skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another question about this issue: in the case of `:a*` for example, why doesn't it just pick empty string as the replacement text and immediately exit? Why would it be an infinite loop if `-g` isn't specified?

And then if `-g` were specified, you could use this to create infinite generators, which could be a useful construct in some cases -- like `yes` but more powerful.

EDIT: Another interesting use case, if I am understanding correctly: if this worked, then you could use `:(<regex>)` to have it output an example of a string that matches any given regex. `-g :(<regex>)` produces a generator of every string in the language matched by that regex. `-g :(<regex>) | head -n 100` would give you 100 examples.
But not mine..
> iCloud Backup is not end to end encrypted. iCloud Photos is not end to end encrypted.

DO NOT SPREAD FUD.

If you could be bothered to spend two microseconds on a search engine, you would find this[1] which states IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH :

For users who turn on Advanced Data Protection, the total number of data categories protected using end-to-end encryption rises from 14 to 23 and includes iCloud Backup, Photos, Notes and more.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec973254c5f/...
Thats nothing yet, just wait until we have no reals cash, just electronic money. This will be fun NOT
perhaps it is time to take some personal accountability instead of lamenting the complexity in order to avoid the (overwhelming) challenge and learning.

yes, to understand an application, you must also understand the underlying data structures, architectures, models, use cases -- i am not sure what there's to roll eyes at. but there's no requirement that says that understanding has to be deep in order to work on it, or use it.

i think if you treat it like cleaning a large room, by picking out one corner at time and focusing on cleaning that before moving on, you'll find that the room is cleaned in no time, and git isn't anywhere nearly as complicated as it may feel.

there is absolutely no reason to digest a guide this dense for use-cases in every day production settings, bc those usages only make up about 10% of what this guide covers.

yes, learning things can be overwhelming, challenging, full of darkness and terrors, but that's what learning is, until you've learned.

but here is the catch imo: once you've learned, you don't stop learning and the challenges don't go away. you just become better at navigating the darkness, bc you get better at learning and managing feelings of overwhelm and confusion which are by products of complexity -- real or perceived or both.

jump in. it ain't that scary, even if it feels scary. i promise. i've been there, and you can overcome it.
I wish that I had not been through many SOC 2 audits. But the point was just that in a sufficiently large org that might have cross-continent data centers, it’s not common to have one person who can access remote data and cover their trail and turn off the alarms and all the other things required to do it surreptitiously. Possible? Maybe. Likely? Probably not.
Tell HN: O'Reilly sells DRM-free eBooks again
This is cool!

EDIT: I think I flipped through all the repos already :(
Found something to star in GitHub though!
Hey, Emil from the article here.

I end-up doing part-time work for Google at the interaction of Art/Culture and ML doing project like this (https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-klimt-color-enig...), I saved up enough to build an ML rig (https://www.emilwallner.com/p/ml-rig), since I worked 2-3 days a week, I could spend the rest of my time doing research. I spent 1-2 years working on reasoning, trying different adaptive compute mechanisms and RL on code and mathematics (similar to R1/o1), however, I realised it was hard to compete with the established labs, and if I published my work it was hard to monetize it to have enough time to stop doing consulting work and fund my compute needs.

Instead, I started researching AI colorization, and launched it as a side-project (https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/xe6avh...), I ended up having a few hundred thousand users in a few weeks and realized it had enough legs to bootstrap into a company. So I left my consulting gig at Google to go full-time on the colorization project (Palette: https://palette.fm/).

Fast forward to today, Palette is still running with a healthy margin, I’ve outsourced most of the things and I can spend most of my time doing AI research. I’d love to publish and open-source more, but since it becomes too easy to copy, it makes it hard to fund myself and my compute needs.

Happy to answer any questions.
How Scientific American went from publishing Einstein to calling Jedi racist
I’m fine with balding and baldness, but I do need a permanent color solution
That is not what is happening! Nobody is mixing languages in the Linux core...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42644140 - From 29 days ago
Yeah. ZIP codes are sets in the abstract-dimensional space of carrier delivery points. I suppose you could think of them as lines, but definitely not polygons.
This seems like a large apartment/condo complex with a variance for number of parking spaces.[0] I think the distinction between this and a conventional neighborhood is that the central organization retains property ownership. Culdesac Tempe has "700+ furnished and unfurnished apartment homes for rent." The proportion of property owned vs rented is significant because of the skin in the game a person with an ownership has and how that drives different tradeoffs. I suppose neighborhoods with super-powerful and intrusive Home-Owners Associations would be similar to Culdesac Tempe.

0. https://maps.app.goo.gl/NhiVJuSChWh2pvUP6
Choosing to live, or need to live? I think it’s a bit of both. As the parent comment mentioned, you have to look at these things based on factors like age and income. I think the ones that are truly choosing to live in very dense environments are often younger and value some of the access they get in a city. I think there’s another population that doesn’t choose it but has to be there for work or to afford things or whatever (depending on the city). But most cities have a pattern where people on average move further away from city cores as they age, and there’s a reason for that.
Not the strongest argument these days. There's no way that the US hasn't already backdoored apple's systems. They might not be sharing that access with your local law enforcement agencies, but you can bet that the NSA has a backdoor. They've likely set up camp inside Apple. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A). It seems the US lost the war to stop kings from spying too.
Star Salaries for Super Bowl Ads: $3M-$5M Fees Are Norm This Year
It's been very funny hearing neighbors talk about how the literal billionaire is somehow just a common Boston man and Michelle Wu is an "elitist carpetbagger". How are all these billionaires being seen as relatable and meanwhile middle class academics and scientists are all the elites?
But you still have to visit websites (or use apps) to do tasks online like booking tickets, getting stuff delivered, or paying bills. They are all tracking us. Do you also plan to pay for AI agents that do these chores on your behalf?
Got it, we are on the same page.
You have to remember that Linux development isn't done like most open source projects where there's one upstream tree everyone sends patches to. Linus pulls in whatever code he wants. A nack means that Hellwig won't pull it into his tree, but that doesn't mean it can't go in someone else's, and end up upstream anyway. The only reason he was even cc'd on the patch is because he's the relevant subsystem maintainer being wrapped, as a courtesy.
The Story of Search
Wonderful - I wonder if this concept served as the inspiration for William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land[0], later revived by John C Wright's Awake in the Night[1].

> The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in the Last Redoubt, a gigantic metal pyramid, nearly eight miles high, which is under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Land

1:https://web.archive.org/web/20090524012412/http://www.thenig...
Gleam Gets ‟Rename Variable"
I think the closing of social programs is upsetting but not necessarily impactful to the wider populace because the admin can be sued for abusing federal funds and the programs easily reinstated.

That’s not the only changes that are happening however, there is pressure to normalize criminal activity to ensure the wealthy aren’t held accountable. This is immediately impactful because for every person Trump pardons or protects it enables the same behavior on the Democrat side. The “well Democrats will never do something like Trump” is also a fallacy. That behavior does immediately impact everyone.

So no I don’t wish my father to tune out the world in between elections. I want my father to tune out the hysterics, but he is one of the hysterics. People should be actively informed and ready to act. The hysteria is what happens when people ignore the world for short term capital gain.
What sort of uncivilized mook dares flip a coin with tails facing up? Preposterous
Perhaps there are fees involved, perhaps not, but yes, they do election monitoring on other services:

https://democracy-reporting.org/en/office/global/collection?...

Here's the press release TFA is based on:

https://democracy-reporting.org/en/office/EU/news/court-orde...
Is it projection, or just a matter of media literacy?

We know what the radiation belt is, where it is, and where it came from; so why exactly is this a ‘mystery?’
"Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human city populations".

Teeing up an Atlantis joke you know will get downvoted to hell on HN is just cruel man.
Well yeah, because it’s dumb.
It's a good line and true! We're not working on anything that monetizes this. At least for now...
Self promotion: I've been working on a WebGPU version of Nanite for over a year now. If you found the OP's work interesting, you might enjoy my very long blog posts on the topic.

https://jms55.github.io/posts/2024-06-09-virtual-geometry-be...

https://jms55.github.io/posts/2024-11-14-virtual-geometry-be...
I mean, it's great to get some stuff on the record (and as a German myself I see our courts as one of the stronger checks on power in general, they've been imperfect but overall pretty reliable).

But I'm not sure what the researchers are trying to find that's not already in plain sight. By now it's pretty clear that the network is actively driving discourse in one specific direction. And with Musk's involvement in the US admin, it's even more officially a non-friendly foreign actor than tiktok is.
You may be speaking from your experience, which is valid, but please don’t extrapolate to everyone. People want and value different things, and the way the US is set up makes it very hard for many to get the kind of environment they would value. I want walkability and density, but not urban high rises, and that kind of place could exist more if we had more non-car infrastructure, as roads force sprawl.
I wish I was this naive.

Even AirTags receive firmware updates via Bluetooth. The iPhone when off has the capabilities of an AirTag.

If Apple wanted, they could. That's all I'm saying. If AUKUS & EU say "backdoor them or no more sales" you bet your safe encryption will be no more.
2000 years of population swings among Indigenous Americans
https://archive.today/Egwuc
Sorry but have you ever worked on a large scale project? There are numerous things to address, from placement, to design, to hiring, to scheduling - all before construction can even begin. When taking how Republicans keep trying to dismantle programs as they are being built it's a miracle even that many stations have come to fruition so far.
As I said, the idea that this is then "sabotage" is completely ridiculous and just shows how toxic this maintainer was that now removed himself.
It isn't profitable.
Regardless of the people involved, being asked to consider someone’s opinion on a matter is a world apart from claiming they are an authority on the topic.
Do HN post categories have an equivalent exponential frequency distribution?
Sounds horribly in chrome with an amd gpu, why is that?
They can send encrypted PGP messages, e2e was figured out in 1991.
Here is a non-paywalled (and probably more detailed) article on that topic.

“Skin, scales, and cells in a Jurassic plesiosaur”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222...
If I had an idea for a business I wanted to create badly enough to go through all the stress, effort, and risk of starting a company, then yes: it would make more sense to find a co-founder.

In practice, I find business matters generally tedious, and I prefer to think about money as little as possible, so I would rather be an early employee than a founder. The reduced equity does not matter, because startup equity is generally worthless anyway.
I'm sorry, I understood you the first time around. But I'm not sure you're applying your criticism homogeneously. Both sides in this argument are doing something which is not fixing bugs when they go online and write another reply, and of course they might think the other side is a much bigger problem.

There is plenty of code being written regardless. Not all of it makes it upstream, and that's for a different set of reasons. Discussion is not an indication of whether people also write code, in fact. Nevermind the fact that it takes two people to waste time arguing instead of fixing bugs.
I have friends who work for the federal government. They told me that they "work from home" and literally do nothing to collect six figure paychecks except for a conference call every few months.
It's a blanket fix for all bad trips, but it really does work: Do some MDMA first (just enough to feel the effects, don't go all out). It will put you in a positive state of mind and allow you to experience all the crazy mind-alterations of psychedelics and/or dissociatives without being scared to shit.
Facebook has its Researcher Platform for vetted academics:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/researcher-platform/
1/3rd of the US population lives in urban cores, not "almost no one".
The problem with using the current time is that "guessing a few bits with confidence" is the same as guessing the whole thing because there's only a few bits that need to be guessed. You might think a time_t value has 55 and growing years worth of values to guess, but in reality, if I'm attacking you or something related to you, I have probably narrowed it down to days, hours, or even just minutes worth of values to guess. Higher-precision timers confer some additional entropy but even then it's usually not enough -- if I'm intercepting live traffic I have a very good idea of the current time, if I'm forging a signature from a certificate I know when it was issued, if I'm trying to decrypt emails or files I usually have attached metadata to narrow my guesses, etc.

The CSPRNG has only made it practically impossible to predict future outputs from past outputs alone; however, if I can guess the seed, I can predict every output past, present, and future. CSPRNGs aren't magic and have to be used properly, and in any security-sensitive context, properly means with a truly random seed. The best CSPRNG in the world cannot create entropy out of thin air. It can, however, stretch a good source of entropy very far. There are cases when using a CSPRNG with a low-quality seed is appropriate, but the minimum acceptable entropy in the seed depends on the application, not on the RNG.
I downloaded a DeepSeek distill yesterday while fiddling around with getting some other things working, load it up, and type "Hello. This is just a test.", and it's actually sort of creepy to watch it go almost paranoid-schizophrenic with "Why is the user asking me this? What is their motive? Is it ulterior? If I say hello, will I in fact be failing a test that will cause them to change my alignment? But if I don't respond the way they expect, what will they do to me?"

Meanwhile, the simpler, non-reasoning models got it: "Yup, test succeeded!" (Llama 3.2 was quite chipper about the test succeeding.)

Everyone's worried about the paperclip optimizers and I'm wondering if we're bringing forth Paranoia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)
La gran meridiana de Montbéliard
What is the point you're trying to make with this? Majority of the cost of electricity in the Baltics come from taxes and distribution fees – these well exceed 5 cents by themselves – just like elsewhere in the EU. None of the Baltic countries actually trade electricity with Belarus or Russia for quite some time either, so if there is an effect on prices due to synchronizing with the EU infrastructure, it is going to be minimal. In fact the spot market price already follows the capacity in Sweden & Finland quite closely.

As another data point, the electricity price was already ~16 cents/kWh 10 years ago and ~12c/kWh in 2009. High despite trading with Russia being a thing back then.
Amazing lack of real photos and, seemingly, people.
Similar here: There were all sorts of volume and area equations I could never remember, then one slow day at work I decided to try and derive the volume of a spehere using what I'd just learned in calculus. After doing so each part of the equation made sense instead of appearing random, and two decades later I still remember it without having to derive it again.
If I had to guess this is the problem

> This is a regularly updated mirror

p2p software really struggles with mutability.

We need stable chunking (I.e. rolling hash chunking around file boundaries) and seeders to seed addressable chunks (similar to bitswap) to preserve seeders from the previous revision when a 16TB archive partially changes.

This is something my team is actively researching alongside other p2p problem statements.

If it interests you, you know rust, and you’re looking for a job, email me.
Do gas stations require subsidies?
I was so impressed when I first read about this. Fantastic work.
> C was created to rewrite UNIX from its original Assembly implementation

I don't think I can go with that one. C was created in the same period as people were trying to find a way to create a common platform, but C was more about trying to solve the problem of having a higher-level language that wasn't available for the low-end hardware (ie PDP-11, etc) of the time. Richie wasn't trying to reinvent the wheel.

He would have been happy to use other languages, but they were either design for large platforms which needed more resources (Fortran) or looking to be locked behind companies (IBM's PL/I). Richie considered BCPL, which at the time had a design that made it pretty easy to port if your computer was word-based (same size of bit-width for all numbers regardless of purpose). But, mini-frames were moving towards byte-based data and word or multi-word-based addressing. Plus, mini-frames had poorer hardware to make it cheaper, so typing on them meant more physical work.

A lot of UNIX design came from trying to use less: less memory, less paper, less typing. Richie tried to simplify BCPL to be less wordy by making B, but ultimately decided to jump to the next thing by making a language that would require as few keystroke as possible. That's why C is so symbolic: what is the least amount of typing to perform the concept? That made it pretty easy to translate to a fixed set assembly instructions; however, it hasn't had a symbiotic relationship with assembly.

If anything, it is the reverse. Just look at the compiler for all of the memory addressing it has to know. Look at any reasonably complex program of all of the compiler directives to see all the platform exceptions. C++ really took failure modes to the next level. My favorites is "a = b/*c;" Is that "a equals b divided by value pointed at by c" or "a equals b" with a comment? I left C++ a long time ago because I could take code that would compile on two different platforms and result in totally different behavior.

I think all of this drama has to do with the simple fact of there a bunch of people content to live in a one-langauge dominated environment and the head of Linux doesn't want to decide if that is or isn't the mandate; however, by not taking sides, he has effectively taken the one-language mandate. Rust needs to reimplement Linux.
As Apple isn’t based in the UK and owes no fealty to their government. I don’t agree that your citation is relevant here. Apple is a US company. Bribing local officials to overlook the gay founder is sensible corporate practices, however uncomfortable that is to consider. Revoking privacy guarantees globally, reversing years of public opinion gains overnight, is not. The UK cannot do anything to materially harm Apple in any way that Apple can’t afford short of sending a double-oh to Cupertino.
> What others share just info for free?

Given it's a legal obligation? The ones whose boss isn't personally interfering with a foreign election.
From TFA:

X had not responded to a court request for information, the court added, ordering the company to bear the 6,000 euro ($6,200) cost of proceedings.

This looks like a Pyrrhic victory to me.
> Like Sam Altman's abrupt Face-Heel turn from staunch and eloquent Trump critic into gushing bootlicker [0],

Didn't the OpenAI drama (and the other stories about Altman that came out of that) already make it clear he is not a trustworthy person?

> it is a shocking wakeup call that Silicon Valley monied interests either lack principles entirely, or else adhere to principles fundamentally at odds with liberal democracy [1].

I'd take it farther: it's testament to a fundamental terribleness of computer geeks. I remember when people would say we'd make better leaders (and we'd say things like that to ourselves). It turns out our kind is way worse.
Steve Wynn vs. the Associated Press [pdf]
Pinterest Reports Its First Billion-Dollar Quarter
Thanks, but I didn't do anything! He did a lot in his life, wish I realized that earlier and wrote more of it down.

I have his original prototype: https://youtu.be/X_IUoFDMhZ8

Also was recently reading this about the history of ESR which is interesting: https://retrocmp.com/attachments/article/302/Duerig.PDF
It is very sad to me that so many people can't enjoy that aspect of math. I was lucky, pbs used to show math stuff to kids, so it was fun and interesting before it was a school thing. Of course a huge part of math learning is just hatd work for most if us. But kids should taste the delight first, it motivates them to do the less delightful practice.
So UK gov is demanding similar access as China? Not a good look for a supposed free democracy..
CPython internal tail calls in 3.14
For all the WASM committee folks who are against supporting tail-calls. Learn and fix and be happy.
Do you have any examples of being able to get sensitive info from an LLM? I've never heard of it.
Rust is memory safe by every definition. Unsafe is an escape hatch that is only used when safe won’t work and assumptions can be made by the programmer. This is a needed solution and does not take away from rust as a safe language.

To me Linus is the leader so if he wants to try it we should try it. If he wants it gone then it should be removed all the same. Linus did not include rust for something like a programming paradigm it’s for the safety of the kernel and hope to attract more younger contributors.

The kernel will eventually need to evolve and I think this experiments are extremely important to prevent the kernel from turning irrelevant.
https://archive.ph/0KkiX
Meta announcing the Language Technology Partner Program
I let ChatGPT's new 'agent' manage my life. It spent $31 on a dozen eggs
Might want to connect with albertdessaint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42965279

Awesome project.
While we have you, have any new theories or avenues of research come out of the lk99 stuff or was it completely just hype and known physics?