skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's astonishing to an outsider that U.S. politics is so openly available to be influenced by money - I would consider that to be outright corruption.
"curse your sudden and inevitable betrayal"
What you're describing is called "agreement." I'm very plainly arguing that if the distinction between "city" and "suburb" is to mean anything at all, then it can't just be about what's within municipal boundaries and what isn't.
Peatland destruction by an advancing front of artisanal gold mining in Amazonia
>I'm not sure what this is supposed to show? If I can predict what you are going to say so what.

If the speed of your understanding varies with how frequent and predictable syntactic structures are then your understanding of syntax is a probabilistic process. A strictly non-probabilistic process would have a fixed, deterministic way of processing syntax, independent of how often a structure appears or how predictable it is.

>I can predict you are going to pick something up too if you are looking at it and start moving your arm. So what?

Ok ? This is very interesting. Do you seriously think this prediction right now isn't probabilistic ? You estimate not from rigid rules but past experience that it's likely I will pick it up. What if i push it off the table ? You think that isn't possible? What if i grab the knife in my bag while you're distracted and stab you instead? Probability is the reason you picked that option instead of the myriad of options.

>Absolutely bonkers to describe Newton's model of gravity as "fiction". In that sense every scientific breakthrough is fiction: Bohr's model of the atom is fiction (because it didn't use quantum effects), Einstein's gravity will be fiction too when physics is unified with quantum gravity. No sane person uses the word "fiction" to describe any of this, it's just scientific refinement: we go from good models to better ones, patching up holes in our understanding, which is an unceasing process. It would be great if we could have a Newton-level "fictitious" breakthrough in language.

"All models are wrong. Some are useful" - George Box.
There's nothing insane with calling a spade a spade. It is fiction and many academics do view it in such a light. It's useful fiction, but fiction none the less. And yes, Einstein's theory is more useful fiction.
Grammar is a model of language. It is not language.
Related. Others?

Running CollapseOS on an Esp8266 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38645124 - Dec 2023 (1 comment)

DuskOS: Successor to CollapseOS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36688676 - July 2023 (4 comments)

Collapse OS – Why? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35672677 - April 2023 (1 comment)

Collapse OS: Winter is coming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33207852 - Oct 2022 (2 comments)

Collapse OS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31340518 - May 2022 (8 comments)

Collapse OS Status: Completed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26922146 - April 2021 (2 comments)

Collapse OS – bootstrap post-collapse technology - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25910108 - Jan 2021 (116 comments)

Collapse OS Web Emulators - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24138496 - Aug 2020 (1 comment)

Collapse OS, an OS for When the Unthinkable Happens - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23535720 - June 2020 (2 comments)

Collapse OS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23453575 - June 2020 (15 comments)

Collapse OS – Why Forth? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23450287 - June 2020 (166 comments)

Collapse OS – Why? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22901002 - April 2020 (3 comments)

'Collapse OS' Is an Open Source Operating System for the Post-Apocalypse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815588 - Dec 2019 (3 comments)

Collapse OS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21182628 - Oct 2019 (303 comments)
Non-deeply-immutable reference fields are a joke and solve no problems. They don't save you from needing to make defensive copies to stop shared mutation, and everything else is a padlock on your left pocket to stop your right hand reaching in.
I had to check if that was the British couchsurfer who got arrested because they said tidying up her hosts' home demanded a work visa.

There are a scary number of people being detained for bullshit reasons.
Though both share the ability so securely execute multi-tenant workloads, but they make very different tradeoffs when it comes to compatibility vs performance. To compare:

Firecracker is great if you want to securely execute an OS image. It has the benefit of compatibility with many existing programs, but that comes at the cost of some overhead.

Hyperlight is great if you want to securely execute program runtimes. This requires bespoke guest bindings, but it has the benefit of having less overhead.

There’s a place for both approaches, and I see both happily co-exist.
> what the probability / details are for the non-happy-path processes

Why would one expect to enter a country via a "non-happy-path" and expect a happy outcome?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwal...

"The partner of the Guardian journalist who has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programmes by the US National Security Agency was held for almost nine hours on Sunday by UK authorities as he passed through London's Heathrow airport on his way home to Rio de Janeiro.

David Miranda, who lives with Glenn Greenwald, was returning from a trip to Berlin when he was stopped by officers at 8.05am and informed that he was to be questioned under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The controversial law, which applies only at airports, ports and border areas, allows officers to stop, search, question and detain individuals.

The 28-year-old was held for nine hours, the maximum the law allows before officers must release or formally arrest the individual. According to official figures, most examinations under schedule 7 – over 97% – last less than an hour, and only one in 2,000 people detained are kept for more than six hours.

Miranda was released, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles."

The non-happy-path didn't start under the current POTUS...
RachelByTheBay underestimated how much we hang on her every word over here, I think. Haha.
You say “go back” but that was never more than a niche thing. For better or worse, Google’s Android has pretty much always been the chief representative of mobile Linux. And far from being a waste of time, Android is the most widely distributed mobile operating system on the planet.
Anyone who voted Republican knew who they were voting for. This isn't even like last time, they had 4 years of Trump, they can't claim ignorance of what he is. Trump winning the Republican leadership should have meant the GOP throwing in the towel on the election. Regardless of who the Democrats had, he should be unelectable.
New Auto Tariffs
not sure about java land, but we have seen this on pypi and i think even on rubygems.
Americans are very welcome in Canada. Come visit.

We just don't want to spend our money there, or be around MAGA apologists.
> just go back to having some sort of Debian-based GNU/Linux on a smartphone

Two years of full time engineering man hours

> Just create a really great mobile interface on top of that.

Probably another 3 years of full time engineering man hours
A French scientist was entering the US for a conference and was asked to show his phone. His phone had conversations with other colleagues criticizing Trump's science fund cuts. They took his phone and laptop and denied him entry.

I would expect many conferences to have less and less international attendees in the coming years.
Extracts, PDTs, and Embedded DBs: How BI Tools Shape Data Warehouse Economics
Technically, I think it would get shutdown. Plutonium, U-235, and some other stuff requires special approval to own. But it's possible that if it's not pure and was part of a product, that it might be overlooked. There's probably a few nanograms of Plutonium in the legally allowed Uranium samples that you can own.
Please don't do regional flamewar, or any flamewar, on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's a whole satellite now in orbit for the people of Botswana. The payload is plenty of engineering, people. What an amazing feat
Interactive OpenAI Agent Researcher
Yeah I was confused as well. "Face" isn't really a body part, it's more of a perceptual unit. It's just a piece of the front of someone's head.
If a customs officer decided to dispute your citizenship, what would happen then? Would your citizen rights disappear and then you could have no way to defend your position?

Purely hypothetical as I can't see why customs officers would want to deny citizens entry (providing they're not racist etc).
I assume because they don't exactly need the promotion, and a ton of small companies on rideshares mentioning SpaceX in advance of missions they then fail to successfully operate (usually through no fault of SpaceX's) isn't good publicity.
The currency exchange rate put a dent in that as well.
I like to think of problems as having two components: specification and implementation.

With using GenAI (and/or "being a manager") aren't they somewhat inversely related?

I find implementation level programmers to generally be poor at stating specifications. They often phrase problems in terms of lacking their desired solutions. They jump straight to implementation.

But a manager has to get skilled at giving specification: being clear about what they expect, without stating how to do it. And that's a skill that needs to be quickly developed to use GenAI well as well. I think getting good at specifying is definitely worthwhile, and I think GenAI is helping a lot of people get better at that quickly.

Overall, it seems that should very much be considered part of "critical thinking".
You need more than a standard; that standard has to be complete and unambiguous. What you're looking for is https://github.com/nst/JSONTestSuite

EDIT: The readme's results are from 2016, but there's more recent results (last updated 5 years ago). Of the 54 parsers /versions tested, 7 gave always the expected result per the spec (disregarding cases where the spec does not define a result).
Live images are Linux distributions that can be run directly from removable media instead of having to be installed to local storage.
How much of that US/NZ effort was NZ though?
>I assume the malware authors pre test their code on a suite of detectors in CI.

Maybe some do, but you give the average malware developer way too much credit.
I'd like to see a world where the JS community focused more on improving the stdlib across the browser and in nodejs - much like bun is doing. Common packages for node such as mysql2, axios etc. are so widely used and are huge attack vectors should they ever be compromised.
Sorry I meant golf buddy Wiktoff, not Waltz.

Dunno about Waltz, seems like he is himself quite puzzled about how Goldberg ended up in the group, denied any connection with him and called the Atlantic journalist 'scum'. He also spoke with his buddy Elon and they've got the best minds looking at it right now.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5214186-waltz-at...

Maybe he's better at handling firearms than mobile chat apps, dunno. The Chinese, which he dislikes, are definitely not going to have a hard time with people like him running the show. I read they were trying to recruit some of the laid off federal workers.
Here's a great post by a lawyer, linked to further down in that thread: https://bourniquelaw.com/2024/10/09/data-23-and-me/ It suggests a way to challenge them on their assertions that they must keep your data and samples.
https://archive.ph/v3Z7U
Where are we going to find engineers that know Forth post-collapse?
I live my life constantly preparing for the worst case scenario; it's what serves me well in my career in IT (if the building isn't on fire from a nuclear strike with zombies at the gates, it's a good day!), but it does mean I'm always interpreting smoke on the horizon as a wildfire and calling it in - even though it's often just campers roasting marshmallows. I say this so my words and position have more context for readers like yourself, in that I'm preparing for things that aren't likely to happen, but you're grateful someone prepared for it when they do.

So when I say we're done, it's because I genuinely see so much smoke on the horizon that I know there's a wildfire there. Companies and governments don't start openly talking about changing vendors or building out infrastructure for funsies - they do it after they've made the decision internally to NOPE out elsewhere. The amount of harm and damage done already simply cannot be overstated, because we're only seeing the damage they haven't hidden. While everyone focuses on one Signal chat a journalist was invited into, people like me are worrying about how many more have already disappeared forever, and how widespread its use internally is for avoiding records and accountability laws.

The snowballs have already started down the hill, and it takes years to stop them. By the time we get into a position to stop these, they'll already have grown into avalanches of knock-on effects and repercussions - nevermind the hundreds of other snowballs having been sent downhill since we started responding to this initial volley. Institutions take decades to build, and minutes to destroy; it's why they're entrusted with so much power, after all.

All of this is to say that I really think people need to stop thinking we have time to reverse or stop these harms, and accept the harms have already happened, so what do we do now?
Oracle customers confirm data stolen in alleged cloud breach is valid
"likely just noise"

It's always noise to people that don't care, but matters to people who rely on AOSP, including third-party ROM developers.
If anybody still looks here i just added song links in the comments. Write in your comment @[comma separated list of patterns] to create song trigger, e.g @[1,1,1,2,3,4,3,4]
I have family members that when they say "ChatGPT" they actually mean google's AI overview in the search results. The term ChatGPT might just be the Kleenex or Xerox of this market.
> The entire argument against ASCII Delimited Text boils down to "No one bothered to support it in popular editors back in 1984. Because I grew up without it, it is impossible to imagine supporting it today."

There's also the argument of "Now you have two byte values that cannot be allowed to appear in a record under any circumstances. (E.g., incoming data from uncontrolled sources MUST be sanitized to reject or replace those bytes.)" Unless you add an escaping mechanism, in which case the argument shifts to "Why switch from CSV/TSV if the alternative still needs an escaping mechanism?"
Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
But what if one of your columns contains arbitrary binary data?
We are about as far from it as we were when we lived in caves and banged rocks together.
Thank you, Canada. Your position is common sense and level-headed.
Discord Is Working with Goldman, JPMorgan on Planned IPO
So you were agreeing with OP's comment, not disagreeing?

> Nobody I know would call that street the city. In my mind, "the city" is, minimally, houses that are a few feet apart, small yard in back/front, pretty much nothing on the side. Frequently, it's 2-3 story buildings, with whole floors rented out as an apartment. That's my "least dense" vision of a city. Anything less than that (ie, full yards) falls into my vision of suburb.
> 11 is almost way more consistent in its UI. I'd even go as far as to say it's better than 7's.

Yeah no. Enable full-width taskbar icons (like the Windows XP style wide ones) and notice how each one of them is of a different width. It's just terrible, it's almost like someone told an intern who's never used anything prior to Windows 7 to design it.
Also VisiData is an excellent TUI spreadsheet.
Google doesn't want AI to learn how to compete with them
BTW some of the most hardcore Trump-supporting areas in western WA are right by the border (Trump even did a rally in Lynden). I wonder how Trump supporters there feel about this?
Not sure I would have gotten very far with this as a 7 year old, but as a 62 year old it looks quite interesting :-)
This reads like it's referencing something specific. Am I out of the loop or is this just about heap exploits in general?
I always feel like CSV gets a bad rap. It definitely has problems if you get into corner cases but for many situations it's just fine.
Sorry we were pushing the volume fix
You could think of the Go dev team's last ten years as trying to find the right balance between features (asked for by the expert devs that use Go) and simplicity (a value that the designers hold, but that most expert devs making feature requests don't care about). Generics always felt to me like this dynamic in a nutshell. Lots of good reasons to prefer generics when you need them, and it feels like a nearly ecosystem-killing amount of complexity to implement a type system like Rust on top of Go - there's literally almost no reason to use Go in that case.

Anyway, I like seeing this slight reversion in favor of simplicity, I think it's the right call for where Go's targeted: being a better Java for teams of mid-tier engineers.
I would add xan to this list: https://github.com/medialab/xan

But of course, I am partial ;)
Oh, this is interesting. Are you tying different systems together? If so, do you use some preferred intermediate format? Do you have a giant library of * -> intermediate -> * converters that you sprinkle between everything? Or maybe the intermediate format is in memory?

What about Parquet and the like?
Maybe they used an LLM to explain it. Gemini in particular is obsessed with these utterly useless analogies for everything, when I would prefer something closer to Wikipedia with more context. (Needless to say, I currently don't find LLMs useful for learning about things. That's a shame because that use case feels promising.)
There are very few areas where a democrat can't win with just a small shift in voters. Get 5% of republicans mad enough to stay home (or maybe vote third party) and that changes the outcome - not to mention independents who change their vote, or democrats who might get mad enough to go vote even if they think they don't have a chance.
....any day now...
Do you think MS still wants to be in the consumer OS market?

It's low revenue, fairly high expense, and the relevance of "which operating system do you use" is going down rapidly (see linux gaming getting good with MS's help). Businesses.. sure they'll keep using windows and paying for it, since they already have a huge amount of legacy systems/software and IT procedures/institutional knowledge - like IBM still doing mainframes - but consumers don't seem to care about that.

Most people basically seem to use their computer to run a browser, maybe some games, and maybe some office suite stuff, OS doesn't matter too much anymore.
:commie: :mushroom-cloud: :finger-points-at-you:
Building a fast website with the MASH stack in Rust
Id like to have a word with you about confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance.
My thinking is you are better off without Go. There is no way to stop Go devs from saying something again you may not like and at that point your effort in using Go would be a waste.
>I'm saying it makes no sense to make that decision solely based on the bad while ignoring all that's good

They're not ignoring the good, they're arguing that an absence of good is not bad. You seem to be arguing that an absence of good is bad because there is a potential positive experience that could exist if a person came into existence and could experience it.

But their point is that the person who would have that experience does not yet exist and thus is not harmed by not coming into existence and not having that positive experience.
A post from them yesterday made it to the front of HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43477057

Edited to be the HN post.
Here's the company website: https://intuicell.com/ .. Bold claims: "the first ever digital nervous system" - "the first generation of genuine intelligence" ..
here's the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15130 "A Foundational Theory for Decentralized Sensory Learning". Cybernetics ftw..
Save the nonsense characterizations and dismissals. What actual evidence do you have? In my experience, that's how things work - not 100% but it's a powerful effect.
No, https://www.heise.de/en/news/Poisoning-training-data-Russian...
That sounds like v1 was "tool calls llm", while v2 is "llm calls tool"?

The fact that the tool call is via mcp and not in-process function call seems to be an implementation detail?
So basically the reasoning is that things like wasi-http wouldn't be mandatory for a compliant implementation? That would be good.

Thanks for the link. I was trying to find a single page with everything listed.
No, it's not just you, the phrase "launches first satellite" in the title is very similar language to what would be used about a country developing launch capability. For example, when headlines say "North Korea launches first spy satellite", the part of that which is big news is their ability to launch a satellite, rather than their ability to build a spy satellite.

(eg.) https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/north-korea-flags...
Given that this guy was charged under a non-proliferation act it makes a massive difference whether it's Pu-238 or Pu-239.
This is awesome, a lot of work to give users a interactive environment. I am working on a similar setup with my own project, vimgolf.ai , where I help users learn vim through connecting users with vim instances.
I like this idea, even if the name is unfortunate. But I'm concerned this is just a marketing ploy - It says batch one is sold out. It also says it is still in development and aims to begin shipping in Q4. Those seem to be at odds with each other, so this smells like the type of empty marketing people do to "gauge interest", and not a real product.

Is it real?
Because everyone knows the usb-c protocol
Well that aged like milk
On the bright side, we maybe finally can ban all the trans fats!
Right. I'm not at all sure why some people on here think "suburb" is only meant to refer to a very specific type of housing development, rather than a description of a location's spatial and cultural relationship to "the city".
That's a few decades in AI time.
There was a post yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43477057

Which was sort of strongly reacted to (atop is wide spread and the blog author has a bit of a following here).
For user space? No you can definitely do a stage 0 build which depends only on about 364 bytes of x86_64 binary (though ironically I haven't managed to get this to work for me yet).

The liability is EFI underneath that, and the Intel ring -1 stuff (which we should be mandating is open source).
It's a preview of macho template programming.