skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
voiding elections when the result is not good (Romania)

Downvoting for this claim. Stop spreading misinformation.

1) it wasn't the government voiding the election, it was the courts

2) it wasn't because they disagreed with the results, it was because an existing law was broken (undisclosed campaign financing)
It's so great seeing these, always make me want to play with developing apps for the Remarkable 2. Do you have any sources you can recommend? Thank you!

edit: found the official developer website https://developer.remarkable.com/documentation
> Do the teams you're hiring for know that you're looking to avoid contacting whites, Asians or black people depending on the demographics you're missing until given no other option?

That’s a very strange reading of what I said. I need to remind you that the vast majority of applicants were white men. This headhunting merely added more minority (from a European perspective) candidates into our pipeline.

I was going to be their manager, so yes, I knew the process.
VSCode is part of their Embrace Extend Extinguish strategy.

It embraced open standards.
Then extended them with proprietary plugins.
And then extinguished alternatives by making their plugins incompatible.

Why did they buy GitHub?
Well, it turns out to be massively relevant for AI.
VSCode is well integrated with not just GitHub, but also Copilot, and Devcontainers, all of which strengthen their proprietary grip.

But GitHub provides free hosting? And offers freemium GitHub Actions.
Open source software uses these free solutions, but in doing so make their technology mainstream, to an extent where even suggesting alternative is thought ridiculous, "just use github actions bro".

Speaking of tin foil hats, the CICD pipelines could make it possible to selectively infect binaries at the distribution level, which is virtually impossible to detect, especially if the signing keys are part of the pipeline, which I assume is almost everyone. This is critical militarily.

Cloudflare is another example of a militarily interesting freemium strategy, where a vast number of businesses have allowed a man-in-the-middle, which practically defeats TLS encryption, allowing surveillance. And, selectively and virtually impossible to prove, could hijack your cookies, and gain access to all kinds of things. And infect the binaries you download.

Which is to say that EEE strategy is extremely powerful and effective. Otherwise, why would companies surrender the security of their users so readily?
I would suggest linking to a timestamped point in the video instead of the entire thing. With regards to Odin having metaprogramming this is either a misunderstanding on your part of what was said or a misunderstanding from Casey Muratori with regards to Odin; Zig has a much stronger claim to having metaprogramming with `comptime` being as powerful as it is, whereas Odin only scarcely can be said to have a limited "static if" in the `when` keyword, plus your average parametric polymorphism via template parameters.

C programmers (and C++ programmers) who don't like Zig or Odin can simply use C (or C++), it's not really the case that they have to switch to anything, much less something as overwrought as Rust. My point is that it is natural for someone who is at any proficiency level above 0 in C to want to apply that proficiency in something that allows them to make use of those skills, and C, C++, Odin and Zig all allow them to do that, pretty much immediately.

You contend that "It's an investment to become as proficient in the other language" but I would argue that this is a very wide spectrum where Rust falls somewhere in the distance as opposed to all of the languages I mentioned instead being far closer and more immediately familiar.
It would be a silly strategy compared to saying that mixing languages is a bad idea and rely on inertia.

Also, letting rust in doesn't seem to stop the personal attacks, case in point
> Not using email patches

GitHub issues with "load 450 hidden comments" on it? No threads, no comparisons between multiple submissions of the same patch, changes from rebasing impossible to separate from everything else? Having to drop anyway to the command line to merge a subset that has been reviewed? Encouraging squash merging makes it easier to work with long changes?

Email is complex and bare bones, but GitHub/GitLab reviews are a dumpster fire for anything that isn't trivial.
Or may be Zig might be more acceptable to the Kernal team, once it becomes mature enough?
I built a live transcribing note taking app – Whisper Transcribe Voice Notes
Hello iOS Programming!

My name is Jerry, I am a solo indie developer who built Whisper Transcribe Voice Notes out of a personal need, and have had great reviews on it so far and thought I would share it with the community here. I created this out of a desire for an offline live transcription app that also served as my main notes organizer for my lectures. None of the current apps fit the bill for me, they were either not accurate enough (especially for my language class), not able to be used offline, not live transcribing, or clunky and unpleasant to use, which led me to purposefully build every one of such functions into the app. Every aspect of the design is beautifully crafted and thought of, from textures to individual animations.

Being fed up with all the poorly made notes transcribing apps or large companies that charge a pricy subscription, I wanted to make a good app that was far more accessible to everyday students or workers. The app allows you to do 2 free full length file transcriptions a day, including free AI functions such as summary and action items, and charge a subscription fee for people who may need more than that in order to cover some of my development and ongoing api costs for the AI features. Also, no audio is recorded or sent to any servers, so there are no worries about privacy if using in the workplace.

Here's the App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whisper-transcribe-voice-notes...
I have gotten really great feedback and reviews for this, and I hope this can help some of you like it has helped myself!
How is a thing that's had several gigantic threads being silenced? Like, how can I link you an explanation to a thing that seems obviously untrue? The links to those discussions are in the links. The dang links themselves contain piles of other links, old and new. The other comments in this thread also provide additional explanation and yet more links. Maybe you can ask about specific things in them, when you've had a chance to check them out? Otherwise we seem to be going in circles.
“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” — Benjamin Franklin
At first pass this comment sounds like a critique a “cynical and lazy” internet commentator wrote under willful ignorance of facts like the underlying law only applying to platforms with 45 million monthly active users in the EU.

When you come across something that makes it seem like everyone else has lost their mind, a 30 second Google search might help.
That is pretty much ‘the plan’ since the 90’s. Delulu is the solulu.
It's Microsoft's actions which lose them trust, regardless of what they might state in official communications.

Actions like the C# dev kit license footgun/rug pull, the closed source remote development extensions, and training copilot on GPL while pretending that you own any code it generates.

You don't need even need a rant on the Windows team, it would be beating a dead horse.
> if you don't know what you are posting & talking about, then maybe you shouldn't

I hate to appeal to authority, but I have been working with large cathedral-style open source projects (mostly three: GCC, QEMU, Linux itself) for about 20 years at this time and have been a maintainer for a Linux subsystem for 12. So I do know what I am posting and talking about.

The very fact that I had never learned about this subsystem from LWN, Linux Plumbers Conference, Linux Security Summit etc. means that the problem is not technical and is not with the maintainers not replying it.

A previous submission (7000 lines) did have some replies from the maintainers. Apparently instead of simplifying the submission it ballooned into something 150% larger. At some point I am not sure what the maintainers could do except ignoring it.
all started after our guns were taken
You have some options here:

- check out the new section and vote up good articles

- flag bad submissions

- or complain about it
> Sounds like Hector Martin is doing exactly that, burning the bridge along the way. Good luck! I think it's the right move (minus the bridge burning).

Unfortunately, what Hector Martin was actually doing is producing rather spectacular flame on LKML and Mastodon. And he isn't representative of other Rust developers either, at least one has voiced their disagreement with him: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/Z6OzgBYZNJPr_ZD1@phen...

I agree maintaining a fork would've been a more productive use of Hector's time, but that's not what has been happening and I see no reason to believe it is what will be happening from now on. From my own experience, personalities like Hector quit after not getting their way, rather than looking for other constructive options.
thank you! for now the intent is to self host and keep it simple and private; so there's no plan to integrate banks.
How is anyone surprised by their incentive to replace SWE jobs? SWE's have an immensely big piece of the companies budget, and that pain is what has led us to where we are now.

Remember, this pain is also human made. We created how software was made, people latched onto it, acted as if it was a science, not realizing that humans can also CHANGE the way software is made.

You can't change physics, but you can change human made concepts (up to a certain degree ofcourse, CS itself is still key).
You're missing context. Linux Rust devs themselves were unhappy with Hector's flaming "on their behalf".
Yea sounds dumb like that I agree.
You can't rely on an authority to step in every time some disagrees. People need to resolve their own conflicts rather than yell until bailed out
thanks! yours looks great too, love the report aspect
It is getting darker than what OP said. I would say 10x more.
There are many kids getting kidnapped and bodies turn up in rivers with organ missing on daily basis. Missing person cases sky rocketing all over social media , last month is worse.
Stuff like that is flagged for no other reason two more like topics have been submitted and marked dead in the hours before, as well as not befitting the spirit of HN aiming to be a place that likes to avoid politics unless of particular interest. I would say turn on show dead even briefly to see how much the same topic gets repeated over and over and over.

I would speculate there are plenty of people who are horrified in terms of breach of procedures and protocols as the new installed govt tries to rewrite the rules, who could write a couple pages of serious implications in the aftermath when new management takes over in 4, 8 or however many years to redo all the things that were not done as per the US constitution and with regard to stringent security protocols - it'll cost a pretty penny. However to many such speculation on mass is not very interesting either.
> we all love to say "Google bad"

No, we don't love to say it for no reason. Google has demonstrated repeatedly over the years that they are in fact bad and have made a mockery of their previous motto "Don't be evil".
So, strictly speaking, that's not how UK law, at least, works. The court can absolutely compel you to say things you memorized - in fact, including encryption passwords. You can of course, physically, refuse, but you can be held in contempt of court, and jailed until you reveal the information, indefinitely. So not at all off limits.
OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Vmagent: Metrics Collection and Propagation Benchmark
yes, this is the intended way for now
2) why wasn't the person/party that broke the law penalized then? PNL was found to have paid for the TikTok ads for Georgescu. Did they get even a slap on the wrist?
Why isn't silver used though? It's a better conductor isn't it?
Clever technological tricks are not the solution to political problems.

"Plausible deniability" is cute, but in practice, who cares?

> impossible to convict someone over it.

Yeah, sure, tell me how well that works for you. "Your honor, the data is mathematically indistinguishable from random bytes so you can't convict me" -> "The witness saw you type in a password to view data from that image, give us the password or you're going to prison. Even if you don't give us the passphrase, the police officer says you might be using something called 'steganography', and that's already enough to convict you"

The court and legal system does not care about clever logical tricks or cryptographic tricks or any of that.
Linus vs. Rustaceans: the get off my lawn sequel nobody asked for. Kernel devs now double as drama critics, social media is the new mailing list flamewar arena, and somewhere a C pointer quietly segfaults out of spite. Will rust ever "make install"? Stay tuned! To find out in the next episode of Keeping Up with the Rustaceans
C# also has exactly the same concept. "class"-types are put on the heap and get assigned by reference, while "struct"-types are assigned by copy.

It always seemed weird to me. You need to know which data type you are working with when passing things around and can not adjust according to the application. For certain types from the standard library it makes sense, like datetimes you probably want always be copied. But when you work in a big team where everybody has their own style and special optimization corner case, it decays quickly.
Are there any "all in one apps" like this? That's the first one I ever saw. I've been wondering for years now, why ain't anyone trying it.

The unified timeline is the whole point. However, for me, this app gets two things wrong:

1) I'd also want IM feeds on the same timeline. Like, Messenger, Teams, WhatsApp, etc. I know it's probably impossible due to how obstructionist and anti-user the chat vendors are, but I keep dreaming about it. Most chat conversations are, in my mind, in the same general category as HN links or incoming e-mail: "thing that I need to pay a minute of attention up front, and then possibly 15+ minutes dealing with".

2) It's iOS only.
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> Go codebases? Switching to Rust so you can what exactly?

The way I heard it, the Rust's type system, async implementation(s), they way lifetimes just keep propagating once you start, and its macro languages are way more engaging, thus Rust must be superior.
There is something strangely magical about the pictures of the city streets at night. Lack of trash? How clean the roads are? The lighting? I have been out at night in plenty of places (not Japan), but it never looks like this. At first I thought it was their camera, but I think it is just Japan at night?
Still owns you, but without data races!
Are you implying the CDC (part of PHS and itself part of HHS) has no authority to track and provide technical resources to combat measles outbreaks within individual states?

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Public_Health_...
Are graphics just specially handled by the kernel with how recoverable they are from crashes?
My honest opinion of "Japanese society works great because the whole society is formed by a unique strain of humans who lack any sense of individualism" is a pretty shallow take in my opinion, where most of the corroboration are other clueless people repeating the same basic stereotype.

The other commenter mentions the huge impact of Japanese pop culture and technical innovation, which somehow isn't legitimate proof of individual expression, but if you need academic citations then here's some from even back in the '90s arguing that Japan is not less individualistic than the West, and even arguably is less collectivistic depending on how you measure that. [1][2]

Here's an example purely from a Japanese stereotype that shows a type of individuality that people could generally understand (just in a form what westerners tend to look down on)—the concept of an otaku [3], or in other words, someone who follows some interest much further than anyone thinks is socially "normal" or "reasonable." And yet these people are generally accepted by Japanese society, if not empowered in the form of a respected "craft" culture, in a way that would just make you a total loser in most of the West.

My personal experience actually living in Japan for 7 years now, matches a different common trope in Japanese culture, wherein what people outwardly say to people they don't trust is completely different than what they actually believe and say to people they do trust (honne/tatemae [4]).

And unfortunately for the Westerners parroting these stereotypes, they firmly fall into only hearing the tatemae.

To the original thread, there are plenty of rational, direct reasons for why Japanese cities can be clean and orderly, that aren't that "Everyone in Japan is some kind of brainless drone," but unfortunately people who justify things based on that excuse will never learn what those things are, doomed to make the same mistakes... very drone-like, in my view.

[1] https://sci-hub.ru/10.1111/1467-839X.00043 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-839X.00043)

[2] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...
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[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honne_and_tatemae
We are talking post 2000s here. What are you referring to with "completely subservient, even to point of a willingness to engaging in self detrimental behavior if demanded." ?

The notion that China is somewhat entitled to dominate its neighbors because it had a bad run 1-2 centuries ago is a bit silly.
The panacea to the left losing political power is the same as that used by the far-right—don’t play identity politics. When far-right point-of-views were unelectable or unemployable, all they did was work quietly, and acquired resources without any reliance on power structures to help them acquire status or wealth. Becoming self-reliant makes anything more resilient.

I am not left or right leaning, so I don’t have any attachment to what ideology is dominant at one point in time. From what I can tell, maybe the only thing which persuades people are outcomes. The current set of right-wing policies are going to create a lot of discontent because of job losses and wealth inequality, and so that’s an easy target for left-leaning politicians to regain foothold.

Which goes back to my earlier point, politicking only on identity is a losing game. If your only campaign policy is empathy, as necessary as it is for strong social structures, then you will not win votes from those who are facing an existential threat, e.g., via poverty or other fears, as their stress response to their own plight reduces their capacity for empathy. The left needs to learn a lot about humans before it can prioritize humanity.

(Updated the comment to better describe what I mean)
I would add: ...and being Eclipse they will have no marketing at all. Eclipse offers tons of interesting IDE's, languages ranging from C, Java, PHP, there used to be Haskell support as well. Granted, not every language has the same depth of features, and some plugins are practically abandoned. There are tools for the automotive industry, tools for building Dsl's and IDEs, hardware programming, the list goes on.

Eclipse is built as an IDE, but also as a platform to build your own IDE. I think that DBeaver is also based on Eclipse-the-platform.

But eclipse also reinforces memes, look at eclipse.org

- Software from the US: Great marketing, invasive, beginner friendly, attention to UX, great design, steals your data by default.

- Software from the EU: Deeply buried on a 2007 website, great feature depth, interface tailored to power users, designers have been killed, community equals you + 20 experts on some mailing list, no data sharing or only as opt-in

(they are just memes, with a pinch of truth)
No, I disagree that it doesn't make sense. I was mostly saying that the OP's "hats" are generally just various random points along the spectrum of "how much would you invest in the code". They are kinda arbitrary which is fine. I was mostly trying to reformulate their points and disagree with one of them.
The reality is American politics is of crucial importance for the entire world, and the moment we are experiencing may prove to be the most important inflection point for the next century.
Hasn't anyone tried using silver wires?
Isn't ARM based in the UK, and can't they make a backdoor that way?
Vaccines Through Protein Degradation
> They are amazing tools with a ridiculously fluctuating (and largely undetectable) error rate that need a lot of other tools to keep them above board.

So are human beings. Meaning we've been working around this issue since forever, we're not suddenly caught up in a new thing here.
Tom M. Apostol's Project Mathematics videos circa 1988-2000 are wonderful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mathematics!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpxWyJg4_1A&list=PL8_xPU5epJ...
I paste this https://svelte.dev/llms-full.txt into https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts/new_chat and remind to use svelte 5 syntax, it works somewhat ok
Why not a user-space DNS resolver, such as Hickory DNS?
bring back the apprenticeship model, and stipulate that there's a cost to leaving the apprenticeship program until the company gets back X number of years of service in exchange for the apprenticeship perhaps.
Never had that experience, and I have seen a lot as I am approaching 50 years old, Software Engineering hiring has always been with an Engineering degree through HR, on my part of the globe.
Inside The Wealthy California Enclave So Secretive People Barely Know It Exists
As it has always been, at least since I am on the job market, early 1990's.

In the little Iberian Penisula, you would seldom get a training, and being hired as junior without experience in what folks were already doing, was through connections as it usually happens in more "flexible" cultures.

And better have a degree on thee field, either technical school, or higher education.

Trainings? That is for us to do at home instead of watching TV, lets not diminish company profits, someone has to keep their audis, volvos and bmws for management roles.

It is not only due salaries that so many emigrate.
Yeah, on X he would've been shadow banned long ago instead, for some random left-leaning post that just happened to get too much attention…
Exactly I also believe that UI would get redundant. In fact agents don't even need to make decisions looking at visual like we use web. Imagine your browser being an agent that takes decisions, it knows which get requests to fetch data from and how to make payments too.
Loudspeakers broadcast whereas a person physically next to you can adjust their loudness based on what's socially acceptable
In the Linux kernel
> There are the data brokers, social media giants, and governments that have the technological power to manipulate the masses.

During Trump's inauguration, it was a bunch of technologists with front row seats, not his government cabinet picks.

* https://www.kron4.com/news/national/bay-area-tech-ceos-get-f...
For developers the "Apple tax" is easier. They don't need to deal with refunds or customer complaints about payments not working.
Content and AI = Knowledge