skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite how bad a few modern Islamist societies may be, it is very wrong to write sentences like "Islam started as an imperialist death cult", like they would be true and universally applicable.

While after conversion to Islam the Arabs had a few centuries of great territorial expansion, when they have conquered not only their neighbors in Asia, but also the North of Africa and a part of the Iberian Peninsula, this was the standard behavior at that time for any population that was strong enough to be able to do this. It does not make the Arabs more "imperialist" than any other of their contemporaneous nations, e.g. when compared with Charlemagne.

Moreover, for many centuries, until relatively recently, most conflicts in Islamic countries, such as the Turkish Empire, were more likely to be settled by judges according to the law and without making discrimination based on religion, nationality or wealth, than in the contemporaneous European countries, where the enforcement of the laws was frequently arbitrary and biased.

The Europeans who have lived in countries occupied by Islamic Turks or Arabs have survived many centuries without losing their religion or traditions, in contrast with what happened with those that have been occupied by European empires, like the Russian Empire (or its Soviet descendant) or by the Austrian Empire (or its Austria-Hungary successor), where complete denationalization has frequently happened, due to intense discrimination.

Anti-scientific interpretations of the Islamic religion rules have prevailed only many centuries after its appearance. Only then claims like "there is no need to read any books but the Holy Book, as it contains all truth that has to be known by humans" began to have supporters and enforcers. Moreover, taking into consideration the recent history, the US citizens are the last who should be mocking this kind of ideas, because many of them appear to think in the same way.
You do realize that Fahrenheit 451 is literally set in the US ?

If you’re seriously not aware how close to gleefully indulging in book-burning business certain US states have been and still are, K have some news for you.
Some people possess that quality which Machiavelli included in the arsenal of any authentic prince: virtù, a trait defined by a commentator of The Prince as embodied in “an individual endowed with exceptional qualities who seeks to seize reality in order to confront and reshape it, without being overwhelmed by its unpredictable unfolding (by fate).” Virtù, the supreme quality of the Machiavellian prince, is something different from Roman virtus or from virtue in ethical terms; it is an optimal composition of personality suited for a great deed, a strange blend of ingenuity, boldness, effectiveness, and foresight. Virtù is what enables a person of great stature to create their own destiny, rather than being merely a pawn of chance.
> US-related businesses are the only buyers of ASML’s most advanced machines.

Only because the US requested it i.e. banned China.

And who's US-related again? Oh you mean those that have to pay >30% tariffs? Are you sure they're related?

> So, while China has better cards than the US, the EU has no cards at all.

No? EU can just sell ASML to China instead.
This has ALWAYS been the case in Thailand.

You do not criticize the monarchy.
Netherlands launches fund to lure top scientists, like those fleeing the U.S. (nltimes.nl)

20 points by toomuchtodo 17 days ago | 6 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43447064
Yeah, I’m leaning towards zig but I’m a bit on the fence still.

For Rust, I kind of got tired of writing unsafe rust for embedded, but that’s addressable afaik. The real dealbreaker was that after 10k+ lines of code I still will pop open the source of a library that solves a simple problem and the code looks indecipherable. I also don’t really agree with the dependency explosion that cargo encourages.

Zig is very nice in that it has the most ergonomic struct usage I’ve encountered. The stdlib could really use some improvement though. Comptime is very cool, but I also worry if the community will get undisciplined with it.
I'd love to indent the body of each stage in multi-stage dockerfiles, like:

FROM foo
...

FROM bar
...

It's easy to see at glance what's going on.
I guess the GP meant that the NYT article is not very informative. Bloomberg imo did a way better job reporting this event:

> “This is a fire sale of Treasuries,” said Calvin Yeoh, portfolio manager at hedge fund Blue Edge Advisors Pte. who is selling 20 to 30-year Treasuries futures. “I haven’t seen moves or volatility of this size since the chaos of the pandemic.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/treasuries-fire-sale-sends-lo...
Perhaps safer there than being put into American prisons. American prisons are run by the inmates. Inmate rape, gang related violence and murder are normalized and tolerated by the states and corporations that operate the prison system. Salvadoran prisons seem tightly controlled and well staffed. Perhaps they have economies of scale though?
That’s awesome

(I know you have to control the keyboard and I need to read my answers before submitting, but I’m learning how much I lean on autocorrect when putting in an answer 4x misspelled the same way)
Google has become useless as a search engine. Most of the results are from Reddit, Quora, or YouTube.
I'm not going to watch a 5 minute video to get an answer. The information from Reddit/Quora is hardly written by experts.
I now do a "verbatim" search with -reddit -quora -youtube.
I do use ChatGPT to do a search for websites that have information about what I am looking for.
*shrug, You sleep with dogs, you wake up with fleas. You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with. Be the change you want to see in the world etc etc. This is an age-old issue, what to do about shitty people in your support group.
my take - more writeup style for people new to z3

https://happyhacks.bearblog.dev/solving-a-layton-puzzle-with...
Browsers typically say below the styles also which fonts are actually used (there can be multiple, e.g. when substitution is required to render certain characters).
This is a really cool exercise! The format of it seems pretty sound, like a version of the prisoner's dilemma with a larger group (co-operation versus defection).

Although I think that the majority of modern models don't really have the internals suited to this sort of exercise; training data/fine tuning will heavily influence how a model behaves, whether it's more prone to defection, etc.

A Squirrel makes a "Kuk kuk kuk" alarm call not specifically because the "Kuk" token follows the sequence "you saw a predator" (although this would appear to mostly work) but because it has evolved to make that noise to alert other Squirrels to the predator, most likely a response to evolutionary failure associated with a dwindling population; even solitary Squirrels still need to mate, and their offspring need to do the same.

It's like there's an extremely high dimensional context that's missing in LLMs; training on text results in a high dimensional representation of related concepts - but only the way that those concepts relate in language. It's the tip of an iceberg of meaning where in many cases language can't even represent a complex intermediate state within a brain.

Humans try to describe everything we can with words to communicate and that's partly why our species is so damn successful. But when thinking about how to open an unfamiliar door, I don't internally vocalise (which I've learnt not everyone does) "I'm going to grab the handle, and open the door". Instead I look and picture what I'm going to do, that can also include the force I think I'd need to use, the sensation of how the material might feel against my skin and plenty of other concepts & thoughts all definitively _not_ represented by language.
That was my first thought as well. :)
It's so nice to have an example of how nice things could be if we don't let corporations nickle and dime us for crappy rent-seeking service.
I recently started drawing (my own little middle age crisis) and i am so out of depth, so far from even understanding what is possible, and the internet filled with so much junk tutorials, that sometimes ability of LLM to parse my intent and guide me towards the key words and names is a godsend, of course it probably would be better to ask a person who knows this stuff, but it's not always convenient.
In my use case best part of LLMs is Soft input, and the soft output is not a problem.
Somehow Monero (XMR) gets around this, used in the biggest European underground pharmacy Archetyp.

Each transaction is somehow only known by sender and receiver
> so where are you getting your data?

Is this how we came up with the "magical" tariffs formula? Look at some data, interpret it in a random way and off we go?

You don't say that [1] shows the average growth was 6.56% in China vs 9.28% in Vietnam [3] vs 10.33% in Bangladesh. So then relatively, it's not exactly "growing" is it?

If China was still explicitly growing manufacturing the numbers would be much higher. Is it actually focused on manufacturing or are there other triggers? E.g. US banned Huawei, so they had to go back home and manufacture. E.g. US is banning AI and other exports so China has to make their own. I'd say US is increasing China's manufacturing rather than China!

[3] https://tradingeconomics.com/vietnam/manufacturing-productio...

[4] https://tradingeconomics.com/bangladesh/manufacturing-produc...

[5] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/manufactu...

> Hell, you've got a naval empire (the United States) that is currently unable to come even close to the Chinese ship-building capabilities
> Sooner or later the US was going to have to deal with this fact

Why? Does the UK need to deal with this "fact" too then? The US has a naval empire that the UK is no where close to in capabilities. Based on your logic, the EU would have to band together to revive the British empire and deal with the US?

I wouldn't want this. The US wouldn't want this either. So what fact is the issue?
Absolutely comparable. Consider what can be done today with hardware as powerful as in the 1970's and it's obvious that the needle hasn't budged one tick.

But, like you say- let's wait and see. I always do the former but I'm still waiting for the latter.
>>By the way, well done Norway.

I wonder how well it correlates with the oil price.
The Value of Open Source Software (2024)
> Or they could come up with a shape that is similar but fits my own hand even better

Many years ago, Logitech used to make left-handed mice. No more :-(

So I switched to a 3DConnexion CadMouse Pro Wireless Left... The battery is still (semi-?)OK, but it feels like the buttons on it are giving up. :-( :-(
I don’t think OP is complaining about democracy.
CSP is really great at plugging these kinds of security holes, but it flummoxes me that most developers and designers don't take them seriously enough to implement properly (styles must only be set though <link>, and JS likewise exists only in external files). Doing any styling or scripting inline should be frowned upon as hard as table-based layouts.
"China slaps retaliatory tariffs of 84% on U.S. goods" - https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/china-slaps-retaliatory-tari...
tldr:

> We estimate the supply-side value of widely-used OSS is $4.15 billion, but that the demand-side value is much larger at $8.8 trillion. We find that firms would need to spend 3.5 times more on software than they currently do if OSS did not exist. The top six programming languages in our sample comprise 84% of the demand-side value of OSS. Further, 96% of the demand-side value is created by only 5% of OSS developers.
> .....and you got triggered.

Sure, you got me. If someone says the earth is actually a cube, I have to go defend the spherical chads.

In this case, it's the sheer disconnect between RIIR askers, and the sheer number of people painting Rust devs with a continent wide brush.

It's very in-group vs out-group reasoning.

Let's demonstrate it. For example: I'm a Java dev, and I see a Java dev, being a moron, so I'll say "What a moron". But if that guy was a C# dev, I'm going to say "C# devs are morons". See the error committed here?

> There's a reason "just rewrite it in Rust" has become such a meme.

Just because something is a meme, doesn't make it true, either. Like it was true around the time of Rust 1.0. But that's been like 10 years ago.

It isn't even the worst part about Rust community.
If 20$/user/month is too much, maybe you could apin up headscale and plug in your OIDC provider?

Never tried it myself, I only manage small tailnets so the free tier is fine
> All innovation begins as closed source

I think you need to check your history. In the early days, before closed/proprietary software, source code was often shared between programmers.

Lets look at text editors. They did not begin "closed source" - but companies have a team of people to help SELL their products, even if they are inferior to whats already out there.

Baically, once computers matured was an opportunity to make a buck. Companies started selling their products for a fee. I would not be surprised if the source code was included before someone realised people can just pay for the executable. More money can be made by excluding the source code so new updates can also be for a fee.

(Lets not talk about "End user Licence Agreements" in this post, OK)

The "dominance" of closed source is really about companies with money controlling the status quo, with lawyers and sales teams knowing how to push it in favour.

Companies like Micro$oft today have soo much money they dictate the direction our computers systems are going. They push it in a direction that favours them. They have a hand controlling the flow, like other big companies having a hand trying to change to stream for their intent and purposes.

This is why -- whether you love him or hate him, I have much respects for people like Richard Stallman or others like Linus Torvalds.. to name a few!

You want to talk about "innovation" ?? What do you think these "Closed source innovations" are build with? Software is created using a Programming language such as Python, C++, C, Javascript, etc... the VAST MAJORITY being free to use, under some sort of Open Source community!

Lets also look at large companies in general.. many of which are not innovating... they are just purchasing smaller companies that are trying to do new things... closed source software or not.

Lastly, lets also be honest that innovation is not created out of thin air -- everything is inspired by something previously.. whether a failed experiment or something already successful. New ideas come about with more failures.. but comes further ideas until, eventually, we have something successful!

Linux may be inspired by other Operating Systems, and those were inspired by other things, etc. Innovation is progressive. Point I am making, if any company found ANY opportunity to build a closed-source version to shut down a popular Open Source equiverlant... THEY WOULD DO IT!
Dynamic IP addresses typically also have a forced disconnect at a regular interval. Not really what I want to host services on.
It sounds like they are deleting the special collections metadata that categorize and index the raw research, which took time to curate. I see your point but also see how someone’s research is being deleted, or at least censored.
“INFINIMIND mouse with flying scroll”

ETA: No, seems the name is actually “INFINMIND”, with only three i's. But Google found hardly anything with that spelling; with the extra i, it found much more... pointers to "Infinmind" mice. Weird.
A lot of the time the company cannot make it remote global because of tax and regulatory compliance. I work for a multinational company who has employees in at least a dozen countries, but we can't employ anyone who isn't in a country we don't have a registered company entity.

Add to that the number of people we've had apply for jobs using AI and then turn out to have zero knowledge of what we've hired them for when they turn up.
https://googlethatforyou.com?q=https%3A%2F%2Foffbeatbrazilad...
If the result you want is in the first few search hits, it's always better. Your query is shorter so there is less typing, the search engine is always faster, the results are far better because you side step the LLM hallucinating as it regurgitates the results it remembers on the page your would have read if you searched

Most often not true in the kind of searches I do. Say, I search for how to do something in the Linux terminal (not just the command, but the specific options to achieve a certain thing). Google will often take me to pages that do have the answer, but are full of ads and fluff, and I have to browse through several options until I find the ones I want. ChatGPT just gives me the answer.

And with any halfway decent model, hallucination only seems to be a problem in difficult or very specialized questions. Which I agree shouldn't be asked to LLMs (or not without verifying sources, at least). But over 90% of what I search aren't difficult or specialized questions, they're just things I have forgotten, or things that are easy but I don't know just because they're not in my area of expertise. For example as a learner of Chinese, I often ask it to explain sentences to me (translate the sentence, the individual words, and explain what a given word is doing in the sentence) and for that kind of thing it's basically flawless, there's no reason why it would hallucinate as such questions are trivial for a model having tons of Chinese text in its training set.
My bicycle is a chair, apparently.
China raises tariffs on US goods to 84% as rift escalates
This is about Evgeny Morozov.
That’s my experience too. I don’t find Google or even Kagi faster for retrieving a link. All of the major LLMs can pull search results faster than I can through search websites, and then I’ve got a conversation where I can dive deeper if I want.
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If you are using filter scripts, to block specific domains or script payloads, that extension can't load on a properly secured CSP page. And that page may be using CSP to protect throwing up ads... Or malware.
They’ve always resented those employees having leverage to negotiate better pay and status. Many techies looked at near-management compensation and thought that meant we were part of the elite clubhouse, but they never did.
Different way people learn, and different way they create. Other creative fields have that dichotomy too, but i guess we are closer to math, and always try to find "correct way" of doing things, while our field is actually really flexible and allowing for a lot of self expression.
100-year-old tortoise becomes first-time mom to 4 baby hatchlings
Navigating common paradoxes in software development
EECS is programming? Look for remote jobs all around the world instead of just applying locally, that increases the chances a lot. A lot of companies are doing the same thing to get cheaper workers all the time.
Your arguments are pretty lame. Pix was indeed launched in the Bolsonaro administration, but it is incidental. You are flailing around the bulk of my argument, which is about the source code openness, without actually attacking it.

It might as well be illegal today.

Art. 16 da Lei nº 14.063, de 23/09/2021: estabelece que os sistemas de informação e de comunicação desenvolvidos exclusivamente pela administração pública são regidos por licença de código aberto, permitida a sua utilização, cópia, alteração e distribuição sem restrições por todos os órgãos e entidades públicos.[0]

Art. 16 of Law No. 14,063, of 09/23/2021: establishes that information and communication systems developed exclusively by the public administration are governed by an open source license, allowing their use, copying, alteration and distribution without restrictions by all public bodies and entities.[0]

[0]https://www.gov.br/governodigital/pt-br/plataformas-e-servic...

So, lets open up its code!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43413702 is one example.

A Rustacean implied Go was not memory safe and that Microsoft couldn't understand the power of Rust. Steve Klabnik & others told them off. But other Rustaceans, like Patrick Walton, argued that Go has memory safety issues in theory.
Unironically, yes. The industry clearly has more experience, but it’s silly to assume students don’t have novel and useful ideas that can (and will) be integrated
> I feel this is one of those times we would learn Germans have a dead on word like they often do.

Yeah but it would be 72 characters long, being composed out of 6 different words difficult on their own (I know German a bit, and some words I have to read in my head loudly to see where they break into subparts)
I thought the value proposition of using LLMs to code is the lesser cognitive load of just describing what you want in natural language. But if it turns out writing the prompt is so involved, you end up trading snippets on forums and you often run into undefined behavior (the thing you described turned out to be ambiguous to the LLM and it gave you something you did not expect at all)...

I have to wonder, wouldn't just writing the code be more productive in the end?
It needs to rerender everything whenever you change any setting that affects typesetting. This used to be quite annoying when trying out fonts or find the best value for some setting, but recently they implemented a better way so that it first renders the current fragment (usually a chapter), releases the UI so that you can read, and renders the rest in the background. Page counts and some other stuff are broken in this meantime.
Can recommend visx as well, it's great as it's basically a thin layer around d3, giving you maximum flexibility while providing lots of built in components to get you started.
I notice you didn't include them making cards for gay individuals in their community in your argument. As a gay man I definitely and most certainly feel offended, like being told I don't exist because your argument focussed only on women being represented.

Do you see what I mean? I 100% agree that both men and women, gay, straight and every other group all need to be properly represented in society where it matters. But battles should be picked & chosen.
IMO the best way are open a patreon or another crowdfunding option.
This pretty much sums up my impression of that literature, not just the meta analysis.

The Broadbent et al paper is probably the best one I've found on the topic, and they didn't find any effect:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24832151/