skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having not listened to the presentation, his content may be different. But, throughout my career this dichotomy has played out again and again. Coders learn the syntax of the language, usually at home and sometimes on the job. Maybe they built their own website as a teenager. They don't necessarily learn the paradigm related to the language. Frequently they apply the paradigm of another language to the new language (if any paradigm at all), e.g., their VB looks like 'c' or COBOL, their SQL is painful to read and worse to run. They wouldn't know a linked list or a btree if it bit them in the butt. And forget about DeMorgan or boolean logic. Reentrant, recursion, concurrency, stack, heap, coupling, cohesion,... Not happening here. But hey, they made the computer do what they wanted it to do. Just not well. Just not reliably. Just not sustainably. And certainly not maintainable. Programmers on the other hand, usually have an education that facilitates their coding. Yes, some learn it themselves and quite well. But, they learn more than the syntax of the language. They learn algorithms. They read - a lot. When I started decades ago, it was Dijkstra, Parnas, Yourdon, et al and others I've forgotten. I've been retired for a number of years and don't keep up with the languages, literature, etc. like I once did. But, guess what, the average coder doesn't either nor do many of the programmers. Part of the problem is that far too many people enter the industry without a realistic view of what the career entails, its difficulty, the effort expected, and so forth. They are chasing the money. Hence, a few years down the road, they are frustrated and dissatisfied and want a change. It's not for everyone anymore than becoming a doctor would be. This brings to mind the thread a couple of days ago about the "worst programmer". The correct answer, IMO, should always be yourself and you should be striving continuously to rectify that. Otherwise, maybe software isn't the right thing for you.
How long did it take to sift through those?
I think it's not just about poverty, some stats about "precarious employment" - as in "I'm above the poverty line, but if I lose my job (or even one of the two jobs I have to do to get by), that will change very quickly" - would also be interesting...
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I’m not sure what your point is. This subthread is about whether AI-generated pictures can be distinguished from real photographs. For the pictures in the article, which are already cherry-picked (“best of 8”), the answer is yes. Therefore I don’t quite share the worries of GP.
In civil (and criminal) law, yes, but in "förvaltningsrätt", public law, it's somewhat different. Cases are judged mainly from documents and sometimes the state can sort of force you to provide documentation in a manner similar to discovery and subpoena. It's also where you might end up with a reversed burden of proof, notably in tax cases.

It's still a much saner jurisdiction in many respects, especially for physical persons. You might get marginally nicer judgements in commercial law in certain US states, though I'd personally prefer both swedish law and swedish arbitration due to a combination of lower costs and the average quality of commercial law here. The Stockholm Chamber of Commerce arbitration institute is actually rather popular among international corporations for roughly these reasons.
Dialyzer/dialyxir are just not worth it 99.9% of time, better wait a few years for a proper static typing support, or use something else if you need it right away
You may be right, that there won't be any "SV" in Berlin. It's true that it's unlikely to happen for all the reason you've provided and others. And the real SV in California is clearly not the SV it used to be either. It's easy to see everything a bit more distributed going forward. Some things happening in Berlin, other elsewhere in Europe - and still some in California and elsewhere in the world - and maybe China is going to seize its chance this time, who knows... Let's see, we live in interesting times.
Habeas corpus applies to illegal detention. After an arrest, you may be detained even without charges for a "reasonable amount of time". In most cases, this will be 48-72 hours depending on the state and your circumstances. After that "reasonable" period has passed without charges, your detention would then be illegal, and habeas corpus would be the perfect remedy.

So why isn't it used?

The answer is simple and twofold:
1. These people don't know to do that, let alone how.
2. They don't have the money to pay somebody who knows to do that.

The final, uncomfortable answer here is that most of these people are actually guilty. If they filed the writ, it would only serve to speed up the actual filing of charges. This could be seen as a good thing, but why would you take the few thousand dollars to file habeas corpus when your family is now suffering because you aren't working anymore - and because you committed the crime you aren't going to be working for some time to come. So might as well wait out the period anyway. Is it fair or good? No, its brutal calculus.
Same story back in 2016, they either laid off or pivoted heavily on the production plan. Can’t trust those real sense folks
You're not worried about a member of the Five Eyes coalition stealing data? Wild.
This article suggests that Nix could have prevented xz backdoor, only to conclude that backdoor could be avoided by building from a git tag rather than source tarball.

This is true for every distro and it grinds me that Nix is even mentioned.
> Going to assume you're genuinely interested here

Sure I am! Thanks for the information.
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I'm just pushing against this idea that some overwhelming majority of Americans voted for and support Trump, when that's not true.
You can use Gemini from VScode. (Well at least copilot can call it)
A feminist argument against weakening encryption – Light Blue Touchpaper
Virtually.
Careless People: Facebook insider's memoir reveals more in what it omits
Please explain how he is 'walking back the “war plans” characterization of the chat'.

The transcript that's linked here says the exact opposite multiple times.

> But this level of specificity—actual planning for an ongoing operation, the sharing of intelligence and information about strikes—that is clearly not what Signal’s intended for.

> Harris: So details like the number of aircraft that are involved, the kinds of munitions that are being dropped, specific times—

> Rosin: That was on the chain?

> Harris: Specific targets on the ground, um, you know, intelligence-related matters relating to the strike and to the targets, names of individuals—of U.S. officials—who should not have been put in an unclassified chain because of their status as intelligence officers. You know, you can kind of, like, you can—there’s probably six or seven different kinds of information that are arguably implicated under the rules and the law for how you’re supposed to handle this stuff.
Yeah, pretty much.

(percentage of people who read) * (percentage of people who want a paper book) * (percentage of people who don't have a better discovery mechanism than browsing shelves) * (percentage of people who want to spend their valuable free-time in a retail area) * (percentage of people who don't have a library card) * (percentage of people who are willing to pay a premium above Amazon for all of the above) = pretty low, I reckon?

I assume people going to bookshops are looking for a nostalgia kick and willing to pay extra for it. I note in the UK that Daunt Books bags seem to be the same phenomenon as these bags.
This video is a cool demo. Trying to eyeball it, it seems all of the bend radii (except one) are over 10-20mm so this demo isn't that impressive. The only exception is the very last bend he makes with the weight where the radius is probably around 5mm. I find this ironic that when making this last bend is exactly when the video abruptly ends with some video corruption artifacts. As if they streamed the recording over this fiber :-)
https://archive.is/2025.03.26-065006/https://www.economist.c...
This is not as ironic as you think if you learn about plant defense chemicals in vegetables. The preference for something with usable sucrose over a pile of carcinogens and anti nutrients in undercooked leafy greens is understandable.
I am a founder who lives 10 minute walk from there. I never heard about it before.

It's exciting and all, but I am quite certain no member of our team would be happy to commute to Mariendorf for work :D
I am describing my experience living in working class conditions in the rust belt, before moving to the coast.

Describing that as a "mythos of the working class that obfuscates reality" sounds detached from reality, honestly.

>What the original commenter is saying - and they are correct - is that, when you can afford to live in a place, you have way fewer obstacles to starting/maintaining community.

I really don't think that's as big of an issue as you - or the original commenter - are making them out to be.
Abel Prize Awarded to Japanese Mathematician Who Abstracted Abstractions
I used SwiftUI :/
Yes. Do you not follow much politics? The US is currently undergoing one of the most spectacular political revolutions since the 1930s. The Overton window includes issues like the collapse of the US Not-An-Empire, invading Canada and deciding what form the civil war is going to take [0]. Driven by a gentleman standing up and shouting "drill baby drill" and talking about how the country needs cheap energy to drive a manufacturing renaissance as one of his central policies. Europe is currently re-arming because war has returned to the continent with around a million dead and escalating - discovering as they do so that service economies don't have an obvious path to stopping troop movements [1]. There is a mirroring political revolt brewing there as we see a large number of rather disgruntled alternative parties start to gain traction pointing out decades of failed policy that suggest living standards have been slipping. Most of the activity is the downstream impacts of energy policy. People are on edge because the real economic pie is not only stagnant, but shrinking and they're figuring it out.

[0] I recommend vicious debate, but physical violence seems to be a possiblity.

[1] And, realistically, if China ever openly supports Russia then Europe will probably lose any fight that eventuates. There is an interesting geopolitical balance forming.
Check out Aider [0] or Anon Kode [1] (clone of Claude Code). New models are why I try to build all my tools and infra to be model-independent. On that note, I also prefer to be provider-independent, using OpenRouter [2] or T3 Chat [3] and the like.

[0] https://aider.chat/
[1] https://github.com/dnakov/anon-kode
[2] https://openrouter.ai/
[3] https://t3.chat/
China has always been better, because they actually do it. Constantly and consistently. American hackers don’t do enough. The current administration should just make it legal for them to attack foreign enemies. Open season.
"During its thinking session it reached the conclusion that this task is not feasible in one shot. It then stopped and explained that to me."

I've seen this happen with GPT-4 with zero shot prompts. Similar to the author "negotiating" allowed it to continue with an iterative approach.
And if that isn't good enough, Kotlin is also an option with first-class tool support. And a lot of Java developers are IntelliJ users.
In a lot of states, inmates are required to reimburse the state for some portion of the cost of their incarceration. Oddly, the commissary issue strikes me as perverse, but the requirement to cover incarceration costs didn’t, at least once I had thought about it some more. While I am cautious to endorse El Salvador, I think their model is the one to beat: Prisoners are either working or in school, but the goods produced by the prisoners are used by the government to offset costs in other departments, rather than being sold on an open market. For example, they have the prisoners sewing uniforms for public officials, repairing fleets of public vehicles, and building desks for schools. This nominally solves the issue of prison labor being exploited (at least so long as the program remains revenue negative or revenue neutral) without burdening the general public with the cost of incarceration.
> An additional wrinkle may be APIs that return a HANDLE (or address for memory allocators) or NULL, which again if you treat as ints return non-zero for success and 0 for failure.

Except some Win32 API functions return INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE (= -1) on failure! Of course, there is a Raymond Chen blog post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040302-00/?p=40.... Win32 error handling is indeed a mess...
First, many innovations are bought by BigTech. Why are BigTech based in the US and not in the EU? Because the EU has more regulations, and the US famously doesn't do antitrust.

Now of course, if you are a founder, you'd rather go make more money in the US. Does that mean that the EU culture is inferior? I don't know. Go ask the average European if they would like to live like the average American.

Sure, the US have BigTech. But the EU has healthcare. Most Europeans wouldn't be proud to sleep under their desk while Musk does what he does. It's a different culture. If your only metrics is how big the biggest tech company is, then the US wins. If the metrics is how happy the people are... well...
Global rooftop solar panels could cool Earth by 0.13°C, modeling study suggests
There is an Open-Source tool named Aider that can use Gemini: https://aider.chat/
Here are the Attack Plans That Trump's Advisers Shared on Signal
Sharing in this world? No thanks.
Ditto, living there too. South Berlin is unfortunately desolate, with more graveyards than coffee shops. It would be awesome if it would change.
This general consensus is part of why Trump gets support for his recent trade and defense comments and actions. Also, from an economic perspective the US has been successful and has poured that success into different buckets than Europe would prefer but that's fine, let the US be the US and let Europe be Europe.

Numbers for anyone curious
US gdp per capita ~$82.7k
EU gdp per capita ~$41.1k
But I like to drink in Austin!
Perhaps the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Vision_SF50 is along the lines of what you had in mind?
* Immutable-first

* Immutable/persistent collections in standard library

* Machinery to "modify" immutable deeply nested case classes/sealed traits. You have the copy method, you have lens libraries. Very easy and comfortable to use.

* Expression oriented. if/try/etc expression can be bound to a variable

* less characters to write the same idea/program, while not losing readability

* better tooling: Scalafmt is ubiquitously used, supported in IntelliJ and is very good. Scalafix (a linter which can also fix some issues automatically) is used a little bit less, but is also good.

* build tools: while I don't like sbt, Mill is a so much better build tool than Maven or, even worse, Gradle. Then there is also scala-cli, which is not a build tool, but can work like it, if you have a simple, single-module project (i.e. no sub-projects/sub-modules).
I personally still call the USA "the most advanced 3rd world country posing as a 1st world country"
>The literature is a way of adding cost to those that would send spam, it also adds cost in other ways.

It is an oversimplified way of evaluating of consequences of overwhelming control the two monopolists have over access of small providers to email services. And it leads to wrong conclusions at least in respect to the range of its influence.
Yes, it makes difficult life for the small amateur spammers as strongly as for beginner administrators and service providers.

However while for the determined spammers to hire experts isn't a problem for small entrepreneurs and for non-profit personal activities it is a blocking barrier.

Of course, they can use the services of established providers with all the limitations and other disadvantages of such solutions or accept slavery joining millions of users and firms accepting full and unlimited control of MS and Google (to their undisguised satisfaction).

About the consequences of sudden and totally unexpected interruption of email services without giving reasons we all can read often enough.
Rust compile times are not as bad as they used to be.
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>When was the internet ever high trust?

In the 1970s and 1980s.
And what do you think this says about the average Russian?

Remember that wealth distribution in Russia is extremely skewed and many people don't even have access to luxury such as an indoor toilet (roughly 1/4th of the population).
The premise "lol who needs memory safety at runtime, you get sigsegv if there's a problem no biggie, lets make it FAST and dont bother with checks" was the original horror. There are enough cowboys around that loved the approach. It's actually not so surprising such mindset became cancerous over time. The need to extract maximum speed devoured the language semantics too. And it is spreading, webassembly mostly inherited it.
Goddamn, just stop blaming the journalists, this guy is editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, he doesn't need his 15 minutes of fame. And even if you still want to believe he's making most of his 15 minutes of fame, the scoop just landed on his lap, he is doing his fucking job...

I cannot comprehend what kind of twist a mind has gone through to believe a journalist doing exactly their job is being an attention whore, bringing attention to a uniquely important scoop is the whole point of journalism.
Heh. Perhaps not really that different at all.

I thought you may mean that the legal rights provide protection, so one need not worry until deidentification or detachment. Maybe your emphasis was same.

But for clarity, I think we need to worry long before deidentification and detachment — basically the Trusts are not to be trusted, and our legal rights will vanish in a heartbeat.
Show HN: Bronify – Built a React-Based PWA for NBA Fans Using Next.js
Hi HN,
I built Bronify, Your ultimate LeBron James fan experience - where passion meets technology in a seamless, mobile-first platform.

Tech Stack:
- Next.js 14 for SSR and optimal performance
- TypeScript for type safety
- Tailwind CSS for responsive design
- PWA capabilities for offline access
- Mobile-first approach

Key Technical Features:
- Sub-second page loads
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- Add to home screen capability
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Looking For:
- Technical feedback on the implementation
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Source code will be available soon for those interested in the implementation details.
> If someone behaves inadequately, you don’t teach them to behave better by imitating them.

The status quo aka doing nothing hasn't worked either so far - to the contrary, with each administration, the bullshit increases. So, it's time to escalate - if the US doesn't learn the easy way, it takes more pressure.
Scala serves a useful purpose: if you are thinking of taking a job somewhere and it turns out they use Scala, and aren't migrating off it, then you know not to take that job.
> The FBI makes charging decisions all the time. The FBI has to be the one to investigate charges.

Have you ever seen law and order? They explain it succinctly in the intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMalvNeJFLk
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I'm not disagreeing with you, just that even with all that "the common people" still get more from the state than in the US, that's at least my feeling.
Minor VFS File Optimizations Merged for Linux 6.15
I don't know what it was but this made my dog go nuts.
> not just that the filmmakers knew what RISC architecture was. Or that Jolie pronounced it correctly (“risk”)

How else could you pronounce it?
Show HN: I built a tool to summarize my work for performance reviews using GPT
Like a lot of engineers, I found performance reviews painful—not the review itself, but writing the self-evaluation. I’d spend hours digging through Jira tickets and GitHub PRs just to remember what I worked on.

So I built ContribSync, a CLI tool that:

• Pulls assigned Jira tickets and merged GitHub PRs (within a time range).

• Feeds them into GPT-3.5 or GPT-4 via OpenAI API.

• Outputs a clean Markdown summary you can tweak and drop into your self-eval.

I’m learning Go as I build this, so it’s fully open-source and designed with a plugin-based architecture for adding more integrations (Slack is in progress, GitLab/Linear coming next).

I’d love feedback on:

• Whether this actually solves a real dev pain point

• Architecture/design feedback from Go devs

• Feature ideas that could make it truly valuable for teams
Show HN: GitHub action to publish Discord help forums
Like many other projects we provide support through Discord. However, questions asked in Discord aren't indexable or searchable.

To fix this I wrote a small GitHub action that generates transcripts for our help forum. We run that action every hour and then publish the result using GitHub pages.

The heavy lifting of the action is done by https://github.com/ItzDerock/discord-html-transcripts, a node.js module that creates the actual transcripts. I just wrapped it into a GitHub action so it is more easily reusable.

You can see our help page at https://help.toit.io, with the corresponding GitHub action here: https://github.com/toitware/web-help/blob/main/.github/workf...
But if the AI crawlers are taking the website down and money buys more server time, are you willing to do your part and use money to make sure your training data sources are solvent until you can replace them?
Again, the "AI" doesn't care about the website. It doesn't even link to it in vast majority of the cases. Even if it did, the "AI" derives a lot of its business value from the fact that it is providing what the client requests while removing the need to visit potentially dozens of these pages. So the clients, in most cases, would not even click them (as they already got what they wanted).