skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do we get pro-rated money back if Wordpress crashes itself out of existence sometime before 100 years from now?
> You can hate jwz as much as you want but the fact remains that probably 95% of ycombinator funded startups couldn't exist

wait, this would be a bad thing?
https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/compelled-speech/
My uniformed guess is that this is profitable to Apple in the same way that money spent on lobbyists is profitable.
I'm on Phind's free plan, and have an OpenAI API account, which gives me access to the suite of OpenAI's models on their playground. I go to Phind's free option first and get what I need then, 80% of the time.
This phrase has been largely co-opted by US white nationalist/fascist groups (similar to how Pepe the Frog was) but that is a relatively recent development; the phrase has been in use for a long time before that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_blue_line
Can the virtual flatworm’s virtual actions be mapped to the physical sensors of a flatworm in the real world? Can we get the real world’s flatworm to control any part of the virtual one?

Can these two things interface yet is the question (virtual to real bidirectional interface), especially since you are suggesting we have a clone of it.

If we do this experiment, what does that say about something doing an experiment on humans (humans control humans inside video games).

Sounds insane right? Why would we ever do this? Well … we have this perfect digital clone of a flatworm, what else are we going to do? There’s a lot of evidence that humans would absolutely go down this rabbit hole until it’s logical conclusion.

One word: Teledildonics

Anyway, the flatworm that is born into such an experiment would never know, or it would just be useless to know. :shrugs:
An unfortunate side effect of github being extremely user-friendly, while debian's reportbug tool still greets "novice" users with "please enter your SMTP host" (I dread to think what questions it would have asked me if I'd selected the "expert" mode)
The Rust community does seem to be more focused on non-copyleft licenses, do you have any ideas why that is?
To me it seems to perfectly outline HN's reputation when moderation is delayed. This brigading has been happening on multiple projects for years, specifically by the actors mentioned in the link, but plenty of others as well.

If anything, this specific behaviour and these actors have been outlined by articles dedicated to just that, right here on this sited. Granted, other sites are often lumped in here as well, such as reddit and even stackoverflow. This is not new behaviour, it happens in all communities. The big differences between them all is to what degree they get abused and in what manner.

As for examples: I doubt people who are targeted will want to share their experience with anyone directly. Someone asking for it to stop should be enough.
That sounds fine by me. Hiring people is work. Managing people is work. It's a fine thing to do if they pay me and I need the money, but I certainly wouldn't seek that out if I didn't have to. I don't suspect many others would either.

"Standard experiences any plebian can buy with money" includes things like westward solo circumnavigation which is a more elite group than humans who have walked on the moon. And you don't really even need that much money to do it. More money wouldn't really make you any more likely to succeed. So not everything comes down to money, you can do some incredible things without much.
The Executive wantonly violating laws is a bad thing for society.
That's quite a cool project, but as a thought can the simple rules you started from... Are they simple enough? Like the rule which states that offspring will carry the traits of parents, so exactly what traits they carry. how are they carried. Are these rules simple enough?
Or Models with Large Memory. MLMs :)
It's not about the VCS, it's about API compatibility being broken.

If your code is out-of-tree, every time someone changes an API that break your build, it's your responsibility to update your for and fix it.

If your code is mainline, the people who change API and break the compilation are on the hook to fix it.
He's not wrong per se, just really hostile to the idea.
> Eradication of an ideology is not the same as eradication of people.

We have as much (if not more) documented historical evidence of gender non-conformance as we do homosexual behavior. To me, "eradicating transgenderism" is a threat no different than if someone were to endorse "eradicating homosexuality".

Back in the 1980s, both homosexuality and gender non-conformance were considered "ideology", and likely thousands of unnecessary deaths occurred during the AIDS crisis because of the federal government's efforts to encourage stigma, keep people in the closet, and a complete failure to treat AIDS as a genuine healthcare crisis. What we're going through now may not be as dramatic as the 80s AIDS crisis, but there are clear comparisons, and people in my community will suffer and die because of lack of access to medical treatment.

There are/were maybe a dozen trans athletes in college sports. No one is performing surgeries (or causing irreparable damage) to minors. Personally, I don't care what people call me as long as they're respectful. I want to live my life without the government trying to control my personal choices, or ban life-saving treatment that is endorsed by multiple major medical institutions.

> It's also a stretch to say Michael Knowles, a famous shock-jock, speaks for the Republican party.

Fair, but the fact that no one denounced it after he said it on stage at CPAC is a tacit endorsement.
OP here. There are clearly a number of DEI related awards in the list. But lots and lots of non-DEI related awards that show up solely based on a stupid text search. e.g.

CHEMISTS HAVE A GREAT UNDERSTANDING OF THE REACTIVITY OF SMALL MOLECULES IN SOLUTION IN A HOMOGENOUS ENVIRONMENT
In states that enforce strict ID rules, they generally make it harder to get ID by adding arbitrary hurdles... closing ID centers in Democratic areas, requiring birth certificates or passports which some people may not have, requiring name matches (like the SAVE Act).

The rules are not made in good faith and are based on a notion that voter fraud is widespread which it absolutely is not and lately when it has occurred it has been Republicans not Democrats committing it.

The goal is to limit Democratic voting, just as it is with gerrymandering absurd districts that split Democratic voters.
And opportunity cost of having unused capacity in one location and unmet demand in another location.
You don't need to pursue a PhD to do research, which I think underlies some of the pushback. If you don't care about the credentials or being an career academic, a doctoral program can add a lot of friction for little benefit if the only motivator is passion for the subject.
Reducing this to age is overly simplistic. When Linux was younger and simpler, it may've been easier to fork, but today it's a massive system with huge inertia behind it. Even if you are right in principle regarding your changes, it's extremely hard to overcome that inertia.

In the related submission on this topic [1], the author makes this argument in a lot more detail, that it's essentially impossible to make a Linux fork sustainable without massive investment that no one can realistically obtain.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036904
Who decides what reasons are legitimate?
I think the real issue is that only one course of action is being forced on ex-employees, while the same option isn't the one exercised by current employees. Besides that, personally, I would be very worried about "paying up front" and opting into a process that is not in my control.
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Trump was totally going to ban TikTok but then didn’t.

Congress banned TikTok.

Now Trump assures companies they can violate the law without consequences.

Rules for thee, not for Trumps friends / Chinese companies.
Linus doesn't write much code anymore. The ones who are responsible and doing the heavy lifting and taking the heat when things break are the often unpaid maintainers. You can't say OP is more apt when he probably never done this work before.

I have to work with a "kernel a-hole". Sure it sucks but when there's some mutex bug in a chip driver, he's the one we can call and fix the problem and push the fix upstream even though he's already overworked. He's an a-hole but I respect his rules because he's the one suffering and pulling in the work and I don't.

Yes the kernel is stagnating (patches and email mailing list, line length limited to be compatible with old tty terminal, etc.) but when you're at the helm of a ship you don't just steer it near the nice looking island just because it looks pretty and there doesn't seem to have rocks.
Ada = Boomer Rust <==> Rust = Millennial Ada

I can imagine Boomers laughing but the Rustaceans not seeing the humour in it at all. I could be wrong...
All of their materials seem to be available on their file share website here:

https://edu.postgrespro.com

There's some stuff for internals (mentioned in a sibling comment), as well as what seems like stuff for PG15 though I haven't looked at it.
It is entirely reasonable to ask for an example. Even a single example will do. I’m not the only one who has never seen this before.
Yes Twitter doesn’t censor the way most social media does. It is far closer to free speech ideals than it was before Elon fixed it.
pizzas are just $10 in NYC. How are you making it less than our team's pizza cost?
Spend Elon Musk's Fortune
I must say that I was expecting that a single light receptor would also have been evolved from something else so that the title would have earned the moniker of 'from scratch'.
No. I stand by what I said. Its proposal was submitted to the Unicode Consortium in March 2019: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20190r-swollen-belly-emoji....

It was officially added to the standard in 2021. To suggest President Biden had anything to do with this is just patently absurd.
eh, we've been getting super-political when the discussions aligned with the establishment. This is tech-bros kissing the ring. We are living in the unfortunate timeline where one waits for China to save the day.
I would be more likely to want to listen to T'so if he hadn't done the following:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiPp9YEBV0Q&t=1529s

There was a reasonable discussion about Rust, and then T'so drops the bombshell:

"I suspect part of the problem here is you're trying to convince everyone to switch over to the religion as promulgated by Rust and the reality is that ain't going to happen because we have 50 plus file systems in Linux they will not all be instantaneously converted over to rust" [26:05]

He pretty much shouts at the Rust developers, denigrates their efforts and when they explain what they are trying to do which is to understand the semantic changes.

And then T'so then starts yelling at him even more. He wonders why people are not happy with his attitude - then perhaps he should consider how he communicates. The Rust guy is trying to be constructive and T'so was not.
Sabotage or just the inevitable ways that organizations tend to decay (not that they have to, but if they do it tends to look a certain way).
Not just flash frozen but going through the parasite destruction protocol. I believe it's required in the US for all fish except tuna
I haven’t studied it, but yes I would imagine so. For example if a python build macro changes but the sphinx output remains unchanged, you get out of rebuilding thousands of packages that throw off sphinx docs as part of their build.
If an activity is profitable but the government can prosecute you for taking place in that activity, there in no correlation. That’s the point.

Advertising was dangerous because there was a perception that the previous US government would politically prosecute anyone who opposed them. Companies advertising on X, and hence supporting opposition such as Musk, would fall into this category.
With the president's immunity and expansive pardon powers, unfortunately, that is where we are. Laws don't matter when you can be pre-emtively pardoned for breaking them.
I tried to help with the Linux kernel once in 2001 or so. I decided my calm was worth more than dealing with abrasive kernel devs.
Because there is a point to use Rust. We should use safe languages for drivers.
If you are thinking of the stories of Foxconn worker suicides a few years ago that turned out to be a big nothing. Their suicide rates were lower than US factory workers of similar age.

It drew attention initially because they were reported as suicides at work whereas similar aged US factory workers that commit suicide usually do it at home. It turns out that Chinese workers who commit also usually do it at home, but in China workers at big factories like those of Foxconn often live in company owned housing.
That's because they have been hurt by HN. Not intentionally by HN itself, but they are also not the only target.

As for how you haven't heard of them before, that is a bit surprising. They have been mentioned here plenty of times.

HN being user-driven means they are an amplification and legitimisation vector for anyone who figures out how to abuse it. It's not an easy problem to solve, and I don't think any organisation (commercial, or otherwise) has really found a way to deal with this.

As a human side-effect, most people will either have to have experienced it themselves, or have this as part of their job to understand the issue at all, and will either deny it or assume it's exaggerated. Even those that are on the instigating side will not have a concept of the impact until it inevitably happens to them (as is common in that ecosystem).
> First, the risk is higher. When a vulnerability has a public patch, it means the nature of the vulnerability is also public. Sometimes there is even public exploit code. While attackers sometimes find their own vulnerabilities (zero-days), it makes their job a lot easier if they can just use an already-known vulnerability.

but.. Qt is only used for the GUI in OBS. It's not doing anything network-related or processing any data stream coming from there, why would any security issue in Qt matter ? Only thing I can think of is a crafted system font causing an issue but if you have a crafted font running on your linux system you are already compromised way beyond repair
Not a scaling law - a law of physics: how efficiently light can be captured by any optical system. Dragonflies capture ~99.7% of incoming light.
> my contributions to a project had been sabotaged

I really wish people would stop throwing around the word "sabotaged". No one "sabotaged" anything. The opposition has been public from the beginning.

If I'm opposed to something, and someone asks my opinion about it in a private conversation, it is not "sabotage" to express my opinion. So far I haven't seen any evidence that those opposed to a mixed-language code base organized behind the scenes to hamper progress in anyway. Instead, their opposition has been public and in most cases instant.

Are people not allowed to be opposed to things anymore?
>“Enforcing minimum age requirements on social media platforms would necessitate user identification, such as driver’s licences or national IDs. ...

I see the same printed for how they would like to bring it in Australia - mind the person said to be in charge is still the same who was installed back the previous govt where a national register ID was touted as a means to remove reasonable anonymity out of social media - mind this came only a couple weeks after social media were forced to do something about BS from the then religo PM's best buddy in the whole world.

In fact under 16 ban doesn't need ID based approach, it just needs to be that all the intelligent software installed to track users and has been in the past demonstrated and is very capable of assigning advertising - such that if the user is going to or pretending to go to school, or young or appears to be young, it promptly stop the account (with a show cause they are in fact older) if they are within given country where a ban has been imposed. We as a collective are smart enough to know it's going to easy enough for any young social media addict to get around obstacles unless the ID approach is absolute - the absolute approach is a mistake IMHO. The better approach I think is pretty easy and not impose a high cost to the governing body:

Dear social media platform, if it's found the platform has quite clearly an under 16 aged kid with an account or such an account can easily be identified as such, the Powers That Be will be turning up, unannounced, without warning, with indemnity against any losses as a result, not with arrest warrants or fines, but tools to remedy the server platform compliant. Adults might now be deemed fair game as a product, but leave the kids alone until they are of age.
Interesting concept but I'd like to see some evidence that they have structured their business in a way that the 100 year registrations don't vanish if WordPress goes bankrupt, e.g. a separate non-profit funded by a trust containing customer money.
Apple never brought it back to the App Store. TikTok has to be sideloaded in the US: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqldw5y4y0no
Coders at Work has an interview with a pretty comprehensive backstory of his time in the tech industry. If you want to get more of his vibe, he's also in the documentary Code Rush.
Direct monetization FTW. Charge people for value. Cultivate audiences willing to pay for value.

Incentives aligned. Happy customers. Good businesses. Maybe you only get 60% gross margins, or, gasp, 40% gross margins. But so much less toxic.
Pre-Aquisition Twitter
$5 billion revenue
$682 million EBITDA

2024 X
$2.7 billion revenue
$1.25 billion EBITDA

Last week Alwaleed bin Talal a longtime Twitter and X investor said his holdings have held value after the acquisition and he considers it in the process of doubling. Some banks also reported selling their debt in 2024 for 97 cents on the dollar.

Interview: https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1887210068485009599

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/07/2025/musks-x-doubled-i...
As another commenter mentioned, this is more like a physical limit for efficiency of light capture. However they also follow a scaling law of angular resolution versus diffraction. Smaller lenses means more blur from diffraction but smaller lenses also allow better angular resolution. Many insects with compound eyes follow this scaling law, having ther same (provably optimal) ratio of eye radius to lens size, despite having very different sizes of eyes. William Bialek is a biophysicist who uses this frequently as an example.
They can absolutely block you if the code is not good enough. But if they don't want to accept the code at all, then just say from the outset "I'm not accepting rust code", rather than waste everyone's time.
refreshing to see this and inspiring as weird as it sounds.
The VCS has nothing to do with it. Code has all sorts of subtle dependencies. When changes are made, other things are liable to break. When they're in someone else's fork, the person making the change is obviously not going to make sure that fork will stay working.

Either the change is accepted upstream meaning that everyone else making changes to the mainline needs to keep it working, or it isn't and they don't.
and here I was thinking they came crawling back to Xwindows
Disagree. You don’t lose, you’re just smaller, better, and still very profitable.

HBO used this model way back when. It’s been a lasting business.
I love doing research on subjects that excite me, but I found that joining a PhD program would mean I would only get to work on what my advisor found exciting.

If you get lucky and find a PI that is interested in exactly the same thing, you're good. You might get lucky enough to find someone who is interested in something near what you want. Most likely, you will be assigned the thing you do for your PhD.
Wow, the entitlement here is absolutely amazing. You are not entitled to any work, or explanation, or "agreement". Show me where it says maintainers owe you any of this at all.
All the more convenient, isn't it?

Jokes aside, I always thought the ban/force-sale was ridiculous short of an actual privacy law that regulates all social media. But, regardless of your stance on that front, one should indeed be worried of the ever-growing power of the executive.
It is entirely reasonable that a site which displays different content to what was shown at time of submission, purposefully because of HN, gets flagged.
>The author not getting that is just… do you ever stop and think?

They refer to themselves as a "lifelong libertarian", so probably not since turning 14.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-14/apple-to-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/technology/tiktok-apple-g...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/apple-google-tiktok-app...

https://www.theverge.com/news/612768/tiktok-app-store-apple-...
If your advisor is one of the stars of their field, then probably more than one of their grad students will be professors. If not, then probably none of them will.

Otherwise this point is indeed correct.
That's what they were originally asking for three weeks ago. Or that they would at least make it clear to users that their version isn't official. Both options have been going nowhere until the legal threat was made. Now suddenly both are happening
Drama queen bullshit doesn't belong on HN.
These people do https://landscape.cncf.io/?group=wasm
if your lens is old-bad vs new-good, you are blind to merits.

didn't the good egcs stuff get merged after all?
I've done the multiple trees thing too, and agree it didn't work very well.

jj solved the biggest problem for me, which is how much time you spend rebasing when you have 1 PR = 1 stack of commits on top of main. It's easy enough to work on multiple branches this way, but it's a lot of repeated pain when `main` diverges and your changes on top are still out for review. (I honestly just started squashing all of my commits before review, so I would only have to resolve conflicts once.) jj fixes all of this. I especially enjoy working on a 3rd pending change that refers to the previous 2 pending changes; `jj new june/feature-1 june/feature-2` and then you add feature 3 there. You can even `jj squash --into june/feature-1` if something makes more sense being in a prior commit. It's all very wonderful if you are working with other people and you can't immediately mutate `main` upon finishing some work.
Free Our Feeds – Update #1, Feb 2025
https://fortune.com/2024/09/25/twitter-x-account-suspensions...

> And in the first six months of this year, the social network has suspended 5.3 million accounts, compared to 1.6 million in the first half of 2022
If you're familiar with that work, realistic implements most of it (some trig functions I didn't get to yet) but it's deliberately not 1.0 because I'm still tinkering with core API things like, I changed how the errors work this week.

If you're not familiar, a fact about the reals which cannot be emphasised enough is that almost all real numbers are non-computable. This serves to properly temper expectations, regardless of whether you know what the mathematical term "Almost all" means. We're going to be able to compute some useful reals, and then do arithmetic with them, and not get miserably bad rounding errors like for floating point for example. We just need to keep in mind that "towards" here is just gesturing in a direction, it's not a destination which can be reached.
Maintaining a fork is not difficult because we haven't invented the right VCS.