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jauco··on What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
Given that the author mentions both using helix and zig encouraging larger files with more content I’d be curious to know how they navigate these files in helix. The thing that keeps me from using it is lack of code folding, which I notice I use a lot when navigating larger files to zoom out.
jauco··on Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon Valley
I don’t think openai decided to have the us attack iran in order to attack anthropic?

So no. This is not a war between our corporate overlords.

jauco··on Expert Witness to ChatGPT: "Show how 3M is 0 percent at fault"
Obligatory link: the whispering earring https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2012-10-03-yva...

(I couldn’t remember the title or the author. So I asked claude for it of course)

jauco··on Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
It serves you.

The lawnmower exists, you might disagree, but it’s not your lawnmower, you can’t uncreate it. But you can and should take care never to put your hand near it.

jauco··on House passes bill to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country
Yes there’s databases like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database that track this and that are included in libraries that do the arithmetics. It’s why those libraries are often relatively bulky.
jauco··on Berkshire's $397B Bet Against an Overheated Market
Ah sorry. I thought it was just saying tesla wasn’t overvalued.
jauco··on Berkshire's $397B Bet Against an Overheated Market
But it’s 2026 now
jauco··on Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family
https://www.nytimes.com/1967/03/28/archives/saudi-arabian-sl...
jauco··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
This would be HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) not OCR and HTR is a lot harder than OCR especially for modern scripts (i.e. student's scrawls). And at every error the reviewer now needs to check if it was due to an error in the code or due to a bad HTR somewhere in the code.

I'd say compared to just typing the code on a disconnected computer: Not worth it.

jauco··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
He said copyright infringement. The company tfa is about literally trained its models using massive copyright infringement.
jauco··on Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI
You’re not disagreeing with gp.

I like the law because you can quite easily formulate it without bias.

Large enough orgs will indeed get people whose job is more closely aligned with the goal vs people whose job is more closely aligned with the existence of the org. _Because_ you need to keep investing energy to keep the org in existence. You can’t just do the goal only.

But being responsible for keeping the org in existence is not the same as responsible for the goals that the org was created for in the first place.

_and_ I can see how the people whose job it is to ensure the org keeps existing will gain the majority vote.

It’s like a law of nature: the way things fall out if you’re not consciously working to have them fall out differently.

(So it can be good for google to fire them from a “let’s keep existing standpoint” even though it might be contrary to having the easiest/optimal to use product. And if that is so, the keep existing vote will have the power) I don’t use google products really that much so I can’t speak to the merits of this example.

jauco··on JSON-LD explained for personal websites
To be fair schema.org and dublin core say “when a property is name ‘title’ it means …” and you can expect to find the following properties…

Json-ld says: if you want to know whether the “title” property means the schema.org or the dublin core variant then you can find out which it is by <json-ld algorithm>

So you’d always use json-ld _with_ schema.org or something.

jauco··on DuckDB Internals Part 1
You’d end up implementing your own home grown version of hash join and query pushdown (skipping parquet row groups entirely) etc and your own home grown heuristics in selecting the right one (planning)

Which can outperform a generic solution like this of course, but it’s not less work to make faster for most cases.

Also duckdb can give you access to an in memory representation (e.g. `fetch_arrow_table()`) so you have less “language data structure wrapping” overhead. And you can do filtering yourself on that. In most cases the “where” statements will win though.

jauco··on A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life
There’s night shift by default in your iphone right? You can use the slider to make it more pronounced.
jauco··on Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026
Actually, do things ever get easier to tinker with as technology matures?

Is it easier to build or repair a radio now than it was when they were first sold? A computer? A car? A washing machine? A vacuum cleaner?

jauco··on The Russian who invented semiconductors 25 years before the USA
They do actually. There’s a fair bit of critique you can level at the system from a country-wide economic perspective and especially from a world-trade perspective, but they did manage to get a system in place where a central government can influence both the area and speed of innovation.

The main thing they do is stack the market to be very favourable for a given industry and then have extreme competition between the companies.

jauco··on The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true
Discrimination is just another word for “treating differently”. The discrimination that we generally disallow is the one where it relates to humans and where they are treated differently based on attributes they have no control over. That were either an accident of birth or faith (which is special cased as something you should not put pressure on).

When estinating a loan default, even of 99 people with a purple skin color default on a loan, the hundredth should not be expected to default on the loan just because of the skin color. Both because this is scientifically wrong (it’s not the skin color that causes them to default. There’s a confounding variable) and because it would put someone in a position that they can never get out of.

So the answer to your question is simple: you make a model where the attributes are causal factors for loan default. And you might need to special case attributes that are an accident of birth but that list is finite (listed in the law) and short and generally constructed to exclude strong causal variables.

jauco··on Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
yes, that's where a conference was held that kickstarted the group that drafted this declaration.

> In September 2025 the Lorentz Center at Leiden University in the Netherlands hosted a conference entitled Mechanization and Mathematical Research. The around 60 participants from 10 countries comprised mathematicians, computer scientists, philosophers, historians and social scientists, including those with experience in industry and in government.

jauco··on Ember.js 7.0
Before backbone there was already knockout.js which was based on signals. Which is what all the hip frameworks are converging on now anyway. You could have bypassed all the drama.
jauco··on Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier
You want an idp who verified that the account belongs to a specific citizen. There needs to be some loop closing between your bsn (akin to a social security number) and user accounts. That in itself is not something you can just handoff to auth0 or that you want different departments to self select and self-host.

Digid is used to submit taxes and for getting benefits from the government.

jauco··on Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu
It’s mostly the same. But if you realize you forgot to add something to the dirst commit while you’re putting stuff in the second commit then this avoids having to create a fixup commit and then rebasing that afterwards.
jauco··on Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)
Also the release that drops typescript transforms: https://github.com/nodejs/typescript/issues/51

(I’m not disagreeing to remove it. It just took me a while to find out what happened to it)

jauco··on What Is Date:Italy?
It’s actually worse than that. It wasn’t always whole coubtries who decided to adopt (or not) but cities and sometimes people within cities (i.e. the protestants in the city would be lagging, or maybe I’m misremembering and this was about people who where abroad)

In any case, for awhile, the date you picked depended on who you were writing to. And then also the relative standing. If he was of much lower standing you might force your own calendar on them.

Also, I think with the previous calendar it was always a bit debatable what year december belonged to. I can’t quite remember the details.

jauco··on Ask HN: Where can I go to ask for help?
Where I live the municipality generally has people (money-coaches) to help. Maybe just go over to yours and see what help there is? In general, when you’re in a bad place the advice would be to go off the internet and towards actual humans I think.
jauco··on Critical flaw in Protobuf library enables JavaScript code execution
But once you can make people download your malicious js code using npm, why would you then need to inject malicious js code in protobuf?
jauco··on The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
Not if you were browsing the internet of that time using a 28k8 modem.
jauco··on Keycard – inject API keys into subprocesses, never touch shell env
Why not use the op cli? It seems to do the same thing?
jauco··on A Mercury Rover Could Explore the Planet by Sticking to the Terminator
One of my favourite (dutch) children’s books is “400 degrees in the shade” which explores exactly that. A human colony sticking to the terminator. (It’s quite dystopian though)

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7697564-400-graden-in...

jauco··on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
Use difftastic. You can do so with current git :)
jauco··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
It’s not the ME countries who are profiting, because they can’t export. So it’s a net loss. (Saudi and oman win a bit, but in no comparison to the iraq kuwait loss)

The winners are mostly: Russia, Iran itself and (margibally) the US. But mostly Russia.

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