skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goal of this is to economically and politically isolate Russia and prevent anything in Russia from affecting the Baltic states
Half of what you said is correct, but:

> There was a push to make HTML stricter with XHTML / But it didn’t really stick.

Yup! And XHTML still works in practice: https://www.nayuki.io/page/practical-guide-to-xhtml

> which enforced rules like case-sensitive elements

That's a good thing. I don't miss the old days (~2000) of <HTML><BODY><P> etc. It's ugly to my eyes. Moreover, even today, it's legal to write <dIv></DIv>.

> Browsers had a hard time with those stricter rules

Nonsense; it's developers and amateur web designers who couldn't cope with XHTML. Browsers parse XHTML perfectly these days, because it's just an application of XML. Also, existing tools like Macromedia Dreamweaver didn't add XHTML export support; it only outputted HTML.

> I really tried to use XHTML when createing weh pages, but then I asked my self why all of the trouble when browsers don't follow the standards

Browsers do follow the standards in XHTML mode! My page documents the behaviors and the yellow screen of death. For me, it's worth the trouble because it helps me detect errors like invalid syntax and unclosed tags.
This will be better off as a "SHOW HN" https://news.ycombinator.com/show
C was created to rewrite UNIX from its original Assembly implementation, naturally it is a symbiotic relationship not shared by other languages.

Note that many folks even forget that C++ was equally developed on the same Bell Labs group, and is probably one of the first examples of guest languages, making their best to fit into the platform, taking advantage of the ecosystem with almost zero friction, but never being able to control where the platform goes.
It's interesting that most animal to human communication seems to be humans training animals to speak human.
> If you plug a laptop into a closet at MIT to download some scientific papers you forfeit your life.

I’m opposed to copyright and pro-aaronsw, but the state did not kill him.
Why should they? We have the tables in our pockets at literally all times; doing arithmetic without it might be useful, or a bit faster sometimes, but is hardly an essential skill.
Then they'd already be smaller, so there's no reason to make them smaller. Or am I misunderstanding your question?
That is a legitimate need, but it should not be the default.

Another example of when you need it, is games. I want to store in the game state, that on Day 32 of being in this cave, there is randomly a cache of diamonds if you mine the east wall. If I generate this random number dynamically, then I permit save-scumming behaviors which may distract from the artistic points of my game. So I basically want a random seed and a hash function, hashing (seed, day, activity, location, attempt_number) to see if something is successful.
The site is confusing, even as a European: both periods and commas are used as decimal separators.
Hey great work beej! I've read pro git and your guide is very good.

So in figure 5.4 you say we merge 2 commits into a new one and somehow both branches point to new commit. This will definitely confuse people new to git.

I'd say it's better to write we merge anotherBranch into someBranch and leave the former where it is. Same for the next merge.

Just a suggestion
something i'd like to see in a borrow checker (which i think causes problems in rust, because of the "leaking is safe" thing. which sounds like it could be a difficult hole to plug in language design):

in rust, &mut means "this pointer points to an initialized value, and will point to an initalized value at the end of scope"

i wish it also had &in, &out, and &tmp, for "initialized->uninitialized", "uninitialized->initialized", and "uninitialized->uninitialized"
The extract looks great, I'll have to pick up the 3 books he mentions --- I love Armstrong.

One thing that always amazed me about these jazz performers was how much they toured, even at the peak of their popularity. They went everywhere. A couple years ago I sat down with my grandfather when his health was fading and asked him to tell me his life-story, recording it for my father so that he would always have a record of his father's voice. My grandfather grew up in a middle of nowhere Canadian town, but it did have a pavilion in its town park. I just about lost it when my grandpa casually mentioned that he'd seen Armstrong play there 4 times(!) over the years. Nowadays, you'd be lucky if any band or act came to play in that town. But Armstong and his band came.
Why are you using Russia and China as examples of the bad guys here. They're not asking for global access to everyones data, the UK is. The UK are the bad guys.
I think the difference may be LLMs may not be laundered clean of copyright data anytime soon. Even if chatgpt got big and profitable, it's not so clear that it won't contain copyrighted data as that may simply be necessary to train the best models.
US did the same, Southern California was 50 Hz at first. It didn't convert until after WWII
Advocating for political interference in the Fed is a new low.
You also get a lesser offense killing someone accidentally as opposed to a premeditated murder.

There’s a difference between an intentional act, an accident, and an accident due to extreme neglect and our laws reflect that.
What audit?
> You can't admit error because you don't operate in truth, just emotions.

I went to the CBP website and you went to twitter (which I don't use because I'm not a drone). Where on the emotion wheel is "CBP website"? https://medium.com/@mcgill_dr/emotions-and-feelings-charts-d...

You've spent the entire thread making unsubstantiated claims about trans people based on right wing propaganda. Practicing ad hominem attacks downthread is all you are good for, why would I waste actual effort on you?
I can relate to this. I've never been able to code anything more advanced than, say, a simple html website, but over the last year I've used LLM's to develop a range of little software tools (and games) that are specific to my needs. Some of these fill a niche that either doesn't exist and some are just me slapping a GUI onto command line tools.
I support your point but Tog was a blowhard
Google workspace is always such a mess. I also have Google workspace, and it did let me do some chatting in the Gemini app few days ago. No idea what model, and of course there was no dropdown.

Just today I wanted to continue a conversation from two days ago, and after writing to the chat, I just get back an error “This chat was created with Gemini Advanced. Get it now to continue this chat.”
And I don’t even know if that’s a bug, or some expected sales funnel where they gave me a nibble of it for free and now want me to pay up.
Yes good point! We only had the idea of making this site a few days ago so the UI could use some tweaks. Thanks for the feedback.

UPDATE: made a small PR and fixed it. For now it's most consistent to just use dot separators everywhere.
Under what definition of “scam” is that the case?
Creators demand tech giants fess up and pay for all that AI training data
It can be enforced in this way: police raids the local headquarters and jail a bunch of people because their company didn't comply with the law.

The only way to prevent that is not having any local office, no employees, nothing. Sell physical objects only by the means of local 3rd party resellers which will import goods. Same thing for services. Of course they can ban imports and services or go after those 3rd parties. It depends how nasty they want to be.
Apple stockholders would never allow that.
Jean Piaget was one of the foundational researchers in cognitive development, particularly in 'constructivist' circles. Constructivism is the theory that learning is an active psychological process, and is contrasted with behaviourism (often associated with B.F. Skinner), in which learning is a passive process. Constructivism is popular amongst school teachers and behaviourism is unpopular.

Piaget's theories are very much rooted in learning about the physical world, and are thus more popular amongst teachers in the 'STEM' disciplines. The other foundational researcher in constructivism was Lev Vygostky, who worked in the Soviet Union under Stalin, and his theories reflect the political pressures of that environment; his earlier work remains influential especially amongst humanities teachers, whereas his later work is excessively ideological.

Piaget proposed a stage-based model of development, in which children progress through four different stages of cognition. The last two stages he called the concrete operational stage and the formal operational stage. In the concrete operational stage, children become capable of one layer of abstraction or symbolic indirection; it is not until they reach the formal operational stage that they are capable of multiple layers of abstraction or symbolic indirection.

It is interesting to note that Piaget suggested that the transition between these two stages usually occurs around the age of eleven, which is when British children transition from primary to secondary school.

So, to contextualise the linked article, the studied children developed an applied understanding of mathematics that fit their concrete operational cognition: the mental operations were readily made concrete by manipulating coins and banknotes.

However, when children study mathematics in school, it is very much done as formal operations: the numbers are not intended to represent anything physical at all. Consequently, many children learn mathematics as a set of arcane rituals for manipulating symbols on paper, because they can't yet understand the abstract meanings of those symbols.

Piaget's theory on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget#Theory

Paul Lockhart writes something parallel to this argument in A Mathematician's Lament: https://archive.org/details/AMathematiciansLament/mode/2up
It probably needs more thought but fines for anyone who does not comply. You will still get ads that slip through, but it can be a good start.

I'd also like to point at tobacco commercials which are banned in many countries now. This ban works (it's probably not perfect but I cannot remember seeing such an ad recently, even online).
> Youtube was initially a ghost town (it started as a dating site) and it only got traction once people started uploading copyrighted TV shows to it

To this day, there are a huge number of videos that show copyrighted content on YouTube; they are usually crappy clips, reversed and with different music playing in the background to avoid automated detection.
Is there a concept in the legal system of first-come-first-served that could be used as precedent?

What I mean is: when someone is prosecuted for copyright infringement, but Meta isn't, then could the case be put on hold until Meta is found guilty and pays a fine?

Also maybe the fine on the later case would have to be proportional to the prior case. So if Meta pays $1 per infringement, the penalty might be $1 for torrenting something else (which is immaterial and not worth the justice system's time) so pretty much all copyright infringement cases would get thrown out.

It reminds me of how mainstream drug addicts get convicted and spend years in prison, while celebrities get off with a warning or monetary fine.
Discussion on the source paper (55 points, 23 hours ago, 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42963934
So be a company? Last I checked it costs a couple of hundred dollars to form an LLC, what am I missing?
I think everything we don't have a model for is surprisingly strange. Gravity only seems "normal" because we've been teaching a reasonable model for it for hundreds of years - Aristotle thought things fell to the ground because that was "their nature", but thought it quite weird. X-Rays seem bonkers unless you've grown up with them, and there is something deeply unnerving about genetics, quantum and even GenAI until you've spent some time pulling apart the innards and building an explainable model that makes sense to you. And even then it can catch you out. More ways to explain the models help normalise it all - what's now taught at 9th grade used to be advanced post-doc research, in almost every field. And so it goes on.

2D superconductors don't make much sense because, as the article says, theory is behind experimentation here. That's also why there is both incredible excitement, but also a worry that none of this is going to stack up to anything more than a bubble. My old Uni (Manchester) doubled down hard on the work of Geim and Novoselov by building a dedicated "Graphene Institute", after they got the Nobel Prize, but even 15 years after that award most people are still trying to figure out what does it all actually mean really? Not just in terms of the theory of physics, but how useful is this stuff, in real world usage?

It'll settle down in due course. The model will become apparent, we'll be able to explain it through a series of bouncing back between theory and experiment, as ever, and then it won't seem so strange any more.

I'm not sure that'll ever be true of quantum computing for me, but then I am getting a bit older now...
What we're discussing here is whether a private company should obey laws of the country they operate in or not.
Or stackalloc instead of new.
3000 for LFP is a common number, but there are some that are now claiming 6000 cycles. Of course like everyone has mentioned, battery management matters and charging temperature, discharge temperature, charge and discharge limits matter.
Fireworks is great, still used today
Obviously DeepSeek chose it by design, but the question is how it got past the app store reviewers.
That's not feasible for bots, crawling, IP laws, etc.

Strict fraud could be handled, but everything above is really different per jurisdiction by obvious reasons. There is nothing clearly good or bad in bots, or e.g. pirates, it depends on particular cultural perception. And if one nation thinks that the action is not a crime, it doesn't make sense to them to prosecute such actions for foreign requests.
Now I'm probably going to buy a rebble watch (or whatever they get called) regardless, but in the meantime there's a pinetime sitting on my desk. I wonder if it's possible to port the pebbleos software to that existing hardware.
no one, you'll be in secret prison before you somehow gain standing
> Uber scams both passenger and driver.

Then why do people keep using it? It seems like a pretty transactional relationship to me. If drivers aren't getting paid as much as they wanted, they should find another job with a higher price. If passengers are paying more than they wanted, then they should find another way to call a taxi with a lower price.
Not true at all. There are several profitable Chinese EV companies, and if you're only talking about cars available in the US for some reason, Stellantis and GM are making money on their EVs. And obviously Ford, Hyundai, Chevrolet, etc. are profitable overall.
Temporal in Space
As part of the Replay conference keynote, Temporal launched their mascot Ziggy into the stratosphere. This blog post gives an inside look at what it takes to run reliable code in space.
A whole lot of people in the tech scene got really mad when Huawei was using obviously stolen Cisco designs and code for their switches. Didn’t humanity benefit from having cheaper access to switches because they didn’t have to pay for Cisco’s sunk costs? A whole lot of people got mad when Microsoft reportedly ganked open source code for things like DNS. Didn’t humanity benefit from one of the world’s most popular server OSs having more reliable name resolution?

Oh, but corporations were the primary beneficiaries, right?

Well, corporations are the primary beneficiaries of this too from a financial perspective. A vanishingly small percentage of people will run, let alone train these models themselves— it’s almost exclusively used to make commercial services that directly compete against the people that made the initial ” data“. But, the vanishingly small percentage of people that directly utilize this stuff for non-commercial use frequent echo chambers like this that make them think more regular people benefit directly. And the companies that are competing directly with creatives and intellectuals using their stolen work employ a whole lot of people here, directly or not.

The distinction between a reason and a justification gets pretty difficult to distinguish the closer you are to the group benefiting from injustice.
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I see, and thanks! Up next: star fields.
It's ironic that this website has a large, annoying floating bar blocking a lot of the page, whose only purpose appears to be to hold one of those horrible hamburger menus.

Physician, heal thyself.
It's possible to transfer power between two grids at different frequencies (even between 50 and 60 Hz), it just requires more expensive equipment.
I agree. But can we all agree that simply because it's old, or difficult that it shouldn't be a reason not to do it? Eventually, we have to swallow the bitter pill that spending is out of control and that it has to be reigned in. The government should never be as big as it is, spending as much as it spends, with its fingers in as many pies as it is now.

It's clear that there has been little to no transparency or oversight on a lot of these things/systems.

So, one way or another, that has to change.
> taxis in new york were and continue to be totally fine. you just stand outside and get in ~20 seconds later, with no hassles or apps.

This is only true in a small subset of New York.
in the eighties this was just called learning how to use BASIC

:v
So if British voters get to chose between having access to iPhones or voting for a government that wants to spy on them at whatever the cost surely the choice must be clear?
VC and startups are fundamentally about disruption. You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs (laws). The incumbent players are not going to sit still and let things be "disrupted". A common response is to make sure the public knows about the broken eggs. I would say youtube, Google, Spotify, Uber, doordash, etc. all have made my life much better.
Then it would need to be determined, whether that is the case or not. Did every single machine they used have the configuration for only leeching and no seeding? The company is liable for what its employees on the job. If only one employee was also seeding ... that could be a very interesting case.
_real_?
Perhaps the LLM "decided" there was no reason to reinvent the wheel since it already knew of a high-quality text for this exact purpose?

OTOH many ad makers seem to have this instinct to always fake, even when the actual product looks good.
In its Dr Doolittle implications the article is comforting to read but not convincing as a scientific discovery; this "law" seems to be of the same class as things like the Pareto (80/20) principle and possibly more abstract and nebulous than attributable to some shared intellectual co-living space with our fellow animals.
There is already a global iCloud encryption backdoor.

iCloud Backup is not end to end encrypted. iCloud Photos is not end to end encrypted.

Apple can read all of your iMessages and see all of your photos.

The governments where they operate can compel them to turn over this data. They can and do. Often.

Operationally this doesn’t really change much.
The 30-Year-Old Computer Scientist Who Wants to Remake Wealth Management
> In the debate over density, architects and planners are split into two camps. The first is pro-density, which believes in ... clusters of skyscrapers. This is the pro-city crowd. The second is the anti-density camp ... This is the pro-suburb crowd

What about what me might call the "Barcelona" style? Or many other EU cities full of approximately six-story residential buildings with small shops on the ground floor. The style is relatively dense, with mass-transit systems and low private car ownership rates. But no need for skyscrapers. (There are some skyscrapers, but they're not key elements of the residential plan).
Then, why is Doge flagging things like funding gender-change surgery abroad instead?
a possible hack for that: write personal software to help you write the OSS project
Oh yeah, it's complete rubbish - the challenge now is to figure out if there's anything useful a <100MB LLM can do.

Someone suggested using it to build the world's worst calculator.
AFAIK it's entirely possible to adjust it based on the browser's locale
can people vote with their feet, and leave the platform ?

but the masses are addicted to the slop that meta feeds them.
We literally tried to do this with TikTok. We can't exactly stand on a high-horse when the highest level of government in the US was totally fine with it.

Our noble "we can't have American data in the hands of our enemies," their savage "forcing American companies to turn over user data."
Do you define relevance in terms of manufacturing?
I can see a future where a lot of SaaS gets pushed down to APIs or low level “pipes” and we’re all just speaking / typing requests into a machine that creates what we need just in time. Software kind of unfurling in front of our feet as we walk in our desired direction.
This is getting off-topic, but I am curious, why didn't you go with BART in the first place? If you had an hour to call the taxi company and still arrive in time, presumably, you had more than enough time.

I know there are reasons for not going with public transport, but preferring to take a taxi/uber when a train line can get you there in time maybe has more to say about public transport than about taxis. Well functioning rail is typically one of the most effective and reliable way of getting to an airport, and often much cheaper than taxis.
Author introduces inline type definition. Shouldn't allocation strategy be decided by the caller, not type definiton? Or there is a way to heap allocate value of inline type by wrapping it into some utility type, similar to Rust's Box?
Yes. Unfortunately those who thought a Labour government would be any less likely to deploy surveillance law than the Conservatives clearly do not have a very long memory. A pervasive obsession with snooping and controlling people's private affairs is one thing the two parties are quite united on