skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm working on a PostScript interpreter. This is a retirement project. I wanted something substantial to sink my teeth into without any commercial pressure. I wanted to see if I could get back that intrinsic motivation that I for had for programming before I started my career. Back in the eighties I worked for the QMS distributor in the UK, QMS were Adobe's second OEM after Apple and made a range of PostScript printers. I was working in support at the time and would never have thought of taking on a project like this.

I have an original Apple LaserWriter which I can use through the serial port (but it won't print). I've pulled the ROM's in it and got them working through the MAME game emulator. This is great as I can debug the 68000 code, for instance I was able to reverse engineer the random number generator and the password for internaldict. Ghostscript is handy as well although I try not to rely on it too much as there are some differences between the two implementations.

The plan is to keep it as close as possible to the LaserWriter so that means level 1. PostScript is quite interesting in that it starts executing PostScript code as soon as you power on the printer. That code is responsible for initialising the printer, handling errors, managing the serial ports then receiving and executing the incoming PostScript job. You can load and dump this internal code with a simple script.

The interpreter is complete along with the 125 programming operators, core types and error handlers. The next stage is the graphics operators. I'm going to target PDF for output as the drawing model is the same as PostScript. I'm assuming that handling the fonts is going to be the bulk of the work.

It's written in Rust, so far about 14,000 lines and 650 unit tests. In some ways it would have been easier in C as I could have followed the exact memory layout in the original interpreter however I really dislike C.
I think the plan is to replace all of those.

The PEP has buy in from all the major tools.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I also don't think that not giving evidence always means they are arresting the wrong person every time.

It's not that I trust them, I don't, and I disagree with their tactics too, which I think are being (slowly) dealt with politically and judicially, but again I don't think it inherently means everyone they arrest is completely innocent.
If it works, keep it as is

That's a good principle though. It doesn't make the initial choice good today or even back then. But change is always a risk that may not be worth it, cause you have to make sure that the inevitable semi-chaos coming with it is at all times lower than what you have. And analyzing that may be hard.

Maybe this will help them move away from this obsolete Larry Ellison crapshot

This creates positive incentives, so yes.

Iow, everything probably goes as it should, really.
Why not? I'd assume similar things are already done in other sports like tennis, golf, hockey, ...
parmesan is pretty much the only one i ever see with cellulose
I'm cautiously excited for this just because it's an original, clever premise for classic IP. It isn't yet another reboot or sequel, and it uses older IP that hasn't gotten much attention in a while.
Here, that touch is necessary for a hint of realism.
Oregon abandoned its drug law. Then came the mass arrests
Will let you know once android version is public
I can see both perspectives! But honestly, making a project easier to build is almost always a good use of time if you'd like new people to contribute.
The question is not that we need some system of gov't before coming to democracy. It's just that we can't explain multiple failures of building/exporting democracy by this thing alone. There are way more functional bureaucracies than there are democratic governments. The question is what is the secret ingredient.
Lots of articles on it... and I am not even talking about competitors like Benioff [1]. I am talking about user complaints like this [2]. Users expect Copilot to be fully integrated, like Cursor is into VSCode. Instead what you get is barely better than typing into standalone AI chats like Claude.AI.

[1] https://www.cio.com/article/3586887/marc-benioff-rails-again...

[2] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/microsoft365...
There is not yet a Wikipedia article on (methods of) "Quantum embedding".

How many qubits are necessary to roll 2, 8, or 6-sided quantum dice?

Embedding (mathematics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedding

Embedding (machine learning)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedding_(machine_learning)

/? quantum embedding review: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C43&q=qua...

Continuous embedding:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_embedding

Continuous-variable quantum information;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous-variable_quantum_in...
how do you approach your network - if you don't mind me asking, what language do you use when reaching out to your network. I'm seeing my network mostly turn cold shoulder.
>>The difference is massive!

Like...in what way? If I buy a block of Aldi's cheddar and Aldi's pre-shredded cheese it tastes the same once it's mixed into something - except the block saves me like 20p and wastes 10 minutes of my life on grating and cleaning up afterwards.
A quick web search of the list of apps it's checking for suggests it's jailbreak-related, not general fingerprinting. Only banks get to escape Apple's restrictions, not end-users.
The article's title is: "Bhutanese refugees in Rochester said to be facing deportation crisis"
Funny note about Cursor. Commercial project, rather expensive, cannot figure out that it would be good to use, say, version control not to break somebody's work. That's why I prefer Aider (free), which is simply committing whatever it does, so any change could be reverted. Easily.
> IIRC demoscene is already recognized as UNESCO heritage in Finland and Germany, what are we going to do, go down the list of every country that ever produced more than a few demos?

Potentially, yes. Take a look at the following list and you'll see, for example, that 24 countries are listed for falconry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO_Intangible_Cultural_Her...
I'm not convinced. Password spraying attacks have a very low yield, and need high volume to compensate. 24 attempts per week is just not viable.
No I'm arguing that moving him from one house to another is something the Chinese govt could assist with.
Loony toons back in action did the same thing too.i don’t remember it being as good at Rodger rabbit, but it was one of my favorite childhood movies.
This looks really pretty and the website hints at professional use, but I'd like to ask anyone who works in the media industry - is this model good enough, or convenient enough to fit into the production pipeline of professional video editors or will this be another novelty model used to generate memes and stuff?
Security incidents have become so common place that the fact that they happen is not the newsworthy event; rather, its how a company responds to them that is the newsworthy event. And Oracle flunked this test
If the EU isn't fining someone for tracking users too much, they're fining them for not tracking users enough.
>The point of the anti-caking agent is to prevent the cheese from sticking to itself, which inherently affects the texture of the cheese in your mouth

It does so by keeping the cheese 'dryer' than it normally would be. Putting it in your mouth basically undoes that. You're only going to notice if you're eating it by the handful, not when you're using it in actual food dishes.
Thanks for spotting this, we'll get it fixed ASAP
Yeah, working on rebuilding the site. The GitHub and documentation sites should be the most up to date information:
https://github.com/LANCommander/LANCommander
https://docs.lancommander.app/
I think this point confuses me the most in this regard:

> Local-first architectures allow for fast and responsive applications that are resilient to network failures

So are we talking about apps that can work for days and weeks offline and then sync a lot of data at once, or are we talking about apps that can survive a few seconds glitch in network connectivity? I think that what is promised is the former, but what will make sense in practice is the latter.
I was responding to a claim about wind. Yes, we can extract energy from tidal forces.
I have whatsapp open on my phone right now. There is blue-pink button on the home screen in the lower right corner. If you press it, it switches to a chat that says "Ask Meta AI anything".
Look, this wouldn't be a story in the first place if there weren't multiple highly suspicious things going on.
it’s not about how many transactions you get — it’s about whether users stick around once the rewards stop. That applies way beyond crypto. If your growth playbook is all carrots and no real engagement, you’re just renting users, not keeping them.
> 2. Drop the radical anti-gun stance

The Democrats have a radical pro-gun stance compared to about any other country in the world.
Huh. The whole promise of vibe coding is that you don't have to pay attention to the details.
Very few companies want to business with Oracle (or IBM). Most are either stuck with either and costs of switching are too high for executive to greenlight.
It doesn't mention them in alphabetical order.
> 2. Drop the radical anti-gun stance

They did drop the anti-gun stance and nobody cared or believed them. Kamala was on stage during the debate telling the crowd that she and her running mate were both proud gun owners. Meanwhile Trump is fairly anti-gun.

This kind of illustrates the problem. Even if their party radically changes its stance on key issues, everyone is so locked into an ideological bubble that nobody bothers to update their perceptions.
DaaS vs. VDI: What's the difference? (2024)
Terrain3D 1.0 released for Godot 4.4
I believe their point was that they are writing about what people want to read (a new AI breakthrough), possibly embellishing or cherry-picking results, although we can't prove/disprove it easily.

This approach yields more upvotes and views on their website, which ultimately leads to increased conversions for their tool.
This is still nowhere near as good as Kling or Veo. And word is that Sora's next release is mind-blowing.

> far better than Wan-2.1 which is the current open weights leader

Open models still have tremendous value. You aren't censored or controlled with Wan-2.1, and censorship is more annoying than you might think. We've been making a zombie film and even prompts that relate to blood and gore can get censored. Furthermore, you can plug Wan into into open source tools and workflows for enhanced controllability. Wan literally just launched a month ago (Wan 2 was the first release), so it's a really unfair assessment.

I think Runway as a company is dead in the water. They raised way too much money, and there are a billion competitors with similar shaped products. They'll probably wind up getting quietly acquihired under their valuation. The video models are hugely fungible.

> I’ve never used Runway, but their pitch and partners (Lionsgate, for instance) tell me they’re working on making a tool for industry pros

They don't have industry partnerships beyond Lionsgate. It's [redacted] that is selling to Disney and the tier-1 studios, not Runway. You'll hear more news relating to some of their live action films soon. I know those folks are on this forum.

In any case, the floodgate of major studios using AI is about to open. I'm more excited about the independent professionals, though. That's where the hyper-local and niche creativity lies.
Well, we could have organisations like the EFF compose a set of consumer-friendly clauses, which the user can then choose from.

If the website wants to block something the EFF deems a good and reasonable protection for the user, then maybe they should indeed block the request.
Apple releases macOS 15.4 with four major features
It's the networking effect. When all the other kids are playing a game, it's tough for some kids to be the only one not on it. Then it becomes one of their primary means of socializing. To a lot of kids, there are only two games in the universe: Roblox and Fortnite. That's all any of their peers play. They're not in getting into other ones where their friends aren't. It's the same as social networks.

Whether it's irresponsible to let kids play the same games as their friends is of course up to individual parents. I think it's possible to both be exposed to these types of traps and learn how to avoid them. They can't gamble without access to money from parents anyway.
Some version of ints doing bad things plagues lots of other languages. Java, Kotlin, C#, etc. silently overflow, and Javascript numbers can look and act like ints until they don't. Python is the notable exception.
Foundation Models and Unix
I didn't feel like the content and the title of this video matched.
That was definitely part of it... as XP SPs released, they locked down application access to read/write where applications typically shouldn't, including in their own Program Files directory, and this did bork some applications even though it was supposed to redirect the changes to a different directory.

So many poorly written applications broke through those days. I may be thinking of Vista/Win7 though, the time has muddled my brain a bit.
Industry chose another video gen company, one which has been super busy making deals with the top studios.

edit: I removed the name of the company, but their folks are definitely in this forum.
SuperTuxKart Is Switching to Godot
Ask HN: Is Rollout.site Worth It?
I see similar design for each project in the trial phase. I might be doing something wrong, but for someone who might be using it, is it worth it?
S&P 500, Nasdaq drop as tariffs spark recession fears
> Having JIT is an advantage w.r.t. selecting the best SIMD instruction set.

On paper yes but does anyone really rely on it? multiversioning is easy to do in a aot model too and even then most people don't bother. obviously sometimes its critical.

The more magic you put into the jit also makes it slower, so even though there are _loads_ of things you can do with a good JIT a lot them don't actually happen in practice.

PGO is one of those things. I've never really encountered it in dotnet but it is basically magic in frontend-bound programs like compilers.

> What is the basis for this assumption?

It's not an assumption, it's my impression of the dotnet ecosystem.

I do think also some patterns somewhat related to JITed-ness has led to some patterns (particularly around generics) that mean that common patterns in the language can't actually be expressed statically so one ends up with all kinds of quasi-dynamically typed runtime patterns e.g. dependency injection. But this is more of a design decision that comes from the same place.
Sam Altman's Eyeball-Scanning Crypto Startup Gets a New App Store
Primary sources exist(ed?) on Chinese web, i.e. provincial gov websites advertising these "overseas service centres" used for diaphora services like renew PRC drivers license, which western western MSM regurgitating "Safeguard Defender" propaganda turn into overseas "police stations". Services also entail liasing with PRC law enforcement, i.e. if Chinese tourist gets robbed, they can refer to service centres for guidance, but it's largely PRC public security telling them how to work with local authorities due to language barrier (see drama of Italian police patrolled with Chinese police). These setups exist because PRC tourists/diasphora everywhere now (and thus targetted everywhere), but most places haven't brought up Chinese competency in public services.

Except US, AFAIK no other gov investigating has publically released evidence of foul play. Like there's arguments to close these stations are extra territorial setups, except as far as I'm aware, they're run by diasophra citizens of countries, not Chinese nationals. And LBH, anything pertaining to US actions vs China from last few years is indistinguishable from propaganda. There's some US court docs on the couple Chinese (US citizens) in NY being prosecuted for repressing dissidents on behalf of PRC gov, that's as close to primary source as you can get. This all without touching the founder of SafeGuard Defender, Peter Dahlin... history with PRC, first westerner to be charged for work undermining national security afer NGO reforms, arrested for a few weeks, deported, seperated from Chinese gf). Let's just say he's got bones to pick.

IMO accusations are borderline retarded, and unsurprisingly borderline retarded western msm and useful idiots in west believe it. Spend half a second thinking why PRC intelligence operations would coordinate under very public (and publically advertised) arrangements that gets comingled with civil activities. It's dumbest possible "front" to host these activities, especially for operation foxhunt tier work. Like Chinese spies, especially those with foreign citizenship,can get all sorts of cover work that doesn't directly linked back to official Chinese gov activities (as in terms of paperwork)... and they choose what, network of borderline extraterritorial consulate service arrangements?

E: The TLDR for me is western (really US led) propaganda associated with broad effort to dismantle PRC's United Front like work abroad, started with Chinese programs at various universities. Because again, Chinese intelligence so stupid and lazy (or bold) that they would setup in actual campuses. Which itself is response to PRC basically destroying US/Western NGO operations in PRC mid 2010s for subversive influence ops. Except Chinese don't really run large think tanks or well resourced NGOs as cover for their intelligence activities aboard. They don't need to, they have diasphora citizens everywhere already integrated. The few comparable arrangments that exist are United Front related setups in the west.
That's not a bad idea. Thanks for the suggestion I might go that route!

My adventures of swapping out the internal NVME drive have not been very good. I have to disable secure boot for FreeBSD and then re-enable it for Windows (else have to hand-enter a bitlocker key) and even when doing that Windows "forgets" my Pin and Fingerprint. Possibly due to the way I set it Windows initially but still, annoying.

Recently picked up a new WiFi card that works with FreeBSD but haven't had a chance to install it yet.
Unfortunately, my uni was free admission, so the first year helps filter out unprepared students.

I might suffer from a bias, but what I did was study to pass the test. I don't expect everyone to pass every exam as I don't expect everyone to get a degree. Universities need to be hard if they want to keep their reputation and not be outlived by online courses on YouTube. A degree, more than a certificate that the student attended some classes, should prove that a person is capable of thinking, studying and doing hard work.
I think he's talking about Microsoft Copilot 365, not the coding assistant.

Makes one wonder how much they are offering to the owner of www.copilot.com and why on God's green earth they would abandon the very strong brand name "Office" and www.office.com
They have already been deported. They were first deported to place they faced ethnic persecution and then their country didn’t accept them.you can see more about their deportation with a simple google search. Also here, https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/deported-10-in-no...
Oh I see. Yeah I agree. That's going to be a long time!
>While there are complicating factors, in general, probabilities add linearly. So for the average woman in the US, who lives for 77 years, she therefore has a 1% chance of being sexually harassed during any 1 year of her life.

Obviously the average survey respondent was not 77 years old, so the math here is wrong. Other assumptions we could make: prepubescent and post-menopausal women are not being sexually harassed at the same rate as women of reproductive age.

I think your point would stand with steelman math, so why strawman it?
Knowing the energy costs (read CO2) that both would require I'm not very upset.
Create a 'Wicki-hacks.com', like Wikipedia, where incidents are listed in detail - anonymously and indexed akin to Wikipedia with editors that create and verify an incident is such a way that Horacle etc can not deny or get it taken down
As much as I detest the current Court, I don't think they are completely in Trump's thrall.

At least, not as long as John Roberts is alive. If he dies or retires, all bets are off.

I think he is completely prepared to work around them. The Republican party nominates him, he appears on the ballot in ~28 states, wins the election, and the Congress approves it. Roberts may not show up to administer the oath, but he's not going to make a statement against it. When he appoints new members, they'll be approved by Congress, and the court will accept them as valid because what else are they gonna do.

Somebody will surely sue -- but dollars to donuts they'll claim whoever it is won't have standing.
Also here, https://www.inquirer.com/news/ice-deportation-bhutan-nepal-d...,

https://local21news.com/news/local/several-bhutanese-green-c...
1) The current president has explicitly said that he wants to use violent force to enact his policies.

2) There are numerous cases of the current administration using its discretionary powers to enact its desired policies in ways that violate norms and are quite probably illegal.

3) The administration actively circumventing record-keeping requirements, likely in an attempt to avoid detection of illegal actions.

The federal government is unbelievably powerful. Because of the jobs it is expected to do, it must maintain capabilities to do many terrifying things. For that reason, the government does not get the presumption of innocence. It has to be able to prove exactly what it was up to, and where its resources are being spent.

The reason there are so many tedious and wasteful rule-making and record-keeping and due-process requirements is exactly because it would be trivial otherwise to do things like disappear law-abiding citizens off the street and cover it up.

So when someone says "I want do do crimes A, B, and C", and then you discover that they have in fact done crimes B and C, and taken steps to conceal the potential commission of crime A, it isn't a fallacy to infer that they may have committed crime A.
Been waiting for this - hopefully this inspires more native web features to be implemented so devs can reduce their reliance on dependencies
Agencies are created and funded by the legislature. The executive operates them, and has some discretion over their operations and priorities.

Rank and file workers have protections from firing by the executive because if they didn't, we would have the corrupt patronage systems we had 100 years ago.

Independent watchdogs at each agency are protected because political insulation is a requirement for such a role.

Put simply:

Authoritarianism is strongman politics where courts are ignored, and one/few people exert almost total control over the operation of government, ignoring any legal constraints on their power, and any criticism of the ruling party is inherently fake and illegitimate.

Fascism is the right wing brand of authoritarianism.

Reasonable people can debate spending levels or efficiency. But this administration is not interested in that. They are permanently destroying America's place in the world and at least temporarily, and illegally, destroying parts of the federal government. All while participating in eye watering levels of corruption and judicial self-service (firing prosecutors investigating friends, firing generals without cause, calling for impeachment of every judge they don't like).

Our government's design is broken. Our voting system only permits two parties. Our house districts are geographically manipulated. The electoral college further obfuscates the election or president.
That website is a cancer. There is 5% content in the screen and rest is all banner ads.
You aren’t allowed to editorialise the titles no matter what the article is about.