skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is aid, and there is meddling. The two aren't always intertwined. It's best when they aren't.

If "The US" drops a bomb on civilians, by accident or not, does that make all Americans bad, when it was really just a few military people that ultimately pulled that trigger?

With regards to optics, if the picture is blurry, then maybe put on your glasses. "The US" isn't only one thing or one entity.
> Expecting people to just put up with pharmacy deserts or move, is a pretty hostile and careless position.

What other option is there? They won’t vote for a government solution. Can’t have socialism forcing a pharmacy to exist where the market says it can’t.

The idea that moving into town, or the next town over, is going to mean giving up your family and friends seems overstated. Everyone I know in the sticks has some family that’s an hour away because they married or got a job.
ChatGPT fixes your DALL-E prompt if it's bad, but lets it be if it's good
Hi, I haven't really used my HP48 much over the last years. I bought a bunch of HP50G calculators, and since those had most of the stuff I need preloaded, I took the easy path and I just use a stock HP50G these days. I've found that it has pretty much everything I need.
Kwrite and Kate are too modern and fiddly to replace notepad.exe. 99.9% of the time I just want to open a text file. That's it, just open it and show it on the screen.

If you want a notepad that's just a damn notepad, get 'mousepad'. It doesn't do anything, it's the platonic ideal of a text editor.
I remember using one in the late 90s ... it was pretty sweet. Probably doesn't hold up to modern expectations.
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!

— Wordsworth, _The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement_

I love your description of this heady time, which matches the way that I remember it. Surely there are at least pockets of such technological optimism in today's world – but fewer, I fear, and less confident.
Nice. Tcl scripts are widely used in wireless communication,especially base station testing.
what is the population of these 46% of U.S. counties? 15% of the total US population?
There are lots of things that are easy but still aren't done.
these are facts about the C and C++ stdlib sort functions which nobody should really use.
The problem is you can't just arrest your bosses. That would be a military coup.
How is that anything but plain racist and sexist? Who can seriously defend this kind of behaviour?
The key levers had to be staggered on their way back to the type bars so they wouldn't hit each other. The angle isn't ergonomic in origin but mechanical. You probably haven't ever seen a mechanical typewriter, but maybe you can find one to experiment with, or at least a YouTube video showing the workings.
>And many parts of the world don’t exactly share modern US (or democrats party voters) values.

Oh, I'm sure "the rest of the world" is cheering on the US to invade Panama, Greenland, Mexico, and Canada, which are all things that are actually on the table with the fascist right-wing agenda that currently control all branches of US government. "The rest of the world" is right now wishing Harris had won the election, not to mention half the US.
>When the web started, you could make your own website so long as you had a computer and an internet connection (admittedly back then this was a big proviso). You could get a domain name like abc.com and put whatever you liked there. You could blog, and link to other blogs. You were part of an incredibly valuable thing from which you seemed to contribute a tiny bit and gain a great deal.

>That feeling of personal empowerment we sometimes call digital sovereignty has since been lost.

It hasn't been lost with the rise of social media. If someone wants to blog their thoughts they still only need a computer with an internet connection, but now it's even easier than before. They can register an X account, for example, for free compared to spending double $xx per year for a domain. Instead of having to build a whole website and finding a server to host it X makes it easy for you. For blogging X is a more attractive platform than the web is for the average person.

Just because there are aspects that are decentralized, that doesn't mean it's better. It's not like you are free to talk about anything on the web. In practice DNS is centralized. The server's upstream is centralized. Instead of making reports to X, they make reports to registrars and ISPs. If you want to fix the danger of being cut off you need to do it via the legal system as it's not something decentralization can entirely fix.

>This is the system that we already have for email — that’s why you can have an email group that includes people using different providers such as Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo.

Sure email exists, but in practice consumers prefer to chat using centralized platforms. The federated nature of email made it stagnant which made it fail to compete with other messaging platforms.
> they have literally built a catapult on Maidan to throw molotov cocktails at the police. And used said molotovs to set fire to an APC

I guess I wouldn't characterise such focussed use of violence as "starting to get a bit rowdy." Rowdiness specifically implies unruliness, a lack of discipline. I'd also say that escalating from peaceful to violent protest is not a decision one should take in the moment--catapults and molotov cocktails imply preparation.
But it's not necessarily good hacker news material. We get links that do not work, publishers get free promotion without providing anything. We will say something about viable models, and then somebody will post an archive.org link, bypassing the paywall and the viable model.

I flag links that do not work, not because I'm opposed to subscriptions (I subscribe to some online publications), but because I think Hacker News should only link to articles that are actually on the internet.
"Trump takes birthright citizenship to the Supreme Court": https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5327552/trump-takes-bir...
Thanks for Picol! I saw it as a young engineer, and found the simplicity inspiring. It inspired me to write Tcl interpreters as starter projects in the next languages I was picking up, and I learned a lot by trying to push performance , functionality, and correctness.
Your little project ended up inspiring cumulative months of joyful hacking.
It is also a promotion for Lidar tech, Telling future engineers to be cautious of camera vision-only driving systems. I agree with Mark. But not because of the tests he intentionally created to make Lidar look better.

I really do hope camera only tech will do better than this. But I also hope that lidar technology will eventually make it better. Right now , LIDAR needs much heavier computing power to be reasonably powerful.
Nuking a non-nuclear country has less risk of MAD style escalation, yes? Same idea.
Not in use yet on the EX90, just collecting data...

https://www.volvocars.com/us/cars/ex90-electric/features/

>Lidar equipped on early production vehicles will begin in data collection mode and over time the technological capabilities of the lidar will expand to include additional sensing scenarios as part of our Safe Space Technology, including the ability to detect objects in darkness at highway speeds up to 820 feet ahead.
That’s clearly marketed as Level 3. As in, level 3 is publicly available and usable on public roads right now.

From: https://www.mbusa.com/en/owners/manuals/drive-pilot

> Raising the bar in autonomous driving technology, Mercedes-Benz is the first automobile manufacturer in the US to achieve a Level 3 certification based on a 0-5 scale from the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). Under specific conditions, our technology allows drivers to take their hands off the steering wheel, eyes off the road — and take in their surroundings

(Specific conditions being the lead car and speed limits you noted, but that’s not what the person you’re replying to is talking about)

Additionally to their level 3 system, they’ve been granted permission to test Level 4 systems not for public use/availability, on a prototype vehicle:

https://www.wardsauto.com/autonomous-adas/mercedes-benz-gain...
Since commenters are saying this is not specific to MPI (or Germany)*, I suggest instead a comparison to Bell Labs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43295865

From what I can tell their values are similar; the effective difference is making (human & material) resources broadly available vs handing out power (=specifically, organizational capabilities, including hiring, personnel evaluations,etc)

*Curious folks might want to peruse
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harnack-Prinzip

https://archive.today/0Iqes

>Der Wettbewerb um akademische Positionen ist hart, eigene wissenschaftliche Durchbrüche lassen sich nicht erzwingen und bei allen Zukunftsplanungen sind junge Forscher von der Begutachtung durch bereits arrivierte Wissenschaftler abhängig.

--public apologizing by the indignant President last decade
What Tim Berners Lee doesn’t know or understand -

Social media is like fentanyl or cocaine for the masses. It’s preying on people’s stresses and poor mental health by providing temporary relief or disconnecting from the real world. Social media being a place to connect and maybe even run a small business is like 1% of it. It’s a place for attention seeking people filling their loneliness with fake connections and content while content consumers are trying to achieve the same buy consuming instead.

Ive seen people unable to get out of instagram. Their fingers are constantly twitching and scrolling. This is just like drugs and controlled substances. The government punishes the dealers and is trying to control but failing cause there are plenty of corrupt people willing to bypass this. Same goes with social media. Zuckerberg is probably worse than Escobar.

Social medias promise of social connections was really just the same as what drug dealers offer, the good stuff for new consumers and then once they are hooked give them the cheap stuff. They really don’t care about ‘social’ part of it because the addiction potential is so high.

Start doing mass studies on cognitive problems created by instagram and TikTok. Publish them in big journals and show how social media can go from social to addictions so quickly. People already consider phones as part of their body, I won’t be surprised if people also consider their instagram account more valuable than their health.
Because it's a natural monopoly. Nobody ever got taken seriously with a .biz address.

(.com is basically price-regulated because of this, FWIW, Verisign can't just raise prices whenever or however it wants. But obviously it's still a pretty sweet deal for them, I'd imagine.)
> If you leave the detector in place, but don't record the data that was measured, the interference pattern is back.

This is not remotely true. It looks like you read an explanation of the quantum eraser experiment that was either flawed or very badly written, and you're now giving a mangled account of it.
Can we have an alternative to walled off ad system instead?
> will be turned into public utilities. Especially messaging.

Honestly, yes. It's working for China. With America doing its thing right now, it makes sense for e.g. the EU and Canada to look at whether handing communications and social media to American companies makes sense.
The value of most software for most companies has a limit, pushed down both by supply of software engineering labor and that manual labor is actually quite cheap and your software must inherently cost less than what it would to just pay a human to do it.

There are always outliers obviously - whether it's the adtech giants being in the right place at the right time, or niche industries (avionics software costs a lot more to develop, and yet even then the actual SWE salaries there don't reflect it), but by and large the value of software is nowhere near what a decade of market distortion led us to believe.

Remember most of us (including me) are plumbers, not rocket scientists. It's just that a decade of market distortion allowed us to play rocket scientist (with only a tiny minority of those rockets actually ever needing to fly). Now we're back to being what we really are.
> a modest PE on TSLA would say "I expect robotaxi to fail."

No. Just having competition is enough to destroy the expectations on TSLA.

And realistically, they are abut last on that race, being thrown out of track about a decade ago and never managing to make anything work since then. So, yeah, betting on no competition is a very weird option.
Non-experts are neither aware of this nor have no way of independently verifying that themselves. If you observe today's software marketplace, people are not switching to FOSS in response to privacy concerns. They're not even aware of what FOSS licensing is.

And regardless, the issues you list in your linked comment aren't even anything FOSS has a solution for -- all of them are only partially software products. You can't replace something that is more than software, with software. At some point an IP licensing agreement just simply isn't enough can't plow a field. You need a factory, some steel, and some diesel fuel. Farmers don't plow their field with software, they do it with a tractor.
Eh. Good C programmers know what's safe and what's not. Often comments call out sketchy stuff. Just because it's not a language keyword, doesnt mean it's not called out.

Bad C programmers though? Their stuff is more dangerous and they don't know when and don't call it out and should probably stick to Rust.
Yes, 100% they have. And now they’ve moved from e-bikes to cars it seems
Not yet...

https://www.polestar.com/us/polestar-3/safety/#lidar

>LiDAR upgrade subject to availability based on production cycles. Deliveries to start mid-2025.
> What can be done? I don't know

Literally the article.
Thank you! I'm glad you like it! ^.^

It rose from the ashes of a long list of well thought out names that my family rejected, and then a good night's sleep.
https://www.ioccc.org/years.html
While everything you say is true, your reply (and most of its siblings!) entirely misses GP's point.

All languages at some point interface with syscalls or low level assembly that can be done wrong, but one of Rust's selling points is a safe wrapping of low-level interactions. Like safe heap allocation/deallocation with `Box`, or swapping with `swap`, etc. Except... here.

Why does a library like zlib need to go beyond Rust's safe offerings? Why doesn't rust provide safe versions of the constructs zlib needs?
> Human Attention cannot be exploited at population scale or there will be chaos.

Related and very relevant paper: https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ujvharkk/release/1

Attention is being exploited at scale. It's continuing, and evolving, and might soon manifest as other things (like intention).

I am not sure your predictions are accurate, but I at least would like a couple of them to be. I have thought a lot about the idea of certain ubiquitous and permeating things like social media as utilities, or at least non-profits with a public oversight and standards/requirements to comply with that are substantial, limiting, and entirely designed around what is good for the public rather than what is good for a business. Not sure this will ever actually happen, as time goes on, I only find more arguments for why it should, not less.
> Start doing mass studies on cognitive problems created by instagram and TikTok. Publish them in big journals

This has already happened. We didn't kick Big Tobacco by publishing research and just talking about it. We got them with bans. I don't see America doing it. But now would be a good time for e.g. the EU to start regulating social media like a utility.
Hens are pretty quiet, except the first half of the daytime.
Probably because you don't understand what I posted. It clearly states that non-citizens do not enjoy First Amendment protections when it comes to deportation, which is exactly what Khalil is going through right now. If you don't understand how this relates, then you need some deep education on what you were posting about.
> Once there's violence targeting you, the politics is over

You are missing the fundamentals: violence is the continuation of politics, and is resolved by politics.

> If someone has attacked you and there has been no apology or attempt to solve the situation, he must be eliminated.

Really? If someone assaaults you, you must "eliminate" them? That is bizarre, extreme, dangerous behavior.

People have become highly indocrinated with violence as an ideology. Look at the absurdity of this comment.
RDAP Deployment Dashboard
it was fun when having a network solutions/internic contact handle was a badge of honor.

the early internet was fun. whois was always a fun dimension.

is there a canonical rdap client that will end up everywhere? one of the nice things about the early Internet was that there were canonical utilities that were everywhere.
"Implementation defined" and "undefined" are different things.

On my laptop, sizeof(long) is 8; that's implementation defined. It could be different on my phone, or my desktop, or my work laptop.

Undefined means, roughly, "doing X is considered nonsensical, and the compiler does not have to do anything reasonable with code that does X." In "Design and Evolution of C++," Stroustrup says that undefined behavior applies to things that should be errors, but that for some reason the committee doesn't think the compiler will necessarily be able to catch. When he came up with new ideas for the language, he would often have to choose between making a convoluted rule that his compiler could reliably enforce, or a simple rule that his compiler couldn't always give a sensible error message for.

For instance, the original compilers relied on the system's linker. If the compiler could interact with the linker, it could perhaps detect violations of the One Definition Rule ( https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/definition ), but since the linker might have been written by a completely different company, and it's acceptable for different source files to be compiled by different compilers (and even be written in other languages -- https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/language_linkage ) and put together by the linker, and it's common for binary libraries to be sold without source, there's no guarantee that the compiler will ever have the information necessary to detect a violation of the One Definition Rule. So the committee says that violations create a nonsense program, which isn't required to behave in any particular way.
> They got a tweet. (Not a headline.)

They got a headline https://apnews.com/article/serbia-protest-sonic-weapon-85025...

> Serbian officials deny illegal sonic weapon attack on peaceful protesters
Which just means the housing prices can increase to match. Where else are people going to go?
Only $0.18 goes to ICANN, the non-profit. The rest goes to the Verisign which is a publicly traded for-profit company which ultimately gets that $9.59. I bring this up because it of course _doesn't_ cost that much. Incidentally, Verisign posted $1.56 billion in revenue last year and spent about $1.21 billion on stock buybacks in the same time.
Internet Explorer's market share was a little more to a little less than Chrome's in mid 2012. It was the only significant browser to enable Do Not Track by default as far as I know.

Advertisers wouldn't have cared until laws forced them to care. Microsoft enabling it by default ensured there would be no laws.
Why do you think that’s negative?
The most common prescriptions are for blood pressure and cholesterol, which has brought down the deaths from cardiovascular disease dramatically.
Lol what a loser.

Now consider that Zuckerberg is married to a Chinese woman. She was just a means to an end. Like Elizabeth Holmes having kids just before going to jail in order to try and get mercy from a jury.
Well, as another "OG", I'll give you a contrary opinion.

Yes, absolutely, business cycles come and go. But I think there is a really large shift in the overall "technology mindset", and this is something that does feel very new.

I would say that from at least the 70s (just using that because it's my birth decade) up until the mid 2010s or so, pretty much everyone viewed technology as the main driver for societal progress. Sure, there were definitely scary parts of technology (leaded gas, nuclear weapons), but people still felt overall that improvements in technology would lead to improvements in people's lives.

I'm not so sure that optimism exists anymore, nor do I necessarily think it should. I see so much of the tech industry not focused on how to improve people's lives with technology, but on things like how can we addict people to dopamine spikes, or how can we insert ourselves as an intermediary that vacuums up all the profit due to many technologies' natural tendency toward monopoly. I see technology as the primary cause of what I consider the slowly increasing societal disintegration that is happening across many countries.

Even with technology like AI which I think has a huge potential to aid humanity, my greater fear is that it will just lead to much greater concentration of wealth and power and the expense of everyone else.

For sure, part of my pessimism probably comes from the timeline of my career, which started during the extreme optimism of the 90s, when we all thought that the Internet was going to democratize societies even more and that it was going to "bring us all together". When you feel like the opposite happened, it can be tough to come to terms with that.
It's politics. Best not talk about it. Nothing to see here. Move on. Everything is fine.
generic simd abstractions are of quite limited use. I'm not sure what's objectionable about the thing Rust has shipped (in nightly) for this, which is more or less the same as the stuff Zig has shipped for this (in a pre-1.0 compiler version).
> There is no law against a pharmacy owner from charging whatever they want.

On closing, one of my local pharmacies claimed otherwise and referenced the following:

> states have enacted legislation prohibiting certain PBM clients from imposing additional co-payments, deductibles, limitation on benefits, or other conditions (“Conditions”) on covered individuals utilizing a retail pharmacy when the same Conditions are not otherwise imposed on covered individuals utilizing home delivery pharmacies. However, the legislation requires the retail pharmacy to agree to the same reimbursement amounts and terms and conditions as are imposed on the home delivery pharmacies.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1532063/000153206318...
> This an idealized version of revolution

I'm not talking about revolution, but about all violent conflict. It's an actual, universal principle of violent conflict, and of warfare in particular. I didn't say there was no violence, I said violence is politics using a different means, and is only settled by politics.
Funnily enough you did not answer the question. Is there a difference between awake and aware? What is it? How do I test if something is awake but not "aware", or "aware" but not awake?
>The test would have been more interesting if it had included a couple more or so production cars. From what I've read only a couple of cars are available with that expensive Luminar LiDAR

There are none you can buy in the US that have LiDAR active, but certainly Luminar could have gotten one from its partner Volvo and had Mark driven that instead of the professionally driven test rig that was used.
At protests cops purposefully escalate things by having a cop undercover in the crowd to do something violent enough to justify police attacking the crowd.

They lob a rock in the general direction of their buddies and Bob's your uncle.

Years ago someone caught some campus cops tossing some bricks into the bed of one of their pickups behind their station.

They claimed they'd removed them from a section of sidewalk where they'd come loose and become a hazard. First time I've ever heard of a cop doing something like that...