skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, just another old man complaining about the kids today, the same way everyone has since Gilgamesh. Shake your fist at the clouds, dude
Try `deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324` from 7 days ago.
I would add pride, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth. (CatGPT did a pretty good job: https://dpaste.com/HTS9DWRNZ-preview)
I've got two main projects I'm working concurrently on in my free time:

- Repairing an Apple II+. So far I've converted it to run on 230V and picked up the A2DVI to connect to modern displays. Next working on cleaning up the floppy drives and repairing the one that doesn't work.

- Reverse engineering the Tandy Z-PDA. I want to be able to synchronize with modern desktop Linux applications, and also eventually write my own PEN/GEOS applications for the PDA.
.3% is drastically above the gdpnow estimate from the Atlanta fed, which, after compensating a -2.6% figure for increased gold imports, comes in at -1.8%
Oh nice, I never knew about that!
> all data should be kept within the community, not public.

I would recommend it for everything you said except for this part. Everything posted is publicly visible by design. I'm afraid I have no intention of changing that. You're free to fork it if you want though.
nope, but it was meant like "no problem. it will be taken action upon this..".

fraud means nothing anymore in US.

And thats the link to Trump, I placed.
For now we use the LinkedIn voyager API's search endpoint
When Lifestyle Outpaces Logic
> We're essentially continuing to ship faulty software while hoping that tooling will protect us from the worst consequences.

It is the consequences that give rise to the cost of a bug or the value of preventing it.

> Couldn't one argue that containers and virtual machines also protect us from exploiting some of these memory safety bugs? They provide isolation boundaries that limit the impact of exploits, yet we still consider them insufficient alone.

No, that's not the same because sandboxing only limits the impact of vulnerabilities to whatever the program is allowed to do in the first place, and that is, indeed, insufficient. The mechanisms here reduce the impact of vulnerabilities to less than what the program is allowed to do. To what extent they succeed is another matter, but the two are not at all comparable.

> The big idea is to shift bug detection to the left: from production to development.

This has been the idea behind automated tests since the practice first gained popularity. But it's important to understand that it works due to a complicated calculus of costs. In principle, there are ways to eliminate virtually all bugs with various formal methods, yet no one is proposing that this should be the primary approach in most situations because despite "shifting left" it is not cost effective.

Everyone may pick their language based on their aesthetic preference and attraction to certain features, but we should avoid sweeping statements about software correctness and the best means to achieve it. Once there are costs involved (and all languages that prevent certain classes of bugs exact some cost) the cost/benefit calculus becomes very complex, with lots of variables. Practical software correctness is an extremely complicated topic, and it's rare we can make sweeping universal statements. What's important is to obtain empirical data and study it carefully.

For example, in the 1970s, the prediction by the relevant experts was that software would not scale without formal proof. Twenty years later, those predictions were proven wrong [1] as unsound (i.e. without absolute guarantees) software development techniques, such as code review and automated tests, proved far more effective than anticipated, while sound techniques proved much harder to scale beyond a relatively narrow class of program properties.

Note that this paper also makes some empirical claims without much evidence, so I take its claims about the effectiveness of these approaches with the same scepticism as I do the claims about the effectiveness of Rust's approach.

[1]: https://6826.csail.mit.edu/2020/papers/noproof.pdf
The Germans have a word for it:
fremdschämen
> Interesting no attempt has been made to make it at least be less heavy on networked bytes.

Kind of a surprising observation given the first spec (IMAP2) was released in 1998, when dial-up was still a thing:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1064

IMAP4 was in 1994:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1730

ITU V.32 gave us 9.6 kbit/s in 1998, and V.34 was 28.8 kbit/s in 1994:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ITU-T_V-series_recomme...
Energy usage is another. What would happen to world power consumption if 1% of WhatsApp chats would be fed to ChatGPT?

A third reason besides privacy would be the purpose. Is the purpose generating automatic replies? Or automatic summaries because the recipient can't be bothered to read what I wrote? That would be a dick move and a good reason to object as well, in my opinion
It's funny, I instantly recognized that iconic atrium when they used it in Severance and my poor wife had to suffer through an explanation of the history of Bell Labs when she was just trying to watch her TV show.
We also downloaded software from our TV's in the UK via the BBC micro's Prestel adaptor.

A much more mainstream way of sharing software was source code listings - typically BASIC - in magazines like Dr. Dobbs, that you would type in yourself.

I wonder how many of today's youth are also aware of the bulletin board systems (BBS) that existed pre-internet - standalone servers that you would connect to via modem to socialize and/or download files using protocols like Kermit, and X/Y/Zmodem.
I develop an app that makes it easy to create charts in your style, while following best data visualization practices.

Upload your CSV, write a prompt, and get a journal-worthy chart.

https://charts.quesma.com/
Uhh, why someone like Sartre or Foucault is on this list, equal to Lenin or Mao? It's hard for me to see how they as existentialists were on par of them; and if so, ought we blame Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky too?

I am asking genuinely on your stance because I don't see why you consider them to be evil.
This would have been amazing if I had known about it. I had an Atari 600XL about 1984 I never even heard of a Commodore 64 back then. We wouldn't have been able to afford it anyway. I'm still shocked that my parents even bought me the Atari.

I did eventually get a cassette storage device. I wonder would it have worked for Atari too?
Marine Le Pen banned from running in 2027 and given four-year sentence
As always, Admiral Cloudberg has a deep-dive into this crash: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/alone-in-the-inferno-the...

Slightly off topic, but she does an amazing job.
Binary Distribution Rebuilds
this is a hard one for me to instinctively understand spatially, so I’m imagining myself stood in a room with arrows pointing left and right. if I have 3 arrows facing left in front of me and behind me I have 3 arrows facing left -- from my perspective when I turn around -- then I step past one of the arrows and now I have 2 left facing on one side and then in front of me what was now a left arrow is a right arrow, so now there's 5 lefts and 1 right. so extrapolating that, the observation is possible, but it still doesn't explain the imbalance, does it? you would expect most places in the universe to have a roughly even distribution from any perspective, I think?
Even then transistor density was doubling
Sure, but making something redundant is not really that difficult. HAProxy in front N nodes across M racks, ideally in separate DCs, and then a floating IP in front of your HAProxies. Set up hot standby for your DB.

I used to joke that my homelab almost had better reliability than any company I’d been at, save for my ISP’s spotty availability. Now that I have a failover WAN, it literally is more reliable. In the five years of running a rack, I’ve had precisely one catastrophic hardware failure (mobo died on a Supermicro). Even then, I had a standby node, so it was more of an annoyance (the standby ran hotter and louder) than anything.
“The universe is an orb and that orb is rotating causing all the other stuff to spiral.” This was a long held theory of mine because I could not understand why a galaxy would spiral.

I think there is a men in black scene, where an alien is rotating the universe globe like a toy they are playing.
Yes, but one half of a galaxy would get redshifted, and the other blueshifted, no matter which direction it spins in. So why would that change its overall brightness?

(Though one of the papers notes that the tiny change in brightness this causes isn't enough to explain the large difference in spin directions)
>I'm just saying it wouldn't make sense for ACLU to support people who want to take away your right to free speech.

It is supporting their right to freedom of speech, not supporting them, in my view.

>But it is in the interest of the country as a whole that all viewpoints are heard. But if one person can buy all TV-stations then he will have free speech and nobody else really does.

Did nobody have freedom of expression before television? Broadcast media is just one way of communicating ideas, and TV is a decreasingly relevant part of the media. TV is worse than it used to be largely because nobody really watches it anymore except for sports.

>It used to be law that there are limits to how many millions one person or corporation can use to win elections.

There is very little evidence that spending more on election advertising actually does anything. Hillary and Harris both spend much more than Trump and lost. Biden spent more and won. Obama spent less and won. The statistics across a wide range of elections at different scales don't show it having much effect. It is probably important to even be an option, but it doesn't win elections.
I was going to mention Scream Tracker, but the Swedish language link names Fasttracker (apparently Swedish made, while Scream Tracker is by the Future Crew who hail from Finland).
Everything has growth limits. For me Moore's law is number of transistor per dollar, not number of transistor per unit area. And even if we don't have any technical progress that number will decrease as the fab would recoup the R and D costs and the competition will increase after technical saturation.

We would likely get 2x transistor per dollar every two year for quite a long time.
I think it's a great idea. Feel free to email me if you're interested in feedback.
All messages are e2e encrypted though right?
That's a first rate response - and a very thoughtful way to preserve anonymity. Thanks, I appreciate it.

Those decision trees sound interesting - are you, essentially, integrating an LLM and an expert system?
Network infrastructure for Bluetooth: https://blecon.net
It is more common (and/or more necessary) to either write unsafe code or call out to unsafe code written in some other language in Rust than in Java.

BTW, I wouldn't call a language that violates memory safety without an explicit unsafe operation a memory-safe language.
Wait, this is Andy Weir? Like, that Andy Weir? Like, The Martian and Project Hail Mary Andy Weir? I had no idea.
I understand why one would think it's funny to feed the parent comment into an LLM but please at least label when you echo such output on the site
I'm not an American centrist, but a Finnish centrist, which would make me... American moderate left maybe, but I'm very glad that more and more people are seeing what seemed obvious to me for years...
As others have already said, think about what you're doing when you use this.

If you connect a not-selhosted LLM to this, you're effectively uploading chat message with other people to a third-party server. The people you chat with have an expectation of privacy so this would probably be illegal in many jurisdictions.
The themed UIs of that era were very superficial -- if they applied to serious software at all, they were just a cosmetic layer on top of an otherwise well-engineered interface, and could be easily disabled. Most people I knew, for example, disabled the theming engine that shipped with Windows XP. Most applications that supported UI skinning still had a default or fallback UI that adhered well enough to modern conventions.

Not so much anymore. The abandonment of any coherent organizing principle to UI layout in favor of pure aesthetics has been a massive regression. Reasonably complex software often doesn't even include menu bars anymore, for example.
Considering it's likely the most used note keeping app there is, that isn't much of a blocker for an awful lot of people.
I was under the impression that younger kids had stronger immune systems for that reason, which is why the common wisdom is to expose your kid to as much as possible when they're young, because it's easier for them to fight it off and later rely on resistance?
Iron Ring
For what it's worth, I tend to upgrade my wife and I's laptops every 1-2 years, usually during Black Friday sales.

Two years ago, I snagged laptops with a 32GB RAM, RTX 4070, and i9-13900HX for $1,500.

Historically I've been able to get a sizeable bump in CPU + GPU performance for around the same price point, but currently there's nothing on the market.

It _feels_ like the pace of development has slowed in the last few years.

I don't think I'll be upgrading again until consumer X3D CPU laptops become available for a non-egregious price.
This depends. In this, I guess the issue is that there is some oob memory reference. But for example a null pointer deference resulting in a segmentation fault is not (necessarily) a security problem.
Because it is an historically important work that is necessary to have some understanding of to understand large parts of history. Its purpose also is not indoctrination or titillation.
77% is over a lifetime, but 59% is just over the one or two summers that someone spends at McMurdo, so it makes sense that it would be lower. But if there weren’t a serious culture of harassment, you’d think it would be much lower.
In the absence of UBI can you blame them? Not everybody can, or wants to, be productive.
Bell Labs used to host regular (monthly?) talks that were open to the public.

My mom took me to a couple in high school and they were GREAT!

You got to hear presentations from researchers, actually try out demos of certain projects etc.

My favorite was a guy demoing voice recognition that went something like:

System: "Please say what call you are trying to make"

Researcher:

"Mary had a little lamb it's fleece was white as snow
collect
and every where that Mary went the lamb was sure to go"

System:

"You have selected a collect call"

Pretty mind blowing stuff back in the 1996.
You would not need to have extended downtime. Every major RDBMS that I’m aware of supports standby nodes, and if you want, a full active-active cluster (not recommended, personally).

The downtime is as long as you have your health check monitoring interval set up for.
Yes, Democrats have been historically seen as the party that cared the most about Muslim interests in the US. Just like it is the party that traditionally gets the most support from the black community for example.

Again, this complete disregard for Muslim life could've been expected from Bush or whatever. But even he wouldn't have let Israel go this far without some sort of faint condemnation or call for restraints. Biden didn't. Especially since Biden wasn't some sort of toothless president, we saw how he reacted to the Russian invasion, and how firm he was against Russia. I guess it showed how Ukrainian lives seemed to be worth much more for his administration, whereas the lives of Gaza civilians wasn't even worth a stern condemnation.
It's a forecast of 14 economists and we know they dont know any women.... [1]

-1.8% is more likely...

[1] https://youtu.be/XB1ciodyM1w?t=51
Book banning means banning books. It doesn't mean removing books from school libraries. That isn't what it has ever meant. Who is doing the redefining?
According to the story, he wrote a letter to some western guy and he sent him back a cassette with a game or two, and then the copying spree started.
> memory safety is not a great concern on phones because applications are sandboxed. And that's correct. If an application is stuck in a sandbox it doesn't matter what that process does within its own process space. Smartphones taught us what we already knew: process isolation works.

I thought we learned that this doesn't work after the iOS 0-click exploit chain running "sandboxed" app code in the kernel.
I don't see people panicking in my vicinity. I see some parts of the industry pouring money into Rust and pushing for memory safety. I agree that memory safety is nice, but some of the most reliable and safe software I use on daily basis is written in C. I am personally much more scared of supply chain issues introduced by Rust, or other issues introduced by increased complexity (which I still think is the main root cause of security issues).
I look at these benchmarks and I completely disagree:

https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/mac-mini-late-2020

https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/mac-mini-2024-10c-cpu

I am quite satisfied with the rapid speed increases on Apple's CPUs the last couple years.
If you're going to learn it, use at least a split columnar keyboard and a non qwerty layout. Learning to touch type on a regular keyboard will likely worsen your health compared to your four finger hunt and peck due to the bad uncomfortable qwerty touch typing enforces. Think about the awful pinky curls and reaches. Ouch!
Having never heard the term V2X before, a quick search brought me to a wiki page that describes it as the wireless proposals to allow for vehicle-to-'everything' communications that would allow for higher safety and efficiency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-everything

https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/ultimate-guides/software-defin...

To make it worse there is also a military supplier company named V2X having nothing to do with any of this.

Seems like a very poorly defined acronym.
Show HN: Neo146 – anti-censorship HTTP-SMS gateway for Turkish (&all) protesters
Papier is still available in Brave it seems.
Ask HN: Finding Remote Enterprise SW Consulting Leads: Non-US Resident Edition
Been wrestling with this for a while, figured some of you might have seen similar.
The Situation:
* 15+ years Enterprise Software - PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) experience, including a stint at Google.
* Now based in India.
* Strong US network (NY, OH, OK, CA).
* Targeting direct client engagements, potentially building a small remote team.
* Problem: Most remote PLM roles explicitly state US/UK/EU residency.

The Question:
How do you effectively find remote PLM consulting/contracting gigs in the US when you're physically outside those regions? Freelance platforms seem to be a dead end due to the residency requirements.

Initial Thoughts (and Maybe Where I'm Going Wrong):
* Leveraging existing network is a given, but feels like I'm hitting a wall.
* Direct outreach to companies? Feels like a long shot, especially with the location hurdle.
* Is there some niche platform or strategy I'm missing? Something beyond the usual Upwork/LinkedIn grind.

Looking For:
* Specific strategies that have worked for others in similar situations.
* Experiences with companies that are open to remote PLM consultants outside the typical zones.
* Insights on how to navigate the legal/contractual aspects of this arrangement.
Anyone cracked this nut? Any and all advice appreciated.
Thanks! I haven't used Pulsar, but the general answer is that mentions.us is focussed on sending you alerts for notifications, whereas more sophisticated social listening tools provide a lot more analytics (e.g., sentiment analysis).

If your company just wants alerts when their keywords are mentioned on social media then mentions.us should work great for them. If you work for Coca Cola then you likely need something very different from your social listening tool!
I don't know why, but the idea of a 72 GPU rack provokes a kind of existential dread in me.
Nice, thank you! Saved this. Mastering GCC compiler options feels harder than mastering C++ UB.
The post man always bent our magazine and pushed it in the cat flap making the included disk useless (even though it was clearly marked "DO NOT BEND!"), so I remember having to type everything out and sometimes correct the typos introduced into the print version. Fun times.
>choose your own accounting software, do not be tempted to hire an external bookkeeper that keeps the books in 'their' systems (accountant lock-in).

~30 years ago I worked at a very small business (3 employees) and they used and liked Quickbooks. The accountant convinced them to switch to some "better" system and for around 3 months they had no idea how much money they had, they just lost all visibility into the system because it didn't work in the way they expected. "If things didn't look right, we'd just go through every screen in the system and press Post." At the end of those 3 months they realized they had unexpectedly gotten into $70K in debt -- this was ~35 years ago when a house was around that much. They had to take a second mortgage on their house. Eventually, they figured out the accounting system, righted the ship, and paid back the second mortgage over a few years. Y2K really helped, with that giant bump in sales.
Fun to see goto80 at the top of HN. If there’s one song that got me hooked on the 8 bit sound as a teen, it’s Blox. https://archive.org/details/bliptv-20131104-213301-BleepStre...
So 1/3 MilkyWay-Wise, 2/3 Counter-MWW?

Or is it? I hate these percent-relative word games things...

- Let x = "num MWW"

- then "num CMWW" = 1.5x ("50% higher than x")

- x + 1.5x = 1

- x = 0.4

So 40% is MWW, 60% CMMW?
Are you able to access last year's: https://howtogrowalmostanything.notion.site/

Otherwise, look out in Jan / Feb next year for applications to be a 'committed listener'.
If the state doesn't limit freedom of expression by choosing what material to teach in schools (which it does) then it doesn't limit it by choosing what material to host in school libraries (which it does).

If you want to say removing these books from school libraries is an illegitimate constraint on freedom of expression, then so is the school curriculum. So is public education generally.
Left political circles did remove books as well. At the time it was mostly argued that the authors are racists or had some form of flaw.

The justification was exactly the same at the time. "It isn't censorship, it is just not recommended anymore". Given, that was/is true for many literary expositions as well.
Pleasant way to start today thanks for submitting.
UNESCO has funding available to use on heritage projects, which could support the existing archive efforts.
That’s part of it, but compilers also use the information more directly especially in languages with inexpressive type systems e.g. dereferencing a null pointer is UB so the compiler will tag a dereferenced pointer as “non-null”, then will propagate this constraint and remove unnecessary checks (e.g. any check downstream from the dereference, or unconditionally leading to it).
100% agreed. When I was in Uni, I had a few lectures where going to the class was actually a waste of time for me (especially when I had to work on other time-consuming assignments) since I knew about the topic already. I passed those classes with high grades solely by going over the lecture slides.
I don't believe the current consensus is that motion from big bang imparted a spin on objects. Rather, that dark matter (mass) was "dropped" all over as a result of the bang, making gravitational hot spots. Millions of years of dark energy progression affects those hotspots, making a sort of ever expanding (yet perceptively slowing down) sink drain with water pouring into it.
A German equatorial telescope mount. Right now I'm learning to make gears. After building the hardware I'd like to write the firmware/software for tracking stars and planets. This will be a long term project for sure.