skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of embedded software is still running on 8 bit microcontrollers. The market has shifted towards 16 and now 32 bits, but 64 bits isn't that common yet. And a lot of the software libraries provided by microcontroller manufacturers are terrible and absolutely affected by Y2k38.

Expect lots of IoT or home security devices to malfunction. Or more critically industrial equipment, fire alarm systems, factory automation, etc. A bit over a decade a ago I helped develop an industrial spark extinguishing system. It's still sold and each setup will probably be used for 20-40 years. I know it will suffer from Y2k38, though probably (hopefully) only the event logging. When I raised concerns over this the answer from my boss was "I will be retired by then, don't spend time on that".
A lot of what you're seeing is third party dependencies, not code fuchsia developers have written. A lot of that is third party code is also dead and isn't compiled into anything (like mesa). If you do a more detailed analysis of what ends up in an actual fuchsia image, it'll look a bit more like 50/50 (and that's close to what you get if you just remove the third_party/ directory). It would be strange on fuchsia to start on a new project and choose c++ over rust these days. Most critical components of the os including filesystems, network stack, linux emulation layer, init system, etc are all rust. Things which are not are likely to be rewritten in rust eventually.

Go and dart are basically gone from the system as well. Go is only used in the legacy netstack which has been displaced by one written in rust, and is otherwise only used in host tools for building fuchsia. I believe dart is almost gone, with a few remnants left in the form of build tools. Flutter does support fuchsia (and that is dart), but that support is not maintained in a fuchsia repo.

Source: I work on fuchsia.
Free feature idea:
- Tesla needs a public facing website that allows anyone to request a video for a cost — any location at any point in time
- vehicle owners can review video footage and approve request
- vehicle owner gets a cut, Tesla gets a cut, authority or person in fender bender or whatever gets video
I would say it's load, store, compare, add, subtract, call, return and branch. If you have that you cover almost all code.
well, I think that applies to virtually every eink device.
Silly clickbait headline.

> If you live in Miami or Phoenix, you need air-conditioning to survive the summer. But if you live in the middle of the country, try leaving the air-conditioning off when it’s hot but not too hot.

The more accurate description of this opinion piece is therefore "if you live in areas where it's not too hot [Kansas, where the author is situated, seems like it has average upper temps of mid 80s right now], you don't really need AC much". ....Well, no kidding?
> otherwise it will just gradually get worse.

The austerity policies of the neoliberal turn has already caused standards of living among the less fortunate to drop over the last few decades already. The 2008 crisis is when it started to impact the middle class and we're still feeling the impacts 16+ years later.
all while some people spend their entire lives obsessing about privacy without even doing anything illegal...
He did a laws of physics thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram#Wolfram_Physic... though "Physicists are generally unimpressed." (wikipedia)
This paragraph caught my attention

This [variable-length coding] is a disadvantage for x86, yet it doesn’t really matter for high performance CPUs ...

Why are they leaving out difficilty of building a compiler backend when the ISA has variable-length codes? I would assume an ISA needs to consider its burden on compiler authors. (Itanium is an extreme example of an ISA too tedious for compiler authors)

I once extended a Common Lisp compiler to emit machine code for SSE4.2 instructions (specifically minss and maxss). The experience was a bit bad due to subtle differences in prefixes and specific fields needing to be set to activate some mode for SSE4.2 instructions.

Now suppose you want to debug a compiler backend targetting x86. Good luck, x86 disassembly is an undeciable problem because you don't know where the instructions start. Meanwhile ARM has two kinds of instructions (full-size and half-size, called "thumb"). Thanks to fixed-length instructions and alignment rules, you always know whether you're in thumb or not. Emitting machine code (and disassembly) is much more straightforward
So what levers does that give governments seeking to get compliance out of an internet service - if multiple apps are hosting anti-party propaganda the government has to block the domains of each app ?

Or, perhaps the domains of the content itself is blocked so apps continue to work but fail to load content within certain borders ?
You don't ever need to slam on your brakes or speed up for yellow lights, that's the entire point of the yellow light existing instead of just going straight to red.
Obviously you've never done trail maintenance --- an unused trail can quickly grow over, unless it is situated so that wildlife use it or there is some other mitigatingfactor.
Why is that not the point?

You violated a law and received a penalty. You're not disputing that you violated said law, but are instead trying to justify it with "barely didn't stop" and "it's 3am and there is no traffic".

Isn't the point that you got punished for doing something you would have gotten away with had no one been watching?
I haven't seen any overwhelming support. I absolutely love this thing. Coming from Kindle and Kobo. It's not a good smartphone replacement. It IS a fantastic E-reader. I carry it with me everywhere. I do Anki flashcards, do my Obsidian notes, read my Kindle and Kobo libraries I've accumulated finishing books I've procrastinated on, I use Omnivore.app for any articles I find on my Pixel, and the web browser for things like Crossplane Docs which don't get captured nicely as an article. I can share notes with Android to my Obsidian. Look I know it's Android, I know it's probably not the latest kernel, I know it has drawbacks. But from my personal experience this device has single handedly revived my ereading and replaced 90% or my doom scrolling because of the convenient form factor.

Other vendors make competition! I want color and a more secure android please.
Pathfinding in Battle Aces
One (popular) option is using a filesystem that supports snapshots (IE. BTRFS, or maybe XFS). You can set up your system to take snapshots pre-and post-update snapshots, or manually, or on a regularly scheduled basis.

If you use GRUB as your bootloader, you can boot into a stored snapshot if something gets borked. You can also recover deleted files from previous snapshots.
Does Bluesky intend to be responsive to the kind of court orders that X rejected?
Thank you for the clarifying information.
So appreciate this... I've got a funnel manager at the moment. Didn't know what to call the dysfunction or what to do about it. "shared conspiratorial comraderie" really feels like trash at this point.
I guess the assertion above is that they were not banned for mere speech?
My wife says the same for her. I think we all just have stressful jobs and are cramming tons of information into our brains. Something's gotta give!
If it can hide videos with overexpressive faces on the title cards, I'm in.
That’s totally different from needing to reboot.
It's an option that can be toggled on. By default it pulls from YouTube AFAICT.
We are talking about the same Elon who tweeted the picture of the judge behind bars in an masterful attempt to resolve the issue, right?
At the majority of signal-controlled intersections with city limits there's plenty of visibility even (or dare I say especially) at 3am and the scanning can happen as you approach.

(Also, the kind of rolling stop I'm talking about isn't a 5mph roll, it's a near-stop that feels like a stop to the driver but technically doesn't actually bring the tires to stationary. Odds are even you have done this kind of stop pretty regularly without realizing it, and even a cop wouldn't even notice it as incorrect unless they were actively looking for someone to ticket.)
this is called Popper's Tolerance Paradox, and you are quite right.

it's truly amazing how many people dont really get that having only 99% free speech is just fine
There are already plenty of cameras out there. It would not be very difficult to identify criminals. The problem is there is not sufficient motivation to do so and nobody knows what to do once the criminals are identified. My city just practices catch and release policing so laws only apply to those that will pay fines
why would that matter?
I would point you to tow pieces of data.

1. Drive a new Tesla with the latest Supervised FSD and measure how often you have to intervene to stop a crash.

2. Go back and look at your own expectations around AI two years ago. Did thing progress the way you expected or did they progress further?
The maintainer is https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mprime1
Ask HN: How do you keep up with your 'inner circle' online?
By 'inner circle' I mean the friends and family who are more than just acquaintances or colleagues, but people whose lives you genuinely care about.

If you rely on social media, which platforms?

If you've ditched social media, do you rely on group texts, private micro-networks, video chats, other means?
> Unquestioned. Nobody is permitted to ask the engineer “why did you extend the deadline?” after-the-fact.

This sounds like dogma first, safety second. Suppose an engineer at Moeing (a hypothetical aerospace company with a strong engineering and safety culture) said “we’re going to delay the first shipment of these airplanes,” then they shipment should be delayed and the design reviewed. But this review should absolutely include understanding why the engineer wants to delay shipments! And an attempt to understand how to improve the airplane and how to improve the process to reduce the chance of this happening again.
Basic Rules of Gun Safety
> Tools like Perplexity will turn Google into Altavista in the next 2 to 3 years

No it won't.

a) Google has a dominant advantage in raw data. Map POIs from their decade long investment in data quality and breadth. Shopping that has direct integration from almost all ecommerce stores. And a real-time crawling infrastructure where their index is constantly updated. Perplexity, Claude etc are dealing with typically year old information making it useless for many searches.

b) Google is a business. It runs the world's most successful and sophisticated ads platform that exists today. Advertisers demand micro-targeting, high volume and very high ROAS. Those that have tried to replicate this e.g. Reddit, X, Pinterest have all failed miserably. Which is why they are treated as purely brand awareness platforms. Nice to have not a must have. So will see how long Perplexity survives once its VC money dries up.
I mean you can but unless it are extremely poor you probably shouldn’t
Encounters with the Maverick Archaeologist of the Americas
I'm torn. I'm not a huge fan of Google and I don't have a lot of respect for the YouTube selection algorithm. However this culture of expecting Google to host the data then freeloading off it by blocking the tracking and ads is also a bit ugly.

There is an unwritten social contract here. Google is willing to host and organise a vast number of videos because that'll attract an audience for ads. If there are too may freeloaders resisting the ads then Google won't host the videos, and on the path to that the freeloaders are really just leeching off a system in an entitled way (unless their goal is to destroy YouTube in which case good on them for consistency and for picking a worthy target).

If people aren't going to be polite and accept that contract then fine, enforcement was always by an honour system. But strategically if Google's social contract doesn't work for someone then they shouldn't use YouTube - they'd just be feeding the beast. They should go make PeerTube work or investigate the long list of alternative video platforms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_video_platforms .
AppStore link: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/neo-matrix-messenger/id6499088...
Is that relevant to the illegality of Moraes' secret censorship campaign?
In the age of LLM's, I with there was some way to automatically pull videos about particular topic, extract the information out of the transcript (skip the clickbait as well) and deduplicate. I spend so much time watching videos just to conclude "ah right, it's actually based on the same info previous 3 videos"
or even better CSP options no?
Previously discussed, but not really a duplicate by HN standards since the last post was over two years ago:

> If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
> The toxic developer in question quit 2 years ago - things are peaceful now with the community.

It wasn't just "Matt A. Tobin". For example, "Moonchild" was involved in that OpenBSD debacle ( https://archive.is/qbpmL ). Just someone trying to make Pale Moon to work and they approached it like that. Moonchild still blames OpenBSD devs for it... earlier this year he said they were "uncooperative" ( https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=30732 )... I wonder why.

A few were fine with Tobin's behaviour and happy to support him... and they're still there.

This doesn't affect the performance or security of the browser, but it's something that bothers me and so it's a point against when considering which browser should I use.
... Why would it not?
That’s interesting. Are companies coming to you and you propose the technical solution for their problem statement?
What would the government spend the additional tax revenue on, in your conservative expection?
The real issue is that you cannot access the DOM via WASM.

Also the previous article is here[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37849310
- children are god’s future army and their entire purpose in life is to prepare for an afterlife by expanding that religion

- children are inherently sinful; nothing they can do is good enough in god’s eyes; the most important thing in existence is to believe in this particular story and to dedicate one’s life to this belief

I truly believe it was love for their kids that drove my parents to instill such an extreme and harmful worldview. Primarily because of some pretty major unresolved Traumas with a capital T in both of their lives. Decades later, I’m still unwinding what remains a complex relationship in therapy.

The point of this anecdote was just that there’s a subset of us who had parents extremely focused on their kids and who really did invest the time into focusing on what’s “best”.

They just saw the world very differently, in ways that turn out to be extremely harmful, and I’m a messy product of that.
This would never have gone past Jobs.
On desktop you can use YouTube Clickbait Remover for that
This couldn't have come at a better time. I just started my first Bubbletea based app earlier today. Thanks for writing!
It’s hardly a surveillance state to say operators of heavy machinery should do so safely: there are many, many dead pedestrians and bicyclists who were hit by someone who _thought_ the road was empty, and American traffic laws are so lenient that it’s disturbing that people think they’re overbearing.

It’s estimated that we are effectively subsidizing drivers by close to a trillion dollars annually by not requiring adequate insurance to cover the full cost to victims. Just pay your ticket and drive better before you make a mistake you’ll never recover from.
Sooooo... do you see what I'm saying?
Right to repair is truly a vital human right we should fight hard for. That and the right to free speech.
>I remember a time when Linux was

I (literally) remember a time from some years before Linux just was - because i was alive, and working in software, then.

source code of packages, including major ones, was available to download ... and source code for programs was available probably much before the technique of downloading was even a thing. people used to ship around programs in source code format via (magnetic) tapes or usenet or sneakernet, later, floppies, etc. see the Jargon File for much more computer lore than you would ever want to know about, including some of this stuff, although plenty of it is interesting, imo.

>So long for hackability.

pardon me.

are Linux distributions not downloadable as source anymore?

I guess, to many devs, including me, that's the ultimate meaning of hackability.

because then you can hack anything from the top to the bottom of the stack.

still editing ...
If one were to subscribe to such a distinction between algorithmic ranking and algorithmic suggestions I would liken it with a broad paintbrush to:

Ranking: A group of people share a ouija board, and together make selections.

Suggestion: A singular entity clips together media to create a new narrative, akin to a ransom note.

If the sum of the collection of content more than its parts, if is different in strength not kind, or self reenforcing, it's really hard to distinguish where the algorithm ends and the voters begin.
Not on the model but most companies don’t sell models, they sell products and that use models. GPT-3 became obsolete at some point but ChatGPT hasn’t, and has some level of moat with their ecosystem. And cloud providers have moats via lock in, just for blanket products instead of any one model.
Not sure I could care less about the security of my e-reader.
I'd be interested, more so in the Highsense one that includes cell data, but they all run outdated, EOL Android. That's a non-starter for something connected to the internet with anything remotely important on it.
That is unfortunate.
It is pricey but looks great.
> 1. Allow unrealized losses to be deducted.

This seemed really reasonable to me until I started thinking about how it might work in practice. The sequence of returns can make this proposal ineffective in practice, even if it makes sense on first blush.

By way of explanation: Let's say you're the founder of Pets.com in an alternate universe where unrealized gains have always been taxed (and correspondingly unrealized losses can be deducted). It's 2000, and you've just had an incredible run. You have also paid incredible taxes along the way.

Then your company blows up and goes to zero.

Now you've payed an incredible amount of taxes on your paper gains, and have realized no gains whatsoever. So the entire enterprise only resulted in an enormous real loss to you. Sure you can now carry forward those losses, but so what? You're never going to make up the difference, unless we're also letting your heirs carry forward those losses into the next century or two.

Given the exposure to massive tax bills without any actual profits, who in their right mind would start or invest in a business under that tax code? Who would dare invest a large portion of their personal worth in public equities given the risk that they plummet, as they did in 2022, 2020, 2008, 2001, 2000, 1987, 1962, 1929, 1907, etc.? Who would take a gamble on a big real estate development? And so on.

It seems to me that a tax on unrealized gains massively disincentivizes investment and the creation of anything new, and therefore the only way to tax capital gains that makes sense is if we calculate the tax due based on when chips are taken off the table. Issues like Buy, Borrow, Die are better addressed with other changes to the tax code that undo the weird incentivizes presently in place (e.g. eliminating the step-up basis, possibly at some threshold if the goal is to make the tax code more progressive). Unless, that is, your goal is to actively disincentivize entrepreneurship and investment. Which if it is, I guess fair enough, but then none of us should be surprised to find ourselves with a lower standard of living in a decade as a result.
I mean, you do have to admit that by objecting to "massive surveillance nets", you're actively helping criminals who have things to hide, even if you don't.

If you think that's worth it, that's up to you, but you do have to admit that your position helps those with antisocial goals. You'll probably argue that "massive surveillance nets are inherently antisocial", but we both know that's not any more true than saying that "absolute freedom of speech is inherently antisocial". Arguably true, but wholly subjective.
And time.

An account otherwise identical made two days later is going to interact with a different stream. Technically deterministic but in practice no two end up ever being exactly alike, (despite similar people having similar channels.)

The "answer" will turn back into tv channels. Have communities curate playlists of videos, and then anyone can go watch the playlist at any time. Reinvent broadcast tv / the subreddit.
i have one of these. the display is exactly what i want but iirc the tuning app and some other necessary parts are not open.

there's allegedly a root method available. but nobody's distributing a rom, and i haven't had the time to look into building one.

i sideload epubs and use it as an offline ereader.
I got really excited about this and then realised it's only for Kubernetes: the one platform I've never believed you should deploy a database to (relational or otherwise.) I guess there are some use cases for such a deployment, but after 20 years of experience across many organisations on three continents, I've never encountered a situation that involves constantly rolling forward the database engine. Bring the engine inline with updates, sure, but weekly? Even monthly? No.
> Here in this article we’ll bring together research, comments from people who are very familiar with CPUs, and a bit of our in-house data to show why focusing on the ISA is a waste of time

Very amateur-ish question and counterpoint from me: how is Apple M1 performance and power consumption so good compared to the other laptop cpus then?
The amount of code that's being run compiled with systems for which this is a pressing issue is probably ~0%.

You're either using an established backend that does all this for you, or realistically you can throw some money at it and make it go away.
I had a lot more sympathy for this argument a few years ago, but lately Google does enough short-term thinking all by itself that it seems fine to just take what you can get for as long as it does something that happens to be useful to you, amidst all the stuff it does that is useful only to itself.

Just be prepared for the good times to end at any moment.
because AOT and JIT take care of it.
Hey, you want a monopoly on information while at the same time operating the largest ad network in the world?

Then don't complain if people block your stupid ads and count yourself lucky that the government didn't split your megacorp into several tiny companies

The only morally wrong thing here is NOT blocking Google's ads
I use the dearrow extension to nuke the title cards

https://dearrow.ajay.app/
Surely object recognition models will catch up to whatever attempts to thwart it (especially if it becomes popular). As long as a person is recognizable to another person, a computer should also be able to recognize them.

Trying to camouflage seems like a losing battle.