MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by redczar | 2025-05-07 14:10:13+00:00
I think you don’t understand what DEI really is. In America the groups you talk about are not at a disadvantage when it comes to recruitment in the respective areas of the country. As such they aren’t part of DEI in corporate recruiting.

In education how would you make white Christians a greater part of the curriculum? Their history and contributions to society already dominate the curriculum.

I’m a woke liberal. You are right regarding your comments on Saudi and conservative Hindu culture. I do condemn idiotic beliefs no matter who has them. This includes condemning idiotic beliefs of white Southern culture. One such idiotic belief is the idea that including marginalized groups is an attack on white people.
by Ygg2 | 2025-05-07 14:10:37+00:00
I think the best summary is this: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/the-rustconf-keynote-fiasco...

> On the surface it sounds like a community with such deep pathology

First what sort of pathology? You're confusing community with leadership.

The community didn't want this, and leadership was doing a restructuring due to change from Foundation and Project. Welcome to OSS projects.

Second as opposed to what?

A community at the beck and call of your CEO dictator? I'm a Java dev, so all it takes for Java to die is for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison to decide that they (ORACLE) are inserting two mandatory ads to be watched during each Java compiler run. Or god forbid that they will monetize Java.

Plus if I had 24/7 insight into how Oracle worked, I'd probably also be much less inclined to join Java as a new dev.

To paraphrase Tolstoy: (All perfect languages are dead;) Each imperfect language is imperfect in its own way.
by gizmo686 | 2025-05-07 14:10:59+00:00
> If a value is stored into an object having no declared type through an lvalue having a type that is not a character type, then the type of the lvalue becomes the effective type of the object for that access and for subsequent accesses that do not modify the stored value

As I read it, this means that

struct foo *x = malloc(sizeof(*x))

Will have an effective type of "struct foo*", which seems like what you would expect.
by sbuttgereit | 2025-05-07 14:11:11+00:00
When your chief argument for your attaining political power is that you have been wrongly oppressed, you need need to identify the oppressors as a rallying point for would-be supporters. For Nazis, the Jews could be vilified as the cause of German suffering. For many progressives, that's "the deplorables" just as for conservatives it's the woke.

Of course, truth and the complexity of reality dilute and blunt the arguments of oppression which is precisely why you will never see your plan come to fruition. The world would be a nicer place, but those you need to act on your plan are the only ones that would be hurt by it.
by keenmaster | 2025-05-07 14:11:16+00:00
Mississippi's average ACT scores are tied for last (edit: tied for second to last). I’m sure some of their educational outcomes are improving, but the demographic-adjusted stats from elementary school students are misleading. Holding kids back for poor performance can really pump their numbers inadvertently. Even if that’s not a very prevalent practice, performance in high school is more important and far more predictive of life outcomes.

You know what’s crazier? Mississippi’s average ACT was higher before some of their education policy improvements.
by ivell | 2025-05-07 14:11:40+00:00
>They wouldn’t. New Delhi would have to get something that is worth more than that territory in return.

What would that be? Pakistan and India had an agreement to peacefully resolve issues already in 1972 Simla agreement. But they continue to send terrorists to murder indian civilians on indian soil. They never followed the agreement. They invaded twice after that agreement.

Anything that India gets out of Pakistan cannot be trusted. They have been claiming that Osama was not in Pakistan, while taking money from the US to support its war in terror.

I don't think Pakistan has any trustability remaining.

It will continue to provoke and attack India as long as their military rules the nation. Their military's existence is the anti-India stance it propagates.
by yogurt-male | 2025-05-07 14:11:56+00:00
Also, asking for educated people with a soul for acceptance and understanding of clear idiocy, hate, bad faith in conversation, and just malice generally, is (ironically) asking Christ-like magnanimity of them.

Why should we accept people acting like assholes? If someone consistently acts like an asshole in your personal life, you cut them out. Tolerating nonsense just begets more nonsense.
by rob74 | 2025-05-07 14:12:16+00:00
> I'm super happy JetBrains has been opening up all their editors to offer free access for non-commercial use.

All? That would be news to me! From the 10 IDEs (not counting ReSharper, which iss a plugin vor Visual Studio) listed on https://www.jetbrains.com/ides/#choose-your-ide, only CLion, Rider, RustRover and WebStorm are free for non-commercial use. Plus, each of the products has its own free or discounted licenses for certain users (e.g. students).
by nabla9 | 2025-05-07 14:12:32+00:00
RISC woks well with compilers (ARM, RISC-V), they don't require mythical compilers, just standard good ones.

You are probably thinking VLIW like Intels Itanium, and Transmeta. Those architectures required really smart compiler for scheduling and it was a bust.

Nvidia GPU's need smart compiler and it works because the task is limited to optimizing numerical pipelines that are 99% matrix multiplication, dot products. The data movement is more predicable. Compilers know how the data will be used and know how to schedule.
by HPsquared | 2025-05-07 14:12:46+00:00
It's very important to consider failure modes when adding something like this.

You should ensure there's no way the new addition could prevent the brake light from working if the electronics were to fail (either electrically, software glitch, corrosion, bad connection, etc). Because failing to light the brake lights upon braking could directly cause an accident.

Secondary perhaps (though still important) is to prevent false positives (brake light illuminating when just driving along normally). That's still bad, but at least other drivers would be suspicious of it and it's more obvious.
by sullivanmatt | 2025-05-07 14:12:49+00:00
I'm no longer living in Oregon but remain closely connected. I can't opine to the behavioral challenges, but in terms of the raw score drop I think there's also the one-two punch here of:

1) Schools were closed from Covid for a long time. Not here to debate whether that was good/bad/otherwise, but it is factually accurate to say Oregon schools remained remote longer than almost any others in the country, and we now know the duration of closure had pretty direct influence on learning outcomes.

2) In the past decade the Portland metro area has seen an influx of migration from economically disadvantaged families who are immigrants / first generation citizens / non-native English speakers in the home. Students from these families are lagging significantly behind their peers in terms of post-Covid recovery, which if I recall correctly, follows national trends as well.
by mdaniel | 2025-05-07 14:13:10+00:00
Almost certainly it's the propagation of the kubelet checkins rippling through etcd's accounting system[1]. Every time these discussions come up I'm always left wondering "I wonder if Valkey would behave the same?" or Consul (back when it was sanely licensed). But I am now convinced after 31 releases that the pluggable KV ship has sailed and they're just not interested. I, similarly, am not yet curious enough to pull a k0s and fork it just to find out

1: related, if you haven't ever tried to run a cluster bigger than about 450 Nodes that's actually the whole reason kube-apiserver --etcd-servers-overrides exists because the torrent of Node status updates will knock over the primary etcd so one has to offload /events into its own etcd
by lolinder | 2025-05-07 14:13:24+00:00
Just to clarify to those reading the comments first, the political point he's making is not to ignore Mississippi just because it's Mississippi.

He has warnings for both Democrats and Republicans at the end and is pretty clearly not a fan of the way either party is approaching education at the national level right now. He is drawing attention to the fact that some red states with historically bad schools have started pulling ahead of some blue states with historically good schools, but his interest is in making sure we learn from that, not scoring culture war points.
by chasil | 2025-05-07 14:13:30+00:00
This is the MinGW cross-compiler for Windows that I found in EPEL.

Alas, no ADA.

"Using this toolchain allows you to build binaries for the following programming languages: C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++ and Fortran."

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW/Tutorial

I think all of these packages were pulled in the "yum install":

$ rpm -qa | grep ming | sort mingw64-binutils-2.41-3.el9.x86_64 mingw64-cpp-13.2.1-7.el9.x86_64 mingw64-crt-11.0.1-3.el9.noarch mingw64-filesystem-148-3.el9.noarch mingw64-gcc-13.2.1-7.el9.x86_64 mingw64-headers-11.0.1-3.el9.noarch mingw64-libgcc-13.2.1-7.el9.x86_64 mingw64-winpthreads-11.0.1-3.el9.noarch mingw64-winpthreads-static-11.0.1-3.el9.noarch mingw-binutils-generic-2.41-3.el9.x86_64 mingw-filesystem-base-148-3.el9.noarch
by anton-c | 2025-05-07 14:13:36+00:00
Content id is actually a pretty good solution tho. Copyright holders do get paid ad revenue, and when u post a vid of your daughter's wedding with Kenny loggins' copyrighted music playing, it doesn't get removed. Sony or Universal or whomever is just gonna get the monetization. Seems like a good deal for both sides.

Edit: I didn't make it clear... I don't think meta is going to be paying or offering a revenue stream like YouTube ended up creating. I also have no idea if YT actually brings in money for those groups and if the copyright holders essentially took what they could get or were happy with the deal so who knows.

It's only when other parts of the system get abused there's problems but that's a sep issue...
by BugsJustFindMe | 2025-05-07 14:13:52+00:00
This article is advocating that using poverty-adjusted scores is a better way to assess student education levels. I just can't agree with that.

"Your children aren't just dumber, they're also poorer" feels like a very spicy way to elevate the status of a state to me.

> Painting the Deep South as an embarrassing cultural backwater is one of the last socially acceptable forms of prejudice among elites.

> When the Urban Institute adjusted national test results for student demographics...

Clicking through to the Urban Institute, one then finds:

> comparing states’ NAEP scores is misleading for many purposes because states serve very different student populations. For example, more than 20 percent of children live in poverty in Alabama and Mississippi, compared with less than 10 percent in New Hampshire and Vermont

Pardon me, but 20% of your children living in poverty is my personal exact definition for an embarrassing cultural backwater.

If adjusting for poverty is so important, maybe the biggest problem is governments deciding intentionally to let children suffer so much from poverty!

And if poverty and hunger are so strongly connected to education outcomes, which state just again for the second year in a row rejected school lunch funding for poor families? https://mississippitoday.org/2025/02/03/mississippi-again-tu...

"Oh but our schools are good actually!"

"Oh but your children are starving and you think that's fine!"
by 6P58r3MXJSLi | 2025-05-07 14:14:05+00:00
> the majority of the world would be living

differently

we don't know how, we sure can't say it would be worse, it probably wouldn't.

modern medicine is not energy intensive likewise aren't better hygiene and better food. Actually vaccines, that fight infectious diseases, have been discovered when we used little or no fossil fuel and the light was kept on by candles or oil, including whale oil.
by RainbowcityKun | 2025-05-07 14:14:06+00:00
That’s a powerful point. In my view, we shouldn’t try to constrain intelligence with more logic—we should communicate with it using richer natural language, even philosophical language.

LLMs don’t live in the realm of logic—they emerge from the space of language itself.

Maybe the next step is not teaching them more rules, but listening to how they already speak through us
by pc86 | 2025-05-07 14:14:15+00:00
I am much less interested in why MS schools are doing so much better - which don't get me wrong, is great, and I hope studied and modeled in better-funded states - than I am in why other schools are doing worse.

Taking that first chart into account, if Maine stayed around a ~225 for the last 20 years, and Mississippi went from 203 to 220, that's great for Mississippi but not necessarily an indictment of anything Maine is doing wrong.

But not only do you have Mississippi gaining an impressive amount of ground, you have 4th graders in 2024 Maine 1.5 grade levels worse than 4th graders in 2004 Maine.

If I was an educational policymaker in Maine I'd be looking for who to fire and it'd probably take a bit of work to convince the answer isn't "everyone."
by yogurt-male | 2025-05-07 14:14:43+00:00
Sure, there are good people there. But the people at the highest rungs of society there (doctors, lawyers, etc.) did perpetuate 1950s-level racism. Our family was told in no uncertain terms that they would not stand for us selling our house to a black family for example. I heard white kids saying slurs constantly, and not in a "rapping along to a song" kind of way.

Denying my personal experience and calling it ignorance is pretty fucking arrogant of you.
by timr | 2025-05-07 14:14:54+00:00
> Energy star forces that disclosure and that's it.

Incorrect. The far bigger part of the program is certification:

https://www.energystar.gov/about/how-energy-star-works/energ...

(There's also the scoring system, though I don't know if that falls under certification.)

This is how the efficiency requirements become de facto mandates. Federal procurement, among other things, requires energy star certification. There are even mortgage discounts for energy star certified buildings.
by coryfklein | 2025-05-07 14:15:23+00:00
The "novel AGI code" probably accounts for <5% of work by time spent. If they can reduce the remaining 95% of grunt work (wiring yet another DB query to a frontend, tweaking the build pipeline, automating GPU allocation scripts) then that means they can focus more on that 5%.

Then it looks like Company A spends 90% of time on novel research work (while LLMs do all the busy work) and Company B spends 5% of time on novel research work.
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by globnomulous | 2025-05-07 14:15:38+00:00
> If AI (terminology aside) replaces many professional software engineers and programmers like some of its fierce advocates say it would, wouldn't their potential customer base shrink?

This is such a good point. The best reply available to the AI hype-men would probably be that LLMs "democratize" coding and therefore that even more people will use IDEs in the future, but that sounds like BS to me -- not unlike AI/hype itself.
by jsight | 2025-05-07 14:15:45+00:00
It isn't that uncommon to sync a home dir with git: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1316229/is-it-bad-practice-t...

I'd guess that most of us wouldn't do it by just "git init" in the home directory. There are many safer ways than that.

But we were all newbs once, and often even the newbs have access to various keys and credentials.
by Xplan | 2025-05-07 14:16:24+00:00
Not trying to play devils advocate, but it goes both ways. There are proprietary libraries in a lot of solutions too. The LGPL is under many distributed closed solutions that are sold for profit, so I think its WEEE bit of the kettle calling .. ya you get it. I don't want to turf war, but its more systemic than you probably think. In this case, its just the pry-bar used that the risk to blow up the entire community of developed software with open libraries.

Tread lightly maybe.
by genrilz | 2025-05-07 14:16:35+00:00
The point I'm sure was to prevent the checks from incurring runtime overhead in production. Even in release mode, the overflow will only wrap rather than trigger undefined behavior, so this won't cause memory corruption unless you are writing unsafe code that ignores the possibility of overflow.

The checks being on in the debug config means your tests and replications of bug reports will catch overflow if they occur. If you are working on some sensitive application where you can't afford logic bugs from overflows but can afford panics/crashes, you can just turn on checks in release mode.

If you are working on a library which is meant to do something sensible on overflow, you can use the wide variety of member functions such as 'wrapping_add' or 'checked_add' to control what happens on overflow regardless of build configuration.

Finally, if your application can't afford to have logic bugs from overflows and also can't panic, you can use kani [0] to prove that overflow never happens.

All in all, it seems to me like Rust supports a wide variety of use cases pretty nicely.

[0]: https://github.com/model-checking/kani
by AlotOfReading | 2025-05-07 14:16:40+00:00
I'm trying and failing to square the idea that liberals just need to "appeal to the rural lower class" with the idea that failing to do so is why Clinton lost. The Clintons come from Arkansas. Advocating for the rural/conservative lower class has been their M.O. since the 70s. It was a cornerstone of Hillary's campaigns, and a major focus of where she spent time campaigning.

If you don't know that about Clinton's strategy, are you really the right person to be commentating on how she should have built her campaign instead?
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-07 14:16:56+00:00
Fair point, and I don’t worship them. Reality is US governance philosophy is that the market will mostly self-regulate. Apple’s behavior is best aligned with my interest.

If i were an app developer, maker of Skinner box games, or selling virtual products, i would feel differently. But I’m not, and allowing Amazon to extract more margin in exchange for cheapening my experience does nothing to benefit me.
by lordleft | 2025-05-07 14:16:59+00:00
"... Or that kãla, Time and Death, should be derived from the Sanskrit kãl, ‘to calculate or enumerate’—related to the Latin kalendarium, ‘account book’, the English calendar—imparting, it seemed to me, onto that word the suggestive notion that at the end of all our calculations comes Death. Almost as if kãla did not simply mean Time, but had built into it the idea of its passage, the count of days, as it were."
by pmontra | 2025-05-07 14:17:35+00:00
It's got a number of different licenses for it's various components. LGPL 2.1 is among them.

License file at https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=LICEN...

Source at https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=summary
by 4oo4 | 2025-05-07 14:17:46+00:00
Wouldn't hosting a service to facilitate others' use of the exploits fall under CFAA? Since there have been numerous arrests for those hosting Ransomware-as-a-service, DDOS-as-a-service, etc. Just curious whether there is a legal nuance that prevents them from being criminally charged instead of just politics/diplomacy.
by throwanem | 2025-05-07 14:17:49+00:00
Oh, please. I denied nothing. If you object to my characterization of that experience, do so overtly. But I knew at least a dozen like you. You were friends with the young rich asshole kids of the old rich asshole antebellum planter families, because they were your family's social peers even if you yourself didn't respect them - your family owned real estate worth redlining! - and now you think you're being magnanimous and openminded by generalizing from there to the poor whites who picked on you and beat you up and the black kids you were ashamed you were afraid of.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-05-07 14:17:50+00:00
The author did a great job actually building the project, doing a layout and custom design rather than just stitching together off the shelf modules. Good work.

That being said, in 20 years of riding motorcycles and being an ATGATT (all the gear, all the time) kind of rider, I'm mixed on the need for this. It's something I have thought about doing with a direct hardwire to the throttle, but I can't come up with a situation where I genuinely think it will stop a crash. Maybe if someone is tailgating you, but you should be readily letting them pass rather than relying on their reaction skills anyway. Anything that is sudden and requires a large -dv/dt, you are going to hit your brakes. Engine braking alone is usually used in situations where the road/conditions dictates it, so other drivers are naturally slowing down too.

But I suppose it is also an "it can only help" type product.
by pc86 | 2025-05-07 14:17:51+00:00
It's not impressive if you don't understand statistics I guess.

You want to measure the impact of educational policies on students. So you control for other factors that influence educational outcomes, and you try to eliminate those effects.

Girls do better than boys on most testing. Asians do better than other races. Free & reduced lunch kids do worse. Special education and ESL students obviously do worse. So of course you're going to adjust for these populations.

The only reason you look at the raw scores of a rural district outside Biloxi that is 70% black and compare that to the raw scores of a suburban San Francisco district that is 50% asian and 35% white is that you either don't understand math or you're more interested in making a political argument than an educational policy one.
by api | 2025-05-07 14:18:01+00:00
> In America the groups you talk about are not at a disadvantage when it comes to recruitment in the respective areas of the country.

When I was in college in the late 1990s and early 2000s, people from the rural South were at times told they should lose the Southern accent because it would hurt their ability to get hired in jobs like finance and engineering especially in the Northeast. This was at a college in the Midwest.

If you go to New York, Boston, or Silicon Valley and try to break into a top-tier industry with a thick Southern accent and talk about how much you love to go deer hunting, this will absolutely put you at a disadvantage. I lived in Boston for five years and one thing I learned is that even being from a poor or "flyover" area of the country makes you a lower class of person. There's a very strong but quiet classism, especially in the Northeast, and the Northeast is the cultural heartland of American liberals. "Where did you go to school" is the biggest class marker, followed by where you're from.

Is it as big of a disadvantage as other things? Probably not, but "the oppression olympics" isn't a good take or a good strategy.

BTW -- every human culture has class markers and in-group out-group dynamics. It just seems like the US left is blind to the fact that they have these too, and no it's not all about rejecting Nazis and misogynists. Everyone from the rural South or Midwest is not a Nazi or a misogynist. Most are not.