skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does makes the difference to people who use browsers for something more than reading HN or Reddit. That's the point. What arguments do you expect? Specific use cases for every feature each browser has? That's a different discussion completely.
Modeling Systems of Holding Back as Hypergames [pdf]
Undelivered letters could be returned to sender.

In which case… there would definitely be no need to instruct to not write anything below the line, as nobody would have opened the letter.
Perhaps (?) it wouldn't be an issue for correctness in most languages, but it would certainly add a performance and debuggability cost. It could be useful in some niche domains, probably.
I've tried a variety of those on various Thinkpads and Macs, and they've all had problems of one sort or another. Spent anywhere from $100 to $300 on different brands and never found one that "just works". It's a huge pain... IMO only.
There was that bit a few years back where the HN folk saw Satya as the second coming of Microsoft and anything even slightly critical or suspicious of Microsoft was downvoted to oblivion as highly implausible. I think people are still coming down from that high.

He's not the messiah, he's a naughty businessman!

(Note: I shot my HN account then because the majority of the MS stuff on here was utterly intolerable for many of us who have been MS devs/users since day zero and have the mental scarring)

Edit: remind me to post this when MS staff are still asleep next time...
Or humans and putting too much money on the ponies
I'd say China doesn't have particularly tight_er_ information control than other places, they're using the same tools everyone else is using (keyword/hashtag bans, algorithmic content demotion, "shadowbans" of responses, and outright content removal etc.)...

It's mainly just that there's more politically motivated manipulation... versus in the west where those tools would be used on things like copyright infringement, pornography, and misinformation etc.
Would be nice if the article had an example of the entire letter. The tiny sliver of image at the top of the article leaves very little context.
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Please have not written above this line.

Remember, temporal paradoxes are not covered by your insurer.
It's basically a whole parallel tax collection system, which is truly nuts. Like the administrative overhead alone surely outweighs any abstract concerns about independence from government, which doesn't really exist in the UK anyway.
fork vscode, do whatever you want. merge back when ready.
What an amazing package of sensors. A 24mm main camera & 70mm telephoto, with 10-bit log & h.265 encoding. Object avoidance and nav via 6 cameras a lidar & infrared ToF.

All for an incredibly reasonable price, with software included to follow & track.

DJI really feels like it's becoming a company without peer. Insta360 is a peer in the action camera market, thankfully, but DJI just keeps shaking up industry after industry. Too early to tell, but their e-bike motor looks like it might be able to smash current offerings; more torque, lower weight, genius gearbox.

I wish we saw more engineering companies so eager to over-deliver, to integrate top-tier technologies smartly & at a very competitive price. Huge respect to DJI.
The thing that stuck out to me the most in the west were the long string of articles about the social credit system & the fear around the surveillance state. The surveillance state is probably about the same level as the UK, and the social credit system doesn't run anyone's lives like its described.
Those are simple and should work fine, unless you have some super special USB gaming mouse with a very high polling rate. It's really video (especially) and ethernet (especially gigabit) that are more demanding.
Proton is like my 'pure' email. I sign up for things that are likely to spam me using my gmail
They care about anything that helps give insight into the future. Its still obtainable data but that is where the edge comes from, taking unique data and applying your way of thinking (models) to it. This could be anything and everything that relates to the company/industry you are looking at. You take lots of different bits of information and distill it into a model. If you are in the automotive space, maybe you care how US policy is looking for China.

To put it differently, historical financials, K/Qs are all data points that have been commoditized and you can pull it instantly.
Fake it till you make it. At some point they will have full control.
It's significantly more difficult to actually land a jumbo jet sized rocket booster with that precision than to measure its own relative position. Gerstenmaier was talking about landing accuracy. My guess is that measurement accuracy is a red herring. More likely it was a slip of the tongue (the good man is 70 years old) and he meant to say it landed with a 0.5 meter, not centimeter, accuracy relative to the buoy.
Not sure what happened to Kim over the years, but as he is someone who actually thinks the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a factual document, I would take whatever he says with a massive grain of salt.
Few people want to sit idle and just do nothing. We have, in fact, automated almost everything. Dishwashers, laundry machines, Amazon delivering to your door. People have a natural instinct to fill in the gaps and so they take on more activities, responsibilities, and work.
The buoys were not trivial devices. See https://x.com/CosmicalChief/status/1626333723514834944
Sorry, how does the point that natural languages are absolutely hard or easy, regardless of one's native language, speak to the point that moving to a prefix programming language from infix is hard?

There are hardly any Lisp programmers today who didn't "come from" prefix languages.

All mainstream languages are heavily steeped in prefix notation. The infix stuff is just a small core, typically. Mainly it is for arithmetic. Sometimes for string manipulation or set operations on containers, perhaps I/O.

Libraries are invoked with f(a, ...) prefix or perhaps obj.f(a, ...) mixed infix and prefix.

Libraries have far more content larger than the infix material.

Even small programs are divided into functions, invoked with prefix. Prefix is relied on for major program organization.

Command languages use prefix: copy filea.txt this/dir.

Statement and definition structures in mainstream languages are prefix: class foo {, goto label, return 42, procedure foo(var x : integrer), ...

The idea that programmers coming to Lisp are confused by prefix does not hold water.
Am I missing something, or is this just a normal stock browser like Yahoo Finance? I don't see anything remotely new in the article or the site (https://www.perplexity.ai/finance/NVDA) and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with AI. It's a nice-looking feature but I don't think it's newsworthy.
I work four eight-hour days (with a concomitant 20% pay cut), and I'm never going back. I did try a five-day year, after six or so years of a four-day week, but that just made me cement my decision to not work five days.

A two-day weekend is too short, a five-day workweek is too long. 4/3 is the perfect split.
To be fair work is the wrong term, but more "used" as in be implemented and utilized.
I was with you on the first two. VS Code is the best developer experience I had since Delphi and Kate.

I don't care for it being in the news though.
> I've never worked in a role where I feel like working 32 hours a week would deliver meaningfully similar results to working 40 hours.

It may be my neurodivergency, but I'm the exact opposite. There's rarely a job where I'm *actually, butts-in-seats working* for 40 hours a week where I would deliver, over a study period of months, more good, correct and helpful work than if I spend less time at work.

I could probably technically vomit out more code; but it would be more buggy and have more design decisions that would bite me later (and more possibly sink the company).

Of course 20 hours is better than 10 hours; and for most people, 20 hours is better than 30; but is 40 hours better than 30? For a lot of people, I __don't think so__, but I also think those same people have been tricked into a system where they're forced to go beyond their own comfort and maximum operating efficiency just to show their presence and willingness to work.

And I think they're harmed in the long term for it.
Do not disturb my deep work phases with your HN comments!
I used "perfect pitch" in the ordinary way ordinary people ordinarily use the phrase. Temperaments are interesting because the pitches (and intervals) in 12TET are different from the pitches (and intervals) in Mean Tone are different from the pitches (and intervals) in Werckmeister -- and within Werckmeister because Werkmeister made several temperaments.

Never mind 31TET etc.
Many European countries are worse about it than the UK; even people who do not own a television are required by law to pay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence
Are other extensions like Codeium[0] allowed to publish under the same rules? I'm not saying your comment is incorrect, but unless Copilot competitors can get the same treatment, it seems extremely unfair and anti-competitive.

[0]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Codeium....
People on HN seem to be either very anti-corporatist or love to white knight big tech

There’s no in between.
Doing what ?
Must be so demoralizing to be a kid these days. You use AI --> you're told you're cheating, which is immoral. You don't use AI --> you eventually get accused of using it or you get left behind by those who do use it.

Figuring out who the hell you are in your high school years was hard enough when Kafka was only a reading assignment.
my thought was that they perhaps have to accept returned letters informing them of the lack of a TV at the address, but in a sort of dark pattern they don't specifically say that in the hope that you use one of the other, less administratively expensive options listed in the letter.
I’ve spoken extensively about this with people from China.

If something is totally forbidden, that holds.

However, the government doesn’t want people to feel oppressed beyond the explicitly forbidden.

What happens instead is, if it’s unfavorable but not forbidden, it will be mysteriously downvoted and removed, but if it keeps bubbling up, the government says “okay clearly this is important to people” and leaves it up.

This happened with some news cases of forced marriage in some rural mountain regions, and the revelation that a popular WeChat person (like YouTuber) was involved with one of the families.
My guess is that they scan the letters that are returned by the post office and hence they don't want anybody writing below the line. I guess that they used to have a problem with squirrels opening up the letters and scribbling below the line. However, they seem to ignore the fact that squirrels can't read.

More likely is that whenever they print OCR'able numbers / barcode/ whatever, they assume that a person is going to return it -- and the special case of 'we only get returned letters when the delivery has failed and nobody has opened the envelope' escaped the testing.
The harm is that third-party developers aren't allowed to publish extensions that use "proposed APIs", but Copilot doesn't have to follow these rules because Microsoft both develops the extension and runs the Extension Marketplace website. Microsoft is therefore able to add functionality to their extension that third-party developers can only add by forking VS Code. VS Code forks lose access to the Extension Marketplace, and many Microsoft-published extensions (such as Pylance and LiveShare) will only run on official Microsoft builds of VS Code, not forks.
Don't forget cats (although they hid the evidence).
Articles like this remind me how Kotlin is probably 10 times
easier and concise than Rust and C++.

Kind of off topic but has anyone noticed difference in code quality and documentation from projects in C++ / Rust / Kotlin / JavaScript libraries that have the same features?

Recently was working with Seastar which is Tokio / Kotlin Coroutine equivalent in C++ and seems crazy how far behind it is from Kotlin Coroutines. The documentation the example, the boiler plate etc. Don't think it is the language themselves but the language culture. Seems like C++ libraries are just designed to be more difficult. Less documentation, no comments, flat folder structures with each file having with 1000s of lines of code. They expect you to go read through source code etc.
Fair enough. My last exposure to Grammarly was pre-ChatGPT, when it was a lot closer to vanilla spellcheck.

But I think it's actually not all that different, particularly in the context of "essays teach writing." It used to be human work to analyze sentences for passive voice, remember the difference between there/their/they're, and understand how commas work, but now the computer handles it.

(Relevant sidenote: Am I using commas correctly here? IDK! I've never fully internalized the rules!)
I would think this is less team velocity and more about LSP/etc. I am not an expert on how this is developed, but I imagine it will take at least a couple of years for the dust to settle to decide on good public API abstractions for LLM codegen, and they don’t want to introduce anything public that they have to maintain in concert with 3rd parties.

That’s not to say the general concern about GitHub-VSCode smothering competition isn’t valid, but I agree that it’s probably not what’s happening here.
As trees first appeared there was no organism that would have the adaptation to eat wood, so dead trees just piled and piled on for millions of years forming what we now dig out as coal. I think that roughly correlates with the Devonian extinction.

Flowers were supposedly one of the many factors wiping out the dinosaurs (aside from asteroid impacts and Deccan Traps), reducing the food supply for herbivores by outcompeting existing flora.
vi crew here. We had dark mode since before it was fashionable.
Not a US taxpayer, so I don't really have a stake in this, but I'm curious as to where SpaceX spending is compared to their NASA contract milestones.
I'd forgotten about the bancor, thanks!
It was more than that.

It didn't explain the goals well enough to parents, and many teachers didn't have the number sense themselves leading to many of the examples are passed around showing how the whole process is broken. There is also a question of if even works well, as it is somewhat akin to teaching someone the shortcut on how to do something before they have mastered the long way of doing it. Many experts in their fields have shortcuts, but they don't teach them directly to juniors in the field as there is value in learning how to do it the long hard way, as often times shortcuts are limited and only an understanding of the full process provides the knowledge of when best to apply different shortcuts.
I think what he's saying is that "real world" interaction is so high bandwidth it dwarfs internet (screen based) stimulation. Not saying I agree just that he's not comparing hours being alive to hours of youtube
If I understand the code and it does exactly what I need, should I type the whole thing out rather than copy-pasting? Sounds like a waste of time to me.
What's when more mental is that they are essentially all funding state propaganda agencies and so you're literally paying to be propagandised.

Not that much of none state media is really that much better to be honest.
Hey I'm right in the middle: I use a Mac and use open source software on it, while moaning how shitty both are.
In the interests of optimization: maybe we could just not? Seems like the Occam solution here would just be to (1) rigorously enforce employment eligibility for all employers (not employees!), something that is done routinely at the salaried level already and has an existing bureaucracy in place and (2) hand out green cards like candy for people working positions for which there are openings. Problem solved, QED. No border towers needed, and "illegal" migration stops at exactly the level where it's required, because migrants obviously won't come in excess of the jobs available.

Obviously that's not the actual problem you're trying to solve, because the actual problem is political and ethnographic (c.f. Musk's thread that this will be the "last election" because of something to do with demographic change). But this is HN, and it seems like it's worth discussing actual solutions.
China does have a tight information control but it may not be what you think it is.

All communication software (QQ/Wechat are the two most used) have sort of backend scanner that detects topics that are in the "in-season" blacklist and ban accounts accordingly. No one knows what the list is so people could get banned for random reasons, but in general bashing current policies or calling out names of the standing members of Politburo is the quickest way to get banned -- and in many instances also got the Wechat group banned.

On the other side, surprisingly, there are many contents that are apparently inappropriate floating on the social media without getting banned. This also throws people off feet.

What I gathered is:

- Don't shit on current party leaders. Actually don't discuss current politics at all. AIs don't always recognize contents correctly so you could be banned for supporting one side or desisting it at the same time.

- Don't ever try to call up other people to join whatever an unofficial cause, whatever it is. Like, even if it's purely patriotic, just don't do it. You do it and you might go to prison very quickly -- at least someone is going to call you to STFU. Grassroot movements is the No.1 enemy of the government and they don't like it. You have to go through official channels for those.

This leads to the following conclusion:

Essentially, the government wants as much control as possible. You want to be patriotic? Sure, but it has to be controlled patriotic. You can attend party gathering to show your patriotism, but creating your own, unofficial gathering is a big No. They probably won't put you into a prison if the cause is legit, but police are going to bug you from time to time ->

IMO this is how the CCP succeed. It has successfully switched from an ideologic party to an "All-people" party. It doesn't really care about ideology. But it wants to assimilate everyone who potentially can be out of control. If you are a successful businessman, it will invite you to participate in political life. If you are an activist who can call up thousands of people, it wants you in. It is essentially, a cauldron of elitists. It has nothing to do with "Communism". It is essentially, GOP + DEM in the US.
Hey folks, CEO of Determinate here. I sent years as a Nix consultant, running into the very same problems over and over and over. Eelco and I teamed up to knock down those problems, and here is the first of a series showing what that means.

I'm here to answer questions!
Funny, I have been doing the same.
I have friends that started a startup trying to tackle this problem. They actually found ways for certain types of exams in certain subjects to make cheating exponentially harder and also provide less of an advantage, so much so that if the student is cheating they are effectively learning.

Some of their stuff works really well, and they have prof customers who love it. The CEO went on a tour to visit their biggest customers in person and several of them said they couldn't imagine going back.

Unfortunately as a whole the industry is not interested in it, aside from a few small niches and department heads who are both open minded and actually care about the integrity of the education. There have even been cases where profs want it and the dean or admin in charge of academic integrity vetoes its adoption. I've been privy to some calls I can only characterize as corrupt.

There is something deeply broken about higher Ed, the economics, the culture of the students, the culture of the faculty, the leadership... This isn't an AI problem it's a society problem.

When the students genuinely want to learn something and they are there for the knowledge, not the credit, cheating isn't a problem.
Billionaire behind Trump's 'unhackable' phone is on mission to fight Tesla's FSD
thank you for directly proving how difficult this topic is! lots of "environmentalists" support Nuclear Power, and lots of others are deeply against it due to toxicity, ignoring efficiency and playing into capital allocation. Others want to find the right answers, and that is difficult. Secondly, dense housing was exactly what plenty of people tried to build, while aggressive real estate developers found an easier profit by subdividing farm land and making suburbs. Since covid-19, not only has dense cities fallen drastically, but the ordinary small business that enables dense cities, ceased to function.

This "I told you to do this" comment is exactly the pressure and noise that pushes ordinary people out, since they cannot respond and are negatively reinforced socially with semi-hostile criticism.
Ask HN: Stick to Electron (JS/TS), Swift and Kotlin or learn Rust and use Tauri
I currently use Electron (JS/TS), Swift and Kotlin to build FullStacked (https://github.com/fullstackedorg/editor) on all platforms.

I spent the last hour reading about Tauri (https://tauri.app) and now I'm wondering if learning Rust is worth it to have only one codebase for all platforms, instead of 3?

I mainly have a webdev background, but I still did some C++ and very little of Go. I'm not the best with pointers and memory allocation/deallocation, so is rust such a pain to work with for someone like me or people usually pick it up quite fast?

Also, is Rust enough feature-rich to build actual mobile apps or is it still too early phase for production?

Looking for some advices, personal opinions or experiences?
If you go to the home page, you will see they have collected scans of these letters for every year since 2006.
Most likely they didn't expect anyone to go direct to this page
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Can you say more? English doesn't have any cap on sentence length I think i'm missing your point
In Germany, you cannot even legally listen to the radio without such a license (GEZ). It's also slightly more expensive than the UK TV License, coming in just under Netflix' premium plan (while offering mostly shite in return).
I'm not sure I'd say the QoL for the ultra-rich has been improved that much. They have a lot more money, but end up spending it mostly on updated versions of the same stuff rich people have always spent money on. There is a serious diminishing returns on how much money can improve your Quality of Life. It can even become a burden as a level of extreme wealth can start to become its own obligation.
It’s probably the traditional way a glowing article gets written: a reporter repeats something that a PR rep sent to their inbox cause they needed something written to hit a deadline.
Granted. I'm still trying to find out what led up to several people revisiting Mendel's work in 1900.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelian_inheritance
It’s not just a U.K. thing. Many European countries have something similar, although it might be called something else.

It’s a form of tax that pays for public service broadcasting, including radio stations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence#