skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Volume 4, Fascicle 7 was officially released this week! The latest draft ("prefascicle", dated December 2024) is available at https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc7a.ps.gz. As Knuth says, the contents "agree fairly well with the contents of the first paperback printing of Volume 4, Fascicle 7, except for parts of the index. As usual, the prefascicle is 'frozen' and will not be maintained, while the paperback will gradually improve with time."
From what I can piece together it seems Hector is upset about someone ("Hellwig"?) doing something that was seen as intentionally sabotaging the rust efforts. Hector posted about it on socials. Linus came down on Hector for leveraging socials to fight kernel disputes. Hector quits.

No doubt that is a flawed summary so feel free to correct
He has at least said this to Martin: "How about you accept the fact that maybe the problem is you." (https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CAHk-=wi=ZmP2=TmHsFSU...)

I wouldn‘t expect a grand Rust announcement anytime soon, above what has already been said. Rust in the kernel seems to be fine, but it will have to adapt to longstanding kernel processes. And if it means there won‘t be Rust in some maintainers‘ subsystems, so be it. The kernel won‘t be 100% Rust next year anyway.
Given recent polling, we have to assume that what is MI5's today will be Reform's tomorrow. We have to ask what our government and judiciary are doing putting our privacy in the hands of the far-right.
> Any collapsing, un collapsing, ignoring, and so an are handled by manipulating these nodes further. But this is the semantics of the HTML itself.

Well the post I replied to talked about the DOM, and as a description of the behaviour of the DOM I don't think your description is accurate - when you write
"<a href="ABC">foo </a> bar" you only end up with one space character contained in a DOM text node, not two.
This isn't primarily gambling, though, it's _fraud_.
No one sells scans of older books, which are often sparsely available in obscure (often private) libraries.
Maybe I lack vision in such matters, but: how would you corrupt the stack without an out-of-bounds write?

But there's another aspect that I think you missed: use after free.

As you say, achieving this level of soundness with C is hard. Proving it is much harder. (Except, how do you know you've achieved it if you don't prove it?)
> And withdrawing the product from the UK might not be enough to ensure compliance - the Investigatory Powers Act applies worldwide to any tech firm with a UK market, even if they are not based in Britain.

That's incredibly demanding for a country that's been desperately trying to cling onto relevance for decades.
Ah, yes. So, a precondition to meaningful debate is that all parties agree on the game (if not the rules of engagement?)
> it takes place in 1920's NYC, 30 years in the future from when it was written (1985).

Is it you, Marty?

(sorry, could not resist)
Yeah know, at some point a historical review would suggest that the constant stream of labour led initiatives to end privacy might indicate that the problem is not just the tories.
While I never submitted a patch personally, I had once conferred with some of the input devs to add a trackpad to the synaptics driver... they were queueing up an update to add other trackpads, and they said they would add mine... 5 years later, it's still not there. It was just a one-liner, and I'm not really sure why it never got added...

On the other hand, I once ran into an issue with uboot where a bad update knocked out my emmc, usb and sata controllers... found an email address of someone developing the dtb files and got in touch with them, and it was fixed in under a week.

At the end of the day, people are weird sometimes. I wish all the best for marcan.
We don’t allow indiscriminate human experimentation in medicine. We have crimes against this, and yet we still have new medicines. Sure, it won’t be as quick if we could just use humans as test subjects from the start, but that’s an unethical line. Innovation done immorally is progress that shouldn’t have been made. The ends don’t justify the means, but I’m not an ethical nihilist.

The crime is downloading and copying and distributing copyrighted materials! Not creating the LLM! Get the crime right
Beyond even PR concerns (which you could, in principle, ignore as silly, though of course in practice they are a significant hurdle), you also need to consider that free speech even for people is not absolute. If an LLM responds to a child's query with sexually explicit content, that likely breaks the law, and the company is liable for that. Similarly, if an LLM generates libelous statements about a real person when prompted to describe that person, the company is liable. If an LLM starts generating medical advice or legal advice, that might break certain laws as well (though perhaps some reasonable disclaimers could fix this too).
This is why I can't wait to just move to local models for this stuff.
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Cool, so when the fascists have dismantled government and taken over power, at least we might have your apology, although I doubt it even then, you'll just shift the goalposts.
How is Boeing having so many issues with Starliner when it appears they have perfect success with the X-37? Is something like this due to over-compartmentalization and having to re-invent too many things?
I really don't think that Meta did this because the alternative would have been too onerous; they are a huge org, they could work through whatever loopholes required. They did it because it would have cost money and there will be no penalty for not paying.
Maybe you should go after the worst offender (OpenAI) first before going after Meta, since the latter already gave back their model away for free for everyone and the architecture.

We will know why OpenAI isn't getting investigated.
No, seriously, do check https://nickmcd.me Incredible!
Gross behavior. But not surprised. UK is a real surveillance state.

In my honest opinion, in this specific context UK should be treated with the same scrutiny we treat China.
yeah that is obvious but unfortunately this is for a company email and needs to integrate with Calendly and a CRM, etc. Outlook and Gmail are the only real options.

for personal use, I'm already using MX Route which i learnt about from comments here. $30/yr for unlimited domains and mailboxes. feel free to drop me a message to check how it works! cto@floydnoel.com

for personal use the last G product i am stuck with is Google Voice. not sure of a good replacement for that if you have any recs.
Buying a copy of the book doesn’t grant you the right to copy it. That is what copyright is for.
Alright now. Let's have a quick go at this:

"You gain nothing (other than some smug ivory tower sense of superiority) by making your functions pure and passing around a global state object to every single method invocation."

So, we already cleared it up that using that tone is not inviting discussion and shows emotional bias and that has no place in technical discussions, I believe. You said you are open to have your mind changed. Let me give you a few loosely separate (but ultimately bound to each other) arguments in favor of passing around state to each function individually.

- All functions that operate on such state are trivially testable in isolation. This is not a theoretical benefit, I've experienced it hundreds of times ever since I started working mainly with Elixir for almost 9 years now (though I still code Golang and Rust). The amount of bugs I ended up being paid to fix was confusing even to me, just for utilizing this one way of working.

- Explicit dependencies, though this one is muddy because f.ex. in Elixir that's strongly but dynamically typed this benefit is nearly non-existent; I am talking mostly about statically typed languages here, especially Rust. If you have to operate on stuff that implements this or that trait then that's a very clear contract and the code becomes that much clearer with scarcely any need for documenting those functions (though docs do help in other ways there f.ex. "how do we use this so it's, you know, useful" -- but that still means that you get to skip documenting trivia which is still a win).

- LANGUAGE-DEPENDENT: ability to construct pipes (specific to Elixir, OCaml, F# and probably a few others). Consider this:

websocket
|> check_for_bearer_token(req.headers)
|> authenticate()
|> authorize(can_edit_orders?())

...while passing around the same state (piping passes the first function argument down akin to currying) makes for a super terse and readable code. It was and still is a game changer for many. Piping is what I sorely miss in Golang and Rust; gods, the code is so much uglier without it though their method chaining gets you almost there as well -- fair is fair.

Also, piping almost completely negates the inconvenience that you hinted at.

- Generally giving you a better idea of the dependency graph in your code. Again, a game changer for me. In my 9 years with Java this was my biggest pain. At one point you just give up and start throwing crap at the wall until something works (or doesn't). Not that I did mind the longer dev times of Java but the productivity was just abysmal with all the DI frameworks. I am aware that things improved since then but back when I finally gave up on Java back in 2009-2011 (gradually) it was still terrible.

OK, I don't have much to go on from your otherwise fairly small comment and I already extrapolated quite a lot. Let me know what you think.

But, one rule: "I don't like it" is not allowed. It's not about "liking" stuff, it's about recognizing something that helps productivity and increases clarity.
> was world peace during his first term

Cringes hard in the Yemeni civil war. Or the conflict in the Donbass. Or the various insurgencies in the Sahel, or the war in Darfur, or the Syrian civil war.

> Same hyperboles were said in 2017 and we were fine

Were you fine? The Supreme Court was stacked by blatantly political appointees who then declared that the president has immunity for official business, even if it's blatantly illegal. This is a disgusting precedent to set, yet here we are.
Something tells me stronger IP laws will be drafted by holders of that IP, with little if any regard to the potential for job losses for regular people from AI.
> What I'm missing from this announcement though is any mention of how they intend to secure this "vault" against the current government.

Maybe this?

> In addition to the data collection, we are releasing open source software and documentation for replicating our work and creating similar repositories. With these tools, we aim not only to preserve knowledge ourselves but also to empower others to save and access the data that matters to them.

https://github.com/harvard-lil/data-vault

And since the data lives here: https://source.coop/repositories/harvard-lil/gov-data/descri...

Combined with this:

> To download an individual dataset by name you can construct its URL, such as:

> https://source.coop/harvard-lil/gov-data/collections/data_go...

> https://source.coop/harvard-lil/gov-data/metadata/data_gov/f...

> To download large numbers of files, we recommend the aws or rclone command line tools:

> aws s3 cp s3://us-west-2.opendata.source.coop/harvard-lil/gov-data/collections/data_gov/<name>/v1.zip --no-sign-request

So one could "easily" mirror the whole thing, making it distributed.
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Apple should tell those ignorant fuckwits to do one.
If they were to get this it's time to sue Apple for breach of GDPR.
> If you plug a laptop into a closet at MIT to download some scientific papers you forfeit your life.

Just to point, but the material in question was public domain, so nobody had even a copyrights claim over it.
As wikipedia says: "Most of the activities of the X-37B project are secret." Presumably that includes some of the things that would bring about bad press.
He couldn't veto it anyway; by reading the entire thread, you'll see that the maintainer NACKed the request.

After that, Greg KH stepped in (since he was soft asked to help earlier in the thread with an @) to reconfirm that what seems to be the general policy for r4l is followed (aka it'll be a separate file with its own maintainer), with the subtle implication that it would probably just get merged as a separate patch to Linus directly, the complaints of the maintainer be damned.

Marcan's sudden outburst and forcibly adding Linus and Greg to the thread he was responding to came afterwards. You can even see some other rust4linux devs asking him to please not do this, since the situation is under control.
Some weirder libertarians do indeed seem to dream of living in one.

> I fail to see the upside of living in somebody's pocket soviet union

The sort of extreme libertarians who are keen on this sort of thing don't acknowledge that it would be like that, though; in their worldview, without a government, (only, effectively, an _owner_), all would be well. Now, this may sound suspiciously like warlordism or feudalism to some of us, but we're not the ones who want to live in these sorts of places.

Singapore's completely different; it's rather authoritarian, but is generally a functioning state with strict regulation.
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Front-end dev is optimising for a different set of constraints than HIG-era UIs.

Primarily that constraint is "looks good in a presentation for an MBA with a 30-second attention span". Secondarily "new and hook-y enough to pull people in".

That said...

HIG UIs are good at what they're good at. But there is an element of a similar phenomenon to how walled-gardens (Facebook most of all, but also Google, Slack, Discord..) took over from open, standards-based protocols and clients. Their speed of integration and iteration gave them an evolutionary edge that the open-client world couldn't keep up with.

Similarly if you look at e.g. navigation apps or recipe apps. Can an HIG UI do a fairly good job? Sure, and in ways that are predictable, accessible, intuitive and maybe even scriptable. But a scrolly, amorphous web-style UI will be able to do the job quicker and with more distinctive branding/style and less visual clutter.

Basically I don't think a standardised child-of-HIG formalised UI/UX grammar could keep up with the pace of change the last 10-15 years. Probably the nearest we have is Material Design?
You need to enable an additional iCloud secure mode for true E2E to be enabled.
What's Next for Smart Glasses? [MIT Technology Review]
Yeah, AMD. They're providing the misinformation by not updating those pages. I use an rx 6800 on Linux just fine with rocm, but the compatibility page only lists it as compatible on Windows, not on Linux. AMD needs to make sure their docs are up to date.
>This is exactly what I immediately thought while reading the article. It almost feels like the legal system only punishes general public, while most of these guys are above it.

Welcome to the modern day aristocracy. Not only what you mentioned, this world is also divided into a group of insider who can get capital from 0 - 2%, while rest of us has a cost of 17%, 22% or 30%?
>let's be specific here: where exactly is the memory-safe USB UVC driver you think Android should be shipping?

I'm okay with Android shipping Linux. I have no problem with the choices that were made in the past.

Still, we are forced to observe yet again the problems caused by old parsers written in plain C. Most bugs are in new code, so one hopes that we will eventually run out of buffer overflows in 2008 UVC drivers. Without having to call for rewriting everything all at once.

But if and when we have to write new code, let's not make the same mistake again. I reserve all my righteous indignation for people who do not learn from the mistakes of the past.
Meta argues that it's fair use, and that they just downloaded, and never seeded, all the torrents.
> Do you happen to know if it's fairly fully functional in the trial period,

Yeah, it should be! I'd say just give it a go and see. CO has also some interesting workflows for managing photoshoots, a more classic one similar to LR and a session-oriented one. The bulk update UI is not as nice as LRC imho.
Just make TimeCapsule for iOS and iPadOS. With option to store it fully encrypted in AWS cold storage as Apple subscription.
Procedural Hydrology: Dynamic lake and river simulation (2020)
I've conversed with marcan a few times (on completely unrelated and inconsequential things). As far as I know he's a decent man.

That said, I'm going to agree with Linus there: Cancel culture ("social media brigading") isn't the solution.
Not OP and I haven't been in US but I've pondered on this since I've worked in Europe where taxes are among the top3 highest, and also Japan. (And ALSO had the opportunity to work remote, hired in one living in the other)

Basically the take is first what anyone that have lived abroad (or economist should) know, that you can't flat compare salary or PPP since the expenditure and quality of goods/service per expenditures are drastically different.

So one have to also consider what your expenditure, and quality requirements are. In the most extreme case, if your goal is "early retirement" then probably work in US retire abroad is optimal. But if your goal is "working in something I like while not having to be stressed about it" then it falls to the latter. What about your requirement for socialization and size of housing, dating/children, etc. How many products do you buy and how important is that? 50% paycut but no need to upkeep a car, no need to worry for healhcare, no need to save for kids college, can all add up.

The only thing that I think you can say with absolute certainty from the personal PPP in EU vs US comparison is that if traveling abroad (and buying products from abroad) is absolutely crucial to your happiness, nowhere beat the dollar & high salary.

Since you have your high US salary why not visit the Berlin office, or travel there. Try to find someone in a similar position in life as you are, and extrapolate from that
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Cycling and more cycling for a mental health boost this winter
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Let's also disconnect form Saudi Arabia and Qatar and spend 5% of the EU GDP on tanks powered by solar cells and batteries (oh wait, these are manufactured in China, which is also forbidden).
I am really curious about the APU AMD Ryzen™ AI Max+ 395 if it comes out as a mini pc at some sort of resonable cost.
You think that individual choice is the one and only way to fix climate change? The new regime's policy is "drill baby drill". That's a lot more impactful than people electing not to buy a particular brand of electric cars.
Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down
I think it's simpler than that.

Mira's startup was able to raise 100 million on just an idea. So she can just leave and become a paper centi-millionaire overnight and run the whole org. How can someone compete with that? You can't throw enough money at these guys to get them to stay

If the AI hype keeps going for another year or two, I'll look forward to Schulman leaving this new startup to start his own and raising another 9 figure amount where he's the majority stakeholder.
In this other comment I read a rather different story about what ReformUK wants https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971836

Your comment makes it sound like they're all about research, but they also want to ditch human rights and the world health organisation? This conflict of logic makes me think there's probably more to it than just research and doing good in the world. Can it be that they speak of e.g. lockdowns having been bad based on that ReformUK voters were particularly badly affected by that policy and that this study after the fact found that, indeed, they did more harm than good? Ignoring that this wasn't necessarily knowable at the time, but it reflects badly on the government to have made a mistake with hindsight and so they can gain votes since they weren't in power back then and thus the fallacy is to think they'd have known better?
Lithuania - which I am from - as well. It's a long awaited step in becoming more independant from russia.
I wish I could call it cynicism, but it's just the unvarnished truth.
How Much Money Does Arm Make in the Datacenter?
I never understood this kinds of arguments... both sides want to read your private data, but it's bad if 'the other side' does it? It's your current MI5/government that wants access to apples data.
Refined: Simple Refinement Types for Rust
In that case they should also be sued for not complying with bittorrent's tit-for-tat ethiquette. Leechers should be punished. :)
When someone asks you if you can commit to delivery in the upcoming sprint, they aren’t trying to learn from you.

Also, caveats are valuable information. Yes, we can go live next week if the number of users remains under x until we complete z. Clear communication empowers decision makers. Intentionally omitting trade-offs and limitations that are relevant means you’re being misleading.
The problem is precisely that those billionaires are too powerful. If anything, we need to abolish the billionaires.
That's only possible for the files owned by the app. Apps have no access to other unrelated apps' iCloud data.
The most horrible part of the discussion we're making is that we're arguing that UK intelligence should be able to access only UK related data, and not that UK intelligence should not undermine privacy of people
Not sure its my filters working to remove nuisance news but the "singularity" plot and "AI safety" seem a bit less prevalent these days? Maybe the nature of these algorithms is finally diffusing to wider audiences?
Google book search was declared fair use and copyright holders ended up having to explicitly request removal of their works.

Apparently he would have gotten away with downloading the JSTOR database if he made it clear that he intended to only publish half of each paper.
I bet you and my "first build the product, then worry about security" manager would get along.
I am not British, I am French, and when I think about a city with casinos, that's definitely Las Vegas, and I think that it would be even more true for the British, who have more ties to the US than the French.

And yes, more Las Vegas than Monaco, even though it is a 2 hour drive from where I live. Monaco is not famous for casinos (plural), it is famous for one particular casino, that is the Monte-Carlo casino.

And if they specified Asia, Macao would have popped up in my mind. As for the "fraud" part, casinos and fraud go well together, at least in popular culture. Which is a bit ironic considering that apparently, the scam businesses took over as casinos closed down during the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://open.spotify.com/track/5gAKMlDrJZaDBrFlwVpWk7?si=e93...

^ That "should" work. links to a track though, not the artist.