skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you call "proper recursion support"? I assume it's tail-call optimisation, but I don't think it's a property of Javascript-the-language, but rather a property of the interpreter/compiler? I don't think there's anything inherent to javascript that would prevent V8 to have TCO (and I think it did use to have it) for example.

And in fact I _think_ some engines do have TCO (bun? javascriptcore?), but I could be wrong
Well, take compiler optimization for example. You can allow your AI to use correctness-preserving transformations only. This will give you correct output no matter how weird the AI behaves.

The downside is that you will sometimes not get the optimizations that you want. But, this is sort of already the case, even with human made optimization algorithms.
Is there any evidence of one or such a theory?
While not an answer to your specific question, this popped into my head as being similar in tone to what I think you're asking about.

https://reason.com/2024/10/17/british-man-convicted-of-crimi...

(An example of something that might be perceived by some as a judicial over-reaction based on perceived offensiveness to others.)
How is manager's ass more on the line compared to an IC ?

Managers always have a higher job security compared to an IC from my experience.

Poor managers always use this dumb excuse of 'ass on line' to override good decisions by ICs with their own shitty decisions.
If you want to piss someone off do you go for the black belt dude carrying a shotgun or (for the same amount of damage) a 5yo kid?
"in mice" ;)
There's also the Avro CF-105 Arrow fighter jet cancelled, it's widely understood, under US pressure in 1959:

<https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/09/19/long-secret-canadian-...>

<https://theaviationgeekclub.com/magnificent-failure-the-stor...>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow>
The whole purpose of using a distributed IM like Delta Chat is to break free from big data leeches like Google. If you're just using Delta Chat with a centralized Gmail server as the backend, doesn’t that defeat the point?
> That, in turn, makes U.S. products look more attractive.

Unless they raise prices to get better margins since their competition has higher prices now. This is exactly what happened with Trump 1.0 tariffs: foreign product prices went up and so did domestic ones.

> A U.S. business also hires U.S. employees, who pay taxes as well and spend into the economy.

It takes time to on-shore, and until that happens the public is paying higher prices, potentially for a few years. So you take the total higher prices, and divide by the number of jobs created, and you can get the price per job. For washing machines it was $800K/job:

* https://www.nber.org/papers/w25767

There is an argument to be made that production capacity is strategic asset of course:

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/manufacturing-is-a-war-now
How does the coord wear out though? Surely it's not getting hot enough for that so the only wear would be if you constantly bend or pull it.
Because it goes against many religions and personal beliefs, that humans are the only true species entitled to such features.
It doesn't obviously. GDP isn't a sum of all transactions, it's the market value of all newly produced goods and services in a given territory.
this reads like an mid ad-read for letting an AI code some stuff without even mentioning the critique from the primary source (BI). How's this an wikipedia article?
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Good, simple run-down of how printing free cash like a banana republic through ZIRP by relying on the reserve currency status of the dollar hollowed out the US economy. It led to a scammy economy in which finance sharks printed money and generated financial assets out of thin air to bloate the value of everything. Stocks got overpriced to ~60x their value, real estate became an atrocious balloon. All the while without producing anything.

It even infected the tech sector and turned it from something that actually produces value to a casino that bets on 'potential' balloons to profit from bloated, overvalued stocks and valuations. Why produce anything when you can just make gobs of cash by shoveling the infinite amount of free cash that is entering the economy anyway...

All of this was at the cost of the physical goods and services. Now that the dollar has tangible competition, the entire scam is coming crashing down.
It’s true for Germany. There recently was a case of a podcaster whose acquaintances were tapped and was apprehended while walking with his 1yo for posting memes. An AfD politician was fined 6000€ for posting crime statistics. A man had his house searched for sharing a meme of calling a politician something along the lines of „idiot“. There’s also the 60 minutes interview where prosecutors brag about confiscating devices for posting memes.

From what I hear from acquaintances and social media, the UK is even worse.
Microchip Technology to cut 2k jobs as automotive demand wilts
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36395909>

Email requests to mods at hn@ycombinator.com
So then why am I wrong when I suggest if EU's navies were stronger then sabotages would go down?
I've been stuck running my own inbound email since back in the 90's when I set the catchall separator to '-' on my domain.
He doesn't even see that the value in gold is what we assign to it. Almost no different to the value of cryptocoins. He doesn't notice the contradiction:

> Back the dollar by gold (not socially constructed crypto)

Gold is worth so much in dollars because everyone thinks everyone else also wants it. Sure you can process it for some industrial use, but most of the worth is because "Someone else will also find this worthy").

I have a 100 trillion dollar note (Zimbabwean) in my wallet, is it worth anything? Just the novelty value. Is the $100 (US) note worth anything? Well I can buy $100 worth of groceries, which at the moment is probably 20 cartons of eggs, but the way Musk is doge-ing the nation, it could be only 4 cartons in the near future...
Basically Russia's tactic is to spread FUD, but in the real world.

Small sabotage attempts at water towers, power plants etc. Nothing actually happens but it gets in the news and people think something COULD have happened.

It keeps people stressed a bit all the time and they start wanting things to go back to "normal" at any cost - even by letting Russia keep the bits of Ukraine they assaulted.
Dealing with Linux email servers and related things is easily the worst experiences I have ever had working in IT. Just miserable.
MobilaDalin este o companie românească, producătoare de mobilier tapițat care activează pe piața din România începând cu anul 1992. Suntem o familie de ingineri, specializați în industria lemnului, industria mobilei și industria materialelor textile.

MobilaDalin ofera produse de mobilier precum canapele, scaune, paturi, măsuțe dar și alte accesorii precum corpuri de iluminat sau oglinzi.

Produsele de la MobilaDalin se vând astăzi în aproximativ 150 de magazine din România, Ungaria și Republica Moldova.
"Unsolvable" in the sense that there's no one magic algorithm you can use, sure.

But every job has some ways to determine if the person in it is actually, y'know, doing it. And off the top of my head (and it's early, so YMMV), I'd say that remote jobs tend to have more easily-auditable products than many in-person-only jobs (particularly the type where the main purpose is direct interaction with the public).

> If we hire two engineers to act as one then maybe, maybe, we could measure performance. At the cost of the largest inefficiency imaginable.

And why should "efficiency" be our most important criterion?

"Efficiency" is why we have lean staffing that forces the "bus factor"[0] of nearly every position to 1. "Efficiency" is why we have stretched, fragile supply chains that break down the moment any one supplier or middleman experiences a crisis.

Efficiency is the enemy of resilience. The only people it really helps are shareholders.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
> China invests in creating infrastructure in countries to help make them future customers for Chinese products ...

Really? Because the vast majority of "Belt and Road" destinations connect China to raw resources. I'm sure that's just a coincidence. China is making it pretty damn clear that they do not intend to pay for those resources, or at least not in money, especially now that the "Belt and Road" initiative has turned into yet another Chinese money pit so deep it makes Trump look like a great businessman, and on top of that it made China so unpopular it makes it look like Europe loves Trump. And everyone reports another problem: CCP officials, even low level ones, make Trump look like a humble man.

Locals seem to hate the Chinese, and Chinese investments, everywhere the Belt and Road goes, whether it's Pakistani in Balochistan, Greeks in Piraeus, in Madagascar the people pretty much kicked out the government, largely over Chinese presence, China is now negotiating in Australia by openly threatening with warships in Sydney harbor firing live ammunition in the direction of the city and even their military base in Djibouti is not popular, despite being right next to a US, a French and a Japanese military base that ARE popular (despite middle eastern tensions. You know, you'd think the US base would be in the locals' bad graces given the last 2 years. It's not).

If this is supposed to build to a long lasting mutually beneficial trading relationship between China and these countries, they're not off to a great start. Not on the economic aspects, not on the political aspects, not on ...

But frankly, the answer to this weird state of affairs is brutally simple: China has no intention to turn this into a long lasting mutually beneficial trading relationship, and neither do those countries or those peoples.
If the headline is a serious question, it'd be helpful to have an #incidents/year chart in here somewhere. The article includes "According to the Recorded Future analyst Matt Mooney, between 100 and 200 cable outages occur every year" but it is easy to miss if someone doesn't go looking for the statistic.
Well, if he asked for her to look like his 13 (at the time) year old daughter?
Teaser video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vNS62f-ino
In high school, the fastest computer in the computer lab was an IBM-donated PS/1 486SX 25 all-in-one that also was used to play DOOM.
To say nothing of the fact that most people are not running their own email servers so that messaging is going to reside in places they don't own and the fact that relays get to read about everything exacerbating that problem, so you cannot really expect forward secrecy:

Does this solve all the other problems with encrypted email, which is not widely used for a reason?

Here's a discussion

https://www.latacora.com/blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypte...
I don't think that's the reason it won't be very useful. I think there are two reasons it won't be very useful:

1. Most natural language arguments are not sound because the argument is not deductive logic. Most natural language arguments are persuasive, not formal reasoning.

2. Formal logic is method of preserving truth. It doesn't really create truth. That makes it a lot less useful. Critically, while a deductively valid argument has a true conclusion if all the premises are true, an invalid argument can still have a true conclusion. Formal logic, then, is very narrow.

This is why finding a logical fallacy in an argument is often not convincing by itself. It doesn't say "your logic is flawed therefore I am right". It says "your logic is flawed and therefore should be revised and improved."
What percentage of people do you think are capable of competence?

It would have to be a low number like 10%, with perfect sorting of them into the US, to even start to have the impact you are postulating.
MCP Server OpenDAL
I must say I'm a little confused by their proposal: yes, the later stages of the power conversion in the charger provide the galvanic isolation, but they also provide a more essential role of voltage conversion and current regulation. Connecting a battery directly to a grid-connected rectifier is likely to get melty and or explodey pretty quick, as huge amounts of current will flow in either direction to try to equalise the almost certainly quite-unequal voltages.

Fast chargers work because they can regulate the current flowing into the battery and convert the grid voltage to allow that to happen. Batteries are charged by feeding them with a constant current until you reach a certain voltage near 100% charge, then letting the current drop to get to a complete charge (which is part of why 20% to 80% charges are much faster than complete charges). This is 100% not what you get if you just cut out the charge circuit completely, you instead get a blown fuse at best or a fire at worst. There may be cheaper options for the charge circuit if you don't need them to provide the isolation, but they don't really discuss that, they just talk as if the cost would go to zero.

(For slow charging, this circuit still exists, it's just in the car instead. But it's quite hard to fit something that can handle the power involved in fast charging into a car, which is why it's in the charger side instead).
Just put the toaster behind an additional switch? Extension coords with switches (either one for the whole strip or one switch per plug) are readily available. And the biggest heat generators (stovetop and and oven) can typically not be unplugged so clearly heating elements can be made relatively safe.
I would think offering rewards for information could be a good deterrent.

It takes a decent amount of coordination, equipment, and crew to pull off these missions.

I imagine many people on these ships aren’t getting paid that great.

By offering levels of rewards for information about what organizations are being used to funnel money and equipment into this, it might help bring some level of prosecution, as well as make the missions more difficult to operate as there will be a lot less trust.
Do you know how long these cables are? How many subs do you think you would need? Actually, surface ships would probably be more effective, but you would still need infeasible numbers of them.
Electric engines are 90-95 efficient in converting power to motion.

Even the very best experimental gasoline engines in Toyota's labs are around 30-35% efficient.

Even if all gasoline and diesel was used in massive generator units to produce electricity, EVs would still be better for the environment and the total gasoline/diesel usage would go down.
It's the same with toner levels. Printer was saying toner was empty. I reset the toner levels of the printer using that hidden maintenance button combination. It kept printing just fine for a looong time after that.
Since the late 90s I've always had the thought in the back of my mind that one day I would run my own mail server. That day never came and the task seemed more and more impossible. This looks genuinely manageable, I might actually give this a shot when I get off work.
The gold standard makes no sense whatsoever, you want the money supply to be able to grow with the economy. Printing loads of money is bad, but a deflationary spiral due to a fixed money supply is even worse.
Geometric dilution of precision (GDOP, or just DOP) is used to evaluate the quality of a GPS satellite configuration; on the back of an envelope any moon-based solution is going to be quite a bit worse relative to terrestrial ones.
Atmos – Terraform orchastrator with composable stack built by Cloud Posse
>The Java-chip thing proved more difficult to realize than anticipated

I've been very slowly upping my Java-fu over the past year or so to crack into the IC market here in the Nordics. Naturally I started by investigating the JVM and its bytecode in some detail. It may surprise a lot of people to know that the JVM's bytecode is actually very, very much not cleanly mappable back to a normal processor's instruction set.

My very coarse-grained understanding is: If you really want to "write once, run anywhere", and you want to support more platforms than you can count on one hand, you eventually kind of need something like a VM somewhere in the mix just to control complexity. Even moreso if you want to compile once, run anywhere. We're using VM here in the technical sense, not in the Virtualbox one - SQLite implements a VM under the hood for partly the same reason. It just smooths out the cross-compilation and cross-execution story a lot, for a lot of reasons.

More formally: A SQLite database is actually a big blob of bytecode which gets run atop the Virtual DataBase Engine (VDBE). If you implement a VDBE on a given platform, you can copy any SQLite database file over and then interact with it with that platform's `sqlite3`, no matter which platform it was originally built on. Sound familiar? It's rather like the JVM and JAR files, right?

Once you're already down that route, you might decide to do things like implement things like automatic memory management at the VM level, even though no common hardware processor I know has a native instruction set that reads "add, multiply, jump, traverse our object structure and figure out what we can get rid of". VDBE pulls this kind of hat trick too with its own bytecode, which is why we similarly probably won't ever see big hunking lumps of silicon running SQLiteOS on the bare metal, even if there would be theoretical performance enhancements thataways.

(I greatly welcome corrections to the above. Built-for-purpose VMs of the kind I describe above are fascinating beasts and they make me wish I did a CS degree instead of an EE one sometimes.)
Please do a release party!!! The last one was so much fun! _
Yep, Russia is risking it's $80 billion per year in oil sales shadow fleet to cut cables that haven't once caused HN users to lose their porn for even a day.

Cool story bro's keep smoking it up now it's legal along with big pharma, what could go wrong.

These ships can barely stop their anchor safety equipment from rusting out but they are full of secret spy stuff to cut cables. I think once someone saw a keyboard with Russian letters on it even.

Better question is Russia really getting Ukrainians to suicide bomb recruitment stations? - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/07/ukraine-recr...

I don't think they are, Europe spreads this disinformation as lame wanna-bes pretending they are also under attack, Russia is burning down their Ikeas.

To avoid pay them, is quite laugh out loud - "remotely detonates the explosive early — to kill the witness and also avoid paying them"
It evolved over time, by the time Project Reunion was announced in 2020, it had gotten kind of ok.

However, that incompatibility you point out, was present throughout all iterations.

Window 8 => 8.1 => 10 required rewrites, UWP/WinUI 2.0 => Win32/WinUI 3.0 dropped .NET Native and .NET 9 still isn't full AOT, C++/CX => C++/WinRT lost Visual Studio tooling and is nowadays in maintenance mode, yet gets sold as being the way for C++ devs.

Meanwhile, most of the faces on community meetings have changed since Windows 8 days, nowadays most seem fresh out of university without any Windows developer experience given the blank stares when questioned about feature XYZ becoming available, and bugs?, you only have to spend sometime digging around the Github repos.

Naturally, even the strongest advocate eventually gives up.
> It takes a decent amount of coordination, equipment, and crew to pull off these missions.

They're dragging anchors on the marine floor; all coordination, equipment and crew are already there as a medium-sized fishing vessel is perfectly sufficient for this job.
That's quite a time investment; about 3 months on a full-time basis.

One detail intrigued me. The author has a PhD in Informatics but "had never used any programmers’ editor other than Notepad++". He credits being able to touch-type for some of his efficiency and went about learning a swathe of tools including Emacs and several diagramming languages. These diagram files and the OrgMode file are a valuable reference in themselves.
50 years ago someone like Trump wouldn't have a way to obtain a platform from which he can amass a big enough public following. Anyone that wanted to play had to play nice with the establishment. 50 years ago, editorials mattered. Any messaging of a politician or candidate would be followed with context, analysis or discussion by journalists.
Github pages + Jekyll for the main blog. All the subdomains(mostly side projects which I have put the effort to deploy) are hosted on Replit.

Blog: rnikhil.com
Do you believe the FAA should mandate ADSB for all GA regardless of airspace, and unify on a single global frequency rather than dual freq UAT+ADSB?
https://github.com/lambdaclass/concrete#design

Here's more details
The article does say that “The data is likely to overrepresent US-HQ’d companies”.
There are multiple cases in Germany (where I live). I cannot find them all, but "Pimmelgate" is a famous one where one guy on twitter (that's what it was called at the time) told a local politician "Du bist ein Pimmel" (in English: "You're a dick") and the next day the police showed up at his apartment and searched it.

The issue is the harassment. Most of these cases are baseless and get dropped once presented to the public prosecutor. But it puts unwarranted stress on people who just opened their mouth, regardless if I disagree with what they had said.

If these cases were moved forward, they could end up in front of the European Court of Human Rights, where Germany and Austria are among the worst offenders[1] when it comes to the article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights[2], which grantees free speech in the EU.

Usually these individual cases are used by neo-conservatives to criticize Europe and describe it as (their words) "a socialist hellhole."

While this argument (= "there is no free speech in Europe") might be based on some truth, and while I agree that the free speech situation in most of Europe could be improved, I think it is grossly exaggerated.

[1] https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/#{%22languageisocode%22:[%22ENG%2...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_R...
I mean that glasgow guy was sentenced 800 pounds, went viral from those videos, and now has a huge youtube following...seems like a great deal

About those second 2 guys, what's that phrase that americans like so much? Fuck around and find out. I think the US, even in their nearly unlimited free speech, has similar laws in regards to inciting violence. Defamation, slander, fighting words, are also not protected by free speech. So really, the only difference between the US and UK is that the UK does not allow hate speech.

Germany has some more regulations, but the real significant difference seems to be about not being allowed to display nazi symbols or denying the holocaust.