skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the early 2000s those liberal arts departments went as far as Southeast Asia to recruit international students who paid a lot more than domestic students, especially at the time. One of their outreach programs in Myanmar is called the Pre-Collegiate Program, whose website claims to promote critical reasoning among young people.

Except I actually spoke to several of them who said that they were heavily groomed into joining the liberal arts departments. Not one of them went into engineering or the sciences. One student said during the program she was told she "must" choose the liberal arts. Another described how he was sweet talked by a philosophy professor into becoming a philosophy major, despite having followed a science-based curriculum in high school and little-to-no education in the arts (back then they had to specialize in either but not both in high school).

So when you said "crime" I thought "funny you should say that". It might not be criminal but there was definitely some creepy stuff going on.
Doesn't matter, anyone knowledgable enough to buy a VPN has reduced their marketing entropy.
There were murmurs about something like this even during the Biden administration. There is bipartisan support for bringing as much manufacturing capacity back to the US as possible - especially in packaging which is almost entirely outsourced because of unit economics and outsized subsidies by APAC players.

The main difference is that a lot of the hardball tactics flew under the radar during the Biden admin.

Also, Taiwan ain't China.
I've heard lots of bad about USAID from people directly involved in it too. I've heard lots of good as well fwiw, and your points about NGOs demanding cultural subjugation to American culture can't be more spot-on. It's incredibly difficult to provide assistance without actually creating more harm.

IOW I probably agree that the premise of USAID is flawed. However wiping it off the face of the earth over a matter of days is a massive over-reaction to the problem and is going to kill people short-term that didn't need to be killed if we had decided to take a deliberate approach to dismantling it.

> The entire diplomatic purpose of USAID is to build up good will abroad, but that's simply not working. No amount of money handed to whomever is going to change the fact that, within recent history, America has undertaken several pre-emptive wars and managed them poorly.

That is just so damn true. We do such a fantastic job of creating enemies of America.
I'm curious now. What are the backwards compatibility guarantees for C?
> Well, if anyone broke the law or harmed him he needs to go to law enforcement or the FBI

I think it's naive to suggest this would achieve anything when the platform is anonymous and he was based outside the US.

> Outside of that, just get used to be thrown abuse of all kinds.

This is far easier to say than to do. Particularly when you have a public profile as part of your work.

> If you get tagged by a group like that the more you talk about them the more you give them ammo.

Agreed but that still doesn't make it easy to ignore.
That is fabulous! As a DSP/ML guy, this is a contender for my favorite so far.
Elixir took the pipe symbol from F# (See Jose's comment at [1]). For more details see my other comment below.

[1] https://elixirforum.com/t/which-language-first-introduced-th...
If you're trying to convince people to do things, certainly don't shit talk them on social media (even if you think it's true).
It's not a White America thing to reject race as a biological concept, it's consistent with scientific study.
Not to mention that the Sienna hybrid gets crazy good fuel economy for a mini van.
Thank you for the feedback, I know there are still several rough spots to be fixed.

Nostr is a protocol that has a lot of potential, but there are tradeoffs, it now has a large ecosystem and requires learning some new paradigms, and being completely decentralized the terminology is also becoming more standardized and consolidated over time.

This onboarding system is meant to try to explain them, certainly not for people who want to quickly enter an email and a password and start using a specific app. For that one can precisely download an app and use the built-in onboarding, often apps create a profile without asking for anything and invite afterwards to save the credentials.

These are different paths for different needs, the good thing is that with Nostr you have a choice, and when you have created your digital identity, you can use it anywhere.
This is a rude comment that isn't downvoted because of hive mind effects. Not biting.
> it was clear that this will end up this way the moment marcan started ranting on social media about having to send kernel patches via e-mails. Collaborating on software development is a social activity and stuff like convincing maintainers to trust you and your approach is just as important part of it (if not more important) as writing code.

Yeah but FFS using email for patches when there are so much better ways of doing development with git? The Linux Foundation could selfhost a fucking GitLab instance and even in the event of GitLab going down the route of enshittification or closed-source they could reasonably take over the maintenance of a fork.

I get that the Linux folks want to stay on email to gatekeep themselves from, let's be clear, utter morons who spam on any Github PR/issue they can find. But at the same time it makes finding new people to replace those who will literally die out in the next decade or two so much harder.
Alright, selectively forwarding the syscalls, now you're approaching the problem again where you need to reimplement parts of Linux to understand the state machine of what fd 432 means at any given point in time etc; basically you're implementing the ideas of gVisor in a slightly different shape, without being able to run preexisting binaries. Doesn't seem like a useful combination of features, to me.
The official name in the GNIS for that body of water is the Gulf of America. So what name should Apple and Google Maps use for US users?

What do the map companies call the Islas Malvinas? Or the East Sea? How about the Gulf of California? Or the Sea of Cortez? How about Mt Everest?

If a Mexican mapping tech company wants to call it the Gulf of Mexico, that’s their right.
Larry wants icecream with cream.
I don’t disagree, but man, a lot of “this will not happen” is happening.
Yes, and according to Golf Digest, his handicap is as low as 2.8. Can you believe it? Yeah, me neither.
Citing an improvement in healthcare is a very altruistic statement that, as a disabled individual with an expensive maintenance medication need, I find extremely unlikely as a valid premise.
> Congress is powerless because the GOP are all afraid of highly vociferous MAGA reprisals

They're afraid of their voters, as they should be, as Trump is more popular with their voters than any of them are. All Trump/Musk need to do is endorse an opponent in their primaries.
linux on game consoles might be a small part of the market, but it's a reality. there's a fair amount of manufacturers, devices and people buying them.
They picked a great time to launch it!

Not sure it would've gone so well had it happened in 2007
JD Vance has made clear they are following the pre-election script:

The Judiciary does not have the constitutional authority to compel the Executive to do, or stop doing, anything. They are simply going to ignore SCOTUS and, since SCOTUS has zero enforcement mechanism, there is nothing SCOTUS can do about it.

PS US Marshals are part of the Executive Branch.
> If you look at the Steam Hardware Survey results, their statistics indicate an even worse situation, with over half of gaming users still stuck at 1920x1080.

Are these the natural resolution of the monitor or just what people play games at? I suspect the latter because the most popular gards are more mid level / entry level cards. The 1650 is still at #4.
> This is par for the course I guess, and what exhausts folks like marcan. I wouldn't want to work with someone like Ted Tso'o, who clearly has a penchant for flame wars and isn't interested in being truthful.

I am acquainted with Ted via the open source community, we have each other on multiple social media networks, and I think he's a really great person. That said, I also recognize when he gets into flame wars with other people in the open source social circles, and sometimes those other people are also friends or acquaintances.

I can think of many times Ted was overly hyperbolic, but he was ultimately correct. Here is the part of the Linux project I don't like sometimes, which was recently described well in this recent thread. Being correct, or at least being subjectively correct by having extremely persuasive arguments, yet being toxic... is still toxic and unacceptable. There are a bazillion geniuses out there, and being smart is not good enough anymore in the open source world, one has to overcome those toxic "on the spectrum" tendencies or whatever, and be polite while making reasonable points. This policy extends to conduct as well as words written in email/chat threads. Ted is one of those, along side Linus himself, who has in the past indulged into a bit of shady conduct or remarks, but their arguments are usually compelling.

I personally think of these threads in a way related to calculus of infinitesimals, using the "Standard Parts" function to zero away hyperbolic remarks the same way the math function zeros away infinitesimals from real numbers, sorta leaving the real remarks. This is a problem, because it's people like me, arguably the reasonable people, who through our silence enable these kind of behaviours.

I personally think Ted is more right than wrong, most of the time. We do disagree sometimes though, for example Ted hates the new MiB/KiB system of base-2 units, and for whatever reasons like the previous more ambiguous system of confusingly mixed base-10/base-2 units of MB/Mb/mb/KB/Kb/kb... and I totally got his arguments that a new standard makes something confusing already even more confusing, or something like that. Meh...
> The nanosensor correctly identified healthy individuals 98% of the time, and identified people with pancreatic cancer with 73% accuracy.

ctrl+f specificity
No reasoning is about applying rules of logic consistently, so if you only do it some of the time, that's not reasoning.

If I roll a die and only _sometimes_ it returns the correct answer to a basic arithmetic question, this is the exact reason why we don't say a die is doing arithmetic.

Even worse in the case of LLMs, where it's not caused by pure chance, but also training bias and hallucinations.

You can claim nobody knows the exact definition of reasoning, maybe there are some edges which aren't clearly defined because they're part of Philosophy, but applying rules of logic consistently is not something you just don't always do and still call it reasoning.

Also, LLMs are generally incapable of saying they don't know something, cannot know something, can't do something, etc. They would rather try and hallucinate. When it does that, it's not reasoning. And you also can't explain to an LLM how to figure out it doesn't know something, and then actually say it doesn't know and not make stuff up. If it was capable of reasoning you should be able to convince it using _reason_, to do exactly that.

However, you
Steven P. Jobs.
The tragedy of inventing all this cool shit right now is that it comes at a time when the people who'd be in control of it deserve so little trust that we'd be better off not moving ahead with it.
We don't know if he's gone to the cops, but more often than not the police will not be able to help you in these sorts of situations. The way that Kiwifarms target people is incredibly hard to stop and I don't think they particularly need ammo; the way to not "give them ammo" would be to stop standing up for trans rights, and the fact that he hasn't is commendable.
Ask HN: Has anyone used Nebius for AI development?
I typically use GCP but fascinated in Nebius as an option as they seem to be betting the ranch on AI dev
I agree with you, I just think the condition "being in NP" is needlessly confusing. The whole point is that you can always find a reduction from easier problems to harder ones. It just so happens that NP encompasses all the problems easier than SAT.

The reason why your statement is confusing to me is that if you generalize it beyond NP, it breaks down; for an arbitrarily hard complexity class M and an arbitrary M-hard problem, you don't need to be in M to be able to find a reduction to the M-hard problem.
Not quite sure what you're talking about. The majority of PhDs awarded in the US were science and engineering (S&E) degrees. The number of non S&E PhDs has held steady since about 1973 [1].

It's also never been a 1:1 ratio of PhD recipients ending up in academia. I will agree that many universities overinflate job prospects post-graduation, but students should also be doing their own market research before entering into such a long process.

[1] https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf25300/report/u-s-doctorate-awa...
> it's nonsense to talk about "executive function" as if it's some internal liquid that some kids have.

That's actually how people with executive function disorders (like ADHD) describe it. There's a finite amount of gas/fuel/internal liquid they have in a day, which gets consumed as demands are made of them and it runs out a lot sooner for them than it does for others. Once it's gone even simple tasks can be overwhelming. Taking that one step further is the "spoon theory" (https://neurodivergentinsights.com/blog/the-neurodivergent-s...) which divides that finite resource into categories like mental, emotional, physical, social, etc.
Right, because "care about" doesn't mean "agree with".
I understand. While I'm not as prolific as him, I've grown with systems which retrocomputing fans meticulously restore and use, so I had to do tons of free-wheeling peeking and poking.

What I found is being able have this "afterburner mode" alongside "advanced communications" capabilities gives the real edge in real life. So, this is why I wish he can build his soft skills.

These skills occupy different slots. You don't have to sacrifice one for the other.
The idea that criminals are not sophisticated is a weak excuse for this system.

Once the government starts mining data from iPhones, criminals will quickly adapt while every law-abiding citizen gets caught in the crossfire. It opens the door for abuse: officials could easily spy on their partners, dig up dirt on rivals, or target those they dislike without breaking any laws. Meanwhile, cybercriminals will have an easy target since every phone comes with this built-in vulnerability.

This system is likely to snag small-time offenders, not the real masterminds behind organized crime. This isn’t a smart solution for crime. It just sacrifices our privacy for a few token arrests.
Rust is great but I don't like it.

I hope the language industry will either make safer languages, or at least push hard to use static analysers.
A little ashamed that I have never used pdb directly, I'm going to try to broaden my horizons and learn about it more :) Appreciate your perspective.

Cheers
Is he really still pretending that his vtuber persona is a different person? That makes this way more of an embarrassing attention-grab than it already was.
> Why does it remain relatively unpopular and what can be done so that more people get to use it?

Because Ruby-ish syntax without Ruby’s semantics or ecosystem isn’t actually all that big of selling point, and if people want a statically typed language, there are plenty of options with stronger ecosystems, some of which have some Ruby-ish stntactic features.
How could you charge for a binary if people can just compile it on their own...? Honor system? I guess you could make it inconvenient to compile, but then is that really OSS?
Alpine uses musl.
Apart from the obvious privacy issues, I'm not actually sure what putting DNA in an LLM would actually achieve.

It seems optimistic to imagine that you could query this DNA data in combination with the other information to get meaningful answers.
Huh, it's super cool they have a built-in way of extending to support missing engine features!
All my homies are georgists
It happened a lot more with DOGE
These sorts of things come part and parcel if you are on the internet for any length of time. It's just not possible to have one not the other.
Very cool. Caddy in front with some basic auth and off I go on the internetz?
LLM best practices are broken
It just needs to be removed forever. Upvotes and downvotes work just fine on Reddit and other sites. Flagging is used on HN as a censorship tool and I can’t imagine how the community allows it to continue. Flagging should be used for something like gore on the front page and it should be a report to mods button that when misused gets the user in hot water.
What didn't I understand? What of value is contained in those theses?
Hmm, don't want to be elitist. More like "people who don't put any time into studying science shouldn't be listened to about science".
Getaround abruptly shuts down US car-sharing operations
So why does the CloudAct still exist?
Because generally speaking, it's not a good idea to have machines with possible links to sensitive government data not under the jurisdiction of the government that owns that data.
I was wrong it’s 6.6% of the budget

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/is-government-too-big-ref...

If his goal is to cut 10% of the employees That 10% is less than 1% of the budget.
It isn't, but it is non-zero. Those in a position of power don't want to give up any of it.
Chasing Happiness: Finding It in Fleeting Moments
We use ClickHouse as a real-time stream processing engine (2024)
It seems like mostly personal problems, and if this is not going into detail, whoo I don't know what detail would be:

https://vt.social/@lina/112887550181123672

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W2Vvwg0rwSVb5r4TQ_NmAF8S...

They pretty much straight up confirm the identity of Asahi Lina, so enough with the gaslighting that merely mentioning this (and having a totally reasonable discussion on contributor persona policies and sockpuppeting, which is what this is) is somehow unethical doxxing.
And the JITting in closures amounts to a total of three instructions; certainly not for speed, rather just as the bare minimum to generate distinct function pointers at runtime.
Have you tried waypipe? Does it not fit your use case?

Last time I tested this, which was a few years ago, it worked just fine. But to be fair, this is not part of my workflow, just something I was testing out of curiosity.

If it doesn't do what you need for whatever reason, then I understand, but it just not true at all that the Wayland ecosystem has not been addressing these use cases.
> Docker works fine on macOS today

Because it runs a Linux VM at a considerable overhead and serious issues if you want anything more detailed in networking than `-p 8080:8080`.
This is a government that believes in thought crimes.
They will likely arrest people for having illegal memes on their phones or for texting messages to friends of which the government does not approve. If there was prequal to 1984, it would look something like this.
Who exactly needs to get approval from an institutional review board (IRB)?
That is what the press release from the university should have, but many of them add a lot of hype and distort the paper. Something like

fake> For fist time, scientists of $OUR_UNIVERSITY have seen Doors of Hell with their own eyes and are going to use it to replace Nuclear Power in 5 years and solve Climate Change and find the Atlantis.

I'm exaggeration a little, but I've seen a few horrible cases https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Pardons are usually forgiveness. They add to the record rather than erase it.
It's funny how you mostly just notice the objects you're familiar with. If you look at the prop auctions you see all kinds of "regular objects" integrated into props and sets. Sometimes the really obvious ones mean that particular props have to be shot from certain angles (you don't generally see the bottom of a crash couch for a reason!)
> Rust has a stability guarantee since 1.0 in 2015. Any backwards incompatibilities are explicitly opt-in through the edition system, or fixing a compiler bug.

The community is more than just the language and compiler vendor(s). It's everyone using the language, with particular emphasis on the developers of essential libraries and tools that those users use and on which they're reliant.

In this sense, based on every time I've attempted to use Rust (even after 1.0), Ts'o's remark ain't inaccurate from what I can tell. If I had a nickel for every Rust library I've seen that claims to only support Rust Nightly, I'd have... well, a lot of nickels. Same with Rust libraries not caring much about backward-compatibility; like yeah, I get it during pre-1.0, or while hardly anyone's using it, but at some point people are using it and you are signaling that your library's "released", and compatibility-breaking changes after that point make things painful for downstream users.

> Here's the maintainer on the gccrs project (a second Rust compiler implementation), posting on the official Rust Blog

Same deal here. The Rust developers might be welcoming of additional implementations, but the broader community might not be. I don't have enough information to assess whether the Rust community is "actively hostile" to a GCC-based Rust implementation, but from what I can tell there's little enthusiasm about it; the mainstream assumption seems to be that "Rust" and its LLVM-based reference compiler are one and the same. Maybe (hopefully) that'll change.

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The bigger irony here, in any case, is that the Linux community has both of these very same problems:

- While the kernel itself has strict backwards-compatibility guarantees for applications, the libraries those applications use (including absolutely critical ones like glibc) very much do not. The ha-ha-only-serious observation in the Linux gaming community is that - thanks to Wine/Proton - the Windows API is the most stable ABI for Linux applications. Yeah, a lot of these issues are addressable with containerization, or by static compilation, but it's annoying that either are necessary for Linux-native applications to work on old and new distros alike.

- As marcan alludes to in the article, the Linux community is at least antipathetic (if not "actively hostile") to Linux-compatible kernels that are not Linux, be they forks of Linux (like Android) or independent projects that support running Linux applications (WSL 1/2, FreeBSD, some illumos distros, etc.). The expectation is that things be upstreamed into "the" Linux, and the norms around Linux development make out-of-tree modules less-than-practical. This is of course for good reason (namely: to encourage developers to contribute back to upstream Linux instead of working in silos), but it has its downsides - as marcan experienced firsthand.
Was there actually interesting EV tech to steal? Even when Tesla was new, there were various experimental EVs around, and it wasn’t that hard to build one. Tesla’s real innovations seem to have been packaging existing 18650 cells into giant packs in an economical manner and putting everything together into a package that looked nice.

And now there’s BYD, which, as I understand it:

- Uses a highly integrated drive system that does not have any particular resemblance to Tesla’s

- Uses prismatic LFP cells. Those cells and battery packs are very different from what Tesla uses, at least in the US. And Tesla has never actually been a heavyweight in the battery tech space despite periodic PR pieces from management.

The rest is … just a car?

What did BYD steal from Tesla exactly, other than market share?
Ok go ahead and impose the tariffs. That will be the shortest, sharpest lesson in economics and leverage, transferring tech profits to government and forcing allies to realign. TSMC is not TikTok.