skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are loads of programming languages which have nothing to do with the English language.

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Oh, you meant easy to learn programming languages based on a real language? Yeah, English just happens to be one of the easier languages to learn and if you need to learn a programming language you can just as well learn English on the side. I did.
> These are the situations where it shines and runs away from HTTP/2. And this has been the promised advantage from the outset, and is literally the problem it is designed to solve.

And yet it's somehow being pushed as a be-all solve-all replacement despite this:

--- start quote ---

We experimentally demonstrate that QUIC’s performance degradation affects not only bulk file transfers but also other applications including video content delivery and web browsing, despite their intermittent traffic patterns. QUIC incurs a video bitrate reduction of up to 9.8% compared to HTTP/2 when delivering DASH (Sodagar, 2011) video chunks over high-speed Ethernet and 5G. Again, such QoE degradation only exhibits when the underlying bandwidth is sufficiently high. For example, the impact is hidden over 4G but unleashed over 5G. QUIC’s page load time (PLT) is 3.0% longer than HTTP/2’s, averaged across 100 representative websites, with a long tail of page load time gaps over 50%.

--- end quote ---

Latency is all good ... until latency isn't the only thing affecting the performance

> Of course there is no advantage -- and in fact is an expected disadvantage -- when your client and server are 0ms from each other with 0% packet loss. Now put them 100ms from each other with 5% packet loss/reordering/retransmission and multiplexing.

Indeed, why not claim something that article never claimed and then claim moral superiority for yourself. Nowhere in the article do authors claim to have servers 0ms from each other with 0 packet loss.

Additionally, if your performance degrades even in these ideal conditions, what does this promise for non-ideal conditions?
Do book drms even make sens? i can understand games, but how do you encrypt words that are meant to be read. People used to record music on the radio. It seems easier to ocr a book and generate text that way.
The Ephemeral Nature of Software in the Age of AI
I like to think of it as learning a foreign language. You need a text book, an English to language dictionary, and those tapes that walk you through a conversation.
Nary a Critical Word: Bill Gates's Close Bond with Narendra Modi
GIMP is astonishingly bad. I got by for many years with Paint Shop Pro, even through its steady decline after Corel acquired it, but eventually they destroyed it. In desperation I turned to GIMP but it is so bad that I now use Photopea. I would pay for a modern functional equivalent of Paint Shop Pro, but I don't know that it exists.
I would agree if one of those 55% had an immigration issue it could be HN related. But you can find stats like that to support literally anything belonging on HN.
For what it's worth, I would rather beg on the streets and eat out of a dumpster than take on the hassle of being a landlord, but to answer your question in good faith:

In this hypothetical scenario, what I'm providing is the actual physical place that's being rented out, having put up the money for a down payment and the monthly mortgage payments, taxes, etc.
Good corporate non-answer.

There is a big difference between mistakes due to an individual and mistakes due to systemic issues, which is what GP was referring to.
It is not clear to me what nefarious things people believe are going on there that we should be worried about.

All the article says is that people are doing things we don't know about, but implies that somehow we should feel not-okay about this.

I don't know what's going on in my neighbor's house either, and it could certainly be bad stuff, but that's doesn't mean that it is bad or that I should start spying on them.
The BASIC interpreter on most of those other computers was written by Microsoft
> Lol. 1400sqft is cramped in the US?

If they hadn't done the math I'd have suspected a typo.

I'm in a place not all that much larger (1800 sqft) and it feels pretty luxuriously large for just me and my partner. Big open kitchen, two living rooms, 2.5 bathrooms, three bedrooms (one used as an office for myself) and a dedicated office for my wife.
>In my opinion we still don't have a logical explanation for why the model changes so dramatically from classical to quantum physics.

I think you have this backwards. QM IS the law of the universe and Classical Physics is just a high mass low energy approximation of it. In any case there doesn't need to be a logical explanation at all, the laws of physics are as they are. Why is the value of the fine structure constant what it is?
Great question.

I suppose yes for my use case. I would say 80% is to play music and 19% turn on lights and that last 1% for weather and timers.

The time it takes to pull a phone, ten taps, and do one of those things is going to be more mental and physical effort along with time than speaking out the command.

Of course I hold views and express them in my house and, provided I am recorded, taken to court or executed for such positions, I suppose I am either living my truth and willing to die for it or subject to being silenced by unknown parties at an unknown time for an unknown reason. I refuse the latter.

I have weighed these topics heavily. I also have cameras, walk around wearing a smile, and carry on with activities that I would rather not be made public yet at the same time - if they were, I believe all those who use devices are subject to the same exposure.

I choose not to be famous or become well known. If I had 2x net worth or personal exposure I live in a faraday cage.
No train of thought ever needs to be aired out. But at the same time, if you don't see that your questions are asked, how are you to ever know? Surely we are not anti-education types around here?

You are right that if you find yourself staring to make off-topic statements, like some of the earlier comments with their authors wanting to arbitrarily assert that they don't know how to read, it is time to go outside instead.
Telling someone to stop anti intellectual bigotry is aggressive but it’s not name calling.

Nearly everyone is susceptible to spreading bigotry. Telling them to stop is not the same thing as “calling them a bigot”.

I hear you on the tone but I strongly believe people should be able to call out bigotry without retribution. I will continue to do so in a non-aggressive style. If you still want to ban the account then c'est la vie.
>smash with something better

Not a fan of the aggressive rhetoric here...
Me too, somehow Siri got worse with the addition of Apple Intelligence. It now just drops audio commands that old Siri could handle reliably. The new Siri voice sounds much colder and much more robotic. Siri’s response time is slower too.
Link to actual FOSDEM presentation:

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5553-gett...
You can trust your AI! Jetski is a unified developer knowledge layer
One parallel between the dotcom boom and the Great Financial Crisis was a loosening of standards.

e.g. companies were IPO'ing with zero revenue which would have been unheard of a few years earlier.

This is similar to how people could get "NINJA" (no income, no job, application) mortgages a couple years later.

If you can suddenly get money incredibly cheaply and without any kind of track record, is anyone surprised that things got a little nuts?

P.S. There was even a commercial from a few years after the bust where the scene is a boardroom of executives interviewing two obviously nerdy kids. Someone asks "so this powers the Internet?" and the kids respond "uh, it helps part of the internet work better". Cue executive saying "We would be FOOLS to no invest in this" to narrator: "Times have changed."
If that's the case, couldn't the providers who operate the dark rooms (like OpenChronos) use their own realtime data to do so? Are there any who do that today? (i.e. monetized market surveillance). If so, does it run afoul of regulations?
Not at all, I think it's certainly worth pointing out. Regular people (like the author of this article, presumably) often end up inadvertently parroting the agendas that have been instilled into them, consciously or not.
Can someone who in the know explain what a 'Private Room' actually is - on initial read sounds like a chat room but now I am thinking its more of a closed group of participants who can see/transact on electronic bids/offers.
If they actually integrate this into randomness on their TLS servers, the only risk is that the system for getting the entropy from the lamps and waves somehow screws up, fails to parse an HTTP request or something, and accidentally seeds the whole system with no entropy. Whereas doing literally nothing and just letting Linux boot correctly on metal would be perfectly secure.
Literally at the top of the page:

> Tesla Deaths is a record of Tesla accidents that involved a driver, occupant, cyclist, motorcyclist, or pedestrian death, whether or not the Tesla or its driver were at fault

Even the FSD stat says "FSD related" and not "FSD at fault".

Yes, Teslas are involved in accidents that cause death like literally every other car on the road. However to claim they're somehow uniquely dangerous, when in fact the stats show that they're uniquely safe, is ridiculous.
try again please.
Most informed “dark pools” comment
Personal animus and conflicts are likely in the very small world of a condo association meeting
Things like this juice the anti-landlord sentiment: https://www.propublica.org/article/justice-department-sues-l...
And areas of finance like investment banking. The specific examples I'm familiar with who retired quite young got in during maybe the late 1980s and out in probably their 40s.

There were also tech people during the dot-com bubble assuming they had money to invest and got out in time.

But I agree it was probably easier for people in especially SV at especially some of the large tech companies during about the past 15 years.
Read this https://diataxis.fr/tutorials-how-to/
Key Features

Hierarchical Agent System: Manager/worker hierarchies, intelligent task routing, and specialized agent implementations

Production Ready: Asynchronous processing, dynamic scaling, load balancing, and fault tolerance

Advanced Memory: Semantic storage, task history tracking, and context preservation

Integrations: Support for multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google)

The framework includes pre-built specialized agents for customer service, document processing, email handling, research, marketing, sales, social media, and web search.

I built PilottAI to address the challenges of orchestrating multiple AI agents in production environments. I'd love feedback from the HN community, especially from those working with multi-agent architectures.
It is not "surveillance" when the cops see your tweets.
I too felt threatened
Isn't the problem that this allows for all kinds of forms of insider trading?

> Insider trading—the practice of buying or selling a company's securities based on material, nonpublic information—has long been a contentious issue in financial markets.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/insidertrading.asp

There's also a question of whether they are good for the health of the overall market: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/finances-dark-pools-explained/
It is unfortunately surprising to a lot of people.

For what ever reason many people lack the ability to understand the casual connections between things that happen online and in the real world.
I’m so tired of medicine and healthcare being politicized because people read some shit on Facebook.

These will be unconscionable setbacks in research that are only occurring because it’s easier to tell stupid people to be afraid of and angry about things.
While this does not mention it, in many other discussions Rust vs Ada is mentioned. My (late) introduction to Ada via was finding out in one of the Rust forums.
Hmm ok, let's see where this goes. I don't mind them experimenting with ARM or whatever.
That's nice of you, but you owning the place means that somebody else cannot.
Spies in the Sales Slack
This exact thread was posted the last time this article was posted.

Is this site all bots. Hello? any real humans?!?!
Judging by the cops I see around chicago their main responsibility is reading tweets actually.
Drones swarming sensitive national security sites
> I started seeing these reddish, orange flashing lights that were starting to come in from the Virginia Beach area.

Seems odd

Mysterious drones over sensitive military areas...with lights?
I don't know, honestly. I would imagine it to be illegal to trade on that data before it's released to publicly-available trade streams.

I'm of the opinion that a huge amount of manipulation happens and the SEC either turns a blind eye to it or the SEC goes after easier fish that have worse lawyers to get their income.
It’s nice to have someone around who doesn’t understand that I’ve given them hard work. Big, open ended tasks like “invent a photogrammetry pipeline”
...and simply not including the 19 year expiration in the new version because why would you?
Oh I see. So you technically could have placed the laptop where the phone was to get a connection, but it was in an awkward location so placing the phone there instead and setting up a hotspot was better.
This is absolutely not true in my experience. I've taken pay cuts on job hops twice in 41 years of full time employment: once to switch from stress analysis in aerospace to C programming, once after I took a voluntary layoff. The latter was a contract job, which doesn't mix well with getting divorced. Every other job hop has gotten me a substantial raise.
I read the allegations and the honey pot/sting operation. It is incredibly damning for Deed. It seems like an open and shut case on the merits, but I am not familiar with what a settlement would look like in terms of $$$ and other aspects.

TL/DR summary: Rippling sent a string email, under some type of cover, to Deed leadership that detailed a secret Slack group on the Rippling server that would contain valuable company secrets. And soon after a Rippling employee, who Rippling believed was spying for Deed, somehow decided to access that Slack group to see what was in it. Thus implicating Deed leadership in the spying efforts on Rippling.
Stackdetect
Recovering files from other people's cloud VMs
Couldn't agree more. I'm honestly quite shocked that a ridiculous argument like "it's not natural thus it's bad" holds sway here. I'd have expected better.
It's far more likely that it's a tongue in cheek inside joke than it is they care what outsiders think. Or it's an internal reference that's a dig at someone or something and was never meant to be made public (these firms are small enough this kind of stuff can happen). Non-consumer facing finance is just about the least diversity conscious industry ever. They only care about green.

Source: work in industry.
> And an important thing I did was make a list of things I would not do, as I tend to get distracted trying to do too many activities and I do not want to fall down rabbit holes.

I’m curious about this list.
I tried to train a model to predict the darkpool transactions from the rest of the transactions. It didn't work. I'm back to the drawing board trying other things now.
Why wait for 19 years? Lets change constitution along administration change in DC.
Insider trading.

Also potentially tax evasion?
> By renting you simply choose to pay a monthly fee to a business that will provide you that same property but will take on all that risk instead of you.

I think the issue is that for many people it's not much of a choice since they can't afford to buy housing. It's pay a landlord or be homeless, and some form of shelter is necessary for humans.
The magic file (man magic / man file) is a neat one to read. On my Mac, this is located in /usr/share/file/magic/ while I recall on a unix distribution I worked on it was /etc/magic

The file itself has a format that can test a file and identify it (and possibly more useful information) that is read by the file command.

# Various dictionary images used by OpenFirware FORTH environment

0 lelong 0xe1a00000
>8 lelong 0xe1a00000
# skip raspberry pi kernel image kernel7.img by checking for positive text length
>>24 lelong >0 ARM OpenFirmware FORTH Dictionary,
>>>24 lelong x Text length: %d bytes,
>>>28 lelong x Data length: %d bytes,
>>>32 lelong x Text Relocation Table length: %d bytes,
>>>36 lelong x Data Relocation Table length: %d bytes,
>>>40 lelong x Entry Point: %#08X,
>>>44 lelong x BSS length: %d bytes
When I experienced my first mouse click in windows 95 I was relieved that the spirit of Amiga is alive and kicking. This time even with swappable extension cards, RAM cards, HDDs...
"Out of stock", you mean.
I think this is a situation with most hosting providers not zeroing out volumes for cancelled VMs before re-provisioning them. Still kinda bad, but not as bad as the article makes it seem. It is a good reminder: zero out your volumes when you cancel a VM hosting plan.
Now we know how to prevent it: popularize ideas like "physics is mathematics", "shut up and calculate", "it's useless philosophy not worth to think about", "nobody can understand it, so it's useless to even try". Also a nice excuse for ignorance.
I unplugged Alexa after a certain guy interfered with a publications op wd section. Doubt I'll ever turn it back on.
https://diataxis.fr/ is newer/more fleshed out
2019 was before ChatGPT. Generative AI could change the game for digital voice assistants.
This bug basically hits people who run long lived code sessions with large objects (i.e. data people).

I've hit it in both R and Python in interactive sessions. Otherwise it's generally a non issue.

I can definitely see this being helpful, particularly for the intended context. It would also be useful when you need to move notebook code to a different environment.
It's a bit unreasonable, IMO, to criticize the fact that RDAP communicates using a JSON API -- while JSON is inexorably related to JavaScript (and it's not without its issues), it's ubiquitous on the modern web for serializing data, in any even vaguely REST-shaped API.

You could argue that a more compact, binary, wire format is more appropriate (though I wouldn't, in this case, since for small, simple payloads, I think simplicity and human readability trumps sheer wire efficiency). You could argue that JSON's a poor serialization language in general (which is debatable, contextual, and in this case, I don't think there's a widely-accepted better option).

But let's not act like "a JS-derived serialization format" is some kind of mark of the beast here.
I have done a lot of work for eLearning, govt and banking which required good usability. Also, mui is very good out of the box.

https://mui.com/material-ui/all-components/
Show HN: A nice website Visual Theme Editor for tailwind/shadcn
I wouldn't call it a betrayal, but it's definitely not what I expected. It's kind of disappointing to read about. You can't be both FOSS and optionally FOSS.
Yep. And even if you were to lock down the implementation of the compiler, the version of Go you're using, the specific set of hardware and OS that you build on and deploy to, and so on -- that still doesn't indemnify you against arbitrary or unexpected behavior, if your code violates the memory model!
Physicists uncover 2 superconducting regimes in a Kagome lattice superconductor
That was the first thought I had, too! Glitch in the Matrix, anyone?
It’ll go down at the first sign of rain. We’ve been there with microwave internet.
>What I'd really like (and haven't seen so far, but also haven't searched too hard) is the derivation of an error function that tells me how wrong I am to treat things classically, depending on some parameters (like number of particles, total mass, interaction strength, temperature, whatever is relevant).

There are plenty of ways to do this and things like Wigner functions literally calculate quantum corrections to classical systems.

But generally if you can't even measure a system before it's quantum state decoheres then it's quantum status is pretty irrelevant.

I.e. the time it takes for a 1 micrometer wide piece of dust to decohere is ~10^-31 s and it takes a photon ~10^12s to cross it's diameter. So it decoheres 10 billion billion times faster that a photon could even cross it.
Assembly instructions are English mnemonics. LDA->LoaD Accumulator, STA->STore Accumulator, ADD, SUB, JMP, MOV, etc.
The old PNG specification also explained the rationale: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/spec/1.2/PNG-Rationale.html#R....

But the new spec doesn't explain: https://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-PNG-20031110/
It's by definition insider trading. If they made the trades in public the market price would change to reflect the demand. They don't want that to happen, they want the trade to happen at a non-market price set by people with information about the deal.
Yes, Chomsky's earlier positions include the idea that recursive natural grammars cannot be learnt by machines because of the "poverty of the stimulus." But this result is only true if you ignore probabilistic grammars. (See the Norvig article for some footnotes linking to the relevant papers.)

And of course, LLMs generate perfectly reasonable natural language without any "universal grammar", or indeed, much structure beyond "predict the next token using a lot of transformer layers."

I'm pretty sure that most of Chomsky's theoretical model is dead at this point, but that's a long discussion and he's unlikely to agree.
> It's really only encapsulated in the sense that if you have a finite and small set of unsafe blocks, you can audit them easier and be pretty sure that your memory safety bugs are in there. This reality really doesn't exist much anymore because of how much unsafe is often ued, and since you you have to audit all of them, whether they come from a library or not, it's not as useful to claim encapsulation as one thinks.

Is it? I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of production Rust, and I've only sparingly used unsafe. It's more common in some domains than others, but the observed trend I've seen is for people to aggressively encapsulate unsafe code.

Unsafe Rust is quite difficult to write correctly. (The &mut provenance rules are a bit scary!) But once a safe abstraction has been built around it and the unsafe code has passed Miri, in practice I've seen people be able to not worry about it any more.

By the way I maintain cargo-nextest, and we've added support for Miri to make its runs many times faster [1]. So I'm doing my part here!

[1] https://nexte.st/docs/integrations/miri/
>Can it be that the issue you're describing explains what's happening in every single state? Has development stalled all across the USA (and abroad) simply due to regulation?

I mean this is pretty trivially true, excepting some markets like Japan. 100-200 thousand dollars of wood and drywall and concrete sells for 0.5 to 2 million in much of the country. People (builders) haven't started hating money, they just aren't allowed to build.

Heck if it were legal I'd personally find some investors, buy up a few 1 million dollar sfh's and replace them with 8 500k condos each.