skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why prominant people, who are in the public eye (politicians, pop artists, other narcissists) don't just digitally sign their content and maintain a crosse-referenceable ledger (on a site they or trusted 3rd party control) of specific locations where they've authorized their content to be posted, so that authorship can be verified (unless the cross-reference hosting site gets hacked, but let's assume that's very secure).

I mean, this seems like a no-brainer, so am I missing a fundamental point regarding public key encryption? (very possible - I'm not a crypto person, I'm legitimately asking because I've wondered about this for a long, long, long time)

It's the digital version of saying to someone: "hey ding dong - did you authorize this craziness?" Then them saying: "no way, of course not, that shit's whack"
ATC here, I love that documentary :-)

(Opinions are my own and not necessarily that of the FAA.)

I have some wild stories, but unfortunately sharing them would dox me.

The most inaccurate thing though is a transfer CPC (fully-certified controller at their previous facility) plugging in and being able to work without months of training in that area.
Jeez, my first thought was acid is probably the last thing they need.
>majority of america is very dumb

This attitude is another reason he won.
Have you done any research on the type of users who use dating apps primarily?

The article is really good on the product decisions but light on what kind of life and situation these users have.
My brothers house is near a stream. Beavers showed up about 10 years ago. The change wasn’t bad and pretty minor, but it did change things. He did protect some of his trees. They’re pretty voracious.

The town made him move the “hobit hole” shed he got his daughters but the Beavers get free rein. (As did the golf club in the back, but that’s another story)
The test wasn't explicitly discriminatory, just the way that it was used. And the way that it was used is disputed. The facts are still being litigated. All the coverage is from opinion pieces or right-of-center newspapers.

https://archive.is/lDyOB
> Some day, historians will ask: Why did China eclipse the United States?

Why do you need to make leaps to the future to find evidence for your claims? Anyone can simply look at the past 500 years and come to the opposite conclusion.

There's also not much evidence China will "eclipse" the United States (whatever that means). I hitchhiked mainland China in 2019 after studying the language in university precisely because I thought the country might "eclipse" mine.

I came back with the exact opposite conclusion.

If the definition of "eclipse" is more global cultural influence, I would challenge you to compare the number of American movies you've watched in the past year vs Chinese movies. Movies are just 1 dimension of this dynamic.

The country has simply too much history and insularity to propagate its influence throughout the world. The language is another key example- very few learn Chinese as a second language. Even the Chinese youth themselves often use the latin alphabet to write their own language on a keyboard.
Grok2 is right up there in the middle of the pack with the big dogs on a lot of the benchmarks. It's no joke. So I think Grok 3 could be really interesting.
Logic R1: Reproduce DeepSeek R1 Zero on 2K Logic Puzzle Dataset
My understanding is an electoral majority of Americans are dissatisfied with the current "globalist" world order in which many parts of the world are gradually converging towards cultural homogeneity. As an example in the past few months I’ve enjoyed deliciously unhealthy Tteokbokki in Aix-en-Provence, Budapest, Kyoto and Oakland.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tteokbokki

My conservative friends prefer a more isolationist foreign policy with less trade and fewer alliances. Furthermore they prefer that "food in America should stay American, food in China should stay Chinese" and cultures should not be "polluted" by foreign influence.
The third party in the US is an amalgamation of the leftover scraps of losers that couldn't make it in the other parties. Because that's exactly what the Greens and to a lesser extent Libertarians are. To be fair it is wonderful that Howie Hawkins has managed to get the Greens on the ballot in 36 or so states. Its crazy that you can't even vote for this party in all states.

But the vote count is horrendous. The best this country has ever done in recent memory was Ralph Nader and he was a someone famous that could move the needle....he still only got 2.74% of the vote.
(Mjol / Ygg here, but this is quite far out of scope for OP’s question, which is trying to diagnose a change in audio between two motherboards, and I wouldn’t recommend a heavy stack of gear this early on.)
Your network programming guide really saved my bacon back when I was taking a networking class, I appreciate all your hard work!
As of August 2024, China has 55 nuclear reactors in operation, 25 under construction, and plans for an additional 36 reactors. In August 2024, China’s State Council approved five nuclear power projects comprising 11 new reactors. Overall, China aims to build 150 new nuclear reactors between 2020 and 2035.
> Cantonese people replace 睇 tai² with 看 hon⁴ in writing

OK, since "to see" is a pretty common word, I challenge you to find abandance of evidence where in formal publishing or software UI, every text of 看 was replaced with 睇.

> you can't replace 睇視 [睇视] di⁴shi⁴ with 看視 [看视] kan⁴shi

Yes many people use it here and there but not on software UIs like this topic was discussing. And 睇 is not "to see". It means to see sideways. The meaning of 睇 was defined as in 礼记·内则 like "睇，倾视也。" Why are making shit up to appropriate a Chinese word as some kind Cantonese excluse invention and misleading people.

More importantly, there does exist another type of written Chinese, simplified vs traditional. Would you proceed to argue HK style writing is Cantonese and not Traditional? Or even further maybe Guangdong and Hongkong cantonese are different "language" ?
I mean, yeah using an index will make your queries fast no matter how many rows there are.
Some of the new players in big data like Databricks, Ocient, Clickhouse, etc actually can retrieve huge amounts of data nowadays though
I generally agree with your sentiment for improving education, but I don't think the limiting factor for ATCs has to do with it, but with innate qualities in individuals.

You can see the list of criteria here: https://www.faa.gov/air-traffic-controller-qualifications
> The USSC recently decided that if you are merely silent that means you waive your right to remain silent.

No. Based on the opinion linked in one of the other comments, there are these possibilities:

- explicitly say you are invoking your right to remain silent -- the have to stop asking you questions

- say nothing -- you're fine, your right to remain silent means they can't use this against you

- answer questions (without being coerced) -- if they read you your rights properly and confirmed you understood, this waives your right to not do what you just did; if they messed up, then you can get your answers thrown out
Shadowing always has been a feature, doubly so in languages which lack linear types.

It is a promise to the reader (and compiler) that I will have no need of the old value again.

Notice that applying the naming convention you suggest does nothing to prevent the bug in the code you quoted. It might be just as easy to write

const initial_foo = Foo.init(); > const foo_feature_A = try initial_foo.addFeatureA(); > const foo_feature_B = try initial_foo.addFeatureB();

but it's also just as wrong. And even if you get it right, when the code changes later, somebody may add const foo_feature_Z = try foo_feature_V.addFeatureX();. Shadowing prevents this.
Discussions

(33 points, 5 hours ago, 20 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42940371

(19 points, 3 hours ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42941797
TBF, vkou's post disagrees with mine, but I don't disagree with it. If pressed to offer a forecast, I think the moral dilemmas we're about to face as Americans will be both disturbing and intimidating, with a 50% chance of horrifying.
It is a critique, and timely one at that. Worth a read.
Not realizing that git branches are cheap.

1. Create a branch from the intended destination.

2. Merge/rebase/whatever complex operation you need to do into that branch.

3. If successful merge this branch (fast forward merge) into the intended destination.

4. If unsuccessful delete the branch and start over at step 1.
Honestly? I’m not sure. Here’s the problem:

1. it’s possible to get into a bad state
2. it’s not clear what exactly that state is
3. it’s not clear how you got into that state
4. it’s not clear how to get out of it

I understand Git reasonably well. I know a good bit how it works under the hood. When I have a gitastrophe I rarely understand what I did wrong and how to avoid it in the future.

Here’s a recent post from a friend:

“ 0) clicked fetch all to make sure I had latest everything
1) right clicked on master and selected "merge master into branch"
2) made sure there were no merge errors
3) get on the master branch
4) clicked pull again because sometimes switching to branches doesn't work without it
5) right clicked on my branch and selected "merge branch into master"
6) clicked check in and push buttons

About an hour later, someone noticed that everyone's work from the past week was gone. I mean the checkins were still there in the graph, but all their code was basically gone in latest. And because my branch had many commits in it, apparently no one could just revert my merge and it took someone an hour to work out how to fix everything during which no one could touch git”

Somewhere along the way he didn’t do what he thought he did. No one could figure out what he actually did wrong. No lessons were learned from this Gitastrophe.
Programming only needs to make things as explicit as necessary based on the developer's desires and the system's assumptions. Where more detail is necessary, the programmer can add more code. For example, there's no need to tell a browser explicit rules for how users should be able to interact with an input field, since that's the browser's default behavior; you only need to specify different behavior when you want it to differ from the default.

Likewise for English: one can use natural English to add as many details as necessary, depending on who you're talking to, e.g. "Make an outline around the input field, and color the outline #ff0000." You can then add, if necessary, "Make the corners of the outline rounded with a 5 pixel radius."

In this respect, complex applications can be fully specified in English; we usually call those documents "formal specifications." You can write it terse, non-natural language with consistent, defined terminology to save room (as most specs are), or colloquial (natural) language if you really want. I wouldn't recommend the latter, but it's definitely useful when presenting specs to a less technically informed audience.
So you're fine with USAID funding the development of Covid-19 through EcoHealthAlliance (it's been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt) and you're even finer with USAID then financing media (like the BBC and Politico but so many are very likely recipients of these funds) to do the coverup and pretend that it "couldn't have possibly been a lab-leak"?

If you're not fine with that, how do we suggest we even fix this?

The USAID literally financed the development of a virus that killed tens of millions of people worldwide. And then it greased many wheels to try to make people believe it couldn't possibly have been a lab-leak.

Trump just asked an audit of all the US donations that have been made to Ukraine: this looked like one of the biggest operation of money laundering in a long time.

Why are you even against trying to fix things?
FYI: US Census.gov data is currently unavailable (403-ing)
I'm getting 403s when trying to download basic census tract shapefiles. You might have the same problem / if you have regular jobs that rely on public datasets they may start failing randomly.

Looks like this might be another victim of the current administration's fun with databases (although I admit that's speculation).
Discussion (26 points, 2 hours ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42942231
Indeed. As improbable as their end state is, forewarned is forearmed.
Kulala – A Minimal REST-Client GUI for Mac, Linux and Windows
By its spiritual predecessor Kulala.nvim, bringing .http files support to a nice GUI app.

Why?

You should own your data (.http files in your vcs). You shouldn't have to worry about logins or accounts. It should be mostly compatible with Kulala.nvim, Rest.nvim, VsCode RestClient, IntelliJ and Visual Studio.

You can see the current WIP here: https://bsky.app/profile/mistweaverco.com/post/3lhfmepcw322s
Terrorists in africa from what I can tell. But againts a dictator who I also would not support.

you don't hear of them though.
Please stop trusting whatever CCP says
Content moderation means ensuring the submitted content on the platform by users or user-generated content (UGC) complies with stated guidelines, rules, and policies regarding the use of the platform. If the content is against or violates platforms in the form of unwanted or inappropriate content, propagating hate speech, and spreading false information then it is subject to removal from further sharing.
If real life was a Civ 6 game the U.S. would have won a cultural victory a long time ago. When you’ve outsourced the manufacturing of your car parts, phones, tvs, chips, etc. to other countries then threatening your allies is stupid.
Internal audit said the same thing.

Quelle surprise!
The financial position of the US is precarious, at best. I seriously doubt there is any painless way to correct course, as Congress seems to have lost the ability to compromise. Looking into the future, the US will go the way of the former Soviet Union if it does not take corrective action.

Is the current situation the only way, the best way, or even a good way to address the country's economic position? That is a matter of perspective. As is always the case, people will take sides. The unreasonable people (on any side) will refuse to compromise and spew inflammatory rhetoric, most often in defense of their own self interests and at the expense of others' interests.

I believe that the most sensible approach is for all parties to adhere to a metered diligence, always being mindful that the country is a collective of disparate interests. The whole point of a democracy is that through all the ups and downs, things work themselves out eventually. Sometimes there are setbacks and other times there is progress.

Things may seem chaotic, but this too shall pass.
Shadowing is a feature. It's very common that given value transforms its shape and previous versions become irrelevant. Keeping old versions under different names would be just confusing. With type system there is no room for accidental misuse. I write Rust professionally for > 2 years, and years before that I was using it my own projects. I don't think shadowing ever backfired on me, while being very ergonomic.
Previously:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24599679
Why do you blame this on Trump supporters? from what I saw, opponents are also rationalizing it.
If you care about the color of a chat bubble, you're kind of a child, no?
Renewable energies account for 29% of China's energy production and 21% of US's.

In 2010, this was 19% and 10% respectively.

So, they have a bit of a head start, but are transitioning to renewables just as quickly as the US. Their much larger population does make the overall impact they're having on the environment larger, though, and yes they are still building new coal plants to keep up with rapidly increasing energy needs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_of_the_Unit...
Kids really need to spend time outside.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40148707
Congrats on your release! I'm working on a parallel text project where LLMs are used for a number of translation and transformation tasks (www.abal.ai) so it's nice to see what others are coming up with.

I'm curious how you landed on your current set of supported languages? Notably, I see that South Asian languages are not supported beyond Indonesian. Have you already given ones such as Hindi and Bengali a try?
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It’s outsourcing. Frankly, it’s really only an issue if they hold a US citizen and do not provide appropriate constitutional protections. That would be the same as any offshore provider not meeting a service commitment…you fire them and they are out the contract.

Not to sound insensitive, but if they are only holding noncitizen criminal deportees awaiting transport back to their home country and they are able to do that cheaper than we can in the US…I am have a tough time seeing a negative with this.
Cartels are usually voluntary.
I could imagine a hybrid where declarative statements drive the high-level, and lower-level details branch off and are hashed out imperatively (in chat). Maybe those detail decisions then revise the declarative statements.

The source of truth would still be the code though, otherwise the declarative statements would get so verbose that they wouldn't be any more useful than writing the code itself.
If gun makers made and sold auto-firing turrets to commoners, I bet there would be a similar discussion to this one
Not the GP, but I think what they’re getting at is that Aes Sedai can deceive without saying untruthful. So a hypothetical truth serum wouldn’t necessarily guarantee honesty
Just waiting for this atc thing to become overly politicized like every other aspect of life in America. I swear over politicization and polarization is going to strangle this country and destroy it if it hasn’t already.
Remains to be seen.

For now, they are just pausing payments.

If they find serious issues they can likely go to congress and have them canceled outright. If not, they need to distribute the funds during the fiscal year.

I don’t understand the pearl clutching. The government shuts down often due to spending issues. Payments pause when this happens. Moreover, everybody has known for decades that nobody is reading these 50,000 page appropriations bills.

I’m willing to give musk and his guys some time to sort this out.

The president has asked them to do this. If they go against his wishes there is no reason they will not be thrown under the bus. If he pardons them for obvious malfeasance it will make big political waves and likely change the outcome of the midterm elections, where a congress could begin impeachment.
Didn’t a lot of Chinese drop shippers concentrate product in the US in anticipation of tariffs? If so, we might hit supply shortages as the stockpile winds down.
If the deep state existed, McConnell would not have been able to steal a supreme court seat
They got rid of the de minimis exemption. Now every package needs to pay duty.

They may not inspect the package but they still have to collect duty on it.

I live in Canada where our de minimis exemption is like $20. Generally when a package comes to in it is help at the border where a broker certifies it for customs. Below $20 there's no broker.

Now you need brokers etc for every single package. Def more paperwork even if they keep the same inspection ratio.
I'm an Air Traffic Controlling working at a "Center" (ARTCC). It's not the latency - it's that we have backups for the backups. I wish my house had the same level of redundancy my workplace does.

Edit: except for the asbestos. I'm glad my house doesn't have that. (IIRC they were all built in the 1960s.)
Great write-up, thank you!

I used Zig for (most of) Advent Of Code last year, and while I did get up-to-speed on it faster than I did with Rust the previous year, I think that was just Second (low-level) Language syndrome. Having experienced it, I'm glad that I did (learning how cumbersome memory management is makes me glad that every other language I've used abstracts it away!), but if I had to pick a single low-level language to focus on learning, I'd still pick Rust.
That article is not the greatest citation and is factually wrong. Even the article admitted that It was dubious to think that Microsoft only had such a small share of the “compute” market in 2005.

> That Microsoft is dead, killed off by antitrust remedies and the web

The slap on the wrist that Microsoft got had nothing to do with them first losing the MP3 player market which led to Apple’s resurgence (remember the plays4Sure platform and then the Zune?) or their failed efforts in mobile.

> digital cameras that only shipped with Windows drivers

I don’t remember digital cameras ever needing drivers and most decent digital camcorders used FireWire which was on all Macs, most Sony’s and many Dell PCs
I doubt you were using USPS before for those, so your company shouldn’t be affected unless this affects private shipping companies as well.
Alcohol is poison, really.

Cannabis is one of the least toxic substances available.

They have absolutely nothing in common.
> That they even seriously discuss nazi-like population displacement is insane,

This sounds more Allied-like than Nazi-like.

The Allies engaged in a campaign of mass deportations in the aftermath of WW2, as Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin agreed at the Potsdam conference in 1945.

Nazis generally weren’t interested in deportation as a primary objective, only as a prelude to enslavement and extermination. Deporting populations without ever enslaving and exterminating them was more of an Allied thing than a Nazi thing.

It is also more of a Greece/Turkey thing than a Nazi thing.
I've been saying this since 2011. China is waging a chemical war against the United States.
It's the opposite in my experience, it's the best parts of IRC and the history is gold. Storing things in Slack is one of the most useful bits of it. I've seen several multi-billion dollar companies built most of their collaboration across offices around Slack.
If you can’t find it in the Internet Archive, you might have to file a FOIA request. Happy to pay for the FOIA request ($5) if made through https://muckrock.com. Make the request as comprehensive for the data set as you can.
It seems like he wants zig to be more like rust. personally, i like that zig is so simple
Certainly not vote for someone I think is unfit to be president!
gig work is not slave labour - slaves had no choice.

gig work is popular because the people doing it are finding that it is the best of all alternatives available to them.
All of the AI takeover doomsday scenarios begin with a careless human giving it access to the internet...
Microsoft is irrelevant as far as the platform and where most development energy is focused. Can you imagine trying to get funding for a Windows application?
CNY goes for two weeks and just started last Tuesday night. The golden week holiday however just ended. Most people take extra time off so things are usually slow until the whole holiday is over.