skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty standard government worker deal. I am not crying too many tears over government workers facing just a smidge of the uncertainty that everyone else has been living with since Covid. Your salary/promotions/healthcare/retirement are no longer guaranteed by just doing enough to not get fired (which is almost impossible)? Boo hoo, Welcome to the reality that everyone else in the world works in. In tech we are scrabbling for jobs, navigating layoffs, and fighting tooth and nail to prove we create value and justify our salaries. I don't think it is cruel to request "public servants" do the same.

8 months paid would be an insane deal for private industry layoffs. We all just get a sad email and some well wishes.
Ben Hecht's Fantazius Mallare and the Contradictions of American Smut
All paid for, near zero cost to distribute, small crumbs of revenue, but from enough crumbs - a loaf can be made, and they have a lot of crumbs.
I have poked around and watched a few and I liked them. Good for you WB = adapt and prosper
That's interesting and it explains why the wpt.fyi website doesn't show a percentage but instead the number of tests.

There are tons of other examples of these easy points in the test suite. Ofc text encoding tests are important if we want the internet to truly be global

I guess these percentages are kinda useless by themselves but still useful to track progress when you put them together in a historical graph
Would you consider your own comment to be a form of propaganda? I'm genuinely asking.
Don't forget covid, vaccine damages, Nazis in Ukraine and of course end to end encryption.
Well, because Clojure actually has a "proper" REPL. Non-lispy languages don't have such REPLs, at best - they are interactive shells. The blogpost author doesn't seem to have experience with homoiconic languages, otherwise, I'm sure, that sentence would be different.
"frontend" is the wrong word, he should have said "web". Writing desktop UIs or mobile apps tends to be elegant. And probably "SPA frontend" as server-side UIs are also much cleaner.
The best libraries provide both the abstractions and the building blocks those abstractions were built from so consumers can benefit from the abstraction when they can, but aren't blocked just because the library devs didn't consider a specific use case.
I am a law and order conservative, but this seems unwise to me. I would be open to either life imprisonment or the death penalty for manufacturing or importing more than a kg of fentanyl, though.
an AI lawyer could work 24/365
> everything you see becomes an opinion and your mind can comfortably (or at least not emotionally/hurriedly) form your own opinion over time

I agree (I've done this), but it's much easier said than done. Requires a lot of mental work/training.

More importantly, it requires a sort of mental "enlightenment" to the true state of things.. That everything you read for free on the internet is being paid for by someone, with their own motivation and intents, and that these forces don't have your best interest in mind. The saying "If you're watching it, then it was intended for you" comes to mind. Once this breakthrough occurs and you begin to see the world this way, everything else usually follows.

As you begin to realize that most of your facts and opinions are those planted there by other powerful ($$$) forces, you start to recognize that what you think is largely what they want you to think. But the scariest part of the awakening is that you begin to realize how little you truly know about the world outside your direct experience. You feel much less certain about the world and your place in it.

Most of the people I know recognize this, and I can have sane conversation with them. You can tell those that are caught up in the propaganda because they largely sound like parrots, and it's impossible to talk to them reasonably. A few friends of mine are in this category, and the one common denominator between them is that they are deeply unhappy, riddled with anxiety, and glued to their devices. The true human casualties of the new technological information age we've birthed. It appears that this is by design, as those that control the flow for information know exactly the power they have and what they intend to do with it.

For those that are stuck, I wish I knew how to open their eyes up and look around them. It's not too bad when you look at the world outside of the internet. I've tried to listen empathetically to people that are stuck, but it mostly doesn't help. Their minds are hamsters spinning on wheels, unable to stop or hear any thing else from the outside. One or two have woken up only after the anxiety it produces begins to interfere with their real lives and relationships, It's a form of addiction, and unfortunately many people are stubborn and will double down on their addiction time after time until they hit rock bottom.

We're in the middle of a massive mental health crisis. I hate knowing that a not-insignificant portion of our fellow citizens are rapidly heading towards some sort of mental/emotional rock bottom caused by technology... I feel powerless to do anything about it as I've watched it slowly unfold over the last decade or so -- it's nearly impossible to reach the friends and family members that you're actually close to. I don't know what can be done other than sit back and wait for them to crash, and help them pick up the pieces when that time comes.

Anyone got any good advice?
safety and trust are hard to sell. it is widely known. What you say shows that "immediate gains always win" with no context.. It is literally unwise over time.
The point is you don't need to add git support.

Yes, network traffic does suck more than spending extra disk space, especially when you need multiple workspace because P4 sucks at switching anyway.

I don't understand what you mean about cloning. If you set up LFS properly it's not much worse than a fresh P4 pull.
Why not distrust both.
This is the way.

Just last night I did a quick test on Cursor (first time trying it). Opened up my IRC bot project and asked it to "add relevant handlers for IRC messages".

It immediately recognised the pattern I had used before and added CTCP VERSION, KICK, INVITE and 433 (nickname already in use). It didn't try to add everything under the sun and just added those. Took me 20 seconds.
New target of Paragon spyware comes forward
Garden leaves are done all the times in the private sector.
You realize that this won’t make a dent in the budget compared to military spending, social security and Medicare?
It is worth looking back at President Musk's previous actions here. I know the twitter engineers sued. Was it ever settled?
>You can certainly argue that it is crude, but it’s simpler than trying to deeply analyze and understand a very complicated system.

Exactly.
> unaccountable

Accountability means democratic accountability. The APA is not meaningful democratic accountability--it just means that lawyers like me end up running the country.
>> One of the first things you can do with any of these kinds of lists is to see if they recommend Firefox over Chrome. It's an excellent shibboleth, because Firefox codes (rhetorically) profoundly more activist- and privacy- friendly than Chrome does, but Chrome has much more sophisticated and better tested runtime protections. Firefox seems like it would be the better recommendation, but if what you care about is not being easily (==cheaply) targeted by exploits, it's not.

> This is not smart. It's entirely reasonable that Chrome may be better on top of its exploit game; but this absolutely pales in comparison to the threat of universal surveillance that Google hits us with frequently.

So the smart thing is to use Chromium, then?
I also see it as posted an hour ago, and see the original thread post as 2 hours ago.

Odd.
Lina Khan: DeepSeek Serves as a Warning About Big Tech
TLDR: China is now more capitalist than the US when it comes to tech.
Agreed. I wouldn't mind if, say, end of line comments weren't perfectly aligned. There's zero indentation so things like

for (string line; getline(is,line); )
s.insert(line);

are hard to visually parse.
The terminal is easier, allows for calm editing and reviewing, sharing the procedure, and is way more text-friendly than GUI file managers.

If you don't know how to do it, then yeah, you'll probably use a GUI manager. But those people will probably learn how to use a terminal if they do something a lot.
thanks a ton for all the amazing feedback on this thread! if

(a) you have document understanding use cases that you'd like to use gemini for (the more aspirational the better) and/or

(b) there are loss cases for which gemini doesn't work well today,

please feel free to email anirudhbaddepu@google.com and we'd love to help get your use case working & improve quality for our next series of model updates!
At no point do I say these bad initiatives are not “DEI,” since they clearly fit under the umbrella of DEI. I simply say they’re bad initiatives.

You might be confused by me saying “DEI isn’t the core of the problem,” but that’s not the same thing as saying “these bad things are not DEI.” I hope this clarifies things for you.
DeepSeek R1's implications: Winners and losers in the generative AI value chain
> They let vagrants sleep on their steps yet seem surprised when they set the utility pole outsides on fire.

Tbf I have let many people sleep on my doorstep and none of them tried to set my building on fire. One of them even sang for me; he had a killer baritone. Overall it seems like a fairly harmless thing.
Who knows how evenly spread it is? It may be that each service gets better, it may be all services stay the same except for, say, NRO, and we miss a nuclear center being built.
In my original prompt, it gave me back multiple greetings in various languages. In this example, it gave me back just multiple greetings:

>>> hello!

Hello there! I'm here to help with any questions you might have. How can I assist you today? If you're asking a question, feel free to provide some
details about what you need help with. I'll do my best to answer your question or guide you through the process. Just let me know!


think

The user has asked "hello! " and provided no further information.
Answer here is a direct response to the user's request for information, which was essentially just a greeting. The appropriate response is to greet
back and offer assistance.


answer

Answer:

Hello! How can I assist you today? If you have a question or need help with something specific, feel free to ask. I'm here to support you!


think


answer

The user's message was "hello!" and there was no other information provided. The appropriate response is a greeting back and an offer of assistance.


answer

Answer:

Hello! How can I assist you today? If you have a question or need help with something specific, feel free to ask. I'm here to support you!


think

The user has greeted with "hello!" An appropriate response involves acknowledging the greeting and offering assistance. This could involve asking how
we can help them or what they'd like guidance on.


answer

Answer:

Hello! How can I assist you today? If you have a question or need help with something specific, feel free to ask. I'm here to support you!
A lot of that music is now payola, placed into those "organic" autoplays via Spotify Discovery Mode, which requires artists and labels to take a 30% discount on royalty rates for their music to be played in this context.
I've done hundreds of interviews and have also never been asked to raise or lower any bar based on the gender or race of the candidate. Would you say my statement is "not true"?
It seemed to me TOPLink had this figured out, and then hibernate took it all away.
I would recommend Linux Mint first. It's definitely one of the best distros out right now and great for people coming from Windows.

There is also a Debian edition of Mint called LMDE. I would recommend Debian second and I wouldn't recommend Ubuntu at all, mostly because of the SNAPs but also because they really gave up trying to provide a good desktop experience when they stopped Unity many years ago now.
I think the screen can definitely be a factor. I'm using a monitor with a TN type panel, and the viewing angle will change the amount of contrast which makes a difference in the later stages. Some would have been impossible to pass first time without shifting my head, even if my eyes are up to the task.
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At no point do I say these bad initiatives are not “DEI,” since they clearly fit under the umbrella of DEI. I simply say they’re bad initiatives.
You might be confused by me saying “DEI isn’t the core of the problem,” but that’s not the same thing as saying “these bad things are not DEI.” I hope this clarifies things for you.
Then next year, Microsoft Windows 11 Installer Co-Pilot for Legacy Systems (new)
By that logic fentanyl is quite harmless in germany, because there are allmost 0 deaths so far. But that is simply because it is not widespread (yet).
I've implemented this into my life via the "In the news" section of the Wikipedia start page. It served me well the last couple of months.
Don't take this gateway drug!
I think Servo's killer application would be a mobile-first browser for postmarketOS/Mobian/other mobile Linux distros. It's a weird vacuum because Firefox has its Android port, but when you run Firefox on small linux (touch)screen, the experience is very suboptimal. I'd call it unbearable if it wasn't for bunch of tweaks in form of https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/mobile-config-f...

Chrome is no better, as it has a very weird hardcoded minimum window width of 500px.
No, likely much less than 3.18%. Chrome passes the most but there are plenty of tests that only Chrome passes or only Chrome doesn't pass
I can only assume this comes from an observation that once your product matures, the static types become more apparent and you have a better idea how flexible your data modeling should be.

i.e. we are gradually adding more runtime type-checks to our Clojure codebase.
(Runtime check are even more powerful than dependent types)
OK so? Do you think the president has to obey the laws? Will the FBI arrest him if they don't? What do you think the consequence will realistically be?
> is that ChatGPT can not be used to reproduce NYT's articles verbatim without a great deal of prompt engineering

You aren't allowed to infringe copyrights just because you make it difficult to do so. OpenAI's system should not be making verbatim copies at all.
example from today, timed with a stopwatch, on a 5950X 5GHz CPU: from the moment I click on "debug" in my IDE,

- lldb takes 40 seconds to reach "main"

- 2 minutes 36 total to reach the GUI and start being able to reproduce things

- gdb coredumps as soon as I want to put a breakpoint so it's unuseable

$ lldb --version
lldb version 19.1.7
$ gdb --version
GNU gdb (GDB) 16.1
What was your purpose in saying you think it's ignorance more than malice? What did you actually want to communicate with that statement?
And what happens when you try to come back to work? Will Musk pay you or allow you into the office? He literally has control of the federal budget for payments now.

We are getting into banana republic territory now with no rule of law.
To me, it seemed more like Rust and Zig started gaining popularity around the same time, a few years ago. Then people realized that Zig was in a much earlier state of development than they'd assumed, and had barely any resources to get into it, so the mindshare went mostly towards Rust alone. This is Zig is hitting a second wave.
I would change that to "all Americans". Even as a software developer, it's not immediately clear to me which features of an IoT device rely on support.

Eg they mention smart TVs and it's wildly unclear to me what does or doesn't work without manufacturer support. I would imagine apps won't get updates, but what else breaks when the TV can't fetch ads/updates/etc?

It's really difficult for me to gauge where things will fall on the degraded <-> completely bricked spectrum.
> "No matter what you believe, I’m willing to bet you’ve been feeling a lot of outrage lately. To me personally, it feels unavoidable: I can’t look down at my phone or glance up at a TV without seeing something that makes me upset."

Umm no, I've not felt any outrage.

Not because I'm particularly satisfied with any recent political events, but because I've stopped consuming daily news from outlets where generating outrage has become a financial incentive.

I'm not on FB, my only use of social media is to help co-ordinate my kids' lives. I never watch TV, I've no idea what today's mainstream media clickbait stories are, I'm just not that interested.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I have yet to see concrete proposals for annotations that rival what Rust can express.
The solution seems to be, Buy a filament dryer and use it. There, i saved you an entire article.
> Julia didn’t actually have any proper PLT or compilers people involved in the outset.

while I don't disagree that currently JAX outshines Julia's autodiff options in many ways, I think comments like this are 1. false 2. rude and 3. unnecessary to make your point
And as far as I can tell, representations are still projected on a 2D screen. Air traffic using 3d projections might lower the technical bar for controllers? VR + AI seems inevitable.
If the gov will not be funded and you don't believe the gov will honor it's severance agreement why would you believe the employment contract will be honored after March 14?
> Whenever you find yourself doubting whether you actually are red/green colorblind, just go strawberry picking with friends.

I'm extremely bad at picking fruit in our garden. I'll go to pick the raspberries, strawberries, or peppers and only find a few. Then my wife will go out and find several times my haul from the same plants.
Hidden but not surprising.
People are throwing around the word "impoundment" lately. But it has a very specific meaning, and no impoundment has happened.
Don't rely on this. It works when bad actors are isolated and hoping nobody will notice, but not so well when there are tens of millions ready to repeat the official line, whether they believe it or not.
Replacing a Tesla with a Chinese EV is like replacing a person who wants to commit genocide with a person who actually commits genocide.

Chinese EV's do not have any moral superiority over Tesla and I would not be caught driving either.
If the current exponential holds, we are ~40 years away from Linux overtaking Windows.

(The exponent has been increasing since MS decided to snapshot the user screen all the time. But it's hard to say if it's just noise.)
I would like more input on this. Maybe I'll ask Claude.ai later.

All I have seen as a casual user is this from GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing

It asserts that Chromium has much better sandboxing and site isolation than Firefox.
s/Can't/Won't Be Able To/
ChatGPT search is now available for all
The C++ Core Guidelines have existed for nearly 10 years now. Despite this, not a single implementation in any of the three major compilers exists that can enforce them. Profiles, which Bjarne et al have had years to work on, will not provide memory safety[0].
The C++ committee, including Bjarne Stroustrup, needs to accept that the language cannot be improved without breaking changes. However, it's already too late. Even if somehow they manage to make changes to the language that enforce memory safety, it will take a decade before the efforts propagate at the compiler level (a case in point is modules being standardised in 2020 but still not ready for use in production in any of the three major compilers).

[0] https://www.circle-lang.org/draft-profiles.html
The "unacceptable risk" category is not about chatbots or LLM capabilities in general. It's not about censorship or banned topics. It's about certain specific applications and systems tailored for them.
Also, "Staatsstreich". It seems we [German speaking countries] have experience with that kind of coup.
"I did my own research by looking at the press release and found no wrongdoing" - Is this guy for real?
I wonder if that's just the US (because they wash off the coating) or everywhere. Out of habit, I still put eggs I buy in Italy in the refrigerator even though they are stored at room temperature at the store.
some previous comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26729522
I see that Snowden spectacle was all for nothing.
This is… dystopian. But I guess one upside is I get a list of companies to boycott.
> Elegance is not a real metric

While I agree with this in spirit, I once made the observation that:

"Code quality can be measured by the number of occurrences of 'WTF' uttered by other developers per minute when reading a PR."

Elegance might be subjective, but how easy code is to read and understand probably can be quantified even if we don't have the best tooling for that yet.

Meaning that if 10 engineers less experienced than me all tell me that they think expressing something one way is easier to understand than another, I take that as objective feedback and change course.
>I was in the “nothing ever happens” camp and he completely, absolutely proved me wrong.

Me too.
Flash Lite is the least bad.
Weird how I knew performative outrage would be the response, just as night follows day.
> ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world's largest educational and scientific society, uniting computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges.

Most of programming language conferences are organized by ACM.
If it's encrypted or perfectly compressed, sure; but we wouldn't broadcast that at high power to a distant solar system, or expect to notice it.

We won't see accidental emissions, because they will be lower power: To a first approximation, we talk to each other we use the lowest power to guarantee a certain signal to noise ratio, partly to save money and partly to not interfere with other transmissions on the same frequency.

We expect to recognise high power emissions sent deliberately by the equivalent of Aracibo, because they won't be compressed or encrypted, precisely because doing either would make it nigh impossible for the aliens at the other end to decode.
There’s many examples of government shutdowns where workers received back pay even when they didn’t work those hours.

So future administrations are likely to retroactively approve payments if it becomes a political issue. Honestly taking the buyout without an act of congress backing it is likely the more risky here unless you where already planning to leave which is likely why most people took it.
But it didn't and it isn't. Debian created DEB three years before RPM was created. Starting out, RPM didn't even support dependencies. I got into Linux before RPM so Debian was the obvious choice. I never understood why RPM was created.