skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
seen the win32 aesthetic used for higher-order reasons: separating "work mode" from playtime. An extra user to do so on the same machine helps.

Connect the dots reading https://www.marginalia.nu/log/99_context/ and seeing the ui change in old vs new screencasts https://www.youtube.com/@ViktorLofgren/videos
It might be better to think of it this way: types in Rust do not implement traits, traits are implemented for types. It might seem subtle, but its not: a trait can be implemented for a type without that type's knowledge (obviously taking care for the orphan rule). Traits are also implemented via pattern matching (Into being implemented for all Froms is the most trivial example). Go's interfaces come closer to Rust traits than those from OOP languages.

I've experienced a lot of fear in other people, especially when interviewing, about Rust not being OOP. Very smart people seem to be coming up with carve-outs to keep that religion alive. Try letting go of OOP for a month or two, and you'll find that you're better off letting OOP be someone else's problem.
> Most of the cost is in artificially-imposed operational requirements

Indeed. Once there was a wonderfully efficient, economical nuclear reactor design, better thermal efficiency than PWRs, could be refueled during operation, considerably cheaper to build… However, nobody is THAT keen to build more Chernobyls.

(The RBMK design really was quite impressive, provided you weren’t too concerned about, well, safety.)

The economics of nuclear energy are difficult, today. So much of the cost is upfront that getting the investment is problematic; unless you have a guaranteed price per kWh, it really is a huge gamble.
Agreed. In college I would always go to the first class, see if the lecture was useful and probably 80% of the time I wouldn’t go again.

Although I do sympathize with many of the author’s broader points.
Why would we launch from the moon to LEO, we are building sats (and humans) on the earth?

Assuming you mean getting materials from the moon, such as ice, the problems is that it would take 100s of billion in investment on the moon to do that practically. Everything from mining robots, transport and launch infrastructure. Plus infrastructure in LEO to refine that stuff.

If you do the math, assuming you have something like Starship, for those 100 billion to pay for itself, you likely would require an absolute absurd amount of materials from the moon. And on earth we have all the materials, refining capabilities and so on. Far, far cheaper to just launch it from earth in its final required form.

Unless you really want to build a fleet of inter-generational spaceship to explore the outersolar system, this is unlikely going to be make sense.

If you really, really want to transport stuff from the moon to LEO (for some reason), as long as it is basically ice, then its better to use some kind of mass accelerator.
I'm not a designer so pardon for asking. What's the purpose of adding noise to an image?
A copy left style arrangement would require you to not enforce your patents against anyone who signs and upholds the agreement, not just with Tesla. If that was the case, I probably wouldn't have quibbled with the term "open source" being applied.
Compatibility mode usually solves those problems.
"Just try it then" is an irresponsible suggestion.

Of course, I can try it. But trying it does not prove anything. It must be tested. Testing is a much higher standard than "trying" and a lot harder to do.
Ehm, I’m kind of in a weird position now. Responding with “I didn’t ask for personal story” sounds rude and I have no way if asking for more details without this. Like, if I was writing an article about optimisasation of an algorithm, I’d include information on the problem before and after, as well as some details how it was measured (the most interesting part). Otherwise it’s hard to discuss anything.
The last time I was setting up a system, it's still very difficult to find in the menus. If it's not discoverable and I have to know the incantation/shortcut to do it, then that's bad UI.
I don't see how that information can be complete without https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating.
As a kid, the OS's supported me in learning. They were simple, intuitive and rewarding. I'd click around and explore, and discover cool things like a Wheezer music video, or engaging puzzle games.

There was no one who could help me when I got stuck, beyond maybe an instruction manual. I just had to figure it out, mostly by trial and error. I learned so much, eventually being able to replace hardware, install and upgrade drivers, re-install the entire OS and partition the hard drive, figure out networking and filesystems. It built confidence.

Now my kid sits infront of an OS (Windows, Mac, it doesn't really matter) and there's so much noise. Things popping up, demanding attention. Scary looking warnings. So much choice. There's so many ways to do simple things. Actions buried deep within menus. They have no hope of building up a mental model or understanding how the OS connects them to the foundations of computing.

Even I'm mostly lost now if there's a problem. I need to search the internet, find a useful source, filter out the things that are similar to my problem but not the same. It isn't rewarding any more, it's frustrating. How is a young child meant to navigate that by themselves?

This looks like a step in the right direction. I look forward to testing it out.
This little experiment lasted for about 6 weeks for me before I broke front and back glass and cracked the camera lens in one go on a cement floor. I’ll take the $6 rubber case now and save me some grief.
It's definitely not why we left Mars because Mars still rotates every 24:30. We left Mars because of the hostile Martians, of course.
Touche. Thank you
> The flip side to that is that very few people, if any, on the left are actually calling for meaningful protections for free speech

This isn't true. Democrats were heavily pushing the PRESS act for example, which would expand speech protections for journalist and reporters. This was tanked by Republicans.

> They see nothing wrong when someone is put in jail for "causing gross offense" on Twitter

You keep repeating this but not providing any sort of evidence to it. Again, you seem to be talking about the boogeyman that Republican talking heads have created instead of pointing at any actual policy. I would advise you go outside and talk to actual people.

> As for the rest of Europe, just look at the knee-jerk hysterical, pearl-clutching response to Vice President JD Vance's recent speech about the EU and its values, and how much of that response was coming from the left.

Most Republicans talking about free-speech are hypocrites and liars including the President, Vice President, and their first buddy. I imagine that has more to do with the reaction than anything else. They don't walk the walk but love to talk the talk.
The problem is when you say 'answers' what is provided are 'curated answers' which is what google has been doing which explains the terrible spam links. SEO is a way to provide an answer but usually not the one you want.
Of course there's fluff! The LLM part is fluff. It's so much fluff it smothers everything else.
Well we had flash. It wasn't great. Or it wasn't great enough to keep around without a major browser or OS provider pushing it.

I will remind you that Swing sucked, hard in the 1990s. And HTML was pretty easy to write.
Yeah, I’ve been aware of this for ages. That said I’m sure lithium batteries in checked luggage are super-common in things like electric razors and tooth brushes and a ton of other things we never think about.

It’s like airplane mode. How many cellphones on a given flight are actually in airplane mode?
Do you think this might be tied to a person’s financial situation?

Grow up with a safety net, you’ll enjoy the process.

Grow up poor and/or with people depending on you and you focus on the end state?
The fact pattern doesn't fit well with ICE, because Indiana University cooperated with the investigation (and struck him and his wife from their pages).

The track record of espionage investigations against people of Chinese origin is not great, so it's not a defense of this investigation to say that that the details rhyme with that rather than immigration.
Unsupervised Learning of Browser Agents via Environment Interaction in the Wild
The university would likely not have scrubbed them from their site if they were merely being deported. There are either espionage concerns or this guy solved prime factorization.
Volvo's Heartbeat-Sensing Anti-Carjacking Technology
If we're talking about Christianity, the bible says all you need is to believe that when Jesus died your sins against God were forgiven. It doesn't say anything about going to heaven or hell based on how good you were. In fact, it explicity says that going to heaven is not based on "works".
You don't see Windows themes at all.
It seems to me that what you're responding to here is the injustice and outrage of police raiding a Quaker meeting. That's fine, but it's not a response to the argument I was making. (Which I can understand, in a way, because I didn't spell it out—I only linked to it.)
I think this is a good point. I found the following sentences of the article shocking:

> I am frequently asked for my PowerPoint slides, which basically function for me as lecture notes. It is unimaginable to me that I would have ever asked one of my professors for their own lecture notes.

It makes you wonder whether the lecturer actually values the time of the students. Having to take notes because they are not provided, rather than getting value from a lecture due to interactive participation sounds like a waste of time. This sounds exactly like the type of lecture I would have skipped.
Agreed when the metric becomes the goal, it stops being a useful metric. College attendance seems to fall in that bucket.
Part of why monads are not interesting to talk about is that they’re generic enough that most explanations are incomplete, and sufficient explanations are boring and unhelpful.

But the biggest reason is that they’re sort of intuitive, plenty examples exist. And then at some point someone tells you that those things are monads, but it’s in the kind of way that social psychologists make up some fancy word for crap we all know about in our gut.

Nobody gives a shit that a list is a monad, people give a shit that it’s a list. Anyone who’s written lisp or node or any nontrivial C program or anything with coroutines or anything with concurrency can and will tell you that, yeah, duh, control flow can be represented by a data structure. A couple more fancy “monad laws” and you have something that looks like other monads, and lists and if expressions and IO meld together. Ok, how unhelpful.
Man Detained by ICE for Autism Awareness Tattoo Sent to Prison
My county in California has a household hazardous waster disposal drop off. Any resident can drop off old batteries, bulbs, motor oil, anti-freeze, brake fluid, paints thinner, solvents, pesticides, cleaning chemicals, electronic waste, old stuff with mercury and medical sharps to name a few. You don't even have to exit your car. Just place everything in boxes in your car trunk and park at the facility and their staff will take care of it. If you have anything that looks new and usable they leave it in a reuse area for others who want it. Its all funded through a $15 fee on our property taxes. Well worth it for the convenience.
Not necessarily. For instance, if you take enough ibuprofen you'll suffer liver damage, but it doesn't follow that a smaller dose you'll still suffer damage.

I only really have enough general understanding of chemistry and biology to note that dosage generally is pretty important and often non-linear in its effects -- I write JavaScript, not drug formulations -- but "dosage makes the poison" has always struck me a good general purpose aphorism to keep in mind.
Checked baggage is actually one of the better use cases for AirTags.
In the New Beijing
https://archive.ph/2025.03.26-170156/https://www.lrb.co.uk/t...
Shallow platitudes for nerds? I’ll inject them straight into my veins if the guy dealing has enough money. I mean is a successful tech entrepreneur and visionary.
This was one of the Soviet Union’s proposed use for Energia (a super-heavy launcher which flew precisely twice before the Soviet Union collapsed). In practice, there would be, ah, challenges; no launcher ever built is reliable enough that anyone would be particularly comfortable with _launching large amounts of high-level nuclear waste_ with it.
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The good news for students is being "above average" appears to have gotten easier.

The author is careful to point out he is describing "average" students. This implies there are still good students. That has not changed.

The author mentions one:

"Last semester I had a good student tell me, "hey you know that kid who sits in front of me with the laptop? Yeah, I thought you should know that all he does in class is gamble on his computer.""
Good point. The Democratic Party has a ton of issues with platform and messaging. But, I would vote for them over any MAGA person at this point and I think the polls/special elections are starting to show that shift at scale.
I certainly agree that Java / JVM had a lost decade (or even more), but not really with C# / .NET. When do you consider that lost decade to have been? C# has had a major release with new language features every 1-3 years, consistently for the past 20+ years.
With a big changeset, its better to have a brief discussion about how it works / what it needs before you actually actually make a PR. Just big principles high level stuff. This way if you build a train station, the devs wont be like "ooh, we really need an airport." Thats why an issue to track it is good: it raises visibility for anyone who has an issue with the approach etc. long before its time to make a merge. Also, if theyre like "well never take this" or "well take this if you build a space station" its good to know that before investing a ton of time into something PR-able.
Eric Nylund’s Jack Potter series. See an earlier comment
In my experience in-person lectures have been a terrible way to actually learn (compared to recorded ones or other ways of learning):

1. Lectures are often not held in front of just a handful of students, but hundreds, where frequent interaction and questioning between student and lecturer becomes practically impossible, awkward and socially intimidating. Sitting between many other students is incredibly distracting, and I've more than once seen students bring binoculars to class, because they sat so far away from the blackboard!

2. Only a small fraction of lecturers are actually good at teaching, of being engaged and engaging, clear and concise, understandable and empathetic. Not to mention nice handwriting or powerpoint style. Being "forced" to listen to someone whose style of teaching you don't understand or don't vibe with sucks.

3. If you lose the thread in a deep in-person lecture, you might as well just leave. If you watch a recorded one, you can rewind as often as you want until you understand it.

4. Lecture hall rooms are often not the beautiful, comfortable, nice places you love to go to that they ought to be (but dilapidated, broken, uncomfortable, tight, stuffy and dirty).

In these contexts, sitting in a lecture hall becomes more hell than heaven. And professors shouldn't expect their students to find their passion while having to endure this.
Long story.

I’m a longtime member of an organization that is about helping others. It’s not something that I go into detail about, at the level of press, radio or films.

Also, selfishly, I really enjoy this kind of work; especially at a craftsman level. It’s nice to have an excuse to do it.
I think it's not bad to remember people from time to time that "just following orders" oder "Just doing my job" isn't an universal excuse and that we hanged people rightfully for "just" doing that. If that's your only excuse for what you're doing you may should at least deeply think again if what you're doing is excusable.

They only want to protect MS in this case, I guess to increase their chance to resolve it positively.

But I just recently thought about this. If you develop exploits for say NSO und a journalist gets tortured to death. Should you be put on trial? I'm not sure why not tbh.
No reasonable person interprets the original comment as someone not knowing about the existence of a LAN, hence snark.
prime target gone real? seriously doubt that
That’s why most students will never truly find a job – they’re all too busy looking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle: not having evidence is not a justification for not taking action.
I’ll repeat the question you might have missed

> If it’s random how is it free will?

Stochastic processes won’t get you to free will any more than determinism.
Sound scary but when looking at the facts, it is probably reasonable.

Both the university, the court, and the lawyer seem to not raising any fuss yet, signaling that whatever this is, it likely all legal and severe enough to warrant absolute silence.

The employer was likely contacted far in advance for detail not available to the public, and very likely they complied and realized there are serious issues that can tarnish the university's reputation, so they erased his name from their payroll. This indicated court order and sufficient evidences for multiple parties to be concerned.

So... best guess? National security matter. Like it or not, espionage is a thing and under this administration, all foreigner, naturalized or not, are under extra scrutiny. And the US is not above applying stereotypes.
On first read, I was prone to agree with the author -- why put down someone seeking your input? Then I read your comment and went through it again. After a re-read I think you have it right. The response was direct, and perhaps quite cutting to the author who had devoted significant time to the article only to be told they're one of hundreds who have made the same mistake. But the only denigrating in the linked blog article seemed to be the grouping with others who had fallen into the same trap.
No worries! So, noise adds texture, reduces banding, hides artifacts, and gives images a vintage or organic feel.

It’s a small touch, but it can make images look more natural and visually appealing!
I’m pretty sure to be VP you have to be an eligible P candidate.

“ But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
Yup. I’ve always liked doing this stuff, and it’s nice to have means, and an excuse to do it.
My point is that those that continually point out 'but some things don't apply to the US because X and Y' are mostly themselves just falling into the same trap and almost never actually explain why X and Y change anything, making their 'defense' just more of the same.
I didn't downvote, but since you asked for feedback, I'd venture a guess that most who did think your post doesn't add anything to the discussion. It's vague, not topical to the paper and isn't falsifiable.

A related topic, the emDrive, which had plenty of controversy, is something readers of this thread want to talk about; the specifics are a better fit for this crowd than the meta questions, esp. when vaguely introduced.
The comparison isn't to prove that .NET is always faster than C in all circumstances, it was to demonstrate that the advice to call out to C from .NET is outdated and now worse than the naive approach.

Can C wizards write faster code? I'm sure they can, but I bet it takes longer than writing a.SequenceEquals(b) and moving on to the next feature, safe in the knowledge that the standard library is taking care of business.

"Your standard library is more heavily optimised" isn't exactly a gotcha. Yes, the JIT nature of .NET means that it can leverage processor features at runtime, but that is a benefit to being compiled JIT.
Options put giants in a jam (2001)[pdf]
Not Christianity, but similar ethos.

At my age, it’s kind of vital to have a Purpose, so there’s that…
This is a more interesting discussion than I expected at first. Anyway...

If you can't find a rational argument that conscious experience is good, can you find one that says bad experiences are bad?

If "the only argument one could make that conscious existence is good is that there are conscious people who believe it is good," well doesn't that also apply to bad experiences? The only argument one could make that they're bad is that there are conscious people who believe they are bad. If that's not a sufficient argument, then why bother with reducing bad experiences at all?

And if conscious existence itself doesn't matter then it's hard to see any reason why it should matter what sort of experiences conscious beings have. Whether there are lots of them or few, whether they have good or experiences or bad, none of it matters, any more than it matters what sort of chemical reactions happen as atoms bounce around on lifeless planets.

On the other hand if we decide we should take into account the preferences of conscious beings, then we should consider that they prefer to exist.

Regarding your second argument, you've alluded to an issue already. You say we can't count total good experiences because that leads to bad consequences. But Benetar's premises lead to even worse consequences. So why shouldn't we discount his approach as well?

We should argue on a level playing field. If we use some criteria to reject an argument against Benatar, we shouldn't give Benatar a pass on that same criteria.

I do agree we shouldn't simply count good vs. bad and choose the maximum total good. But that doesn't mean we should discount good experiences entirely. It's still good to have more good experiences in the world, even if we have to be careful about how we apply that principle.

Ultimately, maybe we have to take the most basic things on faith, if we want to avoid utter nihilism. Even math doesn't prove everything; every kind of mathematics starts with a handful of unproven axioms and works out the consequences.
Basically: moving electric charge = magnetic field. It's equivalent, that's why it's called electromagnetism: it's one and the same force.

The Earth rotates, liquid iron (inside Earth) flows => a current flows in the iron => there is a magnetic field.
Spies don't get "vanished," at least not historically. They're caught, imprisoned and tried in huge public media-heavy trials. The USSR even did huge public trials for American spies, because there's no incentive to forgo the nationalist boost to public opinion when collaborators would be aware of the disappearance either way.
There’s a difference between your job being replaced by AI and your employer being disrupted by AI. Stack Overflow might have fewer employees, while the AI companies expand. That’s not a good explanation for a job market bust.
I believe this: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2025/p36...
https://www.idsnews.com/article/2025/03/iu-professor-bloomin...

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-details-on-situati...

https://bsky.app/profile/ncweaver.skerry-tech.com/post/3lljl...
Can’t use AI at my day job unfortunately. I tried LLMs for code reviews and “opinions” in personal projects, it does pick up things I didn’t know about that I then explore myself, but these are small projects where I practice specific things rather than product development.
Mobile too, I'm sick of those OSs updating every 18 months because some product person along marketing decides the wheel has to be reinvented otherwise there will be no buzz.

I have a harder and harder time navigating both iOS and Android as time goes, should be the opposite.

Same for Windows or MacOs.
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What is cleared up?
https://archive.ph/3WXHy