skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As soon as someone follows "we all have the right to privacy" with "but", a springboard should pop up from under their feet and launch them into space.

Unsurprising the first time I see a CBC article at the top of HN, it's a puff piece about how taking people's privacy is supposedly good for us. Real glad I paid for this article, but it's not like I'm not constantly paying for these clowns to produce slop that I find appalling. They recently spent $2 million to create a bunch of liberal propaganda podcasts that got a few hundred views per episode.

I hate this country.
Says "Kentucky Fried Chicken" on the web site though.

https://www.kfc.com/
The post I was replying to included explicit mention of ClojureScript, where this does not exist. As it did not for Java for most of core.async's existence. And of course, for virtual threads, that's very much "special support from the language"!
I have recently started to port a large codebase from Go to Rust. I thought it was going to take more code in Rust, but I have been surprised at how much less code it takes. As of right now, the Rust version is 60% smaller in terms of LOC.

I think a large part of this is due to error handling in Rust and the sugary `?` syntax which is so incredibly useful.. I can't count how many times I have done the following in go

x, err := Foo()

if err != nil { return nil, err } // or something like this

I'm pretty sure a large chunk of the LOC reduction was in that alone. Though, a large chunk is also some crates that make a lot of boilerplate go away (serde, serde_json, etc).
Indeed makes my skin crawl. How can one reasonably protect himself from such draconian freezing? Asking for reasonably, not bunker full of gold bars.
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I'm not at all involved in the industry so here's an armchair opinion; western animation is too expensive for anything but guaranteed hits or kid's shows. Arcane is one of the best western animations of today, but it cost $250 million for just two seasons.

Wages in Japan for animators are much lower, if not exploitative.
It is NP-hard, but realistically that should not be a concern for most dependency management questions users throw at it? Just how many variables are folks imagining are in a typical dependency tree?

Google claims the average number of dependencies is 35. My gut is most of these do not have too many versions, all told. Is this really big enough that you'd expect it to be the bottleneck?
NAFTA is a treaty ratified by the Senate and as such, Trump can't easily implment the tariff as that undoes the treaty. Trump can count on the importers challenging the move in court. He'll probably use it as a gauge to see if the Senate will do anything to check his power - because they could, but I suspect the Senate will be the lackeys Trump is expecting them to be.
May be the future is a No Lode tool that generate enough of an App to allow Low Code edit while the whole App itself is still a full Ruby Rails App that allow Real Code modification in the future.
Your description of a VC's value is describing them as an index fund of startups, and I suppose you could say YC has moved in that direction.

But most VCs are paid to make bets on which companies are most likely to succeed. I never said they're supposed to know with certainty. That's a silly straw man that no one who understands basic finance would suggest.

But they spend much of their time supposedly screening deals to find good ones, and there is a preponderance of evidence that they're worse at it than a dumb index fund.

There have even been experiments to automate picking deals, and even a fairly naive algorithm is better than most VCs.

Only people on the VC side of the table think they have any added value other than lucking into being trusted to invest other people's money.
Ubiquitousness is certainly a major selling point. The GNU coreutils are everywhere. I've made my peace with bash and make because I know they're always gonna be there.

This doesn't mean there's no value in developing one's own tools. Contributing to other projects can be quite difficult and time consuning. GNU projects are even more so.

We shouldn't limit ourselves to POSIX stuff either. Better software and tools can and should be built. Every attempt is valuable. And who knows? It might just turn into a staple of Linux distributions some day.
I've been very happy with node:test (and deno:test), but also I migrated from mostly mocha as jest I found difficult to configure, especially without unnecessary bundling configurations as the ESM support among other things was broken for far too long (but mocha delivered it well). Most of my successful uses of jest were out-of-the-box configs in create-react-app and the Angular tools to strip uses of karma and replace them with jest. (Side rant: Seriously whoever thought that karma was a good idea for a test runner? "I love V8 so much I'm using Node's V8 to spin up another headless Chromium's V8 so I can V8 from inside V8." lolsob)
I wrote a python script to extract data from an MRT file containing BGP routes from [1] and importing it into Neo4j for exploration. This file contained about 56 million extremely redundant routes and Neo4j is great for "merging" this type of data.

[1] https://data.ris.ripe.net/rrc00/
There's more to it than resolution. The systems I work on recognize fine features of objects at high speed. Not facial recognition, but similar. One of those systems has an imaging sensor similar to the one you mentioned.

It works quite well, in part because the camera is optically excellent, in part because it provides rich and accurate color data, and in part because we tightly control the environment that the image is captured in.

In a less controlled environment, or if using lower quality sensors or optics, the results would be poor.
Criminals aren't immune to pitch decks and overspending on bespoke systems??
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There's nuances to the amount of harm dealt to the authors based on what sources you are stealing from, but it's irrelevant here, as the specific incident we're talking about is whether or not the student is the actual author of the work submitted.

It'd be the same as if I had Google Translate do my German 101 exam. I even typed the word "germuse" with my own two thumbs!
> VCs and early hires are taking a massive amount of personal risk.

I think you meant “Founders and early hires” here?
When American conservatives say liberals spend too much time virtue signaling, I think of initiatives like these. Putting the ten commandments in schools was plainly unconstitutional and had no chance of becoming law. It's 100% signaling/building a national brand.
I share simular concern, but also think of an onion more as a bulging cylinder due to center weighted thickness variation in layers. Each layer extends from root to stalk.
I was raised WASP and am now a practicing "I don't give a damn", but if they are going to force Christian practices in the schools, then I think they should also give the call to prayer at the proper times and allow students to pull out their prayer rugs and practice their beliefs as well as only serving kosher meals at lunch and move Friday night football off of the sabbath.
Outside a synthetic benchmark:

* Gradle compiling 100,000 lines of Java at ~5,600 lines/s
* Maven compiling 500,000 lines of Java at ~5,100 lines/s
* Mill compiling at ~25,000 lines/s on both the above whole-project benchmarks

Again not to put Java down but have a proper discussion about compiler speeds. I'm not interested in "your" tool is faster than "my" tool, I want to understand compilation speeds of different programming languages and what impacts them. Java and Go have similiar execution speeds + similar simple type systems, no implicits etc, so they should be similar.

Of course beside the obvious, comparing compilation speeds on two totally different CPUs and machines. Do we compare compilers or machines?
> there's nothing to be done, legally speaking.

Even if true, this sure feels like a loophole though, like the Saul Goodman's burner phone side business, doesn't it? Should there perhaps be a stricter KYC requirement/similar measures to the same end when it comes to re-/selling technology explicitly designed for encrypted communication? Note that we are not just talking about an end-to-end encrypted messenger app, it's a whole integrated phone with an explicit special purpose. This feels more like a regulation oversight: the encrypted transmissions in AM/FM bands are outright prohibited in most Western jurisdictions after all, and so is possession of the respective equipment.
I guess you didn't really read the article so I'll put it here :
> They intercepted one billion messages, but they couldn't read them at first because they were encrypted. It wasn’t until late 2020 that they managed to decrypt them.
Bing Wallpaper app, now in Windows Store, accused of cookie shenanigans
The cynic in me wonders if one of their goals is to keep the most talented people away from the competition, as cheaply as possible. With the goal of preventing independent competition, which could be seen as a greater threat to their golden boys.
If the marketing is to be believed we are months away from having AI assist someone with no dev, technology, devops background just asking for an app like this.
[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42239263
I think some developers are focusing more on creating content on YouTube, possibly for money, but many of them produce great content, what I like about YouTube is that there’s no noise just a stream of information, YouTube encourages you to build, whereas other platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn often push you towards talking and shitposting
https://ris.ripe.net/docs/route-collectors/
If you enjoy this story, read the book Dark Wire which focuses on the FBI’s infiltration of Anom, another encrypted message service. It also covers sky briefly. Fascinating story

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wir...
> “But when we see now that unmonitored communication is really an enabler for crime, then we have to do something.”

Fixed for her.
Well there are no inheritance taxes in Canada so think of this as an indirect one.
[dupe] More discussion on the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42239263
I misread that as "Superscript" and rather like it
Pardon my ignorance, but is it wrong for my reaction to this piece to essentially be, "... okay, and?".

If we're being honest with ourselves, platitudes are just platitudes and the ultimate point of YC is to further enrich investors, and to enrich founders. Of course they're going to try everything they can to make that happen.

It's not like YC's #1 mission is, "Do original, world-changing things", no, it's, "We want more money".
Then it seems you need consultants to get a guide Michelin star
2024, but expected 2016.
Netaddr.ip: a new IP address type for Go (2021)
Pretty ironic that they got caught after going out of their way to buy secure phones and use secure messaging services when an off-the-shelf iPhone and Whatsapp/Signal/Telegram would have made them 100% untraceable.
Cloud on My Side: LTT Folding Home Month VII
Disclaimer: this is my work and blog. I wanted to catch up in a Folding@Home competition but found a lot of documentation on how best to run it in the cloud was out of date, this is a narrative of my journey to solving for this w/ a more formal guide to come soon. Thought it might be interesting to folks here as well!
> Like all media, they seek to reach wider and wider audiences, for a good chunk of time,

Unfortunately this trends towards stretching out their characters and plotlines to utter absurdity and diluting storyline quality.

And I'm not sure if the ESG storyline angles even sell. Maybe we can pick a sample comparison; I remember a time when X-men had a feminism angle in their storylines. Then I read the recent X-men House/Rise-Of-X and it was so much better since it refocused on a new setting and their future instead of referencing ongoing real life politics.
Though Scott's not really a villain. Just a MAGA guy.
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Even though onions aren't perfectly symmetrical, they still optimally grow or radiate out from one axis/line through the middle. Stick a toothpick through a sphere as this line, and slice the sphere through perpendicular to the axis, you'll get circles from a sphere, or half-disks from a half onion if you keep slicing perpendicular.

I'm lazy and cut my onions perpendicularly through halves, and don't try a radial cut for uniformity.
A slave narrative resurfaces after nearly 170 years
There does seem to be a unique form of escapism in the aesthetics. I often think of it when I think about the jazz cafe phenomenon that is popular in Japan. It's warm and cozy but it can also be a cozy sterility (but hey we have cats!) that a lot of societies seem to be going through now (in the West as well). A sleepy existential crisis that plays itself out in quotidian surrealism. It's not unpleasant but also feels somehow like a miss on both an individual and civilizational level.
He published the emails where it says they want to own the library so they can set the road map for it, they're offering to pay for it.That quote even says they're not looking to take action over the trademark.

Your response is alittle over emotional.
CT owner here. Maybe I’m just more boring than the usual person who gets this truck, but my reasoning for getting one was a lot more simple than this. “My Teslas have been great, this one looks cool, my family can benefit from having a truck, I’ll put down a deposit!”

Not sure which group I was supposed to be buying a ticket into. Around where I live the group seems to be Asian men with families, but I was already a member of that group before the truck :)
i think it looks cool!
The addition of search engines and recommendation algorithms is significant too. It's not just the ability to spread arbitrary information at zero cost, there's also a strong feedback loop where any information a user/rube engages with will become an increasingly large portion of what's presented to them.
I assume they aren't freely available online? How does one gain access to these meeting minutes?
To play devil's advocate, I don't see any evidence they're NOT training on user content either. Compared to how explicitly they indicate they're not using user content for targeted advertising, this seems like a huge oversight. Given how carefully they've put together these documents, I'm doubtful it was an oversight.
>Western.

America is not the whole West, HN readers often forget it. Ditto with thinking on "Dragon Ball in the West" ended in the 00's when we the Europead finished it on mid 90's and began to watch Dragon Ball GT in 1999.
This reminds me of US research that was done during the Cold War about surviving a nuclear winter by producing food products directly from petroleum. It's theoretically possible and you could survive on it as a supplemental source of calories.

I think optimizing farming for space flight is probably better, especially if you have always-on solar power (as you do anywhere near the sun) or nuclear power. Hydrocarbons from asteroids and comets are probably better suited for things like plastics manufacture and petrochemicals, since you would not have biotic oil sources in space.
Have you considered using a cloud VM? Oracle Cloud Infrastructure gives them for free for personal use: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

Oracle Linux is basically RHEL (rebranded) under the hood.

Could you practice your RHEL sysadmin skills on an Oracle Linux cloud VM?
I find odd this was flagged. To me what this guy tried to do was a fine example of hacking, although not of an electronic device in the digital realm, but of the legal system in the analog world.
There are thousands of millions of people who are not criminals, who are not trying to be criminals.. yet somehow the literate audience is led by media such that a small, dedicated bunch of adults half-way around the world is proof positive that all encryption is "for me, not for thee"
Mexico supplies well over half of all produce consumed in the US, and produce prices have so far been less impacted by inflation/price gouging/however you prefer to think about it.

If this winds up going through, people all over the country are going to see the sticker shock at the store very quickly.
Yeah that's also good. I used to play with Worldcraft a lot back in the 00s, such memories!
Steve Jobs or maybe just Apple used to pit teams against each other to develop a solution to a problem and then pick the strongest of the two.

It also offers a convenient way to pull investment out early if the doppelganger startup isn't meeting targets. Just get the original startup to buy them out.

It's not something that is a negative for YC, but it could be for the startups they back.
Rust and Go's lack of stack traces are basically equivalent in that you need to call an additional function to add the stack context to the error result. For go you use fmt.Errorf, in Rust you use .context from anyhow (bad practice in many contexts IMO) or .inspect_err + log. It's rather unfortunate that neither has an easy way of capturing a line number + file easily and appending it to the context. Go could easily do it, I think. Oh well.

I agree that Go should really have an analogue to Rust's `?`, but you can't really do that in a sane way without sum types to represent your conditions. The very multiple-return style error propagation makes it impractical to do.

IMO Go should add really basic tagged unions and rework the stdlib to use them, but such a change would probably necessitate a v2.
Ask HN: WTF is going on in Indian tech hiring?
So, I have a friend who is doing Electrical Communication Engineering from a tier 1 college. That’s not the issue. The problem is that he got a SWE (Software Engineer) position at Amazon. How can someone doing Electrical Engineering, with hardly any coding knowledge, land a SWE role? From what I know, this guy doesn’t even know how to code. When I asked him how he got the job, he said it was through DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms).

Then, I asked about his compensation. He told me it was ₹45L (around $53K) per year, which is a lot for India. But here’s the catch: I did some digging and found that more than half of his compensation is in stock, which will vest over 4–5 years. Essentially, after this year, his cash component will be much lower. He tried explaining it to me, but I didn’t fully understand.

The thing is, I asked around, and many people from other colleges said the same thing. If this is true, then damn—next layoffs at FAANG India are going to be crazy because what are they even going to do with such hires?

I’ve interviewed for multiple intern positions at startups—some without compensation—and even had to go through technical interviews. For backend roles, I had to design a distributed OAuth server to handle token issuance, validation, and revocation. For MLOps roles, I had to deploy on Kubernetes and install CUDA drivers on servers. On top of that, there were take-home assignments, yet I didn’t even get a callback. And these guys just did LeetCode and got jobs? What a joke. If this is how they’re hiring, the quality of work is going to decline very fast.

But there’s another angle to this—there are rumors about some hiring managers favoring female candidates for certain roles. I’ve also noticed that women seem to be doing better at getting jobs in tech. It feels like they’ve cracked the code for securing these positions. However, I came across some Twitter threads where male employees from FAANG companies made creepy remarks about women, and a few women came forward claiming they were harassed in private chats. Most of these incidents involved individuals from Microsoft India, though there are similar rumors about other FAANG companies. Honestly, I think some of these rumors might be true, which is unsettling.
https://archive.is/yeoJI
M6.4 quake hits central Japan, no tsunami warning issued
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Thank you for the exhaustive depiction of the situation.
Also an ex SRE from long ago, although not for borg. One of the learnings I took with me is that there is no technical solution that is good for several orders of magnitude. The tool you need for 10 servers is not the one you need for 1000, etc.
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There are systems being built to confirm the plant beyond any reasonable doubt. Those systems do not involve anyone going to check it out for you. :) logtrees maintains privacy.

I will build logtrees without it needing anyone to check that, and it will still work. :)
They always have been, the X-Men were a metaphor on exploited minorities. Also, you don't understand what's actually Evangelion about. Is not about just metaphysics and philosophy,
but a satire and puns on womanizing otakus.

The X-Men are the superhero comic version of the ACLU.
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> You can wake up at noon and still do that.

That's not necessarily true. If you're a morning person managing other people that are not morning people but insist on having daily meetings in the morning, you're an asshole. I find meetings early in the morning sadistic and way more draining than reading the news, but I'm not the type that gets emotional about the news while I will react negatively in an early meeting at the drop of a pin. It's not about needing coffee nor did I get up on the wrong side of the bed or whatever demeaning quip you want to offer. I'm not up to speed until later in the day, and forcing me to pretend I am is just rude. This is the biggest downside to WFH where everyone can live in whatever timezone so someone's afternoon meeting is my morning rather than just scheduling the meeting where everyone is on the same schedule. It's one of the few things about working in an office I can appreciate. Definitely not to be misread as a vote for RTO.
This situation is not the same at all. The CSR might mangle a name in latin script but can at least attempt to pronounce it and will end up doing so in a way that the user can understand.

Add to that that natives of non-latin languages are already used to this.

For better or worse, English and therefore the basic latin script is the lingua franca of the computing age. Having something universal for internation communication is very useful.
Is this factually correct or can you simply not recognise the politicaly activism in the Japanese productions because of the cultural differences, or because they're more subtle or integrated into the story?

I mean that last one is a good thing; I think that instead of pearl-clutching and yelling "woke11!111" on the internet for a new Netflix production, it's more intellectually honest to criticize poor writing.
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Probably Signal would have been a safe bet. Telegram doesn't do encryption by default (on group messages? Been a year or two since I've used it). And Facebook complies with law enforcement agencies, and I don't think it's unreasonable for them to have a feature flags to selectively and transparently disable encryption for some participants if need be.