skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All a bunch of narcissists who's whole MO is showing off how smart they can be with words, with net negative to society.

Literally if all the morally righteous smartarses from Marx to Hegel to whichever modern university-produced cretins had done the world a favour and died nice and young the world would be a far better place.
same for alpine (https://alpineapp.email/)
That would be super cool to find out! And then it also begs the question, is there something at the center that unites the two poles? If so then what is it!

It would also imply that our whole universe is rotating - the only reason this happens on Earth is because of our planets rotation and the Coriolis effect.
Not the OP but I share the sentiment. Doesn't everyone have a default text editor with a Ctrl-N shortcut or equivalent to create an empty text file? That's what I do every time I need to create a quick note. Maybe I don't spend as much time in the browser as everyone else.
Can you clarify why memory safety isn't your main problem? Do you just mean that UB isn't your biggest problem, or that memory safety isn't your biggest source of UB? The latter sounds unlikely, and the former is interesting as all the code I give away for free gets used by people who very much care if it has UB.
[citation needed]

Please post actual issues encountered, including non-paraphrased errors instead of FUD.

And if you want to statically link your libc there is nothing forcing you to use glibc. You're only stuck with glibc (and even then you don't actually need to use any functions from it yourself) if you need dynamic linnking for e.g. OpenGL/Vulkan. Also, glibc wasn't designed for static linking even before they put in safeguards against that.
> fund and prop up/support said practice

I wonder how this would look in practice in the case of the demoscene.

I feel like there was a moment in the earöy 2010s-ish when there was an interest in the demoscene as one aspect of "digital art", along with games, animation etc. Seems to have faded a bit, maybe because the focus of the demoscene shifted towards size limits where the aesthetic accomplishments can be less immidiately obvious to the uninitiated.
That’s an ops decision. The most common things to die are RAM and PSUs. The latter are redundant on every server I’ve ever seen. The former is dirt cheap (especially as the hardware ages), and extremely easy to replace.

I have 13 year old Dell R620s that have been running 24/7/365 for a few years in a suboptimal environment at this point (I mean, minus occasional restarts for kernel updates, brief maintenance periods, etc.). The only thing I’ve had to replace were RAM and a single PSU.
how did they catch that?
I have been reading Moore's Law is dead articles for the last 30 years. You sort of become immune to the "sky is falling" narrative after a while.

Tech leaders love this narrative:

2005: Intel CEO https://hothardware.com/news/moores-law-is-dead-says-gordon-...

2009: Sandisk CEO https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/2...

2010: NVIDIA VP https://finance.yahoo.com/news/2010-05-03-nvidia-vp-says-moo...

2016: Intel CEO https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/technology/moores-law-run...

2017: NVIDIA CEO https://www.extremetech.com/cars/256558-nvidias-ceo-declares...

2019: NVIDIA CEO https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/moores-law-is-dead-nvidi...

2022: NVIDIA CEO https://www.barrons.com/articles/nvidia-graphic-card-prices-...

The only time this felt true was on the desktop/Windows/Linux for CPUs when Intel had an uncontested monopoly from 2009 - 2016:

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CPU-p...

But it was broken by AMD's Ryzen architecture on one side and Apple's M series on the other.
You are correct, we are indeed at the center of the universe.

Hence the farther we observe stuff, the earlier in time it happens. And if an observer moves to a different location, they will still be at the center of the universe (aka light cone).
As developers have to support themselves in some way, would you be willing to use a similar ad-supported extension? Or perhaps pay a small amount to support development more directly and go ad-free?
> I had assumed that the UK was broadly in consensus with wanting less of it.

UK voters were [1], but their rulers didn't listen.

[1] https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/do-brits-think...
FastTracker was Swedish?
That's enough to justify this list add IMO
> Also, around 2001 was the big architectural change for desktop from DOS to NT, so this might seem like cherry-picking the timeframe selected.

It's true that the entire Windows product family converged onto the NT codebase with the release of Windows XP, but this isn't really relevant -- Windows executables and DOS executables were always different things, and despite being built on top of a DOS-based kernel, Windows 9x still supported the same Win32 binaries that ran under NT.

There was even an extension called Win32S that allowed Win32 executables to be run under Windows 3.1. The Win32 API dates to the early '90s, and modern implementations do support executables dating all the way back to the beginning.
> it's always expected/that's just the custom

This is the problem. You basically said "we do it like this because that's the way we've always done it," which is the weakest form of justification for anything.

Rain, snow, etc...do you tip the person who delivers your mail? They do it in an LLV (a rather treacherous vehicle with little to no climate control) or on foot, but nobody tips them. When the pizza delivery person applied for the job, they did so knowing they would have to deliver in bad weather, but somehow we reach the conclusion that the responsibility of making sure that driver is being paid adequately for their risk and efforts is shifted to the customer, rather than than their employer.

Now, I should clarify that despite my years of restaurant service where my $2.65/hour paycheck existed nominally for the sole purpose of covering taxes (hence, my "take home" pay coming directly from the customers to my pocket), that I am in the camp of abolishing tipping altogether. Raise the wages of all service workers to a livable wage, which all these companies can certainly afford, and we'd be done with it. But I know that's a huge leap, so we need to take baby steps to get there.

Having a well-defined notion of which positions should be tip-based and which should not is the first baby step.
The real Apartheid is not the israeli citizens. It's the people in the West Bank and Gaza. All of them should be israeli citizens too. Either that, or half a million settlers should get out. Can't have it both ways.
I would say not really. This pretty much only fits the exact use case for its specific niche need. E.g. operating in RF adverse/non-recoverable environments. Otherwise it's a waste. So technically it's still not "popular" in the sense of general popularity. You're not going to see your general drone pilot rushing to put fiber optic on thier drone. This also isn't a new concept. Its the same thing as wire-guided missiles that have been around since WWII.
Relevant Article: https://encypherai.com/blog/ai-plagiarism-detection-is-broke...

A video overview & demo of the python package can be found on our homepage: https://encypherai.com/
>I think vast majority HN user won't prefer any AI generated comment.

Agreed! At the same time, there's a lot of content on here about AI, including AI-based content generation.

So, if HN users don't like being subjected to AI-generated content, why would they be OK with promoting AI, including foisting AI-based content upon others? Seems unfair, not to mention self-contradictory.

>These comments honestly just mock readers.

I looked through that poster's comment history and they seem to be participating in good faith.

People are also not great at identifying AI-generated content. (There was an experiment about AI-generated graphic art on ACX not too long ago, I assume the situation with text to be no different.)

And there's a style of "normative" English which the language models "know" by default (because they learned it from human-authored content). But nothing prevents humans from still writing in that style, and indeed many people think that this is how they writing should look in order to get their post across. (My parent comment was a joke about how readers do prioritize style over substance, and are pretty bad at identifying substance they don't already have at least some familiarity with.)

So, if that comment turned out to not be GPT-generated, you've just mocked someone for trying to share their thoughts in that way which (in their opinion) would be most accessible to others. How does that help anyone?
The economist wrote an article "Jensen Huang says Moore’s law is dead. Not quite yet" (https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/12/13/...) which refutes this claim quite nicely. It's two years old but still pretty accurate.
I've found the server-side search functionality works very well, if you have good server implementation. Dovecot's, for example.

And as for treating IMAP like POP, yes, there are clients that only pay lip service to "having IMAP support", only so that they can have one more green checkbox in feature list that their present in their marketing. But there are also more serious clients.
Karpathy: Finding the Best Sleep Tracker
Also not a thing possible to do, depending on jurisdiction.
Potentially a very good question!
I love tiny note taking solutions. My favorite app of all time is (was?) nvALT [1].

The simplest in-browser solution actually requires zero pages or apps, see this bookmarklet [2]. It opens a full-page text area. No saving, but immediate and does not need a network connection.

Alternatively, not as easy as a publicly available web page, but if you want to have a very fast and minimalist self-hosted note taking app (with fast search and the ability to attach files and download websites), check out my small project called Textpod [3].

[1]. https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
[2]. https://bookmarklet.one/bm/quick-note/
[3]. https://github.com/freetonik/textpod
[email I use for interpersonal and official communications]: no interests found

[email for thinks I’m not willing to share or publicly associate with myself]: results: "programming"

[email for everything else]: results: "programming (yes), freelance (not reaaaly), graphic design (15 years ago), Hiking (yes, how did it get that?!!)

Cool tool and I’d be glad to click on a "how does that work" page. Since you mention OSINT here I’ll have a look at it. The changing header line (magic/intel/osint) is a hint but also a bit confusing as magic is obviously not serious and intel as many meanings.
There's a lot of progress on optical computing recently, with some of its proponents suggesting they could get up to 100x speedup on some things like LLMs relative to current chips. If they ever manage to deliver then we'll see a lot of 2x or more improvements.
Some people I know seems to be more split between Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook Messenger. I don't see anyone being 99% in one app, and certainly not WhatsApp. I think I know like three people who use WhatsApp privately.

I do know people working in sales and purchasing and I wouldn't be surprised if they had 25% or more of their professional lives in WhatsApp. Previously they used Skype heavily. So this could be interesting for them.
> BTW, Rust has this problem more than other memory-safe languages

Do you have a citation there?

I've run into a ton of memory safety issues in Go because two goroutines concurrently modifying a map or pointer is a data-race, which leads to memory unsafety... and go makes it wildly easy to write such data-races. You need to manually add mutexes everywhere for go to be memory safe.

Rust, on the other hand, I've yet to run into an actual memory safety issue. Like, I'm at several hundred in Go, and 0 in rust.

I'm curious why my experience is so different.
Also in the UK.

Ceefax provided various programs for the BBC Micro. Or more generally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesoftware
My own dumb question …

How does cyclones/hurricanes relate to being “on one of two ‘poles’”?

Do you mean hemisphere?
maybe this is a stupid question, but is it possible that the big bang simply had some kind of clockwise angular momentum to it? how different is that idea from the black hole cosmology concept? I don't really understand how the two fit together
I like the idea! The different scratch pads are cool. But I'm always a bit worried with localStorage of losing my work, is that a fair concern?

If you're looking for feedback, you could consider:

- Host the javascript and fonts yourself, only downsides (privacy, slower) in using a CDN. Ko-fi, Google fonts, Google analytics, Cloudflare, Bootstrapcdn, Numoh -- are all these entities required for note taking?

- Excessive user analytics: Google Analytics is not configured for privacy. Also another Numoh Analytics, but that seems disabled at the moment?

- A pretty writing experience helps me stay in a flow. Nothing wrong with Arial 16px #000, but not inviting either. There is still a lot to win from a typography perspective.

- The saving to .txt is nice, but I'd want a plain text (or markdown) version, no html. Also would be nice if the filename was optimized (scratchpad + timestamp).

- Instead of all CSS inline, it might prevent the flash of a white-screen if the styling was saved/cached in css file, or the prefers-color-scheme tag.

- You've added an <h1> tag but styled it with a font-size smaller than your body text, this makes it lose it semantics (i.e. also no SEO/UX value).
That's why you needed it saved with Turbo. it was at least 10 times faster.. I used to have this cartridge... besides turbo it had some more things, it could grab a hardcopy of memory (ie if you were playing a game.. you could save it... and then load it later, it would be in the same state)

https://www.ami64.com/product-page/kcs-power-cartridge-c64

See also https://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/2016/11/what-was-first-co...
So what caused the "initial kick" to favor one side?
I think Ente is a great service and fills a crucial role in being a photo app you don't have to self-host yourself if you're looking to distance yourself from big tech, like Google Photos.

While they do offer an option to self-host, it's nice to see a small business operating from a mindset of privacy while striving to be just as usable as the big tech alternatives.
> Compilers rather works in terms of UBs being constraints (on the program), which they can then leverage for optimisations. All the misbehaviour is emergent behaviour from the compiler assuming UBs don’t happen (because that’s what an UB is).

I think a good way to view this would be that optimization passes have invariants. The passes transform code from one shape to another while ensuring that the output from running the code remains the same. But in order for the transformation to be valid certain invariants must be upheld, and if they are not then the result of the pass will have different output (UB).
Exactly my experience in Belgium where we have a similar grade system. Teachers would give a list of questions in advance, students would just memorize the answers and repeat them at the exam. Most of them had absolutely zero understanding of the material.

Meanwhile, students who need to actually understand what they are learning (I can't memorize like others) before passing a test often end up with worse grades but a better understanding.

Absolutely broken system.
There's been specialized tools in use since the very beginning though. I'd count assemblers and such among them. :)
I am kind of missing how the 'pure' query problem is solved.

Say I have 10000 rows, and my authorization gives access to 3 of those rows.

With security in the database, you return 3 rows. From what I can read, the protect pattern returns 10000 rows from the database, but discard 9997 of them afterwards. Doesn't this increase load and memory usage? Shouldn't there be a balance?
My current and last jobs had monthly RDBMS bills in excess of $1 million/month. It is staggering. We could buy two fully-loaded 42U racks in separate DCs and be net positive after a few months. I’ve done the math, in great detail.

No go. “It’s hard to hire for that skill set.” Is it $9 million/year hard?! You already have a team lead – me. This shit is not that hard; people will figure it out, I promise.
Was this 'unfolding' similar to how the burned library at Pompeii had some ashen scrolls revealed?
I have been bedroom DJing, and wanting to expand what I can do with the hardware I already have.

Using `midiex` for Elixir I’ve written a fully fledged driver for Ableton Push, letting me use it as essentially a 4-deck version of Pioneer’s DDJ-XP2 sub controller with Rekordbox.

It implements basic statefulness so that the rotary encoders can be used, as well as a paging system so the 64 performance pads can be mapped to different functions. It also supports track browsing and loading, which is helpful if you want to use say DVS with an external mixer and don’t want to be hunched over a laptop dragging tracks around.

It’s also got some additional capabilities which I’ve not seen on other hardware like dedicated faders for stem separation levels.

It’s been a great exercise in combing two hobbies, learning about MIDI as well as being able to personalise my setup for my own use. I haven’t open sourced any of it just yet whilst I’m still tweaking things but I’d be interested in collaborating with anyone who also has one of these devices and has programmed it. I’m looking to use the display on it next, whose protocol Ableton have some (albeit scant) documentation for.
NVidia only has so much silicon area it can get from its partners. Right now AI datacenter silicon is worth much more than its weight in gold, but consumer grade silicon is worth a fraction of that.

I predict we are pretty close to the death of the GPU as a discrete component. We will have TPUs that live in work stations and data centers as discrete components, and integrated graphics cards that live on the CPU die.
From my understanding, the big bang requires that the proto-universe was in a completely homogenous state that was then pushed out of that equilibrium for some reason. But that reason doesn't require non-zero angular momentum. It only requires that a the proto-universe was homogenous and now the universe isn't. And that is what separates pre and post big bang. I could be wrong, I am not a cosmologist. Would be happy to hear from one though.
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It's also not falsifiable. Dang can disclaim it but Gruber's next step would just be to write "of course dang would say that."

If all Dang did was deny, then yeah, it would be quite reasonable to not trust him. But presumably Dang is able to provide a reasonable alternative explanation and has the receipts to back it up.
The memory protection strategies this paper argues for are fine. If we can recompile legacy software to gain better protection against stack and heap exploits that's a clear win.

As the paper points out 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.

Then the paper observes that memory safety is still a significant problem on the server. But instead of pointing out the root cause -- the absence of sandboxing -- the authors argue that applications should instead be rewritten in go or rust! This is absurd. The kernel already provides strong memory protection guarantees for each process. The kernel also provides hard guarantees for access to devices and the file system. But server software doesn't take advantage of any of these guarantees. When a server process intermixes data of multiple customers and privilege levels then any tiny programming mistake (regardless of memory safety) can result in privilege escalation or catastrophic data leaks. What use is memory safety when your go program returns the wrong user's data because of an off-by-one error? You don't need a root exploit if your process already has "root access" to the database server.

If we want to be serious about writing secure software on the server we have to start taking advantage of the process isolation the kernel provides. The kernel can enforce that a web request from user A cannot return data from user B because the process simply cannot open any files that belong to the wrong user. This completely eliminates all memory safety concerns. But today software on the server emulates what the kernel already does with threading, scheduling, and memory protection, except poorly and in userspace and without any hardware guarantees. Effectively all code runs as root in ring 0. And we're surprised that security continues to plague our industry?
I thought the suggestion was to use them for something else during otherwise downtime.
Not a physicist, but here is my understanding of the cosmology physics:

High energy can spontaneously form matter antimatter pairs. In the early universe, the heat of the universe was very high, so this was common, constantly happening.

The problem as always if fine tuning. If the early universe was 60-40, that would be understandable. If the early universe was precisely 50-50, that’s fine too. But the universe was 50.0001-49.9999 or something like that, and then all annihilated. It’s too big a difference to easily be random chance, and too small a difference to be easily explained by a starting condition what wasn’t precisely tuned by some mechanism.
Fungus found in Chernobyl might process radiation and act as a shield (2024)
How do you explain the saying 'sharing is caring'? If you're correct and people inherently enjoy the exploitation of others, how could such a saying spontaneously develop and resonate with rather large groups?

And how did the feasts of large religions develop? Things like iftar, where you communally share lots of food with both people you know and strangers, including the impoverished and disadvantaged? There ought to be quite a bit of violence involved to make such practices palatable if you're correct about this.
> They're probably the same types who use it to do their work.

Citation needed.

It's a local LLM with access to an extraordinary amount of personal data. In the EU at least that personal data is supposed to be handled with care. I don't see people freaking out, but simple pointing out the leap of handing it over to ANOTHER company.
If you could add custom templates, you could let the community add the country specific things
XFCE is probably the closest thing around to a traditional Windows desktop environment.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250328001502/https://www.forbe...
Protecting Your Digital Life: Privacy and Security Measures for Apple Users
Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison
Interesting you call it a "brand". People picked up the term because it was meant to be an insult and that is quite relevant to understand the current political situation and why Trump can sell himself as free speech defender while doing the opposite.

Bascially because his opposition is that much slower...
I love the tagline: _Built because we live in an age of magic, and we keep forgetting to use it._
Bell 202 lives on as well: https://www.windytan.com/2014/02/mystery-signal-from-helicop...

In this case, continuous GPS coordinates are sent on one audio channel while the other channel is voice.
TL;DR

If you want to jump straight to the conclusion, I’d say go for Gemini 2.5 Pro, it’s better at coding, has one million in context window as compared to Claude’s 200k, and you can get it for free (a big plus). However, Claude’s 3.7 Sonnet is not that far behind. Though at this point there’s no point using it over Gemini 2.5 Pro.
I can't believe so many people would downvote a peer-reviewed paper just because it doesn't sit well with their politics, it really shows how cult-like science discourse in the US has become.