skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Rust objects can dynamically go in and out of having virtual dispatch. The vtable is only in the pointer to the object, so you can add or remove it. Take a non-virtual object, lend it temporarily as a dynamically dispatched object, and then go back to using it directly as a concrete type, without reallocating anything.

That's pretty powerful:

• any type can be used in dynamic contexts, e.g. implement Debug print for an int or a Point, without paying cost of a vtable for each instance.

• you don't rely on, and don't fight, devirtualization. You can decide to selectively use dynamic dispatch in some places to reduce code size, without committing to it everywhere.

• you can write your own trait with your own virtual methods for a foreign type, and the type doesn't have to opt-in to this.
US unveils new app for 'self-deportations'
"Which data center should we use for an attack?"

"Let's use Ukraine."

I don't think this attack came from a personal computer.
433MHz is attractive because it's low frequency allows it to propogare farther with less energy input than higher freqs (900MHz; 2.4GHz) would need and does not suffer from nearly as much reflection off of obstacles thanks to that longer wave.

There are several frequency ranges in the US that are unlicensed for transmission. But don't confuse unlicensed with a lack of rules governing what you are allowed to transmit; how often you can transmit and for how long. Because you can plop a 433MHz transceiver into anything, you want to be careful that you're not clogging up the local airwaves by not knowing to know the rules. Also, most smart meters (near me anyway) operat in this band sending out pulses every so often. They mesh together to relay the data towards a central collector. Thanks to that low frequency, hundreds of meters can be visible at times showing up as tiny chirps all over this area of the spectrum. Unfortunately this also means that some cheap receivers (just looking for any signal on a very specific frequency in that range, can be randomly triggered by this 'noise'. But also, because it's used by utilities, to want to make sure they don't end up having an issue with meter readings because you began running a wifi link over 433MHz.
There are other countries in the world, in fact, that's where most of these digital libraries of Alexandria have been hosted. That's why I framed it as a technical question, because while any government may decide to combat it, it is unlikely that all of them will. Given the ongoing collapse of the US-led unipolar world order, the reach of US law enforcement will only shrink in the coming years.
The Machine Stops predicted the Internet eerily well I think.
just run a pihole. superior to a browser plugin in every way
And that's if you take anything the dogebags say at face value.
More likely they mean "readiness check" - this is the one that removes you from the Kubernetes load balancer service. Liveness check failing does indeed cause the container to restart.
It did. From Zelensky personal computer no less /s

We're living in very dangerous times - US is turning into a propaganda machine.
False. They had animated shows already being streamed on HBO Max that they pulled and fully wrote off. They can never be accessed again. Should be considered fully destroyed.
The next step is they will try to somehow make failure to self-report a felony, and then leverage that into claiming that "only felons" are being deported.

The article alludes to it at the end:

> In late February, the administration said it would create a national registry for undocumented migrants and those failing to sign up could possibly face criminal prosecution.

This is significant because most undocumented immigrants arrived normally and then overstayed a visa, which is not a felony nor misdemeanor, but an even lower category of "civil infraction"--like a parking ticket.
Trump is not president in Canada (or Germany — see Syrian refugees). I hope this helps!
There are acceptable grounds for revocation of naturalization [1], but I'm not sure that having previously violated visa terms necessarily qualifies. The question becomes was he lawfully admitted to permanent residency, and was there a concealment of material facts or willful misrepresentation involved in the process. We would need to really see his immigration file and have knowledge of the dates he was in the US, and when he performed work.

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-l-chapter...
We know this because of Mozilla's commitment to transparency. These figures come from their annual reports

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2024/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2023/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2022/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2021/

etc

I'm not defending it at all, but I think it's worth pointing out this pay rate is below the rate most CEOs of tech companies of this size are making. I don't really know what the solution here is but I imagine any CEO they replace her with would also seek a high salary. I'd love for them to become a worker-owned cooperative like Igalia but I really don't see that happening any time soon
In the wiki it was mentioned that they started to pick it up again for Last of Us.

Damn I'd love to use it in Emacs. I never had to use Emacs and stopped dreaming about it or vim, but would love to learn it, and the best way to learn it is to be forced to use it for a few weeks.

It would also be interesting to read the code for debugger, linker and compiler.
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Tell that to a decent number of people I have worked with over the past 20 years. In fact, I know people to this day who have been writing CSS for decades who don't really know fundamental things like specificity, inheritance, or the cascade. Pattern matching into the sunset, not a single fundamental piece of CSS specifications ever internalized, still getting paid (its okay).

https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/specs.en.html

You can read this and know most things about CSS. For a bit anyway. You'll forget things you don't use. You might remember them again one day.
My point actually is that different languages suit different purposes with no statement about the cost to fund anything. While there may be many different paths to achieving a result—in this case numerical computing with any of "Fortran/C++/Matlab/Julia/Python"—certain languages are more suited to certain problem domains than others. You, yourself, stated the most popular languages for numerical computing. Most of those would not be suitable for general web development.

Thus languages are neither fungible nor does it seem from the languages you just mentioned (which most would say the same) that there is "zero causal relationship" between a language and solving problems in the domain of interest. In this particular hypothetical, someone would notice a desire to solve deep problems with lots of funding that use numerical computing and could thus look for the languages you mentioned as an initial filter. Such a person would probably not be looking at a javascript role, for instance, given these aims.

Thank you.
Europe treats tourists from developing countries way worse than US does when you apply even for short term tours with all details. US looks at bigger picture, history if any, financial conditions but Europe literally wants you to have planned down everything to the most relevant detail and will then issue a visa 1 or 2 days longer than the itinerary and ask you to piss off
Yes “MACRO-32” [0] is what I’m talking about and is still around - from Alpha it was ported to Itanium and now x86-64. Although to clarify, my understanding is it doesn’t take machine code as input, rather macro assembler source code - although I suppose you could use a disassembler to turn your VAX binary into assembler source and then try compiling it with MACRO-32.

VEST wasn’t actually a VM per se, it was a static binary translator - read in an OpenVMS VAX executable, write out an OpenVMS Alpha executable. VEST was only ever available for Alpha, but HP then created AEST which could do the same thing to translate Alpha executables to Itanium-and you could use VEST then AEST in sequence to port a VAX executable to Itanium.

However, VSI have said they have no plans to create an “IEST” to port Itanium executables to x86-64. I believe they face two big difficulties: (a) Itanium is a very complex and non-traditional architecture which makes binary translating it more of a challenge than it would be for a more mainstream architecture (b) legal risk due to aspects of it being covered by Intel patents (and unclear if Intel would license those patents on terms which would make an “IEST” commercially viable)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX_MACRO
I don't trust it anyway. I just use it.
I didn’t provide citations, that doesn’t mean it’s unsubstantiated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43326908

This is the story historians and people of Irish extraction (almost 12% of the US population, including myself) pay more attention to. Lots of people fled during the Famine and found their way to the US.
Yes, the hype waves have been painful. I am still annoyed by the lack of good tools and content for VR lovers. I am personally trying to do something by offering a toolkit for building VR websites in unity.

My website has a few examples on it, including domestic interior, bowling simulator. Recently I helped to make a VR museum, which will be there soon, and I'm working on a flying game with realistic aerodynamics.

I've open-sourced both the toolkit and template for self-hosting, essentially providing a no-code route for creating interactive webxr spaces. Putting it on the IC means you can also self-host your creation and keep control of the data, code and costs of running it.

You could equally just use the unity toolkit and host it elsewhere, but i wouldn't be able to provide the same level of support, if it broke in unexpected ways.

What i like about the original post was the fully in-browser RAG and webLLM, as it looks compatible with the rest, so i could, for example, broadcast responses across webrtc data channels. So many options...
https://www.porter.run/
I agree. CASS (the library this book was promoting) is actually really great paired with LLMs. If I revisit this project, it'll be along the lines of using it with LLMs.
ICE probably has quotas for detainment, so they're imprisoning people who would previously have been sent home.
Certificate will expire on 14 March – update Firefox to prevent add-on breakage
Narcissists notoriously project onto others what they really are up to.
A 19yo woman graduated from high school with honors even though she can't read
There’s a reason everything I’ve done in the last 5 years uses bootstrap. And doesn’t have to look like bootstrap. Our internal graphic designer loathes bootstrap and didn’t recognize I had used it until I told them.
It was wrong when we deported Rosa Luxemburg for perfectly legal speech; this is wrong now.
Hmm, not really. If you buy some shares from me for $1000, we settle and I give you the shares and you give me the $1000, and I can spend the $1000 on plane tickets or wine or put it in the bank or whatever, there is no $1000 that is "tied" to any shares.

Perhaps you value those shares at $1000 on your balance sheet as their "book value" or "cost basis" or whatever, but the $1000 doesn't exist (you gave it to me), all you have is shares.
Systems don’t emerge from the aether they are composed of by people. In this case the people were absolute bastards.
A key goal of the overhaul is to make Apple’s different operating systems look similar and more consistent. Right now, the applications, icons and window styles vary across macOS, iOS and visionOS. That can make it jarring to hop from one device to another.

Wasn't Apple the company that loudly proclaimed they wouldn't implement touch on Mac, because a laptop and a phone were two distinctly different devices with two different input methods?
> One person called half of Trump supporters that, referring to an undeniably real subset of that voting block that is racist/homophopic/xenophobic.

According to whose value system? By the standards of your typical knowledge worker, almost everyone in my home country of Bangladesh is “racist/homophobic/sexist.” But why do they get to decide? You can bet that in your hypothetical, the cognitive elite will use their leverage over the government dole to impose their value system on everyone else.

Who is “needed” is not a “value judgment” it’s a structural fact about the economy. In a future where the machines make all the goods, you’ll need cognitive elites to operate and maintain them. But most people won’t be needed. And they’ll never be allowed to be full participants in a democracy—which necessarily includes development of social and moral norms.
If only it had occurred to Apple to ASK people what they wanted the phone to do under these conditions. What a concept!
Until you want to allow a site.
Sorry, was trying to be generous with "mixed rep at best". He is reasonably active (on arxiv,say, which is a red flag I suppose). Just that his blog gets far more attention. I would say that anybody in theory more active than Woit would immediately arouse my suspicion :)
Elon asked for $50 billion in pay. Tesla's TOTAL lifetime earnings as a company is $35.2 billion. $10 billion of that is selling 'credits'. $600 million of that was Bitcoin gains.

Tesla is a 'battery company' but at Gigafactory Panasonic makes batteries on Panasonic owned/operated lines that just lease space from Tesla.

Yet somehow this is a 'real' company.
I think it's ignored since it was covered 3 years ago, but yeah just wild that the richest man in the world lies so often.

He did the same thing with Zuckerberg fight and the John Stewart interview. Makes a bold challenge then drops it later for 'reasons'
There were a handful lesser known brands at that size, as well. I remember we went 16" when 'it was incredibly rare to see anything other than 14" screen sizes.'

Honestly, I can't remember what the brand was, but I don't think it was the NEC. I remember I had sold a few 16" displays and had liked a cheaper model well enough to save the money. We tended to value larger monitors with higher resolutions at home (Dad had spreadsheets and AutoCAD), so we went through a few -- plus, at one point, "I worked at CompUSA" and it was hard to get them as cheap as "employee discount"[0] as a small-time re-seller.

But the huge deals, IIRC, were with the "strange vendor" -- the Nokia Display -- that was a huge solid Trinitron tube, the largest sporting a slightly higher refresh rate than ... anything else.

But they have a hard time selling because "Who's Nokia Display?" As this was pre-"digital mobile phone service" -- the "pagers are cool" days -- it was often "Nokia Who?". If you could catch the vendor when they swung by and grabbed the right form, they'd let you buy the top-of-the-line for like 75% off[1] which was substantially less than "employee discount." I know I picked up a monitor, a scanner and a US-Robotics modem, cheap, that way. :)

[0] We were told this was "cost" -- and that wasn't completely out of left field. I had a re-seller agreement with some of the same distributors and got worse pricing, pretty consistently, than I could get as an employee.

[1] Either in the form of "do this and ..." ("spiffs") or just "we'll give you a discount on exactly one" and depending on the vendor, this was "mail us a bunch of sh!t" and "we'll ship you one" or "we'll mail you a rebate check equivalent to the difference from what you paid" (assuming you paid MSRP or less). And make sure you make copies of everything :).
It was just a joke, and doubly so the fact it "works" in base 13.

It was written as a joke in fairly ramshackle radio play. He had no idea at the time of writing it that the joke would connect so well and become it's own "thing" and dominate discourse of the radio series and novels to come.

It's not a joke about numbers, it's a linguistical joke, that works well on radio, something that HHGTG is stuffed full of.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12229/how-did-doug...
I want to make one correction here: of the 5 people Musk claimed are funding anti-Tesla protests, only 3 of them are Jewish. The other two are dead.

I sincerely regret this error.
Woah, this is so well made. Kudos to the author. Upvoted.
Fine, I’ll try again:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_statistics_by_gende...

”… found that men account for an average of 95% of all persons convicted of homicide, and almost 8 out of 10 of the victims”
> Traps at least are not cruel - usually almost instant death by their neck being broken.

This is far from true. Traps very often breaks the mouses lower back, or trap just a leg, and leave them struggling for hours.

Poison is definitely not quick and can cause the suffering of many animals in the food chain.

You are still claiming a moral high ground because you believe that the animals you cause to suffer die quickly. This is an incorrect belief.
This is the animal kingdom. All is permitted.
Billionaires at Trump's Swearing-In Have Since Lost $209B (alt link in comments)
Linux is coming, but that still leaves Windows and Android (and iOS?) out.
My understanding of the relevant law and legal precedent is that since revoking a green card and deporting someone is not technically a criminal penalty, it may be constitutional for the government to so. Reno vs AADC went to SCOTUS in 1999, and that was roughly the ruling, although it's unclear how much of a precedent that sets, because the lower court's ruling was rejected due to lack of jurisdiction.

Even if that is considered settled (which, personally, I find a pretty lousy interpretation of the first amendment), it would still make this arrest and detention totally illegal, at least warranting a lawsuit, even if deportation can't be avoided.

Hopefully I'm wrong. This whole thing is so destructive to the constitution, to personal liberties, and to higher education.
https://archive.is/7c759
It would be great if articles on the matter could include research on the scenario you describe. FWIW, ChatGPT tells me the German tourist could likely have returned to Mexico.

Interestingly, it sounds like both of these arrests were made at the same crossing from Tijuana: https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/german-tourists-detai...

The description of the second case also sounds quite dehumanizing to say the least.
> nor does it seem from the languages you just mentioned

Lololol what exactly are the unifying themes of

Fortran, C++, Matlab, Julia, Python

They're all pairwise as different as can be.

Man it's hilarious how delusional some people are to insist on their flawed point despite the loudest clearest contradictions.
I want to to be charitable, but still: the idea that media company invest as much money as they possibly can into creating media, and thus anti-piracy measures would have any impact at all on the amount or quality of art created is just ridiculous.

Especially if you talk about abandoned media. Do you really think not selling old TV shows on dvd is a way to finance new art?
It might change as I get older, but I'm less worried about forgetting than about "remembering" things which aren't true.

Humans are vulnerable to various false memory hacks.
They are walking the fine line between "imaged" and "imagined" here...
Just to correct my own comment:

> with an uint8_t local variable and size_t return value, an earlier optimisation removes the cast to uint8_t, because it only has an effect when undefined behaviour has been triggered

In this case, there is no undefined behaviour, because a narrowing cast to an unsigned type is well-defined. So, this could never have been a good explanation.
I don’t think Ireland grows corn today. The wiki page for Irish agriculture doesn’t even mention it, which I interpret as “not enough grown to be noteworthy”.
Astronomy also has an important citizen-science component, and many discoveries are made by amateur astronomers each year.

Another interesting aspect of citizen science is replication of existing scientific research,
Often with experimental modifications that make the experiment much more approachable for amateurs. Sometimes this even leads to process improvements that facilitate industrial application.
Didn't the RIAA completely ruin their reputation (along with the other AAs) by doing that? Now it seems like most people just equate them with a huge pile of lawyers in suits who care not about art.
But the fallacy here is to think that we still have laws and a legal system. The real question being asked here is: what are you gonna do?
I feel like the Venn diagram of people who need a MISRA JSON parser and the people who can use a AGPL-3.0 library in their (probably) embedded product has no overlap - who is the target for this?
> will have a remit to cover the United States and important issues and figures outside of Washington

Ah, so, Ohio diners will play a big part.
That deal is on the chopping block as part of the DOJ's lawsuit.
That's clever!

It's weird to want your CPU to be slow on average and fast in the exceptional case but sometimes you want that. The CPU won't behave that way so you have to fake exceptional cases until they become the majority again.

I bet this is helpful for HFT.
Yup also called the "phoenix effect" or "entrepreneurial recycling" or "second-wave innovation".

Not FOSS necessarily but you will see lot of new startups exploring new niches.

We saw it after the dotcom bubble burst, 2008 GFC, Cryto/NFT implosion 22-23 (shifting people to AI).

FOSS is mostly big tech funded these days. They use some library long enough, get dependent on it and then end up assigning funds for maintenance. Or the other way round where they build something internally - run out of budget to keep it running - open source to community.
The question of whether the "alien is within one or more of the following classes" should be justiciable. If there were no check on the AG's power to make that determination, then the AG would be able to remove anyone.
(2021)

Pretty sure I've seen this on HN at least once before.
That looks less like poor system design (although I'm sure that's contributing) and more like understatement that's practically criminal. Who the hells hears "Russia may shoot down your plane if you go here" and thinks they should convey it via "tempo restricted area bounded by coordinates"? That's like posting a "do not enter" on a door with a bomb behind it. Is English so hard?
Why do I need to register or login for that?
The predecessor to this project was a Bootstrap 3 theme: https://rriepe.github.io/1pxdeep/

The book has a lot of content over what to make pretty and what not to make pretty. I think knowing what not to bother with is an underrated skill. A lot of what inspired me to write it was backenders handing off markup that they tried to make semi-passable. Unstyled HTML, please!
"I care enough to cast $18 of my cold hard earned cash into a black hole for altruistic purposes, but nay shall it be $20, as I am but a humble mortal"
Unfortunately bullying doesn't stop with adulthood.

Bullies only get more power. Victims are ignored and blamed.

How could they have children when everyone in power rather look the other way than help.

Why would they bring a significant other down with them? Why would they have children if that's what await them?