skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A wooden stick rammed into the ground alone is enough to stop a charging horse. The faster it charges, the quicker it would penetrate itself.

But this was a lesson long known in europe, but not in the Andes. Still, kind of baffling. I suppose religious motives played a role as well in not trying out those simple solutions.
I think that with TikTok and such channels squeezing out the ability to read, the entire humanity is embarking on a massive de-literatization experiment.
> function returns should be contravariant

I'm not very familiar with these relations, but shouldn't function returns be covariant? `String => Cat` is a subtype of `String => Animal`?

> Function parameters should be covariant

For function parameters, doesn't it depend on how the parameter is used?
I would say the even bigger problem is that the pieces you stitch together to make a web app will rot rather quickly.

He mentions supabase and vercel. It will only take so long, until the supabase code or the vercel service will have a breaking change. And those breaking changes add up throughout the stack. Making the cost of running a web app much higher than it would have to be.
There is no alternative to Exchange that does not involve Microsoft?
Valve started with win8, almost 15 years ago now.
Good thing they’re trying to move off x86, then
For most people, alternative to the inappropriately literal translation is being unable to read it, not being 95% of the way.

20 years ago, in simpler times, people were sharing badly done human translations: https://archive.org/details/engrishtwotowerssubtitles

And just plain mistakes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7702913.stm

I've also encountered a case of real paid humans translating the English word "drake", in a mythological context where it was obviously a dragon, as if it were used in the sense of "male duck".

Myself, I decided to not even attempt to learn Chinese after realising I'd struggle with saying "hello" rather than "mud trench": https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=“你好”%20%2F%...

Best experts can beat AI, but AI beats most non-experts. Jack of all trades, master of none.
haha yeah, if that’s the case it’s an unintended filter though cause the Indian or Nigerian scam call stereotype works cause they have a lot of scam call centres there.
<p>How would you represent <b><i>mixed content</i></b> in JSON?</p>
That goes for many other governments, and since Microsoft is American you can see which direction this favors.
Imo just works is an understatement. Many games work better than ever.
Google not being evil. /s
You don't need to sue Google, just file a complaint with whatever the GDPR authority is in your country ...
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

I don't think it's virtuous be be the fool.
wrong, the hight of wood technology and understanding is behind us
I have worked on many very old wooden buildings, dateing back to the mid 1700's and learned from the last carpenters and shipwrights, blacksmiths
standing who carried those traditions, as things they learned as part of a greater whole.
The understanding of how to keep structures dry, and also, how the inevitable condensation and leakage must be shed, is wraped up in tiny details, choices in wood species and specific grain orientations.
If you are discussing, settler built homes, then
the choices become based on pragmatism and litteral, life/death survival decisions, so things like, a stone fireplace, but @3' the chimney is chinked log or split wood, and I have seen wooden
chimney foundations,made from truely massive, huen
timbers, dovetailed together, 36" plus timbers,still supporting an in use kitchen apparatus, after 300 years.
How is that possible?, simple, site selection, dry
but not too dry, with a spring for a well close by, and if you dig into the details, there is plenty of history around choosing "dry wells" just for, basements and larders, non muddy spots for
a house, etc.
It is a mistake and a disservice to underestimate the sophistication of the many many, hidden details and the consious choices behind them, in our ancestors lives.
seaweed, insulation, and "brushing" foundations every fall......
goes on and on
And most people dramatically underestimate what a death sentence a low trust society is for economic development.

Countries that allow a culture of scamming are all poor because a low trust society will never develop into a first world economy.

Trust and property rights are the basis of all development and investment and human collaboration.
You cannot even develop or use anything that needs a compiler without siging up and logging in to apple to install dev tools.

So nah, same.
I can hear the artifacts, too, and I can still tell it is an Indian speaking.
It's not perfect but it does make speech easier to understand, which is the ostensible purpose. There's a slight uncanny valley effect. Latency requirements are very tight, and Indian English is actually timed differently to American or British English, so it's a hard problem.

The company should consider targeting RP instead of General American. In my experience attempting the latter with a slight Asian tinge makes you sound like you're trying to be a WASP, while speaking the former with the same small errors makes you sound like you studied PPE at Oxford.
It’s not a part of Catholic doctrine. You won’t find the core beliefs of much, much more mainstream sects in Catholic teachings, let alone the more uncommon beliefs that are out there.
Because the marketers oversold it. That is why you are seeing a pushback. I also outright rejected them because 1) they were sold and marketed as end all be all replacements for human thought, and 2) they promised to replace only the parts of my job that I enjoy. Billboards were up in San Francisco telling my "bosses" that I was soon to be replaced, and the loudest and earliest voices told me that the craft I love is dead. Imagine Nascar drivers excitedly discussing how cool it was they wouldn't have to turn left anymore - made me wonder why everyone else was here.

It was, more or less, the same narrative arc as Bitcoin, and was (is) headed for a crash.

That said, I've spent a few weeks with augment, and it is revelatory, certainly. All the marketing - aimed at a suite I have no interest in - managed to convince me it was something it wasn't. It isn't a replacement, any more than a power drill is a replacement for a carpenter.

What it is, is very helpful. "The world's most fully functioning scaffolding script", an upgrade from copilot's "the world's most fully functioning tab-completer". I appreciate it usefulness as a force multiplier, but I am already finding corners and places where I'd just prefer to do it myself. And this is before we get into the craft of it all - I am not excited by the pitch "worse code, faster", but the utility is undeniable in this capitalistic hell planet, and I'm not a huge fan of writing SQL queries anyway, so here we are!
They're not joking, unfortunately. https://www.classlawgroup.com/vizio-smart-tv-privacy-lawsuit

Have you ever wondered why Roku TVs are so cheap? Check the default privacy settings. They fingerprint every single thing that displays on the TV and phone home. Here's an engineer right here on HN talking about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21012268

Also, there are ultrasonic beacons and other such signals at any reasonably busy public place and in many places you wouldn't expect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-device_tracking
He's not moving any money around.

The acquisition is entirely in stock. Shareholders of X are receiving xAI stock in exchange for their X shares. They don't get any cash.

Musk says the new combined entity is worth $80B, but that's on paper. The company certainly doesn't have that much cash or liquid assets. The valuation is based on xAI's previous funding round + whatever number they decided to assign to the X assets + the magic of "synergy" produced by this deal. In other words, it's not based on anything real. (Accountants call this "goodwill.")
Another masterclass stroke from Musk.
Yes, but also if you are not good in writing articles don’t quit writing them, getting better in writing articles comes with.. writing articles.

Also you should not necessarily optimize your blog post for the max amount of readers, that’s only useful in commercial cases or when you want to commercialize yourself.
I don't have any direct sources because I'm not in the scam industry. I am generally aware of scam forums and groups where they share TTPs etc. The goal is always to improve and limit the flaws. Personally I've also noticed the refined scam attempts, eg the package texts use proper grammar.
The processing made them sound robotic in my opinion. I'm certain enough engineering dollars thrown at the problem and you could make anybody sound like anybody else live.

I am not in love with the idea that the fate of AI is to boil down each person to a lowest common denominator. I'm curious what others think, at what point between totally unprocessed source material and everyone sounding like the same four marketable AI voices does a solution like this become problematic? I get the intention of the product, appreciate the focus on clear communication, but can't help feeling some will take it further and I just don't like the subtext of forcing people to sound like some core "good" voice. What will be lost in that?
laws should be adapted to extend the warranty every time a remote change is made to the device. basically, the warranty should hold as long as the device is maintained. say, each update should come with half a year of warranty. it's a bit tricky as it could motivate companies to stop updating, but that could be solved with a separate law forcing companies to provide an extra number of years to provide updates. (if that doesn't exist already)
I'm Polish.

This statement, I'm afraid, is false.
"But that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with their variety of English or "accent"."

Yes, there IS a lot of wrong with my accent. I am not a native speaker and thus there is no leniency with that. If I have grammar issues, or my accent is heavy, that does not mean there's nothing wrong - on the contrary, it means my knowledge of English is not good enough. If I were a native speaker? Then for sure, by definition I could not have a wrong accent (whether it's understandable is a different question.)
> Windows is known for its stellar backward compatibility.

was
> I hope to see operating systems truly designed around focus rather than multitasking, interfaces that respect attention rather than constantly competing for it

I wish disabling automatic focus changes was a consistently available feature. I'd want that emergent windows, pop-ups, dialogs, or newly opened applications that had been loading in the background, are NEVER able to steal the windows focus.

It's been an instinctive rejection since a child; opening an app that takes some time to load, and during those seconds, keep writing some text in a notepad, only to end up with half phrase mistakenly written onto the program that finally loaded and stole the windows focus. I've always despised that behavior, really. Yeah, I'm fast in my interactions with my machines.
> I'm pretty sure you don't want to be making the argument that it's ethical to judge people based on elements of their identity, so long as those elements have been selected by that person's choice!

That's a strange argument to make. If the chosen identity element is associated with negative characteristics, then it stands to reason that it's, well, reasonable to judge them based on those characteristics.

If it quacks, it's probably a duck. If it wears a police uniform it probably a) does bad stuff, b) enables cover-ups of that bad stuff, or c) lacks the courage to speak out against the bad stuff. This isn't because of their identity, it's because this is a characteristic that is widely documented to be incredibly common among cops.

People can choose to not adopt identity elements that have bad reputations. People can't choose not to be black.
I always find myself referencing the Grand Inquisitor chapter from the Brothers Karamazov.

Does institutionalization always breed corruption? If it can breed corruption in the teachings of God then it can breed corruption anywhere.
I think you're shirking responsibility quite a bit. Managed hosting means its your responsibility since you can run applications on there.

If you used a SaaS then its a bit different since you could only use an authorised plugin and wouldnt be able to run arbitrary code.
Just wait till google and youtube uses ai to access camera and track your eye movements to detect whether you are actually watching ads or not, when ad comes and you place your phone away or move your eye away for time being ad gets complete, ai will detect you are not watching ad and pause it, thus when you return it will play again, thereby forcing us to watch ads
Why are we missing awe in our life
I'm not sure how you think this is a tax only on the rich and the corporations. Many middle class people have 401ks, IRAs, 529s, and brokerage accounts. These must be held at SEC institutions, and their fees are part of the cost. I'm not saying the SEC should be reduced, as I don't know if they have a surplus. But I am saying if you want to reduce taxes, this is still something that is a tax and can be looked into for efficiencies.
"Reducing friction is good!" seems to be the silicon valley moto. Actually, friction in certain tactical positions could greatly improve our lives
Inevitably when you put something out on the Internet, you’re going get a lot of critics. I think it’s amazing, you’ve taken this initiative.

I would consider purpose here in respect to node.js: I would never run something critical like UPS on node.js, it’s full of bugs and api shelf life is measured in weeks. Auto updates are also not a thing I would do for a plethora odd reasons, the least bit is my UPS daemon has no business connecting to the Internet.

I will say, the documentation is beautiful. I’ve set up a dozen Eaton UPSs, and i wouldn’t say UPSC/Nut are hard, but they’re not great either.
> existing programming languages have little or no subtyping [...] If you remember the fad for Object Oriented Programming

I was under the impression that even today, most code is written in an object-oriented style (or at least, written in languages that support OOP). Therefore, most languages support subtyping via inheritance. Is that not true?
Better to just contact NOYB directly, they are responsible for about 50% of all GDPR fines to date. Outside of Norway the DPAs seem mostly useless, especially when it comes to big tech…
I imagine they're thinking of the video game https://www.reddit.com/r/playrust/ not the programming language :D
Researchers bring prehistoric algae back to life
On low power hardware many games run better because they not strangled by windows bloat.
The prospect of inserting a plausible bullshit generator owned by a tech megacorp between myself and the outside world seems more dystopian than making my life better.
Two Krisp posts on the front page? It smells in here.
tl;dr RTL8251B does not need a firmware blob

https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2025-Febru...
> Any company anywhere always has to look for the best talent at the best price.

Surely you understand the difference between wanting to hire superstars but then adjusting your targets downward based on what salaries you can offer versus wanting to pay as little as possible for call center agents and then adjusting your targets upward based on what you can get away with. "I want the best I can get but I need to be able to afford it" vs "I want to pay nothing but I need to spend enough to get something that works".

Expectations for customer service tend towards rock bottom for many businesses. It's something they have to provide or their customers will get very upset (or they might even get them into legal trouble) but it only has to be good enough to be serviceable. And for call centers this usually means you end up having people closely follow a script anyway so you're literally just paying people to be human dialog trees. It's a nuisance but you can't get away with not having it, so you want to pay as little as possible.

You're talking about cut-offs for price ranges - that's indeed a given which is why I thought it doesn't bear mentioning. I'm talking about whether you go over the resulting list sorting from lowest to highest ("best of the cheapest") or highest to lowest ("cheapest of the best").
There are many environments where people don’t have a choice but to maintain what is in production.

Whether or not viable alternatives exist, those alternatives don’t magically change org structure, office politics, budget, current business priorities, etc.

Bottom line: many people managing exchange don’t have the luxury of evaluating this problem in terms of alternatives.
> And with tech like VR working its way into homes, precise time may become more important there, too.

How does VR relate to precise time? I assume we are talking about Virtual Reality and if that’s the case I don’t get the relation, or is there another VR abbreviation I’m ignorant to?
Sounds like a good way to make sure that companies drop SW support as quickly as possible.
Aren't Cyber trucks by Tesla? And FSD is basically here which means robotaxis are basically here. Now there are just regulatory hurdles and the long tail.
I agree. It may be the case that an American accent is more useful to most people, but that doesn't make this tool and its marketting completely disjoint from imperialistic messaging
https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-2024/ - "In 2024, Python overtook JavaScript as the most popular language on GitHub, while Jupyter Notebooks skyrocketed—both of which underscore the surge in data science and machine learning on GitHub."

What's missing here though is TypeScript: I believe if you combine JavaScript and TypeScript together they still beat Python on GitHub.
I got into music production again recently. To my surprise most recommended new software is either Linux native or properly ported. See reaper for example.

Many years ago music on Linux was hard, and years behind. Software was limited and the audio driver situation was a mess. But now you get professional software directly in the package manager and choose between several very reliable sound systems and even use the far majority of VST Plugins.
I dunno man, Capitalism wants us all to be the same grey goo buying slop, but it's clear people and mammals in aggregate desire to be individualized, and these two forces are in opposition but only one of them is currently taking over the world in authority and power.
Windows S failed hard so they have a new strategy. Every new CPU ships with M$'s Pluton root of trust. For 'security' everything will have to be signed. They consider the user to be the threat actor. Eventually they will charge a percsnt fee for using their signing service.
Language servers rule. Thanks for doing this!
KeyClu
I do not disagree with this.
Last time I checked the US still allows prison slave labour and medical experiments on its prison population.
Most Objective-C codebases are brown field development.

Apple themselves, the only framework that they started from scratch in recent years was Metal, and even there only die hards use Objective-C instead of the Swift bindings.

Could be better, it isn't as bad as you make it to be, for a language whose design goals are to replace C, C++ and Objective-C for Apple.
I worked at a software vendor where we would check the type of product and yes you needed our server product to run on their server product, whether or not you used the server as a server.

Not all software does this but I also don't recall it being unusual.
I'm trying to remember the last time some actually positive and surprising (in a good way) news came out of Google.

I seem to remember a time when they produced one of those every week.

Lately it seems to be mostly the kind of fuck-up and misstep this article talks about.

And I'm not even mentioning those where the misbehaving is actually willful.
Jacob Kaplan-Moss gave a great talk at the last DjangoCon about money - what Django would do with an increased budget and how to get there: https://jacobian.org/2024/oct/8/dsf-one-million/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nS1SSuHk9I
>I'm not going to read the "article" because it is a transcript and looks a bit rambly and I don't expect it to be talking about anything interesting.

So just like a scam, eh?
> He mentioned native allies at several points actually, though he doesn’t emphasise them

I also quoted the author about allies: “Discounting their native allies, they were probably outnumbered ...”

So that qualifies as mentioning native allies. It mentions the allies as being so inconsequential that they can be discounted when considering the forces they were up against.

> and their purported numbers are still like 100x lower than the forces they are facing.

Source?

> Also addressed by the article.

That part of my comment was not about the article.

> I feel modern academia (and also Guns Germs and Steel FWIW) desperately try to do the opposite these days - to claim that the natives where not militarily, technologically or logistically inferior to Europeans despite getting conquered by Europeans in what look like very lopsided battles.

First of all popular understanding (which is what I was talking about) seems to like narratives of dominating conquest. That goes both for Mongols and conquistadors.

Secondly they have arguments for their theories. That they are “desperate” speaks to their motivation and not the end result of their theories. So you would have to engage with their counter-arguments instead of falling back on saying that it looked lopsided. (Are you critiquing their history or their motivations? Different things.)

> I feel that is just as dishonest as the opposite. Nobody does this to the Mongols or Huns or whatever. Their superiority is accepted at face value.

I would hope that historians try their best to figure out why the Mongols or the Ottomans and whoever won, using a variety of approaches, arriving at the most empirically solid theory whether that is tech/logistical superiority or whatever else. But that is not known to me.
Not if it as accompanied by laws about a lower bar for the functioning of software. Eg. regular sec patches etc.

However, this would be a great way of separating hardware and software products - and would that be so bad?
Users value backwards compatability. Users aren't the customers anymore and don't drive KPIs.
Haha fuck you :)
right but those entities quite clearly have an existing market value in the region of those numbers. this guy's arms and legs do not. it's a poor analogy that's trying to be too clever
https://archive.is/eTE0q
Someone evaluated Huawei hardware for many telcos years ago and a lot of them decided the equipment is not only usable, it’s the best choice. So which ones were the incompetents or shills?
I prefer managing my own hardware and find both Azure and AWS very unproductive for anything else than huge, big traffic, projects. Not sure if that has to do anything with my OS choice.
> The normal human reaction to being swarmed by galloping cavalry is to flee

Yes, and that's why crowd control with mounted police is still very effective today.
my pleasure! I had my ide point to the debug build locally for over a year now, and it has been very rewarding to slowly see it mature (as in crash less) during my day job over time.