skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
those with success like the idea of meritocracy because it means they deserve it, makes it easier to deal with the injustices of the world. very very rarely will someone at the top of their field say "i was lucky"
Fraud and corruption?

How about letting the richest man in the world be responsible of judging his own conflicts of interests, while giving him all the power to cut funding to the rivals of his many companies?

Or to cut funding from departments that investigate his companies?

People who defend Trump and Musk wouldn't recognize fraud and corruption if it hit them in the head.
Children’s intelligence is strongly correlated with parental intelligence, probably due to both nature and nurture.
No… it’s not. To quote the message earlier in the thread, that message said “everyone with >100MB of disk usage on the class server was a VSCode user.”

100MB * 1000 users is how the person I responded to calculated 100GB, which is storage.
Yet it’s a private American company that has the most cameras everywhere, with no control over them. I’m far more concerned about my neighbours ring camera than I am about a regulated public cctv system.
Democracies around the world are increasingly looking to surveil and expose private data of their citizens, and introducing laws where simple act of defiance will become criminal.

I believe we should increasingly turn to steganography as a way to ensure our privacy (obviously, combined with encryption). Something that provides simple plausible deniability but lots of data to use as a carrying medium should become the default selection (like "personal videos" — a great use for our phone cameras to build an extensive collection), so even if "identified" as potential carrier for the data, it would be impossible to convict someone over it.

I can imagine a scheme where your secret passphrase defines what bits of data in a video to use to carry actual data and yet avoid changing the output too much. Obviously, coming with a non-reversible algorithm that takes into account different lossy video encoding schemes is non-trivial, though I am sure there is some (plenty?) prior art to build off of.
The Case for Sans-Io
Building the product is the easy part. Selling the product is the hard part.

I’m scaling and advising small and medium businesses. The biggest challenge I saw is to find the product market fit (PMF).

The PMF is first to solve a problem people wants to solve and who are ready to pay for it.

Did you have an idea about who is your ideal customer? Maybe it is press media? As soon as you answered this question, you can promote your product at the right places.
>But saying that "it's a valid case for NPE" missed the point I believe as you're taking about dealing with the issue at runtime.

What I mean is that this issue (null instead of Optional) is rare enough not to bother about it and let NPE happen.
Language support for null/non-null values in general would be nice, of course.
So there's actually a reasoning behind this and not just personal preference or someone being stubborn. And as someone who has maintained large old code bases I must say the reasoning sounds pretty convincing.

If any of

> Every additional bit that 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 completely breaks this.

is correct, he is actually fighting against sabotage.

edit for readability
As Venus Theory elaborates the issue on his video [0]:

"This problem will be solved in the favor of the (party) which has the most money to throw into the problem" (paraphrase mine).

So, yeah.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrkAORPiaEA
Honestly, I am really just worried that there is a pro-Musk brigading going on. Considering what is happening, that's not a far-fetched hypotesis.
I am very open to discussion, but the advice to be "nice and considerate" in extreme cases like this one can be easily be hijacked into gaslighting by people with a specific agenda. That's the - I believe reasonable - doubt I was casting.
There are a lot of C programmers who do not like or are not fond of Zig or Odin. For highly proficient C and C++ programmers, many consider them not worth their time. Not even counting, that both Zig and Odin are in beta. It's an investment to become as proficient in the other language.

An example is Muratori from handmade hero, who publicly stated he dislikes Zig and pretty much sees it as a confused mess[1]. He thinks Odin is kind of OK, because it has metaprogramming (which other languages do too), but is way below Jai. Between Jai and Odin, he thought Jai was the one with potential and could get him to switch/use. Odin's slight popularity, as a kind of Jai-lite, is often attributed to Jai being a closed beta. But, it appears that might change soon (Jai going public or opening up beta use more), along with an upcoming book on Jai.

Programming languages like Go and V (Vlang), have more of a use case for new programmers and general-purpose, because they are easier to learn and use. That was the point of their creation.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVVhwALd0o4 (Full Casey Muratori: Language Perf and Picking A Lang Stream)
He also got his treehouse.systems Mastodon account "suspended by a moderator". Not sure if the treehouse people have said anything more specfic, but I am entirely unsurprised given how he behaved on there.

It's a quite clear case of "what you accuse others of is what you yourself resort to". He was calling out others for unreasonableness, flaming and sabotage — and did exactly that himself.
Anyone doing such remote edits on production or even staging systems is past the point of caring about any security implications.

The remote development workflow is intended and should be used for dedicated disposable development machines.

That's the responsibility of the operator and it is not for the tool to take care of.
There was another submission of it here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981120

Also flagged dead.
What the f*** are we doing anymore
30 years of US funded bombings across the U.K. stopped in 2001 so there’s that.
> ChatGPT

Please give me the Image Magick command to convert a PNG to ICO

>

```
convert input.png -define icon:auto-resize=256,128,64,48,32,16 output.ico
```

...
On your epistemology, if you correctly guess the outcome of a random event then the statement, even if contingent on an event that did not yet occur, is still true. The same goes for every incorrect guess.

If you claim that you guess correctly 50% of the time then you are, from a Bayesian perspective, starting with a reasonable prior.

You then conflate the usefulness of some guessing skill with logic and statistics.

How this relates to an LLM is that the priors are baked into the LLM so statistics is all that is required to make an educated guess about the contents of a poorly written grocery list. The truthfulness of this guess is contingent on events outside of the scope of the LLM.

How often, applying a scalar value to the statistical outcome of an event, is very important. If your claim is that LLMs are wrong 5O% of the time then you need to update your priors based on some actual experience.
Thanks for the kind words, and the bug report!

The (awful and incorrect) translation you've pointed out comes from the segmenter being too greedy, not finding the (non-existent) word in any dictionary, and therefore dispatching the word to be machine translated, without context. This is the final fallback in the segmentation pipeline, to avoid displaying nothing at all, and my priority right now is making the segmentation pipeline more robust so this rarely (or never) happens, since it sometimes produces hilariously bad results!
It's very much the reason vscode is successfull in my opinion. They differences between local and remote development start to disappear. This is especially useful in corporate environments, but not exclusively so. At the same time vscode keeps the input latency as low as reasonably possible. It's not the best in the world, but the most integrated. And the cherry on top is the out of the box connection loss handling. Just reconnect some when later exactly where you left it.
HN has been around the block more than once. This is not a new phenomenon and this will not be the last time we see it. May I suggest the search bar at the bottom of each page to find the answer to your questions and those like it.

Here's a post from @dang to begin your hunt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978572

What is it you wish to gain from having more of these posts not moderated that you cannot get from the related posts which appear on the front page each day?
It's incumbent on the prosecution to prove that you know the key they are claiming you are withholding. It is a defence to say you forgot it, or that the data is random. The prosecution would have to prove that you didn't forget it and that the data is not random.

In most cases it requires a court order as well.
And 15k sad drives
With those two names it's rather inevitable that any beginner of the language will use the obvious sounding, but panic-inducing get.

That's not scalable if it's not possible to catch panics. If panics can't be handled they must only be caused by super corner 0.001% cases, not by fundamental things like dividing an integer or indexing an array.
Actually the foreign banks have to do this, and if they don't and get caught, they will be barred from accessing the US financial market.

That is why, as a side effect, some refuse service to US citizens.
He is apparently mostly a Golang guy, and has stated he would play around/experiment with Zig. However, this was against the advice of Muratori (who does not like Zig), and suggested Jai (preferred choice) or Odin.
People were wary of Russia as an aggressive imperialist state both before and after Russia was communist.

Fear of communism is almost an orthogonal issue, and it has more to do with fear of insurrection and revolution.
> I wish software was secure by design, like browsers are.

I don't. Browsers are already close to "security or utility, pick one"[0] if you try to go beyond the TV + form filling appliance experience. I don't want this kind of thinking to leak out to all software I use. Like, I'm happy to be able to write:

find . -type f [stuff] -exec rg 'foobar' {} +

without worrying about rg (or anything) refusing to run because its vendor didn't set up Access-Control-Allow-Origin header correctly, or similar such bullshit that's just commonplace whenever you try to operate (instead of consuming) or integrate anything on the web. And no, I don't want to have to buy a domain and publicly spell out my computers and get them legit certificates just so they're allowed to talk with each other when physically next to each other and on the same LAN.

I don't want my OS to start looking like Android either, where everything is hidden and nothing is allowed to talk to anything else - i.e. literally the opposite of the promise Android started with.

--

[0] - Security and usefulness are fundamentally opposing forces. In the limit, the most secure computer system is a dead rock.
They're seeing their own shift to the right as well.
https://theasialive.com/how-progressive-new-zealand-shifted-...
It's been one of the biggest recent discussions and the links there provide a lot of explanation of how moderation works, etc. I'm not sure how to respond to this, maybe you don't like the explanations, which is fine, but "none of this explains" seems plainly inaccurate.
It supports traditional and simplified, as well as pinyin and bopomofo :)

It's already possible to switch instantly between pinyin and bopomofo, and I'm working on letting users switch between simplified/traditional, but this is also a non-trivial problem. For now, the app will follow the user's lead: if you enter traditional text, it will return traditional text, and same goes for simplified.
Apple has nothing to fear from antitrust because it has no market power. It is an expensive premium product in every category in which it operates and there wre numerous cheaper alternatives in those categories.

The delusion of people on this website thinking that Apple, a minority supplier of cellphones, is somehow a monopoly. LOL is the only reply I can think of.
Development Roadmap for the EYG Language
And then HN complains that new software is crap that wastes too much resources and new developers don't want to optimize resources...
The reason patch got rejected is super simple: because this wrapper not lives in specific driver and depends on DMA subsystem internal API.

And this cause problem. When someone make any change to Linux kernel they suppose to fix all the code they break across all kernel. And if said wrapper accepted then maintaner of DMA will have to make sure that all patches he accepts also fix Rust parts.

So he just dont want extra burden for himself.
Question to anyone with experience in this domain: I have CSAM spam problems on a forum I host, with bots putting link shortener URLs embedded in images rather than the post body. Traditional OCR software deals poorly with them due to font modifications and intentional text edge modifications, and I'm obviously not gonna use a SaaS/closed source model to upload a bunch of may-be-may-not-be-CSAM pictures, so looking for a way to do this locally, with cheapish inference if possible (I don't mind spending a minute of compute to get the result out for one image, but need to do it on the CPU).

Is there any small model that would do this effectively, with pure text extraction (without going for any kind of formatting or whatnot)?
There are also pros and cons to this method of rendering, in terms of performance. The triangulation cost imposes a significant overhead compared to traditional scene rendering methods, though it scales far better with scale and scene detail. For that quality of rendering, making it viable requires a good amount of memory bandwidth and streaming speeds only possible with modern SSDs.

So it’s only really practical because GPUs have the power to render games with a certain level of fidelity, and RAM and SSD size and speeds for consumer gear are becoming capable of it.

Also there are significant benefits for a developer, especially if using photogrammetry or off-the-shelf high-detail models like Quixel scans, so there’s a reason Epic is going all-in.
Out of curiosity, why do they fight ? Is it because they don’t want to pay for it, and will put their kids in non free pre schools anyway ? ( I’m from Europe so the idea of fighting against free pre school for everyone sounds a bit odd )
I did! Jieba is the first step in my segmentation pipeline. As far as I can tell, Jieba's default config tends to work better for simplified, but in my case the custom dictionary I feed it has significantly more traditional entries than simplified entries, especially for historical terms and slang.
Where in the world did Carmen's memory go: An allocator playground
no feedback whatsoever for 2 months - just because it was 17k lines - and you are blindly defending it? if you don't know what you are posting & talking about, then maybe you shouldn't.

if someone is willing to put in the efforts to submit such a huge patch, how about just show them a little bit respect, I mean the minimum amount of respect, for such efforts and send them a one line reply asking them to break the patch into smaller ones.

surely that won't take more than 45 seconds. still too hard to get the point?
In the UK, where almost everyone has an electric kettle, almost all are 3kW.

Our electric circuits aren't rated for 13A continuous draw (e.g. plug-in EV chargers should be set to 8A or 10A), but they are fine at 13A for the few minutes it takes to boil a kettle. 2.2kW kettles would be a major drain on productivity: millions of extra minutes spent every day waiting for a cup of tea!
Thank you, and thanks for checking it out!

I use Pleco almost every day :)
Also, Gleam.
I guess you are being ironic.

But downvoting because someone added a clarification well, seems childish
> Democracies around the world are increasingly looking to surveil and expose private data of their citizens, and introducing laws where simple act of defiance will become criminal.

Not only that, but also trying to ban platforms that don't follow their censorship guidelines (TikTok in the US, X under scrutiny in UE) and even voiding elections when the result is not good (Romania) under very slim technology-related pretense (somehow a few ads are deemed enough to cancel an election, but 24/7 oriented news from every established newspapers in another country like France is totally OK). It's becoming harder and harder to believe in said democracy when the methods are all but looking like the ones used in non-democracies.
Is this a Remarkable rebrand? Even the UI looks the same!

edit: https://viwoods.com/ (based in Hong Kong)

edit 2:

It's a blatant copy of the Remarkable 2 for sure :/ LLM integration is interesting --> Remarkable are you listening?
Vast? Specs?
One thing all these "all in one apps" get wrong is this: while I do want to consume multiple services in one app, I definitely do not want to consume them in a single unified timeline.

Mail clients have run into the same issue several years ago and still doggedly try to make "unified inbox" happen.
Many of the best engineers I have worked with don’t have a computer science or engineering degree. The business we’re in is writing software to support the company. Most of that is stuff they don’t teach in computer science: inter-personal communication, project planning, coordinating, gathering requirements, writing. Learning computer science fundamentals helps but is in no way required to get started. This is a trainable job like any other. Many boot camp grads bring a lot of those skills to the table already.
I used to hang out there all the time. There was also the Calwell RPG server. A few dudes working on an online game. There was a beta but it never got off the ground.
Would HHS--a federal organization--normally be involved for something of this nature in a single state?
You're interacting with an LLM.
You can probably get 25 cents worth of filament out of a plastic bottle. Most of your savings will come from not having to pay taxes.
Have you looked at https://moondream.ai/?
The depots for this train seem to be in areas that are much more populated (Wikipedia says Mitaka and Toyoda [0]). If Otsuki Station is the station of despair, this would suggest the trains ride empty from Otsuki to the depot. Why couldn’t they allow passengers on that final ride to the depot, requiring them to disembark at Mitaka/Toyoda at the latest?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Line_(Rapid)
Yes — in fact this is a problem with the high-power setting on our induction hob (which I think is something like 5kW). Liquids bubble vigorously before they're even warm.
I’m an old-timer so I’ve seen multiple cycles of the front page being dominated by a PR blitz. Sometimes it’s startup/money-driven (e.g. mobile applications via smartphone adoption), sometimes it’s a community that organizes elsewhere to promote something to the HN readership in a disciplined way (e.g. Rust), sometimes it’s both (e.g. crypto).

What feels different about this one is that it seems very “top down”, it has the flavor of almost lossless transmission of PR/fundraise diktat from VC/frontier vendor exec/institutional NVIDIA-long fund to militant AGI-next-year-ism at the workaday HN commenter level.

Maybe the powers that be genuinely know something the rest of us don’t, maybe they’re just pot committed (consistent with public evidence), I’m not sure. It’s been kind of a while since the GPT3 -> GPT4 discontinuous event that looked like the first sample from an exponential capability curve. Since then it’s been like, it can use a mouse now. Well, it can kinda use a mouse now. Hey that sounds a lot like the robot in Her.

But whatever the reason, this one is for all the marbles.
In some countries this is a fact of life, despite everyone else's feelings about it.
I played Clan Lord quite a bit. A very peculiar game even for its time.
I would expect different types of map and then:

map :: (a -> b) -> Maybe a -> Maybe b
then :: (a -> Maybe b) -> Maybe a -> Maybe b

Although for Maybe these are not too different.
Yes, I rejected a number of CVs/screening calls that didn’t fit the criteria. In practice, this was a small number because our recruiter tried to pre-screen before reaching out. She was good at her job and she didn’t want to waste mine or the candidate’s time on a poor fit that could be seen quickly.
How can I crowdfund for my business idea in India?
How can I crowdfund for my business idea in India? I'm not able to find any crowdfunding portals for my business idea. Kickstarter doesn't work here. Any leads will be helpful.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/unwinding.html explains the philosophy and how they got there a bit further. Rust grew from a short-lived task concept, where panic of a task wouldn't be the end of the world, then it got used to write bigger applications instead and finer catch-concepts were needed.
Thales of Miletus already made one, but it turned out to just be water.
Actually, you want to use a DC-to-DC converter that properly delivers the constant desired reduced voltage, rather than making a ridiculous stroboscopic light (aka PWM).
I saw a comment earlier about this being the USA asking the UK to do this.

Sounds like quite the conspiracy theory, but if the USA were not OK with this, the UK surely wouldn’t dare to take on a crown jewel in the US tech sector, potentially causing them serious problems.
Stares and ear-twitches: The linguist learning the expressive language of cows
> Little in the kernel comes from maintainers saying "let's do X" and community members implementing it

Maintainers do steer direction of development though. A lot comes from maintainer saying "we are not accepting XYZ".

Today we only have proper open source GPU drivers because people like David Airlie who stand for their principle against likes of Nvidia and AMD.
Clarity is very much needed. There are so many stories about "battery technology breakthroughs", but then they never come to market or are x number of years away from production. The general public is often way more interested in when they are going to actually sell the new battery technology, and getting their hands on them to put to use.
Links provided are just links to other discussions.

What I'm interested in, is why all topics about DOGE / Musk are currently silenced ?

Can you post a link to a direct explanation by dang ?
I see this far in the future, and a slow process. I already know a few people with big enough solar setups to be self sustaining even in winter with big battery packs, but they still connect to the grid "just in case", which honestly I'd do too.

As more people disconnect then sure the base price might go up but why not, the other ones don't need the grid, so why pay? And as for public infra like street lights, that will just get heavier on taxes. This is something I see happening over decades rather than years, so there will be enough time to figure this out.
You ask a customer their census unit on purchase though.
If the back door was used the a three letter agency sure.

If the backdoor was exploited by a criminal though?
See, nobody would close his account if he was still on Twitter.... sorry X now
To me proofs never where the interesting part of maths - the ideas and intuition which made the proof possible were.

Proofs were a way of formalizing something and, well, making sure the intuition was actually correct, but they were just a tool and not the game itself.

The best math teachers/professors I had were the ones who focused on the ideas .
You can also use an Android + Tasker and forward the notifications to this service. I get one for each order independent of the price.