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Why zero executive control ? I’d expect a company like google ( like most large orgs ) to have a very large amount of internal code for internal clients, sometimes developer themselves. My experience of large orgs tells me you can have control over what you build - it depends on who you’re building it for ( external or internal)
Ask HN: What Could the New "Doge Department" Mean for Government and Tech?
Trump just announced a new "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, aiming to make government operations more efficient. Dogecoin’s price crazily jumped after the news!

I’m wondering:

- What changes could Musk and Ramaswamy realistically bring to government with this department, aside from firing staff?
- Could this idea spread to other countries in Europe?
- Is Dogecoin's reaction an indicator of anything deeper in Blockchain, or is this just another hype cycle?
- What could this mean for tech companies and businesses?

Would love to hear everyone’s thoughts!
Denny's has two or three different brands they will advertise as different restaurants in a single area.
My journey has been from JVM (Java, Scala, Kotlin) -> Go -> Rust, writing web backends, APIs, integrations etc.

I don't write 'clever' code, just sticking stuff into Postgres/PostGIS/Neo4J/Clickhouse, some basic business logic and math, returning JSON etc.

I have found Rust to be super-productive and a joy to use compared with Go. I don't use the complex parts of Rust; no messing with lifetimes, a little cloning and using Arc<> to share things across threads/tasks.

GitHub Copilot in Jetbrains RustRover is very effective at generating accurate Rust CRUD code, handler methods etc. I don't bother with an ORM because it is so fast to write the SQL queries. Having said that, Copilot sucks at anything even slightly complicated and you take a risk asking it to generate code you can't validate quickly.

The whole of Rust might be a beast, but I have had a very productive couple of years just using the 'boring' bits and it took a week or two for me to be more productive than in Go writing bog-standard web backend code.
Crossover is not a defining or essential part of an EA. Reproduction with variation under selection pressure is the definition. Crossover is one possible mechanism of reproduction with variation. Simple mutation is another.
The AI lab waging a guerrilla war over exploitative AI
This series of mixes by Lee Gamble is a great romp through jungle history, highly recommended:
https://soundcloud.com/leegamble/sets/jungle-as-particle-acc...
Cooklang seems pretty much perfect for every use case I can think of.

I would probably prefer a more generic syntax if I were doing it from scratch, but then I'd just wind up with HTML and it wouldn't be as good for recipes.

I could see a more structured approach being useful if you were following one step at a time on a tablet, so maybe that scales better to more complicated recipes?

Most of the stuff I cook is simple enough it all fits on one screenful anyway, on the rare occasion I even use a recipe at all, so I'm not quite sure what the best approach is to cover very complex recipes.
"Refocusing" when it has been up since 2008.
You have now :-)
Until you have an equivalent team of volunteers ready to maintain the project, I think it does matter.
I expect he just means deep and foundational models for vision, which is true: they dominate.
Killer track but technically Firestarter isn't Drum and Bass (or Jungle). Prodigy slowed everything down after Experience (first album).
It's important for manipulating dynamic physical objects. Things tied stronger to wall clock than CPU clock, like rockets flying through the atmosphere and EV motors rotating as car rolls downhill.

They don't care about cache hits and branch predictions, so whatever you do with pulsating fuel pressure or flowing back regen electricity better happen predictably on-time than just ASAP off quuees. RTOS offer you that stability in time direction.
I wonder if this will work on a mac that can’t ever phone home to Apple to download models.

Apple has this horrible tendency of not actually shipping things inside the OS these days, and instead downloading them at runtime. Examples include rosetta/commandline tools, local speech recognition models, dictionaries, and USB connection device support for new iOS devices.

I want to be able to use all of the features without iCloud and without HTTP requests to the mothership (or without internet at all).
There's no "more evolved" animal in your list. They are all different animals that are each perfectly evolved for the habitat they occupy (dogs are domesticated wolves, not "evolved wolves", by the way).

You could argue that humans are more "civilized" , but not more evolved. But to claim that humans are less aggressive than other animals is amusing to me. Humans are the only ones capable of (and willing to commit multiple times) war and genocide on a large scale. We may be less aggressive on an individual level, normally, but in the sense we're discussing what matters is the collective aggressiveness, of which humans are in my view the greatest by far.
When I'm tired I sometimes get an inner monologue that just keeps going, but it's nonsensical, like a Markov chain. I have to actively stop it. Annoying.
While the pursuit of faster build times is definitely a worthy cause, I feel like there's something I'm not quite seeing here. Does the JSON-code change frequently enough to incur build cache misses and the full minute penalty? Is there something inherent about the structure of the library that makes it unable to have its compilation be cached? Is the code structured in such a way that editing other code requires also invalidating the cache for the JSON-related code? I guess one way would be to break out the JSON parsing code to its own module and have it produce language-specific structs to be interacted with by the rest of the program.
Things like gym classes are often justified based on "teaching healthy habits". That doesn't appear to work. You did stop the pushups. So did I.

Which doesn't mean I'm against physical activities in school, but educationally, it does appear to be a failure.
Robots sculpt marble in Italy, sparking worries about future of art form [video]
There's zero reason for it to be winner take all.

UberEats, DoorDash, whoever
Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups.

All the bad connotations we get from the word are because humans are humans. There is no better model that works in any kind of society/ organization/ group other than "politics".

Somebody "ethics" may not be the same as others. (Is it ethic to spend a lot of money and deliver something that does not fit the expectations of the ones that provided the money? It may be easy to make users happy - just give them free movies, etc.)
Hmm... no? They still fly plenty out of all of those airports. Beauvais has 33 Ryanair departures on the board, Hahn has 8, Weeze has 15, and I see eight Ryanair flights for the day on the Girona departures board right now, in the off-season when most flights there don't operate. Less than El Prat, sure, but way more than you could ever imagine Spirit doing from a comparable area in the US, which is my point.
> Classic games are only 20 percent of GOG's catalog, and the firm hasn't actually called itself "Good Old Games" in 12 years. And yet, today, GOG announces that it is making "a significant commitment of resources" toward a new GOG Preservation Program.
The pdf rendered nicely for me.
Yes this makes sense. VC has created more billionaires which isn't bad: I'd swap an Elon or a Bezos for 200 billionaires with different viewpoints.

Same with mortgages: they unfortunately push up house prices, but more ordinary people end up owning their home. They also allow capital to build new homes (modulo planning laws)
My feed was mostly leftist but since musk took over I started seeing a lot of musk posts and far-right propaganda.

Twitter is far from being a neutral platform.
And PyTorch was a miracle after coming from LuaTorch (or Torch7 iirc). We’ve made a lot of strides over the years.
A real turning point for The Prodigy turning it from a producer-driven dance act into a proper band with a lead singer. Flint created a job in the act for himself not once but twice.
That's not what I mean. I've got a deep interest in how a product is used, fits in a market, designed, experienced AND built.

If I went to Google what I'd really want to do is gather up a bunch of people, rent out an away-from-Google office space and build say "search-next" - the response to the onslaught of entries currently successfully storming Google's castle.

Do this completely detached and unmoored from Google's existing product suite so that nobody can even tell it's a Google product. They've been responding shockingly poorly and it's time to make a discontinuous step.

And frankly I'd be more likely to waltz upon a winning lottery ticket than convincing Google execs this is necessary (and it absolutely is).
Why is it so expensive to rent in Boston? I am surprised to see it in your list. The economy isn't nearly as large as NYC or SF(+nearby cities). The only explanation I can think of: NIMBY/BANANA: It is almost impossible to add new units (housing stock).
You're forgetting all the corruption and hypocrisy in China. Do you think the individuals that make up the authorities act in a "reasonable and friendly" towards regular people who interact with them? The contradictions seen by anyone who's paying attention undermine the trust you posit and some fraction of the propaganda messages.

It kinda feels like you understand China as a thought experiment and not a real place.
Ludicrous, deeply confused, and wrong bro science.
I mean, look at all the insane places leftists have shoehorned gender crap into lately. I wouldn't put it past them.
That won’t be an issue once the law has been adopted by the EU parliament.
Hmmm... Maybe I should hook up my recumbent to the trainer.
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I use IDEs with vim keybinds and zen mode (full screen, hide everything except text editor) when writing code.
> That makes it sound as if they'd been automated right from 1907, which most definitely isn't the case

From 1907 onwards every newly built line was automated from opening (though indeed extensions or "new" lines made by splitting an existing line were sometimes manually driven).
It's sad that it took less than 20 years for Mozilla to pivot to being an ad-tech company that collects the browsing history of Firefox users and puts it into the hands of third parties and ultimately advertisers.

Firefox still matters because we don't have a good independent replacement yet which actually rejects surveillance capitalism, just privacy protecting forks that remove the data collection, but it's not really clear how well they'd be maintained and developed if work stopped on Firefox.

I have to say that besides the gradual decline in respecting user privacy Firefox has been a great browser. I've been using it since switching from Netscape. Before they got involved with Anonym I would recommend it to anyone. With a bit of work and a lot of about:config edits you can lock firefox down harder than anything else. That's a niche no other browser has much interest in.
Welding with current typically requires electrric arc. That typically requires some gas at high enough pressure. Welding in space would mean you need a lot of gas, which has to be shipped from earth and it's pretty hard to keep enough pressure near weld when you're in vacuum. Lasers have the smallest heat affected zone of all welding, so you need to get rid of smaller amount of heat after welding, pretty usable when you don't have atmosphere around you to cool your welds.
This was my experience trying to find and instance to join. And as a result I didn't join any.

I'm pretty sure most "normal" people would react in a similar fashion, which kind of makes this a notable catch-22 for wider Mastadon-adaption.
For anyone who likes jungle and is not familiar with the UK cult classic film Human Traffic, you must at least see "the jungle scene" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ChSg0-r_jqA&pp=ygUUSHVtYW4gdHJ...

If you were part of the rave scene, you should watch the whole film, it's full of comedy and nostalgia of those hedonistic times. One of my all time favourite films.
It's weird things like using "streaming" instead of "broadcasting", let alone the fact by the time Jungle was invented pirate radio was no longer happening on the seas but had moved to having the "studio" in one high rise block of flats with a point to point link to the actual broadcast site on another, coupled with the general structure and other fantasies makes me question how much of this was LLM generated. I couldn't continue reading after a while.
The terminating character is still the closing double quote and not a null, since the library does neither copy out nor alter the input. For example tiny_json replaces the closing quotes to create C strings, but that needs the full file to be in a mutable buffer which can be prohibitive for small controllers reading some config from flash only.
In my experience, most people have an extremely hard time wrapping their minds around how to configure TLS/HTTPS services and fail completely at understanding how it works.
URLCheck 3.0: Automation (Android)
For a single application, it's not too bad. When you have dozens of applications that all have different mechanisms to install a CA, rotate certs, etc. And some of those don't have a good way to automate rotating the certs, then it becomes a pain.
It's just a CNC machine for stone, no need to bring automation doomerism into it.
Yes. Your project sounds cool, post it!
Really the best sound test is done on a few things though, you also want to see how it sounds on whatever consumer audio solutions you have sitting around (the car especially is a good test)
It's true that rents in Tokyo are expensive, but Kawasaki or Adachi, where the commute takes about 20 minutes, are cheap.
I don't know about the salary, but I checked X or blog and it seems that some are work in the US headquarters, but none in Beijing.

Anyway, when are you there? It looks you are talking in 2010.
If you consider the exchange rate, of course, salaries in China would be much lower.
If considering purchasing power and cost of living, Chinese salaries would have a relatively high level of competitiveness.
Those delays are very understandable but they don't make the chips less old, or counteract the problems caused by being old when RISC-V is racing to catch up.
University is supposed to be about dedicating one's life to learning and ultimately gaining brand new insights into the world. It's not supposed to be about training people to produce stuff in the exact same way everyone already produces stuff. Do you think this approach will help them come up with new stuff?
I remember years ago when I first tried clearing browser cookies - they would quickly reappear. I tracked it down to all the pre-populated favorites that would visit a website when the browser launched.
> Humans are adapted for long distance running and throwing.

That's a just-so story which is much more pseudoscience than the aquatic ape theory. Humans are shitty runners, we have a bipedal gait that isn't adapted to running.

Paleolithic evidence shows ancient humans were habitual swimmers and divers. (Throwing and swimming use the same muscles in homo sapiens.)

Homo sapiens isn't of course an "aquatic ape" (no such thing by definition), but that we always lived next to water and fished and dived for seafood is undeniable.
> Make the two surfaces totally flat

This is the hard part. They need to be flat to less than atom size over whole area, at least several square centimeters. We can't do that yet economically. If they are not so flat, your weld will be pretty weak.

BUT if you could make them flat enough and then wiggle them ultrasonically so that those almost flat surfaces rub the rest of bumps, that would probably not require a lot of heat and energy to make a pretty good connection.
That's a good idea. I've been experimenting and markdown seems to produce better results.
ZIO in 2025
ZIO plans to streamline its ecosystem in 2025 by integrating core projects and focusing on enterprise stability.
Because eBay doesn't sell an ad-free premium version that removes ads but then still shows me sponsored ads as soon as I click on a listing or a seller's page. Neither does eBay intercept packages after you've made a purchase to drop their own ad flyers inside, or offer a premium tier that does prevent them from inserting an "eBay recommends square space for all your website building needs" flyer, but you end up with a "monkeybusiness78 recommends square space..." flyer in your package anyway
The accusations also seem unsubstantiated and ideological in nature. Eg

> Mallaby said that Perkins' conception of international finance is "largely a dream" and that his "basic contentions are flat wrong" because "the poor don't always lose" when developing countries borrow money.

It's not exactly an uncommon take to center conceptions neocolonialism around the World Bank and the IMF. This just seems like a Steven Pinker blunt rotation picking on the work.
I can second Vancouver, and will raise you any big city in the USA - most of Latin America as well. Only thing that changes as usual is regionally based music tastes, though I find that people actually dance a hell of a lot more outside the anglosphere

Europe is a given but I hear Asia is popping off too. I have friends in Oceania who do some work around the scene. Really it's all over the world, people never stopped partying it just goes a little more underground here and there
“ I have seen many fans, in the face of being told the reason for these changes, say that it doesn’t matter because they aren’t personally epileptic. This is, as you might understand, incredibly personally frustrating, and yes, very ableist. In saying this, these fans claim that disabled people do not have a right to feel safe when watching their favorite series, and that their wellbeing doesn’t matter”

Or simply that if there is a warming, it’s your OWN choice to Watch it or not.

If I get a migraine from the colour yellow, should it then be banned from television? Seems a bit weird, no?
The dolphin's skeleton is closer to the homo sapiens skeleton than a chimp's.

We like chimps for their facial expressions, but their skeletons are nothing at all like a human skeleton.
While I am not ready to recommend that everyone install Traefik, this is false.

You can get a single node Docker “cluster” going with Traefik in 15 seconds. There is no maintenance except updating occasionally. It doesn’t use much more resources. You do not need to install any third party tools. There is no onion of services. You literally just boot up Traefik plus your app.

This has been doable since at least 2019 by just installing Docker via your OS’ package manager.

I’ve started using containers before 99% of people and so got to see the fundamentals build up. You do not need to skip directly to “Kubernetes.” That’s like needing to wash your clothes so you skip directly to buying an industrial washing machine and then lamenting how all washing machines are overkill.
Because it’s zero configuration auto mtls between all the services in your cluster (or intra-node if cillium) instead of managing a tls cert for every service?
I think it is to normalize advertising.

if you got rid of ads completely, people would expect to never see an ad, ever.
How is it not relevant? The car was literally Hitler’s idea and lots of people still bought it post WW2.
Hi HN, Francois here. Happy to answer any questions!

Here's a start --

"Did you get poached by Anthropic/etc": No, I am starting a new company with a friend. We will announce more about it in due time!

"Who uses Keras in production": Off the top of my head the current list includes Midjourney, YouTube, Waymo, Google across many products (even Ads started moving to Keras recently!), Netflix, Spotify, Snap, GrubHub, Square/Block, X/Twitter, and many non-tech companies like United, JPM, Orange, Walmart, etc. In total Keras has ~2M developers and powers ML at many companies big and small. This isn't all TF -- many of our users have started running Keras on JAX or PyTorch.

"Why did you decide to merge Keras into TensorFlow in 2019": I didn't! The decision was made in 2018 by the TF leads -- I was a L5 IC at the time and that was an L8 decision. The TF team was huge at the time, 50+ people, while Keras was just me and the open-source community. In retrospect I think Keras would have been better off as an independent multi-backend framework -- but that would have required me quitting Google back then. Making Keras multi-backend again in 2023 has been one of my favorite projects to work on, both from the engineering & architecture side of things but also because the product is truly great (also, I love JAX)!
Sedate or sedentary?
> To be fair, the parent's claim that China is "ahead" in infosec also feels like fearmongering. The one thing that's true for China is that their government has far fewer qualms about hacking Western infrastructure to get dirt on dissidents, steal IP, and so on. But that's a matter of ethics and law, not tech.

I've heard China also has many more personnel working in this space.
Training a trillion parameter model.
A reference for your dissertation?

The usefulness (or lack thereof) of contracts was famously discussed in 1997 in this paper: https://www.irisa.fr/pampa/EPEE/Ariane5.html (with additional comments here: https://www.irisa.fr/pampa/EPEE/Ariane5-comments.html ).

I have tried several times (a couple of decades ago) to introduce DBC in Python, using one of the many available libraries (for an overview: see https://lab.abilian.com/Tech/Python/DbC%20in%20Python/ ) but, like you, wasn't convinced.

I believe your argument on the performance penalty is right, and as a corollary, this implies that contracts are mostly useful if associated with a formal proof system. Contracts in production are probably a bad idea, in most cases.
It should work better now. I improved the prompt a bit to extract the main content.
I should gently point out that Proton is maintained by Timeplus [1] making it COSS (Commercial OSS) so it is definitely not my fork of ClickHouse :)

[1] https://www.timeplus.com/
> Because it's probably not only used for that. Personally, I want to access my local network segment from anywhere, and at the same time SSH into a cloud box without exposing port 22 to the internet.

In my Wireguard-based setup there is no difference between the former and the latter. Remote peers connect to my router via a single open Wireguard port and then routing goes both ways—remote to LAN, LAN to remote, and also remote to remote via my router. Machines on the LAN have routes to any other LAN or remote machine without needing multiple interfaces or any local VPN configuration.

For some people Tailscale's features will be game changers (NAT hole punching, automatic DNS for all tailnet clients across multiple subnets, etc.) but I'm afraid OP may be using Tailscale as a crutch rather than getting his router sorted out properly, and the result is this weird redundancy of core network functions covering the same set of machines.

It's not even really a Tailscale problem per se, though I guess if you have machines naively connected to a Tailscale "subnet router" analogous to how my network is set up, you may not be able to take advantage of the full Tailscale feature set.
Dissapointed that buck bumble wasn’t mentioned.
Why Nerds Shouldn't Rule the World
>Gentrification and moral panic killed warehouse parties and raves.

With my experience as a Polish Gen Z member, gentrification has only made raves MORE popular in here in A.D. 2024.

Bored kids out of good homes, eh...
Lower periodicity does not mean taking more time to say things.

It means more rigid deadlines - more stories that are half-told to meet the deadlines and longer times to corrections.
It's Official AWS Guide on Being Charged?