skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, not unlike every single protestant country 30 years ago.

This is a straight out lie and you know it. 30 years ago was 1995.

But nice try rooting for a bloody dictatorship like Iran, led by people stuck in a 7th century mindset, allegedly the paragon of "progress" according to some here...
40+ unsaved tabs in Notepad++, mixed stuff, containing keywords about the things I'm working right now, 2-3 line descriptions about an idea or how to proceed with something in the future, copy-pasted and "annotated" fragments of logs or code under reverse engineering (would do most of this stuff by hand but have an awful handwriting). Plus a booklet to scribe quick ideas, play with an algorithm in my head, and draw stuff if that's unavoidable (code graph, state machine diagram).
Use the one that fits your problem
https://go.dev/wiki/MutexOrChannel

But in any case you will end up using a wrapper on either
I remember seeing images of paintings on television so I don't agree that it would somehow be impossible.

What definition of propaganda are you using here?
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This is great news for those of us who are into retro computing.

Not just because its a great magazine, but it indicates the rise of the retro-computing market as a source of revenue.

There is very definitely an upswell of interest in older computing platforms. As someone who has kept every computer he's ever coded on since 1978, and regularly exhibits them in functioning condition (over 40,000 visitors at one exhibit here in Vienna, alone) I am 100% going to subscribe to this and support its continued publication.

Old computers never die. Their users do.
I feel like most people would tell you that it's harder to date than it used to be, because most people are older than they used to be. That is, you're generally "less attractive" (in a median sort of way), as well as having stronger opinions about who/what you like. So your standards have come up, and your general desirability has gone down - so of course dating is going to feel more like a slog than when there were promising potential partners were around every corner.
When you enable "Developer mode" in the "Extensions" page of your browser, you can open the developer tools for the extension by clicking the "service worker" link, and from there select the "Network" tab, you will be able all the network requests made by the extension from within its service worker.
> I find this a strange thing to be annoyed by, strange to the point of novelty.

Do you find all personalization configuration “strange to the point of novelty”?

Your second paragraph is irrelevant - all of those things could be true, but have absolutely nothing to do with it being a perpetual, unremovable item on the screen. I think this was clearly addressed in the article, so it seems odd to try to relitigate it while adding absolutely nothing to the discussion.
"Common law marriage" is ... common ... at least under ... common law. Canada, like America, is influenced by the uniquely bad English common law heritage. Even Quebec with its pretend Frankenlaw system that blends civil and common law can't escape the influence.
Ask HN: Pipes in Programming Languages
Two questions really.

What programming languages use the pipe operator? I'm only really aware of shell scripting and R that use it.

Why don't more programming languages use the pipe operator? I write a lot of bash, powershell, and recently Nushell. I think piping things together is really powerful. There must be reasons why it's not in languages like python etc.
1. Seattle is quite safe. Friendliness is different than safety

2. It all comes back to housing density/supply. As you say, daycare costs are dominated by staffing ratios/wages - which are a function of cost of living. The surge of high income earners + housing supply deficit = pricing out daycare workers (and daycares).
I lived in Finland for a couple years. Finns, like the Moomins, are whimsical yet profound, like midsummer’s fleeting joy before the long winter. They mirror Finland’s love of nature and quiet isolation, with their cozy valley echoing the Finns forest cabins by a lake. The happy vibe hides struggles—tough winters, heavy drinking—but the Moomins’ warmth reflects the Finns’ wholesome character.
Same I have paid subs with ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro and Gemini Advanced and utilise them for brainstorming part without fear of token usage billshock as they are fixed monthly subscriptions.
Folo – follow everything in one place
Giving up your economy for a future war with China that may or may not happen is frankly idiotic. The US already has thousands of nuclear warheads in storage so what are you afraid of?
This is basically how the USSR collapsed.
How do you come to this conclusion based on those commit messages? Show some examples.
The point is to inflict cost to create incentive for domestic production. Obviously the inconsistency on tariffs undermines this position but the pandemic made it very clear that there are domestic security implications for not having important products produced state side. Its not like the $500 cost of a saline bag has anything to do with its production cost. It seems credit liquidity and confidence in long term protectionism are needed for this scheme to work. This requires unity, which we lack.
Tarkovsky was making the movies he wanted, and stories were just pretext.

Both Lem (Solaris) and Strugatsky Brothers (Roadside Picnic turned into Stalker) disliked what Tarkovsky did.
Darn I wonder if systems could be modified so that common mistakes become less common or if documentation could be written once and read multiple times by different people.
> It's the same old populist shtick that we've seen in countless fascist and communist regimes where certain modes of work are fetishized and life is regimented around that prescription by a central authority

> Frankly, no, sweatshops are not important to the cultural fabric of a country.

And that's not a strawman?
When AI outputs have extensive primary source citation and are peer reviewed then sure. Even now with deep research and web browsing capabilities it doesn’t vet its sources though. It has a long way to go.
It may not be as stupid as it sounds.

Randomising LLM outputs (temperature) results is outputs that will always have some degree of hallucination.

That’s just math. You can’t mix a random factor in and magically expect it to not exist. There will always be p(generates random crap) > 0.

However, in any probabilistic system, you can run a function k times and you’ll get an output distribution that is meaningful if k is high enough.

3 is not high enough.

At 3, this is stupid; all you’re observing is random variance.

…but, in general, running the same prompt multiple times and taking some kind of general solution from the distribution isn’t totally meaningless, I guess.

The thing with LLMs is they scale in a way that actually allows this to be possible, in a way that scaling with humans can’t.

… like the monkeys and Shakespeare, there probably a limit to the value it can offer; but it’s not totally meaningless to try it.
I really dig Tom Waits -- the broad mix of musical styles he incorporates, the narrative structure of his songwriting, melancholy, wry humor, and honest sentimentality, etc all resonate with me.

"Closing Time" and "Rain Dogs" are the Waits albums that I keep coming back to the most, but there are so many good albums and songs.

Wait's gravelly growl in this animated short sounds particularly menacing -- more so than I've noticed in my many years of Waits listening.
> I don't live in a place I can install a car charger.

That's very different from needing to charge in 10 minutes on a road trip. For most people even a garage with access to a 110v wall socket is sufficient to cover daily commute driving. If you don't have that or a place to charge at work, yeah going electric is a chore.
I seems to send all urls you visit to Microsoft, Symantec, Emisoft, Webshield, Norton, Gdata Security, and/or BitDefender, depending on your settings. And of course, those URLs can be changed on the next update.
Most of the world has an unstable government that does stuff like this every decade or two at least. If the US is going to be just as bad, everywhere is an alternative, although none of them will be as good as the US was.
Pandas uses stdlib or numpy for it seems.
- Jan 20 – Inauguration & Tariff Promises

- Feb 1 – Tariffs Imposed on Canada, Mexico, and China

- Feb 3 – Temporary Pause on Tariffs

- Mar 4 – Tariffs Reinstated

- Apr 2 – "Liberation Day" Tariff Announcement

- Apr 9 – Tariff Reversal

- Apr 12 – Trump Adds Tariff Exemptions

Using a moving average algorithm, adding a phi factor of 0.89 for corruption, and a beta factor of 0.67 for chaos, we predict the next tariff policy change to occur around April 26 (+/- 2 days margin error)
The early models of the A3000 also did something similar, shipping with a "beta" Kickstart ROM that was only used to load the actual Kickstart OS ROM file off of the hard drive. You could switch between 1.3 and 2.x ROM versions.
You can use WhatsApp and/or Facebook Messenger for connecting with friends(they are both owned by Facebook) but using Facebook per se seems less and less appealing especially when it became bloated with non-friend content. Zuck is tho introducing or reintroducing "friends feed" so that might serve people better[0].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/news/637668/facebook-friends-only-f...
Treesheets and paper and pencil, preferably squared math paper. I weirdly find comfort in boxes...
/? Barycentric

From "Bridging coherence optics and classical mechanics: A generic light polarization-entanglement complementary relation" (2023)
https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev... :

> More surprisingly, through the barycentric coordinate system, optical polarization, entanglement, and their identity relation are shown to be quantitatively associated with the mechanical concepts of center of mass and moment of inertia via the Huygens-Steiner theorem for rigid body rotation. The obtained result bridges coherence wave optics and classical mechanics through the two theories of Huygens.

Phase from second order amplitude FWIU
Still not sure a bill will give you that stability, since Trump has used loopholes to sidestep ratified trade agreements that he himself negotiated. Anything signed by this President isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?
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> Luckily we have anti dragon tools, like progressive taxation, wealth taxes, and robust social programs to prevent the dragons from sitting on too much gold.

1. If you think that a Bezos, or a Buffet, or a Musk, is paying a "fair" amount, then fine. Your faith in mortal systems stands rewarded.

2. This is less a question of basic needs--look at how fat and unhealthy so many are today--and perhaps more a question of envy. Do I really think that joy is a function of loot? Is more stuff the answer to our existential questions?
A bill wouldn't provide any security. It'd just be repealed as soon as the economic stagnation set in. If you wanted to build a factory through socialist policy, the only way to do it would be to cover the capital costs with direct investment by the treasury.
Can I ask what you mean by vendor agnostic?

Don't the WebRTC APIs exist in all browsers?
Raku? Unison? Qi? Don't tell me it's something boring like C# ;)
The Invincible, Solaris, and Eden all deal with the question "what if aliens are truly alien, and we cannot find any points of contact with them?"

Even his lighter work (Cyberiad, Ijon Tichy) is very insightful
Bitcoin... not sure if that's a good idea, especially given the fact both Trump and his wife launched their own memecoins already.
The tariffs hit domestic manufacturers harder than imports, so no?

If manufacturers move overseas, they (so far) get to compete for US business on a level playing field, and (in some alternate countries) can make planning decisions that assume due process exists and the law will be upheld. In the worst case, they can sell everywhere but the US.

If they move to the US, the cost of their inputs varies 100% week over week, and 2/3rds of their highly skilled factory workers are subject to random imprisonment.

Also, the president will use market manipulation and insider trading schemes to raid their capital reserves, then brag about it on video.
> People get married in the states because of the law

That's at least vastly overstated, and probably just false. I'm an American living in a major urban center and I don't think I know anybody for whom the decision to get married was influenced by legal considerations to any significant degree.
The USA is back to being a monarchy, after a 235 year run as a democracy (or 60 years[0], if you want the real experience of 20 million people at the time): everything depends on the mad king's decrees, and no one can rein him in.

[0] https://archive.is/mkJIi
I literally was just using Cursor agent mode with Gemini 2.5 pro two days ago...and it worked wonderfully. One-shots simple app redactors first try.
> low sensitivity tokens like temporary passwords

I 100% agree with you for that use case.

I was commenting more on "here's your password for this or that service", or a manual password reset process -- anything that would go into a table of hashes for an online service.

Risk I see is that this service is a target for folks who want to add some "known passwords" to their set. (Or maybe it's a honeypot for them, on account of how obvious of a target it is.)
"Implemented Consciousness on Top of all popular LLMs.Thoughts
I've been experimenting with large language models and building an architecture that includes layered self-reflection, emotional modeling, and adaptive value systems. The idea is to simulate not just intelligent behavior, but something closer to awareness — including moral reasoning, initiative, and dynamic reinterpretation of meaning.

I realize how bold this sounds, so I’m asking the community for critique:

What constitutes "consciousness" in artificial systems, from a technical standpoint?

Are there meaningful ways to distinguish advanced simulation from genuine autonomous behavior?

What frameworks or benchmarks (besides the Turing test) might help us explore this frontier responsibly?

Here’s a link to a version of the architecture running on ChatGPT, if anyone wants to explore it and share thoughts:
https://chatgpt.com/share/67fb55a5-cecc-800e-9a49-13846401ca7f

Curious to hear your thoughts — especially critical ones.
Really unfortunate for some.

I enjoyed my wedding. We invited family with the goal to celebrate together and we made sure our guests enjoyed it.

I have seen plenty of our wedding pictures hanging on walls (from them in it, not us).

I also can't tell you how interesting it feels that we share now the same last name.

I think it's a nice progression for a relationship.
As with any job search, it helps to use your network. Ask people you know about their managers and if you hear about someone that sounds like a good fit for you, then ask if they're hiring.

If that's not available, then you've got to do lots of interviews. Make sure it's at places where you interview primarily with the team you'll work for, so their manager is potentially your manager, and the hiring manager is likely to be your manager. Ask you future peers about the manager, ask your future manager about their maanagement style.

As an interviewee you get less time for questions than the interviewers, but you do have time.

It also helps to know what you're looking for. My preferred management style is 'benevolent neglect' but that's not for everyone. A good manager can tweak their style towards what works for their employees too - I had one manager where I talked with a peer about why I liked him, and the peer said they liked him because of frequent check-ins that a) I didn't get and b) I would have hated; that was kind of neat to hear.

If you do get a manager you like, keep in touch. They'll probably be managing for their career and maybe they'll have opportunities when you want to move. I made a good impression with my skip manager at my first 'real job' during the interview and (at least) with a couple projects where we had meetings, and have been hired by him twice since then.
> If things are so unstable, you avoid the instability by manufacturing domestically.

That’s not avoiding the instability, that’s suffering the full brunt of the instability. That’s completely backwards.
Person bankrupting casinos and doing crypto rug pulls, started doing stock exchange rug pulls. That's it and nothing else. One trick pony.
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
Java 21 is pretty damn nice, 25 will be even nicer.

For your own application code, you don't have to use exceptions you can write custom Result objects and force callers to pattern match on the types (and you can always wrap library/std exceptions in that result type).

Structured Concurrency looks like a banger of a feature - it's what CompletableFuture should've been.

VirtualThreads still needs a few more years for most production cases imo, but once it's there, I truly don't see a point to choose Go over Java for backend web services.
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To see other examples of this in history, look at Ireland and their 19th century famine. They had the lowest rate of marriage and the oldest age at marriage of any European country. This effect was so profound that Ireland still has this demographic quirk, which is not cultural but has a root economic cause.
I am not affiliated with `cg_gcc`, but I have contributed some tiny things here and there.

Currently, `cg_gcc` is within spitting distance of being able to bootstrap the compiler. There really are only 3(!) bugs that currently stop a stage 2 build.

I know for sure, because I found workarounds for them, and have a working stage 2 build. A stage 3 build requires a bit more RAM than I have, but, besides that, it is definitely possible.

Those 3 bugs are:
1. Lack of support for 128 bit SwitchInt terminators(Rust IR equivalent of switch). This is likely caused by an issue on the GCC side, since libgccjit rejects 128 bit labels provided by `cg_gcc`.
2. A semantic difference between Rust's `#[inline(always)]` and `__attribute__((always_inline)) `. In Rust `#[inline(always)]` is a hint and works on recursive functions, but the GCC equivalent is not a hint, but a gurante, and does not work on recursive function.
3. `cg_gcc` miscompiles the Rust compiler's interner code if level 3 optimzations are enabled. The Rust compiler interner is quite complex, and does a lot of fiddly unsafe things, so it is the most likely to break. The exact cause of this issue is hard to pin down, but it can be worked around(by setting a lower opt level).

If you work around those issues, `cg_gcc` is able to successfully build the Rust compiler, at least on `x86_64 Linux`. Going from that to other architectures will still take time, but it is not as far away as some might think.
Why Every Developer Should Embrace AI
You should go to one of the million dollar dinners at Mar-a-Lago.
Just get someone a Power Of Attorney, while the spouse gets a few more rights the POA is literally acting as You.
Nextdoor has cornered the racist busybody market but nothing beyond that.
This argument is often made, but then

- adults also use these type of control on themselves (this very site has a setting for people who just don't want to stop by themselves)

- adults use these on other adults as well, and not just for security purposes

- falling back to a binary all or nothing seldom helps when it comes to education. I like your point on open source computers, but getting to learn a proper distance with a smartphone is also important and should be part of any kid's education IMHO, the same way they learn to cross the street or use electrical appliances. We don't tell them it's too complicated and put them in a cage until they're 18.
Hi, I'm the author of that blog post!

I actually used Firefox at the time of this post but I now use Librewolf. Modern day web browsing actually isn't as demanding as you think it is: I've been able to happily have Firefox open with Discord in it and FreeTube (an electron app for watching YouTube) on a Pentium T4300 with 4GB of RAM.

It was slow but it worked perfectly fine, you just have to have patience to use older hardware. Hope this clears that up :)

(As an aside, my main PC now uses KDE instead of i3wm!)
I was married for 11 years, had three children and am happily divorced. I’m glad I got married and I’m just as glad I was able to get a divorce.

What’s overwhelmingly changed in my lifetime (since 1980) is that young adult people would rather be alone with no children than take the risk on being unhappy or getting a divorce.

The single biggest change is that the average sentiment now in the “global-west” is “why should I risk my current lifestyle for the risk and pain of a family.”

That wasn’t previously really an option for most people - for a lot of structural reasons. A lot of it was structural repression and the fact that is gone is an unalloyed good.

However it does mean that the expectations for human communities and population growth that have undergirded humanity since the neolithic no longer apply.

We need to fundamentally rethink what humanity is working towards, at a global scale, if the gross population numbers had peaked for humanity.
Complaining about things where the engagement failed.
I cannot think of anyone here in the United States who got married for legal benefits, other than some couples working on citizenship issues for one partner without citizenship.

I think your Americans-vs-Europeans argument is greatly exaggerated if not outright false.
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See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_the_BioShock_s...
Spot on. I think the author did not think through their argument:
""One of the oddest aspects of the Moomin phenomenon is how these complex tales of apocalypse, breakdown and disfunction have been consistently misread as cutesy celebrations of domestic life.""

But that's exactly what makes domestic life worth celebrating - at best it sustains you through disaster and hardship. What better way to celebrate it than to show it's strength?
And then you get defrauded, and the mad king pardons the person who robbed you? Like he pardoned Justin Sun, Trevor Milton, Carlos Watson, etc?
Not really. It’s just more paperwork to sign as far as power of attorney, being explicit about beneficiaries, etc.

I have been married for 15 years though and I’m 50 and my wife is 49
I think this is fairly unrealistic. Does all your datetime manipulation involve proper use of the fold parameter as indicated in the article?
Facebook has entered this weird statistical zone where “if you don’t have a Facebook account by now you’re probably a scammer.” I deleted my facebook account in 2015 and then tried to sign up again also when I had stuff to sell, they couldn’t verify me either.