skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is definitely true right now, but I don't think it will always be the case.

Unsafe Rust is currently extremely underspecified and underdocumented, but it's designed to be far more specifiable than C. For example: aliasing rules. When and how you're allowed to alias references in unsafe code is not at all documented and under much active discussion; whereas in C pointer aliasing rules are well defined but also completely insane (casting pointers to a different type in order to reinterpret the bytes of an object is often UB even in completely innocuous cases).

Once Rust's memory model is fully specified and written down, unsafe Rust is trying to go for something much simpler, more teachable, and with less footguns than C.

Huge props to Ralf Jung and the opsem team who are working on answering these questions & creating a formal specification: https://github.com/rust-lang/unsafe-code-guidelines/issues
I mean you did just suggest that classical QM can be supplanted by your heavily underspecified finite(?)-state model for which you provide essentially no details, you must admit that's pretty crank-y behaviour.
The Detection Mindset
Sure, sure, but it’s one thing to genocide your enemies and another thing entirely to turn on your friends.
Agreed.

> I WILL become a chicken farmer

Chicken don't hold a reputation of being calm and considerate about what noise at what level they'll emit during the day or the night.

If I can advise, silk worm farming could be it
> Further more, it's no place of any single country to try to build "a world order based on democracy, capitalism, and the rule of law".

So no country should do anything to interact with its neighbors and all diplomacy is a waste of time? I should never try to convince you that my opinion is right because what if you disagree? What a strange, insular way to approach international relations.
Are you sure that ℵ1 is the thing after that?

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

;-)
That very much depends on what you mean by "worked". And it's not like Western militaries are lacking the physical means to engage in heavier and more damaging attacks; they just have viable alternatives that they prefer.
Apparently this opinion piece, which i initially took at face value is not fully straight with the facts.
I.e. on misleading journalists, here is the rebuttal based on the official testimonies:
https://medium.com/@K_G_Andersen/its-not-about-getting-the-s...
I think that wins, since presumably it was smaller than a one-byte change. I guess the smallest would be a single-bit file mode change, maybe?
This isn't very new though, I still remember how Windows 98 was pushing you to use features that only work when you're connected to the internet (e.g. a weather widget on your live desktop). I expect that if they had less competition, and weren't hit with the antitrust case, they would have tried to monetize features a lot earlier.
In the 1990s, an awful lot of Linux apps were Tk/Tcl. People complained then about them not being "native", but they were slimmer and better performing than the typical Java or Electron app of today.
MSO 97 was the pinnacle of usability and customizability per megabyte installed.

I only wish it were not so buggy when handling large documents.
Those bugs also exist(ed?) in other browsers, and from what I understand they worked on fixing them, but they still can’t get through CloudFlare’s blocking after fixing the crash.
Thoughts on this vs something like ArchiveBox?
What data?

If you link to Tesla statements that's marketing not data.
Pressure from the outside can always lead to polarization and finger pointing as it can't be expected (reasonably) that the other country doesn't in fact has a hidden agenda. So I think it is good there is no pressure from the outside, the government can't say "but it's the evil X that pressure us and supports the riots!"

I do hope something comes out of the protests (even if it is just the government being a bit less corrupt), without more horrible violence. But moving societies is hard and many times painful.
It's not just pretending, deterministic model works, unlike nondeterministic.
The Violent Rise of 'No Lives Matter'
Protests are invasions
Discussion (105 points, 13 days ago, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43245147
Sure you can: https://github.com/timdorr/-/commit/9e5a571abd3fc4f8714e8c40...
Maybe a better phrasing would be "impose their idea of a world order, with their ideas of democracy, capitalism, and the rule of their laws"
This is a highly ignorant response. There is no relying on security by obscurity - that concept doesn't even apply here, because we're not describing the defenders of a system under attack. This is ransomware that has already infected the system that you're supposed to be securing. Failing to realize that if you don't publicize the method of bypassing the weakness in the ransomware then you'll be able to save more victims indicates extreme stupidity and ignorance of the basics of the field.

Moreover, "This is a game of cat and mouse" suggests that it's not valuable for more victims to have their files decrypted, which is somewhere between malicious and insane.
Someone ported my 1995 PC game Speed Haste to the Amiga
I don't know if anyone will find it interesting here, but I'm speechless and I had to publish it. I don't know what to say, except I'm happy I released the source code on github years ago.

The original game was very much an indie/bedroom game, I programmed it over 12 months while I was studying and working a part-time job. But thanks to the efforts of our published Friendware it got released all over the world. I had published 2 commercial games in the 80s but then I shifted towards a more "normal software" direction via college and working at a bank, but the demoscene and the shareware world got me back into games, where I stay to this day.
> Amazon and Google did emerge from the dotcom era and both outrank Microsoft on the Fortune 500 today

This is not true :)
The "great flattening" fashion has made computers harder to use for many people.

Older UIs separated computer output from where user input is expected. Compare Windows 7 or 2000 to Windows 10 or 11 and the older Windows versions win. It's the same with Android.

UX designers follow fashion as much as the garment manufacturers on the catwalks of Milan, even if the fashion is uncomfortable.

Just because something is new, that doesn't mean it is better.
Weapons of war used by colonizers to oppress others inevitably turn these to crush dissent at home. And also journalism about atrocities such as what happened to Julian Assange or objection to military adventurism as the NYT turned on Chris Hedges.
The Cold Email Hall of Fame: Real Cold Emails Sent to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos etc.
>I know this might be a sad topic, but I am allowed to ask this folks

>I am not interested in hearing from folks who (disagree with me)

I am pretty sure that is not how HN is intended to work.
Costco prices are very low. They intentionally make very little margin on what people buy.

Their margin comes from subscriptions.
Even Google ended up adding more stuff to their homepage in the end.
For a long time they tried to keep it super minimal- and it still is, but there's footer links and signed in header and a whole bunch of other links as well.

Mind you in the early days pages used to have hundreds if not thousands of text links all over the place, the only sites that do this now are the hardcore conspiracy sites where the author just adds several new links a day.

So in this dimension at least web UIs have changed for the better.
Thanks for pointing this out. Never thought of it like that, but I guess you're right, I sensed something in those kind of images. Except for the sugar rush of saturated colors and overall soft blur of course, that always seems to be there with AI images.
There is a cursor rendering fix in xf86-video-radeonhd (or perhaps -radeon) that flips a single bit.

It took the group several years to narrow in on.
From the article:

It's important to note that this study doesn't prove that cannabis directly causes these changes or causes health problems.
Timothy Snyder put his history of Ukraine class on YouTube. The lesson on the Maidan was done by a guest speaker. The presentation is mostly dry and the person isn't the best speaker, but the content was quality and very worth watching, especially if you have any beliefs in "color revolutions" or American imperialism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg_CLI3xY58&list=PLh9mgdi4rN...

It was now a revolt against произвол, an idea of arbitrariness tinged with tyranny, helplessness in the face of power, the feeling that the powers that be can do whatever they want to you, and you are helpless, that you are being treated as a plaything, as a thing and not as a human being, as an object and not as a subject, and the Maidan became a revolt against произвол, it became an insistence on being treated as a person and not as a thing, as a subject not as an object, and they began to call themselves on the Maidan the revolution of dignity.

It seems that Yanukovych (Ukraine's corrupt Russian puppet leader) was counted on the fact that if you shock people this way (brutally beating up protestors), not enough to kill people, but enough to terrify them, the parents will freak out and they will pull their kids off the streets... (after many people's children were beaten) Suddenly you have parents joining their children on the streets, and that is the moment that creates the revolution...
I think you are agreeing with my point that declaring the wave function to be mere bookkeeping is a poor foundation for writing about the interpretation of quantum mechanics?

Can't really get any other sense out of your reply, but I'm not entirely sure.
By 95 it was game over. WP for Windows sucked. Quatro Pro was dying. Office 95 was the final nail.
Or "murder is wrong, because God said so"
It does a bunch of useful things and that's one of them.

Also the videos are free either way. It's true that people are avoiding paying for an ad removing feature, but installing your own software to get features is pretty reasonable.

And ad removal is well established as a feature people use and it being fine that they do so.
Please don't take offense. It's merely a meme reference, not some slighting of autistic people.

I'm saying this as a father of a girl diagnosed with autism; she's lovely, brilliant in some aspects, and... difficult in some other aspects. Life is harder for her.
Yep, `NEHotspotConfigurationManager`: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/NetworkExtension/N...
I believe I first read about it in the book, Gödel, Escher, Bach.
Yeah? Protesting? What conditions?
I think this was Capistrano, but you're right I that's quite the throwback as well.
It's unfathomable that anyone would suggest that the US should just let cartels run rough shot over the American population because tourists want to travel to risky places that no sane person should ever travel to.
What surprises me is that the Linux project is far and away the most successful OSS project (it’s probably underpinning what a couple of trillion dollars of services globally - more?)

And yet the processes they follow are completely ignored for pretty much every corporate project - open discussion on open mailing lists, decisions made by those deep in the weeds, the code as the first front and centre, even the standard git.git workflow is pretty much never used

I do wonder why …
And yes, it might be an unpopular viewpoint....but neocolonialism is necessary.

Perhaps not the right choice of word but I mean the term 'neocolonialism' here in the sense of introducing peoples to our ways of life: democracy, capitalism, human rights.

The long and short of it is that, you can only get with the web of conflicting interests, pure monetary dealings, etc so far. You don't make any lasting alliance with a peoples and a system fundamentally opposed to you. If you isolate away, they will continue falling into the trap of systems like China and Russia who are quite happy to take your place and have completely opposite ideals to you. Eventually you will be left more and more alone on the world stage with no true allies if you let them keep doing it, and one day you will be finished off by soft or hard means when those entities, who kept expanding their outreach, became powerful enough.

Tldr; Defensive fire. Its not that you want to engage in neocolonialism, but you will have to do so as long as your enemies engage in neocolonialism. The logic is no different than that behind maintaining a traditional military power really.
I really like the narative that now LLM is the conserving human knowledge that otherwise would be lost forever in the form of its weights in a kind of a lossy compression.

Personally I'd like that if all the knowledge and information (K & I) are readily available and accessible (pretty sure most of the prople share the same sentiment), despite the consistent business decisions from the copyright holders to hoard their K & I by putting everything behind paywalls and/or registration (I'm looking at you Apple and X/Twitter). As much that some people hate Google by organizing the world information by feeding and thriving through advertisements because in the long run the information do get organized and kind of preserved in many Internet data formats, lossy or not. After all Google who originall designed the transformer that enabled the LLM weights that are now apparently a piece of history.
This is a true gem of a thought that every designer should consider at the outset of a project: "Some things are an experience, other things should just be quietly useful."
Soft power is also building roads and hospitals in Africa (see: China) because you want the country to deal with you first (because they’ve you as a friend, even if you both know it’s a transactional relationship) when they go to sell resources they have. It’s not just trying to strong arm people into doing things they don’t want to do.

You have a deeply antagonistic view of all of this. Is there a reason? Do you think that the EU doesn’t employ soft power? That China doesn’t? Do you seriously see no difference between, for instance, seeing value in large numbers of people speaking some English and having a positive view of your country, and whatever “bombing for democracy” is supposed to represent?
It is possible that life got in the way. Thymer did seem a great idea.
I like it!

Anyway to persist data in case of reboots?

That's the only thing missing here.

Is Go the only SDK ?
There's a reason why FOSS is by hackers for hackers—it's software written by people to solve their own needs. They release that software as Free/Libre so that others can benefit from it if they would like to, but first and foremost it's written because the author themselves saw a problem and wanted a solution. What's changed is that as startup culture infected hacker culture a few subcultures developed within FOSS that thought that that wasn't good enough.

One of those subcultures decided that it was an imperative that they make more money off of their FOSS projects than anyone else does—this is how you get the Matt Mulenwegs of the FOSS world, who diss on other FOSS developers because "most of the value" of their projects was "captured by others" [0]. They see FOSS as a revenue stream and if it's not a revenue stream (or if it ends up being a bigger revenue stream for someone else than it is for you) it's a failure.

Another subculture thinks that FOSS should be mainstream. That's the idea typified here: by "hackers for hackers" is selfish and we should instead "reshape our thinking towards more political goals and values".

The fact is that both of these perspectives are fundamentally not about adapting FOSS to the times—they're both about building two entirely different philosophies. FOSS is not a business model, and what the Matt Mulenwegs of the world actually want is to be a tech startup CEO. And FOSS is not and cannot be mainstream because to become mainstream requires a bucketload of UX design and user support work that no one in their right mind wants to take on for free as a hobbyist.

FOSS is by hackers for hackers because it must be. If you want to make more profit than anyone else does off your project or if you want to pursue "political goals and values" you're looking for an entirely different type of organization.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20241014235025/https://ma.tt/2024...
What's the story behind that? Did you just deploy a blank commit to trigger a hook?
No quote or source, but I can corroborate. I've even heard the same argument when C++ was getting popular and C was still the "standard."
> fundamental impediment

This is an interesting word. I wonder why no one has written high performance library code in assembly yet at this point?
Thanks for clarifying. They just removed the mention of AGPL due to the confusing nature of it. https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs/commit/c85224af425261...
Funny you say this. At my last job I managed a 1.5TB perforce depot with hundreds of thousands of files and had the problem of “how can we speed up CI”. We were on AWS, so I synced the repo, created an ebs snapshot and used that to make a volume, with the intention of reusing it (as we could shove build intermediates in there too.

It was faster to just sync the workspace over the internet than it was to create the volume from the snapshot, and a clean build was quicker from the just sync’ed workspace than the snapshotted one, presumably to do with however EBS volumes work internally.

We just moved our build machines to the same VPC as the server and our download speeds were no longer an issue.
As it turns out, part of maintaining that "public support" is not taking advantage of it. The very idea of a stable monopoly on violent escalation is obviously meant to deter violence. When it instead makes violence more likely (because the monopolist is suddenly planning to abuse its monopoly) that's quite a big change and people can be expected to react accordingly.
I remember such wrappers for Perl and even for PHP.
Great to see that the US is prioritising their own border integrity even almost as much as the whole world expects them to prioritise Ukraine's border integrity. Really jealous.
> Does notion work offline-first yet?

It does via a desktop application.
This feels Bret Victor-esque.

The problem I see here is the more senses you engage - really, the more coordination you demand of the user, the harder it is to make the interface feel intuitive.
One thing I'll note is we tend to use languages from different levels in different settings (front end, back end, systems) and we spend an awful lot of time writing glue code to get them to talk to each other.

A major advantage of the proposed approach is automated FFI and serialization/deserialization between languages in the same language set. RustScript would be able to accept a struct or enum from Rust or RustGC, and vice-versa. You could have a channel with different languages on either end.

You can also see that we _want_ something like this, e.g. we bolt TypeScript on top of JavaScript, and types onto Python. If JavaScript (or python) were designed so they could be more easily compiled (notably, no monkey patching) then they would support level 2 as well.

I have been thinking of level 2 or 1 languages that support the higher levels. This is a really good framing. (The problem with going the other way is the implementation decisions in the interpretter often constrain how the compiler can work, e.g. CPython is dominant because all the libraries that make use of the CPython FFI, and similarly for NodeJS. It is easier to interpret a constrained language than to compile a dynamic language designed with an interpretter in mind).
Hon Hai Research Institute Launches Traditional Chinese LLM with Reasoning
when i was an undergrad they used technology like this to grade work in the computer science department. You could write a shell script That uses cmp or diff to compare the ouput with the expected output and you can just change the file to change the expected output.
Only accepted and merged commits count!
It kinda surprising it was never really continued, but performance was just too bad even if the interface was fantastic.
Do you any idea of how much collaborative suites cost to government every year? 10's if not 100's of millions! They have millions of public servents. The investement to build Docs is a drop of water in the the ocean in comparison.
It ruined my friend's startup. Junior dev "wrote" WAY too much code with no ability to support it after the fact. Glitches in production would result in the kid disappearing for weeks at a time because he had no idea how anything actually worked under the hood. Friend was _so_ confident of his codebase before shit hit the fan - the junior dev misrepresented the state of the world, b/c he simply didn't know what he didn't know.
Like Cortical labs? Neurons integrated on a silicon chip https://corticallabs.com/cl1.html
They're suggesting that the point of an authority using this weapon on a mass of people may be to cause those people to become violent so that the authority can use the subsequent fear to justify further abuses.

Which I think is likely, but also a bad decision. Generally speaking, the job of a legitimate government is to make violent protest unnecessary. So depending on the situation, the best action may indeed be to back down and rethink how things got there in the first place, rather than continuing to provoke more violence. Continuing to escalate is not a sustainable strategy for anyone that intends to maintain power for long, as the numbers are not generally on their side.
I have a colleague who prioritizes maintaining control over teaching others. He tries to force a particular perspective, emphasizing the importance of his role while fostering dependency rather than sharing knowledge. This seems driven by a fear of losing his job.

My primary focus is backend development, where I assist developers and solve infrastructure challenges. However, I’m so effective in this role that I often end up boxed into it. I’ve been making an effort to expand into frontend development to broaden my expertise, but this colleague operates in that space and isn't the only one who has made it difficult for others to gain traction.
How to Trick the Body's Metabolism (In Mice)
Even though just in mice, the concept of being able to prevent metabolic adaptation sounds promising.
According to literally every single source, he was a green card holder/permanent resident, not a US citizen.
Cite your sources, please. So far you're incorrect.
> and for the love of god don't use the stock A1200 PSU, it'll kill your system (thanks Commodore)

That is definitely a Commodore tradition. I had a C64 back that had a PSU die in 1985 and took out all of the DRAM chips.
> This isn't using the Rust runtime heap,

Rust does not have a specific "Rust runtime heap."
That's good advice, but I mean what do you do when you get home? Now that your right to assemble has been effectively revoked, what's your next step?
But branches were more problematic.
Not the only mercurial feature where that's the case.. sad, I keep rooting for the project to implement mercurial frontend over a git db, but they seem to be limited by missing git features.
Like I mentioned in the first post, I don't think the definition of what autopilot means in terms of ships or airplanes is relevant. Tesla chose the name because it makes people think the auto part refers to automatic, and then assume the car can drive automatically.

Combine this with how they released a video[0] with the description "The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself." at the same time. This video was about their FSD and not autopilot, but I think it's reasonable to assume most people won't know the difference. It's deceptive on purpose.

[0] https://vimeo.com/188105076