skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of those things that to me is frustrating is how there is no clear unambiguous definition of what is correct in font rendering. Presumably typeface designers have some specific intent on how heavy strokes and stems are, but then that somehow becomes ambiguous when a font gets rendered on screen.

Asking for user feedback feels kinda pointless in that context, does your average user know what some random font should look like? Better would be to ask type designers for feedback on rendering their own typefaces
I agree.

But do bear in mind, an intro textbook for a 101 class aiming to correct popular misunderstandings; or an experimental guide wanting to give examples of mistakes one should avoid; or an article on the replication crisis would also count as citations, even as they sneered at the original faulty work.
Current state of this, as far as I can tell: https://www.firstattribute.com/en/news/eu-data-boundary-for-...

Note that it's seemingly unclear whether it's OK for EU companies to store data even on EU servers of US parent companies. Although very little has actually been done about this and everyone, governments included, is still using Microsoft 365.
but was the monkey alright?
While at a stop sign, a car veered off the crossing street into my car at about 40 mph. My pregnant wife and 1 year old were in the back seat. Our car was destroyed and the other guy drove off, never to be found.

No permanent injuries on our end, but what you said about walking on a thin crust of ice rings true. And feeling like there's another reality where things didn't turn out OK. All the best to you, I am glad your daughter is OK.
There is free software (as of FSF) that require payment to obtain.
"Hypothetically",

what if after Linux and Git, Linus came up with his own memory safe language suited for kernel development?
This isn't an Apple issue. Maybe Linux on Apple is inherently more problematic, but the issue here came from Linux maintainers hostility towards Rust.
Why is everyone trying to replace Software Engineers?
I’ve generally been praiseful of HN’s moderation. But given the leadership of YC’s political views, it’s disappointing to see politics called on MAGA criticism but not on similar critiques of San Francisco and New York politics.
In the US civil servants are generally hard to fire, and get good benefits, but their salary is far lower than private sector in most cases.
She would be 80 today (2019)
It's not really unprecedented. Reminds me of Paragon Software trying to merge their code for an NTFS driver and getting told-off because the driver code was so awful: https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/06/github_merges_useless...

If you want your code merged in the kernel, you have to think about things from Linus' perspective. You cannot in any circumstances try to shame someone into adopting an enormous and unsustainable workload.
I think it is valuable to the nation, some subjects are arguably more or less valuable, but its about talent at a macro level. If a nation doesn't invest in talent through PhD funding, talented people can and do go elsewhere, work in a diferent economy, contribute to a different society.

Obviously, that's only one avenue for talent. Some talented people never do a PhD, they may create start-ups etc instead. But its about fostering an ecosystem to develop and retain talent.
Funny, yesterday I noticed this and thought "huh, it's like the text got a bit sharper" and then immediately dismissed it as something I must have made up...
Fainting Goat
Fair enough, I can't say anything I've done has ever caused an issue like that (A new ticket would have been made and sent to me.) But I also can't say that it has never happened, so I'm not really in a position to disagree. We do have a good QA team though and we have an "open" beta program that also catches a lot of issues before they become more widely public.
Yes I'm curious about the technical reasons, my mistake in thinking my comment would make that implicit clear to the dear reader.
I'm still trying to get my mind around the agent to agent task isolation and architecture. This seems to be the way forward, but will require retraining my brain to rethink how they form bonds vs. exist as atomic units.
Unfortunately the people doing the fucking around will not be the people finding out.
"spreading awareness about a position" isn't a very accurate way to describe what happened. This is the guy who said he wanted to use social media to create a "hall of shame" for kernel developers. Of course Linus told him to knock it off, that's ridiculously unprofessional behavior.
You’re right, it’s mostly any open source code projects too. I’ve tried to contribute to projects where they ignore my merge request and take my code and merge it in under their own account. I call this behavior “demonstrating the moat” in which the Maintainers are more concerned with maintaining a moat around their project that they actively go out of their way to prevent contribution under the guise that your contribution did not correctly cross the moat. Even if the moat is mostly decorative and ceremonial.
In China. Basically the govt backs Tesla there and there is no rule of law.

In the US this won't fly.
From what I've seen this is excellent code, some people just really don't like Rust.
Do you remember when Theresa May had to tell the US no when they wanted to profile UK citizens of certain ethnic backgrounds for US travel?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43022307
The web has become borderline intolerable, and these things are among the reasons why. I've developed a "zero tolerance" habit. If a website throws up a surprise popup, I just immediately close the page and never go back. The only way to win is not to play.
I'm almost 50 and doing fine. Maybe that wouldn't be the case if I was less experienced though.
Wanting to give the DOGE folks the benefit of the doubt, I decided to look for military spending. Per Wikipedia, there should be ~400k active duty folks in the US Army (not counting other military branches). These are definitely under the Executive branch, but seem to be absent from the data???
It's not their first day being a person though.
I'm not suggesting in any way that this replaces watching all YouTube videos but it could help you save some time with some types of video content and a co-pilot for others.

You can try to ask it for things to your requirements,be descriptive.

For example:
- you can ask it to list topics or tags in that video.

- you can ask it for specific timecodes/ Timestamps when topic X is mentioned

- you can ask it to tell you what's happening in time blocks/Chunks of x minutes.

be descriptive and ask for the format you want: lists, bullets, list with description, etc

Thanks for the feedback.
It seems like this is solved by just having the transpiler aware of the target system.
Firefox does not use GDI, it used DirectWrite which is GPU accelerated.
In addition to conductor thickness not being a sole direct factor in bandwidth (the interconnects carrying 32 Gb/s PCI-e or Thunderbolt are much thinner), standard telephone wire is the same or greater than Cat 5e.

Most telephone interconnects will be at least 24 AWG, some short run cables may be 26 AWG (same as Cat 5). Really old interconnects will often be 22 and even as high as 18. And the thing is, these are usually worse from a high frequency transmission line standpoint as they weren’t designed for anything above 4khz voice.

Poor noise rejection, cross talk, poor loss characteristics, and inconsistent termination are the more challenging issues in pressing high speed out of the phone network.
> As an European I find it odd that you are suggesting that the stated goals of DOGE (government efficiency, cutting public expenses, wasre, etc) are, as I interpret your choice of people/parties, "far right".
They are not.

Rule #1 of dealing with these sorts:

The stated goals do not matter. They're sugar coating for the middle.

And even if they did matter, the fact is, we have a friend of the head of government rooting around in incredibly sensitive computer systems with a cadre of interns without any sort of statutory or constitutional authority to do so. What Musk is doing is a crime.

I'd argue it's actually very European. There's a guy with authority to do what he wants because reasons. Sounds like the justification used for monarchy. The only real difference is that there's a role for such a person already carved out in constitutional monarchies, as opposed to creation of it.
Facebook feed of just your friends' posts in chronological order:
https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends&sk=h_chr
Well I'm no champion of this theory.. bit skeptical TBH having been shown during some parenting coaching BUT the idea is kids who have a loving, trusting and attentive relationship with their primary care giver will be more likely to trust and seek help from others later in life and vice versa.
"Although you don't see those threads, search engines do. HN uniquely has a high page rank and low moderation, making it a prime target for bad actors to poison search results with abuse, bigotry, and nastiness. This isn't low-level trolling, but an organized attempt to destroy lives, including of developers in our communities."
Which is good because "ASCVD is a disease that begins in childhood; hence, primordial prevention is an important target for improving cardiovascular morbidity and mortality later in life."

> Elevated LDL-C and triglyceride levels have a positive correlation with atherosclerotic lesion prevalence that persists from childhood through early adulthood... Follow-up data from the Young Finns cohort after 12 and 27 yr also demonstrated positive correlations between elevated childhood serum cholesterol and triglycerides to elevated levels in adulthood... Children from the i3C cohort with high and borderline-high total cholesterol have 1.5 to 2.13 times the risk of both fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events in adulthood than children without. In addition, i3C children with high and borderline-high triglycerides have 1.69 to 2.47 times the risk than children with normal triglycerides.

https://journals.lww.com/jcrjournal/fulltext/2022/11000/prim...
I believe that he said that.
The answer is obvious, but I don't really consider that evidence of systems programming and complexity analysis diverging. When approaching any given problem, you would still start with a basic complexity analysis to get in the right order of magnitude, and then select among cache-friendly approaches that fall in that range. You almost never go the other way around.
Keep track of the irritations and problems you encounter, and address one of those.
Social Stockfish
I'm just going off what I was told there, I was forced to make the fix since the game developers no longer were partnered to the company that owned the license to the content.
More context: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/09/australia-thr...
Will they be?

The last ten years have been an exercise in "they will be in jail" without any one of import actually going to jail.

Hell, not many have even been arrested.
This is a surprisingly useful base project for AI presentation handling where you can be hands free pointing out various details or be typing simultaneously.

Hope you keep working on the project.
Different cursor settings for size, shape, and color would be nice.
I also have a plugin that has commands for this https://github.com/robenkleene/partshell.vim?tab=readme-ov-f...

There's `Psh` that pipes part of a line through a shell command, and `P` which takes any `ex` command and does the same (this means `P !` is the same as `Psh` but the latter supports tab completion for shell commands).
So surprising to me that GM’s most successful EV in some ways is sold by Honda.
Because they have none and it's a huge PR job?

People forget Trump's first go around.
Last.fm is still there and it's still supported by almost all players on linux. Even the ones that don't have a specific plugin for last.fm, there are player agnostic scrobbling clients. I wrote one for all MPRIS compatible players - which is basically all of them - and it includes other free services that work similarly to last.fm: libre.fm and ListenBrainz.
Holy cow same! I use lazygit as my VC tool and now I can just open it in a pane next to vim to make it simpler to interact with git while I'm coding. Been using vim for way to long to have missed this.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43028738
Bundeskartellamt Has Concerns about Apple's App Tracking Transparency Framework
Yeah the new version looks bolder or more blurry, slightly more tiring to read
publicly asking for a backdoor is like telling a pirate "we buried treasure here, please don't dig"
50 here going strong and still an IC and I got my first job in BigTech at 46. When I lost my job in late 2023 I had three offers within three weeks including one that would have paid more than I was making - in cash - at BigTech. I didn’t want the stress and I wanted to get back to smaller companies.

When I was looking again last year it all took 3 weeks to get the offer I have now. It only took that long to get scheduled for all of the interviews from an internal recruiter reaching out to me.
That's called living off interest, dividends, and stock growth.
One could suppose this was just really testing the system or an hypothesis, to see if it was possible or not.
Found one!

But seriously, if you don't like Freud, you're going to have to come up with a better response than just saying he's a kook; we all know he's a kook!

A) Talk therapy was the mode invented by Freud and is still the dominant modality of psychotherapy today, and

B) While you didn't mention it but, at the time, Cocaine was in common use as a near magical local anaesthetic and from it we derive procaine, lidocaine, any drug ending in -caine, which you certainly have been administered before, and

C)If all we have in our psychological and social lives are narratives, and the narratives bind us into certain patterns which we don't even realize we are following, then the counter to that cannot be another narrative which equally obscures its reproductive capacity (ie "the data"). Freud created stories that untied themselves at their roots, that put patients, not to mention regular people, ill at ease. Even sex with siblings is less taboo, certainly less universally taboo, than sex with one's parents, even if the latter is more genetically troublesome--is this an accident? The stories got to things at their base level, which was impossible by any other means. They might be a bit weird, but they force you to think, maybe even to act differently under the right circumstances (those of treatment), and the latter is what we'd call medical care, no?
Distinctions only hold esteem over time if they are worthy of it. The last two PhD’s that crossed my feed had dissertations on “The Architecture of Whiteness”
https://x.com/garrett_rhianna/status/1889609612367700377

And “The Politics of Smell” https://x.com/drallylouks/status/1868782615324770561

If the PhD is losing its lustre, it’s because the Universities took the shine off.
The article cites a trend without providing any real facts or information for understanding the topic. I.E. which field are seeing growth and which are seeing contraction. It's a bunch of vague guesses at the cause like 'cost of living' without ever to find and present any facts that could validate whether such hypotheses are actually true.
Consider the most common phd is in education, we could easily see a decline in doctors of education and not realize that chemistry phds rose 4%. The effect of the change are very different in this scenario than 4% reduction in fundamental research.
Not to mention stalkers ? Doesn't matter how much you love a community, one or two psychopaths can maybe it simply not-worth-it.

It's hard enough in physical spaces to remove abusers (usually the abused just stop showing up), I can't imagine there's an answer for preventing this kind of behavior in online spaces
Thanks. I guess I have the awareness but don't have the medicine. I feel that everything with kids is pretty random, and humans don't do well without formulas. Honestly, my whole life is pretty random lol.
An eligible voter who doesn't vote is effectively a vote for the winner, so a majority was at least complicit.
My current employer is chaotic and disorganized and lacks the necessary communication to operate at its true potential; however, I do not see pure, raw Agile fixing anything. In fact, I think in our circumstances, pure Agile would just be more rope to hang ourselves with.

I remain unconvinced that the reason Agile exist is so BAs, "Scrum" masters, PMs, etc. can all justify their paychecks while bringing little to nothing of value. If I can program a computer, I am certain that I can also self-manage myself/a team. Software development is not a complicated from a business process point of view. I am not sure why all these "methodologies" need to exist.

This Githug page sums up my opinions quite well:

https://github.com/rayfrankenstein/AITOW
There are very few of such roles. Of course PhD is often an advantage when it comes to job application and promotion, but outside very specific roles (think about OpenAI looking for a PhD in LLMs, or Intel looking for a PhD in certain engineering fields), it's more often a nice-to-have.
First of all, yay Asahi — one of the great modern hacking / hacker stories in my opinion.

Second, what’s the drama? I read the blog, and I’m guessing that on top of being burned out, which sucks, Marcan didn’t like a kernel developer using the phrase “we are the thin blue line” implies he’s politically liberal, in the US sense. He then says he may have been toxic on Mastodon, which might have got him secretly canceled?

All that said, I found his assessment of downstream v. upstream economics (if you can’t successfully upstream you’re doomed to rebase off a massive patch list) pretty interesting. I think the way it is now is the only way that’s good for users — if downstream forks could somehow maintain viability longer term, we would be splitting, e.g. security budgets, performance budgets, etc. I get that it sucks for a group working to upstream, and I am in no way shocked to hear personal politics plays some role in success upstreaming — open source is largely a personal / social capital economy - I guess all that said, hopefully the new Asahi maintainers can work well across what seems like ideology bounds. Maybe?
Despite the typical tech-bro anti-intellectual comments on this thread. As the article states. It's the money. People need to be able to support themselves.

PhDs are important because they train specialists by giving them the time and space needed to develop that expertise (something not usually available at corporate gigs). The work you do during a PhD has value, much more value than the stipend is worth. Taxpayer dollars spent on these stipends have a huge ROI because they are investing in future expertise. These PhD students are trading their cheap labor for agency over their work. However, the deal has been stagnating and stipends are not keeping up with inflation. Stipends can be low, but they need to support the students living needs.

The job market is always a bit tougher on specialists, because of that focused expertise. However, an excess of PhDs is a net benefit for society. Most won't become professors, they will filter back into the workplace and bring cutting-edge knowledge either directly to their expertise in industrial settings, or laterally to new fields.
Funny how this aged, now. Trying to shame people on Mastodon? Totally valid. Trying to chew someone out on a private forum? Now it's an organized attempt to destroy lives.
> This whole situation is absolutely stunning to watch.

It is but not for the reason you think it is.

The twitter files are about a period of time where _Donald Trump was president_!

People go on-and-on about how twitter shadow bans people and lies about it. They never did any of that! "Shadowban" has a specific meaning and by that meaning they weren't shadowbanning. It'd be like saying a missed field goal is a "roughing the receiver penalty". It's just not what the words mean. When Twitter was asked, by Congress, if they artificially lowered the rankings of posts Twitter said yes. There is nothing hidden about this besides that fact that nobody watches congressional testimony and your hivemind doesn't surface any highlights opposing the hivemind's view.
Seems pretty clear to me that NIL should be covered under Title IX:

> Passed in 1972, Title IX requires schools to provide equal athletic opportunity, regardless of sex. That includes benefits, opportunities and treatment given to male and female athletic teams and athletic financial assistance, including athletic scholarships.

How is NIL money different than scholarship money?
No, the "correlate" in this software is to put a mark on the chart when you ate certain things.

> Track and annotate everything about your meals and workouts

The rest is calculating calories from a meal (wow, multiplication) and charting.

I could store and process this data with paper tape and a relay computer before my coffee was done brewing.
Not even close. Doing that requires a whole lot more trust in this stuff (in the tech and especially in the "AI" companies themselves) than I can muster. I don't even want these systems to look at what's on my screen or what I'm doing, let alone doing things on "on my behalf".
Myself, I struggled with organization for a long time.

Now I keep things simple as possible:

* Heavy use of Notes and Calendar, so that everything stays synced across devices. Using hashtags helps me find stuff, rather than trying to keep things organized in folders.

* Planning & vision board type stuff gets done in FreeForm. Organizing things spatially helps me know where to find and put stuff.

There are more powerful tools out there... But keeping things simple, consistent, interoperable and in one cloud is what I personally prefer.

> How do you keep track of tasks, todos etc

I have a pinned Note which I use every day for minor tasks. If something is critical then I either try to do it immediately, or add it as an event in Calendar with multiple alarms.

> Any unexpected hacks that have helped you stay focused and productive?

Body doubling can be effective when you're really stuck. There are a lot of free options for this, but if you want to try a session just to see what it's like I recommend Flow Club [0].

And, maybe weirder again, niacinamide. A high dose of this wipes out brain fog (for me) for like an hour or two. It's very cheap and pretty safe so I recommend looking into it.

0 - https://www.flow.club/coworking-for-adhd
My sense from the article was that it seems less of an Apple is Apple issue, and more of a Linux maintainers are Linux maintainers issue. The big problems listed are all interpersonal conflicts and a sense that the maintainers were making his life upstreaming Rust changes hell.
If I did, would you know?

And if I did, it wouldn’t stop people from doing co-ordinated disclosure either, would it? Same with high end exploits - some folks do co-ord disclosure because it feels good and is great for your CV; others sell gray market and we generally have no idea what’s being traded.

(With the exception of say, zerodium or 0xcharlie’s various talks)
Damn shame, both for the burnout and for the project. I was talking to the team which laptops next to get and kind of everyone wanted something like Arm with battery and performance and there are only MBPs (except damn notch) out there. Except no one wants MacOS. And then there's Asahi. I said it might come down to exactly this, what's happening now.
Insurance giant finds claims rep that gives a damn (it's AI)
"To be clear, this is an abuse of unicode and you shouldn’t do it. If your mind is wandering to practical use cases for this, shut it down." TOO LATE!
A no-vote is simply a lazy vote for the winner.
Except the incest taboo, which is not culturally dependent.
One example is LookML, which used to build semantic data models in an analytic layer:
https://cloud.google.com/looker/docs/what-is-lookml