skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Julia is generally higher level than Fortran, with syntax inspired by Python/R/Matlab. We've been able to reliably hire Math PhDs and quickly get them productive in Julia, which would take much longer with Fortran.
I also suspect that there really isn't nearly as much "waste" here as Musk is alleging, so we are going to be forced to re-hire people, while still paying a ton of workers for 8 months of no work.

This doesn't seem "efficient" to me, but "efficient" is a word that doesn't actually mean anything without context, which they don't provide.
What job protections? They’re predicated on the president following the constitution. We’re long, long past that.
There are a lot of arsonists complaining about fires on this particular point. The mainstream press is mostly decent.

American right-wing propaganda personalities and media outlets drive the negative sentiment to a large degree. They radicalize their audiences against traditional media institutions, and they do it very, very well. Sometimes there are kernels of truth to their criticisms. Mostly they are wildly exaggerated, or even totally fabricated. It sucks we can't have nice things, but it is what it is. Free speech is free speech.

But it won't really get better unless all that propaganda is successfully countered, even if you magically figured out how to build a perfect mainstream media.

Where things get really dangerous is when demagogues come along and join in, like Trump.

On the list of things to look for to tell if you're dealing with a rising authoritarian movement, near the top are sustained attacks on the press. Enemy of the people, Trump calls them. Zuckerberg gets threatened with life in prison. He encourages supporters to menace and attack reporters at rallies. The list goes on.

These all become the pretext for drastic anti-constitutional attacks on the free press, and we're seeing that take shape already in Trump 2.0.
This.

I'll add that all systems are self-correcting given sufficiently long timescale. (Or they die out and we're none the wiser due to survival bias)

Science isn't any special in this regard. Even the Catholic Church was self correcting (it doesn't do Inquisitions or sell indulgences any more, does it?). As was Nazi Germany (WWII fixed that, hurray for... whatever that was).

To be honest the real "self-correcting" mechanism is some kind of Darwinian survival system where you have to ensure the wrong things don't perpetuate. Government funding really doesn't help with that unless the mechanism deciding which projects/people to fund have a really good model of the real world (i.e. "truth").
Honestly naming conventions in the AI world have been appalling regardless of the company
>Avoid following the news constantly. Check in every once in a while—a couple times a week at most. Get your news from long articles, not tweets. Actually read the articles, don't just learn about the world from hot takes.

This 100%. If a piece of news is truly important, then it'll be important tomorrow or even a week from now. You'll even get clarifications and corrections along the way.

I like to use Pocket to build a list of long-form articles I want to read, then EpubPress (https://epub.press/) to compile that into a weekly EPUB that I can read in-full on a distraction-free e-book reader. It's a much less stressful way of consuming media than the whole neverending drug-frenzied quick-hits world of online news.
I have to imagine that the vast majority of those workflows are going to want to blend into real traffic as much as possible, which just means driving Chrome
because no matter how much java wants to be like scala, it's very painful to work with (verbose). There is no good Option type either. But I believe there are third party libraries out there that do a better job, if you really can't use scala for some reason
For the most part, I agree with a lot of this, but there were a couple points I raised an eyebrow on.

> There is no pride in managing or understanding complexity

To the point that intentionally creating complexity or allowing it to continue to exist where it can be simplified, I agree - but some systems are necessarily complex and having pride in understanding and managing them is a good thing. If no one had pride in this, why would anyone care about the things that aren't simple - or bother to train the ability to simplify the complex in the first place!

> Micro-services require justification

I used to believe this, but have changed my mind on it. Micro-services are great in the current CS ecosystem (at least in the US) because they allow smaller parts of the whole to be more easily refactored when you find your development team with none of the people that were present when design decisions were made and a major feature needs to change.

It's an unpleasant situation to be in, and one that you ideally want to avoid happening, but is common enough that preparing for it in your application landscape is reasonable.
I've heard this often and I don't understand it at all.

Every government in the world has a permanent set of employees which enact policy and turn political intentions into legislation. Usually these are split into departments, each headed by temporary political appointee.

So exactly like the European Commission, then. Why is it only "undemocratic" when the European Union does it?

Are you suggesting that all 32000 people working for it should be elected? I'm quite certain there is no government in the world which does that and it seems quite impractical.

Or should every political appointment be directly elected, instead of appointed by a head of state? You could do that, but I am not aware of any major government which does so, so if that's the sole reason to call it "undemocratic" then it's a double standard.
They are the US's proxy against Iran in the Middle East, primarily, which makes it a strategic relationship. Addition, based on the 2022 data, the US imported $21BB from Israel and had a trade deficit of ~$7BB.
I think an interesting avenue to explore is creating abstractions and analogies. If a model can take a novel situation and create an analogy to one that it is familiar with, it would expand its “reasoning” capabilities beyond its training data.
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I wish you didn’t ignore the majority of my comment to focus on one tiny part. :(

But yes it does literally include that. Perforce is THE standard tool for gamedevs. It’s not hard.
WB has decided these movies have no prestige.
Yes... the job protections.
For years I've said that if you could take corporate purchases out of the Gartner numbers, you'd see that Apple was better than 50/50 when it came to personal use. I sure would like to see an updated version of that dataset.
This is not really true since RCS launched. It does most of what people care about. Everyone sees Emojis and a few other special Fx and videos and pictures now look good for everyone and don't get nerfed as soon as one user is on Android.

Maybe RCS doesn't do all the esoteric iMessage stuff but it doesn't necessarily have to, half those extra features are gatekeeped on having the latest iPhone or whatever and so they don't get used as often.
Click through to the Train decision. It has been firmly held that per the Article 1 separation of powers, Congress determines how money is spent. Impoundment is used (and it certainly is used routinely) only when the executive determines that a disbursement will not serve it's intended purpose. Quote from Train, "the president cannot frustrate the will of Congress by killing a program through impoundment". I have no doubt Trump is attempting to trigger a new case in an effort to overturn Train and he may well succeed, but he'll likely end up overturning Article 1 in the process.

This goes right back to his first impeachment where we got a clear lesson on this. Congress authorized money for the defense of Ukraine. It went through multiple mandatory controls with DoD and other agencies to ensure the specific disbursement was likely to reach it's intended target. Those controls could have triggered impoundment if they found any flaws, but they did not. Then it was stopped by the president expressly to extort a political favor from Ukraine. In this case, the House voted to impeach and the Senate refused to convict likely due to political loyalty. Now that he knows Congress likely won't stop him, he can abuse his authority as he pleases.
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When the man is a dying 73 year old it does.
Debian has been amazing for my fleet of geriatric ThinkPads… my T60 and X200 are my favorites to use.
Another win for China. While the US guts its research capacity, China already dominates scientific research (according to Perplexity, 29% of the most highly cited peer reviewed articles are authored by Chinese scientists). Of course all those people who voted for this regime don't believe that there is any benefit to funding science. After all, what did science ever do for them? (OK, except for the science of pick-up trucks - I'll give you that. Oh yes, and the transistor: I think I may have one in my phone. But otherwise: name one thing, bro). Maybe those hats should replace the "A" with a "C".
Related, tbf:

> CVE-2025-0725: gzip integer overflow. ... There should be virtually no users left using such an old and vulnerable zlib version.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/02/05/curl-8-12-0/
No, that's not what happened. The guy from the black affinity group CLAIMED that he knew the answers. But he's a completely unreliable source who was pretending to know things that he didn't actually know. He also claimed to have a list of magic buzzwords that would get your application moved to the top of the pile, but if you look at the list of magic buzzwords that he provided, it was just a list of dozens of generic action verbs like "make", "manage", "organize", "analyze", etc. from a resume writing book. I'm sure it's the same thing with the biographical assessment. He was just telling people what he THOUGHT were the right answers.
Depending on whether or not you live in the Fox news cinematic universe, you mean.
That’s useful information and we are all glad that performance regressions aren’t allowed now and there is work to make things faster. But that seems to be implementations of existing language design decisions rather than making language design decisions for the sake of compile times.
Why does this mostly affect the US? I've been abroad most of the year and eggs don't seem overly expensive.
Right, if you look at the documents there was clear racial discrimination involved.

It's bizarre to see people say that since the media initially didn't report on the full story, telling people the full story is similar to "state-sponsored propoganda." That mindset appears to be saying that once the media has made up a narrative for the story, people should be hostile to other pertinent information, even when it's uncovering major aspects of the story that the media didn't report on.

That kind of attitude runs counter to anyone interested in finding out the truth.

Edit: Also worth pointing out the author's original article on this scandal was written a year ago, and a followup was recently written to clarify things in response to increased discussion about that article. They're a law student who initially wrote about it after coming across court documents and being surprised that there had been almost no coverage regarding what actually had happened.
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This is why we must freeze USDA funding, halt all public health communications from our federal government, and urgently (TOP PRIORITY!!!) scrub all mentions of the word "women" from every public-facing piece of scientific content we can find.
> Interesting they say their goal is 5-10% when normal attrition is six percent, that means essentially their goal is -6 to 4%

Basically, yes.

If they had worked within the existing VSIP (voluntary separation) and VERA (early retirement) systems, maybe by tweaking things like max payouts, they could have almost guaranteed 10%+ by September, imho.

The haphazard and non-standard way they’ve gone about it, however, makes me think that they will be at the low end of their range.

The other possible explanations are:

- they don’t really intend to pay those who resign (e.g., via admin leave status and then having a furlough in March)

- their ultimate goal is to have people not take the deal so that they can just fire with impunity. Imho, this type of reduction will only work for folks on probation (who, imho, are the only ones who should actually consider taking the resignation offer).
Are you sure they’re not just spoofing the address? Check the email headers.
A riot where he specifically told them in the speech before "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard." ?
I live in CA and saw a massive jump in prices when the state ordered chickens to be euthanized due to bird flu. It was also the first time I saw grocery store shelves completely empty of eggs for days at a time.

Prices for organic eggs have somewhat returned to pre-bird flu levels but the regular sales and discounts have stopped. Non-organic eggs are still significantly higher.
> I doubt that OpenAI has a realistic path to preventing or even detecting distealing outside of simply not releasing models.

Couldn't they just start hiding the thinking portion?

It would be easy for them to do this. Currently, they already provide one sentence summaries for each step of the thinking I think users would be fine or at least stay if it were changed to provide only that.
Maybe they have one timezone, but there are multiple "China's"
And in fact, it should come from some kind of subdomain like "user-service@random-users-can-send-whatever-they-want-from-this-address.paypal.com" and then the header should be "THIS ISN'T AN OFFICIAL PAYPAL EMAIL" etc. etc.

I wouldn't fall for this scam, because I'm technically minded, but a less technical relative wouldn't stand a chance here.
Congress has the power to impeach any federal official.
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These tend to work through in stages: fastest ones to accept were already looking, and next up are those that are on the fence, and so on...

The 8-month buyout offer is significantly better than the one-time offer from Clinton in the 90's [1], even adjusting for inflation, so I'd expect that there's a large group of individuals & families that are just taking the time to evaluate the decision.

[https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-the-buyo...]
Calling this "routine" is completely insane. When has a President ever done something like the instant unilateral dismantling of USAID? Talk about motivated reasoning. This is completely unprecedented and is an attempt to sideline Congress entirely. And it looks likely to succeed.
What are the precautions the USA government is taking? Also how much of the local market is consumed by USA?
The below links are not all inclusive, but each touch on your inquiry in various capacities (as the problem is complex and multifaceted). Georgia halted all poultry sales due to infection detections, for example.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/h5n1-much-more-than-you-wan...

https://agr.georgia.gov/pr/highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza...

https://www.wusf.org/health-news-florida/2025-02-02/deadly-h...

https://investigatemidwest.org/2025/01/21/134m-poultry-and-c...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-13447-z

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0609227103
It's spreading abroad, but the US seems to be ground zero. The US's agricultural methods also make it extremely vulnerable to infectious disease (if one breaks through the continuous deluge of antibiotics we pump into our animals).
> I do not know if it's because america never lived under dictatorship like many other european countries,

We quite literally put American citizens in camps because of their race and nationality.
I feel seen!

Also just had to explain to the better half why I suddenly shuddered and pulled such a face of despair.
What is the executive branch of the government doing about H5N1 currently? I have not seen any press releases or statements about it.

edit: I'm not being facetious, and don't welcome flippant replies. I'm genuinely interested, since I haven't seen any updates and have well-founded reasons to be skeptical this is getting the necessary attention.
> and they voted in Trump

Did that help things?
Without wanting to mud sling, this has not gone through the usual oversight and review committees that something like this usually would, so I suspect it hasn't been planned out and costed (much like other recent policy announcements). When "move fast and break things" meets public finance.
In a similar vein, I remember reading somewhere that creating shows for direct-to-streaming is liberating because, although it is quite similar to TV in that it's telling a story in chunks (usually 30 to 60 minutes) without a guarantee of continuation (renewal), you don't have the primary constraints of traditional television: fitting into a specific time slot, saving time for commercials, and creating hooks that lead neatly into each ad break to get the audience to stick around.
Well yes: if Canonical cared they could make most of their snaps work almost as good as the Debian packages they dropped, and then it would be the same to the user.

But also no: even if they spent years catching up they would not reach the level of not-sucking that .deb get without extra effort, as a result of decades of policy ossified into the supporting tools. Such as the strong expectation that apt deals with packages that can be (re)built from their declared inputs and share common build-essentials. Whereas snapcraft does not even provide the tools yet to easily rule out building from ephemeral inputs or merely-accidentally working rust versions.
I'm going to try not to mud sling but looking at the managerial history of the people involved does not make taking erratic pointless action a total surprise.
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I agree the filibuster is a good thing. But you can't decide to keep it and then use it as a reason to bypass congress.
Many (or most) vision, hearing and speech impairments would likely be disqualifying for ATC; if they were to the point of needing accomidation during an interview. Mobility impairments would likely be able to be reasonably accomidated though; someone without use of their legs could work in an ATC facility that can be accessed without stairs, which would exclude some towers but not all of them. The workstation height may need to be adjustable as well, but that's not an unreasonable accomidation either.
Maybe the author meant gradual static typing?
There's a browser addon, Enhancer for Youtube, that lets you hide recommended videos, among other things
For nearly a hundred years, the people have voted for those reforms. That’s called governance and democracy. Reactionary people have always been upset about any change.

This using an unaccountable fall guy to break the law at will, so that congress can avoid accountability is gross. Folks with your opinion like to wax on about constitutional principles, blah blah blah, as we stand by and watch the shitshow that is happening right now.
Not sure if this is mud but you're analyzing this as if it should make sense. It doesn't need to and doesn't because it's a performance art piece.
Hah, I spent countless hours poking bits around in the Cirrus Logic card that I had.

I found an undocumented (to me, at least) mode that showed 16-bit images by alternating two 8-bit images. I put it in a demo to show at a demoparty, but the projector system did not have a compatible VGA card :(
Odd it affects only the USA but not Mexico.
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one thing bothers me is that: americans, even americans in tech industry, seems place a ton of trust in the CIA. you know the government often lies, and the media does too. but you seem to really buy into everything the CIA puts out. I'm curious to know why.
I agree that the article is very bizarre and seemingly written by a non-expert.

The criticism of the inclusion policy sticks out like a sore thumb for strangeness. They criticize f-droid for requiring hosted apps that don't include proprietary software or ads. which of all the things you could criticize F-Droid for, is very strange.

And instead of making like a systematic point about process or about best practices or standards, it meanders into an anecdote about one instance of an app where the developer packaged an outdated version of WebRTC to comply, and then blames F-Droid for the way that the developer packaged the app. And then bizarrely refers to this as a "case study". There's an informal sense in which you can say case study, which I guess is fair enough, but when speaking a bit more formally case studies are real research projects, not just one-off anecdotes loosely summarized in a paragraph.

A lot of the language here is used in this gray area of formal and informal, seemingly characteristic of a high school essay.
He wants a wife that will be both attractive, loving, AND pulling in a $500k+ salary.

While I personally think it’s a pretty bad way to live life and I more agree with your overall stance (my wife is American but she is second generation immigrant from an Asian country and I can quite appreciate the difference in culture you are hinting at, thankfully she grew up with strong values from her parents more consistent with the ones of a first-generation immigrant like myself), I admit it’s going to be hard for him to fit the last requirement with someone from abroad (it still can be done though).

My speculation is that he comes from certain cultures that tend to be extremely aspirational, and given his looks and general transactional attitude he is going to be extremely disappointed in the long term, and he is robbing himself of precious years of love, affection and meaning chasing silly pursuits like cosmetic surgeries to improve his dating odds.

But I agree that if he wants all those requirements he probably should look for someone who is already a professional in the US.
Some of this was already done by the EU and UK in the last few years. The de-minimis exemption equivalent was removed [1], but with over a year's notice which allowed time for logistics companies and their clients to develop software to pay the required taxes. (If I browse Ali Express from Denmark, I see prices including 25% Danish VAT.)

The next step seems to be starting this week [2].

[1] https://taxation-customs.ec.europa.eu/customs-4/customs-proc...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/05/eu-to-tight...
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