skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This time around it seems less targeted, which gives the perception that it is not really about streamlining, feel free to prove me wrong though.

From the document you linked:
> The buyouts were not offered in a random fashion, however. We targeted them to reduce the layers of bureaucracy and micro-management that were tying Government in knots. We made sure that departments and agencies tied their buyout strategies to their overall plans to streamline their bureaucracies. As a result, almost 70 percent of our buyouts in the non-Defense agencies have gone to people at higher grade levels, such as managers.
Yes, I think that is actually the greatest weakness of mypy: the ecosystem is hostile to static typing.
Asdf v0.16.0 – Rewrite asdf in Golang
There are people who write to help illuminate others.

There are also people who use bots to write to raise the communication noise floor so no comprehension can occur.

Its all about cost and intent.
Cool. I tried to build Clasp from source a long while ago, and failed. Now a brew install….
No discussion of LibreOffice would be complete without a reminder that the Apache Foundation continues to harm the open source community by pretending that Apache OpenOffice isn't dead as a doornail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice

Come on, Apache, admit what we all know to be true, and figure out a way to gently wind the OpenOffice project down.
There’s a fascinating series of YouTube videos of someone buying and refurbishing a church organ
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLluPQLh1xzlI7EMB5qIxDd_1O...
The ESP32-S3 spends most of its time in deep sleep, only waking up for about 5-10 seconds every 5 minutes. The problem I ran into was that not just the ESP32-S3, every component on the board (the accelerometer, the haptic motor driver, the LiPo battery charger, the 3v3 LDO) has a some constant, minimum (quiescent) current draw. And even how your resistors are configured (pullup or pulldown) and their resistance values contributes. To diagnose it, I would need a precision measurement tool like a ($1k) Joulescope https://www.joulescope.com/products/js220-joulescope-precisi... and probably a significant amount of time.
That’s not a valid argument. There is no reason why people in Japan couldn’t start their workday at 03:00, or people in France at 22:00
Users can be adversarial to the “truth” (to the extent it exists) without being adversarial in intent.

Dinosaur bones are either 65 million year old remnants of ancient creatures or decoys planted by a God during a 7 day creation, and a large proportion of humans earnestly believe either take. Choosing which of these to believe involves a higher level decision about fundamental worldviews. This is an extreme example, but incorporating “honest” human feedback on vaccines, dark matter, and countless other topics won’t lead to de facto improvements.

I guess to put it another way: experts don’t learn from the masses. The average human isn’t an expert in anything, so incorporating the average feedback will pull a model away from expertise (imagine asking 100 people to give you grammar advice). You’d instead want to identify expert advice, but that’s impossible to do from looking at the advice itself without giving into a confirmation bias spiral. Humans use meta-signals like credentialing to augment their perception of received information, yet I doubt we’ll be having people upload their CV during signup to a chat service.

And at the cutting edge level of expertise, the only real “knowledgeable” counterparties are the physical systems of reality themselves. I’m curious how takeoff is possible for a brain in a bottle that can’t test and verify any of its own conjectures. It can continually extrapolate down chains of thought, but that’s most likely to just carry and amplify errors.
Note the user count is much lower but unknown too since it is bundled with many distros.
> Talk to the peoples that grew up there. Where they fear their neighbors

Well I can talk to my parents who grew up in the Jim Crow south where they weren’t trusted to drink from the same water fountain go to the same school or get in the same pool.

Or today you can look at any neighborhood’s NextDoor forum when they see a black person “suspiciously” walking in the neighborhood and entering a home with their key.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/ving-rhames-officers-pulled-gu...

Not to mention we just elected a President who ran on Haitians are eating pets and fear mongering of “other”.
Is there a private company whose corporate culture or long term political influence could be trusted?

I feel like this has not been possible in the West at least since Friedman
There's also a movie about it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceman_(2017_film)
Reacting to Changes: Computers and Living Cells
The alternative to an iPhone is an Android phone. They are both big tech, but one is built by a fairly invasive anti-competitive villain, while the other is build by the flagship company of surveillance capitalism. No good option, but one is clearly worse, right?
The RL is done on problems with verifiable answers. I’m not sure how o1 slop would be at all useful in that respect.
There will be a list of scenarios competing for that "last place".

Operating rooms, certain military/police situations and self driving cars come to mind. A shared characteristic here is that errors lead to fatal outcomes exacerbated by unclear accountability.
Personal observation and common sense logic are often disregarded as 'unscientific', yet they are more powerful tools for learning about the world around us than sifting through hundreds of papers we are not trained to on scholar.google

Weed make you dumb short term? Probably make you dumb long term.

Friends who smoke weed end up dumb and underachieving? Correlation established.

Life is not a college science test. Sometimed you have to just put 2 plus 2 together.
The irony is that they like Tiktok
Merkel is such a hypocrite.

With her not being without responsibility for the current bad shape of the German economy. And with her having empowered the extremist parties by her years and years of inaction on things like immigration.
And then having the audacity to chide the current party leader.

But the CDU stays with its tradition of inaction. The voted motion in parliament was just theatrics anyway, with no real results.
If you think that you either weren't around or have just forgotten. Google was "do no evil" and seemed to actually mean it. They had a ton of goodwill.
I'm on linux but I also download from the website to get the latest updates; the distro repo versions are typically quite outdated.

In theory, the downloadable version lets you know when there's an update. In practice I'm using a little script [0] which I've integrated in my update manager to manage update-notifications for me.

[0] https://sr.ht/~tpapastylianou/misc-updater/
'Forever chemicals' in wastewater far more widespread than previously known
> The buyouts were not offered in a random fashion, however. We targeted them to reduce the layers of bureaucracy and micro-management that were tying Government in knots. We made sure that departments and agencies tied their buyout strategies to their overall plans to streamline their bureaucracies. As a result, almost 70 percent of our buyouts in the non-Defense agencies have gone to people at higher grade levels, such as managers.

this isn't how it's being done now
Well, they flexed and it worked. I'm not sure it was the best strategy when the argument was "undue influence by a foreign power."
Let me tell you something - it is not just US teens. It is all around Europe as well.
The press conference this morning mentioned that this was a new flight path. I wonder if the helicopter crew were not fully briefed on the new path, if that is the case.
I suppose the dust cloud from impact could take care of global warming for us, assuming it impacts land.
In my experience, most teams are not operating at a level of comment saturation where we can worry about this kind of thing.

It can be hard enough to get folks to accept that their code isn’t “self-documenting” and actually write some comments to help the person who inherits their code orient themselves.

Often the comment author and comment reader are the same person, but separated temporally by all the time that has passed since the code was last read, understood, and internalized, so the two may as well be entirely different people.

As a note, I’m usually hesitant to refer to a specific variable name in a comment because code changes and comments aren’t always kept up to date, so you might actually be introducing more confusion in the future when someone renames a variable and no one notices that the comment is out of sync.
The Slow Death of OCSP
An amazing project, and I love that he always calls it "Joan's organ." What a tribute.
I'm failing to understand the correlation to "safety" here. Reading a byte for which you don't know the value isn't "unsafe". It's literally (!) the desired behavior of foreign data being read from an external source, which is in fact the use case in the article.

There's no safety problem as long as the arbitrary value is deterministic, which it is, being process RAM. The "uninitialized data read" bugs reported from instrumentation tools in C code are because the code is assuming the value has some semantics. The read itself has no value and is presumably an artifact of the bug, but it is safe.
There are two real options, both big tech, and then layer peer pressure on top of that. People pick between options they don’t like all the time.
This concept isn't useful in a scenario in which owning or associating with something has become a near-necessity. This is "revealed control." Very few teens (or even adults) have the luxury of going the Stallman route.

Pet peeve, we can't stop thinking just because an idea in the past has a specious connection to now.
You've just introduced timezones
Loved the part about whether companies would protect users if it hurt profits. This is kind of the ultimate question.
Used to be able to add friends birthdays and events you'd rsvp'd "Going" to your calendar via iCal URLs too. That was so damn useful.
Microsoft reports Q2 revenue up 12% YoY to $69.6B
Have you watched US presidential debates across the decades?

(1992) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jWo88Lr0rzw&t=102s

They've objectively gotten meaner and dumber with each cycle.
Here we get air traffic controller recordings, and people who are ammeter pilots. It is more informed speculation than my "normal" friends or co-workers.
They are being offered at that price (999ETH), not necessarily sold.
The creator has not sold a single item yet:

https://opensea.io/BullionArts/deals

https://opensea.io/collection/art-by-the-bullish-moves?searc...
LibreOffice also can be used headlesslsy to convert other files to PDF locally. We use it via a container to first generate well-styled docx files (letters, invoices etc) and then convert those to PDFs.
And there is an overwhelming support for the war in Gaza from Israelis, that many consider a gross violation of international law going beyond war crimes into genocide territory. If that is shown to be the case would Israelis deserve what they get in response? I doubt you'd agree.

Every genocide, every occupation and every conflict has its own historical conflict. You need to examine you own massive biases here, adjust your view to international law and human rights and you'd see the massive injustice here that is fueling the conflict and will continue to until its addressed.

Israel is not securing its own safe future here, there is no military solution here. Hamas will rebuild itself if it hasn't already because the crime they have committed and the people they have murdered will only boost the recruitment of Hamas and other paramilitary groups. This has always been the way the world over. Jewish history is itself has examples of this.

And I've never see a good faith attempt from Israel wrt this conflict that hasn't been completely derailed by the Israeli extremists and hardliners.
Do some Rust types have invalid object representation or trap representation? On SysV x86_64 bool only has two valid representations in memory, the rest are trap representations.

So for an array of bools (if Rust matches SysV) freeze wouldn't be sound, even without the madvise problem.
I don't know about Soviet manufacturing but there are a couple pics going around of people claiming their pair of shoes were made in two different countries:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Sneakers/comments/ho1tj8/my_left_an...

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/6iewhc/t...

Commenters claim it is done so that people in the factories won't steal shoes since they can't get both left and right shoes.
> In economics, there is a concept of “revealed preference”.

What's your point?

If it's "you teens actually love and trust big tech," I don't think you can make that leap from "revealed preference" data. People buy things for a lot of reasons, and buy from people they don't trust if they have no other realistic option.
I was doing this, and then it is confusing for people to follow. Nowadays I do this, too. But when I am ready, I write up everything once, then add in the details.
Mostly I agree with you, but politicians should be insulted and ridiculed. I’ve had enough nauseating bipartisan back-slapping for one lifetime.
Lol! https://star-history.com/#Apache/airflow&Date
As much as you were able to prove that CryEngine, Unreal, and many others do just fine.
Ask HN: How do you manage your email box?
It seems like I can't find a good set of email rules to help manage the firehose of emails I receive.

I try to be mindful regarding emails to be sent to me because of the crushing weight and count of emails sent all the time. However, some things I care about -- certain open source projects development, some substacks, etc. -- have such variability in how many emails sent that its starting to drive me crazy. I unsubscribe as much as I can, but it feels like stopping a raindrop in the storm!

Do you have a good approach you could share? I hate missing things I care about, or that are urgent, in the wash of the hundreds of emails I get daily.
I don't believe you would have any trouble answering these questions for yourself, and I do not have any confidence that you are engaging earnestly.
The more pertinent question to me is can we implement some new static analysis that understands buffer re-use and can hoist buffer initialization outside the loop? Rather than make the programmer write obfuscated code for efficiency, it is usually better to have the compiler do the heavy lifting.

P.S. Also, folks, don't re-use buffers without zeroing unless you absolutely need the performance and know what you're doing.
But the commenter is right about the first part of zero trust.

Put another way, you aren't scouting ahead if no one is following you. You're homesteading. Which is a fine thing to do, but it won't get any significant bridges built. You, alone, won't be able to span the Mississippi with resources you find on your homestead.

I think we have entered a post trust era.

All that said, democracy is a team sport, so zero trust seems to be the population level consensus. So it's what should happen. Maybe it ends well? More likely it ends poorly. But either way, others will be able to learn from it and other human societies will benefit from the knowledge.
LibreOffice is such a great tool. I almost exclusively used it (LO Impress) for science presentations and lectures for more than 20 years (previously as Openoffice).
It has its issues, with things like videos, or really big presentations, or formatting changes between platforms, but most of the time it did the job. The fact that you can embed LaTeX in slides (through an extension) is a great thing. I don't think the end result ever looked as slick as alternatives, but if that is not your ultimate goal, it's fine.
Interesting, I would assume surface wave dissipation to counteract that compared to seabed origin.
Yes.

That's what "// SAFETY: u8 has no invalid bit patterns." is discussing. That while types in general can u8 specifically does not (none of the u*/i* integer types do) so freezing a buffer of u8s is sound.
> Trust, but verify

Tellingly, Reagan’s America is where I really notice cultural growth dying out and trust vanishing.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that casting your screen re-encodes the screen image in much lower quality.

Whereas Airflow is sending the original video steam over untouched, for supported codecs like h.264/265. So it maintains the original quality. Including resolutions that may be higher than your screen, like 4K.
Preferences change before behavior changes, especially where network effects are strong. Preference has to become strongly negative before you'll see the change in behavior. But then the change can happen fast. A social network can suffer the social equivalent of a "Minsky moment." Or as Hemingway said, they can go broke two ways, first slowly, then suddenly.
Couldnt it just be a selection effect? People who smoke cigarettes are less neurotic. I would assume people with long-covid are on average more neutrotic, as people with high neuroticism is more likely to attribute sickness to long-covid?
And Facebook and X are not advocacy organizations vehemently pushing an agenda? The fact that there is an organization looking to speak for teenagers and their rights to privacy in the face of the aggressiveness of FAANG lobbying should be the best news you hear today. Organizations like CSM and EFF are the last points of light in an ocean of darkness.
And completely ignoring the other link showing how many teenagers are on various social media platforms?

But according to HN, teenagers could always use an open source alternative to Android on their phone if they were so passionate about it.
I just happened to use Calc for the first time in a looong while yesterday. Pretty nice. Fast, conventional, no damn ribbon menus. Saved to office365 format for consumption by others and it was all flawless. It's always been functional, but what I saw yesterday felt pretty polished. Used whatever version is default with Ubuntu 24.04.

So, it's still being actively refined. I think you're maybe a bit too hard on LibreOffice and Apache.

Also, I'll mention something about Thunderbird. Because Snaps, I installed Thunderbird from the official site. I am amazed by this software. Thunderbird is legitimately a nice desktop email client. What amazing progress.

I wondered about updates for Thunderbird, thinking that since I'd done an out-of-band install, I wouldn't get updates. I was astonished to find it's been silently auto-updating itself with zero drama. Kudos.
Why is it extraordinary? moment.js has been excellent for me, same for PHP's builtin DateTimeImmutable. What does this do that makes it extraordinary?
The more liability that ISPs are under for content, the more the Internet is dead. It'll probably be some cybersecurity regulation effectively requiring whitelisting of domains. No one will care because AI slop will have made it unusable for most at that point.

I could see ISPs being eventually put in a position where--given concerns of cybersecurity, liability, profitability, and absence net neutrality--access to domains gets treated more or less like cable channels.

You'll have a basic package of a hundred or so approved non-foreign "safety-certified" domains that tend to be part of your phone or Internet bill, and then access to other domains is available if ISP-consortium approved and you pay. There won't be very many because there will be a complex regulatory environment both for domain owners, providers of the service behind the domain, and the ISP allowing access. To register and provide services under a new domain you will have to spend a lot of upfront capital or work under an established regime.

> Do you think there will be anywhere to go after?

No clue. My crystal ball is dark. I guess UUCP would still work if you can get a dial tone somehow lol. I'm sure we'll still have phone numbers.
I wonder what happens when a timezone ceases to exist, e.g. what if Paris is renamed to New New York after the British take revenge and take over France.
Do not panic, I've rolled a 1d100 and got a 42, we are safe.
They have no realistic option than use the social media sites in the link I included?
Same. Do you know some public and maintained (kept up to date) docker container for that usecase? I tried using https://github.com/vladholubiev/docker-libreoffice-pdf-cli and while it was exactly what I wanted, it hasn't been updated in ages, and its ancient version of LibreOffice rendered my docx docs wrongly. So I ended building my one-off updated version, but didn't publish it as I wouldn't want to be keeping it up to date as well.
Which is wholly irrelevant if the costs are so high that no one will buy the power.

Which is especially true considering how renewables and storage is plummeting in cost seeing incredible growth.
>NEETs != nerds.

of course -- nerds have friends, there's a nerd table in the lunch room, there's always some space carved out for nerd-type activities, they'll probably eventually find a matching nerd-girlfriend (or boyfriend, i suppose. neetdom is an affliction that hits guys harder.), parents know how to deal with nerd children, etc.

games and weed make the intolerable tolerable, as you say: some folks aren't well-configured for productive society, and if the option is between active torture trying to better themselves and "be normal", all-encompassing boredom, and soma-esque games 'n porn, i'm comfortable giving them the last category without constantly trying to tell them that they're doing it to themselves.
Bad things happen in tech when you don't do the disrupting yourself.
You would have to grade every user on every knowledge axis though. Just because someone is an expert in software doesn’t mean you should believe their takes on medicine, no matter how good faith their model interactions appear. I’d argue that coming up with an automated way to determine the objective truthfulness of information would be among the greatest creations of humanity (basically “solving” philosophy), so this isn’t a small task.
Trust in that is required even for experts in the field. Replicating experiments is tricky, expensive, and sometimes risks the health of humans or kills a non-human test subject. (Though I really wouldn’t call this an appeal to “authority” so much as presumably “consensus of those in the field”)
I mean, .NET is what makes C# so good. You also get to use F#, you get to target all these platforms and a very flexible deployment/compilation model for your applications - something that e.g. neither Go nor Java offer to the same extent.

There is also a greater selection of IDEs and LS's.
Do we have to choose? I'm doing fine without either.
A lot of people here like to go on about security. I agree there's a certain amount of theater, and I try to avoid really peak times, but with pre-check I do tend to arrive early because I don't want stress but, as you say, it's rarely more than a few minute wait and I pretty much toss my bag on the carousel and walk through the metal detector. It's really not a big deal if you're prepared.
After switching to OnlyOffice I never looked back.
It's anecdotal, but I have a similar feeling about OnlyOffice. It has better compatibility with Word than LibreOffice and has an easier-to-use, modern interface resembling Word 2010/2013.
Hm, vulns are more common in libraries in general than in the compiler, I'd say. Or am I misunderstanding?
In addition, ATC is not allowed to go on strike, limiting the degree to which they can bargain for better working conditions, pay, etc.
> No one cares about the technology behind your site

You know a blog is going to be good when it's using the default wordpress theme from 10 years ago.
Apache is generally a collection of over-engineered abandonware.
Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence