skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Rc<T> is a "confession" that we still need reference counting semantics. And macros are a "confession" that pure Rust code isn't powerful enough. And "unsafe" is a "confession" that we really do need "unsafe". And so on and so forth with all kinds of features.

Except that's a really harsh and unproductive way to phrase it. The existence of "unsafe" is not a "confession" that safe code is impossible so why should even try.

Progress in safety is still made when an unsafe capability is removed from the normal, common, suggested way to do things and it is moved to something you need to ask for and take responsibility for, and hemmed in by other safe constructs around it.
God likes his thermostat low.
The "press again to fall back to the browser's key binding" solution many sites use for ^F isn't perfect, and won't work for all scenarios, but it definitely helps.
Like this one? https://cds.cern.ch/record/1546765/files/figs_gamma_gamma_ma...
DCC is where it’s at. My parents still have the deck. Probably the most useless technology ever.
Private spaces where small groups collect may be social media by its definition, but it feels starkly different from something like posting on a facebook wall or making a public linkedin post where the audience largely consists of strangers.
If ghosts are the souls of deceased people, unless they were nudists, wouldn't they prefer to wear clothes similar to the ones they used when they were alive?

That is, instead of "ghost-seers dress the ghost", it's the ghost that dresses itself. In fact, that whole paragraph even makes sense once flipped that way:

"[...] ghosts dress themselves, automatically, through unconscious processes. And so we see a ghost in its usual dress because that is the mental picture the ghost has of itself, and this choice of garment is most likely to inspire recognition."
It's main use case is making the average office worker feel the same existential dread that some programmers feel when they see a LLM spit out a bunch of code in mere seconds.
I know funny isn't really the goal for comments around here but man that made me laugh. So subtle and obvious at the same time and quite an appropriate response to the posed question!

Complex indeed...
They're talking about additional functions (side-effects) of vaccines, really. It's secondary to whether they work or not.

We can't tell whether a CD player has a listening device in it, for instance.
Reasonable questions. I wish I had answers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Tape_theory
Have you heard of Centaur chess? A human and a machine would team up to find the best chess moves against another similar team. It's not a thing anymore. Computers have advanced so much that humans can't really contribute in any meaningful sense.
It’s not open source. The GitHub activity is purely for documentation.

I don’t know about real world adoption, nor do I think it’s really about what I’m saying. The proposal was made public a few weeks ago. There hasn’t been much time for real world projects to adopt it, if that were even the goal. The point is that it does exist today, and you can try it out. It’s more than just a design on paper.
Podcast with Shawn Wang (Swyx) on Smol.ai, Latent Space, AI Engineer, DX.tips
"Musk previously identified India as a key market for Twitter". Completely negates your point and shows how far Twitter is fallen behind.
For anyone who felt "this is more about what routing than BGP" the next article linked at the end starts to really dive into the BGP parts and can be started directly from if you're familiar with any form of routing: https://quantum5.ca/2023/07/19/diving-into-autonomous-system...
I feel like the OP is overcomplicating the solution, I don't own a car and all commuting is basically either:

- bus/train/tram crosses my stop 5 times a day - its trivial to learn the 5 times

- bus/train/tram crosses my stop more than 5 times a day - i just show up at the stop and wait

Perhaps my point of view is like this because I'm in Europe, I can't tell really.
If you haven't heard of it, "Terms of Service; Didn't Read" (https://tosdr.org/) can be a helpful addition to your review process.

Obviously not every site is covered, and you may want to review the terms yourself anyways, but I've found it pretty useful when I'm not in the mood to read thousands of words of legalese.
The "new" reddit constantly tries to promote brainrot to you when you are in the main feed. You can evade this by never using the main feed. No one wants to let you just read what you want to read.

This is one of the reasons why I have returned to print media. Unfortunately, a lot of magazines and newspapers are also really bad now also. The Wall Street Journal has fallen off a cliff, turning into something between Cosmopolitan and Business Insider, and I am cancelling my subscription this year. The Economist has done a good job keeping up the quality level. The fact that something is in print does not necessarily make it better if all the writers have brainrot or the content is optimized for digital engagement first.

The internet has become a medium for poor people to watch unlimited user-generated episodes of Maury and Jerry Springer. The only internet I really want to use is to work, buy products, and read my email. Getting older is bad enough without the computer trying to make me dumber on top of that.
I guess in short what I'm saying is that we are using our brains less & as a byproduct we are just not as smart. We aren't challenged as much with our easy access to...well everything. Heck we don't even have to come to our own conclusions anymore. With the internet & social media its much easier to simply find someone who has already done the research & work already & will eagerly tell your their thoughts. I think one of the intangible things that has been lost is the challenge. It is different learning on your own. Doing research, gathering facts & information. Coming to your own conclusions. I dont just mean on an intellectual level either. The processes & interactions have value in of themselves. Experience & knowledge gained on the side while learning other things can't be measured. It is this learning through personal experience & the interactions during this process that fuels our intelligence. Our simplified lives have limited our exposure to this "extra" knowledge we miss due to fewer experiences & easy REMOTE access to everything.
one day we will bring segments and far pointers back.
I guess I'm not convinced Microsoft is serious enough about monetizing my data and attention the way Google is. I'm assuming (generously, to be fair) that Microsoft mainly wants to optimize their software rather than use the data to maximize the effectiveness of their ad business, which seems hobby-level to me.

> immutable hardware-derived identification,

Is this in the telemetry data? Not in headers, right? Just curious to learn more
This but it's HIV and circumcision.

"A new Tuskegee? Unethical human experimentation and Western neocolonialism in the mass circumcision of African men"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dewb.12285?...
Advocating Against: Razor Blades (2019)
The pay raise wasn’t the only thing they were looking for. They wanted pension benefits back, which were stopped for new members a decade ago:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/business/boeing-union-str...

> What a great way to alienate people that haven’t gotten a pay rise at all for years to your cause.

What other opinions matter in the negotiation between the union and the employer?
You _know_ somebody will be thinking about hijacking CTRL+F with this.
Just another reason not to use Linux. I've gone to bat so many times for Linus but time and time again he proves that Benevolent Dictators for Life on tech projects are a bad idea for modern times.
And when having to pick up the pieces when someone actually uses the thing.
Livedocs
> When a pointer comes from unchecked code, it is assumed to be valid.

It certainly helps, but is not a full solution.
Switching is decisively a pain. But apparently this episode was what I needed to start looking seriously into VaultWarden.
Hey from Berlin! I'm Ron one of the founders at Flox and also board member of the NixOS Foundation. Just noticed folks are talking here and that's super exciting! We are all in the midst of the yearly NixCon so apologies if I'm slow to respond or my answers are a bit shorter. Definitely happy to dig deeper!

I saw your question and actually wanted to share the response I shared a few months ago, happy to unpack or talk about any of it as well.

This is from our original 1.0 announcement here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39692801) -> bringing forward what you saw today for free and open source, was a major part of why I started Flox, with much more to come into it. What we released today will be free forever (both the open source client and the FloxHub services for sharing environments). We plan on expanding the offering to include a more robust private software catalogs that layers on top of the OOTB Flox Catalog that ships with Flox. If you are interested in publishing your output or need revised versions of open source packages in Flox then it'll be very easy to have your own catalog to compliment the always-free Flox Catalog that Flox ships with today. Beyond that, we are focused on a number of services that help bring Nix's build to the enterprise. Over time we intend to sell a solution to enterprises - through subscriptions and services - so they can more effectively manage expansive and fragmented software supply chains. As part of developing custom tooling for enterprises, we think it's reasonable for them to participate in funding for that work.
Global First Ladies Alliance
I thought the point of the white sheet trope was that the ghost (whether clothed or not) is invisible, and so they throw a real physical sheet over themselves so they can be seen at all. Although, a ghost that's visible but naked would be just as good justification.
Sure yeah, you can always find edge cases and arguments against a general position. I wrote a 3-line post, not an essay.

Let's try again... Generally speaking kids should be learning about finance at school, not from their parents, because generally speaking most schools will do a better job than parents in teaching generally accepted financial best practices.

There will be exceptions to this.

Better?
because they are based
- CoCalc (which I wrote) can be self-hosted but is NOT FOSS, though you can browse the code here: https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc -- do a quick "self hosted" test if you want by typing "docker run --name=cocalc-trial -d -p 4043:443 sagemathinc/cocalc-trial"

- Google Colab is fully closed source and I think there is no self hosted option.

- Deepnote is fully closed source and I think has no self hosted option.

- Saturn Cloud enterprise is a self hosted option for Saturn Cloud. Saturn Cloud is I think a nice management layer around open source JupyterLab.

- I think Apache Zeppelin is self-hostable FOSS.
From the times of jesus throughtout the middle ages there was no coffin, people were buried in a sheet
Bad news...they're already there!
Medallion holders had a weaker more fragmented system. If there was a nation wide system, they would have been able to organize better and kill Uber. Considering groups like the AMA literally dictate how many people are allowed to graduate from med school in a given year, the obviously have more control.

Furthermore, on the state level there are often "Need Based Laws" that require healthcare providers to obtain approval before establishing or expanding certain healthcare facilities or services. This is unironically designed to prevent unnecessary duplication of healthcare services, control healthcare costs and ensure equitable distribution of healthcare resources. Imagine how expensive it would be if we have two many choices!

The cab cartel was more or less city level.

Add in the fact that "health care" is much more politically charged and its easy to find useful idiots that want to "protect people's health" that enforcement is a lot easier, they're entirely different.
Amazing thank you for this.
The value of communication during a crisis
This is an insightful comment, though it just goes to show how rigid the framing is of "natural vs. artificial" or "human vs. machine". None of this stuff has any vitality outside of _some_ relationship or interface with people.
We Analyzed $485M in Stolen Checks
You cannot cause undefined behavior with integer overflow using + in Rust. That behavior is considered an error, but is well defined.
There is already programming language called Lingo, though probably nobody uses it anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(programming_language)
Yes, I've been doing it since I was a young child. Compared to people who are actually expert in it, I'd say my skill level was "advanced intermediate". I am equally skilled in both through-hole and surface mount soldering (including BGA and very tiny chips), but the majority of the soldering I've been doing over the last 5 or 10 years has been surface mount.

I wouldn't be interested in doing it professionally all by itself, but would be fine with a job where soldering is one of the tasks involved. I certainly would be willing to be part of a soldering assembly line for a project as a community service, though, as long as the effort and organization were in line with my personal volunteering guidelines.
Plastic chemical phthalate causes DNA breakage, chromosome defects, study finds
"Whole-program analysis is not tractable (i.e., not scalable),"

The search term for those who'd like to follow up is "Superoptimization", which is one of the perennial ideas that programmers get that will Change the World if it is "just" implemented and "why hasn't anyone else done it I guess maybe they're just stupid", except it turns out to not work in practice. In a nutshell, the complexity classes involved just get too high.

(An interesting question I have is whether a language could be designed from the get-go to work with some useful subset of superoptimizations, but unfortunately, it's really hard to answer such questions when the bare minimum to have a good chance of success is 30 years of fairly specific experience before one even really stands a chance, and by then that's very unlikely to be what that person wants to work on.)
I am looking to maybe support this in

https://github.com/vhodges/ittybittyfeaturechecker

probably via https://openfeature.dev/specification/appendix-c (I don't have time to maintain a bunch of providers).

We are evaluating new solutions at work and OpenFeature is something we're interested in. (I did the home grown solution that's in use by one product line)
> I feel like these complaints are out of date

They're not complaints - they're recent examples of how words have been twisted. Pointing out dislikable things that happened to illustrate a point is not the same as complaining about them.

> Fewer people seem to be branded "terrorists" now than then.

For the last year, peaceful protesters have been called terrorists / sympathizers in record numbers. An entire country, babies and all, has been smeared as 'terrorist', thereby giving a thin cover for Western leaders to ignore their obligations under international law.

> Euphemisms for "torture" are plentiful (e.g. "enhanced interrogation") because the word still has power

I'm not arguing these words don't have power. Just that we (the people) don't have deciding power over their meaning. When the 6 companies who own 90% of all media decide to change a word, they can do so very effectively.

It wasn't a natural collective decision that turned actual torture into "enhanced interrogation", while environmental protesters became "terrorists". Those decisions came from the top down. And it worked. Many people got more upset about washable paint on a glass case than they did about our brazen support for internationally condemned atrocities.

... As for the word woke, again, there was a top-down, highly intentional (and obvious, tbh) mis/reinterpretation in order to disarm the word. Which in your case has clearly worked. "Woke" was one of the clearest examples of a word being twisted in record time.
Responses to Walking a Large Poodle
I guess you can tell the same to the russian speaking people of Donbas that have been bombarded by Azov before Russia entered the Ukrainian civil war.
What is the difference or use cases for 8Hz vs. 12Hz?
ARM is owned by an investment bank, SoftBank. It operates kind of like Goldman Sachs. ARM is becoming a chipmaker, just like Intel. But Intels' CHIP grant is more similar to a pre-emptive 2008-era bailout of the banks (TARP), for being "too big to fail." (because it makes defense chips) https://irrationalanalysis.substack.com/p/arms-chernobyl-mom...
Yes that’s the position. Good to see it verified in the study. Having a partner and sleeping in the same bed can lead to alterations from the optimal sleeping position, especially sleeping on the back is not good.
Sleeping on the back is also one of the main causes of snoring, which often occurs in people which have a big belly and can’t really sleep lateralish anymore.

Sleep quality is important too and one big factor is not to go to sleep with a full stomach. Sleep quality will suffer because of the active digestion which probably will not let the glymphatic transport do it’s job properly.

Also good to know that “…low doses of alcohol (0.5 g/kg) increased glymphatic clearance…”.
> If enough people do it, you have a different culture

This just straight up does not work. I will be blunt - you are not suggesting a solution, you're suggesting a delusion.

This "do nothing and hope it works" approach is not novel. It has been our one singular approach to the obesity epidemic. Has it been working? We have many decades of evidence now. No, it hasn't.

I could maybe see your perspective better if what you're suggesting is not already tried and tested. When you do something for decades at a time and the problem doesn't improve, but in fact gets worse, you have to face the reality that what you're doing just doesn't work.

> Certainly possible given all the cultures that do prioritize these things

They really don't. They just have less access to food.

Some, like Japan, get around obesity by instead having some of the highest tobacco use in the world in combination with a stressed-out population.

As fun as it sounds to reintroduce smoking culture to offset obesity, I think it might make more sense to give people access to safe drugs that help regulate their propensity for overconsumption.
Off the top of my head, Hawking’s books talk a lot about the GUT and are still relevant, Greene’s book on string theory is an advancement of conceptual attempts to find one. It’s harder to point to now because so much of the public discourse since the mid-2000s has moved online.
That is not what most Israelis think.

The fact that you so easily think this badly of an entire country speaks a lot about your own biased views.
It seems like a cheaper intermediate capability would be to give Claude the ability to SSH to your computer or to a cloud container. That would unlock a lot of possibilities, without incurring the cost of the vision model or the difficulty of cursor manipulation.

Does this already exist? If not, would the benefits be lower than I think, or would the costs be higher than I think?
Linus Torvalds sold out and betrayed the ideals.
Продажный уёбок!
Honest question, what's the use case for separate url and search bars?
NetMD or Hi-MD deviceces even let you “record” over USB (Hi-MD even can expose a block device).

Not that long ago I would use scripts to dump CDs to MD using linux-minidisc. Much more convenient to Cary around than CDs, geat audio quality.

The only downside, imho, is when I’m on vacation I like looking at second hand places and if I find a some CDs I can’t play them until I get home. I really miss the CD deck in cars.
This sort of willful devil's advocacy doesn't further discussion and is extremely unhelpful. To take your first example, you know and I know that you can tell whether a CD player works. You put in a CD, you press "play", it plays.

If you have some theory as to why that test is inadequate, it's on you to lay your cards on the table and state it so there's something substantive to discuss. Until then you're just trolling.
People becoming slightly more productive helps people. People being replaced helps quarterly earnings reports.
Linus Torvalds sold out and betrayed the ideals.
Продажный пидор ты предал все идеалы!
Is the point of your comment to make people feel depressed ?

Either we're going to use these tools to augment our abilities or basically just become wiped out, at least our jobs will be, and there is no plan to provide support for anyone. Maybe the tech will make the transition to a post employment world so swift we don't even feel any negative economic effects at all, but let's see.
Bit of both. But they are cracking along on the tech front, especially the batteries.
I think GP mistakenly believes that Chrome implemented this in its proprietary part instead of getting it from Chromium which was the actual case. In reality I think the feature appeared in both browsers at roughly the same time as a result.

And also that they believe that adding features like this to browsers is bad behavior in the first place. If that were the case and people abided by the "do nothing until the W3C acts" rule we'd probably all be using IE6-level browsers still.
Might dust coverings be also part of this? Not that those are used here, but them being used in some abandoned or less frequented locations with slight movements of air could explain some imaginery. Peeking from windows for example and seeing objects covered in sheets.
Next-gen Pipewire audio routing tool
I find it a distraction on validation tasks. I prefer to know what the hell I am doing first and be able to qualify that as I work with test cases.

With respect to other engineers I haven't found any of our ML tools actually pick up anything useful yet from a code review.

On engagement, I saw a negative recently where someone started replacing banner images for events with AI generated content and their conversion to tickets plummeted. YMMV. People can spot it a mile off and they are getting better at it. I think the end game is soon.
Rule one for reading headlines: the relationship between each component of a sentence is often not what you would expect.

In this example, an understandable misreading might be that the astronauts who rode in the Starliner to the ISS returned. In actuality, this set of astronauts' [0] only relationship with Starliner is that their time at ISS overlapped with Starliner. The former crew of Starliner is still planned to return with the subsequent mission [1].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-8

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-9
Unsurprisingly this is something you could do in Plan 9:

/path/to/file:/from.*to

opens the file and sets the selection to the range of text between "from" and "to". Bonus: you can use regular expressions.

It pains me to see the web having strayed so far from its focus on interlinking. It's easy to make a parallel when on one side device makers have taken control back by removing access to files and putting applications first (this is the only model on mobile), to the point that those makers have enormous control over apps' existence, and the web where applications are now the only way to access content, to the point that content may or may not available if the right API exists.
I would agree, but about 1/5th of CEOs are psycopaths, as opposed to the 1/100 in the general population[0]. While emotional intelligence may help in some fields, such as employee retention, it’s not universally related to success. Additionally, EI doesn’t map well to psychopaths and similar disorders due to EI being a measure of how well you conform rather than a measure of what you truly feel[1].

[0] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/201... | https://archive.is/3jHZV
[1] - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unique-everybody-els... | https://archive.is/Z2Oif