skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a side note, does anyone know what the backup plan is if Linus is suddenly no longer able to lead in his current capacity? I think it's likely there is one, but am not sure what it is.
It is a good video, but I'm not at all convinced that a philosophical "authoritarian" vs "anarchy" difference between Rust and C actually exists. C programmers work through all sorts of constraints and rules on how to correctly use a system, same as anyone else. Heck, there are hundreds of pages of kernel documentation explaining how developers are expected to use the various locking subsystems. Does that make C authoritarian? I don't think so... that's just a fact of programming. The details matter.

IMO the only real cultural difference in Rust is that you are expected to explain those constraints through the language of the type system, not just in English. That's a lot of work up front but it also gives you way more automation down the line (eg checking that you used a mutex correctly via rustc rather than through emails to Linus Torvalds). Some people definitely take it too far, and blow up their code with endless incomprehensible traits. But the islands aren't incompatible, it just takes work and skill to bridge them.
How about reforming the WPA [1] and build free basic housing. Let the for profit house building corporations handle the luxury stuff. Actually, that's all they are interested in doing anyways.

We should stop begging them to build what we need and just do it ourselves.

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administratio...
A forfeited amount is not the same as a fine. The 11 billion also does not mean that Ellison is in possession of that amount. It's simply the amount that can be connected, directly or indirectly, to the illicit activity for which she is convicted.
The easy solution is to not buy things on the internet. I can’t think of the last thing I bought online.
When I used to drink instant, I'd drink either a Nescafe light roast instant or Jacobs Cronat Gold, also a light roast instant.
that seems really hard
I dont think it was greed. I think he legitimately thought he was doing the right thing, thought it was fun, and thought it was interesting.
Matt has a reputation for flying off the handle, a smaller scale Elon Musk. Matt has been trying to get WPE to contribute more to the Wordpress project for years. Last week Matt heard that WPE were pressuring employees to stay silent about WPEs internals and so he flew off the handle and started throwing everything at the wall… thus, the festering resentment towards WPE for their lack of contributions to the project became the basis of all the things he’s throwing. Demand for payment was the easiest thing in reach. That didn’t work, and now trademark infringement claim is the easiest legal-shaped thing in reach. There’s no deeper explanation than man throws things.

The Wordpress foundation is Matt. Automattic is Matt. For all the pomp and circumstance, Wordpress is just Matt doing whatever he wants unchecked. Hence the trademark pages of the Wordpress website mysteriously changing today to reflect the version of reality needed to make this case stronger.

Wrong? Maybe. Consistent? Yes.
Found the person who wants to pretend mobility scooters or elevators (both electric), don't exist. Nor townhomes/condominiums. Never been to Europe or even Washington DC, where people somehow still survive.

Emergency/delivery vehicles are usually given a pass in these kind of designs as well.
Ask HNs: Junior Engineers Using ChatGPT?
I have a few junior engineers that work for me. I notice they are all just using chat gpt. Chat gpt makes some hard to notice bugs that unless you program a bunch you won't notice, or writes code that is inefficient. If they don't actually write code they aren't going to learn this stuff. We are paying these guys well over 6 figures. Is this the future were all people are going to do is use ChatGPT?
Not sure why the downvoting. It’s a serious question. Who is ensuring that this project has a future and isn’t going to collapse tomorrow?
Idiot girl... but I feel like it could be anyone easily swayed by sleazy characters.

Seems like a situation that just got worse and worse until it was a disaster without remediation.

Meanwhile SBF was quite happy to watch the world burn.
Similarly, I weigh my financial situation through the lens of how many months I could last if I lost my job. The number isn't infinite, and so that anxiety still drives me regardless of the realities of how long a job search in our industry would actually last
From my experience, my main criticism of research in the field of computer vision is that most of it is 'meh'. In a university that focused on security research, I saw mountains of research into detection/recognition, yet most of it offered no more than slightly different ways of doing the same old thing.

I also saw: a head of design school insisting that they and their spouse were credited on all student and staff movies, the same person insisting that massive amounts of school cash be spent promoting their solo exhibition that no one other than students attended, a chair of research who insisted they were given an authorship role on all published output in the school, labs being instituted and teaching hires brought in to support a senior admin's research interested (despite them not having any published output in this area), research ideas stolen from undergrad students and given to PhD students... I could go on all day.

If anyone is interested in how things got like this, you might start with Margret Thatcher. It was she who was the first to insist that funding of universities be tied to research. Given the state of British research in those days it was a reasonable decision, but it produced a climate where quantity is valued over quality and true 'impact'.
What you're describing doesn't seem to relate to the post at all.
What a jargon-rich sentence. No idea what you wrote.
>With debit card (...), you don't have dispute protections.

In Europe you do. There's no reason this can't be the case in the US too.
This is published by a website that needs to be visited in order to justify its existence. Like the majority of the web these days.

Small signals in study data are overhyped and extrapolated to make general sweeping conclusions.

I’m not saying coffee is either bad, or a miracle substance.

I am saying everyone and everything on this planet craves relevance.
What about those with high blood pressure?

https://clinicalnutritionespen.com/article/S2405-4577(23)021...
...an effect known as "wonkflation".
It’s an opinion, but it sounds very good from the perspective of treating the relationships between system and subsystems as an interface to be managed.
It's the other way around: with the new change, the blockee will be able to see (but not reply to) the blocker's posts, but the blockee's posts will still be hidden from the blocker.
As clarification, the article linked in the subject is dated 2022 BUT it is actually just "a correction" of the very famous 2005 article. The correction is eentsy-weentsy - just a missing pair of parenthesis if you click through:

There is an error in Table 2. A set of parentheses is missing in the equation for Research Finding = Yes and True Relationship = No. Please see the correct Table 2 here.
It also depended on baud rate. I remember2400 was cheaper than 9600
People should realize that what I stated is actually true. Ohio did that.
> I feel that shortened it too much.

No worries, here's a slightly longer description.

Languages such as F# have static type systems which can catch logic errors during compilation. The kind of defects type systems can catch are often "low hanging fruit" issues such as logic errors and typo's.

In many ways, programming languages with a sufficiently mature type system provide the same benefit as pair programming. When they are used in conjunction with mathematically sound constructs, such as immutability, Functors, Monads, Monoids, etc., these languages can be a productivity/correctness force multiplier.
OpenAI Pitched White House on Unprecedented Data Center Buildout
C and C++ are very different. I think Casey Muratori hits the nail on the head here:

https://youtu.be/xt1KNDmOYqA

In short, RAII and smart pointers and borrow checker are all signs of "individual element thinking" and that way lies madness. You smear out lifetime and ownership so badly that it practically by definition becomes a problem.

Your goal is to think about this stuff in groups to make thinking about allocation way, way easier. Programming is all about abstracting to the next layer.

I'm not sure he has quite gotten to the heart of the issue, yet. However, a bunch of smart people (Casey Muratori, Jonathan Blow, Andrew Kelley, etc.) are all dancing around something that Rust and C++ don't seem to fit the bill on. Hopefully they can crystallize it out so that everybody can see it.
Ask HN: Looking for Feedback on Website
Recently relaunched the landing page for an OSS project that I work on, and am looking for feedback and first impressions.

Trying to fix issues we've had where the purpose of the project is misinterpreted, and trying to see if there are any gaps that can be addressed etc.

Thanks in advance for any feedback/comments :)
a tweet of unsubstantial claims, how impressive and thought provoking /s
Reddit is basically the Internet's sewer.
Twitter doesn’t work for me, is the post about the movie or the book?
For most driver or subsystem, maybe you don't need to know how mm works.

Rust is different. The kernel Rust teams are trying to encode some safety invariant. If any of those mismatch with the C side, it breaks. Those invariant need some non trivial knowledge of rust to understand
Drinking 3 cups of coffee might also make you more prone to doing things when you should be resting, staying in the wage-slave 9-5 grind for longer, etc. Personally, I think it's better to rest.
I don't know, but in Europe the visa/mastercard charges are capped at 0.2% for debit cards and 0.3% for credit cards. This seems to be enough for them to continue operating.
If you want a tool to visualize/understand/grep large JSON documents, try https://github.com/ckampfe/jstream

Disclaimer: I am the author and I regularly test it on JSON documents hundreds of MBs large.
It's true in the sense that nobody understands it well enough to avoid writing memory safety bugs.
Pointing out Theranos would be like pointing out the existence of double agents despite rigorous counter-measures. Things will happen; one wants them to happen less.
True. They have a commission to approve fracking under State parks. It really is just a rubber stamp.
(which is a money saving trick in an of itself: if buying X thing requires you to get up and move your body to the store and look at it and pick it up and check out and haul it back, you’re going to buy a lot less things than if all you have to do is move your index finger 0.25mm once. This is why Amazon made with one click purchasing, to the extent people paid amzn for a license to implant “buying it now”)
Feels like early 2010s all over again. Are people still buying wallpapers and ringtones? I didn't even know there was a market for it.
According to [1] “solar-plus-storage energy projects are already cheaper than new fossil fuel power plants in many parts of the world, and costs are poised to fall further.”

There are links provided there that may answer your questions in more detail.

[1] https://www.vox.com/climate/372852/solar-power-energy-growth...
Tesla does all of this and they do it without dealerships. The problem with dealerships is they’re independent franchised businesses that extract but do not create value, not that they are buildings full of cars.
Brought to you by big coffee.
What's Twitter call it?
No, but as long as it doesn't land in Microsoft's hands I'm happy.
edit: Not Oracle either
Canon and Nikon. Sometimes it’s due to personal relationships and owed favors that would be dishonorable to ignore.
It's not that the paper itself made the claim of having access to objective Truth, it's that papers like these make conclusions, and these conclusions get taken in aggregate to advance various agendas, and the whole premise is treated (in aggregate) as being functionally identical to building a rocket based on conclusions reached by mathematics and physics research papers—because both situations involve making decisions based upon “scientific research”, so in both situations you can justify your actions by pointing to “Science”.
How can you build a new kernel with distro tools otherwise?
For comparison, the text of the screenshotted web page (https://wordpressfoundation.org/trademark-policy/) now reads:

> The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks, but please don’t use it in a way that confuses people. For example, many people think WP Engine is “WordPress Engine” and officially associated with WordPress, which it’s not. They have never once even donated to the WordPress Foundation, despite making billions of revenue on top of WordPress.

This is kind of a wild change. And the change of tone about "WP" aside, it is very strange to make complaints like this on a trademark policy page of all places.

This whole thing is very bizarre and not a great look.
MTA seems to be seriously upping their technology game over the past few years. Anecdotally, I've noticed their apps seem to have better UX and are more reliable. I'd be curious to learn what organization changes have happened to enable this.
What's causing it to crash, the left panel or the right?

Are you using CodeMirror for the left panel?
It’s enough to shift power to the evening when demand is highest.
There's tools/extensions/userscripts to download from browser if there's an desktop interface. At least I assume, I use one to grab various online M3U8 audio that doesn't allow downloads. It would be a PITA for huge backlogs, but I haven't came across many services where you can't get the audio... somehow.
"Torvalds said that, for now, breaking the Rust code is permissible, but that will change at some point in the future. Kroah-Hartman said that the Rust developers can take responsibility for the maintenance of the abstractions they add."

This need some very good expectation management.
I don't know a single home buyer who likes that though. You have an opportunity to differentiate by moving away from the obnoxious dynamic that exists today.
> "The blocker or the person who behaved in such a way that they got blocked?"

People get blocked for all kinds of reasons, most of them relatively innocent.
> superfluid quantum gravity with Bernoulli's and Navier-Stokes, and vortices of curl

And Gross-Pitaevskii
FP8 data type – all values in a table
Context suggests film...

"Jurassic Park inspired more people to go into biotech than any academic paper. The Matrix inspired more people to go into computer science than any GitHub repo. The Martian inspired more people to go into aerospace engineering than any industry trend report.

Science fiction doesn’t predict the future, it does something much more interesting: tell stories about technology so compelling that people dedicate their lives to advancing the frontier"
C/C++ is like water/alcohol; certainly they look very similar to an uninvolved observer, and one can mix them easily, but they differ drastically. One is an utterly simple life substrate, another is a toxic and hallucinogenic but potent rocket fuel.

For the record, Torvalds has always vehemently resisted any attempts to use C++ in the kernel. I completely support his position.
Ioannidis published a journal article with what many considered an ad hominem attacks against a graduate student. He later withdrew that portion of the paper, (somewhat) in his defense.
No, C++ and especially C have much looser notions around ownership and lifetimes. They still require the basic idea of temporaral safety at all times, but differ greatly in how that's achieved in practice. For example, you'd typically share an Arc<RwLock<T>> between threads in rust, even if it doesn't strictly need them for whatever reason. I can't say I've ever seen someone manually implement Arc in C, and RwLock might be ensured half a dozen ways spanning the entire gamut from no protection for things like file handles all the way up to full mutexes.
About a year ago we launched in partnership with the Airbyte team the Vectara Destination, to help developers accelerate Generative AI applications - congrats on the Airbyte team on this great launch and looking forward to 2.0
Study reveals secrets behind Lycium barbarum's cold and heat resistance efficacy
First, make sure enough of it is natural habitat for animals so people don't have to drive to national parks outside the city to gain some contact with nature.
I googled for this file and I LOL'ed as the first link was a crash report linked to this one.

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/latest-beta-causing-program-cr...
The US military spends a lot of cash funding Hollywood blockbusters for the exact reason. However when it comes to things that actually benefits society like science, they don't even have enough funding to just do the thing, let alone PR
Pre-marriage Yes. Im a family man now, so not for 2.

2 million is about 10 years of salary. maybe double if you include the time value of money.

Would you spend 2 years in jail now to live 20 years longer? Have 2 more children? to retire 30 years earlier?
Unfortunately while this advice sounds useful, it isn’t. It might be useful if you measure impact is the fake metrics like citation count but if you want to measure with actual tangible impact on the real world, you have a rude awakening before you. To me there are 2 ways a paper can create impact:

1. The paper represents such an impressive leap in performance over existing methods in AI, that it is obviously impactful. Unfortunately, this way of generating impact is dominated by industry. No one can expect Academia to train O1, SAM, GPT5 etc. AI rewards scale, scale requires money, resources and manpower and Academia has none. In the early days of AI, there were rare moments when this was possible, AlexNet, Adam, Transformers, PPO etc. Is it still possible? I do not know, I have not seen anything in the last 3 years and I’m not optimistic many such opportunities are left. Even validating your idea tends to require the scale of industry.

2. The paper affects the thought process of other AI researchers and thus you are indirectly impactful if any of them cause big leaps in AI performance. Unfortunately here is where Academia has shot itself in the foot by generating so many damn papers every year (>10,000). There are just so many, that the effect of any 1 paper is meaningless. In fact the only way to be impactful now is to be in a social circle of great researchers, so that you know your social circle will read your paper and later if any of them make big performance improvements, you can believe that you played a small role in it. I have spoken to a lot of ML researchers, and they told me they choose papers to read just based on people and research groups they know. Even being a NeurIPS spotlight paper, means less than 10% of researchers will read your paper, maybe it will go to 50% if it’s a NEURIPS best paper but even that I doubt. How many researchers remember last year’s NEURIPS best paper?

The only solution to problem 2, is radical. The ML community needs to come together and limit the number of papers it wide releases. Let us say it came out and said that yearly only 20 curated papers will be widely published. Then you can bet most of the ML community will read all 20 of those papers and engage with it deeply as they will be capable of spending more than a day at least thinking about the paper. Of course you can still publish on arxiv, share with friends etc but unless such a dramatic cutdown is made I don’t see how you can be an actually impactful AI researcher in Academia when option 1 is too expensive and option 2 is made impossible.
Appreciated indeed. I happened to want to mess around with the C11 concurrency API and write a server of sorts, mostly as a curiosity of how those constructs work out in C coming from C++.
Is "recourse" a good pattern for preventing abuse and harassment? Do any other platforms implement "recourse?"
Is this not the same as the halting problem (genuinely asking)?
Thanks for staying your point so clearly. I’m a bystander to this discussion, but agree with you about the reality of this.
Yeah, one of the few things that Brazil has over North America is Pix.
Is there an example of what you're describing?
I think that was the lead for the group getting RUST in the kernel.

RUST itself is still strong outside of the kernel.
> Does that make C authoritarian? ...

Well, he called Rust authoritarian and C anarchy. As with all analogies if I don't stretch too far it does make lot of sense to me.
Do you have an idea for a better one? It is pretty darn close to natural selection, which while ugly, does produce surprisingly good results in many domains.

Of course the implementation is far from perfect. For example, the interaction between impact factor and grant funding produces pressure toward ideological conformity and excessive analytical “creativity”. But the underlying principle of competitive scrutiny is probably a desirable one.
Two questions:

1. What’s the best place to research FTC win rates?

2. Given that Khan is taking an “aggressive” approach to what sorts of cases the FTC should pursue, wouldn’t it make sense for the win rate to be lower under her leadership?
> why everyone dislikes the subscription model so much

Because _everything_ is a subscription today, and even more of them make people angry. When a tool doesn't have any "infrastructure" costs per se, it rubs people the wrong way. Most don't want yet another subscription to manage
Yes, she would absolutely have gotten a greatly reduced sentence if she had been a man who immediately turned state's witness, gave them everything they wanted, and testified in court.

SBF played himself every step of the way. He tried to win in the court of public opinion rather than the court of law, leaking Ellison's diary to the press, blogging on Substack, talking to reporters any time they called, flaunting the judge's orders, etc. He also clumsily tried to tamper with witnesses. SBF got 25 years because he instigated the scheme, never fessed up, and did everything a lawyer would tell you not to do.

Ellison immediately made a deal with prosecutors, cooperated, testified, et cetera. While SBF was digging his hole deeper, she was climbing out of hers. And though she carried out the scheme, she wasn't the primary instigator (and there is lots of testimony, emails, etc to corroborate this).

People who immediately flip and cooperate heavily get good deals. That's just how these things work. Conversely, SBF did everything you could do to get yourself a longer sentence. It has absolutely nothing to do with Ellison being a woman. I've been following this story closely, and this sentencing came as no surprise. To be honest, if you were surprised - then you probably weren't following.

Refer to the article for quotes from Judge Kaplan about her "exemplary" cooperation, and consider whether you were too quick to jump to the conclusion she received special treatment because of her gender.