skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hypothetically speaking, what would it mean if telescope technology were to improve to the point where we could see back to the point in time immediately after the CMB and what we saw were fully formed mature galaxies? It seems to me that there would only be a couple of possible explanations - either the CMB would have to be re-interpreted as some sort of local (but extremely large scale) event not necessarily from the formation of the entire universe or else it would be evidence of a Big Bounce where somehow parts of a previous universe survived.
>> The number of times I reflexively typed "t" or "f" into my browser bar (which autocompletes to twitter.com or facebook.com) was honestly terrifying.

I reflexively type "news" into the browser. It may not be quite as bad as FB or X, but I should probably stop.
We hired some people from CSIRO who did that seL4 thing that was quite impressive. The lack of productization was also impressive, to the point I don't know why they did it in the first place. Maybe I should ask them.
I wouldn't expect any other sentiment from the head of Matrix, to put it more bluntly.
TP Link “ which dominate approximately 65% of the U.S. router market for small businesses and homes (Allconnect)”

This appear to be more about protecting US market share and less about national security. Netgear/linksys etc cannot compete with price against TP Link.
https://github.com/astral-sh/python-build-standalone is by the same people as uv, so it's hardly random. The releases there include ones with profile-guided optimisation and link time optimisation [1], which are used by default for some platforms and Python versions (and work seems underway to make them usable for all [2]). I don't see any recommendation against using their binaries or mention of optimising for portability at the cost of performance on the page you link or the pages linked from it that I've looked at.

[1] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/blob/main/crates/uv-python/d... (search for pgo)

[2] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/8015
I remember watching that movie recently and seeing that the cast was almost half stuntmen. The fact that the Chicago police basically gave them free range and unlimited extras also made a lot of things possible. The final chase scene is about 15 minutes of car crashes including the one where the neonazis fly off the bridge and the camera jump cuts to the car dropped from an airplane into Lake Michigan.
https://youtu.be/FD9N7v5qGig?si=p-QYJSkkYJIlN3b4&t=110
That is a really interesting question.

I understand why CEOs, boards etc. engage in virtue signaling: once you are rich enough, status becomes more important than extra money, and this is a cheap way how to buy status and get invited to the right parties, where you may even be allowed to recite your own land acknowledgment from a podium.

But investors mostly don't care about status, and quite a lot of investors likely come from countries where DEI was never popular to begin with (Saudi Arabia etc.) I would expect them to push against it.
As a veteran, I am aghast that this exists. What an invasion of people’s lives. To me this is far worse than when I was notified that a foreign adversary had stolen my military records, because at least they’re not publishing it on the web for all to see.

Veterans aren’t politicians, and they don’t deserve to have their lives put on display like this without their permission. Some vets signed up because they wanted to serve their country, some because they were running from people or poverty, but they were all just ordinary people trying to eke out a living.

I believe people, good people just trying to do their thing will be hurt by this information and that’s unfair. It’s just another example of people using veterans as pawns to achieve their ends.

What is the ends in this case? I couldn’t tell you. I do believe this will having a chilling effect on veterans seeking help from the VA at a time when they need it more and more.
[dupe] Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42679516
we can go from the other side. If you want to hire the best, you need to stop looking at skin-level shallow factors and stop hiring decisions based on skin/race/sexual identity/ethnicity.

Just fair competition and pick the best candidate you think will do the job best. If you see the population is unbalanced (too many males or whites for example) => you go to the root of the problem and address the underlying root cause, not try to cover up the discrepancy by reverse discrimination at the end of the hiring pipeline.

There are a lot of societal problems in America and under-represented minorities absolutely have it worse than the generally well-off white population. But this is the argument to go and fix the root cause: income inequality, education inequality, lack of jobs, housing, etc.

The moment America decides to improve poor people's lives, not just promote and hire rich people with the "right" diversity traits, is when the whole country will improve in terms of outcomes
It is a widely different game and theme, but manor lords is very good and has some innovations that reminded me of RRT when it came out. If you like this kind of games I suggest you look at it.
How to turn on Apple Intelligence on EU iPhone?
> What does this mean?

Apologies if my wording was too vague. I am using 'Self-aggrandizing' to mean a high exhibition of self-importance, or to put it another way, advertising one's self in a way that makes minor events or details seem bigger than they are. I am using 'competitive social engagement' as an alternative phrase to "Keeping up with the Joneses" which illustrates comparing yourself to your neighbors in terms of status, wealth, moral fiber, etc.

The invention of Social Media propelled us into extreme versions of these two very-human aspects of our psychology, which I believe to be both dangerous and ill-fated.

My intention was not to attack in any way, I just thought your reference to obituaries was an interesting link to our past prior to social media that was worth exploring and comparing. In a way, we can think of our Facebook profile as an extended obituary since that data is all accessible after we die. In fact, I am experiencing this on Instagram, having just lost a friend on New Year's Day and sitting down to peruse his old Instagram posts for the happy memories therein. Your comment just got me thinking, so I decided to expound on it.

added: I should maybe clarify that I'm of an age that remembers what the world was like before Social Media and the Internet as we know it today. The differences when I compare those two halves of my life tend to be alarmingly drastic, which is something that warrants examination, to me, since many HN readers might be a bit too young to remember, so from their perspective, Social Media habits are likely more normalized.
It isn't written as a mistake there
> Harris certainly baited and manipulated Trump on the national debate stage

and yet she lost, so who baited who?
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I've been thinking about this kind of approach a lot ever since I learned Rust.

A small aside about a personal theory about language design: Every new major language feature like templates or whatever gets "tacked on" without really redoing the fundamentals of how the language works. As in: you could remove it and things would still be fine. For example, you can use C without the preprocessor, it's just a bit clunky. Then, later, sometimes much later a language comes along that really leans into the feature to the point that it can no longer be removed. It becomes fundamental.

The ultimate metaprogramming capability would be to have the compiler phases exposed to the programmer. That is, the compiler would no longer be a binary black box into which text is fed and binary pops out. Instead, the compiler and its phases would be "just" the standard library.

Rust started down this path but the designers seemed to shy away from fully committing. Zig is closer still to this idealised vision, but still isn't 100% there.

Ideally, one should be able to control every part of code generation with code, including C# style "source generators", Zig-style comptime, custom optimisation passes or extensions, custom code-gen, etc...

In a system like this, a single GUI framework could be used to either statically or dynamically generate UI elements, with templating code being run either at comptime or runtime depending on attributes similar to passing a value by copy or by reference.

Look at it this way: We're perfectly happy writing code to generate code. We do it all the time! As long as it is HTML or JavaScript and sent over the wire...
Still keep this on my box and crack it open now and again. I also pulled the music out of the distro and put it into my listening rotation while working. You have to add your own hawk screech sounds though :-)

I’m a total sucker for network optimization train games though. Love the crayon rails games which I wrote about here:

https://dave.org/posts/20221206_trains/
Kind of tangential, but take a look at building codes in the major Florida metros. They’re impressive and more prepared for a direct impact than anywhere else in the world. And I’m not just referring to Miami - it’s the one city I’m not very familiar with. Tampa got two storms last year and while damage was substantial and notable, those were the types of storms that simply wipe out Haiti or New Jersey.

There is very little substance to my comment other than to share a point of pride for the state. The GP is correct in that if you’re not as familiar with the region it’s easy to forget how massive the state is.
Exactly. I’ve never understood this criticism. A good CEO (in terms of the business) is able to make significant, groundbreaking decisions but is also able to reverse course quickly if those decisions aren’t working out (anyone remember the Facebook phone)?

Unless the CEO is psychic, they’re necessarily going to make a lot of bad or wrong decisions. The key is being able to recover quickly and move on to the next thing. A bad CEO makes no big decisions for fear of being wrong.

When FB bought Instagram for $1B, there were a lot of talk show hosts riffing on Zuckerberg for making one of the stupidest business decisions of all time. A lot of executives who got to their position by corporate ladder climbing have personalities that would be terrified of that sort of widespread criticism. They would never make the kinds of decisions that might possibly put them in the unenviable position of being made fun of on national television.
We definitely had a good couple years in stability but I don’t see the forever part. Certainly not for gamers.

Feels like game devs have come out of their covid slumber and decided it’s time to jack up requirements

I recently did an interim update (5800x3d and 3090) so will try to hang on for a few more years
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and you tell young people of today that and they just won't believe you.
I played the Linux version the article mentions while at Goldman Sachs; a colleague on the Red Hat coverage team gave me a boxed copy of Corel Linux including the game. The port ran very well on my Red Hat Linux box at home.

In retrospect it was part of a brief flurry of Linux ports of major games. I also got to play Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Neverwinter Nights; in both cases the publishers made Linux clients available for download that use the retail version's assets. Despite the valiant efforts of Wine and related projects, the world would have to wait 15 more years before Proton leveraged Wine technology to bring quasi-native games to Linux, and 20 years before Steam Deck made it the norm or close to it.
Driving cars is unsafe too, there are right and wrongs ways to use them. With AIs is the same, can help you to go forward or work in a higher abstraction layer or do the work for you.
All Chicago's city buildings now use 100% clean power
A highly configurable GNU/Linux with built-in AI
> IMO metaverse was a bet.

It was FOMO. They had no vision, they had no plan, it was clear that it was only a thing because it was a buzzword at the time. Just like every other company stuffing crypto-adjacent things everywhere. It might have been a bet, but it was obvious that it was a really terrible one.
Biden unveils last round of AI chip curbs aimed at China, Russia
This would seem to indicate an issue with GitHub and their container registry (and authentication therein)

Docker compose is a binary tool, not a hosted service
IIRC there was some widely used image with many derivatives that redefined locale (the one in Docker Library used POSIX since forever).
There is, as far as I can tell, one dead end: if you run out of money near the start of the game and have exhausted your options for getting more, then you'll have to revert to an earlier save. It's not particularly easy to do though, in my opinion.
Socrates was hardly universally correct, and he was certainly wrong about this. Even his own students didn’t take this particular idea seriously.
Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?
There remains no evidence he got it from the movie, especially since he was in an environment with a lot of war veterans around.

There is a lot more evidence of behavior of the sort you seem to have trouble accepting occurs.

For example, on your link, and cited from a book (so obviously credible): “Cult behaviors usually involved mimicking the day-to-day activities and dress styles of US soldiers, such as performing parade ground drills with wooden or salvaged rifles.” Which is at least as ridiculous as anything else.
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Seems interesting. Which remote mount is it, nfs?
Not related, but by googling for Articy:draft I've found there is a new Syberia game.
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Calling something dark energy is giving impression of claiming existence of something. While the reality is that equation of cosmological model is just wrong but could potentially be made right by arbitrarily adding, for no reason at all, a term that has unit of energy (density?). So what's unsolved is not really a problem of dark energy, but a problem of not having correct equation that models prior cosmological observations. You could add a factor to any wrong equation and call it "dark flexum" and fine-tune it as new observations come in.

New observations point to possibility that dark energy might not be fixed in time nor isotropic in space. It strongly reeks of epicycles.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37938183
A tornado of nearly any strength hitting a settlement is just utter devastation for anything above ground level. Glad yall had a place to go and for the Kokura luck to have your home spared.

Any interested HNers should beware the tornado documentary YouTube rabbit hole ;)
You can always choose to unfollow people if their perspectives don’t resonate with you—you don’t have to leave social media entirely for that. By curating your feed, you can focus on content you enjoy, which naturally creates a personal thought bubble. When censorship comes into play, that thought bubble is shaped for you, removing the need to manage it yourself.

It’s worth reflecting on what democracy means in this context. For me, it means being willing to tolerate other thought bubbles, even when it’s challenging. This openness is preferable to having our thoughts policed. In an ideal world, thought bubbles would be more permeable, fostering trust and understanding between people with differing perspectives. That trust can’t grow if we only defend our own bubble. Overcoming the divide is crucial if we want democracy to thrive (or not die).
I disagree, at least as far as the entire internet is concerned. The internet should belong to, and be available to, everyone.

Individual sites on the internet can be as gatekept and elitist as they like, but keeping something as transformative and revolutionary as the internet locked away for a privileged technical elite goes against everything the hacker ethos is meant to stand for.

I can't comprehend how so many people can be so nostalgic for the past without understanding what the past was about. Yes, those walking mozzarella sticks have the right to connect to every piece of information in the world. Even if they're dumber and less cool than you. Everyone, everywhere, has the right to unrestricted information and communication, without qualifiers. That's the entire fucking point.
I was hoping to see something like this in light of the WordPress situation and the lack of independence in the non-profit.
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Nvidia Statement on the Biden Administration's Misguided 'AI Diffusion' Rule
Some of us like our jobs too much to risk leaking these things from resourceful companies that can ruin away our lives in an instant.
Might be going too far to say “unqualified”, but I have already seen “less qualified” changed to “meets the minimum requirements” specifically changed to push through some hires.
I am not taking a stance, the hired still worked great, but decisions were made, calls were exchanged, interview notes were modified, and I don't think you can defend this position honestly as of ~2020 Spring.
There was a good 3 years where it was not about getting “the best”, but specifically for asking us to lower out bars to “get enough”, and letting HR take it from there.
Well we weren't allowed to say that it leaked from a Chinese lab because THAT was racist.
OO is one of many paradigms to take while programming. Between functional programming, C-style subroutine programming, and OO, or the more recent amalgamations of those, you pick whatever suits your problem best. It's perfectly useful to teach, even if you dislike OO programming. I don't like writing for outdated programming designs like Scheme or LISP either, but that doesn't mean they don't have anything useful to teach.

OO is out of fashion just like blockchains and NFTs are out of fashion, and the same way AI will fall out of fashion in the future. The huge hype around it will die and what's left covers the few useful scenarios.
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Nor do the new mini ever had the original mini look. The Daihatsu Trevis was much closer to the Issigonis Mini look than the new mini ever was.

I may be wrong but I don't think the 2cv has a design that can translate as easily to a newer version the same way as the beetle design could without being completely denatured. I think it would be easier to build a modern HY looking van.
Fun fact: the linux kernel itself actually also looks for `/etc/init` before it even looks for `/bin/init`

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/4a5df37964673effcd9f8...
As usual, Doctorow is very perceptive and has an intuitive understanding of what's going on in Big Tech.

The article The Tech Baron Seeking to Purge San Francisco of “Blues” and the radical ideas of Balaji Srinivasan (to which he's provided a link) I find very alarming, it supports my long-held view that as a society if we're not careful the biggest threat to our democracy will come from the Tech Barons (there's just too much money at stake for them not to be dictatorial).

In many ways that threat is already here, these people already hold great power and sway over governments and as such have evaded even the most reasonable of regulations for many years. That they seem insulted and peeved to the extent at having to submit to any regulation to the extent of thinking about succeeding from the democratic process is pretty much proof of their intentions.

Even today on HN we see Zuckerberg calling for the new Trump administration to intervene in EU law to stop these companies being fined because of their bad behavior, essentially they consider themselves outside the law).

Frankly, this is outrageous, that they are making such statements in public shows the extent of their brazenness and how cocksure they are of succeeding.

The average citizen ought to be deeply alarmed at what's happening.
Did anyone say debugging?

I've followed https://debugbetter.com/ for a few weeks and the content has been great!
Without delving too deep, a quick search suggests he only confessed to providing drugs to women, but not to sexual assault:

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/07/us/bill-cosby-quaaludes-s...

So he appears to have confessed at least to be a drug dealer.
Based on your comments you are in US. Your taxes are very low among Western countries.

That slacker is already getting high and playing on Xbox. With UBI they will have less worries about staying alive and the opportunity to try things to get more money. UBI is a great insentive for people to try new things without there being a financial risk of you losing your income. Just check the trials and their results - people are more productive and happy in general.
I have a mixed opinion on this. There are cases when nepotism fires back via poor job performance and quickly self-corrects itself.

But there are cases when nepotism is a job requirement, as in being connected to a powerful network is job description. You can find it in investment banking, big law, VC, sales when people are hired because they know the right people and can get the right results through back-channels/established network.

You cannot make the same argument however in favor of hiring lesbians, unless being a lesbian is a job requirement
> Patent documents say the 'ocean towing type cutting device' is designed for 'emergency situations.'

Imagine the ecological damage
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In my school there was always a mad scramble every month to get first access to the latest addition to our school librarys' Tintin and Asterix sections; it resulted in many a schoolyard scrap, in fact. So much so, that our school librarian would often 'scramble' the day of the week that she'd release it into the collection .. some of us worked out that the release day of the week was simply incremented each month, however.

I vividly remember my disappointment that some of the richer kids just got their own 'subscription' to the Tintin/Asterix comics at home, and therefore often spoiled the stories for those of us dependent on the school library.

Was very non-Tintin like behaviour, I have to say .. which I eventually trumped by bringing to school a well-worn Lucky Luke collection that had been gifted to me, in order to share with the oik kids, exclusively ..
Well, sure. If the US wants to start uncontrolled escalation against a nuclear power there is a lot they can do. But if we take as a fairly obvious truth that they can't do that, we discover that they're at the limit of what they can do. Their command doesn't think they can handle a war with Russia. And they don't have the ability to stabilise the front lines in Ukraine.