skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The strong criticism Rust got in this area is being poorly suited for rapid throwaway prototyping. I think that's fair — slow compile times and language's focus on writing things properly on the first try are the opposite of what you want when trying out random ideas and seeing what sticks. I think that may be fixable. Partly it's a skill issue (with enough experience, you can cut corners when you known which ones to cut). Partly it could be improved by tooling for hot reloading, and perhaps a scripting language integrated with Rust.

In Bevy in particular almost everything happens through ECS, and the ECS has a Reflection API, so you can hook it up to whatever you want, and manipulate it from any language.

I also wonder what about the rest of the game development lifecycle. Games are taking many years to develop, and not all of that is quick exploration. The more of the game starts taking shape, the more you actually need stuff to work. You need ability to refactor, polish, and extend the implementation without breaking things. You need to be fixing gameplay bugs, not wasting time on hard-to-reproduce crashes.
Flu Conf 2025
Good point. It was made in England, actually.

(From Chinese parts.)
Such articles on the top is why I love HN
Not sure about US or other jurisdictions, but that's not how any of this works in Germany. In Germany downloading anything from anywhere (even a movie) is never illegal and does not require a license. What's illegal is publishing/disseminating copyrighted content without authorization. BitTorrenting a movie is illegal because you're distributing it to other torrenters. Streaming a movie on your website is illegal because it's public. You can be held liable for using a photo from the web to illustrate your eBay auction, not because you downloaded it but because you republished it.

OpenAI (and Google and everyone else) is creating a publicly-accessible system that produces output that could be derived from copyrighted material.
Centuries old bond that is still paying interest
> Car dependency is something that we've learned, not the natural state of things.

Yes, it is not the natural state of things but for many people it is the actual state of things. I absolutely hate the fact that I live in a car focussed society but that is where I do actually live. And because of my investment in my house and garden I don't want to move

> Tell that to the Amish.

I had to count to 10 before responding here.

Perhaps you didn't notice the bit where I said I have spent two years without a car. It is something I have thought about a LOT. And have been impacted by. I don't have a convenient Amish community nearby to help me put up barns in my backyard, or even to lend me a horse to ride to the local B&Q when I need to buy a new tool of some sort. I deeply wish there was better public transport - I am not a petrolhead - but there isn't and won't be for the foreseeable future.
While I agree with your sentiment in general, this thread is about the legal situation and your argument is unfortunately not a legal one.
In my experience, trying to tell an average person the kinds of things that companies can do with their data, which the companies themselves have admitted to and written into privacy policies, just gets you labelled as a conspiracy theorist.

The things companies can, will and promise to do with your data are sometimes so far fetched that people assume they're impossible. At least this was the case 5 years ago, haven't tried persuading anyone in recent years.
I bought a new Ford F250 a few years ago and it came with a built-in fleet management service/subscription with GPS tracking. I flipped it a few months later to a dealer and I had to proactively bug them to take over the access to the service. Would have been very easy to spy on the future owner.
He stated that he did not have a mortgage.
I prefer this one because of the UI: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.llamalab.a...
US War Department 1945 // Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 – Fascism
Manual graph editors are extremely counter-productive for any program with more than a couple of dozens of nodes. All the code structuring issues still apply but now you also have a graph to maintain. And also you have an underlying framework which you have to understand (like in Node-RED). And you have versioning issues. And it's hard or impossible to write tests. And it might be difficult to share code across projects.

A better metaphor is a regular code editor which also shows your program as a graph in a sidebar and allows you to run quick simulations in a sandbox.
Oddly enough, I find most of 4chan less brainrot inducing than Twitter, even pre-Musk.
> He said you can design reactors to be cooled by natural convection.

That's the point of the Westinghouse AP1000; the containment (steel liner) and protection from the outside world (concrete wall) are separated, allowing the liner to cool by convection and water dripping from above. Admittedly you need to top up the water tank at the top, but that is less of a task than trying to push water into the containment.
> E.g. you could have done 10s or 100s of "small optimizations" but yet there is no measurable impact on the E2E runtime performance.

My experience actually diverges here. I've had cases where I've done a bunch of optimizations in the 0.5% range, and then when you go and benchmark the system against the version that was three months ago, you actually see a 20% increase in speed.

Of course, this is on a given benchmark which you have to hope is representative; it's impossible to say exactly how every user is going to be in the wild. But if you accept that the goal is to do better on a given E2E benchmark, it absolutely is possible (and again, see SQLite here). But you have to sometimes be able to distinguish between hope and what the numbers are telling you; it really sucks when you have an elegant optimization and you just have to throw it in the bin after a week because the numbers just don't agree with you. :-)
They have KDE Neon.
This was many years ago. I has an injurie that prevented me from driving, so I asked if there was any project on the backburner I could do on my own in 3 weeks without too much interaction (this was long before easy remote work infra).

Sure there was. A financial services company wanted to replace their repayment plan generator that ran on an aging AS/400 with someting running in .Net on Windows.

I dug in an learned all about time value of money, numerical formats and precision, rounding strategies, day counting strategies for incomplete periods (did you know there are many dozens of those) etc.

I made everyting as configurable as I could so we had the option to offer to other financial service clients by just setting up a different profile.

Since I had no interaction with the client before the first presentation meeting, I put in what to me felt like the most plausible config (I had managed projects in the domain before so I was not completely clueless to the mindset).

We had the meeting. I showed a few calculated plans which they compared on the spot to the AS/400 output. I deployed on a test VM for them so they could do more extensive testing. Code was accepted with 0 change requests and put into production shortly thereafter. Don't think they ever changed from the default settings.
It has an apple on it
The UK's network of free hiking 'hotels'
Exactly. You can gain a big audience as a game streamer. And it’s not necessarily about skill. Just have a great personality. Some great streamers/let’s players are hilarious but are very average in terms of skill. In fact that can be part of the charm!
Military radar is set up to track big things. Small things close to the ground get lost in the clutter. The only way to track these drones is to follow them with other drones. And they're small enough and cheap enough to be disposable, so they don't need to return to a handler.

It's unwise to underestimate how dangerous these things are. One small explosive drone in the air intake of a B-2 or an F-35 is enough to cripple, perhaps destroy the plane.
Homo juluensis: Possible new ancient human species uncovered by researchers
How Meta’s Crypto Project „Libra“ Was Killed
5. Use WebAssembly, especially when it can get you far better performance: https://nuenki.app/blog/bloom_filters_optimisation
Same in Nuremberg. And they don't even have automated gates. It seems to work well.
Copyright laws, in many ways, feel outdated and unnecessarily rigid. They often appear to disproportionately favor large corporations without providing equivalent value to society. For example, brands like Disney have leveraged long-running copyrights to generate billions, or even tens of billions, of dollars through enforcement over extended periods. This approach feels excessive and unsustainable.

The reliance on media saturation and marketing creates a perception that certain works are inherently more valuable than others, despite new creative works constantly being developed. While I agree that companies should have the right to profit from their investments, such as a $500 million movie, there should be reasonable limits. Once they recoup their costs, including a reasonable profit multiplier, the copyright could be considered fulfilled and should expire.

Holding onto copyrights indefinitely or for excessively long periods serves primarily to sustain a system that benefits lawyers and enforcement agencies, rather than providing meaningful value to society. For instance, enforcing a copyright from the 1940s for a multinational corporation that already generates billions makes little sense.

There should be a balanced framework. If I invest significant time and effort—say 100 hours—into creating a work, I should be entitled to earn a reasonable return, perhaps 10 times the effort I put in. However, after that point, the copyright should no longer apply. Current laws have spiraled out of control, failing to strike a balance between protecting creators and fostering innovation. Reform is long overdue.
What happens in America, doesn't stay in America. Say no to drugs, say not to America(n cultural exports).
Notable follow-up regarding VISA:

„I can confirm Dem leaders called Visa with similar messages. Our crypto team had to backtrack our support.

There were plenty of critiques of how Libra might work but the fact that the experiment was not allowed to move forward was a huge step backwards for the USA.“

https://x.com/terryangelos/status/1862709106286702895

Some more context by Balaji:

https://x.com/balajis/status/1862742070362087616
However during the Plasma 6 upgrade debacle earlier this year the developers made it clear they don't indend KDE Neon to be suitable for production usage.

I'd been quite satisfied with KDE Neon for quite a while, but looking to move to another distro due to this.

Not that there's anything wrong with their stance, though I do think it was not communicated well enough.
Ransom Gang Claims Attack on NHS Alder Hey Children's Hospital
I think you commented in the wrong story
AI viewed as phishing threat as well as defense, in new survey
More than likely an iButton reader to identify the user and a business/personal use switch.

The switch basically does nothing, but tha state of it is logged in the tracking system along with the routes the car takes. In many EU countries you tax differently for personal use, so the switch is sort of important for tax reasons.
Sorry to have confused you, but the force that keeps atoms from imploding is (IIUC) of a different nature than that which keeps the universe expanding. They are both "dark energy", but I do not think they are the same "force".

I apologize for not making that clear, but I only know of their very basic nature, not their mathematical-physics relationships and differences. That's not my area of expertise. I'm a general systems person, so I have some very basic knowledge of how such systems behave. This is due to my curiosity about the universe and my own self, which has given me access to persons much more deeply connected than myself.

Note that Eugene Parker, too, had a lot of maths to back his claims up, but that didn't help him convince his peers. Only when we sent a probe up that could measure the solar wind did his detractors begin to stand down. That is always the way new levels of understanding are treated by the status quo.
Tesla is looking to hire a team to remotely control its 'self-driving' robotaxis
Chinese tech workers report US visa issues despite CES invitations
I have bad news for you, then...
Resources System Monitoring App for Gnome Now Displays NPU Usage
Reminds me of Apple's Dylan.
I think it is respectful and appropriate, this is someone who died fighting in war who we don't really know anything about. Could even be closely related to people today. We don't know if they were a member of the 'party', or how they felt about it, or anything. This is a fallen individual.
Slowly dying bigco is the best feature of capitalism
Well, that's probably fine though.
If you continued reading to the bottom of the article you would find validation for your hypothesis
Happy Eyeballs IETF Algorithm
> Copyright means you're not allowed to copy something without permission.

but is training an AI copying? And if so, why isn't someone learning from said work not considered copying in their brain?
Why do you focus on the vaccine and not the novel, highly virulent virus which has killed tens of millions and disabled hundreds of millions? What makes it more likel for you that the vaccine causes this and not the virus?
> Are there any new downsides to the tensorsafe approach? None that I can think of.

Not for writing. But you'll have fun reading this file.

Bonus challenges:

- Read the file from STDIN or from a socket, where you only get one pass over the data without buffering.

- Read the file, but the file is truncated by one byte (i.e. the last byte is missing).

With all due respect, this sounds like someone repeating the mistakes of the "end of central directory" record of zipfiles.
It seems it requires installing an iOS/Android app to use. Any plans on a web version that can be used from the web browser for those without a smartphone?
Russian Apt Chained Firefox and Windows Zero-Days Against US European Targets
New stock exchange aiming to offer 23-hour trading set to launch in 2025
4Chan is probably one of the only social platforms where genuiune users and russian bots share the same views, why even bother with CAPTCHAs?
Really resonates with me. I was a very active (4-5x a week weightlifting & 1-2x cardio) person until about 13 months ago when I got an extremely mild cold. It was barely noticeable and I continued with exercise. 2 weeks later, I still hadnt shaken the fatigue that normally comes with a cold and in fact, it got worse. After a month I sought deeper medical investigation and eventually ended up seeing a cardiologist as I now had palpatations and could hardly walk up a flight of stairs without being out of breath.

I had myocarditis, caused by an infection, likely a covid strain but unproven as it was so mild I never thought to get tested. No exercise for at least 3 months and lots of R & R. I did this but I've never fully recovered. I still get pretty bad post exertional malaise, cant tolerate caffeine or alcohol and my sleep is terrible - especially after pushing too hard. Extremely shallow and I wake up a lot. The real nail in the coffin is something about heavy lifting really tips me over the edge. I can do some (very) light cardio infrequently on good days.

Doctors have been next to useless in helping, I guess because there isnt any real treatment for what is probably a multi factor systemic problem.

Whats been fascinating is my garmin fenix watch has been able to track how I'm feeling to a T. HRV readings have been particularly helpful in knowing whether I should be really dialling back activity on a given day or allowing myself to push a bit more. Ive fallen from a baseline of 85-95ms average to 40-60ms average which is really interesting. I'd love to see what macro analysis of their data would reveal around illnesses such as mine. The sleep functionality has also been quite illumunating. Getting 8 hours used to reset me to 100 body battery, now im lucky to get back to 80 after 11 hours sleeping.

Im not alone and I'm lucky enough to have a mild case but it still sucks and has robbed me of a big chunk of my previous life and personality. Im really hoping stories like mine begin to trigger trials and further treatments.
Cool!

Next solve going to the toilet and we're all set.
The legislation for social media and alcohol sales are completely different.

There is no expectation of “reasonable effort” to not selling alcohol to minors. It’s flat out illegal and heavily penalised. Nor is there a requirement for companies to find a way to sell alcohol to adults without asking for ID.

I get the concern you have, but you’re arguing against a scarecrow version of the legislation.
Sounds like perfect advice for maximum intensity training, but did he ever manage to write a good song that people appreciate?

I'm not at all convinced that this is all there is to it, or that a 5 year boot-camp results in greatness.
My feeling is that people need to stop building graphical node editors until we've solved some basic issues and agreed on some common standards.

1. Playing nice with version control. Opening a graph and moving a node by one pixel should cause not merge conflicts. Stop mixing logic and layout together.

2. Lossless round-tripping to a human-readable text format. Text editing tools are insanely powerful for many things. Not being able to use them is a huge drawback of node-based development

3. A common format that allows people to build tools that are agnostic to your specific environment. Node editors themselves should be like IDEs - not tied to a specific app. I don't use a different code editor when I switch from Godot to Unity - why is the node editor any different.

4. Just better everything. Batch/bulk changes, search/replace, auto-align. The quality of these essential features varies from "passable" to "what?"

Everyone is reinventing the wheel all the time. Every platform, app, environment has it's own way of editing node graphs. And most of them suck. The amount of wasted effort for mediocre outcomes...

Finally - are we sure node graphs are the best metaphor? Modifier stacks (like 3DS Max) give you 80% of what you want for many use-cases and they are a lot easier to learn and use.

Event grids are great for many things - and again they are much simpler.

Maybe node graphs should be the "expert mode" not the default (although the real "expert mode" is surely good old text coding - with all it's faults)
I'm vaccinated, 5 shots. I had COVID once, it was very mild. I'm fine.
GNOMEvKDE (Circa 2002)
> for long enough

The German empire underwent revolts during the end of WWI. They just missed the mark a bit. Instead of Willhelm II they should have gotten rid of Hindenburg, who starting 1916 was singlehandedly in charge of the German military and refused every peace offer until the empire was left without allies and struggled with countless internal revolts. Instead of taking the blame for prolonging the war he walked away smelling like roses, helped establish the Weimar Republic and played a key role in it to its end where he got cosy with the Nazis, directly aiding their rise to power.

In short, people tried to fix things, they got rid of Willhelm II and got Hitlers best buddy instead.
> magit

Since last year we have what's a start of Magit in Lem: https://lem-project.github.io/usage/usage/#version-control-w...

It has a status buffer, it can push/pull/commit, stage files and parts of hunks (no arbitrary region yet), list commits (with a handy pagination), manage stashes, do an interactive rebase (no reword yet). It's fast for big codebases (linux kernel) as it doesn't call the git binary a lot. We watch the performance and we have plans to read git blobs natively. I contributed it (https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/oh-no-i-started-a-magit-...). Working on it is a pleasure as the Lem codebase is very clean and introspectable (and specially so through Lem).
No, our current models (the basis for the calculations) do not incorporate dark energy.

Sure, the Schoedinger Equation describes the electron cloud, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't account for why it is moving, and not spiraling into the nucleus. It can't. Put a different way, describing something's movement does not explain why it's moving. Still the SE is as amazing achievement, but it is descriptive of effects, not causes.
Ask HN: Is Mentorship a Thing?
In recent years, I see a lot of advice related to mentorship, typically on Linkedin "Seek Mentors or Coaches".

It seems everyone and their mother has a mentor or is trying to find one, but I've never seen any such mentoring occurring in my circles (I don't count official mentoring, such as intern supervision). Also what would be the benefit for the mentor? let say someone is very senior in their field, are they expected to use their free time to help someone without anything in return or is that a paid service?

Curious about your experience.
point 1 sentence 2: s/should cause/should not cause/
The Luddites haven't been criticizing cars for anything, given how they came and went 50 years before a first proper car was built.

And, if anything, the Luddites were not anti-technology, they were anti-being fucked over by capitalists. The problem they rose up against wasn't the automatic looms, it was the way they were deployed - to replace skilled workers instead of augmenting them, depressing salaries and eliminating jobs across the industry. The Luddites weren't fighting progress, they were fighting to keep themselves and their descendants from destitution.

Alas, since technology was involved and technology is magic, the misconception about the Luddites has spread wide and persists to date, conveniently distracting everyone from what the actual problem was. Compare with everyone today whining about "tech bros" and the supposed folly of "solving social problems with technology", which is both wrong and entirely missing the real problem, which is the same as the ones Luddites fought and lost to.
learning, and extracting useful information from copyrighted works.

These extracted useful information cannot and should not be copyrightable.
Show HN: A P2P Web App for Chat, File Transfer, and Video Calls
I’d like to share a open source project I’ve been working on: Weblink, a pure web-based file transfer and chat application built on WebRTC. No downloads or installations are needed—everything works directly in your browser.

Key features include:

- Works seamlessly as a PWA for sharing files/text through the system

- File synchronization and resuming interrupted transfers

- Video calling

- Clipboard and folder transfer (folders are auto-compressed)

Weblink uses a serverless P2P architecture, supporting multiple backends like Firebase and self-hosted WebSocket, and ensures signaling privacy with end-to-end encryption. It’s deployed on Vercel and using Firebase can be accessed here: https://web1ink.vercel.app.

Another example of using websocket can be found at https://webl.ink

Would love your thoughts and feedback!
Sorry to hear about your divorce. I found the brain fog to be one of the worst factors in day to day life, especially with work. Thoughts of "did I miss this bug because of brain fog or was this something anyone would have missed" often run through my mind. Its hard to get people that havent experienced anything like this to really understand and the self doubt can cause a lot of stress. Sometimes its akin to early signs of dementia.

I cant offer much support but youre not alone in suffering this
The 400ms Doherty Treshold applies to builds too.
Hah! Fair analogy and applicable to much in business (and government). I still hope that it keeps it low instead of slowly getting bad while the established platforms get even worse than they are.
Creating, Modifying and Hosting OpenStreetMap Maps in Ruby on Rails