skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read it and I know about that case. However, as I said I'm struggling to see your point.

I guessed you meant that that one case proves something about air superiority or Iran having an advantage over USAF, so I responded with a historical parallel.
The Pinball Mind
the scene :

...now the packet in front of you has our focus group research inside you'll find the breakdown including key word association with the brand the top two being originality and fresh which i think are great things to keep in mind as you begin working on matrix four and who knows how many more...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roeN9Cjkan0
just goes to show how lax microsoft is about their security. nobody should trust them.
First Therapy Chatbot Trial Yields Mental Health Benefits
The problem is GrapheneOS is Pixel only. They are prohibitively expensive, especially in India where the mobile market is very crowded and you get Snapdragon 8s gen 3 for ₹25k.
Ah apologies, you're right - I was tired and read things wrong.

But I suspect "GL issues" (i.e., GL API stability) is being mixed together with e.g. mesa issues if mesa is being bundled inside the app/in a "flatpak SDK" instead of being treated as a system library akin to what you would do with DirectX.

Mesa contains your graphics driver and window system integrations, so when the system changes so must mesa change - but the ABI exposed to clients does not change, other than new features being added.
Does a good job of showing how completely unparsable ToS are:

https://tosdr.org/en/service/1448 says both:

"You maintain ownership of your data: This service does not claim ownership over user-generated content or materials, and the user * doesn't need to waive any moral rights* by posting owned content."

and

"You waive your moral rights"

Edit: I have no energy for figuring out which of these statements is more true.
Well, you kind of have your answer right there: it’s a language designed by committee, not by “the industry”.

This has been my biggest problem, and I say this as someone who has been on and off developing C++ for over 2 decades.

At the same time, it’s a safe bet to say that C++ will still be around in another 2 decades.
> I'm not a pilot, and I can't fathom what being in that situation would have been like.

In IFR conditions (= you can't see anything) losing your instruments means you're hosed as you can't trust your senses.
I can't decide what my preference order would be, but I can admit that whatever literary criticism has to say on the matter, and I suspect it disagrees with me, I found "A clergyman's daughter" more fun to read than "Keep the aspidistra flying".

You can read all nine of Eric Blair's books here:

https://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#orwell

Sadly, those texts are not perfect. I noticed a number of OCR errors. Also, in "Down and out in Paris and London" there's a whole chapter about slang and swearing but nearly all of the swearing is replaced by ——! Perhaps all the printed editions are just the same; I don't know. Perhaps someone here has a modern critical edition and can answer that. It's chapter 32 and the 7th paragraph, for example, starting with "The swear words also change", has the sentence "The current London adjective, now tacked on to every noun, is ——." Does anyone have an edition that has the last word of that sentence?
You're wrong that it's bad. Clearly it cannot be that bad if even your 80 yo grandma can get the gist of how to use it properly.

Can it be better? Probably. Does it need to be better? Clearly not.
I don't think their main concern was the privacy aspect.
> The immigrants also pay taxes from today though.

But do they also consume less in social services than they contribute in taxes? Everyone has this romantic picture in their head that the never ending waves of immigrants to western countries are all doctors, lawyers, and nuclear physicists. In the US we seem fixated on bringing in poor, uneducated Central Americans. In Europe it’s a lot of poor, uneducated Africans. Perhaps through sheer numbers the GDP goes up, but the net value is debatable.

> The issue is more NIMBY's preventing supply

Wow, imagine that. People who bought a nice single family home don’t want a thirty story low income housing project plopped down next to them. There’s plenty of room on the outskirts of any given town to build the hundreds of skyscrapers needed annually to house these people, why not do that instead of trying to jam it all in existing areas and pissing off people who didn’t sign up for it?
Programming used to be hard, and not everybody is as smart as you are. Things change when difficult things become easy. Engaging with an LLM to have it generate code for you is so far removed from taking a physical book, looking in its index, then hoping it talks about your particular problem, that it's not bullshit.
Sometimes the typos were in the magazine itself, and you wouldn't figure out the problem with the code you triple-checked you typed in properly until the errata in next month's issue :)
I am working on supporting wildcard custom domains for https://pinggy.io

What we found is that we can issue certificates for a wildcard domain even without asking the user to setup TXT records. If one CNAME record is set, we can set the TXT records on our domain to validate the wildcard domain.

Very excited about it.
If we were on the other side of those galaxies, wouldn't they look like they were spinning counter-clockwise? Or are they measuring spin some other way?
> If some dumb bozo wants to get the ISP deluxe package of gateway/router/DNS sniffer/shit-tier WiFi AP all rolled into one box, fine.

Recognize that nearly everybody is a “dumb bozo”. Most people do not want to manage a home network.
I'm saying the opposite has been my experience.

There's plenty of ways for Universities to lower costs without hurting quality.

There are plenty of open resources nowadays. Many of the paid online only textbooks with inconsistent tooling and accessibility for starters could be eliminated.

Expensive corporate software contracts is another. Access to MS office is nice in theory but in practice many students rely on Google instead AND there are open alternatives that don't have unreliable authentication problems.
Show HN: Ariel OS – an embedded Rust library OS for small MCUs
We're very happy to announce the first release of Ariel OS, an embedded Rust library OS.
Ariel OS runs on small MCUs like nRF5x, RP2xxx, STM32 and ESP32.
It is based on Embassy, and turns that into a full-blown RTOS, with preemptive multi-core scheduling and many OS-like conveniences.

We believe it offers a new combination of features that might be interesting:

- It supports writing applications as both async and threaded code, mix-and-match.

- It helps a lot in reducing boilerplate. Networking, threads & multi-core suppport, random numbers, flash storage are all readily available, with a sane and usually customizable default configuration.

- It helps writing portable applications. Ariel applications start out being fully ported to all supported boards, then get specialized. This might be interesting to library authors as well, for simplified testing on multiple platforms.

- It helps handling the little differences between MCUs. E.g, rustc target configuration, using `defmt` or not, `probe-rs` or `esp-flash`, are just build system flags. Ariel OS' meta build system handles the necessary Cargo and tooling configuration.

- It integrates `embedded-test` for turn-key testing on real hardware.

- It's all Embassy & smoltcp & embedded-hal(-async) & embedded-nal(-async) & ... under the hood, and it is easy to not use the abstractions if needed.

What we're working on right now or very soon:

- building on stable Rust

- BLE support

- a nice DSL for defining boards, aiming at no-code porting of applications

- low power handling

- a native "port" where Ariel can run as Linux/OSX application

We're at the beginning, but think that Ariel OS might already be useful to many of you, especially for reducing boiler plate and getting started more quickly.

Let us know what you think!

Join us on Matrix in https://matrix.to/#/#ariel-os:matrix.org.
London's slowly improving mid-rise architecture
Intel made 3.7 GHz CPUs 20 years ago. Modern CPUs run at the same frequency.

So was Moore's law dead 20 years ago? Clearly not.

Right now Nvidia's focus is on making bigger silicon with faster interconnects. But pretty soon that will stop working and then the focus will shift again. It's still early days for AI. People have only just started working on making dedicated AI chips. Presuming that performance per watt or per mm^2 of silicon cannot go up from here seems silly.
The title is usual clickbaity Register but the content is good enough.

TL;DW:

* The improvements don't come from transistor density but other tricks like putting 2 chips together, using smaller 4bit format, more on-chip memory, 2x memory bandwidth
* And Nvidia is packing more GPUs in the same rack and consuming unheard of amounts of power, with a huge toll on datacenter infra

And it seems all these have growth limits. No more 2x every year or even every other year.
I can never wrap my head around game development. Respect. All the best.
I appreciate the thought put into this reply, but there's been some sort of miscommunication. An /s tag, like the one at the end of my previous comment, is meant to indicate sarcasm. I'm about as edgy a person as Donny Osmond.
I'm not well versed in celestial mechanics, but I see a lot of "we're in a black hole" comments so far, and I'm super curious as to whether or not we know why black holes prefer a direction of spin. Can you (or anyone, really) shed light on that?
It’s remarkable that educated people invented the idea that there was a true Greek to go back to, when in ancient times it had been an evolving and fragmented language. Athenians and Spartans didn’t speak the same Greek, nor did Homer and Alexander. But this was the nineteenth century, and national myth making was the order of the day. Instead of asking “how shall we live together?” the question was “how shall we define ourselves apart?”
It's hyperbole, but I believe it's fundamentally a place to work and earn money, perhaps gain experience. It's not a place to grow and develop humans. Places like that are net sinks of human capital and basically vacuum up people from more provincial locations, extract their economic value, and people eventually leave when they get tired of it - possibly with some cash in their pocket.
IDF generals did. Who else would you consider credible in representing what the IDF intended to do? Regardless I wasn't trying to make this about Israel's actions. But rather about what Biden (and didn't do) with Israel.

He didn't even go as far as condemn the radical parties that you mentioned. Absolutely no red line, or anything. Just complete carte blanche. Again, even Bush or Reagan didn't let Israel do whatever they want with no political repercussions. Israel knew back then that some lines couldn't be crossed without losing American support. With Biden, they did whatever they wanted, said whatever they wanted and took advantage of that.
STL bounds checking isn't bounds checking. Your code (or other libraries you use) can still have simple pointer arithmetic that goes outside bounds.

But the larger problem is that bounds checking (even ASAN) isn't as good as statically checking code. ie. Your code with bounds checking still crashes at run time, which can be a denial of service attack, whereas with static checking your code would never have compiled in the first place.

Nevertheless if you don't want to rewrite the world, then using these mitigations is much better than not using them. I would also add fuzzing to the mix.
The point is that you’d expect a roughly even distribution of clockwise and counterclockwise spins, not all of them to rotate in the same direction.
Good for you? What if you won't be able to find any tv that works without cryptographically signed periodic online check-ins.

Sure we could all try to ignore the horrors of modern society and move to a cabin in the woods (and then get to know our local mailmen when we find out that even that isn't enough) but perhaps it would be better and take a stand now while we can.
Did the orphan tsunami generate a tsunami of orphans though?
Since Meta is a big AI investor, I suggest you skip WhatsApp altogether.
> The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Indeed.

But:

> There's lots of incentives from everyone involved (all the way up to the government itself) to ensure this bubble never collapses, bending the rules and everything else around it if necessary

The more this happens, the harder the resulting crash.

The same argument as the Laffer curve for taxes, but for rent: when it gets to 100% of income, there's no incentive to bother immigrating, and all the reason to emigrate.
In this case, it only takes a few seconds to find multiple studies confirming the effect.

For example

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ina.12042

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0668.2010...
Potentially a very dumb question, but seeing the difference between cyclones and hurricane on earth (clock-wise, anti-clock-wise)...

Does it mean that we are, potentially, on one of two poles(?) of the observable universe, if we're observing most galaxies around us rotating a certain way?
Well the goal is not to take anyone's job. Ideally, we make our present tools a lot better and trustworthy.

Thanks for trying it out!
Very interesting. All the best for your thesis. Mine is not nearly as interesting enough.
Show HN: Repodump – a CLI tool to dump Git repos to Markdown for LLMs
I made this tool to easily share an entire git repo with an LLM. It ignores binary files and files not tracked by git and has a feature to estimate the token count of your repo. If it sounds potentially useful to your workflow, please check it out and let me know what feedback you have.

Example:
repodump | pbcopy # Copies current dir to clipboard
repodump --estimate-tokens ~/myproject # Shows token count
I started writing a guide to IMAP back when I was working on an email client: https://github.com/rmccue/griffin/tree/master/docs/imap

Pulling large amounts of data for things like threading can be difficult on certain servers; my preferred approach ended up being to pull every ID and thread ID to maintain an in-memory tree. (This was, iirc, partially because Gmail’s implementation was slightly crippled with relation to threading.)

(I never finished the guide because I stopped on the project, alas - if IMAP were easier to work with, I might have finished it! And sadly, no JMAP support on Gmail, and the gateway was broken.)
Having written 4KB assembly demos for BBS sites back in the 80s and 90s, I would not be surprised at all.

What does surprise me is a $110M plane that is being upgraded at the low-low-cost of a mere $300K each to this: https://www.l3harris.com/all-capabilities/high-performance-i...

Yes, that "High-Performance Integrated Core Processor" is pulling 4.5 kW to produce as much computer power as a typical PC in the late 1990s!
Aha, I did wonder. The language was just so spot on.

Keep up the excellent work.
It's not that bad in London. Mid-range tech salary is £70-80k and you can get a decent 2 bedroom apartment for £380k somewhere nice. Even easier if there are two of you. I'm a bit higher than that but there's nowhere else in the UK or Europe I can have as much disposable income as I do now. I know because I tried.
As amusing as it is to imagine language developers getting executed when their language falls out of favor, I think most C++ people are happy about Rust. The problem are large codebases already in C++ that won't get rewritten, so we have to do the best we can, within the constraints of C++.
I Built an AI Reply Tool for X and Saved Hours
Recently, I noticed that I was spending too much time responding to messages on the X platform. Whether I was interacting with friends or dealing with customer inquiries, manually typing each reply made me feel inefficient. Being a fan of automation, I decided to develop a tool to solve this problem. So, I created a Chrome extension that utilizes AI to automatically generate responses on X.

Why X and AI?

X is a fast-paced platform where the quality and speed of replies directly impacts the effectiveness of the interaction. My goal was to have AI generate natural and contextualized responses while retaining personalization. With the help of modern NLP models, such as the open source framework I use, I've made it possible for the tool to analyze the content of posts and generate contextual responses. For example, if someone asks “How does your product work?” for example, if someone asks “How does your product work?”, it can generate a response like “It's easy, just install it and click the X icon to get started!” based on preset rules or my input preferences. It's easy, just install and click the X icon to get started!

Technical Implementation

At the heart of this extension is a lightweight script embedded in Chrome. It listens for DOM changes in X, captures user interactions, and then sends the text input to a locally running AI model (I chose a small pre-trained model to minimize latency). Once the response is generated, the user can insert or edit it with a single click. The whole process takes less than 2 seconds. To make it available to everyone, I joined a free plan that provides 50 generated responses per month - enough for everyday use.

The biggest challenge in building was balancing speed and accuracy. Early model responses were too generic (e.g. “Great idea!”) ), and I've since fine-tuned the data and contextual cues to make it more relevant to my tone of voice. Now it mimics my style, even with the occasional bit of humor.

What I've learned

User experience first: I wanted to automate it completely at first, but realized that users prefer to control the final output, so I added a “preview” feature.
Privacy: A lot of people were concerned about data security, so I made sure that all processing was done locally without uploading any content.

Community feedback: I shared the prototype on X during early testing and got a lot of suggestions, such as support for multi-language responses (in development).

Why did you share this?

I think this tool might be helpful to other X users, especially those who are busy content creators or small business owners. If you have similar pain points, try this extension: https://intellireply.app/. It's completely free to get started, 50 generation times per month, and feedback is welcome!

Also, I'd like to hear from you all: do you use this tool? Any suggestions for improvement? Or, how do you guys manage interaction time on X?
There should be a club for people like us: we learnt the hard way to double-check and never ever fully trust ourselves, especially with hardware connections.

The first Mobo I ever purchased with my own money was insta-fried exactly like that, it still hurts a little to think about that.
> But you are never going to rewrite the gazillion or so lines of C++ out there, and currently being used in all sorts of production systems.

We are, because we will have to, and the momentum is already gathering. Foundational tools and libraries are already being rewritten. More will follow.

> But if you have a beter compiler that points out more of the problem UB areas in your codebase, then you have somewhere you can make a start towards reducing the issues and attack surface.

Sure. But fixing those is going to be harder and less effective than rewriting.
Unless you're looking at them from the other side, in which case they rotate counter-clockwise!

Or maybe they're just billboard sprites, always facing the camera, with clockwise animations.
Everybody here is talking about the black hole hypothesis, but to me it seems that the other explanation, a wrong assumption about the rotation of our own galaxy, is more likely: because it could explain 2 other problems as well.

> "The re-calibration of distance measurements can also explain several other unsolved questions in cosmology such as the differences in the expansion rates of the universe and the large galaxies that according to the existing distance measurements are expected to be older than the universe itself.”
>helping impoverished communities, adding guardrails to prevent old-boys clubs and enable skilled individuals to enter fields without prejudice for “being black” or “being gay”

Exactly, like I said - "it's dressed up in definitions that sound beautiful and moral to the supporters of DEI".

I do not care for theoretical definitions of why your ideology is good and moral, I care about its practical effects on me and the world around me. And somehow, those practical effects always turn out to be "less white people".

And I will NEVER support an ideology that disenfranchises me under the cover of equality!
No surprise there, that Moore's Law requires a healthy competition environment for it to be likely to take effect and it's been a while since Nvidia had actual competition.

Of course it's much more complex than that. The nature of the problems that tech now has to solve is different and as stated in the article, Nvidia hit many roadblocks, but I still think if it had healthy competition, other brands would step in and make it more likely for a creative solution to manifest itself.
Did they also check in the northern hemisphere of the observable universe?
I think it would be more that the entire universe is in a black hole spinning in a certain direction.
IMAP COMPRESS?
Clockwise relative to what? Does the universe have an "upwards" direction?

Or is it just relative to all the other galaxies?
Here's a personal record of Prof Dr Horst Völz (basically the figure head of East German hobby computing) about his computer radio show which featured such downloads over radio (in German):

https://web.archive.org/web/20250127135637/http://horstvoelz...

The most remarkable detail might be the collaboration across the Iron Curtain with West German and Dutch computer enthusiasts.
From my subjective experience, having "been there at the time", I think this was sufficiently obscure that "not really a thing" is not an unreasonable take. It's a bit like "Yes, in the 2020s we got NFTs tattooed on our bodies".

Edit: Although having just googled it it seems like NFT tattoos might be more of a thing than I was aware, so what do I know.
Pretty much everything Microsoft does is guaranteed to be a fad. They announce a new language paradigm shift every 10 years. (And then abandon it 10 years later.)
> so much for those sustainability and carbon neutrality pledges.

Can’t they just buy indulgences^W carbon offset credits?
This is hardly surprising - money was my primary concern in my late teenage years and early 20's - for many young adults in Europe and North America, this is the first time when they are expected to be in full control and really, far too few are prepared - I certainly wasn't. I too was not too worried about culture wars or climate. And I too was majorly concerned about the future of democracy. The one thing I find alarming is that I am magnitudes more concerned about the future of democracy now than I was back then. The 2010's me was far too optimistic it seems. To be clear - I am not from the UK but I spent a long time living among British people and I can relate. I have only one advise for younger people(all people actually) - hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
Yeah, but API surface also needs to change for it to actually work.
Not because of the women, but learning a (different) partner dance boosted my self-confidence to a remarkable extent (so far as one can identify causes with these things).

It's actually not a silly idea.