skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> maybe the right thing happened

Absolutely. I would have hated to see things like

set x [ expr $y + $z ]

all over the place. (As a command language, this is not so bad.)
tpb is not really still extant
switch (n % 2) {
case 0:
do {
++i;
case 1:
++i;
} while (--n > 0);

}

Someone is really ought to record a "WAT" video about C.
On Ubuntu, both.
A system daemon with interesting interactions with avahi-daemon and colord, and a somewhat sandboxed user program, just so Chrome is not overly inconvenienced by its snap sandboxing.
But wait, there is more: The login & lock screen also runs the whole glory of GNOME.. to query printer settings. So you can have those sweet, sweet "new printer" notifications overlaid while inputting your password. Or whatever else "your" printer needs to add there.
Oh man, how’d I forget about the Christmas tree and Ed. You just hit me with the 90s so hard.

I used to watch LOUD religiously and I imagine I thought that made me pretty hardcore. I knew about slipknot before they were cool (I probably thought)!
do you mind lightly summarizing what technical problems make it more difficult? I'm assuming there are all sorts of things web-devs never even think about from that world.
The extensions display an estimate based on how many of the extension's users disliked the video. Youtube doesn't expose an API for getting the exact dislike count, except to the creator of the video.

https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike/blob/main/...

https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/134791097/update-t...
That's right but instead we built on top of audio-video streaming primitives so that it provides the same convenience of AWS lambda but can support persistent webRTC & websocket connections.
All you have to do is write your backend logic using our open source SDK and then you can one click deploy to Outspeed's infra similar to Vercel.
I would agree with you that a space agency is also useful (maybe more useful some days of the week). Sam disagrees and thinks he can do better without a non-profit board now.
I'm glad we live in a world where he gets to try and we get to tax him and his employees to do other things we consider useful.
The EU Tries to Extend Its ESG Regulatory Reach to the U.S.
And you can start your own service if so inclined:
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/create-your-own-teletext-se...
Seems so, TSMC had issues with keeping costs under control while building their fab in Arizona. The military is having trouble building submarines and ships at the same rate as China is capable of. Nuclear plants are being built way over cost.

I'm reminded of this article which explains why elevators cost so much more here in the USA than the rest of the world:

https://archive.is/u7Bp9
My positive experiences with libraries is exactly what I’m drawing on. It seems to me that if physical libraries can be made free to use, nothing prevents a digital equivalent other than lack of the same sort of funding.
Super interesting, what's the rationale behind its use there?
If it saves them money, great. That also means resources saved, and that also means it's better for the planet, thus better for humanity. I'm failing to see the disadvantage.
And the other 4.99% they do that anyways, in my experience.
Does this say anything concerning about the US ability to produce warships?

Scaling up shipbuilding in wartime demands skilled labour and construction facilities. To say nothing of the material inputs.
I agree that Alice just needs to print anything but that seems like user interaction required. Its also not clear if Alice has multiple printers defined does it matter which printer she selects?
Traces back to 2022: https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-insiders-users-calli...

> It began as a joke, one of the people said, given the close spelling of the Muppet's name to Musk's own and the irony of Musk's temperamental personality in contrast to that of the kind and curious "Sesame Street" character.

> However, use of Elmo to discuss Musk has become more commonplace in recent weeks, as Musk has turned Twitter into "a dictatorship," one former employee said. There are potentially fewer repercussions from criticizing your billionaire boss if you can argue you were discussing a puppet, not the CEO.

> Elmo is also gaining traction as a nickname for Musk on Twitter itself. Thousands of recent Tweets and comments clearly discussing Musk only mention the Muppet by name. Discussing Musk under his new nickname keeps the CEO from trending and it keeps critics out of his mentions.
> Do people have printers that move around all the time?

I suspect it's not the printers that are moving, but the laptops.
Is there a sizable focus on safety? Last time I heard there was only like one safety person left on the team
If I ever get pulled over for weaving I might just blame it on lane assist.
Disagree on this take. Blocking services does have an economic impact.

This alongside people smuggling in starlink is making censorship useless.
But it seems like User Interaction is required.
> You're free to do it. But many media companies don't do it for legitimate practical, ethical, and moral reasons.

But Twitter’s current owner has explicitly attacked the media for exactly this reason, and has claimed repeatedly and self-aggrandizingly to value free speech above such concerns.
Related:

X (Twitter) blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41662702
Unfortunately, that's not how trademarks work.

You can name your company "ThisProductWillCureYouFromCancer" and the FDA cannot do a thing about it if you put it on a bottle of herbal pills.
This sounds to me like an attempted asset forfeiture.

The idea that in LA you could get a warrant to raid a business because they use a lot of power and it smells like weed would qualify ALOT of businesses in California for a seizure.
I would suggest "not at all".

Access to American health care has jack shit in common with being able to live a healthy lifestyle. You can learn the latter from personal trainers, self-help books, physical education, sports involvement, all sorts of ways. Then you summon the discipline to adhere to such a lifestyle, and there's nothing a physician can do to influence those decisions.

The American health care system may be useful in cases of GSW or cardiac events or broken limbs, but people who use it exceedingly sparingly are the ones who end up enjoying health and wellness, without being inexorably steered into a pharmacy or chemotherapy.

Follow the money here: look at some maps; I've found in my urban area that FQHCs open up to take Medicaid/Medicare dollars for services to the poor and vulnerable. In the affluent neighborhoods, you'll find cosmetic clinics and surgeons, along with massage, spas, and boutique concierge naturopaths and other alternative practitioners. (None of the above are proven to extend lifespans nor improve outcomes for the sick.)

Don't believe me? Ask practicing physicians, who are utterly exasperated and fed up with all the patients who abused/neglected their bodies and now expect medicine to "fix them up" like the Tech Support desk. They can do nothing of the kind. Hopefully, they are compassionate and honest about those limitations.
> Is there a legal alternative? I would really really want something like Netflix for books, where I can easily discover and read books.

Plenty of books (and other written works, such as serial publications) are in the public domain, hence fully legal from a copyright POV. However discovery is still a major problem: many works in the public domain are still far from being easily findable or accessible online. (Even then, it's worth keeping in mind that the books people generally think of as the 'Greatest Books of the Western Canon' are, by and large, in the public domain, and that already is more books than you could feasibly read in a lifetime.)
Anna's Archive has a complete repository on how they have it setup.

https://software.annas-archive.se/AnnaArchivist/annas-archiv...
> The US has globalized away its maritime industry

It hasn't. Jones Act _protects_ the US maritime industry, so it stagnated and died. Nobody wants the US ships unless they have to use them, they're crap compared to ships from other countries.

> and they still can't find builders.

That's because shipyards are basically a defense industry subsidiary. So they receive a fixed amount of orders, and it's known for years in advance. The shipyards are also unionized to hell and back, with VERY cushy contracts. So shipyards can't hire temporary workforce for a given project.
As far as I know Twitter is still HQ in California and the current laws is:

The legal definition of posting harmful information on the internet under California Penal Code 653.2 is as follows:

You used an electronic communication device to distribute electronically, publish, email, hyperlink or make available for downloading personal identifying information or an electronic message of a harassing nature about another person;

You did so without that person’s consent;

You did so with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear for his/her safety or the safety of his/her immediate family;

You did so for the purpose of imminently causing that other person unwanted physical contact, injury or harassment; andThe personal identifying information or message you shared would be likely to incite or produce that unwanted physical contact, injury or harassment.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10040429
Wow! At that size, I wonder if it's even technically still flying, or more like swimming through a thick Brownian motion soup.
Show HN: A command-line tool for bulk deleting your GitHub gists
> It makes me wonder how they are dealing with memory management when Java objects are being used from Swift

It uses Swift macros to add a `JavaObjectHolder` property to Swift types annotated with `@JavaClass`[0]. `JavaObjectHolder` is a Swift class that takes a global JNI reference to the Java object, and releases it when the holder is destroyed[1].

The result is that a codegen utility emits Swift structs[2] that wrap the JNI values, and the JNI glue code for method invocation is applied at compile-time when the macros are expanded.

[0] https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-java/blob/e7d7a217e37d49b...

[1] https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-java/blob/main/Sources/Ja...

[2] https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-java/blob/main/Sources/Ja...
Btw. there is a new video from the Heart of Clojure Hallway track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEqzw6V31tk I think it really captures the great atmosphere in the community and some community leaders.
> vulnerability researchers justifying bad behaviour because they find a vulnerability in code

This is an extremely bad faith take that makes me irrationally angry to read.

He's not using bad code as a reason to engage in bad behavior, he's using bad responses to responsible disclosure. Read the section under "Personal Considerations". It only took him two days to find the problem, but 22 days to get developers to admit there's a vulnerability, even when shown PoCs.

Imagine finding a vulnerability, responsibly disclosing it, being told "meh, not an issue", responding with a PoC showing full code execution, and still being told "meh, not an issue".
Well, numerous jurisdictions have passed laws against "revenge porn", so they seem to agree with my suggestion. I will agree that information gathered via hacking can be seen both ways (much of Wikileaks was gathered somewhat nefariously) but the idea of blocking should not automatically be considered a suppression of free speech.
mxbai is for embeddings for RAG.

The others are for text generation / instruction following, for various writing tasks.
Sure, you can use Disney, Microsoft, Volkswagen, and WordPress marks referentially.

You cannot name products or services “Essential Disney”, “Enterprise Outlook”, “The Volkswagen Experiance”, or “Enterprise WordPress”.

Your allowed nominative use and/or a software license does not give you a license to title your own services with their trademarks. My suggestion would be to read through the Red Hat, Fedora Project, or Mozilla trademark guidelines and/or the Debian-Mozilla dispute article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian–Mozilla_trademark_dispu...
California new law forces digital stores to admit you're just licensing content
I agree that it's difficult, I don't know much about centrality measures for dynamic networks.

However, degree sounds like a bad measure, since the value can be drastically increased by participating in a (few) big project(s).
Thanks for this explanation. It was very helpful. In terms of magic I meant it simply as how big is the set of unchangeable axioms, as opposed to how many things are derived in the language itself from a more minimal set of magical axioms. With Lisp being the language with the least magic lisp for C programmers was insightful!
My Nintendo Switch
Passenger rail systems require the procurement of immense amounts of very pricey land, or the transfer of ownership of existing rail lines. I don’t see that as a similar cultural issue.

Boat building can be solved by spending money to build boats (and perhaps waiting a couple decades for expertise to be built up).

Using eminent domain or changing the view of the public on land rights is a much higher barrier.
Any reader that has only bothered to implement pdf object processing and page rendering. Or just any pdf reader that doesn't have pdf javascript implemented
> We kill millions of humans with agency every day on this planet. And none of them immediately die if we stop providing them with electrical power ... well I guess a small amount of them do. Anyway, we'll be fine. If the AI come, can they immediately stop us from growing food? How can an AI prevent my orchard from giving apples next year? Sure, it can mess up Facebook, but at this point that'd be a benefit.

1. IMHO, genocidal apocalypse scenarios like you describe are the wrong way to think about the societal danger of AGI. I think a far more likely outcome, and nearly as disastrous, is AGI eliminating the dependency of capital on labor, leading to a global China Shock on steroids (e.g. unimaginable levels of inequality and wealth concentration, which no level of personal adaptability could overcome).

2. Even in your apocalypse scenario, I think you underestimate the damage that could be done. I don't have an orchard, so I know I'm fucked if urban life-support systems get messed up over large enough area that no aid is coming to my local area afterwards. And a genocidal AI that wasn't blindingly stupid would wait until it had control of enough robots to act in the real world, after which it could agent-orange your orchard.
It all stems from the Jones act. [1]

The American shipbuilding industry has been allowed to atrophy in an idea that protectionism would lead to good commercial the results.

What little gets built in the US is way behind the global peers in terms of economics and quality.

As usual the end results are that the entire shipping industry works around the Jones act, for example cruise ships from Florida docking in the Bahamas, and for the regions that can’t do it they are tough out of luck.

Why can’t the US build offshore wind? Because there are no jones act compliant vessels and the proposed workaround is staging all the materials in Canada and adding an enormous time waste to the projects.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920
Stripe froze mutual aid project's acct without cause, is illegally closing it
This action on Stripe's part will cost us tens of thousands of dollars in lost subscription income.

We have requested information re: what specific term violation we've allegedly committed. Stripe will not answer.

They've held our money for over a month now, profiting off it while also refusing to return it to the kind people who gave to our mutual aid project.

I knew that Stripe had been getting more and more evil over the years - the product was increasingly more expensive for no reason, and worse, and the customer service was borderline psychopathic.

We're in the process of suing Stripe for multiple instances of illegal behavior.

YC, while never good, almost all of your tentpole companies - Airbnb, Stripe, certainly OpenAI - are now explicitly evil.

You have a serious problem. If it isn't fixed, there are going to be millions of jilted users that you profited off of who will be gleefully watching your downfall.
A Nazca pot, here's another one and a picture of the whale line (article from 2019): https://www.antiguoperu.com/2019/11/cabezas-en-el-mar.html
> There is a dispute between Automattic and WPEngine

I think the dispute is in fact between the org and wpengine.

Wpengine doesn’t contribute to the core as much as they promised, and prohibits their employees to do so.
I cannot believe that the police are allowed to destroy private property and then not pay for it. One particularly egregious example is from Greenwood Village, Colorado[1]. If the destruction of property is necessary to achieve a public good, then the public tax fund should compensate the owners. If it was not necessary, then the individuals who made the incorrect decision to destroy it should be held liable. Under no circumstances should an innocent bystander have their house (or MRI machine) destroyed by the police and then be told that they have to pay for it.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_of_Robert_Seacat
The go spec today is ~130 pages [0]. Like golang’s Stalin, its spec remarkably approachable. The latest Java spec is ~800 [1], also very accessible, but clearly there’s more complexity there.

You have to admit, there’s something appealing about being able to read the entire spec for a popular, performant, production language over a lunch break. You don’t need to read and/or master a language’s specification in order to use it. But at 130 pages, you can.

[0] https://go.dev/ref/spec
[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se23/jls23.pdf
I wish postgres supports parquet file imports and exports. COPY command with csv is really slooooooooow. Even BINARY is quite slow and bandwidth heavy.

I wonder how open postgres is and what kind of pull requests postgres team considers? I'd like to learn how to contribute to PG in baby steps and eventually get to a place where I could contribute substantial features.
Except Wordpress even explicitly suggests using wp in the domain: https://wordpress.org/about/domains/

>>>we ask if you’re going to start a site about WordPress or related to it that you not use “WordPress” in the domain name. Try using “wp” instead, or another variation...
Which itself is turning into a bit of a disaster in terms of how different they are to the original Italian design...
We have simply accreted too many regulations and special interest groups like barnacles.
> How about we let Finland build the icebreakers

We can't. Jones Act.
Everyone, please go to your respective data centers, locate your rack and unplug the printer from the server.
He attacked them for censoring opposing viewpoints for political and ideological reasons. That's a far cry from hacked personal information. I admit, it is a bit of a grey line, but neither of these cases are particularly close to the line.
i once managed to create a directory named ~ using the mirror tool written in perl.
then i naively tried to remove it using "rm -r ~" and started wondering why removing an empty directory would take so long, until it dawned on me...

i learned a few new habits since then. i almost never use rm -r and i avoid "*" as a glob by itself. instead i always try to qualify "*" with a path, remove files first: "rm dir/*"; and then remove the empty directory. "rmdir dir/"

if i do want to use rm -r, it is with a long path. eg in order remove stuff in the current directory i may distinctly add a path: rm -r ../currentdir/*" instead of "rm -r *"

related, i also usually run "rm -i", but most importantly, i disable any alias that makes "rm -i" the default, because in order to override the -i you need to use -f, but "rm -i -f" i NOT the same thing as "rm". rm has three levels of safety: "rm -i; rm; rm -f". if "rm -i" is the default the "rm" level gets disabled, because "rm -i -f" is the same as "rm -f"
Remix is backed by Shopify, compared to Next.js being backed by Vercel. Does this influence any decision to take?

Today Next.js has a big advantage which is that they have already integrated most of the new React 19 rendering features and apis. I think it will take a while for Remix to catch up to that.

Other notable frameworks are community led Waku made by Daishi Kato from Pmdrs and TanStart made by Tanner from Tanstack.

Also there's Redwood.js betting on a more integrated experience.

Today I am using Nextjs because I don't think I can go back to not using RSCs, but when Remix catches up or Waku and TanStart get to v1, I sure will give them a serious try!
its equal to LAPD per square foot
This situation might kill one of WP Engine or Wordpress.com, but I sure wouldn't bet on it being WP Engine that ends up in the grave.
Building a Memory Game with PhaserJS and ReactJS
Yeah. If you realize that a large part of the llm's 'ocr' is guessing due to context (token prediction) and not actually recognizing the characters exactly, you can see that it is indeed pretty impressive because the log it is reading uses pretty unique terminology that it couldn't know from training.
100% - i raised exactly this issue in the legal claim concerns.

This is a remarkably bad plan from a legal perspective.
China proved the Great Firewall was possible. It is only a matter of time before every nation builds it for the benefit of their ruling classes.
It is if they get mad you sent a cease and desist.
End of an era: Landsat 7 mission takes final images
It's just so stacked in conditionals, and the document doesn't even prove whether they didn't consider it a problem or just didn't know about it. I'm not saying it's some tragedy that this document got published, but it makes perfect sense to me that big newsrooms didn't think there was anything in here worth becoming a mouthpiece for some anonymous "Robert" guy. Independent journalists have more flexibility in this kind of thing because they don't have to develop and enforce editorial policies.

Presumably newspapers will have more to say about the dossier now that it's already public.
This is indeed true. Most cases are made on circumstantial evidence.
vulnerabilities are (mostly?) in cups-browserd rather than cups.
Is the .org infrastructure built or operated by volunteers? It doesn't seem like that part is even open source.
Am I the only one who thinks "Smart Homes" are a dumb idea? My friends have had nothing but trouble and are constantly troubleshooting until one just gave up.

I actually prefer my TV to be dumb. My refrigerator - well, I wasn't able to sync my phone with it and then I realized what the hell am I doing? Why do I care about my refrigerator? It might be nice to sync my new oven with my phone so I know when it's preheated, but after the experience with my refrigerator, I haven't even tried. Hell with it.

I'd like a smart thermostat, but they're all stupid. I want a thermostat where I can set the relative humidity and it maintain that humidity (for Summer). I care about humidity more than I care about temperature. Though actually I'd like to set both - keep it at X humidity and if the temperature exceeds Y then cool it down. Haven't found a thermostat that can do that.

I've thrown in the towel on the smart home.
In the Shack with Robert Caro
https://web.archive.org/web/20240924121205/https://www.curbe...

https://archive.ph/iBTPx
That Message from Your Doctor? It May Have Been Drafted by A.I
I think the creator of a book should be able to charge for their work if they desire to do so for a reasonable amount of time, actually, especially considering most authors don't make a lot of money form their works.