skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a longtime Windows user I switched to a Fedora Desktop. Prefer using a modern distro with latest software inc. Wayland and latest Nvidia drivers and Flatpacks. No idea what's possessed Ubuntu to go their own way with Snap's, but I didn't leave Windows to move to a curated walled Desktop. Anyway Fedora's a great high quality, well maintained distro with no signs of Enshittification from RedHat's sponsorship yet.

With that said I still use Ubuntu for servers (no intention to pay for RHEL). Although with all our App's deployed as Docker containers, Ubuntu isn't doing too much.
Is storage space for this significant?

I doubt they're deleting the master copies or the master renders or anything, so the only thing that would be offloaded would be the "consumer" renders. A Blu-ray movie with no additional compression added is between 15-40 gigs.

A consumer like me has a 300 terabyte storage array, presumably Warner Bros has even more than that (and certainly could afford more than that), so it feels like 40 gigs per movie is basically nothing.
This happens in the US too [1,2,3]. In fact, regarding freedom of the press, they rank 55th in the world, well behind the UK, which ranks 23rd [4]. And if you think Trump is anything but the standard neoliberal order accelerated, I've got a bridge to sell you. For example look at the Laken Riley act. A blatant and complete teardown of judicial order (punishment for being _suspected_ of crimes), and 58 democrats helped pass it. Trump is par for the course, he's just a bit rude about it.

[1] https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/10/texas-ut-lecturer-ar...

[2] https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240425-more-than-100...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2020/07/17/892277592/federal-officers-us...

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Index
A scary amount of critical FOSS projects are just some guy's hobby, and a hobbyist will often work on problems they find interesting, regardless of whether or not they're important for the "community".

If you're coming home from work and have one hour of free time, do you really want to spend it investigating why a Meta+Shift+F11 doesn't work in your program under Wayland on Womperloo Linux 11.4?

That's the #1 reason why people need to be paid to work on important software. In a corporate environment (with somewhat reasonable management) boring but important work will land in someone's Jira ticket and they'll be paid to get it done.
Free money?

It's probably zero effort to upload them to YouTube. People watch them. YouTube generates ad revenue and pays out Warner Brothers.

They probably choose the movies nobody wants to pay for any more on VoD/DVD and nobody views on paid streaming services.
For transparency, yes, I did remove that first sentence a few minutes after posting (but before the reply was posted). I felt it was too harsh in tone. I don't remember changing "biological" to "bigraphical"
Slightly off-topic I suppose but is there any open-source music server that supports streaming to AirPlay devices? The only truly functional solution I've seen so far is Roon which is $15 per month or $830 one-off purchase, both of which are out of my budget.
Seems like negotiating.
Happens a lot with adolescents. They can be quite exclusionary.
offhand:

1) The fact that "fetch" doesn't happen automatically in the "chrome" commands.

2) naive use of "git merge" results in history that's a cyclopean horror. For example, caring about the "left" and "right" parents of a commit.

3) rerere isn't enabled by default so if you're merging from upstream constantly you're having to re-resolve same conflicts, every time is an opportunity to screw up.

4) a culture of keeping a clean history but cleaning history is destructive and painful for other users of the same branch.

5) git merge merges from local (stale) branch by default, so when merging from upstream to get new commits you have to remember to `git merge origin/main` instead of `git merge main`. Also see (1).

6) using submodules. At all.
I thought we were talking about Trump?

The 6th January capitol attack was an attempted coup, what's happening now is Gleichschaltung. Please read up on "Gleichschaltung" [1] if you think that's in any way or form less of an condemnation as "coup".

[1] https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/gleichscha...
win32 isolation sounds cool.
The headline manages to under-play the key quote:

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

That would be a violation of the Genocide Convention:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention
What is actually outrageous is that Scientific American publishes articles like this. It's an institution that, like so many, is destroying itself by getting into politics, especially the politics of outrage.
> Avoid following the news constantly. Check in every once in a while—a couple times a week at most.

Agreed. I personally believe that checking the news everyday is akin to something like a ‘news overdose’. There’s nothing wrong with spending just 15 minutes per week. At least for me, that’s a far healthier dose.
> it's how you have populations repeatedly making the same damn mistakes century after century just in a different form. it's baked into our DNA i suppose.

I think this is probably correct. It's inevitable. It's who we are - we (some percentage of?) humans simply want to hurt each other.

Nobody in the history of humanity has had it as good (by any material metric) as Americans living in 2025, yet here we go again.
openSUSE is a great all-around distro, not only for sys-admins. It comes in two main flavors: Leap (stable) and Tumbleweed (rolling), and several others. The main difference between Tumbleweed and other rolling with other distros is the quality control before releases. This is done almost daily. If for some reason the quality check does not pass, the release is hold until it is solved.
> Systemd was the second attempt at a new init system. The writing had been on the wall for a while for sysvinit, it just turned out that upstart wasn't really fixable. Later, when systemd started trying to unify more aspects of the distro, a lot of the conventions that were adopted didn't even come from Red Hats distros.

It was still mostly driven by Red Hat people, most notably a guy who was terrible at taking feedback, and proposed "solutions" for security vulnerabilities which were bullshit ("just update systemd", as if you can just do that on any distro). For years systemd had pretty terrible downsides (you know how it deals with conflicting dependencies? randomness! Because that's what you need for an init system, random ordering), yet RH and the person in charge refused to listen.

That all the software RH made/sponsored had some advantage or another over alternatives doesn't change my initial point - Fedora, and RHEL, are full of RH alternatives to existing software. Yeah, Podman is better than Docker in some ways, but RH still removed user's choice by forcing their half baked "drop in replacement" that for multiple years couldn't do half of what the predecessor did. Nowadays Podman is decent, but it has been the forced default for how long now?
Snaps, flatpaks and appimages are converging to that. Slowly indeed, but they are.
It would be easy enough using an overlay file system, but I'm not aware of anybody having nicely packaged it up.
> That’s because the actual work to get more candidates from diverse backgrounds is difficult and takes time

On the demand side (where placement or acceptance or hiring is contingent upon qualifications) the "actual work to get more candidates from diverse backgrounds" cannot be done equitably.

Selective institutions are a reflection of the society from which they draw candidates. As society produces more kinds of qualified candidates, the makeup of selective organizations will change.

Change 'at the top' is a trailing indicator, it is the result of a process and not the start of one.

I don't even know what 'outreach' and 'financial support' mean in this context, but I disagree that societal attitudes must change more than they already are changing. In the US, people expect the most qualified candidates to get the job, and they (increasingly) reject discrimination on the basis of race and background. That is why they cry foul when systems and programs are put in place that discriminate against qualified applicants.
Been on testing for years without problems. Super reasonable choice for a personal machine if you need recent software versions.
Always use a separate partition for /home, have backups in place and your golden.
It seems that Obtainium "curates" apps, i.e. derives lists of downloadable apps, is by crowd-sourcing this task. See:

https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/

I also believe the client is doesn't limit itself to FOSS.
link a chat please
I meant that you could do this with isort in Python or rustfmt with `group_imports = StdExternalCrate` (sadly, not the default), where the imports are automatically separated into blocks, which is basically what you seem to be doing manually.

My point is that many things we end up doing manually can be automated, so I don't need to care about unsorted or unused imports at all and can rely on them to be fixed without my input, and I don't have to worry about a colleague forgetting to it either.
True, the extreme version of any of these is usually wrong
"93%, maybe 95.2%, of project managers, could disappear tomorrow to either no effect or a net gain in efficiency. (this estimate is up from 4 years ago)"

This made me laugh it is so true. My last big project at "Big Co" ( Knee surgery robot ) My small group went through 4 project managers - just for our small team. The entire project had probably 20. While a few where enjoyable to work with, there was very little value added and a lot of time spent filling them in.
I don't doubt you but this life experience is so far from my own I struggle to understand what you use that much search volume for. I maybe search for 4-5 things a day (based on my one stint paying for Kagi and their usage reporting and trying to use it everywhere, and this was before AI products were able to search on your behalf) which is what led me to cancel, I was usually not getting the paid plan value from it. A large amount of my searches today are often just fancy autocompletes for specific URLS on already known domains that I probably could have accessed without a search engine at all.
wait until they learn you can just remove snap or that you can use KDE instead of Gnome without switching distributions
Related: Anyone who's driving slower than I am is an idiot and anyone who's driving faster than I am is a maniac.
A link to just the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7Eup7JXScZyvRftA2Q5h...

From IMDb:

The 11th Hour (2007, Documentary, 7.2)
The Wind and the Lion (1975, Adventure Epic, 6.8)
Mr. Nice Guy (1997, Martial Arts Dark Comedy, 6.2)
City Heat (1984, Buddy Cop, 5.5)
Michael Collins (1996, Docudrama, 7.1)
The Adventures Of Pluto Nash (2002, Space Sci-Fi Comedy, 3.9)
Chaos Theory (2007, Comedy Drama Romance, 6.6)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962, Historical Globetrotting Adventure, 7.2)
Dungeons & Dragons (2000, Adventure Fantasy, 3.7)
Return Of The Living Dead Part II (1988, Zombie Horror Comedy, 5.7)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990, Dark Comedy, 5.6)
The Accidental Tourist (1988, Comedy Drama Romance, 6.7)
Critters 4 (1992, Horror Sci-Fi, 4.1)
Murder in the First (1995, Legal Thriller, 7.3)
The Year of Living Dangerously (1982, Drama Romance War, 7.1)
December Boys (2007, Drama Romance, 6.5)
Waiting for Guffman (1996, Satire, 7.4)
Lionheart (1987, Adventure Drama, 5.1)
Oh, God! (1977, Comedy Fantasy, 6.6)
Crossing Delancey (1988, Comedy Romance, 6.9)
Price of Glory (2000, Drama Sport, 6.1)
Flight of the Living Dead (2007, Horror, 5.1)
Deal of the Century (1983, Dark Comedy Satire Crime, 4.6)
Deathtrap (1982, Dark Comedy Suspense Mystery, 7.0)
The Mission (1986, Historical Epic Jungle Adventure, 7.4)
SubUrbia (1996, Comedy Drama, 6.7)
Hot To Trot (1988, Comedy Fantasy, 4.5)
True Stories (1986, Comedy Musical, 7.2)
The Science of Sleep (2006, Quirky Comedy Drama Romance, 7.2)
The Big Tease (1999, Comedy, 6.1)
Ladybird and Servo are exciting and much needed projects since Microsoft abandoned their own independent browser engine to use Chromium.

If you didn't know you could see the massive progress both projects have made in web compatibility here: https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=master&product=chrome&product...

As of today, browsers pass this percent of tests:

Chrome: 96.82%
Firefox: 95.41%
Safari: 94.97%
Ladybird: 89.30%
Servo: 78.61%
Taxes are usually higher, but not incredibly so. Healthcare spending is generally less for better results. Switzerland spends the most, although nowhere near what America spends, and is where Romney/heritage foundation got the mandatory health insurance idea from.
2004-2018 - Don't Be Evil

2024 - What's our K/D ratio?
> The main computer does not make choices stochastically and always understands what people ask it.

The mechanism is never explained, but no, it doesn't always understand correctly — and neither does Data. If hologram-Moriarty is sentient (is he?), then the capability likely exceeds what current LLMs can do, but the cause of the creation is definitely a misunderstanding.

Even the episode where that happens, the script for Dr. Pulaski leading up to Moriarty's IQ boost was exactly the same arguments used against LLMs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pYDy7vsCj8

(Common trope in that era being that computers (including Data) are too literal, so there was also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiIlJaSDPaA)

Similar with every time the crew work iteratively to create something in the holodeck. And, of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srO9D8B6dH4

> I do not think that resembles the current crop of LLMs. On voyager the ships computer is some kind of biological computing entity that they eventually give up on as a story topic but there is an episode where the bio computing gel packs get sick.

"Take the cheese to sickbay" is one of my favourite lines from that series.

> But is minuet?

I would say the character was a puppet, with the Bynars pulling the strings, because the holo-character was immediately seen as lacking personhood the moment they stopped fiddling with the computer.

Vic Fontaine was more ambiguous in that regard. Knew he was "a lightbulb", but (acted like) he wanted to remain within that reality in a way that to me felt like he was *programmed* to respond as if the sim around him was the only reality that mattered rather than having free will in that regard.

(But who has total free will? Humans are to holograms as Q is to humans, and the main cast were also written to reject "gifts" from Riker that time he briefly became a Q).

The villagers of Fair Haven were, I think, not supposed to be sentient (from the POV of the crew), but were from the POV of the writers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Haven_(Star_Trek:_Voyager... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_Folk_(Star_Trek:_Voyage...

> does eqtransformer have awareness?

There's too many different definitions for a single answer.

We don't know what part of our own brains gives us the sensation of our own existence; and even if we did, we wouldn't know if it was the only mechanism to do so.

To paraphrase your own words:

At what point does chemical pipelines doing some kind of stochastic transformation and electrochemical integration of sensory input become an individual that presents a desire for autonomy like data or the doctor?

I don't know. Like you, I'd say:

> I think there’s lots of questions here to answer and I don’t know the answers to them.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946281
Have a look at Free Speech Union UK for some examples.
There are major differences between the two, including cryptography used, outlined on the Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module#Versio....

2.0 is required for Microsoft's purposes. Here's one of them:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-...
Sure, I wasn't even insinuating that this was state-sponsored, just highlighting that it's known to be a super effective way to manipulate stories.
Yeah my biggest concern with any kind of automation is handling and recognizing edge cases. There are already manual systems like flight levels and patterns for traffic management. But what happens if one plane starts deviating because of something unexpected? Then you have to respond to a specific situation and the reason for deviating matters quite a lot. Think about all the ways your car can break down.
Perhaps it depends on the individual, but I never found it possible.

The news just made me sad, sad and angry most of the time, it's just a stream of 24/7 misery and if there's not enough misery going on locally the news will find misery from around the world to fill the run time.
> zuck capitulating to trump

So did Tim Cook. Is she binning her iPhone?
Yes, though I wouldn't call his interest in public policy sudden.

If we're honest this is all just unfounded speculation.

Financially, he's likely going to benefit from a deregulatory agenda, but is it enough to offset his investments to get Trump elected (buying Twitter, America PAC)? Who knows

Is his work at USAID in any way related to his financial outcomes? Who knows

Would he make just as much sitting on the couch while the republicans do their thing? Probably

Does he even care about making more money, given he's got more than he can possibly spend already? Who knows.

If I were to guess, he's at a point in his life where money isn't his main motivator, and instead he's seeking to make an impact.
"Well you see..."
<starts waving hands around wildly>
"If you debase your current OS, you PRIME people for the next OS, Win13!"
<speech devolves into gibberish at this point>
There's a simple fix to removing discrimination in hiring practices that no one seems to notice. Remove all demographic questions from the application. Hide the name and gender and attach a applicant ID. It's as easy as that. Every job should be looking for the most qualified individual regardless of race, nationality, religion, and sex. Demographics in the application are a recipe for disaster on both sides of the isle.
Since you're asking, yes they are. Johnson is a right wing populist, and Liz Truss recently spoke at a far right conference, complaining about the deep state thwarting her plan. They're Trump without the funny accent.
What am I doing today? Taking care of my son. Trying to have another child. What do I need to plan for tomorrow? How am I going to vaccinate my child next year? How do I get my wife medical care if she has another unviable pregnancy? How small of a life you must lead that you can just not engage.
No, because J.R.R tolkien isn't a game designer? Also even if it was a game you're misusing "strictly better". If their food consumption, costs to equip, costs to train are different even if in a 1v1 combat situation the uruk-hai would win that doesn't translate to strictly better

edit: also, the point of a game is to be fun not to accurately characterize the real world (i.e. how many games have you played where you have to urinate or poop for the character?)
"Most programming should be done long before a single line of code is written"

I wish this were the case, but have found that "No plan survives first contact with the enemy".
Who said assassination? Could be that someone convinces him to stop behaving as erratically as he does. (Yeah, doesn't feel all that realistic...)

Or someone who finally manages to convince the American public that he isn't a hero but exactly the raiving drug-addled Nazi fucklord he is, so they stop worshipping him as some kind of fucking Capitalist Messiah.

Doing either of those would surely merit being called "a hero", wouldn't it?
Rufus is Good Software(tm)
The guys a fan of Tommy Robinson (at least from a glance over his post history) so y'know they probably weren't extreme enough.
Thatcher was bad enough as was Boris and you want worse than them?
Previous discussion:

[41 comments, 166 points] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42919597
> Trump denied having read Project 2025, and refused to commit to following it.

On the small chance that he said that in good faith and wasn't lying through his teeh. Does it really matter if he read the playbook or not? Maybe he just surrounds himself with people that have contributed to it (he does), maybe he had chatgpt summarize it to him. If the policies he implements come directly from that menu of suggestions, does it really matter?
The secondary goal is lowering support costs. Less hardware to support does that.
When I see people waking up now I wonder what's taken them so long. I could see this 15 years ago and jumped off Windows at that point. Been using Linux ever since. It's become so easy since then I've intentionally made my life more difficult by switching to Gentoo about 5 years ago. I'm so glad none of my work is locked into the products of rent seeking companies like Microsoft. It was easier for me because 15 years I didn't already have a body of work and an investment into any tools, but I still think it's something you'll be glad you did in another 15 years.
What ai models can be implemented for chat? Also what about deepseek r1? Like results. Great product
Sort of. There’s like 5 conditions of automation commercial planes can be in. The automation mostly functions to make the pilots workload manageable, not to make their workload non existent. Commercial flights used to have a crew of 3, captain, first officer and flight engineer. The automation has reduced the workload to eliminate the flight engineer role and make flights operable by 2 people.
The standard is to remove all possibility and/or appearance of conflict of interest. "Some guy gave me control of all the money and said I shouldn't take any for myself" is so far below this standard it's comical.
Same. Kagi has been a breath of fresh air after suffering years of enshittification with other search engines whom are much more interested in your clickstream than providing you with quality results.

Good job Kagi et al!
Reposting my comment from a few days ago to see if there is any difference in the groupthink's opinion, or if it falls back into the "these are all anecdotal opinions" trap.

Linux in a nutshell: Just awful in a laptop, meh in a desktop, and first-class as a server.
"I'm also a little surprised no one has yet (AFAIK) done the "viral indie release to Youtube" path. I feel like it's sitting there waiting to be exploited."

There's a lot of "indies releasing things to YouTube directly". However, they're limited both by the algorithm and by the amount of money they can generate by that, so you get a fairly restricted set of genres that this can work with, like sketch comedy or (perhaps a bit surprisingly to me) science documentaries, like Veritasium or Practical Engineering.

These are basically indie filmmakers doing a very indie thing that doesn't fit anywhere else.

Movies are, after all, as affected by their release technology as anything else. There's a reason they're all 80-130 minutes, and they have their own genre restrictions as a result of it, especially if you think of it in terms not just of binary possibility but how popular things are. It isn't reasonable to expect a very different distribution method to result in "movies" you'd recognize from the cinema any more than it is reasonable to expect that television would only ever have run "movies" and never developed its own genres that don't work in cinema. Taking into account the need for the content to match its distribution there's a ton of indie stuff on YouTube. What I would say you are really seeing is the restrictiveness of "The Algorithm", and that is an interesting question to ponder on its own.
Same as e.g. xv6.
AIUI "DOGE" doesn't even have any staff of its own (yet?), does it? Except maybe Elon and possibly some other techbroligarchs at the very top.