skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And what about the other billions of people on the planet that don't even have a library, let alone a doorstep to receive a first world delivery service.
prompt engineering hack: ask the LLM to swear a bit first before it writes a function for you.
You can use the waybackmachine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250204162031/https://social.tr...

However it seem that you need to disable js as soon as the content load or it will be overwritten by a 404
You give them warnings, time-limited bans, etc. I wasn't trying to say it has to be binary, I was saying the rules are given too much emphasis by some people when they really don't matter at all.

E.g. I got banned from Stack Overflow for deleting my own comments in protest of their new policies, which is explicitly allowed by the rules, but hinders their new project of selling site dumps to AI companies, therefore it merits punishment, regardless of what the rules say. And it's not unique to SO - every community is like this - so we should probably acknowledge it.
The big difference is that taxpayers are on the hook for government inefficiency and for most services there is no competition, the classic example being the DMV. Having one hour queues frequently is rare in private businesses.

Whereas with businesses they could go out of business if they overspend on inefficient processes and there can be competition on both quality and price.

One of the root causes is that it's very difficult to fire government employees for bad performance so that's why government services suck and cost a lot in almost every level of the government and in pretty much every country with some exceptions, like say the NTSB in the US.

It's not even that low performers should all be fired, but the fact that knowing you it's hard to get fired leads to many people underperforming given natural psychology. The other problem being lack of incentives tied to performance.
Cost of electricity in Russia: $0.05

Cost of electricity in Estonia: $0.26

Painful.
> With determinism there is no deliberation.

As far as we can tell, all the laws of the universe are completely deterministic. (And that includes quantum mechanics.) As far as we can tell, human beings obey the laws of physics.

(To explain: quantum mechanics as a theory is completely deterministic and even linear. Some outdated interpretations of quantum mechanics, like Copenhagen, use randomisation. But interpretations don't make a difference to what the underlying theory actually is. And more widely accepted interpretations like 'Many Worlds' preserve the determinism of the underlying theory.)

Btw, neural nets are typically sampled from, and you can use as good a random number generator (even a physical random number generator) as there is, if you want to. I don't think it'll change what we think neural nets are capable of.
Meanwhile, I’m sure there are absolutely no hit-and-runs in NYC. Every time a pedestrian gets injured, the police diligently log and investigate it.

You’re a cop, right? You should start by taking a look at the magical crime-free zone right in front of your precinct, where your car can block a fire hydrant or the sidewalk, and parking tickets don’t exist.
> obvious PR implications

That's the right answer. And it's not like this is a potential risk that is only being theorized about. Microsoft already has a very hands-on experience with disasters of this exact nature:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)
I think if you value privacy this isn't the right place to be making distinctions between parties. This only serves to alienate people and isn't the core argument.

I think it's more likely to get broad support when framed as us vs. them where "us" is normal working people regardless of political affiliation and "them" is our government elites trying to spy on us.
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Those are also less _critical_/replaceable, though. Up until recently, most companies didn't use cloud-y office things, they used, typically, Microsoft Office 2xxx (ie the non-cloud version). Microsoft's cloud-y Office solution is only 7 years old; while Google's is older, it wasn't taken particularly seriously for a long time. Many companies (actually I would suspect _most_ companies) _still_ use on-prem Office/Sharepoint Server/Exchange Server setups, and Microsoft still sells this stuff (Office 2024 LTSC is the latest one for enterprise, Office 2024 for consumers).

As for Github, self-hosted or vendor-hosted GitLab would be the obvious solution (self-hosted Github _is_ a thing, but only for large enterprises IIRC); other GitHub-like things are available.

I also suspect that Github in particular, and maybe MS, could, if desired, rework their services such that they didn't actually touch personal data in a form that they could disclose to the US government (which is the core issue here). This could be managed via using a third-party auth service (which typically these sort of services already support for enterprise integrations) and, for the Office-y apps, end-to-end encryption.

Replacing AWS and Azure and friends would in many ways be the big problem, especially if all this were to happen quickly (in practice, there'd almost inevitably be a significant grace period if things broke down). There's a big capacity problem there; all of these sorts of services operate basically at capacity, because economically it makes no sense to do anything else. That said, in the doomsday scenario, Amazon et al would presumably end up selling off a lot of data centres in Europe (restricted to only non-personal-data applications, they'd need fewer).
The powerful do what they can, the weak suffer what they must
A lot of political news is that my government is torturing or mass-murdering other people's families in a distant land. I understand your comment to say that I shouldn't feel bad about it unless (until) they're killing *my* family. This idea leads to losing by a thousand cuts, as in "First they came for the socialists..."
Thanks for the reply. There are a few claiming 12 hours per day, but it looks like it depends on the site.

Sorry for the delay, I wanted to write a long reply about my experience in math/physics. Short version:

After teaching math for 3 hours I get tired, and in some special cases I teach for 6 hours but at the 5 hours mark I was making too many errors. (And it included some pauses in between.) I'd would not try to make a decisions that risk lives after that.

I took some exams that were 3, 5 or even 8 hours long. It's possible but I have to administer the pauses, bathroom and even going to the bar to drink a coffee to survive them and give good answers. And in case of a mistake, I can review it half an hour later and there are no lives at risk.
I was hoping to see Thoreau here. I'd also recommend his book Walking, maybe even to be read before Walden. It identifies and preempts a lot of what the 'mindfulness' industry deals with and reorients it all around an idea of wilderness.

But I'd also be careful reading Walden. I don't think it's a literal instruction manual as some have taken it.
> This infighting is only going to hurt the kernel in the long run. Every time this "discussion" comes up, I walk away with the feeling that Linux kernel developers are unreasonably hostile and impossible to work with. It makes me wonder why new people would ever bother trying to contribute anything.

Well, this is your take, as you explicitly wrote "I walk away with the feeling". My take is: The kernel developers are the ones doing the actual work, which legitimates their opinion of doing things. If too many people aren't happy with the way the linux kernel is developed, they are free to fork it and develop in the way that they see fit.

Luckily, the kernel seems to be doing fine.
The reason is that everyone who was supposed to do something about it was "subsidized with VC money".
The most outrageous thing about the whole story is that smart people (like here and not only) knew this all since day one. They been uncovering this the whole time.

And in their face, with all the fierce ignorance, broligarchs deny, evade and totally pretend this never happened. The most non open company of all even went to lengths to accuse others of stealing their IP - not theirs to begin with.

Just think of it - why did all major content platforms closed their APIs the day after GPT-2 got the word going…? Cause they knew all this very well - the content is precious and needed. They been doing it all along. Distilling the essence of world’s writing and digital imagery they had no right to.

We have a saying where I come from - no mercy for the chicken, no laws for the millions. I thought it was a local thing at first, it turned is how the world goes. Nothing new under the sun, indeed.
Thank you so much for this, by coincidence I was looking for good sources about Pseudo Random Number Generators and how we program them. This does the trick and explains the levels of determinism and the most popular PRNG algorithms.
Also, in Canada, it's basically impossible to protect your IP as an individual due to the astronomical cost and lack of options to recover that cost. So copyright will never incentivize my creations, or those of any small creator.
This is not "Technical deep dive"
I thought it was common knowledge that Asians love to gamble?
"Technical Deep Dive" followed by basic talking points of Go. Whole thing is probably AI generated lol
> Arguably his reprimand of Martin is a clear signal that he will never show Rust any favor

His reprimand is a clear signal that he won't tolerate brigading. Marcan was making a pretty blatant attempt at using social pressure to influence decisions.
What's wild is using the word "just" before a suggestion to change a culture's norms regarding looks (including self-perception).

Yes, it would make things a lot easier for everybody. If you can figure that out, please give is a hint. Until then, let's not look down on earthly solutions yet.
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Bingo. Founders end up taking the lion's share of all the stock. I've seen this over and over again everywhere, don't be a founding engineer, it's financially not worth it. This i the most evident when you're talking about close to 100M just by changing 1 position, into founder/CEO.
As an example, a really fast sort can't be expressed in safe Rust

However, the two sort algorithms in Rust are safe to use, as well as being faster than their equivalents in C++. In fact even the previous sorts, the ones which were replaced by the current implementations, were both faster and safer than what you're getting in C++
One is bad in principle and the other is also bad in practice. Both are very bad but the latter is more likely to move people to action.
>Arguably his reprimand of Martin is a clear signal that he will never show Rust any favor

You're reading way too far into this. Linus has been publicly positive about the R4L project plenty of times.
Implying documentation exists. You're supposed to read the code, not man pages.
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Well, I guess there’s also sandpaper, cards, glass, beads, other types of boxes/latches, but certainly nothing “collecting data”. At least not in the AMS accredited Montessori school we helped run.
> Not rights centric like the EU

Sadly, the EU is trying very hard and very persistently to pass the Chat Control bill. So far the EU hasn't succeeded, but I would be surprised if EU politicians didn't keep trying until it is finally codified into law.
Anecdote: In 2022, while visiting San Francisco, I had the chance to explore the campus. Wandering through the quiet, empty halls of the summer buildings, I was just about to leave when I unexpectedly came across Knuth's office [1]. I had to do a double take—it was surprisingly small for someone of his stature. Yet, in a way, it felt perfectly fitting, a reflection of his unassuming nature.

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About the checks: I have not 1 but 2 checks. Small typos, nothing big: but wonderful to have these two documents.
Politicians living in dreamland again about what encryption can and cannot do. I thought this stupidity had died with our last excuse for a government. Sad to see this is back.
Roll out the change in the city of London first and watch the finance sector crash :D
The rest of the UK probably won't have to follow suit.
VC money isn't tax money.
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It is deliberately bare-bones - upload audio, get a podcast feed. That's it.

I built this mainly as productive procrastination, but figured others might find it useful. Feedback welcome.
Yes, government should intervene here. But there is another figure of speech that goes like "don't let good be the enemy of perfect" ...
The Reddit thread is more worth reading than this HN thread, as of this writing.
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That's not even the main issue in my opinion: how can Apple do this without breaking laws in other countries ?

I am not a lawyer, but I think that this would be illegal under EU privacy law.
> By the way, this is similar to why for true GDPR compliance, data centers should be operated by EU companies that aren't subsidiaries of US companies, because even if the latter operate data centers located in the EU, they would still be bound to secret orders by the US government.

This is interesting, I know GDPR does not mandate data localization but I was under the impression that the requirements are a bit more difficult/stringent for transferring data out of the EU region ? While not perfect, it's a bit less 'open door' than it would be if it was hosted in the US.
Seems to work again. But how does this happen in the first place. How could someone possibly have thought "hey I have an idea, let's put in a list of english words and just silently stop working if we have see even one of them in a substring". And people in this meeting would nod and say "yeah that sounds like an easy safety fix, let's do that". This just feels odd. This isn't a piece of forum software written by a 14 year old this is a company worth billions and filled with smart people.
I don't think I've heard the term "English empire". Is it an attempt by the Scottish to pretend they weren't involved?
Ignorant rather than old. Alan Turing was born more than 100 years ago.
Agreed.

I'm also incredibly grateful --- I was gifted a NeXT Cube by my brother-in-law when I was in college studying graphic design, and I was incredibly put out by the paucity of nice typography features in Quark XPress and Aldus Pagemaker when I came across TeXview.app and remembered checking out the book _TeX and Metafont_ from the local college library when I was a senior in high school --- built that into a career and a series of presentations at TUG conferences where I got to meet him.
Really, a question, on experiences.

They got performance gains.

But would GO be as useful for the quick ad-hoc programming that python seems to be great at?

or, Could GO also be a replacement for quick ad-hoc programs.

Since ad-hoc always grows into something un-supportable. If GO is option, then maybe start with it first?
A with almost every defense contract, X-37 is cost plus and classified, which means that Boeing has been passing the costs on to the USA tax payer rather then have to pay for their mistakes. It’s possible that the program is perfectly run and on budget, but no transparency exists to validate that.
> Turns out FOSS devs are humas just like everybody else and suffer from the same flaws.

It is rather anticlimactic. I had always imagined FOSS to be this free exchange of ideas, thoughtful consideration, and intentional action. Seeing what it has become though… Maybe closed source is better.
>But I prefer looser intellectual property rights anyway so Im ok with it

I think more people, potentially anyways, would feel similar to to this if it applied even somewhat equally.

Instead, companies can seemingly do whatever they please whereas lawyers will send letters to your home for downloading a single episode of game of thrones.
I wasn't meaning to attach a pejorative to "consequences", but the word does typically have that meaning so you're right to call me out. Perhaps "resulting legal issues" would be a better way to put it.

For the record, I think the consequence was grossly disproportionate to the action.
I was hoping this dreamland thinking on encryption had died with our last sorry excuse for a government.

I thought we had grown ups running the show now. Clearly that was optimistic.
Help me out here because I'm not sure how to navigate the submitted link https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/7/9. Where is this reprimand / can it be seen?
'Fork in the Road' buyout offer reaches space and national security agencies
William of Ockham's Sum of Logic
Libgen turns into a problem when you have a company developing generative AI with it, either giving money to GPU manufacturers or themselves with paid services (see OpenAI)
There's always competing interests, but I like to look at it as a glass half full. It's the focus on rights that has ensured it's still not passed.
This really makes me want to learn rust and contribute to Redox.
Wow that's brutal, what's the context for this change? Was Estonia "bullied" into this, is it a popular change?

5xing electricity prices causes so much human suffering hope estonians have good ways of coping
Is a kernel developer blocking the success of Rust for Linux? Yes and no
There are a whole lot of books that are out of print, and if a book went out of print before ebooks were a thing, it probably doesn't have a legal digital edition either.
I think the core of the issue is expecting people to agree with stuff.

Linux is free software and there's really nobody stopping people from forking it and doing things the way they want. It used to happen all the time once upon a time, nowadays people seems to be afraid of doing it.
No, sorry, I've read too much history to buy into this line of reasoning. Authoritarians are a concrete threat to people's safety and they have a long history of abusing sensitive information about people to do so.
Hardly America's first car-free neighborhood, nor (not by a long shot) its largest.

Along the east coast there are multiple communities on islands accessible only by ferry that are foot traffic only. You can tell they're real places because they have their own U.S. Post Offices (not just mailboxes).

For example: https://villageofoceanbeach.org/about
I'm not arguing that this is or isn't a problem but I think the statement "using social pressure to influence decisions" is so general that it could apply to just any discussion. That's kinda what discussion is.

Granted there are acceptable methods within that, and not acceptable.
How is it viewed in your country? does this mean big increase in electricity prices?
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Indeed, but where is the 'real' solution? If no-one higher up is going to step in and merge the patches despite the blocking maintainer, how is "the process" going to move R4L forward?

(Edit: Ok, reading some other context, it seems like this is indeed what's happening, which does make this reaction a little less justified. I can certainly see why it's no fun to have people in the project saying they will do whatever they can to stop an initiative, but if they aren't actually able to block it, then it doesn't seem worth quitting over)
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Most of us are happy to suffer if it means not relying on Russia. This is the price of independence.
It will be interesting to see if Apple will follow up on comments they made when this change was first floated, and remove effected services from the UK.

> Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66256081
https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CAHk-=wi=ZmP2=TmHsFSU...

Edit: For further context for Linus's reply, there's http://web.archive.org/web/20250206022420/https://social.tre...
I don't care how good emacs is, that function is too long.
Lawfare has some good articles covering the different perspectives on the encryption debate from the last 10 years. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/search-results?prod_search-inde...
I think the idea of studying if a single food affects cardiovascular outcomes is fundamentally ridiculous.
Just like Austria's greatest historical accomplishment: convincing the world the Hitler was German
The first evacuation (without the dumping coefficient)

New_d = d * (1 - 2*.1 - 4*.01) + (c+e)*.1 + (a+b+f+b)*.01

is as good as conserving momentum as the original model. (Assuming you calculate all the new values using a new matrix instead of overwriting the old ones.) It breaks energy conservation, but that simulates the friction between oposite direction currents, without going to the whorls level.

I agree that this is not 100% realistic, but I think it's a good and simple addition to the model in the article, and tweaking the coefficients it may give a good enough visual result.
Especially if you're writing a file, the creation time is a big hint! Even nanoseconds won't help if you're leaking that many bits from your seed.
I suspect seL4 could be proven correct only because it uses simple lifetime patterns.
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