skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should count your lucky stars.

I had two good managers, the rest ranged from innocuous to malevolent. One manager even cursed me for refusing to approve an engineering deviation to allow a passenger plane to fly when the wing composite was delaminating. He said he went through the trouble of preparing the pseudo legal document and how dare I refuse to sign. I told him a) I was not the SME on wings as I was an engine guy b) if this was such a no brainer why didn’t he or the SME sign their approval. This was when I worked at a major airline and wasn’t the only egregious thing I had experienced. This incident was one of the reasons I switched to IT because in software it was unlikely you could be criminally held responsible for such irresponsible behavior.

Anyways. My guess is if I had signed off the pilot would not have accepted the plane during his preflight. Then an investigation would have started on who would have signed off on such a thing.
One of them helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima in the famous photograph:

> Until recently, a page on the Defense Department’s website celebrated Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, as an emblem of the “contributions and sacrifices Native Americans have made to the United States, not just in the military, but in all walks of life.”

* https://archive.is/https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigat...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Hayes

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima
California's AB 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups, Cement Big Tech Monopoly
This map makes Des Moines, IA seem appealing.
I was recommending laptop to someone and the only criteria he had was a number pad and a big screen because he mostly use Excel. I think input method is fairly context sensitive. Touch is the most versatile one as it acts directly on the output, but I still prefers a joystick for playing game, a midi keyboard for creating music, a stylus for drawing, and voice when I'm driving or simple tasks. Even a simple remote is better than mouse+keyboard for an entertainment center (as long as you're not entering text). We need to bring the human aspect of interface instead of the marketing one (branding and aesthetics).
It always bothered me that some things were tucked away in "obscure" submenus, especially when the obscurity is an implementation detail.

Really, it doesn't matter that GEGL operations are... GEGL operations.
There are 100 GB BDXL flavors of M-Disc, but yeah definitely not enough for really large amounts of data but large enough to store a good chunk of my photos which is mostly what I'd want to keep around.

Videos would fill that up pretty quick though.
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QKD is essentially a layer 1 protocol. It's not in the same realm as symmetric key establishment.

That said, there are quantum-resistant key establishment algorithms out there, and more likely one of them will be selected.
https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-do-a-lot-of-desktop...

Yes, sort of since 2022... =3
Intelligence is an amalgamation of things. I read somewhere once that scientists tried to figure out which gene is the high IQ gene and found many contributed. It isn't a well defined game like chess. Being good at chess is to intelligence like having great legs might be to attractiveness.

You're don't like pirates? You're either in the Navy or grandstanding. People love pirates and even killers. But only if they're successful. Otherwise One Piece wouldn't be the most popular manga of all time.

Achieving goals? Why not define it as making predictions? What makes science science? The ability to make predictions. What does the brain organ and neural networks do? They model the world to make predictions. So there you have it.

This whole conversation has been about reducing intelligence to its defining component. So I propose this answer to your question. Take all the things you consider intelligent, and order them topologically. Then define intelligence as whatever thing comes out on top. Achieving goals depends on the ability to make predictions. Therefore it's a better candidate for defining intelligence.
I am just starting out with the ironclad kernel and the gloire OS built on top of it [1,2]. From the web page:

"Ironclad is a formally verified, real-time capable, UNIX-like operating system kernel for general-purpose and embedded uses. It is written in SPARK and Ada, and is comprised of 100% free software."

I recall AdaCore working with Ferrous Systems a while back. Did anything come of it for rust? I believe one of the non-starters is rust does not have a formal standards specification like C, Common Lisp, or other PLs. It's hard to develop formal verification systems for a moving target.

SPARK has formal verification tools and a legacy of high-integrity applications. The Ironclad kernel is progressing towards a substantially, formally verified kernel written in SPARK. Gloire is an OS implemented on top of Ironclad for PoC.

I have sort of given up on rust, because I just don't find it enjoyable. I am working with Zig. This would be a good direction for Zig to take. Glad to see the effort here. I'll have to check it out a bit more.

[1] https://ironclad.nongnu.org/

[2] https://github.com/Ironclad-Project/Gloire?tab=readme-ov-fil...
"Free speech" to the American right wing has never meant (and will never mean) anything beyond "I'm free to say whatever I want, and you're also free to say whatever I want." They pretend to oppose censorship when they're out of power because it's effective at garnering the support of credulous dimwits.
Walking down the street is not a constitutionally protected activity not that the police should monitor it without a statutory reason. Driving also isn’t. If you think different you’ll have to cite different. But assembly and expression are constitutionally protected.

But back to my original question, why are the police monitoring constitutionally protected activity?
I'm 100% with you on this but I will admit there was one concept / short run project that actually looked like it was on the right track: The Optimus Maximus keyboard[1].

The keyboard itself was not good for a bunch of reasons, but the idea was gold. Individual, mechanical keys which could change their legends to suit the current context. You wouldn't have to memorize every possible layout before using it, and you could change the layout to suit whatever you're currently doing.

The closest equivalent I've seen would be the pre-mouse-era keyboards which could accept laminated paper legends for specific applications. The next closest, tho in the opposite direction, would be modern configurable keyboards with support for multiple layers layers.

1: https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/maximus/
>There are many people" is a useless platitude to any number of people who fall through the cracks.

And so too is "any number of people who fall through the cracks". For any given situation or context in which the vast majority fare okay at least, there will be a certain number who fall through the cracks (just as there will be some who do very well) and you can't design all the rules around a system to completely eliminate the possibility of falling through the cracks, or at least you cant without risking externalities that make some key part of it worse for many more people.

As a criticism of any complex system, pointing out unusual worst cases is usually little more than a sort of useless hand-wringing for the sake of doing so, unless one has a solution to propose.
You are presupposing that there is always a counterparty to trade with. What about sell-side market makers? Those clearly aren't "investments". I your solution, all buyers will pay more and all sellers will receive less.
HTTP/3 isn't really HTTP. It's a protocol designed to deliver javascript applications to a browser. It's not even TCP. It's UDP and then a CA TLS only layer of QUIC on top of that. It is entirely designed for large corporate use cases the the detriment of anything else.
Hard disagree. Your link relies on gradient descent as an explanation, whereas OP explains why optimization is not needed to understand DL generalization. PAC-Bayes, and the other different countable hypothesis bounds in OP also are quite divergent from VC dimension. The whole point of OP seems to be that these other frameworks, unlike VC dimension, can explain generalization with an arbitrarily flexible hypothesis space.
Why would you assume a business owner gets personal satisfaction from their business?

They do it because they believe the effort and risk provides a decent reward compared to other available alternatives.
Having used a few different sizes, I agree, for portability 14" is perfect, but I would add 1 thing. The screen should be 16:10, not 16:9.

I have a Thinkpad T61 and its screen size is 16x10, to me that is the perfect Laptop.

One more thing, no number pad. It should have a keybord like the old thinkpads.
It is an interesting problem, but that annoyed me a bit because it's so brazen.
See the data here - it’s slightly off as the middle bucket ends at $249k but that doesn’t substantially change the point:

https://features.thecrimson.com/2023/freshman-survey/makeup/

It’s actually easier for the Ivy League schools: they have huge endowments to cushion year to year variation, and they have massive international draw so Harvard or Yale can offer many students a great aid package and still come out ahead thanks to the rich international students paying full price for the prestige and the chance to intern with top researchers.

My wife is a high school science teacher and many of her students have been surprised that they were looking at a higher total loan with state schools because so much of the costs have been shifted away from general fund revenue.
LTO tape is excellent for archival storage because that is what it was designed for. It uses a two layer error correction code that means it has an incredibly low bit error rate so you will still be able to read a tape that was stored correctly 40 years later. Just remember to also store a compatible drive!
Best I can answer is this: https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/why-harvard/affordabi... (the page I referenced) has a link to https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculat..., and that page asks for both the size of the family, and the number of children in college. From that, I infer that they take the number of kids into account in some way.
Data on LTO tapes stored correctly should last 40 years.
Yeah, and it's not "better", but actually less general, relying on optimization/GD, unlike OP.
You know how YouTubers are always talking about how "the algorithm" didn't like this video, or loves that video. Or that "the algorithm" is a huge black block which nobody knows how it works.

Youtube's "the algorithm" will make or break both videos and channels.

But "the algorithm" isn't really a mystery. At a basic level, it just shows a bunch of video recommendations to viewers, and measures if they click it or not (watch time, comments, likes also factor into the algorithm, but none of that matters if they don't click first). The higher the click-through rate, the more the video is pushed in recommendations.

And the only things a viewer sees is the thumbnail, channel name, and video title. They have to decide which video they are going to watch based on just that.

So really, a large chunk of "the algorithm" is just how appealing your thumbnail is to potential views.
Rhombus Language
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- If you don't want traffic don't put up a website on the public web.

- If you don't want comments don't have comments.

- If you don't want your website to be public then don't put it on the public web.

And companies are getting just that from Cloudflare. They are no longer on the public internet. They're putting themselves on the modern AOL: Cloudflare.
I agree with you that we should not normalize abuse. It's fine and required that we call these things out. I'm with you on that one.

Where I'm not with you is on the mass hysteria that the world is ending and the grasping on what are anecdotes to fuel a political struggle. The American left has collectively lost their minds it seems and they want to turn their prediction that this is the end of democracy in the US into a prophecy that fulfills itself.

The latest on the Brown professor is that the judge accepted that the deportation happened before his order could reach the border agents. The CBP also responded they would not violate a judge's order. So all seems at it should be. If judge's orders are violated there are mechanisms to deal with that such as holding those people in contempt and sending them to jail. It's true that there could be a constitutional crisis if e.g. the president pardons those people but it seems we're not there yet.

There is a fine line here between order and anarchy. Let's stay on the order side. A few cases don't prove anything. We are seeing a policy shift which is what this administration said it would shift if it got into office. For the most part this policy is under their control and people knowingly voted for that. Democracy means accepting that even if it differs from what you think. We are seeing ever increasing polarization which on its own is going to lead to the destruction of democracy. This should be more worrying.
Tape on a spool is 3D volumetric storage
It's because it has two URLs, so HN doesn't realize they're the same content.
> other than US defense contractors

Not really. Europe needs to rearm in a hurry, and by a lot. There is not way to do that without help from the US defense contractors.
I mostly skip videos with arrows in the thumbnails.
> Did anything come of it for rust?

They parted ways, and both are selling Rust compilers.

> I believe one of the non-starters is rust does not have a formal standards specification like C

It's not an issue in practice.
I haven't looked at the implementation. I was making an off the cuff comment to see if anyone had more information, but yes, ultimately I assume that you could mute an unwanted node with brute force? Or just move further away from it?

I was thinking more you flood the "mail bag" of the "message carrier" and assume the implementation has a LRU eviction policy on said "mail bag".
Yeah I took CS109 (through SCPD), it was a blast. But it took some serious time commitment.
They aren't saying that's what is happening but the underlying assumption is similar to that.
I can’t really explain why (there’s no L!) but the name struck me the same way for some reason.
Youtube content is driven heavily by children and sheltered people who are easily engaged with animalistic displays of expression and bright colors. I wish I was joking
The reason I gravitated to rust is that it wasn't c++.

C++ has too many footguns and too much crap that makes it terrible... I am looking exactly at template compiler output and also cmake.

So, get on board or don't but don't try to make it C++ again.
best is to have a filesystem that can do background bit rot scrubbing
Is this optical phased array beam steering hardware supposed to be affordable for ISPs such as Monkeybrains to use for end users, or is this just for backhaul connections?
Do you know of some society in which "petty crimes and code violations" are more or less similar socially to homicides? I'd suggest pondering a comment more carefully. People mostly don't contemplate gunning someone down anywhere near as frequently or thoughtlessly as they might jaywalk, or get a speeding ticket. (though there are exceptions of course)
There's this great article on the Optimus Maximus, and how it directly lead to the now popular Stream Deck (by Elgato, not the Steam Deck by Valve)

https://www.theverge.com/c/features/24191410/elgato-stream-d...
The scroll wheel is a step up over both d-pad and touch screen. I also had a Creative Zen which has a scroll lane and it was great too. Why? Because interaction was a factor of motion control and it has great feedback. Same with Apple touchpad. Yep you still have to learn it, but it was something done in a few minutes and fairly visual.

There's a reason a lot of actually important interfaces still have a lot of buttons, knob, lights, and levers and other human shaped controls. Because, they rely on more than visual to actually convey information.
> learning from LLM

Or from each other?
I don't use but do like Rust. It's a step in the right direction. And yet, I'll be happy to stay on Debian with C coreutils...

> These utilities are at the heart of the distribution - and it’s the enhanced resilience and safety that is more easily achieved with Rust ports that are most attractive to me.

What safety issues were found in coreutils in recent memory? I'd be willing to bet that this transition will not solve more problems than it creates.

That said, I'd love for `fd` and `rg` and similar to be included in the standard list-of-things-available-anywhere. It's cool they're now in Debian-stable and don't have to be installed through whatever hacks!
FinCEN demands reporting of cash transactions over $200
I got seriously terrified by reading a PKD SF story at 15 about the few surviving humans hiding from war drones still hunting people long after the war had ended.
Maybe yes maybe no. We had some of this in the previous Trump presidency and despite the fear mongering we got over it. The US has plenty of checks and balances it seems (I'm not American so easy for me to say ;) ). We also had democratic governments that didn't make any material changes to what are questionable immigration practices or in some cases made things worse.
Every time before, as we well know, the release was promised and then did not happen. Each time, as one imagines, Henry Kissinger's lawyer sighed heavily, picked up the phone, dialled a number, and said, "This, again?" But this time Kissinger is dead. (I quite realize that this is slanderous but what else could have changed?)
I wonder what that means exactly, but haven't been able to find any details.
not sure if this is good thing, but recently i've seen youtube recommend videos from very small channel(sub <10k)
I thought CMYK was part of the 3.0 release?
There are 181,000 apps with subscriptions out there, not millions

That number (as the “in general RevenueCat apps overperform” statement) are based on the data from app performance tracking companies like data.ai, Apptopia, Appfigures, etc - it’s these companies jobs to index apps and their performance. How those work and how that compares to where our data comes from is worth a whole seperate post

I work at RevenueCat (shared that info before, by the way, + this is the same handle I use in most other places)
Laboratory Escapes and "Self-Fulfilling Prophecy" Epidemics [pdf] (2014)
It's a service in operation now.
Can you explain why you think wanting everyone to comply with the spirit of the (tax) law is "hubris"?
Can we fix this link? Surely they don't want a staging server out there

https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/
Just some small corrections here because the news has changed since like last year where you still seem to be. As of today, Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire (after tons of delays, like a negotiator being assassinated [1], but that was a moment ago), but one side is not actually respecting it [2], and the other side is literally in the process of dying en masse from hunger [3,4]. Really hard to even know what you are talking about here!

1. https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2024/0801/hamas-...

2. https://archive.is/rzLYF

3. https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/3/17/palesti...

4. https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147312
From the article:

> About 55% of Harvard undergraduates receive some type of financial aid, according to the university.

Which implies that 45% of Harvard undergrads do not receive any financial aid, ie pay sticker price. Anecdotally that would match my expectations.
well there is this now as well - you don’t need to use the stars when you already have detailed aerial images of the earth - https://www.spectacularai.com/gps-free
I really hope open source/free software doesn’t get a bunch of AI nonsense added to it just to satisfy some KPI somewhere.
UK's Online Safety Act: Ofcom Can Now Issue Sanctions
Sure, and while if you want it to stick, you'll have to get rid of the CEO and the shareholders, too.

Those 10 layers of management work for them, not you. That's why they exist.
I was expecting to see some mention of CoreWeave's recent acquisition of Weights & Biases. This is a glaring omission.
I'd be shocked if NovelAI doesn't account for one of their largest customers.

Of course it'd be very uncomfortable to admit on your S1 one of your biggest customers just got chased off their payment provider for the kind of content they primarily generate.
When is the Rust rewrite of Juju coming?
New Form of Parkinson's Treatment Uses Real-Time Deep-Brain Stimulation
Webb Just Captured the First Direct Image of Carbon Dioxide on an Exoplanet
When Qt licensing was a mess there was also the GNU Harmony project to try and create a replacement for Qt.
Vim's stdin and stdout behavior (2018)
Totally agree on my tip not being a silver bullet for all situations, just wanted to pass it along in case somebody finds themselves needing to sanitize input for queries rather than constructing prepared statements.

I was a bit perplexed by the final destination of command line for data and/or queries -- seems like an odd choice when they could've just interfaced directly with the database like a civilized human hahaha
Probably worth writing about how this data compares to “the whole” at some point, but I’m going to decompress from working on these 263 pages for a bit, first
If they were maximizing for revenue, they’d just only admit people who could afford it.

They could easily fill all of their slots with people who can afford to pay the full tuition.
.. tiny steps don't accomplish anything? Do you think tech innovations spring out of nowhere?
What do you think about Waymo?
Just buy an Apple TV and move on
The BM part means "Ballistic Missile", which sounds like they're basically "thrown" into a parabolic path towards their target, like a falling rock.

Or am I over-interpreting the name?
It takes for-fucking-ever every place I've lived.
The skeleton discussion reminded me of this real-life analysis of Vladimir Putin's high heels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY6lHjZjYXE
Ubuntu (via Debian) already had a system for this in `update-alternatives`, which is almost certainly already installed on this person's system.

Would it be possible to toggle coreutils/uutils via that instead of reinventing it? They're both effectively symlinks-managers.
Did I misunderstand or are the solutions:

A) Up the power and blast through

B) Use a different suboptimal frequency with much lower bandwidth

Neither seem like actual solutions...
The comment I replied to implies that all $200k income families are "well off". I think this is a reasonable counterexample, and in SF tuition assistance for childcare includes families up to a little more than $200k so the city government appears to agree.
It's an approximation algorithm. It's not about the runtime. It's about the worst or average case approximation quality while remaining in a polynomial budget.
20 Years of YC / HN
It's just a way to donate, similar to lots of "adopt a xxx" programs.
Why? Many are reporting losses. Do you expect them to pay taxes on something other than profit?
Plot twist: they own the server farm.
I think that ensuring data can load back into a hosted service is a losing proposition.

As software updates, the shape of data changes. This would make a significantly harder problem to solve.
i think the cost is seen more in opportunity losses. “if the rich investor leaves then who will pay. for the hermitage!”, as if investment is not entirely globalized at this point.
Its always surprising to hear that people use this tool