skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I do recognize that. I just wish that the US could have a healthy mixture of light and heavy industry, so that the cost building any mission critical systems will not go through the roof, and so that we will be able t build anything domestically if we want. Even though it's likely a pipe dream now, but at least the US can do so for the WW II and after WW II for quite some time.
> Europe has its own nuclear forces

That is not really true. Some european countries have nuclear forces. France and the UK.

There are also countries who host American nuclear weapons, but they can't arm them without the authorisation of the US Department of Defense. (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Turkey)

Europe as an entity does not have its own nuclear force. (It is hard to even know what that would mean.)
Did you try this course? https://www.hackingwithswift.com/ It has a lot of free content. I remember reading the parts "100 days of Swift/SwiftUI" in the past and it was good.
Coincidentally, a comment from a Ukrainian woman in Odesa, just yesterday:

"I remember in the 11th grade during an English lesson, we discussed how Freud’s student saved him and literally bought him out from the Nazis. At that time, my teacher (she was a child of the war) said one strange phrase: “War divides people into humans and non-humans.” Thirty years later, I can say how right you were." (https://x.com/tatyanaodesssa/status/1880920634978386335)
And they can actually trace the development of writing in Mesopotamia all the way back to impressions of tokens on clay balls used for keeping track of IOUs.
I am not a top software engineer( (otherwise I'd be working fang tbh) and I earn 85k up north. Hybrid role that's local as well.

I know people that earn a lot more than me.

It's just the recruiters are a joke and advertise silly salaries from local companies that are out touch. You have to know what companies are serious or not, and just apply direct or via recommendations.
Certainly not my experience. Phone up for an appointment and get it same day.

Seems to be a postcode lottery
Thanks! Sounds like it's time for me to try go.
RNA molecule rejuvenates ageing mice by restoring old cells
> that the point of switching to electricity is to be able to use renewables.

You mean using energy sources that have a much better / kwh performance (both in terms of reduction of ecological footprint and price)?
Sure, and I agree with you, but what you described is just a break, not an interruption.

These breaks were taken at a "natural" time, when you felt one was needed. By definition, an interruption is a "break" when you don't want one.
Sure, it’s a point. Nobody would be where they are if not for the shoulders of those that came before. I think there are far more interesting points in the discussion.
IDK.

My comment was just re "SCOTUS also affirmed that"
That's partly (but not entirely) survivor bias.

The Victorians built a lot of absolute garbage.

Much of it was destroyed during or immediately after WWII, or extensively - and expensively - renovated at the tail end of the 20th century. Some of it muddles on in not-really-fit-for-purpose condition: terraced houses with lath-and-plaster walls between units, street plans that can't accommodate modern requirements for recycling bins, parking and so on, homes that are difficult to insulate or retrofit with modern heating.

It's a bit like software that's been in use for 20 years. Most of the bugs have been worked out, and all the mid-tier stuff that was written at the same time has been abandoned and forgotten.

Meanwhile, a lot of those beautiful-from-the-outside Georgian and Regency townhouses that dominate the streets of much of inner London? In many cases they're really not that great to live in, unless you gut them and rebuild the entire inside.

I'm not saying all new-builds are great, mind. Some of what I've seen seems particularly mean - small and high-density, despite being in the middle of nowhere - all the cons of density without any of the pros. You'd think we'd have learned by now, but no.
This is just a small country getting strong-armed by the US. You can be as pro NATO, pro US, pro "transatlantic relations" as you can and they'll still screw you over. Seriously I can't wait for the EU to get their shit together so we can stop being such pushovers.
Show HN: DeriVault: a deterministic, plausible deniability password manager
Basically, some people can consistently respond faster. The 100ms figure just isn't accurate.

I don't have extensive resources/references at hand, but I've read about this a few times over the years.
Exactly that. There was not a single global civilization on Earth that had low per capita energy use. High energy use per capita starts with the price.
I have a London stock exchange trading account with Schwab. I think I opened it online. The only catch is that I can only deposit or withdraw funds via my US Schwab account.
So what is your proposed solution?

Ban technology that helps us "think" and go back to paper and ink?

Or would you rather we keep innovating but then pretend that technology doesn't exist (closed book, no calculators) to force us to be "smarter"?
Universal basic income vs. welfare: What UBI could mean for America's safety net
Working from home 'not proper work' – ex-Asda boss
Because we elected a criminal who has promised vengeance for those who investigated his many crimes. This puts some sort of limit on the damage he can do to these people. I'm sure he'll still make their lives hell, but at least they won't end up in jail as political prisoners.
Moon came into existence as coalesced cloud of matter that remained around Earth after collision with another planet (the rest of it is in our core, most probably causing those huge heterogenous blobs deep inside). At least thats the latest I've heard on that topic.

Maybe its technically possible but I can't imagine small and huge rocks combining together into almost perfect solid sphere without melting it beforehand. If Moon would be shaped like potato then I would more likely believed that.
> the dark mode people are wrong

What is that supposed to mean? Some people find it more pleasant to read on a dark background (e.g. because of photophobia), some prefer it for aesthetic reasons (e.g. for a site about space exploration), how is that ‘wrong’?
TC-39 is kind of lame at the moment. I can’t imagine they will stay this lame forever. There are some reasonable voices inside TC-39, so even thought currently the lame voices at the committee are more powerful, that could change at any moment.
bots, perpetual scams, enshittification, walled gardens, ai slop make me think things were better back in the day objectively content wise. no doubt the speed and general base tech has improved though
That isn't the argument being made and you know it.
Well they did do something like that; Windows Phone apps were written in the same .Net UWP SDK as desktop apps, so the idea was that you could target both platforms at once (and Xbox as well). I think MS overestimated how much people cared about native PC apps by that point (basically not at all). Additionally, snapchat was the hot new app at the time, and there was no first party Snapchat app (and if you used the 3rd party one, you risked being banned from snapchat).

The Lumia remains my favorite phone of all time
Your OS actually has access to very little exploitable info about your behavior that your browser doesn't.
Thank you! I came to the comments to find the most open version of this. Unfortunately, the JMP eSIM's order form is broken so I cannot purchase their device (it never asks for city/state and then the order form errors out with "City or state/province not specified")
systems thinking requires an overview of sources, sinks and stability.. the comments here saying "it all ends up equal" are not only naive but dangerous.. equilibrium for stable climate is badly tilted and increasing daily.. these fires add quickly to the wrong side of that ledger
When in reality neither are actually sinking.
But then they made it not be a boolean when they added the delay. They went the opposite direction and it caused problems. How is this a situation of "tripling down"? It seems to me like they couldn't make up their mind.
Zork 1 with annotated panels showing its internal state and source code
True, it's more common in rural areas. (I wasn't doing this in the middle of Dublin)
From what I've read they are rejecting the commutation because it would mess with their ongoing appeals.
> The goal was always to get TikTok divested of Chinese ownership, not to ban it.

Seems like the goal pivoted recently - the goal is to keep TikTok Chinese and have them supporting the corrupt regime taking over the US, similar to other foreign adversaries have in the past
Today morning, lives are back, link sharing (downloads) are working. Have not seen shops yet in 2 minutes of scrolling
Wow, thank you for taking the time to write this comprehensive answer! In the python context, everything you wrote makes sense to me, and I do have more to learn here. I had thought about imports lower down in a file, but I had forgotten about global state mutation.
Show HN: DeltaScript – scripting language skeleton to be extended into DSLs
DeltaScript is a lightweight scripting language skeleton that is designed to be easily extended for the specification and implementation of domain-specific languages with a shared syntax.

v0.1.0: https://github.com/jbunke/deltascript/releases/tag/v0.1.0

Includes the language specification and the official language implementation (an interpreter targeting Java)
I used to work at bet365. They don't even offer that to the permies (65K for Senior), if you stay there a bunch of years maybe 85k is doable.

365 are probably the best playing place outside of Manchester in the NW. So I find this rather hard to believe.
> Maybe its technically possible but I can't imagine small and huge rocks combining together into almost perfect solid sphere without melting it beforehand.

Anything over a couple hundred kilometers in diameter becomes round given enough time.

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/why-planets-round/
Wouldn't it be more correct to say that Muslims spread through conventional warefare and Islam spread through proselytization and incentivising conversion? I would imagine Muslim empires could expand without conversion (as they most definitely did in some areas) and Islam spread without a political presence.

Like, I always thought that the Umayyad elites sometimes didn't even want people to convert, lest their privilege become diluted.
>We can also make an educated guess that MARC refers to Marc Blank, who was one of the initial creators of Zork, but I couldn’t figure out who JW could be.

JW: That was probably Jerry Wolper. He was a coder and designer at Infocom in the later 1980s

https://www.mobygames.com/person/336/jerry-wolper/credits/
It's a national embarrassment that they were able to deny passage as long and as effectively as they did.
> Sarah: Built a fusion reactor at 16. Now? Debugging fintech payment systems.

It's striking to imagine a fully functional fusion reactor that could benefit humanity, yet its creator now focuses on fintech payment systems. This highlights the importance of a strong middle class, which seems to be declining globally. A thriving middle class, with disposable income and free time, creates the conditions for innovation. Without it, even brilliant minds like Einstein might spend their entire careers working on immediate economic needs rather than pursuing breakthrough discoveries.
I find it hard to imagine that today's iteration of Google is what Larry and Sergey had in mind when they initially founded the company, or what Paul Buchheit had in mind when he was working on the earliest forms of Gmail. I don't think that "Don't be evil" was tongue-in-cheek back then.

The company had a legitimate business model, was innovative, agile and profitable from early on. It rightly earned a lot of respect.

But something went wrong at some point. It's debatable when, why or how, but it happened.
The most bizarre thing is that the loudest critics of EUs market fragmentation are usually the most aggressive blockers of integration that would mitigate these issues.
I don’t think it matters.

Scenario one: We get an FDR style leader to fix this stuff after a massive economic collapse and public backlash. (As Biden posited in his farewell address.) This will either lead to court packing or (like last time) the lapdogs on the court will accept their new leashes.

Scenario two: The federal government suffers a partial or complete collapse, and the US ends up being city-states or like the former USSR. (I think this is more likely, and also what Putin wants, assuming he can’t keep Trump under control.)

It’s also possible we’ll continue to have fair elections and the courts will stop abusing their power. This seems the least likely to me.

Under all other scenarios, we’re completely screwed and the current courts will already go along with it.
I like telling it as 3 hard things: caches and naming things.
A bit less innovation-ish but with large concrete impacts
https://commission.europa.eu/news/eu-common-charger-rules-po...
Ok I will just say it. ROS sucks and is a nightmare to use. When it does work it doesn't work well. I am not sure why we continue to use this outdated programming method. I have several robot. All of them could use ROS but I choose not to torture myself with what a mess that would be. Now a days coding or programming does not have to be unenjoyable. If you want to not use the dreaded ROS method to kill your brain then use ChatGPT 1.o this will change the way you code forever and you will actually enjoy it and look forward to coding with it. It takes the nightmare away that ROS created. No one wants to use ROS let's be honest. So finally there is a better way. ChatGPT 1.o makes ROS to look like an outdated mess.
> HDMI forum refuse to let open source GPU drivers implement

What? How can an entity "refuse" to let others implement something?

It seems to me that the HDMI forum does not have any say in what someone decides to implement.
Costco’s “super premium vanilla” is quite nice—-better than any other mass market vanilla.
There are quite a lot of not beautiful things once you actually live in Japan. So that might just be rose-tinted glasses.
The lack of control I would have over the data trail is why I've never used any of these services. Since I've never used them, I'm not really sure what's under the hood in terms of user experience and underlying technology.

So here's an uninformed question:

Is there a hope in hell we could ever have "air-gapped" genetic testing at home?
Explaining the TikTok Dispute
Why can Google scrape everything and train its AI on our texts, while we are forbidden?
Glove and mitten protection in extreme cold weather: an Antarctic study (2016)
FWIW, you can also try all of the distills out in BF16 on https://glhf.chat (either in the UI or via the API), including the 70b. Personally I've been most impressed with the Qwen 32b distill.

(Disclosure: I'm the cofounder)
We need more of this kind of commentary, not less. It was this kind of commentary that killed Disco at the end of the 70s and brought in Punk and New Wave. That was an unequivocally good thing. My point is, we need reminders of what good character looks like so we can be better people. There is so little character among the tech bros, they are all such broken, empty people is some deep way. Perhaps that's what is necessary for such success, but we don't need to ape it or declare them somehow examples for our children. As perhaps future tech leaders, we should want to be better.
Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history
One single "quick question" doesn't do a lot of harm...

If you have an average of 4/day or more, it will probably consume all of your working time. But one of them isn't a problem at all.

And there's the problem, because it's both not a problem in small numbers, and a DoS attack still in small numbers.
Where you get into trouble with PFS is if you want to use the same identity on multiple devices, not when you want to use a relay/mix network. If all your devices can't communicate in a timely way and mutually agree on state, their ratchets get out of sync... and you can't guarantee that timely communication. For a lot of users, it's probably reasonable to drop forward secrecy to get multi-device support, and I believe that's Session's main reason for doing it.

What I don't understand is why we have people who are so worried about forward secrecy, which protects you in relatively unusual circumstances, but not worried about traffic analysis, which is always a huge issue.

From my point of view, this guy (or anybody) loses a ton of credibility when he says you shouldn't use a decentralized protocol, even with poorly quantified (but nonzero) resistance against traffic analysis, because it lacks PFS... and then turns around and suggests instead using Signal, which has exactly zero resistance against traffic analysis. For most real use cases, the traffic analysis is a vastly more important concern. I tend to think this is an example of how cryptographers get themselves into trouble by worrying about relative arcana, while declaring major practical attacks "out of scope".

I could probably turn that into an NSA conspiracy theory at least as credible as the one in the blog post, although in fact I don't think there are any NSA conspiracies in play on any side here.

Sounds like the Session people should clean up their code and enlarge their random seeds, though.
Universe expanding faster than physics can explain
Anecdotal, but I see a ton of people who were anti-trump and protesting just a couple years ago celebrating and thanking Trump for saving tiktok and making them happy again. It's wild.

If someone banned youtube or HN, I'd be upset, but I wouldn't be depressed and suicidal over it like some of these people were publicly
Don’t get salty just because people aren't interested in your point. I for one, think it’s an entirely _fair_ comparison because culture is transitive. People are not ignoring the context of your point, they’re disagreeing with the utility of it.

If I best you in a 100m sprint people don’t look at our training budgets and say oh well it wasn’t a fair competition you’ve been sponsored by Nike and training for years with specialized equipment and I just took notes and trained on my own and beat you. It’s quite silly in any normal context.
...and the US government doesn't provide grants for research and various other incentives for for-profit companies?

The CCP has plenty of problems it needs to solve for itself that don't involve releasing open source AI models.
This is classic dilemma in nuclear strategy: would France risk Paris to defend Warsow, or Berlin (by using nuclear weapons)?

A similar dilemma: will the US risk New York to save Paris?

France did not believe that the US would risk New York to save Paris.

So France developed it's own nuclear deterrent.

I leave the rest as an exercise to the reader.
I was using X for fanart of games I was playing.

I ended up getting constant alt-right posts no matter how much I marked them as not interesting.
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There was definitely a period in time where you could use Twitter as public infrastructure, you could push data from anywhere with HTTP to it, and read it the same way.

Even at that time Twitter was not public infrastructure, but corporate-owned infrastructure that was temporarily a little bit more open than others regarding unofficial clients.

I thus know not one single person who at that time considered Twitter to be public infrastructure, since it simply never was.
What do you mean "What the hell happened?"

The question is about how we handle the coming elections four years from now, not the previous one. If he's going to be a dictator it will only be possible when he's in power.
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I do something similar in Java by taking a java.time.Duration in any method dealing with time. We don't have the snazzy literal syntax, but that means users have to write:

someMethodDealingWithTime(Duration.ofMillis(10));
someMethodDealingWithTime(Duration.ofSeconds(1));
someMethodDealingWithTime(50); // does not compile

Since these often come from config, i also have a method parseDuration which accepts a variety of simple but unambiguous string formats for these, like "10ms", "1s", "2h30m", "1m100us", "0", "inf", etc. So in config we can write:

galactus.requestTimeout=30s

No need to bake the unit into the name, but also less possibility of error.
Better Without AI
Yes it's great to have chinese companies on american soil that prevent people from saying "taiwan number one" in games like marvel rivals.

So much freedom!!!!

Do you hear yourself? Are you insane?
Absolutely. When I'm booting up an unfamiliar system and trying to catch the BIOS prompt for something non-normal, even 5 seconds is often too short. For me to notice that the prompt has been given, read "PRESS DEL KEY TO ENTER SETUP, F11 FOR BOOT OPTIONS, F12 FOR PXE BOOT" (or whatever), understand it, look for the F11 key on the possibly unfamilar keyboard on my crash cart, and press it, can often take me more than 5 seconds. Especially if it's not a single key required but a control sequence. Maybe I'm slow. I always change these prompts to 10 seconds if they are configurable. Or I'll make a label with the options and stick it on the case so I can be prepared in advance.
In typescript, some types are values. Typescript treats enums as types, but they're secretly values. Classes are types and values.
That’s totally not true.

https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-has-deepseek-improved-...
Sam Altman tells AI fans to lower their expectations on AI superintelligence
Yeesh, that shows a pretty comprehensive dearth of humour in the model. It did a decent examination of characteristics that might form the components of a joke, but completely failed to actually construct one.

I couldn't see a single idea or wordplay that actually made sense or elicited anything like a chuckle. The model _nearly_ got there with 'krill' and 'kill', but failed to actually make the pun that it had already identified.
Fortunately for you: I routinely search HN for posts about Python, and my current projects are a build backend (bbbb), an installer/environment manager (Paper), and writing about Python packaging on my blog.
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Exactly what he means by not common, meta employs only around 1000 software devs in london, same for goldman. If you only have 1000 devs you can bet they aren't hiring that many per year. There aren't that many $BIGCO jobs in London, but yes they do pay very very well.
Context for that quote:

> Children are one’s greatest happiness, but often & often a still greater misery. A man of science ought to have none, — perhaps not a wife; for then there would be nothing in this wide world worth caring for & a man might (whether he would is another question) work away like a Trojan.

— https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/02/12/darwin-family-work...

Looks like Darwin really loved his wife and ten children. Indeed Wikipedia says “Charles was a devoted father and uncommonly attentive to his children” citing https://web.archive.org/web/20130723181529/http://www.aboutd... which says:

> The home life Charles Darwin was unlike that of most Victorian country gentleman. The most striking difference was seen in how he interacted with his children. […] Charles always took a keen interest in whatever they were doing.

and has many lovely quotes from his children like:

> He cared for all our pursuits and interests, and lived our lives with us in a way that very few fathers do. […] He always put his whole mind into answering any of our questions.

and the author of the page (David Leff) ends with:

> The manner in which Darwin related to his family was truly special. In fact, based on conversations I have had with other Darwin enthusiasts and with some of his descendants, it is safe to say that for Darwin his family life was far more important to him than his research into the natural sciences.