skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is ultimately the crux of the issue. If Google, Microsoft, Apple, whatever, cannot manage to hire engineers that can write safe c/c++ all the time (as has been demonstrated repeatedly), it’s time to question whether the model itself makes sense for most use cases.

Grandparent can’t argue that these top tier engineers aren’t RTFM here. Of course they are. Even after the manual reading they still cannot manage to write perfectly safe code. Because it is extremely hard to do
That’s not entirely true, in Spotify’s early days you could upload files to the service and listen to songs uploaded by other people. I think the majority of any song I wanted to listen to before they went Europe-only for a time was “pirated”.
Their time line UI was really good: Go back in time to see emails and texts. Go forward in time to see upcoming events and weather info.

I was never in doubt about was button to press. I have had my Apple Watch for many years now, but still fumble around with basic stuff like turning on the torch light.

You could select what apps you want to also trigger notifications on the watch. And easily pause notifications for an hour or for the rest of the day.
Spotify was born as a response to piracy. Why do you say their catalog was pirated?
I personally love phishing tests. It's not like they're time cards or "foreign corrupt practices" training.
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Can you elaborate on why you say it is not informative?
OK. Still going to focus on the arsonist first.
By collude, you mean responding to subpoenas they are legally obliged to respond to?
> It seems reasonable to check to see if the preconditions are similar.

I know. And I ask how that is relevant, how any answer to those particular question would makes them similar or dissimilar. It's not. I know this for a fact, but you didn't even make the attempt to claim otherwise.

It's not about absolute or relative numbers. And it's not about knowing the future.

If I say "don't fall asleep with a cigarette", do I mean "don't burn yourself", "don't kill yourself", "don't burn down your house", "don't burn down the block", "don't burn down the city", or "don't burn down the continent"?
This is a natural next area of research. Nailing "adaptive compute" implies figuring out which problems to use more compute on, but I imagine this will get better as the RL does.
It's not just about corporations. Banking and government services e.g. are required to keep your personal information stored for years and years even against your will
It's both. Cryptographic generators do have better properties on their outputs than noncryptographic hashes (usually at a cost in cpu time, although the cost is often small enough to ignore); but if the seed is guessable, the output sequence is guessable too.

Using timestamp in seconds and process id for example would be easy enough to guess. There was some good work about a decade ago to provide more usable apis to get a quality seed from the OS (getentropy, getrandom), so using a self built seed is pretty suboptimal unless you have a case where you need to repeat the sequence later (recording the seed from the OS is also an option)
Have you heard of plug-in hybrids (PHEVs)?
These federally funded programs are corrupt. Let the free market build these electric vehicle chargers if people want them. Do not force me to participate in your political desires by taking my money at gunpoint.
That's what makes a banana republic, and for all intents and purposes the U.S. are exhibit A.
Allegedly. But since there’s zero transparency, we’ll just have to take the known liar and fraudster’s word for it.
The problem with this take is that Boeing was a major part of the Apollo program where they achieved dramatically more than is being asked of them here, in a far shorter time frame, and for far less money. There's no real explanation besides a complete atrophy of talent and overall capability, probably driven by becoming an entirely profit oriented company where taxpayer funding became a more productive means of of revenue generation than increasing quality or reducing costs.
I think the point was that the big corporations get the money from selling music.

And saying that bands currently make more money from touring kind of proves the point. They get too low % cut of music sales.
Hotels were just fine.

Taxis were discriminatory and "uncool" to the point were Uber has saved thousands by preventing drunk driving.

Now if you go out with the boys and get drunk, it's a 30 second casual call to get an Uber and get home.

Live in a neighborhood Taxis are afraid to service，you can either make some extra income working for Uber or use it yourself. When Ubers used as its intended purpose, to basically make a quick buck, it's a lifeline to many low income people .

Say your rents it's going to be late, you can pick up 20 or 30 hours of Uber this month to make it happen. It's not really a career though...
RTF is a very old Microsoft created format that has heavy integration with legacy technologies. For instance it allows embedding of Microsoft Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) objects into the file. Many of these legacy technologies were not designed with security in mind, so RTF would be an odd choice for a more secure alternative to PDF.
This is really interesting, but I don't agree with this conclusion: "These findings highlight the importance of educational curricula that bridge the gap between intuitive and formal maths." (My own opinion is that educational curricula are generally not very important at all; that people are learning machines that learn what they need to in the contexts they find themselves; and that people -- as shown by this study -- struggle to effectively apply what they've learnt in one context into a different context.)
Corporations are people. Just a notch above the regular kind.
I'm afraid I need someone to explain to me why it's a good book. :(

Genuinely, I remember reading first four stories after playing Signalis and I was very unimpressed. Especially with the first story, where I felt it was rambling for the sake of rambling.

I'm genuinely asking, really. If it matters I've been reading it in translation.
I actually think this is a plan to get rare earth resources.

I also think that it is an obviously extreme position that then will then obviously fail, but then the United States will fall back to "Canada and Greenland can only sell rare earth rights to the United States" to lock China out.
Dijkstra myopic. Got it.
in the default Windows install?

Don't think so. Otherwise there is always Unbound.
Also I totally understand not making opensource but marketing your apps as privacy focused but it's closed source is hard to give you trust.
I'm not an expert in analyzing apps, I guess people could use wireshark and see that nothing is coming out of your apps.
“We choose to [implement the Transformer in a spreadsheet] in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.”

And

“Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.”
Maybe, but there are details that matter that make it questionable. The Paternoster works but has both safety issues (thus illegal for new construction and where they exist only trained people are allowed to use it), and is slow. There are lots of other options that your elevator salesman can discuss with out - but all have trade offs that you may not like. In the end though there is no getting around large numbers of people take a while to move.
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How is this worse? This only affects users in China.
> recommend this Spolsky classic on how to convince one to try a new VCS: https://hginit.github.io/

Based in part on the parallels of their respective titles, this post may be similar enough in style to potentially be informative about Jujutsu: https://v5.chriskrycho.com/essays/jj-init/#outline

I've linked directly to the Outline/TOC in order to provide a more immediate overview of the post's content but there's also a chunk of more "philosophical" introductory text before the Outline: https://v5.chriskrycho.com/essays/jj-init/

The introductory text has parallels with the "Subversion Re-education" section of Spolsky's document--including the apparently mandatory (though stated in more reserved terms) reference to the effect the incumbent VCS has on one's brain: "just how weirdly Git has wired your brain". :D

As to the "why", to quote from the intro:

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Jujutsu is two things:

(1) It is a new front-end to Git. This is by far the less interesting of the two things, but in practice it is a substantial part of the experience of using the tool today. [...]

(2) It is a new design for distributed version control. This is by far the more interesting part. In particular, [...] a few key concepts [...]:

(2.1) Changes are distinct from revisions: [...]

(2.2) Conflicts are first-class items: [...]

(2.3) The user interface is not only reasonable but actually really good: an idea borrowed from... literally every VCS other than Git.

----

As someone who reluctantly stopped using Mercurial primarily due to the friction around using hg-git to interoperate with GitHub, I think Jujutsu's approach of focusing initially on developing atop the "git backend" for interoperability is both wise & IMO pretty much a requirement for any project hoping to become the next industry standard VCS that everyone complains about. :D

Having said that, while I'm positive about the project's approach & potential, have read multiple Jujutsu articles, docs & even downloaded a binary, I'm yet to actually use it.

By now the main reason I've been less inclined to prioritize trying JuJutsu out is the project's mandatory CLA requirement for contributions: CLAs are anti-developer & an abuse of the power differential between individual developers and corporate entities.

I'm sure they'll realise the error of their ways eventually. :)

And, yes, perhaps I'm tilting at windmills--but that's probably also why I stuck with Mercurial for so long and why I'm even considering/hold out hope for a git replacement... :D
Don’t you think out of the thousands of Apple employees that someone would leak it?
I usually explained ECS to people unfamiliar with the concept more like a relational database. It's not a perfect 1:1, but I feel like it resonates well if you think of components as highly normalized tables, and entities being a table of optional foreign keys to all the other tables. Then systems are queries that pick and update the entity rows joined specifically with the component tables you care about.

When you get deeper into ECS it usually ends up being quite similar, with some components in a system being optional (OUTER JOIN) and the various ways components can be stored for efficient retrieval / updates (indexing in databases).
The head of the administration, Trump, literally issued an order. An order that's being carried out right now.

And that order is messing with disability programs and other accessibility issues. Directly.
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> Does that make America “a nation of immigrants?”

The vast majority of Americans are immigrants.

> Is it a defining characteristic or an incidental one?

Is this even a question? Again, the vast majority of Americans are immigrants.

> I wouldn’t say that’s a defining characteristic that should define our future immigration policies.

You can try to move the goalpost as far as you'd like and blow as many ignorant and ill-informed xenophobic dog whistles as you'd care to blow. You cannot outrun the fact that the US is a nation of immigrants.
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Is this an attempt to imply the Scots had imperial ambitions and have not been fighting to keep their homes free of invasion for several thousand years?

Fuck this sounds familiar right now
I just can't get behind the sentiment that the unethical behavior by big companies means I get to access all the content I want for free.
Speed had a lot to do with this as well.

VC funding allowed them to move quickly enough that they got to a scale where they could afford legal and lobbying protection when challenges eventually happened.
It was really the first usable smartwatch in my mind.

My absolute favorite thing was that it gave developers the ability to create custom watch faces. I wrote a bunch of them and absolutely loved the dumb thing.
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"Stupid is as stupid does...",
this is the same Home Office Minister, Yvette Cooper (Flipper) that says pointy kitchen knives and Amazon orders are the reason for knife crime epidemic in the UK.
Next up x.com banned from the UK.
> It centered creating a distinct brand identity for the application through the design, a goal that is anathema to the goals of HCI

Not really, as the constraints of HCI are relatively loose. The fact is that current UX designers don’t read the litterature and don’t take usability in account. Instead, UI design is just aesthetic and UX is ruled by sales.

A platform should be consistent, but you can add your variation as long as it’s usable. Which most UI toolkits allows.
My response would be along the lines of:

"The USA fought a war in part because they did not like the use of general writs of assistance to allow agents of the British King to search peoples houses and papers where their suspicion chanced to fall. The UK lost that war so no way!"
That concept has always sounded like tech people trying to hack the law without the proper real-world legal knowledge, IMO.

Bruce Schneier wrote in a blog post that "[p]ersonally, I have never believed [warrant canaries] would work. It relies on the fact that a prohibition against speaking doesn't prevent someone from not speaking. But courts generally aren't impressed by this sort of thing, and I can easily imagine a secret warrant that includes a prohibition against triggering the warrant canary.

Lots of similar discussion on HN already, e.g. in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5871541.
It's a stupid situation, though. There are many creators I'm happy to support - but for 99% of them, I don't want their stupid merch. It's mostly low-quality garbage with high markup, that nevertheless cost something to design and produce, thus wasting both precious resources and labor - an useless tax on contributions to artists that doesn't even help anything. I really wish this wasn't necessary.

(Even the okay-quality merch is a waste, since for most artists I'd want to support, I don't identify with them enough to display that stuff, so it's again just buying to put away and eventually throw away.)
This is getting aggressively flagged (last attempt to discuss this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972899)

However I'd like discuss an aspect of it that I haven't seen mentioned before:

How unpleasant is it for a developer to write code for ancient systems day-to-day, systems like the ones DOGE is blitzing now? (I've never had the misfortune of working on a 50 year old codebase.) I imagine it takes quite a while to get familiar with it, and the DOGE team is probably only working with a surface understanding. Maybe they aren't even trying to work within the code codebase and deployments. Certainly not with an eye for future maintenance. Would future delveopers' productivity be made materially worse if someone had, say, hurriedly proxied some part of the system through nginx to crudely hack certain API calls?

Regardless of whether the DOGE work is legal or with honest intentions, won't this mad dash of changes potentially make all future development on these even more burdensome?
> won't work

Won’t work for whom?

> Musk has since gained unprecedented power over the United States for an unelected person.

Seems to be working pretty well for him, then. Why do you assume he cares about anyone else?

> The government moves more like Star Trek's Lower Decks Cerritos on a bad day.

> If you've watched the show

Have you? Because the one thing that is absolutely clear from it is that every member of that crew cared for it to succeed as a whole, and worked together for the greater good. It was nothing like the US government. The Cerritos on its worse day was miles ahead the US government on its best.

> I think anyone can agree that while "move fast and break things" may work in technology

No, we cannot. It doesn’t work in tech either if you care about anything other than a quick buck at the expense of everything else.
The person I responded to asked an honest question, and I gave an honest answer. You can feed the entirety of HN into AI, and it would come to the same conclusion: it's not a secret.

But I wasn't aware that ideological battle is off-limits. It seems like every thread is full of it, so it's hard to walk away with that impression.

The reason for a separate account is because proposing ideas that don't fit the HN mainstream can result in people trying to track you down and "punish" you for having opposing views. Unfortunate, but that's where the world is.
> I think a far better approach to memory safety in C projects is to evolve tools and annotate existing code.

The advantage of Rust is that it already exists. Someone has to do the work to bring that to fruition before it's practically applicable.

> these changes driven by enthusiastic and opinionated small group

In this case, that group includes Linus.

> Going into existing projects and changing them according to "opinions" is a really bad idea.

The Rust for Linux folks already worked on Linux for years. They aren't outsiders.
I agree, but I don’t know of anything better. And with regards to Ground News specifically, it reinforces the fallacy that “the truth is somewhere in the middle,” while the position of the “middle” is being manipulated by bad actors at the extremes.
Wait, so they haul these people to your precinct, read the charges aloud (as you said before), then let them go because they don’t have ID?
Turn off Fox News man. You are being sold this story so that billionaires can cut them or privatize them (aka steal the money from them or direct it towards their companies).

My wife works for the government and she can't even get a cup of free coffee from the government because it is considered a private benefit that doesn't work towards their mission.
> all because of e-ink

And yet the pebble used a transflective LCD, sharp marketed it as an eink display but it wasn't.
This political opinion piece, written by far left activists, of course says that Republicans are more likely to fall for "misinformation" than Democrats. If you are a Republican, you see climate change as misinformation as yes, in the last 200 years, temperatures have risen... but when viewed from a history of the earth over 2 million years, temperatures are near the all time low.
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That they’d focus on file sharing over transformation or outputs is exactly the risk I warned the companies about in my AI report. Most datasets, like RefinedWeb and The Pile, also require sharing copyrighted workers between people who are not licensed to do that. Many works also prohibit commercial use or have patents on them.

They need to make datasets which don’t have this problem or have entities in Singapore train the foundation models within their rules. The latter has a TDM exemption that would let AI’s use much of the Internet, maybe GPL code, licensed/purchased works they digitize, etc. Very flexible.
Starliner comes after decades of failed Boeing managed space programs to replace the Space Shuttle. Its probably the second or third reboot of a crew capsule. Congress should share part of the blame but at least taxpayers used to get working hardware for their corporate welfare.

Space is hard but not this hard
I'm afraid that this is because academic math is often taught and tested in a way that rewards memorization rather than understanding. Here's Richard Feynman's take on the problem:

https://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education
Is this truly live or did they batch random numbers ahead of time?
> DOGE was recently unable to obtain data on Americans (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elon-musks-doge-deal...), maybe related..

They had read/write data for a few days before being denied access https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-...
I love my pebble time steel. In fact, I still have one sitting around (I don't wear it for reasons unrelated to the device's quality). However, just to be clear, the screen is not e-ink. It is “e-paper” (a very low-power, low-fidelity LCD). I think this was a very carefully-considered trade-off; and, at least at the time, I think it was the right call!

I'm strongly considering going back to wearing it.

All the best,
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Tesla isn't needed. EVs are happening with or without Tesla. They're not even very good EVs compared to the competition.
Depends on the site! If you're trying to sell products, you don't necessarily care so long as your products are discoverable by ChatGPT/Perplexity/an agent -- visibility/discoverability is definitely a priority for some businesses. If you're selling ads it definitely is a risk, though licensing deals are one solution but that seems to be only available currently for bigger companies.
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