skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Keep in mind it was Ukraine that proposed the idea of offering their resources back in October 2024[0]

The general idea, sure. They offered that in return for security guarantees or as collateral for continued military aid.

That is not what is being offered them by this administration. Instead the administration has chosen the mafia shakedown route. American military aid to Ukraine to date amounts to around $100 billion dollars (and we're not talking stacks of cash here but rather the "value" of military hardware, much of which already had an expiration date and was literally designed and built for the Russia-invades-Europe scenario). But Trump is demanding $500 million from Ukraine, and offering zero in return. As of today many concessions have been demanded from Ukraine, but zero concessions have been asked of Russia - much the opposite actually.
Love this!
One persons opinion - I’d change it to mq - less chars are always better for command
I've been using phonetic transcriptions in a parallel text reader application I've been putting together. It seems like they go a long way in allowing a foreign language learner to internalize a word's pronunciation.
No need for printf function or text buffer.
That is why you have snapshots on S3
Such a neat little tool! I shall use it and share it.
Clever idea using the map to simultaneously display words. Small feature but hugely piques the interest of the user.
To be clear, we already do our own PCBs -- we just don't do our own ASICs (which is who this RFD is really aimed at). I don't think it's impossible that we would/will do our own silicon, but it's still pretty far out. If we were to do our own silicon, it's easier for me to promise that we would be transparent about it (interface and implementation) than it is to promise that we would sell it. (You may think economics is an excuse, but I would think of it more as a reason!)

As for existing hardware vendors: note that one of the examples is AMD and their openSIL effort. I don't want to speak out of turn, but I think it's very fair to say that Oxide influenced AMD with respect to openSIL -- And the presence of openSIL allowed us to open our host boot software.[0] So there is reason for hope -- and on parts that in fact have lots of customers.

Thank you for wishing us well -- we are indeed trying to not just ship products but also change the culture!

[0] https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0241 RFD 241 Holistic Boot
Whenever I fix something or struggle with an issue I ALWAYS write myself a blog post and make sure to cram in the exact errors/SEO Keywords I searched for while trying to glue together a solution.
The comments present a fairly compelling case for this being LLM algobait.
Artificial Intelligence for Accelerating Nuclear Applications
I have a friend in hong kong who is an international teacher. Wanted to take a sick day but needed to see a doctor to get a note. then needed an app. but the app is only available for hong kong app store users. She basically could not take a sick day from work.
Most big employers consider GPL unusable and will only allow Apache, MIT, BSD, and other permissive patent-free licenses.
I just see this as an experiment to see if the system can survive without the bloat. If we need the bloat, the next person can just put it all back in. It's only 4 years.
I really like GitHub comments on blogs.
How to use your imagination to prepare for any task
I thought the purpose of this was to reduce waste. Firing a low cost administrator and replacing them with N highly-trained (and higher cost) Ph.D.s is not efficient use of taxpayer dollars.
At my first job, it actually was a compiler error, and I'm not sure if my manager ever believed me. We were using an internal gcc fork and cross-compiling, so who knows where the bug was, but the compiler team got back to me. Jump tables were sometimes broken, and we had to add a switch to disable them.

Not the right lesson to learn for a first job.
The longest lasting evidence of human existence will be satellites in space and deep tunnels.
This is a big problem in botany. Plants and fungi have a large variety of chemical and biological interactions that is rarely able to be summed up as "parasitic", "mutualistic", "commensal", "symbiotic", or otherwise. Lots of "parasitic plants" have immense benefits to their "hosts". Some examples:

- dodder plants can act as above-ground mycorrhizal networks in the sense that they allow plants (even of different species) to alert each other of pests and other dangers

- many parasitic plants produce fruit in the offseason of their host that keeps the hosts primary pollinators alive during that season; ultimately benefitting the host by keep its pollinator alive

- ghost pipes can produce phytohormones that help its hosts grow faster and improve their immune system

But generally in botany, when we label something as "parasitic" we are exclusively looking at its ability to photosynthesize. IMO it's an archaic and very misleading term since so many "parasitic plants" are crucial ecological partners but that's just the working definition
I think because most of the content from it is low quality. Medium blog post are often immediately down-ranked.
For how many years, precisely? And also, why would they?
whats the risk of bricking, if the machine dies during this? I guess thats somewhat unquantifyable, but I think the warning is apt: if you had a powerloss in the middle, you are almost definitionally writing to places which matter a LOT across boot.

on the plus side, you can probably get a copy of the state before wiping it, at least as a logical structure. but what kind of fallback boot path you are on, is very specific to what the machine likes to do.
It's not quite half the bugs on GCCs bug tracker, but it's very high: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/report.cgi?x_axis_field=&y_axis...

It's around 10% invalid bugs and another 10% duplicates. A lot of them that I've seen, including one of mine, are a result of misinterpreting details of language standards.
Read the actual text of the law. It creates opportunities to appeal and other options. Another option is for these communities to band together, which seems to be happening.
Civ 4 is cheap on steam. I decided to buy that and go back and run a campaign on there while I wait for VII to mature a bit.
I’d encourage you to read the actual text of the law and not just others’ interpretation. The sole proprietorship likely falls into one of the exception clauses or is likely using a platform.
Both Rust and Elixir get this right. I have used both in anger, for money, to ship real stuff, and while neither is perfect, they are both great.

To a first an approximation, every Rust project uses Cargo and every Elixir project uses Mix, and they are both first-party tools so they have a level of stability, approachability, and ubiquity that comes with being tied to the language. I’d kill for Clojure to have something half as good as Cargo or Mix and have it be the only build tool, but that ship has sailed.
Oh man. I uncovered a hash implementation bug in go, ca 2014 or so and I spent like two days prepping my bug report, tests, I was so certain it was me. The team of course was super nice and like ‘good catch’. Victory lap day for any nerd.
It looks like something changed 5 months ago. There were a series of futurism.com articles submitted by new users who then went on to submit a string of suspicious Github links. I'm guessing futurism.com was banned for being associated with that. It's possible they (or one of their marketers) were actually involved, or it's possible they were just an innocent bystander being used as cover. Either way, you have a better chance of getting an answer if you ask Dan by email (hn@ycombinator.com).
It's not really workable. The real-world impact of a TikTok ban, even if it outright stopped working on every American device overnight is pretty minimal; people stop watching videos, and some influencers lose their jobs.

If my (Canadian) government decides to ban Azure in a year, my critical infrastructure company ignores it for 11 months because they figure it won't actually happen, and then goes to the government to tell them that if the ban actually goes through, our infrastructure stops working because we'd actually need a multi-year timeframe to migrate off of Azure.
Why has it taken this author so long to finally realize this? It was never “safe” to have government data managed and stored in another country.

Sounds more like they just don’t like the current administration in the United States. This dislike somehow has woken them up to the reality that storing their sensitive data in another country was never a good idea.
joke I think, anthropod is probably another way of saying bugs/ants haha
> i am a musician

it's a curse
The CCP first and foremost keeps control by keeping their people happy, and controlling the narrative in such a way that the people are happy.

Surveillance in China is a Damocle's sword at worst - hardly used in an enforcement capacity, transgressions (like using VPNs) are mostly ignored, and it's very easy to slip through the cracks. Everyone is breaking laws all the time - they're a tool only selectively used. Police will look the other way as long as you don't force their hand. Funnily enough you don't even need a surveillance state to create bullshit laws that you selectively enforce. They made a surveillance state... and don't really use it.

I'm more afraid of surveillance states in a western countries, because they have a much better track record of consequently enforcing laws as written. If they make it illegal to say bad things about the party and use encryption, you can be sure enforcement will go beyond just silently deleting your critical Facebook post and killing your SSH connection. They'll throw the book at you.
There's multiple problems here.
1. The thing that needs to change is not culture, it's literally the supreme court that has to change because the change in the 70's as the court transitioned to judge rehnquist's ideas is what caused the current problem. Prior to that we had a robust antitrust department that was going way too hard (they were breaking up regional gas station chains, so instead of saying "just don't do that" we went the exact opposite end of the spectrum into very wrong territory and allowed massive multinational monopolies/oligopolies).

2. The productive race to the bottom is awesome but it also needs some changes to copyright/patents. Contrary to what Mr. Hotz thinks, they are not stupid, they are a good idea that has been utterly coopted and rebranded to maximize holder value (at the direct cost of total societal value). To fix it we need to change the law to require minimization of harm at a given increase in copyrightable/patentable output with wording directing the error to be on the side of less damage to non copyright/patent holders. Copyright is easier here than patents because copyright terms went full retard. We could cut them down to the patent term and I highly doubt we see more than negligible drop in creative output because most of the value is in those first 20 years for almost all creative works.
It's... not great.

I went down a path where KCD2 would be the perfect answer (have 2+ hrs to play, currently playing games, 30+ hrs, single player, prefer story, mid-level tutorials, mid-level paced action, prefer RPG) and I got...

Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead

Like wat. Lol.
I heard their inferencing framework is way lower than typical deployment methods. Can this be verified from that open-source project? How does it stack up against vllm or llama.cpp
> I didn't see using the word consistently, so it seems like you're attempting an escape hatch with this strawman.

Are consistent and steady not synonyms? You seem to have been arguing consistency, I'm not trying to make a strawman here.

Are you saying it's steady but inconsistent?

> Run an analysis on it and it's trending upwards.

Pretending everything can be coerced into a straight line is statistics abuse 101.

It also forces any data set ever to be "steady".

2022 is lower than 1982. That's also overly simplified, but it helps show that trying to cram things into a single number is not correct here.

> you still couldn't discount those spikes as outliers and therefore not representative

I wasn't discounting any spikes other than covid. The 2008 spike spent most of its time below the early 90s.
Yes, there is a pattern. Most of my relatives are very quick, those tested all come out 120+. Two of my sons have absurd IQs like me. My second is about my level (170+), and my youngest is some kind of megamind mutant. His brain scares me. He's very very clever.
How would they enforce the court verdict if you aren't on their land?
> There are claims that federal spending is out of control. How do you square that with the fact that spending as a percentage of GDP is only slightly elevated compared to the historical average going back to at least the 1970s, with the main deviation in the past few years coming from the after-effects of the pandemic?

Pretty sure one of the core arguments behind the drive to slash federal spending is the belief that federal spending has been out of control since long before the 1970s.
I have a PHEV specifically so I can take an occasional 500-600 mile trip without range anxiety. With the ICE, I can almost do the trip without a pit stop. But I make a stop. So it seems that ICE or EV both have to make one stop for a 500 mile journey. Of course, the ICE could make a 1000 mile journey with two stops where your EV would need three. But I make a 1000 mile journey in a single day less than once a year. So 10 extra pit stops in 10 years doesn't seem like a bad trade-off for the 4 or 5 fill-ups I skip every month.
To use an LBA HDD or especially a SSD as well as DOS can, I've always found that the DOS from W98SE, with the 2001 update, is about the most reliable.

The only repeatable way when ongoing testing is underway is to zero the media each time, since many times DOS will rely strongest on what is already there during a Format or SYS. So will every version of Windows, but without full consistency at all.

If using Win10 or 11, you may find that even with a zeroed floppy or HDD partition when you power off, the partition will be silently formatted just as Windows last remembers it when you reboot, transparently without notice.

Plus even with successfully zeroed media, there is often a difference in what the Format comes out like depending on whether you booted the PC to an actual floppy, HDD, or SSD, and what their geometry was. And this can often come out different on different motherboards because of their dissimilar bios recognition of what the geometry is and what will be compatible with potential booting on that particular device.

Other times it seemed like some bioses were not suitable for formatting some media well enough to be bootable on their own device. But worked just fine if formatted on a more "universal" motherboard, then boot fine on the problem PC.

These days I want my FAT32 volumes, which are often being used as boot volumes as expected under UEFI, to be fully formatted under DOS for best reliability. None of the intentionally lesser stuff ever since. But I also want my structure to align with 4096 byte sectors which really helps with AF HDDs and SSDs. DOS won't do this on its own. Plus Windows mostly defaults to putting the bootsector at 2048 now instead of 63 on LBA gear, so I format a zeroed FAT32 partition using Windows 10 or 11 first. Then to the disk editor where everything is re-zeroed except the bootsector and the following 8 sectors. Edit the bootsector & backup bootsector (6 sectors later) for 2048 Hidden Sectors. And 2048, 4096 or a multiple of 4096 Sectors Per Fat, depending on which multiple is closest to the value that was there by default (according to the size of the partition) when there was no awareness of SSDs.

Then back to DOS and Format /Q, on a good motherboard it will retain the values you edited in, and you've got a more reliable foundation for your boot files or anything else.
Unfortunately as a nation our culture appears to have shifted away from taking personal responsibility for anything. It's always someone else's fault now. Some else's responsibility. Someone else's job.

I have seen many comments that this has become worse since the isolation period caused by COVID. I tend to agree but I also think it goes deeper than that. We have some problems in our society that have been festering for much longer and have root causes like inequality, lack of opportunity, and a lack of constructive facilities and positive role models.

I hear a lot from friends who work in education about children coming to school with profoundly disturbing attitudes and other children who have experienced nasty forms of abuse. And yes - absolutely the schools and the government should push back against problems like bullying and misogyny and racism where they can.

But maybe the answer here isn't just trying to lock up this week's negative social media influencer or introduce unusual and potentially dangerous concepts like regulating online content that is "harmful" yet not illegal or expecting governments to spy on us all and interfere in our lives more often. Maybe we should first be asking why so many kids think they have nothing better to do than spend all day watching that nasty online content in the first place. Maybe we should be asking why so many kids are given unsupervised and unregulated access to ideas they aren't ready to deal with yet.

That's about education and children but you can pick almost any hot button topic and find similar examples. Try immigration or people who live entirely off state benefits. You can find plenty of examples where people advocate for papering over social problems but there's a sad lack of discussion about properly fixing the cracks underneath. Those are the real social harms we should be trying to reduce. Unfortunately their perpetrators are often among the first to assume it must be someone else's problem.
Is the implication that we should just publish all of everyone's data everywhere then and there is no value in trying to maintain any protections for anything?

If that is the implication then I disagree.
What Happens When You Unleash 500 Singles on an IRL Date
Unless "platform engineers" includes "deveopers", they're not the only ones who can diagnose an issue. Once at my previous job (providing a name based on a phone number to the Oligarchic Cell Phone companies), our service just stopped. I wasn't there during the outage, only heard about it after the fact. The servers were fine (they were not out of memory, nor did they have an outrageous load). The network was fine. The program just wasn't serving up data. There had been no recent updates to the code [1] so it shouldn't have been the software. It took the main developer, who knew the code, to know that a "this should not happen" situation, did---that is, the name query we used for a health check had been removed, and thus our software took that to mean the name service was out of commission, thus shutting down.

Now, it could be argued that was the wrong thing for our software to do, but it was what it was, and no amount of SREs or "platform engineers" would have solved the issue (in my opinion).

[1] The Oligarchic Cell Phone companies do not move fast, and they had veto power over any updates to production.
In Switzerland, sledding is not for the faint of heart
In the sense that almost everything does these days. In a better world, container images would be just plain static files any web server can serve.
> WHY you'd want to speed run academia

1. You want or need to be making money instead of spending it.

Eg, no family wealth involved; you’re paying for everything yourself

2. You don’t enjoy the high pressure (ish), test-driven environment and want to be doing more meaningful work.

Etc. The number of people who don’t want to spend money and time in college might surprise you. I even know some very academically successful ones with this attitude.
Hey, you are right, we will ship the said features today! for the bin to work you need to click the card and press Delete <3
For one husband, caregiving came easier when he learned to 'shut up and listen'
A C-based graphics engine/raycasting engine to make 90's games like Wolfenstein3D (1992) - but on a never-before seen scale.

The scale is RNG worlds like Minecraft. I've never seen that before with a Raycaster.

Here is my progress so far (I've had a month break)

https://github.com/con-dog/chunked-z-level-raycaster/blob/ma...

Not for profit, just for fun and exploration
It depends on the map. In the Civ 6 Europe map, the area where the Normandy landings took place was 3 tiles. You could have three units attacking in the initial wave against 1 defending unit, with various ranged units on both sides. At that point in the game, the units could be corps or armies, which would make the overall scale of fighting about right.
That seems an easy fix until one gets nervous about working a month just to release a single -purchase game engine. That's a journey that you can take but you might at least consider a license.
I think we can make progress on things even if one small change can't fix every problem all at once.
Comparing digital sovereignty w/r/t critical services are hosted to "The Great Firewall" is absurd. It's not the same thing at all.

China and Russia blocking YouTube is different from making sure the entire EU government and economy can't be collapsed by US turning the screws on Amazon.
Thank you this has been driving me nuts!
> Government expenditure as a proportion of GDP has been rising steadily for a century and is now approaching 40%. From IMF: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/USA. The recent trend is shaky due to Covid, housing crash, maybe dot com crash, etc., but it looks like it's probably still trending upward.

Is true.

> The two long series of dropping values make up more than a third of the last 40 years.

The trend over the past 40 years is rising.

> Good thing nobody claimed that.

You tried to because you disingenuously tried to say that the drop would "disprove" my argument. You don't even understand what my argument is, and fixating on nitpicking the definition of "steadily" is just hilariously insane. Like, we can see WWI and WWII in those figures, I'm not trying some weasel word sleight of hand to fool people into believing I meant monotonically increasing, as though the actual increase doesn't prove my point in substance.

The point I replied to said this:

> 1. There are claims that federal spending is out of control. How do you square that with the fact that spending as a percentage of GDP is only slightly elevated compared to the historical average going back to at least the 1970s, with the main deviation in the past few years coming from the after-effects of the pandemic?

At least the 1970s. Every one of the full 4 decades after the 1970s was substantially higher than the 1970s, taken as an average (which is slightly weird but it'll do). And not just slightly elevated, the next lowest decade is more than 6.25% above the 70s, and the rest are 10-11% above.

Getting angry about the numbers is really just clutching at straws because you don't seem to like the conclusion. Try arguing with some facts you actually have on your side if you don't like it so much.
Why are people linking this low quality worse-than-ChatGPT commercial blog? Mind as well read what MDN has to say about this.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
I'm sorry that you feel so isolated from the majority.

What powerful force do you think caused over half the people you know to be so misguided?
We can probably go quite far, but the companies producing LLMs are probably just making sure they're not legally liable in case someone asks ChatGPT how to manufacture Sarin gas or whatever
Once a year paradox releases a dlc. Its pretty reasonable. It only seems unreasonable if you jump in 15 years after.