Sometime later I felt sick with fever and something like an itching inside the head, but since it went away, I never bothered with it again. I also never made a connection between this and the bullseye, maybe it was the cause.

I'm constantly wondering if it would be beneficial to talk to a doctor about it, but it was almost 25 years ago.
The communication rocket(s) seem to have been shut down in 1991.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/DRC-8_Emergency_Rocket_Co...
A quick Google search will find thousands of articles.

It was possible to buy memristor storage devices, but they weren't sufficiently competitive with ordinary flash memory and I believe they're relegated to niche applications such as high erase counts.

AI implementations on Memristor circuitry has come up often enough that even I've heard of it. E.g.: A random recent development is https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45312-0
You asked:

> What systems are we talking about that benefits from Rust? Advanced weapon systems that should absolutely not fail? Controllers for air planes? Traffic controllers? Radar? Power grid?

You seem to be listing niche, specialised systems where a failure would be critical. But a simpler answer that is missing: mainstream operating systems — as I said, both Windows and Linux have been investing in Rust. Mainly as a way to increase memory safety.
See also: Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40177617
Not a single mention of how much it will cost you to run on whichever cloud you use. Obviously prices change over time and if they are using spot instances that happens even more so but you could at least ballpark it.

It sure seems like they purposefully not calling that out so they keep parroting “lifetime”. So will this software get updates to support new API versions or other changes these clouds might make? Will it automatically support new regions/instance types? It looks like you have to run the control panel somewhere (not serverless) so that will cost money or require setup to expose it running on local hardware.

I’m having a really hard time not seeing this as borderline scammy.
I had a "parents detector" in the mid-80s when we got the old TV in our room.

Unknown to my parents I did a deviation on the mains of the TV to be able to switch off the TV from my bed when the stuff I put on the way trapped.

For those who may have the reference, it was France, Canal+ times when you had instructional broadcasts on Saturday at midnight and you needed to make out what was going on from a scrambled image. Also the fact that you had to multitask like crazy to not be caught.
Haha, the "cure" (Wayland) was administeread in such a weak dose over so long time, that the "pathogen" (X11) developed resistance and is now immune to Wayland applications!
Are the states in Germany similar to the states in the US? I thought they were merely a relic of pre-WW1 unification, after the 1990 reunification, but that the states were just administrative entities with no independent sovereign power.
> I think Habeas Corpus is one of the few clauses of Magna Carta that still has legal effect

I am not sure if it has effect because of the Magna Carta, but right to a fair trial is another right that still exists and applied to any "free man".

> I think it wasn't until Henry II that there were royal courts set up, to deliver the same law everywhere.

Yes, but that was still medieval. Yes, it was not one huge improvement. The Magna Carta was a step in a process that started centuries earlier and went to for centuries afterwards.
My rule of thumb is if for some reason you need to use crypto keys that can't be easily replaced, you need to have a safe at the bank with the keys stored in 2 differente media formats, that are recreated every year.

I don't trust many people to do that.

I have everything encrypted and self hosted and I sometimes wonder what I would do if I was suffering from amnesia after an accident for example. And having a note somewhere telling me I have a safe in bank X is the only solution I have found.
> I don’t know if it’s (still) in service, but the USA had a rocket that would fly over the rocket fields and send the launch codes and fire the icbms. The fear was, that the soldiers were incapacitated and could not fire them itself. The backup.

They can't actually be sat there just waiting for a radio signal, can they? Just waiting for some kid with a Flipper Zero to end the world?
This. With the climate change, any oil powered industry it's doomed from the start.
> Apple says there is nothing wrong.[1]

My experience status pages (with Azure) is that they are a PR/legal mouthpiece. They only change once something becomes newsworthy.
Why is that better? It's the same thing as a passkey managwer, but twice the work.
if renting use is viable, then why isn't construction or maintenance?

i mean this honestly: an investor may not get crazy returns every year, but they get stable returns every year. why is owning and maintaining infrastructure unattractive?
after the education capture race of 2022, every single institution in the world is either google or Microsoft.
Game over folks.
Definitely the problem category!

But I see it's already been mentioned here in another thread.

Do you rank the problems solved by the user only, or all leetcode problems?

Because I think that a nice thing would be for your tool to first suggest one pb in each category, and then start recommending the category where you're the weakest.
One of the things that puzzles me is when I see say Anki flashcards for mathematics things that I never learned like that. I never intentionally learned anything in mathematics in that was and it feels very 'wrong' to me when I see people trying to learn like that. I did a lot of practice looking back, but there was absolutely no conscious memorisation - the nearest I got was at university level when I would sometimes run through the main steps in a long proof before the exams, but it would be at quite a high level when I did.

I don't know if I'm just lucky in terms of how my brain works in some way and I found I had a pretty good 'natural' memory when it came to things like learning languages, and I appreciate that this is totally anecdotal. That book looks interesting however and as somebody who teaches, I'm interested in what works for everybody, not just me.
A little research reveals that Huxley was born two decades after transportation ended, but he was certainly familiar with the upper class variant: the remittance man.
It's a company with a website, https://www.batterymall.com, described on their YouTube channel:

> KingSener is a registered trademark of our company in China, United Kingdom, United States and European Union. Our company specializes in supplying premium quality laptop batteries for global customers. We have more than 10 years experience in this industry，cost-effective products for customers and also produce customized products (OEM/ODM) as per buyers requirements.
"We do not support competitors' products."
Summaries are less interesting than my getting the information in the first place. My general hierarchy for sifting is:

Title -> Abstract -> skim directly to the section(s) that are most interesting or answer a question I have.

For most papers, I can gauge interest based on the title. But there are so many!

I have a secondary problem of being able to find research on a topic: quantitative linguistics. Arxiv has a category on Computation and Linguistics, but it is mostly LLMs.
Afraid not. I tend to prefer making comments like these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40166472

Fortunately another user beat me to it.
Plenty of people live in the woods. If we all lived in the woods everything would be fine! I'm sure our GDP wouldn't fall and no one would starve to death at all. Nope; Not a bit.

Why don't we all just wear VR headsets all day?

LOL enjoy your atomized Balkanized tower of Babel existence. If it has to be explained then you're consitutionally incapable of understanding it anyway.
I guess it's mostly a matter of what framework the society put in place. We incentivise economical achievements, optimisations, tech. The common theme is making wealth. As long as that's the case, you can't expect these problems to be solved. Humanity/societal frameworks have to start incentivising the right problems.

These so called billionaires have become billionaires because the society and economy are set up that way and they got good at this economical game.
According to his own words, he wasn’t aware of Bush, Engelbart, or Nelson when he started working on Enquire, but hypertext more generally was known to him. He became aware of those other men and their work over time and their ideas helped to refine his own.
The lawyer writing that knows that it doesn't matter very much whether the copyright holder regards something as infringement, it matters what courts think, and to the extent that these theories have been tested in court, they have generally failed[1]. You might as well say that you regard "deep linking" as treason punishable by death. They're just trying to frighten people.

[1] eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10,_Inc._v._Amazon.com....
It will be great this set up can be commoditised so everyone can buy one for themselves/family.
I agree with it becoming less error prone and more composable. But faster and easier? The examples I've seen in this and other articles about effect systems use many more lines of code just to print a single line than you would use in a language like Python, and that's excluding the definition of the effect types themselves. Ideally, I'd like to get all the benefits of an effect system, but without the verboseness that seems to come with it.
How else is GPU-support for a programming language to be understood other than that you can write GPU shaders/kernels in it?
Parts of modern day Turkey was very much part of the hellenic world, at least as far as Homer is concerned. It's where you find Troy, ffs.