skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I will add, please make sure that language is an independent setting, and not derived from locale!

Websites already have exactly what they need to provide you with the language you want via the Accept-Language header your browser sends. In your browser's settings you can configure a list of languages (country-specific if desired) which get send with every request.

E.g.,:

en-GB
en
nl

(Prefer British English, fall back to any English, and if not available either use Dutch.)

This is already entirely separate from your OS locale! Although it will default to filling it in with that locale's language if you don't configure it yourself of course.

This should be the primary way to decide upon a language, but in addition to that offering a way to switch languages for a specific site on that site itself is a user-friendly gesture appreciated by many.
https://mastodon.social/@knutson_brain@sfba.social/114000564...

> NSF actually required investigators to highlight outreach to diverse audiences in their grant applications. ( #catch22 )

So it used to be that you had stretch to include whatever little bits of DEI-connection you had in your grant applications (what's the DEI-equivalent of greenwashing?), and now the tables have turned and they're being punished for it. So much waste.
It's the same as using Google search instead of programming skills, then Stack Overflow instead of programming skills, and in the meantime there was also WYSIWYG programming.
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NAT was introduced by private company called Network Translation Inc. and successfully broke efforts to migrate off IPv4 (which was supposed to be EOLd by 1990) and permanently broke the "network of hosts" into asymmetric one of servers and clients.

Note that we had a solution for address exhaustion by 1991, but it was just "good" and not "perfect" and worst of all it used the hated OSI protocol stack (TUBA - TCP & UDP on top of OSI CLNS - also known as IPv9). It even had at least two usable implementations at the time it was proposed (for SunOS and Cisco IOS)
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> We used to get kids to smoke pipes to stave off chest infections because it made “intuitive sense” and it’s only because of observational studies that we now believe smoking causes lung cancer.

This is an interesting example, because I don’t know of any studies (although there probably are some, if only old ones) specifically about whether smoking pipes staves off lung infections, but the “intuitive sense” answer has changed because of adjacent evidence. And in this case, it’s not the lung cancer evidence that makes it intuitively unlikely that pipe smoking would be helpful, but a broader understanding of what causes lung infections, and what tobacco smoke contains and doesn’t contain.
You say that but I’ve shared several examples of the same things happening in other countries like America too.

So I don’t think the UK is any further along in that regard.

There are other areas where the UK is further along though. Such as CCTV surveillance in London. There are also areas where the UK is far less Orwellian, for example our open-mindedness about abortion and gender identity.

The UK’s legal system isn’t just defined by what Musk tweets about. ;)
I think they're pretty open about the nazi stuff at this point.
It's a very concerning and valid comparison.

I holidayed in Munich a couple of years ago and the Holocaust museum has a very instructive section that details a lot of specifics around Hitler's rise to power. I'm certainly seeing the same pattern beginning to happen in the U.S. with the "othering" of certain people and the clamping down on certain opinions/political leanings.

Are you suggesting that it's not a valid comparison, or that it's not safe to speak out against the administration?
> I also think the significance here is in the context of Russian aggression in Europe beyond Ukraine.

Yes, and it also frames the ramp up of Russian aggression triggered by the ongoing demolition of the US. It's the deep sea cable-cutting attacks in the Baltic, today's drone attack on Chernobyl's dome, etc. We're bound to see a ramp-up in these actions in the near future, and the only peaceful exit for this scenario is helping Ukraine win by supplying it with everything they need to win. Any other scenario will involve more wars and more war fronts.
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> don't mind the darkness

This was weirdly exciting and depressing at the same time :)

What are the chances in trying to go for a non-STEM Masters/PhD (or higher studies in general) in Norway (or one of "those" countries) after studying E for UG and then working in E for more than a decade (in the third world) and having no other experience at all? Or anywhere for that matter? Is there a way to go about it? (Now, this might sound entitled, and I apologise if it does, but without having to pay (at least) tuition for that higher education)
> It's quite popular, the 'bazaar' approach in 'the cathedral and the bazaar'.

That's not the usual interpretation of "cathedral" and "bazaar" development models.

The Linux kernel is the poster child of the "bazaar" style, and I don't think anyone sane would describe their model as "accept everything that comes" (for an obvious example, look at what's happening Rust in the kernel -- and even further: a lot of people tried adding C++ at various points, and we know what always happens[1]).

"Cathedral" style is more commonly called "closed development" -- an example being the Lua language: it's fully open source (everyone is free to modify and distribute the changes), but the authors almost never show the development between releases and never accept patches.

Neither of those fit "accept everything that comes".

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/20/20
Cutting DEI is blatantly and explicitly political. They can do that, within the laws and regulation that apply (this part is arguably something they don't follow). But it's not fraud or abuse, this is just "stuff they don't like".

They're cutting a lot more than that, this has been all over the media. One example would be biomedical research via NIH/NSF. This is not just DEI (in whatever overly broad and vague definition they use), but a lot more.
> (typically something like 50-55k USD/year, this is much higher than anything in USA for example),

This is not my experience (close friend in a flyover state makes 55k), so I googled and found this website:
https://postdocsalaries.com/results

55k looks to be well within the normal range of American postdoc salaries.
Looks like a good idea... sadly the latest release is from 8y ago. :(
> A programming language is not a religion. It is not a way of life. It is a tool. It's not like it's a text editor or something.

I really hope that last sentence was a joke.
Is someone forcing you at gunpoint to use AI autocomplete while you code? If you think it's not good, just don't use it.
Sure, but they posted this 4 days ago.
The minimum I'd expect for quality research is for them to skim the abstract before posting and change that line to:

"Models from leading AI labs" or similar. Leaving it like now signals either sloppiness or dishonesty
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Yeah. I think the whole drama around rust on Linux is a great example of this. If Linus came forward and clearly supported (or clearly rejected) rust on Linux, it would have saved a lot of people months of stress and heartache.
I'm also confused by the confusion. My German broker shows me something like ten exchanges (all in Germany) in the app where I can trade securities. I always thought it was weird that the US, being by far the biggest player in the market, only had one exchange. (Even though I just learned in this thread that there are actually multiple already.)
Definitely! I'll let her know :)
He starts his lecture assuming: "suppose we start with an ancestor who didn't really have an eye at all but just a single sheet of light sensitive cells . . ."

This seems like a very basic condition, and that going from 0 to 'just a single sheet of light sensitive cells' is almost nothing. But of course that is not the case. Before that you would need (+++):

1) Photoreceptor Proteins 2) Functional nervous system or signal processing pathways 3) A machinery to translate the absorption of light into an electrical signal 4) A system for coordinating these signal with other parts of the organism . . .
The webapp is absolute chaos yet super fun
No, what you have in this thread is a typical social media misinformation circle jerk. One can download the database of selected grants and many titles have absolutely nothing to do with DEI. They're cancelling it based upon the content of the proposals. DEI adherence used to factor into proposals and it no longer does. I expect this is leading to three categories of proposals all being cancelled:

1) Proposals which were inherently about DEI stuff.

2) Proposals unrelated to DEI stuff but which were only pushed into the greenlit zone due DEI components within the proposal.

3) Proposals unrelated to DEI stuff but whose funding was increased substantially to fulfill a DEI component of the proposal.
Based on your reply, you don't really understand much. That's okay. It's okay to be ignorant. It's an opportunity to learn and improve.

Congress asked for a debt increase because they plan to cut taxes. The debt hasn't been accrued yet, they plan to cut taxes and it will cost 4.3 trillion.

DOGE isn't trying to make the government better or more efficient. They want to cut programs and staff they're ideologically opposed to which is in theory all government, but in practice all government that doesn't enrich Trump or Musk.
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As a clinical psychologist, I find it increasingly frustrating to sift through research studies that fail to meet even the most basic standards of scientific rigor. The sheer volume of studies that claim “X is linked to Y” without properly addressing the correlation-versus-causation fallacy is staggering. It’s not just an oversight—it’s a fundamental flaw that undermines the credibility and utility of psychological research.

If a study is publicly funded, there should be a minimum requirement: it must include at least two research arms—one with an experimentally manipulated variable and a proper control condition. Furthermore, no study should be considered conclusive until its findings have been successfully replicated, demonstrating a consistent predictive effect. This isn’t an unreasonable demand; it’s the foundation of real science. Yet, in clinical psychology, spineless researchers and overly cautious annd/or power crazed ethics committees have effectively neutered most studies into passive, observational, and ultimately useless exercises in statistical storytelling.

And for the love of all that is scientific, we need to stop the obsession with p-values. Statistical significance is meaningless if it doesn’t translate into real-world impact. Instead of reporting p-values as if they prove anything on their own, researchers should prioritize effect sizes that demonstrate meaningful clinical relevance. Otherwise, we’re left with a field drowning in “statistically significant” noise—impressive on paper but useless in practice.
Indeed, higher category theory is a veritable minefield of political rabbit holes.

And who could possibly trust HN denizens, those notoriously toxic and tech-ignorant people, to sensibly discuss such things as a tech oligarch delivering Nazi salutes at an inauguration [0, 1]. Or the same man (wealthiest known on Earth) being given physical access to the US treasury [2]. Or warnings from five former treasury secretaries in the NYT about the danger this poses to Democracy [3], the EFF bringing lawsuits over this (unflagged after many hours)[4], or the ability to even discuss all the false flags which we have been riddled with for the last month [5, 6].

This last month has been a real eye opener. Even Paul Graham and Garry Tan have been cheerleading for DOGE, and it's fucking disturbing that we're not allowed to discuss it on any active thread.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42772995

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42773778

2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42929121

3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43009174

4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43020091

5 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42900560

6 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42781604
Also, multiple MACs does not work with wlan.
I don't really think the tone or the examples of this presentation are all that useful, and while the advice slide[1] seems well-intended, I just think most of it is only really known post-hoc because reality is not so clean cut.

When talking about the speed of computers I also think we should acknowledge the speed of thought - the ease of implementing ideas: the fact that there are so many dependencies means you can quickly make something. But useful prototypes quickly become products, so I can understand some of the author's frustrations.

[1] Advice slide:

Avoid features that add disproportionate cost

Implement things at the right level

Understand and minimize dependencies whenever possible

Maintain your dependency tree religiously. Examine it regularly

Don't use dependencies just to be lazy: understand the costs

Finalize your changes before they land, not after
> I think this space is ripe for exploration. Imagine a world where you could depend on your choice of JSON parser. One such JSON parser is allowed to perform arbitrary IO, and another is disallowed from doing so - at a language level.

Obligatory remark that we used to have this as a real worked-out feature, with Java's SecurityManager. The newer WASM Component Model is supposed to be going in much the same direction.
It sort of makes sense where Putin is coming from. He considers himself the almighty Tsar, he'd prefer to solve the temporary lack of obeisance in Ukraine peacefully, and of course the solution must acknowledge his supreme rule. I find it a little strange when someone else has this idea of a supreme tsar, and accept the weirdnesses that follow from that idea.

Clausewitz said it well: “The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Bonaparte always claimed to be); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.”
DeepSeek also has a FIM (Fill In the Middle) completion model via API, if anyone is interested to try out:

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/fim_completion
Well that's another gimmick, right. It has like 20 different programs, but the one I only ever use is "Cotton - extra dry" because that's the one that actually gets everything properly dry. Every other setting leaves things slightly wet which I don't understand how that's desirable by anyone.
On Virtualbox you can set up ipv6 NAT with a few clicks btw.
No – but why would you trust their Twitter feed and their Twitter feed only? Elon Musk himself has talked openly about dismantling the CFPB and USAID on his private account; in that case, it's a matter of "agency will no longer do anything".
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Tip, use https://news.ycombinator.com/active

Flagged posts show up there (like this one), so tech bros trying to censor all M*sk and D0GE stuff will not be able to completely silence it.
You romanticize the EU. There are insurmountable problems specially in the "old" EU members.
Sorry but have you actually seen the program? There isn't a hint of any of thise feelings.
Interesting, thank you for the addendum! Do you believe it is likely that inclusions of things such as "by employing and mentoring students from underrepresented backgrounds in STEM, this project will aim at bridging the gap in institutions across the US" result in a higher likeliness of funding? I also wonder if Hacker News would generally consider it to be ethical to use this to increase the likeliness of funding. In this case it does seem unrelated to DEI otherwise.
What would you say is currently the most accurate OCR solution if you're not concerned about speed and memory usage?
It's a very good question. The stand-in system itself has been built to have basically no external dependencies itself.

So, the question you are really asking is "to what extent are the other parties involved in the processing of payments resilient to AWS failure" – e.g. Stripe probably isn't and that's probably a decent chunk of e-commerce.

I definitely don't think this would be anything close to smooth sailing if AWS was to fully go down, but we do have the benefit that underlying payment infra is still dominated by on-prem with leased lines etc. My best guess of the actual behaviour would be that bank transfers would keep working, the card networks themselves would keep working but the average e-commerce website would not.

Naturally, we can only control for what we can control for – and for us the primary benefit of stand-in is what it gives us in the much more likely scenario of an incident in our platform.
Nice, I did this manually once with ipdb, just cutting and pasting the text to LLM and having it tell me which variables to inspect and what to press.
I think of features. Code can always be fixed (in theory, at least: the Arrow of Software Development rarely points away from entropy), but "we're gonna strip this feature set back to basics" is even rarer.
Open-source spam would go hand in hand with open-weight slop.
Would this mean that the trading hours for stock of companies listed in both NYSE branches would be extended by one hour due to time differences?
It's a new local full-line completion model they've been enabling for one language after another in all their IDEs. I too agree that it's a waste of CPU cycles. The old completion mechanism (a bunch of hardcoded rules plus a bit of machine learning on the side) already was miles ahead of everything else, and with far fewer false-positives.

You can disable it by going into 'File | Settings | Plugins' and turning off "Full Line Code Completion".
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The phrase has nothing to do with any flags used much later by US policemen. That is the whole point of the thread.

>far-right authoritarianism

Get a grip. Even if it were a reference to what you say it is, that has nothing to do with the "far right". It is stock standard centre-right (and centre-left for that matter) position in the US to support the police in principle (if not, obviously, in every action theyve ever taken). The "defund the police" types are a minority of a minority.
Where is the "every 30 minutes" coming from? You and another commenter have both used this identical phrase.It sounds as though the complaint was not because a patch hadn't been applied after 30 minutes, or even 30 days or 30 weeks. More like 30 months.
You are aware that Obamas presidency lasted twice as long? So DJT added almost as much debt in absolute terms (6.7T vs 7.7T) and just over half as much in relative terms (33% vs 64%) in half the time. That's why I compared to Biden. They are much easier to compare.
So wonderful. It's like a modern version of deciphering egyptian tablets.
Fair enough. I suppose once any scheme receives full native support it becomes indistinguishable from a flat address space anyway. What's a second partition if not an additional bit?

My pondering is less "why such a large address space" and more "why such a large native word size"? Extra bits don't come without costs.

As long as I'm asking ridiculous questions, why not 12-bit bytes? I feel like a 12/48 system would be significantly more practical for the vast majority of everyday tasks. Is it just due to inertia at this point or have I missed some fundamental observation?
So maybe they're cutting a lot of other things and just highlighting the DEI stuff in order to draw attention away from the non-DEI stuff? I could believe that though I doubt anyone has done an analysis of the proportions yet.

What about this argument people are making in this thread that they're not actually doing any real cutting because they're not Congress? That seems like a stretch.
It's not that people think that there are no young people wanting to work in C, it's that the number of competent programmers who want to use C, or do use C, are both decreasing every year. That has been the trend for quite a while now.

So there will presumably be fewer and fewer programmers, young or old, that want to work in C.

C is one of the most entrenched and still-important languages in the world, so it probably has more staying power than Fortran, COBOL, etc. So the timeline is anybody's guess, but the trajectory is pretty clear.

There are a lot of languages that people prefer to C which aren't well-suited to OS programming (golang, Java) but Rust is one that can do the same job as C, and is increasingly popular, and famously well-loved by its users.

There's no guarantee that Rust will work out for Linux. Looks unlikely, to me, actually. But I think it's pretty clear that Linux will face a dwindling talent pool if the nebulous powers that actually control it collectively reject everything that is not C.
Pretty sure it's just the author giving a summary of their work.
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> In your browser's settings you can configure a list of languages (country-specific if desired) which get send with every request.

Customising this list at all makes your browser fingerprint thousands of times less common than it was before you did this, and many websites you visit could then probably uniquely identify you as the same user across all of your sessions.
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So I guess you’re happy with the concept of Redlining[0] and believe that any government spending on either preventing the practice, or undoing the decades worth of damage caused by historical Redlining are simply a waste of government time and money?

That preventing a repeat of the damage done to America cities by the national highway system[1], which was used mechanism to literally segregate American cities is also a waste of time and money.

Most of the US significant racial atrocities committed against its own citizens, where either committed by, or with the direct assistance of, the U.S. government (at both state and federal level).

There probably a good discussion to be had on how much should be spent on DEI efforts. But the idea that spending zero really doesn’t make much sense, we know what the consequences of allowing the U.S. government to become entirely occupied by white men. Ultimately a monoculture of people results in a monoculture of ideas, and monocultures never last, something comes along finding some critical weakness that common to every agent in the monoculture, and utterly destroys the organism (in the case of the U.S. government, that might be Trump and Musk). DEI is strategically important because diverse systems are more robust, produce better ideas, and are better capable of surviving extreme shocks. All attributes people should want in their government.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/04/07/984784455/a-brief-history-of-...
Prometheus gives you CPU/memory total metrics, the profiler used in the article gets you much higher resolution: down to the line number of your source code.

If you're looking to optimize your project I would recommend using a profiler rather than metrics that just tell you the total.

(disclaimer: I'm the founder of the company that offers the product shown in the blog post, but I also happen to be a Prometheus maintainer)
I interpreted it as revising national vision all the way back to before civil war
not sure what's the current status of Go so there are two alternatives:

if they are targeting Wasm pre Wasm-GC then they have to ship their GC in the Wasm module and it can't interoperate with "the outside world"

if they use Wasm-GC then they use the host's GC and values can be shared with the host and other guests.