skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think de Gaulle's legacy explains why France hasn't completely collapsed yet

The 5th republic presidential system, which we owe to De Gaulle, is a large part of the issues we have, though.

> country with the highest % of nuclear in its energy mix

Civilian nuclear happened after his departure, though. If anything, De Gaulle's fierce protectionism had pushed the french civilian nuclear industry to pursue homegrown graphite-gaz tech, which was a dead-end technologically, as the Brits eventually found out. De Gaulle's departure opened the way to importing Westinghouse-designed reactors which were a success.
Many, many things have changed since 0.21. There's a radically improved UI themes system (and two new core themes as well as good support for OpenTheme).

There are pretty significant changes to the "fit" of the UI, better preference panels, but there are also significant improvements to UI and tooling in Sketcher, the TNP mitigations mean attaching sketches to surfaces is broadly as safe as it is in other CAD packages, you can directly extrude edge selections in Part Design, there is support (not enabled by default) for multiple separate solids in single bodies in Part Design, pretty major changes in the CAM workbench and architecture workbenches etc.

Most significantly in a workflow sense there's a new core Assembly workbench; combined with the TNP mitigations that is an enormous change.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dj3p1nCmrE

It's very much not just "under the hood".

Still more things to fix -- lots of stuff has already changed in the 1.1-dev weekly builds.
Give me an example of where any monetary support measures resulted in anything but temporary bump in births (where people who wanted kids anyway, just had them bit sooner), followed by deeper decline later.

It just doesn't work this way. To have more kids, you need to break human rights and give women no choice but to. Otherwise you will hardly have even a TFR of 1.0. Even today's European birthrates are inflated by what remains of religion, sexism, and patriarchal lifestyle.
I am surprised that the top/right one still shows a cut and switch to a difference scene. I would assume that that's something that could be trivially filtered out of the training data, as those discontinuities don't seem to be useful for either these short 6sec video segments or for getting an understanding of the real world.
Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope
> or you have some kind of sum-type á la Option<T> and cannot possibly construct null or zero-ish values.

Option types specifically allow defaulting (to none) even if the wrapped value is not default-able.

You can very much construct null or zero-ish values in such a langage, but it’s not universal, types have to be opted into this capability.
Great news. The copyright owners of Tintin are very litigious [0].

I have some "Tintin in Vietnam" prints at home that are commonly sold in SE Asia [1]. Those street vendors will be happy to know that they're in the clear now.

[0] See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39625647

[1] eg https://old.reddit.com/r/TheAdventuresofTintin/comments/c0pv...
This is one of those games that would be great to have the source code for. I’ve seen dozens of people try to do rewrites or reverse engineer the code, but this one got further than most. The author of the original Allycat died a couple decades ago, so that little DOS binary is all we’ll ever have.
A T42 with slackware and notion wm was my daily driver until around 2015, never really felt a need to get something newer and only did because I wanted something smaller/lighter for portability so I get a cheap $250 11e Thinkpad. Used the T42 regularly until it finally died in 2021 or 22. Miss the 4:3 screen and tiny trackpad. In just shy of 20 years the only issues I had with the T42 was a dead fan. Now I have an X13, 16 cores and NVMe still running slackware and notion, it flies. That $250 11e is still going strong, has survived 3 bike crashes and it shows.
Show HN: MySQL Branch Action – Database Branching in GitHub CI/CD
I built a GitHub Action that lets you create isolated MySQL database branches (like Neon/PlanetScale) directly in your CI/CD pipeline.

- Test schema changes safely without affecting production

- Compare and merge changes between branches

- Runs entirely in GitHub Actions, no external services needed

- Open source, powered by WeScale

Demo workflow and docs:

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/mysql-branch-action
Bad programmers aren't black and white situation, there's so many range of programmers quality out there, with different sector too (analysis, programming, db design, debugging, etc). And as the standard, companies need to adjust cost and requirement, while those are affected by supply and demand too. Moreover, common people cannot measure programmers quality as easy, and bad programmers have delayed effect too. So it's not as simple as not hire bad programmers.

LLM however, will change the playing field. Let's say that bottom 20 or 30% of programmers will be replaced by LLM in form of increased performance by the other 70%.
All NPM, yarn, bun registries seem to be down
Npm registries seem to be down - affecting build servers and production systems!
SarasDB: Multi-Modal, Fault-Tolerant Database in Rust
Gaddafi was a fascinating rabbit hole.

Tried to create a pan-African currency backed by gold, French government intervened with backing of NATO, a whole region with millions of people was pushed into misery.

Thanks!
On the other hand, the world of industrial machinery seldom needs M0.6 threads.

Just trying to support it properly so it didn't bend away from your single-point thread cutter would be a challenge. And imagine how easy it would be to drop the part, and how hard it would be to dig it out of the coolant and swarf!
And uv's first release was just a drop-in replacement for pip-tools, just faster and less buggy.
Lol. Point & figure ;-)
It's a standard supported by multiple parties, not just Microsoft, including multiple open source password managers.

And it does provide some benefits: phishing protection (no shared secret that can be intercepted or given to the wrong party) and the service does not need to store as much sensitive information (don't need password hashes that could be leaked and cracked, just a public key).
As well as Tintin, I also got Spirou[1], and my personal favorite, Gaston[2]. Gaston was more short format, but the slapstick humor and absurd scenarios really resonated with me as a kid.

They were translated to Norwegian and came in bound books. Still have them.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirou_%26_Fantasio

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston_(comics)
But it's a somewhat odd custom no? Funerals. Probably no one stood up to talk because it felt awkward, as it is.

It's not like you hurt your friends feelings for not speaking up.
Google "chicken tax". The chain of unintended consequences goes back even further
My grandfather died a few years ago. By all accounts, he was opinionated, mean, and yelled at people a lot -- until a stroke humbled him.

When it was time to speak, nobody got up to say anything, until I did. I mentioned so many of us had negative feelings about him, and then recalled what good things he did for us. That ice broken, several of my cousins also stood up and spoke.

My uncle, who had arranged the funeral, closed it off by saying to everyone in the audience that if you wanted your own funeral to have more good stories, it was a good idea to patch relationships while still alive.

I think I would have regretted not standing up to speak. My grandfather did good and bad -- he invented the type of artificial voicebox given to people with throat cancer. He performed lifesaving surgeries on hundreds of people. He also yelled at his grandchildren during every dinner. He leered at my mother and aunts.

And yet, I would have regretted not going to his funeral, and not speaking.
I might be too optimistic but I think LLMs will basically replace the worst and most junior devs, while the job of anyone with 5 or 10+ years of experience will be babysitting AI codevelopers, instead of junior developers.

I find a lot of good use for LLMs but it's only as a multiplier with my own effort. It doesn't replace much anything of what I do that actually requires thought. Only the mechanical bits. So that's the first thing I ensure: I'm not involved in "plumbing software development". I don't plug together CRUD apps with databases, backend apis and some frontend muck. I try to ensure that at least 90% of the actual code work is about hard business logic and domain specific problems, and never "stuff that would be the same regardless of whether this thing is about underwear or banking".

If I can delegate something to it, it's every bit as difficult as delegating to another developer. Something we all know is normally harder than doing the job yourself. The difference between AI Alice and junior dev Bob, is that Alice doesn't need sleep. Writing specifications, reviewing changes and ensuring Alice doesn't screw up is every bit as hard as doing the same with Bob.

And here is the kicker: whenever this equation changes, that we have some kind of self-going AI Alice, then we're already at the singularity. Then I'm not worried about my job, I'll be in the forest gathering sticks for my fire.
I thought the same thing initially, but I'm not as convinced after looking a bit more into it. Ie I think it's a possible risk.

>as there are no natural mirror aminoacids. Normal bacteria will quickly evolve to consume mirror aminoacids.

There are and they already have:

>D-amino acids are toxic for life on Earth. Yet, they form constantly due to geochemical racemization and bacterial growth (the cell walls of which contain D-amino acids), raising the fundamental question of how they ultimately are recycled. This study provides evidence that bacteria use D-amino acids as a source of nitrogen by running enzymatic racemization in reverse. Consequently, when soils are inundated with racemic amino acids, resident bacteria consume D- as well as L-enantiomers, either simultaneously or sequentially depending on the level of their racemase activity. Bacteria thus protect life on Earth by keeping environments D-amino acid free.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24647559/

On the one hand, this does indicate that the "mirror bacteria" might not starve immediately, but on the other hand it shows that "non-mirror bacteria" would already be there in large numbers.
I wonder how much of it stems from reward structures within the company.

Is there any reward for someone maintaining careful long-term stewardship for existing users? Or are all style guides really just made to be broken and replaced by the next person trying to get a promotion?
Alternatively, we could repurpose smart TVs to run open source software.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
Brought to you by the people who read Orwells 1984 and thought it was a handbook rather than a warning.

I really have zero respect for this law. Watch the BBC interview with Elon Musk over twitter to see how moronic the people behind it are.

When you mix in all the war mongering they do vv Russia and the massive crack downs they have been engaging in to cover up how fast living standards have been falling, and the whole thing is a sad joke.
Visual C++ is actually very easy to get started with (it wasn't my first though) You run a wizard which generates a full, runnable, skeleton application into which you can then easily plugin code from a book (thank you David Kruglinski). I had done Win32 C programming (thank you Charles Petzold) prior to getting into Visual C++ and it was shocking to see how the IDE/Wizards really made complicated things extremely easy. In fact many of the noob programmers in my team didn't even know how to run the compiler, assembler, linker separately (they did not come from a Unix background) since the IDE did it all for you at the press of a function key.
AI is winning LLMs vs Advent of Code (AoC) battle
> The 5th republic presidential system, which we owe to De Gaulle, is a large part of the issues we have, though.

The current political issues are caused by a lack of majority in parliament. So arguably this is really the one scenario the "Presidential system" cannot be blamed for.
That seems to be a different kind of honor. The one that can be pluralized and given to someone entitled. Not the intrinsic honor a person must possess to deserve genuine respect.
Plugging the draft guidance into chatgpt:

Age Assurance Methods:

Effective methods: Open banking, photo-ID matching, facial age estimation, credit card checks, and digital identity wallets.

Ineffective methods: Self-declaration, general disclaimers, or payment methods without age restrictions.

So basically, ID verification will be required for any platform that may have adult/harmful materials.
Software Freedom Conserancy vs. Vizio
> seem to have missed the party where they told us that "coding is not a means to an end"

What is it for you then? My role isn't software engineer, but with a background in computer engineering, I see programming as a tool to solve problems.
always!
I do use LLM for various support tasks. Is it super necessary? Probably not, but it really helps.

What they excel in in my experience is translating code to different languages and they do find alternative dependencies in different runtime environments.

Code can be weird and prompting can take longer than writing yourself, but it still is nice support, even if you need to check the results. I only use local LLM where I do embed some of my code.

I am still not sure if LLM are a boon for learning to code or if it is a hindrance. I tend to think it is a huge help.

As for future proofing your career, I don't think developers need to be afraid that AI will write all code for us yet, just because non software engineers suck at defining good requirements for software. I also believe that LLM seem to hit walls on precision.

Some other industries might change significantly though.
There are no special license terms to using Roslyn Language Server, which is what the base C# extension in VSC uses. It is the debugger which is closed-source, and the custom license terms apply mostly to that debugger and to Dev Kit extension which has a subscription. Both are completely optional and there is also an extension fork which uses NetCoreDbg developed by Samsung and licensed under MIT. It is what people usually use when they debug C# in e.g. Neovim.
No, what he says is "when we write software there are bugs, so we should write less software".
I don't recall any complaints about facebook not posting everyones private information publicly or selling it to the lowest and highest bidder.
Debanking relates more to the costs of regulatory compliance and consequences of politically driven regulatory abuse. In short, it is an issue of individual property rights and freedom of association.

Injecting "MAGA" into the discussion feels a bit inflammatory. The pattern is for the state to expand power by targeting the groups perceived as being on a vulnerable fringe. Over the course of decades the pendulum will swing across the aisle. Various groups are targeted opportunistically. Precedents are thereby established.

It wasn't long ago that elements of the US right-wing were celebrating the "Patriot Act" and the targeting of Islamic communities. Over the past few years, the same anti-terror legislation, scaremongering and entrapment techniques have been focused on the dissident right.

It wouldn't be unreasonable to expect the pendulum to swing again. I hope that the specific identities of the targeted groups doesn't distract from the overall trend. The illiberal instinct isn't unique to one vaguely defined end of the political spectrum.
A man who bought everything
What I see and hear around me is a miniscule fraction of the outside world. To have a shared understanding of reality, of what is happening in my town, my city, my state, my country, my continent, the world, requires much more than what is available in your immediate environment.

In the grand scheme of understanding the world at large, our immediate senses are not particularly valuable. So we _have_ to rely on other streams of information. And the trend is towards more of those streams being digital.

The existence of "fake news" and "alt facts", doesn't mean we should accept a further and dramatic worsening of our ability to have a shared reality. To accept that as an inevitability is defeatist and a kind of learned helplessness.

Have you seen the Adam Curtis documentary "Hypernormalisation"? It deals with some similar themes, but on a much smaller scale (at least it is smaller in the context of current and near future tech)
Why do you act like German electricity prices aren't high? Any source including the one you link shows Germany to be above average. Hard to take the rest of what you say seriously when you don't acknowledge this reality.

Regardless I'll be curious to see whether what you predict will happen (energy storage becomes enough to deal with bad weather periods). Doesn't seem smart though to rely on the sun in a relatively cloudy country.
Kolmogorov Complexity of Neutral Networks
Do you have a bad battery? Linux mint on my 2018 carbon with original battery still gets 4hrs of developing in IDEA with a YouTube vid in the background for music.
I really just want passkeys to exist for a decade and all lockout/lock-in edge cases being resolved before I retire my password manager, and before I tell my mother to move to passkeys.
It seems to have been more nuanced than that:

https://www.tintinologist.org/articles/defence.html

https://freedium.cfd/bef351e1dfa8
It's far more complicated than that
RootMy.TV 2.0
They are dead but the other people who attend aren't
Why the heck should I, when you are not bothering to provide any evidence for your own statements, like this one I linked below?

>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42384308

And I quote two of your words from that comment:

"trivially" and "probably"

to show what I mean. See those words in the context of the sentences in which they occur, and it can be seen that you are not giving any evidence for your claims either.

Do your own research, if my comment is so important to you.

Also this is HN, a forum, not a court of law. Tons of other users on here, regularly and casually make comments which may seem false to others, without giving evidence for their statements.
For FreeBSD specifically there's a book about it that is written by the very people who designed most of it: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/2659919
But ... Why do they want to? I'm genuinely curious. Did this desire for larger vehicles exist latent in the human psyche? Is it an emergent property of a race to the bottom as everyone tries to have the safest car? Or to secure prestige via a positional good, leaving everyone worse off? Do you think marketing choices played a role in shaping our collective desires?
no front, but do you even read what you write? incredibly insensitive
> It's insane that they never carved out any provisions for "non big-tech".

That would be insane, and it's not true. You have to consider the risks and impacts of your service, and scale is a key part of that.

I think it's really important around this to actually talk about what's in the requirements, and if you think something that has gone through this much stuff is truly insane (rather than just a set of tradeoffs you're on the other side of) then it's worth asking if you have understood it. Maybe you have and lots of other people are extremely stupid, or maybe your understanding of it is off - if it's important to you in any way it probably makes sense to check right?
Pure fruit juice is not good for you. It has a super high concentration of sugar. The benefits of fruit are primarily the fiber contents, which is completely missing in juice.
> De Gaulle was a general not a politician, though.

He was both, as were many generals of the 3rd republic.
Very cool :) can it just do observability too or do you have to use for all prompting?
I used a T42p (not just a measly T42, that's for the proles) as a daily machine until forced to move away from 32 bit machines around 2021. Were it not for that I'd still be using it daily - I got three of them in nearly new condition for free about a decade earlier, all of them still work, one of them with a new translucent trackpad cover (made from an old mobile phone screen protector) because the old one was totally worn through - since the combination of the 1600x1200 4:3 (more or less) screen and the keyboard are hard to beat. I'm now using a P50 which, while offering far better lacks the 4:3 screen and 'suffers' from the modern Lenovo keyboard.
Natural Number Game: build the basic theory of the natural numbers from scratch
> business people trying to replace one guy like myself with 3 Indians has been a reality for 10 years at this point, and amusingly they keep failing and never learning their lesson. /off-topic

What is the "lesson" that business people fail to learn? That Indians are worse developers than "someone like yourself"?

(I don't mean to bump on this, but it is pretty offensive as currently written.)
Completely agree. The other day I was trying to find something in the Shopify API docs (an API I'm not familar with), and I decided to try their chat bot assistant thingy. I thought, well, if an LLM is good at something, it's probably at finding information in a very narrow field like this. However, it kept telling me things that were plain wrong, I could compare it to the docs next to it easily. Would have been faster just reading the docs.
> You just have to make individual value judgements every day on thousands of pieces of content

That's simply not true.
The clear answer is that a GPT can bullshit convincingly, and the nature of these managers' jobs involves a lot of convincing bullshitting. As everyone thinks they represent some kind of model, they assume that a GPT will also perform as well on other's main skills as it performs on theirs.
I guess power demands will slowly grow. The same happened with compute in general. Compared to 1960, we have several orders of magnitude more compute but also several orders of magnitude more efficient compute. Data centers are currently about 0.4% of total energy use (electricity is about 20% of total energy use and of the electricity about 2% goes to data centers, so 20% * 2% = 0.4%).
Or Outlook on HP-UX.
Sioyek –- a PDF viewer with a focus on technical books and research papers
Github : https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek

As a mathematician, this is currently my favorite PDF viewer by far. The mini-window feature for referenced equations/theorems is tremendous quality of life: we no longer need to page up to who knows where to check a statement, place and remember markers and so on.
haha that was my first question/thought
sounds like another NIH grant is going to be given to a shell nonprofit to move the research to a "BSL4" (honest, we don't reuse paper towels) lab somewhere in China.
It is relevant this case. The thread is about moving an activity that is not a business to a company (and for some reason a CIC in particular). If you did it in your own name you would not have to keep accounts.
I used X11 on a 4 MB Toshiba portable with a 386SX CPU, it was slow but doable. This machine as a whopping 160 MB, that's hog's heaven compared to what X11 has been used on traditionally.
It’s fairly mindless boilerplate for sure, but it does mean that when something happens that causes a change like this protobuf update, the change in your codebase is isolated just to the interface between it and your code ie your dumb conversion funcs. Otherwise you end up with the problem the original commenter had.

It’s good to isolate your dependencies within the code :)
How would they pay the costs when they don't bear any of the profits from their regulated industries?
I write code for things for which there is no code to learn from.