skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am so disheartened by the term "free speech" in political usage because it does seem to me mostly a rallying call to actually ban speech that the user of the term dislikes. I look to how "cisgender" is treated on X worse that most actual ethnic slurs: https://www.fastcompany.com/91126082/elon-musk-x-cisgender-c...

Very few actually want to apply it equally to both their side and the opposing side.

I did notice this one group called FIRE that actually does a pretty decent job of applying free speech rights relatively equally, I think we should support it more:

https://www.thefire.org
Is it normal to go into a PhD not having at least a vague thesis topic?

I had the opposite issue -- I had an idea that had support in my research area, but my advisor did not have funding to pursue.

(I wanted to expand the end of term project I did in a class whose professor hired me on as an RA and wrote one of my rec letters)

I eventually left, because if I am going to be told what to do, I can do that for more money and less stress outside academia.

(Forgive the vagueness, but my former area is a small world and I don't want to dox myself)
DeepRAG: Thinking to retrieval step by step for large language models
You think only social sciences use the words "bias" and "gender?"
Chris Anderson Is Giving Ted Away to Whoever Has the Best Idea for Its Future
in the RFPs, they are gonna replace DEI clauses with AI clauses. which reveals what they think about labor and people
Cline has completely changed my approach to engineering. There's been this notion of "vibes" coding which I really resonate with -- using something like Cline I've found it performs better when I set a direction and let Cline fill in the gaps/details.
> He's not sure why the company has banned external AI. "I think it's a control thing," he says.

They involve sending company IP to a third party to do whatever they want with it.

Or depending on your industry and job function, instead of your company's IP it might be other people's data and have contractual or even statutory rules about what you can do with it.
It is about spending and trust over spending. I was skeptical Elon was going to find meaningful cuts. But the again I thought USAID was spending $50 billion on things like vaccines for kids in Bangladesh. Then I find out that it’s funding anti-Trump groups like Kristol’s (https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1886647920566636637) and left-wing government destabilization abroad. So now I want Elon’s nerds to trace every payment and find out how much USAID money went to “democracy” NGOs to do stuff like encourage the recent overthrow of the government in Bangladesh.

The narrative emerging here is that the same permanent-government gremlins that we always knew bankrolled efforts to destabilize the rest of the world are perfectly okay with turning those same tactics inward if the wrong candidate wins the election. If we can put these people out of business and find even $25 billion a year in the process it will be worth it.

I don’t care about Elon’s conflicts. Worst thing from that is we get a giant EV credit next year. I’m much more worried about the conflict from federal employees who overwhelmingly support one party funneling federal money to aligned NGOs.
Previously:

- 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34944067

- 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22501566
European Alternatives for Popular Services
Meta has basically copied TikTok as an 1:1 app at least twice, the most recent being Lasso. The problem most of these many companies trying to emulate TikTok’s success is that the UI/UX and content delivery aren’t the secret sauce. It’s a near bulletproof algorithm that needs comparatively little time to lock in your preferences. Add in the fact that TikTok really doesn’t encourage or reward following creators, it makes for a natural conflict with some of Meta’s base models for operation that they have trouble addressing.

That’s why some suggest that the recent regulatory assaults, cozying up to would be dictators and forced changing of ownership to American corporations is just manufactured corporate raiding by competitors that can’t keep up.
Ask HN: How to deal with free time/personal projects?
I really want to improve my programming skills and maybe learn new things in my free time, but I always feel exhausted after working for eight hours. How do you guys manage this? I feel like I need to get better at so many things, but when I think about everything at once, I end up doing nothing.
Sarah Paine makes this point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eebSpobsPmM
Sorry, but could you point out what is not professional? Not everyone needs a UI wrapper that offers tons of OSS services with high prices.
Can I see a source for “forbidden” or “banned”? I see the author claiming these words get “flagged”, but also no source other than his post.

Surely HN users wouldn’t be so quick to just believe a random mastadon post because it aligns with their own <flagged words>, right?
Thanks for the blog. Your book was an excellent starting point for me getting into emacs (vim for 7 years before) and your articles contains solid tips. I usually reread some of the articles as my understanding of emacs deepens.
In particle physics we usually use these terms which will be at any proposal. This is an interesting textbook definition of false positives when you have list that is using too common words.

- Minimum "Biased" data

- "Discrimination" or "Discriminatory" variables

- Phase space "excluded"

- "Inclusion" of data/variable/anything

- "inequality" -> wow bell's inequality and all this theory work about inequalities will be triggered

These are just example that came into my mind from quick thought and skimming. I'm pretty sure that this will have much worst false positive rate. I would really be surprised if the vast majority if not all of projects get flagged. I'm also sure that 100% of statistics work or project heavily reliant on statistics (probably everything else too) will be flagged.
> Are wages the principal component of “commodity” ship building?

Wages and steel.

China is the world's largest steel producer (US makes ~4% of global output). Reminder that Nippon Steel wanted to buy US Steel and (AIUI) keep US plants open, but that was killed by both Biden and Trump:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_acquisition_of_U.S._S...

If US management/ownership cannot keep a company alive, perhaps let non-US folks give it a try if they're willing keep US plants open. The world learned lots of lessons from Toyota (who learned from Denning), perhaps Nippon Steel can teach a few things.
Even the book uses the word "unrecoverable". The wording is communication. The intention is not to recover them, while it could be possible.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch09-01-unrecoverable-errors-...
Apple's (much more) slowly going down to the same "profit over users" road. A year or so ago I started slowly migrating from Apple-only apps to cross-platform apps. Fortunately my main hobbies are YouTube and software side projects so this was pretty easy.

Anyway, when I finally felt my Mac was getting a bit long in the tooth, I loaded Linux (Debian + XFCE in my case, but they say Linux Mint is quite Windows-ish) on my spare gaming desktop (I don't really game much anymore so it was unused), installed the apps, added some Mac-like keyboard shortcuts, and it's worked fine!

Maybe you too can slowly find cross platform alternatives to your apps, so the jump will be easy when your boiling pot gets too hot.
I've put together a collection of some of my favourites on my site. Many of them should fit your criteria.

https://vale.rocks/links
Is a black box AI system less transparent than 12 jurors? It would seem anytime the system is human judgement, an AI system would be as transparent (or nearly so).

It would seem accountable would only be higher in systems where humans were not part of the decision making process.
I appreciate the data, but the conclusions are specific to ranking for high volume searches. It doesn't tell us much about other factors, such as the indexing of marginal domains.

My suspicion is that links from a site like Reddit, with a positive sentiment attached are highly valuable. Volume of links, without any discernment of quality is a misleading metric at best. The author records that disavowing links decreased search traffic. If all links are equal, why would it be necessary to disavow (bad) links? Perhaps disavowed links correlate with spam and are a penalty unto themselves. There's some honesty in the post when they mention the problems with correlation.
Maybe it's time to consider changing it to another country which is actually OSS friendly and doesn't change all the time their politics.

PS: Sorry for the off-topic discussion.
I love Halo because it doesn't trigger any motion sickness for me at all. No head bob.

I played a top-down 3D RTS once and had to turn it off because the camera had just enough acceleration/momentum/drift that it was triggering dizziness.
Anybody have the actual source of the list? It purports to be from a program officer, but how do we know?
Reddit does a good job surfacing quality content, especially in the domain of art and design. There's several science and space subreddits as well.

Very few ppl can blog consistently enough to warrant an RSS feed -- you need an aggregator of some kind.
Yep, speed is pretty good, though there's still a long way to go.

As mentioned in this comment[0] land and labor are still the dominant part of the costs. So if municipalities would allow and prefer denser housing cost would be lower.

And of course if we are already talking about quasi-standardized (cookie-cutter) units, then there's even more reason to scale up projects so prefab components could be shipped in. (Though of course we again run into the tragedy of small scale. Metro areas are made up of too small suburban cities, they don't want a big project, they don't have the infrastructure for it, they don't want the extra traffic, and so on.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42932445
Turning off motion blur and other high end graphic effects can really help, especially if they are hurting your framerate

I find if I'm getting a consistent framerate then the effects don't bother me as much, but motion blur plus a sudden framerate drop is guaranteed to make me nauseous

My wife on the other hand cannot handle motion blur effects at all, and any time we play a game together I turn it off immediately
Yes. Haven't had an outage in near 2 years according to our monitoring.
Amusing nomenclature, but it's a legitimate concern. If your SREs use application credentials to connect to the database, your ability to have effective access controls and have accurate access audit trails are severely hampered.
Something is seriously wrong when the world easily accepts usage of AI but basic questions like “how does AI compute ‘1+2’” require this level of research…
Responding with insults doesn't help your argument.
i agree in principle but it's not reality

my moms lifelong friend recently told us her grandkids are all trumpers

they're all on SSI. one had four abortions. and they LOVE trump.

every group in america was promised whatever they want, despite the endless hypocrisies/lies with that, and none of them seem to care whatsoever??

for this reason i see no way out of this hell. it's simply beyond reason at this point.

(this take is from pennsylvania)
> never a good time

Perhaps your threshold is too high? The graveyards are full of indispensable men. Will your project actually fall apart without you? Even if it does, is that a reason to not treat burnout?
Also "polarization".
55 years old and I’ve never played a first person shooter because of I get extreme nausea after about a minute.
These aren't rumors. Everyone (both sides of the aisle) agrees there's massive fraud that ends up being a double-digit percentage of the money in entitlements and handouts: https://apnews.com/article/pandemic-fraud-waste-billions-sma...
Ships can easily mount a CWIS or similar to help with a wide range of threats. Not so easy to do the same on a cargo aircraft.
I think that relates to talking about history in a way that may make white people feel bad about it: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/01/florida-sb-148-racis...
Literally any random x86 box you have lying around. NUCs work fine here, but so do used Optiplexes from Craigslist or your old gaming PC.
Great breakdown of data structures like Tries, FSTs, and DAWGs for log search! How do these compare in terms of memory usage and update performance? Awesome read!
> but globally make up like 5% of PC sales.

This may be true globally, but isn't necessarily reflective of actual market share for the markets targeted.

If your startup is selling to people in say, United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia or New Zealand, then Mac marketshare is 20% to 30% of all computer usage (depending on which nation, how you count, and whose measurements you use, etc).
In 2055, anti-wokeists will have banned "bias," and wokeists will have banned "weight." Following defeat in the pan-Eastern bent ground war, hawks will ban "loss." They will be renamed plusses, and double plusses, and ungood.
Massive amounts of coffee…
It is what I'm saying
Probably a decade ago at this point, a friend got the first publicly available Oculus Rift development kit. We all wanted to try it, so a bunch of us gathered in his attic to give it a go. We were playing this tech demo where you would swing around on ropes to get between flying islands.

Every single person who tried it got sick, except for myself. I played it longer than anyone else and did not have an issue.

I have a lazy eye. It's fine most of the time but when I get tired it just drifts off into the outer corner and makes me look scary. My guess at the time was that my brain was just used to getting signals from my eyes that didn't make sense.

To this day however, I still get very car sick trying to read my phone in a moving motor vehicle, so I don't know.
> Freedom of speech does not imply freedom of funding.

The first amendment is specifically about preventing government reprisals for speech. If I would have won a federal grant, but was denied it because I said "trans rights," that's the definition of a first amendment violation.
It's funny because the management where I work operate the policy:

"A manager can be held accountable"

"Therefore a manager must never make a management decision"

\shrugs
It seems to have a pretty complete collection of EGM issues, however the interface isn't the best, it's a generic file / image gallery that shows 20 items at a time instead of a dated index.
>I am very hesitant to deal with desktop linux bullshit, but Windows 11 may just be the thing to push me over the edge.

I switched to Linux a year ago and never looked back. It's done everything I've asked of it with minimal fuss: gaming, dev, local LLMs (accelerated on my AMD GPU), Microsoft Office (in a VM), web browsing and comms, etc. The only hiccups I've encountered are in Steam VR, which only has official support for Windows.
> In the months after my son’s birth, I suddenly had no free time.

> ...

> I took a breath and realized the reason I had “no free time” was that several days each week, I’d take long walks downtown to enjoy an outdoor brunch with my wife and son. Or we’d host visitors from out of town to meet the baby. I had to remind myself that these were all good things that I liked doing, and I was still in control of my time should I decide to resume working.

When I had my first kid, I'd take her out for walks, or we'd go to the zoo, and then my "free time" (aka time by myself) felt like it was slim to none. As with you, I went through a similar sort of realisation that I had free time and was spending it with my family doing things I enjoyed.

I eventually struck a nice balance where I'd still do most of that but also would carve out solid blocks of time for doing hobbies/learning primarily after the family fell asleep, where I might otherwise just be trying to relax some more.
>President Nayib Bukele’s government has accumulated 5,900 BTC, achieving profits of $333.59 million from an initial $269.74 million investment, fuelled by Bitcoin’s recent surge past $100,000. (dec 2024)

I wish I could have a $333m failure like that.

(edit - see also his approval rating - 91% https://x.com/stats_feed/status/1875573928250179666)
Watson has been around a long, long time, and they are still leaders in quantum computing IIRC.
The transaction fee is currently $1.64 and frequently spikes to tens of dollars. (Yes, sometimes LN can reduce that.) You can buy gold via something like $GLD for free.
Ariane 5 exploded with 4 satellites because they copy pasted code of the Ariane 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_flight_V88

It's the most expensive bug in history.
On the other hand, you are bringing up explosions of empty rockets that are launched as test, that's bad faith.

Look at the launch history and the Falcon 9 is simply more reliable than the Ariane 5:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#Launch_outcomes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5#Launch_statistics

I did not said it was a failure, I said, they do not have a "pretty good track record". ESA burn through EU money, and wont care to innovate as long as EU provide them unlimited money and dont pressure them. It's an ivory tower.
Intel knocked off global chip revenue top spot after rotten 2024
Are you trying to justify or explain?
I wrote boot sector stuff (1k) on the Amiga (68k assembler). Today I wonder if I could have written a game (tech wise and skill wise).
I wonder if they really want that, or if that is what is being actively peddled as the new and better way and they’re just ignorantly buying it up.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It's in the guidelines that politics is not on topic here
Boeing is a strategically important business, critical for maintaining the rules based international order. Short term losses are a small price to pay to ensure this company remains a dominant national champion
In what way? This is a list of words to identify applications that the Trump admin wants to deny grants to. Isn't that restricting research quite broadly based on very ideological grounds? This isn't about US research priorities, it is just political interference.
>You are missing a lot of stuff Microsoft is doing. Azure, .NET, server tools, databases, VS Code, TypeScript, GitHub, [...] and it's more relevant as it has ever been.

I didn't list them because they're not "relevant" (scare quotes) to PG's rhetorical angle of "dead". Yes, of course those Microsoft components are still relevant and still being updated and modernized. That said, even though I personally use VSCode, Visual Studio, Github every day, and have upgraded too many MS SQL Server databases... my point is those examples of Microsoft's current usage is not what PG is talking about. I'm not saying readers have to agree with PG. They just have to understand that he's using "dead" as a provocative shorthand about "influence" rather than business stats.

Same confusion as IBM coming out with new Z mainframe models in 2025 and IBM Red Hat just released a new RHEL 9.5 a few months ago and yet people will say "IBM is dead". How can IBM be dead if Red Hat Linux is still relevant?!? That's the problem with different readers' interpretation of the word "dead".

EDIT reply to: >Then what is he talking about when he says "dead"? [...] I mean for vast majority GitHub is a synonym for Git and VSCode is nearly a de-facto IDE for frontend development,

Github (2008 acquired by MS in 2018) and VSCode (2015) didn't exist in 2007 when PG wrote his "Microsoft is Dead" essay. It's possible those are "influential" enough to change his opinion. Maybe not. The examples of millions of people using MS Excel and Word every day back in 2007 with no meaningful competition from Google Docs or LibreOffice didn't stop him form writing "Microsoft is Dead". Therefore, we must conclude he's using "dead" in a very particular way.
You can't compete on cost when you demand things be regulated.

Take for example: Medicine, we mandate doctors go through ~11 years of education before they are qualified and then complain about the cost and say that we can get the procedure done in MX for cheaper. Of course, Med school starting at 17 and practicing at 25 is cheaper than what we do. https://www.reddit.com/r/premed/comments/1ddxrt2/considering...

Steel: We want to carbon neutral steel production vs China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy63PEgmm8w

I am not against regulation and safety, I think we should all have clean air and water safe medicine and good food. The only way for us in the west to get that however is to pay the cost.

If we aren't willing to pay the cost then what we are doing is robbing our children, not only of a future with a clean safe earth but also of their economic future as while their peers in lax countries will have to deal with the pollution they will also have work and knowledge.
“Female” is taboo, but “male” is not. Um… yikes.

Molly White posted something yesterday: “you have a lot more in common with the ‘other people’ than you have with the people in power.” https://fosstodon.org/@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io/1139421522542...
I think the language/dialect distinction is not even helpful - all that counts is what people understand.

As a native German speaker, who never learnt Dutch, I can tell you that I understand nl-NL a lot better than de-CH. There is a reason de-CH is subtiteled in German media.
Any idea, how does the dirt/each return over time to sustain plant life? Or is it just a gradual grow inwards with plant matter slowly forming topsoil?
It's not about the projects and more so about the money and living costs and the instability in the world. I also have some expensive chronic diseases, which is problematic in the US.

I've thought about other options like part time contracting, though.
Programmers are modern-day computers
The primary use for these is implementing Software-Defined Radios and the primary user of these is the military. SDRs allow jamming resistance, operation in hostile radio zones, and flexible network topologies.
I searched it up for you, no idea if this works:

To disable the "Make account" and "Remind me in 3 days" prompt on Microsoft, navigate to your Windows settings, then go to System > Notifications & actions; within the "Notifications" section, look for options related to "Suggest ways to finish setting up your device" or similar wording and toggle them off to prevent these reminders from appearing.
I like how you used the idiom begs the question correctly and OP didn’t.
> So in essence, it disallows logging IP address for any purpose, be it security, debugging, rate-limiting etc. because you can't give consent in advance for this, and no other sentence in Art. 6.1 applies.

In addition to the other answers, I want to point out that recital 49 says that it is possible under legitimate interest (6(1)f).
Doing unit conversions where the units are treated as a kind of that can be multiplied and cancelled was a game changer for me. When it was first taught to me, I thought it was pointless.

Looking back, it should have been taught closer to 1st grade, not 7th.
for a group of people who wants to get politics out of science, they sure just injected a bunch of politics into science.

MAGA is a death cult.