skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There has not been regulation for online forums for forty years and Earth did not explode or human kind did not end.

But how about Trump winning popular vote? Millions of people are sure this is about as bad as explosion of the Earth or ending of the humankind.
Founding Fathers on Today's America
Kremlin doubled its blocking of independent media sites this year
> There is a way to have your cake and eat it too: rust.

Suppose my cake is that I have a struct A which holds a value, that doesn't have a default value, from your library B. Suppose that at the time I want to allocate A I don't yet have the information I need to initialize B, but I also know that I won't need B before I do have that information and can initialize it. In simple terms. I want to allocate A, which requires allocating B, but I don't want to initialize B, yet.

What do I do?

If you answer involves Option<B> then you're asking me to to grow my struct for no gain. That is clearly not _better_.
you can negotiate your way to anything you want. while companies technically might have laws to comply, it is on the employee to negotiate their way into whatever it is that they desire.

for instance, I may be negotiating my salary and get to mutually-agreeable amount X. I can then say I do not want to be covered by your health insurance but in lieu of that I need my salary to be X+$30,000 to cover the cost of the health insurance I will purchase myself for my family. the company of course can say yay or nay on that but this is the avenue one can explore to get around this company-provided-HI nonsense.
> Not sure why the reply buro9 gave is dead

Oh I do... the link... HN must have a word based deny list
> One counterargument is that nobody forces you to use their services.

Not specifically Microsoft, but more and more government services are accessible only through apps that are only offered through Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store. (Either directly, or because a generically eID app is used.) So in this case, I am absolutely forced to agree to either Apple's or Google's ToS to interact with my government.
>It's star topology

I personally see that as a feature. When I was researching what route to go (wifi/zigbee/zwave) I encountered enough horror story posts about mesh networks to know that it's not for me. Small network absolutely, especially for battery powered devices, but meshes seem to hit critical mass where it becomes unstable & then people end up doing stupid shit like having to physically uninstall wall light switches to temporarily move them closer to hub to re-pair them

Adding more 2.4ghz AP capacity is comparatively trivial. Hell even raspberry pis can act as APs.

>it will pull down both performance

Anything where I care about performance is on the 5 and 6 ghz band. 2.4ghz is too noisy in cities for general use, but is entirely adequate for IoT sending a couple bytes every now and then.

>[WPA] security

That one is indeed a problem. At some point I'll stick them on a separate AP device with a firewall between that and rest of network, but can't say its a priority
News over the weekend: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/13/steven-bartlet...

Further in the past, we can look to the “Adpocalyse” on YouTube caused by a glut of terrorist content on social media and it being monetised by ads from major brands.

To your last question: that’s why they’re submitting their plans to Ofcom, so they can get into compliance. The link even highlights that regulation is based on risk. Have a larger platform or want to operate in a greyer area? You need to show how you’ll comply in more detail.
I can feel the texture of that in my spine just looking at the pictures :/ I don't think I'd ever want to touch any of that
The best feature of Linux is its ability to continue working just fine after rebuilding an entire computer.

Windows screams that its license is invalid and requires a reinstall.
Not sure why you were being downvoted. This is spot on, and we already had one adjustment (I believe last year) on Hetzner for electricity usage.
Google Search could soon let you attach and 'ask anything about a file
I like it how so many developers I know built something similar, but you nailed it down on how to message this to a wider audience.
I suppose the difference for me is I've not seen any examples of Child sexual abuse online. Its obviously a bad thing, so steps taken to prevent that directly are a good thing. When you start restricting everyone, in order to stop that harm, then you need to start quantifying risks.

This isn't arresting murderers, this is restricting the sale of rope that murderers might use on their victims. or to get more specific. this isn't banning clubs where murderers can get together. this is imposing checks on all clubs to make sure there aren't any murderers in them.

If it reasonable for the boy scouts to do checks on their members to make sure that a few of them aren't planning a murder? should the boy scouts be responsible if a few boys do go and murder someone? a murder that was planned in the scout hut?
'Burning through cash,' Boston Dynamics lays off 45 employees
> This law is aimed at big tech

The law is not aimed at big tech. It is aimed at any online forum that the government wants to shut down, and gives an lengthy, arbitrary, and vague list of pretenses that they can base a shutdown on. Big tech has shown itself to be eager to conform to government expectations at every turn. Big tech helps even to shape government expectations, and continually shares personnel with government itself.
Well you aren't wrong, but that is a question of identifying what model to fit. If the question is "are the workers in control of the outcome" then sure, they weren't using statistics properly. But if management realises that is the question to ask they also probably won't need statistics because the answer is obviously no in almost all contexts.

Management was asking the question "given that the workers control the process and we know that there are differences between people, which workers are performing the best?". And they were doing the best they could under pressure with the incomplete information they had. It was a stupid model, but that is why they are going to an Ed Deming talk - the median manager defaults to stupid and needs a bit of help.

Training people in high school stats doesn't necessarily get better results at model selection, some extremely educated and capable people are still stupid about that part.
What stops me from predicting both "sides" of a particular event, and only revealing the ones that came true?
> Not sure why the reply buro9 gave is dead

I vouched for it, so it should be visible now.
Thanks! Although, curse you, making me think more. Touché.

That's a fair disagreement. Although I guess I was thinking that my individually curated sites and sources would include sites and feeds that themselves include diverse and new info. But then I guess that's just me not recognising that that's what people in a bubble think they're doing.

Do you have any nice, foolproof ways to reliably source new info online?
I can think of Canada's Emergency powers act being invoked over the Freedom Convoy.
Thanks! That would probably help our WAF/wife acceptance factor a good bit…

Here’s hoping our device battery level detection is better than that of the sibling commenter.
There will be both of those things in abundance.

But I'm also seeing some genuinely creative uses of generative video - stuff I could argue has got some genuine creative validity. I am loathe to dismiss an entire technique because it is mostly used to create garbage.

We'll have to figure out how to solve the slop problem - it was already an issues before AI so maybe this is just hastening the inevevitable.
DiffSensei: Bridging Multi-Modal LLMs and Diffusion Models for Manga Generation
We had a similar issue. We ended up at a funeral for our daughter’s teacher (we brought the kids as she knew all of them), and somehow ended up in the family greeting line intended for close friends and family. It felt so intrusive and they were like “why are you here”.

The cherry on top was our youngest started getting restless during service and we had to leave early and we didn’t sit in the back.

I had only been to my parents funerals at this point, and never experienced a more formal religious service, but we were the worst in so many ways. I still regret it 10 years later.
Good story of why you cannot trust what AI returns. You should check everything.

A confident liar.
Good for you. If you're happy with it, that's great.

The thing is this: the controls on a vertical taskbar should be horizontal, and they should rearrange themselves in rows according to its width. So, horizontal buttons with horizontal text for each window, and status icons in columns and rows.

Any and all desktops with a start menu and a taskbar are just variations of Windows 95, and this is how Windows 95 worked. Most of the ripoffs don't do it right, and can't. A few (e.g. KDE) do it but really badly, so you get a HUGE start button and a HUGE clock, for instance.

Most people don't remember Win95 now, but I do. It really annoys me when the knock-offs can't do things the original did 29 years ago.

Can you imagine if someone came along with a new version of Vim, but they'd changed all the keystrokes and replaced all the : commands with English verbs? Instead of :wq or :x you typed SAVE FILE? People would laugh mockingly and go use something else.

That's how I feel about a half-done version of the taskbar-and-start-menu interface, like in MATE or Cinnamon.

Original Windows 95 fit into 32MB of disk space because that was the original maximum size of FAT16 drives. It was a tiny, simple OS. If someone presents me with a UI that copies the Win95 one, and basically every other FOSS desktop except GNOME >=3, Unity and Pantheon does, then the least I expect is an accurate copy of the very simple functionality that Windows 95 provided in 4MB of RAM.

Take that away, and it's ruined. It's Vim with no command mode and only cursor keys: you might as well use Notepad.

Notepad is perfectly usable and it's all a lot of people need. I'm not mocking anyone happy with it. I expect a bit more though.
That's taken out of context. The article says that in order to become good at programming students will need to learn multiple languages, including those popular in the industry. But, since students are going to learn multiple languages anyways, it's also necessary to have a language that is useful to teach programming concepts rather than the ropes of the "real world". And this is the language it's talking about in your quote.
I watched part of "Watch: How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)" and the arguments seemed pretty weak. A lot of it was along the lines of current cars cause problems in cities and self driving cars are still cars so self driving cars bad. But there's a lot of flexibility as to how they get used and regulated.

Just thinking about one city issue local to me - I live near Oxford Street in London which is currently overcrowded with thousands of people plus buses and taxis and the like. They've wanted to pedestrianize it for ages and probably will but there are problems with accessibility for the handicapped and delivery of stuff to the stores. That could maybe be sorted with slow moving self driving evs picking those up? I'm not sure but at least it's another option.
besides big tech i assume it will push more people underground (this is what i would do). and VPNs will get (yet another) big boost.

myopic governments pushed by myopic voters are apparently the new norm.
Haha, I'm going to steal that!
You have confused a hadith (not from the Quran) Sunan Ibn Majah Vol. 1, Book 1, Hadith 63 with verses from the Quran (28:38 and 40:36–37). Anybody can make a mistake. Let us try to verify as everybody will have to support with basis on what we stated, on the Day of Judgement (17:36). Even if everything remotely Islamic is removed from consideration, the things to ponder upon are indeed all the links above viz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat and https://mises.org/online-book/skyscraper-curse-and-how-austr... against this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel hmmm... food for thought on how ambition and pride can make us chase sub-optimal solutions (make us blind in other words).
You were vindicated in this thread. It's insane that the U.K. is throwing thousands in people a year in jail for speech "crimes". I remember ten years ago when free speech was a sacred value in the West; as soon as non-institutionally-connected people got a platform with social media elites changed their mind though.

They're estimates but I've seen some numbers that suggest the U.K. is imprisoning more people (per capita and absolute) for speech crimes than Russia.
Not a scheme, but for running a lisp on microcontrollers uLisp is pretty amazing. http://www.ulisp.com/

You even get a REPL and everything WHILE running on the hardware. Super easy to set up and get going. Though as it is interpreted so you will of course not have native performance. Still very useful for prototyping and hobbyist projects.
From the same url:

SQLite is open-source, meaning that you can make as many copies of it as you want and do whatever you want with those copies, without limitation. But SQLite is not open-contribution. In order to keep SQLite in the public domain and ensure that the code does not become contaminated with proprietary or licensed content, the project does not accept patches from people who have not submitted an affidavit dedicating their contribution into the public domain.

All of the code in SQLite is original, having been written specifically for use by SQLite. No code has been copied from unknown sources on the internet.
I hope you've spoken to a good lawyer briefly to understand the practical realism of your legal fears. Understanding the legal system involves far more than just literally reading text.
I don't think the article states this - whatever HNs many problems, 'chasing growth at all costs' and 'lack of explanation for moderation actions' are not among them.

First, moderation should be clear enough that I do not have to ask "why?".

That's not a reasonable standard, the target for such things has to be something like 'most users, most of the time' rather than you personally.

Also, for me to communicate with dang, it means I have to give him my email, which is not required to make an account on this site.

Also, the HN Guidelines say "Please don't post shallow dismissals".

It sounds like you want to use a messageboard exclusively on your terms. That's fine but it shouldn't be surprising to you most messageboards, being populated and maintained by other people, can't easily accomodate that.
That’s a terrible term for it, then, because everyone else will assume you mean killing someone.
> You cannot possibly construct some type A (that is not Option<A> or A@nullable or whatever) without populating it correctly.

Except you can. The language runtime is clearly doing it when it stores [None|Some(x)] inline in a fixed size struct.
Initrd is loaded by the kernel not by efi
This is the first GenAI video to produce an "oh shit" reflex in me.

oh, shit!
Cool, hadn't heard of Schemio before! https://schem.io/

Very slick look and feel :D

And it doesn't boast about it, but it's open source https://github.com/ishubin/schemio
I refuse to believe for a second that your attendance was considered inappropriate; the person being burried at least would have surely been happy for you to be there and think of him or her.

Also, your intentions are to be commended regardless of what the relatives thought (it's not the relative's funeral, so they are not the yardstick).
Humans have an instinct to seek status, like many (most?) other animals.
The Little Spacer
That makes sense. Either knock down the walls all the way and empower developers to make decisions, or keep the walls and let all requests go through the pipeline.
>As an American (the horror, I know, that I deign to comment on something British), I'd love to know where your freedom of speech is codified and what a government would have to do if they wanted to change what counts as speech, what doesn't, and what's protected and what isn't. I suspect that you and I have very different definitions of what qualifies as free speech.

There is nothing easy to point to, like the first amendment to the US constitution, but it probably wouldn't matter anyway.

The key differences between the UK and US, particularly in this area are that:

1) Governments in the UK tend to have large parliamentary majorities - the current government has a majority in excess of 150 seats. So if there was some sort of written constitution guaranteeing Free Speech, and it required a supermajority to change, it's likely that many UK governments would easily be able to do that.

2) Politicians and the public at large in the UK have very different attitudes to Free Speech (or rather, they take a more pragmatic approach to things and can see the need to compromise). Polling has shown that the Online Safety Act has over 70% of the public supporting it. Parts of the act see even higher support than that. Consequently, most of the major political parties support the act or even think it should go further.

This is in deep contrast to the US, where imagining a scenario in which you could amend the constitution would be virtually impossible in the current climate.
There are different styles. In many revolvers, the cylinder does not swing out from the body; rather, it is contained.
Alternative data (data feed for investment managers and hedge funds) seems to be heading towards a consolidation in the space
This explains the US landscape. https://guides.library.cornell.edu/copyright/publicdomain

Belgians would have to look up their local version of that.

But to answer your question is it depends on the country. Les say one country has 100 years. Another has 50. It is now year 75. In the 50 year country and you make a derivative you are fine. But take that same thing to the 100 year country then you might be in trouble. But only if you bring the stuff into that country. Now others may import it but that is on them not you. But you might have to prove that out in court. Also in the US sound recordings can bet more tricky as there are also state laws that come into play.
> Do you mean to blame politicians for the military's failure? The military organized, equipped, trained, planned, and commanded their short-lived WWII efforts.

Yes, because the military was:

* not given enough to organise for what was coming, and as a result their whole strategy was centred on "keep the Germans at the border for a few years, and then when we have enough arms and people we'll attack in 2-3 years"

* put under the command of an incredibly inept man, Gamelin. He was politically well connected and useful (republican values and loyal to democracy, unlikely to launch a coup), but was unprepared for anything more recent than WWI. Worst of all, he was incapable of taking any sort of feedback from his subordinates, and in fact sent off men who were questioning him to shitty posts away from him. Even worse, he was consulted on foreign policy, and had way too much sway in deciding French foreign agenda around appeasement of Hitler (e.g. Gamelin refused to support Czechoslovakia unless Poland also joined; Poland was way too short-sighted and opted to get some rail junction from Czechoslovakia instead of realising they're next and siding against Hitler. But this was irrelevant, French + Czechoslovak armies outnumbered the Germans by a good margin, had better industry and more arms manufacturing, would have had them on two fronts, and both had extensive defensive systems; and unknown to them, the German army probably would have couped Hitler if it had came to war in 1938).
Exactly. It's a classic magician's trick (and featured in a Columbo episode!)

Maybe if there is a way to see all predictions made by someone, it would be more compelling.
> “Our main product was an SDK Generator that could take any OpenAPI specification and generate high-quality client libraries in multiple programming languages.”

This is something I could really use! Is there a product that does this and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg?
> Also curious, what is that file manager in the print ?

XFile - https://fastestcode.org/xfile.html
>Our industries shunning of interface builders has done more to make it difficult to get kids programming than I think we admit.

I'd be very glad of an agreed-upon IDE which:

- made it easy to draw up a UI

- was cross-platform

- opensource

- easy to install/compile/distribute compiled programs

Bonus points if it is also uses standard widgets and is accessible to screen readers and the like.

Livecode (Hypercard clone previously known as Runtime Revolution) was sort of that until the community edition was pulled.
NixOS has switched to virtiofs 4 days ago: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/362081

Not all use-cases are faster with virtiofs.
It’s not clear that insurance company CEOs are responsible for the problem. Insurance companies have rather low profit margins — even if they were non-profit, perfectly efficient, and all their employees worked for free, it would have a marginal effect on the system but not change it fundamentally.
Here's the thing. You assert confidently that GP is acting on a "broken moral compass". But you can also make the case that it is moral to act in interest of the company: After all, if the company fails, a potentially large number of people are at risk of losing their household income (and, in broken economical systems, also stuff like health insurance).
If people enjoy SWE they will never be replaced, nobody will forcefully enter my house to tear the keyboard out of my hands.

Even if AI coding becomes the norm,
people who actually understand software will write better prompts.

The current quality of generated code is awful anyways. We are not there yet.

But there is a very simple solution for people who really dislike AI. Licensing. Disallow AI to contribute to and use your FOSS code and if they do, sue the entity that trained the model. Easy money.
Reading through the report, the trouble turns out to be that "devastating disease for humans" is possibly the least of our problems. Even if we had a perfect stockpile of antibiotics that would protect humans against any possible mirror organism (we'd need a wide variety, right?), all of our crops and livestock would be wiped out. All the forests. All the plankton. It would be really bad.
> They can't even speak freely about the horrible crimes being committed in their nation by grooming gangs.

Unsure what exactly you're referring to, which might be ironic, but there's lots of news reports about grooming gangs, as well as the surrounding controversy and debate around ethnicity and political correctness see: https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=grooming+gang&d=NEWS_PS
To ask "why are you here?" suggests these people were poorly raised or just plain rude.

Attendees of a funeral make an effort to pay their respects to the deceased and to express their condolences to the family left behind.
Really?

You can disagree with the position, whilst accepting that MPs have been murdered, and MPs do get threatened online.

What specific level of power hunger makes a threat to life acceptable?

Further, I wasn't in favour of these proposals, but if you have people on HN of all places thinking its acceptable to threaten people, maybe we do need this law.
I guess you can get the same effect by just printing with good old PLA, and then dipping it into glue and then into sand.
Why use this service instead of posting on a social media platform of your choice?

Especially since on social media it’s more difficult to make multiple predictions without people noticing.
The UK government is changing it tune on this and are pivoting slowly.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7qenxy8r2

I have to check older news articles but I suspect these are the ones that were presented as moderate rebels by the media when it was convienient.
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