skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those countries have much stronger educational systems (at least K-12) and a much stronger devotion to education than the US.

On the other hand, the US benefits massively from its research universities, which attract large numbers of top-quality graduate students from around the world, many of whom remain in the US after their studies and make up much of the tech workforce.

> giving away their countries

How does immigration of highly skilled tech workers in any way "give away the country"?
Journalists aren't typified as soldiers in any conflict by any civilized society or international law. They are civils, and the deliberate serial assasination of civils is an war crime. Period. No amount of critical thinking or creative word twisting can change this.

Bombing civil homes, refugee camps and hospitals are also war crimes

Killing children by famine by deliberately blocking the access to food is just a new level of rotten. We had seen the same pallid walking skeletons in the recent past of Europe. Everybody promised to learn and not to repeat this

But... here we go again, walking the same path, learning from the same manuals, and basically expressing that maybe the historical crimes that packs of seriously insane people commit, weren't so bad after all. No sane Jewish with a minimum sense of pride should accept to be linked with that people, or identified as a sprout of the poisoned tree.

So what the hell were they thinking?

From an European point of view to see Israel commit or tolerate this crimes for months is not only concerning, but also extremely disappointing.
For all the shade we can put on cold outreaches on LinkedIn, it's not very spammy.

In contrast, I put my resume on a job board a few years ago, and I still get a lot of recruiter spam to that email.

Recruiter spam: The recruiter has never read my resume and there's no way I'd be interested or qualified for the job. I suspect the recruiter is just using some kind of automated AI / screening tool.
Why cursed? Why a neat CSV file can't serve as a part of the source three, while a much more cursed pass with `cpp` to handle `#include`, `#ifdef` and such is seen as okay, even e.g. in the Haskell community?
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Agreed; my thought is that it greatly reduces variables for drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists.

More specifically, I'd specify road width rather number of lanes. Roads where drivers feel they have room to squeeze by pedestrians and cyclists seem to increase risk.
i've yet to see reporting on this that is not sourced directly from the IDF - who are accusing dead men based on "intel" that they've found after a bombing
Is any of your customer data used to train your LLM models?
The README indicates that this tool will only support Windows and MacOS through emulation. I find that odd.

Let's face it, if you're using Linux, you're comfortable typing some stuff into the terminal to install software. Or if you aren't comfortable with it yet, you will be soon. That's just the reality of using Linux. Even ignoring that, snap and flatpak apps provide a generally awful user experience, and I fail to see how this tool would do a better job.

That leaves Windows and MacOS users as the primary audience for software packaged using a tool like this. It would make sense that a tool like this would prioritize MacOS/Windows support above all else. Even the angry redditeur shown in the README clearly mentions .EXE files.

Why would QEMU even necessary? Docker runs fine on Windows. Maybe it's to avoid requiring the user to install Docker? Either way, asking the user to fiddle with Hyper-V settings is bad UX.
Not necessarily. In the context you reference, you could say Silicon Valley is ground zero for technological revolutions, or the explosive spread of social media. Deliberately building a thing from the ground up doesn't match the nuances of the many and varied meanings of the phrase; it's not quite right.

The primary semantic connection is the misuse of the phrase "from the ground up" and conflating it with "ground zero." There's no direct or indirect semantic relationship between something explosive or chaotic or destructive, and deliberately and methodically building a language model, in a calm and rational process. The meaning doesn't map to the phrase in the context of this article's title.

If you were building an etymology website from the ground up, you'd hope it would be ground zero for an explosion of awareness about how different words, phrases, and sayings could be used correctly in different contexts.

Something like that - I was trying to be considerate about the Ground Zero memorial, and the many ways in which "ground zero" can refer to things that people are deeply invested in. My personal stake is just an observation that it's not quite the right turn of phrase for the use to which it was put.

It seems likely that "from the ground up" was the intended phrase, and it might have gotten awkwardly revised, since the word startup is also in the title?
> I always thought it would be a sensible law to make a company that displays a brand on a product also display their company name as-or-more prominently next to that brand, so people know who is actually making those products.

They should have to display the entire chain of companies in the corporate structure and, if it's too big to legibly fit on the package, you can't sell it.
I'm not immediately aware of one either which is why I asked. HM does have its advantages but static languages are generally pretty clear on the type of an expression without annotations and just giving a variable the type of what it is set to achieves most of what you're looking for. It just occurred to me I couldn't name an instance of a static language without HM that does that, though. (At least I'm assuming LISP REPLs generally operate dynamically.)
Or, if it really was an acquihire, then you don't run around telling this to employees, not to scare them off .. (certaily this was a clause in the LOU/SPA)
> On the one hand "Proof of humanity" is an important problem and is surely only going to get more important as time passes

Governments have been doing this for centuries (see passports, identity documents, birth and death certificates). Witnessing attempts by private entities repeated attempts to "solve" this problem and make a profit has shown me the limitations of free markets. Despite the complexity and sophistication of the implementation, it boils down to a record that's looked up by a trusted entity who attests the validity of the subjects identity, or not.
"this lens" is quite transparent and no problem to understand at all. "makes a lot of sense" is not the question.

Flash was crappy, but so what?

The fact that flash was crappy didn't matter to him. If he wasn't artificially prevented by copyright, he could have and would have just wrote his own implementation that wasn't crappy.

The only problem with flash was that Adobe did to him exactly the same thing he did to everyone else. Flash was a proprietary thing that didn't happen to work the way he'd like, and he wasn't allowed to just make his own better version, and so, "This needs to be an open standard!"

That statement doesn't mean he endorsed or preferred or recognized the value and virtue of open standards. All it means is that he was a huge hypocrite who would say anything at any time, and actually do the opposite the instant he can devise a way to.

He only ever recognized a standard when he is the beneficiary of it and there was no physically possible way to get around it, and only until he manages to devise a way to get around it.

One day he says "bicycle for the mind" and that much is absolutely true.

But the next day tries to sell a bicycle that the user can't repair or add a luggage rack, and conveniently declines to acknowledge that a large part of what makes a human with a bicycle so efficient is that the bicycle is simple and user-serviceable in the field and adaptable. The human is more efficient and powerful because they are literally empowered.

The advantage of the wheels turn completely the other way into the disadvantage of a piece of broken machine you have to carry, after you also paid money to aquire it in the first place, when you can't fix it's bent wheel, or add a headlight or a luggage bag or a lower set of gears or fatter tires etc etc to adapt it to your individual slightly different needs.

He said "bicycle for the mind", but never sold a bicycle for the mind once.
https://roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/
> They had the alternative of pulling their software on principle and suing, but they wanted the fight they would have by having Apple suspend and then terminate their developer accounts to bring more public opinion to their side

I think that gave them much stronger standing and claimed damages.

It's a weaker argument if they voluntarily removed themselves from the AppStore.

Apple could have trotted out some 'We typically work well with developers in Epic's situation, but they never approached us so there was nothing we could do' excuse.

By forcing Apple to take an action, it concretely showed that Apple does in fact remove access if companies tried to forward users to alternate payment methods.
I was reading part 10 (Noise) and was aondering if anyone has ever tackled the problem of ambient noise cancellation with these things. Any literature out there?
The art and history of lettering comics
This complaint is valid for Google's Android as well for building a remote attestation system apps can use to see if the user has modified the operating system.
Pedantically, outdated Chrome extensions make for a poor attack vector in the first place because the majority of users get automatic updates, including being disabled/removed by Google themselves if the dev is gone and a problem is found.
(From Wikipedia)
Système D. The letter D refers to any one of the French nouns débrouille,[3] débrouillardise[4] or démerde (French slang). The verbs se débrouiller and se démerder
FWIW, by default we don't store meeting recordings–only the transcript. Saving meeting recordings is something you can enable from Settings → Account.
i've not seen evidence of this happening outside of the times of israel repeating IDF accusations
That's why I called them "general purpose computers that are marketed as special purpose computers".
Agreed. Google's lock-in is much more through bundling and must-default agreements.
No. An under sea cable being cut doesn't cause individual company outages. This was caused by failing engineering culture.

It's important but not nearly as important as you seem to think.

The Facebook outage yesterday probably caused an order of magnitude more economic damage than the total economic cost of the houthis cutting a cable.
What are you talking about?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39562986

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39562984

In my last search I used Hacker News for about 90% of my applications. It worked a lot better because I usually directly interacted with hiring managers.
Yes, this is the reason I do not enable automatic updates (in general, not just browser addons), and that software updates are so frustrating.

If there was a way to specify I only want security updates and bug fixes and I do not want new features, UI redesigns, and so on, I would always update and maybe even turn on automatic updates. Software companies have no excuse--we have sophisticated version control software that allows you to manage multiple branches easily. Every software should have a maintenance branch and a "new shit" branch, and should allow both kinds of updates.
I was in the middle of judging for an accelerator, and it was a real pain!! Fortunately, over quickly.
I prefer to look at it this way: every fifth desktop/laptop runs a Unix OS.
T1D here too. Fun to see others having an interest in CGMs :-)
> We use it in phases like "a nuclear holocaust" while at the same time it refers to a specific horrible incident.

The historical and still sometimes contemporary meaning of "holocaust" is a burnt offering at an altar. But, if you're using that term now in a general context to mean merely a burnt offering it is so overcome by historical events that you will confuse your audience, cloud out your message, and probably cause widespread offense. Well if there were similar more recent examples of that in english it would be key vocabulary surrounding September 11 2001, like "Ground Zero." Therefore, while the OP is technically incorrect about the dictionary definition of the phrase, they aren't wrong about the meaning of the phrase to contemporary english speakers.
https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/07/linkedin-protocol-buffers...

https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-...

https://gdpr-info.eu/
> So Apple has their draconian 30% cut

This notion that 30% is 'draconian' is curious since Steam -- on supposedly open PC -- costs devs more, and even 30% is wrong since it's not 30% below a certain revenue level or in the second year onwards, again in line or less than stores on other platforms.
Not very spammy? LinkedIn wrote the book on spam.
> Apple holds grudges. Honestly, it was idiotic of them to expect anything else.

I'm sure upon first hearing this news Epic's management collectively lay down and curled up into the fetal position, awestruck and weeping in surprise at the sheer, unprecedented nature of this blow.
I doubt that the rising difficulty of energy extraction has anything to do with population leveling and decline. For advanced economies, it's the social changes that allow fewer children or disincentivize them. These were likely enabled by cheaper energy in the first place, but if the energy remained easy to extract they'd still be in motion.

Rising housing prices is a very direct result of pumping out more people and it has maybe a little to so with fertility rates.

Who wouldn't want the cost of rent to go down? Rent-extractors, primarily. Many fewer of them then renters, so this seems like an economic good.

That said, the comfortable carrying capacity of the Earth for human life (and all the other things still surviving with us) seems to be far less, so building systems to operate well under contraction, and working to contract to some rough level and the level off with a new system, seems prudent for the long haul.
Again, as stated: "Some of the math competitions"

Don't know how wide spread they are in other states, but it was part of the UIL Academics teams as statewide competition between school districts in Texas.
> But don't think there wouldn't be economic impact if far fewer people commute in, come in for the evening, or decide to move out because visiting the suburbs or the mountains is too much hassle.

Maybe more people would commute in, parking outside the city and taking public transit, and enjoying all the benefits of a low-traffic, pedestrian city: No parking problems or costs, no traffic, no fuel costs, highly available transit, things built for pedestrian and transit travel. Maybe they'd move in.
But what if I want to grab coffee or jump on a call?
Instant upvote.
"Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says" (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/un-israel-food...)

"Intentionally depriving people of food is clearly a war crime. Israel has announced its intention to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part, simply for being Palestinian. In my view as a UN human rights expert, this is now a situation of genocide."
This part I can get behind, a photo of a cute dog never fails to make me smile, no matter how terrible of a mood I'm in!
Musk isn’t saying BYD can’t keep up.
Some countries, e.g. Poland, require you to turn on your left indicator as soon as you enter a roundabout and as long as you stay in the roundabout. If you intend to exit, you have to switch from left indicator light to right indicator light. Switching happens while steering left.
Poland has multi lane roundabouts where you are expected to stay on the innermost lane possible and only move to an outer lane when your exit is close.
> Are there any other examples from history where the goal of combatants was (or at least appeared to be) to maximize the destruction of their own side?

Every false flag operation designed to rally support for a conflict.
It's somewhat locked down as you need to apply with Microsoft for a Developer account, but you can technically sideload UWP apps onto your Xbox hardware by entering Developer Mode. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/devk...

It's not convenient and you need to reboot your console to go back to running commercial apps, but it is present. At least it's a one-time payment to get the developer account.
> The line has to go up. Apple exists for their shareholders, not users.

Who does Epic exist for?

This "they exist for the shareholders" is an argument that cancels itself out, as it's true of all firms.

So you have to look at who's next on the list. Is the company for people looking to place ads? Is the company for publishers of games? Who is it for?
Nothing about herge but his speech bubble font was lovely
Techniques to Break Words
> It seems your trying to build a false narrative to equate HN = too many posts about Israel.

False? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39435324

Either HN is politics free or it is not. As heavily moderated as it is, it is either neutral or it is not.

> Israel is commiting genocidal acts that are illegal according to International law.

If you read my other comments, you know words have meaning. Genocide is very specific. There are multiple countries delivering aid into Gaza, which is wild since Israel is apparently trying to starve them. I wonder if Israel knows about the 100s of tons of food going through the Rafa border every day. Weird that Israel would miss that.

> collective punishment and indiscriminately killing families

Indiscriminately killing families looks like shooting rockets you can't control at a civilian cities, which is a war crime. This is what Hamas has been doing since the start of the war.

Living in a war zone generally means people die. War is bad. Having an army fighting without uniforms (a war crime) among a densely populated civilian city is really bad. Any collateral damage is the fault of the terrorist group that started the war and is still holding civilian hostages (also a war crime).
Yeah, I forgot Zionism started last October. Thanks for the reminder
I certainly agree, and use a lack of social media presence as a positive signal for hiring.

However, it was a bit of a battle to convince the other stakeholders in the company that it should be viewed positively instead of negatively. And this is at a security company, where we have a whole open-source intelligence department!

I think you and I are in the vast, vast minority.
Lots of microcomputers.
It was a joke, no need to be unfriendly.
> suspect the recruiter is just using some kind of automated AI / screening tool.

I doubt it. If a human hadn't read your profile, how could they possibly be so impressed by your background?
30 years ago, when I was a grad student, Oracle was just a relational database rather than the bloated, unwieldy mess it is today

Disclaimer: n=1.
Or pay to play aka a NYT Games sub.
Aren't you going to miss the hustle culture and the anecdotes?
I thought the quality was pretty high, largely because there were a lot of rails constraining how code should be written. Most of the code I dealt with was written using somewhat rigid (but generally well-designed) frameworks with programmatically-enforced style guides.

Also, most work seemed to involve some balance of junior and more experienced people, which helped keep quality higher. Outside of Google, I've seen pretty large projects written by new grads with little supervision (and on a tight timeline). Those codebases can be pretty hairy.
This is some spicy shit from Apple:

> “In the past, Epic has entered into agreements with Apple and then broken them,” Schiller reminds the game maker in the letter dated February 23, 2024. “You also testified that Epic deliberately violated Apple’s rules, to make a point and for financial gain. More recently, you have described our DMA compliance as ‘hot garbage,’ a ‘horror show,’ and a ‘devious new instance of Malicious Compliance.’ And you have complained about what you called ‘Junk Fees’ and ‘Apple taxes.”
With Type 1 Diabetes, your pancreas is no longer producing insulin, with Type 2, it's typically that it's not producing enough insulin. My child is healthy, but his pancreas stopped producing insulin years ago. He lives with T1D.
Hahaha, the huge syringe thing? That was pretty wild! The spring ones felt like putting a needle to a balloon though, always made me tense when I was putting one on.

Yeah the Dexcom stuff always felt like they were going for super-premium Packaging Experience. But after the first couple weeks that wears thin, and now you've got all this crap to throw away. Like, guys, my pen needles come in a dense little cardboard box and it's totally fine. Chill out with the packaging.
I find it hard to see Apple being in the right here. While I'm not so naive as to think one company is "good" and the other "bad", I do think that as developers Epic is fighting for our best interests. Apple's app store monopoly serves only Apple.
> you look at the built environment in a city and the pedestrians often only get 20% of the road area between buildings, while cars get 80%.

How is that significant? I very rarely have run out of room on the sidewalk. Cars are larger than I am, they need more space.

I agree with the general consideration that cars waste real estate, but sidewalk width hasn't been a problem that I've seen.
It will depend heavily on the docker image you're trying to ship. For example with macos-cross-compiler[0] the resulting binary is over 2GB. With python:alpine[1] it's only 25MB.

Because the image isn't copied whether the image is 2GB or 25MB the startup time will be nearly instantaneous for both.

The runtime adds 6-7MB of overhead although I expect that this can be reduced to less than 3MB with some work.

[0]: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/macos-cross-compiler
[1]: https://hub.docker.com/_/python
WOW. These two projects must be the most esoteric hardware projects out there. Why should anyone use code for hardware? This flux thing seems only to be useful for simple hobby projects.
Nobody is every hit by a turning train.
"Joker Room" is slowly dying out.