skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump is trying to do a number of things, which, in combination, should terrify you.

1. He's saying that at any time he can declare that the US is being invaded and send any non-citizen to a prison in a third country, and there can be no judicial review.

2. Separately, he's saying that he can deport any non-citizen who poses a threat to national security without judicial review.

3. He and his allies are saying that people who do things he doesn't like are committing crimes. For instance, if they don't like a particular government program they call it fraud. If a judge rules against them, they call for the judge's impeachment.

4. He's saying that he can drive any law firm that opposes him out of business by limiting their access to government officials and government contracts. This would mean that any law firm would have to take a huge risk to represent an unpopular client.

So if you take all of this together, if you're a non-citizen, the President, who has absolutely no compunction about falsely accusing people of crimes, is saying that he can accuse you of being a criminal or a national security threat and send you to a prison in El Salvador. He's saying that the courts cannot review his actions, and even if they could, he can drive the lawyers who might represent you out of business.
I don't necessarily dispute that claim, but do you have evidence to support it ?
More money is not the problem, Firefox receives 600+ million USD per year. Is how they waste the money and going back on their pledges and what Mozilla stood for
> Leaky abstractions doesn't imply abstractions are bad.

No, of course not. I’m saying that the article is bad. Because he’s not saying anything that the term itself isn’t already describing or implying.

No adjectives needed. And certainly no laws.
And Docmost - https://github.com/docmost/docmost
> The last scenario of a Wile E. Coyote-style wall with a fake road painted on it was obviously not realistic

...shows a photorealistic road on said wall. Last I checked, human drivers didn't have organs capable of LIDAR. Most would have crashed into this ridiculous obstacle.
Yes, there's some caveats to that but the simple answer is yes.
A while back this was posted on HN - https://github.com/docmost/docmost/
It serves more use cases than you might think, especially with CRDTs. Nestful is a tree structure and uses Yjs for sync. Permissions can be done in the file system level.

Yes, I agree this is not an end-all be all solution, but the tradeoff is often worth it.
I might have tried just closing and locking the doors first.
Rust's borrow checker still checks within unsafe blocks, so unless you are only operating with raw pointers (and not accessing certain references as raw pointers in some small, well-defined blocks) across the whole program it will be significantly more safe than C. Especially given all the other language benefits, like a proper type system that can encode a bunch of invariants, no footguns at every line/initialization/cast, etc.
Both? Indiscriminate chemical weapons is the issue, not the intent. Otherwise wouldn't all weapons be illegal?
Yes, just without the fairies and the unicorns (or the Dubai travel destination). Or even the retiring.
It’s not about “quality, deep, meaningful” media. It’s about not having a common topic of discussion with a passerby other than politics. But there’s definitely good stuff out there. One of the problems is, too much good stuff actually!
> how users have been trained

Palm's Graffiti handwriting system, for people who took the time to learn it, was strictly better and less frustrating than natural handwriting systems at the time. It lost to keyboard-based systems, which honestly are worse.

In my experience, "good enough" systems that need far less training will win *

I also only use Google Assistant to choose music and make calls in the car, but that's also because it kinda sucks at anything else and I haven't learned all the commands.

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* except for hr systems, for some reason
I dropped Perl for TCL decades ago, after I realized that I could read and understand my TCL code months after I’d written it, but my Perl code was totally opaque.
At least there'll be no confusion about Microsoft suddenly changing the default option to "enable" at a later date and suddenly all your Notepad/paint data is getting processed by an Azure box somewhere.

Unless Microsoft decides to make those features free and enable them for all to increase adoption...
They were talking about the individuals who control nuclear arsenals capable of destroying humanity.
Right! The good old days when the software used to come in a box with several varied width books containing all these Four, and one named Getting Started.

This same set could be easily "transposed" to the contemporary world of web. With all the proper indexing. Why is this "art" "lost" for most of the software :-( ...

BTW, one Excellent incarnation of this documentation art is on the front page right now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43381627
Please don't engage in political flamewar on HN. As Orwell pointed out almost eight decades ago: "The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’."[1] and is now obviously only a dog-whistle for fellow ideologues. This does not belong on HN.

[1] https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
Then I'm just gonna say, my life has more than enough "good friction" and growth already. The last thing I need is more.

Since you use the example of a blog, just writing blog entries has plenty of friction inherent in thinking and researching and writing.

I don't want more friction in generating hero images. That's not something I want to level up in. AI is not stunting anything, because if it weren't for AI, my blog wouldn't have images at all, or they'd be stock images that were even worse. But images help your posts reach an audience, so they're necessary. So Stable Diffusion is great.

I'm not living my life to build all the skills. Skills are a means, not an end. If I can choose between spending quality time with friends vs. building skills illustrating hero images by hand, I'm going to choose the quality time with my friends, because I already don't have enough of that.

Also, the very first example of supposedly "good friction" was kneading dough. That's not leveling you up each time you knead. Just use a dough hook if you've got one.
Why White-Box Redteaming Makes Me Feel Weird
And the whole point of this "test" was to go "hurrrr Elon is dumb" and get the "smart" people to click.
Yes I got out of Tesla a long time back. I guess the board of directors never watched Tropic Thunder.
Gotta admit, the author has a nice sense of eDSL https://picolisp.com/wiki/?taskDB
It's sad that otherwise reasonable folks either aren't aware or are too embarrassed to acknowledge their political biases.

But here we are. Trump is bad(and hey, he mostly is), so now we're justified in lying in any way shape or form that it takes to inflict some harm on his ideas, actions or person. The first casualty of someone like trump is our own character. We can't admit anything he does has positive benefits because to do so would be to give an inch to literal hitler.

If you went back 20 years and asked your average liberal activist they'd be all in favor of rolling back American "imperial actions and organizations" like USAID(long suspected to work closely with the CIA since at least the 60s). But here we are, debasing ourselves for politics' sake.
It would be rational if you would think killing a few (or a lot of) protesters will intimidate the rest of the country into submission. It didn't, but it could have.
Yes, but presumably dealing with just a couple of systems like this has to be a quick matter. These things are probably off right now, so it's just a matter of finding them, shooting the people guarding them and either destroying or taking them.
Close friend who was on the spot described it as car or plane running towards you, you don't only hear it, you also feel vibrations in the body creating panic and fear.

All demonstrations of LRAD I heard on youtube were with high pitched sound, not a "whoosh" as witnesses experienced last night in Belgrade. Can these devices play any kind of sound?

What is described by victims, and what can be heard on some recordings from last nights, sounds more like Vortex Cannon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJpChS-_RJg
I like TCL a lot more for this use case, and I don’t care for Lua at all; but Lua might be a better match for embedding in an OO language.
TCAS on a wide variety of Airbus chassis can actually automatically fly the collision avoidance directives.

https://skybrary.aero/articles/autopilotflight-director-apfd...

Granted it's muuuuch easier in planes because 1) they're already being routed to avoid each other by humans when the route is setup, 2) they continually announce their position with a high degree of accuracy, 3) generally speaking only two planes will be that close to each other at a time in the air so deconflicting doesn't cause huge ripple effects and 4) the sky is really big but also gives them a 3d dimension to play with where streets are 2 dimensional.
Ugh, that's bad, the post is very handwavy.
That clump doesn't exist, except in rare circumstances - it's conceptual, which is why you use a metaphor. The clump of hydrogen and oxygen atoms that make a water molecule is actual, real - you can touch it and see it.
Jeez, it makes me want to buy windows start bar ads for Notepad++ and Paint.net just to raise awareness that there's free options a bazillion times better.
One can leverage Lua in PHP, I think it's handy for user-supplied logic (eg: business rules)
Hey! Not a developer but here are a couple pointers.
As Yousef says below, the text editing bit is hard. We wanted to be build fast and BlockNotejs makes it easy, you get the block stucture, the slash command, you can style your editor and extend with custom blocks. The BlockNotejs team researched the live editing space thoroughly so we could just follow the tracks: BlockNotejs, HocusPocus, Yjs. We "just" had to build the wrapper around with authentication, docs permissions and search and boom you have Docs!
Sporadic radio pulses from white dwarf binary at the orbital period
Here is the motion where the government argues that if the President says the country is being invaded, the courts cannot question his decision. He also says that since removing someone from the country is not "irreparable harm", the courts cannot issue a temporary restraining order preventing the government from deporting someone.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69742127/01208720432/jg...
An argument with which they could win a scenario conveniently tailored by you, that you have arbitrary control over, and can twist until their argument is rendered senseless again?

> I would prefer protesters not be killed by oppressive governments. I guess you prefer tanks and guns.

On a tangential note, may I ask your stance on the Russian invasion of Ukraine? I'd guess you're also a great proponent of the "peace" the Trump administration is drafting?
I assume it was used to disperse riots, in Serbia it was used as people were standing peacefully, observing 15 minutes of silence.
Whatever Tesla uses for its voice navigation just works every time. No idea why Siri (and Alexa) still have such poor command recognition by comparison.
From the benchmarks on 4vCPU and num_clients=4, the numbers doesn't look much different.

Reactive looks promising, doesn't look much useful in realworld for a cache.
For example, a client subscribes for something and the machines goes down, what happens to reactivity?
I'm afraid HW4 is still not lidar-like.
You do it with the waves inverted otherwise the delay would have to be dynamic and frequency dependent.
"Features" that a large number of users would gladly not pay for anyway. MS has really burned a lot of the reputation and trust they've built in the early days.

The new Win11 notepad is repulsively modern, a good example of how far software has fallen. I don't want tabs, more whitespace, nor more sluggishness or AI "enhancements" in a simple text editor.
I don’t follow the argument that if we don’t do this then we must have boots on the ground. We don’t have to do either one.
During the first era where notepad.exe really sucked (non-standard key commands and such) I switched to the very lightweight notepad replacement metapad.exe by Alexander Davidson and never looked back.

That said, after over 25 years primarily on Windows, I am planning my exit to Linux. Windows has diverged from my expectations.
I don’t disagree. I do think there will be a tendency to say, “We can do X using AI.” When X can happen, but it isn’t guaranteed to happen by the system.

Here, it doesn’t sound like the features promised were truly demo-able, and when they were they were “not working properly up to a third of the time”.

Having a random CRUD MVP that is 2/3rds done is different than having a SOTA LLM implementation only being 2/3rds reliable. It is a vastly different problem to get from there to the finish line.

But I think marketing types would be equally likely to make promises in both scenarios.
> everyone I know

Not a representative sample of Western humanity. Look up surveys on knowledge and beliefs; you'll be very surprised.
AIUI they are mainly banned because they could lead to escalations in chemical weapons usage. If your enemy uses tear gas vs cs gas, it could be hard to tell right away and you might feel pressure to use all the tools you have available (including lethal chemical weapons) vs. Play by the rules.

Of course if you are fighting a real war, there is probably going to be chem weapons used. It happened in Syria. It is happening in Ukraine. It will keep happening. Geneva convention is wishful thinking.
Signals And Threads (a Jane Street podcast) had an interesting discussion about documentation [0]. There was also an interesting reference to literate documentation (I think similar to Jupyter notebooks but as documentation).

[0] https://signalsandthreads.com/writing-technically/
Not related to the topic, but I first came across Thymer about (I want to say) 2 years ago when I looked for a todo.txt GUI. I found the blog they used to document building it: https://80daystartup.com/

Somehow, this thing is still not available for testing yet. Not hating but isn’t this supposed to be the category where new solutions launch every single day? While I am still very much interested, I’ve lost any hope that this will become a real thing to try out any time soon.
I'm not as familiar with Shortcuts API but from a quick glance it seems less rich than apple events/apple script. With LLM + apple script you could achieve computer use agents on easy mode. Not just one-off "what's the weather" queries but complex multi-step interactions like "send the latest photo I took to John".

To start with, Automator on mac would be the perfect place for LLM integration. And Script Editor too. Being perhaps one of the few read-only languages, people would probably _prefer_ an LLM spit out applescript for them. And Apple probably has the highest quality data set internally. Combined with the fact that there there is a uniform way to specify the API surface (sdef), this is a task that is possible by most LLMs today. Just apply a little marketing spin to change the angle from "niche power user feature" to "apple uses computer-use agent AI to allow average joe to automate their entire workflow" and it's a smash hit.

From there it's not much of a stretch to slap some speech recognition (just take Whisper, it already beats whatever iOS uses), add some guardrails, and have it be orders of magnitude better than what Siri currently is capable of. And this is all possible with today's LLMs, and thanks to deepseek without paying a cent to anyone else. When interactive computer-use does get mostly solved, that can be added in as a fallback for anything where applescript doesn't cut it (e.g. web navigation, electron apps, etc.). But there's a clear logical progression that allows you to easily evolve the user experience as the technology matures without having to throw out your stack the entire time.

But to me I think their fate was sealed was Shortcuts was shipped on mac when Automator already existed. And it's clear apple events has been a languishing feature, with integration in native apps already breaking.
Whatever the reason, in this case, it's broken
It's success as a business aside, at a technical level neither Cloudflare nor its competitors provide any real protection against large scale scraping.

Bypassing it is quite straightforward for most average competency software engineers.

I'm not saying that CloudFlare is any better or worse at this than Akami, Imperva etc, I'm saying that in practice none of these companies provide an effective anti-bot tool, and as far as I can tell, as someone who does a lot of scraping, the entire anti-bot industry is selling a product that simply doesn't work.
And that is possibly the aim. When the protests turn into violence or sabotage, the state uses that to justify its own violent repression.
This kinda reminds me of how, in the wake of the smartphone, for a few years every company thought they needed to boost engagement with their product. Even if their product was something in the background that people are happiest not thinking about. Do we need to engage with our oil filters? With our clothes washers? With our insurance policies?

Some things are best if they stay simple, efficient, reliable stable, and quiet. Not needy, demanding, high-maintenance, attempting to ensnare us through as many of our senses as they can get their claws on.

Some things are an experience, other things should just be quietly useful. Do we ask ourselves which we should be, before adding another colorful icon, with a red dot in the corner, with a number inside the red dot, to the poor user's screen?

And I hate haptic feedback. I keep my phone on silent 24/7 just to not feel my phone creepily zapping my fingers, and for some reason silent mode is the only way I can accomplish that.
Related: "Pivotal tracker will shut down" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41591622
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_riot
Very important to know, though could you share a source where we can read about it?
This is technically correct, but a bit pedantic.

Sure, you can technically just write your own vulnerability for your own program and inject it at an unsafe and see the whole world crumble... but the exact same is true for any form of FFI calls in any language. Is Java memory safe? Yeah, just because I can grab a random pointer and technically break anything I want won't change that.

The fact that a memory vulnerability error may either appear at no place at all OR at the couple hundred lines of code thorough the whole project is a night and day difference.
I am curious how many people are like me and never use the voice assistants on phones. I have amazon alexa devices and only use it for timers, weather, and controlling lights. I never use my phone's voice assistant. (I'm not even sure how to turn it on)
Are chemical irritants preferable, then? Or just LEOs in riot gear with rubber batons? There's no amount of pushback or repercussion that a rioter will feel is fair or humane, and the mindset of "I'll turn violent and/or destructive if my participation in civil unrest is punished" is a perfect justification for these systems to exist.
Why is it inevitable that we if we didn’t have US propaganda we would just be shooting people instead? I just don’t follow that.
I'd say it's similar to spellcheck. We don't spell very well anymore, and soon we won't get any better at writing.
That's very cool, as a happy user of TipTap this is the first I've heard of BlockNote - excited to check it out. I've also built a few modest things on top of TipTap and felt a slight "tower of babel" unease, would you mind saying a bit about what BlockNote takes from TipTap which couldn't be accomplished with Prosemirror alone?

This comes from a place of pure curiosity, I don't actually believe this strata of editor packages is in any way inherently bad!
It failed also on kid mannequin. Do you have many kids around?
Yes because Trump's lot are too stupid to break down windows and doors

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/01/06/jim-himes...
> At what point does it really stop mattering if this is C or Rust?

If I read TFA correctly, they came up with a library that is API compatible with the C one, but they've measured to be faster.

At that point I think in addition to safety benefits in other parts of the library (apart from unsafe micro optimizations as quoted), what they're leveraging is better compiler technology. Intuitively, I start to assume that the rust compiler can perhaps get away with more optimizations that might not be safe to assume in C.
If you want to play with reading/recreating a very small Tcl interpreter, recently I put Picol (a 500 lines of C code Tcl interpreter) on Github. It was still on the web, but a bit more "hidden". I had a chance to re-read the code, and it is not in the category of code I regret writing :D Still relatively useful for newcomers, I hope.

https://github.com/antirez/picol
There's another more thorough version from the same author, for what it's worth. Just moved on from that company but the overall points are the same https://diataxis.fr/
smh (shaking my head) doesn't work
>Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. The AI workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data

This is always a major red flag for me.
Operator is typically thousands of kilometres away
There are several different replies here and they are all very different. Some replies even say it is bad, but that it’s a kind of necessary evil.

So no I don’t think I’m asking a leading question and no it’s not obvious. That’s a reply that’s used when you don’t want to test your answer.

And why would we be so naive to think that Google would discern the intent of American political propaganda for us?
I assume that would be seen as creating unnecessary burden, provided that the script works and does what's required. Is it better than the code written by people who have departed, and now no one can explain how it works?

The developer in question has been later promoted to a team lead, and (among other things) this explains why it's "my previous place" :)
There is also a big elephant in the room that we are sort of ignoring with the whole AI stuff, which is when flat design came about, a lot of the designers who weren't really good now suddenly had jobs because everybody could put a flat thing on the page and call it a "button".

Good designers still exist but they are simply crowded out.

The same is happening today with the AI generated apps. Most front ends now in another 10 years will be filled with AI generated apps. But good design and applications will be around but they will be crowded out.

And you see this in almost other industries as well. For example, architecture has simply gotten worse. A building from today looks much, much worse than let's say a building from even 300 years back.

So we will simply have worse software and worse performing software which breaks down all the time in the near future and we will all suffer but there is no solution out of this.

Things don't always get better.
>cases of permanent deafness

Ah so these sonic weapons are indeed seriously harmful. I was wondering if hearing loss was a result.