skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Country with no or failing public school or no or failing public Healthcare looks just like a failed state.

And about none of them has overall good conditions, except for the richest.
So the net result is that they'll increase spending by 2T in order to give themselves tax cuts.

Remember this the next time they talk about "wasting money".
This. I had someone try to claim once that having three undergrads in my lab meant a lot of research would be done. I had to explain that they were all net negatives - worthwhile ones, but not productive.
Well, ever since the early 1990s the UK have been CCTV capital of the world, where you could not go to a neighborhood shop without being watched by the government in medium-to-large cities.

We talk a lot about Red China being a dystopian Orwellian state - but their inspiration came from the UK, both the novel and it's implementation.
A flood of content has actively devalued media even before AI.

In the era of "the cinema has fewer screens than an AI character has fingers", "big media" -- movies and TV -- were cultural touchstones. Everyone knows Luke Skywalker, the Brady Bunch, or the Jaws theme as baseline references, even if they've never seen the corresponding media.

Now, even before the AI boom, we've got so many choices that we're all in independent fandoms with less and less "common currency". If I made a joke at work about dressing up as a human-sized NEC PC-9801[0], what are the odds any of my co-workers will get it?

AI would accelerate that process. You'll have a thousand niche movies a week all sliding through the local cineplex. There might be fifteen people who ever pay to see "Dragon Locomotive Mechanic Samurai Warrior XVI: Return Of Admiral Becky", and will anyone want to talk with you about it after you leave the cinema?

[0] plug for 16-Bit Sensation
> a workflow they have been optimizing for decades

obligatory reminder about breaking someone's workflow https://xkcd.com/1172/
Adversarial play sounds fun, I might try that out!

The LLM we use is mistral-large-latest, we didn't do any training on the data yet
They'd check their network for a seed engineer who can recognize talented people by talking to them.

To put the whole concern in a nutshell:
If AI was good enough to fool a seasoned engineer in an interview, that engineer would already be using the AI themselves for work and not need to hire an actual body.
> It works well though, particularly over SSH and devcontainers, although it has severe bugs that they refuse to fix, and it isn't open source so you can't fix it yourself.

VS Code dev here. Would you like to share that list of severe bugs? Also, can you clarify what exactly isn't open-source in the entire VS Code with SSH and devcontainers flow? It's disheartening to read this, knowing that this simply isn't true.
"Having 50% of their grant leeched off" is not how indirects work.

You know what's a much bigger problem for people doing research? That the budget for a non-modular R01 from the NIH hasn't changed since the Clinton administration.
I still miss carto.com (originally CartoDB).

It was a really useful platform for uploading spatial data with a decent range of visualisation tools that didn't need code. You could do SQL if you wanted.

Then they got rid of the free tier, and set the cheapest tier at (iirc) $150 USD per month. And that was the end of that.
A reason given for the dramatic increase in solar storm effects on Earth is that the Earth’s magnetic field is weakening. This is due to the current geomagnetic excursion where the location of the geomagnetic poles is changing.
A friend woke up in Leeds once. The main problem was the unexpected cost of a peak time ticket back to London the following morning, which is a lot for a student.
Some banks allow setting up alerts for transactions of more than a threshold. It's possible to set this threshold to a very low value thus getting all transactions logged as texts.

I am not sure how this system handles US tips though; the notification may come in before the tips are added and the CC transaction is finalized.
It doesn't have brain damage because it doesn't have a brain. Its a tool that simulates human intelligence.

The point is to keep a tool which simulates intellegence from being used to make things worse.

The particular approach may be dumb but its sort of the least the companies can do, mostly done to cover their asses.
Then you get stories like Greg in the linked mail thread, who emailed to check after not hearing anything and got told that now he'd been annoying and it would never be done.
It sounds like they’re operating at larger scales, with a large number of users sharing a resource. Each user spawns 50 processes and consumes 100MB of space if they’re using VSCode. Assuming a low count of 1000 users, that’s 50K running processes and 100GB of space consumed. To enable a text editor.
Very nice!

I wrote an app like this a while ago in Node.js, the problem was that I found it annoying having to remember evrrything until I get back home and boot up my laptop to add new entries, so I decided to rewrite the backend in Golang so that it can run as an executable file, embedded the frontend React.js files into the Golang executable file, changed the DB from MongoDB to SQLite, and ran it on my Android phone using Termux.

I could have run it without rewriting the backend and changing the database, but I don't want to run Node.js and MongoDB on my phone...
Of perfectly moderate Rust users get annoyed with C zealots?
> Easily extracted (they're part of every address, no geocoding required)

That's only true if you can also access the spatial boundaries of the zipcodes themselves.

In Australia, this turns out not to be true: the postal system considers their boundaries to be commercial confidential information and doesn't share them. The best we can do is the Australian Bureau of Statistics' approximations of them, which they dub "postal areas".
The time for measured approaches is long gone. Any administration of the last 50 years could have done that. But they didn't. It's time to slash and burn.
American communists hate this? Are you sure? I'd ask them myself, but I can't say I've ever met any.
But why linux won? We know now it won, but what is the reason. Tanenbaum was theoraticaly correct. İf HN exist back then, I would argue most devs here would say Minix will last longer, monolithics is indeed an old idea that had been tried and tested etc.

In every situation where a microkernel is used, a monolithic version would run faster.

İs performance really the only key factor when it comes to software design ?

Usually people want software to do two things. The first is do what it is expected to do. The second is to do it as fast as possible.

It seems to me that the microkernel idea came from observing that virtual memory protection made life easier and then saying “what would life be like if we applied virtual memory protection to as much of the kernel as we can”. Interestingly, the original email thread shows that they even tried doing microkernels without virtual memory protection in the name of portability, even though there was no real benefit to the idea without virtual memory protection, as you end up with everything being able to write to each other’s memory anyway such that there is no point,

Same question for the iphone. There are some link from HN where people saying iphone is dead bcs it does not support flash. But it didnt. Why it didnt?

Flash was a security nightmare. Not supporting it was a feature.
Donkey Kong’s famed kill screen has been cleared for the first time
mmm... that sounds fun! I'll have to think about how that works. I say never look anything up until you've exhausted everything you can come up with ;)
Nice color propagation! I enjoyed the different base shapes (triangle, hexagon, etc.). I had experimented with the hexagonal version in Three.js here: https://onivers.com/hexalife/
tweaking the rules to explore interesting patterns.
But he didn't do that. Go and read his actual speech. The words he actually used. He encouraged peaceful protest.

Why were fiery riots presented as "mostly peaceful protests" while someone that encouraged people to peacefully protest is held responsible for that protest turning into a riot?
Sure are already subsidised to the tune of a few million pounds per year.
I think org mode has a great implementation of it. It works when setting a date parameter to, say, "Friday" and the scheduler will pick the closest Friday and turn it into a proper date, so there is no ambiguity later.
The last time the US Supreme Court decided on copyright law, they basically said "we like what Google is doing with Android, so what they did is fine".

So, no, not necessarily.
D4M: Bringing associative arrays to database engines
Trained only on a thousand curated questions? Something doesn’t add up…

Oh… they just fined turned an already existing model.
[a-z] is equivalent to 'a|b|...|z' in the normal regex language.

So if we do [a-z]:[A-Z] it should be expanded to:

(a|b|...|z):(A|B|...|Z)

which is pretty legal in trre but has different meaning of mapping any a-z to ALL the A-Z (generating A-Z on each occurrence of lowercase letter).
Ah, the time I’ve spent in Tring.
April 2024
"In 2010, after twenty years under development, Stallman said that he was "not very optimistic about the GNU Hurd. It makes some progress, but to be really superior it would require solving a lot of deep problems" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd
Not to mention, Apple has already sheepishly admit to implementing warrantless dragnet surveillance in the United States: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/apple-governments-surve...

If Apple can be compelled to keep shut about Push Notifications being bugged, who knows what else they're obligated to keep under the covers. Caveat emptor.
That has nothing at all to do with what is being discussed in this thread. Why are you so eager to change the topic when you lose the argument?
Lawyers (and hence, judges) are really good at arguing why the earlier case does not apply in a present case, even if most reasonable people would think the two cases are essentially the same.

It's a fundamental part of lawyer training, and if they want to let BigCorp go and bring the hammer down on the little guy, they can make up a hundred reasons for it.
Keyboard noise? That sounds a bit intense.
The first gnulinux I installed was blag on a 770 thinkpad replacing windows98SE. For a week I tried to get sound working trying all the recipes I found and downloading forum threads on the topic in bulk to research the issue. But not even crickets. One night I woke up for some reason and looked through saved forum posts and in one of them someone posted a long cryptic command that worked for them. I typed it in hit Enter, no message, prompt just returned and the sound worked. that kind of cured me
I am liking the various capitalisations of doge Doge DoGE DOGE... like a dog whistle distain for it!
Relax - he's got the blue check. That means Elon has confirmed that he controls their username and could post whatever he wanted or found convenient with their handle and branding.
> I’ve dealt with this all first hand ... In Canada ...

Consider sitting this one out.
> so go ahead and write a Production microkernel

He has though. Tanenbaum's created the most popular production OS in the world, and it's microkernel based: https://www.networkworld.com/article/964650/minix-the-most-p...
And the point of LLMs is that simple NNs finally show emergent behaviors if you throw a billion times more processing power at them. So it took a megawatt of electricity to write a longer than human version of game of life. We should be impressed. /s

I'm actually not sure though whether it's more impressive to willfully attempt to not think hard about a problem, while thinking really hard about how to get something else to solve that problem for you. That may actually be a completely different order of thinking, and its value might be judged on whether such tools are always available from now on. In other words, we could just be arguing that if it wasn't written in Assembly it doesn't show real understanding... when such things have become apparently irrelevant.
Checked exception in a Optional.get is really the worst idea that you could possibly come up with.

Have a look at vavr (https://github.com/vavr-io/vavr)
They did a fantastic job and the DX is so much better than anything java std has to offer. They have immutable equivalents for pretty much any java util data structure as well as either try option etc. To me the one lib that makes java actually feel fresh.
> being Mac-only

I was an avid Hotline user at the time and connected via Windows. Was there third party clients? Vague memories...

Today I'm on Linux and just found out there's a FOSS Qt client updated just hours ago... https://github.com/tjohnman/Obsession
No, it is not the entire point. No one is really doubting whether you can write a driver in Rust, C++ or Swift. The whole experiment is whether you can slowly move in to existing mature kernel subsystems without being too disruptive.
It's the fallacy of authority barely disguised. It works wonders with students. Luckily Linus didn't fall for it.
KDX was the followup to Hotline, made by the same guy IIRC, he made a new company "Haxial". and yeah it was quite nice!
Gnu Hurd has been under development since 1990.

14 years ago (2011) this thread happened on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/edl9t/so_whats_the_d...

Meanwhile in 1994 I knew people with working linux systems.
That's true. Thank you for elaborating.

There is a hidden operator of concatenation as for usual regular expressions. In the code I denote it as lower dot '.' (as in the old Thompson's implementation).
Great project! It's fascinating how hard segmentation is and how many approaches there are. I thought I'd mention a trick that can let you segment without a backend. When you double click Chinese text in the browser, it will highlight an entire word. For example, try double clicking on the text here: 一步登天：走一步就到天堂美好境地。 It highlights/segments the first 4 characters as a chengyu, and the others as one or two character words. I haven't been able to discover what method Apple and Microsoft use to segment, but it seems to do a good job. You can even use JavaScript's Range.expand() function to do this programmatically. I once even made a little JS library that can run in the background and segment words on a page.
I never really got these arguments. It doesn't have to be that way, does it? I already pay a monthly base fee for electricity and then per kwh on top of that. So I consider the base fee as what is being used to maintain the grid. It's not like my actual consumption influences the wear of the grid in a meaningful way

That argument would actually make more sense for roads so I see how you'd want to tax gas instead of car ownership, but even there I think it could still be acceptable to spread it out like that.
I'd argue there is a lot of cost-scale issue.

Blair Witch was achievable not just because it was low-tech but because the premise can be done cheaply.

If I want to make (for example), a globe-trotting spy film, locations and travel are expensive. If there's going to be car crashes, props are expensive. If I do it on a hobbyist budget, it will look the part.

To be honest, I expected to rise of the "all CGI" film more than the AI-gen film. You still have full artistic control rather than wrestling the gacha on specifics, but now you can afford to level Paris and rebuild it in the next scene, and you don't have to worry about the lead actor gaining 10kg before the sequel.
Yes, it is a completely different set of rules. Strict aliasing is also referred to as type based aliasing analysis. Rust has categorically rejected this form of analysis, the aliasing rules are very different. It has nothing to do with types.
`then` is definitely less intuitive than `map` considering that you actually want to, well, map to something else.

Semantically, `then` would be equivalent to `ifPresent`, but, well, then both are intuitive.
Neat! You should add

scroll-snap-stop: always;

to each slide so it won't scroll past the next slide due to inertia.
I picked up a couple of abandoned umbrellas on my recent visit to Japan.
> Agents, while leveraging similar systems, are serving a site's end consumer. When I use an agent to shop, I'm still the customer of the shop. As the shop owner, I want to give the best experience therefore it's in my best interest to provide an AX that supports them providing a good experience to the end user.

This is fine until the agent decides to order something the customer did not want. This is inherent to the concept of an agent. Due to the probabilistic nature of LLMs, and the fact that no agent will ever be perfectly able to predict exactly what you want at the time you want, this scenario is inevitable.

As the shop owner, this would result in an increased numbers of returns. You could recommend that the user must approve the purchase, but given that you do not define these agents, there is no way for you to ensure that the user is actually following your advice.
> Cristoph refused to help Martin create Rust APIs for DMA. That's why he went ballistic.

No, he tried to prevent other people from doing the work to create Rust APIs, and said that he would do everything in his power to prevent anyone from doing it.
I have just written a comment about a related point, but I wrote my own expenses tracking web app and using it on the go wasn't possible because I didn't host it somewhere, so I ended up running it on my Android phone using Termux (I rewrote it from Node.js to Golang first though).
Probably the belief that the CCP would survive Apple withdrawing from China, but the UK government would not survive Apple withdrawing from the UK.
is murid short for remote access greek horse ?
Spent so much time on Hotline. Was truly awesome.
Taking a side? I live in Portland. We passed a tax to make preschool free for all children. Rich people fought it tooth and fucking nail. This one thing that can have such a huge positive outcome was wildly controversial. It passed but man they are still fighting to repeal it. So calling it taking is side is wildly ignorant of the facts. And this is in bright blue Portland, not some red state educational desert.
2004Scape
Do you think that physical violence is the only sort of thing that police can unjustly inflict upon you?

I love Japan, have spent a significant quantity of time there, and if I was a billionaire, it'd be the place where I bought the penthouse luxury apartment. So if anything, I am very favorably biased towards the country.

But it also has a 99% conviction rate, and not because their police are so stellar that they always get the perpetrator on the first try. They hold you for extended periods of time and the system is set up to extract confessions. We know that people are weak to being coerced into false confessions even in countries where there is significantly less pressure and attempts to get them out of you.

Also plenty of laws that have penalties that would be considered quite harsh compared to much of the western world - simple possession of pot can get you 5 years in prison, and intent to distribute/profit can get you 10 - and personal stash levels are plenty to bump you into that range.
Exactly my point in terms of the chipsets, and the limited acceleration in capacity of evolution per year for small chip manufacturing companies unlike mediatek and qualcomm, furthered by silicon shortage and many other manufacturing facts, including a language like Rust at this stage should be subject to observation.
Hotline got official Windows clients after a year or so! I remember feeling a bit salty that our insular club suddenly had _intruders_ hahaha :) but yeah and around that time people started reverse-engineering the protocol (since it was plaintext) and a linux/BSD client "hx" was written. There are many unofficial clients: https://preterhuman.net/gethotlinekdx.php

Wow I didn't know Obsession was still being updated, that's awesome! thanks for letting me know lol
It's more likely that the user will need to ask the agent to solve the CAPTCHA, because right now AI bots are better at solving CAPTCHAs than humans are.
A big part of the problem in Manhattan is that most places don't have alleys. There is nowhere for the trash to be left except on the sidewalk.

Some cities have the trash trucks drive around playing music, ice cream truck style, and you are required to bring your trash out to the truck. Logistically that would probably work in Manhattan. Politically I don't think you would ever be able to get it done.
Now only if llm response font is some handwritten style.
Was this comment written by an 80 year old who’s watched a Fox News segment on Rust? It definitely reads like that.

wsl ‘DOES’ have a rust toolchain, nobody is saying rust is going viral (what on earth…), you tried to install the python packages’ sdist rather than the wheel.

Get it together.
Show HN: My first attempt at writing a decent sized parser from scratch in Java
https://github.com/freakynit/Blueprint

A single class, highly performant, easily extensible, zero external dependencies, and java-8 compatible templating engine for Java with same easily readable syntax as Nunjucks
Other companies don't say EEE (MS also doesn't anymore, as far as I know), but that doesn't mean they are any better. In fact, I would say that Apple is far more guilty of doing this than MS is these days. But even so, what is the alternative? If MS creates any good product, people will accuse them of being at some phase in EEE, which is unfalsifiable.
I do wonder if Linus is actually opposed to Rust in the kernel, but for whatever reason thinks that he can't afford to openly ban it or do anything beyond deniably letting it be obstructed by maintainers. The Rust language project and community are political and politically savvy in ways that few other open-source infrastructure projects are - it seems conceivable that if he declared against it, this might result in personal attacks and pressure on key backers/sponsors that would endanger his position or Linux itself.
When the Rust for Linux experiment was approved.

It was sufficient, but that doesn’t prevent people from acting in bad faith. Which is what is happening here.
That's irrelevant. Switzerland (for example) isn't going to arrest Zuckerberg and put him in jail for this either.

Nobody will.

But if you're operating a site called Pirate Bay or something like that and it's not earning billions of dollars, expect countries to chase you across the globe trying to arrest you.
The islands have an exclusive economic zone, and are a supply stop in a vast ocean

They are very valuable to the UK
You should look at what’s going on in Cancun Mexico with Uber and the taxis right now. Your description in the first sentence is quite accurate.

Your comment also points out the power that regulation has to enforce and protect monopolies. I’m not saying all regulation is bad obviously, but I think we can see exactly what effect it had on the taxi industry, and I’m sure glad that Uber managed to disrupt it.