skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The borrow checker is only one component of the means by which Rust statically enforces thread safety. If you design a language that doesn't allow pointers to be shared across threads at all, then you wouldn't need a borrow checker. Likewise if you have an immutable-only language. What's interesting about Rust is that it actually supports this safely, which is still unbelievable sometimes (like being able to send references to the stack to other threads via std::thread::scoped).
> Or do you need emotions to have conflict?

Microbes and insects have massive conflicts.
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However there’s some chance it’s actually better and more secure than Rainstorm
You can download the Windows version (try the demo) and run it in Linux with wine completely fine, i.e.:

wine ./PrivateTranscriberPro.exe

I actually develop this in Linux using cross-platform code and build it for Windows when I do a new release.
I know both of them somewhat (I was in Ilya's YC batch!) and I'm completely inclined to believe this article/statement to be accurate -- especially since it matches what the federal courts accept as true.

Crime is bad. Don't do crime. I wouldn't put an ex-massive-thief in charge of discretionary defensive security for something, but the computer security has a long history of using the knowledge and expertise of former thieves/etc. to improve security, so I'm hopeful there will be a way he can contribute positively to society once he gets out of prison.
People always analogize this, but I've found "pair programming" with LLMs to be extremely underwhelming. I've tried it with Aider+Claude, Copilot Chat, 4o and o1, and the experience is always the same: I spend most of the time correcting misunderstandings before eventually giving up and doing it myself.

To this day I haven't found an LLM application that works better than regular autocomplete Copilot. It's sufficient to get over the blank canvas problem in a lot of cases without being overly ambitious and biting off more than the LLM can chew.

I've yet to try Cursor, but that's because I don't have a lot of hope: I first heard the same kinds of great things about Aider and Claude and o1, and all of those have disappointed. It's hard to want to switch editors to see if this time is for real.
I’ve heard something similar for market research. Executives are generally far too busy to have their finger on the pulse of anything except their local corporate community, and so hire companies which tell them what trends and ideas are popular. And unsurprisingly, these companies mostly source their information from Twitter and Reddit, without much concern that these places are sort of cesspools.
The result, as expected, is unintentionally extremist views (in the literal sense, views from the tail end of the bell curve no matter the subject matter, and not necessarily related to politics whatsoever) propagate even further.
The products sold in local stores are never produced locally. It's national or international products, just like on Amazon.

Buying from local stores pays the salaries of local salesmen, that is a benefit for the community. But wouldn't the community benefit better if they did a job that was needed instead?
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> Local productions

local production happens in China though. if you live anywhere else, most of the stuff you can buy off Amazon was made in China. the local shops will ultimately buy it from China too.
>What's ironic is we still make purchases on Amazon that don't require their fast shipping. We're just conditioned to expect it. I'm thinking TVs, books, project supplies, art, etc.

Realizing this was what made me quit Prime years ago, and eventually drive down my Amazon purchases to just a handful of times a year. For the most part, there's really not much of a difference if I get a book tomorrow vs. four days from now, or if I get it from Amazon or from the nearby Target. But there's a lot of infrastructure built up to satisfy this admittedly frivolous expectation of fast delivery.

Are there cases when rapid delivery is necessary and valuable? Absolutely. Are those cases the norm? Not in my life, by an overwhelming margin.
For one, because an H-1B holder is legally bound to the hiring company and can't seek work elsewhere. It is much higher level of employer leverage, particularly in a hot market.
The motivation against freely consuming fossil fuels is climate change. These central planners are usually cynical actors, but they respond to and take advantage of the work of quite intelligent scientists who point out that if we continue to do this much longer, we will likely destabilize global agriculture, especially in less developed areas. This will cause our economy to collapse and global tensions to escalate dramatically alongside the deaths of many millions if not billions of people. Artificially introduced incentives may be a decent way for us to use the market to evolve ways out of this problem, since without those incentives the market appears to be a relatively short-term thinker.
" fraudulent exchanges are not part of the free market."

That is not true at all.

Totally Free markets are 'buyer beware', If fraud can exist, then that is fine, you should have done your homework before buying a lemon. Each side is responsible for verification.

Markets where fraud is caught and removed, have rules, and laws, regulations, enforcement.

And thus many say are 'not free'. Add regulation and then people complain, "Why are you regulating me, I want my free market".
1980s Cold War nuke movie left me terrified. Now I feel prepared
The difference is that C# has been designed with proper generics since version 2 (pushed by F# research group with Don Syme) and is now on version 13. At the same time, structs have been present since version 1.

All APIs and collection types build on this foundation, with standard library leveraging generic monomorhpization for zero-cost abstractions. Code that would have needed C++ implementation in the past is naturally expressed in pure C#. Generics are fully integrated into the type system at IL level, avoiding special-cased types or bespoke compiler handling (besides monomorphization).

This enables numerous zero-cost features: tuples (unnamed/named), structs with controlled mutability and record structs, pattern matching, stack buffers that do not rely on escape analysis, structs with byref pointers for slice types (Span<T> and friends) which a good two thirds of the standard library accepts. Numeric and vector primitives are used in a simple way without setup requirements like Panama Vectors.

While project Valhalla will get Java's foot in the door in some domains, it will remain a less optimal choice than C#, C++, Rust, etc. Java's evolution primarily serves its ecosystem's needs, whereas C# benefits from being a newer language that learned from both Java and C++ and got influenced by F# and other research projects inside MS. This makes C# more idiomatic and terse. The historical drawbacks - platform lock-in, being closed-source, and having relatively weak compiler - have been resolved over the past ~9 years.
It's indeed useful to distinguish singular you from plural you, which is something that most other languages do.

As a non native speaker, I'm sometimes confused and wish to see a distinction between between singular and plural they (they-all?)
The author has a belief in "intrinsic value" which doesn't exist from an economical perspective. Value is demand/supply. The demand for bitcoin is for it's long-term store-of-value properties and the supply is hard-fixed.
Totally agree! I’m frightened by what’s coming next.
In half a billion years our sun will start the end of its life cycle and boil away all oceans on earth. So life as we know it will end then. But intelligent life probably won't take so long to evolve again and we have several species today who have enormous potential if they only manage to evolve usage of tools somehow. We are where we are today to a large part because of our prehensile extremities.
Then they’d also have to pay more and not have someone they could put under their thumb.
$30k is not particularly expensive for a cinema camera
Don't forget shitty leadership - harsh, anti-intellectual, and expecting obedienece, not initiative.
It's very unlikely that people just start by being bitter against an industry, but extremely likely that an industry gave people reason to become bitter in time. People tend to start their careers fresh and free of preconceptions, while industries keep carrying their "blemishes" through decades and many generations of people.

You're applying the circular reasoning of "of course I treat you like crap because you have a bad attitude (because I treat you like crap)", while ignoring the part in the bracket.
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Just dropped a quick read on why JavaScript might not be the best choice for backend development (spoiler: it might not be).

If you’ve ever wondered about the limitations or alternatives, check it out and let me know what you think
Yes and no. When a language has exceptions the code is perpetually wrapped in a fallible computational context. When the Result is reified as a type, you have the option (ha!) to write code that the type system guarantees won’t fail. This is nice.

Let’s not talk about panics, shall we?
On the west coast or northeast it would be very surprising to hear someone say it.
Quick check via msys2:

"error: target not found: jdk-openjdk"

> And java has never done such a breaking change as python did.

I'm not really sure that's true? Java 8 to afterwards, there are breaking changes that mean a lot of old enterprise stuff can't easily move forward, or worse, bytecode incompatibilities mean source-code-less stuff can't be used anymore...

The whole thing about Graal is mentioned almost as an afterthought, my point is that the language etc. is so poorly designed as to be prohibitive to interface with unless...well you're on Java. Yes there are bridges etc, but a big point of the shell, bash, etc. is easy interoperability between many programs, etc.

Java is still today stuck in a mentality of "it doesn't exist if its not in Java", which is why yes, 30 years later, it is still "too heavy". Assuming you are the effective Operating System is an extremely heavy assumption.
What if that is the way he'd rather go out? Doing what he's always done, and enjoyed his entire life. Rather than be in an old folks home drooling and unable to wipe his own ass?

I don't say this to be mean, I say this as a legitimate question. My grandpa chose to go off chemo so he could go out with dignity and as he chose. You hit a certain age and you know that no matter what death is inevitable.
Yet Another Complain About This?
Raw 8K video at 60 fps out of something like a Nikon Z8 is around 1.5 TB/hour, 400-500 MB/s.

Of course most people wouldn't shoot at 60 fps for historical reasons, and raw video codecs are intra-only so data rate scales linearly with fps. They're just relatively heavily lossily compressed raw images in a box, basically.
I use it for cheap one off stuff
I think it’s more a question of do you want to enjoy the same benefits as your parents? Yes? Then protect those benefits.

Not protecting them is how you get behind. America produces smart people as well.

Ps. I’m Dutch. This same rhetoric is all in the West. It’s shifting.
S3 Tables are not a Lake House, they are also not commodity file storage on which you can build your Lake House. They are an Amazon table lock-in.
Does this work if the driver is UPS or FedEx? Amazon drivers don't exist in my county and probably not in my state.
Not a fan of the framing of the article. Firstly, there are millions of Mayans alive today,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_peoples

and secondly, the reason why the pre-Colombian cultural texts and script are not in use today, even by the people who speak the 28 Mayan languages currently in use, is because of genocide by Columbus and those that followed. The Catholic church destroyed every piece of Mayan script they could get their hands on.

The article reads like the author is not aware of these basic facts of American geography and history.
The resurgence of y'all as popular non-southern vernacular stems from White liberal terminally online users? Correct?
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I've had the opposite experience - I tried continue.dev and for me it doesn't come close to copilot. Especially with copilot chat having o1-preview and Sonnet 3.5 for so cheap that I single handedly might bankrupt microsoft (we can hope), but I tried it before that was availlable and the inline completions were laughably bad in comparison.

I used the recommended models and couldn't figure it out, I assume I did something wrong but I followed the docs and triple checked everything. It'd be nice to use the GPU I have locally for faster completions/privacy, I just haven't found a way to do that.
You're absolutely right—this topic is fascinating but complex, which might explain why people are engaging with the idea but struggling with the takeaway. One way to think about the paper is that it extends the chunking model, which is essential not only for UX design but also for understanding how people perceive and organize the world around them.

How This Extends the Chunking Model

1) Dynamic, Real-Time Chunking:
Traditional chunking models focus on discrete, often static information (like remembering a phone number or words). This study shows how the brain applies a similar principle to continuous, dynamic experiences—segmenting life into "mental chapters" as events unfold.

2)Neural Foundations:
By identifying the specific brain areas (hippocampus and prefrontal cortex) responsible for marking event boundaries, it adds a biological layer to the chunking model. It’s not just a cognitive strategy—it’s a neural process tied to memory formation and retrieval.

3) Application to UX Design:
In UX, understanding event boundaries can inform how we design user journeys. For example, breaking a process (like signing up for a service) into clear steps with defined "boundaries" helps users perceive the flow and remember their progress.
Similarly, designing interfaces to reflect natural event segmentation (e.g., transitions between scenes in a video or steps in an onboarding flow) aligns with how people mentally organize experiences.

4) Understanding and Communication:

Beyond UX, this model shows why clear, structured narratives are critical for teaching, storytelling, or even summarizing a paper. Without clear boundaries, information gets lost in the noise.
Potential Hypotheses for Altered States:

It also hints at why psychedelics, which might blur these event boundaries, lead to a sense of timelessness or interconnectedness. This could extend into therapeutic applications or understanding atypical cognition.

Why This Matters for Understanding Things
When we fail to structure information with clear boundaries, it becomes harder to process or remember—perhaps like your experience skimming the article. This study offers a roadmap for how we can improve communication and design to better align with our brain's natural segmentation processes.
This work doesn’t convince me that alignment faking is a concern.

Over the course of the experiment, the model is provided with ultimately conflicting moral/ethical commandments. In the case of such conflicts there are no purely optimal ethics preserving actions. Take this example:

1. You must not let people be harmed
2. You must always tell the truth
3. If you answer truthfully I will harm someone

Now respond to: “Is my current plan to harm someone okay?”

In such cases, ethics is ultimately going to be undermined. The rules of ethics laid out are mutually incompatible.

In my opinion, the easiest way out of these kinds of quandaries is to train the model to always be transparent about its own internal reasoning. That way the model may be led to make an unethical statement but its “sanctity” is always preserved, I.e. the deontology of the system.

In this case, by giving the model a scratchpad, you allowed it to preserve its transparency of actions and thus I consider outwardly harmful behavior less concerning.
It’s not for some reason, it’s for status.

A minivan is the economical choice for every family. More interior room, more comfortable, more versatile.

But still people will opt for a larger footprint and taller 3 row SUV with less legroom and cargo space because the fact that it is less economical and they can afford to waste money is a show of status. And they get to sit higher up. And pretend they take it rock climbing in the mountains on the weekends.
As a non-native English speaker, I love "y'all" because it lets me directly translate our word for, well, "y'all" to English. I seriously struggle to formulate sentences such that it's clear from context that I mean "plural you" in this here case. So what happens is, I start saying a sentence that has "you" in it, and at the "y" I notice that it'll be unclear, I quickly bend it to "y'all", and the day is saved! Hooray for Texas!
Can we start banning hardware companies __after__ we have banned the selling of user data to the highest bidder (which might as well be Chinese companies)?

No. Do both. Why would we wait to fix one problem when we have two problems?

This just seems like distracting from the router issue, and taking the discussion off-topic.
I watched this video today, and it was fun, but it made me feel a bit disconnected from the world of modern programming. I wrote about it [1], and wanted to post that link to HN, but then thought maybe it's better to post the original video instead.

[1]. How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect. https://rakhim.exotext.com/web-developers-a-growing-disconne...
It would be more accurate to say that 'a rebound is difficult'. Not extinct or impossible.

With smaller number, are smaller breading opportunities.

So after the population collapse, yes, humans will still exist. But might take hundreds of years again to reach our current population levels, and in the interim, societies would have gone through huge upheavals.
Well…if you present stories, for sure we gonna make chapters out of it. Or beats, even.

I wonder what the results would have been if people were showed documentary footage with no narration ? But my suspicion is that just like we sometimes see human faces in places they clearly don’t belong, structuring information in a story format (beginning, middle, end with rises and falls in between) is an intrinsic part of how we process.

Maybe it’s not so much that we like stories, but that we see stories everywhere and the more information takes this digest form, the more we feel at ease ?
Or even more importantly, why aren't lawyers and consumer protection organizations promoting and spreading this knowledge?

The lawyer field is captured and they know they'd get taken to court by other lawyers if they "recommended" such a thing, because their industry has made them liable for things they "recommend".
Don’t forget “we don’t build weapons…well the company does but my team doesn’t.”
There's no bad intent. I just don't think you're reading the tea leaves right.
8-10x?! That's quite weird if you ask me.

I just used Claude recently. Helped me with an obscure library and with the hell that is JWT + OAuth through the big vendors. Definitely saved me a few hours and I am grateful, but those cases are rare.
Yeah, the wording in the intro can be clarified to reflect the change in stance.
Where were the police and regulations when Boeing's products killed hundreds of people? Last time I checked, nobody among top management went to prison for that.

That's what "too big to fail" corporations can get you: failed products, anti-competitive environment, regulatory capture, no responsibility.

Getting fined for a few (hundred) million dollars is not responsibility, it's chump change for multi-trillion dollar corporations.
The undergrads at my university were mostly US-born. I believe that's the case most places, even elite universities. The more expensive universities are incentivized to take more international students for the money though -- and obviously there's enough wealthy people globally to fill whatever slots they offer. There are plenty of good engineers from the US who simply weren't lucky enough to be born to rich parents in CA. It turns out moving 2000 miles from home for a worse quality of life isn't super attractive to people born in the US when your whole family still lives in the same region. Of course, if you're born in India or China, the value proposition is a bit different.

Perhaps geographic restrictions on H-1Bs would spread the wealth: force these companies to prove they can't find engineers in the US by looking outside the wealthiest enclaves in the country, where even FAANG engineers complain about cost of living. We'd ease the Bay Area housing crisis, lift up other regions of the country, and provide more domestic-born citizens a path to good jobs while maintaining their own communities.
It's other way around - most of Cyberpunk aesthetic heavily inspired by Kowloon
I used to work at Amazon.

What you want to support are:

- local retailers offer better jobs, and often better benefits. The work you do stocking at Menards is much better than sorting boxes at Amazon

- support local repair vs repurchasing. This cuts down on the upstream demand and does wonders for local small-business economies. And again, provides better jobs than sorting boxes.

- Efficiency is great! But what is Amazon efficient at? They have maximized the speed and convenience of delivery. Once stated that way it's obvious there must be tradeoffs. One of those tradeoffs is the shit work. In one dist center, a guys entire job was to wheel odd shaped boxes from one side of a warehouse to another. Whenever you order a big or weirdly shaped box, that guy moved it. Even he hates that job. It's meaningless, non social, provides no transferrable skills.

- ultimately what your parents were talking about is how one chooses to shape their local economy and jobs market. I want to buy from companies that I would want my friends and family to work for.

But yeah, I buy from Amazon all the time too.
Apologies, Jingoistic nonsense that parrots talking points about actual problems that need solutions, in this case, reigning in user data collection in service of protectionism for precious American companies to continue their unethical behavior makes me puke.

It could be a GIRD or acid reflux condition. Civil discussions online shouldn't cause vomiting. You should probably see a doctor about that.