skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention"

Platforms have realized this long ago, that as info explodes people pay attention to the easiest things to pay attention too not the hardest, so they move resources to designing things like reels and shorts and tweets etc etc. Every earnings call they gloat about how shorter form content is exploding and how thrilled they are about it.

The long form stuff only holds attention of the majority if you keep throwing Novelty on the table every two sentences.

Platforms are basically running an animal domestication program, where people have been rewarded with high rep and status for extremely low cognitive work.

So that entire group that has benefited doesn't see any need for nuance and depth in anything. "Cause look how many likes, clicks, views and followers I have accumulated without it"
Trump likely has other plans than to give up power willingly (again).
There's still the big cost of time spent working on it without making money from having a job.
Flagged.

All you new accounts in green, you do realize that upvote rings on HN are against the guidelines? Especially when your accounts were all created less than 24 hours ago for the main purpose of shilling this post?

This isn't the first time this sort of shilling has been done with this post: [0] but you are the same exact accounts doing it again.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42919378
This is such a politically charged article and full of political hate. Is this really worthy of HN. Are political editorials now ok for HN? In addition to his obvious political hatred of the current president, the author goes out of his purview to repeat third hand rumors and allegations of illegality at other agencies he has no experience with.

Just a few quotes from the article:

"...This is amply laid out in the Project 2025 documents, and let me say right here that I was volcanically pissed off at the way that topic was handled during ..the campaign.", and

.. That’s a gigantic can of worms that I don’t have the energy to open at the moment, but past that, there is a broader hatred of education and expertise of all kinds. I hate to bring that one up, because it makes me sound like a crank, but there really is a strain of Trumpism that is nothing more than a desire for revenge against snooty over-educated elites who try to tell people what they should do based on their so-called "research." So if by pummelling the NIH and NSF you can simultaneously punch some huge bureaucracies in the face, revenge yourself against your imagined pandemic enemies, and cause distress at a bunch of big universities where they mostly hate you anyway, well. . .what's not to like?
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I strongly urge everyone to make their voices heard with their Senators and Representatives about these issues: the Republican ones need to hear that not everyone agrees with this stuff, and the Democratic ones need to hear that their constituents are not in a handshaking bipartisan mood."

We wouldn't be here if government funding was not overrun by leftist politics. How many grants have been rewritten the past few years to put a facade of DEI or to grab funding from funds specifically targeted for DEI or other leftist goals?
Seems like a solid app. I haven't evaluated online music software but this is a good first experience, for me. I appreciate that I can try it without signing in.
We're just 5 years away from...

- AGI/ASI

- Fusion Energy

- Linux overtaking Windows
It really isn't that bad. Setup is really quick and I have not found cause to complain on mobile.
But "having their privilege taken away" is a vastly different thing than "answers to a multiple choice test are leaked to an ethnic affinity group".

Furthermore, this also negatives impacted Latin and Asian people. And also Black people that weren't part of the aforementioned affinity group.
> Apple Invites is for everyone. Guests don’t need the app, an Apple device, or an account to RSVP to an event.

Right, so how do they get and respond to the invite? I'm guessing SMS or email, making the whole thing pointless.
I guess I was thinking more of frequently run queries against infrequently modified data or where stale data doesn't matter so much. The sort of things that are ideal cache targets. You'd think you could tag queries like that. Sort of the things that a CDN caches but more granular. Sure if it's stuff that's frequently changed, an ORM could reason about it just like, well, the database does, but then you're back into all the bad things about running your shadow database with a badly fitting model, and you'd be better off just ensuring all or part of the database ran closer to your app with replication, say, in memory on same server.
Pivoting means you are solving a new core problem. Adding features keeps the core problem intact.
> So nepotism + networking = bad, but meritocracy also = bad...?

The downsides of meritocracy invalidate the almost idolatrous worship of the idea seen in the tech field.

Tolstoy wrote “It is principally through this false idea of inequality, and the intoxication of power and of servility resulting from it, that men associated in a state organization are enabled to commit acts opposed to their conscience without the least scruple or remorse.”[1]

See also:

Sandel, Michael J. The Tyranny of Merit : What’s Become of the Common Good?. [S.l.]: Penguin Books, 2021.

Niebuhr, Reinhold. Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. https://archive.org/details/moralmanimmorals00nieb_0.

[1] Tolstoy, Leo,. 1894. “‘The kingdom of God is within you’ Christianity not as a mystic religion but as a new theory of life;” New York: Cassell Pub. Co. /z-wcorg/. 1894. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/3859761.html.
I don’t see our protectionism as a problem given their own, but there are plenty of countries who don’t want to import lots of oil and won’t mind buying Chinese EVs along with solar panels and wind turbines to achieve that. American simply isn’t the only consumer market anymore.
I've been an avid news consumer since ~2016 and early on I remember getting very outraged at articles, tweets and other pieces of news I read. Over time I realized that these articles want you to be outraged, and that the outrage is a form of control.

Over time though I picked up on these "outrage triggers" and that's helped me be much more objective about news I'm reading. I'll be reading an article and I can usually pick up the "tricks" writers use to generate outrage. I often find myself reading an article and go "oh look you want me to feel outraged right now".

Nowdays when I try to be informed about a story I will read an NYT report, a CNN report, a Fox News or other right leaning report, and then maybe one from DailyWire of Bannon's War Room. Skimming every article I often see spots where the outlet is trying to outrage their readers. NYT will report something that will outrage the left and as you "go right" on the reports you will start to see outrage directed to the right.
As someone working with it day to day, coming from around 18 years of mostly python, I wish I could say my experience has been great. I find myself constantly battling with the JIT and compilation and recompilation and waiting around all the time (sometimes 10 to 15 minutes for some large projects). Widespread macro usage makes stack traces much harder to read. Lack of formal interfaces means a lot of static checking is not practical. Pkg.jl is also not great, version compatibility is kind of tacked on and has odd behavior.

Obviously there are real bright spots too, with speed, multiple dispatch, a relatively flourishing ecosystem, but overall I wouldn't pick it up for something new if given the choice. I'd use Jax or C++ extensions for performance and settle on python for high level, despite its obvious warts.
Trump put us through Covid lockdown hell. Awfully strange to re-elect the guy responsible for the worst of Covid.

What happened with the Colombians was the President said "you cannot land them here in chains and handcuffs" and Trump threatened tariffs, then cancelled the tariffs, then caved into the Colombian President's demands and removed the handcuffs from the Colombian citizens. Fox News and conservative media spun this as a "win" because Trump made a threat and also because they misunderstood why Colombia refused the plane.
Got some recommendations?
You made a joke about questioning reality, I simply entertained it. You can do whatever you want with it, wasn’t a slight at all.
Usually people make pull requests.
What does Israel produce that we want? Are they paying cash for this service, seems expensive, how did they manage to get so much US dollars?
I would only use -Ob for development, it's not for production builds.
Im not sure, since i didn't touch ubuntu in years, but when they launched unity they send the search to different websites to find the things you (not) searched.
Least qualified according to who? The Democrats?

It’s politics. These are political roles. It’s organizational leading and having people in place who are aligned with your goals, not splicing DNA.

And we’ve had the qualified one who got 90 Senate votes in confirmation and what did that get us? The Iraq War and the Afghan departure with abandoned locals falling off airplanes.

It’s laughable when the idea of checking the same boxes that always get checked is “qualified”.
'Programming as theory-building' is an approach that has grown on me in the past few years.

Your first draft may be qualitatively an MVP, but it's still just a theory of a final product you want, which requires a lot of iterative building before you get to that.

As such, there's no way to not shift between code and design, especially when business requirements are involved and which themselves may change over time.
Most other mentioned are also just hobby kernels; actually also Linux and BSD started that way.
I work for someone who uses Apple Shortcuts and Zappier to bridge things together, that's working with common stuff like transcribing to One Note or Notta to Notion

edit: they would use ChatGPT to ask questions/find direction but wouldn't actually use the code if any was given but I think if you're using say WP where you can just dump in random code via a plugin, people would try that
Huh, weird exchange [0].

It's unbelievable that Paul Graham wouldn't understand how this forever and utterly compromises the Treasury. Nor is it remotely believable that he thinks Musk is capable of doing something like this "carefully" (as if there's a careful way to illegally tamper with the Treasury's innards).

Seems like he is just tweeting so that later he can say "Well I tried; I told him to be careful". Doesn't look smart tho.

Btw, afaik Paul G isn't CEO of YC, and hasn't had an "active leadership role" since 2014.

0 - https://x.com/paulg/status/1886741943050211408
I rather use a system where I can update and if something breaks, know what broke and how to fix it, you only get that with Linux, if you are interested in learning how
Onion news are just news from the future.
Same. I sighed when they continued to run telemetry after disabling it - I blocked it (don't care if it's a dry run or not). Bit the bullet when they discontinued FF/TB in favor of snaps - installed them from tar. But when they installed ubuntu-pro without notice, on existing system, which is impossible to remove without also removing DE - that was the last straw for me. I'm moving all my desktops to Debian.
Unfortunately Debian can't be recommended for beginners due to sheer volume of documentation for Ubuntu on the web.
Servo just uses SpiderMonkey instead of their own JS engine in Rust.

Even without SpiderMonkey, we'd still have JavascriptCore from Safari and LibJS from Ladybird.
If you're a citizen of a democracy and you only focus on you, then when it comes time to vote you'll be voting randomly. Or maybe you don't vote and thereby cede control to your neighbors to make decisions for you over the environment in which you live. Assuming you decide to vote then, and since you don't live in a vacuum, your vote will be based on whatever random stuff leaked through to you during the time you were "focusing on you". Actually it's not random. It's whoever spent the most time and money on the propaganda that influences/buys your vote.

So it's not really that simple is it?
If you truly need to know breaking news, one of the following is probably true:

- you have a team that will brief you on it

- you will get the news that apply to you from the source

You won’t get either of these from a news website.

As a civilian, you can stay completely up to date with a quick weekly / monthly headline scan.
> the space for imagination is diminishing

Interesting way to put it. But I wonder if "the space for imagination" is moving elsewhere?
KDE is as close to win as you can get on a linux kernel
> If we intend to admit students on the basis of ability, an SAT score is just about the fairest way to do that.

(Bashes head on table.) Intelligence, aptitude, and potential are incredibly hard to measure and judge in a purely objective way. The SAT is just a thin slice of that picture.

> In many universities more than 90% of faculty identify as left wing.

And less than 10% of university astrophysicists think the world is flat. Where's the diversity?!
yes exactly, hence unchecked exceptions are the sane option.
I'd love to see it too, but as someone who does hardware for a living and software sometimes for fun, I just don't see how this is going to happen.

Hardware is a money pit endeavor with low margins and high overhead. Software is a money printer with high margins and low overhead.
> authoritarian president

Basically the analysis of anyone who already hated Trump and didn't vote for him. I see a lot of psuedo intellectual exercises in this thread that basically amount to trying to relitigate the election or sour grapes for having lost.
+1 for rolling releases.

I run NixOS on my laptop and server, and do updates about once a week. I don’t use Timeshift but I do use the NixOS snapshots if an update breaks stuff.

But I really haven’t had any issues with an update breaking anything. I don’t really want to go back to the major release model.
> Our objectives are to determine how (1) the Government of Ukraine used the USAID-provided Starlink terminals, and (2) USAID monitored the Government of Ukraine’s use of USAID-provided Starlink terminals.

That's not really an investigation of Starlink but of the use of Starlink terminals.
I think what the commenter meant to address was the right-wing perception that mask mandates and shutdowns were the first step that ends with the government taking away your guns.
just dont turn her around and have her be a skeleton, please
I'm a French leftist, so I'm probably more 'liberal' than you'll ever be.
I was not aware of an Obtanium catalog like that. That's a nice feature that I see hidden at the bottom of the Add App screen. You can also use Obtanium to install from F-Droid sources and really just any apk, so it's superior in many ways, except in 1) discovery (which that catalog helps) 2) as devs aren't curating F-droid releases with care, sometimes it's a pain to setup, especially when a package is always `apk-latest` or something.
I just feel the cutting has to start someplace and with Trump not having to be elected again he has nothing to lose. I am sure a Democrat will win next term to try to right things. Trump is mart enough to see there is a problem but not smart enough to get in and fix it. It is like a farmer burning the fields for next season. Democrats will have a field to build back better on.
Scientific American started "getting into politics" in the mid 20th century, so your comment is about 70 years late.
I am no Apple sympathiser, and I use Firefox religiously, but to be fair to Apple Firefox streaming support and implementation is the worst of all the browsers.
in the case linked above amazons defense that they're just a "marketplace" did not work though.
You shouldn't need to configure anything, what browser are you using? I added some error handling to get more visibility, what happens if you navigate to a subreddit like https://reddtok.vercel.app/r/oddlysatisfying ?
> and the dominant regime at the time downplayed / ignored the DEI elements because that was supported by their ideology

In the eye of the beholder. The current regime is upplaying the DEI elements because of their ideology.

The difference though is, unless everyone involved has a time machine, using current cultural agenda items and going back in time and attributing them to people is always going to be wild speculation.
There are methods of practicing DEI that don't lower the bar. There are methods of DEI that do lower the bar. There's no single answer to that question, it depends on how DEI is implemented in that particular case.
Congratulations on your shaming ad-hominem language. Your lack of any genuine counterpoint reveals your men-hating nature by your remarks, which deserve no further response.
One of my flagged comments is “At what age would you support them?”
There's a lot of automation, but it's the same situation with "self driving" cars. Until you get to nearly 100% trustworthy full automation, you need people actively making decisions constantly, so automation is mostly in the form of assists rather than full automation.
There is a long, long road ahead for that to happen. Excel has to not only radically change itself, but so does Power BI. The 3rd party ecosystem has slowly changed from COM add-ins to the JS-based Add-ins, but even then there are many 3rd parties that continue to go the COM route, hence the very long deprecation road for 'legacy' Outlook in the enterprise.
I thought that at first, but if you look at the movies its hard to say any have much prestige? And you could probably make the case that getting more eyeballs on it will, if anything, make them a bit more valuable in 10 years. I still remember watching the same shitty movies on cable over and over as a kid just because they were available, and I imagine those movies have a higher place in the collective memory now because they were available.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7Eup7JXScZyvRftA2Q5h...

Though I would imagine if you were Tom Hanks or Ryan Reynolds you may be upset some of your least popular work is now the most accessible.
My main computer is a linux laptop, and I've been pretty happy with it for many years. There are inconveniences, but I prefer these inconveniences to the ones I'd have with Windows, Mac, or ChromeOS.
Despite the article I've always found the Ubuntu upgrade process to be pretty painless. I actually did a minor upgrade this afternoon on my personal laptop from 22.04 to 22.04.1 without issue.

But I agree with the article that snaps are infuriating and next time I replace my laptop I'll be surveying the field to choose a replacement for Ubuntu.
I just use chatgpt to summarize it months ago. It legit said it will cause a recession
> DEB packages are more widely available than RPM. The Debian repositories are larger.

This is up to the repository. If Debian choose RPM it would be as large as it already is
It's irrelevant. The topic is a defense of equating a country flag with a language. Even if you have 2 in one country then you've already proved why its a bad idea
You can add Show HN to the title, too.

It looks good, though when I scroll up once on my trackpad it scrolls past 3-4 articles at a time.
You're asking the wrong question. If it wasn't a Nazi salute, why doesn't he say so?

I've seen enough gleeful comments by real, actual, self-proclaimed Nazis to know that they saw it as a Nazi salute. If I ever did any gesture that could be interpreted this way, I wouldn't hesitate a second to denounce them and apologize for the gesture.

Why has Musk still not done any of this, even though he knows that Nazis consider his gesture a Nazi salute? Why not come out and say "it wasn't meant to be a Nazi salute"?

> If it was, why wouldn’t he just say so? What would be the point in doing it in the first place?

Because he wants Nazis to support and like him, while giving non-Nazis "plausible deniability". He gains support from the base of the president he's working with while not really losing much.

Again, let's turn the question around: if it wasn't a Nazi salute, why wouldn't he just say so? He'd lose the support of Nazis and gain the respect of everyone else. Seems like an absolute no-brainer.
It does feel like julia will not make the leap to displace python, but for a long time python offered too few improvements over perl, so its not completely out of the question.
i suppose it might have something to do with how they recruit and the folks that are willing to go through with it

https://x.com/ChShersh/status/1816514954302025820

if you don't want to click on the link, I've copied most of it below (his second post has a screenshot of the questions!):

"I had been using Ubuntu for 10 years.

Last year, I applied to Canonical for a job to develop Ubuntu itself in Rust.

Before the interview, they asked me to write a 20-page essay about my life, aspirations, philosophy and whatnot."
iTIP (RFC 5546) / iMIP (RFC 6047) are a standard for sending and responding to calendar invites, implemented on top of email.

Certainly some implementations are pretty poor, but in theory this is all standardised.
..or zypper install, or emerge. For other tasks though, exact arguments might differ a bit:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman_Rosetta
Once we train models on the chain of thought outputs, next token prediction can solve the halting problem for us (eg, this chain of thinking matches this other chain of thinking).
Sounds like a good way to ruin the excitement of watching a sports game with friends.
It’s Zaslav-era WB so there’s probably some kind of weird tqx write-off happening, or some contractual agreement that they’re living up to in the cheapest way possible.

Some good stuff on there - shout out to The Mission, which includes one of Morricone’s greatest scores.
We have an automated system to prevent mid-air collisions,
it's called TCAS, Traffic collision avoidance system.
For safety reasons,
it is inhibited at 1000 feet AGL or below,
to prevent dangerous descents into terrain.

How would your mythical ATC automation take that situation into account, if it even thought about that edge case.
I don't agree with this at all. Pairing where there's a big skill gap isn't proper pairing, it's more like mentoring or hands on training.

In pair programming as I learned it and as I have occasionally experienced it, two individuals challenge each other to be their best selves while also handing off tasks that break flow so that the pair as a whole is in constant flow. When it works this is a fantastic, productive, intense experience. I would agree that it is more than 2x as productive. I don't believe it's possible to achieve this state at all with a mismatched pair.

If this is the experience people have in mind, then it's not surprising that they think that those who think it's only for training juniors haven't actually tried it very much.
There are fatal IO errors and non-fatal. Most of us don't care about the non-fatal case, but mainframes have the concept of "file isn't available now, load tape 12345", "file is being restored from backup, try again tomorrow" - things that your code could handle (if nothing else you should inform the user that this will take a while). There is also the "read off the end of the file" exception which in some languages is the idiomatic way to tell when you have read the whole file.

But most IO errors are fatal. It doesn't matter if the filename is not found, or the controller had too many errors talking to the drive and gave up - either way your code can do nothing.
That's the next quote:

"Gaza's entire population would relocate to other countries."

Which would literally be a war crime.