skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?
> Mostly DDG

Why do you trust what DDG says but not Kagi?

> require a payed sign-up to actually try it out with a pricing incomprehensible to most of the world

https://kagi.com/pricing

There is a free tier (no card required) and the billing is done per search. It’s that simple.
I don't think Oracle's got a case here.

They didn't really enforce the trademark.
Only misleading if you don't understand what it's doing. If you do, then it's a useful tool.
TSMC N2 and Next-Gen SoIC, Intel EMIB-T, Meta 3D Stacked Memory, CFET, 2D
I've used, and am still using, Julia for my PhD research. It's perfect for parallel/distributed computing, and the neural network primitives are more than enough for my purposes. Anything I write in pure julia runs really, really fast, and has great profiling tools to improve performance further.

Julia also integrates with python, with stuff like PythonCall.jl. I've gotten everything to work so far, but it hasn't been smooth. The python code is always the major bottleneck though, so I try to avoid it.

Overall, julia is a significantly better language in every single aspect except for ecosystem and the occassional environment issue, which you'll get with conda often anyways. It's really a shame that practically nobody actually cares about it compared to python. It supports multi-dimensional arrays as a first-class citizen, which means that each package doesn't have it's own array like torch, numpy, etc, and you don't have to constantly convert between the types.
Thanks for your great guides. Helped me a lot during my career (so far) :)
Yep, getting bored is important for creativity.
> This is machine learning except the machines are bigger than ever before. There is no intellect.

Define "intellect".
I’m not sure Greenland should be lumped in with the others considering the very different (lack of) history, and polling does not support its popularity.

> A strong majority of Americans, 66%, are opposed to U.S. territorial expansion accomplished “by invading other countries and territories,” according to a recent poll from More in Common.

> In contrast, just 13% support the U.S. launching an invasion to acquire territory, and 16% were not sure

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/artic...
When did you start using linux?
This fantastic news. It's possible to take an android out of the box, install F-Droid and have a reasonably useful phone without even logging into the play store.

Glad to see them getting some credit for the hard work!
Hopefully the company started setting up those relationships when Trump was elected. I personally bought a bunch of hard to get domestically "Made in China" stuff I knew I'd need in the next year back in December to hedge against Trump's anti-China policies, so I imagine most American companies that rely heavily on China aren't completely unprepared right now.

Edit: if you don't agree with something I've said, please comment and explain why. I really don't see how this is controversial.
What's the difference between the one- and two-sided pdfs?
They're not "outsider activists", they're customers affecting the bottom line.
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This is also why you may see packet loss at one particular hop but then responses from hops beyond it. The hop with packet loss in this case probably has an overwhelmed CPU, rather than indicating that a particular network link has packet loss. mtr reporting packet loss at a hop is only reliable if every hop after it has similar packet loss.

Maybe the only thing I've explained more in my career than this is why it's ok that your Linux box has no "free" memory.
That's absolutely no reason to attack anyone.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/yes-its-a-coup-and-yes-its-tar... (https://archive.is/jSt78)

> Most of us will change the channel or scroll to the next social media clip. Most in the media will “both sides” the end of our democracy into a melisma of euphemisms and equivocations. Most of our political leaders will focus on the pitch for their next fund-raiser email. And if this oblivious, indolent cowardice continues as I fear it will, we will look back on these days of chaos, destruction, hatred and lunacy as only prelude. Unchecked, we are on the path not just to autocracy, but to the worst form of malevolent dictatorship.

> My reaction is not hysteria. It’s not exaggeration. It’s not premature. Where we are is a place we have never been in this country and the threat we face is by no means one that we can survive—because something precious and fragile is at dire risk of being lost.
These quotes do not support the claim of "on the decline", they show the rate at which the economy is growing is not as fast as before, but still at perfectly respectable rates:

> https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crr54x00857o

"China's economy expanded in the third quarter at the slowest pace since early last year, as the country struggles to boost flagging growth."

> https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/20/chinese-econ...

"It has been a grim month for the Chinese economy: A slew of recent data has revealed the world’s second-largest economy is slowing faster than expected, causing analysts to predict it will miss its relatively modest 5 percent growth target this year."

> https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/china-deflation/

*Chart showing growth in all but one quarter since the start of 2019, and good growth in all but one of the growing quarters*

> https://www.aei.org/economics/chinas-economy-is-in-deep-trou...

"This week’s disappointing Chinese GDP (gross domestic product) numbers showed that Chinese economic growth has slowed to 4.75 percent from the very rapid annual economic growth rate of seven to eight percent during the 2010s"

> https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/03/xi-china-economic-decli...

"China’s economy is performing dreadfully. The post-pandemic bounce was far smaller and briefer than the Chinese government had anticipated. Despite recording a respectable, if diminished, official growth rate of 5.2 percent in 2023, the reality may have been much slower, with some analysts estimating growth was no more than 1-2 percent."

> https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/business/chinas-gdp-q2.ht...

"China’s economy grew 0.7 percent in the second quarter over the previous three months, below the expectations of most economists. When projected out for the entire year, the economy grew at an annual rate of about 2.8 percent — a little less than half the rate in the first three months of this year."

The USA, by comparison, was 2.5% in 2023.

If China is "in decline" from these numbers, so is the USA.
No. It was the same language. Livewire was the server tech. Livewire implemented a <server> tag in LiveScript, but the majority of the scripting implementation was exactly the same. [0]

JS was originally named Mocha, but it was renamed to LiveScript as a tie-in with the server tech. However, after the deal with Sun Microsystems to put Java in the browser, it was almost scrapped before being saved by giving it the final name of JavaScript. [1]

To clarify, there was around a fifteen year gap between Livewire and Node.js, so things were not quite as streamlined as you implied.

[0]: https://dev.to/macargnelutti/server-side-javascript-a-decade...

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/node-up-and/97814493322...
Do you have examples of people buying bowling balls and not using them to an extent that their behavior raises environmental concerns?
Crazy.

I am.

And that's why I said I use the zoom in VSCode in my previous message. My font is big as fuck compared to everyone else.
Most of these things really don't matter, and it all just boils down to "that's not how I would have written it". Well, okay, but that doesn't mean that's somehow objectively better.
> Security

There's a pretty interesting video from 2023 that goes through much of Microsoft's thoughts around Windows security. It flew under the radar unfortunately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T6ClX-y2AE
Assuming all these things are true, RFKjr is not qualified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#Anti-vac...
experience gives you some possible ideas for how it will be used in the future, but after a long time I'm coming to the position you're fooling yourself if you think you can predict where with any accuracy. It's still valuable and important to try, just not as critical to be right as I used to think. Example: I've completely flip-flopped from interface simplicity to implementation simplicity.

I agree that a house is a bad analogy, for your reasons and because you can "live" in software that as a building would not be fit for human habitation.
> If I think something is easy, that's a sure sign I don't understand it.

A lot of people (definitely here) need to understand this.
Democrats say they want to improve these things, then get in office and worry more about trivialities then doing the work of governing.

A green new deal that set out to get electricity to people's houses at $0.08/kwh and stood a reasonable chance of doing so would have been a great start. That's not what it was, alas.

You can't just look at what the parties say they want to do when they're in power. You have to look at what they actually spend their time and energy on while in power.

Both parties are pretty hypocritical when it comes to stated goals vs revealed goals.
Easy to find oneself plaintively nodding along with this, but actually the free/open-source subculture has not been commodified. RMS is, I know, not exactly sexy, but he is actually hip. Someone somewhere I remember said that the icons of the counter-culture now are people like Snowden. I tend to agree with this. They are indeed rather nerdy, and one might quibble with Snowden's choice of national refuge (assuming he had some choice...), but if there are rebels and anarchists now, it is people like them, not the "punks" with spotify streaming and an instagram feed. Tattoos are mainstream. Emacs, and libreboot, are radical.
> I don't know why Git won the VCS contest.

Because Mercurial was dreadfully slow at the time for anything as big as the Linux kernel tree. Linus also put his thumb on the scale because he was the author and still the primary maintainer of git at the time, so he could bend it to whatever shape he wanted without needing to ask anyone else. Not really a knock on Linus, I'd do the same in his position, but it does explain much of its advantage.
Coverage of 'day 5':

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42933219
As an european I envy so much this great purge - here entire castes build on feeding from grant money, perpetuating DEI, green transition, gender studies etc. Overnight nothing-scientist/ NGO profesionals carreers are over, like in those "AI stole my job" videos. Sadly EU still holds strong perpetuating this grant bottom feeding, poisoning academia and discrediting NGOs.
TPM is a security device, nothing to do with AI.
> That doesn't look a very convincing argument. So Trump is coincidentally close to the Project 2025 members and both executing their playbook on day one but somehow that's not a connection?

And I don't find the argument convincing that because some of his policies are similar to Project 2025's, he must subscribe to ALL of them.

> Well but right now why isn't he using any of those then? Musk operates outside any legal framework.

Donald Trump gave Elon Musk the power of Special Government Employee (SGE), which is defined under U.S. federal law, 18 U.S.C. § 202. Further laws which cover this title are 5 CFR § 2641.104 and 17 CFR § 200.735-12. Musk is performing legal duties, entitled to him under democratically instituted and operationalised laws.

> I'm just disproving the nonsensical argument "he's been elected, therefore it'll remain a democracy". Well no, that isn't a sufficient guarantee.

I'm not making any claims about the future. I don't have a crystal ball. I am clearly arguing that you should accept the will of the people in a democracy.
Wow great idea! Sign me up!!!
I'm not sure why you think that's what I'm talking about, because I never brought that up. In fact I agree with that point. The apparatus will never report a failure because it has an incentive not to. The whole system is built and described in a way to make failure seem impossible because confidence is necessary for it to work. But when numbers and reality don't match, reality wins.
It's the standard lie when they need to install ideologically correct janitors. I woder how much it would cost to just buy the place.
I'm Done with Ubuntu
If this had been true, Musk and other far right people wouldn’t have tried to defend Musk’s nazi salute. But they did.
One thing I don't see mentioned often but is definitely true for me - I use Google like 90% less frequently now. I spend zero time crawling through various blogs or stack overflow questions to do things like understand an error I haven't seen before. Google is basically now a means of directing me to official docsites if I don't already know the URL
If you dig deep you discover they have figured out some requirements in detail, but there is a lot missing. Is this new feature that last one in that line, or will there be more options in the future? Is this new feature really going to be used - many times we have put large effort into features only to discover no customer used them (as evidenced by the critical bug that made the feature unusable outside of the test lab that nobody complained about until 4 years had passed). These things drive how you engineer the thing in the first place.
If I'm not misremembering, Home can use BitLocker on W11.

The existence of a TPM also lets DPAPI use it, which in turn lets things like browsers and other software protect user data (from malware for example). It also makes new features like Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) possible.

But there's also VBS and by extension things like Device Guard. Which in turn entails things like ESS (Enhanced Sign-in Security, more secure biometric auth), Trusted Boot, HVCI, Credential Guard and so on.

DRM is like the last thing it's actually good for, if you actually look into it.
Got to love the HN bubble. Anti anti apple is immediate downvote even with a sensible argument like yourself…
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> to C++ to Java to Ruby to JS (also server-side) and Python

I feel that languages are going back to static typing. Newer languages such as Go, Rust, Kotlin, Swift, Dart, Nim etc are all statically typed (I can't remember a language from the last decade that is dynamically typed).

Even some dynamically typed languages are moving towards a more static typed system: for JS we have TS, and for Python we have type hints
The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope
Why polar bear fur doesn't freeze
> This kind of advice only works if you’re not interested in a woman who works.

Personally, I don't want a woman that works because I travel and I'd rather she travel fulltime with me. However, in my experience, latinas and asians are some of the hardest working women you'll ever meet. They seek out education and a lot of them want careers. they just arent' super entrepreneurial. Thats more about the culture they come though. people in the third world get drilled into their heads the importance of getting the right certifications. Once you get that shrink wrap off, you'd be surprised how many do start thinking about starting their own businesses.

> Most of those women would already be in the US if they were interested in such a path to begin with.

I couldn't disagree more. most latin people dont' wanna come to the united states. they value family and community more. Besides, the united states is notoriously difficult to come in legally. I'm trying to get my gf a visa and the application process requires a full interview, a year of waiting AND a nonrefundable fee. its not a surprise to me at all that people try to come in illegally.
Thinking out loud here..

If the basic hypothesis is that “don’t bet against the U.S.” and that the U.S. long term, always go up, and I’m assuming most of us buy in to this hypothesis because most of us are probably holding an index fund for the S&P or QQQQ long term..

Looking at my portfolio, I just weathered the 2022-2023 storm without even looking. It could have been down 50%, it could have been 90%, I wasn’t selling. I’m all in for another 20 years.

Given that stance, why wouldn’t I just buy and hold a leveraged asset like TQQQ?
I'm from the US, and the ATC problem is in the US, so a US-centric view is completely in play.

Plenty of people in the US have finical goals, and providing them a means to more quickly reach their goals will motivate them. Will you convince everyone to apply to a job with more pay? No, but you really just need to convince a few more qualified people.
I hear you, but I don't feel that HN is that influential, and I feel like what influence it does have would evaporate if we tried to use it. HN works best as a place to meander, with unspecified side effects.

Since some people perceive discussion quality to be (relatively) high on HN, they often want to redirect its focus to things that are more important to them (such as urgent public issues or, less loftily, promoting their own stuff). But if those things did grab the focus, quality would go down, making the forum less desirable.

It's one of the feedback loops of this system: things that make HN better attract things that make it worse, so there's a cap on how good the site can ever get (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).

I know that the quota we put on political discussion here—allowed to some extent, but never so much that it dominates—can be frustrating. Why not relax the constraint, especially in urgent times, and apply this valuable resource to things that really matter?

The answer is that the constraint is not arbitrary—it's not a dial we could just turn up if we wanted to. There's a limit on how much political load HN could bear before its character changed. To know how it would change, just look at the political threads we do host: they are by far the worst and nastiest that appear here, and moderation has limited ability to do much about it.

If we moved in the direction that that vector points toward, HN wouldn't just get a little more like that—it would get a ton more like that, because these effects compound. In other words, if we tried to turn that dial very much, we wouldn't get "HN, but with more politics". Rather, HN would cease to exist.

It works the other way as well: we can't turn the dial down much either. Trying to exclude politics would be neither possible nor desirable for reasons I've explained elsewhere (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29219906 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 and the links from there).

Thus the problem space is more constrained, and the solution more overdetermined, than one would guess at first. We can't move too much in any direction, and this leaves a lot of users unsatisfied.

Btw I found some past threads where this same point came up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25786150 (Jan 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16443080 (Feb 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16438384 (Feb 2018)
The coherent legal theory is:

1) The student loans are specifically for provided by a detailed statutory scheme.

2) The grants are being made out under general delegations of authority and budgeting power, and are not “explicitly required by law.”

To my knowledge, Congress has not specifically appropriated hundreds of millions of dollars e.g. to Catholic refugee resettlement charities. Those grants are being made under discretionary agency action. Correct me if I’m wrong.
In 2005, it was actually closer to 4x - 60.79 vs 271B

It was around 2011 that Apple had a higher market cap.

He did predict the iPhone. That basically cemented Microsoft’s fate. Sure MS is still dominant in the “enterprise”. But no one is investing money to make great Windows apps.
Yup, this. I think it had zero impact on the election, but it was an absurd and gutless decision.

I'd rather not pay for that sort of thinking. However, I'd rather have the WaPo in its current form as opposed to severely diminished (or none at all).
If so wouldn’t it be the first time in history when more processing power is not used?

In my experience CPU/GPU power is used up as much as possible. Increased efficiency just leads to more demand.
I think there are accessibility aspects to formatting. Specifically to different formatting.

Not sure the typesetting analogy is the best, but typesetting absolutely matters for readability. Authors don’t need to care about it because typesetting is easy to change (before printing) and because publishers spend time caring about it —- all before it ends up in the hands of readers.
Always plan to throw one away. You will, so best to plan for it. (paraphrasing Fred Brooks)
> Make the signature of your generic callback "throws Throwable". It's generic; it should never care about the specific types that the callback can throw.

> (Except that then you have to decide what your generic function is going to do if the callback throws an exception...)

Exactly. Presumably you don't want to handle them and want to throw them up to the caller. But now your function has to be "throws Throwable" rather than throwing the specific exception types that the callback throws.
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Why do you think your workplace will be affected?
I've been using Linux for 25 years, there were file browsers and I believe F2 did rename. I rarely use them, but then it's rare I want to rename a file. If I want to do something larger, it tends to be using things like "find" or at least "mv * /tgt".
In your view, is that how all businesses should be run as well? Hiring your least qualified friends? Surely, cronyism exists in corporate America, but I'd venture a guess that a company run in this way would fail almost immediately. No, this style of management and hiring is more like that of a crime boss - and it's not about friendships - it's about LOYALTY.
Fascist movements usually crusade for more babies and venture into (futile) nationalistic pro-natalist policies to try and drive up birth rates. Sometimes they fully commit to eugenics programs. It's a thing. But there's a catch.

Some kinds of babies are good and other babies are bad (in their view). They only want "good" babies.

Trump's unconstitutional executive order targeting birthright citizenship tells you all you need to know about who they think the bad ones are.

And though many have tried, no country has figured out how to meaningfully drive up birth rates with pro-natalist policies.

There's only one proven way to get more babies and sustain economic growth when native birthrates decline: MORE IMMIGRATION.

If immigration to the US continues apace, we surpass China's total population within decades and continue strong economic growth comfortably. If TrumpElon really manage to kill the golden goose, welp... it's been real.
Yeah, the other stuff seems sensible or at least "Ok, I can see that", but I definitely disagree with this one.

You should spend time thinking about stuff beforehand, sure, but getting your hands dirty is also going to reveal things.
Blind reviews (and even interviews) are great ways of making hiring more fair. They are explicitly the inverse of DEI approaches. DEI is predicated on outcome diversity, rather than treating applicants equally irrespective of background. That's the E and I part. The entire premise is that certain groups require special support (fair - e.g.: blind people, wheel chair users), and have been historically excluded because of bias (sometimes true, often wholly false - much of the time differential hiring is path dependent with fewer qualified applicants from a given group).