skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here it is in written form. The punchline is worth the read/watch.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
For signs of the analyzed version, there's this file:

/lib/systemd/system/display-managerd.service

And a process called "kde".
If you're going to go back to 1967 to explain the WB occupation, then you have to go back to the war of 1948 whereby Israeli Jews took over Palestine to begin with as the British withdrew, resulting in over 700,000 Palestinians fleeing their homes or being expelled (read up on the Nakba). That's the root cause of why the WB and Gaza are occupied and the ongoing conflict.

> Calling it occupied is like calling parts of Poland and France occupied because Germany started a war in 1967 and lost, losing territory.

very false equivalency
Your previous comment makes little sense and your reply is just angry and explains nothing.

A tool to avoid collision was introduced decades ago. This tool was made proeminent by the language and the ecosystem (PHP-FIG, frameworks, books, popular PHP celebrities).

You literally have to had stopped programming PHP more than a decade ago to not understand namespaced functions.

https://phptherightway.com/#namespaces

This problem of collision was seen miles ahead, and people were gently introduced to the idea that the global namespace belongs to PHP builtins and you should not pollute it even further.

I would say it is consensus for the PHP community that if your code broke because you defined array_filter globally before 8.4, then your code sucks and you don't know PHP.
Would a XZ hack have not worked on a Linux machine? (It would have)

Are researching PyPy and Pip and Nuget and VSCode Extensions and AI pickle models all exclusive?
Apologies, just added a popup with region availability info
The raison d'être of Oxide isn't Rust, it's continuing to pretend that the bloated corpse of Solaris still has some signs of life.
Definitely used Cyberpunk2077 footage to train
What do the British call biscuits?

https://chefjar.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/popeyes-biscu...
Being spun off to a different company.
We don’t currently have GPUs in the product. The closed-ness of the GPU space is a bit of a cultural difference, but we’ll surely have something eventually. As a small company, we have to focus on our strengths, and there’s plenty of folks who don’t need GPUs right now.
The rules-based order was always a fiction; international law is a tool used solely against America’s enemies.

This arrest warrant could be executed in a day if the US would stop supporting this genocide, but that won’t happen. They will sooner invite Netanyahu back to the UN to order more air strikes on refugees.
I might make some sense. However, not everyone uses Facebook or Instagram; it's not quite like Google where just about everyone uses some of their services, if not many.

I suppose it would help Meta greatly expand their ad business, to places far beyond FB/IG.
Not sure about schools for gifted, but I think lots of people here a bit live in bubbles.

Maybe industrialized countries, a bit better off neighborhoods, STEM classes in high school, and then university? (Not everyone but ... Most here?)
I wonder if this explains a lot of the unusual behaviour that happens when you use multiple accounts on a website in the same browser.
They mentioned Google needs to sell Chrome. This is distinct from Alphabet.

So in theory, Alphabet could create Chrome LLC and it could acquire the Chrome browser (not sure about ChromeOS) from Google.

Same would apply to Android.

It's unlikely that Chrome would be available to the private market.
AI Disrupts the Traditional Hiring Process
As I mentioned in a sibling thread, you are, with all due respect, assuming very specific, potentially very local schooling. I can't say where you grew up and at what time and what the curriculum would always contain.

However, whatever your schooling included, after reading through the entirety of the Wikipedia article I can say with absolute certainty that none of it rang any bells and it very much was not part of my schooling and I did not happen to come across it afterwards by accident such as through this article.

Like also hinted at in that sibling thread, there are other quite local historic figures I could cite which I know for a fact are locally well known but not otherwise. All through talking to colleagues and friends from other countries (or even just parts within a single country). What really got me both in your and their replies is this absolutist certainty. The world is so full of differences and yet somehow some people feel the need to express things like you do here in such absolute terms and no other realities seem to be possible to exist.
Thanks for the explanation. When I taught physics, I was always annoyed by not being able to teach this correctly. Right from PHY101: Mechanics, as soon as you get to rotational motion, you run into these problems because of the units of plane angle issue. Common introductory texts get the units for rotational quantities wrong.

Do you have a reference for any undergrad text that does this correctly?
There appears to be no purpose to this article other than to publicize and to attempt to launder the dox. I wonder to what extent this exposes "The Daily Dot" to criminal liability.
Aolean harp! I'm planning a workshop for kids around this now: build the harp & resonator however you like (two flower pots with a piece of fishing line in between for example -- more ideas here: https://www.homemade-dessert-recipes.com/aeolian-harp.html) then add a contact mic to the resonator and do some simple digital processing (delays and phase shifts) on the waveforms to demonstrate signal arithmetic and the basics of acoustics.
The Matrix is certainly the confounding variable here. It's hard to square the liberal promotion of gun control with how badass the Wachowski sisters made it look. Society may never figure that one out.
Videos from this tool (or one like it) are surprisingly popular on TikTok.
And “comment of the year” award goes to.

Sorry for the filler but this is amazingly put and so true.

We’ll get so many unintended consequences that are opposite any worthy goals when it’s AIs talking to AIs in a few years.
He is the master of taking ideas that have been around for decades taking all the credit for them and doing nothing about them
<< I am not American, but why oh why are you not rooting in the streets? That is just soooo effed up

US has a lot of issues. Some of those issues are obvious. Some of those issues are not obvious. Some have solutions. Some really do not have solutions that do not include changes that would make US fall apart as a result of those changes. Some of those issues have business interests ensuring those issues stay exactly as they are..

All this is also happening against conscious propaganda apparatus ensuring an individual stays separated from otherwise normal bonds. Entire communities are atomized to ensure they do not pose a threat of banding together. And this does not even begin to touch the social fabric.

Some of the stuff is fucked up, but one has to pick battles. Things are bad, but not bad enough in many people's view. Naturally, that can change. And since are we raised to believe in 'the economy', it only takes another 2008 to have Americans reconsider their current social agreement.

edit: bunch of syntax
That's fine, just awkward because the GS report shows the TAM or problem depending on your perspective being accelerated computing.
The solution for now. I fully expect future TVs to ship with cellular modems that connect to any carrier willing to jump into bed with the manufacturer.
I'm curious what your environment looks like. We have a bunch of open source options, but standing up a new one is always getting easier.
For context, CS50 is Introduction to Computer Science at Harvard University:

<https://www.edx.org/cs50>

(Not clear from either the submission or the YouTube metadata, though Zuck confirms this in the first couple minutes of the video.)
The map iteration order was always "random", but imperfectly so prior to Go 1.3. From memory, it picked a random initial bucket, but then always iterated over that bucket in order, so small maps (e.g. only a handful of elements) actually got deterministic iteration order. We fixed that in Go 1.3, but it broke a huge number of tests across Google that had inadvertently depended on that quirk; I spent quite a few weeks fixing tests before we could roll out Go 1.3 inside Google. I imagine there was quite a few broken tests on the outside too, but the benefit was deemed big enough to tolerate that.
Fair enough. I guess my point is that even if military and political leaders did want to take this approach, they'd face massive popular resistance. So it kind of depends on what you mean when you say a country 'wants' something.

To wit, some ~60% of Americans currently oppose offensive arms sales to Israel[1], and yet it continues. Would you say America wants this to happen?

1 - https://theintercept.com/2024/09/10/polls-arms-embargo-israe...
There doesn't seem to be any doxxing in this article, in fact private details were shared with the journalists and they have only used them to confirm the hack and not published them. That seems like exactly what journalists are supposed to do?
Don't Call It a Substack.
This shouldn't be surprising, lgbt people get catapulted into the arms of liberal political thought because that's who accepts them. They aren't intrinsically linked.
Even France admits it might not arrest Netanyahu. From an NPR article:

“And in France, a spokesperson for the foreign ministry said the country would act "in line with the ICC's statutes," but as to whether it would arrest Netanyahu if he entered France, the question was "legally complex."

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/21/g-s1-35169/icc-israel-hamas-a...
The human heart may have a hidden ability to repair itself
The UK at their peak and also Russia, twice, tried the "normal colonial route" in Afghanistan..
I’m concerned that this is output generated by an LLM (specifically chatgpt) as the writing style is eerily similar.

iptables conntrack is indeed a huge menace, but you should bypass conntrack entirely for local network connections as you don’t need it.

The only thing conntrack would give you for local requests is better logging, but YAGNI.
I mean, the guidelines [0] explicitly say,

> Please don't post shallow dismissals

I think it's reasonable to flag items which violate the site guidelines.

> for example #1 is not offtopic at all, it's a direct reply

I didn't say it was offtopic, I said it was offtopic whataboutism. All whataboutism is offtopic. Its entire purpose is to terminate conversation about the allegation(s) in question. Just because someone posts a reply doesn't mean the reply is on-topic.

As for the linked post, it's whataboutism, a shallow dismissal, and an insult to boot. A non-shallow dismissal would respectfully and directly address the allegations presented in the warrant. You can disagree with the court without being disagreeable, but that precludes inflammatory statements like "If this was a real court..." (it is one).

> And the one-sided nature of flagging is also fine with you?

I expect to see a level of flagging against each side in rough proportion to that side's inflammatory, off-topic, or rule-violating posts. For example, you previously linked to blatant racism against arabs, expressing confusion as to why it got flagged. Isn't it obvious? Racism is bad, dude.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is their plan to break government. Stupid!
Which makes it much harder to break the circuit vs AC
Pretty much the same, I work on some fairly specific document retrieval and labeling problems. After some initial excitement I’ve landed on using LLM to help train smaller, more focused, models for specific tasks.

Translation is a task I’ve had good results with, particularly mistral models. Which makes sense as it’s basically just “repeat this series of tokens with modifications”.

The closed models are practically useless from an empirical standpoint as you have no idea if the model you use Monday is the same as Tuesday. “Open” models at least negate this issue.

Likewise, I’ve found LLM code to be of poor quality. I think that has to do with being a very experienced and skilled programmer. What the LLM produce is at best the top answer in stack overflow-level skill. The top answers on stack overflow are typically not optimal solutions, they are solutions up voted by novices.

I find LLM code is not only bad, but when I point this out the LLM then “apologizes” and gives better code. My worry is inexperienced people can’t even spot that and won’t get this best answer.

In fact try this - ask an LLM to generate some code then reply with “isn’t there a simpler, more maintainable, and straightforward way to do this?”
> - Britain would never have ruled over Palestine

What problem would this solve? The Zionist movement began under the Ottoman Empire and was well underway by the time of the British Mandate, and the British were overall not entirely pleased with it. Indeed British restrictions on Zionism (by e.g., limiting Jewish migration to Palestine) was one of the major reasons the Israelis began a terror campaign against the British, culminating in the King David Hotel bombing. If not for the British Mandate's restrictions, the Zionist movement would have been in an even stronger position to seize control. Zionist political influence in Britain, and the Balfour Declaration, were obviously bad, but the outcome without them would have been the same; the Balfour Declaration only came about because of the already-existing movement.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the direct result of political Zionism and the resulting mass migration of Jewish peoples into Palestine in the late 1800s-early 1900s, it would not have mattered who was in charge of administering the area, unless they were prepared to have a zero-immigration policy in the face of enormous pressure otherwise.
>I don’t see your point—are you advocating for Google?

Are you advocating for going back to the days of IE6? It seems like you are.

>I highly doubt Microsoft, Apple, or Mozilla would be permitted to acquire Chrome anyway.

So Chrome will go out of business then, in this scenario.
It will not happen to that next administration would turn over Netanyahu to the ICC. Even if they wanted to, he would seek asylum in the U.S. Embassy and he would certainly be granted asylum.
A cis person trying to define what being trans is? That's very common sadly.
> but it may help accelerate things

That doesn't sound like you need the $350k much. And there's a lot of overhead to having outside investors. I'd focus on bootstrapping for 6-12 more months, then maybe reexamine things.
array_search() has the same needle, haystack order as in_array() or array_key_exists().
array_find() has a callback and takes the same order as array_walk() or array_filter().
It's just array_map() that's different, but that's because it can take multiple arrays.
And writing your own function with a prefix already used by PHP in the global namespace is just not a very good idea.
It "runs" but it lacks a lot of business support. You can see what happens when there is no trust and safety department.
"Just some good old Heterotopic ossification, y'know? More bones, more safety."

(That said, repeated head trauma does tend to thicken the skull, although any practical benefits are extraordinarily questionable.)
Roblox Faces Undisclosed Probes by SEC and FTC Amid Hindenburg Accusations
I'm talking about the CCP itself, not the various business people running other companies there. The CCP are capitalists, in case you haven't noticed. (I know, Americans can't really wrap their heads around that one.)
Sail 0.2: Spark replacement in Rust, runs 4x faster, drop-in PySpark compatible
Previous discussion in September when they didn't have distributed processing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41496033

Github Repo: https://github.com/lakehq/sail

Few interesting notes:

- Benchmarks show 4x faster than Spark on TPC-H with 94% cost reduction.

- Currently at 65.7% PySpark test compatibility(they talk about this in more detail in the post)

- Built in Rust using Tokio runtime and Arrow IPC for high performance

- Already supports 79/99 TPC-DS queries
> But I think it is mainly because the compost bin isn't big enough

Pile size is almost all that matters for how hot it gets, in my experience.
I'm just glad this is happening while I'm capable and not dependent on the government. I think all the libertarian small government folks will finally start to figure out what a government is when it stops being one.

Most of these advocates for reducing this number of employees think there's an office full of people collecting checks and not doing anything when in reality many of these government employees I see are cops, firefighters, soldiers, civil engineers, judges and DMV employees. If I need any of those people I certainly wouldn't want to find out I had to wait longer because their jobs were cut.

The US Army alone constitutes 400k+ employees. Overall the military is more than 1.3 million active duty staff.
It's more a case of selection of optimization parameters and corresponding economy. It's not so much that apple towers over others in design (though they are absolutely no slouches and have wins there) but their design team is in position to coordinate with product directly and as such isn't as limited by "but will it sell in high enough numbers for the excel sheet at investor's desk?"

The real show stopper for years is that ARM servers are just not prepared to be a proper platform. uBoot with grudgingly included FDT (after getting kicked out of Linux kernel) does not make a proper platform, and often there's also no BMC, unique approaches to various parts making the server that one annoying weirdo in the data center, etc.

Cloud providers can spend the effort to backfill necessary features with custom parts, but doing so on your own on-prem is hard
Symfony took venture capital years ago, it's no different really: https://www.sourceguardian.com/blog-symfony-gets-boost-from-...
Hey all so we built Asimov to serve as the foundation to Bismuth (internally named Daneel) our in terminal coding agent.

At the time there weren't really a lot of great solutions for building agents and we thought that we would be able to do something better and nicer ourselves. We really like what we landed on in terms of the simplicity of building pretty complex graphs and executing them at scale all within Python.

We went with Python to make it accessible (as others did too) and our graph's node interface is loosely based on PyTorch's nn where modules can pass output seamlessly down the chain.

In general Asimov graphs are dags which makes processing them super easy, but in the cases where back edges are needed we leave it up to the user whether or not state needs to be cleared and then perform a goto like jump to a given node, running a full execution replan in the process, skipping that node's siblings, and continuing from that point forward.

We can do this easily because our state management, which is primarily Redis backed (though a bit of an implementation detail any fast in memory cache will suffice and we do take PRs :)), is divorced from the graph execution as a separate layer.

In other words state doesn't even know there is a graph, just normals keys and values which allows things to be flexibly rewritten as graph state and execution shifts.

Anyway we have a whole bunch of goodies for this release which are:

- A robust graph execution engine that lets agents actually do things

- Multi-LLM support (Claude, OpenAI, Bedrock, Vertex)

- Full state tracking with task history, execution plans, and recovery

- Advanced features like agent-directed graph execution (let LLMs make routing decisions!) and state snapshotting for saving/restoring entire agent states

And this is production ready, it handles all the complex stuff you need for real-world agent systems - proper error handling, middleware, OpenTelemetry integration, proper retries etc.

Oh and this is fully OpenSource under the ApacheV2 License.

We hope you think this is cool and happy to answer any questions!
Not only archaeological. Some new Android stuff was implemented in CCL only last year.
It’s significantly more than that, but it’s also true that we include stuff in other languages where appropriate. CockroachDB is in Go, and illumos is in C, as two examples. But almost all new code we write is in Rust. That is the stuff you’re talking about, but also like, our control plane.

Oh and we write a lot of Typescript too.
There are problems it does solve though. It’s incomprehensible that we get so many new package managers that fail to learn from the bajillion that came before.
Why did evolution see fit to limit the ability of the heart and the brain to regenerate cells?
> Mr Bookman then fires five more shots at Mr Durham and says "put your hands up"

WTF?
I want to point out here that people do the same: a lot of the time we don't know why we thought or did something, but we'll confabulate plausible-sounding rhetoric after the fact.
I'm not a huge fan of Substack, but this seems like the most cynical interpretation of what Substack is. And the whole point is just to police the words people use to refer to their blog?
Hyrum's Law especially applies when you have consumers of your APIs that violate Postel's Law. To minimise those in the past, we've introduced intentional jitter in our API responses that while didn't violate the schema prevented unintentional reliance on behaviour that wasn't intentional[1].

[1]: <https://medium.com/pageup-tech/update-on-driving-client-resi...>
Thanks for opening the source code to another generation
https://blot.im/
Apple TV kind of has ads in the form of their streaming service. Not egregious yet, but it gets worse with every iteration.
Show HN: Embed live-ish follower counts
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They are 75% carbs. Don't miss the point in your focus on one thing that I said. Replace it with sweet potatoes, carrots, and any other health promoting vegetable that Americans don't eat (and when they do, without slathering in sugar/fat).
Someone could if they wanted to! We’ll see if anyone does.