skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Karl Marx isn't responsible for anything that happened in the 20th century. People have individual responsibility for their actions, it doesn't matter where you got the idea from. Ascribing e.g. crimes of stalinism to Marx is actually terrible idea, it absolves the people who did these crimes of their own moral agency. Ideas do matter (as Gramsci has shown by example), but the moral responsibility is on the implementors.

But just out of curiosity, what exactly Marx said that you deem so dangerous? Can you show some quotes?
>finalized while you're still "using" them.

It's a well known way to deal with such cases by using an additional weak reference. (even I think J. Bloch has mentioned it). Here (typing w/o an other editor, excuse typos):

class X<T> extends PhantomRefenece<T> {
final WeakReference<T> weak;
X(T ref, ReferenceQueue<? super T> q){
super(ref, q);
this.weak = new WeakReference<>(ref);
}
}

...
for (X x; (x = (X)q.poll()) != null;) {
process(x.weak.get());
}

This is why a mentioned it is effectively pre-mortrem. PhantomReference still keeps the referent, it's just not possible to retrieve it as get() is overridden.
We have no idea about YCombinator's retention of IP addresses and logs.
Superduper is a useful Mac utility, as is CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner)
Still working on moviematey from time to time - a movie recommender engine
* https://moviematey.com/
My Windows 11 C:\ no longer has a `Documents and Settings`. It still works, though. Windows 8 has it as a hidden junction targeting C:\Users, so it was already deprecated there.
Why is the iPad so addictive that children have to be kept away from it?

Because every single person designing apps and websites is incentivised to try and win 100% of your attention. Reed Hoffmann put it nicely — "We're competing with sleep, on the margin."

The default apps, browser excluded, are pretty harmless - their incentive is to create a device you decide to welcome into your home. I don't see children spending 4 hours doomscrolling the calculator.

The challenge is to think of another model for creating apps and content — one that retains most of the innovation without the harm
It's as much a licensing issue as anything I think. GOV.UK uses 'GDS Transport', which is a custom cut of New Transport, a commercially-available font [0] which is available for the low, low price of £10k per weight for unlimited impressions. I've never seen any enforcement though (doesn't mean it doesn't happen) and it's pretty common for services not on *.service.gov.uk to end up using it anyway

[0] http://www.newtransport.co.uk/
This is one issue with Microsoft's Total Recall thing, right? I wonder how they're dealing with that.
100B LY is a little bit larger than the observable universe.

But the observable universe is a fraction of the whole thing. The "best guess" right now is that the total universe is flat and has no end.

If it's bounded, 100B LY is orders of magnitude below the most conservative lower-bound estimates, which I believe start at around 300-500x that size. (With huge error bars on all sides.)
The UI made me think it's for drawn notes.
Conversely, if there are so many prisoners or the disenfranchised that, in a democracy, they can sway elections and drive policy, isn't that a sign there's something wrong with the system, e.g. disenfranchisement and prison is being used as a weapon against parts of the population? Denying them the vote means the system is that much harder to fix.

On the other hand, if only those who really deserve it lose their right to vote (i.e. a small fraction of the population), then it doesn't really matter if they can vote or not - their small numbers mean they won't make a difference. But the benefit is that disenfranchisement can no longer be used as a political weapon.
Phone and email scams happen far more often than you think and the people doing them have gotten much better at looking real over time.
The Truth About GPT Wrappers
Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416246
Indeed. I wasn't very clear but my point was that other quasi authoritative sources describe it as a communications/coordination standard, whereas this is talking from a power delivery perspective.
Really don't like this. It's smacks of corruption. I don't really care for Le Pen, she's not a good candidate, but the court should not be allowed to suspend someone from running for office. That's the voters job.
The motivation for untethered flight

> One strategy to shrink flying robots involves removing their batteries and supplying them electricity using tethers. However, tethered flying robots face problems operating freely in complex environments.

seems a little out of reach of the projected capabilities:

> Currently the maximum operating range of these prototypes is about 10 centimeters away from the magnetic coils. One way to extend the operating range of these robots is to increase the magnetic field strength they experience tenfold by adding more coils, optimizing the configuration of these coils, and using beamforming coils, Lin notes. Such developments could allow the robots to fly up to a meter away from the magnetic coils.
I think some people pointed to them as the vendor behind the home grown system, and this is their denial.
I'm okay with this outcome. Especially if a jury of peers reviews the evidence and stops the far right-wing (fascist) politician from further compounding crimes or marrying their criminality with state power, often abusing the rights of people a democratic government is established to protect.

It is a brave thing to do, to hold popular people accountable for their actions (especially things like leaking secrets to geopolitical adversaries resulting in the deaths of intelligence personnel, or, other things like what Le Pen is guilty of), but it is necessary. Once you let it go, your country becomes ruled by authoritarians.
I don't think the list makes any sense. It's just part of movement where some try to blame all the evil of the world past and present on intellectual/philosophers, that would have perversed society and academics by their ideas. The root of evil being Hegel it seems and all figures that remotely connect to him.
I think the reason here is Sartre was part of the communist party in France, for some time.
Her father was the original party leader and she was vastly more successful as a leader than him.
It doesn't come with life-long punishment. She's banned from public office for five years (immediate), and jailed for four years (won't come into effect until after the appeal).
Exactly. Very telling that this appears to need explicit mentioning.
The rise of the AI-empowered generalist
The linked article is written in an absurd way. Clockwise is not a fundamental measurement, it's relative to the viewer.

What the original article explains, is that this is relative to our observer point of view (obviously).

It's still very interesting, since, disregarding any potential interaction in our local group, randomness was expected and we should see around 50/50 rotating either way unless one of the explanations came into play.
It seems to miss URLs?

At: https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/2d-drawing the links for:

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm...

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookI/bookI....

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookI/defI1....

are rendered as:

_Elements_ _:_ _Book I_ _:_ _Definition 1_

Maybe detect when a page is on gitbook or some other site where there is .md source on github or some other site and grab the original instead?
It would be interesting to ask if EU companies are now looking for EU based solutions and shunning the US.
Theo video detected = opinion rejected

Also I generally dislike thinking models for coding and prefer faster models, so if you have something easy gemini 2.0 is good
We're equidistant from the edge of the observable universe in all directions. One would think that puts us at the center.

(But the same is true for someone sitting on another planet).
that's embarrassing.. you're right. Thank you for the correction. Wish I could delete my comment
Another (very) short story that plays with this idea is Neil Gaiman's Other People: https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/other-people/
It is, while at the same time they have changed their point of view on allowing C++ for new projects at Microsoft.

I also think Herb Sutter leaving his role at Microsoft might have been related with this.

From "Microsoft Azure security evolution: Embrace secure multitenancy, Confidential Compute, and Rust"

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-azure-secur...

"Decades of vulnerabilities have proven how difficult it is to prevent memory-corrupting bugs when using C/C++. While garbage-collected languages like C# or Java have proven more resilient to these issues, there are scenarios where they cannot be used. For such cases, we’re betting on Rust as the alternative to C/C++. Rust is a modern language designed to compete with the performance C/C++, but with memory safety and thread safety guarantees built into the language. While we are not able to rewrite everything in Rust overnight, we’ve already adopted Rust in some of the most critical components of Azure’s infrastructure. We expect our adoption of Rust to expand substantially over time."

From "Windows security and resiliency: Protecting your business"

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/11/19/windo...

"And, in alignment with the Secure Future Initiative, we are adopting safer programming languages, gradually moving functionality from C++ implementation to Rust."

Finally,

"Microsoft is Getting Rusty: A Review of Successes and Challenges - Mark Russinovich"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VgptLwP588
I really wish browsers would default to Reader mode for documents like this.

It would make "web 1.0" content much more usable, and would encourage people to create simple HTML because the default styling wouldn't look like crap.
Documentation explains how an app works currently. But part of the context that the LLM lacks is how I imagine the app to work. This is difficult to integrate into version control.
As a student who graduates this year, I notice that something like 90% of students seem to rely on LLMs.

I’ve seen some students toss in 5+ files of code into GPT just to prompt it over and over again, hoping it produces a desirable output. When it fails too many times they open a new chat and try again. I’ve heard conversations about the best way to prompt the AI to do our assignments for us.
Absolutely, 100%. Not all tech is the same. A chair is a form of technology, but it doesn't try to make you sit all the time. Although some technologies (like books) are replaced with e-readers through which we handle over a certain degree of freedom to whomever the platform we use belongs to.
At the risk of just repeating a previous comment, if you actually want to live in a democracy you have to trust the electorate at some level. I don't know the specifics of this case but if it's clear cut corruption it should be easy to make that case to the electorate and absolutely destroy Le Pen in the election.

If it's not that easy, then banning her from running is even worse.
I am hoping MCP will fix this. I am building an MCP integration with kapa.ai for my company to help devs here. I guess this doesn’t work if you don’t add in the tool
Seems like a bit of a sensationalist deduction from what looks like a pretty levelheaded response. It's not a call to war, but call to improve the C++ standard
Isn't Moore's law about flops/watt nowadays? Yes that skips the Nvidia part which is $/(flops/watt) but they should just price it at a level where they maximise profits (which is also a function of competitive environment, so not relevant for Moore's law).

The reason it's about flops/watt these days is that potentially the demand for "intelligence" limitless.
I would not consider this a 'robot' because power and control is not on board. It's more of a puppet than a robot. At the very least, the magnets should be included in the size of the robot.
I believe echoangle’s concern is about the security and privacy of the LLM using the data, not the MCP server itself.
We need a new political party not beholden to a certain lobby. From my perspective (which spans decades) this has been a (somewhat barely) disguised pas de deux.
Make a combination of RSS/Atom and the MCP protocol.
The temporary loss of the right to stand for election is a common punishment in France when politicians are convicted of corruption and breach of trust.
It does seem like it would be a severe constitutional loophole to allow somebody who is appealing a sentence to run for president and then just pardon (which is also a presidential power in France) themselves, even though they've already been found guilty in a court.
What matters is that a random app cannot access sensitive data like your passwords, sessions, email. On iOS you can run anything from the app store and it's fine. On Windows any .exe you run can cause havoc.
Because many adults are terrified enough of the poors/minorities that they won't ride a convenient bus themselves. They are not (generally) going to put their children into an unsupervised mass transit system.

Until the 80's it was common to see young children in public in rural, suburban, and urban environments (in three quite distinct modalities), but a cultural shift precipitated by our media environment has made even the "safe" suburban exploration into a rarity. Occasionally, even parents of 10-year-olds are literally being arrested for leaving them at home unattended, much less riding their bike around the neighborhood (as was common in the 90's suburbs).

Even running normal mass transit systems in "Children/chaperone only mode" would be a litigation risk because of the seating format.
Supporting Muslim interests and also supporting women's rights and gay rights.

No conflict of interests there.
Colleges are driven by profit. When I was in school, a tuition scholarship meant a full ride; today, it covers less than half the cost. Schools focus on selling a lifestyle—dorms, dining, and amenities—while classes feel like a side gig. Administrative overhead and bureaucracy have pushed educators even further down the priority list.
That's a fair point about the Apple ecosystem.

I'm a Windows + WSL Linux and Android guy so I'm not knowledgeable about the ecosystem but from the HN announcements I've seen posted they appear to doing well.

There are only two laptops on the market with X3D chips right now -- the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 17 and the MSI Raider A18HX.

Both of them have Ryzen 9 7945HX3D chips and the mobile RTX 4080's, and are priced equivalently at $2,500.

Once I can snag something similar for the $1,500-1,800 range is when I'll upgrade.
I've been working on https://www.styleadvice.ai, a personal styling tool that gives users tailored advice based on features like face shape, eye shape, skin conditions and more. The idea is to make personalized styling a more accessible and fun.
When every new Gmail client ships with an entire web browser embedded to load their hundred megabytes of JavaScript, I think we've long jumped the shark on caring about brevity in the length of information in the protocol itself.

It might have mattered back then but now it would be less than a rounding error.
Saying the pilot did nothing wrong means the plane did something wrong; sell less expansive planes to foreign countries.
Throw him under the bus; sell more expansive planes.

I hear America is looking for efficiency and reduced gvt spendings, I'd say the F35 program is a good candidate to start, especially since now many countries aren't so fond of the whole "send all of your military data to our best friends the US of A".
Not to be dismissive, but we could describe all of programming this way. Since computers just run machine code and deal only with simple math and swapping memory and storage values, all of our code is just "reframing" the problem in different ways. We pick the language or abstraction that's easiest to work with for what we're trying to accomplish, like you did with picking the "HSL" language over RGB. In reality, both will be converted to binary values in storage and voltage levels in your monitor.
Signed up but not getting the verification email. Interested in the execution though.
And to be fair, not even only on the right side.

The left is in the same bath:

https://www.france24.com/en/20170718-france-far-left-leader-...

Since this case is making jurisprudence, the likeliness of them being convicted just become even higher.
I'm working on Dronygon, a map of cool drone flying locations.

Well I just put it live couple of days ago, now I'm just starting to post my own locations.

Had this idea when I wanted to take my drone out but didn't know where to go. And as a plus I really wanted to learn more about working with maps and geolocation for an upcoming project, so this was a perfect way to learn it and make something useful.

https://dronygon.com/
If she's a clear cut fascist criminal and everyone on the other side is great then why wouldn't you want her to run? Should be easy to trounce her if she's as bad as you say.
Microwave links used to be used to transmit TV, calls and data before fibre became commonplace. Presumably also radio for nationwide stations at least.
The kids have either not yet or have recently started school. Of course the shouldn’t have TikTok or anything similar. On the tablet give them something for their age.
But remind me in five years of this story and how it went. Pretty sure by then they will be as digital as the average kid.
The challenge is the system of incentives around the technology

If chair designers were paid based on the number of hours you sat in the chair, I expect we'd see some very different chairs. Probably not better ones for anyone whose life ambitions involve getting up out of a chair.
Previously:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=dioxygen%20difluoride

And others in the series:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=things%20won%27t%20work

https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/things-i-wont-wo...

High overlap with: (rocket fuels)

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ignition%20informal
just seen it- i think you made a typo in your email (.clm instead of .com) - I'll correct and re-send!
Huge threads like this are why I wish there was a way of sorting by most upvoted
ah right. my bad.
I don't think anyone is questioning whether it's legal, simply whether it's right or ideologically consistent with people who claim to be pro-democracy.
Nvidia's latest AI PC boxes sound great – for data scientists with $3k to spare
That's what you get for using an inferior machine. Spectrum users had no such problem.
This is Separation of Power Issue and not a clear cut issue. The principle is that Law, Law-making, and executive-power should be separated.

It's really who you trust more: courts or the people.

1. French law recognizes that French people are not trusted to weigh in the conviction properly, and the court sentences put limits to how can and can't run.

2. On the other hand, corrupting of the courts would prevent correcting the system by voting. If the courts are corrupt all hope is lost.
"All the RN officials including Le Pen were banned from running for office, with the judge specifying that the sanction should come into force with immediate effect even if an appeal is lodged."

This will lead to even more claims that this is all politically motivated because this immediate effect is what will prevent her from running from President. This immediate effect for a verdict that is not final (there can be, and in this case will be, an appeal) is not automatic, it is for the court to specifically mandate it, and if it does not then an appeal suspends the effect.
This is a fairly shameless Tot clone, you should at least credit the Iconfactory. https://tot.rocks/
Web's biggest problem. Introduction to Web 1.1
I can't recommend this author enough. Project Hail Mary and The Martian are amazing works of science fiction. Project Hail Mary is actually amazing as an audiobook.
Not in the ad space but two points spring to mind:

- The point of an ad is to eventually sell something, not just have a lot of people watching the ad. The people using this system might not be the target, which would lead to poor conversion into sales.

- How will you ensure people actually watch it and not just fire it up on a secondary machine and ignore the output, put the phone down and do something else, or similar ways to pretend they watched it? People would have a strong incentive for such behavior.
There most definitely is. You can ask Cursor to do both those things, for example. It's often faster at it than a person. That said, "vibe coding" implies a hands-off approach that definitely doesn't work.
> IIRC with XP they late loaded a lot of things to get the desktop showing faster than 2000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefetcher - that's the thing they introduced in XP to speed up loading the system and programs
Being convicted of a crime is an obscenely high bar.
I think that’s his own particular sense of humour coming through. I don’t mind such idiosyncrasies in his writing as I know to expect it but I would agree that it’s not the best way of communicating to appeal to a mass audience (I’m upvoting your comment as it seems like you’re being unfairly downvoted). While RMS is a great thinker, he’s not the best spokesperson for the Free Software Foundation.
Theo has some strange takes for my liking but to flat out reject the opinion isn't the way to go. Thinking models are okay for larger codebases though where some more context is important, this ensures the results are a bit more relevant than say for example Copilot which seems to be really quick at generating some well known algorythms etc.

They're just different tools for different jobs really.
Ghosts in the Kinect
Working on an editor to write CQL (Clinical Quality Language)

Anyone writing FHIR / Clinical Quality Language queries would love to give access and get some feedback.

Feel free to reach out
Absolute classic of the genera

At seven hundred freaking degrees, fluorine starts to dissociate into monoatomic radicals, thereby losing its gentle and forgiving nature.

If the paper weren't laid out in complete grammatical sentences and published in JACS, you'd swear it was the work of a violent lunatic.
> Why would you want that?

I don't have a strong opinion on it wither way, but the GP's opinion seems totally reasonable to me.

Why shouldn't the public be able to elect whoever they want? If the courts can block candidates before they run, the courts can effectively circumvent checks and balances before the person could be elected.

> Didn't history teach us better?

I'm not sure what you're referring to here, help me out. What examples of history show the universal downsides when courts can't disqualify potential candidates?
You shouldn't be able to vote if you are actively in prison on the day of the election. Or maybe cases like house arrest. But if we say that you're able to be walking around in society with us, including probation/parole, you should have all the rights that others have.
> because some did not install updates of some component on the webserver

But how many of those updates fix memory issues?
Giving Up the Dylib Dream
My older brother would type in games on the Atari 400 from magazines like Compute! The 400 had a brutal membrane keyboard, and we had no storage so you could then enjoy it until the device powered down and then that work was lost.

The computer was half a decade old at this point but we were poor so it was pretty great to us.

After he finished hours of typing in a game, he called my friend and I to see the magic of first run. My friend, having never seen the 400 before, pops open the cartridge cover to see what's in there, which is an action that powers off the computer.
By the way, I was just searching for a way not to have the WhatsApp app on my phone while limiting the risk of third party software and/or have my number banned.

Is there a way to login on WhatsApp Web on a server and then proxy or scrape the messages to send them to my phone?
It helps when talking to politicians.