skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A vastly overrated impact, to almost non-existence by now.
You can see the multi-polar world if you squint- and all that shit usually blamed at the west, turns out to be just murderous local land empires, blaming all the things they do to gain power on western influence or history, but actually doing the same thing they did before the west rolled up.
We are just not that important. Never were actually, just lucky and luck is running out. Others now colonialize happy ever after in the original english image and if asked- tell you that they do it for "western interests" or customers.

And its bullshit. And the audience walks out on that story, wherever its told. It has no explanation power any-more and if you tell a story without explanation power, it just gives credence to the assholes you pushed of the stage. Thus tooting that horn, is like glueing MAGA WAS RIGHT to every fence in town.
I'm not sure you got it, because you referenced it as a noun, not a verb.

Rolling is the verb, the joint is the noun.

Rolling a joint is rolling a cigarette, except with marijuana.
The simplest example of a compiler optimization enabled by UB would be the following:

int my_function() {
int x = 1;
another_function();
return x;
}

The compiler can optimize that to:

int my_function() {
another_function();
return 1;
}

Because it's UB for another_function() to use an out-of-bounds pointer to access the stack of my_function() and modify the value of x.

And the most important example of a compiler optimization enabled by UB is related to that: being UB to access local variables through out-of-bounds pointers allows the compiler to place them in registers, instead of being forced to go through the stack for every operation.
What benefit would it be if you did?
Sure, but you’re back to moving to a brokerage who gives a good rate. If someone doesn’t already have a brokerage then IBKR is a fine choice. SGOV works with any brokerage and is mostly state tax free as a nice bonus.
Will he keep running do overs until he gets the outcome he wants?
> What are the chances that the CIA has a manhattan project style quantum computer somewhere?

Possible, but I think zero chance they have anything more practical than Google Willow, which is itself completely impractical for anything except quantum computing research.
My guess is that it's accepting the anthropomorphisms pushed by the vendors' naming choices: Alexa, Siri, Claude, etc.
Besides the gorgeous imagery, that website is SNAPPY. Kudos to whoever built this!
Highly recommend Nico Carver (Nebula Photos) especially if you're interested in DIY or the more creative/artistic aspects.

https://youtube.com/@nebulaphotos?si=_Uf6x7nQ_HwNOlZ_

Another great one is Cuiv The Lazy Geek. Very prolific and technical. He produces amazing images from light polluted Tokyo.

https://youtube.com/@cuivthelazygeek?si=X2gy_W5KYO7SW2tu
Definitely! The later books in the series fell off a bit, but the first couple were very good.
> In the best case, they lead to accumulating inefficiencies (technical debt) as engineers work around them

If that's what technical debt ever amounted to, then the average software developer is stupid, because he doesn't know how to innovate and improve within the meta-system he's functioning in. It's not hard to restructure things when inefficiency becomes a problem. Just do it.

Instead of lionizing technical debt as some sort of boogeyman demon around the Internet forums water coolers.
Tangentially related, I am reminded of this quote from the fun-yet-silly film "Broken Arrow" (1996):

Giles Prentice: A Broken what?
Secretary Baird: Broken Arrow. It's a Class 4 Strategic Theatre Emergency. It's what we call it when we lose a nuclear weapon.
Giles Prentice: I don't know what's scarier, losing nuclear weapons, or that it happens so often there's actually a term for it.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0115759/quotes/?item=qt0352487
Modern SQL: A Lot Has Changed Since SQL-92
> Being a "software engineer" consuming APIs and updating database rows ...

> Only an elite few get to touch these machines.

But lately many can run quite a lot of AI models at home. Doesn't require too crazy of a setup.

Why not build something software fun at home that doesn't involve a DB? Maybe using some free AI model?

I did experiment lately: automatically "screenshot" a browser and ask an AI to find the URL and ask if the URL and site looked like a phishing attempt or not. Fun stuff (and it works).

I tried installing one of these "photo gallery" in a Docker container (where you can put all your family/travel pics and let anyone on your LAN [or on the net] browse them). I saw some of these have "similarity" searches features. I also saw that SAM / SAM2 (Meta's Segment Anything Model) was plenty quick: some people are using these to analyze video frames in real-time. So I was thinking about sending all my family pictures through SAM2 (or a similar model: I saw some modified SAM2 to make it even faster) and then augmenting the "similarity search" by using the results of SAM2. For example finding all the pictures about "pool", etc.

And why limit myself to pictures? I could do family vids too: "Find all the vids where that item can be seen".

Possibilities at the moment seems endless: times are exciting if you ask me.
Not all consequences are punishments.
This explanation of why signed int overflow is undefined is interesting (although the behaviour is still very annoying): https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2016/02/how-undefined-signed-o... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11146384)

More examples here: http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...
How about HN, is HN GDPR compliant?

Can I download my data? No.

Can I delete my data*? No.

--

*Yes, GDPR requires the ability to delete data:

https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
Only in the most legalistic sense.
You could also do something in between - buy ready made templates and customize them. It is easier than mimic-ing and cheaper than hiring a designer. Something like https://tailwindui.com/
An operation as large as Wordpress.com or .org should be GDPR compliant. I don't see any cry for sympathy here but more that OP is holding someone to a baseline standard expected of entities operating in Europe.
> If they were serious about helping you learn a language they would use flash cards to memorize vocabulary as a main feature.

I respectfully disagree. I think that learning a language is not only about learning thousands of words, for different reasons:

- First, Duolingo makes you practice vocabulary, in quite a few different ways. It has some kind of "flashcards" system where it makes you practice weak words or old words.

- There are often one-to-many relationships between words in two languages. For instance, on your flashcard you may learn that "to miss (english) = vermissen (german)", and then that "to miss (english) = versäumen (german)". How do you know the difference (there is one)? You need context. Duolingo helps you learning words in a context, and that is very important.

- By reading/writing full sentences, you can practice grammar. And I find that grammar is a lot more important than many people tend to think. It's similar to context: depending on the grammar, the word takes a different meaning (is it the subject or the object? etc.)

Duolingo is a good tool. It's very nice to practice many different things. But it's not enough. You need to seriously learn grammar, too. And at some point you need to start reading, and watching movie, and writing, and speaking.

Said differently: I am convinced that it is easier to learn a language with tools like Duolingo than without (i.e. 30 years ago it was harder). But learning a language is still very hard and requires effort and dedication.
Not quite. If, for example, you used a 3rd party to get data about me, that's still my personal data. Whether I explicitly gave it to you or not is immaterial.

If I have given you my email address, and then you process it, I think I am entitled to know how you've processed it. If you've stuck it in a DB, forwarded it to people via IM, or put it in a spreadsheet, etc.

You may think it is absurd, but my experience of filing DSARs is that most companies will send a suitably redacted copy of everywhere my data has been. And, yes, that includes emails.
Because the benefit was probably seen as very little, and the cost significant.

When you're writing a compiler for an architecture where every byte counts you don't make it write extra code for little benefit.

Programmers were routinely counting bytes (both in code size and data) when writing Assembly code back then, and I mean that literally. Some of that carried into higher-level languages, and rightly so.
From what I understand:

1. Initially, they just wanted to give compiler makers more freedom: both in the sense "do whatever is simplest" and "do something platform-specific which dev wants".
2. Compiler devs found that they can use UB for optimization: e.g. if we assume that a branch with UB is unreachable we can generate more efficient code.
3. Sadly, compiler devs started to exploit every opportunity for optimization, e.g. removing code with a potential segfault.

I.e. people who made a standard thought that compiler would remove no-op call to memcpy, but GCC removes the whole branch which makes the call as it considers the whole branch impossible. Standard makers thought that compiler devs would be more reasonable
Yep. It is exactly the same as with Oracle - you can use it IF you buy the license... but this also has requirements of playing the Vendor game and as provider you really use freedom to really take care of your customers
Just Stop Using Makefile
Most people who have this opinion going in tend to change it when the learn the particulars of the case. Jones absolutely knew he was lying, he did it deliberately, the lies caused incredible real world harm, he knew they were causing harm and he kept doing it because that’s his business model and that’s how he gets rich.
I'm pretty sure that ChatGPT or Clause is more reliable than a random guy on any particular subject, although less reliable than an expert on the subject.
Vendors just use their own smartphones and use our app to scan customer’s QR code to charge them.

As for the network we rely completely on the cellular network. We use an extremely small amount of data (a tiny fraction of what an image a user might be posting to FB/IG/SC/etc would be) so unless the networks are completely down we can manage without issue.

We check out venues/grounds/etc for cellular reception/speed ahead of time to make sure we are a good fit for a festival to try and avoid internet connection issues.
Apple Announces iOS 18.2 Launching Today
> Cruise allegedly has one of the most sophisticated autonomous driving platforms, and GM's Super Cruise (if they share any tech) is comparable to Tesla FSD.

The facts don't matter anymore.

Just perception.
Manga Took Me to a Place [video]
On the architecture of BLAME!
This feels familiar. I lug my Lenovo laptop, the Logitech ergonomic mouse, aluminium laptop stand and external Keychron keyboard (thinking about buying the Q10 with Alice layout), mostly to have convenient setup on the go, not primarily for ergonomics. Carrying all this stuff plus the extra other things in the daily backpack is certainly not ergonomic, however I think about it as training for some long hikes.

I also use the LG DualUp display at home, like it very much. Similarly, my home setup has the rain design mStand next to it.

Now, if the espresso machine could be also carried with the computer setup..
I remember the chair mount being a post on the keyboard.io community forum. Somebody built that setup with the Model 01.

Looked amazing; IIRC the tricky part was how to wire it back to the computer when the chair was on wheels.
X does have a vested interested in ensuring its usernames and accounts do not legally become alienable property that can be auctioned in a bankruptcy auction. They don’t technically allow accounts or usernames to be sold at all (or follows, engagement and so forth), although I’m sure this happens quite often under the radar.

X can and has taken any username they want away from a user for any or no reason.

Filing a brief in a bankruptcy auction that “this property is ours, not the debtor’s, and may not be auctioned or also” is an obvious way for them to publicly assert their rights and ownership.
I really love this so much, and can see myself coming back to this page for years. would love to see a replies feature, and top/trending/controversial ideas section etc.

THANK YOU SO MUCH OP! GREAT IDEA!!
There’re going to put augmented reality underwear on the blockchain.
It is literally written inside the post.
> And what's especially disturbing are the lengths conservatives in the Japanese government have gone to over the last several decades to rewrite history and erase these atrocities, while pushing harder and harder against the restrictions on their armed forces.

This is still a hot issue in Japanese Buddhism and demonstrates the difference between the sects:

Consider Soto and Rinzai Zen, vs Jodo Shinshu. Leaders from both supported the war efforts and nationalism, but since Soto and Rinzai teachers are supposed to be enlightened, the Soto and Rinzai authorities have not been able to apologise for their support. On the other hand, since in Jodo Shinshu everyone, including the head of the school (monshu), is on the same spiritual level (there is no attainment in Jodo Shinshu), they were easily able to apologise for the acts and ideas of the WW2 monshu.
That hugely depends on the circumstances.
Honnestly the only developer I think are any good at their job are the stubborn ones. They are the ones that spend the extra time to learn something new. They also do stuff right because they spend the time to solve the problem. Not just patch it up.
s/JSON/YAML/ :)
> [And if the end of the buffer] were at the end of a page with nothing allocated afterwards, a speculative read from memcpy would break

‘Only’ on platforms that have memory protection hardware. Even there, the platform can always allocate an overflow page for a process, or have the page fault handler check whether the page fault happened due to a speculative read, and repair things (I think the latter is hugely, hugely, hugely impractical, but the standard cannot rule it out)
May explain why some people are great programmers but average coders . . .
Afaik its OK if this is a manual process on request. If you ask moderator dan via mail I bet he would delete and hand out data of you
Reminds me of that Russian court that recently fined Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Funnily enough this was along similar lines to the Alex Jones case but in reverse.
I don’t really understand why Google and other companies making similar models are able to train on existing modelled or reanalysis data sets and then claim further accuracy than the originals. Sure, stacks of convolutions with multimodal attention blocks should be able to tease apart all the of idiosyncratic correlations that the original models may not have seen. But it’s unclear to me that better models is the direction to go in as opposed to better data.
> “America’s right-wing tech bros are celebrating Donald Trump’s victory”

A. Why wouldn’t they? By definition, they are right-wing.

B. The headline implies that they are “taking over.” If so, from who? Perfect centrists? Leftists? Were they impartial themselves?
You are engaging in some well-known logical fallacies, particularly hindsight bias. Linking a past event to an outcome we now know often ignores the many other past events that had no clear future or resulted in nothing significant. It is also important to highlight that this comment is not against quantum computing.
Big tech, ie, large companies who are expected to exist for 5 years with about the same workforce, actually will go back to having the about same benefit in 2027. (They claim 20% of 2022 in 2022, then 20% of 2022 and 20% of 2023 in 2023…) It also covers only development expenses, so sales and legal (a large part of big tech!) are still taken as wage expenses.

So it’s likely the second — and was likely used in part to pay for those very same withholding changes! Or the then-new tax-exemption for lobbying expenses.
Can someone honestly explain the downvotes for agreeing with a commenter that I’d like to understand how they handle the spread issue?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Color_pe...

???
John Milius
"The charter school - better for your child? Sounds like it.

Better for society, no."

I'm curious how you think this is true. If it's better for the children in them, then they should have a better education and be more likely to contribute to society yo their maximum potential. So there's the positive side. What we would have to show is that there is a significant negative side for the students still in public schools that was not there before. The only real argument I've heard from this was about how to reduces funding from public schools. However, it also reduces costs for the reduced number of students, so it doesn't seem like a big factor. In fact, most studies show public schools having significantly higher per student budgets than the charters. So what is the negative impact on society?
I went to this exhibit at the weekend! Some truly awesome pictures (and a handful of runners up that left me wondering how easy it is to do, really)

One of the most interesting comparisons was how some pictures were a single shot, maybe 10-15 second exposure, and others were stacks of 700 or more images with exposures ranging from 60-400 seconds, taken over the course of a month.
Joe Rogan Experience #2240 – Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino [video]
Yeah, but can their AI weather model show up in a cute outfit and point to a map too
You take many long exposure photographs of the same spot in the sky, stack them together, and then edit the images to make them look nice.

There is a ton of specialized equipment and software for the hobby - star trackers, astrophotography specific cameras, optics, camera control software, stacking software, and of course Adobe lightroom and photoshop

You can start out with just a digital camera/cellphone and tripod, and go all the way up to a full blown backyard observatory
There doesn't need to be a self-service mechanism, you just need to be able to ask. Skimming the privacy policy indicates you should be able to email `privacy@ycombinator.com` with your request.
It depends on whether the focus is on spreading knowledge or preserving doctrine. Most religious schools I know are solidly in the former category, but I suspect there are exceptions.
Collected does not mean synthesized.

Imagine I am in a dating site and want to find out all the people that expressed interest on me. I go then and file a GDPR request, claiming that those that mentions of me is "data collected about me" and therefore I am entitled to it.

Someone talking about you, or references about your PII are not PII themselves. To try to claim otherwise is absurd.
While that is terrible, I don't know if you can argue it is terrible to the tune of what they've done to Jones. Every major media outlet has some instances of, effectively, targeted harassment in their history. Whether the public endorses that harassment is more a question of how effective the reporters are than anything else.

It makes sense that Jones would lose the case, but the scale of the judgements was eye watering and is difficult to justify. The scale of the compensation is in a different world to the amount of damage done (intentionally, the bulk is punative). That changes the nature of what is going on.
I just visited Monument Valley and it was spectacular. Inside the Visitor Center they have a whole room devoted to the Navajo code talkers. I only spent a few minutes in it but it was very interesting and very nicely presented.
HN needs one of those "Remind me in X days" things.
Gorgeous photos, each category has so many incredible photos that I'd be hard pressed into picking a clear winner.

Btw, Royal Museums Greenwich is a lovely spot to spend some time during the weekend, either the museums/expositions or the parks around if the weather allows. Plus it has great views of London from the observatory.
Apple is one of many companies that chose to source their components overseas. If they didn't, no one would be buying their products because they would be priced so much higher than competitors.
This is true even for non-consultants. If you're the only person who understands The Thing you're in for a world of hurt because whenever it breaks it's your problem. I've been at companies where I rearchitected a piece of software and unfucked some key business process, but it made things worse because the number of engineers who understood it went down. And I'm not talking vanity "paying down tech debt" rearchitecting, I'm talking "people get paged because the product doesn't work" went from 33% of deploys to ~0%.
A. Who said they wouldn’t? It is stating a fact

B. From people who represent mix of left, right, center, whatever
> Right, and how do you obtain that "proof of deliberateness"? Or measure that non-physical harm in a way that doesn't give power to people who just don't like what you're saying (possibly the truth)?

If only there were a system of formal rules and a process where evidence is presented by highly trained and experienced experts, presided over by an impartial arbiter, with deliberation, established precedent, a system of appeals, and if only that system had been used here.
What's your view on statutory damages for copyright infringement? "Wilful infringement" has statutory damages up to $150k per work. This is similar. Like this it's a punishment imposed by the state, through the medium of inflated damages.
It was a joke about how silly valley based companies will claim the moon and back and then design a car that doesn’t know dumping snow in the boot is bad.
Tantalum capacitors? Yikes, I've seen so many of them short out over the years.
http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...

In a real world program removing all UB is some cases impossible without adding new breaking features to the C language. But, taking a real world program and removingh all UB which IS possible to remove will introduce an overhead. In some programs this overhead is irrelevant. In others, it is probably the reason why C was picked.

If you want speed without overhead, you need to have more statically checked guarantees. This is what languages such as Rust attempt to achieve (quite successfully).
The creditors agreed to and supported the Global Tetrahedron plan to purchase Infowars and settle the bankruptcy. Seems like the judge is overstepping given Delaware law on this matter.
Ask HN: Unconventional E-Reader Solution
Hello all, I am making this post here, as opposed to other forums like Reddit, as I am seeking a solution that might become unconventional and wanted quality answers. I want to acquire an e-reader, that is an electronic device that can be used to read books, and is portable. I need it to have a screen that does minimal damage to my eyes, as I am going to be constantly using it. Which maybe means it cannot emit blue light or similar things. I also want it to have physical buttons. It also has to be durable, and something I can use for the rest of my life. USB-C would be nice. It doesn't have to display pictures or color, it doesn't need have an E-ink screen. Does anyone of you hackermen know something that would fit these criteria? I am thinking something like a those old palm devices, PDAs, but I don't have access to anything like Ebay and need to be able to buy it from Amazon. It doesn't have to be thin and small, I would like it thick and sturdy, which is why I was thinking about those palm devices being a viable option. I am willing for the solution to be very unconventional.
Ah, I see they do have that now!

But it's 1Gbit public and max 5Gbit (Plus double the price)