skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trump stated

what mental gymnastics are you having to do to believe Trump, who is a proven pathological liar -- I mean, come on, that's not even a question of debate

I believe 0% of what Trump says.

But even if that were true, it doesn't resolve the conflict of interest story. Gov money being cut from _fill in blank of gov agency_ means that there's more money available for what's important to Musk (corp tax cuts, for example; gov spending that benefits his company, his business interests in China, etc.)
I wonder if Google is forced to disclose the reasons for this change in a different jurisdiction like the EU
What's specific in checked exceptions is that if you don't handle or silently ignore the new exception, you must change the signature. Then your callers must do the same thing. Then their callers etc. sometimes right down to your public static void main.
> They are explicitly the inverse of DEI approaches.

This is essentially a No True Scotsman fallacy. If it's DEI, it's bad so any good approach is, by definition, not part of DEI.

> DEI is predicated on outcome diversity, rather than treating applicants equally irrespective of background.

The first part of this is incorrect. Good DEI is about creating a level playing field (as you correctly point out for blind people or wheelchair users). Obviously, this isn't possible in all cases: I think everyone agrees we wouldn't want a blind taxi driver.

> The entire premise is that certain groups require special support

This is correct. Fair criticism of DEI initiatives can be levied at those which don't do this effectively and instead shortcut by using, say, hiring quotas. I've said multiple times that things like this are lazy and stupid because they don't address the lack of opportunity for disadvantaged backgrounds.

> and have been historically excluded because of bias (sometimes true, often wholly false

This is an inaccurate stating of the situation. Some groups (e.g. black people in the USA) are excluded due to bias. Some have been excluded due to situational factors (young white men in the UK have worse outcomes due to poverty). Good DEI initiatives attempt to counter these, with varying levels of success.

Let me take the article as an example. They identified an advantage for people on CTI programmes, which also happened to turn out good ATC operators. This may have advantaged people who could afford to attend the programmes, which could have skewed white male. A good DEI initiative might have been to put the work into outreach in under-represented areas to get more people of colour into CTI programmes. Instead, the FAA banned CTI programmes, threw the students there to the wolves, and seemed to sneak in a test designed to hit hiring quotas. Not only was this discriminatory, it also actively reduced the number of qualified ATC operators.

Nowhere in this scenarios did I need to fall back on "DEI bad," because I tried to discuss the specific issues within the article.
What’s old is new again. Cyclone, one of the influences on Rust, is a systems language using regions for memory management.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements...

This is a man who sharpies extra lines onto weather maps so he doesn't have to say "whoops, made a mistake in my tweet". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dorian%E2%80%93Alaba...
Really. In the case of Google it’s even deeper for me. For some reason the ruination of their search engine feels like a betrayal for which Kagi’s proliferation feels like justice.
Stop being so intolerant! You know the existence of vaccines is religious persecution as they make it so there are fewer lepers to be embraced. 


As a libertarian who voted conservative (democratic) nationally for the first time in 2020, this narrative is so upside down. The overriding dynamic is that of the wedge issue, where republicans dredge up things our society either took for granted or at least agreed to disagree on and reanimate the old arguments. They find or craft the worst hyperbolic instances that appeal to thirty second attention spans, and then harp on them until there are enough "independent thinkers" staking out a contrarian position to make it an "issue".

The democratic party has its problems and is still fundamentally working to serve the corporate status quo. But contrast the soul searching that's been going on even since November, to the unapologetic doubling down of "stop the steal" in response to an objectively disastrous first Trump term.

The real answer is that people are squeezed, angry, don't know how good they actually have it, don't want to listen to reason, and just want to fuck shit up. Well, now we're all going to get it good and hard.

(edit: added /s tag to mitigate Poe's law, as it's 2025)
Yeah it’s hard to reconcile a permanent layer of unelected officials, that can’t be sacked by either the President or Congress, with many parts of the constitution.

And I’ve never seen a clear explanation of how that change was constitutionally justifiable.
I don't know, I haven't used Android in quite a few years, but it was my understanding that it was in Google's default SMS app. When I got iOS 18, all of my texts to Android users switched automatically to RCS, so they didn't have to do anything.
There is an equilibrium to find. democracy isn't just showing up every 4 or 5 years to drop a piece of paper in a box.

Most countries have rights to protest, organise, strike, for a reason. Most of these rights were gained after long fights in which single individual was meaningless but together they moved contains. You have to know when to pull back but you also have to know when to dive in
NixOS. Takes the fear away due to atomic upgrades and rollbacks. Lot of people can't get pass this language nix though. GuixSd is an alternative to check out. There are other immutable distros too if you're looking for something less radical.
My first ever Linux distro (years ago) was Redhat 7.2. I LOVED it! Eventually working mostly in the corporate (Microsoft dominated) world I lost track of what was going on the Linux world. Few years ago, when I was trying to get out of Microsoft again, a friend recommended Ubuntu, and I hated it. It felt very bloated, then someone else recommended Linux Mint and I never looked back! I would highly recommend trying it out if you are done with Ubuntu, and it also has LTS releases.
DuckDB 1.2.0
Just view a topic on Reddit then on X. You can't be outraged both ways and it should cancel out.
I also went mad from trying to coexist with Ubuntu snapd, so now I'm on Debian. Fedora feels kind of wonky and sometimes broke on upgrades, and when it happened to me it was harder to get out of than when I put a stick in the wrong place in Debian.

Adding non-free and less stable repos to Debian makes it a very slick and robust experience. Most software I want to have newly stitched edge is in their own repos anyway so stable is usually fine too, with a few select things manually installed alongside some asdf and SdkMan installs.

Don't know if touch screens or biometrics work, but Bluetooth and touchpads and sound and so on Just Works on the machines I've tried it on over the last five years or so. Toshiba, Lenovo, HP Elitebook and ZBook, probably something more.
has anyone ever explained why TPM 2.0 is so much better than TPM 1.2 on Windows 11? What can't Microsoft do securely with 1.2 that it can with 2.0?

I'm not asking what 2.0 does better than 1.2, I am asking why is it a must have.
You should have 0 cents. Squash and chill is the way to go.
> time++; // increment time

This isn't too many comments, it's a poor quality comment. Try:

time++; // advance 1 simulated second
No but most models have their own libs you can use
You mention you're looking for (ao) "proper test reporting". CircleCI has a "Test Insights" view (https://circleci.com/docs/insights-tests/) and can collect test-results from a wide range of formats: https://circleci.com/docs/collect-test-data/#test-runner-exa...

Are you looking for something specific that you're missing in the current offerings regarding test reporting?

(Disclaimer: I work at CircleCI)
If my Pixel4a is about to explode on a plane due to bad settings, I'd really like to know about please.

I'm on Lineage so I've managed to avoid the fiasco, but it begs the question of whether the Lineage devs ought to include the battery patch if something bad is certain.
I've never been able to fully use an Ubuntu desktop--the esthetics and UX always felt wrong, and the closest I could deal with was Elementary.

I've pretty much landed on Fedora and vanilla GNOME again for the past two years for many things (including some personal services), with Debian as my go-to for SBCs and servers (and Ubuntu as a fallback if what was available was too old).

Snaps completely turned me off it, and the Fedora Bluefin/Bazzite experience is much better (even if I prefer to run some apps outside flatpack due to too many path re-mappings).
Do you think this is a counterargument? The implication is that for 20% + n% you'd go back to a 5 day week.
It's not that Kagi is expensive at all. It is that your streaming services and premium e-mail service are incredibly cheap. Can you name a few things which you can purchase in your local supermarket that brings you the same value for $10?
Unfortunately not. She soured on the profession quite badly quite a while ago and she's never expressed a desire to go back.
My comment was not an example, it was an analogy. It was purposefully exaggerated to drive a point, and I feel that was quite clear. It’s absurd to call an obviously made up story “farcical”.

What you are doing is conflating my point—which was to illustrate that true merit is more than what you see on the surface—with other conversations you’ve seen somewhere and attacking those. You’re arguing against something, but not any point I made.
SGX is used for DRM in official Blu-Ray 4K playback on PCs, and Intel removed SGX from client cpus in 11th gen (Ice Lake) which means if you want to play those discs on a PC, you either need an older processor or a Xeon or to give in and use unauthorized software.

I'm not sure that tying their horse to SGX is good for adoption of the format.
Public trust in the media is at an all time low along with other institutions. People are turning to social media because the press is unreliable. Reform that institution and fix many of our problems.

Maybe AI agents will be able to help identity bad reporting in the press and hold them more accountable. A sort of epistemic anti-virus.
> It would boil down to "focus on things you can control"

If it only was so simple. How to define such things? Case in point: the biggest "outrage factor" seems to be politics. Well - _can_ you control your country's government? Yes, you can - however not directly. And this means that "I don't care about politics" stance is bad.

edit: spelling
I have one trick, and I won't share it because it's very niche and my margins are very thin (well, still slightly negative...) so any competition would kill it entirely. But it came about as a result of closely looking at my audience, looking for ways to precisely target them, and creating ads in a way that that demographic likes.

Before that, I had some success using Python to generate many thousands of niche google keywords (e.g. don't advertise on "Learn Spanish", but instead "How to learn Estonian quickly" and "What's the best way to learn Hungarian online") and advertising on them. It didn't have a positive ROI for me, but it might for other people with larger margins.

Tricks exist, you just have to look for them. Remember that most marketing people can't code, and exploit that.
What is the most stable system you tried where there are many packages available?

Is that Debian? I want it desktop-focused actually and that works great with multi-monitor and proprietary drivers from NVidia.

Currently on Ubuntu but I see bugs here and there and a software update messed up my desktop a few weeks ago. It is for work. I do NOT want to waste time with unstable stuff.
>But again, his "commitment" is in the form of talk. The reality of the policy positions he does advance is to set us up for the exact opposite of all of those things. I don't know whether he's a well-intentioned fool or a deceptive manipulator, but either way, the consequences are the same. He's just a mirror image of Trump, using vague emotional appeals to win power, then horribly misusing that power.

I hear what you are saying. But again, his policies have had measurable benefits to his constituents in Vermont. With a track record going back decades. I understand you might not have first hand experience with this as I did. But to discredit years of his work saying it's all talk is a little tongue in cheek.

At the end of the day I think we both know it'll always be an attempt to pick the "least evil."
I have found a method that I use at each new install. It is mostly a configuration file that prioritizes Mozilla's PPA over snap:

https://github.com/ln-komandur/linux-utils/blob/master/Purge...
I think it’s interesting and funny (in a funny-weird, not funny-haha) way that despite YC and Paul Graham being so respected here, they (at least YC, don’t know how much say PH still has) are promoting this AI slop thing.

PG et al probably care more for returns than quality - not saying that’s intrinsically good or bad - but that’s not at all the ideal many hold him as.
Been saying this for a long time - there's a lot of reasons to not like Ubuntu: mine is that they absolutely ditched the "Linux for human beings" motto and you can no longer feel the ubuntu in it. Been more than 15 years since I used it and feels like it has been spiraling down ever since.

But for many of us it is/was the gateway to Linux and I'm grateful to it for that.
Interesting that you think arch is more stable. Arch blew up on my system even though I did constant updates to not fall behind too far. I switched to nixOS it it also broke because of a incompatibility between home manager and the latest version of i3-bar. The software expect toml keys in a specific order, the configuration writer can‘t enforce this.
So all in all I managed to break a lot of systems with updates. :(
The paper "is pedantic" and rejected by everyone except "pedants".
I think they mean the repos. I wouldn't be surprised if apt-get is usually an alias for apt, but I don't know, I just type in apt and what I want to do.

On a server we use nala instead, it's quite nice actually, so maybe I'll start using it elsewhere too.
Well, usually you want to handle it at some level - e.g. a common REST exception handler returning a standard 500 response with some details about what went wrong. Or retry the process (sometimes the errors may be intermittent)
> I like that Debian still uses apt-get

Does that really make a difference? From a user perspective it's only replacing apt-get install by dnf install or pacman -S or apk add
git switch focuses on switching branches while git checkout extends further than that
"super easy, barely an inconvenience"

Totally an aside from the actual content here, but I love that Pitch Meeting has achieved the level of cultural penetration required for this reference to now be turning up in a rant about operating systems.
> What is it about more homogeneously skilled teams

They are a strawman example that doesn't exist in the real world.

Companies will be in big trouble in a few years when the team retires, people find new jobs, someone dies... All of them mean that a homogeneously skilled team will exist for at most a few years if you have one. As a company you need to ensure you have a program to train in new people.

I have long believed that when someone retires you should replace them with someone fresh out of school, promoting people all the way down to fill the opening. If someone finds a new job you can replace them with someone else with similar experience, but when someone retires they should be replaced by someone you already have groomed for the job.
Pintercall allows to automate incoming calls with pre-built workflows.
The dark side of music streaming
Interesting podcast episode about how streaming platforms, especially Spotify, are being defrauded of billions of dollars in royalty payments via fake music and bot farm plays. [1]

The podcast describes how a guy called Michael Smith was charged with fraud for this type of activity last year. [2] Some people estimate as much as 10% of Spotify royalties are fraudulent.

I first noticed the weird phenomenon of loads of (short) similar songs by multiple fake artists on Spotify back in 2018. Robin Sloan wrote about his discovery of fake similar music [3] and put together a playlist of some of these nearly identical songs [4].

If you make a new playlist from Robin's playlist and then check out the songs that Spotify recommends based on what's in the playlist you will find tons of slight variations of the same (rather annoying) tune, mostly 47 seconds long. I got up to 79 tracks of basically the same music snippet, each with its own artist, album/song title and artwork.

Many of these songs have 100,000 - 200,000 plays, so you can see how Michael Smith could be generating millions of dollars by uploading thousands of AI-generated songs every week.

So Spotify can obviously identify these very similar songs, because they recommend them for adding to a playlist of the songs. And if you play one of the songs Spotify will recommend similar artists who are fake artists with versions of the same song.

So why hasn't Spotify removed these songs? It must be reasonably easy for them to identify suspicious activity. Robin's blog post came out years ago.

One other story that gives nuance to the fake music scandal is the Swedish artist who makes millions of dollars in royalty by producing large quantities of mood music under many different aliases. Johan Röhr is one of the top artists on Spotify with billions of streams [5].

BBC program Blurb:
In September last year, musician Michael Smith of North Carolina was charged with stealing millions from music streaming services. The US Department of Justice has accused him of using artificial intelligence tools and thousands of bots to fraudulently stream songs billions of times - taking millions of dollars of royalties which otherwise would have been paid to real artists. The case has been labelled as ‘unprecedented’ and ‘the first of its kind’. But could fraud on music streaming services actually be much more prevalent than any of the platforms let on? BBC Trending speaks to music industry insiders, and those fighting back against streaming fraud.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct5y9t

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/05/michael-smith-ai-music-arrested/75086815007/

[3] https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/visions/#spotify

[4]
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2IaWgbhpPbS3Z9DYgf1rqg

[5] https://www.perplexity.ai/search/who-is-the-swedish-musician-wh-q0cKLbkzRkqaSEUZZv_4IQ
Probably, yes.

That or forcing compilation to always target release.
> things nobody wanted (typical of corporate-controlled software).

I mean, can't you say the same thing of Fedora? Podman, Systemd, Wayland and tons of other software was created by or sponsored by Red Hat because everything has to be done their way. Canonical tried the same, to much less success, with LXD, Upstart, Unity. But it's literally the same playbook.

Well, at least all of these efforts were and are open source.
5-10 years ago I was just skipping Webpack and Babel, and raw-dogging React.createElement in personal projects in order to be happy and maintain sanity. At work I would just push hard for alternatives like Parcel or Brunch.

Now, with Vite I just don't mind the toolchain anymore, it just helps me instead of getting in the way. Similar to Go.

All the problems I have now are of my own creation.
Both of his blogs mention Java at least once. It's a good bet this factors heavily in his day to day.
>A government full of cronies sucks...

>A meritocratic...government sounds like a dystopian novel.

So nepotism + networking = bad, but meritocracy also = bad...?

>...we can at least hope to get our own cronies in at some point.

OR you reduce the risk vector and limit the size & scope of government. Most people agree with your earlier premises, so why would I support adding powers to a structure where folks I strongly disagree with will lead that structure ~50% of the time?
Speaking for myself: both apt and apt-get are different frontends to the same package management system and repository, which is shared by Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, and other Debian-based distros. I like the package management system; which frontend one uses (apt, apt-get, aptitude, nala, etc) is of secondary importance, as they differ only in user interface and aesthetics.
I basically just get my news from the onion now.
So this?

https://huggingface.co/brittlewis12/s1-32B-GGUF
>Also their mockups all use macs primarily so “go figure”

That tells you everything.
> ORMs are the devil in all languages and all implementations. Just write the damn SQL.

I think I might get this tattooed on my chest.
Submitted mine too.

I'm building an AI agents platform (build and run): https://aiconstrux.com
It isn't possible for you to know this.
Apple stuff has always been expensive, and never once has Apple justified raising the price because they're 'privacy friendly'.

Apple has a multi-billion dollar ads business. You are still the product, even if the execution isn't as brazenly anti-consumer as Google and Facebook.
Define "code maintainability" in a measurable way.
We'll see.

I think there won't be a rebound. Instead, the efforts of Trump and other goons he's surrounded by will cause a great economic and political disaster that will result in the job market getting much, much worse.
FWIW: I am switching from Fedora to Debian. Fedora has what amounts to almost daily updates, I prefer more stability/less changes. My work flow is usually being up for weeks in between boots, multiple projects open at the same time.
Elementary though, despite the name, is so poorly engineered that distribution upgrades aren't available at all. OS 7 comes out? Format your hard drive. OS 8 comes out? Format your hard drive.

Which kind of defeats the entire point: If you set up Elementary OS for someone with elementary computing knowledge, can you blame your grandparents in 4 years for a wildly out of date Linux computer? What grandson wants to download all their pictures, tax forms, emails, and copy it all back in place every few years?

As I said in another comment, it's ironic that a Linux distribution could be said to take the crown for form over function, more than any other OS.
This one is just a hobby (won't be big and professional like gnu), after all. ;-)
Hmmm, 1 + 1 equals 3. Alternatively, 1 + 1 equals -3.

Wait, actually 1 + 1 equals 1.
Thanks for the advice! Going to mull it all over for a while and discuss with my team mates.

Good point around engagement (or lack of) - if that is it, then closer mentoring could make things worse.
Debian works fine for server deployments. It's like Ubuntu Server without annoyances, you'll feel right at home.
If you do important work frequently on 14" screen and 2 files side-by-side (regardless of its resolution), then you are seriously self-limiting yourself and your efficiency, plus hurting your eyes which will inevitably bring regrets later. That's not how 'love for the craft' or ie efficiency looks like.

One reason I like longer lines, in those very few cases (way less than 1% of code lines) - it bundles logically several easy-to-read things, ie more complex 'if' or larger constructors. We talk about Java here just to be clear, for more compact languages those numbers can get lower significantly but same principles apply.

Doing overly smart complex one-liners just for the sake of it goes completely against what we write here, I've seen only (otherwise smart) juniors do those. Harder to debug, harder to read, simply a junior show-off move.