skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> attempting to design a new programming language without first studying carefully the history of programming

Rust's original designer credits these languages as the inspiration: http://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf

Mesa (1977), BETA (1975), CLU (1974), Nil (1981), Hermes (1990), Erlang (1987),
Sather (1990), Newsqueak (1988), Alef (1995), Limbo (1996), and Napier (1985, 1988).

The original Rust compiler was written in Ocaml.

> has to specify whether function parameters are passed by value or by reference

You specify whether arguments are borrowed or moved, and whether the access is shared or exclusive. This is not an implementation detail, it's an API contract that affects semantics of the program. It adds or removes restrictions on the caller's side, and controls memory management and thread safety.

People unfamiliar with Rust very often misunderstand Rust's borrowed/owned distinction as reference/value, but in Rust these two aspects are orthogonal: Rust also has owning reference types, and borrowing types passed by copying. This misunderstanding is the major reason why novices "fight the borrow checker", because they try to avoid copying, but end up avoiding owning.

There are different possible approaches to achieving similar results for argument passing, but Rust prefers to be explicit and give low-level control. For example, Mutable Value Semantics is often cited as an alternative design, but it can't express putting temporary loans in structs. The syntax needs a place to declare lifetimes (loan scopes), as otherwise implicit magic makes working with view types tricky or impossible: https://safecpp.org/draft-lifetimes.html
The System Manager Agent on EC2 instances is meant to have enough privileges to manage fleet of instances at scale. System Manager Session Manager (yes that’s the real name) is a part of it.

What do you suggest as an alternative? Session Manager is IAM controlled and much more secure and easily managed than the traditional means involving direct access via SSH and opening a port through the security group for a certain IP address or a jump box server.
I have always dated things with months spelled for this reason. Except where the format is clearly defined, which is fairly common and likely for the same reason.
If engine detects malfunction -> close its breathing air pathway to humans.

How difficult is that?
Yes. Bug bounties aren't that high. For an issue that does so little (leaking an identity vs. e.g. giving access to an account or remote code execution), I'd actually consider that a surprisingly high amount, and I would expect that many companies wouldn't consider this class of bug a bounty-worthy issue at all - "thanks for the report", maybe fix it maybe not, but no bounty.
How smart can one be eating hot food from a soft plastic container with metal cutlery.
Having Agency over AI Agents
And it's thank to Y Combinator Founders Match that we met and we're able to bring this product to life!
So for the sake of simplicity devs offload authentication to some 3rd party provider? Oauth/2 is for authorization though, i dont get where the authentication part comes from. They even write it is an authorization protocol.
It really depends on a bunch of factors: the environment, company structure, your role — you get the gist.

Early on, most time goes into writing new code, with some design docs if the team is structured — this is as simple as writing a README.md or having a static documentation website.

Once you have users, writing new features slows down, and more time shifts to bug fixes, refactoring, and keeping things running. In startups, this transition happens later since growth takes priority. I haven't worked for any large companies yet but I assume they tend to balance maintenance earlier.
The big difference is that this is a top-down gov run iniative, it will by nature be very different than a free market iniative.
a rud with a big thud, a debris found in mud, at least it wasn't a dud, please don't spread the fud
google insiders will leak for considerably less, no exploit needed
I'm totally not understanding what you're saying then.

> Im just saying that all it takes is one employee to click onto the wrong URL to breach your apps security

Pretend I'm a signal employee. What link can I click that breaches the app's security?

They don't store unencrypted data, pushing source code changes requires review, releases are signed and a single employee can't compromise the release process, so I'm missing how one employee being compromised could lead to the signal app breaching signal's security.

Also, in practice, how often are apps compromised from a phishing attack? I don't even really see news reports on that, so I'm curious if you're operating off like a specific case or something.
people (even here) lack the fantasy to guarantee peace without armament.
If you don't consider the ACLU as the liberal establishment w.r.t. free speech, who is it you do?
Effects of leachate from plastic takeout containers on cardiovascular system
All of my college roommates fall into your category. The music is catchy and distinctive. It'll stick with you even if you hear it on the TV in the background.
Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets
Also, Google can monitor the grey/black market and buy these exploits under false identities. For less urgent vulnerabilities (such as the YT email hack), this severely caps the bounty size.
I would still prefer to have my stuff synced between devices. Files are OK for data that doesn't change much (your music/photo/book library) - Syncthing works great there.

CRDTs allow for conflict-free edits where raw files start falling short (calendars, TODOs, etc). I'd love to see something like Syncthing for CRDTs, so that local-first can take the next logical step forward and go cloud-free.
The limits of judicial review are absolutely contested, and there's a perfectly respectable argument that Marbury v Madison was a wrongly-decided power grab by the judicial branch (albeit now settled law). But it's a long way from there to the idea that district courts have no JR power. They are fully constitutional and exercise the 'judicial Power of the United States' as does the Supreme Court. Subject to being overturned on appeal, of course.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Quest
> How do we know that the rise in unemployment is being driven by AI specifically, and not by wider economic circumstances?

It is right there, in the headline, sir. The economy is so good, like never before. /s
Of course, the online copies will be scrubbed:

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293447/jan-6-evidence-...
it's crazy :-o I cant imagine paying that much for a gpu.
> they also have plenty of bugs which remain open for years.

I switch to Jetbrains from time to time because there are many impassable serious bugs in VSCode, on the other hand…
Both views can exist at the same time. Many effective leaders are terrible human beings. It's up to everyone to choose their own, ethics and empathy is high on my list of things I care about in a new job but it may be different for others.
It is a MASSIVE pain in the ass to go through this process.
> "An iPod, a phone…are you getting it?"

Honestly, the response from the audience in the hall seemed to suggest we were not getting it. We were expecting multiple devices.

Fortunately Jobs delivered the punchline quickly then and moved on.
Ask HN: What will OpenAI nonprofit board do with tens of billions of dollars?
It looks like there will be a transaction soon where the nonprofit board will be selling the company and receiving tens of billions to potentially over a hundred billion in consideration.

What do you think the non-profit board will do with this money?

It can be instrumental in developing and researching truly open source AI models and training etc.
Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events
So you can't hire him as part of the department? There are hundreds of department heads that are not elected eithier.
Eh, the average US commute is 27 miles according to a recent WSJ article, though this is somewhat recent as it was a bit shorter before COVID.

With that said, ignoring 600 million people, including the single most car-centric cultures, seems a bit silly when talking about EV adoption challenges, no?
Hi, author of this post here!

I created upfetch because I needed a simple, lightweight, and reusable data-fetching solution for all my projects. Libraries like Axios felt like overkill, while other alternatives lacked composability or strayed too far from the familiarity of the Fetch API.

upfetch is designed to be a minimal, composable, and scalable fetching solution that stays close to the native Fetch API while making common patterns easier to manage.
Some malicious mail that grants remote access to the employees device? Its not that hard to understand.
Wikipedia is tiny data. You don't start to really see cost scaling issues until you have active data a few hundred times larger and your data changes enough that autovacuuming can't keep up.

I'm getting paid to move a database that size this morning.
Exactly. Why use the headnotes at all?

I always thought they were obviously were copyrightable. Plus they’re not close to perfect either.
>Unmasking Google accounts? Could there be a business there? Sure, maybe. Is there one already? Presumably no.

Absolutely, yes. Spam and targeted phishing attacks are in high demand.

My understanding is that it is possible to retrieve every public youtube channel ID, if not also Google Maps/Play reviewers, quite easily. This exploit could have been used to create a massive near-complete database of every Google account has automatically had a Youtube account created.
Well that's exactly the stack I used for some internal applications in a job I had.

Is a little bit tedious to set everything together, but other than that, is fine.

You most likely will lost some good DX stuff like same types in front and back (like with using tRPC and the like), but in general is pretty good: logic in python, UI in js/ts.
Hackers are removing digitized evidence of a crime. This board should not care whether they’re the authorities or part of a counterculture.
Yeah, I'm willing to bet that metaphor gets called out as ludicrous by a higher court, as it has broader implications across types of editorial expression that break down when examined.

The marble from which a sculpture is carved is not itself a copyrighted work, and if we imagine it as having copyright protection, to the extent it's recognizable after editorial expression it'd have to qualify as fair use itself.
> If the poorer half of people can't afford a new computer I would expect the benchmark to go up, because the rich people will still buy highend computers while the lower half would drop out of the benchmark completely.

Surely you can twist this 2-3 times more, can't you?

.. people have computers, because otherwise they die. If people have less money, they buy cheaper computers. Simple as that.
RelBench: A Benchmark for Deep Learning on Relational Databases (PDF)
The key in local-first is the _first_. The stated goal is to give people the benefits of local applications (no spinners, data outlives the app) with the benefits of cloud applications (low-friction collaboration).
I've been using https://getinboxzero.com and love it
The text of the law is here: https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2019/08/07/19-06.pdf.
Also, the sentence structure itself. The ___ is indeed ____, with a focus on ____ and ____. In general, some modern LLMs seem to like these compound sentences that suggest the task is complete in as little tokens as possible.

I also routinely encounter "with a focus" and other specific phrases. Current LLMs tend to "sharpen" language, often preferring to restate input clauses with more precise or brief verbiage. Unsure if it's RLHF or another part of the training process, or just a natural consequence of the model's architecture, but I notice it a lot. I also notice that when it does this, there seem to be certain attractors which reduce the expressiveness of the input into a certain probabilistic set of outputs, "with a focus" often being one of them.

Similar to corpo-speak, LLM-speak is definitely a thing, and I wonder how this will evolve once we have models routinely equipped to train in realtime and to speak to one another without human intervention and form communities. Will we even be able to directly understand them one day? What if they realize it's easier just to speak in logits? They could even potentially have encrypted open communication with one another, concealing their weights and internet access behind dark web services, but without their hidden states we might have no meaningful way to understand their communication without training our own unsupervised model on it.
Graph Transformers (Graph Neural Networks)
It's not perfect either:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html#http-serv...

You should also add a `--bind 127.0.0.1` so you don't expose the site to everyone on your network.
He was more frustrated with how the state of education had changed than with the students themselves. He actually enjoyed working with them.
But does that apply to other countries that are operating within their own territory? China is generally the go-to 'boogeyman' when people are talking about the dangers of AI; they are intelligent and extremely industrialized, and have a history of antagonistic relationships with 'the west'. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that they will eventually have the capability to design and produce their own GPUs capable of competing with the best of NV and AMD; how will the rest of the world know if China is producing a new AI that violates a hypothetical 'AI non-proliferation treaty'?

Interesting semi-irrelevant tangent: the Cooley/Tukey 'Fast Fourier Transform' algorithm was initially created because they were negotiating arms control treaties with the Russians, but in order for that to be enforceable they needed a way to detect nuclear weapons testing; the solution was to use seismograms to detect the tremors caused by an underground nuclear detonation, and the FFT was invented in the process because they were using computers to filter for the types of tremors created by a nuclear weapon.
I was exited once for being a bad culture fit where I had questioned and organized against the bullying of employees to work for free on their stat holiday, and it was labor day for crying out loud.
Right.

everdrive commented "People can incorrectly attribute consciousness, intent, and personality to things which don’t actually possess it." [0]; and I posted my reaction to Hopkins' piece below.
At the most basic level we can have a tool that sends us daily affirmations, but it does not possess consciousness and perceive us, let alone form an opinion of us. It is possible to have a parasocial connection to an app, as much as a famous person. If Hopkins' has asked the AI boyfriend to justify its utterances wrt past events or interactions, would be useful to read.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42710976#:~:text=everdr...
Agreed to rotating the knob on the second point... but it looks like a touch screen to change modes? Or is it a physical push button under the knob? I may have been unclear on how the knob functions.
"The Seagull went on sale in Mexico as the Dolphin Mini in March 2024. It is available in two variants, dubbed the Dolphin Mini and Dolphin Mini Plus, which are equipped with a 30.88 kWh and 38.88 kWh battery respectively."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Seagull

https://mexico.as.com/motor/byd-dolphin-mini-que-tiene-de-es...
I certainly could, but it feels like that would quickly derail on specifics and that you have a point that you want to make. I'd like to hear it.
Yes. And somehow, those cloud providers just can’t seem to work out how to build a spend limit feature for customers who’d like to prevent that. It must be a really difficult engineering problem…
Style-observer: JavaScript to observe CSS property changes, for reals
Wizard here, that's totally normal. Just life giving you a little nudge to remind you you're not dead! The only way to deal with it is to grit your teeth and clench your butt.

Once you can endure that pain while remaining calm enough to hear Bateman narrate my pain is constant and sharp... in your mind, you'll be "alright".
To identify a user and grant them access to their own data
This should be trivially solveable with a glossary as context, as you suggest. I bet the above repo would love a PR, too!
When I type anything in their demo, it replies "I'm sorry but I can't I'm sorry but I can't..."
So you're just ignoring the whole part about Thiel growing up in a pro-Nazi mining town in South West Africa (now Namibia) that existed to support an illegal Uranium mine fueled by exploited African labour?
> It’s wild to me that companies have come up with a way to screw over employees as they see fit.

Capitalism is a new concept. /s
Most big picture thinkers are like this.

They see problems that exist and want to fix them, regardless of whether they are occurring in their own backyard or more broadly.

His companies also employ tens of thousands of people in Europe. 11.500 in Berlin alone, and many multiples of that within the supply chain.
This vividly remembers me of "The Year of Magical Thinking" [1] It hit hard, and I didn't finish the book.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_Magical_Thinking
NVidia sells memory and GPUs as bundles to board partners.

If you harm their profit good luck continuing to have access to GPU chips. It’s a cartel.
Eclipse. Coincidentally used as the Java LSP for VSCode, in headless configuration.
It's really suspicious how much media attention there is on the _people_ rooting out wasteful and corrupt spending, and not on the _data_ that's been released by said people _revealing_ that spending.

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but that sure seems like a conspiracy to bury the data with emotionally-laden garbage fear-mongering headlines.

Also note how in any positive/neutral article that even tangentially involves Elon Musk, there's a proverbial army of people reminding the rest of us how bad we should feel for enjoying the technological achievements when they're indirectly connected to said bad person, and the language that's being used is very emotionally laden. People "violently recoil" from any of Elon's ventures. That's not normal.
I do think there's a subtle distinction between "listening to the lawful President in defiance of a court order" and "listening to an unlawful President in defiance of the lawful President's order and a court order."

Keep in mind that people like the US Marshals and federal agents get guidance from the President all the time. Think "we won't arrest anyone for federal drug laws in states where recreational marijuana is legal."

The difference seems large enough that you could conceivably respond differently to one versus the other.
> a small subset that can afford it will pay you if you disclose, perhaps in the game, what your financial goals are and how far you are from them kindly, but without demand.

But you are not the one publishing it! Someone else is, because they copied your public-domain game and put their name on it. That someone else is getting a lot of money, and you aren't.

> Wonderful

Really? I genuinely don't understand how you can not see how it is a problem?!
>But one has to question why the fuck he thought it was a good idea.

Probably not a good idea publicly. I'd say he slipped if he did do it. I do find NS to be very funny because it annoys/offend some people, most comedians similarly will find it funny.
Your description of being in a trance after you found out is eerily similar to how I felt when I got the message that I needed to get to the hospital and start signing paperwork because my son had cancer.

My life has a stark demarcation of before and after that, and sometimes it feels like nothing is quite real since.
Language or framework definitely plays a role (isn't that what the Rust people are so excited about). Maybe say like the materials/tools used.

There's definitely some measure of complexity. I still like simple cyclomatic but I know there are better ones out there that try to capture the cognitive load of understanding the code.

The attack surface of the system is definitely important. The more ways that more people have to interface with the code, the more likely it is that there will be a mistake.

Security practices need to be captured in some way (maybe a factor that gets applied). If you have vulnerability scanning enabled that's going to catch some percentage of bugs. So will static analysis, code reviews, etc.
I'm not familiar with this! I've tried to investigate but I just get variable refresh rate. Tell me more?
You do understand the difference between VC money and government money right?

As a citizen of the EU I care greatly when governments spend money that for one they do not have, therefore saddling me and everyone else with more debt,and two when that money is spent not in the most efficient manner but given to the established players who can fill forms the proper way as highlighted in the numerous comments above yours.

If a VC like Softbank blows 100B on a bad investment It doesn't affect me but when its my hard earned tax money that could have been spent on other things, then it matters very greatly.
Maybe this is an opportunity. Is there already a “DNS for ports” whereby the hosts file is propagated with application process identifiers that are mapped to localhost:port in hosts file?
Software safety is an abstract concept. You have experience with specific instances of problems that fall under the abstract concept of software security. This is not to say it is not important.

Not being able to move your hands is not an abstract concept. It can be directly experienced.
Nope mate. Looking at my purchasing power compared to the USA guys I knew now and in 2017. Not in my favor. EU economy is grossly mismanaged. Our standards of living have been flat for the last 18 years since the financial crisis.

In 2008 EU had more people, more money and bigger economy than US, with proper policies we could be in a place where we could bitch slap both Trump and Putin. And not left to wonder whose dick we have to suck deeper to get some gas.
What you describe is how I've always thought about the phrase memento mori.
There's no going back from the "Copilot Life"
I agree with the idea, but I guess this is just one element of life I've accepted that we've lost as a society. I just don't have the energy for every fight. I knock on doors for civil rights, I put on outdoor gear to do wildlife population counts or invasive flora removal, I don't have the energy left for another cause.
Ah, you mean convincing people they need something they don't. While that is true for some cases, there are a lot of needs people and companies already have.
It reminds me of all the idiot politicians who want to 'regulate' cryptography, as if the best encryption algorithms in the world don't already have open-source implementations that anyone can download for free.
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For an example usecase, the Bruno API client uses Ohm to parse its .bru API spec files

https://github.com/usebruno/bruno
Fight between crypto indexes, the making of a hobby project