skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know Stanisław Lem was not allowed to like anything from US. These days the soviet propaganda in Poland disallowed people to like anything that came from "the rotten west"
A service goes poof, a library either slowly deteriorates or breaks just as easily as a self-written one (if an underlying platform breaks it for some reason). The self-written one is maintained by 1 person, the other is used by 100+ people who could jump in a collaborate on its fixing.

I would still rather using a library for dates, a million times so.
I just use contactless cards now. I’m done with tying my financial capability to a third party device. If I want to pay someone directly it’s PayPal family and friends or direct bank transfer.
>They are shrinking from responsibilities such as marriage, homeowning and child-rearing because “adulting is hard”, as one of his students put it. Western culture, Mr Hayward wrote, indulges childish fancies.

Shrinking as in they are already homeowners and married with children, but not rising to the responsibility of it? Or shrinking as in not becoming a home owner, or getting married, or having children. If its the latter, could there possibly be some other explanation?

>there has been a generational shift and that young people are less mature than their forebears were at the same age.

Less employed, too.
So far they've already detained a lawyer who is an american citizen when he was reentering the country, and tried to grill him for inside information on cases he's actively working and people he knows. They eventually let him go, but they targeted him specifically and knew his name and significance, and he was defending one of the student protesters.

They even called a "tactical terrorism response team".

Oh, and check out how you can find them being used in already opaque and sinister ways back in 2021 under Biden, and earlier.

You do the math.
Thank you for the historical context and details!
Making SNES ROMs using C#
link to the repo: https://github.com/KallDrexx/DotnetSnes
Nil is IMO far and away Go's biggest wart, especially today with a lot of the early language's other warts filed off. And there's really no easy way to fix this one.

I think this article on channels suffers from "Seinfeld is Unfunny" syndrome, because the complaints about channels have largely been received and agreed upon by experienced Go developers. Channels are still useful but they were way more prominent in the early days of Go as a solution to lots of problems, and nowadays are instead understood as a sharp tool only useful for specific problems. There's plenty of other tools in the toolbox, so it was easy to move on.

Whereas, nil is still a pain in the ass. Have any nontrivial data that needs to turn into or come from JSON (or SQL, or XML, or ...)? Chances are good you'll need pointers to represent optionality. Chaining structVal.Foo.Bar.Qux is a panic-ridden nightmare, while checking each layer results in a massive amount of boilerplate code that you have to write again and again. Heck, you might even need to handle nil slices specially because the other side considers "null" and "[]" meaningfully distinct! At least nil slices are safe in most places, while nil maps are panic-prone.
I presume the protocol can be separated from Tor itself and I also presume this standalone thing doesn't exist yet.

In any situation, you're going to need some custom client code to route your traffic through the tunnel you opened, so I'm not sure why the login page that opens the tunnel needs to be browser-compatible?
I suppose that's debatable but the point is the site is heavily moderated, something the owners can manage without volunteers for now because it doesn't appeal to the mainstream. I think your post is interesting and should have stayed, for what it's worth. I think it's a topic worth discussing but alas, many people just thought you were a bot as well. It really highlights the state of things.
An AI-powered editor I assume. Always having to come up with your own thoughts must be tiresome.
“Now is a good time to buy” isn’t vague.
I am still trying to cope with pytz and dateutils
Yeah exactly

We still want chunking in practice to avoid LLM confusion, undifferentiated embeddings, and handling large datasets at lower cost + large volumes. Large context means we can now tolerate multi-paragraph/page, so more like chunk by coherent section.

In theory we can do entire chapter/book, but those other concerns come in, so I only see more niche tools or talk-to-your-PDF do that.

At the same time, embedding is often a significant cost in above scenarios, so I'm curious about the semantic chunking overheads..
Zimdjson, Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
Ask HN: Were Newton alive today, for which big tech co would he have worked?
For those of you thinking "He would have gone solo" recall that he did work for the Mint. So he was not against selling out. So, Newtown 2025, to whom would he have sold out?
Haven't used ubuntu/debian for years now...

There used to be a "checkinstall" tool, so you'd ./configure, make, and instead of "make install" use "checkinstall" - this would make some fakeroot magic, install the package and create a deb package for it, that could be apt-get removed later.

And iirc, automake uses /usr/local by default (if you didn't specify the --prefix).
This was not about what I'd hoped it would be. Things like: how to realize when you do or do not have sufficient knowledge about something, or how to distinguish bs from non-bs, or how to recognizing when you really need to have situational awareness, or how to maintain proper perspective on things, how to keep calm and when not to, etc.

The skills they mention in the article, budgeting and rejection and so forth, are also important. But there is a layer under that too.
Back in the late 90s when Ireland was starting to think about digital terrestrial TV a system called DVB-RCT was considered. Basically your receiver could also transmit back to the television transmitter. The system could handle thousands of concurrent connections, albeit each one had very low bandwidth - around 1Kbp/s in peak time.That was considered good enough for very basic interactivity and for authorising PPV purchases etc.In quieter hours or in areas were there were fewer receivers that bandwidth would be much higher, but in reality that would be rare.

In the end the company that the governement selected to start the rollout of DTT went bust and I don't think the system was used anywhere else. The developer of the technology abandoned it in 2006 as other connection methods (broadband/mobile data) were preferred.
Are you sure that's AI? I get requests that are overtly from AI crawlers, and almost no other requests. Certainly all of the high-volume crawler-like requests overtly say that they're from crawlers.

And those residential proxy services cost their customer around $0.50/GB up to $20/GB. Do with that knowledge what you will.
I don’t understand how eliminating DST would impact economics of neighboring countries… today they both change clocks, tomorrow they don’t. What changes?
Stanislaw Lem was far too much of a genius to believe his works were directed by any sort of committee, communist or otherwise.

He is still overlooked far too much - people seem to regard Solaris as his only work of note. But he has so works, all bizarre, imaginative, and insightful. Fiasco and His Master’s Voice are two of my lesser known favorites.
No, I didn’t. The EU contributed a lot to a stable Europe after the war, and having tight diplomatic relations and economic bonds was paramount to avoid conflicts within Europe.
These the same residential providers that people complain cut them off for torrenting? You think they wouldn't cut off customers who DDoS?
Any chance you could reveal your entire initial prompt, or even your later-down-the-line detailed portable prompt that you mentioned you could utilize from one LLM chat to another?
True, but both very hard to do in a system that's deployed to space and (heavily regulated) avionics part of aircraft that get upgraded very infrequently, to say nothing of the billions of other civilian receivers.
9-5 sounds so luxurious in today’s 8-6 world where comms start at 7am and wrap up around 9pm.
What liability risk does opensource licencing have ?
The outcomes are not the same because the numbers are not the same. A few days ago some Chinese journalists interviewed analysts familiar with CATL on batteries. At that time the tariff was 125%, and the analysts thought CATL could still eke out some profits: it's one of the very few Chinese businesses that can profit despite the 125% tariffs because China controls 75% of the world's battery anodes, 90% of cathodes and electrolytes. At 145% tariff CATL will be taking a loss and won't supply batteries at all.
I think the "playing dumb" is jarring due to the obvious disregard for consent. It's really gross.
Selling stakes
A request to not amplify disinformation is NOT censorship. A threat of legal or military action is.

Of course there are edge cases, but blatant and hard-debunked falsehoods such as "The earth is flat", "Contrails are chemical spraying", Russia did not attack Ukraine", "Vaccines cause autism", "Auschwitz and Dachau were not concentration camps where people were killed" are all disinformation, and they are disseminated for the very specific purpose of undermining trust and the capability of western societies to survive, for the purpose of implementing authoritarianism.

If you evidently expect a society to unilaterally disarm and do nothing, you are part of the problem.
I just use vambe.ai, 14 days free trial too
Multiple comments here referring to tv-shows. Just be aware that Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated books and comics but did not produce tv shows. What you have seen was not created by Tove Jansson.

The comics and the books are different in genre, even if they use the same characters and storylines. The comics are darkly satirial of modern life while the illustrated books feels more poetic and timeless.

Fun fact: Jansson illustrated The Hobbit and drew Gollum as a giant. Tolkien realized he never described the size of Gollum and made adjustments to later editions.
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Especially since this is its third oil spill.

It looks like this happens every three years. Maybe they should sell advance tickets for 2028.
For ~a decade, Facebook replaced the address book. You wouldn't ask for a phone number; you'd add someone on Facebook.

They got greedy. Word got out about how they'd manipulate the algorithm to get you to spend hours per day there, how aggressively they mined and sold your data, etc. It became unfashionable to use. People who had spent a decade recording their lives and connecting with their friends walked away from their accounts.

In the midst of all that, they bought Instagram. I've recently moved to NYC; paradoxically, people here ask for your Instagram the way that people used to ask for your Facebook.

Social networking isn't quite as consolidated in Meta as dating is in IAC/Match, but it's close.
I'm not judging them for choosing to use public transport or bicycles, that's their right. They should not judge car drivers, but they often do and want them banned.

The secret to successful urban living is tolerance, but sadly that is in short supply.
Not killed IME but bloated and dragged down by tech debt.

E.g the JS project that uses the stdlib Date API, and pulls in moment.js, and also uses date-fns.

Or the one that pulls in bits and pieces of lodash, ramda, and other functional libraries.

And maybe it uses native fetch and axios depending on the current phase of the moon.

They don’t die but time is wasted in code review trying to understand if there is any kind of deliberate approach behind the scattershot application of packages with duplicated purposes.

(picking on JS is perhaps unfair but it’s probably the most egregious example of dependency hell)
The poster who you just replied to is not the same person who started the thread. I am yet another person.

In addition, the original post begins with, "Am I the only one to stick with the std lib". The goalposts are stable.
On 2, it appears to be open source so you could look and see if/what it logs.
> Are you OK with foreigners coming into your country and starting to go against your democratically elected government(in principle, not just the orange man specifically)?

Do you mean am I OK with legal residents of the US publicly expressing their political opinions?

Yes. Yes, I am. I think it's a good thing, whether or not I agree with those opinions.
Not sure what this provides that a malicious site list for uBlock Origin provides in a better, more privacy preserving way.
Tech bros who are frustrated with their job fantasizing about doing "real work".

An entire generation has grown up without assembly lines so it is easy to mystify it.
People in Vietnam don't enjoy making Nikes but it is better than what came before: subsistence farming.
But the Vietnamese factory worker trying to send their kids to university too.
That’s only true with sentry mode on. Without sentry mode it uses very little.
They are children’s tales - which are designed to hide lessons and warnings on the dark side of life in a wrapper that does not traumatise - like an inoculation against what comes.

Everything the Grimms brothers collected and Disney sanitised still hides warnings.

I have read all my children “The Tiger who came to Tea” as well as taken them to theatre performances- and the author ran from Germany hours before the Gestapo came knocking and it affected much of her life and writing (“Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit” is the autobiography I think)

So yeah. It’s got layers onion boy, layers.

Still have fond memories of my kid hugging a six foot moomin in Covent Garden.
Replacing Exists with Sequences in MariaDB
>I really wanted to like Graphene, but it feels more locked down than stock android. The primary reason I want a custom OS in the first place is that I want to control the device I own.

What specific ways do you feel are "more locked down" than stock? It's not recommended, but you can install magisk + root if you really wanted to. It won't try to prevent you.

>Graphene is just taking control of my phone from Google and giving it to whoever runs Graphene. I don't get any say in how my phone works.

That's fine. The homepage of grapheneos says:

"The private and secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility"

Surely you must understand that "security" and "giving users a say in how their phone works" are diametrically opposed? A phone can't be secure if its sandbox can be bypassed in one tap by the user. You might have a lot of say in how your linux system works, but don't kid yourself into thinking it's secure. It's only one `bash -c "$(curl -fsSL http://...` from getting pwned.
They're all in the standalone files, e.g., look at the source of https://kingbird.myphotos.cc/packing/square-11.svg. It defines a bunch of entities to represent various lengths and angles, which obviously can't be <use>d. (CSS variables would be an alternative these days, but many non-browser tools such as librsvg will have trouble with those as well.)
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Now read the comic books…
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ConfgenFS: All config files are now scriptable
It's not the only objection, but it's one of the major and blocking ones, because how do you _prove_ that you do not have unconsented copyrighted contents in your training set?

The other objections, in the economic range (replacing/displacing artists work for financial gain, from the producers point of view) are totally valid too, but don't rely on the same argument.

And my point above is not really an objection, it's a reminder: of what are AI generators, and what they are not (and that AI generators promoters pretend they are, without any piece of evidence or real argument).

Of what their output is (a rough, industrial barely specified and mastered product), and what it is not (art).
Occasionally when you see someone using a point of sale terminal that is terminal based, the operator usually flies through the interface like it's nothing.

So there's something to be said about those types of interfaces - it may look simple and be text based, but it's the most user friendly for the qualified operator to get things done.
The software wasn't unmaintainable. The PowerPoints etc were artefacts of a time when everyone involved understood some implicit context, within which the documentation was clear (not cryptic) and current (not obsolete). The only traces of that context we had, outside the documentation, were minor decisions made while writing the program: "what mindset makes this choice more likely?", "in what directions was this originally designed to extend?", etc.

Personally, I'm in the "you shouldn't leave vital context implicit" camp; but in this case, the software was originally written by "if I don't already have a doctorate, I need only request one" domain experts, and you would need an entire book to provide that context. We actually had a half-finished attempt – 12 names on the title page, a little over 200 pages long – and it helped, but chapter 3 was an introduction-for-people-who-already-know-the-topic (somehow more obscure than the context-free PowerPoints, though at least it helped us decode those), chapter 4 just had "TODO" on every chapter heading, and chapter 5 got almost to the bits we needed before trailing off with "TODO: this is hard to explain because" notes. (We're pretty sure they discussed this in more detail over email, but we didn't find it. Frankly, it's lucky we have the half-finished book at all.)

AI slop lacks this context. If the software had been written using genAI, there wouldn't have been the stylistic consistency to tell us we were on the right track. There wouldn't have been the conspicuous gap in naming, elevating "the current system didn't need that helper function, so they never wrote it" to a favoured hypothesis, allowing us to identify the only possible meaning of one of the words in chapter 3, and thereby learn why one of those rules we were investigating was chosen. (The helper function would've been meaningless at the time, although it does mean something in the context of a newer abstraction.) We wouldn't have been able to used a piece of debugging code from chapter 6 (modified to take advantage of the newer debug interface) to walk through the various data structures, guessing at which parts meant what using the abductive heuristic "we know it's designed deliberately, so any bits that appear redundant probably encode a meaning we don't yet understand".

I am very glad this system was written by humans. Sure, maybe the software would've been written faster (though I doubt it), but we wouldn't have been able to understand it after-the-fact. So we'd have had to throw it away, rediscover the basic principles, and then rewrite more-or-less the same software again – probably with errors. I would bet a large portion of my savings that that monstrosity is correct – that if it doesn't crash, it will produce the correct output – and I wouldn't be willing to bet that on anything we threw together as a replacement. (Yes, I want to rewrite the thing, but that's not a reasoned decision based on the software: it's a character trait.)
I have an emacs macro for this
The Drake Passage
No, don't refrain. I got the joke and think we could use more.

You can get down or up voted either direction for any politically adjacent puns.

But karma points have no cash value, so whatev.
> which is also what the page you linked is using

To be clear, it's using both of them for different purposes, you'll find both <use> elements and <!ENTITY> declarations in files like https://kingbird.myphotos.cc/packing/square-11.svg. You can't <use> a numeric quantity in an attribute, the closest alternative for those would be CSS variables.

As for the existence of <use>, I agree with jarek-foksa, the idea is that the original element and all its clones from <use> are linked in the DOM at runtime, as opposed to DTD entities which are baked in textually. Also, most people hate XML, I'd imagine they'd hate internal DTDs doubly so, especially with how little information can be found about them outside the XML standard.

(Browser devs also love to beat the drum of minimizing attack surface, so it's a bit surprising that DTDs and XML stylesheets still work at all. I'd expect them to tear out that functionality in a heartbeat if it were ever used in a modern exploit.)
Show HN: I made an interactive website to teach young students Astronomy
3 Years ago I wanted to play with some astronomy concepts but there were very limited options for what you could do on the web. That's why I decided to create this platform that has dynamic simulations with which you can play with.

Simulations consist of:
- Playing God with gravity concepts
- Black Hole simulation
- Solar System simulation

It's made with pure JavaScript, HTML and CSS
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Why I don't use AI coding assistants
I get the sense that the team represented here are going it alone e.g. there aren't amateur rocketry organizations around that they can work with and gain knowledge and working practices from.

Maybe someone on here who is in amateur rocketry can reach out and forge some connections between their group and more established ones? That's the true beauty of the Internet, right?