skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saying rust is unusable is pretty extreme. Tons of serious applications and infrastructure have been using it in production for years generating lots of money and preventing CVEs.

Leaking memory is sometimes not a huge issue. Missile allocation is real. Undefined behaviour, seg faults, data races, etc from edge cases slow down development.

The promise of rust isn't that it's super fast to learn but once you have you never deal with a swath of issues ever again.

And that's speaking from a deficit. Rust is an excellent language to do language development. It has arguably the best tooling for it in the ecosystem in my opinion and a vibrant community for it. Some of the most recent languages have foundations in rust. That is likely to continue going forward.
I’m confused that they have Gemma and then Gemini
In other words, a *mechanically* operated door handle?
Yes, and they even let you email them in to make it easier.
They wouldn't even have to touch Wikipedia. Just upload a permissively licensed photo to Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons inclusion policy literally states:

> Is it likely to be useful to a Wikimedia Foundation project? For example, can you point to a Wikipedia article that would benefit from this file's inclusion?

So just slap it on there, and let the Wikipedians handle it from there.
I assumed it might be caused by huge release of methane from permafrost and sea hydrates. But there's no such detail in the articles.
Opsec and you: how to navigate having things to hide
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Any reasonably smart company will invest in its employees. They should absolutely be training you to be better programmers while you are on the job. Only shit companies would refuse to do so.

I rather see the problem in US culture: in many other countries switching the company every few years is considered to be a sign of low loyalty to the company, thus a red flag in a job application.
The issue I see is that LLMs are not an unbiased source of information. Functionally, he's just asking big tech companies what to do.

It's one thing when a developer asks an LLM for programming advice, and the LLM has been instructed to prioritize answers suggesting React. In my opinion, it's quite another when a politician asks an LLM for policy advice, and the provider has the ability to make similar prioritizations.
Sometimes people just like things. It's not all about productivity.
> Additionally, the arbitrator ruled that so much as Wynn-Williams can control, she is prohibited from further publishing or distributing the book

So she can't do press. I wonder if this means there will be only one run, or if the publisher can print as many copies as it wants.
But we are discussing the article on Hacker News. :-)
This kind of dampens my enthusiasm for getting a PPL
You might want to look into how well elections turn out, for Congressmen who honestly try to responsibly do their jobs.

Hint: Inside the beltway, such behavior is considered a for-sure promise that the Congressman plans to not run for re-election.
Glad you liked it! And fair point
In case of Meta I really doubt. These guys are constantly growing despite of Facebook being nothing more than ads-disguised-as-friends' scrapyard.
Any reason for that?
Europe needs to read this article if they want to do something constructive.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/
Ask HN: Help Me Understand This Website Scam (Friends Business Site Cloned)
Hoping the community can help analyze a suspicious site that clones my friend's legitimate business.

Nutripea (https://nutripea.com/) → Real company, real physical location.
Norleaf Food (https://norleaffood.com/) → Clone of Nutripea’s website, no physical location, questionable intent.

A few things stand out:

-The source code of Norleaf Food is nearly identical to Nutripea’s, including Nutripea’s Google Analytics ID.
-In some places, they forgot to change Nutripea’s physical address, suggesting a careless copy-paste job.
-The Wayback Machine shows Norleaf Food first appeared a few years ago, then disappeared, and now it’s back.
-The contact form on Norleaf Food is slightly modified and submits data to FormCarry (a form submission service).

I’ve tried emailing Norleaf, but no response. I’m wondering:

What could be the purpose of cloning this site?
Does anything in the source code hint at their intent?
Has anyone seen similar scams before, and what’s the endgame?
I remember about a decade ago setting up an iPad Air as my main driver for work (coding mostly). I got it to work by SSHing into a VPS to use Vim w/ a bluetooth keyboard.

After about of month of stubbornly working like this, I finally admitted it was just a shittier MacBook Air, and that I preferred the keyboard, touchpad, and form factor of the laptop much better. I also don't care to have a touchscreen laptop. There was even an 11" MBA which is just as portable as a tablet (more so if you're carting around a bluetooth keyboard).

I think I was just trying to find a use for a tablet, and there simply wasn't any for me. I haven't bought a tablet since... although it's hard to get a phone that isn't as big as a tablet these days.
Did Zuck buy a copy or just torrent it?
Essential reading for anyone curious about Carl Lundström's life outside of bankrolling The Pirate Bay:

https://www.theregister.com/2012/09/21/pirate_bay_fascist_ba...

https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/26/pirate_bay_neo_nazi

> Lundström was linked to a gang of skinheads that attacked Latin American tourists in Stockholm in the mid-1980s. Over the years, Lundström has switched his support from Keep Sweden Swedish to the far-right headbangers party New Democracy - but was thrown out for being too right wing. He's currently bankrolling 100 candidates for the Swedish equivalent of the BNP.
Fantastic, now my PM can just go ahead create a ticket to scale the workloads without having me to update the spreadsheet again
Just wanted to +1 this comment and say Vanta made SOC2 way more intimidating than it was.

What made it easy was talking to a startup that wanted soc2 and had it themselves who recommended an auditor who helped us untangle what was actually required.

It took a couple of months to get type 1 from start to finish with very part time attention.
Small 4 seater plane, flying solo, through the mountains and in bad weather. Not recommended.
To be a bit pedantic this isn't a chartered flight. That's a whole level above this that does require some more specialized licensure. Carl was flying his own plane so this would be good ol' General Aviation. A private pilot's license is not allowed to offer flights for pay only cost sharing (at least in the US) and only for flights the pilot would otherwise have taken without passengers (tougher to prove but easy to mess up if you're trying to skirt the law).
If you want software to exhibit human values, the development process probably looks more like education or parenting prompting.

Or so says Ted Chiang: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lifecycle_of_Software_Ob...
This is just cruel
> There's no meaningful order to shared dependencies or cyclic dependencies.

Textual order. At least it's visible.

> Lazily initialize your globals.

What does that even mean? Something like that:

size_t _fwrite__impl(const void* buffer, size_t size, size_t count, FILE* stream) {
if (!__crt0_initialized) {
_crt0();
}
if (!__crt1_initialized) {
_crt1();
}
if (!__xfloat_initialized) {
_xfloat();
}
if (__stdio_initialized) {
_init_stdio();
}
// Actual implementation that touches internal FILE-tables and maybe does float/double formatting.
}

? But why?

> Actually, just don't have side effects on module load. You almost never need it.

See above. There is a surprising amount of invisibly initialized global state in e.g. C runtime library.
You're thinking like a normal person. You need to think like an institution that has the entire weight of government behind them and who nobody wants to be on the wrong side of.

They either find someone who has suitable vans they can threaten with prosecution. That person then agrees to be an "informant" because that's better than losing your life to the feds and then their handler asks to borrow a van. They like this because no money needs to get spent specifically on it so it doesn't tend to get scrutinized. If they're going full above the table they register a business with the state complete with valid HVAC license or whatever and then rent a van from some company the FBI owns/runs that rents white vans and have some decals printed up. (For those inclined to do further reading, the OSINT hobbyists have done a lot to expose this workflow as it relates to aircraft so probably start there.)
> In 2018, he was sentenced, together with his accomplice, to pay half a million kronor in damages to the two women he helped rape. But since he could not pay any damages, it was instead the taxpayers who were forced to pay it for him. This is what the plaintiff's lawyer for one of the two raped women tells Samnytt.

So the first issue was that the government stepped in to give his victims money. I hope that the government is then going after him to make that whole I don’t know since this seems to be a press release from the government criticizing the judiciary.

> The reason is that the Supreme Court has ruled that the convicted rapist may have been under 18 when he raped two women in Malmö in 2017 and was therefore sentenced to an excessively harsh sentence by first the Malmö District Court and later the Skåne and Blekinge Court of Appeal.

> The damages correspond to a compensation of 60,000 kronor per month for the 14 months that JK believes the convicted rapist was forced to spend too long in prison. The decision to give money to a rapist in this way has rightly met with strong criticism from the public, who think it is wrong for a convicted rapist to receive so much money.

While optically, politically, and emotionally it’s undesirable and reprehensible, from another perspective it’s admirable that the Swedish justice system seems to be upholding the law regardless of who it benefits. A legal system needs to protect criminal systems from the government mob just as much as it needs to protect society from criminals.
Good lord, I wouldn't even remember any of my high school details. Job interviewing in tech is really off the chain these days. It's completely taken the wind out of my sails.
His politics were awful, but it's still a shame to see someone who enabled TPB's existence passing away. Partial RIP, I guess.
The example uses on, but the entry says usually used with on. That leaves open images that do not use on.
There's an enormous difference between HCI and UX.

HCI relates to computer usability for general use cases. A CAD program is there to help you get tasks done, not waste your time, so must follow general HCI principles.

UX is watered down HCI that takes business considerations into account. Think about how Microsoft jams a Copilot button into everything, all the way down to the blinking cursor. That doesn't help users (and it is not removable), but it helps Microsoft claim it added 100+ million Copilot users.

The UX of Facebook is a huge mess, a never-ending, non-chronological scroll of dopamine slot machines. HCI considerations would posit that going back to the algo-free, chronological version would help users "get what they want" faster. But helping users complete tasks faster hurts how much FB can charge advertisers for your attention.
Is there a good replacement for Audible?
yes, IBM's CUA wasn't that bad. 'F1' for help is one remnant of this.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access)
Astronomers discover 128 new moons orbiting Saturn
Several of my family members were or have been nurses for decades and your wife’s experience mirrors the experiences I’ve seen from that distance.

And I’ve heard “it used to be so much worse”.

The American healthcare system is fairly well broken from virtually every angle.
Porting of stable tools to an unstable (rapidly changing) language which can only successfully compile projects if the distro toolchain is rolling (or constantly updated outside of repos every few months, ala curl|sh, rustup, etc). Ubuntu is not a rolling distro. This is a bad match.
Why do they look like that? There shouldn't even be an engine under that huge-ass hood. Cab-Over makes way more sense, including for visibility.
> So far the verifiable cuts made by DOGE are less than a tenth of a percent of the federal budget.

IIRC, less even than the govt's subsidies to Musk's enterprises.
Wow thank you so much for all those information, will help me a lot!
The cruelty is the point. The people without empathy won, voted in by the same.
I think you misunderstood me. I'm not at all describing anything like a application runtime such as the web. By architecture I meant something more like server APIs that are flexible enough to be used as the backend in different kinds of sites.

For example: Instead of an API for microblogs and another for blogs and another for news sites it could just be one API with flags or something that determines which other calls are used and how.
> For me the question is different- you can ask "how to become better coder" for which the answer might be - to write more code.

The problem with this answer is that there is little to learn from a lot of code that is written in a corporate environment. You typically only learn from brutally hard bleeding-edge challenges that you set to yourself, which you will barely ever find at work.
Some years ago a company ghosted me during the interview process. When they contacted me a year or so later I ignored them.

In retrospect I can see I handled this badly. I should have reached out a few days after they went silent, and years later I should have engaged with them. No one gained from these events, but one party - me - missed out on an opportunity.

Ghosting probably does hint at some dysfunction within a company, but some dysfunction is a normal state. Sometimes you can just be unlucky, maybe someone in the interview process suddenly left, maybe there was some minor internal re-org, who knows.
I've never met an expert who writes c well all of the time, so I have been led to believe it's simply not possible. Folks with 20+ years of experience will still regularly write a use after free but which is not caught until it hits production. I'm not sure I've actually seen C code free of concurrency bugs. If it's possible it takes years of battle hardening with no feature work. Humans are prone to make mistakes and we need to use as many tools as possible to help us avoid making those mistakes. They are recently looking into introducing thread annotations for locks in the Linux kernel and I expect them to find lots of real bugs lurking in otherwise well maintained subsystems. I've rewritten swaths of code into rust and always seen it find a bug in the original code's design that we were lucky to never run into.
As would also be the case if I were to ask any "expert" for their ideas.
Palantir and Databricks Announce Strategic Partnership
Huh, I worked for an agency and built a site that was essentially "Uber for Nurses" back in 2010. I was immediately like "it's not them is it?" No, seems they shut down in 2017.

As far as I know, never really took off, at least while I was maintaining it, but the gig economy wasn't in full swing yet.

All that said, the sheer number of forms and amount of paperwork the site required you to fill out just to sign up had to have been a limiting factor in getting you in the door. Real high friction getting people in the door.

I wonder if Eshyft was able to somehow simplify the process.
VSC? IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING GEOMETRY DASH REFERENCE?!? :O

(sorry, I had to)
i'm shocked that Americans aren't building guillotines or utilizing that wonderful 2nd Amendment -- goes to show it's only good for getting elementary school kids murdered.
It’s way more impactful to manage the words on the page, since those are a source for other Internet actors like search engines and AI. It’s also way easier to hide the fingerprints of text changes, so there are PR agencies that specialize in that.

Wikipedia is not a source for images, though, it’s a client. And it’s harder to hide fingerprints since you have to disclose ownership of the copyright in order to issue Wikipedia a license to use the image.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Pac
A lot of plane/helicopter deaths are assassinations. I'm not saying any of the recent ones are, but the data for "normal margins" is probably skewed.

You probably don't see as many assassinations from heat stroke, submarines, etc. There's a few under "self harm", but the actual self harm deaths far exceed the whistleblower "self harm" cases to the point that they're not too statistically significant.
Shareholders like that don't just dictate everything bro lol
Some sort of SEO domain boosting?
Just because this was your experience does not mean others should not try, and frankly, your posts suggesting others not try is disgusting. You're on a forum for people with a hacking ethos. That's pretty much the "hold my beer" mindset with a facade of classiness in front of it.

Also, rather than saying such negative things like "don't do it", you could have wrapped up your negative experience into a parable for people to learn from before embarking upon their own journey. Just because you didn't prepare for the results of grinding something to a fine dust/powder doesn't mean others won't prepare for that. Especially after what could have been a much more positive outcome from your negative experience. Don't be a downer.

This would be haha funny if you were trying to stoke that "don't tell me no" as reverse psychology.
I don't recall much about the movie, except that I enjoyed it at the time, but I was wondering if the title had a relationship to a different book[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(Discworld)
uv is great and we’re switching over from conda for some projects. The resolver is lightning fast and the toml support is good.

Having said that, there are 2 areas where we still need conda:

- uv doesn’t handle non-python wheels, so if you need to use something like mkl, no luck

- uv assumes that you want to use one env per project. However with complex projects you may need to use a different env with different branches of your code base. Conda makes this easy - just activate the conda env you want — all of your envs can be stored in some central location outside your projects — and run your code. Uv wants to use the project toml file and stores the packages in .venv by default (which you don’t want to commit but then need different versions of). Yes you can store your project venv elsewhere with an env var but that’s not a practical solution. There needs to be support for multiple .toml files where the location of the env can be specified inside the toml file (not in an env var).
Plastic recycling, as commonly understood and promoted, is largely a myth. While technically possible, the reality of plastic recycling falls far short of public perception and industry claims.

# The Reality of Plastic Recycling:

- Low recycling rates: Only 9% of all plastic worldwide is actually recycled[1][2]. In the United States, the recycling rate for plastic waste is even lower, at just 5-6%[5].

- Limited recyclability: Most types of single-use plastic cannot be recycled in the United States. Only plastic #1 and #2 bottles and jugs meet the minimum legal standard to be labeled recyclable[1].

- Downcycling: The majority of recycled plastic is of inferior quality, resulting in downcycling rather than true recycling[2].

- Economic challenges: Recycling plastic is often not economically viable compared to producing new plastic[4].

# Industry Deception:

The myth of plastic recycling has been perpetuated by the plastic and oil industries for decades:

- Misleading labeling: The Resin Identification Codes (RICs) on plastic products were created by the industry to give the impression of a vast and viable recycling system[3].

- Disinformation campaigns: The fossil fuel industry has benefited financially from promoting the idea that plastic could be recycled, despite knowing since 1974 that it was not economically viable for most plastics[3].

- Lack of commitment: In 1994, an Exxon chemical executive stated, "We are committed to the activities, but not committed to the results," regarding industry support for plastics recycling[5].

#Environmental and Health Impacts

- Pollution: Most plastic items labeled as recyclable often end up in landfills, incinerators, or polluting the environment[1].

- Health hazards: Plastic waste contamination affects soil, water, and air quality, potentially impacting human health[4].

Conclusion

The concept of widespread plastic recycling is largely a myth propagated by the plastic industry to distract from the real issues of plastic pollution and to avoid regulation. While some plastic can be recycled, the current system is far from effective or sustainable. To address the plastic crisis, focus needs to shift from recycling to reducing plastic production and consumption.

[1] https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/the-myth-of-single-use-plasti...

[2] https://www.plasticsoupfoundation.org/nl/blog/recycling-myth

[3] https://www.earthday.org/plastic-recycling-is-a-lie/

[4] https://kosmorebi.com/en/plastique-le-mythe-du-recyclage/

[5] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-plastic-industry-knowi...
It is very likely not.

But saying so makes for a quick, clicky, & topical story. The fib is pretty harmless.

And that's good enough, for The Guardian.
A CR isn't supposed to be for fixing things. It's an emergency measure to be used while they set about setting a real budget.

Fixing the budget is hard. "Waste" is in the eye of the beholder. Every program exists for a reason. There is far, far less actual "waste" in the budget than people have been led to believe.

Hard choices get resolved democratically, and that's not quick. The debt is not yet a crisis; we can afford to continue the entire budget while we figure out what things we actually don't want. That's a matter of months, not years.
> Tech companies were different and still are.

what would be an example of a tech company (for a fair comparison, a large one would be nice), and how is it different in the sense of not exhibiting the behaviors of this book?
Is that an affiliate link? Clever, if so.
Glad he accidentally did at least one half-decent thing with his money once. Wonder what his reason was for it, it's not a stance I'd expect from someone with his political leanings.
Without judgment: I've started noticing how a different culture cannot imagine some phenomenon (e.g. some problem) not occuring in another culture. It's leading me to question what things I consider as universal constant that aren't.
How about Ubuntu just sticks to their area of competency repainting Debian.

Remember when the switched they shell to dash? Not to mention, Upstart, Mir, Unity, Snap.
this really have everything, I'll definitely use this, thank you a lot!
When your population doesn't make enough kids, steal from neighbors. Look at what Russia did with Ukrainian babies.
c'mon now you know not everybody made it all the way to Foundation and Earth. :D

for some reason that one wasn't even included in the list of books in the series on the inside jacket of the other books that I had.

I remember I had to really hunt for it and it was from a different publisher. never knew why.
I desperately miss keyboard mnemonics.
The sad thing is, there is no real obstacle to building a fast SPA. It's certainly not harder than to do it all "the old way". But you have to pay attention to performance.

If you just implement as many features as you can in as little time as possible, then the outcome will be something like Confluence, I guess, where you wait several seconds to load a documentation page you wanted to just read, not even edit.
That's why I run a Windows VM on my Linux machine. I get the advantage of snapshots, a better firewall, and control of how many resources it gets.