skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's fundamentally different from the US model.

While some countries have general funding calls where individual PIs can request funding for basically anything, the US model is based on large decentralized projects. Some academics spend a few years at funding agencies, identifying topics that could benefit from focused research. Then the agency issues a funding call, inviting applications from PIs who believe they can contribute. With some agencies such as NSF, this structure is more nominal, as individual grants are usually too small to hire permanent staff. But others such as NIH award larger grants, which make hiring professional researchers and support staff possible.

The fundamental issue with goal-oriented research is that it will narrow your vision. Topics don't get funded if there are no reasonable expectations that the idea will work and be beneficial. But that leaves the academia in an awkward position. You want topics that are promising enough to get funded but not so promising that the industry will also pursue them with better funding and higher salaries.

Goal-oriented research needs to be balanced with curiosity-driven research. Research focused on things the researchers find interesting, without any expectation that it will be beneficial to someone. Most of the time it won't be beneficial, but occasionally you get unexpected breakthroughs.
What's an acceptable conversion ratio between false calls and bodies?

As far as I care it should be close enough to zero that if falls below the noise threshold of accidents en route and other occupational hazards.

It's beyond baffling that people will defend the existence of a magic phone number that can be called and if you say the magic words to it there's a really, really good chance a bunch of armed guys kick in the door of whoever you want. The system should not work that way. The fact that the thugs showed up and decided it was BS and shot nobody most of the time is not a redeeming factor. The "close calls" should not be that close.
Did you ever tried to use the rotary dial for text input? I gave up immediately. The car has a regular screen regular, no touch. Something is good only when balanced.
From the article:

> Although it got off to a rocky start, the A320 went on to achieve a better safety record than most traditional aircraft types. And although there have been a couple of close calls, no Airbus has ever crashed because of the sort of computer failure that skeptics so deeply feared.

Airbus didn't just fight the need to improve their designs. They just kept improving on their designs and fixed what needed to be fixed.

I'm not sure why Boeing and Airbus are being treated equivalently by you and the other commenter. Especially since the two situations are nothing alike. Boeing hid MCAS to avoid a new type rating. The Airbus A320 just had new types of systems that would continue to be iterated on over time and were simply new.
I'm reminded of The Diamond Age novel, where a character hears about someone who had an implant which was hacked. If I recall correctly, the hack caused the implant to display an advertisement in a different language at the edge of their vision.

That seems pretty benign compared to what a neural implant could be made to do to someone.
Please see this thread, which is where I got my information from. If you have a better source, I would love to read it. I understand that you may be passionate about wishing to have Rust in the kernel, but I was not fighting for or against this. To claim that I am not arguing in good faith (I am not arguing), and then to say that I am ignoring what you've said is the actual argument in bad faith. I also stated to correct me if I'm wrong, but I will believe this thread over a comment that seems to be more emotion over fact (as I fail to see how I ignored anything, and made no claim to be an expert). I would love an actual conversation over this, but only in actual good faith.

Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.
https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250108135951.GA18074@lst.de/
My 2004 5 series BMW had this (it was called iDrive). A command style knob that could move on an axis of sorts (up and down, left, right). You could also press it in. I absolutely hated it.
Thanks. I knew it was a reference. It was tugging on threads in the back of my brain. But I couldn't place it at all.
If you google "supermicro 72 drive server" it's definitely a thing that exists, but these use double-length drive trays where each tray contains two drives. Meaning that you need a "whole machine can go down" software architecture of redundancy at a very large scale to make these useful, since pulling one tray to replace a drive will take two drives offline. More realistically the normal version of the same supermicro chassis which has 1 drive per tray is 36 drives in 1 server.

There are other less publicly well known things with 72 to 96 drive trays in a single 'server' which are manufactured by taiwanese OEMs for large scale operators. The supermicro is just the best visual example I can think of right now with a well laid out marketing webpage.

edit: some photos

https://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-ssg-6047r-e1r72l-72x...
Every org is just kissing the orange man's feet, hoping to be blessed with kickbacks
Boeing has been fucking up continuously for 30 years. Airbus, not so much.
AzureAD-LDAP-wrapper: LDAP-wrapper for Microsoft Entra ID users/groups
Terminal lucidity as well as activity may happen when the brain/body realizes it is really losing it, and mounting any and all last reserves of energy, instead of conserving energy for a long healing process. So it's consistent with compromised physiology, when activation can overcome whatever is otherwise stupefying or immobilizing.

Something similar happens in some recoveries which then fade. People will come out of a coma briefly and seem fine, and then go back, never to return.

Very difficult to study.

Also this is quite distinct from what you might have meant: for elderly who have accepted their death, they may experience peace with anything in their experience.
It's disgusting to me that Google wants to cosy to the administration this much who is hellbent on pushing this white nationalist agenda meanwhile Apple and JPMorgan Chase of all people seem to be a few of the only companies saying no we actually believe in this.
The courtyards of apartment complexes/condos are usually considered either semi-public or semi-private spaces, and their status with regard to passing through is not clear-cut either legally or morally.
> Quality of code produced by AI will improve dramatically as model evolves.

Where are your facts? What is your basis on these future prediction? Sure small code snippets have already improved since gpt2. What about larger applications where layers and layers of abstractions coming from private company sensitive data?

> At the end of the day product is just one area of company development, build the complete e2e ultimate solution with 0 distribution or marketing will not help.

this sounds like PR garbage to me why use "e2e ultimate solution" provide technical details so we can verify what you're saying is true
That's actually within the other fair use factors. So your hash table is fair use because its transformative and doesn't substitute for the original work.

I edited my post to make it a bit clearer.
It's not. They've always been huge hypocrites. They whine and are scared about everything. They're driven by fear, greed, or hate.
Have you worked in electronics design?

Your knowledge seems practical and fairly deep to me. I loved electronics so I got an electronics degree and I ended up with an irrational antipathy towards electronics since then. Got a software job instead which turned out to be a great career (compared with most of the electronics guys I know).
Fair enough! I really like the interface. Well done!
Generally I agree with the article, and I do feel that trying to replace everyone with AI will backfire in various ways. Lots of big companes will find that out the hard way, especially in the tech industry and other more regulated fields like medicine and finance.

But at the same time, it's also worth noting that (somewhat sadly) there are plenty of jobs and companies where an AI created solution could be just what they need, even at this stage in its development. Lots of companies who need sites too complex for Squarespace but too simple for a fully engineered custom solution. The kind who'd use WordPress plugins or small agencies to build out simple CRUD systems.

AI could absolutely annihilate that sort of work there and then. If you need a simple PHP or React based system and you don't need anything remotely complex functionality wise, even something like ChatGPT can build it out in about 20 minutes without many extra fixes needed.

Of course, that leads to the problems mentioned in the article again, since a lot of people get into programming/engineering through those sorts of companies and roles. AI may not make the folks at Alphabet or Meta obsolete at the moment (or even be a good fit for the kind of work many large tech companies do), but it could replace whole teams at small and medium sized organisations that don't need anything complex.
> The reason is entirely technical and I think it has been formulated clearly [..]

He clearly expressed a technical opinion based on his own beliefs, and that’s all. There was no reasoning.

He did not even acknowledge the fact that it is going to be maintained separately from the actual generic kernel code (rust/kernel/dma vs kernel/dma).

Anyone can easily formulate a sentence that seems coherent and correct, but it can be proven completely false in 15 seconds with actual data.

IOW: just because someone calls it a technical argument it doesn’t make it one.

This is a matter of opinion - specifically, the opinion of a single person.

> If there's a single most reason why Rust-in-Linux will fail it is going to be because of the immaturity and entitlement of individuals in Rust community.

Indeed there was immaturity from several individuals.

One question: if you act immaturely towards someone and they react immaturely, who's fault is it? The person who reacted or you?

I do not believe there is a widespread issue of entitlement: if you follow the discussions on the ML and observe how the R4L project has progressed so far, the only "entitlement" that individuals in the R4L project may seem to have in common is the desire to be treated with respect and for discussions to focus on technical arguments.

For me, this is the bare minimum to be expected.
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They all want their piece of the network state.
"Mind virus" has a whole extra dimension when IoT is hardwired to your brain.
If close paraphrase can be detected, this ought to be proof enough that some non-trivial element of creativity was involved in the original text. Because purely functional and necessary elements are not protected by copyright, even when they would otherwise be creative (this is technically known as the 'scenes à faire' case) - and surely a "quote" which is unavoidable because it factually and unquestionably is the core of the ruling would have to fall under that.
My father was a machinist for 25 years and then went into education and training for skilled trades, very much screamed about this for most my life. When I dropped out of college, he tried to get me to just enter an apprenticeship for a trade. It’ll be dirty, uncomfortable, sometimes painful, he said, but you’ll leave your work when you go home, and if you’re dedicated and half-good at it, you could eventually have your own business and crew before the physical stuff catches up to you. By then the lack of experienced tradesmen here will have turned into an crisis and I would be in an enviable spot. Here I am, 25 years later, worried I didn’t listen.

Hypothetically, I wonder how viable it is to switch to a vocation like electrician or HVAC in your 40s-50s.
This is still being investigated. It also doesn't seem to be a widespread and common issue requiring the full brunt of internet outrage. I'm beginning to wonder if you're arguing in good faith.

You realize that the difference between this incidence and the one in this HN post is that the FAA made a recommendation in a report (IN 2023) for how to resolve the smoke issue, and it still hasn't been implemented by Boeing? That couldn't be the issue, it must be a conspiracy.
Is there any intermediate representation of the project that gets dumped to disk which could be used as a basis for an LSP? I know the need for an lsp drops significantly with fast compilation… yet this still feels like it might improve the existing one significantly?
Elon used to appear to be all about truly advancing society; his motivations haven't changed, his PR strategy has.
Great! Worth trying! I've built a parser for the robotic arm language (LCD 350) with it in record time.
In the past, I had always had a distaste for 'stringy' data, always preferring more structure (e.g objects). Once I learned about parsers, I realized you can still have structure in a string.
Years ago, I could've written the exact same words you did. But that was when I spent most of my time around friends and colleagues in interest-based circles. Since then, I've mostly been dealing with a more diverse, varied selection of folks - in-laws, their cousins, their cousins' cousins, friends, neighbors, kindergarten parents - and I discovered some people actually seem to think in these terms. So I can relate - not through my own feelings, but through observation of others.

> Am I just lucky? Or just super non-confrontational?

Questions I've been asking myself for a long time now. And recently I learned that, apparently, these days my flavor of "super non-confrontational" might be indicative of being on the spectrum. I'm having a hard time accepting this - but then it sure would explain a lot of fiction (and journalism) to me.

Characters having enemies, whom they just hate for nondescript or flimsy reasons, seems like a basic building block of fiction. I always assumed it's an exaggeration, a kind of literary super-stimulus - but maybe this is how most people think? Wouldn't be the first for me - it took me until ~30yo to discover that aphantasia is a thing, and that I have it, and that all those people in my life who insisted that long scenery descriptions are the best (because "they let imagination bring fictional words to life", or sth.) weren't just screwing with me.
Looks like a great addition to v0. Great to get a headstart and do quick iterations. My process at the moment is using v0 to get a functional prototype, then import the code to cursor and build and iterate it with my custom styling / language of choice / create components from scratch but instruct Cursor to "for component.vue take xyz from component.tsx) - (v0 basically limits you to React, Tailwind and shadcn)

Recently came across this article where Gergely describes those 2 camps of "bootstrappers and iterators" - and that's basically what it is: v0/a0 for bootstrapping, cursor/copilot for actual coding
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-ai-will-chang...
Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004889 - Feb 2025 (937 comments)

Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981756 - Feb 2025 (1768 comments)

Announcing the data.gov archive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970039 - Feb 2025 (127 comments)

Elon Musk's Demolition Crew - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42968430 - Feb 2025 (348 comments)

DOGE staffer resigns over racist posts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966412 - Feb 2025 (105 comments)

DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42951458 - Feb 2025 (373 comments)

20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42950790 - Feb 2025 (547 comments)

What's happening inside the NIH and NSF - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42940257 - Feb 2025 (1519 comments)

Onlookers freak out as 25-year-old set loose on Treasury computer system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936421 - Feb 2025 (133 comments)

Payments crisis of 2025: Not “read only” access anymore - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42933219 - Feb 2025 (654 comments)

Words flagged in search of current NSF awards - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42932760 - Feb 2025 (154 comments)

The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910910 - Feb 2025 (2978 comments)

CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42905937 - Feb 2025 (719 comments)

Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed " - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902355 - Feb 2025 (214 comments)

CDC data are disappearing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897696 - Feb 2025 (589 comments)

The government information crisis is bigger than you think it is - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42895331 - Feb 2025 (270 comments)

NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42886661 - Jan 2025 (488 comments)

Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881367 - Jan 2025 (238 comments)

Trump's Federal Funding Freeze and Mean-Field Game Theory - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42863339 - Jan 2025 (89 comments)

Deferred resignation email to federal employees - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859552 - Jan 2025 (151 comments)

'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42817910 - Jan 2025 (111 comments)

NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42798960 - Jan 2025 (440 comments)

United States Digital Service renamed to DOGE - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42775684 - Jan 2025 (98 comments)
>The system in America is one where politics is driven by whoever has the most money. If you gave government the power to subjugate private wealth, you might have an actual democracy.

I don't understand how you can make those statements about corporate capture of politics in parallel with advocating for a politically appointed body to hand out free government money. Why do you have no trust in the politicians, but do trust their agents?

You seem to agree it is corrupt, but think giving more power to the corrupt will fix it. Do we need a dictator to drain the swamp?
I tested it on basic long addition problems. It frequently misplaced the decimal signs, used unnecessary reasoning tokens (like restating previously done steps) and overall seemed only marginally more reliable than the base DeepSeek 1.5B.

On my own pet eval, writing a fast Fibonacci algorithm in Scheme, it actually performed much worse. It took a much longer tangent before arriving at fast doubling algorithm, but then completely forgot how to even write S-expressions, proceeding to instead imagine Scheme uses a Python-like syntax while babbling about tail recursion.
>Often you will read online of people experiencing multiple failures from drives purchased from the same batch

I'll toss in on that anecdata. This has happened to me a several times. In all these cases we were dealing with drives with more or less sequential serial numbers. In two instances they were just cache drives for our CDN nodes. Not a big deal, but I sure kept the remote hands busy those weeks trying to keep enough nodes online. In a prior job, it was our primary storage array. You'd think that RAID6+hot spare would be pretty robust, but 3 near simultaneous drive failures made a mockery of that. That was a bad day. The hot spare starting doing its thing with the first failure, and if it had finished rebuilding before the subsequent failures, we'd have been ok, but alas.
I'm extremely skeptical of the entire premise of DOGE. There are vast changes being made to very large organizations, in very short timespans, with the claim that those making them know what they're doing. But the timespans in question - days to weeks at most - mean that there's no time to review anything. So those making changes do not, cannot, be making decisions based on reviews of available evidence, because they haven't given themselves time to review the evidence. Which in turn means that when they claim they do, they're either delusional or lying.

Chesterton's Fence [1] would also seem to apply here, but I mostly think it's not even getting that far. DOGE isn't doing an audit (if it was, there would be auditors, not talented young programmers) and then taking action. DOGE is executing already planned actions, while pretending to be an audit, and helping itself to a great deal of access and data along the way.

1. https://theknowledge.io/chestertons-fence-explained/
> I'm not sure why Boeing and Airbus are being treated equivalently by you and the other commenter.

I think you misunderstood my intention in posting these links. I'm actually not sure how, since I pointed out clearly in the original text how the cases are very different. I posted them with the intent of "this is arguably the most like that, which is still very different". Maybe to hammer it down more, I gauge the Boeing case to be criminal, the Airbus examples not, and it's worth comparing the manufacturer conduct in these cases.

The common theme is software assists increasing complexity and the likelihood of the operator's thinking to diverge from the machine. I find that interesting personally and professionally (I make safety-critical vehicles with high degrees of automation for a living). If you want some interesting reading, I still recommend them.
just this once we're going to have to let it slip until Friday afternoon. 3PM at the absolute latest.

just this once.
Agreed - the replacement of reporters at the Pentagon has been even worse. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/08/trump-adminis...
Don't commit libel or slander. Laws against such have always been consistent with the First Amendment.
Because of reasons, my education was a vocational tech school. The fly-by-night type that sprang up in the 1980s, to suck at the teat of the GI Bill, and all those Vietnam vets (many of my classmates were vets).

It's long gone, now, but it taught me to be a good worker. They had dress codes, fixed, workday-long hours, little vacation, and behavioral rules.

By the time I graduated, I was able to immediately start working in a defense contractor's shop. When I went in, I was pretty much worthless to the workforce.

I know of folks that credit the military for similar structure.

There's a lot of things that I could have learned at Stanford or MIT (my parents wanted to send me there, but I insisted on paying my own way -see "reasons," above, and they probably would have passed on me anyway -"reasons").

Did OK.
The root mentality remains the same (if you want to be concerned about what a root can spawn).
The only reason these holidays were on the calendar to begin with is because they were kissing other people's feet earlier. People are upset because now it's somebody else's turn to receive token gestures.

You don't have to like this but it's more clear than ever before Google never cared about any of these holidays