skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To me this is way easier to understand.

> I know this is not 100% bug-for-bug compatible with the original flowchart.

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” (https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/17/solution/?amp=1)

(It’s not my intent to be totally dismissive, the author has good points, but I couldn’t resist the pithy but misquoted quote)
Not much—but see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42011089
Google Fi, works great to stop spamming.

I have donated and shared my tel no, and had to stop 4x. That is it this season.

Checking my spam folder for texts, it has several, not hundreds, so is not as bad as others here.
Yeah nah, this just seems like bullshit. I don't know any 'adhd' people where this cluster-fuck website wouldn't distract them or make their condition worse. No design is going to help a medical condition. Your use-case can never help its audience. To me this looks like a depressing attempt to exploit very desperate people with a medical condition for something that can't possibly help.

To the HN aspiring 'entrepreneur' everything is a possible business. Even human suffering. Time and time again this community demonstrates it will trade any morals to make a quick buck.
the Frequentists?
Tritan is still plastic. It's BPA free, but there are lots of other estrogenic compounds in the world.
RoMON is a life saver to be able to unbrick a device (remotely if you have another working mikortik device on the same network to proxy through!) if you mess up some config that breaks the normal tcp/ip remote management

> RoMON works by establishing independent MAC layer peer discovery and data forwarding network. RoMON packets are encapsulated with EtherType 0x88bf and dst-MAC 01:80:c2:00:88:bf and its network operates independently from L2 or L3 forwarding configuration.

https://wiki.mikrotik.com/Manual:Tools/RoMON
Cool, first time I've seen one of my posts trend without me submitting it myself. Hopefully it's clear from the domain name and intro that I'm suggesting technical writers are underrating how useful embeddings can be in our work. I know ML practitioners do not underrate them.
This is a fundamental limitation of language. The LLM is likely to provide a good answer here even though the question is technically ambiguous, because it likes verbose answers.

Equally "can" is used to substitute for other precise words. Humans are good at inferring context, and if someone asked me "can illegals vote" I'd say "no". Just like if someone said "can you pass the salt" I pass the salt, I don't say "yes".

If the inferred context US wrong then the "truth" is wrong, but as with talking to humans it's possible to refine context with a follow up question.
I appreciate that he picks a subject dealing with regexes for his Halloween video. I can think of few things more frightening or appropriate.
Do you mean social-capitalist (welfare state) countries? There's almost no socialist countries nowadays, perhaps maybe North Korea and Cuba.

But yes, I share your vision for a post-scarcity society.
Curious to know more. Is there a good source of information on the security of the hardware and software used for elections India.

As an Indian citizen I see the casual lack of security mindset in large swathe of things implemented by both public and private actors. Many things get better only though iterative failures and corresponding reactive fixes.

What type of failures and improvements have happened here, or instances of demonstrated hardness against those with motivation and access to machinery.
I was going to post that the same sort of mandate had applied to Ada, and was eventually abandoned. I remember Ada the mandate, but I recall obtaining waivers from the mandate (on specific DoD programs) before 1991. I predict that this mandate will suffer the same fate as the previous one.

A quick search confirms my memory:

The DoD Ada language mandate, which required the use of the Ada programming language for most Department of Defense software projects, was established on March 30, 1987 through Department of Defense Directive 3405.2.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/255471.255599
This seems somewhat incoherent and is too focused on shallow claims about languages instead of trying to understand why the memory bugs happened in the first place.

Are unsafe code blocks in Rust or C# okay? Presumably yes if there are good reasons to do so, sometimes it is necessary. But then as a matter of policy, why is Rust meaningfully different than something like using Valgrind with C++? Of course there are substantive differences from a developer's perspective. But just as a stressed or cynical C++ developer might give up on solving the Valgrind error, a similar Rust developer might give up fighting the borrow checker and add "unsafe" to their buggy code. A federal impetus to switch from C++ to Rust would seem to incentivize this laziness further.

To be clear this isn't a criticism of Rust's design or implementation - demarcated blocks of unsafe code is pragmatic and sensible. The problem is how humans build software. In this sense I don't think we've really settled whether "rewrite the code in Rust" is actually safer than "redo our technical management to include automated memcheck testing and paired code reviews." At the very least, I don't think the latter is insufficient, and the feds are being too heavy-handed by making this about language recommendations.

[If it were up to me I would rewrite it in Rust! Saying "the feds made me" is an excellent excuse :) But I don't like the feds making such strong recommendations/demands when I feel the facts are still quite murky. There simply haven't been enough case studies.]

I also think the feds here (along with techies in general) are undervaluing formal specifications and underestimating the risk of undefined behavior.[1] Rust is very stable but it's not formally specified and until recently had known bugs in its very design, not merely in the rustc implementation. (I think those bugs finally got fixed this year.) Considering how cutting-edge Rust is I am sure there are other "theory bugs" somewhere. The point is that critical software also needs stability, and it is unwise to chase memory safety without considering the risks of being tied to an old version of a compiler, especially with unsafe code.

Again: not saying that Rust is automatically bad because it isn't formally specified. But these issues should at least get lip service.

[1] E.g. this fairly detailed document doesn't discuss this at all: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-12/The-Case-fo...
I have a second channel for urgent things, which is a phone call. I've told everyone that I'm available whenever, but they need to pick up the phone and call me. Surprisingly that little bit of friction seems to downgrade issues from 'urgent' to 'we can fix it tomorrow'
Yep. Or county or city or whatever is relevant.

It's not terrible—as I said, I'm a happy customer—but it's not a habit I have and it feels like something that should be configurable once in a settings menu. I don't even really want to have it detect my location live, I just want to be able to tell it where I live and have it prioritize content that's local when given the chance.
UTF-8 characters that behave oddly when the case is changed
I generated this list from a Python script I wrote a few months back for use in property tests in a Rust codebase. Its meant to break parsers that make bad assumptions about UTF-8, like assuming that upper- or lowercasing a character will always result in the character encoding having the same size in bytes, or even that it will result in one character.

The "ﬀ" ligature, for example, is uppercased by Python as "FF", meaning it both becomes two separate characters, and is one byte smaller overall. I hope it's interesting.
I'm definitely digging into this, thank you!

I'm a little concerned about ESBMC's "simulating a finite prefix of the program execution with all possible inputs" when important software like operating systems are intended to run indefinitely. Would they start with a valid state (filesystem, process list) and prove no invalid state is reachable within n syscalls or interrupts? Maybe I was hoping for proving invariants.
I'm not convinced that either sugar or fatty cuts of meat are great for you. Why would we have to pick one or the other?
Most mods in recent cars seem to just undo some of the regulatory emissions controls in exchange for a bit of performance. Engines aren’t leaving much on the table nowadays. CPU overlocking is going the same way.
What do you mean by "institutional settings"? I'm just talking about a daycare where my kid can learn their letters and make friends in the neighborhood. That's kind of an institution I guess, but I wouldn't describe it as an "institutional setting".
> Taking a cynical profit-only driven view of the world would optimize for better cancer care.

There are many promising research directions, which are however grossly underexplored, either because there is a low chance it might lead to a positive result, or because it cannot be patented even if it's successful. Examples in the latter category include off-label use of established procedures, or of already known drugs. Conversely, the majority of money and energy is being spent on highly predictable research and which can result in a patent; almost always the downside is low impact. So as you can see, profit optimisation is not correlated with impact optimisation.
> We're seeing how that pans out in Australia and it's not good.

How are we seeing how that pans out when Australia's misinformation bill is still just a proposal?
Desktop apps can store what they like. There is no EU law preventing desktop apps from storing anything, unlike websites.
I’m calling it: they don’t have a 5-series training run tracking to completion.

A former colleague who is mediocre on innovation but arbitrarily good at self promotion (TLDR tried boosting on ads, got a huge win, almost got fired for ethics breaches, did nothing interesting again) had the audacity to post a weird circuit board background with glowing flowing hair about his “innovations at OpenAI”.

He’s not the only total fraud I know there, it’s just that every morally weak person I know went there, almost to a rule, and none of them (safe one) is any fucking good.

GPT-5 never happens. Prove me wrong.
Vscode's remote SSH is much better than tramp mode imo. They are not really on the same level.
It's been a long time. Most of the stuff I was able to get from conversations on the Emacs IRC channel of freenode. Many of those "tricks" are documented here https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode but I don't know if it's out of date.
The average person enjoys villainizing those who they see as somehow "above" them in standing, whether that's social, financial, or otherwise. They are of course incensed when the people "below" them do the same thing.
Arhive page without paywall:
http://archive.today/2024.10.15-194956/https://www.oregonliv...
Well, that's absurd. The FTC will calmly tell you that you're not being spammed. These are legitimate communications.

There is an explicit carve-out for all political/election related communications to voters. You can't opt-out by DoNotCall and you can't suppress your contact info from the public voter rolls. (They also know when you cast your ballots--there's currently someone hounding me about it, and their entire mission is to explicitly hound people until the vote is cast.)

This is even a stronger affinity than companies who have a current business relationship with you. You can individually get out of those, but you will always receive political communications.

It doesn't matter if it's a shady, fly-by-night out-of-state PAC with dark money, or whether it's the Lord Emperor For Life Himself on the phone, it's all equally legitimated, and nobody will dare legislate against it.
Forewarning that this is an incredibly biased viewpoint based on my experience with IBM and their products…

They tend to target slower moving clients, think healthcare or the public sector. They sell them incredibly outdated products which tend to wall them in or limit their choices to other similarly outdated product offerings from IBM.

This begins the support racket, it is not uncommon to see an error from an IBM product instructing you to reach out to your IBM support representative for help in resolving the issue. These support agreements are where quite a lot of their money is made.

It goes deeper, many people who previously worked at IBM end up taking software architect positions within these slow-moving sectors. I am not saying it’s outright, but it seems quite obvious that these people are financially motivated to fold IBM products into any and every opportunity possible.

Basically IBM has developed somewhat of a dark pattern for software sales and they use it to capture their clients. Extricating your organization from the IBM ecosystem is incredibly difficult and often an uphill battle.
Drones are easily brought down with shotguns and variants.

And there's nothing preventing arming a drone with a repeating shotgun as well - an anti-drone drone.

https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/2024/analysis...

IOW hire bored duck hunters and skeet shooters and ship 'em out to Ukraine. Give 'em each a case of 10-gauge shot shells and some MREs and they'll be in heaven.
They are embedding Gemini results at the top of search. How is that not integration between them?
...and the divide is effectively implemented by "multiplication", i.e. repeating the same match group (via backreference). It's one of those things that looks impossible at first, but you instantly turn to "of course that's how it works!" once you understand. That said, I still think this article is on the verbose side.

Also, strictly speaking, it's not a "regular expression" but a "regex", as backreferences make the language more powerful than regular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression#Patterns_fo...
I held a number of online conferences a few years ago. The attendance sweet spot was 5-15~ just using zoom. Under 5 is just not enough people. Beyond 15 it's very difficult to talk naturally. Becomes more of a consumption only medium. I hadn't tried having dedicated chats for different talks before.
If they got away with it then how do you know it's happened?
> Rich people's improvement outpacing poor people's is not necessarily an issue.

That's like saying "the fact there's a black hole in the centre of the galaxy is not an issue."

Extreme wealth distorts the universe around it. There are people who have no business making nation-state level decisions that are still on the speed dial of the people who are, because of their financial positions.

There's also a strong case that education blocked by finance, on a second order. Wealth creates flight opportunities. Parents who can afford it take their kids out of the default public school and take them to a magnet, charter, or private school. Not everyone can afford that, even if some are nominally tuition-free-- if they don't offer the same bussing, for example, that's going to add thousands of dollars a year in bus or petrol costs to get the kid to and from campus.

But aside from that, when the parents take their kids away, they also take their volunteerism, activity support, and holding staff accountable. The public school ends up supported by the least resourced and least concerned parents, and the students left behind suffer.

Housing is probably solvable with a more holistic central-planning mindset. Everyone wants to live in a few desirable areas, but we have no mechanism to generate more desirable areas. A planned economy could help by steering new economic development to places where housing can be built affordably, perhaps with build-out mandates. The Chinese "Ghost Cities" are actually a great idea in retrospect-- if you build everything at once before the first residents arrive, you can avoid some of the very expensive retrofit problems. Building a subway on the barren ground of a planned city is a lot cheaper than drilling under Lower Manhattan.

A secondary problem is that housing costs and the need for retirement/end of life savings creates a doom loop-- if you're paying 60% of your income on a mortgage, you can't invest in any other way, so it HAS to be the nest egg. I'm not sure how to address that-- richer and more universal pensions might help reduce the load on home equity, and there are certainly ways to de-asset-ify land (maybe replacing outright land ownership with peppercorn leases-- people wouldn't be able to "buy" a house, at best they could try to bribe the existing owner to abandon the lease and hope to grab it when the property goes back up for redistribution)
The former captain of the Bayesian laid out his opinion of what caused the sinking:

https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2024/08/27/former-bayesia...

It should also be noted that the fishermen in the area all received notice of incoming storm activity and many of them took precautionary measures HOURS in advance of when the storm actually hit. Whoever was the bridge watchstander on duty during that time should have been paying attention to the immediate near term weather forecast info. This was an entirely preventable incident.
No worries that you deleted it, can understand that you want to be cautious with your child:)

Btw, I actually don't have a child so haven't used parental controls, but just found out that they do have an app time-limit setting:
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/set-up-screen-time-ip....

yeah, I have an app blocker on my iphone to block news websites/apps called Freedom. Essential these days to staying productive - although, don't think this app would work for your child, because it is not very reliable and needs to be restarted every few days.
> KDE will use 2GB of RAM just idling on desktop

As much as I dislike KDE, this is just not true. Perhaps you mean your whole system idles at 2GB including all other running services?

To anyone new to Linux, I recommend sticking to Wayland. Gnome if you're familiar with MacOS, KDE if coming from Windows. Use a popular distro with good documentation online (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch).

Don't worry too much about memory. Just about anything will be lighter than windows. I've had friends choose the absolute worst X11 desktops because it's "light" then run into all sorts of multi monitor issues
If robotics and AI are doing all the work, what are the former workers going to do for money? Nothing. They won’t have money. It’s not like the rich will have 1e6 x the poor. The poor will have nothing at all.

The future is a tiny elite leisure class with all the wealth and property and access to robotics and automation that does all the work for them and a huge underclass with nothing, nothing to do, and no access to that automation. Plus something that physically isolated the elites from the have-nothings so they aren’t in danger.
The book Code by Petzold talks about computers at this low level (relays) and works up to a small processor. It's pop tech, very readable, second edition came out a couple years back. If you're interested in how these relays would work for something like this, he goes into it.

https://codehiddenlanguage.com

https://codehiddenlanguage.com/Chapter08/ - illustrates logic with relays.
I guess our opinion will vary on "worse", but the worst case for a job seeker is less jobs to click on. I don't see that as worse than applying to a bunch of jobs thst don't exist or are otherwise exploiting the idea of a job posting.

>Much of the current situation stems from fairness-minded regulations forcing companies to post jobs they already have a candidate for, wasting everybody’s time.

Yes, I do believe we should repeal those regulations. Someone who wants to hire a friend of family member will figure out how to do it.

H1bs are a more complex matter. They should ironically enough strengthen those so an H1b isn't held hostage by an employer who can lay them off on thr drop of a hat. They should have more protections as they are a sponsored guest and not yet an American citizen.
To clarify: I wasn't making a pedantic linguistic point here. The fact is that when I first read the question, I actually thought it was asking "are illegal immigrants able to cast a vote (regardless of legality)?"

It literally did not even (initially) occur to me that the question might be asking about legality, because the entire modern political discourse surrounding illegal immigrants and voting has been with regards to whether they can cast votes despite not legally being allowed to. The answer to "is this legal" would have been such an obvious "no" to people on both sides of the debate --- and thus the question so silly --- that initially it didn't occur to me that the intended question might have been about legality, until I continued reading the comment and realized that was the intention after all.
Where did I say growth? I said it was phenomenal. Funny how you just misinterpreted my comment to make your vapid retort.
I was thinking something similar. I like the google auto-ai summary for little trivia facts and objective things (who played so and so in the movie? How heavy is a gallon of milk?) this is stuff that is verifiable and could theoretically just be queried from some sort of knowledge base.

But for anything remotely subjective, context dependent, or time sensitive I need to know the source. And this isn’t just for hot button political stuff — there’s all sorts of questions like “is the weather good this weekend?”, “Are puffy jackets cool again?”, “How much should I spend on a vacation?”
There was something called the Oregon Graduate Institute that the founders of Tektronix helped establish. The issue with Intel is that their management is not in Oregon for the most part so they are not invested in the same way as Phil Knight (Nike’s founder) is. Intel has also historically relied on importing talent from outside Oregon so the lack of a world class research university in the Portland metro area has not hurt Intel too much. I am sure that they regret not having such an institution now though.
Show HN: Demos–provision Digital Ocean w Terraform+deploy front/back end w Kamal
I normally use Render, but looked into self-hosting some stuff recently. Took a few days to figure out so I clean my repos up and pushed to GitHub. Let me know if you find it useful.
TSMC and Samsung are expanding fabs in the US so the US can make do without Intel if needed.
It’s kind of rare but it happens, I’ve definitely seen it AND been asked up front. I tell them that I don’t “burn” my references on any jobs except those I’m pretty sure I have a great chance and after some interviewing has happened.
Education is about developing sustained understanding and skills that can be reliably applied over time.

A student who crams for and performs well on a final exam hasn't necessarily developed the deep, lasting comprehension that comes from regular engagement with the material.

Education at China is the way you mentioned, students just learn for exam, them learned nothing but exam
My golden hallucination tests for chatgpt are identification of Simpsons season and episode based on description of some plot lines or general0 descriptions.

I had to refresh my knowledge base visiting fandom websites to review the episode selected as answer as chatgpt tendency to mix things up and provide entirely made up episodes make it hard for bar trivias (and makes me doubt myself too). The same with other tv series such as House MD and Scrubs.
How is it that we are just now making phones in the classroom? I would have assumed this was the case since smart phones came out
> No and No.

> which what gave us the exponential speed ups we enjoy today

You're just patently wrong because

1. P=?NP is still open

2. You can consult the implementation of any solver

There's really nothing more to be said about it because both of these bullets are formal proofs that you are wrong.