skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue isn't just Musk's clearances, it's the clearances of the employees he's giving access to. With stuff like Salt Typhoon out there, and reports of Musk's college age hackers hooking arbitrary hard disks up to government computers, can you imagine the potential for potential Russian or Chinese infiltration given how careless Musk has shown his management to have been in the past?

Remember how Israel destroyed Iranian centrifuges with a worm on a USB stick that they just waited for someone to be dumb enough to plug into a government connected intranet?

C'mon man, the people defending Musk's brazen behavior here really need to think long and hard about what they're justifying because the like the guy's cars or rockets, or MAGA politics. This is CRAZY.
Just in case anyone still doesn't understand what that means to be statically allocated. It means that they are allocated in the Data Segment, which is a separate area of virtual memory from the stack and the heap.
I create workouts in Garmin Connect
A good usecase for LLMs seems to me to be the quick exploration of unknown codebases.

My issue with the code they generate is mostly that the style of abstractions chosen is inconsistent and seems to replicate whatever was the source at any given point. Programming is still about understanding what is going on, not about just writing code, so either way you need to put in the brainwork to understand it.

But as a "just show me an example"-helper it can save you a lot of time, especially if you load highly undocumented and convoluted codebases into it.

In some cases I had the LLM hallucinate functions that would have been wonderful if they existed, but hey.
Interesting thing is that security practices mention that you should always grant the minimal set of permissions.

So in case Apple allowed for “share all” it means that they did it by design and are changing it now only because of backlash.
Thanks for following up dang.
I've seen the same. I don't think it's the reboot. My understanding is that NAND undergoes wear-leveling even when it is read only. The card shuffles data around its storage even when it hasn't been written to. And the firmware is unreliable.
There's a couple of options in settings worth checking, as Netguard works for me when roaming just fine.

Under Settings > Defaults, make sure you don't have "block roaming" turned on.

Expand the rules for the apps giving you issues, and check "Block roaming" isn't ticked for them.
The fact that your "do not track" preference makes almost no difference in practice? Depressing but not surprising...
> Fully native allows you to choose to have no runtime, or a garbage collector,

Are you quite sure of that? I think you're getting stuff mixed up here. AFAICS, a native-compiled language might very well have mandatory garbage collection. Not that any such language immediately springs to mind, and I'm not even sure any do actually exist, but surely they could exist. The concepts "native compilation" and "garbage collection" are, AIUI, orthogonal.
Yes that's is a very good point, I would alcohol is certainly the most popular date rape drug!
Like I said, it is a matter of point of view, and yes such is the karma of ISO driven languages with multiple implementations, when one cares about cross platform code.

There are many folks that don't care though, for them it is "one platform, one compiler, language standard is whatever my compiler allows me to do, including extensions".

I am also quite bullish on the opinion that eventually, C++26 might be the last standard, not that WG21 will stop working on new ones, rather that is what many will care about when using C++ in a polyglot environment, as it is already the case in mobile OS platforms, the two major desktop platforms and distributed computing (CNCF project landscape).

Why C++26 and not earlier? Reflection.
Now that's a great pulpy bestseller. It doesn't commit Dan Brown levels of atrocities on the English language but doesn't at all use a literary style - it's designed for low-effort reading. The biggest redeeming feature for me was that clearly it doesn't take itself too seriously despite faking a documentary tone. My copy of it included snippets from reviews including extremely negative ones.
But the point is it does if you count making it worse changing the situation.
Sites API is not included in Plausible CE
I don’t know about the US but in the UK they did it ostensibly to catch shoplifters.

We have a major problem with “professional” thieves stealing because the big chains don’t want to pay cashiers anymore.

You see a screen with your face on it in places like Waitrose self service checkouts now. It’s their way of saying “we know who you are”.

Tracking cash purchases is just a side bonus for them.
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Leaving curve can decrease as a result of better design, same re. the chance of those unforeseen issues (and it can even decrease the chance of existing bugs popping up)
I live in Helsinki and there's a bar called "Super Bario" which always amuses me as a clever name. (Yes it does provide videogames and beers combined.)
Look, If you MUST implement Tariff's then do it in a way that triggers explosive manufacturing.

IMHO thats on the only way a tariff can be successful. If you want vertically integrated growth then by logic you should run Tariffs for all the parts and resources needed for triggering that growth. If you decide that ship building needs a shot in the arm thats going to be iron ore and steel (largely).

throwing tariffs around for imaginary slights isnt going to trigger anything useful in your country... (unless thats the idea of course. There is a theory that a collapse is the point)
So your data is only as private as the least privacy-conscious person in your social circle.
Well personally I favour event sourcing and so in my systems the SQL database (if there is one) is only written to by the event rollup component. But even if you're not that extreme you probably want to have some clear structure to where your database writes happen rather than randomly writing it from any arbitrary line of code. The important thing is to have a structure that everyone working on the code understands so that you all know where any write to the database must have come from, not the specifics of what that structure is.
> If you run the code you'll see 1 2 3 4 3 printed instead of 5.

I'm really confused, as this behaviour appears to be completely obvious to me.
This sounds absolutely insane.
I do, via luasnip. I type some things a lot and it's just second nature for me now. The snippets I use most don't do a lot, but save me from hitting enter and typing 'end', or from closing a HTML tag.

I have some configured to enter the names of colleagues I've paired with to commit messages in the format GitHub expects too.
37D boundary of quantum correlations with a time-domain optical processor
It’s integrated into Sublime Text. I use this all the time.
So as a lay person with an active interest in the topic, my reading of 2) is that in the treatment group, some people showed improved sleep physiology AND improved memory, and this was attributed to the treatment, but the group as a whole did not.

If some improve, and the group average score remains unchanged, does that mean some got worse, or is it a case of the group average not being statistically significant?

What this suggests to me is that there is _surely_ a link between sleep quality and memory performance, but that whether or not the proposed treatment makes any difference - that is, whether the treatment caused the sleep improvement - is doubtful. At best it seems to be "it works moderately well for some people, and not at all for others". Am I reading it correctly?
Combine this with IP, timestamp, and some behavioral patterns, and you’ve got an extremely robust tracking mechanism that operates outside of explicit consent mechanisms.
In my experience the real objective of the take home exercise is to gauge how compliant the candidate is, and how many obligations they have outside of work. Otherwise it always makes more sense to conduct simple, in-person assessments.
anything like this for x11?
...or its all a farce, for now.
Enhance AirPods audio quality on macOS
When you connect your AirPods to a MacBook, they automatically switch the system’s default input to their internal microphone. Not only is the mic quality poor, but this behaviour also reduces the overall audio quality of the AirPods.

SoundAnchor is a lightweight app that lives in your Mac’s toolbar that gives you full control over audio device priorities. You can reorder your input / output devices based on your preference and the topmost available device will be always forced as system default.
A good one! Appreciated the links that showed CEOs actually discussing such a schedule. I, personally, find this ridiculous. A simple math:
70 / 5 = 14 hours per day if 5 days
70 / 6 = 11,7 h/d
70 / 7 = 10 h/d
90 / 5 = 18 h/d
90 / 6 = 15 h/d
90 / 7 = 12,9 h/d

If we add 6-9 hours of sleep on top of that, and 1-2 hours of commute (I’d not be surprised if same CEOs forbid WFH), we are running out of hours per day. So, no time for anything rather than working. And for what?
Sounds very dystopian.
> [...] if the nation is destined for maritime irrelevance and the laying of its prosperity at the whims of autocrats a world away.

Considering what happened in the last two weeks alone this lack of self-awareness is simply brilliant.
A customer churn model or revenue forecast did have hard objective data (ground truth) to compare against - isn't it?
European AI Alliance Unveils LLM Alternative to Silicon Valley and DeepSeek
How Agile Are You Really? Three Helpful Criteria
Was it? It was a big(in certain circles) discussion point around Brexit, because Germany does allow dual citizenship but only for citizens of other EU countries. Since UK was about to stop being an EU country, there was a question whether dual British-German citizens would have to renounce one of their citizenships. I'm glad they changed it then.
"Exploring the boundary of quantum correlations with a time-domain optical processor" (2025) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abd8080 .. https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07794v3 :

> Abstract: Contextuality is a hallmark feature of the quantum theory that captures its incompatibility with any noncontextual hidden-variable model. The Greenberger--Horne--Zeilinger (GHZ)-type paradoxes are proofs of contextuality that reveal this incompatibility with deterministic logical arguments. However, the GHZ-type paradox whose events can be included in the fewest contexts and which brings the strongest nonclassicality remains elusive. Here, we derive a GHZ-type paradox with a context-cover number of three and show this number saturates the lower bound posed by quantum theory. We demonstrate the paradox with a time-domain fiber optical platform and recover the quantum prediction in a 37-dimensional setup based on high-speed modulation, convolution, and homodyne detection of time-multiplexed pulsed coherent light. By proposing and studying a strong form of contextuality in high-dimensional Hilbert space, our results pave the way for the exploration of exotic quantum correlations with time-multiplexed optical systems.
They’ve basically turned every phone into a tracking beacon
See, for example, a paper mill that churned out 400 papers with potentially fabricated images: https://www.science.org/content/article/single-paper-mill-ap...

Influential microbiologist Didier Raoult had 7 papers retracted in 2024 due to faking the ethics approvals on the research. https://www.science.org/content/article/failure-every-level-...

Fazlul Sarkar, a cancer researcher at Wayne State University, had 40 articles retracted after evidence of falsified data and manipulated and duplicated images. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/genbio.2024.29132.ebi

Overall, Elisabeth Bik has found thousands of studies that appear to have doctored images. https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/how-a-sharp-eyed-...
A friend recently put me on to Intervals (https://intervals.icu) for Garmin / Strava related data nerdery and I’ve enjoyed it very much. As a rower it was nice that you can construct reports that give rowing related metrics rather than just the usual cycle / run stuff.
Is your job consulting for hiring technical positions?
You're correct it could mean that, but alternatively:

- the use cases covered by the language could be so varied that it would be misguided to expect special functions for each of those cases

- what one programmer describes as scaffolding could be seen as essential part of the setup for others. I have seen essential parts been called "scaffolding" by beginners who had no idea this was not just "text that needs to be there", but it had implications for the whole thing.
You mean like a blueprint of a machine? Because that is exactly how machines are usually presented in official documentation. To me the skill of understanding how "2d/code" translates to "3d/program execution" is exactly the skill that sets amateurs apart from pros, saying that, I consider myself an amateur in code and a professional in mechanical design.
This is a big thing, is there any evidence? Not implausible unfortunately…
"Private browsing" is just a polite request for companies to pretend they didn’t see you before
I stopped using AI for code a little over a year ago and at that point I'd used Copilot for 8-12 months. I tried Cursor out a couple of weeks ago for very small autocomplete snippets and it was about the same or slightly worse than Copilot, in my opinion.

The integration with the editor was neat but the quality of the suggestions were no different than what I'd had with Copilot much earlier, and the pathological cases where it just spun off into some useless corner of its behavior (recommending code that was already in the very same file, recommending code that didn't make any sense, etc.) seemed to happen more than with Copilot.

This was a ridiculously simple project for it to work on, to be clear, just a parser for a language I started working on, and the general structure was already there for it to work with when I started trying Cursor out. From prior experience I know the base is pretty easy to work with for people who aren't even familiar with it (or even parsing in general), so I think given the difficulties that Cursor had even putting together pretty basic things it might be that a user of Cursor would see minimal gains in velocity and end up having less understanding in the medium to long term, at least in this particular case.
I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.
C# wasn't the first language which introduced such mechanism.
This feels like it is destined to fail or maybe remain in a distant third tier behind America and China. The coalition approach is going to be hard to organize and the funding seems too low. Plus EU regulations like the DSA will make it hard to develop efficiently.
> The point is that no effort was made to implement a technical solution to protect privacy.

And you want the government to do that?

Why haven't the companies who at every turn shout how privacy conscious they are haven't done that?

It's now been 8 years of GDPR. Why hasn't the world's largest advertising company incidentally owning the world's most popular browser implemented a technical solution for tracking and cookie banners in the browser? Oh wait...
> C++20 and beyond haven’t added much that’s worth upgrading for.

std::format is pretty nice (although not yet available on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Lambda capture of parameter packs is actually huge!

And ... I think it still remains to be see what the outcome of modules will be.

One hopes (against hope) that the big payoff for modules will be in tool-ability of C++. IDE support for languages like C#, Java, typescript is vastly superior to C++ IDE tooling. Perhaps. Maybe. Modules will provide a path that will allow that to change. I don't think the benefits of modules have yet fully played out.
Anecdotal, but when building my previous (sorta, some components are still there today) PC in 2018 I had actually bought a dedicated sound card for it, a Sound Blaster Audigy FX, it was appallingly bad. Awful drivers, limited capability (for instance, no ability to filter out speakers when recording). I ended up pulling it out after few months and defaulting to the motherboard's realtek chip (aorus mobo), which is more than enough. So no, I don't think it's worth the cost.
I blame Canadian leadership. There should have understood the risk long ago. There are other problems as well due to weak management.

The claim about drugs is a legal justification for the use of emergency power. Canada isn’t causing problems for US. These tariffs are harmful and unfair to Canada.

It makes you wonder what “ally” means with US.
And do you always know beyond any reasonable doubt that your code will be single-threaded for all time? Because the moment this changes, you're in for a world of pain.
Thank you so much for your work on Anki Droid, I use it daily
> Reflection

Oh yes please! :-)
Is the Garmin data you get through Strava unfiltered? As strava does some auto-pause things and so on, Garmin too probably...
Twelve Characters in Search of an Apocalypse (2017)
Interesting concept http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/d...
Useless without limiting the kind of data I want to share per contact. iOS asks for relationships for example. You can set up your spouse, your kids, have your address or any address associated with contacts. If I want to restrict app access to contacts, I also want to restrict app access to specific contact details.
Sounds like someone needs some leaky weirs to help store water in the ground
It is slow. Like geocities.
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What happens if pollutants build up slowly, rather than in a sudden spike that causes the mussels to close?
Pixel hasn’t even been around for a decade.
Don't know what that link is but it's definitely not right.

I think this is though: https://github.com/Arthi-chaud/Meelo
There's also brackets. More importantly, it is easier for me to type `afn` than `shift + 9`.
They mention that they do not have access to the threat actor’s obfuscating compiler itself, but while reading the analysis it occurs to me that given they have released a purpose-built deobfuscator, that they could certainly develop a ScatterBrain-like compiler and then I wonder if doing so might enable creation of useful heuristics that might reveal the quiet existence of ScatterBrain compiler in some sample, archive, darknet tools repo, compromised host, torrent, etc.

Just as they have supplied IOCs, perhaps they could provide reasonable signatures or heuristic rules that scanners in various places might ingest and apply that might allow for the discovery of some latent copy of the compiler itself, which could be useful in and of itself, as well as for all of the possible breadcrumbs and inferences that could be made based on where/when it was spotted, if it was.
That's Russia, not China. Russia is a petrostate run owned by corrupt dictator and his oligarch cronies. It really has nothing going for it whatsoever besides its natural resources.

China is in a very different spot. They did what the USSR failed, showed a an authoritarian/totalitarian state can keep up with Western democracies or even innovate much faster than them.
This is becoming such a tiresome opinion. How are concepts fixing a problem created by previous features to the langue? What about ranges? Auto? Move semantics? Coroutines? Constexpr? Consteval? It is time for this narrative to stop.
This - it's more like an end-stage failure mode of a self-regulating, dynamic system which has drifted into dysfunction.

A case of "lots of things have to work perfectly, or near enough, or a brain drifts into this state". This seems to be very much the case with cancers, essentially unless everything regulates properly, the system would on its own devolve into cancer.

Like a gyroscope which will only spin if balanced, only this gyroscope has 10^LARGE moving parts.

And when you consider the ageing process, you're talking about multiple systems operating at 50%, 75%, 85% effectiveness, all of which interact with one another, so it's inevitable that self-regulating mechanisms start to enter failure cascade.

In terms of interventions, a lot of the time it seems like the best fix is to look at which of the critical systems is most deteriorated, and try and bring that one up. So, for example, diet and exercise can restore a degraded circulatory system by a meaningful amount, but you can be an Ironman triathlete and still develop Alzheimers in your 60s. If we can find reliable ways to do the same for sleep, that will be worthwhile, and likely there are other systems where we might do the same - immune, liver, kidneys and so on.
This captures how we "mature" as developers (and humans) when we ship software that other people actually use. A hilly journey of embarassment and pride :)

Thanks for sharing.
So in this thread you’ve got reflexive denial, appeal to antiquity, appeal to popularity, and now no true scotsman. You’re really on a roll!
I love seeing the (1840) in the title.

For a split second it makes my pre-coffee brain think, my god that’s an old post!
I guess the question is, did DeepSeek force them to rethink pricing? It's crazy how much cheaper it (v3 and R1) is, but considering they (Deepseek) can't keep up with demand, the price is kind of moot right now. I really do hope they get the hardware to support the API again. The v3 and R1 models that are hosted by others are still cheap compared to the incumbents, but nothing can compete with DeepSeek on price and performance.
This!

Get rid of any unwanted noise caused by gear or environment. Add a basic EQ - I'm using a 15-band one just to compensate for the room, the speakers, hearing loss and anything else that would impact the sound.
no they didn't, this was literally all announced in December with a release date for January
One of the two other proposals is user defined type decay, which lets you choose what type auto will be deduced as. i.e. "auto x = y", x might not have the type of y, instead it can be anything you choose…

This is like implicit type conversion on steroids. And all this because C++ lacks the basic safety features to avoid dangling pointers.

Stop using C++ already!