skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You better believe if I buy a property in Germany which has security cameras inside the absolute first thing that’s happening is those are getting smashed to absolute bits and if anyone even tries to complain I’ll sue them.

I may even consider filing against the previous tenants for not removing them and so my being filmed destroying them was without my consent, it’s a clear crime to me to record someone on their private property without their permission ..

This is absolutely not normal anywhere.
I suspect that if it was possible to do anything significant to Russian infrastructure via hacking, it would have already happened by now.

2 million USD gets you a smartphone zero-day*, according to rumours, something like a single ATACMS missile.

* geometric mean of 200k and 20M: https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/27/russian-zero-day-seller-of...
> It's a small home but in a good location and they said when they were younger it was worth ~200,000$ (I don't know the exact decade they were talking about here but from context it was somewhere in the 50s to 70s). The literal exact same house is now worth around 3,000,000$. The house now needs a lot of work (it actually decreases the value of the land) but the price is still 15x higher.

If this is true, and using 1960 as our middle of the road, then this isn't exactly "egregious". 200k in 1960 is 2.1M today just accounting for inflation. If we use 1950 it's 2.6M and if we use 1970 it's 1.6M. Now sure the house needs work, but I also. bet the area even if it was "good" when they built it in the 1930's how many more people are living in the same location now all vying for the same plots of land? People often gawk at what their parents or their grand parents paid for their houses, but rarely consider what living there would have been like 30 or 60 years ago. I have some relatives that bought a house outside a developing area about 30 years ago that's probably seen an easy 3-4x increase in value (of which only 2x would be accounted for with inflation. But the difference between then and now is that when they bought that home, it was 1 of 6 on a street in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by fields and undeveloped land. There was a single main road that ran through "town" about 5 minutes away that had 2 gas stations, and 3 fast food stores and a grocery store. For anything else you were driving 20-40 minutes into the nearest city (or around). They commuted every day 45 minutes into the city. Today that same area is bursting with new homes, there's now 2 exits / entrances onto the highway within 10 minutes of their house, the main street is jam packed with businesses and filled with strip malls and shopping centers with multiple grocery stores, and a good chunk of the main "national brands" you might expect (Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart, Gamestop etc). And just about anything they don't have along that main street and it's adjoining centers can be found 15 minutes away in the shopping centers and neighborhoods that sprung up between them and the city. In short, the house they live in today is in the sort of place some folks looking to move into a thriving and growing area would want to move into, and the house they bought 30 years ago was in the sort of backwoods sticks that such people would be avoiding as "too remote".
So this is what they meant when they said that war is hell
Good. I hope they win and clean OpenAI out.
"Perhaps someone should audit these volunteers working on a project for free"

It's always easy to handwave away any complexities in a project you know nothing about. It'd be one thing if you had concrete criticisms rather than just going in circles about how you're generally unhappy to an overly patient volunteer, but if your only suggestion is "someone should figure out what's going on", you might as well say nothing.
Of course but once you have 3 digits inflation, what other way to reduce is there besides cutting the supply of money suddenly in a shock? People won't like it, I didn't like it either but the two other presidents tried various methods such as price controls and that didn't help, on the contrary.
Wolfsberg Group Creates Flawed "Definitional Hierarchy" for ML/TF Risks
> You could make javac much faster just by compiling it with GraalVM

Would it be faster? To start up, sure, but I'd imagine the compiler to rate quite well on the scale of how much it benefits from the dynamic runtime optimizations that are only possible with jit compilation.
It answered them alright, but really opened a few hundred more. I appreciate your time!
You can use Kiwix: https://kiwix.org/en/
Some people are being pressured by their management to use AI to increase efficiency in their jobs, with varying degrees of success.

I have a friend who works in logistics for GE and they’re getting training on the basics of GenAI and then they have to go out and find ways to integrate it into their workflow. The problem is that management isn’t doing the legwork to understand how to integrate the tooling, they’re just handing that responsibility off to the actual users. Those people wind up complaining that taking time to integrate these tools winds up slowing them down and they struggle to find meaningful applications for the LLMs.

It’s like management is saying “here’s a new hammer, we don’t know how to use it but the guy who sold it to us convinced us you can figure out how to use it. So go out and do it and be better and faster at your job, good luck”.
78% of people aged 16-24 had used a GenAI tool in the last year. That's a remarkable adoption rate IMO. We're talking about this technology as if it's the future, but it has already transformed secondary and post-secondary education beyond all recognition.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/rese...
I don't think that's why nobody will use it. The real reasons are:

1. People who want Rust will just use Rust. You can keep your Rust code simple if you want, most of the time. I think most people that object to Go's issues have moved on from Go by now. Kind of like how safe C++ has no chance because most of the people that get it have left C++ already.

2. It's clearly not mature. Not many people jump on one man languages. If this was backed by a large company I suspect the story would be different.

Still, it seems to be tastefully designed. Might have a chance I guess.
Don't forget City Lights. His silent masterpiece inho.
I'm not a vegetarian or anything just pointing out how nonsensical the above post was. Your take seems to be that it's a matter of ease or convenience that we eat meat - I think that's more or less true.

But it's probably also more convenient to do drowned rat studies to figure out specific things than it is to construct more elaborate ones to ascertain the same kinds of findings. So I don't think my take is that far off the mark, still.
“Managers and investors?”
Little bit, but at least you learned something :)
Not sure which post you reference but https://codecrafters.io is pretty cool for learning a new language
The Hall SC-VGA-2 Video Processor, the Atari ST and NeXTSTEP
I don't think so because except for the 90s Argentina had inflation since the 1950s[0]. That 70 years old would only remember the 90s as the most stable period. Sure, the 60s weren't that bad but we still had high inflation.

[0]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Ar... (just note the Y axis scale... if it were from 0 to 100 you would truly see there were very few years with 1 digit inflation)
People don’t have the right to simply live in highly desirable areas for very cheap - I find that it's less people can't afford to live in their dream locations as people can't afford to live where their jobs are, or within reasonable commuting distance.
They already cause similar issues in humans, especially drunk drivers. There's been a lot of research into why drivers run up the rear of fully lit emergency vehicles on freeways at 70mph.

Ambulances and some fire trucks in the Australian Capital Territory for example are fitted steady burn amber lights, along with the flashing red and blues. They use steady burn amber to make the vehicle highly visible without dazzling drivers or encouraging rubbernecking.

https://ambulancevisibilityblog.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/ult...
Transcription error meant to say 1% of all updates to a database (such as an insert) failed.
“Contrary to us”? I can’t agree with this attitude.

.NET maintains excellent backwards compatibility, C# and F# even more so. The changes either affect frameworks and libraries, which you can often update independently or are easily addressed. Most projects since .NET 5 only ever had to bump the target version and rebuild to move forward (notable exception: in .NET 6 ASP.NET Core introduced simplified API for application setup which required changes).

Neither JVM nor Go have the degree of low-level capabilities .NET provides first-class support for. And F# integrates in an easier way into existing C# solutions than Kotlin does into Java ones.

It is the GC-based Rust alternative many are looking for but are overlooking due to bias from the past.
camel for Amazon, and in Switzerland, we have toppreise.
One major online store is also providing full price history (digitec/galaxus).
Okay, I'm really in a sad mood, so: tell me there will be places like that, again, somewhere, ever ?

We need this. Like, really, we need someone to have created the xerox part of the 21st century, somewhere about 20 years ago.

I honestly though Google would be that - but apparently it's easier to fund R&D on "selling copying machines" than "selling ads". Maybe "selling ads" earn _too much_ money ? I don't know.

I know, I know, DeepMind and OpenAI and xAI are supposed to fix climate change any time soon, and cure cancer while they invent cold fusion etc, etc... and it's only because I'm a pessimistic myopist that I can only see them writing fake essays and generating spam, bad me.

Still. Assuming I'm really grumpy and want to talk about people doing research that affects the physical world in positive way - who's doing that on the scale of PARC or Bell ?
One thing I discovered while trying to improve my incremental Rust compilation time (https://blog.waleedkhan.name/rust-incremental-test-times/) was that there was a lot of time that seems to have been attributable to `cargo` itself (https://lobste.rs/s/ktyp2q/improving_incremental_test_times_...), rather than the compiler. It seems like a similar situation as reported in the article.
Meant to say 1% or 1/100 of inserts failed.
Did someone finally fix/complete go?
Ah that makes more sense, thank you! I wasn't looking at it as a proxy for surrounding development, but now I can see why that might be a more nuanced metric than just region size/population.
It says PR comments benefit the reviewer in some way, and they're not always left to improve the code or to help the person who opened the PR. For example, if you work in a culture where being seen to leave PR comments is seen as positive regardless of the quality of them, or even that code review is a tracked metric that contributes to your performance review.

That culture will turn even the most conscientious dev into a monster.
Vliw is kind of the dual of what pyrolistical was asking for. Vliw lets you bundle instructions that are known to be independent rather than encode instructions to mark known dependencies.

The idea pyrolistical mentioned is closer to explicit data graph execution: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit_data_graph_executio....
I don't think we're resistant, just hesitant pragmatists. When something new and shiny turns up, we don't necessarily accept the marketing saying it's going to improve our lives. Best to wait for someone else to get through the early adoption pain and work out all the kinks so we don't have to waste our time on it if it turns out to be a lemon.

With this strategy I entirely missed blockchain, crypto and NFTs and am in the process of missing AI.
It's not Godwin's law when it's correct. Just because it's cool and on the Internet doesn't mean you get to throw out people's stake in how their lives are run.
My heart jumped for a second.

But this is about the old Aperture 3.

Maybe with the recent purchase of Photomator (whom I’ve set as default image viewer on my iPhone and iPad now that photos.app is no longer making sense to me) we will see the launch of Aperture 4 soon ?
Beer and food
Don’t most browsers just auto direct to https though?
Back around 2004 a friend of mine worked at a car dealership in the Bronx that sold high end used cars.
They were putting GPS trackers in all of the cars they financed so they could repossess them when the customer didn't make their payment.
This was/is (from my understanding, IANAL) very illegal. They never told the customers either.
The financing was ridiculous and they preyed on the people who had just enough down and didn't care what they were signing so they had a large percentage of repossessions.

Made me wonder how many other shops were doing the same thing...even 20 years ago.
I regularly attend auctions because I buy, restore, and sell vintage woodworking tools as a side gig.

The number of people who buy things only because the deal was really good is astounding. You didn't save any money if you don't need the thing you spent money on. I do not, have not, nor will I ever understand that mindset.

My family, unless the thing we need is an actual emergency, writes it down on a whiteboard on the fridge. If we still need it 30 days later, we start setting price alerts and cruising eBay and other auction sites. If it survives the month long cooling off period, if we can't find it for half price we definitely don't need it.

And as a bonus, we've gotten really good at finding things we actually do need for cheap when we actually need them (like school supplies or food and the like).
Why? After cutting the power to them I'd tell the company if they wanted them back I can take them down and ship them back at my standard rate of $500/hr
UK Network of free hiking 'hotels' (bothies)
Could be, but a bit of conservatism ain't gonna hurt, more conservative nations like Switzerland or nordics are doing more than fine long term, QOL is top notch globally for various reasons.

Much better than having sheepish mentality and chasing what rest of the crowd is chasing too, shows some character and thinking for oneself and not being an easy subject to manipulation. X was almost pure toxicity even before musk's ego trip and I never understood why I should care about some random brainfarts of people 'I should be following', don't people have their own opinions formed by their own experience? Thats rather poor way of spending limited time we have here, on top of training oneself in quick cheap dopamine kicks which messes up people for rest of their lives.

ChatGPT at least tries to be added value, but beyond a bit better search, hallucinating some questionable code and some random cute pics (of which novelty wears off extremely fast), I don't see it, I mean I see the potential, just not reality right now. Plus that code part - I want to keep training myself and my analytical mind, I don't want to be handed easy answers and become more passive and lazy. That's why I do git via command line tool and not just clicking around. That's why I don't mind at all doing some easier algorithms instead of having them served. My employer only wants good result, I am not working in sweat shop being paid by number of lines of code per day.

Quality life is about completely different things anyway. IMHO UK is fine in this regard.
> Forty-three percent had used one for work

That's honestly pretty low considering the sheer number of products that now have AI integration. I honestly think a lot of the hype around AI taking over jobs is because the people who are spreading it are more likely working in some pretty dull coding environments where copilot can shine, because you just plain don't write a ton of interesting or otherwise off-the-beaten-path code, and that's what copilot excels at. And then those people have spare time at work to evangelize about this great technology.

And before anybody starts with me, yes I have tried it. It's fine. A lot of what I work on isn't standardized or boilerplate enough to where copilot can really help me, and the situations where it can, I found the time I spent describing what I wanted, getting the answer back, copying it into my IDE and then customizing it as required was frankly just better spent writing it myself. Maybe it made me SLIGHTLY faster? But nothing approaching what I would suggest the term "coding AI" implies, and frankly, I enjoy writing the easier code on occasion because it's a nice break from the harder stuff that copilot can't touch.

Like if you're a freelancer who jumps between gigs of refactoring ancient websites into something vaguely web 2.0, you would probably get a lot of mileage from copilot where you're just describing something as written (or hell, giving it the existing code) and asking for it to be rewritten. But if you're doing something novel, something that hasn't been posted on StackOverflow a thousand times, you will run into it's limitations quite quickly and, if you're like me anyway, resign it to the bin because fundamentally asking it to make something, finding out it can't, and then making it myself is FAR more annoying than just assuming it can't and moving on.
During my teenage and college years in the 2000s, I was inspired by what I’ve read about Bell Labs, and I wanted to work as a computer science researcher in industry. I’ve also been inspired by Xerox PARC’s 1970s and 1980s researchers. I pursued that goal, and I’ve worked for a few industrial research labs before I switched careers to full-time community college teaching a few months ago.

One thing I lament is the decline of long-term, unfettered research across the industry. I’ve witnessed more companies switching to research management models where management exerts more control over the research directions of their employees, where research directions can abruptly change due to management decisions, and where there is an increased focus on profitability. I feel this short-term approach will cost society in the long term, since current funding models promote evolutionary work rather than riskier, potentially revolutionary work.

As someone who wanted to become a researcher out of curiosity and exploration, I feel alienated in this world where industry researchers are harangued about “delivering value,” and where academic researchers are pressured to raise grant money and to publish. I quit and switched to a full teaching career at a community college. I enjoy teaching, and while I miss the day-to-day lifestyle of research, I still plan to do research during my summer and winter breaks out of curiosity and not for career advancement.

It would be great if there were more opportunities for researchers to pursue their interests. Sadly, though, barring a cultural change, the only avenues I see for curiosity-driven researchers are becoming independently wealthy, living like a monk, or finding a job with ample free time. I’m fortunate to have the latter situation where I have 16 weeks per year that I could devote outside my job.
Sample size was ~7300 people, polling done in May / June 2024.

Looks like various breakdowns of cohorts by age - in one section there's 7 groups.

A thousand people per group is respectable, but OTOH each responder's answers are being extrapolated to assume the behaviour of ~10,000 people.
Show HN: Understanding small world networks with interactive simulations
https://dogsonthe4th.com/mystery-solved/
Feels like this is something I could learn before moving trying Rust properly for the second time. What do Rust developers here think about that ?
It's not about buying nothing, to me.

It's about being aware of what you're buying to avoid extreme consumerism. If you literally don't buy anything at all, what do you do for fun and entertainment?
This is a bit late, but I don't see any other answers that provide what I think is the key insight.

The accounting equation is: Assets = Equity + Liabilities.

For a transaction to be valid it needs to keep that equation in balance. Let's say we
have two asset accounts A1, A2 and two Liability accounts L1, L2.

A1 + A2 = Equity + L1 + L2

And any of these sorts of transactions would keep it balanced:

(A1 + X) + (A2 - X) = Equity + L1 + L2 [0]

(A1 + X) + A2 = Equity + (L1 + X) + L2 [1]

(A1 - X) + A2 = Equity + (L1 - X) + L2 [2]

A1 + A2 = Equity + (L1 + X) + (L2 - X) [3]

Now, here is the key insight: "Debit" and "Credit" are defined so that a valid transaction consists of the pairing of a debit and credit regardless of whether the halves of the transaction are on the same side of the equation or not. It does this by having them change sign when moved to the other side.

More concretely, debit is positive for assets, credit is positive for liabilities. And then the four transaction examples above are:

[0]: debit X to A1; credit X to A2

[1]: debit X to A1; credit X to L1

[2]: credit X to A1; debit X to L1

[3]: credit X to L1; debit X to L2

You can debit and credit to any arbitrary accounts, and so long as the convention is followed and debits and credits are equal, the accounting equation will remain balanced.

Another way of looking like this is with parity. A transaction consists of an even parity part "debit" and an odd parity part "credit". Moving to the other side of the equation is an odd parity operation and so a credit on the RHS has double odd parity, which means it adds to those accounts (and debit, with odd parity, subtracts).
> Also who thought putting stuff like "Cancel" and "OK" into the title bar was a good idea?!

Windows and Google fanboys ?

A titlebar is a titlebar.
If you are not able to draw your "OK/Cancel" dialog box somewhere else, just don't do it.
"Documented? A foreign nation won't really give us the docs buddy."

So how do you know this 'fact' then? It's possible it was deliberate of course. But for now there is only circumstantial evidence and brazen finger-pointing at Russia, just like Nordstream. Except in that case it was most likely the US, not Russia.

"I am fine here in my bubble of truth."

lol, none are so blind as those who will not even look.

Of course Russia is a corrupt dictatorship with a deliberate policy of sowing lies and chaos, and China is on the same road. But look at your (our) own governments, they are far from the angels you seem to believe them to be.
Houses are bigger, but seem less thoughtfully designed with a lot of useless space that seems to be there to maximize the sq. footage to justify high prices.
> 78% of people aged 16-24 had used a GenAI tool in the last year. That's a remarkable adoption rate IMO. We're talking about this technology as if it's the future, but it has already transformed secondary and post-secondary education beyond all recognition.

Your wording choice there is excellent as "transforming" can either be extremely positive, or negative, or just different. Given how many students now, judging by various outcries on social media by teaching staff are borderline illiterate in middle school, it does make one wonder what the long term effects of this will be.
Exactly.

Should I be paying a proportion of my salary to all the copyright holders of the books, song, TV shows and movies I consumed during my life?

If a Hollywood writer says she "learnt a lot about writing by watching the Simpsons" will Fox have an additional claim on her earnings?
What about when housing is equally unaffordable in the less desirable areas? Keeping in mind that wages are probably less in those areas.

Also, less desirable areas are not necessarily constructed to be any more functional or sustainable, so why should we promote that? Areas that are "less desirable" in my city are swathes of oversized, copy-pasted houses massively spaced apart with near zero amenities. 100% car dependent. Near-dystopian land use, really. We don't need more of that. Instead, I'd much rather take amore sustainable approach to housing across the board.
It's the magic/more magic switch.