skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Was it when we found out that pre-elon, that Twitter was working with governments worldwide to censor citizens?

And post-Elon. One of his first acts, in fact, was banning an account he'd previously promised not to, on free speech grounds. (And retroactively changing the rules to justify it.) For a practical demonstration, try tweeting the word "cisgender". You'll be censored.

Willingness to stand up to government pressure appears... variable, to say the least. https://theintercept.com/2023/03/28/twitter-modi-india-punja...

> Or when Mark Zuckerberg admit that the previous administration pushed to censor anything that went against the current narrative?

One might consider a slight bit of skepticism when a billionaire is suddenly currying favor with a brand new President with a reputation for revenge.

It's also a bit rich to claim Biden was a meanie when Trump threatened life in prison. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/28/trump-zuckerberg-el...
It's not just PRs and issues, my build systems are breaking because I can't download tarballs for dependencies from github.
They are nice words, ironically though their product is an exact clone of a US product (apart from the data stealing discussion). You could argue the cheaper aspect is innovating, but that's what China has been doing for many products.
Love the aesthetic. I heavily prefer "warm" photos over pixel perfection.

I don't need to see every last crevice and pimple on someone's face to evoke the emotion of being there. As long as they aren't too blurry, it's good enough for me.
meh.

As usual that will be fixed within the 10 to 600 mins.
There are these things called "lawyers" and "courts". They're mostly found outside of your current workplace.

IANAL, but refusing to leave sounds 100% like emotion-driven performative activism. But less-than-0% useful to your unlawful dismissal case.
This thread honestly reminds me of that skit(?) or scene from a movie(?) where a news anchor chastised a climate scientist, because the scientist 'wore clothes that were mass produced in a factory that contributes to climate change'.

I thought that scene was satire, but from this conversation thread, apparently not.

'If they were so passionate about climate change they would wear second hand clothes'

Proceeds to still see how donated clothes are still a problem because of how they're processed - so see, you are still evil and hypocritical!
>80%+ of teens own iPhones

In the US*
And completely ignoring my second link. No one is forced to be on social media.
many parts are already dense.. what is a "summary" of dense reasons? the word "weird" signals social acceptability not technical?
But we don’t know what the future of the policy is either.
> The immediate predecessor to English as a world language was French

From what I remember, there was a divide between Catholicism and Protestantism, where some of the smaller countries that followed Protestantism used German as a common language due to its origins. I think knowledge of German in Norway was something that was expected of students attending the universities until the mid 1900s (due to geopolitical changes)
Because the compiler doesn’t know what read/write are doing to the buffer. And since it’s declared as [0; 4096], the compiler wouldn’t be able to do anything other than 0’ing the entire 4kib region on every read instead of what’s dirtied if it attempted to automatically hoist. BorrowedBuf is an attempt to let you declare [MaybeUninit::uninit(); 4096] which the compiler could hoist although there it doesn’t matter either since the allocation of the uninit array is just an adjustment of the stack pointer.
Love using it with the self-hosted Stable Diffusion plugin. Not the most uptodate model but it's a good all-in-one open source solution.
Given that you can download and use the weights, the model architecture has to be includded as part of that. And I did read a paper from them recently describing their MoE architecture and how it differs from the original GShard.
To answer your question, it already has changed us in many ways. You are not the only one who does not realize this though. It is in fact the prevailing position.

We have diseases and genetic defects, among other impacts through modern behaviors and environments/toxins, which are also retained in the genetic mutational load. We even have a whole lot of energy and human activity working to counter evolutionary pressures and assure those accumulated mutational loads remain in the genetic code.
I thought it was Temporal the workflow engine in the browser
The operating system is responsible for tracking timezone changes. If you turn off automatic timezone switching or you're in an airplane without internet then the timezone change just won't be detected, which is perfectly fine. That isn't an argument against supporting a timezonechange event.

Every major operating system has had a way to keep track of timezone changes going back over 25 years. This was during the era where most people were on desktops, but now most people are on mobile devices so it's more relevant than ever. Chromium already has a time_zone_monitor service in place, which I linked in a different reply.

Currently, if you want to detect that the timezone has changed you have to poll `Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone` and `new Date().getTimezoneOffset()`. An event would just let you get notified without requiring polling.

Updating the displayed time on the client is precisely one of the reasons that this feature can be desirable.
US DOE: Energy, Economic, and Environmental Assessment of US LNG Exports [pdf]
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877995
I'm not bothered by criticism of China, it's the context and fixation. When an american company releases technology, i don't see the comments full of "Iraq war killed a million people" but i do see similar for China. It's just so exhausting
the latest in a long line of sky-high promises he has yet to meet about autonomy.

Over promise and under deliver --- it's what he does --- because investors continue to buy into it. If it didn't work, he wouldn't do it.
Playing Minecraft Parkour Together
“Majority of US teens have lost trust in BigTech”.
Hosting GitLab is not fun but anyways, M$ can still suck it.
Scaling Kafka for Real-Time Data Delivery to Consumers
Is this spoken from experience?
My experience in robotics tells me otherwise.
It's not so much the issue with repeatability (though that is significant), it is moreso the issue with handling novelty. I do not believe there exists a system, which if given sufficient time (to negate speed), and a perfect inverse/forward kinematics sovler, could walk into my house and make coffee.

There's too many challenges of the kind "Seek information about ... " and "adapt a multi-step process to overcome ... ".

One industrial process that is only now being automated is connected trailers to trucks. They have to connect a hose and a few lines. Two companies are struggling with this even now. (outrider and isee). Both well funded and staffed by intelligent folks, and have to coax a robotic arm into connecting a hose that we all know is there, but not where, to a port that we all know is there, but might be different than expected.
Direct incident link: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/nm83zrdky73y
It's hard to describe what immutable/persistent data structures do to your thinking.

A lot of responsibilities move to the edges and you're left being able to think and tests pieces of code in isolation. The repl becomes usable, and you code from inside your running program. It's a steep step to get started but it's going to transform how you think about some problems.
Big Tech is trying to surveil everyone in order to manipulate everyone. Why would anyone trust Big Tech?
I feel like it's not only GitHub... Slack is very slow, too.
Do you think kids who hang out at the mall really love the management of the mall?
First incident of the year for github :tada:
Their models have been great, but I wish they'd include the number of parameters in the model name, like every other model.
I don't think it's that hard to understand the appeal of JSX. If you want your interface to be modeled functionally (state as input, view as output), it makes way more sense for your view to be the result of a function in contrast with having app logic "stuffed" into a mutable view template.

I'm also not sure why you are offering Web Components as an alternative because it's exactly what you are criticizing, stuffing HTML into JS. It's basically just a more limited and less ergonomic version of React class components, that comes with it's own host of unique headaches.
Oh ye forgot about that. I guess the CEO has hailed him self out of the closet since then too to add some extra spicy flavour to the coorparate customer integrity policy.
I honestly can't believe how unreliable Github is. Outages are commonplace. It boggles my mind how nothing has been done to address the reliability regressions that have been creeping in ever since MS took over.
dunno who wasn't happy with this, did they think i was being sarcastic?

i really wasn't.

it's great idea, and I'm thinking of making a 2d version where you 'collect' the right answers, etc.
One of the reasons why I strongly dislike AI is because of what it did to Reddit.

Reddit helped me so much in navigating life. I learned so many life skills from that site, and I still use it to find great places to visit while traveling (since many travel sites are heavily SEO-optimized and locals tend to not post on TripAdvisor).

These days, between the API price increase killing third-party clients and Reddit doubling-down on AI (read: astroturfing, trolling and FUD at unprecedented scale) in the pursit of profit, I feel extremely conflicted about using the site despite using it through libreddit proxies.
Honestly, sounds like a lot of work and I'm not sure I get much benefit, or even less downtime.

I don't know about others but for me github is hardly a service that I'm sweating moment to moment uptime. My apps are still running and so on.
There are a few other benefit to copper fills as well - it makes routing power much easier, it separates analog and digital regions of a PCB, and it helps with heat dissipation.

I do agree that just because you have a fill, that doesn't mean it is necessarily doing much help. You need to be careful that it isn't too broken up.
My nieces and nephews had some school announcements _only_ disseminated on facebook. I had to call the school to change their process, and even then it took a while for them to adapt.

You are severely downplaying the network effect.
Ask HN: What's the best AI coding assistant tool?
I think with the reasoning models, LLMs can be more useful at coding than just smarter autocomplete and search. I have not tried any yet though.

What is the best process or tool to use AI to help me code in a specific somewhat large codebase?

Probably better to be model agnostic. The more integrated in my coding setup the better (I use VSCode, mostly Typescript, work in basic Saas stuff, nothing advanced, if it matters).
Sadly, many small businesses are basically forced to be in order to be found/relevant.
Seems like it's back for me (and slow.. and now down again)
> The pause on new terminal permits was based on a single study authored by a self-described biogeochemist and environmental scientist who claimed in a study that LNG is more harmful to the Earth’s atmosphere than coal. Now, the Department of Energy has concluded, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, that a boost in U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas would have a negligible effect on global emissions of greenhouse gases, where negligible means a maximum increase in emissions of 0.05%.

> Per the Department of Energy, “The ultimate global GHG consequences of U.S. LNG exports depend on market effects such as changes in energy demand and the sources used to meet that demand for electricity and other uses of natural gas.” The assumption before the study was that the more U.S. LNG flows into global markets, the higher the emissions would climb. However, the assumption appears to be wrong, according to the DoE study. This is because most of the gas that the U.S. is expected to export in the future would not be used to replace lower-carbon generation but simply new gas-fired generation responding to greater energy demand.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/The-DoEs-LNG-Export-...

Related:

Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41742342 - Oct 2024
The technology is not really very interesting any longer, it's just a channel between behaviors. It is not as difficult to discern between wearing-a-chicken-suit-carrying-a-bazooka crazy, and underhanded scheming, and people having a hard time.

I saw pictures of young people dressing up and posing to re-create Soviet-era propaganda posters literally on a Chinese app called Little Red Book.
At the heart of all progress is the mantra that "best idea wins".

Maybe DeepSeeks creative use of RL within LLMs will open up founder and VC interest in using RL to solve real problems - I expect to see a cambrian explosion of high growth applied RL startups in engineering,logistics,finance,medicine
Have you seen the "returns" for OpenAI, etc.? All cutting edge research is subsidized by government or megacorps in USA.
There's a not-entirely-small part of me that hopes Issues breaks entirely for long enough that people at GitHub rethink their implementation.

GH issues have been so useful for the better part of a decade, that I have an empty repo called my_life just so I can make issues about things like home maintenance. In the last few months, the UI has become so slow and flaky that I don't use it for nearly as much as I used to. And when I have to for a project, it slows me down noticeably.

I thought I was alone in this, but asking around I found that this is a common frustration among developers I communicate regularly with.
Honestly I'm expecting an executive order banning left wings at this rate.
Maybe we can spend this downtime researching self-hosting options
FYI, the Moment.js docs recommend not using Moment.js[0]

> We now generally consider Moment to be a legacy project in maintenance mode. It is not dead, but it is indeed done.

The author spells out a few pitfalls of Moment's design and why they're not addressing these as well as alternatives (Luxon, Day.js, date-fns, js-Joda)

I've switched to Day.js instead[1]

[0] https://momentjs.com/docs/#/-project-status/

[1] https://day.js.org/
The industry made a general decision after ZIRP ended to deprioritise availability after years of historic levels of engineering investment.

It's no surprise we're now feeling those effects but damn, GitHub and other services like Slack have been really bad lately.
I like that direction better but it requires the ability to declare data-flow based contracts whereas Rust’s tools are only lifetime and type contracts. Is there a language that has data-flow based contracts?
And using social media is life or death?

But many would say if you broke into their house, shoot first and call the cops afterwards. I don’t personally own a gun. But if I lived in a rural area or a high crime area I would. But I still wouldn’t carry.
Not to the same level as back then, the closest thing would be Apple refusing to implement good PWA integration and Web Push Notifications (forcing people to use Apple Push Notifications which only works in Safari). PWAs are still (mostly) supported in Safari, they just don't integrate at the OS level in iOS.

Apple is still actively developing Safari and JSC and implementing standards, Microsoft basically COMPLETELY FROZE browser improvements for 10+ years. Worse even, they pushed proprietary Microsoft-only solutions to try to lock-in people.
I enjoyed this bit - great use of the word "idolatry":

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104. Technology offers remarkable tools to oversee and develop the world's resources. However, in some cases, humanity is increasingly ceding control of these resources to machines. Within some circles of scientists and futurists, there is optimism about the potential of artificial general intelligence (AGI), a hypothetical form of AI that would match or surpass human intelligence and bring about unimaginable advancements. Some even speculate that AGI could achieve superhuman capabilities. At the same time, as society drifts away from a connection with the transcendent, some are tempted to turn to AI in search of meaning or fulfillment---longings that can only be truly satisfied in communion with God. [194]*

105. However, the presumption of substituting God for an artifact of human making is idolatry, a practice Scripture explicitly warns against (e.g., Ex. 20:4; 32:1-5; 34:17). Moreover, AI may prove even more seductive than traditional idols for, unlike idols that "have mouths but do not speak; eyes, but do not see; ears, but do not hear" (Ps. 115:5-6), AI can "speak," or at least gives the illusion of doing so (cf. Rev. 13:15). Yet, it is vital to remember that AI is but a pale reflection of humanity---it is crafted by human minds, trained on human-generated material, responsive to human input, and sustained through human labor. AI cannot possess many of the capabilities specific to human life, and it is also fallible. By turning to AI as a perceived "Other" greater than itself, with which to share existence and responsibilities, humanity risks creating a substitute for God. However, it is not AI that is ultimately deified and worshipped, but humanity itself---which, in this way, becomes enslaved to its own work. [195]*
I'm really looking forward to this phone. However, their limited take on Android is very limiting, as a phone often needs to be at least a 2FA device as well. Without some support for Play Store/F-Droid, this can't really be one's only mobile device, which is sad. I love the overall design.
It's a great interview throughout, but I was thrown off by this strange question (which I found to be much more interesting than the answer):

> An Yong: What do you envision as the endgame for large AI models?

I don't know if it has a different meaning/connotation in Chinese, but reading this metaphor with a Chess connotation scared me. If there is a game, who are the players? what is the victory condition? will there be a static stalemate, or a definitive win? and most importantly, will there be an opportunity for future games after it, or is this the final game we get to play?
The thing that always bugged me about OCSP stapling is how poorly nginx handled it. I don't remember the specifics at the moment, but when the server would start up cold it would not have some necessary information cached, which resulted in the first couple of HTTPS connections to each vhost missing some OCSP data.

When combined with a certificate configuration that used Must-Staple, this resulted in the first couple of requests showing a "required feature missing" error (at least in Firefox) until the nginx cache warmed up.

When Let's Encrypt started talking about dropping some support for it, it prompted me to reexamine my configurations and conclude that I actually did not care about it. Like, at all. I removed OSCP from the sites I run back in July 2024.
We are talking about teens.
Not Onedev or Forgejo, though it could get tricky depending on what features you require.
Okay, what blood was the NOAA regulations concerning earth-observing satellites written in? The national security justification is quite flimsy when you remember that China, Russia, etc are not bound to those regulations, only satellites from the US.
comment sections where no one read anything but the headline having the same shallow discussions over and over again are a real thing, but I would wager to say that feeding an AI the paper and then having a discussion with it is just a different kind of shallow. You might as well just read the paper, the AI won't have any insights. The solution isn't AI, the solution is not talking to people who are substantially less informed than you and not really interested in becoming more informed. Hacker news is sometimes good and sometimes not, it depends heavily on the topic
There is an alternative - group text messaging
Indeed. Imagine if prospect lawyers were prevented from retaking the bar exam.
I'd suggest `whenever`, which has taken inspiration from Temporal: https://github.com/ariebovenberg/whenever

For Pendulum, I'd suggest folks take a gander at its issue list to see if the bugs reported are 1) real and 2) something you can live with.

Well, when GitHub is back up anyway. Lol.
DeepSeek's results speak for themselves - they've built a competitive AI model with millions that matches capabilities of systems costing billions.

While debates about resource allocation and organisational structure are interesting, what matters is their demonstrated ability to innovate efficiently.

The proof is in their technical achievement.
"Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind"
This is incorrect. It's trivial and compiles just fine. The argument here is that maybe for reasons the programmer doesn't want to - such as not wanting the buffer to outlive its use inside the loop, and they don't want to have to double-nest:

{
let mut buf = [0; 4096];
loop {
...
}
}

That accomplishes exactly the same goal but there's an argument -- not well made in the blog post -- that the compiler should be able to do some form of this hoisting automatically. In C, it would be automatic, because C doesn't make a zero-initialized promise for stack-allocated variables. In Rust it's not because the array is specified as zero-initialized. Of course, C's behavior comes with certain drawbacks of its own. ;)

Rust's behavior isn't unreasonable. It's just a potential missed optimization, but automating it is challenging.
Didn't expect to be cheering for Chinese AI companies and Facebook over mega funded US tech corps, but here we are.

Were fortunate that not all SOTA AI models are controlled by US Tech corps. Right now they're in the "maximum marketshare at all costs" stage, but they'll be looking for their ROI after achieving a dominant share. I trust OpenAI the least, it's still early on in the AI age and they look like the company that they were formed to prevent.

Can only hope that DeepSeek, Facebook, Qwen and Mistral continue to release open models. Unfortunately if a companies motivation is ROI from cloud hosting then they're going to be incentivised to stop releasing their models as OSS to prevent competition which we've seen with Mistral's best models although in their latest model released today under Apache 2.0 the CEO is saying they’re renewing their commitment to Open Source [1], so we’ll have to see how long that holds. We're also starting to see that from Alibaba whose latest Qwen2.5-Max model is only available through their Alibaba Cloud. Luckily Facebook business model isn't reliant on cloud hosting so we should continue to expect Open models from them. So far efficiency seems to be DeepSeek's competitive advantage as despite being OSS they're still the cheapest hosting provider [2] despite other hosting providers not having to recoup any R&D and training costs.

[1] https://x.com/arthurmensch/status/1884972984202338450

[2] https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-r1
Speaking of self hosting, Codeberg [1] is great. It's open and it looks and behaves pretty much like GitHub (unlike GitLab).

[1] https://codeberg.org/
There is simply no reason to use the statistical safety of air travel to excuse incidents. We can appreciate the incredible feats of engineering and logistics that make air travel so safe without letting the bar dip down or throwing up our hands and saying "well it can't be perfect, don't throw shade" when a specific organization has a specific incident.

Edit: To be clear, I'm referring to what you said, not to the current incident.