skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Today, with swichmode supplies, I think DC would make most sense. We lose much power to frequency deviation and inductive loads causing phase shift.

It would also make sense to have a high voltage and low voltage nets in houses. Low voltage for lighting and other low power equipment. High voltage for power hungry equipment. For example 48V and 480V.
Its data laundering
DNF has a similar mechanism, I appreciate it when poorly-written third party package manifests try to remove/deprecate more than they should
yea its not truly random. not sure how predictable the batching or caching is
its totally forkable. in fact its totally possible to write a 99% workalike.

the issue here is whether or not the broader community would ever seriously consider using an alternative, and whether contributors, particular commercial ones writing drivers for products, would ever agree to maintain two versions.
I found this while randomly browsing and it is a thing of beauty
Where are you seeing these "we're viral" statements?
Singapore is pretty diverse, but comparable to Japan in terms of being clean and tidy and high trust. Maybe there's more to it than that.
I feel like if that's your take, then things like array indexing or dividing by zero should never panic. Because running into those things at runtime is very hard to prevent (unless you have tooling for enforcing that statically?)
Thats fair, and it’s your language to design how you think is best. Just throwing out my two cents here based on my personal experiences.

I have 2000+ developers at my work, many of them making changes on a single huge web application. Compile/publish of the testing servers takes several hours and happens regularly throughout the day. There are thousands of testers all testing many different workflows all the time.

If one developer makes a mistake in a dark corner of the code one day, it seems bad to have the whole server crashing and disrupting all the other testing that’s going on for multiple hours while we wait for a fix and another build.

Quality and fix prioritization is in the hands of project teams for usability problems, performance problems, functional problems, etc. Uncaught exceptions should be logged somewhere, and it’s ultimately up to the team to decide whether they care enough to fix them.
What is this from? It appears to be un-Google-able.
If this is the station drunks end up at after passing out, then there is a high probability of seeing throw up or a passed out person on the weekends.
Here's Wipr's instructions for toggling on its blocklists: https://kaylees.site/wipr-faq.html#wipr-has-no-effect-after-...
> over half of the C++ devs will feel betrayed and quit supporting the Linux project. They've been working on C++ for Decades and things mostly worked, so they won't pivot for a new language and way of developing for something that exists for less than 30 years.

You mean C? C++ has been dead and buried for years and there are 0 kernel devs thinking that C++ will ever be allowed in (that idea was killed in the 00s if I recall correctly).

I don't think the situation is quite as extreme as you're making it out. For example, the employers of Linux kernel devs are getting pressure to use Rust because of the push from within & without the industry. I think push comes to shove, most people have a stronger preference for their paycheck than for the language they work in.
One problem at a time. A lot of the malicious activity of bots/crawling/etc hide behind plain fraud.

Combat fraud first so you can start to really identify the other more troublesome troublemakers.

Bots? Declare the owner. Lie about the owner? Fraud.

Crawling? Bots.

Intellectual property? That's an entire whole other industry.
I was able to bypass the 2fa using the right signtool incantations
We're talking about the biggest ad company in the world deliberately making it much harder for users to block ads. I think their primary goal is to show people more ads, and anything to do with safety is a nice to have and/or pretext.
I submit to you the hypothesis that some people are poor.
The paper described a level 5 fully autonomous agent as one that can:

create code(user request);

execute();

Is this not possible with tool use alone, so long as the agent has access to a tool that can execute arbitrary code?
Ask HN: I have to do a 12 minute presentations on Patents
I have an upcoming presentation that I have to do on Patents and the topic is in Physics, its a group presentation but I managed to luck out and convince the professor to do it single. So 12 minutes is long, what do you guys think would be a good way to present everything about patents for a group of undergrad physics students? I want to do a good job at this, I have thought have using a kahzoo or a game and an question or answering period at the end. But I am not a lawyer.
You know how there are pictures of certain immigrants to NYC and other places in the early part of the XX century and they would show those people sweeping their stoops and sidewalks and generally keeping their neighborhoods tidy?

Well, in Japan, you still see that. Shop owners will go around their shop with a duster cleaning away any dust or cobwebs that might have sprung overnight. Awnings, signs, etc.
I feel that these kinds of statements are more effective at promoting AI than limiting it. It reinforces the assumption that such powerful AI is behind the corner. It hypes up AI and the result is likely more money and resources being put into it.

Imagine if the A-bomb was being openly developed. What title would have contributed more to funding and research, "The A-bomb (is terribly powerful and) should not be developed" or "The A-bomb will never work"? Except the A-bomb did work and in a surprisingly short time, while autonomous AGI is still a conjecture.
Programming is basically expressing your thoughts in extreme detail. The medium you do it through matters to you. Very few other professions are encoding their actual thoughts.

Imagine asking a writer to switch dialects. "It's the same thing, but just Old English." While some would find it fun, if you randomly swapped out dialects for each process I bet authors would get really tired of it really quickly, especially once they figure out which ones jobs with their natural thought process.
presentation* my bad should I try to like data mine all possible patents and public record and build some sort of a chatbot or custom AI? How should I go on about this. I personally just want to do a good history lesson, but I need a good question the prof told me and told me to be concise, but there is a lot of freedom.
It's okay when large corporations download cars. But when you do it, you'll be in trouble.
> what existential reasons do we have to behave well?

Overall humans play pretty nice, all things considered. If you get sick someone will help you, if you lose your job you can fall back on assistance. Hell, even the fact you HAVE a job is a privilege granted to you.

Other animals don't do that. They eat their young, because they feel like it. Without the will and kindness of other humans, a fact that we take so for granted we fail to recognize it as "society", most of us wouldn't live 10 days. That's not an exaggeration either - check out infant mortality statistics throughout human history.
I can’t relate to this at all. In music, you practice until you get it, and then you stop. It’s important not to over-practice, in fact. In high school math classes, I was assigned an order of magnitude more practice problems than I actually needed. There was no “practice until you get it, then quit.” It was “do all the problems whether you understand them or not, or you get a bad grade.” Repetition is absolutely anathema when you’ve ceased to learn anything from it.
TomTom maps (and probably others, I just worked for TomTom so know how theirs work) combine both real time traffic information, and road speed estimates based on data from users uploading their driving traces (with start and end locations removed to anonymize them), so it has a table of the average driving speed for all roads, on a per-hour and weekday/weekend basis, plus any real time traffic information it has, which it uses for route calculation and time estimation.
The good ol' "fine, I'll do it myself".

Reluctant leaders are some of the best. They're there to get things done and rarely overstep their area of competence.
So Kennedy Center will now host Kid Rock concerts and wrestling matches?
To be fair, anything that does not support BWX is really painful to deal with.

Take, for example, an 8-bit/byte store. Without BWX the sequence would be something like:

bic a0, #3, t1
and a0, #3, t4
ldl t2, (t1)
insbl a1, t4, t3
mskbl t2, t4, t2
bis t2, t3, t2
stl t2, (t1)
ret zero, (ra)

But with BWX, it becomes:

stb a1, 0(a0)
ret zero, (ra)
This is the logic that generates generic corporate PR speak and a fear of being honest in organizational communication. It's not a more 'adult' world, it's just heavily sanitized. Calling something "a cancer in x" is a common analogy, we know what they mean.
If Linus thinks that the social media angle is wrong, he should defuse situations before they become explosive because even if one of the devs didn't bring up the drama, there are dozens of news companies that would have printed up articles the second they found the discussion anyway.

Linus should have stepped in long before a maintainer blew their stack and started throwing out ultimatums. Once that happened, Linus could have still stopped everything with one sentence -- "Let me look into this.", but he did not.

Linus only got an opinion once things blew up on social media which proves that social media works which is the exact opposite of what he says he wants (and will just encourage more of the same).
I could see something like this operating like a WYSWYG HTML editor that either has a split screen or toggles between source and rendered views.

I think creating any sizable chunk of code in something like this would be likely to involve way too much clicking around.

But I can also see that it could be a really useful way to spot errors and a big help with refactoring tasks.
Not scheduled maintenance
BF Skinner. Same person that brought us variable reward loops now found in casinos, free to play games, and other manipulations.
Red-Teaming ChatGPT for Hallucinations – Code and Report
This is really cool! Well done. Like others, I'd love to specify generic things like distance to a "grocery store" or "gym" as part of my initial criteria. I see that I can add a long list of possible places that meet a search, so maybe I just want the UI to hide the details from me and add all those possible places for me.

I personally found the additional criteria being added to the top to be counter intuitive and I inadvertently deleted locations thinking it was the newest criterion, but it was actually my earlier ones. I think I've been trained to look/scroll to the bottom for the added element (e.g. like when adding additional Google Maps locations)

I would also love an option to mix transportation modes. For example, public transportation and biking.

Anyway, thank you for building this!
50 factors

1 2 5 10 25 50

60 factors

1 2 3 4 5 6 10 20 30 60

Seems for AC 60 is overall more flexible in design of AC motors, transformers and other resonant devices
See, you're providing a reason to care that doesn't exist in the word problem. That's fully supporting what I would have wanted in school.
There is no fraud that can be proven!

NIH Official account is saying last year $9B of the $35B in grant money was for "administrative overhead". Not fraud. But does that sound reasonable to you??

https://x.com/NIH/status/1888004759396958263
Do we really lose much to phase shift? Increasing apparent load only causes a tiny fraction of that much waste, and local compensation isn't very expensive.

DC or a significant frequency boost would be good inside a house for lights and electronic items. Not so great for distribution.

I'm not convinced multiple voltages would be a net benefit outside of the dedicated runs we already do for big appliances.
> Does your desktop app need a gyro, webrtc and gamepad support?

I doubt those impose very much (if any) overhead for just being present but unused. In any case, those aren't the things that the OP was talking about; there are plenty of layout-related standards like floats that are almost never used in modern web apps yet inhibit or prevent many optimizations that could potentially significantly increase rendering performance. For a more extreme example, imagine how much faster layout rendering could be if you removed all types of layout other than grid—you'd be able to remove a bunch of checks and all the code that handles edge cases, significantly simplifying the happy path.

Nobody (to my knowledge) has done this because it's not as simple as forking Chromium and removing code. Without the mentioned optimizations, I don't think you'd see much benefit.
Their emotions are not in question. Unfortunately they decided to waste people’s time and money with this. They could have decided to teach others not to surf trains. They chose to make their problems other people’s responsibility.
I think the response from Dr Greg to Linus, https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250207121638.GA7356... adds some interesting insights.

There seems to be some issue with unaccountable maintainers, and that’s a problem for innovation. If you can’t even get to the point of “technical debate” (we aren’t interested, sorry), then what hope innovation?

These are “people problems”, and there are no easy or good answers, but it doesn’t mean we should through our hands up and consider things “unfixable” either.
Simply put: because it's full of Japanese people.

Everybody speaks the same language and has the same cultural norms, which are the foundations for any high-trust society.

Japanese culture has an exceedingly high focus on the appearance of cleanliness and politeness. The inside of someone's home might be a hoarder's dream, but the outside will be clean.

Someone might be an absolute jerk, but to act on that in most social spaces would have very real consequences. Rude behavior, like dancing and playing loud music on a train, will get you arrested here.

Misbehavior in Japan is dealt with, and quickly.

On that note: Japanese police don't play games. You do not have a right to a speedy trial, there is no jury of your peers, and they can hold you as long as they'd like. The phrase "police brutality" does not translate into Japanese.

Do not break the law in Japan.

There is a de-facto truce between the Yakuza and the police, as the Yakuza deal with foreign gangs and other problems that would be... difficult to solve with normal police work.

Japanese gangs are fiercely nationalistic. If the police don't handle you, the Yakuza will, and although I don't have any data to back this up, I'd wager that the police are the better option.

Additionally, Japanese neighborhoods have social responsibilities. Every couple of months, I am responsible for cleaning our trash area for two weeks, and there's usually some kind of repair or cleanup event twice per year.

In Japan, many people have lived in the same place for multiple generations, and can trace their ancestry within Japan back for thousands of years.

Japan is, quite literally, their ancestral home, and they act like it.
Do electric car motors make use of this property too? I know some cars, such as Porches use higher voltage to enable faster charging.
He didn't state 'by majority' anywhere in that comment. Approved. By popular vote, by some portion of the totality of popular vote, unspecified as far as the post goes.

Approved by enough popular vote to attain plurality. I'll take your quibble as a cute fixation with correctness when it comes to statistics, and not as it otherwise tends to manifest.

Cheers.
Like others said, it's probably maintenance. But presumably they could run late night bus service along essentially the same routes as the trains.

Trains are good at bypassing traffic and carrying large numbers of people, but you don't need to worry about those things in the middle of the night, so a bus should work fine as substitute.
It seems to me that exceptions have a bad rep.

Complaints range from too slow to hidden control flow to just not liking them.

I absolutely see the benefit in application code, otherwise you're error checking every function call.

On the other hand, I completely understand not using such a mechanism in kernel and driver code.

But Rust has decided against exceptions (which I actually believe were part of the original vision way back when, but please don't quote me), so now there's panics.

Everything is a tradeoff at some level.
I would encourage it in the Kernel. Maybe even go as far as porting large portions to Rust.
I suppose the thing that changed with GitHub is that 1) issue trackers became widely available, and 2) the concept of pull requests (and "drive-by" contributions). Before that, it was basically "email me" for most smaller projects (or maybe an email list on SourceForge).

I suppose "ignore some asshole in your email" is easier, and also hard to pile on comments in a private email box. But beyond that, I'd say having an issue tracker is a net positive, as is the ability to create PRs easily.

I wouldn't say that "social media-izing" is a good way to describe any of that, but I understand what you mean.

The main problem is probably more "brigading" from Twitter/X/Mastodon/Facebook/whatnot.
Slightly off-topic but my god that font is hard to read.
He literally said this:

> Every additional bit that the another language creeps in drastically reduces the maintainability of the kernel as an integrated project. The only reason Linux managed to survive so long is by not having internal boundaries, and adding another language complely breaks this. You might not like my answer, but I will do
everything I can do to stop this.

https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250131075751.GA16720@lst.de/
this is at best a disingenuous argument

(russia and china would love to have access to that data. so would a lot of other governments)
>Common stock was worthless [...] Execs got between $1MM and $10MM in cash.

What's the mechanism for this? Were there dual class shares for executives? A bonus for the acquisition?
Japanese are more individualist than Americans. They just don't apply this to graffiti.

They do sometimes litter, throw up in the sidewalk after drinking, and don't wash their hands after using the train station bathrooms.

I mean, Tokyo isn't even that clean. I was just there and saw a rat on the sidewalk every night. They're like NYC and just leave commercial trash bags on the sidewalk instead of using trash bins. (Also frequently saw aggressive "no dumping" signs on the pile of trash bags. Not very high trust!)
Red-Teaming – to make LLMs robust and safer
If it was a good approach, the C folks would have copied around C files instead of having common core code. They did not do that though, because it'd be counter productive due to increasing maintenance burden.

Everyone knows it would increase maintenance burden, decrease reliability, and increase the amount of apparent churn of rust code in the linux kernel.
It is not moving the goalposts. The parent that I replied to said "c and c++ programmers can no longer argue that the performance tradeoff is worth giving up safety." If you don't limit to safe rust you are giving up safety.
Eeny Meeny Miny Mo, Catch a Pterosaur by Its Neck
Very cool example!
Stealing is not the right word perhaps, but it is bad, and this should be obvious. Because if you take the limit of these arguments as they approach infinity, it all falls apart.

For piracy, take switch games. Okay, pirating Mario isn't stealing. Suppose everyone pirates Mario. Then there's no reason to buy Mario. Then Nintendo files bankruptcy. Then some people go hungry, maybe a few die. Then you don't have a switch anymore. Then there's no more Mario games left to pirate.

If something is OK if only very, very few people do it, then it's probably not good at all. Everyone recycling? Good! Everyone reducing their beef consumption? Good! ... everyone pirating...? Society collapses and we all die, and I'm only being a tad hyperbolic.

In a vacuum making an AI book is whatever. In the context of humanity and pushing this to it's limits, we can't even begin to comprehend the consequences. I'm talking crimes against humanity beyond your wildest dreams. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you haven't thought long enough and creatively enough.
True, but one difference, is they allowed the culture and population to mature as they transformed from a fishing village to international port and commerce center.

And, while they do bring in foreigners, they tend to be domestic maids or medium to high earning foreigners with a decent education and culture.
It just ("just") sounds like he's out of alignment with the kernel development process.

That shouldn't be too surprising - I mean, its an old project with a whole lot of technical baggage. Projects tend to slow down over time. And that is legitimately really frustrating when you want to shake things up or push for change. I would be rubbish as a linux kernel developer. I have the wrong temperament for it.

There's a reason why some tech companies interview for both technical skill and culture fit. Sounds like he's got the technical chops, but he's not a good fit for linux.

And when you're in a situation like that, your choices are essentially Voice or Exit. Voice is to do what he's tried to do - kick up a fuss about the problems to try and get them fixed. Thats a skill on its own - and it sounds like he's not been super effective at that. The other option is Exit. Which of course - sensibly, he's now done.

> he has gotta Stop Posting and keep those kinds of thoughts away from his keyboard.

Nah. Bottling this stuff up is a bad long term play. You end up getting bitter, cynical and resentful. I think we've all worked with people like that, and its miserable - both for the person and for their coworkers. I think its better to shoot your shot. Even if you miss - as he has here - you learn a lot about yourself and the world. And there's no shortage of interesting projects out there to work on. Pick something that matches your speed.
There's a sign in Otsuka (northern Tokyo suburb) like "Otsuka has half the crime rate of 10 years ago!" Things are the way they are, up until the moment that they change.

Things can change if people will it into existence. My 2-bit belief is basically
simplified "broken window theory", where stuff being broken leads to more stuff being broken, trash leads to more trash... so dealing with cleaning stuff up quickly is good.

Generating an environment where people have some pride in what's around them and are also benefiting from the thing themselves, on top of the thing not being busted probably helps a lot.

There's a lot of anti-littering campaigns and the like. I feel like the gov'ts as a whole are pretty responsive to new kinds of crime and try to build a public consciousness against it as soon as they realize what's up.

Plenty of hooliganism in Japan all over, and plenty of raging, but at the end of the day if there's a nice bench that someone is allowed to sit on in a chill way, people probably tend to not take their rage out on it.

Maybe everyone in Tokyo is just ground down from having to work all the time and is just subservient to authority. Who knows!
The borrow checker is more influenced by substructural type systems, such as the one in the MLKit [1] and Cyclone.

[1]: http://mlton.org/Regions
There's more despair when you miss the last train/bus in a US city, in an unfamiliar area, you don't have a phone, nothing is open, and the only other people you've seen seem to be deciding whether to mug you.

(I've done this more than once, accidentally.)