skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a speculation which may be hubris that cursor is such a hit because its better than a lot of programmers because a lot of programmers aren't very good.

And then when an actually talented programmer tries to use cursor it is much less good then they are alone.

But idk maybe I'm being an arrogant snob who underestimates the vast majority of programmers.
More than a thousand hits is a very good sample size. The total population of the UK barely matters in this check for statistical significance.

A very general rule of thumb is that you want 10-100 samples in each category. In this case it's about a thousand children in one category and millions in the other category. That's more than enough to measure a 30% difference.
> Can't you tell me the game needs updating when I play the game and then update the game in-game?

Can you explain this a little? Do you have any examples? Unless you're installing a completely new copy of the game, you're not going to be able to play while you update, making this look an awful lot like a launcher. I'm not aware of any games that are hot-updatable.
Do not discount the tendency of Europeans to be wellness hippies.
No, TSLA is still higher than it was when he bought Twitter.
Another fantastic reason to strictly only install apps from F-Droid.
> that's not what applications are coded against anymore

Not sure I follow. Sure, most modern programs are not using old-school WinAPI with GDI, but the stuff they added later is also rather stable. For example, the Chromium-based browser I’m looking at uses Direct3D 11 for graphics. It implements a few abstraction layers on top (ANGLE, Skia) but these are parts of the browser not the OS.

I view all that modern stuff like Direct3D, Direct2D, DirectWrite, Media Foundation as simply newer parts of the WinAPI. Pretty sure Microsoft will continue to support them for long time. For example, they can’t even deprecate the 23 years old DirectX 9 because still widely used, e.g. current version of Microsoft’s own WPF GUI framework relies on Direct3D 9 for graphics.
Folks don’t appreciate how much energy it actually takes to “fall” into the Earth or even the Sun.

It’s not really intuitive when most personal experience is how hard it is to keep things from not falling.
Is the game a quest to find the lost r?
Are you essentially discussing like a keylogger? I can't imagine windows intentionally keeps the plaintext password anywhere longer than it needs to be.
They would’ve said inciting a violent insurrection was bad before he did it too. But once he actively did it they fell in line and continued to back him. They will fall in line when his disobeys a court order.
Yep, not difficult at all.

This prompt got me some mostly looks OK Python

> Can you make a simple windows program that will get all the window titles from active programs running
it works in any video app!
It's probably an oversight than a "backdoor". They already have a "frontdoor" in the form of a permission that's pre-granted to them by the OS, so there's little need for them to devise backdoors like the android.intent.action.MAIN query that the blog post mentions.
That is the weirdest thing to take exception to.
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Open sourcing our neobank for nonprofits has been years in the making. We shared our initial launch here back in 2019 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19257241). Today, I’m happy to announce that our Ruby on Rails codebase is public on GitHub!
It's named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koto_(instrument)
Almost all believers I have ever known were believers for social reasons, for belonging to a group. I've yet to meet the first one (that wasn't 6 years old) that had actual belief.

Christianity is falling apart because all groups are falling apart in traditional Christian countries, including other religions, including everything from Tennis clubs to Latin study groups.
> What risk do they have sharing that strategy? It is an extremely basic and common strategy

Do you also reveal your hand when playing card games? On the basis that the other players already know all the cards anyway?
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As a life long fan of Lynch, I took the trip last year to go through his entire back catalog of content, from his student films, shorts, commercials, TV shows including On The Air, behind-the-scenes clips and of course main movies. Such a great journey, everything he crafted carried something more than what you saw and heard, there's always a thread or the power to make it feel like there was a thread beyond the frame.

Outside of all the typical Lynch stuff, one thing I always suggest people watch is The Straight Story. It's such a wonderful movie, one I hoped at release would find a much bigger audience as it really deserves to be seen and shows that Lynch wasn't a guy who just made weird things, he made great things.
I really like the comparison between talking about politics at work and talking about salaries at work. They are both things that were just 'not allowed' for vague reasons and they both turned out to be really important things to bring up at work.
> If the OS RNG needs fresh entropy it can reseed with fresh entropy from various sources as it does today and use fast key erasure for forward resistance.

This assumes that the OS has access to a source of entropy that replenishes itself quickly enough for whatever the OS is using. One of the biggest complaints I’ve seen from customers selecting entropy sources is the speed of ‘built-in’ entropy sources, to the point where they will actively look for faster ones and pay quite a bit more when they do genuinely need them. The market is there.

While they could implement the fast key erasure, there is still the looming threat of future mathematic attacks on it, and if some analysis comes forward which shows a way to abuse this, then the house of cards falls down. While these attacks are a concern with any DRBG instantiation, the sidestep is, once again, fresh entropy.

If you happen to need a certification for your entropy source, fast key erasure, as described, doesn’t map cleanly to the SP 800-90 series (NIST’s RNG standards) or the AIS 20/31 (BSI’s RNG standards). Most of the time, people wanting high speed entropy are wanting it in a way that not only they trust it, but in a way where governments would too. While I think there could be a way to define the fast key erasure in terms of SP 800-90C, I don’t think there is an implementation that NIST has approved yet.

> Sure there will be windows of opportunity of state compromise, but if the state can be comprised you have bigger problems, for example they could just copy the output of a TRNG source.

This type of compromise (copying the output of TRNG) is an issue outside the scope of the DRBG’s state… Replicating, calculating, or leaking the DRBG state does not require a persistent listener after the initial compromise, would likely be undetectable to the user, and would be effective until the user gets fresh entropy.
> Why is a launcher required?

Because Veloren's update cadence for most servers is substantially more frequent than most package repositories are willing to handle (trust us, we've tried!). You can install the game without the launcher, but don't expect it to be compatible with most servers.

> Is the launcher spying on my system, sending information back to HQ?

Categorically, no. The only information we record is an incrementing counter for each architecture downloaded. You can see this data here: https://grafana.veloren.net/d/boL6rzSGk/airshipper?orgId=1

> Can't you tell me the game needs updating when I play the game and then update the game in-game?

That's exactly what the launcher is doing.

> Are you going to throw me advertisement banners when you're not making or being greedy?

Categorically, no. Veloren is open-source (GPL 3), and developed by a close-knit and dedicated community of volunteers. It's a hobby project and will always be free-as-in-liberty as well as free-as-in-beer.

> What if the update fails?

I'm not sure why it would (bar an iffy connection), but the launcher works in offline mode just fine too.

> but launchers come bloated.

Ours doesn't.

> then requiring an additional 10GB download for the actual game

I think we're up at a few hundred MB right now. Most of that is music. It's worth it :)
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In my recent posts about the MCPs, I've introduced MCP Tools, a command-line toolset for interacting with MCP servers. Today I compared it with the official MCP Inspector to help you decide which tool best fits your workflow, on my latest blog post. Hope it helps!

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Comparative analyses of chloroplast genomes of Theobroma cacao from Peru
The case I recently ran into was trying to find information on the format of resource entries for New Executables (which is the executable file format for the Win16 era). Precious few of the results were even about NE in the first place; like half of them were on the ELF format (the Unixen file format), which doesn't even have a concept of a resource table, so you have to throw away most of the search string for the result to be even plausibly related.
The storage requirements are still massive. I would guess the raw footage for something like severance (and they probably shoot in at least 4k) is going to be in the area of a petabyte for the entire season.

Even today it's not close to practical to have an entire episode's worth of raw footage (of which there'll be many many takes, many many angles) entirely on an editor's workstation.

The surprising aspect is that they don't use proxies for editing rather than remote desktop.
while some humans are confidently wrong occasionally, if this seems to be a pattern with someone we move them to a different role in the organization, we stop trusting them, or stop asking their opinion on that subject, or remove them from the org entirely.

far more often than being confidently wrong, the human will say, i’m not positive on the answer, let me double check and get back to you.
Obviously there's no way for a malicious program to grab your login credentials that you've entered into an incognito tab that have been closed. There might not be sandboxing, but viruses can't timetravel yet. However that's not going to be much of a defense when many users use password managers, and are terrible at detecting malware (so it's only a matter of time before their passwords are keylogged).
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Launchers have their place. For example Minecraft needs a launcher: different servers run on different versions (because of heavy customization that doesn't instantly update on a new game release), so being able to select an arbitrary version and launching it is essential. And the snapshot/beta channel works best if you make it easy for people to play the current, stable version, then quickly check out the latest release, then switch back to stable.

Many early-access games do the same via Steam's "beta" feature. If you don't use Steam, you have to replicate the same in a launcher. Or you do it like Adobe and have an entire separate "not a launcher" program to manage which versions are installed.

Verloren currently doesn't seem to actually offer much version management in the launcher, but it seems like a likely future requirement.
PS2 commercial: https://youtu.be/hzn4WDe13mU?si=dbuofe9HtQ5vW8qq
Grenfell Tower was "fireproof", and yet...
Mike Lindell lost a fortune that probably peaked at over $200 million in his devotion to Trump [1], filing lawsuits on his behalf, making defamatory statements in support of him that he eventually lost lawsuits over and so on. This is a cult-like devotion.

We likewise saw it with Rudy Guiliani whose wealth has been reduced to essentially his home over defamatory statements made over the "stolen" 2020 election.

This is cult-like behavior. As much as people like to say Elon is the shadow president, I'm way more inclined to see him as a cultist rather than a leader or even a grifter. I could be wrong.

Tesla has long somehow defied gravity. At different times it's been worth over $1 million per car produced in a year. Its P/E ratio in recent years has been what? 250? That's a crazy valuation, particularly if you compare it to any of the Big Three or even, perhaps more appropriately, to BYD (P/E 30-50 in recent years).

The core Tesla customer base was environmentally conscious, college-educated, liberal-leaning and realtively high income. These are people who pay a premium to buy an EV because they believe in climate change. Yet this is the very audience Elon's actions over the last year in particular risk completely alienating. I think it's more than 90% likely that the CyberTruck will be discontinued in the short-to-medium term and it will never see mass production.

These are huge hits the company is taking and Elon doesn't have the control that, say, Mark Zuckerberg does over Meta. He can be ousted. I believe at a certain point not too far from now he will be ousted.

Really the only thing keeping Tesla alive now is American and European trade restrictions on BYD who, by all accounts, prodduce a far superior product at a far lower price point. Additionally, China is a key part of Tesla's supply chain so it's vulnerable there as Trump's tariffs and foreign policy further alienate China.

This week we saw Elon pull a SolarCity 2.0 where he engaged in accounting shenanigans to save Twitter from a margin call on his Tesla stock allegedly.

On paper he might be the world's richest man but I don't htink we truly appreciate just how close his house of cards is to falling around him. Add to this that if he has a falling out with Trump, which is a very real risk, it's only going to accelerate that.

[1]: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/mypillow-guy-mik...
short version in the USA only

* generated without any human interaction/prompting -> not copyrightable.

* with human input/prompting -> it depends.

see this comment in the thread and the child comment providing a link to a report by the US copyright office (read page 2 of the executive summary)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518945
Towards fearless SIMD, 7 years later
The way many approach vacation and travel seems to exhibit this "atomization."

There is a lot of list-making, going to very specific coordinates, taking pictures, and attempts to live out the experiences that others have documented. I'm not fully innocent of this.

I've learned that knowing someone local and having them show you what they like about their location, or paying someone (although it's hard to get guides to go off script), is usually much more rewarding for me.
Government makes a false claim, pressures by blocking something else you very much want to do on the basis of false claim, until you accept the false claim, and then uses the now accepted false claim to silence/control.
Hey yeah got caught up in the excitement of finding it :)

It's a SHA256 - `shasum -a 256 server.py`
> For extremely specific use cases such as file managers, browsers or antivirus apps, Google grants an exception by allowing QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission, which provides full visibility into installed apps.

Why would browser need to enumerate the installed apps?

Why?!
Ah yes, hence "maleficarum" being an alternate name for AppleTalk. :D

(Source: I made this up.)
I’m not criticizing them
The gcreep was a huge wake up call for Google, back in ~2010 when this happened. I can tell you that Google took very drastic action internally as a direct result of this (my estimate is that it spent about 100 engineer years, including some very senior SWEs, in this, though that's just a guess) to make it very unlikely for this (an SRE abusing production access) to ever happen again. I'd still say that one incident in 20+ years is a huge success given the scope.
Why .h for a CPP library and not .hpp? Threw me off as I usually expect .h to be associated with C files, opening it I find modern C++.
The grass isn't greener. With the amount of advertising, tracking, and upselling on iOS and Android, our smartphones are significantly worse than Windows 11.
I could be completely wrong, but I think determinism isn't the issue.

The issue is that LLMs cannot explain their reasoning.

LLMs are not expert systems; expert systems provide an answer and explaining their reasoning.
>It’s unconscionable and incredibly stupid to put a foreign student at risk by asking for such a “favor”, which she surely didn’t feel in a position to refuse. He shouldn’t even have asked an American (who can’t be deported) to do such a thing!

Typical academia behavior to treat your reports as disposable.
> Apple used to have privacy as the differentiating and profit-driving factor.

> This will immediately get thrown out of the window when it hurts profit

This is the important thing I'm always trying to note to people that think incentives are enough (as I used to). You can never know what the incentives of the company will be 5, 10, 15 years from now, or whether that company or division will exist or have been sold to some other company.

Incentives based on current conditions only matter for outcomes that don't have ramaifications far into the future. That's definitely not data collection and privacy, where you could find that 10 years worth of collected information about you has been sold at some future date.

And lest anyone think they can predict the stance a company will have on a topic a decade or two later, all I can say is that any example someone can point to of
a company that has stayed the course we can easily look at point in history where a series of events could have gone the other way and they would be close to being bought out if not defunct. Even Apple had a period where they were bailed out by investment from Microsoft, and many other large names of that period were gobbled up.

Always keep in mind, Sun was an amazing company with amazing products and engineers that embraced open source and competed with Microsoft in the enterprise market, and eventually after declining they got bought by Oracle.
Yeah? Sure. Quake 3 never needed required a launcher.
so we should remain in silence and just use the most popular because it's a lost game?
I don't see how that could provide an alternative to Novikov fixpoints. You can't control the initial conditions well enough, so the Novikov fixpoint you get is one where no observable time travel has ever occurred.

I think you're getting too attached to fixpoints and worldlines, it would be better to think through the actual computer program the simulation uses.
The cloud is great for backups in the something is better than nothing sense. The same is true for SD cards thrown into a shoebox — except SD cards don’t have a dependency on credit cards.

Obviously not all at the same time

That’s the “so long as you are lucky” part. The cloud is great for availability. Availability != Backup.
Fedora and RHEL 8+ also don't restrict unprivileged user namespaces. They are required for flatpak and rootless podman, both widely used and promoted technologies in the Red Hat ecosystem.
Upscaled to HD: https://youtu.be/U5UVCuV6pzU?si=JxzJpD6wOqr3hUeG

720p: https://youtu.be/wAgGoNjmohA?si=0Xe0Wvb4Sq06_X2u
Most people do not need high throughput entropy sources, sure. But the people who do pay quite a bit for that functionality.

I also haven’t seen any oft-referred literature describing metastability do so using a quantum-physics context. The metastability itself is a product of quantum behavior but has been described well enough without needing it. Depending on what you’re exploiting randomness-wise (like the metastability or the oscillation period length), the type of physical description you use to analyze the noise source changes quite a bit. For most ring oscillator work, I prefer to look at the work near the 2000’s by Ali Hajimiri, none of which is in terms of quantum anything.
These days Unix sockets for system daemons should be placed under /run with permissions that only a particular daemon can access for binding. With systemd service and socket units it is trivial to do.
Not only can most apps see the titles of all other open windows on the system, but they can log all your keystrokes, take screenshots, record audio/video of you or your screen, or copy/delete all the files in your home directory, without any explicit permission or notification.

This is at least true for Windows and most traditional (X11 at least) *nix systems.

That is one thing I think Android got right... by default it runs every application as a different user. That means different home folders and no visibility into other apps.
glibc really doesn't want to be statically linked so if you go this route your option is to ship another libc. It does work but comes with its own problems— mostly revolving around nss.
> > There's also statements like this, which, I'm not a kernel developer but they sound a little to good to be true:

> A small modification to the "exec" family of system calls to dispatch on executble type would allow any Linux application to fork an exec a Windows application with no effort.

That isn't "too good to be true", it's so good it is false – no kernel modification is required because the Linux kernel already supports this via binfmt_misc. You just need to configure it. And depending on how you installed Wine, you may find it has even already been configured for you.
Well, I see your post now.
It's not a deep gravity well, it's a fairly weak gravity well, but with fuel one can orbit L2 reliably.

Without fuel, one can orbit L2 erratically.

People with the ability to send satellites places, don't like sending expensive satellites to places with large bodies in erratic orbits.
When a user visits a play.google.com URL Google wants to be able to show either an "install" or a "launch" button contingent on whether the app is already installed.

In other words, blame Google product management.
I'm having another issue with this explanation: How do border officers determine, if the information was confidential and if he wasn't authorized to have it?

I'm not saying it can't be determined, but it feels like an issue that can't be easily resolved during a border check within a few hours.
> Imagine we made a new Linux distro. This distro would provide a desktop environment that looks close enough to Windows that a Windows user could use it without training. You could install and run Windows applications exactly as you do on Windows; no extra work needed.

Why not use ReactOS?
Not sure what you’re looking for exactly.

If it’s just a nice GUI for interacting with postgres, Postico (for mac) is fantastic. Autocomplete is good, and the UI is very intuitive if you’re familiar with mac. It’s also a native app so it’s wicked fast. None of that web app pretending to be an app nonsense lol.

If you’re looking for a better experience interacting with a postgres server in a static typed language, like java, i’d check out Jooq. It’s been a while since i’ve used it but it basically lets you query a postgres database with proper types in your java code.
What exactly is your standard for "big"?

$ du ~/.local/pipx/venvs/uv/bin/uv | cut -f 1
38812

Stripped and dynamically linked, BTW. Compare the system-provided Python:

$ du /usr/bin/python3.12 | cut -f 1
7832

(But also, if you hope not to pay the cost of a Python runtime, what is your remaining use case for uv?)
Hey, is the source open for this?
Linux has far greater hardware support than ReactOS does.
Patch files. I recall Quake requiring a binary release to update.

Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 had in game patching when you went online. Both world class games.
> i’m not positive on the answer, let me double check and get back to you.

absolutely fair. I expect that LLMs will continue to get better at doing the same.
That "LaTeX alternative" looks awful? `integral_t^oo` in place of `\integral_t^\infty`?

Why would anyone switch from LaTeX to this other than the speed?