skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to go with what your soul yearns for. Obviously this isn't a perfect analogy, because it implies mystic, Machiavellian, or omnipotent beings.

Its more like "the mirror of erised" from harry potter, perhaps better is the mirror from "The Snow Queen":

> which had this peculiarity, that everything good and beautiful that was reflected in it shrank… but that whatever was worthless or ugly became prominent.

But I would say its not the smartphone thats the problem, its specifically "broadcast" social media thats the problem. That is services were thirdparties, who you don't know personally, can produce content for your consumption. Those services are driven by pure engagement, rather than any other metric.

Anything that just constantly A/B tests what you engage with the most, and blindly optimises for whichever category you click on, is going to be bad for you, unless you have been given the tools and education to manage those categories. Even then, it might not be possible.

I still think kids need 1:1 and group chats, within reason, and with time limits so that they actually got to sleep, and stay asleep at night. So I'd say kids should probably still have smartphones, just not social media.
Appreciate you sharing that requirement!

The need for batch processing to pull out targeted data points from PDFs (rather than converting the whole document) is a valuable insight.

While the current tool focuses on full conversion to Markdown, enhancing https://pdftomarkdown.pro/ to handle specific data extraction tasks like yours is definitely something I'll consider carefully for the future roadmap. Thanks for highlighting it!
I love how closely this matches how GDS built flows work, not just the visuals. The careful step by step pacing, the direct wording, it's all absolutely spot on.

Perfect.
My conjecture isn't Hegel is single-handedly responsible for the fall of civilisation. After all I don't have a reason to think he intended that, nor do I think civilisation will necasarily fall. Most villains of the thought, ideologues and philosophers are basing their operas on Hegel's.

All I am saying Hegel established a framework which eased the works of some scum.
At this point I'm wondering if C++ leadership is either willfully ignorant or genuinely in denial.

I know several people on various C++ committees and by and large their opinion is, we evolve the language and library to give existing projects incremental improvements without asking them to rewrite them, but if you are starting with a new project C++ is often a subpar option. From that perspective I get why they'd be hesitant about efforts like Circle. Circle and co. ask developers to rewrite their code, in something that looks very different to normal C++ - whatever normal C++ even is, given the multitude of dialects out there - can't seamlessly interop with existing code, needs a new incompatible standard library, that as of now doesn't even exist. At which point, honestly just rewrite it in Rust instead of going through the painful exercise to use something that's 10+ years behind where Rust is today in terms of DX, tooling and ecosystem.

But all that doesn't explain why at the very top, even mentioning Rust as an alternative seems taboo, idk.
I agree with this.

I've used AI as a crutch for a time, and felt my skills get worse. Now I've set it up to never have it give me entire solutions, just examples and tips on how to get it done.

I've struggled with Shader Programming for a while, tried to learn it from different sources and failed a lot. It felt like something unreachable for me, I don't really know why really. But with the help of an AI that's fine-tuned for mentoring, I really understood some of the concepts. It outlined what I should do and asked socratic questions that made me think. I've gotten way better at it and actually have a pretty solid understanding of the concepts now (well, I think).

But sometimes at work I do give in and get it to write an entire script for me, out of laziness and maybe boredom. Their significant advances as of late with "extended thinking" and the likes made them much more likely to one-shot the writing of a slightly complex script... Which in turn made it harder to not just say "hey, that sounds like boring work, let's have the AI do the biggest part of it and I'll patch up the rest".
If you wanted to design a writing medium that enables archeology, it would be difficult to do better than clay tablets. Fired clay is great for records meant to last, being very fire and water resistant, while unfired clay was reusable if you just made it a bit wet again, great as reusable writing surfaces.

So many paper, parchment and papyrus records that were meant to be kept have been lost to fire and water over the millennia. Yet with clay tablets a fire not only struggles to harm the records that were meant to last, it turns all the temporary records, scratch pads and notes left around into long-lasting fired clay. Burn a Sumerian city to the ground and you create a snapshot of all their writing for archeologists to find millennia later
Interesting, I had never seen this view before. All but one of those submissions, however, appear to be off-topic; they are being flagged because they are not pertinent to the forum’s subject.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
> next armament purchase by Europe

Or buy European.
as a standards body, yes some of the output is high. I think it serves a useful function.

on the macro level though I can't see it myself.

EU area had everything going for it in terms of being able to make drastic progressive shifts forward in multiple areas. but instead since 2008 its been doing little but dealing with the contradictions of its own self-imposed constraints. be that debt crisis, energy policy, fortress border policy, emigration issues, Brexit and endless political dramas over reactionary political movements.
It's now fixated with re-armament, something that threatens to produce yet another lost decade.

Meanwhile, China and other parts of Asia have taken these same 20 years to create entire new sectors and lead the world in them.
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My journey into SEO tools began with WEPLAYDOS, a retro gaming platform I successfully launched that now serves thousands of gaming enthusiasts. While growing that site, I encountered firsthand the challenge of managing internal links across hundreds of content pages. The existing solutions were either too simplistic or prohibitively expensive for solo creators and small teams.
> How do we know that the Chinese government didn't do this (which is known to happen)

Source?

> How do we know it was the US government

We don't but its 100000x easier for the US government to disappear someone on US soil than it is for China to disappear someone on US soil.
To boost my career? Probably some management stuff.

Otherwise, Blender. Been using it at work for a left field innovation project and I'm kind of hooked.
Oh god, I just put in a made up claim for a tooth lost in Timbuktooth, just to test the system and then I saw this...

Knowingly making a false claim is a criminal offence under Section 17B(2) of the Teeth Finance & Renewal Act (1978) and you may be prosecuted, jailed, or blasted into space.

What do I do? What do I do?
I mean, people in the UK will just refer to "The King/Queen". It's usually pretty obvious which one you mean. I don't think I've heard anyone specify "of England" or "of the UK"
Very loosely?

There really is no normal - things change over time. It would be more accurate to say it was the end of an period of unusual stability and security.
The abstractions are fictional. The system wasn’t “designed” with separation. We just pretend they are there for tractability.
Absolute barbarism, why would someone be in a Dunkin Donuts in NC, the home of Krispy Kreme.
You're absolutely right, PDFs can be incredibly tricky. That lack of a consistent, easily parsable structure for arbitrary data is the core challenge.
No, I'm not opining here on whether stopping RFA is legal or a good idea. I'm only saying that I don't think it's an attack on the freedom of the press when the president stops funding media organizations, even if it's because of their viewpoint. I think the concept of freedom of the press was created to protect press organizations that are actually independent of the government from government interference. It cannot plausibly or sustainably extend to a government funding entitlement. If it did, it would mean perpetual entanglement of our precious universal, politically neutral liberal protections with the eternal mud-wrestling match of partisan politics.

If USAGM is entitled to funding by act of Congress, I consider that a separate issue from First Amendment freedom of the press.
> plenty of downtime

I don’t understand why the US still has dedicated school buses that isn’t used for anything else during the day.
Don't worry. If any this works out, chances are JD Vance will be the President, one way or the other.
> Instead of doing that they just learned to ignore everything

Leading to notifications being ignored, and not mattering at all.

A well curated set of notifications that only gives you the things you actually need is superb, but incredibly difficult to get right.

Learning how to ignore all of the noise is probably a more valuable skill for a future where control is slowly wrestled away from the user. A certain Black Mirror episode (Fifteen Million Merits) comes to mind.
The problem is not limited to philosophy. All of academia is
broken this way. Sadly, we think the only alternative is "industry",
an equally broken set of incentives. That limits fronts of human
progress to two types. We either get committee-driven institutional
science leveraging huge resources, supercomputers, particle
accelerators - blighted by cutthroat competition, opaque "publishing"
and fraud - or radical populist individuals and small unaffiliated
groups of thinkers able to operate without material resources. The
Goldilocks zone of quiet, contemplative science, of whimsical,
"high-risk" enquiry reminiscent of the Enlightenment, is gone in the
21st century.
> It is not like the sciences are studied for the tools

The problem with this logic is that most university students don't go there to do science, they go there to, at best, become working experts in their field. Many employers now expect their javascript frontend developers to have a CS degree, which is simply absurd. Secondary vocational education is generally considered insufficient and tertiary vocational schools are "where you go if you can't get into university". This means universities get a huge number of applicants who want nothing to do with science or advanced theory, but just want to learn enough (and get the right paper!) to get a job in their preferred field.

This is now self-reinforcing. If you're a good programmer and want to work on business software, it would make sense for you to go to a tertiary vocational school (where I'm from that means 2 years, one semester of which is essentially an apprenticeship). But because "everyone goes to university", you'll be seen as a worse candidate for most jobs. At the same time, employers are pressuring universities to be "more practical" because "graduates come to the first day on the job useless". So universities lower the bar, taking more away from vocational, who then lower the bar in turn to stay afloat, devaluing themselves in the process.
I've been working on an open source game backend for Unity and Godot: https://trytalo.com. GitHub: https://github.com/talodev.

I'm aiming to solve the problem of wanting to build a game but having to build all these extra "other" systems around it (leaderboards, stats/analytics, saving and loading game state).

Right now you can drop Talo into your game for player management, authentication, leaderboards, analytics, game saves and player segmentation. There's a dashboard too so you can visualise all of your game's data.
If anyone is interested, i'm looking for someone to take over a port of Windows alt+tab window switching for the Mac.

The app is very mature, yet it could still be improved in interesting ways.

https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos/issues/1179
The smart European nations didn’t buy the F-35 to begin with.
> There'd be a fair bit of noise if the Holocaust was happening today.

Why are we talking in hypotheticals when it literally is happening today?
> I understand that some professors view this as disrepsectful, but when your lectures consist of simply reading off the lecture notes that you're going to upload online anyway, lectures become a waste of time that could be better spent with more studying on our own.

Jeez I wish they would have uploaded all the material online, not everyone does that (perhaps thinking if they do it lots of people won't show up). And even if they do it , it is often sparse slides with half the material passed in person - so very missing.
It's enough to not understand the first 10 minutes of the lecture and then you're completely lost for another frustrating 35 minutes ( or more, some lectures are double). It's enough not to fully remember the last lecture and you don't follow what the professor is talking about now.
It's not a fun experience and happened to me a lot - the material is hard, my intelligence is good but nothing stellar so it's super easy to become lost.

The truth is it's probably better for the average person to study at their own pace with an LLM or something like that, I had a real rough time following computer science lectures. I can ask the LLM to stop, to re explain, to re explain in a different way etc etc. If I'm tired I can stretch a bit.
I think its the really bright kids or those with superior concentration and preparation skills that got something out of those lectures, the rest of us hated it.
Indeed. For most people the world was the world outside their doorstep, the world they encountered and lived in. Place.

Even modern environmentalists thought and acted locally until very recently.

Now "the world" can only mean the entire planet as a a whole. It's a frame of reference that most people have never really had. It's only in modern times (space race) that we started to think of the planet as a place and within those times it's only in very recent times when we have started to think of taking care of this planet.
I’m surprised nobody has created a way to automate this process - I imagine that any tool that makes it trivial would be quite popular, given what a pain it can be to set up manually.
I believe MDT as a whole has been deprecated too. You can't use the Windows 11 ADK for the WinPE image and they're very much pushing toward the Provisioning Package / Intune method.
phones had/some still have user profile/account option so you can do this on a single phone
Thank you for pointing this pattern out. I've seen it time and time again, most prominently after Jan 6. I think a big part is the manipulation of online spaces, e.g. the subreddits - threads and comments counter the narrative are quickly deleted, and they start piling onto anyone who still disagrees, calling them RINOs and so on.

It's scary just how cult-ish this pattern is.
I suppose it is appropriate to a site with discussing medieval manuscripts - a lot of them prefer aesthetics to readability!

A cynic might say something about it being a university website and appropriateness to academia. Not me of course!
I've been working on a library for Node (using TypeScript) that encrypts environment variables and generates typings for accessing said environment variables.

e.g. you init a project (`obelisq init`) and use `obelisq set -k <key> -v <value>` (e.g. `obelisq set -k SERVICE_KEY -v ABCDEF`) to set your environment variables:

OBELISQ_PUBLIC_KEY=0344ecbf96c3e01262402247b97231a22c0197d17121dd9c7d1b999faed1d54ac4
SERVICE_KEY=047ca044c1a59114246d5c5122ad1bdecfafa3c999fae5629181df54[...]
MY_SECRET=049072d4ffc233ed77f8d682d9fe3a75114987d496b06d44269600e8be[...]

When you run `obelisq generate`, code will be generated that allows you to do this:

// `get` is type-safe, `mySecret` is number
// decryption of the value occurs when `get` is called
const mySecret= obelisq.get('MY_SECRET')

Partially inspired by my own article: https://www.carlos-menezes.com/post/type-first-config
Okay, calm down, let's take this slowly. First things first: do you already own a spacesuit?
Way to lead the enemy to operator HQ. They don't even need to follow it just triangulate paths like good ol radio.
> Having to take notes because they are not provided, rather than getting value from a lecture due to interactive participation sounds like a waste of time.

Also, the taking of notes is a distraction in a class. You can't pause the teacher while writing or rewind, so whatever the teacher explains while you're writing is just missed. This isn't true for everyone, but many people can't blindly type while paying attention to something else.

I prefer to just listen and interact with the teacher over writing down what they say (and is already written on their slides).
It was 750 feet, not meters. So much less room.
Lot's of these issues seem to be not specific to distributed systems and also impact local single-node systems. Notable example is postgresql fsyncgate, or how mail servers in the past struggled (iirc that was one of the cases where reiserfs shined).
Yes! They were on special offer in the centre isle of our local Lidl last week. Between the angle grinder and trombone section.
Thank you! I design GOV.UK (and GOV.UK-adjacent) services at work so this was a bit of a busman's holiday
Isn't it the whole point of co-ops? Allow it and they become just normal companies where you earn stocks by working.
> I found the article valuable.

And that's great. Note that I specifically said that "for me personally", I found that article less valuable. But I'm certainly not claiming that everyone else should feel the same.

As a matter of fact, I'm sure a lot of people find my comment to be of little value.
The Uyghur thing has been fairly well discussed and I assume people know everything they care to. Wikipedia is pretty comprehensive on the current state of knowledge.
Unfortunately that seems to depend on who did the test or your GP.

There seem to be sites for your GP (which mine does via a .nhs.uk domain it used to be via https://account.patientaccess.com/ which still shows appointments but does not allow booking but still allows requests for repeat prescriptions.)
or hospital portal for results.
Agreed and that is a really good, but simple, point that I didn't realize as clearly before: there is no real alternative to the academia vs. industry dichotomy. What is needed might be a third option that allows for exploration without the pressures of profits or publications.
That's moving the goalposts. You said they almost all failed. Now you say the ones that would have failed were cancelled... but definitely would have failed? I think citation needed.

Anti-EU parties, though admittedly rising in popularity in some countries, are still losing popular e locations by a long way. AfD got 20% of the vote recently. 80% of the voters rejected then - and that is historically their best result. That's very far from a rejection of the EU in a popular vote.
fine here and now
It is happening because they were caught doing it before, including with the help of various European intelligence agencies.

German BND helped the NSA even without the German government's knowledge.

Danish intelligence helped the NSA spy on the German Chancellor.

Etc.
I'm Leaving Sentry
Ai will make experts more effective and remove most people who are going to grow into experts.

Basically most people will be idiots, except for the mental exercise type people who like using their mental muscles.

So education will stop being a way to move up in life.
Looks like they're finally coming to terms with C++'s flaws.
Okay. Merlin is a medieval work of fiction. He's not a historical figure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin
Or also getauxval?
Highway has code to check for this, including that vectors are at least 128 bits:
https://github.com/google/highway/blob/master/hwy/targets.cc...
AbletonMCP – Ableton Live Model Context Protocol Integration
Sorry, but no.

This is MacOS in 1998: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mac_OS_8.1_emulated_insid...

I think this is way uglier than Win9x.
How is not voting for the administration that enabled and did absolutely nothing to stop the genocide of their relatives or community in Gaza voting against their self interest?

You realize that the deaths that happened in Gaza are probably more important than whatever grievances you have against Trump for some people? We are talking about tens of thousands of deaths, directly enabled by the previous administration (not only politically but with direct military shipments of the bombs that killed said people). But Muslim lives are typically completely worthless for a large part of the American population so your comment doesn't really surprise me.
> Disappearing people is not something the US government is allowed to do.

If a government was disappearing people they would not do it with police raids. The last thing they would want is to take responsibility for it.

I have lived in a country where journalists and others were being disappeared, and it was done by unidentifiable people in unmarked vans.
err, no, that's just the usual nonsense people who both don't like the EU and also don't understand it
If you dont like any of the candidates, run yourself.

Choosing to do nothing is declaring that you dont care.
> I still don’t know why she even agreed. The pay check?

She has explicitly said in interviews they told her they would make it with or without her, so she made it crap on purpose to tank the franchise. It was supposed to suck.
> Or why Europeans didn't insist to get same version (probably no leverage).

I don't think it was a matter of leverage, but more of a blind trust in US Institutions, and denying the reality of their collapse.

No one would have believed at any point in the last 80 years that the US would be threatening to invade and annex Canada or Greenland, all while having a group of protected billionaires promoting the collapse of the European Union, the rise of nazism and the protection of a Russian autocratic regime.
The F-35 was sold to us as an important multi billion business deal, with lots of European companies being promised to be subcontractors or technology partners; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning... has a good overview of how much was involved. Basically, you scratch my back, we'll scratch yours kind of deal.

In hindsight, the project was (as expected) over budget etc. I wish our government(s) had given that money to European fighter jets instead. There's a chance the US will remote disable the jets that have been put into service now, or withold service / spare parts.
Short paper, so can be easily summarized. The claim is that security can be improved by these compiler and hardware assisted measures:

- Stack Integrity
- Control-Flow Integrity
- Heap Data Integrity
- Pointer Integrity and Unforgeability

They cite the deployment of these measures on recent Apple hardware as evidence of their effectiveness.
Yeah, Europe needs to find its mojo again, that's for sure. But I wouldn't blame the EU for that. There was a general preference for consumption vs investment, if anything the EU was driving investment more than member states.

The rearmament might actually inject a good chunk of investment - let's see.