skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'll have the same nostalgia for being able to travel anywhere without our location and emotions catalogued by government databases analyzing us for threats to order.
Yes, that's where we went wrong.

I feel that early on, we should have had the foresight to press the microtransaction option much harder. There could have been a widely adopted standard where you load your browser or UA with money and then individual sites visited could be given permission to debit some amount per page load, hour consumed, or whatever. I would rather pay a few cents to read an article or watch a video than have surveillance capitalism ruin everything for everyone. It's not about the ads, it's about the ecosystem.
Delimited continuations are just a green fork; it's childishly simple!
US releases Russian cybercriminal as part of exchange for teacher Marc Fogel
I'm not big on programming languages being used for configuration. It adds a lot of complexity and maintenance burden. Configurations are often read and your reader isn't a compiler but now they have to imagine what the final configuration state will be after evaluating the "program" that generates the configuration. I think plain old configuration languages are better, even if verbose, since the usual text-based tooling works quite well for managing, searching, etc.

I use nix a lot and the main thing that bothers me about it is the language. People are quick to get clever with it. It becomes a morass of code that is difficult to read for anyone but experts and when it breaks and your not that expert... good luck fixing it.
I appreciate that somebody somewhere may appreciate and enjoy this, but I am not that person. I love SQL. I have always loved SQL. I know why others don't, but I do and its beautiful.
It seems this is mainly a scala project and then they are using scala also for the configuration, it probably makes sense for them.
OK if you want to be isolationist and retreat to a haughty vantage point in your ivory tower, but to isolate in ignominy by purposefully pissing off all your friends and acquaintances is so strange to me.

Is it America First or America Alone?
the function inverse is the multiplicative inverse in the group of automorphisms over sets (when the multiplication operation is functional composition).
The thing that really squared the circle for me is when someone pointed out that <"department" with a stupid meme name I will not dignify here> is going after federal agencies that either have investigations into Musk-led companies or otherwise enforce regulations Musk doesn't like.
The UI is brilliant !

1. I like the way sources are listed on the right panel, that makes them easily visible as i scroll through the answer.
2. The rendering of the answers using rich visual components is nice to look at. I personally hate information dense reports that ChatGPT spews, which isn't easy to consume quickly.

What I miss though is iterations on the answer, as in, how do I specifically zoom into one aspect of the answer, and then easily zoom out and continue.
TLDR: don’t

More words: no really don’t. Either do wireless or bury some fiber depending on needs.
Related

Usaid funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038727
The initial deal as I remember was with Russia, US and UK. And the deal was a memoranda which is not even binding and does not compel any real actions in case of breach. Basically Ukraine had acted as a fool.

Immediately after break up from USSR they had 50+ million population, strong army, industry, tech, great location as a transit hub, agriculture, resources etc. and their fucking corrupt "leaders" pissed it all away an had turned their country into an easy prey and a shadow of its former self.
Where they're coming from is great but as someone unfamiliar with what it is (needs a name change in the face of Google Gemini) that landing page isn't a moving introduction to the project. (hint: The FAQ page is for follow-up questions after I've been told what the thing is and I have questions, not to tell me what the thing is)
The method is secure until they change it. Their docs mention that generating a token is not anonymous, but using a token is. Considering they already know who generated it, it could be trivial for them (to change something server side where the validation occurs, if compelled) to link a particular search to a user.
A lot of people will point out the utility of a doctoral degree is low, but there's another angle.

Men, specifically, are becoming less likely to enroll in Medical or Law school also. Women pick up the slack here but not in STEM doctoral degrees.

I don't think men are less competitive. See how many are in tech and finance still. I think they just see academia as a place that isn't for them and are less likely to opt for more years in it than they need
That's an odd assumption to make. HackerNews comments don't really bring any kind of posterity. I chose to do that because it forced me to be more thoughtful and less troll-y with my comments at a time when I found that to be valuable.
Java's Hotspot was originally designed for Smalltalk, and SELF.

Two very dynamic systems, designed for being a complete graphical workstation, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby were as originially implemented, not even close of the original Smalltalk JIT paper from Peter Deutsch's paper"Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System." in 1984!
yes it's certainly possible. i don't know if it exists but there are many things like it. not exactly what you describe, but many blockchains use wasm as the contract execution runtime. also, it kind of sounds like filecoin but with compute. i'm sure "protocol labs" has a project close to what you are talking about.

edit: the hard part to note is probably the "trust" part. might be trickier to solve than just giving incentives.
Phind continues to impress me. It is my favorite LLM application, I use it daily.
Sometimes the play is only about the announcement itself, not the implementation - news about a possible big news - just like upcoming Trump tariffs.
You are sincere. I believe this is not a cover-up but more of a misunderstanding. Think this way: many people coming to that github thread don't know who are core rust devs but they can clearly see the second commenter is involved. That comment denied this being a major issue and concluded the decision was made as a team. To the public and perhaps some kernel devs, this may be interpreted as the official attitude.
Athletes competing on an elite level should certainly have their sex verified. In almost all cases this will be less intrusive than the anti-doping tests they're required to do; a simple cheek swab is sufficient for screening via karyotype analysis. And the blood samples already taken for drug testing can be used to measure testosterone levels for this purpose.

Only if there is an anomaly might further investigation be done, with the athlete's permission. No dissection is needed - at most some imaging to determine internal anatomy may be done by medical experts.

This is already the policy adopted by some sporting bodies, and was essentially the process used with the athletes I mentioned in my earlier comments to observe that the sex of each is male.

Ideally this would be done as early on in an athlete's career as is practical. It only needs to be done once, as a person's sex cannot change, and for most will be a straightforward confirmation of what is already known. Otherwise, it's better for the athlete too, to know sooner rather than later if there has been any anomalous development.

I would suggest you examine the public information on the aforementioned male athletes more closely. In particular, 5-ARD is an indisputably male condition; the mutations in the SRD5A2 gene that cause this have no effect on female sexual development. This is fact, not opinion.
Judging by the rest of the comments from my own, all of this is anecdotal right? I don't know the true facts nor their context. And why is he so irrevocably offensive to ya'll? Has he hurt you in some way personally? (not trolling)
Korea tightens rules for carrying lithium batteries on flights starting March 1
This is what good lawyers do: dig in to the sausage factory.

What's interesting is how agencies push the limits on what they can do. All agencies do this to one extent or another. And they obviously won't tell you if they're doing that to you or not.

Granted authority and actual authority are different. It's worth remembering that when dealing with any bureaucracy.
US Consumer Debt Delinquency Hits Highest in Almost Five Years
That doesn't match my experience of what we do, so I'd like to see those "many such examples".

IMO, if you're going to make charges like this, which would be serious if they were true, you should include links so readers can make up their own minds.
It wasn't announced as 'DOGE' but it was not a surprise; from August: "Former President Donald Trump signaled his willingness to offer Elon Musk a role in his administration in a proposed “government efficiency commission” if he wins the presidential election in November"[1].

In the Republican Party Platform 2024: "2. Rein in Wasteful Federal Spending. Republicans will immediately stabilize the Economy by slashing wasteful Government spending"[2]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2024/08/13/trump-b...

[2] https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2024-republican-pa...
Earlier: Amazon is closing a Kindle loophole that makes it easy to remove DRM https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43039924
> Rust undoubtedly has the highest concentration of any programming-language community. Zero question.

How can you know this? What other communities even have such surveys?

I would expect this to be similar in any language. Anecdotally, I see the % of gay/trans/neurodivergent to be much higher in the dev community than the general population, so the numbers don’t look strange to me.

Perhaps it’s more vocal or more visible, but that would require much more analysis to enquire about cause and effect.
archive.org could have been a government funded initiative by the librarians. (not libertarians)
I’ve used rubocop and sorbet. But now that I’ve used TypeScript it’s clear there’s no comparison. TS will even analyze your regex patterns. Every update gets better. I’m eagerly waiting for the day they add analysis for array length and ranged numbers.
My understanding is IRB is not a governmental regulation but an institutional regulation. For example if you want to design a study and then have acme medical center take part in conducting it, you would need to pass the Acme IRB. Governmental funding may also have restrictions that require you to have some kind of IRB review.
Never run copper Ethernet between buildings. If you’re going to run something run fiber.
What exactly is the basis for the claim that this is the same person?
Here's a resource I found that walks through the ideas of the protocol, starting with simple implementations that have a problem, and then solving the problem one by one: https://privacypass.github.io/protocol/

I think that's the best conceptual overview of a crypto protocol I've ever seen.
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Im not reading all this so Ill just respond to the first paragraph. The space industry was dead in the water before spaceX showed up. Minimal innovation and spend trending down every year and now spaceX has sparked a complete reversal. Competition matters.

> I recently heard all the lead water pipes are being replaced in the USA.

We still have lead pipes to many houses in chicago, and will for the foreseeable future. The water supply people(government) have utterly failed at replacing them in a timely fashion.

> Open source projects improve all the time

Because theyre extremely competitive. With minimal barriers to entry there are different devs trying to get their code merged and different projects trying to be the top dog. When one shows weakness another pops up.
It's fine that we disagree. I don't think there's a real market for this. I think you can plan a heist with anybody, though, if that's a road you want to go down.
I think Carmack credits someone else as the origin - possibly some magazine entry.

These days I think the reciprocal square root intrinsic is the fastest where precision is not that important.

I think there was a bit twiddling hack for pop count which was consistently faster than the equivalent cpu intrinsic due to some weird pipelining effect, so sometimes it is possible to beat the compilers and intrinsics with clever hacks.
Is it acceptable to use the imperative? That is, to say: “Now, invert the element”. Or should it always be, “take the inverse of …”?
Ask HN: What did you bookmark recently?
> it looks like the entire paragraph in the ad is word for word identical to a preexisting cheese shop site

The cheese shop should sue Google for copyright infringement. That's also blatant plagiarism, and Google should get an F for the course.
Congrats Adobe, you lost? (guess it depends on the pov, although I do think overall it's primarily a loss when a product is such a pain in the arse that ppl can't even be arsed to pirate it)
AI, Work, and the Fear of Losing Ourselves
I see a weird kind of schizophrenia in the way people talk about AI and jobs. On one hand, there’s this huge fear that AI will take all the jobs. On the other, we live in a culture where not having to work is considered success. Like, if you make enough money to quit, that’s the dream, right? Work is something we have to do, not something we want to do.

And if you look at meme culture (which, as absurd as it is, I think reflects deep truths about society) work is basically a joke. Every other meme is about how much we hate our jobs, how we’re just barely surviving the 9-to-5, how weekends are the only time we actually exist. If aliens landed today and studied our memes, they’d probably assume we were some kind of slave species, forced to labor against our will.

So why the panic when AI threatens to take that burden away? I don’t think people are afraid of losing their jobs. I think they’re afraid of what happens after. If your job disappears, and you suddenly have no structure, no purpose, nothing telling you what to do every day, then what? I think a lot of people would fall apart. Not because they love their work, but because without it, they don’t know who they are. Change my mind.
Would keeping the device in airplane mode prevent this?

edit: commented before rtfa

> Here are some essential facts to know.

> You can continue to use Calibre to send Kindle books to your Kindle

> Send to Kindle will continue to work

> You can continue to sideload e-books on your Kindle via USB cable
That is because they know they have the most influence and can get to #1 most of the time :)
Why do some people find certain sounds intolerable?
You don’t get the token itself from the server though, you get something so you can make your own token for which the server doesn’t know who created it. So they can do whatever they like on the server, they can’t identify you.
Why does it say "You can continue to sideload e-books on your Kindle via USB cable" at the bottom? Isn't that contradictory?
If we're talking about mid-90s race conditions there, with "temporary names", there was never a market for those vulnerabilities. There's a myriad of different vulnerabilities and new bug classes announced with fanfare every year at Black Hat and the Big Four conferences, but we've been in what seems like a stable state for over a decade on which of those vulnerabilities are actually tradable.
> What does trust and safety mean in this context ? Who is trusting who; and who/what is safe ?

Google and OpenAI trust you to give them all your data, for your safety (see mafia). You are trusting them that they only use your data for your own good.
Why be objective when you can insert your own snarky commentary and simp for fucking Amazon of all places?
Or maybe I just have higher standards and better risk appraisal after seeing their customer support response for two separate people after they had problems was “fuck off and talk to the ombudsman”.

Problems being stuck payment during migration to another bank (after payment issues) and a frozen account after false positive on a fraud.

No those aren’t fuck off things they are fix them. Missing or stuck cash is not a go away thing unless you are utterly incompetent as an organisation.
Thanks for looking it up, that makes sense.
Nice job! Just started my own too.
> The “download and transfer option” is located on the Amazon website when logged in. To get there, hover over the text to the right of the search bar that says “Hello, [Your Name] Account & Lists”, select “Orders” from the menu that appears, then select “Digital Orders” from the “Your Orders” page that appears after selecting. You’ll see a list of Digital Orders you’ve placed, including books. Click “Manage Content and Devices” next to one of the items, and a “Digital Content” page will appear. After clicking “More Actions,” you’ll see a list of actions, including “Download & Transfer via USB”. This is the option that is going away.

Will this affect people downloading books that are already on the Kindle using tools like Calibre?
Hurt people hurt people. That's all this is.

Same with ICE raids. People are upset because they built their house on sand and have to start again. Businesses are upset because they can't get around labour laws

I find it funny that you're getting downvoted though. Maybe in a few years it'll all blow over
The roadblock most countries have to nuclear weapons is a lack of a domestic high-tech industrial base… which Taiwan has in spades. I’m surprised they haven’t built a bomb already!

If I were them, I would try the Israel approach of very carefully refusing to admit whether they do or do not actually have 127 bombs that can reach Beijing.

Oh.. why 127? No specific reason… don’t worry about it…
Presumably, yes. I will at least try to do so.
> The perception of perfect pitch as this magical, unattainable thing always seemed odd to me

Because it is really magical and unattainable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Cb1qwCUvI

Show me an adult that trained to this level.
As usual, lot of PhD bashing in the comments. My experience was generally positive.

The good things

1. I had mostly fun doing it. Being paid to learn things is great.

2. I got to work in different countries, and travel to many places

3. I was able to have more than one career. PhD + academia, before switching to industry. Gave me more perspectives.

4. I did learn a few things and skills (public speaking, I learned a lot of things while teaching too).

The bad things

1. Opportunity cost. I could have earned more but, would have I had the same career with the PhD? hard to tell

2. A lot of what I learned is totally useless.

3. Doing a PhD was fun, being a professor wasn't. Boring administrative work, lots of bitterness among academics, unhealthy competition. (and I wasn't good enough).

Overall, I would probably do the PhD again, but wouldn't go to academia. I find that working for a big corporation can be depressing/stressful. I'm glad I did other things in my life.
I considered it, but it would inevitably involve talking to people, and it is a little too far for me
Tesla didn't get that money, people who bought EVs got an paid directly by the govt on them and for some reason picked Tesla at a higher rate than other car companies.
I actually considered linking to gemini in my comment!

The reason I didn't is to avoid a discussion of how I personally would design tools for an alternate web. I think gemini is a step in the right direction, but not enough to supplant the web for a large enough minority of users. Not that it takes many users - the web was vibrant in 1995 with 100x fewer people on it than today.

I don't know that the specific qualities I personally would want for a web replacement are the right ones for everybody, but I would add to the philosophy of gemini some sort of control - not necessarily centralized - to curb commercial activity and abuse. To attract users, it would also need more cultural cache than Gemini. There wouldn't be much content on it at first - unless its design found a loophole to facilitate piracy - so its early adopters would need to feel like they were part of some exclusive community.
I'll point out again that C, the poster child for ancient language technology, has been able to evolve its syntax and feature set with attention to not breaking legacy code. Excusing the lack of such attention via linguistic trickery about "defining compatibility precisely" does indeed kinda irk me. And disengaging doesn't win the argument.
If the dog was familiar with pills and already had an aversion to them, which is typically the case when people resort to using peanut butter, it is possible the dog would be suspicious and just try to lick the peanut butter and avoid the pill itself. Or just avoid it altogether. Typically you would not show your dog the pill going in the peanut butter.

It would not be a deception in the scenario you presented, but it also might not be effective in getting the dog to swallow the pill.
Very artificial tasting, I feel like I can taste the chemicals.
Tesla combating theft by stamping name on Supercharger cables
I think you’re right, perhaps I’ll do some more reading about it - It seems like it all relies on what the extension does, and if this extension is open source someone will notice as you said. Thanks for the clarity!
For me, it's also about voting with my wallet. I'm not enthusiastic about invasive ad tech. As it stands, nobody else offers what Kagi offers at any price. If there were an equivalent service for $5/month, I'd give it a look, but there isn't.
fixed this thank you for flagging
Carmack denied writing it, and if WP is to be believed, he didn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
I tend to think Section 230 is what caused this, and repealing it can unravel everything back to how it was in 1996. Yet people act so protective over it.
I loved the idea, but after testing a bit, I found it was too alienating (coming from someone who likes ed, sed and vi). Especially the searching / browsing ergonomics. Maybe there was some news there ?
Thank you! We actually support "zooming into" different parts of an answer. The chat conversation is now stored as a tree, so you can ask a followup, then revise the followup, and switch between the revisions below the answer when doing a third followup.