skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because for that to make sense you need to have some strong evidence that the resulting status quo will be better for consumers than the present situation. You don't break monopolies just for the sake of breaking monopolies. You do that to avoid locking into some suboptimal outcomes for consumers.
Wrong question. Correct question is why is private equity chasing medical practices above all else. Bet you the answer is that's where the less constrained money extraction is.
I am thinking that would also include Stripe? Or is Stripe not consumer facing? Not that Apple is forced to open up NFC worldwide. I am wondering what would happen next? Surely Apple has incentive to own NFC transaction or something like Apple Cash.
I'm not advocating, just trying to look into the future.

Superhuman AI seems to be a building block of it. And deep transformation of how we work will come with it.

So I raised the question of the timeline.

That's all.
I mean at least Oligarchs do not pretend anymore! They directly elect themselves, how convenient for their class. But nah, I'm not one of those people, I wish the USA were to transition to Socialismm. That would probably usher a century of world peace, if not more.
So Chinese advantage with EVs + tariffs in USA and EU can cause that China will get stuck with massive overcapacity for BEV manufacturing and thus bankruptcies. I wonder if China little bit overplayed their hand in those massive exports.
Fair enough. I guess the "deep transformation of how we work" part is what I don't really understand. Like I said, there's certainly some cynicism I've got and so I am going to have a tendency to extrapolate potential negatives from everything left unsaid about that "transition".

I think it's partly these hangups about the situation that I have that give me the tendency to assume a post like yours is necessarily "advocating" as well, so my apologies if that was not your intent.
All countries have more stuff under urban roads, do first world countries tend to have worse quality urban roads than country roads?
> Why do we see no companies offering to deploy local LLMs?

Because they need your data to sell^Wtrain LLMs.
Liquidsoap is great, it's exactly what I've been searching for, for many years. I was using Winamp on Windows for years but it was just buggy and a resource hog. I tried a few other solutions, but nothing worked well. Then I found Liquidsoap and it's perfect. I now run about 30 radio streams from my 1gbit home internet connection. I run Liquidsoap (and shoutcast server) in a single Ubuntu VM, it takes very little resources. I have not had one problem with buffering or any other streaming issue since switching to Liquidsoap. These streams are all for personal use (and for friends). I serve several channels each of several different music genres, so it's always easy to tune in to music we love. If one channel isn't what we're in the mood for, we switch to another channel. It's been a game-changer for our quality of life where entertainment is concerned. We have about 1TB of mp3s in the collection, so it's quite a lot of music. And Liquidsoap has made it fairly easy to do. Once I got one station working, it was easy to duplicate it until we had about 30 stations streaming. I haven't even begun to tap the potential of what it can do, but it serves us really well for what we need.
PHP is slowly dying
The carbon cost of a bloated CSS framework isn't the build time, it's the billions of times the resulting CSS has to be parsed and applied on the web pages where it's used.
> 2. The password store can be decrypted with either of two methods: A day-to-day password they memorize, or a longer key which can be stored along with the will.

The longer key is kind of pointless given the shorter password, unless that shorter password only works with a hardware key.
Perhaps some sort of food-grade wax? Although then you've got to worry about hot foods...
> Was anyone expecting a system that handles 6 trillion dollars a year to not fall under financial regulatory purview?

9to5mac and Apple at the very least.
We do, but only cookies are universally available. Plenty of unusual user-agents in the world, or people like me that browse with JS off by default.
Learn how to solve one problem and apply the approach, logic and patterns to different problems. In German that's called "Transferleistung" (roughly "transfer success") and a big thing at advanced schools. Or, at least my teacher friends never stop talking about it.

We get better at it over time, as probably most of us can attest.
So we have in the big shifts:

Agriculture workers, became industry workers. (Mechanized agriculture).

Industry workers, became service and white collar workers. (Automatization).

I don't see a sector for white collar workers to shift to now. Even more service workers?

There is room in the serf and capitalist classes though. Hopefully we end up in the later rather than former.

But there is a need for political reform to open up the later I guess.

3 day work week and so on the lower the lowering pressure on wages. Progressive corp. tax? But I don't see that happening in the US.
The website is being purposefully obtuse and the birthday paradox is a "paradox" because it's sometimes formulated in the same way as the website. In other words, you are completely correct that the intersection of any two birthdays is significantly more likely than the intersection of a particular birthday.
Show HN: Rebels in the sky – Terminal game about space pirates
Rebels in the sky is a P2P multiplayer game about crews of space pirates roaming the galaxy to play basketball against each other. It's basically a basketball managerial game with some pirate-y stuff. It's a P2P game with no central server, built on top of libp2p. Players interaction are limited to playing games against each other and trading pirates.

The game runs as a terminal application, meaning that you just need to run it from your terminal.

You can try the game over ssh without installing: `ssh frittura.org -p 3788`

My server is not very powerful and there is a limit to the number of concurrent players, so if you like it I would appreciate it if you could install it (https://github.com/ricott1/rebels-in-the-sky?tab=readme-ov-f...) and run it locally :)

Here is a trailer (not of the last version, so some little things are different): https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/aaa02f04-06db-4da...
So, just be as conservative as possible when you produce data and as liberal as possible when you receive something. Your code will then require the least cooperation from *any* other code to be compatible with.

Doing otherwise will require cooperation to adjust on the specificities clients expect, and you fall into the trap of the prisoner dilemna.
The Birthday Paradox is about a group of people sharing at least one birthday between them. If it was at least 1 person out of 23 people sharing YOUR birthday then the odds would be 1 - (364/365)^23 which is around 0.06 (or 6% chance). So, yes, this scenario is a lot less likely.
> so just another smartTV? First, Google knows everything about you, then Microsoft, now Amazon.

... and Meta, and Apple.
You can run, but you can't hide.
I haven't measured because I broke my pH testing kit.

Thanks for the pointers, I will read further.
The author (and Grothendieck, liberally quoted in the book) disagree with you.

I think the reason you disagree is that it sounds like you’re teaching your child to be good at math class (a perfectly valid and good thing to do). Being good at math class requires being good at rational/logical thinking and computation. It also has only glancing similarities to anything that the author would recognise as mathematics.
Interesting that this is a thermoplastic - my first question is how it performs as a 3D printer filament?
Literally everything in IT runs on decades old principles and technologies. The world simply refuses to fix things because "if ain't broken, don't fix it" philosophy. Look at TCP, HTML, JSON, SMTP..all good tech but insanely old and outdated and overtaxed for that it was invented for. When people joke that the entire banking industry runs on excel sheets, they are really not far from truth. Things will be shitty until they completely break down and people are forced to fix them. Look at JavaScript, this horribly stinking steaming pile of green diarrhea that rules over the entire front-end is still being worked on and developed and billions of money and countless work-hours have been wasted in order to make it somewhat usable, instead of just coming up with entirely new tech suitable for the 21st century. This is the entire internet and tech in general.
Challenge accepted. "All files loaded" is probably not what you want to do however. It is much easier to just ask rpm directly which files under your library directory has been modified, and treat any files outside known library directories as suspicious.

Anyway, this is how you check which open files match ".so" and see if they are modified since installation:

lsof | grep -o "/[^ ]*\.so[^ ]*" | while read path ; do
pkg=$(rpm -qf "$path" 2>/dev/null)
if [ $? != 0 ] ; then
echo "$path does not belong to a package"
else
rpm -V $pkg | grep -F "$path"
fi
done
Hi, this link is currently for demo purposes. With the help of StackVM, we can DEBUG a RAG retrieval flow step by step and reevaluate the retrieval plan.
Go-set: Generic map-compatible Set implementation in Go
A big part of this is about code that's consumed by third parties: i.e. library code.

Previously, it was very common to not expose a public property directly, even if it required no setter logic, because any future change to add setter logic would mean it has to become a setter method.

This results in potentially dozens of boilerplate getter/setter methods, that provide no actual benefit, but are necessary to avoid potential BC breaks in a future version of the library.

With property hooks, the property doesn't need to define any getter/setter logic initially - and adding a hook later to the `set` action doesn't change the way other code calls it.

So no, it isn't just "new syntax" now - it's a case of largely not needing to write/generate any of that boilerplate any more - it's just not needed, regardless of how that property's behaviour changes in future.
It's largely dependent on what we think "reason" means, is it not? That's not a pro argument from me, in my world LLMs are stochastic parrots.
But it was spoken in anger so it doesn’t count.

/s
Depends a bit on your use case. If you've got lots of other infra on AWS and you don't need to store that much data then the downside of using another platform can outweigh the cost savings.
It's highly dependent on what you are using it for, so I think the variability in usefulness is totally predictable.

That doesn't make me some fancy scientist level programmer (I'm definitely not) that I often find my attempts at using AI falling into that category...a lot of the time it's just due to niche platforms and libraries and things that are specific to our shop or the regulatory environment or a thousand other issues of that nature. I imagine that similar issues are incredibly widespread for basically anybody that is not doing greenfield work that is somewhat isolated and at young companies and isn't spending tens of millions to do custom training on their specific environments.

The whole "everything web, most everything open source, ship ship ship new code" style work environments you tend to find among young start ups are not as common as I think they seem if you guage your view of technology jobs based off of hacker news. Given that most of the training of the most powerful models is basically scraping the web, it's not at all surprising that they are seriously lacking in other areas. And I'm not sure to what extent they can seriously be expected to improve there...besides the obvious issue of uploading internal documentation to give an external LLM better prompting...the thing has still got to be able to use public training data to make predictions about internal libraries and whatnot that may very well be old or anachronistic or batshit crazy, because the difference in volume of data between say your internal software and everything posted publicly on the internet is massive.
Virgil Dupras, the author of the Tumble Forth series there, also authors DuskOS, an OS written entirely in a custom Forth. His consistent and prodigious output really is quite impressive. I don't really hold to the collapse philosophy, but the DuskOS mailing list has just the right amount of volume that it's perfect for lurking.

Virgil's work inspired me to give Forth a bit of a go, and last year I spent some time hand decompiling SmithForth[1]. It really is remarkable how little assembler is required to bootstrap the language. I can totally see how Forth could give you a repl in embedded environments, which sounds way more fun than the typical dev cycle I hear about.

[0]:https://duskos.org/
[1]:https://dacvs.neocities.org/SF/
Spark streaming checkpoint implementation and how it bit me
What I’ve learned about spark streaming checkpointing, how it’s implemented, and how the implementation details of offsets might lead to surprising behavior.
Always the right choice!
I'm so sick of these fad diets. All the kids show up to school with plutonium in their teeth.
Next is the most impactful C++ release
I was a part of the team that contributed a few of the ports actually. For example, you can take a look at vm_mips64.dasc file header for the contributor list.

Though, it is possible that he changed his mind after having to review thousands of lines of assembly written by 25 year olds. :)
for your list, a few more entries, if not there already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7118649

and you should post your list here.
Thanks for that. I believe the fact that it asks for a birthday puts people's brain in a mode where the awe at the end is bigger.

Related, having flat tires on a car seems to come in little bursts,like 10 years none and then 2 in a year.
This particular case would be a fantastic fit for timer wheel.[0] Instead of writing a brittle implementation of "after a fixed time in the future" logic yourself, you queue the outgoing event to occur after N ticks [of granularity X], and let the dedicated data structure engine do the work for you.

0: https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2016-07-27-ratas-hiera...
Lua has rawget() and rawset() to bypass the magic methods, which is used a lot inside/outside the metatables (objects with magic methods) to avoid magic loops I guess.
MIT researchers develop an efficient way to train more reliable AI agents
Scripted.
You are one comment too far with your analogy. Continuing comparing a browser with a child and a corporation with a family is not helping your case.

Analogies work fine for shallow understanding, but like comparing electricity with flow of water inside the pipes, they very quickly break down once you get a bit deeper into the subject.

To make my point clearer, building a browser is not like raising a child, because building a browser is just coding: need more features - hire more developers. They built Chrome not for the good of humanity but for the benefit of their commercial interests.
Nothing attracts skilled labor better than perspective of paying 45% monthly contributions then begging the housing market to accept you, so you can pay another 40% of net salary on rent.
I feel the same. I tried many css solutions over the years and always made a mess.

Tailwind is by far the first time I'm productive with styling.

I'm impressed with everything they've built.
Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Linker Script (2021)
Mobile ate the world though, most people daily interactions with computer-related stuff is through a mobile.

Back in the 2000s-2010s the hyperbole was that software was eating the world. And it did, almost everything on the modern world depends on software to function.

Will AI eat the world? We will only know in hindsight, right now it's too much in flux but it will be clear in another 20 years if the hyperbole is true or not.
No, they made 8.4.0 2 days ago and fixed it before the offcial release:

https://php.watch/versions/8.4/releases/8.4.0
Channel Tunnel ancedotes... I "beta tested" the tunnel a few times before it opened.

One bug we discovered was that it was common for us in the South-East of England to travel regularly over to France, fill our cars up to breaking point with duty-free booze and cigarettes and come home. The problem with the Chunnel trains is that the cars enter at one end and drive through the train. On the way back from France none of our cars could get over the "hump" between the coaches.
They look flat now, so they must have reengineered them:

https://runwaygirlnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Ins...

Second bug was getting out halfway through and walking through the fire escape tunnels. They have a PA system for the fire crews to issue instructions. But it has a 26 mile long echo. So you can't hear anything.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaguarcarsmena/43994120214/in/...

https://www.theheritageportal.co.za/sites/default/files/styl...
(the crossover cavern halfway through)
> Because the body can only extract so much energy per minute from all of the fat in your body.

Was curious about this, went hunting for some rough data, this [0] suggests every kilogram of fat held can be drawn down at ~70 food-calories per day.

So someone with 25% body fat weighting 100kg (~220lb) could draw 1750 food calories per day, which strikes me as pretty ample unless they're also adding a bunch of physical activity.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15615615/
We're safe, the other half of petrol eggs we have in Saudi Arabia and Russia.
I am suspicious of the food in the takeout containers.
> critical touchscreen controls

Just curious, what kind of critical touch screen controls Tesla has? I thought there's nothing critical.
There are Pythagorean triples (a, b, c) for which there do not exist integers m, n with a = m^2 - n^2, b = 2mn, c = m^2 + n^2.
Study Finds No Impact on Government Efficiency from Remote Work (Swedish)
sorry to be so pedantic, but passkeys is not a superset. All implementations and even the wording of the yubikeys creators say that it is the discoverable and passwordless option. See [1], i have not seen counter examples where they are wrong. However, webauthn does allow for the set of options you just referenced, i.e., FIDO2 including it's backwards compat with U2F.

[1]: https://developers.yubico.com/Passkeys/Passkey_concepts/Disc...
Stripe is considered to be acting for a "sponsor bank", the one that handles the merchant's account. Stripe itself does not hold customer or merchant money.
It doesn't target KDE, it's just the developer of backdoor runs KDE, so a running process named kde looks innocent on his machine. Similar reason for .Xl1 folder: if rootkit hid .X11 folder, it would break xorg on the developer's machine. And some server distros allow to install with KDE interface.
People still use S3 because doing business with Cloudflare is a liability.
Thinking things just "should" happen is how we get to this issue in the first place.
Pidgin supports lots of protocols, including xmpp, via plugins. It just sounds like they choose to make breaking changes to the plugin API for v3. I'd expect popular protocols to get ported at some point before GA.
This is such a great tool for developing something quickly to visualize an idea you have to other ppl. So cool!
Read some of the Getting Started documentation, for fun. First step:

> Installing with Vite

What the hell is Vite? Oh, it seems to be something you need to install via npm.

I cannot help but to ask - why do we require npm, or Vite, for something that looks like it should "help" with CSS?

Why is the webdev such a shitshow, that seems to get ever deeper into its own weird rabbit hole?
> major technology firms that offer digital wallets

I don’t think so.

Since I’m not aware of a Stripe Digital Wallet offering of theirs for money movement.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3096793

has context for how this looked in mid-century USA.
Well, one could argue that a competent procurement system would have been tracking that stuff by default.

But, having worked for a Big-6 firm in aerospace and defense software... yeah.
Well, even vegetable oil is hydrophobic, so "something" needn't be too horrible. (Oil would obviously wipe off too easily.)

Apparently soybean wax works well: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7435775/

Though not for hot foods. It'll only work up to 50°C.
Cookie value can contain `=`, `/` and `+` characters so standard base64 encoding can be used as well :)
Nowadays the cheapest way to self-host planet vector tiles is probably to use protomaps.com and throw the .pmtiles file on a S3 bucket (AWS, Cloudflare, etc.).
Futures and Multiple Values in Parallel Lisp (1991) [pdf]
Posting this here as there was a post yesterday that linked to a blog post by someone detailing what Rebecca is arguing against in this video. The post was scrubbed right after I clicked on the link, and probably for the better. However, the problem I have with that is that the blog post was really convincing to me and raised a number of points that are, if true, really troublesome about the U.S. voting system. Rebecca is likewise very convincing and now I find I have settled into not believing there was wide-spread voter fraud, but I also feel I changed my mind because either truth is comforting (in different ways: it's either "the American voter is not so dumb to elect this guy" vs "the American voting system works correctly"). Anyway, the argument is concise and well presented and well worth your time IMHO
> as it is hard to switch search engines as "googling" is nearly hardcoded into our fingertips

If you use a Mac then start using the ChatGptApp and the shortcut Option + Space keys to do all your search on ChatGpt. You will quickly forget about Google.
I guess the "deep transformation of how we work"
part is what I don't really understand.

At the moment, it looks like we'll either become completely obsolete in the context of work, or we'll morph into cyborgs with vastly greater knowledge and processing capabilities than we have today.
An analog of the birthday paradox that gets me all the time is what I think of as The Locker Room Paradox. This is where when I go into the locker room after working out and the guy who comes in behind me ends in the locker right next to mine. So there’s two of us in a big empty room awkwardly jostling away.
bros keep eating ...
Already before Galileo we had experiments to determine whether ideas represented reality or not. And in crucial cases, long before that, it meant life or death. This will be clear to engineers.

«Reason» is part of that mechanism of vetting ideas. You experience massive failures without it.

So, no, trained judgement is a real thing, and the presence of innumerable incompetent do not prove an alleged absence of the competent.
A backdoor is a literal door that the building was designed with. Whatever purpose it served, criminals could sometimes use it to gain covert access.
He wrote something along those lines here [1], which was in reply to a completely different, prototype-quality RISC-V port attempt

> Is the sponsor prepared to sponsor the initial review and integration into the LuaJIT default code base by me?

> Is the sponsor prepared to sponsor the inevitable initial bug fixes and the extra effort for continued maintenance that a new architecture entails?

Also, I should have been clearer about the new GC I linked to: I have not seen Mike say anything about it, and I wouldn't be surprised in the least if he rejects it and (wishes to) write his own, because he's had his own plans for many years. It seems impossible to get anything past him without modification. (I think it's a pity to see someone send a PR with a highly informative commit message and he replaces the body with "Thanks to X. #987")

[1] https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/628#issuecomment-716...