skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Guns are no longer the weapon of choice for terrorists outside USA

There’s a dark implication here, so you’re saying he was influenced or coerced to do this? It’s baseless conjecture without any proof, but based on anecdotal evidence, I think there are some cases which may fall under this type of scenario. I’ve seen similar behavior online where users encourage a vulnerable person to some end. The fact that you’re assuming such behavior is related to terrorism is interesting.
I'm a little bit skeptical as to how successful a hard fork of Linux that only differs from the mainline kernel by having a bit more Rust code actually would be.

If you're going to rewrite significant parts of the kernel, you might as well do what I've been doing and try to write what amounts to a better Linux than Linux that tries to maintain compatibility, but moves beyond the rather limiting conventional Unix architecture. The conventional Unix architecture was fine on a something like a 70s/80s-era PDP-11/VAX, but in the modern world its limitations have been apparent for quite some time.

What I've been working on is an OS very similar to QNX Neutrino in terms of general architecture, but with a somewhat different IPC protocol layering that reduces the number of user-visible primitives and allows for more consistent management of security. Most of the functionality of the system will be implemented in user-level server processes that export their services through special filesystems, with the only special/irregular parts of the system being the microkernel, the process manager (which also contains the core VFS and memory filesystems since these will be tightly linked to the process model), and the base syscall library (vaguely akin to the vDSO under Linux). Literally everything else will just be a regular process. It's not a "Rust OS" as such, as there will still be some C (for instance, the microkernel, which was forked from an older version of seL4), although it will have a fair bit of Rust code.

IMO the issues with Linux are mostly due to a combination of poor/ad-hoc extensibility and the development model that's way too decentralized in some places but excessively centralized in others. The architecture I'm going with will allow for more experimentation, since adding functionality to it will typically just be a matter of adding a regular user program (or a plugin for a regular user program), and much of the system will be based around standardized filesystem-based RPC protocols (generic tooling for implementing RPC interfaces will of course be provided). Therefore it would be easier to maintain experimental functionality in a separate repository and merge it into the base system later on.

Currently it's still quite preliminary, and it only runs some hardcoded tests built into the process server, although despite that, some developers from a major company have taken interest in it recently because of the possibility of using it as a replacement for QNX both in embedded systems and development workstations. I'm working on the VFS layer and built-in special filesystems at the moment, and hopefully should be able to get user processes running pretty soon.

https://gitlab.com/uxrt/uxrt-toplevel
So what is the goal?
It wasn't going to work without ample support within the kernel.

At a minimum, all prominent developers would have to be convinced and ready to put a lot of effort into this.

As this was never the case, Linus should have put his foot down with a clear No, thus preventing the conflict and overall waste of resources we're seeing.

Rust devs would still be able to fork or otherwise (much better idea imho) work on their own kernel, hopefully with a much better design.

Redox is doing this, with a microkernel multiserver approach.
It depends on what your overall goal is.
GSAP is a great but I’m not sure it’s suitable for SVG as it’s been a long time since I’ve used it.

If you have access to creative tools like illustrator and after effects then perhaps Lottie.

There are other tools on my radar but I’ve never used them SVGGator
This works only if you trust the Rust people to do their job.

Obviously the maintainer does not trust the Rust people, but they also did nothing to gain his trust, but the opposite.

Just saying "Trust me, or else I will shame you" is not a viable strategy.

The default position of any code maintainer who sees some people coming and saying that they would maintain from now on some parts of the code and that there should be no worries about that, is to not trust them immediately, but only after enough time passes during which they demonstrate that they are really competent and not just claiming to be so.
Yeah I'm still paying attention!
And this is how we end up with clown-maxing abominations like DNS-over-HTTPS.
If a company starts hosting backups for millions of users across the world, the become a natural target of such court orders.

The only way to prevent this is to avoid this huge, massive, centralisation. Of course, Apple wouldn’t want this.

If we had lots of smaller scale hosting providers around the world (potentially dozens per country), the scope of attacking each one with such an order is much smaller.
The majority of people I worked with in government were actually very motivated. Sometimes it was public service, sometimes they were ambitious for their career, sometimes they just liked what they were working on.

I have not really seen more motivated people in business due to performance incentives. Even in the financial sector, other than maybe traders and quants, I can tell you most people don't work harder because of the annual bonus.

It was certainly a bit dispiriting working with the minority of people who appeared to do absolutely nothing and just hung around for years. We all knew we had to work harder because of them. Some of them would definitely have been fired in a business.
That's a better article. I would delete this one, but too late!
Because of how corporations and state are tightly fused in China's governance.

> A Leninist system features an authoritarian regime in which the ruling elite monopolizes political power in the name of a revolutionary ideology through a highly articulated party structure that parallels, penetrates, and dominates the state at all levels and extends to workplaces, residential areas, and local institutions.

From: https://www.csis.org/analysis/soviet-lessons-china-watching

All user data submitted to DeepSeek is accessible to the CCP.
I often think that LLM issues like this could be solved by a final pass of "is the information in this image the same as this text" (ie generally a verification pass).

It might be that you would want to use a different model {non-generative} for that last pass -- which is like the 'array of experts' type approach. Or comparing to your human analogy, like reading back the list to your partner before you leave for the shops.
How does that give you the right to train an LLM on it?

Or are we talking about training an LLM on it and never releasing that LLM to anyone ever? Then I guess it wouldn't matter. But if that LLM is released to anyone, shouldn't the author of the book have a say on it?
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Alaska plane that crashed died, says US Coast Guard
I don't see how closing Apple UK would mean "can't buy an iPhone in the UK". Importing is a thing.
Probably not seeing as the roads are abysmal and there's only a few hundred people here.
Was this written by DeepSeek? Aside from not being in depth, it’s also inaccurate (MoE details and MTP misunderstanding).
What a wonderful and highly quotable link. I was looking for a good way to communicate these concepts and here it is. I think this ca be specially useful in PRs, when you have reviewers wearing a chef's hat reviewing spike code that was written with a scrappy or macgyver's hat.
https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/208e1fc3-cfc3-4a26-98...

Just read the email.
Rust aside, it uses a microkernel, multiserver architecture.

And, of course, drivers run in userspace and interact with the system through a clearly defined API.

Other systems like this include Robigalia, Lions OS and Genode.

They would likely quickly overtake Linux if they got 1% of the resources Linux receives.
> Now, the UK can say that UK citizens' data can't travel outside of the UK without the UK government permission.

How so?
Now I wonder if the term “tracker” used for BitTorrent originated from Hotline…
I am French, not American so I may not get all the subtleties, but for me this woman is simply an egoist or is looking for financial support in exchange for something.

Pay for me with your money, but what is mine is mine.
There's also the other interpretation that prosecutors don't ... prosecute ... unless they're 99% sure they'll win.
AI for science with reasoning models
If it's a large enough corpus I imagine it's worth fine tuning to the specific fonts/language used?
> There is another hat: cannot resist pigeonholing other people

I think you failed to read the article. This article has nothing to do with pigeonholing people. This has nothing to do with people at all. This is about framing paths taken when working on solutions. Those who fail to understand this can even become toxic team members because they ignore contexts and start to nitpick with a chef's hat code that was clearly written as a proof of concept while wearing a macgyver's hat.
First, I don’t believe there has been a shred of evidence that DeepSeek distilled OpenAI’s model.

As to distillation: people use the term kind of imprecisely. The most powerful form of distillation is one in which you train a smaller “student” model on a large amount of predictions from a larger, more powerful “teacher” model that uses the same tokenization scheme. You train the smaller model to output not just the same tokens as the teacher, but rather on the full probability distribution predicted by that model for each token. It’s a very dense transfer of knowledge. This is best done using the same training data that the teacher model was trained on, since you are asking the student to learn the teacher’s distribution.

The more common version is to take an existing model and fine-tune it on a small number of text outputs from a larger model. No probability distributions over tokens - just the text itself. This doesn’t significantly alter the smaller model’s knowledge or capabilities, but rather, causes it to imitate the other model’s style. But it can unlock capabilities that were in the small model to begin with, but were not as accessible in its base form. For this type of distillation, it has been shown that a very small number of training examples are required if they are carefully selected.
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Everyone thinks they're experts:How advice overload is fueling parents selfdoubt
>Both were wrong, but only one was corrected.

People are wrong in LKML often.

This time, somebody was wrong in a much worse way than usual.
Doesn't Google have their own internal scanning of books?
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Not currently looking for this, but can I just say thank you for being open and direct with your prices. So useful to just be able to look.

How are you on 18-19th Century cursive, English language. Do you have a guarantee for number of errors.
I think that's the implication, not the definition. Data remains encrypted even when a third party gets access a key.
My mind was boggling over a JMW Turner connection to Hofstadter!? Guess I don't know CS ..
Generating Voronoi diagrams using Fortune's algorithm
I understand the frustration, but I don't understand the drama.

There are other big Linux forks that met a similar resistance, best example is probably Realtime Linux / RTLinux that was not welcome in the Kernel for what, 15 years? Yet they still continued in their own fork and now most of their patches have finally gone in.

The way they're going to work now should have been the default. Just as RTLinux was a big change to the Linux kernel, Rust will be a big change. You cannot expect the Kernel community to welcome such a huge change with open arms and deal with all the fallout (build system, interfaces, etc.)

Just be ready for your project to take a decade, instead of trying to force it in "now or never". Until then, maintain some out-of-tree modules written in rust that every Linux distro/user can try and test without much fuss. For example, I don't think it will be a huge problem if Mac users have to get their DRM driver at some other repo (or if distributions would have to package some `linux-module-drm-apple` package separately from the Kernel)
Using my suggestion, the signature would simply be "T findAny();" - while "T!" would represent non-nullable T. So the opposite of the Kotlin/Typescript/etc. way where the default is not-nullable and you'd have something like "T? findAny();".

It would be a language level change and would require language level syntax extensions to provide mappings between T and T!.

Like how we're used to having to add "final" to most variable declarations, you'd add "!" to a class type indicate not-null. Contra-variance would allow you to add ! to return values without breaking interface compatibility so you could migrate your code base in steps. Actually to be honest I'm just throwing this idea out there, I haven't given it deep thought.

Without language level support, Optional is a broken design. You've just multiplied the state space: the Optional instance can be null, the Optional instance can be not-null but empty, the Optional instance can be not-null and non-empty but the content is null and finally the Optional instance can be not-null and non-empty and the contained value can be non-null. Java's type system doesn't distinguish.
Whatever Happened to Unix Workstations?
>Unlike traditional OCR systems that fail obviously when uncertain, LLMs make educated guesses that appear plausible but may be entirely wrong.

Except for a very special kind of bug:

https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...

>Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents
> We "invade countries" on a regular basis, just not with tanks and battleships

That's kinda the point. "Invade" me with nice offers that I accept voluntarily any day
And everything went downhill from there.
I think the use case is mostly dev servers, either remote machines running in the cloud or docker containers running locally. I don't use VSCode much, but the one thing I do use it for is when I need to do something linux-specific. I spin up a linux VM on my MacBook and use VSCode to remote into the VM.
PURLs of Wisdom: Universal software package identification (2023)
OP, thank you for your work, I will continue to watch it.

I tried to built something similar, but what I didn't discover and think is crucial is the proper FE: yes, word segmenting is useful, but if I have to click on each word to see its meaning, for how I learn Chinese by reading texts, I still find Zhongwen Chrome extension to be more useful, since I see English meaning quicker, just by hover cursor over the word.

In my project, I was trying to display English translation under each Chinese word, which would I think require AI to determine the correct translation, since one cannot just put CC-CEDIT entry there.

P.S: I dont know how you built your dictionary, it translated 气功师 as "Aerosolist", which I am not sure what is exactly, but this should be actually two words, not one - correct segmentation and translation is 气功 师, "qigong master".
Isn’t it the other way around?

>Generally, for long-distance power transmission, DC lines can be thinner than AC lines because of the "skin effect" in AC, which concentrates current flow near the surface of the conductor, making thicker wires less efficient; therefore, for the same power transmission, a DC line can be smaller in diameter than an AC line
I'm a bit curious to know what was inaccurate in it.
The war on terror was a big thing in the UK long before 2001—largely because there was in fact quite a lot of terrorism going on there, to be clear.
That’s exactly who Trump is and what he wants, as a tool of cruelty to startle others.

You’re denying evidence. You’re deflecting. It’s documented in the press and in the legal proceedings that it was Trump policy.

You’re deflecting too by stating a different matter. Here kids were grouped and put in cages, from all ages, without relatives, without adults other than the guards.

We know deflection is part of the strategy… you’re not fooling anyone.
No? What are you talking about?
That’s probably the reason apple is resisting. They are currently certified as moderately trust worthy for government operations in Germany. Giving in would invalidate that.

https://support.apple.com/en-bh/guide/certifications/apc37da...
> I don't think anyone outside the region is sufficiently motivated to care

All that supplying Hamas with weapons and Syria stuff, going back to backing Egypt in 20 century attacks on Israel, shows at least Russia cares

> if Iran could buy a nuke or ten from either Russia or North Korea

They could. Russia bought weapons from Iran (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahed_drones) so why no the other way around
I have no idea how they think IPC is as quick as in-process. I do it pretty quickly with memory mapping (shared memory between data providers and consumers), but it has at least an order of magnitude overhead compared to a concurrent queue even after 30 years.

Tannenbaum must be threatened by the growing linux community to start throwing flamebaits like this.
Playing the devil's advocate here, but what would be the difference between talking on a phone via loudspeaker vs. (loudly) talking with another person sitting next to you?
I have no idea what happened here, but this saddens me. Vihart was my first ever "favorite YouTuber," back around 10-15 years ago. (I don't have a specific favorite YouTuber now.) I remember the first video I watched on her channel, which was the one about hexaflexagons.
Not being remotely similar to today could be a very good thing.
You’re totally rewriting history here.

Given the distance to the events, you cannot do so in good faith.
> Apple points to this decision as the reason.

Unlikely. That's illegal.
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These arguments have been going back and forth forever. I don't think either of us would be able to change each other's position on this based on arguing either way.

I'll take a different tack - look at the empirical evidence. If checked exceptions were a good/useful/helpful language feature, then the feature would have been adopted by other languages, especially new ones. But this simply hasn't happened. Java is unique in having checked exceptions.

Wouldn't you think that there would have been proposals to introduce checked exceptions for C++, Python, JavaScript, C#, and Rust, Kotlin, etc. if they were a useful software engineering tool?
My HN RSS feed (newest posts with at least 10 points; I think I'm gonna have to raise that number) is basically useless because it's mostly Elon Musk and other US politics drama. People repeatedly complaining about spammy off-topic posts being flagged and making up conspiracy theories about it is the sugar on top. I am so tired of this.

Take a hint, people.
DSLReports forums are mostly down
So the whole article is based on “people familiar with the matter”. I suspect that the real motivation, truth and substance lies beyond the “enrage” oriented title.
In the north about 50% will be ok with it.
In Kalgoorlie, Australia, gold telluride was not recognized as such, but was instead misidentified as pyrite and was used as a paving material. The streets were literally paved with gold (since recovered).
> I'd simplify this to "commercial hat" and "hobbyist hat", (...)

Your suggestion doesn't make sense, though. They mean nothing beyond disdaining code and convey nothing useful, whereas the article offers ways to classify different perspectives that are taken in highly professional settings.

To help you understand what's being discussed, highly successful companies made it thanks to their founders opting to put on their MacGyver hat to roll out a MVP instead of opting to put a Captain's hat.
As opposed to the US?
Did something similar based on Metabase for the UI.
Transaction stored in a basic Postgres table and regex on my bank transaction export for categorisation.
How the positional encoding lets transformers attend to relative token positions
https://european-alternatives.eu/
If we were dealing with a toddler, one could blame the parent for rewarding their misbehaviour attention... an adult developer not so much
A home network attached storage being the ultimate. Maybe you encrypt then sync the encrypted to a cloud.
I owned a Hotline server back in the day. Fun times!
I ran it for three full years from my student shell account at my college’s HP-UX server. It was a T3 connection so it was faaaast as hell. It got completely unnoticed by the sysadmins… until it didn’t!
They got so mad when finding out that I got my account suspended for months.
Do any models use some sort of context pruning to keep the [most] relevant parts of the context?

What single documents are you processing that are 1000+ pages?
> You spent more time configuring Vim and Emacs than they saved you.

Uh? I‘ve always used vim out of the box, and Emacs I got it just like I like by searching the .emacs file of a youtuber who has a configuration I likes. Exactly 1 minute.
Introducing the search engine that will challenge you to Click On All The Squares With A Bus if you have a bunch of browser privacy and security extensions enabled.

Hard pass, whatever this is.
all data you submit to Google, OpenAI, Meta, Facebook, Twitter... is accesible by US government.

The US government has been much more belligerent, and it's very natural to see DeepSeek as the lesser of the evils.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42768811
> The background is the > decade of underfunding of public services.

I would disagree. Similar countries with similar spending on health in terms of proportion of GDP or PPP spend per capita seem to have much better health systems. The UK has a fairly typical spend compared to France, Germany, the Scandinavian countries and so on on both measures - on each measure it spends less than some and more than others: httpshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...

It spends a lot less than the US which is the one developed country I know of with a clearly worse service.

> Neither of these cases inspire confidence in the General Medical Council or the Crown Prosecution Service.

I do not have a great deal of confidence in either of those in any case. The CPS has did prosecute some of the Post Office Scandal cases (even though most were private prosecutions), it failed to prosecute Mohammed Al-Fayed and many others, it has a very poor record on domestic abuse (failing to prosecute emotional abuse after it became a crime, or where victims were male).