skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is where your choice of which cloud services to use comes into play - Containerised web apps with Postgres on RDS? Simple to move off onto self hosting _if_ you can prove a business model that needs scaling. All-in on some proprietary services - less so.
In "solidarity" with the U.S., Canada also has a 100% tariff on BYD cars.

China is trying to seduce the new Carney administration to lower that tariff with the promise of building a BYD factory in the country. It would be a beachhead to, later on, enter the U.S. market.

As a Canadian I hope it goes well. We desperately need to stop this "partnership with the U.S." belief. Partnership with an abusive partner is dangerous.
For the overwhelming majority of students, tuition is not paid out of pocket. It's paid with loans. They see it as an investment towards a career which will allow them to pay back those loans. For many, the weight of their debt does not sink in until well after college. Meanwhile, textbooks are an immediate cost with an immediate impact on a student's financial situation.

I attended university in the early 2010s. After my freshman year I stopped buying textbooks for most classes. More than just their cost, I found that most textbooks really were optional. Most professors never even referenced them throughout the course. I figured I could always buy a book later if I found out I needed it, but that never happened. The few books I actually did buy after my freshman year were all mistakes. I have not read any of them and I had no trouble with their associated classes.

It sounds like the professor who wrote this article actually incorporates the course material he assigns. Good for him. But in my experience that is quite rare.
Yes, not all products are being sold in every country. I had to buy the phone I liked on ebay from an US based seller because it wasn't available in my country.
I understand his shares are collateral for his various other ventures ( and most likely personal expenses ) - a Tesla stock crash might have other consequences
BYD is cool and all, but what I really want is one of those new Xiaomi roadsters.

$73,000. >1500 horsepower. 0-60 in less than 2 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNpBzwx1SnY

Even with a 100% tariff, it might be a bargain (and would turn more heads than a $600k Ferrari), if it's compatible with US charging infrastructure. (Need to check.)
Instead, why not make a call to uv telling it what to do?

One important aspect to remember is that this isn't intended to be a uv specific feature. It's a (proposed) python standard feature that in the future other python package managers will implement. So whatever solution they come up with it has to work with any standard compliant package manager, not just uv.
Map: 7.1-Magnitude Earthquake Near Tonga Prompts Tsunami Alert
If I only insert data into the DB once, I could miss important states. Like, I could add non-NULL data to a NOT NULL column, then make it NULL, and then make it NOT NULL again. If I don't insert NULL into the column in-between the last two migrations, I won't trigger the issue.
I hope they will ban it everywhere.
If my pineal gland gets any more calcified, I'll probably end up getting a full-chest tattoo and dye my hair pink.
Hyperspectral Phasor Thermography
Tolerating this slippery slope that “theres always the other side” is how we got to a place where I have to vaccinate again for measles at 40 because there are people out there saying the measles vaccine isn’t safe.
This is getting wildly off topic, but I firmly believe that "we tried everything and free market capitalism is the best we have" is a myth.

It's incontrovertible that, under certain conditions, an unrestricted price system (a "market") is the most efficient allocation mechanism possible. There's a lot of research on that kind of thing.

The myth is that we have ever tried anything resembling that on a nationwide scale, or maybe even that it is achievable at all. There is a fundamental "paradox of tolerance" in economics, where market participants have strong and persistent incentives to distort or damage the market. This is why business interests so often align with free-market liberalism or conservatism.

Most of the so-called deregulation under the current Trump administration for example as little to do with improving the efficiency of market allocation. It's much more about making sure very large and powerful corporations can get even larger and more powerful, and removing the regulatory apparatus to prevent them from distorting and damaging markets to suppress competition, or to suppress labor costs.
“Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake? Children’s ice cream!...You know when fluoridation began?...1946. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core Commie works. I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love...Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I-I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women, er, women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake...but I do deny them my essence.”
I was looking at profits, but I might have grabbed wrong quarter. Also meant $500 million not billion.
Oh sure, because neurons totally get a free pass from determinism, right? They're obviously powered by tiny wizards flipping quantum coins, unlike boring digital computers just mindlessly following rules. Newsflash: neurons and digital computers both have to play by the universe's stubbornly deterministic rules—it's all just matter wiggling predictably, with neurons simply doing it in a squishier way.
Where can i upload my resume in this.
That's true, especially when countries try to protect their national market for subpar cars that are more expensive.
Bold claims for a no mobile view website,
>A democracy should not act as the tyranny of the majority, and governments (local or otherwise) should not overreach their mandate with monopolistic policies that negatively affect individual freedoms.

Then it shouldn't ban fluoridation when it could instead simply not mandate it.
I'd say a gradient is usually a covector / one-form. It's a map from vector directions to a scalar change. ie. df = f_x dx + f_y dy is what you can actually compute without a metric; it's in T*M, not TM. If you have a direction vector (e.g. 2 d/dx), you can get from there to a scalar.
That still works today, LLM tend to almost always hallucinate when you ask it for source details despite it being trained on it.

Especially if the behavior is strange enough that trigger the look into the source.
I can't speak for your parent but I'm aware of Zawinski's Law and I could see that's what the comment was about, but like your parent it's not at all clear to me why, it's a non-sequitur - this is giving Rust a convenient safe way to up cast, that's not anywhere in the ballpark of the sort of "expand to do everything" that Jamie was describing as inevitable.

If you say "Ooh, the new kitten is learning how the cat flap works" and I respond "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" and then you respond with confusion that's because my quoting of Santayana is a non-sequitur. I might even agree with his sentiment about the importance of history, but the kitten learning how to use a cat flap isn't anywhere close to what Santayana was talking about so...
LVGL works with Micropython! Ok disclaimer don’t use the official port it is not good. There is another port https://github.com/lvgl-micropython/lvgl_micropython that has a better setup. I already have it working with custom fonts, and surprisingly Claude can do a reasonable amount of troubleshooting if you get stuck on the API
I think that the name browser is basically just what is putting people in the wrong track of interpretation. They have been fully fledged VM sandboxes, which incidentally happen to also embed html and pdf interpreter natively.
In my experience Rust is much easier for advanced projects. Once you get into high performance code, C++ takes much more time, for two reasons.

1. With C++ you have to think a lot. Like, a lot. To convince yourself that what you are doing is safe, and that the lifetimes and races of various objects are safe. Rust takes a huge load off, by failing to compile your mistakes. You know that for the code that doesn't use "unsafe", if it compiled, then you don't even have to think about races or lifetimes.

2. C++ has so many places where copies sneak in. Tracking down needless copies in C++, for object types where it's not as simple as "just disable copy construct & copy assign", can be tricky and is extremely brittle to future changes of code. And not just for the CPU cost of copies, but RAM costs too.

And I say that as someone who's been coding C++ on a daily basis since the 1990s.
why don’t you ask chatgpt about it
Any are you Debug ? Are you DebugAny ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole#:~:text=Hyperbole%20...
Useful tip, I suppose it will look like:

temp=$(mktemp)
trap 'unlink $temp' EXIT
# Do things
I have absolutely done all of these things on Windows, even for commercial applications. Programs that keylog (i.e. calls SetWindowsHookEx) sometimes get tagged by antivirus though.
With sfeed you can merge feeds with literally 'cat' into a single file.
This is how it works.

Germany did they same at the beginning of the last century, Japan also to the end.
Fair point! We launched desktop-first to nail the grid’s core mechanic (it’s surprisingly hard to drag blocks on mobile).
The Secret History of the War in Ukraine
I think they're saying that the logical conclusion of kebman's libertarian line of argument is that no-one is entitled to municipal water anyway, so it is moot whether or not municipal authorities decide to add a particular substance to the water or not. After all, if you trace things back far enough, the municipal water supply depends on the government 'forcing' lots of people to do things (such as paying taxes and following various regulations).

The whole argument gets weirdly metaphysical. Not many people have a problem with local authorities removing things from the water. That is, I don't see many Americans demanding that their local authority provide them with completely untreated water. But apparently modifying the water by adding something to it is importantly different. You'd think that a more interesting discussion would be a practical one (about the pros of cons of treating water in different ways). But a certain current of American discourse would rather return again and again to essentially theological arguments. We must locate the original sin against freedom in our local water infrastructure!
Any accessible online space with real hacker culture? Mastodon?
I understood why they are shooting it into a graveyard orbit, but not why they're actively turning it off rather than trying to get whatever science they can out of it. (I'm sure that if I have a basic idea like this, the people at ESA also had it, but I haven't seen the reasoning explained anywhere.)

I think this part of the Wikipedia article answers it:

> In order to maintain the fine pointing to focus on stars many light years away, the only moving parts are actuators to align the mirrors and the valves to fire the thrusters. It has no reaction wheels or gyroscopes.

So without "fuel" (reaction mass/gas) for the cold gas thrusters, it likely couldn't hold a stable attitude, and a tumbling spacecraft is likely quite useless because you can't even properly communicate with it, let alone use instruments.

I wonder what considerations went into not attempting to use it as a low-value probe sending out telemetry using a low bandwidth omnidirectional antenna (which I would expect the spacecraft to have for recovery in case something goes wrong). Maybe we already have all the science that would be interesting from other probes, maybe management/budget decisions, maybe it wouldn't work, but it would be interesting to see the decision making.
Used to be (maybe it still is?) relatively popular on this forum for a country to want to maintain its ability to produce things, as opposed to depending on other countries.
It's reminds me of Lua for C++, am I correct?
I understand the right amount of money can buy any commercial item. But vehicles are licensed and insured—Can i register the vehicle? Will I have a pink slip? Can I insure the vehicle? Or Will driving it results in police impound?
>If TSLA was valued like other car companies (90% of TSLA revenue is from auto sales), would Musk look like a business genius?

Yes? In that world he built tesla into only a 60 billion dollar company, along with his work at X/paypal and SpaceX. That's still incredible. (Obviously that skill hasn't transferred to government work though.)
So now Xiaomi does cars? Where's Apple's iCar?
Why is that missing context? I don't think anybody who is against fluoridated tap water rejects the benefits of fluoride, they just think the harms of adding it to tap water outweigh the benefits.
I would love to do that. In fact my first year was way more relaxed and closer to your experience. I would spend hours wandering the countryside on foot and traveling the country.

Now that graduation is inching closer with no financial backing, it's just not feasible to spend time on anything other than maximizing employability
How did they know the phone was lost?
Write off is am accounting term, not operational.

Hardware like cars and laptop can continue to perform after they are written off, or even after the warranty.

The grade of hardware used is critical in servers.

Hyperscaling might mean commodity based servers. Hosting a large app does not mean using commodity component servers.

Hardware, when self hosting, does not need to be replaced every 3-5 years because it does not fail every 3-5 years. Depends on load and a bunch of factors.

Why?

We wouldn’t buy the cheap and disposable components a massive cloud or social media network might use to scale faster because they have a massive budget.

Besides, do providers really replace all their servers every 3-5 years? Hosting companies don’t seem to.

The cloud is many multiples more expensive than self hosting especially at scale. Hosting and cloud tools have brought down labour costs tremendously.

For the hardware, with the extremely clean environments servers run in, plus much cleaner electricity hardware runs much longer.

Purchase actual enterprise grade servers (HP Proliant, etc) that a company would buy for themselves for maximum reliability (compared to the commodity based ones of clouds) and those have so much reliability built into them that they sometimes never die.

You can still buy used proliant servers many, many, many generations old and they hum along just fine. It is bizarre but not.

Support is a few things. Warranty on parts and software. Extended support options which amounts to (hardware warranty) are always available for a fee, and achievable on your own.

If your software is a hypervisor you will be mirrored.

If a server has an issue the affected machine moves the load elsewhere.

The server has hot swap equipment. Takes a few moments to swap components if needed.

If you are self hosting, you can buy a used server or two or theee to have a backup and mirror and spare parts. It’s like buying a few NUCs.

Hosting corporately can be done not just with buying, but leasing too (meaning hardware swapping can happen). Add to this moving older equipment to less demanding tasks (if they ever do stay at load)z
For some lectures I follow the course in class. For some other lectures I just read the slides on which the lectures are based and go in depth on my own. Some other friends follow all the lectures. Some others just don't follow that much.

I don't know why you provide a one method that should fit everyone, while everyone has a preferred way of studying that isn't necessarily the best approach for other people
I'm on Android 14 and I've been pretty happy with an app called Insular on F-Droid or Island on the Play Store. It let's you install as many instances of an app as you'd like and they'll show up in the work profile, ignorant of the others' existence.
Cloud has always been more expensive. I remember being quoted 250k/month for bandwidth when I was paying 15k with rackspace 10+ years ago. You’re paying for convenience and speed. The Math stops working when you grow to a certain point.

You can mitigate this to some extent by making some key architecture + vendor decisions upfront when first building… or just consider that some day you’ll need to do things like this. It’s not a novel problem.
My jest wasn't meant to say that Rust is expanding to do everything, but rather the opposite. The comment I replied to somehow seems to believe Rust is becoming more "OOP", so I took it a step further and also referenced a fairly known pitfall for platforms (so doesn't even apply to programming languages, in my mind).

In the end, it's a joke with no even a pinch of truth, which seems to have landed flat, that's on me I suppose.
I've added these to my own source code repos. Is this type of license even possible? How would it hold to legally? (It would force companies using it for machine learning to open up their own code and training data).
So, with what?
> Where most of the modern applications are either web wrappers or Electron apps.

Only if you're stuck on a depreciated platform like Linux. If you are on Mac, native applications – real applications – are much more powerful and usable than any web wrapper on Linux.

I've noticed Linux users have taken a habit of proposing their broken way of using a computer through the browser for other platforms as well. But on other platforms we are already spoiled with quality software.
This post has clickbait vibe unfortunately and is really shallow regarding the analysis of the problem. No, it is not silly how we think about breaking changes. The idea of using some change log isn’t new and there are reasons why it’s not implemented by most build systems.

The elephant in the room is changing business requirements. If the change requires the code to consume new parameter without reasonable defaults, no automatic migration would solve it reliably. Let’s say you deal with the money and you introduce currency field. The compiler of the client code cannot just assume the currency, neither it can take it from anywhere by just applying the migration. It is a manual operation to fix the broken code.
Probably very little although I can imagine that reporting or talking about it might also involve being "deported"
Yeah I misread by clicking into their profile

> I'm a tenured philosophy professor with an Ivy League PhD.
It's good to be able to produce things but you can't produce all the things as a country. You can't even produce all the things you need.
Well you can buy as much fluoride paste as you like and add it to your own water.
I am definitely interested in how things look for STEM majors on average, and whether they've seen a similar decline. Although the article has a quote from a math professor, and that's certainly not a degree you get into without some level of dedication.
Breaking the HighLoad Orderbook Challenge
I don’t agree with the framing of “we are experiencing an assault on objective truth…”.

We are experiencing a challenge to some existing status quo practices, some of which have come out of science in the past.

But nowhere in any conversation has the dialog been “we must question status quo institutional knowledge, and objective truth, to dismantle the institution”. (That’s left speak, actually, and I am acutely aware of leftist circles where that is the conversation.)

Look at RFK Jr. This guy doesn't need power and control. He’s a whacko with some different beliefs about health—who fundamentally believes he’s making humans safer because of his negative lived experience with health policy in the US.

Occam's razor points to there being a credible benign reason for him to be motivated to challenge existing policy. (And if there is one area of science ripe for iteration, it’s nutritional health.) We don’t need to grab for more extreme alarmist narratives to explain what’s happening.

It simply doesn't take some autocratic utopian agenda to question whether fluoride is worth it and advocate for political change.

It’s honestly really disingenuous and disheartening to hear people towing this “the right is trying to dismantle the fabric of western liberal democracy and install fascism” line.
It's basically a simple rpc server, there's nothing complicated going on...
4) add a Von Neumann extractor (or similar/better) in the digital domain for good measure (pseudocode):

function von_neumann_extractor(input_bits):
output_bits = []
i = 0

while i + 1 < length(input_bits):
bit1 = input_bits[i]
bit2 = input_bits[i + 1]

if bit1 != bit2:
output_bits.append(bit1)
# else: discard the pair

i += 2

return output_bits

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor
You should really try some of the LLMs made by companies in China. Then ask about a culturally sensitive topic the Chinese government would prefer you didn't discuss. Offline of course.

Humans are still responsible for the content that is ultimately feed and drives a model. If anything, LLMs are another opportunity to amplify a particular viewpoint that would fall under your concerns.
> The IQ link is very heavily lacking in evidence.

Not really: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...
Google hits for last-century-modern.ttf appear completely unrelated. But I guess that album/track name is a bit self referential? (there's also a remix LCM following the pattern of the earlier GBI)
> I don't want any text to be selectable

Disabling text selection is not just worse UX, it is actively user-hostile
Java can be optimized beyond all recognition, into bytecode that can no longer be represented by the Java language. At least that used to be the case in the past. It is not different from other binaries, except the target system is a virtual CPU rather than a real one.

Java also deprecated all sorts of things over the years. Not to mention applets being completely killed off. I have Java binaries from 25 years ago that could no longer run at all with a contemporary run-time already 10-15 years ago.

Not to mention much of real-world Java is platform-specific. Not often native code perhaps, but more subtle things like hardcoded paths or forgetting to properly use the correct path-separator. Installers used to often be platform-specific as well. Maybe that has been solved, but you would still run into trouble trying to install an old Java application that has an installer only supporting contemporary Windows and Mac systems.
You'll see a deluge of news, articles and comments on Hacker News explaining why it's perfectly normal, legal and justified. And then any discussion here will be flagged into oblivion.
"The problem is science challenges those who derive power from means other than reason."

There's been a fundamental shift away from science in the last fifty years or so. Some is understandable—chemical pollution, etc. which is unreasonably blamed on science instead of industry's bad behavior—but there's another thread running here and it's an anti-establishment one.

The question I can't fully put a measure on is why nowadays so many people automatically reject anything that's mandated by government even when they'll benefit from that mandate. The fluoride debate is somewhat akin to the vaccination one, rather than weighing up the comparatively minor risks versus overwhelmingly beneficial outcomes of those mandates they'll simply reject them outright.

That doesn't make much sense to me.