skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone believes there will be no C++ codebases in the future - that's crazy talk. What could happen in a decade or two is that there'll be no _new_ C++ codebases. Popular languages are retired to legacy status from time to time, and C++ is completely outclassed by Rust.
Except now you have sandals and perhaps still can't install Linux on a Surface.

Seriously, though, it's kind of ridiculous to make a case that just because there is so much electronic waste already in the world, might as well create some more of it. I don't own a USB keyboard and haven't owned one for a decade or more. Because I exclusively use Surface. Imo Windows tablets are the true cyberdeck of the 21st century.

Touchscreen devices should not require plugging in a keyboard to enter text or plugging in a mouse to click on things. The whole point of these devices is that they can work on their own, without peripherals. If you need to plug in to use them, then you might as well have just bought a laptop in the first place.
Have you tried this product? What do you think of it?
Your are constantly being wired to be mediocre. It's your job and your environment. The same is true for 85+% of the population.

Look at the stuff in the list below, progress recursively. Think children, education, competitions and or real world problems, progress recursively until you hit something.

Everybody gets 'there' on their own time. There's guys tinkering with robots and rockets while others barely find the motivation to build the irrigation system in their garden. 8 years from now, people in various regions will have problems that started decades ago but could have been mitigated now.

The markets won't serve any of the solutions without binding people to subscriptions and when they can't pay, the service ends.

People are not able to learn anything all the time.
That's where you come in, you can.

If you can't come up with anything, build everything with FOSS. Think local, don't ask, just build. Improve your town, your school, your hood. With indie tools, skills and hardware.

https://simplicable.com/world/real-world-problems

https://www.competitionsciences.org/

https://www.nextgenlearning.org/

https://www.millennium-project.org/projects/challenges/

https://resilienteducator.com/classroom-resources/real-world...

http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en
Firefox is dependent on Google for ages, that should tell you all you need to know about "conspiracies".

I am not interested in a discussion with a person who gives the benefit of the doubt of a company who has clearly not only made a Faustian deal but is now looking to expand partnership with the people that nobody wants tracking their machines and activities.

Because as we both know, in the entire history of humanity there were NEVER any conspiracies when there is money to be made, right? Wink wink.
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Slowing down everyone is also incredibly damaging to the corporation though. And as others have pointed out might even be counterproductive as workers look for workarounds to route around your restrictions which may come with bigger security issues than you started out with.
Where do you host it? I see that nsfw is allowed, what vps does allow it?
> "Foo | Bar variants are stored as ascending OCaml ints, starting from 0." I was initially worried that OCaml could only do this because they have type inference and therefore the compiler knows much more about what type every AST/IR node is.

No, they are able to do that because they have static typing and they don't have to distinguish between values of "type A = FooA | BarA" and "type B = FooB | BarB" at run-time, so they can represent FooA, FooB, 0, false, unit etc. all the same. They can't do the same with their "extensible variants" though, so those IIRC are encoded as objects.

Wait, how does Scrapscript distinguish between values of different types? Say,

. scoop :
#vanilla
#chocolate
#strawberry
. f =
| #vanilla -> 1
| #false -> 2
| x -> 999

Is that legal? If yes, how does it work?
“Profit margin” doesn’t subtract the initial development costs, just current costs. So drug profit margins should be large to repay the billions previously spent in development.
A strategic and forward-thinking approach
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I am proficient with many things, but quantum computing is not it.

Anyone could provide some context on why this is significant and currently #3 on the front page?
When it comes to the internet... I'd prefer it to stay like the wild west. Least amount of regulation beyond something like net neutrality. People forget that the reason we have all of these "free" services is because of ads and that's coming from someone who hates ads. Every streaming subscription I have, I pay for the ad-free service. Let the people who don't know how to install a browser extension or change a few settings pay for these things for the rest of us.
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I always figured they were delicious.
Can someone explain to me what the attraction is to THC-A, since it's not psychoactive? Is it because it is anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective?
Eh, I don’t think my comment is defensive. I also could’ve just ignored the comment.

I explained to them that I’m open to discussing but there’s nothing to be gained when the comment starts off in conspiracy theory. It’s an open source project, people will 100% notice if they tried to do what the parent comment is suggesting.
I wonder if it's simpler than that: The examiner is just choosing whether they like you or not.
Hey. I know _exactly_ what you are talking about.

I've been thinking about that for a quite awhile now, and I guess I have some perspective, but don't have exact answers and I don't think I can fit it into a HN message nor have enough motivation to do so.

_However_, I'll be more than glad to chat personally, maybe we can figure something out together. So, if you¹ want, drop me an e-mail. Address in profile.

--

¹) You, the topic starter or anyone reading this message who finds it relevant.
I’ve had several companies, including cyber insurers, ask for specific password expiry policies and when I’ve gone back to them explaining that we don’t expire passwords and referencing the NCSC and NIST advice all of them have accepted that without any arguments.

As you say, these are largely box ticking exercises but you don’t have to accept the limited options they give you as long as you can justify your position
Safari also has attestation, as far as I know without user consent.
It requires mlx but it is an Apple silicon-only library as far as I can tell. How is it supposed to be (I quote) "iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Linux, pretty much any device" ? Has it been tested on anything else than the author's MacBook ?
China reschedules planetary defense mission for 2027 launch – SpaceNews
It involves significant challenges
(it seems like I can't reply to your last comment so I do it here)
it depend how you want to display the result to the user, you can just compute a number that represent an html page showing the numbers from 1 to n
This is so far off, though. Whatever raw materials you mine from the Moon need to be refined and then you probably need to manufacture something from them, with any other components of the manufactured product being imported from Earth. Not saying there would never be a plausible scenario, but it's so far off, with nothing even resembling a hypothetical plan at this stage.
Because browsers can clamp down on The non-anon data streams when there’s a working alternative.
Whether you agree or disagree with what the Mozilla foundation does, it seems fairly matter of fact to say that they are pursuing liberal policies and that posts from the leadership, like the couple below, employ a good bit of leftist rhetoric.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/first-steps-toward-lasti...
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozilla-racia...
Kenya's protests played out on walkie-talkie app Zello
Maybe don't violate laws to be fined
You talk about not using open source software, what about contributing to Wikipedia? Or that kind of project? Interesting in food ? Help Open Food Facts. In plants Plantnet! Etc.
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> I appreciate mercurial existing and I think there are lots of good ideas, but I _really really really really_ like the working tree/staging area/index model of git.

So enable Hg queues:

* https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/MqExtension

> Git is the only DistributedSCM that exposes the concept of index or staging area. The others may implement and hide it, but in no other case is the user aware or has to deal with it.

> Mercurial's rough equivalent is the DirState, which controls working copy status information to determine the files to be included in the next commit. But in any case, this file is handled automatically. Additionally, it is possible to be more selective at commit time either by specifying the files you want to commit on the command line or by using hg commit --interactive.

[…]

> If you need the index, you can gain its behavior (with many additional options) with mercurial queues (MQ). Simple addition of changes to the index can be imitated by just building up a commit with hg commit --amend (optionally with --secret, see phases).

* https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/GitConcepts#Git.27s_staging_a...
I'm using mistral now, openai is a dying corporation in my opinion. All AI will and should be open-source and home-ran
> trying to do something in a privacy preserving way because the ad industry is not going away

they're bending for the ad industry because they want their money. they could also just keep blocking their tracking and call it a day.
I agree with the other commenter.

The current situation is worse.

EME requires that the browser ship with a DRM library like Widevine.

Flash used an industry standard plugin model and could work in any browser.
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Full liability for secondary harms caused by the leak of data that wasn’t directly required to provide a service to those same end users. Selling of data to third parties doesn’t transfer this liability but expands it to include any leaks or misuse coming from the entities the data is sold to. No statute of limitations.

So if company X sells data to company Y and then Y sells to company Z then company X has full liability for leaks or misuse from all entities in the chain.

No more free credit monitoring. Banks, credit card companies, and end users get to directly sue these companies. May not completely solve it but you can try to make it so expensive to mine data you don’t truly need that it ends the whole industry.

I am sure there are holes in this but we can at least try to kill the data brokers and bad actors.
I think Mozilla Firefox has long been positioned as a browser focused on user privacy and data protection... This decision is indeed a significant breach of trust
> I could lock myself in an empty room for days and come up with nothing.

Most good ideas come from observation. At work or outside look for things people do which could be better served. See how you could improve it.

Coming up with things people never needed or thought of is much harder.
I imagine Meta like this because most of their tracking is done behind a Facebook login anyway, and it reduces the fidelity of Google ads.
You're new to the internet and bigtech, huh? If not, what rock have you been living under?
The article mentions a few points that I consider more likely explanations:

1. Being autistic makes you not consider what is "normal" as important.

2. Autistic people are more likely to spend a very large amount of time online.
Yet another video ridiculing Reublicans.

Yes. We know the VP candidate and the audience are ignorant. It just gets boring after a while. Pakistan has had nuclear weapons since 1998. That's Islamic Republic of Pakistan. 6 nuclear tests, current stockpile 170 warheads.
People love to think that C++ is only used in systems programming, the thing is C++ is used everywhere.

FORTRAN is being developed and improved, and new code, most notably in scientific domain, is still being written.

What Rust did to C++ is what clang did to GCC. Wake the giant up. Rust will go nowhere, but it's the same for C++.

Thinking that C++ will just fade to black is wishful thinking.
Yeah it is hard to imagine any person not willing to flash the SD themselves to try out an OS like this.

I can imagine building a hobby, niche unique OS and then other hobbyists installing it themselves, but not what OP is seemingly trying to do.

He is spending time trying to figure out how to send an microSD and all the regulations of selling an electronic device instead of simply building the OS. It seems quite backwards to me.

Based on the articles it seems like he has been spending months on this. I don't know... just build the OS and develop selling points...
i've literally never seen a stud finder that doesn't also detect wiring and pipes
The Steam Deck is also a great option nowadays. Its a lot bulkier than a tablet, but I personally prefer it having a controller attached. Its biggest advantage is that it comes with Linux out of the box, so you don't have to go through the headache of installing an OS yourself and messing around with drivers.
Fox News has a clear separation of hard news and opinion. While it hosts both type of content both online and on air, every show or article clearly falls into one of those buckets and they don’t hide it.

Every NYT news article reeks of influence from its decidedly liberal editorial board. Can’t really blame them either as the balkanization of media means that’s exactly what their readers want anyway.
There have always been editors. They've always re-written history. Usually some bigot old person. Nothing new under the sun?
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> I would very much like hg to have an equivalent of `git commit -p` and `git commit -v`, agreed.

See perhaps:

> ! This extensions is deprecated, the feature is now part of Mercurial core as hg commit --interactive.

> The record extension provides the record command, which may be used in lieu of commit. This command lets you choose which parts of the changes in a working directory you'd like to commit, at the granularity of patch hunks. It is similar in spirit to the darcs record command.

* https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/RecordExtension
Wich also makes the security benefit moot as now all malware also knows to use ports 80 and 443.
Agree, interventions are needed to protect consumers
From a couple of years earlier, the Seiko TV watch (yes, wristwatch you could watch TV on):

https://www.ablogtowatch.com/no-longer-made-seiko-tv-watch-f...
Godotcaml for Godot 4.2
Why should all AI be home run? I play around with gemma/llama/sd locally but being able to pay some company to do it is very convinient.

I think most companies and people don't want to buy the hardware required to run an LLM like the ones OpenAI hosts.
I see this as an attempt at a lesser evil, and I would support that (see my EME DRM comment), but I have one concern:

Does this new "privacy preserving attribution" feature respect multi-account containers? Or is it somehow not considered necessary, because it's meant to be less invasive than the tracking cookies it's supposed to replace? Call me skeptical for now.

I'm a happy user of multi-account containers, which lets me separate my cookie identities in Firefox. Before, I had to use different browsers for work and private, and yes, it solves this problem, but the best part is that I don't have to worry about tracking cookies, because they aren't tied to my personal accounts: In my experience, I can to a great extent escape the echo chamber I'm in, and the ads I see in it, by just deleting the cookies of my sacrificial default container.

Other than that, considering the status quo – that the web is already an unfriendly GDPR nightmare, I'm positive to the initiative. And because of the power of the default, I can understand that the feature wouldn't likely take off if it was opt-in, so I won't criticize Mozilla for that move either.
oh! 2/ recommendation is an absolute masterpiece of simplicity and effectiveness - cheers for that!
Installed it a couple days ago and it works great, haven’t had any problems yet. Nice to have it through Brew.
My brain involuntarily assembled these letters into PTSD.

If there is a single programming language that rewired my the brain, it's PostScript. I used that a bit two decades ago when I wanted to programmatically generate a variant of Fresnel zone plates.
>not that I'd ever happen

In my eyes, Apple's transition to ARM on Macbooks looks like a stepping stone on that path. I wouldn't be surprised if they announced something like that for the iPad Pro eventually.
When I heard he'd privately compared Trump to Hitler, I kind of assumed he meant it in a bad way. Now I'm not so sure.
We'll Do It Live
Hi there,

I have been running an SEO agency and noticed many of my competitors fool people around.

They take months and years to show any results, whereas I give a guarantee to many clients that I can rank for some keywords within a month.

Do you know why?

Basically it's the fundamentals to true working for SEO into just taking money money from clients.

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Look this https://github.com/br101/libuwifi
Living in civilised country I find whole confession, anything you say, can't lie in your own defence thing so absolutely abhorrent. To me it seems absolutely sensible that you should be able to decide what is your statement as answer to any question by state. And if you are on stand in trial as defendant you should be able to lie however much you want. The prosecution must prove you were lying, but the act itself cannot be illegal.
Wait aren't browsers already trying to implement anti-tracking measures? Are you saying Mozilla has been holding back improving anti-tracking for the benefit of advertisers until now? Now that is evil
we should also stop treating depression as the ultimate disease,
It worked for me, no issues.
I am on version 128.0 (Build #2016030615)
communists and anarchists have been dominating the ad industry for decades :p
Yes, that's why I've donated to the LadyBird project.
I never used Brave, and this must be enforced by the government, not some corpo entity, otherwise it won't work. The corpo entity - browser vendor - must be forced to implement it.
People behave before/after asking for help
Astronomers spot a mysterious black hole nestled in a cluster of stars
I think legal protections can effectively safeguard user data
> But at the end of the day I'll prefer slower compilation every time if it means advanced checking.

I don't think that's a large issue in Rust. Type checking is quite fast in comparison to code generation.

Generics, traits, macros etc. seem to be the culprit. Turning complex language features into code and not runtime safety lead to these slow compile times.
my experience with the polygraph was it detects your ability to submit. it's less a delusion than a ritual. as a filter, it produces a completely polarized bimodal distribution of banal followers vs. the basest human malevolence and contempt, while disqualifying relfection or doubt. if the purpose of a system is what it does the polygraph is perfect. it finds expendable souls.
I hate the unpronounceable sigils of languages like Haskell, but C-style abbreviations don't really bother me somehow. The abbreviations help you remember what the words are, at least, and for me this seems to be enough.
If you want an independent definition of temperature without reference to entropy, you might be interested in the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroth_law_of_thermodynamics).

Here is a intuitive explanation for it from [1]:

“Temperature stems from the observation that if you bring physical objects (and liquids, gases, etc.) in contact with each other, heat (i.e., molecular kinetic energy) can flow between them. You can order all objects such that:

- If Object A is ordered higher than Object B, heat will flow from A to B.

- If Object A is ordered the same as Object B, they are in thermal equilibrium: No heat flows between them.

Now, the position in such an order can be naturally quantified with a number, i.e., you can assign numbers to objects such that:

- If Object A is ordered higher than Object B, i.e., heat will flow from A to B, then the number assigned to A is higher than the number assigned to B.

- If Object A is ordered the same as Object B, i.e., they are in thermal equilibrium, then they will have the same number.

This number is temperature.”

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/727798/36360
> colon-colons

I prefer "quad-dot". Rolls off the tongue better. :)
> Yet another Mercurial-stan convinced of their "rightness" in the face of the overwhelming popularity of the alternative.

It follows then that Windows® is a much better desktop/laptop OS (than Linux or macOS), given its popularity.
Gemini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
Is Agile Over?
It's a record for a fundamental piece of their hardware.

Overall is a bit meh since the only real hard problem that hasn't been solved in QC is noise becoming the dominant effect as you grow the number of qubits involved (at an exponential rate).

So it's "nice, but does it scale?".

They claim a 150-qubit system coming soon. That would be a significant breakthrough, but that statement is also the "full self driving this year" equivalent of quantum world.
In QC, a gate is a logical building block, akin to the logic gates in classical computing such as AND, OR, XOR, NOT.

Multi-qubit gates like CZ (present in the article) and CNOT are crucial for manipulating quantum states and achieving the wavefunction interference patterns that yield interesting results (quantum teleportation, Shor's algorithm, and basically any nontrivial quantum result you can think of).

One of the biggest issues keeping quantum computation from taking over the world is maintaining a given quantum state for sufficiently long (coherence time), so you can do meaningful computations on it. Of course, that's meaningless if your actual operations are noisy, hence the emphasis on high fidelity as well.

Classical computation would not be very useful if, say, one-fifth of the time when you multiply two numbers together you get the all-ones bit sequence. The same can be said about quantum computing. Of course, with classical computation, we are greedy and will raise a stink about a CPU that gives us errors in, say, one in 9 billion divisions. But QC isn't quite there yet.

What I would be interested in (and didn't see from a preliminary skim) is how big of an incremental improvement this is from the previous record.
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What camera bodies are you using that are 10lbs? Even a 5D with a 70-200 attached is like 5lbs. Most camera bodies are between 1-3lbs unless you’re talking cinema cameras, which are an entirely different beast.

Most people with DSLR’s or mirrorless are working with around 3lbs even with a lens.
But mass exploitation of naive people who provide their hard work for others who readily exploit them, and never give back anything is A-OK. People are really like the proverbial ostriches.

Plus, if they want the info about who visits what, they can already aggregate and do whatever they want with that. Everyone knows Pornhub is one of the most visited sites, and?
"ad industry" is a cancer and we need legal protection..."

Absolutely true, but how do you expect that to happen or come about?

Rampant advertising is similar to the copyright law problem. The majority of users may not like what's happening but their opposition and or dislike is but mild so when it comes to political action it collectively amounts to little more than nought.

On the other hand, advertisers, like copyright holders, have strong vested interests thus are highly motivated to ensure politicians act in their favor (one only has to look at the lopsidedness of lobbying interests to see that).

The real enemy is indifference, as a whole the citizenry is not motivated enough for things to change. Simply, we have ourselves to blame.