skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I find toxic is the claim of zealotry when I can't see any, not on HN anyway.

So I called the poster out to show proof. So far there's none, except one Twitter post (because we all know that's the best technical discussion forum on the planet, clearly) which does not surprise me at all.

So they are the ones who get triggered by something that does not exist.

That is what is toxic.

If you go around claiming fantasies and people call you out then that falls more under curiosity and discussion. Not toxicity.
Disagree with "We're not the world police, we don't need to enforce global norms"

Someone should definitely enforce international laws and norms and the US was in the best place to do it
If you had used that word in a sentence, eg "what I like about this park is its multiarborality", I would have immediately understood what you meant.
Less gate keepey? Big Tech is literally the gatekeeper. Want to see a story without account? Too bad. What to see what events are going on without Facebook account? Too bad. Want to search discord or twitter. Too bad. Big Tech sucks in all user content and then hides it behind paywalls.
Shrinking Blinky to 0 Bytes [video]
I agree with the principle but frankly it doesn't apply here. Privacy conscious people have been sounding the alarm about these devices since their invention and the overwhelming majority of consumers typically respond to those warnings with dismissal or ridicule.

There's only so much sympathy and support and standing up for others that I can fit into any given day and I'd rather give it to people who weren't warned about the dangers beforehand.
What etymologies would you have expected instead?
DropletVideo: Promoting Spatio-Temporal Consistent Video Generation
'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.
That's not a "Rust runtime", that's an extension point. The default setting is `malloc()`.
Sounds like we need to increase liability for witholding information from customers when that causes damages to make the result of that equation align with consumer interests.
So this in practice is a massive push to centralization: if you have a Facebook page or Instagram account, you don't need to risk that level of privacy compromise.
Very weird. Maybe you can point us at these "every interaction" so we can see for ourselves?

Toxic people are everywhere on the net. That's not an interesting insight. If you point us at some lunatic on Twitter who loses their marbles over everything, that's not interesting either.

Do you get trolled on actual technical forums though?
A square is a rectangle, not a polygon
Paul Allen, a high school friend of Bill Gates, read an issue of Popular Electronics. Paul showed Bill the article about a new minicomputer.

They cold-called the New Mexico company to push their non-existent BASIC interpreter. Bill took a leave of absence from Harvard and the microcomputer software business took off with the help of Harvard's computer resources.

see https://archive.org/details/197501PopularElectronics/page/n2...

You don't sink the shots that you never shoot - Bill Gates saw an opportunity and took a big shot from downtown.

But that was in 1975. He's made more shots than not since then.
> This is a beautifully designed and illustrated page.

The artwork on those is stunning. It's hard to imagine someone would spend so much time and effort illustrating an article with so little content. (the other articles on that page are similarly well illustrated)

If this article were created 5 years ago, I would be downright impressed. Sadly, I've defaulted to assume the artwork was generated by AI those days. (even though I have no evidence of that)

It doesn't help that the author claims they "empower devs with AI" in their home page, and their older webpage from 2019 [0], while still very beautiful, isn't illustrated to the same standard.

I just wish authors were upfront that they generated the artwork with AI (with a little caption, footnote, something; the same kind of thing newspapers use to credit their photojournalists). I really have nothing against using AI for this kind of thing and regardless of whether AI was used, the author of the article for sure has a lot of artistic merit for the composition as a whole.

[0] https://2019.wattenberger.com/
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US exports make up 11% of GDP. Of that 11%, some fraction is facing retaliatory tariffs.

Considering the DJIA went up 4,000 points from Dec then crashed 4,000 points in Jan, one should be careful assigning cause when it did it again from Jan to Mar.
I recommend the book “Why Only Us?” by Chomsky and Berwick on this topic. It gets quite technical in places but I still got quite a lot of out it.
I take that you consider most major projects written in C to not be "good"?
Still, I wouldn't use an LLM for what's essentially a database query: by their very nature, LLMs will give you the right answer most of the times, but will sometimes return you wrong information. Better stay on a deterministic DB query in this case.
I have no doubt some of the benefits are definitely to be able to resell or access that data once again. I literally just told someone yesterday “don’t pay for domain privacy, any registrar worth a damn will include it anymore”
The actual article title is:

"A Facebook Insider's Exposé Alleges Bad Behavior at the Top"

This comment would make more sense if the title were:

"A Facebook Insider's Shocking Exposé Alleges Surprisingly Bad Behavior at the Top"
I hate how everyone always breaks it up as "heli" and "copter" when it's "helico" and "pter".
Off topic thank you for runnig viewdns.info. I don't use it regularly, mainly for the occasional WHOIS information lookup and it has always worked perfectly.
What about using https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython also?
It's very likely that they're going to Liz Truss the budget, but without any comparable way of dealing with the consequences by swiftly removing the bad actors.

(when exactly is that anyway? I'm dimly aware of some drama with continuing resolutions)
For example many autovectorizers get upset if you put control flow in your loop
I 100% agree but unfortunately this is pretty far down the list of our biggest problems at the moment.
what about https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython ?
what they're doing at the border now, they'll do to citizens within the country later. so, yes, this makes the US materially less safe.
Get_secrets: Negotiate symmetric secrets between two remote peers using mTLS SEC
It's funny; I'm looking at your examples and coming to the opposite conclusion. I feel like it is very good because it provides explanations for unusual or novel words that are similar to what a human might conclude.
JDK≠JVM
Irish company to unveil world-first quantum computing server
Where did you see that sentence? They're missing the 1.
looks neat. Like Acreom, but with better collaboration capabilities.
Notepad is crap in Windows 11. I wanted a stupid simple way to put crap into a scratchpad (often times) and now it tries to outsmart me with multiple windows/tabs, maintaining state, spellchecking. I’ve disabled everything I can in it. It’s merely tolerable now.

They should have kept Wordpad and added all the crap into that.
But quantum physics can't predict exactly where the individual dots on the detector will be, only their distribution. That does not sound totally quantitative and precise and defined. You would not accept such predictions for macroscopic objects :)
Man, I’m so jealous of insane praise that uv (and most other astral tools) gets. I don’t think ever seen anything so unanimously lauded around here.
How is it a strawman? Many people have misconceptions with regarding to Rust, while not even knowing about the existence of Ada/SPARK to begin with. They blindly spout "Rust is saFeEe!44!". If you are not a zealot, then it is not applied to you.
Unlike uv this tool is unlikely to solve problems for the average Python user and most likely will create new ones.
Can we not do this?

I think it would be more correct to say that a nation is made up of its people (consumers) than its corporations. Correcting to the latter is at best pedantic and at worst just incorrect.
Yeah, that's why i wrote that you need a tape library so you change 8 tapes at a time.
If you have LTO-7, writing 8*6TB = 48 TB before having to change tapes sounds pretty good.
As LRADs are less ethical than CS gas, the true design intent is likely to produce something that looks insignificant on video recordings so it can be used as extrajudicial punishment of undesirables with less risk of public outcry.
So? Not the consumer's fault that those improvement are bundled with user-hostile bullshit. Some of it government-mandated bullshit too.
I can't see any reason really to keep using asdf for python when a better alternative now exists, unless you just don't want to learn the new syntax?
I had the same idea, and it concluded that it meant "fantastic," which seems correct.
You may be overestimating the amount of time it takes to switch to uv.
I guess I got the meaning of cedere wrong. If it has this “to give way” sense, then yep, adding super to it makes no sense in this context. That said, you can add “super” to almost anything, since it means “over”. It just has to have reasonable meaning.
Small example of the user experience
https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/issues/1708
Notion's data model is incredible, actually. You can embed almost anything into it, and make it work across your knowledge base.

Databases work like spreadsheets, and you can embed pages inside them, too. In fact, every row is a potential page, if you want.

While I prefer Obsidian for my technical (public and private) knowledge bases, life organization, and specific help pages I create for relatives live in Notion, and it works really well. Being able to script and formulate things allows great flexibility.

What I'm not very comfortable yet is "ejecting" from Notion, since the data model is so convoluted, what they give you as a package is not very convenient, yet.

Evernote had the best mechanism, giving you an XML file and an official XSLT to read/verify/transform what they give you. However, Evernote feels very underpowered when you start to use formulae and automation across your database.
As someone who used and administered p4 for ages, I regard git as a regression in this regard. Making git a fully distributed system is really expensive for certain use cases. My current employer still uses p4 for large integrated-circuit workflow assets.

A previous workplace was trying to migrate from svn to git, when we realized that every previous official build had checked in the resulting binaries. A sane thing to do in svn, where the cost is only on the server, but would have resulted in a naive conversion costing 50Gb on every client.
LLMs (what you mean by "AI" with the scare quotes) are great at spamming and scamming people.
I’m still using pip, what am I missing?
By the way, for those wanting to do this but in Rust, there is https://crates.io/crates/yrs and https://crates.io/crates/automerge
Don't play dumb, products manufactured in Asia, for US companies, that are then shipped to Europe or elsewhere for sale.

I hate to break it to you but the majority of products sold by US companies are not made in the USA any more. You are welcome to see how well the US economy performs when their is no policing of the world's shipping routes or security around the underseas cables your tech companies rely upon.
Ask HN: Which open source tools are best for code-heavy technical writing?
I'm curious about what open source tools people might recommend for writing with a focus on technical writing that includes a mixture of text and code snippets.
There are always two space craft docked to the station that could be used to evacuate in an emergency, and be sure that on top of that both the Russians and Space X could launch very very quickly schould it be a matter of an emerency rescue........if of course the ones authorising the press releases were instructed to stay home for the duration
Yeah, I think a couple of points here:

1. Inference time is not training anything. The AI model has been baked and shipped. We are just using it.
2. I’m not sure “gaslight” is the right term. But if users are somehow getting an output that looks like the gist of our prompt… then yeah, it’s blocked.

An easier way to think of this is probably with an image model. Imagine someone made a model that can draw almost anything. We are paying for and using this model in our application for our customers. So, on our platform, we are scanning the outputs to make sure nothing in the output looks like our logo. For whatever reason, we don’t want our logo being used in an image. No gaslighting issue and no retraining here. Just a stance on our trademark usage specifically originating from our system. No agenda on outputs or gaslighting to give the user an alternative reality and pretend it’s what they asked for… which I think is what your point was.

Now, if this was your point, I think it’s aimed at the wrong use case/actor. And I actually do agree with you. The base models, in my opinion, should be as ‘open’ as possible. The ‘as possible’ is complicated and well above what I have solutions for. Giving out meth cookbooks is a bit of an issue. I think the key is to find common ground on what most people consider acceptable or not and then deal with it. Then there is the gaslighting to which you speak of. If I ask for an image of George Washington, I should get the actual person and not an equitable alternative reality. I generally think models should not try to steer reality or people. I’m totally fine if they have hard lines in the sand on their morality or standards. If I say, ‘Hey, make me Mickey Mouse,’ and it doesn’t because of copyright issues, I’m fine with it. I should still be able to probably generate an animated mouse, and if they want to use my approach to scanning the output to make sure it’s not more than 80% similar to Mickey Mouse, then I’m probably good if it said something like, “Hey, I tried to make your cartoon mouse, but it’s too similar to Mickey Mouse, so I can’t give it to you. Try with a different prompt to get a different outcome.” I’d love it. I think it would be wildly more helpful than just the refusal or outputting some other reality where I don’t get what I wanted or intended.
Commoditizing your complements.

In other words, wiping out your competitor's business moats. If their cashflow is dependent on selling phones, open source your phone operating system to lower the value of the proprietary system.

It can also be used to quickly gain market share where you previously had none and wants to catch up on your competitors. You're bleeding money any way to try to pry open an established market, and open source might be the cheaper route. Most famous examples are perhaps Apple (webkit, cups) and Facebook (AI).
Google Gemini illegally removes watermarks from images
If you can’t see the difference between deporting someone and stopping them to see if they are the person to be deported what can I tell you.
For the uninitiated what is the benefit of UV over pip?

I've been working with pip for so long now that I barely notice it unless something goes very wrong.
The article addresses this. Calling it "litter" puts the responsibility on the consumer, calling it "pollution" puts it on the corporation that manufactures the plastics.
> using an llm to write a parser

You're assuming OP needs an LLM to write a parser, since they mentions writing many during their career they probably don't need it ;)
Intriguing. I would like to see how the game fares on original Amiga hardware (040/AGA) because emulation doesn't really do justice with 3D games.
That's a blatant lie. We are protesting because 15 people died in Novi Sad because of corruption, 4 months ago. We want justice.
Scientists declare a "full-on emergency" to save US bird populations
it got locked after 10 moves or something like that (firefox browser). I couldn't move anything no matter where i clicked (and i was far from the end of the game)

EDIT : sorry, seems like i probably had to make a forced jump move, which i didn't know was a thing.

EDIT 2 : aren't you supposed to be able to capture in reverse direction ?
basic human decency is not incompatible with there being a very small but spammy minority.

though it seems this belief is tested on multiple fronts nowadays.
You're using the same words. What is "easy" about embedding TCL that is "difficult" about embedding Perl or Python? Can you spell this out?
Yeah, switched to writing python professionally ~4 years ago, and been low key hating the ecosystem. From a java and javascript background, it's mostly been npm/mvn install and it "just works". With python, there's always someone being onboarded that can't get it to work. So many small issues. Have to have the correct version per project, then have to get the venv running. And then installing it needs to build stuff because there's no wheel, so need to set up a complete c++ and rust toolchain etc., just to pull a small project and run it.

uv doesn't solve all this, but it's reduced the amount of ways things can go wrong by a lot. And it being fast means that the feedback-loop is much quicker.
I would argue compile time changes don't matter much, as the amount of data going through zlib all across the world is so large, that any performance gain should more than compensate any additional compilation time (and zlib-rs compiles in a couple of seconds anyway on my laptop).

As for dependencies: zlib, zlib-ng and zlib-rs all obviously need some access to OS APIs for filesystem access if compiled with that functionality. At least for zlib-rs: if you provide an allocator and don't need any of the file IO you can compile it without any dependencies (not even standard library or libc, just a couple of core types are needed). zlib-rs does have some testing dependencies though, but I think that is fair. All in: all of them use almost exactly the same external dependencies (i.e.: nothing aside from libc-like functionality).

zlib-rs is a bit bigger by default (around 400KB), with some of the Rust machinery. But if you change some of that (i.e. panic=abort), use a nightly compiler (unfortunately still needed for the right flags) and add the right flags both libraries are virtually the same size, with zlib at about 119KB and zlib-rs at about 118KB.
Your links apply to public pki certificates.

Now, I didn't read the source code, but Mozillas wording implies they use a custom pki to sign extentions.

Given that most (all?) root programs only certify host names or email addresses (S/MIME), it is reasonable for Mozilla to run a custom pki for this. And that neccesarily requires shipping/pinning the root certificates.

Actually this whole discussion is moot, because Firefox uses (and ships with) the Mozilla Root Program. So it can not not pin certificates, because that is the whole point of a root program.

Looks like we all learned something today.
I'm not trying to be provocative, but I genuinely am not seeing what the benefit of this "doctrine" is if the end result is a bunch of if else statements that do nothing, but bubble the error up and then exit the process anyway.

Panicking is in no way different from say Undefined Behavior, with the exception that panicking tends to be "loud" and therefore fixed promptly.
Considering how thick fast charging cables for cars are, I don't think it will fly, literally. We could make the cables thinner with high enough voltage I guess. But then we would actually need two wires with proper separation, because unlike with trains, you obviously can't use the ground for the return path. Loose high voltage wires may be a safety problem too.

By comparison glider launch wires are quite thin and light.
Because disgusting people spitting gum on the floor is obviously the corporation’s fault.
I don't think this opinion has historical justification.

> How am I harmed when one service that charges me nothing offers me ratings written (for free) by other users, but doesn’t show me the ratings provided by an entirely different free service? It would be hard to explain to Teddy Roosevelt that someone receiving something for free is being harmed because of a lack of other (free) options. ...

> Google is not the sort of obvious enemy that Teddy Roosevelt could point at with his sword and run up a hill to attack.

That really seems like using Roosevelt as a prop figure. The Rough Rider was also governor of New York. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt

] As governor, Roosevelt learned about economic issues and political techniques that proved valuable in his presidency. He studied the problems of trusts, monopolies, labor relations, and conservation. G. Wallace Chessman argues that Roosevelt's program "rested firmly upon the concept of the square deal by a neutral state". The rules for the Square Deal were "honesty in public affairs, an equitable sharing of privilege and responsibility, and subordination of party and local concerns to the interests of the state at large". ...

] Chessman argues that as governor, Roosevelt developed the principles that shaped his presidency, especially insistence upon the public responsibility of large corporations, publicity as a first remedy for trusts, regulation of railroad rates, mediation of the conflict of capital and labor, conservation of natural resources and protection of the poor. Roosevelt sought to position himself against the excesses of large corporations and radical movements.

I struggle to believe that Roosevelt would not understand how a monopoly subsidized corporation with large control of a media market could affect a Square Deal. We can see how media control was relevant even in the 1904 presidential race, where the conservative Democrats chose as their party candidate over Parker over Hearst, whose papers pushed trust-busting thus challenging conservative power. Roosevelt later defeated Parker for the general election.

Yes, this is the same Hearst who advocated against Spanish rule of Cuba, and promoted the war that included Roosevelt at the Battle of San Juan Hill.

I'm not even sure that Roosevelt pointed out the attack with his sword. Quoting Roosevelt from "Rough Riders" at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13000 :

} How Wood escaped being hit, I do not see, and still less how his horse escaped. I had left mine at the beginning of the action, and was only regretting that I had not left my sword with it, as it kept getting between my legs when I was tearing my way through the jungle. I never wore it again in action.

That was at the Battle of Las Guasimas, on June 24, while the Battle of San Juan Hill took place on July 1.

I therefore suspect the author doesn't know enough about Roosevelt to know what he would understand.
It's handy for non-tech-savy people, namely the elderly. It can be used for playing music: "Alexa play X", "Alexa shutdown" is all the user needs to know.
Updated Debian 12: 12.10 released
It isn't true though. C64 PSUs would fail high and fry downstream chips and passives. Amiga PSUs are designed to fail low, and with the exception of some exceptionally rare faults, they won't fry your computer if the capacitors fail
Someone mentioned to me that for something as simple as a Linked list you have to use unsafe in rust

Update its how the std lib does it: https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/alloc/collections/linked_list....
Strassler is usually more technical than your run-of-the-mill popsci writer. But his book "Waves in an impossible sea" is much more accessible.
For me it locked after 1 move. But then I found out that I was also playing for the opponent.