skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
… are you seriously second-guessing what makes other people happy?
That's a reasonable intuitive interpretation of how it should behave, but according to the spec it's undefined behaviour and compilers have a great degree of freedom in what happens as a result.
Wait what? Do you have any source for subreddits being sold to Democrats?
Quantum computing seems to be in the same realm as nuclear fusion as a power source. My Quantum theory professor used to say that in the 1960's, when he was a physics student in the Soviet Union it was "the energy of the future, in 20 years everything will be powered by nuclear fusion".

When i was an undergrad student 20 years ago I did hear that "soon, quantum computing will change the world", and yet here we are, every year someone builds a new machine but no one has yet to factorize that 21 = 7x3 in a general way.
I was somewhat surprised at the scale. The station appears quite big compared to the sun's disk, doesn't it? These astronomical conjunctions are always useful when trying to internalize the geometry in the Solar system.
> This is dangerously close to making the penalty the loss of his first amendment rights.

It’s fascinating (and worrying) how the people who cry the loudest about the first amendment are the ones who least understand it. The right to free speech doesn’t mean you can say literally anything without consequences. If you’re a deliberate liar who provably lies to profit and harm others, you can and should be punished.

I’m reminded of the Twitter engineer who said “Twitter wants to censor bullying and harassment, and the idea of free speech is that you can bully and harass people”. No dude, not it’s not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
I can’t wait to see how badly this comment ages
Purely mechanically, yes, but in terms of the definition of the behaviour in the C abstract machine, no, because certain operations on null pointers are undefined, even if the obvious low-level compilation turns into nothing.
Rules of Margin Collapse (2020)
It's not about pardoning, it's about what US bankruptcy trustee thinks is ok or not ok. Had this happen under Trump administration, I would assume that the trustee would not even allow such a deal to go ahead in the first place.
What books will get me started into understanding recent scientific publications?
I’m interested in the theoretical side but even more in the engineering/hardware side.
Oh won't someone rid me of this troublesome priest
How do they manage the payout to the individual contributors?

If I fix a typo, do I get a payout at the end of year for my work?

IMO that’s what it comes down to, that contributors that work for these companies have they contributions reimbursed through their salary. Other contributors might not earn that salary.
Jones was never technically tried for anything. He refused to participate in the trial in a meaningful manner and had a default judgment against him instead.
I would walk away if I saw that.

And that is probably why they go out of their way to not show you that.
You can mostly compute it for yourself or get an asymptotic feeling. Matmul is N^3 even with tensor cores eating a large part of it (with diminished precision, but ok) and FFT-based convolution is NlogN mostly. At some point - not that high - even the available TFLOPS available on tensor cores can't keep up. I was surprised by how far cuDNN will take you, but at some point the curves cross and matmul-based convolution time keeps growing at polynomial rate and FFT-based mostly linear (until it gets memory bound) and even that can be slashed down with block-based FFT schemes. Look up the thesis I posted earlier there's an introduction in it.
Why is a tailwind palette generator tailwind?
> I suspect the billion dollar settlement will be overturned on appeal as being excessive

Not a lawyer, but that didn't seem to have happened?

Quote from this article: https://www.reuters.com/legal/appeals-court-upholds-nearly-1...

"A three-judge panel of the Connecticut Appellate Court found that a jury's October 2022 decision to award $965 million in damages plus attorneys fees and costs to families of the shooting's victims was not unreasonable given the mental anguish they suffered due to the lies by Jones about Sandy Hook."

They found fault with a smaller portion of the whole award, and even there not because it was found to be excessive: "the judges found fault only with a portion awarding $150 million in damages under a state unfair trade practices law, finding that should be thrown out because it did not properly apply to the facts of the case."
This is how DuckDB is structured too:

DuckDB Labs: The core contributors. Instead of developing features that will be behind a paywall, they provide support and consulting.

DuckDB Foundation: A non-profit that ensures DuckDB remains MIT licensed.

0 - https://x.com/thisritchie/status/1797962367571239309
I had similar RSI issues a couple years ago and explored text to speech as an option, but the solutions at the time were clunky and inaccurate. I gave up and went with more practical solutions (yoga, working less, using a split keyboard). I’m sure with the recent developments in LLMs and speech models the situation is much different now. I’ll have to check this out
And as a follow on, if the president pardons someone for a crime can those harmed by it still sue the perpetrator for damages in a civil case?
Depends on where you live. In Greece, I don't think a single movie other than kids cartoons were ever dubbed on VHS. Everything was subbed. On the other hand, in Germany or Poland, almost everything was dubbed.
I think this shows how bad the definitions for computing are, there's a big rethink needed, but unfortunately it needs a galaxy brain to do it!
Oops, sorry; I got part way through writing I = S K K, but went off to another tab to double-check, and forgot to update that expression when I came back!

You're absolutely right.
Who denies US involvement in other countries? That seems a little bit of a straw man.
An OECD survey suggests a worrying decline in adults literacy
I would so love to do a bet with you, easy money. I’ll even take 2 to 1 odds
interesting. i love wagtail + django. sounds like you like your choice to switch to next?
Japanese soldiers fought to the death because they knew that their families would be punished if they didn't.

In Japanese culture at the time the sins of the father are inherited by the sons and daughters.
If you surrendered you would be dooming your entire family to a life of poverty and shame. To most decent people that would be worse than death.
By that logic, also the CO2 footprint of manufacturing and transporting the fuel for an equivalent ICE vehicle, which is always conveniently left out of such calculations.
> Linalg is like first year college, right?

Yes, but most people, like me, never gain even remotely intuitive understanding of it and quickly forget it after passing a few dreadful exams. Just like with most other math.
Remember that this was made possible by the intervention of Elon Musk.

I suspect he may end up buying the assets himself or someone in this circle.
Yes, my argument relies on immutability of all values (including `increase`). Also, under lazy evaluation we can call `adjust2` immediately, since we know it's a `lambda`; yet attempting to call `adjust1` will force evaluation of `increase`; not good if `increase = provable(collatz_conjecture)`!
Why didn't they just... define it, back when they wrote it?
Ok let’s bet then. Easy money
He is being held responsible for personally defaming the Sandy Hook victims and families.
eu/acc (European Accelerationism)
Where do debuggers find shared library paths in core dumps?
They did a test of pretty much the only thing it can do.

This is an extremely limited system, different in capability but in the grand scheme of things conceptually similar to implementing the quantum equivalent of a single binary digit.
The point is that it's distinguished by a lot more than just color. Shape, positioning, texture, etc are all used to seperate functionality (which is a hard-earned lesson in aircraft: there have been plenty of accidents because a pilot confused two similar levers/buttons/etc - one famous example was the lever to raise the landing gear being next to the throttle, which resulted in more than one case of it accidentally being raised while landing)
Why doesn't Microsoft have Copilot plugged into SharePoint, yet? I have a MacBook on the way so I can dump code and company docs into LMStudio for various efforts. This should be a few clicks on SharePoint+Copilot.
If you don’t need the stretchiness of silicone, thermoplastic might be a good answer. You can get little thermoplastic beads that soften up in hot water or under a heat gun. After cooling, they dry quite hard.
"man bcopy" on BSD:

'If len is zero, no bytes are copied.'

Seems reasonable.
> I don't know for a fact that he has, but I just expect him to have been the victim of some harassment based on his public position.

Do you also expect there are reliable secondary sources describing the harassment that you expect he’s received?
Using ed(1) as My Static Site Generator
PFOF is good for the customer.
Defamation is a crime, the fact that his listeners harassed people because of that defamation makes it even worse.
It does nothing, but is only defined when the pointers point into or one past the end of valid objects (live allocations), because that's how the standard defines the C VM, in terms of objects, not a flat byte array.
Hi Shiroiushi,

Nice that you were able to break the cycle.

Maybe the fact that it was such a big sacrifice is one of the reasons why some people tend not to value it, as it requires them to deeply change a lot of their cultural values. Maybe it is not that they don't value education, but they don't value the culture that formal education entails (white collar, college educated, city life culture). Speaking broadly here, of course. A quick and extreme example to me is the mandatory native american reeducation camps. These peoples were subjected to a complete change in culture in addition to education.

I think that in a perfect world, we could do a shift in education, and instead of molding the people to the culture necessary to succeed academically, we can mold education to fit the people.
I don't think anything can ever happen in the US -- that's part of the First Amendment.

I do think there should be some other way that would lead to Alex Jones lose his audience. But I don't see anything happening yet.

Trump and Elon are not nearly as bad as Alex Jones (arguably), and lots of people don't like them, but they have an audience, lots of other people like them, support them and send money to them. If they are not held responsible for things they say, if Trump is aquitted of January 6th, I don't think people should expect much to happen.
How interesting. GCC does indeed remove that branch.

https://godbolt.org/z/aPcr1bfPe
Yeah it is so dumb seeing the shady shit when it's so not needed -- reminds me of that wild Alec baldwin prosecutor
Do you think there are well-behaved and bad-behaved bots?
Well, I'm asking this question as I believe I created a well-behaved bot.

Before: 5 steps to download a Bluesky screenshot
After: 1-step process (reply a bluesky post and download the screenshot), as long as they follow the bot (to avoid spam).

That's it, the bot will then create the screenshot.

How do you feel about those types of bots?
There is only one correct answer to that prompt.
It's an immediate consequence.
For now, this is not so much about being "respectable", as about the prizes given in the Sciences are not so bound to ideology or politics.

AlphaFold/AlphaProteo is genuinely a major breakthrough in biochemistry. Now if they start to hand out prices in Physics, say, based on it's importance in promoting some specific ideological agenda, then I would be wary. (For instance if they give the price in Physics for "making the the field of Physics more relatable to transwomen in the Middle East".
>Default judgements usually occur when the defendant doesn't show up. Was this the case?

Almost. He was overtly attempting to stall the proceedings by endlessly failing to co-operate in discovery.
The BSD license doesn't allow changing it to another license any more or less than GPL.
"Loved by over 1,100,000 users globally"

Really? How do you define user?
I didn't say contracts being rejected by the courts.

I said the FSF had a legal theory that "GPL is a license, not a contract", which was rejected by the courts.

Some reading: https://www.technollama.co.uk/us-court-declares-gpl-is-a-con...

Further cases: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24478769
Monal IM 6.4.7 released – open-source Jabber/XMPP client for macOS and iOS
I mean the more interesting part to me is that probability comes into play: consider the age you live in. If you get to a historically conventional age for dying of old age, but then boom clinical immortality comes along, well that would feel technologically appropriate and yet be awfully convenient timing.

I'll be happy if it happens, but squint-eyes a little that it did.
Just found out he recently lost appeal. He has Connecticut Supreme Court, federal district court and SCOTUS to appeal to now.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/connecticut-court-uphold...
After more than a decade of writing software, I've read lots of opinions on how to write good software. Everyone loves to throw around rules and principles, so I'll do it too.
After buying an EV, less than 1% of drivers go back to gas cars
For those interested: https://bsky.app/profile/blueskyshots.com or https://blueskyshots.com
I used to borrow my friends' VHS tapes. Trying to stop people from sharing is barking up the wrong tree, just make it easy enough for people to do the right thing that sending a large file around and getting it to play on their TV seems like a pain in comparison.
I’m not sure either one sounds warm and cuddly, but a banker probably knows how to avoid misplacing my money more than a “technologist” does.
Yeah... imagine if private schools didnt exist and they had to pay all the money the way they complain about budgets already.
Trump, nor any other president, can eliminate the court's decision. A president's power would be limited to appointing judges in open positions, so potentially the responsible appeals court (up to the SCOTUS) could be influenced, but not controlled.
each time you use your computing device to make a comment on the internet, you're emitting CO2 and accelerating climate change.
Putting your data and workflows close to the database sounds good on paper, but often the performance "gains" are not significant when considering the dangers of vendor or tech stack lock-in. TLDR; try not to do everything on one platform.
wait you just talk about fiction? do you interview writers? i'm trying to understand how you built that audience, i've seen a lot of podcasts about fiction struggle to break past like 1k streams
Argentina has no deficit for the first time in 123 years
This is a great example. You can prove that a VM can be just as capable as a bare metal OS. Then you connect to a random networked machine. Without any further information, would you guess that you chose bare metal or a VM (or container)? Knowing that virtualized OSs are both possible and heavily distributed, you would guess that any random machine you chose was probably virtualized.

The simulation hypothesis follows a similar logic with one less data point. Knowing that experienced reality could in theory be nested inside a superstructure but not knowing the actual deployment of such nested experiences, we would guess that our experienced laws of physics probably exist inside a superstructure.

What the properties of that superstructure are beyond the hypothesis itself because we don’t have the same knowledge of virtualization of physics as we do of OSs.

String theory is one attempt to describe that structure based on mathematical reasoning. The simulation hypothesis just states that physics is likely to be virtualized inside another system and that it’s worth exploring physics at its limits to understand the properties of that virtualization.

It’s falsifiable through the development of analytical methods that don’t fully exist yet but not theoretically unfalsifiable.
That's a good point, and at small and medium scales those are very cost effective alternatives to cloud or fully managed. Not many managed providers can provide a full equivalent to an on-premise team, and it quickly becomes cheaper to run it yourself once you scale into large dedicated instances and high network traffic. Before then though its often better than the cloud for many situations.
COVID hit hard, but these gaps were growing before the pandemic... especially for low-income and struggling students. Remote learning just made it worse. Socioeconomic status still drives most of this—wealthy kids have resources, while poorer kids are left behind. Add in demographic shifts—immigrant kids doing better here than at home but still starting from different baselines—and the system isn’t adapting fast enough.

Charter schools? They cherry-pick students and leave public schools with fewer resources and more challenges. Standardized tests like TIMSS highlight the problem but don’t explain why. Feels like a perfect storm: inequality, bad policies, underfunding, and no clear plan to fix any of it.
https://volt.fm

Can't really call it a side project, though, as I'm working on it full-time.
This. A core part of defamation cases (especially from a damages point of view), is showing that the false statements caused harm, and that's generally by way of those statements influncing other's beliefs and actions (apart from harassment, this could also take the form of people being unwilling to work with/provide a service to the defamed party because of said statements).

(Note that it's important that the statements are false, and depending on some details, that either they were known to be false at the time, or that there was a reckless disregard to the truth, i.e. no effort was made to determine if they were true or false. If you state something that is true, or is false but you had good reason to believe is true, or that is merely an opinion, then it's not defamation even if someone harassess them or worse)
In defense of the project I have to say that I like the color naming of 'primary', 'secondary', 'tertiary', plus some 'accent' color.
That idea is disgusting enough for him to try.
Show HN: App that helps you use your phone mindfully (based on CBT)
I can beat you. I can forecast it for 16 days.
Probably regulations, KYC requirements, etc.
Every time they leave something undefined, they do so to leave implementations free to use the underlying platform's default behavior, and to allow compilers to use it as an optimization point
Judging knots throws people for a loop
That’s not what I said, and taking the argument in good faith would make it obvious. Of course AI isn’t to blame for climate change, it started way before this craze and there isn’t one single culprit. But the energy consumption doesn’t help, and burning more fossil fuels to power this energy-hungry systems makes it worse, that’s the point.

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366592778/Microsoft-and-...
WhatsApp became an unstoppable cultural force
Half of her kids had special education needs. You “demand special ed evaluations” and the result is, the kid comes back to your class with an IEP and congratulations, you now have to create an alternate version of each lesson plan.

The parent comment captures the education system’s attitude toward teachers perfectly. The problem is always due to a shortcoming of the teacher, and the solution is always the responsibility of the teacher.
Is that asset of any use at this point? Even onion’s bid seems like a waste of money to me
What if the objects are non-NULL, but invalid (not actually allocated)?

For example, Rust will use address 1 with length 0 for static empty strings, because 1 is a properly aligned non-null pointer.

I would imagine such strings end up being passed to C code sometimes, which may end up calling memcpy with a length of 0 on them.
You are correct and I should have only mentioned schools and education, which tend to implement their own policies and agenda irrespective of the orientations of the government. Again, same in Europe or the UK, where you may have a right-wing government, yet, teachers in schools, and the education system as a whole, is clearly enforcing left-wing principles (ie. you can't expel troublemakers; you can't tell them that a man cannot be pregnant; you can't enforce selection based on marks only and are strongly encouraged to implementent quotas, etc, etc, etc...)
Hi HN,

Finally decided to take action, and launched my first project.

I built this because I suck at coming up with cool ideas for projects.

I’ve always been amazed by how many great startups come from simple combinations of existing ideas, like Airbnb (Craigslist + Hotels), Uber (Taxis + Smartphones), etc.

I wanted to see if AI could help uncover more of these “aha” moments.

I’m just a solo builder experimenting with tools like this, and I’d love to hear your thoughts!

This is my first time launching here, so I’m also open to feedback on how to improve!

Looking forward to your comments and critiques!
What’s your usual breakfast?
My daughter has a genetic condition and needed an IEP. The middle school she attended would not give her an evaluation until we indicated we knew they were legally required to evaluate her and they should consider this an official request.
All my previous requests were rebuffed as they tried to steer her towards a 504 plan (504 is not legally binding).
I had to pay to have her evaluated by a Pediatric Neuropsychologist (about $500, despite my excellent American Insurance). He diagnosed ADHD and referred to a Neurologist who found nothing, but referred to an MRI, which found stroke damage, then we were referred to a geneticist who identified her mitochondrial disease and put us into a Pediatric Developmental office.
Finally we got some resources that helped us navigate the school issues to get her IEP.
It was so much time, money, and effort.
2nd gen are removed so that there are fewer poor people with uneducated parents who can't help them at home because the school system is bad in the sample.
Thank you. Can you elaborate? Wouldn’t jones stating garbage like the shooting didn’t happen etc. be opinion? How were his statements defamation ? I missed where he defamed the families as I don’t listen to his shows.
It's a big jump from "this behavior annoys me" to "I hate a person".
Morten did want you to pay attention. Now, having this achievement unlocked, next challenge in the tiktok influencer game is "produce conversational threads on topic with at least 3 levels in the depth of discussion".
Also, "How it works?". Are we fighting a losing battle in grammar?

So often I see variations of this rather than "How does it work?"
I mean, they might not have given thought to that particular corner case, they probably wrote something like

> memcpy(void* ptr1, void* ptr2, int n)

Copy n bytes from ptr1 to ptr2.
UNDEFINED if ptr1 is NULL or ptr2 is NULL

‐------

It might also have come from a "explicit better than implicit" opinion, as in "it is better to have developers explicitly handle cases where the null pointer is involved
> on the lower-performing side, you have schools focused on religion

That is an interesting contrast with the British equivalent. Religious schools are generally academically much better, so much so that people lie about their religion (and start turning up to church etc.) to get in (IIRC it is a condition of state funding that a minimum proportion of students are followers of the religion).