skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unrestricted capitalism often has offshoots of fascism. If you observe how capital treats labor in a market without regulations and respect for human rights, it is very similar to how fascism treats its victims.

Whichever label your current 'flavor' of the political party wears is largely irrelevant. At its core, they are both capitalist parties first and foremost.
Have a voice conversation with ChatGPT and ask it about everything you've ever wanted to know. have some really dumb questions about how, eg nuclear power actually works? it's a robot and won't judge you for your questions. have a messy social situation you just need to talk to somebody about? tell it everything and it'll help you sort out who's being the asshole and what a sane person should do. just have a talk with it while driving
This is close to something I've wanted to see for a long time: a language where relational models are first class citizens and the engine for data storage is abstracted away.

Tables, joins, etc. should all be representable within the language's type system and standard libraries. Connectivity to a database should be handled by plugins/implementations of storage engines. If no storage engine is used, the relational data just lives in RAM like any other variable, collection, etc.

It's kind of the opposite of an ORM. An ORM tries to bolt a relational database into an OOP or other language model. This wraps the language around relational database concepts, fixing the impedance mismatch in the language rather than with a translation layer.

It also means one does not have to reinvent relational concepts (badly) in every application with a complex data model even if that application is not backed by a database.
Don’t generalize all practitioners based on the strangeness of the first one.
Meh, he’s a comedian, not a food writer. Some of the taglines are maybe over the line, but a lot of them are funny, and all of them are in jest.
> even when shipping x86 platforms

Could you say more on why x86 a focus of your reply? Absolute is supported on ARM PC laptops as well, so it’s unclear how to interpret x86 here.
What are you on about? Mobsters and conmen break laws. There are no laws being broken by these data hoarders/brokers. Maybe it's closer to Stockholm syndrome or abusive/toxic relationship or something where people are mentally accepting the unhealthy situation as if it were normal.

The costs of talking to friends endlessly about this boring privacy is having no friends. You're telling an addict what they are doing is not good for them, but they are not ready to hear it.
You do realize that's still false advertising, right? People bought these cars because the advertising line was 'All Tesla cars have full self-driving hardware'.

If you bought a computer that advertised itself as having a top of the line video card, but then as it turns out the company wouldn't let you use it unless you paid extra and then outright prevented you from using it entirely I assume you would say the company was trying to scam you.

If they didn't want people to buy into FSD then they shouldn't have advertised and sold their cars with FSD.
Customers in many other countries have no problem with it. Other large countries have rolled it out fairly quickly.
Do you complete the circle and do the good bot bad bot classification with a mod bot?
That’s why you hook the linter up so it runs on every commit / push. No need to ask, it always runs. And no need to quibble over style. Don’t like it? Change the linter.
That’s fair, and I offered that mainly in the spirit of feedback. To me, and perhaps to no one else, but just to me, it was a little off putting. Like, “yeah, yeah, I know what SQL is. Do you think I don’t? Or did you just learn about it last month and you’re eager to share?”

I’m certainly not gonna lose sleep over it. Someone came on HN to show us their neat new project. I wanted to give them my first impression to help them craft their future messaging. If they disagree, fine with me! They don’t owe me anything.
I’ll check it out. Thanks!
Swift, what a mess you've become. You need a Benevolent Dictator. Swift Evolution was a mistake and I saw that many years ago. Too many cooks trying to add their pet feature to the language.
Show HN: wazero compiler ported to 4 new OSes
Release 1.8.2 of wazero, the zero dependency WebAssembly runtime for Go, brings the amd64 compiler to 4 new OSes: NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, illumos and Solaris.

The compiler also supports Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Windows, on amd64 and arm64.

This didn't require any changes to the compiler, just enabling it after setting up tests to validate that it already worked.

Now the HN hook: noticeably absent is OpenBSD, which I failed to get working, even after taking W^X into account (we already had that for arm64 on macOS).

If you wanna help, please drop us a note!
No offense, just a joke - one of the ranking sites has a humorous appraisal of McIntoshes:

https://applerankings.com/
It will almost certainly cost you a lot more than $2-3k.

When it’s done, how will you distribute/sell it? Can you pre-sell it?
Apples are tough to grow in my region, which is formerly known for it.

There's the Cedar-apple rust issue, bug issues, and raccoon issues.

I planted figs.
Wealthfront has multiple offerings. Wealthfront investment accounts are for stocks. Wealthfront Cash accounts are for cash. I was talking about Wealthfront Cash accounts, which don't have automated investment services, and I don't think involve a broker.
If you want an electric truck (or potentially an SUV), consider looking at an Edison Motors pickup truck retrofit. They are technically Diesel Electric instead of pure electric but you can customize the battery load if you want to run full electric. They don't do all the stupid cloud connected software stuff and they are all about repairability/self maintenance.

Probably the only electric vehicle manufacturer that isn't egregiously tech-bro-y and dripping in dark patterns.
Is there a similar plot for programming language usage growth?
My own experience is that Honeycrisp is the most consistently sweet and crisp apple you can buy (contrary to the claims made in TFA -- maybe it's a regional thing?). Cosmic Crisp is decent but I'm not a fan of the flavor.
Freysa Act II
'Radar stethoscope' could improve contactless health monitoring technology
If they are made by cutting a ring shape out of wood, the grain is too weak for long term wear.

I more common method for wooden rings is to cut a long thin rip at 1/16th”. Soak it water for 30 minutes. Wrap it around something finger size, put a rubber band around it and let it dry. You can get a good imitation of a glossy epoxy finish with CA/super glue. This gives a lot more strength than a cutout.
I’ve eaten many mealy honeycrisp apples. Just let it sit on your counter for 2 months then try it. Discount grocery stores are often selling many-months old apples.
> Maybe AI can help by producing decoration that is industrially made but also beautiful

It could, but as soon as it's too facile, it'll appear to be slop: whatever is widespread becomes mid by definition?

I at least am looking forward to Delftware-like "This is Fine" and/or Bowsette tiles...

(or maybe the AI could come up both with a set of related tiles on a theme of your choosing — and with a little text describing the subtle relationships encoded along each of the horizontal and vertical dimensions, which you could then explain to your visitors?)
"Its exactly what we asked for -- but, not what we want"
> Meta is actively helping self-harm content to flourish on Instagram by failing to remove explicit images

That's like an oxymoron. "Actively" implies taking action.

Instagram is passively helping the spread of self-harm among teenagers.

Maybe they mean it's current and on-going.
> Spam would be raising the topic on unrelated posts.

I think you need to reread the conversation, because you did post your marketing comment while ignoring the context, making your comment unrelated.

If you want it distilled down from my perspective, it went something like this:

> Trog: Doubts about the necessity of Merkle trees. Looking for a conversation about the pros and cons of Merkle trees and double ledger accounting.

> You: Look at our product. Incidentally it uses Merkle trees, but I am not going to mention anything about their use. No mention of pros and cons of Merkle trees. No mention of double ledger accounting.
> in breach of contract

I can't really figure out what they did that was in breach of contract. As far as I understand it, they don't do business inside the areas affected, so there is no contract to speak of. Instead, their authorized resellers seem to be the ones installing for their hardware; I don't even think it's legal to sell their hardware if it doesn't comply with FCC/etc guidelines.

Is geo-blocking illegal? Am I entitled to a refund if I import American hardware that refuses to operate in my country?

I think people were risking a broken setup for a big discount, and now it's come back to bite them in the ass. If the units affected were official installations done by their American reseller, their reseller wouldn't be so ready to offer up free replacements.
Stealth destroyer to be home for first hypersonic weapon on a US warship
What is the most sour apple?

I really like granny smith apples for the sour flavor profile, but most review websites rate it poorly.
The famous RED tracker has a full on technical interview asking about:

* Audio Formats

* Transcoding

* Spectral analysis

and more.

This is the interview prep website: https://interviewfor.red/en/index.html
Sol-Ark’s markup is like 5x the list price just for the official rebadged version. Sol-Arks (“US veteran owned company”) still have the firmware made in China, and are susceptible to Chinese hackers, and had to be bought through a distributor. So naturally people went with off-listed Deye inverters because of the scheningans from Sol-Ark.

Now, people are without power and they have to go to Sol-Ark to get power restored, likely by paying through the nose.
> and encouraging those engaging with such content to befriend one another

You left off the rest of the sentence which shows the active part.
Really enjoy honeycrisp apples with caramel or chocolate coating! Yummy!
There's been another recent push in certain countries for authoritarian-like policies, and so I would be skeptical and criticize such articles as potentially being propaganda to try to manufacture consent towards acceptance of implementing policies such as "everyone will need to register and be known to the [authoritarian] state, so we know if you are 16 years old or not;" rather than putting that responsibility on the parents and creating laws to require technology to make that easier for the parents to manage vs. abdicating that responsibility to a so-called nanny state [which even if well intentioned then is a single point of failure-capture for bad actors].
I had to create some fake accounts as a pen name for paid articles that I had written. They were controversial takes on technology that my employer didn't need to know about. Think "Why React Sucks", etc.
I just learned that Firefox has a list of blocked ports
can you grow them on better rootstock with a graft?
FWIW I'm the same, definitely sketched out by the thin pillars and lack of side airbags though. But I absolutely hate the GPS and presumably-always-on front- and rear-facing cameras.
Instagram is an anxiety fountain.
So does that word use allow us to insinuate this is more likely propaganda towards manufacturing consent towards certain laws being implemented?
It's interesting to ponder if this is a good thing or a bad thing. The knee jerk reaction is this is all very unhealthy but I wonder if it is really. Imagine we were talking about back-up quarterbacks in the NFL. That individual is probably one heck of a quarterback and athlete, and they did excellent in lesser teams which is what got them into the NFL in the first place. But, they are a back-up quarter back in the NFL, not a starter. If they continue to remain a back-up quarterback, should they be PIP'ed or not?
That was the first edition of this book.
I agree, I use Zigbee and anything that uses wifi is on its own VLAN (wherever it's made, it's not like I trust Meta more, for example).
I read your post. You provided no evidence with Tesla upgrading people's existing cars to a FSD standard, you mostly talked about other companies and what they're doing.

The claim was 'Tesla has paid out of pocket to upgrade consumers cars to FSD standards.' There is no evidence for that claim.
Yeah, optimize yourself to make every available dollar for your corporate / government masters. Or just sleep 8+ hours a night like you're supposed to according to decades of published research. Which way western man/woman?
Macoun and Mcintosh define apples for me- from a pic-ur-own stand in new england. I would eat so many that my teeth started to feel sensitive from the acidity.
I recently did a Toyota to Honda and back to Toyota cycle.

I liked the overall performance of the Honda. Little things like slightly more aggressive gear ratios, steering and such were superior on the Honda. Economy was almost a push, but the edge goes to Toyota.

The Honda got my attention for service and repair more than the Toyota cars have. And Honda had the advantage overall. My Toyota was older than the Honda, both similar mileage, but the Honda failed earlier. Transmission. :(

I came back to Toyota, but wanting some of the creature comforts offered by Honda, I chose Camry this time. Excellent car. It's a serious, understated, very unassuming vehicle. It performs, feels better than a Corolla did, and still lacks the subtle things like gear ratios that are a bit more fun.

I live where one can put a half mil on a car, if it's up for it. Damn near did that on a Ford Expedition 2000's era vehicle. Guzzled gas, but man! I loved that one for a ton of reasons. Being an active family at the time, the Expy made sense.

For me having the thing just go when I do the maintenance properly matters more than the other aspects do. So, Toyota it is!

*I buy used, 10 to 20 years back, moderate to low mile cars, under $5k. No new vehicles for me. They simply do not make sense.

Now, current Toyota might be a turn-off for me too. The quality issues playing out right now seem worrisome. I hope they get past that.

I'm driving 2000 era vehicles because that was the sweet spot for people like me who will do their own work a majority of the time. I enjoy that, and I know it's done right. It's gone south a few times with shops and I really hate having to navigate that BS.

2000 to 2010, Toyota has me, but Honda is damn close.

So tell me about the Attitude please. Super curious about that. What's the big turn-off? And are you sensing a newer thing, or is this long term, basic?

No judgement or battle here. Just genuine curiosity.
He wrote a blog explaining it: https://thecodist.com/my-art-and-color-after-tiling/
Speed is not necessarily the correct lever it might affect. A probe with much larger antenna, with much larger or multiple radioactive power sources, with much more solar panels, with much more onboard fuel, etc could be much more useful with the same speed.
Where can I find Red Delicious varieties from back when they were considered good? I remembered them being fine/decent/whatever when I was a kid, and recently just out of curiosity bought some Red Delicious from a local grocery store and was surprised to find they were completely inedible and totally disgusting. Like not just less sweet or less tangy, but super gross and almost like eating mushy plastic-wax wrapped in leather, and nothing like what I remembered. It sounds like they actually have been bred to be different now, so are there places that still have the older variety?
often images are not only lossily compressed, but they are a composite of many images/layers/image transformations. these are lost when the image is flattened and then distributed.
Did you mean weight loss instead of fat loss perhaps?
On a separate topic, is there anything to be done about the salt?

I feel for people living where they do that. I like long term car ownership and that seems like a curse right out the gate!

Can the car be treated, washed? Hmmm, our move to negative ground makes the salt worse. Positive ground cars would help a lot with corrosion, but we don't make those anymore. I never learned why that is.
Front page material? P(max{X_1, X_2} <= x) = P(X_1 <= x, X_2 <= x) = P(X_1 <= x) P(X_2 <= x) = xx. P(sqrt(X_3) <= x) = P(X_3 <= x^2) = x^2.
It is late in the day when midgets cast long shadows.
Universal Scripting Language–Run 466 Languages in One Interpreter
Hi HN,

I’m excited to share Universal Scripting Language (USL), a self-advancing interpreter that lets you run code from 466+ programming languages in one unified environment. It’s been a personal project for a while, and I’ve just uploaded it to GitHub for others to explore!

Key Features:
Supports 466+ languages (and counting).
Combines and executes code from multiple languages seamlessly.
Open-source and extensible for your use cases.
Why USL?
Developers often struggle with combining tools and libraries across different programming languages. USL aims to solve that by providing a platform to execute and interact with these languages together. Whether you want to prototype, learn new languages, or integrate multiple languages into a single workflow, USL has you covered.

How to Get Started:
Repo: Universal Scripting Language (GitHub)
Clone the repo and follow the setup instructions.
I’m working on improving documentation and creating a proper requirements.txt.
I’m also writing an O’Reilly-style book on USL’s design and usage, so stay tuned for more updates!

I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and ideas for improvement. Let me know if you’d like to contribute or collaborate.
ChatGPT refuses to say the name "David Mayer," and no one knows why
wow, unsuited for the whole industry?
Yes, the title is comically non-specific. It is also mildly misleading: the table of contents/abstract mention boolean logic (after John Boole, 1815–1864), set theory (Georg Cantor, 1845–1918), Curry-Howard correspondence (middle 20th century), etc.

It does say "This book is not for mathematicians" — or the nit-picking historians of mathematics I imagine... Plus one should not judge a book by its cover or anything written thereon.
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Sumochess: Push Chess Pieces Out
https://archive.ph/MfkZB
I don’t think that’s the case really; if you go in the HPC/scientific computing direction and learn a bunch about linear algebra, how much does it teach you about LLMs? I did some linear algebra stuff… but LLMs just look like oddly shaped GEMVs.
They aren't. For proof I give 50 years of this problem not being solved anywhere except text files effectively because text files have no structure except line feed.

There is no universal format for formatted text. You could point to HTML but try exporting to HTML from Word and then importing back in and you'll see what's missing. There is no universal format for structured graphics. No universal format for raster graphics. No universal format for 3D. No universal format for spreadsheets. Etc.....

They all have the same issue. There are infinite possible features and infinite possible ways to represent those features, each with their own tradeoffs.
If X1...Xn are independently uniformly distributed between 0 and 1 then:

P(max(X1 ... Xn) < x) =

P(X1 < x and X2 < x ... and Xn < x) =

P(X1 < x) P(X2 < x) ... P(Xn < x) =

x^n

Also,

P(X^{1/n} < x) = P(X < x^n) = x^n

I guess I am just an old man yelling at clouds, but it seems so strange to me that one would bother checking this with a numerical simulation. Is this a common way to think about, or teach, mathematics to computer scientists?
I was on Gabapentin for a long while after a tendon surgery. It made me feel dumb as hell. Worse, the effects took over a month to wear off after I stopped taking it. One dose occasionally for insomnia is probably not bad but I personally won't ever touch it again
The very iPhone I’m reading this on is one trade war/sanction away from becoming a useless brick of electronics that probably can’t even show the time without calling to Apple every now and then.
I haven't played with the "Pro" model (I think that's mostly for 4K upscale?) But I use the 'regular' OSSC to work with DOS and some PPC era Xserves and it absolutely handles them without a hitch
Even if all soldiers had been nazis, not all nazis were soldiers.
So definetly not equivalent.
I know people personally who recently graduated high school and went down the 4chan rabbithole because they wanted to be "edgy", then they got comfortable with the extremely racist attitudes they were promoting
It so happened. Also, there was a book, "Mathematiques Nouvelles", by Robert Faure, Arnold Kaufmann, and Maurice Denis-Papin
Original publication (PDF, Danish, Google Drive link from the NGO):

https://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?id=1MZrFRii_nJ...

via their Google Drive link at:

https://www.digitaltansvar.dk/viden/analyser

The article left me wondering whether they actually cultivated a network of kids interested in self-harm. It sounds from the study (such as it is) that they in fact just simulated vulnerable 13-year-olds’ accounts.

Which comes as something of a relief from an ethical point of view.

I wonder, though, if that method may have confounded their findings. I could imagine Instagram’s recommenders linking their simulated 13-year-olds’ accounts based on signals indicating their common association with the research organization (rather than purely on the basis of their shared interest in self-harm).

Maybe somebody with stronger Danish than mine could shed light?
I felt the same way, came here to decide whether to comment something negative, saw your comment was just posted. But I first read the top comment from 2 hours ago, apparently this is news-ish to stats people because it's counterintuitive to common methods? shrug
Pretty sure they were always mealy and disgusting. I never liked apples growing up because the only two options were basically Red Delicious and Granny Smith. Maybe some Braeburn, Fuji, and Galas now and then, none of which are particularly good either. Honeycrisps really saved the fruit!
It's a bit of a mindset change, but yeah, you can start to think of
operating systems not as big frameworks to run lots of applications,
but as thin wrappers around single applications in an ecosystem like
qemu+virsh. Clone a fresh template, install something in it, talk to
it with sockets/tcp whatever.
Go is a friendly language and it is well liked, but it is inappropriate when the absolute best performance saves more money than the additional developer salaries needed to write it in a higher performance language. An example is for deep learning or other big numerical work, where you'd be wasting expensive hardware resources if using Go. Perhaps the one million concurrent users will however be fine with Go.
We talked about that many times over the years. It's not totally off the table, but it's a hard sell. It would effectively invalidate every existing blog post, StackOverflow answer, LLM, etc. that has been written for or trained on the old syntax.

The benefit would be real, but probably not large enough to outweigh that cost.

Path dependence rules everything.
I think one qubes feature that could be profitably extracted are the disposable VMs, particularly for web browsing but also as a sort of default jail for potentially dodgy software. Like a right click “run this in a disposable vm” option in mainstream OSes. And run the built in web browser like that by default.

Apple could probably come up with some spiffy branding. “Run this on an islandTM” or something like that. Call the feature “Archipelago.”
More like the radio edit of your favorite track: was great, got diluted by assholes pushing it on the masses, is still great if you can find the original version you fell in love with.
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