skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure you can actually break code with the new for-loop semantics (I mean, in real life situations).

The linked issue thread provides real life cases.

> It can probably fix some buggy code in the wild, but I have a hard time believing anyone would voluntarily write code relying on the old semantics of loop variables being reassigned instead of reinitialized.

For "for-range" loops, you might be correct. However, for 3-clause-for loops, your opinions lack substantial evidence to support them.

> Honestly I think this is a non-issue.

You can think anything. But the facts are there. There are at least 3 important facts of the semantic change on 3-clause-for loops:

1. The new semantics of 3-clause-for loops are more error prone for concurrency programming.

2. The new semantics of 3-clause-for loops may silently downgrade Go code performance.

3. The expected benefits of the change are actually so minuscule that they can be disregarded. On the other hand, the drawbacks of the change are huge.
I’m not in a field where I use any Adobe software, so asking as a bystander: what did you end up switching to?
go climb everest a few more times op.
Push-Based Productivity
> First of all, I'm not talking about international conflict, where the law of the jungle still effectively applies to this day.

Then why should we take this seriously? Some huge disparities in outcomes in this world are the consequence of "international conflict". What do you want to do about Native Americans in the USA, for example?

> We are all born into this world with no possessions, and we all negotiate with those already here for everything we come to own.

This is not meaningfully true. If you are born into a rich family, you almost certainly are going to live a life with more access than those who are not. If you are born into a country with socialized medicine you are going to have access to opportunities that someone who isn't does not. We are not born equal in any way that is meaningful.

> It is exactly the nature of this participation which I am litigating. I hold that it should be maximally voluntary and consensual.

It isn't and can't be. Any right of consent you are given in society is society choosing to give you that right. It doesn't exist above society. That's just the breaks.

> Funnily enough this is the exact sort of reasoning has been used to rationalize the most horrific atrocities ever perpetrated.

People find any reason to justify their actions. You'll find a lot of terrible things have justifications that overlap with non-terrible things. It doesn't really say much.
Totally agree, seen it too. Do you think it can be fixed over time with better training data and optimization? Or, is this a fundamental limitation that LLMs will never overcome?
Location: Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (for summer 2025)

Technologies: Python (Keras, Pandas, numpy, Flask, PyTorch, tensorflow, sk-learn), C/C++, JavaScript

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10UJp3RvlhFX-wOUElZRnDu-N...

Email: samiismailx@gmail.com

I am a cs/physics first-year attending the University of Helsinki, looking for a summer 2025 internship, or right now if remote. I have some 7 years of experience in software engineering with decent amount of ml projects. Contact me if your company is looking for interns with my skillset.
Perhaps supernova87a thinks the court system is doing a great and highly professional job of enforcing a bad set of laws handed to them by an failing legislature?

Much like a professional painter and decorator can demonstrate great care, precision and craftsmanship in applying the paint, even if the customer chose an ugly-ass colour.
Indeed, my point was that Go and Rust could lead optimizing the non-AI code, which often begs to be coupled with AI code (think guardrails).

Also, what's the benefit of Python then in this case? Ergonomically, Go isn't shabby, Rust is another story though.
That's impressive. Care to share any more?

I'm assuming this is USD?

It's curious, because some of your other posts[0] would suggest someone who is a little more price sensitive than someone who has made more than 10 million dollars from their own website. But I'm probably reading this incorrectly or something.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33415595
This company is older than America...

From my extremely limited searching (Wikipedia) it's almost as old as the state itself.
It's fun, at least. At a startup I cofounded, we'd run it a few times a year and it was cool to see the codebase grow from nothingness. And to see various files appear that were due to different key events in our company's history.
I think so! Since they are referring to the characters in their old logo, which is (to my eyes) Ottoman Turkish alphabet, which is perso-arabic script. Did I get it wrong?
HNN – Holographic Neural Networks
It is a mark against our system that someone can get this rich without seeing a problem with all of this. We are told that capitalism makes smart people rich, but it does not appear to filter out gullible people.
If true, he probably knows this already and now just needs to work out how to fix it.
> Why does YYYY exist?

In some countries (EU?) things get counted towards tax years based on it. It's probably useful for accounting software.
That's an interesting point; I think it might depend on the exact details of how stuff is getting put into that tempfile. It's possible that anything getting read in via "silent mode" (see `-s` in https://ss64.com/bash/read.html) might not get put into that file, but given that this was a bug rather than a feature, it would probably be better to check the source code (or try an example with an unpatched version) to be sure.
As you would expect. The best non H1B workers started quitting. The teams who had H1B and non H1B working from 9AM to 9PM delivered a Frankenstein system that broke everyday. My little team delivered something that wasn’t as shitty. Eventually the powers that be had enough. The Director and his boss were let go and the entire crew of H1Bs were given their walking papers. Some departments still have H1B but through a different staffing agency.
It is sadly. And unfortunately, it's still a commonplace measure even at the "best" companies.

They say "oh it's not the only measure" ofc. Anything to downplay it to ICs. But then you chat with your jaded manager and you hear echoes of the insanity that goes on in performance review calibration and you aren't so sure about those qualifiers anymore..
There are a couple apps that try to address that problem. My favorite is Muse. You just open it up, pan to a blank area and start writing. Tools are deliberately limited so there’s no point futzing with colors and thicknesses. There’s no document selection, just optional nested boards, so your spatial orientation is always engaged, like with paper.
How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC
FYI, your second and third links are the same.
@simonw ... your 2 Jan 2025 article says Siri story will make people think their devices are listening to them for ads, but expresses skepticism:

"I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone" -- https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/2/they-spy-on-you-but-not...

Meanwhile:

“Media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) says it can target adverts based on what potential customers said out loud near device microphones, and explicitly points to Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Bing as CMG partners, according to a CMG presentation obtained by 404 Media.”

https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-list...

Similarly:

“MindSift, a small New Hampshire-based company, is part of a new push that aims to target ads by listening to peoples’ everyday conversations through microphones in their smart devices, according to a review of recently deleted sections from MindSift’s website and comments made on a podcast unearthed by 404 Media.”

https://www.404media.co/mindsift-brags-about-using-smart-dev...

Might be time for a new hobby!

PS. As those are subscription supported, here's a reblog: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13805393/Fac...
That there were cities on the American continent 2500 years ago? Is this supposed to vindicate the Book of Mormon as somehow being truthful?
The much better philosopher Buckaroo Bonzai said it first.
The point of oversubscription is maintaining a network that keeps costs low while providing a good service without congestion. They monitor their network (not your last mile connection, everything else) and once links start reaching 60-80% of capacity at peak times you start adding more capacity. Bad ISPs (like most US ISPs) let this go way too far though.
If you're a developer, you might start by using a static site generator and GitHub Pages. Stick to Markdown and start collecting and writing stuff. Sooner or later you'll get comments and regular readers. Then you might start to add editing or simply give other people access to GitHub. The editing experience of Markdown files in GitHub is not too bad and you get started in no time.

From my experience it's more often not the tools but the content.

For comments you could use https://giscus.app which integrates very nicely with GitHub.

Doing so you have *no* setup costs.

I'm aware that this is not exactly *self hosted* -- but it has the advantage that you have no upfront cost. And most of the static site generators are just that, you could host the output on any 5$ web server.
> it's a lot faster compiling Arm software native on a monster Arm CPU than even the fastest AMD or Intel CPU with emulation.

Running, sure, but compilation speed should be the same, assuming you're using a cross-compiler, which of course you would be. No emulation involved.
Practically, no government, at least not long-lasting one. Far leftist see the state (and government) as innately oppressive. So some will say Russia from 1917 to 1921, I kinda disagree. Some communes were far-left though (communes are a better echelon for far-left ideas in general), the oldest were the platformists in Ukraine, they fought against Germany (Lenine sold Ukraine to them, Ukrainian anarchists disagreed), then the Russian white army, then lost to the Russian red army. Way more recently, some far-left adjacent communes debuted in Mexico, because Mexico constitution allows them to exist, but they're still within a state (they mostly self-organized to repel cartels extortion). Think Israeli kibbutz.

Imho this is 'normal'. Far-left ideals do not seem to work at large scale.
Show HN: Y Combinator user tags, lets you add a tag to usernames
Let's Encrypt to end OCSP support in 2025
something something moving goal posts
We've entered the voodoo witch doctor phase of LLM usage: "Enter thee this arcane incantation along with thy question into the idol and, lo, the ineffable machine spirits wilt be appeased and deign to grant thee the information thou hast asked for."
It is used to help train the LLMs on how to "talk" like normal people, even if the topic they're discussing isn't that useful or valuable.
Don’t forget all the financial YouTubers like Graham Stephan that were hawking FTX.
Yeah, I'm hesitant about this.

One the one hand, experts pile up pretty hard on this series and on M. Hancock. Maybe deservedly, I don't know.

But I'm still sour about COVID where experts piled up pretty hard on the lab leak theory. When early on, experts were telling us that science said that masks were ineffective. They were adamant.

Here, the very insistence of those experts, the aggressive tone of the wikipedia page give me an air of deja vu.
IPychat: An AI Extension for IPython
And I went on and posted a comment doing the same. Getting started fast weighs sometimes more.
The big question for me has become health insurance. Yes, I know ACA plans are a thing I just <side eyes incoming administration> don't trust it not to be messed with. Protections for preexisting conditions are the only reason retirement is even an eventual possibility for me.

I worry that I don't have enough of a life outside of work to make retirement fulfilling, and actually, I don't actually mind working if I'm completely honest. I just never liked the stress of needing a job.
Ask HN: Kubernetes bare metal learning material
Hello everyone. I will start soon in a cloud company, and I need to handle Kubernetes clusters on bare metal and also OpenStack. I’m looking for good books or materials about how to install and maintain Kubernetes in these environments. If anyone can recommend books, tutorials or guides on the setup process, upgrades, and best practices to keep the clusters stable, I would appreciate it very much. Thank you!
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In Memoriam: Noah Gibbs
>Will we find traces of their Judge-based government? Signs that they worshiped Christ and practiced Jewish rituals?

No.
Ask HN: How do you break into tech at 40?
A close friend (now 40) has spent the last 2 years doing a series of courses and bootcamps to learn coding from scratch.

He would like to go into ML engineering. He's proficient in Go and Python, and so far has experience with basic ML python packages (pandas, scikit, etc) plus Metaflow. His largest obvious gap is deep learning, which he's currently trying to fill.

Prior to the career change, he built websites for former employers and served as non-technical cofounder of a bootstrapped startup.

He lives in Austin.

Now, what should he do to finish up his studies? How does he get his first job? How should he approach his first few years as a dev?
I'm not the poster you're responding to but I'm one of the founding team of EthicalAds. We're a small team, focused exclusively on marketing to devs, and really trying to show high-quality ads without tracking people (ads are contextually targeted).

You can get a feel for what you'll earn here[1]. Basically you earn 70% of the gross of what we charge advertisers (see advertiser pricing[2]). Keep in mind these are ad views which aren't quite the same as pageviews. They're a subset.

Ads are a straight-forward path to monetization but not always the best. If you can make a project work as SaaS or really make sponsorships work for you (this requires effort), those will definitely earn A LOT more money per pageview than ads. Ads require a lot of traffic to make them work well. Usually you want high tens to hundreds of thousands of pageviews per month.

From a what we look at for publishers (sites that show ads) perspective, we're usually looking for high quality dev-focused sites or projects that don't want to just show Google ads. Per ad, publishers will earn much more with us than Google display ads but if you want to stick 4-5 Google ads on your site, video ads, or the like we can't compete with that and we don't want our ads on sites that do that. Devs hate them. My email is in my bio if you want to discuss further.

Regardless, good luck on the projects!

[1]: https://www.ethicalads.io/publishers/calculator/
[2]: https://www.ethicalads.io/advertisers/pricing/
Hmm, I worked with students in an “intro to programming” type course for a couple years. As far as I’m concerned, “I added complexity until it compiled and now it works but I don’t understand it” is pretty close to passing the Turing test, hahaha.
If you were rich enough then having the new business lose money isn't that big of a problem, so long as it's not driving you to ruin.

"Sure it costs me a few hundred every month to keep the lights on, but it makes me happy."

Honestly, I wish more rich people did stuff like this instead of obsessing over making more money on the stock market or speculating on homes or whatnot. Learn to say enough is enough and switch to adding back to the world instead of leeching off of it.
Moscow court orders Yandex to hide oil refinery on maps after drone attacks
in this case (given it was reportedly sold for $975m cash), that would mean your friends think you either have $877m or $97m (he reportedly net $60m, which means your most pessimistic friend thinks you have more money than you actually have?)
So weird. You cut the taxes of the most wealthy in this country, slash the corporate tax rate and our debt mounts. What is going on?
I would call 2486 and 2684 a square and, hence, a rectangle. I think the theorem holds for all 8 variants of that.
I could not disagree more, but I am obviously open to it being a personal preference. I've spent months updating JavaScript codebases that are between 3 and 5 years old, most of them written with vanilla JavaScript. A _few_ of them were written with TypeScript at least partially and those files were the least mentally taxing to upgrade.

Some of the codebases had tests, a good chunk of which could (and were) eliminated simply by using TSC as part of the build process. I think allowing the compiler and tooling like prettier to make choices for you leaves more space for you to think about the problem, not the myriad of problems _around_ it.
This is what you get if you tread a company (that rightfully wants to make money) as a public service.

They should post on their own publicly accessible website.
Lucid. But a few pictures would be nice and relevant.
Sadly the article lacks comparison in single core performance with Apple chips. Comparison with x86 chips would also be interesting.
Not sure what you mean. Google Photos is the default on every smartphone I've ever owned and this setting has been on by default as long as it has existed. You could just as easily say "Using Apple Photos was your own choice" and get shouted down.

The point is that outrage isn't automatic. Not everyone is going to be equally mad about a check box.
OTR's limitations are quite significant (lack of file sharing, group chats, offline messages, to name a few). I don't think that helps E2EE adoption.

Absolutely fair points. I suppose a part of me was hoping that if it were adopted then work would continue on it with a new set of eyes looking into the limitations.
That attack demonstrated on Linus channel, while it IS about SS7 I doubt it had SS7 interfaced in USA/Canada. Important details were left in that demo, while some hints were given. SS7 is definitely a thing in some countries though.
Linus channel demonstrated attack is not a direct one, but rather trickery, in way similar to domains 'apple.com' and 'аррle.com'.
The concern is that a teleco can create an alternative and provide it for cheaper than competition. For example, Spectrum creates a Netflix, changes $20 dollars for it, then blockades Netflix behind a $20 'teleco' fee. Now your choices are $20 Spectrum-flix or $15+$20 Netflix.
>The point i would like to emphasize is that the using data to train the model is not copyright infringement in and of itself.

Interesting point - though the law can be strange in some cases - so for example in the UK in court cases where people are effectively being charged for looking at illegal images, the actual crime can be 'making illegal images' - simply because a precedence has been set that because any OS/Browser has to 'copy' the data of any image in order someone to be able to view it - any defendent has been deemed to copied it.

Here's an example.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgm7dvv128ro

So to ingest something your training model ( view ) you have by definition have had to have copied it to your computer.
The DOGE guys + Executive branch will try to get the Supreme Court to rule that the phrase "take care" in the Constitution means that the President has the power to fire any government employee at any time.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S3-3-1/...
https://archive.ph/rPCay
Oh yeah, it's definitely junior dev behaviour. The problem is that it's junior dev behaviour!
Biden blocks U.S. Steel sale to Japanese buyer
https://archive.is/zRutT
Take a look at the drum machine 'scrooge', esp on youtube.
It's got me well back into music (as well as vcv rack).
I do love the books; I'll try and watch S2 at some point...
yes, USD

also out of curiosity, in your world why does me saying a third party charge other people money, over two years ago or at any point in time, suggest what you said it would suggest. it would be a matter if other people are price sensitive, for reference

if one were looking for something to invalidate or grasping for an ad hominem, doesnt it require interpreting the posting accurately as well at a bare minimum?
Indeed, venture capital is a cancer, pumping out companies that never can and never will be profitable with the sole interest of increasingly centralized wealth.
That formula is definitely hilarious
Stop acting shady.
That’s sort of interesting. If code -> tests -> code is enough to get a clean room implementation, really, I wonder if this sort of tool would test that.
It's weird to me how often people come away from interacting with the poor with a reaction that would seem overly stilted and unfair if it was put in a cartoon
Oh yeah, I had to buy one of these (I called it the HDCP defeater) because my receiver was otherwise unable to forward the negotiation between the Roku and the TV fast enough. I would turn on the TV and the screen would blink on and off for several minutes before the HDCP handshake managed to win the race. In theory those devices might be defeated with newer versions of the protocol, but that part that drives the matrix of pixels can never be encrypted until you have DRM built directly into your eyeballs.
In my experience the people who believe conspiracy theories like this tend to have a fatalistic attitude towards them. They're not making any specific claims about specific apps listening in on their conversations. Rather it's more a vague sense that "they" (whoever "they" are) are always listening and that there's nothing that can be done about it without giving up on modern technology entirely.
Alrighty, that's a smoking gun.
I'm in the middle of a full rewrite of a backend statistic viewer app. Coming along well. I'll probably have it ready to go, in a couple more days.

It's not crucial, but I just published a new tutorial[0], and, like all my tutorials, it taught me more than it would teach others.

I just like to actually implement stuff that I learn. It helps to "solidify" it, in my mind.

In the app we released, early last year, I worked on it for about four years, in all.

At about the two-year mark, it was almost "ship-ready," but then, I tested it against absurdly large datasets, and it fell down hard.

So I rewrote it from the ground up. Took a while, but we didn't have ship pressure. In the end, it worked beautifully. People really seem to like it.

But I would probably recommend against doing that, with most projects.

WFM, YMMV

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/series/swiftui-charts-gestures/
I accidentally tested the battery today, I forgot to plug it in :)

So, just shy of 2 hours the level was at 5%, I usually run at Frequency 2200, the range is 1200 -- 2601. The lower the frequency, the longer the battery life. You can set on NetBSD freq. using:

sudo /sbin/sysctl -w machdep.cpu.frequency.target=2200

I set it via an entry in root's cron on reboot.

For resolution via the laptop screen is 1366x768, that is the highest on the Laptop monitor. As you can see it is a bit odd for some reason. On my external monitor I can go to 1920x1080 at about 60Hz. I think there were various models of the T430 and some had higher resolutions.

Note: The battery is original and is the larger Thinkpad battery. You can find new batteries on the WEB. I always use the T430 plugged in.
> the law enforcement agency linked to a post from its official X account, a practice it adopted six years ago.

Yes you read that right. Amazing.
Running untrusted code is the weakest link. In an ideal world users would be writing the code themselves or running a verified, trusted, signed and hashed reproduceable build binary.
How to use KAPLAY without dealing with Node.js, Bundlers and NPM
PWCT2: Programming Without Coding Technology
I’m not sure what point you’re attempting to make here, but they chose the phrase “pool fencing” and were rapidly inundated with ads for pool fencing, which, in isolation, would suggest the listening is extremely accurate.