skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read all that, and you are not alone in your understanding of reality.

I looked up some of your accusations, and there is no evidence. If you disagree, please provide links.

I used to think that "may you live in interesting times" was a blessing. I no longer believe that. It is clearly a curse.

At this moment in time, it appears that we are cooked as a species.
Supabase and firebase are servers.

In fact if something is "in the cloud", it's by definition being made available by a remote machine, AKA a server serving the data.

The alternative is not to have a server and instead have clients share data if data needs to be shared.
OK. I also promise not to tell you anything about Demodex folliculorum. :)
Presumably they are looking for more than the 2 lines in the image that don't explain anything about why.
Significant bits of code at NVIDIA use SPARK. Small percentage of total code written, but in significant places.
We're getting wrapped up over the word "complicit." Fine, let's be neutral: "An eligible voter who doesn't vote, through inaction supports whoever ends up winning." The act of not voting can mean nothing but "I'm OK with whoever."
Show HN: NYTimes Meet TikTok
NYTimes RSS reader built with Cursor and Onlook.

Inspired by HNHell (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946918) and WikiTok (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723).

It took me about 4 hours but I could easily work on it for many more hours.
Check their post history, don't waste your time...
I find it morally repugnant that anyone makes $39 million in a year.
Python checking is definitely broken. Just failed to use it in a Python project today. Fortunately Ruby still works pretty well which is what I've mostly been coding in.

I think it's just that they broke Python. Which happens but I will be using VSCode for Python stuff until they fix it.

Creating bugs happens. Writing software is hard lol. But I wish the developers reduced their scope a bit so a major bug doesn't last two months without getting fixed.
Dictionaries also (incorrectly) recognize "literally" to mean "figuratively". They aren't exactly a compelling source these days.
Their PDF has a bit more detail, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43043541
> in 1833, displacing the original Argentine population

Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassertion_of_British_soverei...

> Argentina claims that the population of the islands was expelled in 1833;[11] however, both British and Argentine sources from the time, including the log of the ARA Sarandí, suggest that the colonists were encouraged to remain under Vernet's deputy, Matthew Brisbane.

So again, I repeat: this is all very well documented by this point. The other commenter also already pointed out the other issue in your text here so I'll leave it at this.
they infringe on that only on braindead legislatures that recognize software patents though
Hmmm...the linked Linux version is an unsupported snapshot...to get the supported version you need to contact them.

[1] https://www.collaboraonline.com/collabora-office-latest-snap...
I think it is possible that OBS could make that nuanced argument in court: that what Fedora is doing here confuses consumers specifically because of how they stack multiple default repos and override the 1st party package. But it would hinge on whether consumers are confused about the product they're getting, and I think that's unlikely to succeed. Notably, I think the fact that users are going to the OBS project to report bugs is more likely to work against their case than for it, because it shows that consumers do accurately realize that the OBS Project owns OBS, not Fedora.
The linked Nvidia case study names GPU firmware components, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43043541
> (I don't use Orion, as there's no GNU/Linux version.)

We commenced work on Orion for Linux yesterday.
It's a cool idea but it's licensed MIT instead of GPL or something copyleft so I won't contribute to it.

Rust-only ecosystem would be pretty cool though. It may be worth just forking linux for the sake of compatibility, and keeping the license going. I don't see a future otherwise.

I'd also like to see better compiler diversity. Maybe once gccrs rolls around we will see different attitudes around rust emerge, compared to C/C++ which have more distributed development.
IRBs are like run of the mill CSOs. Ideally, they'd prefer you do zero research since that involves zero risk. Waste of everyone's time. Just like ethicists. Once we clean up funding and reward research we can get rid of all these makework scolds.
I maintain conviction in my position that if AdaCore and/or other champions of Ada were to undertake a serious project (i.e. not an April Fools' Day joke blog post[1]) to ship a compiler that accepts a curly-braced dialect of the language[2][3], then there would be at least twice as many new, earnest users of the vulgar "skinned" form as there are programmers today using the existing language, and that this tripling would happen virtually overnight.

I'm not even talking about major revisions to the grammar. I'm saying fork the lexer to accept a different set of terminals, and leave the nonterminals alone.

Is this stupid and unreasonable and should programmers just get over themselves and use a language on the strength of its merits instead of being turned off by surface-level stuff? Yeah, it is, and yeah, they should. But people are fickle.

1. <https://blog.adacore.com/a-modern-syntax-for-ada>

2. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24367358>

3. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35217839>
So we should put believers in obviously crackpot theories in charge of physics departments? Would that re-ignite progress in physics?

The current system has a lot of problems, but it can get much worse. We could end up with everything that's wrong with the current system plus more acceptance of crackpot bullshit.

One of the key problems with populism is that while discontent with the establishment is often justified, populists overestimate how easy things are to fix and lack the expertise to judge alternatives. If you look around the world at revolutions, most of the time they result in things getting worse not better. It's much easier to break things than fix them.
Please explain why being an outsider has inherent merit? It seems like quite a drawback.
I mean this seems objectively good. All of the early issues with OpenAI were the AI refusing to respond to a prompt for political reasons. Generic models should be as politically neutral as possible.
> learn at a deeper level and prove it by becoming one of a different crowd of technologists

The “prove you’re special” motivation is definitely a strong third reason that does not align with the nepotism baby or monk archetypes
That's terrible, caveat emptor. My point is that you won't see people porting Thunderbolt to Asahi in a post-Thunderspy era.

Once you're finished astroturfing, you're welcome to rejoin the greater discussion.
> the claim from Fedora is that is that OBS is using an EOL qt.

what's amazing with this is that if for instance OBS had written their own toolkit from scratch just for the app, which by a stroke of luck ended up being exactly the same code than the Qt version they're using and which solves the use case they have - maybe it would be OBSObject or OBSString instead of QObject / QString, then this entire issue would not exist as no one would think of saying that their implementation is "EOL" since it's part of their app even if the actual GUI implementation files may not have been touched for 5 years.
What's obvious to Kahan is being relearned by the rest of us.
But everyone can have biases even if they don’t think they do. So having some law to make you check your hiring practises is reasonable.

But American businesses really over shot. And the correction will overshoot in the other direction.
Ouch. I really want to believe that capitalism is more like a condition which can be beneficial to the host and population as long as it's carefully managed.
Honestly it's refreshing to see someone in tech stand up to the VC-only vision of what tech can be. I still enjoy HN, but got a good laugh at image that popped up and agreed he has a point.
Makes total sense to me, if I wanted to get a bad software dev team sorted, my ideal applicant to lead them would be an arc welder.
The standard library implementations use Taylor approximations
John Napier is my current math nerd hero! I've been trying to promote "magnitude notation"[0] as the next evolution in numeric notation. If we used mag numbers in science and journalism and even finance, we'd get the same increase in mental superpowers as we got with positional notation.

[0] https://saul.pw/mag
Sure - it's just a hobby that pays money.

That and the library access, and the fact that you don't have to fit it in around a job, obviously. Kinda goes without saying.

And you get a supervisor who might point you in the right direction and keep you on track - but I'm sure you barely need that!

Of course the equipment access and technician support goes without saying. Not like anyone else is going to be letting you use their scanning electron microscope for free.

Having peers working alongside you who share your values of intellectual curiosity, working in the same field and who are your equals academically is also of little to no importance - who needs 'em?

There's the international travel for conferences, but really that's pretty burdensome. I for one don't want to traipse through airports and mess up my routine just to have conversations with world-leading experts on my topic of interest; I'd rather be at home relaxing.

I can't imagine anyone would be drawn to the 50% female working environment, with hundreds of smart, beautiful single women aged 18-22. Who gives a shit about that? Barely even a benefit really.

Other than the intellectual curiosity, the pay, the library and journal access, the time it gives you to study, the supervision, the equipment and technicians, the peers, the international travel, and all the young women - what have the Romans ever done for us?
Ted Cruz "Woke" NSF DEI Grants
Ted Cruz recently released a database of "woke" DEI NSF awards. Exploring the data it is clear they just did a search with terms "homo" and "hetero" and "race". Some of their "woke" DEI awards include-

CRII: NETS: RUI: FUNDAMENTALS OF WIRELESS NETWORKING USING BATTERY-FREE DEVICES IN INHOMOGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS

HETEROMOLECULAR INTERFACE DESIGN FOR BETTER MULTIFERROIC MOLECULAR SPINTRONICS

BUT ARE IMPORTANT PROBES FOR ASTRONOMY SINCE THEY CAN BE TRACED DIRECTLY BACK TO THEIR ORIGIN

Explore the data at-
https://ramadda.org/repository/a/ted_cruz_woke_nsf_awards
The residential one seems a bit high, but the industrial one doesn't seem crazy to me.
And Quod Libet vs. Gentoo (2006):

- https://bugs.gentoo.org/101619

- https://bugs.gentoo.org/124595

And Quod Libet vs. Debian (2007):

- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=421167

- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477454
Switch to LibreOffice before MS Office "accidentally" forces you to save everything to the cloud, and before they charge $ to keep a local copy.
> we were expected to follow along

That is how many US corporations are run, at least in the software space. There are always "new" initiatives and mass movements, 180° turns, new billing platforms or HR software every month etc.

It is to identify the faithful and true believers who tell the CEO that all this is a sign of genius. Also to identify those who can lie best and are therefore promoted.

And just like in corporations pointing it out is flagged here.
The lines do explain why, from the horse's mouth. I don't know what value-add you'd expect from an "article" - an interview with jwz?
So they want this even after Salt Typhoon?

That would be the Salt Typhoon that allowed the Chinese to take over the USA's law enforcement agencies taps, and spy on the politicians, police and probably the spy's themselves. The outcome of that was the US government to plead with everyone to use the communication apps they hadn't broken, like Signal and Whatsapp [0]?

It was only two months ago, and they've forgotten already?

[0] https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366616972/Government-age...
You forgot SOTA, that one is flying around a lot.
That goes both ways. HN flags all kinds of stories they don't like.

I'd be happy to see the system reformed.
What's "not local-first" then?
Apple Comes Crawling Back to X Like a Dog
This doesn’t seem similar at all. Debian didn’t break xscreensaver, they merely shipped a two-year old version at some point, in line with their stable releases. This is unlike how Fedora apparently broke their own OBS repackage.
There's a simple mathematical or logical concept that solves the problem: For absolute value of differences between X and Y, there is no difference between an advantage or a disadvantage.

The formula for people who care about 'liberty and justice for all' is to say, 'we agree about eliminating racial or other biases in hiring and promotion' and then also identify and eliminate programs and processes biased in favor of, e.g., white males (the bias varies by situation, of course, but generally - almost by definition - favors the status quo).

For example, in college admissions eliminate legacies, wealthy donor's kids, and other things are biased toward white men and women. And then in OpenAI hiring, look beyond elite universities that have biased results, and beyond personal networks that are biased. In internal hiring and programs, eliminate or change those that advantage any groups, not just those that advantage vulnerable groups.

Another way of saying the same thing is that the standard hiring practices are DEI / affirmative action for the status quo (usually white males, possibly Asian males in SV) - that's what they always have been.

I'm serious. We can all then agree: Eliminate affirmative action and DEI for all. Could civil rights advocates use anti-DEI laws to sue on behalf of vulnerable minorities, saying that hiring practices are DEI for the status quo?

Or imagine Congress passing a law requiring merit-based advancement; imagine how that could be used to provide true 'liberty and justice for all.' (I don't know how that would work practically - how it's defined, how enforced, etc. Maybe you just have to quantitatively prove bias.)
I don't trust anything Elon says, now or ever again
This is really cool. How does the cryptography work?

EDIT: Seems like it works via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_signature
Is that the most likely outcome, do you think?
Oh wow, love it, a testacle in a teacup, dudes just made my day!
I agree with you, and the reference _is_ politically loaded (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_blue_line):

>The thin blue line U.S. flag has been banned by some police departments in the United States for its associations with ideologies described as "undemocratic, racist, and bigoted."

>According to a 2018 law review article, "thin blue line" also refers to an unwritten code of silence used to cover up police misconduct, also known as the blue wall of silence, a term dating back to 1978
OCR4all
I had pretty much the same experience, except I left for industry right after finishing my PhD
Wow, this case sounds like something straight from House.

> The worms migrate through the blood or along peripheral nerves

How does a worm move along peripheral nerves, physically? Now that I think about it, I don't know exactly what a nerve is like. Is it hollow? Is it filled with fluid like blood vessels?
Has everyone forgotten the lessons of open-source cryptography all of a sudden? Just because the systems are public does not mean that they are vulnerable, and "security through obscurity" is no security at all.
> HN turns out to be a very money-centric place

In defense of being money centric, we are not talking about yachts and drugs level money. To me, money means buying a house, starting a family, taking care of my parents, looking after my own health, and overall stability. These are the hallmarks of what used to be a middle class lifestyle in America.

If people are getting PhDs to earn more money long term, these are also not people who intend to live lavishly. It only seems exceptional because almost every other avenue to previously “normal” life has been closed off.

There’s nothing wrong with studying something because you’re interested in it. But for me, it would’ve likely meant foregoing the above.
There is always going to be bias in your hiring, because bias inflects the entirety of a person's life, whether that bias is good (wealthy parents, e.g.) or bad (being born with fetal alcohol syndron, e.g.)

There is no unbiased state.

Being anti-diversity is a bias in favor of existing biases, which in this country tends to mean: white, wealthy, male, able bodied, etc.

It is a very simple concept to understand!
> The paper talks about using this to save power, but that’s probably not worth it for a few reasons

It's probably not worth it to do this in software. But in hardware, it might be!

A similar approach with a hardware prototype. https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2022-12_lns-madam-lo...
Yeah, but in this case the issue is so minor Fedora should just fix it.
Part of the lifecycle needs dirt. And hogs in the USA are all raised on concrete, so it is basically nonexistent in pork here.
I'm surprised either of them didn't pick up that this is a meme, for what, 20 years?
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It is most certainly not politically charged language. It's an anodyne statement referring to being a small force keeping bad things from happening. That's all.
The former if you have a crystal ball to predict the future. In which case you might not have to work anyway.

The later if you love working in a particular field and want a reasonably straightforward path to success.
Look into the history and meaning of “thin blue line.” It’s an endorsement of the us vs. them mindset prevalent in American policing that is the source of many (most? all?) police scandals.
If people want to truly counter RTO efforts they need to stop focusing on the ways it negatively impacts them personally and start focusing on real ways that RTO creates a negative impact to the organization. Your CEO and leadership doesn’t give a shit about you individually, they care about the aggregate organization.

If you can’t articulate how it negatively impacts the organization to their satisfaction you have lost the battle before it’s begun because your organization gets to set where the work they pay for gets performed.

Also bear in mind that unless you work for a tech/software only org, there is a good chance that many to most of your fellow non tech/knowledge worker employees have to go to a place other than home to perform their job.
Ugh. Rat lungworm.
When I think of parasites, I always think of this story from a few years back: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eat...
Gotta normalize the audio on the recordings
In STEM, PhDs are probably not terrible financial outcomes in general (in that they probably mostly avoid a huge amount of student loan debt and may offer a leg-up for some commercial opportunities), but they also may be sub-optimal financially in many cases relative to just landing a job out of academia earlier.
DEI was never really a genuine endeavor, or it would not be rolled back so quickly by major corporations. If DEI was truly and measurably beneficial to the company, it would not be rolled back so quickly.
They should have never had them in the first place. I have been a strong critic of wokeness, DEI, and all that nonsense. Yet, it is mind-blowing and eye-opening to see how quickly these companies can bend to the will of a powerful autocrat.

It’s no longer a mystery to me why Hugo Boss would make uniforms for the Wehrmacht, and I can now fully imagine such companies willingly collaborating on "streamlining the delivery of people" to gas chambers, should the government ever asked for it.
he may not, everyone else around him sure does … A LOT…
How fast can you tap the ninja?
The most dangerous of the lettuce https://veggieknowledge.com/was-romaine-lettuce-recalled/
Personally I don't recall my Commonwealth pass book pre adulthood, came by way of my local school or if any of the schools I attended engaged in the scheme ... Actually I had to check and my Mother says she took the initiative on her own, so myself and other siblings around my age each had an account - not much in them, but already in place for adulthood years down the track.

The scheme was aimed at primary school kids and IIRC not to secondary schools (generally where most are 13 and older.) I also vaguely recall early 00's a couple the parents recounting some issue regarding either the closing of their kid's account or missing funds from the scheme - their kids hadn't even completed secondary school ... but one thing to take in account (up until the late 70s or early 80s) not all schools in my state participated in this scheme (if not the case then something like the principal or P&C sidelined it) and people do move regions to follow their job or to another one, so could see a few years of inactivity with the child still attending school.

The Commonwealth Bank though was good in the fact most local post offices could process their passbook banking, so it made them well suited in more rural areas.

They earned the polite term scam for continuing a scheme that given the opening financial markets in the 90s, where is should have become fairly obvious pushing it harder on schools during the same period, was more for the benefit of the inevitable inactive accounts would bring the bank once parents moved to more competitive banking services - it's one thing to do this to people who set up the account themselves - but targeting those who had it thrust onto them as a kid ... but I'm rather unkind and biased for other reasons. (People will wonder so #1 reason would be the manner of refusal for a loan (by the bank manager and not loans officer) around the business idea of a printing service for bespoke brochures and newsletters based on Ventura software and a couple of really good printers, considering the only competition at the time were spirit duplicator [1] based businesses.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator

Edit, with the child not which
The cool thing about hiring a baker to replace my car's transmission is i didnt have to give any money to BIG AUTO. Of course, my car still doesnt drive, but I got to stick it to BIG AUTO!
What does "politically neutral" mean? I see a roughly equal amount of pro-vaccine and anti-vaccine content on my Facebook lately, is that what you mean?
im so anti-haskell, your comment pained me to hear
Yeah, as I understand it you have to buy it to get the supported version.

Not sure why they don't have an online store or something and you have to contact them to purchase it though, that seems to add unnecessary friction for someone who just wants a single license (makes more sense for enterprise users).
1. It's not anecdotal. There's a very long papertrail if you wish to seek it.

2. I also shared my opinion about Larry Ellison in a different HN thread, and he's done nothing to me except make Java deader to me than it already was.

Do you speak negatively only about those who've personally affronted you?
I can’t imagine who could write that headline and think “looks good, send it”