skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today it really boils down to the buyer accepts the work (usually work done in the period) as reasonable and pays for it, or not. Sometimes there are contractual requirements to make good on bugs afterwards on your own time. But often the hirer accepts the risk of bugs needing solving.

This sounds like there might be extra requirements for an unending? unspecified? period, I don't see how anyone can make a living if so.
App Set Out to Fight Pesticides. After VCs Stepped In, Now It Helps Sell Them
That's a weak argument.
Stores are not advertisements.
For me, you can wait as long as you feel like waiting.

Here is one example of best practices,

"A consequence of this principle is that every occurrence of every subscript of every subscripted variable was on every occasion checked at run time against both the upper and the lower declared bounds of the array. Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to--they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980 language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law."

-- C.A.R Hoare's "The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture"

Law is finally catching up.
My reading of this: the EU wants to give its old fashioned SME software houses a chance with their software products, against the likes of FAANG that typically offer the software for free.

Of course this also hurts EU startups, but that does not concern Brussels because the whole EU establishment is always defending the incumbents. And this is imho one of the reasons the EU is falling behind, because incumbents don't react well to paradigm shifts. It's a losing strategy. For all its many faults the US seems to have realized a long time ago that you cannot protect incumbents at the cost of startups.
Or high packet loss.

Every once in a while, my router used to go crazy with seemingly packet loss (I think a memory issue).

Normal websites would become super slow for any pc or phone in the house.

But git… git would fail to clone anything not really small.

My fix was to unplug the modem and router and plug back in. :)

It took a long time to discover the router was reporting packet loss, and that the slowness the browsers were experiencing has to do with some retries, and that git just crapped out.

Eventually when git started misbehaving I restarted the router to fix.

And now I have a new router. :)
We should be unhappy with a government that is so easily controlled, and that isn't looking out for our interests
this different from JDownloader2?
The GP poster is clearly making fun of dark matter and dark energy, supporting the typical trope among dark matter skeptics that both are mere crutches because most cosmologists refuse to find modifications to gravity for whatever reason. This interpretation is in line with other comments made in this thread by the same account (the one about "dark suction" and others).

Inflation has no influence on galaxy formation. Its duration was also a tiny fraction of a second, not years. It's also the first time I have heard it being associated with the term "dark age". The only actual "dark age" in cosmology in the common sense of the term is the period between reionization and first light by stars. Nothing to do with the quasars we are discussing here. It's really hard for me to read the comment in the way you suggest.
Senator accuses sloppy domain registrars of aiding Russian disinfo campaigns
> I just looked up ZX calculus, and I am sure you can formulate that better by not mentioning CT at all.

Based on what? Sorry, but what you're saying is beyond arrogant (considering you have zero knowledge of the subject).
> the confusing thing to me is that people who rail about the government, are simply complaining about the power of companies to control it.

This is a baseless assertion with no evidence, written in an emotionally manipulative manner ("the confusing thing", "I'm curious", etc).

The government is responsible for drafting laws and regulations, and for setting nutritional standards. Not companies. This is a fact.

If a government official decides to claim that sugar is ok and fat is bad, that's something they have to take responsibility for given that they are literally doing so as a representative of the government.

The sugar industry is not mind-controlling these government employees. They are being corrupted, yes, but ultimately they are making the decisions. The primary moral failing is with the individuals making the decisions. This is factual. If you make a decision, you are more responsible for that decision than someone else who did not make it, by definition.

None of this is to say that this bribery and corruption on the part of the companies is somehow excusable or doesn't make the problem worse, just that the primary responsibility lies with our elected officials and those they then nominate and hire in turn.
My imminent concern is that it seems like increasing numbers of people can’t read anything more complicated than a tweet. Do we end up with a tiny group of people who can seriously read and write, just communicating with each other? I think we had something like that several centuries ago? Is this whole “universal literacy” concept just doomed?
I think we're agreeing here. Sane regulation would create a system where liability could exist for certain products, and consumers would have some idea of what they're paying for.
In general, it is wise not to dismiss everything as a conspiracy theory. Flat earth and moon landing conspiracies are not the same as those that involve corrupting a small number of individuals for massive gain.
Meat industry. They're pushing "big sugar lied to you" (true), "(saturated) fat good for you!", which is contrary to most evidence we have.

Only because sugar is bad for you does not mean fat is good for you. Evidence is rather on the side of complex carbs, high fiber, moderate protein, moderate unsaturated fat and low saturated fat intake.
Chopin is pretty distinctive. I think the question would be if someone could identify it as “actual lost Chopin” vs “modern composer trying to imitate Chopin”.
Someone like James May.
As if US and Commonwealth countries aren't also doing the same.
You see this often here in the HN comment section, on a variety of topics: "For-profit industry did [wrongdoing], and the government [went along with it | was fooled | didn't act fast enough], therefore I don't trust the government!" They're always silent on corporate power. It's odd reasoning to say the least.
It's hard to know how to take this given that their first example (function call overhead) seems deeply flawed -- you'd never have a 'compare' strings function take std::string by value. (Maybe const string& or string_view). Also, the alternative would have to have a destructor of some type (unless it is a string_view analog) to make it an apples to apples comparison.
> As an aside – I’m storing the ASN in a uint32, is that right? I looked in the ip2asn file and the biggest one seems to be 401307, though there are a few lines that say 4294901931 which is much bigger and would not fit in a uint32. I decided to just ignore the gigantic ASNs and assume I could fit everything in a uint32.

Does anyone have a theory to how that 4294967296 might have made its way into the data? I'm getting 0 matches on the actual internet with:

birdc show route protocol peer4 | grep 4294967296 -c

And ASNs are certainly not >32 bit.

Edit: actually, I'm not seeing it in the linked iptoasn data either?
The Guardian seems to be seeking money from the foundations of very rich people.

This is the precise opposite of what would be required.
Isn’t this really just signal-to-noise ratio? The information flow can be any input, be it visual, auditory, tactile, etc.
“Clutter” is not a neutral word and leads the reader.
Kinda funny that they’ll get clout if it pans out but not because they’ve got a better model or are better at statistics or anything, just that they made an insane prediction and it worked out.
Their product design was nothing short of brilliant. It was Apple well before Apple.
To me, it starts to feel like work when I have to rebuild large parts of my factory because I didn't leave enough space to expand. This process feels exactly like having to refactor a bad codebase (where you feel the urge to just start from scratch).

If you plan your build properly, you can avoid this, but it takes a few runs to learn the best strategies.
Oh well if you thought someone was going to say they dislike LLMs failures so they want fewer LLMs, and instead they say they dislike LLM failures so they want LLMs to be trained more, that's not a garden path. You don't have to back up and re-process the previous words. And in particular a garden path sentence does it grammatically. You suddenly realize you were getting parts of speech wrong.
While I agree that doing is a great way to learn some things.

I have to point out the fallacy in the first paragraph. He cites a bunch of people who began working in their teen years who later went on to become famous, presumably because they started "doing" things so early. As a counterpoint, there are many millions of young people throughout history, and even now, who began "doing" at a young age and were nothing more than average, at best.

Dropping out of high school to go be a "doer" is a great way to become a high school dropout, not a prodigy.
geordi la forge just send me 'ROTFL what are they doing. You have to connect the electrodes directly to the brain.'

I don't know, but I hope they'll advance in fast leaps. I might need it someday. It started with me :(
Better take US and Commonwealth countries of the list as well, although you might get lucky if Trump wins, these kind of laws aren't on his ballpark, so he might stop ongoing legislation roadmap.
> he seems to be favoring Trump the last few days.

"But I don’t think you should put any value whatsoever on anyone’s gut — including mine. Instead, you should resign yourself to the fact that a 50-50 forecast really does mean 50-50. And you should be open to the possibility that those forecasts are wrong, and that could be the case equally in the direction of Mr. Trump or Ms. Harris." - Nate Silver, NYT, last week

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/opinion/election-polls-re...
Nobody ever bikesheds me or makes me break flow to attend a Fun Team Event in Factorio :)
Strangeness of zero or strangeness of null?
Right but it seems slower for people who are comfortable with pinyin. If I want to reply to a friend saying "I'm on my way and will be there soon", I can tap 'msll' and the input method will show 马上来了 as the first suggestion. 5 taps in total to enter 4 characters.
I like this. I am imagining a companion extension for chrome/ff that uses you-get as a backend to implement it in a seamless way. Forward thinking idea: imagine going on youtube and have you-get extension bypass the youtube player and playing the content directly without ads. When I say youtube I might also say any other platform.
Totally agree, especially about the need for well-architected, high-impact tests that go beyond just coverage. At Loadmill, we found out pretty early that building AI to generate tests was just the starting point. The real challenge came with making the system flexible enough to handle complex customer architectures. Think of multiple test environments, unique authentication setups, and dynamic data preparation.

There’s a huge difference between using an LLM to crank out test code and having a product that can actually support complex, evolving setups long-term. A lot of tools work great in demos but don’t hold up for these real-world testing needs.

And yeah, this is even trickier for higher-level tests. Without careful design, it’s way too easy to end up with “dumb” tests that add little real value.
350kv is definitely not enormous. Marx generators can make 100MV potentials and high energy particle accelerators can make fields in the gigavolt and teravolt ranges. The headline is just a bit ludicrous.

(IANAP)
Am I correct in thinking that this approach effectively makes real time GI a solved problem?

Can someone who's more knowledgeable than myself offer any explanation on why it took so long to discover a method like this? I remember hearing about rt-GI from over 25 years ago.
Ok i need to read that. Without context 不知不覺 => old man Nakayama sneering at children
Why America's future could hinge on Elon Musk
"In 2023, it became the first metro system in the world to operate entirely on electric power."

That is very confusing. Most of the article seems to be about metro systems (a.k.a. underground, subway, the tubes, etc.). What happened in Oslo in 2023 is they electrified their bus lines (i.e. surface transport). I think most actual metro (sub surface) system have been entirely electric for quite a while.
There's a whole slew of great programming puzzle games where I get the same feel. One day while playing tis1000 I was like I should just learn fpga programming. Except for human resource machine that one stuck with me I guess because my daughter was playing as well.

But same with pico 8, I just want a real ide, debugger, unit tests. If I'm not getting those better be getting paid
At the time I was unaware of reasons why and simply knew that the visitors were from the governments national scientific body. I did later find out that the initiative was partly funded by cereal corporations. I did believe and still do that the people sent thought they were acting in the best interest of the students.

These days I consider our governance to be oligopolistic corporatism where the government is a corrupted tool of the corporations that mainly exists to keep the peace between the corporations so they can more effectively extract monopolistic rents. I do like the idea of a hypothetical ideal of an uncorrupted government but I have no idea how such a government could be achieved and worry that attempts to achieve this could easily backfire and make things worse.

Edit: I consider the attempts to pin all ills on government to be the result of yet another successful public relations campaign by large corporations. Unfortunately society has been polarized to the point that I don’t have a political home with either the left or the right - and again I think this is an intentional conspiracy to undermine effective opposition.
> […] a general rule of thumb that the people telling me how to be healthy should at least appear healthy themselves.

If a medical professional tells you that you shouldn't smoke and that it's bad for you, but are smokers themselves, are they wrong? Should you not follow them?

Calling someone a hypocrite (which is essentially what you are doing) is a specious reasoning:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
exactly. The EU needs to focus on fair play for all market participants urgently, it is quite literally making them poorer.
Interestingly the push to reduce fat, which led to increased sugar coincide with the onset of the obesity epidemic. But of-cause correlation isn’t causation.
If this goes, we can assume that like other practices where practitioners are liable:

- insurance industry will come in and be the real winner.

- practitioners will be required to have some sort of license to practice (eg be professional engineers).

- there will be norms, standards, certification authorities, and review committees for when something falls through. The auditing business might also come into the case.

- there will appear some sort of a cast system, such as doctors/nurses/medical assistants, dentists/dental assistants/dental receptionist, lawyers/legal assistants, etc.

- costs and delays will go up for the customers, by much more than the occasional payoff from a lawsuit will bring

- quality, notably of compliance and security will go up, which is what's desired by that law.
Tourism, Airplanes, Flights transport industries
Would be nice to see revisited SQLite solution.

Rest of the described approaches relies on data being in memory rather on disk - not sure whether it was microsd card, SSD over USB, etc. but there's in memory option for SQLite.

Having that in mind it's time to optimize storage - instead of text just store using two 64 bit integers and it was already noticed two indexes are not very helpful - just create one that has both columns included - preferable as primary key so you don't waste space and already have rest of the select data included in single lookup.

Happy to see revisited results, but still not sure if that's a best approach for your problem - but seems like obvious improvements for generic SQL approach.
We are agreeing! Just trying to bring out the price differential that will result from a liability regime. We had this explosion of cheap software partially because nobody was paying for security (either with money or with inconvenience). Now it seems like people expect to fix it for free just by passing a law insisting it be so.

The physical lock market is much more mature, and we don’t see “bank vault” security as the median lock, far from it.
I think spam is just a nuisance, not a big problem. What is a big problem when hosting providers or your email server are blocking or marking as spam legitimate business communication.

It has happened several times to me that I have not seen a customer's email because it was marked as spam and likewise customers have not seen my email as it was sorted in their spam folder. This is a breakdown of communication that is far worse than spam.

A classic use case that is more likely to be flagged as spam is when a customer submits a request via a web form or on social media and you try to follow up by email. From the receiving email server point of view this is a cold email and in danger of being flagged as spam.
That’s because the EU is very discretionary in its enforcement.

> For small companies and individual devs, pretty much nothing changed apart from adding a boilerplate ToS and PP to their projects.

A significant portion of these players are probably non-compliant but nobody cares
Die Shots of Commodore Chips
20 years ago today, I published the first stories to Create Digital Music
This article heavily relies on the assumption that schools do not allow for other learning modalities than passively consuming information, which is false.
And totally counterproductive, given the underlying insinuation that scaling back the government would solve the problem, when in reality it just hands more power over to corporations to do even more [wrongdoing].
Ask HN: What happened to Norman Wildberger's YouTube channel?
https://www.youtube.com/@njwildberger

All of his videos disappeared. I thought his channel was one of the best mathematics channel in YouTube. Does anyone know what happenned?
https://www.youtube.com/@njwildberger
New study finds obesity operations dropped 25.6% in 2023 due to GLP-1 drugs
Yes. Those discoveries can add context to things that are already "well-documented." I'd hate a world where's no information about topics other than official (tm) documentation. It's sometimes rediscovering things are that implicit knowledge by the people who made the documentation, because how could they consider anyone not knowing something so obvious.
C# extension is MIT, even though vsdbg it ships with is closed-source. There's a fork that replaces it with netcoredbg which is open.

C# DevKit is however based on VS license. It builds on top of base C# extension, the core features like debugger, language server, auto-complete and auto-fixers integration, etc. are in the base extension.
Webkit still is open source. Apple never owned the full copyright to it and they would have to do a complete rewrite to get out of that license, which is GPL and always has been. Safari is indeed closed source. But it uses webkit. For the same reason, Google is stuck with the same license and copyright situation. Whether they like it or not, webkit/kml/chromium are forever GPL. Nothing short of a complete rewrite can fix that.

I think you are grossly underestimating how dependent both companies are on various open source projects. It's definitely true that they also do a lot of in house code of course; and they also contribute a lot of their own projects. And of course especially Google is a repeat offender when it comes to creating a lot of dead projects, reinventing the wheel, etc. It looks like their attempt to create their own operating system kernel is slowly dying now. Fuchsia is all but dead at this point. So they are back to Linux being their only future. There's the whole Kotlin ecosystem, which they helped create, which is starting to compete with flutter. And so on.
Since this is fairly static data, preprocess the on-disk format to match your memory layout and just mmap the file so that your memory usage for the DB is effectively 0 and the OS kernel pages it in/out for you based on system-level needs?
He pulled the root, I guess..
The blinker stalk you just get over. Found myself pressing the nonexistent button on my ford truck the other day. The lack of USS was a concern for me too. I test drove a 2022 with USS and had heard a lot about how the ones without were “bad”. Compared to my wife’s car that has USS, my 2024 is vastly superior. The cameras do build a working 2D top-down view of obstacles when parking and of course the cameras let my brain do so too. In short, the 2024 has as good if not better parking than the 2022 I drove, and the performance is even better.
Rather, I don't think the data channel was actually down-shifted, but that it wasn't filtered out (probably due to a broken analog filtering circuit after the fall), so it was still outside of the audible spectrum but available to the sound card and hence visible in her software spectrum analyzer. It also sounded like she was seeing some aliasing effect, i.e. that the data signal was probably out of band for the sound card ADC, but "folded" down into the sampler frequency range due to Nyquist folding "magic" (which is maybe what you meant with "down-shifting", now that I think about it?).
About Renaissance Technologies
SID Internals Documentation
Which is still massively more then amount of writing people did pre-internet.
https://archive.ph/yOrQw
I'm actually surprised software has been exempted for so long. Based on the lawsuits started against companies like Crowdstrike, it probably isn't, but nobody has bothered to write it down yet.

What we have here is an intention, research into why it's necessary, and a process. None of this is law yet, this isn't even a legal proposal. The conclusions taken by this news publication are damn certain about something that's currently just a vague idea existing in a politician's drafts folder.

It's obvious software vendors have to comply with some standard of warranty because lawsuits against buggy software are regularly won. Most documented cases I've found are actually from the US, so perhaps Europe is behind on the US for winning such cases, often in the form of class action suits.

The EU isn't alone in wanting software vendors to be liable for their flaws; the White House also called for a law (see "Strategic objective 3.3"). This version has been wrapped in a soothing layer of "cybersecurity" but the implication is the same.
I’d say that running a profitable company in a socially conscious way is proof that the drive for profit above anything else that characterises capitalism is misguided. Olivetti could be more profitable if they didn’t care so much about the well-being of their workers and their families, but they proved they can, and that is better than maximising shareholder value at any cost.