skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been discussed before but I'll go ahead and say it again. Any administration that was actually serious about cutting spending to benefit the American people would start with cutting unnecessary defense projects and large scale healthcare reform. Those categories take up the vast, vast majority of the budget. But instead, they cut the programs projecting benevolence to the world and protecting us from tuberculosis outbreaks because they were "full of marxists" and then proceeded to outline a horrifying plan for expansion that would certainly increase defense costs. There isn't actual logic here, it's based on subjective feelings and lies designed to appease voters and enrage them at the other side. God forbid there ever be any deep thought or nuance to anything.
Are you kidding? They have literally been the most progressive tech advocacy group in history. I’ve been donating annually since it was founded. They’ve been consistent. Maybe you’ve moved more to the right?
"Cronyism (noun, derogatory): the appointment of friends and associates to positions of authority, without proper regard to their qualifications."

Cronyism is advancing the interests of your personal connections. Friends and family. If you want an explicit cutoff, the Dunbar Number suggests this group should have 100, maybe 150 people in it.

Conversely, there's 40 million black people in the US, and I really doubt anyone is even associated with all of them, much less calling them one of their friends.

You can change who you're friends with a lot easier than you can change your skin color, so the two result in different problems. They're both bad, of course. Similar to how "wage theft" and "shoplifting" are different crimes, even though both of them involve taking money from someone else.
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I for one remain incredibly grateful that they shoveled money out the door, and imperfectly helped lots of small businesses provide some cash to some employees. If they had sat around worrying about the critics or trying to prevent any possible fraud before sending out the money, everything in our country would have frozen up that much more.
I'm not sure what you're definition of performance parity is. Are you claiming that the existence of rust proves that there is no performance penalty for memory safety? The penalty may be relatively small, but I am not aware of any proof that the penalty is non-existent. I am not even sure how you could prove such a thing. I could imagine that C and C++ implementations of exactly the same algorithms and data structures as are implemented in safe rust might perform similarly, but what about all of the C and C++ implementations that are both correct and not implementable in safe rust? do they all perform only as well or worse than rust?
Can you use signal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling#Vice_signall...
. The society is holding together by some level of trust others. Over emphasize individual self dependence is not helpful IMO. But instead of trust the big platform, we can go back trust people near you in the real world. As the more technical person in a small community, we all holds responsibility to help out.
I did! Did you?
I think a far better approach to memory safety in C projects is to evolve tools and annotate existing code. It is also not true that everybody moves to Rust and I think the claims about memory safety are overblown (due use of unsafe Rust). In my experience as a observer and contributor of open-source and free software for the last decades, these changes driven by enthusiastic and opinionated small group that try change how existing projects work are very dangerous and often contraproductive both in terms of technical and social risks for the projects. It is far better to start alternative projects that compete on their own merits and if the techniques are truly superior, then those will eventually be competitive. Going into existing projects and changing them according to "opinions" is a really bad idea.
No, but opinionated competence does, if you’re in the right environment. If you’re not, I guess doing the bare minimum and STFU kinda works?
> This implies that you can look back at a product with all its nuance and say "that was done right" or "that was done wrong". Most of the time it is ambiguous as far as if the chosen approach was the right one

It is often ambiguous when making the decision but a good engineer should absolutely be able to determine what were right and wrong decisions with hindsight. Yes, even with the benefit of hindsight there may be some ambiguity, but let's be real

If you are a leading engineer and you cannot do a postmortem on a project to determine what decisions were likely good and what ones were likely bad, then you shouldn't be a leading engineer
I don't know, I was just travelling through.
There’s many ethnic Germans in America, but there’s almost nothing German in broader American law and civic society. Thats the distinction between the settler population (British people and African slaves, with a relatively small proportion of Dutch, Spanish, and French) and the immigrant population (everyone else).

America is a country that happens to have a lot of people of immigrant ancestry. That’s an incidental feature. Because it’s a physically large country that was for a long time relatively unsettled. But that doesn’t define the country. There isn’t anything that commits the country to any particular policy re: immigration. In fact, the massive German, Irish, and Italian immigration of the 19th century led to a decades-long restriction of immigration staring in the 1920s, where the foreign born population dropped from 15% (similar to now) to under 5% by 1970.
> How is that relevant?

The thing that user is concerned about seems to be trying to decide if we're looking at another Holocaust. It seems reasonable to check to see if the preconditions are similar.

> But why do it in the form of a riddle?

It's not a riddle, it's an invitation to set a baseline to discuss from that's not just "the world is scary and we're looking at another Holocaust".

If somebody says the world is scary and they want reassurance, we can't just go "no the world isn't scary it's gonna be fine"--we have to explain _why_ the world isn't scary, and to do that we need shared understanding.

It's not helpful if, for example, they mean Nazi in the general sloppy sense ("thugs and bigots that seek power") and I use Nazis in a very particular sense (a group desirous of annexing Sudetenland and Alsace–Lorraine, seeking to restore German and Austrian economic power, scapegoating particular minorities and progressive values for cultural corruption, a reliance on a patchwork of occult and mystical foundations for rallying, etc.).

So, I didn't ask "riddles": I asked a bunch of questions to see where they were coming from before making an argument one way or the other. I wish more folks did this in the years leading up to the current situation, but here we are.
They could, but its unlikely other people in their network will.
I'll work on that!
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42965816
As a Swede, the Amazon comment is funny.

They came here perhaps two years ago and everybody I know agrees they suck and can not compete with our local alternatives. They're not cheaper and the website is an utter mess of auto translations and dark patterns. Order flash storage and pray it's not counterfeit. We use Prisjakt[1] to compare prices and price history between shops.

About Google... Yes, YouTube is hard for me to avoid. I use StartPage for search (which is Google search proxy just like DDG is a Bing proxy). Switching to DDG wouldn't be that much of a sacrifice. I don't have a Google account and YT works well via RSS. FreshRSS is basically my YT frontend.

Facebook is the hardest to leave, without a doubt. Civil society isn't organized around any of Amazon's or Google's services. Parent group for school? Facebook. A group for your neighborhood? Facebook. Local trading of goods? Facebook marketplace. I've made the data takeout and have been hovering over that account deletion button I don't know how many times... But I don't follow through.

So, I respectfully don't agree. :)

[1] https://www.prisjakt.nu/produkt.php?p=6498581
At scale, a relevant number of your customers talk. One example in TFA is that customers do not have conversations where they randomly recommend operating systems to each other. Well, I'm sorry, but in my bubble they certainly do. I have recommended more operating systems than car models to others.

The other thing the article misses IMO is that detraction is also growth, albeit negative growth (and additionally, people are in my experience much more likely to passionately recommend _against_ something they hate than recommending something they love).
So the NPS tells you a thing or two about:
- Your potential to utilise whichever chance you have to grow via word of mouth
- Your potential to squander that same chance due to people hating your product
- Your potential to have negative growth because your customers are leaving in droves.
Can you give some specific policy directions you are advocating so I can better understand what you mean?
Historically, the EFF has been very pro free-speech. Now it seems like they're in the free-speech-but-only-if-we-agree-with-you camp.
[EDIT] Wrong parent.
This is not a discussion that can be resolved in the abstract. It requires actual experimentation and data and pointing at actual physical CPUs differing only in this respect and compare the silicon area, energy use, MHz achieved, and cycles per program.
A desire for an “independent bureaucracy” is quite the creative interpretation of the idea of checks and balances…
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42963814
For what it's worth, I've been trying for years now to have my partner's phone face unlock while sitting side by side, facing etc. All with consent of course.

It's surprisingly hard, my success rate is abysmal. Especially as I have to manipulate the device from the side while somewhat pointing it at her.

And her success rate is also modestly low, in particular when her make-up changes or hair style covers more or less of her face. She's typing her password about a dozen of times a day.

All in all I think it is pretty secure, but also not as practical as touted in the ads, and I'm kinda glad my own phone works with both finger and face recognition.
Unless I'm missing something, this can be done in O(n) time by tracking the connected components of wall (diagonally touching walls are connected). Placing a new wall creates an enclosed region if and only if it touches 2 separated sections of wall that are part of the same component.

The union-find disjoint sets algorithm can find whether they're in the same component. If a wall is added, it should be unioned with all adjacent walls. If a wall piece is removed, the components it was part of need to be recalculated, but it looks like that shouldn't happen more than once per frame.

In this case, the lookups of the union find algorithm will never take more than O(n) overhead per frame while checking all of up to n possible wall positions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjoint-set_data_structure
In stead of asking “would you reccomend”, shouldn’t you rely on “how did you learn about us?”, or “why did you buy our product”, the first one being the most reliable, as it is a neutral question about a fact.
Having been involved with personal computing from its inception, I believe that companies made computers difficult to use for whatever reasons, be they catering to “power users”, business or just plain inattention to the non-techie user.

Apple was better in this respect, but in recent times, has vast mysteries. I have written up how to save tabs in ios Safari and (this is real good) how to convert a webp file to jpg or png on ios. It’s frickin baroque. (Vastly easier on a mac) But I digress.

Centralized web apps allowed people in essence to create web pages (without SeaMonkey). Apple had the key to hypertext with HyperCard and dropped it. And by the way, average people were writing their own apps in HyperCard. I was writing complex scientific graphing apps for work in HyperCard, and outputting EPS files for tech pubs.

I saw a simplified computer “for old folks” and can relate that when my non-tech brother got tired of reinstalling his drivers with every Windows update, switched to a Dell Linux system, packaged and supported and after some initial questions about apps to use, hasn’t asked me anything in years. It’s not that Linux is streamlined or simple. It’s just that when you install the 4 apps you use all the time, life is good.

I can’t say what should have taken place, because that’s in the “woulda coulda shoulda” basket and it’s best just to move forward.
I'll add another that my sibling posts haven't - wealthy parents are more likely to be aware of the dangers. Doubly so for those working in tech.
And right now Agent.ai is gaining traction (500k+ users)
ArchGW: Open-source, AI-native (edge and LLM) proxy for prompt traffic
Why We Built ArchGW?

Traditional application architectures separate routing, security, and observability from business logic - so that developers can move faster without the tax of reinventing the wheel. LLM applications should be no different. ArchGW applies these patterns to prompts, providing a structured approach to building LLM applications.

How It Works

ArchGW runs as a separate process alongside application servers. It intercepts prompts before they reach the backend and applies transformations based on predefined rules and models:

Preprocessing: Normalizes and analyzes prompt structure.
Security Filtering: Rejects jailbreak attempts and unsafe inputs.
Intent Mapping: Determines if a request maps to an API function.
Function Invocation: Extracts arguments and calls backend APIs.
LLM Routing: Chooses the right LLM provider based on latency/cost constraints.
Tracing & Metrics: Adds W3C Trace Context headers, tracks errors, token usage, and request latency.

Why a Dedicated Proxy?

Traditional application architectures separate routing, security, and observability from business logic—LLM applications should be no different. ArchGW applies these patterns to prompt processing, providing a structured approach to LLM integration.
I believe this is the wrong place in the thread. Did you mean to comment to the parent?

I agree that the American political parties currently represent rather niche positions that most people don't feel aligned with - they're pretty poor generalist labels for the various constellations of moral sentiments that we find in society.
Or it was because employees need jobs a lot more than they need $2,500, so if everyone got $2,500 and lost their job, employees would be screwed in like 3 months.

Profit may not trickle down like you hope but pain sure does.
Is it really fair to call it a surprise when prediction markets had 80% odds on her since the day Biden dropped out? (https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7057/Who-will-win-t...)

Or did you mean Biden dropping out itself? I don't see how anyone could have reasonably offered more notice that he was dropping out - presumably there was a fairly rapid decline in health for him to make that decision after the primary.
Of you think most programmers won't mess up 10 lines every 10000 lines then I have a bridge to sell you.
Why? It makes a ton of sense. Its been a while but I'm pretty sure decompilation leads to much higher level/understandable code in java/c#. Good enough to step into and debug libraries.

And given how fragile/unreproducible it is you almost never want to modify lines in a dependency. In python I'd make a wrapper or monkey patch it instead of modifying the dependency(Or if you need to actually for the library and add it to the dependenies).
Unless it was blocking a one of task that I needed done right away.
That assumes that people know what they're doing in C/C++, I've seen just as many bloated codebases in C++ if not more because the defaults for most compilers are not great and it's very easy for things to get out of hand with templates, excessive use of dynamic libraries(which inhibit LTO) or using shared_ptr for everything.

My experience is that Rust guides you towards defaults that tend to not hit those things and for the cases where you really do need that fine grained control unsafe blocks with direct pointer access are available(and I've used them when needed).
One thing is as sibling post commented, the complexity of such jobs are staggering from a robotics point of view.

The other thing is that the salary of the plumber or welder is in the range $20/hr to $40/hr. Can you make a general purpose, agile robot function at a total cost of ownership that's substantially lower than this?
The current administration is an.. unprecedented one to say the least. Maybe I'm old.
Can you provide examples? I don't feel like opting out of data collection is a very good example there.

I definitely feel like the ACLU took a turn for the worse in that direction a few years ago. I'll be sad if the EFF is also headed that direction - they've struck me as one of the only ones that's still willing to stand on principle
I immediately noticed this as well. In many cases, they weren't even LLCs, just names.

Maybe my memory is hazy from that period, but I don't recall the clear call to action to request five-figure loans as an individual, (almost) all of which appear forgiven.
If you're referring to me, you'll have to do better than namecalling.

If you're referring to Musk or the current administration, calling them names doesn't really seem to have worked for what, at least nine years now?
It will be interesting to see how Clojure and Scala do in the longer run in the industry oriented FP languages scene. I wonder if there's any data points around that could tell a tale.
And my counterpoint is that the lack of effective counter-measures to prevent fraud and abuse erodes the basic trust that society requires in order to support such societal welfare funded by taxpayer dollars.

Biden trumpeted hiring 80,000 new IRS agents to audit taxpayers. The IRS is now auditing people who sell $600 on etsy and ebay https://www.cnbc.com/select/irs-600-reporting-rule-delayed/#...

Where is the outrage and indignation for people who make millions from government programs? Why not hire 80,000 agents strictly to audit NGOs, politicians, and anyone who sucks from the government tit? I believe you would find far more fraud, and it would be much more politically popular. Then hire 80,000 IRS agents to attack actual productive members of society
Case law at the time was that mail order sales didn't need to collect sales tax unless there was a nexus in the state. Amazon may have done some funny business to claim no nexus in some states, I seem to recall allegations that had Kindle development in the Bay Area under a subsidiary and didn't pay sales tax in California. But mostly, they kept their warehouses and distribution centers outside states they didn't want to pay sales tax to, and that followed case law (but case law changed when it was relitigated)
sigh Can it get better?
> 3. 255 numbered registers

255? Isn’t that 256? There’s nothing special about address zero on 6502.
> Yes. Most people like you share your point of view. Odd that.

You seem to have modified my statement and then taken something other than intended. Allow me to clarify. I was referring to most people as in the vast majority of the English speaking population. Not simply people like me.

> Check your hoistory, that appears to be the first time you haven't weighed in with nothing but your PoV, preconception, and desire to impose your conclusions as the motivations of others.

> Congratulations. You're evolving.

This was the answer you gave in response to my asking why you chose to use an obscure less common less well known term to refer to people of the US. All you could do is insult me in response. This leads me to believe I was correct in my previous good faith assumption.

Also, having to check post history so you can attempt to discredit me instead of just answering a simple question says a lot.

> But you assume others do? And that makes sense to you. Okay ...

As I said, it was the only good faith assumption I could come up with as to why someone would chose to use an obscure less common less well known term to refer to people from the US.

> Is it?

Without a doubt, due to being significantly less used and recognized.

> There's been no sign of good faith and assuming the best from your comments since the first one (that appears edited) that patronisingly informed me that I should conform to your way of writing English.

It wasn't patronizing, it was informing you that that term is less common and tries to solve a problem that doesn't exist. My reply was a lost gamble taking the chance you were someone that ran into someone like spreading nonsense and having picked up a bad term/habit as a result, as opposed to being someone that just likes being contrarian and causes people to pick up said bad terms/habits.

> Who is bleeding?

Is drawing blood really what you limit your concept of harm to?

> Again, what ambiguity?

This was clarified in my previous reply, as were other answers to questions you repeated, but I'll repeat myself again here while continuing to assume good faith.

The ambiguity is in giving the impression that it's a valid term to refer to people from the US, when really it's not so it just creates undue confusion and ambiguity.
I think we have to think of software like books and writing. It is about conveying information, and while there are grammatical rules to language and conventions around good and bad writing, we're generally happy to leave it there because too many rules is so constructive as to remove the ability to express information in the way we feel we need to. We just have to accept that some are better writers than others, or we like the style of some authors better.
It is mysterious for those who have different world views or exist inside of a partisan bubble. I can easily imagine how they might characterize your above comment as a, "conspiracy theory". Interesting times.
Because face id is way better. I have yet to meet anyone with phones where in screen finger print work reliably. Works. Works. Then suddenly fails many times in a row and they get visibly frustrated.
The democrats are basically the institutionist and "status quo" defenders of American hegemony at this point. Doesn't matter how "left" you go, they are basically the 'conservative' now.

Also, saying the EFF is nonpartisan? The EFF always had a strong political point of view. If you label it right or left, that's your problem.
"Self-play simulation emits fitter models"
The issue with this approach to moderation is that it targets posts based on visibility of "undesired" behavior instead of severity.

For example, many manipulative tactics (e.g. the fake sorry here, responding to something else than was said, ...) and lying can be considered insults (they literally assume the reader is not smart enough to notice, hence at least as severe as calling someone an idiot) but it's hard for a mod to notice without putting in a lot of effort to understand the situation.

Yet when people (very mildly) punish this behavior by calling it out, they are often noticed by the mod because the call out is more visible.
https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs
Indigenous engineers are using AI to preserve their culture