skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did not say this study is flawed or that every study is flawed. And I have made no exaggerations or said that you personally look at it the most positive way.

Reading comprehension is important, and especially important in a discussion like this.

I do however really mean that some studies are not worth looking at all in more detail: if the methodology is flawed, the results are meaningless. At most the premise of such a hypothetical (not saying this one necessarily!) study could be used as an idea for further research, but not to build knowledge on or derive knowledge from the results.
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Ha the "Russian talking point" weapon! Never failed. Anyone that doesnt repeat what the ecosystem wants is Russian agent.

Kind of defeats the argument that content of messages will set back relations, affect future intelligence collection etc we kept hearing endlessly?!

Make up your mind. It's either important or not.
It is not precious if you don't run LLMs or play games. For many people like myself, video card is idle most of the time.
Using its ram to speed-up compilation or similar is not a bad idea.
I don’t think the EU is the best second option after NATO if the US were to leave. You’d leave out UK, Turkey, Canada, possible Asian allies, etc. which would make it quite a bit weaker than it could be
Yeah, Neo is told the project is going ahead with or without his involvement so he gets involved to make it suck less.
This project builds the installer, there is nothing, other than Microsoft copyright, stopping someone from hosting compiled Install CD itself.
Some fantasy about how millions of leftists voters either boycotted the election or voted for Trump because of Biden’s position on Gaza. Complete nonsense of course, but it’s a popular conspiracy theory among certain democrats circles.

It was also funny to see democrats suddenly realizing that Arab Americans vote republican. They always have and they always will. Just like how Latino Americans, and generally most immigrants, will always vote republican too. Arab Americans are very culturally conservative. They would rather see a 100 Gazas than accepting that 2 gay men can get married.
Ask HN - what are you building on cybersecurity + AI?
In general, in abstract mathematics no analogy or "intuitive concept" of something will ever replace the rigorous definition. That doesn't mean that imperfect analogies can't be useful, though. You just have to use them as a starting point instead of stopping there.

I think the container analogy can be useful up to a point. There is (potentially) something of value wrapped in another type (e.g. an integer "wrapped in" IO) and we usually cannot access it directly (because of various reasons: because IO is special, because a list may be empty, etc.), but we can string together some operations that manipulate the contents implicitly.
Or "server side includes".
After getting blue screened one too many times with Windows 98, I ordered a Red Hat Linux CD.

I never went back to Windows and still use Linux to this day, nowadays with NixOS.
> Compared to what large bureaucracy? ... Large bureaucracies tend to be a little crazy.

So there's a good reason not to subject yourself to large bureaucracies any more than you have to.

> NATO is fraying at the edges, and EU is the only credible alternative

Not really, Norway is already part of NORDEFCO and the Nordic Council, they're not 'alone'.
Apparently a fringe opinion, but Win98SE was IMO the best iteration of Win95.

For me it was faster, more stable, more polished than Win95.

(a bit more bloated with the IE-integration, but that was easy to strip away)
> refusing the FBI and then suffering no consequences

The whole thing was clearly just a partisan smear job in your eyes. Precisely the same reaction as the views of current maga types about the current first am disasters.

It's worth revisiting /precisely/ in relation to fighting the current assault. It's worth noting who publicly opposed /both/.
As I have said before: the pilot is alive instead of deceased so it was a good decision.
pg doesn't want to be known for his wealth or business acumen. He wants to be known as a serious thinker. He wants to write essays that stand the test of time. Just like he wanted to create the "100 year programming language" (it turned out his vision was lisp with shorter function names).

He's not doing this for clout or internet points. He's not just writing whatever. pg works very hard on his writing and some of his earlier stuff is excellent. Maybe his next essay will be a banger. Or maybe pg doesn't have any good essays in him anymore. In any case, I respect his willingness to keep at it despite how widely his essays get mocked. It's not easy to put yourself out there.
> To be blunt, the current economic value of the humanities is pretty low,

Oh it's pretty high, especially when people fail to realize the meaning of tariffs, what's inflation, how the government works and the role of due process.

The bill usually comes due when we faithfully recreate failures of the past while failing to learn from others' experiences in the present.
Working on treetags[0] an effort to use tree-sitter to get basic code navigation support for multiple languages on vim/nvim.

[0] https://github.com/jha-naman/treetags
When I was a kid, I also tried the "small stone" trick under my pillow. (Of course, I announced it to my parents: "I'm going to see what happens if...") I think I got Monopoly money instead of real money. Still, it didn't dent my faith the Tooth Fairy.
The knowledge I got in school is definitely a lot more durable than the experience. Basic knowledge is still what everything is built on.
I am working on a FOSS google tasks alternative for android with unix-like aesthetics and my desire to take some inspiration from the windows mobile app designs. It's just 84kb apk at the with reproducible build system and also downloadable from IzzyOnDroid fdroid repo: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/io.github.ronynn.ka...

It's privacy focussed and does not connects to the internet, your notes stay on device which you can backup and import into other devices, and I am working on a quick qr share features too.

My idea was that there are almost no android apps with this kind of design vision even though there are fans of this design out there as can be seen with the trend of people modifying their termux startup screens and the huge downloads of windows mobile styled launchers. And so I want to make a design system that provides an open source go to system for others to make apps with this design

Source code: https://github.com/ronynn/karui
A fictional Encarta article about the "Heisenberg catastrophe" sounds like an interesting alternative history story. Heisenberg worked for the German nuclear program during the second world war.
The impact of sugar and sweeteners on your body [video]
Not a coding project, but I have been writing a sci-fi novel about a world where time goes backwards and forwards. It has some interesting history in it too. I'm looking for beta readers.
I don't know the exact numbers but it is consistent with other stuff I heard (notably the Brett Easton Ellis podcast which I recommend). Script writers churn a lot of scripts, many of them get bought but never produced. Or sit as a project for 10 years or more. But I think development doesn't mean they engage massive costs, just that they start trying to get the financing, perhaps with a tentative director and/or actor name attached to the project.
The source.
> The optimiser doesn't know how long optimisation will take or how much time it will save before starting the work, therefore it has to hold off on optimising not frequently called functions.

I don't buy that logic.

It can use the length of the function to estimate how long it will take.

It can estimate the time savings by the total amount of time the function uses. Time used is a far better metric than call count. And the math to track it is not significantly more complicated than a counter.
SAML 101 with Examples and Tools
learn and integrate SAML in your app
You do know that Lana Wachowski intentionally made it as bad as possible to tank the franchise cause she was forced to make the movie or the studio would get someone else to direct it right?
Yes, absolutely, but we're talking about teenagers. I've no doubt they're capable of learning multiple languages. But teenagers are most constrained by the limited time they have available for extra curricular activities. If I was to teach interested kids a second language (and I'd like to), then it would probably be lower level so kids can learn about memory management etc.
Currently, when my brain lets me, I am working on redoing my entire home network infrastructure. My network cupboard is a mess, and I've been slowly CADing and test-printing parts for a 8.5 inch server rack system. I've managed to get some nice side rails, and I'm currently doing some test prints for a mount for a Lenovo M700 computer, which I like for lightweight server stuff (the one I have is currently running my homeassistant and a couple of other docker things, and I'm going to be buying another to use as a NAS). I'm also slowly working on rewriting my website backend to pull projects off external drives, reformat them into blog pages and automatically update my website to use them. Currently I'm still at the early testing stage, and I have quite a way to go, but the basic parts are there.

The 8.5 inch racking system was inspired by Jeff Geerling's video about 10 inch rack, but shrunk even further to allow me to fit it on my 3D printer bed (8.6 inch square). I currently have parts for the top and bottom of the rack, as well as 1U and 2U expansions that you can slot together to make the rack as tall as you want. I'm also thinking about making a side attachment system so you can clip fans onto the side or similar. Once I have a working rack with several units in it, I'll probably end up publishing the parts and a writeup about it
I agree - the truly curious will be rewarded while those who couldn’t care less will mindlessly copy and paste. Maybe that will give the rest of us job security?
With more time to think about this, and after rereading your comment I'm providing a new answer. Every example you listed I would consider building.

You only listed examples that relate to creating software. I'm sure the PG essay didn't mean to restrict all possibilities of what people could do to just creating software.

On one end the distinction is clear to me.

A security guard maintains the security of a facility.
A nurse maintains the health and well being of patients.
A janitor maintains the cleanliness of a facility.

Once you start bringing repairs into the scope of maintenance I can understand the distinction being blurry. I'd draw the line where a repair restores functionality to a previous state without any material improvments (to functionality or longevity). If there is a material improvments to the previously optimal state it's augmentation and therefore building.
What about we stand on _principle_. What about we criticise and oppose /all/ transgressions of that principle. What about we all do it more loudly for whatever tribe we have some loose membership of and don't excuse it because it is politically expedient.

That's whataboutism nowadays.
There isn't anything new here to defend against lifetime-related UB. For that it simply references https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.21145, which is just a summary of existing dynamic mitigations --- which don't fix UB at the language level, impose performance tradeoffs, and in the case of pointer integrity, require hardware support that excludes e.g. x86.

Look at it this way --- mature products like Chrome are already doing all of that wherever they can. If it was enough, they wouldn't worry about C++ UB anymore. But they do.
> This is a political problem: we can easily produce enough food to feed the entire world, but we can't get that food to the places where it is most needed due to political instability. But it's a political problem with an engineering solution.

There isn't really a technical solution to the problem of political instability.

> If the tools and techniques needed to efficiently grow food are cheap and widely available, farmers in politically unstable areas can simply grow their own food without a dependence on far away agribusiness.

You posit political instability as a problem but your solution doesn't address it. Thinking that, in a politically unstable environment, it would be simple to grow food if only you had better tools and techniques is naive. If the political environment was stable people would be able to feed themselves even without newest tools and techniques.
Food and beverages have barriers since the EU subsidises those inside the free market. In turn that also causes Norwegian food prices to be massively inflated compared to its EU's peers (like Sweden and Denmark).

When traveling to Norway I notice a lot how the food is both lower quality (in taste, not in safety) while being quite a bit more expensive than in Sweden.

The major political block hanging over Norway's EU ascension are fisheries and agriculture since those industries don't know how they would compete against cheaper EU products.
That current regime is using the exact same machinery that you're advocating for to suppress freedoms, and it seems to me that your solution is to make it more ripe for abuse. This doesn't make any sense. And no, we're not talking about "hypotheticals" here when the abuse is happening right before our eyes.

Laws and regulations aren't a magical solution. You have to think about how they can be abused, or they'll be weaponized to achieve the exact opposite of what you intended. This has been abundantly clear for those who have been paying attention. See for example how lawmakers have been repeatedly pushing laws claiming to "protect children" that does nothing of the sort but does everything to erode civil liberties.
99% of times it's smaller, saying there is an equal chance it's smaller or bigger is also false. It could be, probability is strong that it won't.
Cmd and powershell exist and have done for a long time. There was a period of time where the visual C++ compiler was bundled with the IDE but it’s been available separately for the best part of a decade. Various incarnations of gnu-on-windows have existed for longer than that - Msys/cygwin/wsl are all feasible options and have been for ages.

But, none of them come preinstalled.
My entire life, professional and otherwise, DEI has ultimately stood for nothing other than "less white people". Of course it's dressed up in definitions that sound beautiful and moral to the supporters of DEI, but at the end of the day whenever someone uses the term "diverse" they are talking about "less white people".

When the company John Lewis was criticized for a lack of diversity [1], it was because they had too many whites.

When the Academy Awards were criticized for a lack of diversity [2], it was because they had too many whites.

When the EU institutions were criticized for a lack of diversity [3], it was because they had too many whites.

When the BAFTAs were criticized for a lack of diversity [4], it was because they had too many whites.

When investigative journalism in the US was criticized for a lack of diversity [5], it was because they had too many whites.

When the show "Friends" was criticized for a lack of diversity [6], it was because they had too many whites.

After decades and decades of this blatant animosity against people like me I can honestly say I do not care at all what Trump does to these programs or how he goes about destroying them, as long as they are destroyed and the people that supported them punished.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jun/16/john-lewis-...

[2] https://www.wishtv.com/news/awards-shows-have-been-criticize...

[3] https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/oped-lack-...

[4] https://www.willistonian.org/baftas-criticized-for-lack-of-d...

[5] https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2020/investigative-jou...

[6] https://metro.co.uk/2023/04/02/lack-of-diversity-on-friends-...
I think they're saying there might be one, and we no longer trust the USA to believe there isn't one (and I can't really understand why we ever did, USA has been an unreliable ally even before trump).

You made the extraordinary claim that the USA has no kill switch. Where's the proof to your claim?
Here is a photo of dozens of spent fiber optic lines hanging in trees in Ukraine. It’s interesting to see how quickly the FPV drone tech evolves.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHZdHK_Ryyp/
I used to think I watched TV or scrolled Reddit because I didn’t have the energy to pursue more interesting things. I blocked Reddit and TV. Turns out I have plenty of energy, those were just stealing it from me.
There's a growing concern that the US would not defend its allies, or worse, join Russia in a European war.

So, right or wrong, Europe is thinking of building an alternative. It would require not only military, but also political coordination. The options are to do it within, or outside the EU.

Within the EU, it is somewhat straightforward. As a sibling comment says, there is already a vague commitment to mutual defence. There is a forum for political discussion, common diplomacy, mechanisms for coordinating industrial policy, the works. And any changes could be seen as incremental strengthening of an existing thing.

To do it outside of the EU, most of all, makes the original concern explicit - it is saying US has left the NATO. This is in no-one's benefit. Even ambiguous US participation is valuable to Europe.

The other downside is that, as is, a EU "NATO" can't easily include UK and Norway, both valuable allies. Which is maybe what Norway wants to address here.
should this copy paste macro even be a package lol
Fully in the browser is unfortunately impossible/unworkable due to CORS (basically the same technique that prevents someone from easily faking a bank login page to leak your details/allowing for XSS attacks prevents you from doing this locally).

We're essentially reliant on these serverside solutions to proxy requests because that's the easiest way to do cross-origin requests without making whatever browser deity you annoyed that morning suddenly angry at you. (Extensions can mark domains to be allowed to run on, but this is restricted by the manifest, allowing for really easy whack-a-mole by server authors, not to mention the fact that each update would need signing from Mozilla/Google.)

Irritatingly, the same mechanism that's used to stop fraudulent sites can also be used as an easy deterrent against deshittification interfaces.
Hm?

I had a great college education. The professors were good, and we were all piss-poor and wanted to move up in life. Our college was (still is) in a corner of the world you never think anything good about, not in general, less so academically. So we knew that our college title was essentially worthless, at least the part of it made of paper. But some of it we could wear, in the way we spoke and treated others, and in the way we faced professional settings, and in how we faced life in general. Two decades down the road, I think it turned out great. Mine it's not a unique story; later in life I've met people with similar backgrounds, from completely different parts of the world.

Looking at it now, I realize I had the immense privilege of externalities to keep me laser-focused, and none of the shortcuts, the-quick-money-ways-out that tempt so many.
As has already been pointed rubber is common British English, but perhaps more interestingly the etymology of name of the substance comes from this usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraser#History
> human error, of course

Well management is only human...
I always wonder what that must be like. There is no authority I trust and believe as much as they do Fox News or Trump. There's no simple answer, no easy solution. Trying to figure out what actually happened can take days, weeks, even years. And even then, it might remain unclear and there's often no certainty to be had. But for them, the answer, the cause, whatever, is there for them the very next evening. In bite-sized nuggets they can repeat without thinking.
And what is spam? I can acknowledge fraud not being free speech (although it's a stretch as well), i.e. it's intended to harm (again one could argue about a lot of other speech as well), but how can they make the same argument for spam?
The EU mutual defense clause is even stronger than Article V of the NATO treaty:

Nato Treaty:

“The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area."

Translation: Every NATO member can bloody well decide for themselves ("as it deems necessary") how to help another member state.

Article 42/7 of the EU treaty:

"If a Member State is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other Member States shall have towards it an obligation of aid and assistance by all the means in their power, in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter."

Translation: You got to give it everything you got ("all means in their power"). If Ukraine had been an EU member, the treaty would have required other EU member states to send ground troops.

Of course, international treaties can not be enforced, if the treaty parties don't want to comply. So in reality, both treaties rely on mutual accepted norms of behavior more than on the letter of the law. Which is why Trump's behavior has been so damaging to the NATO alliance, without any actual test of it. And while the EU's treaty is worded stronger than NATO's, it has never been formally used or tested.
China's export boom sparks record number of WTO disputes
I’m in the tiny demographic who thinks Joker 2 being a musical starring Lady Gaga was a strong decision, let down by waves in the general direction of almost everything else about the movie.
> So there's a good reason not to subject yourself to large bureaucracies any more than you have to.

Some things require scale. As I say elsewhere in the thread, UK left for this very reason and is worse off in every single metric they were hoping to improve - GDP growth, immigration control, quality of governance, environmental concerns, amount of red tape...

The workings of a bureaucracy are not the same as the final outputs. IMO and IME the quality of EU outputs is generally high.
There's plentiful of studies done, sending the same CV under the name "Ahmad Jusuf Muslim" and "Petter Petterson" (or something along these lines), the 2nd name will be called for interviews way more often than the 1st name.

You not acknowledging there's a racial bias just makes you a racist.
It's more about how the US handled the situation in a country with 3% of the population and the impact of that on either marginal voters or voters for whom this was a major issue.