skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was an academic, I did all my work in the cloud. I didn't use copy paper, or even really need to be in the office (it had slower networking, and less comfortable chairs). The university had a multi-billion dollar endowment and got billions from the state to run its educational mission. Why should I be raising 50% on top of my money (which was so high, NIH often wanted to give money to people at "cheaper" universities).
The Rust docs specifically discourage using panics as try/catch: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/fn.catch_unwind.html

> It is not recommended to use this function for a general try/catch mechanism. The Result type is more appropriate to use for functions that can fail on a regular basis. Additionally, this function is not guaranteed to catch all panics, see the “Notes” section below.

I think panics in Rust are intended to be unrecoverable, and catch_unwind is mainly intended to make the shutdown more orderly and possibly localized. Any data structure that paniced is probably in an unknown state that is not safe for further use.
you should call it `trex` :D
Looks fine from my armchair:

This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 298.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on an empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
1> (getaddrinfo "news.ycombinator.com")
(#S(sockaddr-in canonname nil addr 3520653007 port 0 prefix 32)
#S(sockaddr-in canonname nil addr 3520653007 port 0 prefix 32)
#S(sockaddr-in6 canonname nil addr 50544109533264435600708011529282256934 port 0
flow-info 0 scope-id 0 prefix 128)
#S(sockaddr-in6 canonname nil addr 50544109533264435600708011529282256934 port 0
flow-info 0 scope-id 0 prefix 128))

It would be tidy to deduplicate that, though it is overhead.
Edit.: OMIT THIS FIRST PARAGRAPH¹.

Very nice of you to omit the following sentences of that excerpt, where it proceeds to develop its point on the argument for institution of an English-language based education system on British India. He praised how superior in quantity and quality were the Sanskrit or Arabic corpora, compared to European works, in the lyric/poetry. But that no technical or didactical literature amounted to even the most mundane of the European manuals like those used by then in England humble schools (and it seems completely plausible).

He was a fierce abolitionist. So much for accomplishing the mission of allegedly, judging by comments in this thread, 'deranged imperialist destruction and chaos imposition over the lesser ones'.

I'm not much versed into his speeches/stance on copyright, but I can vouch for the fact that the most honest and well-intended moves (not by him, by other figures) in defence of everyone's intellectual property were done in the same century. From the Twentieth onwards, it has been only twisted for the interest of a select few, and needless to ask where we are today in terms of caring about intellectual property of anybody.

[1] Just saw your other comment where you go on with his nauseating words. One just cannot comprehend that framing the past on the actual status quo is as futile as to not being even wrong, I guess?
No idea. What the prof meant was to avoid exposure. i.e. Maybe don't lean in so close to get a better look at it while it's on.
These skills can come from studying ACT though.
If cars were not statements of the owner's ego or personality or brand, everyone would be driving either an unwashed Toyota Corolla or (if 3+ kids) a minivan.

But they're not.
someone <cough>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=simonw</cough> should create a browser plugin where you can highlight and right-click to get a explanation / context of a chunk of text...

For example:
https://gist.github.com/rayvoelker/c5f480f46c80a7a3c22386b29...
You don't get a Japanese passport easily in Japan so in fact yes it's easy to track the ethnic groups in Japan
This looks super simple to pull into Sandstorm to provide authentication around it... so we're going to give it a try!
I mean, groping on the subway is a problem in New York City too. We just close our eyes and plug our ears while singing "hire more cops". A women-only car would be most welcome.
Or just patch the binary to remove the check, like what real users did when they encountered software they didn't like 100% the behaviour of, whether or not they had the source.

(Yes, I know Firefox is open-source and you can theoretically compile it with the check removed, but that is going to take far more time and effort than finding and NOP'ing a jump.)
"Which of the fruits shown in the 2008 painting "Embroidery from Uzbekistan" were served as part of the October 1949 breakfast menu for the ocean liner that was later used as a floating prop for the film "The Last Voyage"? Give the items as a comma-separated list, ordering them in clockwise order based on their arrangement in the painting starting from the 12 o'clock position. Use the plural form of each fruit."

Pointless as usual, while prompting the lazy to stop using their own brains.

The spooks ask their version real questions.
They won't be, which is why it's funny to me.
.. or it could just be that 'the public' has little to add to kernel development other than social landmines that the kernel teams have to navigate in order to achieve technical work..
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/06/03/bugs/

EDIT Wrong one sorry
Poor people aren't necessarily genetically less academically able. They generally have a weaker academic nurturing at home and often in school, which leads to lower developed ability. This is not controversial. What's controversial is how much and what kind of support they deserve from society to overcome the disadvantage in environment.
Want to see a thousand more? Copy-paste the example image (not the URL)

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/549dcda5e4b0a4...

into https://yandex.com/images/

Or, the URL into https://www.bing.com/images -> "[o] Search using an Image"

Unfortunately, Google Images is too smart. Even, search by image or image URL yields results about the Fourier transform :P
Yeah, it seems almost as if a lot of people look back at their experiences of U.S. schools in the 90s, and assume that the schools in 2025 must not have changed one iota. While obviously I can't speak for every school district (nor can anyone), many of the criticisms I've heard seem disconnected from the schools I'm familiar with. (Not that they aren't subject to newer criticisms!) Is my personal experience a big outlier, or are people just extrapolating from the past? It makes me worry that school districts will greatly overcorrect in their efforts to ward off the old criticisms.
the modular parts (IOKit) are C++
These are all fair questions, and to go further, life may not even have required light at all- there are chemoautotrophs living deep in the rock that never see light.

I was going to say "obviously, nothing I said above would apply to life as we don't know it, like on the surface of a neutron star".
This is kind of a fun exercise in hindsight but for a successful WW2 project that was pretty high tech for the time and successfully deployed - the proximity fuze is pretty hard to beat, the basic physics is simple enough for most people to grasp it but this problem stumped the Nazis and the Japanese only figured out a solution too late in the war to deploy.
There's quite a lot of interviews with western women on this subject on YouTube. Can't remember the channel.

I felt so incredibly safe in Japan and I don't remember even seeing a cop. As an American, that felt crazy to me for how large those cities are. I had some expectation of that but it still surprised me, particularly in the touristy nightlife districts with the street drinking.

Obviously seems like there might be some downsides to the culture that leads to this.
I agree, it was written some time ago, and the language is hyperbolic, but many of the key points still hold true. Building a skillset to reach $100/hour consulting gigs was key to work 2-3 days per week, have time for research, and saving money for an ML rig, while living in Paris. Around $5K MRR is sufficient to live off, $10K MRR is more comfortable and allows renting a few extra A6000 Ada and start outsourcing, and $20K MRR to afford full outsourcing to focus on research and renting 8xH100s. That's a good goal to balance research freedom with other responsibilities. After that, it's optional to trade research freedom for higher MRR and more responsibilities.
Someone with "community college or nothing" is not an engineer, unless they drive a train. Are you referring to software developers?
In New York people push other people onto the tracks for fun and we do little about it.
Anecdotal stuff is also useful when there is a lack of science. I hate it when HN people completely dismiss anecdotes and want research papers for everything. Even research papers are dubious.

Please share your personal experiences with cold water plunges! Was it good? Or was it bad? Where did you do it? How did you do it? Do you have a setup at home?
I thought "huh, some hospital link," but it appears to be a scam site, so be wary of clicking. (Good advice anyway, but I naively thought I could trust a link on HN.)

Which link did you follow, by the way? I clicked a few, and the link to https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_visex is broken, but none took me to your link.
thanks! also my first time learning about Sandstorm, will read more about it!
My favorite thing about soranews is the English writers always call the Japanese writers "us" or "our reporter", but you never see any of them when they post pictures of the office. I assume they're being kept in a dungeon somewhere.
Programming in D tutorial on Embedded Linux ARM devices
Even public trust (low level) requires som time to complete.

This person obviously was fasttracked and bypassed the most basic of background checks.
Last year, less than 9,000 foreigners naturalized into a population of 123 million.

In order to naturalize, you must present a compelling case to do so: you must speak, read, and write Japanese to the level required by compulsory education, must demonstrate that you can and will supporting yourself financially, must have no criminal record in Japan or elsewhere, and nominally must be married to a Japanese citizen.

Japan does not allow dual citizenship. If you naturalize, you are required to show proof that you have surrendered any non-Japanese citizenship.
I honestly suspect fairly little would change. The US operates with a 20 year copyright for nearly 200 years, these long copyrights are actually far newer.

Also, you are not owed a monopoly on arrangement of words enforced by the public. There are plenty of other places to spend tax dollars.
For a person (my daughter) who has tried everything under sun (except ECT and psilocybin)for depression and OCD and nothing ever seemed to help, what is the latest on treatment horizon?
Wasn’t this exact route taken? Government got cases dismissed for lack of standing - plaintiff could not prove they were being spied on… because the government wouldn’t reveal anything.
The historic stance was that the right would never cut SS/Medicare because the elderly have some of the loudest political voices and would immediately switch sides. Whether or not this true, unfortunately I suspect we'll find out.
Every culture develops 'marketplace' intuitive mathematics; everyone has to make change or figure out how to divide a dozen apples 4 ways.

Only a few cultures develop abstract mathematics. How many have? It's even possible, like the alphabet, that only one culture invented it and others copied that one culture.

HN members may be in a bubble here. In my experience, most people, even those with college degrees (and therefore some exposure to it) have a hard time grasping abstract theory of anything, especially its usefulness, and a harder time applying it. If I say, 'There is no perfect security; we need to make the attack more expensive for the attacker than it's worth to them. The existing system A is wasting resources because it is not protecting something valuable ...'; they ignore everything and might even say 'why are you telling me that?', and then 'will system B perfectly secure this asset?'

It's always alarming for me. How can our world funtion well if all the value of abstract theory is discarded?
> i have a photo of it but no idea how to post it :/

Upload to https://imgur.com/ (no account necessary) and post the link here.
I was thinking of the step from milli to nano, so yeah 1e6 not 1e3, 20 bits not 10. But the point stands.
I said "half" for a reason, I wasn't talking about naturalized citizens but rather their descendants or people with part foreign ancestry. Zainichi Koreans are the main example I think.

It's not a lot more, but it's more than 2%.
CoCoNUT: Structural Code Understanding does not fall out of a tree
"To interpret it differently requires bending the mind."

Stange, I think interpreting it your way requires bending the mind. Hellwig clearly used it to describe what he sees at the ill effects of multiple languages in the kernel. It was not used to describe either Rust the language or this specifically this particular submission.
The coin animation is non-quantum. I thought it was a bug and it doesn’t work as the author intended.
A 50% indirect rate both isn't particularly high. The idea that "You're raising" an extra 50% isn't really fair either - the effort into writing a grant is the same regardless of the indirect rate.

There are arguments to be made that university budgets are too high (I don't agree, but they exist). So renegotiate indirect rates. There's a framework for doing this.

An across the board, utterly devoid of context arbitrary cut to 15% isn't a sane policy.

Your institution might have a large endowment. Mine is a rural state school.
> What's controversial is how much and what kind of support they deserve from society to overcome the disadvantage in environment.

I think calling that controversial is taking a side. We're talking about educating children, who are innocent, and greatly increasing the welfare and productivity of society.
"This was CS50": Yale ends largest computer science course
yea, most certainly! from a setup perspective tunnels are much easier to configure, just need a domain and an agent container that routes to your services. To have family and friends access web services is easy too - there is support for email totp, certificates, passwords, etc. so you'll definitely find what suits you. Vpn is still required the monent you're looking into higher bandwidth requirements, but for services like expenseowl (one-off and quick operations), tunnels are free and easy
It's a (low-hanging fruit) shitpost, not an actual announcement.
Most interesting to me is that the Chuo Line appears to have finally gotten its new rolling stock with Green Cars! I went to high school in Tokyo and was slummin' it in the 201 series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/201_series#/media/File:JR_EAST...
It's common in European universities to not have "service courses" that the math departments provide to other departments. The other departments teach the math that is part of their field!
Some of the syntax changes are optional, some of them like the _/* change aren't.
Some people have a very different risk profile to others around getting in trouble with the law. People on immigrant visas, people who would lose security clearance or their job, etc.

Even if you’re not a goody goody by nature, the rational behavior for a green card holder at a nuclear lab is to be good as gold, at high cost.
You’re right - add insufficient leadership to the list as well.

IMO, it seems inconsistent to green light R4L and not declare a clear policy for Rust code interacting with C code without adding a hard dependency (and if it WAS declared, not enforcing it).

The only benefit of doubt I can give is that there wasn’t enough time for Linus etc to weigh in before the thread got sidetracked (and the decision became much more politically charged). It’s unclear what would have happened if only the maintainer was unreasonable.
To note, ending within the suburbs doesn't help that much if everything is closed and your choice is wandering the streets, spending 5h at the only opened bar, forking for an hotel or paying a cab.

That said, France is the same regarding commuting trains, oversleeping in Paris's RER will lead you to pleasing but pretty far away towns.

Did it once, and spent about 5h visiting the sleeping town by foot to mark the occasion. Did it again in the midst of winter, and the staff allowed me and the two other blokes to stay for the night in the next departing train with the heating on.

Spain had trains going well into the mountains as well. I can't imagine how it goes for Russia, China and India.
> the highest compensated jobs correlate with higher IQ and analytical reasoning ability

Is there evidence of that?

There is evidence that it correlates with family wealth. Just consider legacy admissions into high-status schools, jobs, etc.
It is a sequel trilogy for The Book of the Long sun.
Partnr: A Benchmark for Planning and Reasoning in Embodied Multi-Agent Tasks
I was pretty sure there was a flipflop in the book too, though. Where the narrator reported now being at war with whomever, and that they had always been at war with that party.
If you're alluding to immigration, this cannot be blamed for vandalism and littering. Other kinds of crime, arguably, but not those, there are plenty of middle class shitheads who will happily do their part.
I think right now Marcan can work magic and reverse these chips and other pieces. Long term it's an arms race and Apple has other motivations to lock the platform down further. They may even get told to make it compatible, but they seem to be willing to maliciously comply with those directives.

I am reminded of the Beeper messenger stuff. Like it's cool when people hack these things together to do stuff, but the community as a whole has seen this episode before. We probably shouldn't be making any choices or compromises to make Apple stuff work, because they are adversarial.
Back when REST was a new hot buzzword and people were debating its true meaning, I remember thinking that some of the arguments for HATEOAS only really made sense if your client apps were going to be some kind of AI graph navigators. So I wonder if being particular about HATEOAS makes more sense now?
I find this reply interesting. Linus says that what matters is technical stuff, but even before the social media brigading, the whole thread was nothing but non-technical drama. So why is Linus focused only on that and not Hellwig's behavior?
You can still run unsigned extensions on Firefox Developer Edition (FF beta with some developer tooling) with an about:config tweak.
It's public knowledge that he's a prof at stanford and publicly available directories can lead you to his office. Not to mention that he's famous enough that this is almost certainly not the first time someone shares a photo like this.

If it was a photo of his home I'd understand but this is essentially public knowledge.
This systematic review suggests that CWI delivers time-dependent effects on inflammation, stress, immunity, sleep quality, and quality of life, offering potential practical applications for health practitioners considering CWI for stress management and wellbeing support.

Time-dependant is the key here.
Automating My Taxes Using AutoHotKey
Yet, we all know we will!
Whatever you think about the de minimis trade exemption, (I support removing it since it’s clearly become a loophole that can be exploited in a way that wasn’t imaginable in the past when a random American couldn’t order a $2 item from a random factory in China), the approach has just been ridiculous.

The administration made a decision with absolutely no thought about what it would entail, and then realized (fortunately) that it would fuck up the entire US economy because the customs system was totally not prepared to inspect every package that was making it to US shores and even attempting to enforce this would gum um all the ports and lead to skyrocketing prices and the destruction of trade and economic activity within the U.S., and then “paused” an order they passed barely a few days ago.

It’s just a ridiculous way to run a government.

And it raises severe concerns about the other decisions they’re making which may not have as stark and as immediate a feedback loop, but may be far more consequential and detrimental over the longer run.
1) It is an experiment. The point is to test something that nobody is sure about. Whether the result is expected or unexpected there isn't really such a thing as "unsuccessful"; even duplication of work is considered useful.

2) If you think the cost-benefits are bad, my advice is don't sign up to be experimented on. Nobody has to be experimented on if they don't want to be.
I use Tapir with http4s as the http server isn't my bottleneck anyway and I like Cats Effect and fs2.

But SoftwareMill has done extensive benchmarking to make sure the overhead from Tapir vs calling the http backend directly was insignifiant. I believe Netty is the recommended backend if you want direct style (i.e no effect systems) on Java 21+ virtual threads even though Oracle's Helidon Níma is supported too.
> I doubt you can find a single Clojure-is-not-Lisp person who denies that McCarthy's LISP 1 and 1.5, MacLisp, BBN Lisp, Interlisp, Lisp Machine Lisp, ZetaLisp, Portable Standard Lisp, Emacs Lisp, XLisp, VAX Lisp, ISLisp, EuLisp and even AutoLISP ... are Lisp.

Please tell me you aren't making the argument that things with "Lisp" in the name are Lisps.

If only Steele and Sussman had thought to call it SchemeLisp instead of just Scheme, we could have avoided this whole semantic debate.

> I made a Lisp. It's not Common Lisp, yet I've never had anyone tell me it's not Lisp.

Me too! I've never had anyone tell me anything about the Lisp I made, actually.

> This is not some gender issue of inclusivity, like what is a woman. It has nothing to do with being nice or not.

Respectfully, I disagree. Being pedantic isn't nice, and this "Lisp refers to Common Lisp" idea was explicitly about politically excluding Scheme from the community all the way back when Naggum started it[1].

> It's a technical matter of using the correct term for the things to which it applies.

The problem with what you're saying is that words apply to concepts based on usage, not based on what a small group of pedants think they should apply to.

De facto people apply the term "Lisp" to both Scheme and Closure, therefore the term applies. That's how the English language works, words that are widely applied to a thing are taken to mean that thing. And sometimes the meanings of words change over time because common usage changes. Like it or not, common usage moved beyond "Lisp" meaning... whatever you want it to mean. People refer to Clojure as a Lisp now.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://groups.g...
> I use PHP Storm for Laravel development and I never say to my self, "if only I wasn't using an IDE, maybe I could get this site put together faster". Quite the opposite, Intellij makes me super productive.

But the first time you tried out PHP, did you have to install the IDE first? Did you have to change your existing PHP tooling setup the first time you tried out Lavarel?

I would agree that IDEs are an improvement over not using them in most languages, but my feeling the "tooling curve" is much steeper for Scala than for something like PHP.
I do think you make valid points and I'm wrong about the way I categorized them.

And, I did put public in quotes because these utilities, while privately owned, do benefit from regulatory capture that seems out of place with a privately held company. And they often operate on or over public lands.

And, having lived through the fires in Oregon and seeing the trauma first hand, I'm still angry.

That's my takeaway from the article but I'm willing to listen and learn. Your points are valid and show how mistaken some (or all) of my conclusions are based on false connections.