skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have zero experience in the android world, but a quick search tells me that Xiaomi Devices, Google Pixel Phones, OnePlus Devices, Redmi Note 4, Samsung Devices and MediaTek Devices at least are rootable, with some rules with various degrees of freedom for the procedure (in particular warranty is voided pretty much all the time when device is rooted).
DEI is focused on the identify insofar as that identity has been the basis of discrimination preventing equality on the basis of abilities, skills, etc.

> they signals it's the reason they got hired to this position

That does not follow. When an organization communicates that Obama was the first US president born in Hawaii, that does not signal that he was elected because he was from Hawaii.

The local paper had a short article last year that for the first time the entire crew of three people on a truck were women. The article added that the scheduling was happenstance, and not deliberately done.

A couple of years ago, Teri Eidson and her daughter, Nicole McAllister made the news because they were the first mother-daughter team to co-pilot an international flight.

Neither of these should be interpreted to mean that those women were hired specifically to get that reported result.

Sergei Volkov was the first second-generation cosmonaut, that is, his father was the cosmonaut Aleksandr Volkov.

When that made the news, did it also signal that the son got the position not due to abilities, skills, etc., but because of his father?

And so on, and so on, and so on.

It also does not follow because you have to know if there are complicating factors.

For example, if other cities discriminate against LGBT department heads while LA does not, then the population of qualified potential department heads would be higher for LA than other cities.
"don't have much in common with warehouse workers" is so demonstrative of the American lack of class consciousness.

The people making 200k a year are still workers. They may have savings and insurance that make them feel more secure, but they still need to clock in every day to afford to be alive. Their activities in their day to day life are constrained by "will Amazon fire me for this". If they ever suffer some kind of injury that prevents them from doing their day job they would quickly discover that their position is just as precarious as the delivery driver who brings them their cheap plastic shit from China.
We should begin to acknowledge that there is a non-zero chance for complete societal collapse in the next few decades.
As a person, not a Veteran, I totally agree. This data should not be public domain. Definitely only accessible to family members (if at all).

Having obtained my father’s military records, I can definitely say that I’m glad these weren’t online, searchable. Via those records I learnt much concerning my father and I’m glad I obtained them.

To get those records, I had to prove I was his son, that my father was indeed deceased and that he hadn’t said/written anything to prevent me from having his records. That should be the minimum (IMHO) for obtaining such records. This wasn’t in the USA though.
January 6th, 2025 was a sad day for SeaMonkey and all of us
Right.

Wikipedia as usual has the details - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin#Contr...

Note: The archive.org collection has some parodies and pastiches which are decidedly not meant for children - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tintin#Parod...
> The article is a 2024 "review"

2004.
Anybody care to comment whether the quality of the existing code influences how good the AI's assistance is? In other words, would they suggest sloppy code where the existing code is sloppy and better (?) code when the existing code is good?
Yeah, the display is just white and black. I converted video to one bit
Banking, some government and crypto apps on Android think: no

They sometimes actively search for root evidence.
LLMs use pseudo-random numbers. You can set the seed and get exactly the same output with the same model and input.
Pgvector, MariaDB vector index comparison
Rule 11: If you haven't solved it and reach this rule, one of your assertions is incorrect. Start over.
The Linux kernel is a multi-million line codebase, and refactoring still happens when needed. Let's not extrapolate from your limited data points as if they are representative for all codebases.
This wasn't about safety, but about cognitive abilities. What about comparing at least the same thing?
If anything the example is exactly the contrary. Driving a car develops a set of cognitive spatial abilities you wouldn't have otherwise...
I wonder if another reason for tech’s move right is more boring and traditional:

They're old.

They’re approaching middle age, the insights that they uniquely held are no longer relevant and they want to preserve their wealth and power from a new generation of thinkers who will want to take it away.
This happened during the Uvalde school shooting.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/07/13/uvalde-sho...

It's interesting there was a trial, because in America police have no specific duty to protect the public.
Why would you want to stop knowing that your old bug fixes still worked in the context of your system?

Saying "oh its been good for awhile now" has nothing to do with breaking it in the future.
So in the larger Earth history there could have been a higher increase. We are talking about a super small sample on a huge scale.
What programming job are you getting in the next few years that understanding oo isn’t important?

Inheritance, polymorphism and encapsulation inform every major professional programming language and framework (except c). Even go which in many ways is active response to oo uses most of those concepts extensively. One major challenge of people programming in go is how to adapt the familiar patterns to it.

Now I’d probably not teach the whole GoF as an exercise in cataloging patterns but teaching a few of the most common while showing the concept of patterns (probably the least well understood concept in development) seems sensible.
Related:

Fucking Tired of AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42286049
2.0°C any% speedrun starting now.

Fun times.
Introduction to FFmpeg
"Some crypto primitives can be small and elegant, but to provide practical security they generally need extra layers on top of them," is what I understood. I'd compare it to simple textbook RSA vs. the whole ceremony of PKCS #1 padding. It fits into the broader theme that the simplest thing to implement is rarely the best thing to use.
Years ago, my boss thought he was being clever and set our server’s DNS to the root nameservers. We kept getting sporadic timeouts on requests. That took a while to track down… I think I got a pizza out of the deal.
This is a great problem to have, if (IME) rare. Step 1 Understand the System helps you figure out when tests can be eliminated as no longer relevant and/or which tests can be merged.
BIScience: Collecting browsing history under false pretenses
I'm not sure that Cantillon effect is majorly at play.

The very nature of Cantillon is unequally obtained new money, whereas UBI is universal. Any effect it has would be related to the poorest/neediest spenders now purchasing the sort of goods they do (and, realistically, no increase in spending by the richest). You might see increased consumption in neighborhoods/regions with high concentrations of poor, too.

The better fit for "UBI creates an economic problem" seems to be pricing stickiness. The above commenter focused on controlling general inflation through monetary/fiscal policy (keeping money supply stable, using tax mechanisms), but didn't actually address the concern about producers simply raising prices to absorb the UBI.
Those pesky Rust devs…
There is a very good documentary called "Tintin and I" (2003) [1] about Hergé's life and art. It goes quite deep into Hergé's personal life, influences, and psychology, including a dark period of his life that apparently ended up inspiring the story Tintin in Tibet (one of his best). It features some hand-animated Tintin panels that are very well done.

Looks like the whole thing is on YouTube [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_and_I

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUTwf7w7ML4
Exactly! Getting the prize had nothing to do with them being Jewish, or that such bias was in the process. They were simply excellent researchers in the right place at the right time.

And similarly we have no evidence that lesbian firefighters who gain leadership positions got there through either genetic predisposition or bias. Maybe they just had the right attitude and the right mentors, like those researchers.
Check the plug should be first
Fluid Simulation Pendant [video]
I loved the Lone Wolf and associated books as a kid. One of my favorite things about them was seeing glimpses of possible story paths as I flipped around the book. When I would get to the end knowing I had missed some enticing possibility in the story line, I would immediately flip back to the beginning and start over.
What does the operating system have to do with an attacker? What's wrong with this comments section? Has anyone seen Israeli offline attacks of iPhones before?
I haven't used IRC in years, but when I started out with IRC/MSN Chat in 2001ish it was using mIRC. That piece of software can basically answer for my becoming a developer and the career I've had over the last 20 odd years.
I just finished interviewing with a company called Infisical. The take-homes were crazy (the kind of thing that normally takes a few days or a week). I was paid but it took me 12 hours.
This is very misleading thinking. We've came a very long way from PS security-wise and this is a good thing and should be appreciated.

The fallacy I see in many comments - either directly or between the lines - is to think that since we can run Doom in PDF, hell's gates must have opened and we can do literally anything, especially anything malicious.

This is not the case.

PDF is basically comprised of immutable parts and interactive elements that user agents are supposed to render visibly distinctly. Also user agents are not supposed to run any code without explicit user interaction.

Contemporary user agents do a good job in both respects.

PDFtris and the Doom example are possible because they live in a very small niche of features that enable relatively unobtrusive still interactive form processing. Forms allow code, but do not stick out as much as other interactive elements do and they are relatively flexible. Having found that feature niche is the real genius of PDFtris and related exploits.

Still, they need user interaction. There is no way to do anything behind your back in PDF.

Another fallacy I see in this and the related threads,is that Adobe Acrobat vulnerabilities are PDF vulnerabilities. Yes, Adobe did a terrible job with Acrobat, but in my opinion not at all with the format and specification of PDF - especially not when it comes to security.
People are rushing to install solar panels before Trump becomes president
I disagreed with the premise of the article. But to accuse someone of "virtue signaling" is a political attack that requires evidence. Are you going to bring any? Or is this just pure unadulterated political bitterness on your part?

Your side won. Is that not enough for you? What more do you want?
Show HN: Jobs posted on CareerCupid (OkCupid for jobs) are promoted on Mastodon
Hiring managers now can create (basic) pages for their companies and post job opportunities on the website, which will be published to the Fediverse (via @thecupid@cupid.careers)

This is the first and main paid feature of the service. I'm still figuring out the pricing, but at the moment I'm putting it at $89/month, with a 7-day free trial, and you can cancel any time.

To help bootstrap it, there is a 2025 deal: $20.25/month for the first 45 companies. Sign up to the website, create the page for your company and use code HAPPY2025 on checkout.

If you have any questions before joining or would just like to talk, you can reach me on email - raphael (at) mushroomlabs (dot) com - or the contact info on my profile. Feedback is always appreciated.
I encountered this recently as part of maintaining whisper-cpp on Nix. Vector instructions make an enormous difference to this workload.

The ultimate best case was that the application itself would choose the appropriate code paths at runtime, minimising the possible divergence. We considered force enabling well supported instructions like AVX which are decades old but even those aren't guaranteed across a build fleet, especially with VM builders.

In short, they're a real pain and the application probably has the best information available to make the least wrong decision at run time. I don't think it should be a packaging concern.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/357736
Lots of people got into IT-related stuff vaguely because they liked the idea of AI. For a very long time it was only a dream, now it's becoming reality, and I'm pretty sure it's a big part of the excitement.

Of course there is a lot of lame content and grifting around this, but I'm pretty sure this is not another Web3.0 nft crypto hype wave, this is here to stay and expand.
Facebook also exposes less of a business page now unless you are logged in. This is a problem because for some reason many businesses only update their Facebook page and not their website. Social media has become increasingly hostile and closed off.

As an aside, Mark Zuckerberg’s recent comments criticizing Apple for not innovating and trying to lock users in is laughable in the face of Meta’s complete lack of innovation and user hostile practices.
Can always count on Hackernews to start our day off with an existential threat to all humanity that we can no longer do anything about.
iPhone is just an evolution of PalmOS, and I think PalmOS was a great operating system all around, including UX.

Unfortunately, development experience (on PalmOS) didn't mirror the usage experience, though.
I think for some types of bugs a CI test would be valuable if the developer believes regressions may occur, for other bugs they would be useless.
The 1.5C (and other similar) thresholds are based on pre-industrial averages. An average of between 1850 and 1900 is generally considered to be the modern pre-industrial baseline. This is then the average of 2024 as compared to that pre-industrial baseline.

The significance of this is the rate at which the planet is warming, which is unprecedented as according to historical data. The rate is what concerns environmental scientists as it means that ecosystems etc. do not have the same time to adapt as compared to pre-historical periods of warming.
There was never harm in positive publicity - even though I think the ”new space” operators targets commercial payloads foremost. Blue origin would not become Boeing but a logistical service provider, something like Maersk, chugging in the background.
I agree, but I find that useful. There are a lot of info, developments, and opinions that I can go through and inform and update my view on the topic. It was on HN that I was able to very quickly realize web3 was a scam.

It was also good to teach that if enough people believe cryptocurrency is a way to invest money, it becomes as legitimate a way to invest money than any other. Also informed me of all the nuances and how naive ideology, even if misplaced and bad at forming the future, and money from illegal activities can become a legitimate investment option and become part of the mainstream where all of its past can be mostly ignored by current cryptocurrency owners. Anyway, right or wrong, that is my current view on it and it was informed by what I chose to read about it on HN.

Even the current flood of AI content I find useful to gradually understand how to use it or not, bring attention around ethical dilemmas, what is the useful for and what is not useful for.

And since I can chose what I read very easily on HN, it doesn’t bother me at all the hype-driven subject of HN submissions.
Missed the part about XP. Question still applies to the 95 disk.
I’m so bad at #1.

I know it is the best route, I do know the system (maybe I wrote it) and yet time and again I don’t take the time to read what I should… and I make assumptions in hopes of speeding up the process/ fix, and I cost myself time…
For me the bad year was 1975. My nose is still a little messed up from that. Thankfully the 1975 hype-train has faded.
Part four: Installing an SSD in our Playstation 3 Slim
You're correct, but I felt the need to mention it as the OP's one is just a bare circuit board unless you pay extra for a similar acrylic frame.
The nice thing is we had the chance. However the people who had the power decided that monies is more important than a sphere of dirt.

It's just too bad that we don't have a replacement for the latter one. Tough luck, maybe next time.
Look, I'm in my late thirties and only now got the whole magnets, coils and electronics fun. Others did that shit when they were toddlers.

Aside from the fact that a ton of people here make money with AI or are or will be heavily invested in AI, there's just the curiosity factor, that I had and then lost to the reasons you described and many more.

My brain clicked in the past three days, and it's annoying that people didn't explain it properly but waited until I reasoned myself into it. It makes me angry and I'm gonna build a tiny potato canon this summer and hunt them down :P (I'm not, but I never build one, so ...)

Humans take a lot of wrong turns in their lives and it's important not to take that the wrong way. Envy is brutal and makes people do buttloads of dumb stuff and among those things are all those AI enhancers and data krakens build on top of GPT and of course all those people who create content and make those this-is-not-marketing videos ... but they all serve some customers, and of course, some Ponzis.

It rarely is what it is in this digital world, just as it always has been on any consumer markets. Honesty? Every single person and supplier counts.

Is it all pathetic? Is pathetic bad from all POVs?

A lot of people do it to pussy-grab money out of gullible people and if you really want to to get the benefits of AI, use it to hack these people and take em out of their fraudulent businesses so they have a reason to get and build better or pivot the fuck away.
You definitely have a point. We need to distinguish between in-house developed IT-systems, and software sold as a product. They are quite different. For the former, whether a file is a source file or a configuration file often does not really matter. Like you say, they are managed in version control, some build magic happens and they are deployed. Differences between environments, automated tests etc matter, but with that in mind, there is absolutely room for simplification in many cases.

For the latter, it is more clear. The developer develops the code, the user changes the configuration
Mentioning Oxbridge was a bit of hyperbole, forgive me. But all the signs point towards black people having a lower socioeconomic status and their education and careers suffering as a result.

The proportion of black students at Russell Group unis is around 4%, roughly half of the proportion of black people in the 18-24 age range. Black students have higher dropout rates and are less likely to achieve first or second class honours. Black STEM leavers are more likely to be unemployed [0].

Black people in the UK are more likely than any other ethnicity (including white) to be living in a deprived neighbourhood [1]. Nearly half of households with a black head of household are in poverty, compared to 19% for whites [2]. Similar trends are reflected in London [3].

[0] https://royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/publications/2021/tr...

[1] https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/uk-popula...

[2] https://irr.org.uk/research/statistics/poverty/

[3] https://trustforlondon.org.uk/data/poverty-and-ethnicity/
> Back in the old days you could spin up an alternate IRC channel or web forum and have a decent chance of succeeding

Yes I agree. It is like creating a new whatsapp group or a new instagram profile nowadays, which also has higher chances of succeeding, inside the walled garden of someone else.
AI Opportunities Action Plan [pdf]
No, we never did and never will. We encourage, praise and help but never put a value (money or other) on good grades.
Do voting registration boards check for this too?
Here is a supporting example found from a DDG search for "DEI nursing":

"The Rise of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Practitioners in Academic Nursing" at https://ojin.nursingworld.org/table-of-contents/volume-27-20...

> Efforts to strengthen diversity in nursing have not targeted race alone. That is because the nursing profession also lacks gender diversity, with the vast majority of nurses (over 87%) being female (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, n.d.). In addition, the racial demographics of faculty reflect a body of academicians who are 82% White, 9% Black/African American, 3.4% Hispanic/Latino, 2.9% Asian, and 93% female (NLN, 2021). Ideally, the nursing workforce should closely align with the racial, ethnic, and gender makeup of the U.S. population.
Humanity will survive, don't fret about it. We don't need to buil an ark.

The issue is, although humanity will survive, billions will die. That's not good enough for me.
> I don't think putting thumbs up on social media posts count as "growing into friendship".

Unless it was for an invitation to a board game evening and dinner at a friend's house. That would help to grow the friendship.
Have we passed the point of no return? I remember reading articles talking about if we ever reach 1.5 degress, there will be irreversible damages.
Also:

TSA officer: "please log in to your social media account"

You: "I have no social media"

TSA officer: "step out of the line please"
It one is going to play with obsolete languages, then wouldn't Algol 68 be a better pick? At least it has types beyond "cell".

Or is the idea that BCPL is quite close to the bare metal?

Algol 68 Genie: https://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/en.algol-68-genie.html

See this, code starts on pg 11: https://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/learning-algol-68-genie.pdf
(after 18 pages of preface)

See this for how BCPL begat B which begat C: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
I don't understand where's the defamation.

Here's Feynman's quote:

> So they’ve arranged to make things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas—he’s the controller—and they wait for the airplanes to land.

(note no mention of fake airplanes)

And here are historical instances from the actual article:

> They hacked airstrips in the rain forest, but no planes came.

...

> They created mock radio antennas of bamboo and rope to receive news of the millennium.

...

> The leader remains in communication with John Frum through a tall pole said to be a radio mast, and an unseen radio. (The "radio" consisted of an old woman with electrical wire wrapper around her waist, who would speak gibberish in a trance.)

That looks to me like cargo cult in the pop culture sense.

At some point the fake airplane illustrations were inaccurately tacked on, but if anything they give the cults too much credit because they depict high-quality replicas.
I managed to get my hands on a Turbo Graphics 16 console. Zero complaints. Bonks Adventure was so fun. It never took off.
It came out in the Apple vs Epic trial that 90% of all App Store revenue comes from in app purchase for games - mostly pay to win games.

If they all went out of business, nothing of value would be loss.

Then you have apps that are free clients for services.

There is very little legitimate money being made by mobile from people actually buying apps