skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. It means that the parsing code is trivial to make instead of using some kind of LALR, SLR, Earley monstrosities with hundreds of megabytes of grammar tables in memory, just to understand the output of a program like "ls" or "find" or "grep".

JSON is ALSO easy for machines to read. I know because I made several JSON parsers myself. I have also made parsers for computer languages(with things like PEG) and natural languages and there is a world of difference.
Reworking my CSS library for turning semantic HTML into looking like authentic RFC documents. Current version (https://vladde.net/blog/rfc-css) is not quite there yet.
Not just non-mainstream web browsers but also users in certain less developed countries.

Clearly there’s a balance to be had, but Cloudflare’s shadowbans are just mean.
I get locked out occasionally when travelling outside EU as well. I've got to the point I will just avoid using services with CloudFlare in front of them.

Also the one time I reported abuse which was online banking phishing they just replied that they'd informed the upstream provider and nothing happened.
Still working on my advanced SVG Editor Hyvector: https://hyvector.com

Basic functionality has been implemented, and I am working now on polishing the UI and workflow. Big features like art strokes, path offsetting, colorizing, etc. are also in the making and will be added later. I hope there is still a commercial market for products like this.
Yeah, it's hard to call their model particularly predatory, when a lot of the industry is going with battle-pass models that rely on FOMO to keep the revenue constant. At least with Paradox you can still buy-in on a sale years after release and not be forever locked out of anything because you weren't playing sooner.
Not the same thing, but having something like JRebel can get quite close, and even if jshell isn't the best example of REPL, it isn't that bad either.
The article suggests that Gnu Awk might soon improve its understanding of JSON.

Can somebody please shed some light at this? Will gawk get JSON support. Or is is already there and I just need to get a recent version?
The theming they dislike isn't the theming their users are doing. Their biggest issue is distros packaging their own theme, which can easily break an entire suit of applications without the user knowing it's because their distro decided to override the colours or mess with widths. As the page you linked says:

> If you like to tinker with your own system, that’s fine with us. However, if you change things like stylesheets and icons, you should be aware that you’re in unsupported territory. Any issues you encounter should be reported to the theme developer, not the app developer.

Theming Gnome by editing the default style sheet is akin to distro theming the web by modifying Firefoz's default style sheet. Tons of websites will break in weird and interesting ways but the user won't know to blame the distro, because they never touched user.css or even know it's possible to change the default.

The same breakage also happens on KDE and Qt applications (and more, I have seen Eclipse launch with black text on a black background when dark mode is enabled) but the developers don't seem to care as much, or are less bothered by the false bug reports. I've also experienced the "this doesn't look anything like the screenshots" feeling because of the theme I have applied, but at least I know it's my own fault.
Ah, I was thinking more from the perspective of the consuming party ;)

Though of course it’s nice if you pre-add it, it’s nothing people can’t do themselves.
I'm interested in uniform approximation with generalized polynomials -- these are linear combinations from families of parametrized continuous functions over some domain that satisfy some technical conditions, but its also fine to think of them as sums of regular monomials like 1, x, x^2, ..., x^N. This problem has been well understood for real intervals (classical case) for a long time, but I'm interested in this problem where we're approximating functions over complex domains.

There is a theoretically stable algorithm for the classical problem called the Remez exchange algorithm, and an extension to complex domains due to P.T.P. Tang in his 1987 PhD thesis at Berkeley. Theoretically Remez and its complex extension are very stable, but unfortunately implementations my advisor and I are aware of seem to struggle with large degree polynomials, where large is bigger than say n=45 -- errors begin to explode.

In any case, independently of this I've been learning more of the nitty gritty details of deep learning for a project at work (I'm a SWE in my day job, the math is more moonlighting), so to ground my efforts there I've been exploring deep learning approaches to this problem of complex uniform approximation, implementing results from various papers and tweaking things for my use case, and coming up with questions. That's much of what I'm thinking about this week!

Also, I'll be having a half-day long ADHD evaluation session on Friday -- so a bit apprehensive about that.
> But what are the parts in the digital world?

In essence, all software is a service; often legally even. But for this we'd need to look at software that's "shipped" to all customers in more or less the same form. But is also not a full blown end-user product. Taking that, we can look at "parts" or even "partial products" as:

* B2B SAAS services. From microservices to large services. From API-only to full blown UI based. That reservation system for nail-studios or the extract-PDF-to-our-bookeeping-API.

* B2B Mobile apps. E.g. a scanner-app to help with packaging or finding in a warehouse. Or a PoS for restaurants or shops.

* Hosted versions of FLOSS software. e.g. nexcloud, mastodon, matomo, a ci-pipeline, SIP, LMS, CMS, etc.

* Managed common PAAS parts. Managed Postgres, managed LDAP, managed CI, managed firewall etc. Not on-prem (that would be services) but more like AWS, but then from local "Vendors".

* Plugins and micro-saas. Just look at the amount of paid-for plugins in shopify, salesforce, google docs, github-marketplace etc. etc.

Almost all of these could be startups. But have a very restricted TAM. So they'll remain small. They also don't deliver a full-blown end-user-product, but something that's built on top of other common IT components. They often have very localized focus (a common restaurant reservation in France is very different from a reservation in the Netherlands, for example), often have a benefit from being trusted on a human level (I'd either backup my companies data to some FAANG, or to that one guy that I know and has been servicing my company for the last decades very well already).

But most of all, they are too small to become scale-ups in the "silicon valley" sense. Because in doing so, they'd loose all that makes them valuable today.

(Source: I've worked at or on many such "startups" that would forever remain small but big enough for the founders to get a solid income from)
Terence Tao – Machine-Assisted Proofs (February 19, 2025) [video]
TOTP is still the MFA option that is supported by most services.

WebAuthN is of course better, but it's still a minority that supports it.
Scientific search engine/agent to surface papers with commercial potential (patent, moats, etc.) - eventually wanna expand to cover any search query. Imagine having someone reading 1000s of science papers
on your behalf, with your goals
in mind, and then telling which papers to pay attention to and why
This is a great read and exactly where I think the global economy is going - instead of large companies you'll have millions of medium sized businesses run by small teams still making a bit of a dent in their own niche universe.

I do disagree with the work-life balance part, I struggle to see how you can build something (and maintain it at such a high level) without intense focus and commitment.
That's essentially what they were doing at least as far back as Civ2 (I think there was a cheat menu for creating custom maps?) — the shields the AI needed for a unit or building, the bushels needed for city growth, were reduced on higher difficulty settings.

(I've not seen the original game, dunno what they did for that).
One of the most consequential substance abuse issues of all time?
I'm also an unrelated party, it messes with me, Cloudflare is doing it, and I can't opt out.
It's their property, and it can be integrated and use in their app after downgrading from design/animation-oriented plans. I see it as a normal situation when we worked on appearance and animations for several months, and then they just use it on our lower plans just using the API. The API will soon have more features supporting non-verbal speech-based animation/gestures, etc., so it will be even more valuable.
They buy a service which should block a specific type of traffic, for example bots or attacks. I don't believe any of their customers have purchased a "block a random version of a specific browser" plan. The fact this is occasionally treated as a bug and fixed confirms that idea.

If the customer specifically set a header match to block some Firefox variant, people wouldn't complain to cloudflare about it.
To be fair, this one is specially to address the issue of a distro theming an app, breaking it, and that leading to a bug report at the upstream even though it's the distro at fault.

If a user is willing to take responsibility for breakage and such, then I'm not sure the devs are against theming as such.

> If you like to tinker with your own system, that’s fine with us. However, if you change things like stylesheets and icons, you should be aware that you’re in unsupported territory. Any issues you encounter should be reported to the theme developer, not the app developer.
Making a system highly available isn't just about adding redundancy
That is also my main problem with the game. Playing deity difficulty is finding a way to game the game in order to overcome the bonuses your rivals get, it is not about creating brilliant strategies because your rivals are cunning. In fact the AI is rather dumb.
This still does not excuse punishing third parties to the facts you mention. By that logic we can cheat and exploit Germans, including people not alive during the holocaust, because there are still victims alive. Collective punishment is against the Geneva convention. What times we live in...
> I know him pretty much as there is to know.

Reading puff pieces online is not the way to know a man. He spends money on his PR and you are swallowing it.

> Here's a take by people who have had actual direct contact with him. https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...

The first guy has no concrete examples of Elon choices being against his engineering team recommendations and the last quote about "getting his hands dirty with epoxy" is rehased "and he was there clearing the roadblocks" that train and oil barons would say when something went wrong in their mines.

Like how is the same advertising tactics that worked in 1900 when the US had a literacy rate of below 12% working on you now?

> The arguments against his capability to lead cross-field technical operations should be disproven by his successes that he has proven several times in sequence.

Most of those companies have been bailed out by goverment contacts. That is not an ability to lead a team but an ability to win goverment contracts. This is proven by the fact he literally bought the US election in front of the entire world.

His venturesoutside of already fully financed goverment programs liek space, and EV tech remain huge failures. Boring company, neuralink and Twitter are all abject failures if you look at them from a prespective that isnt "Elon will somehow make it work".

> Philip's arguments tell as much.

Phillip has not only worked side by side with him for years, but invested millions in his ventures. He has more at stake than anyone in those interviews which some are over a decade old and all have interests that align with Elon (either work for him, or are writting a book and need access)

> Wouldn't really expect anything else being as disruptive as raw autism in fixing the species might be.

Fixing the species? The dude has a weird breeding hyperfixation, is autistic, is positively demonstrably short sighted (cutting Lidar out of tesla, saying mars boots before 2020, pushing the fda tests for neuralink).

His best bet to improve the species would be removing himself from the pool, and yet he keeps paying for tube babies with crazy women to polute it further.
i think part of the problem is 30mph/48kmph doesnt feel fast - and to get people to drive slower manufacturers need to design cars so 20mph/32kmph feels faster
Oh, thanks for this, this is going to make my life easier!
It is the "systemic/constant/permanent" recording, record-keeping. etc. a.k.a. "processing" (GDPR "processing" means "if it exists and you touch it, your are processing it").

Back in 2005 I remember working with some physical sec company that were setting up cameras in a factory, and they wanted the cameras to 'not record traffic, be activated on if THIS part of the screen has motion')(sidewalk vs sidewalk-right-on-our-doorbell vs road). Also, sudden changes in lighting would trigger it :)

Then you need to have retention period (good luck). Most people use those door-cams are violating GDPR. UNLESS when people complain and take you to court (very very very rare), you can prove that "I auto-delete records after 24h when there is no incident", "I have proximity scanner so it is only 0m-2m from my front door", etc.) (violating GDPR because "hey you pervert why do you record my kids EVERY DAY going in and out")

Privacy and Data protection is very very very difficult with GDPR (and thank you Facebook for messing up back in 2015ish!!!)

You can set up your cam but have the "AI" automatically pixelating all license-plates, and the video recording (if any) should be post-pixelating, and not the original feed. How about you put something with a speed-measuring-sensor (that is NOT a camera), so you only get 'anonymised' data, i.e. "20 moving items", and their speeds. But you will not be able to tell if the 300km/h was done by a bicycle or a Hayabusa ;)
Cross platform desktop app using tauri v2 which allows you to define shortcuts and bind them to prompts. You can then copy text, press the shortcut and paste result from gpt.

https://kaiboard.com
> Just look at the suppliers

I suspect the facilities working on SLS solid rocket boosters are owned by Northrop Grumman, just like the companies that were left over from making Peacekeeper missiles, now making Sentinel missiles, are probably now owned by Northrop Grumman. This doesn't show that Sentinel - or any other program - is benefitting from SLS's supply chains in a meaningful way. It's hard to see how that's possible, given SLS's low-volume nature. But I guess I'll try to keep an open mind...

> Furthermore, you might want to look into why the space shuttle had the architecture it did

I have lots of opinions about that, but if you have some reference material you'd like to recommend, please do! (and if they support the notion that SLS SRB production is somehow a boon to SRB makers everywhere, I guess I'd be intrigued by that as well)
Rackspace where the archetypal provider and they sucked. The irony is I've only actually ever really seen internal open stack instances, providers for whatever reason seem to prefer to roll thier own
That's why I wrote

>... just customer service issue.
They do to the extent of having rewriten Pluton firmware into Rust with TockOS, Azure Boost NICs running Rust on their firmware, being the second official language on the Azure Sphere OS SDK, rewriting GDI region handling code in Rust, now shipping on Windows 11 vlatest,...
The "freezio" ability seems more like a power up, than a roadblock. Imagine people actually read what they wrote.
Despite these problems Europe is still the better place to live in compared to "global leaders" like USA, Russia or China. Because limiting AI rollouts is not really relevant for your quality of live, social security, health, safety, sanity etc.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
It takes months and you’re required to go to a notary at least twice and you have to put down 12500/25000EUR.

This is absolute nonsense. In the UK you can open a limited company with 12GBP in a matter of days. Oh and it’s completely online, something which Germany will never have in the foreseeable future.
there are a lot of extremely intelligent people that would want to work for musk. why ? beats me, but reality is reality.
Hah! But then you get a comment thread like this[1] from people breaking down the etymology of words and why you, as a non-native speaker, should stick to English.

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[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43073231
> I'd say most of the EU is already pretty good at this

Not Germany though. I don't think that's as easy to change as VAT changes. And since a bunch of their examples are primarily B2B, they wouldn't care about VAT changes either.
A tool For logistics and container planning and movers:

LLM driven 3d packing written in F#

https://3dpack.ing
Ahh yes, I know the feeling. My current list of projects:

- There's no speciality grade coffee in Zambia, and all the coffee beans in Zambia are from Zambian coffee farms. I've bought a small roaster and will start sourcing speciality grade coffee beans from Malawi, Kenya and Ethiopia and roasting for a few of the small stores and cafes around us.

- Converting a beat up Suzuki Samurai into a capable 4x4 rock crawler/off road vehicle to enter my own team into the Elephant Charge 2025 https://elephantcharge.org/ec-charge-2025/.

- Growing and propogating cuttings of coffee plants in my backyard to start an outgrowers scheme in on the border of Zambia & Congo.

- An emotion recognition app that has animated fruits and animals that dance and respond to emotion. I'd like to create something a bit more responsive for my child than the YT videos that exist (Unity).

- Helping my wifes company prototype and spec out some lease management software.

- Sourcing the equipment and ingredients to process my own coffee cherries into green coffee. I'll likely buy coffee from nearby growers and start processing as my own plants still have a couple years before they produce any fruit.

- Migrating a Flow project to Typescript.

- Learning Haskell by building a back-office API for another project in it.
The reliability is pretty terrible, the billing sucks (especially SEPA) but apart from that..
That’s fine, you can have one article on negative implications and another one on opportunities. It’s two different subjects, with different data and different approaches, and possibly different specialised authors. You don’t have to both-sides everything all the time.
Oh I'm trying to build something similar, let's chat! I've started with identifying potential project from ICLR2025, but it has an "entrepreneur" part in the response https://openreview-copilot.eamag.me/
> I think that PID namespaces aren't really possible

Depends on the cluster. If they're using nix or guix then they presumably enabled user namespaces but a few years ago guix had an article about (generally shitty) workarounds for people running in environments where those were disabled.

Edit: Maybe you should have two code paths. A fast namespaced one and the slower old one as a fallback.
Writing software, a reading website, coverage tracking, self-hosted pulumi/terraform backend, and a space trading API game (since very recently).

It’s a bit hard to spread efforts over all of them, but at least most of these projects have lasted several years now, so not constantly doing new things that never finish.
I am doing this at the moment. I am very lucky to have a few contacts around places I used to work that are offering short term contracts. So i'm good for the moment but if that dried up I would be struggling.

Breaking out of the "I know a dude who knows a dude" circle is actually a lot harder than people think. I'm going to give it a crack though.

And if you're reading this and have some unsolveable problem to crack around the .NET, node, Unix space, hit me up. I may be the most stubborn man on the planet when it comes to hard problems.
> The US no longer playing world police isn't what's disturbing, it's understandable that they want EU to take care of its defense.

I guess this reality has never reached the leaders of the EU apparently. Trump was in power before and also threatened to leave NATO yet the EU countries did not prepare for this at all. They had 4 years of Biden to do so but alas they simply waited and wasted time.

> The disturbing thing is how the current administration blamed Ukraine for the war, sees Putin's Russia as an ally, and actively wants to destabilize EU by supporting pro-Russian forces inside it.

You find it disturbing because you are missing the forest for the trees.

China is now very tightly coupled with Russia and Iran. The biggest threat to US hegemony is not Russia, not by a mile. China has the means, the power and the will to start asserting itself on the global stage. On the other hand Russia struggles to hold on to a 5th of Ukraine.

Trump wants to split Russia away from China and is willing to give up on Ukraine in order to make this happen. It's that simple. Russia has huge swaths of raw minerals, fossil fuels, lumber and so on that China needs in order to expand it's economy therefore it makes complete sense to try to slide a wedge between them in order to isolate China.

In this game of Geo-politics, Ukraine and the EU are just pawns that can be traded/pushed around because they have barely any weight in the global order.

You can be mad about this but if you do you should be mad towards the EU leaders from the last 30 years who instead of building a robust industrial base, sent all their jobs abroad, who instead of building a army that could resist an invasion, relied on the US protection without even reaching the minimum NATO investment threshold year after year.

The EU countries made their bed and now they are struggling because most of them are broke, their economies are in the gutter and are slowly crumbling.

> All this is not so hilarious for me, living next to Russia and wondering if they will invade us within next 5-10 years, and whether we will receive any help from abroad when Europe seems to become increasingly pro-Russian. What is happening now is potentially a matter of life and death to us.

This is a weird take. On one hand Russia, is not even able to conquer the whole of Ukraine but somehow it has the capability to steamroll over all the Baltic states? So which one is it, is Russia a paper tiger or an unstoppable force?

Both can't be true at the same time.
Man if we only had some type of markdown meant for machines to understand, that was specifically designed to handle arbitrary information nesting and tagging our lives would be so much better now.

We could have called it something like extended markdown language or something and use a wicked acronym like eXMaLa for it.

Shame no such technology exists and never did.
I'm not a physicist, but as far as I know, outside of general relativity electromagnetic perturbations always travel at the speed of light (i.e. to affirm that photons always travel at c is correct).

It's only after the fields interact with electrical charges (atoms and their electrons for example) that a secondary field is induced as these charges begin to oscillate. This field will add over the original field, "shielding" an external observer from the original oscillation and apparently slowing down the propagation of electromagnetic waves.

There's a very good video by 3Blue1BRown that explains this kind of weird concept way better than I could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTzGBJPuJwM