skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just think uninformed opinions can dilute democracies, and can make nation states fragile when external actors can opinion shop to create support for, or against, some point of view. The internet makes this especially easy since anyone’s profile can be popularized by external actors at little to no expense.

But this is a game which all nations play to some extent. I understand the importance of this gameplay for statecraft, but I don’t like the way it can impact democratic institutions, like journalism and free speech.

I don’t think the cure to any of these, for the sake of preserving democracies, is authoritarianism, instead I think it’s better to proliferate “moderate” thinking. If someone isn’t fully-aligned with one ideological tribe or another, it’s harder to sway them to any self-destructive position, like civil war-type conflict.
Billionaire Airbnb Co-Founder Is Said to Take Role in Musk's Doge
Maybe it's naive of me but I also don't really perceive much of a security imperative for NVIDIA. They make graphics cards and slop generator cards for the most part. What exactly is the threat model here that requires switching to prioritizing memory safety? Are there a lot of graphics card related codes that are being exploited in the wild?
Debatably twitter had really smart people build systems that could operate without human intervention. So not really sure we want to say that was a success story for Elon Musk so much as he bought a software company where the software worked. Since the take over the product has gotten noticeably worse as far as reliability and with the algorithmic content promotion. The core functionality has stayed, but the overall experience has gotten worse.

I do basically agree with the concept that twitter is running without as many people as they had - it is in fact doing that. It's just doing worse than it was and has been a pretty poor business venture for its investors except those who were using it for its capabilities to influence... things appeared to work out for those people. So if the point of a business is to make money and the way they are supposed to do that is through a software product I would say the results are mixed at this moment.

Now so far as comparing the government to a software company... not sure thats really how we want to look at this or try to operate the government. Government is basically supposed to exist for market externalities - things the markets can't or shouldn't take care of. Is there bloat in the government? any sane adult can answer that question with a yes without even blinking... but theres also stuff thats easy to gut for savings that we need when shit hits the fan. Thats the stuff thats not so great to save money on.

Improving the government is a great thing and we should strive for it... I would just prefer ya know Congress do it since its their job and not an eccentric billionaire.
it could also just be experience.
Another project that would certainly benefit from crowdsourcing is the OpenMetroMaps[1]. Lack of the good universal public transportation website and mobile app is disheartening. I know there's is Transportr[2][3] but it's coverage is still pretty limited.

[1] https://github.com/OpenMetroMaps

[2] https://transportr.app/

[3] https://github.com/grote/Transportr
High-Throughput SAT Sampling
You can do a PhD for fun and interest. But if you’re trying to get an academic career m, you better leave the idealism at the door. You are playing a serious game as any corporate politics.
I’m far from convinced these hackernews threads on this stuff aren’t heavily botted.
Great story, and great choices made.

The lesson in this to young people: you can either sell your time by the hour, or buy other's time and use that productively. The former is very finite, the latter scales.
Both the article you linked and the disclaimer put by The Document Foundation (linked by the article) mention nothing like the "some time ago libreoffice started to plan to do the same - put features bugfixes into comercial libreoffice while renaming the peasant oss version into libreoffice personal or something like that" bit you wrote.

If anything their disclaimer makes clear:

> None of the changes being evaluated will affect the license, the availability, the permitted uses and/or the functionality. LibreOffice will always be free software and nothing is changing for end users, developers and Community members.

Reading the page and comments the whole thing was most likely a stupid name to try and differentiate the regular LibreOffice from 3rd party versions/forks that provide commercial support. They seem to have changed that name to "community" as one of the comments suggested, though instead of being plastered everywhere it is only seemed to be used when comparing the regular LibreOffice vs the "Enterprise" versions offered by 3rd parties.
Any chance you have a source for the spy bit? (I know it’s obviously not a domain where few things are public).
It's funny to see how HN is immediately turning into reddit when anything goes political, with people downvoting and flagging replies they disagree with.

It would for sure be a blow to Russia to repatriate all those people. But the implications of forcing people to go to war.. Germany would not do that under the current government, and they should not.

Nobody should be forced to go to war.
Do you really think there are no young people wanting to work on an operating system written in C? I'm very skeptical that all young people interested in operating systems see Rust as the future. I personally feel it's the other way around, it's Google and companies like that who really want Rust in Linux, the young kernel devs are a minority.
I asked this question yesterday but did not enough votes. I need to OCR and then translate thousands of pages from historical documents and was wondering if you knew a scriptable app/technique or technology that includes ‘layout recovery’, aka overlaying translated text over the original, like the Safari browser etc. does (not sure the apple vision framework wrapper does this?).
That looks laser etched, which is adding surface oxidation. Torching it would oxidize the rest of the surface, erasing the text.
Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review (2021)
Oh, is absolute pitch the ability to recall every note?

I once heard a C on a piano and played it a few times and then remembered it. I thought it was absolute pitch.
The Europeans and Biden administration had nearly 3 years to do something, Ukraine was still losing territory when Biden left office...

All they do is talk, which is why the Ukrainians got fed up with them and for better or worse Zelenskyy is now talking up Trump...
> Ocr is well and good, i thought it was mostly solved with tesseract what does this bring?

Tesseract is nice, but not good enough that there is no opportunity for another, better solution.
I went looking and you are correct. Super interesting. It appears there's some auto mod feature or something?
So wait until authentication is complete and MITM it.
That’s a poor faith comment.

I’m a Fedora packager (not for this package). Like many others I have an unrelated day job.

If there’s an upstream complaint I might get to it this weekend, maybe next. If I’m busy for a few weeks that doesn’t make me stupid.

Have had my share of “discussions” with upstream who want the latest version packaged when this might not be completely in line with our guidelines. Not an uncommon issue.
I’m not sure how much Ukraine wants an influx of 250k (let’s assume they could do it) unwilling citizen soldiers. Maybe they would …
However, most of current fremium games are precisely based on this model (Fortnite, LoL, TF2, most of mobile games, etc...)

The service is subsidized by "whale players" that regularly spend a lot of cash, but they are a lot of freeloaders (to entertain the whales and to build brand popularity).
I don't know whether to be happy or sad anymore, but anyway you've been stronger than me and escaped its temptation.
Anything to trigger article 5 and turn the tide
You’re forgetting the part where the interview is just a formality and sanity check. They have to recognize you or your advisors name.
If the US sided with Russia against Europe a big chunk of the US population would oppose that. (But even staying neutral and not supporting a NATO nation should one be attacked by Russia would be a bad outcome.)
it's only illegal if it's enforced, which it isn't
This is such surface level and frankly lazy dismissal of a stance or political view that a huge swath of people hold. It's like your "education" didn't really prepare you for the fact that other smart or educated people could come to different conclusions, so you use backwards logic to assign a label of uneducated to them just because they came to different conclusions. The arrogance of it is astonishing.
What could Congress do? Make another law that might also be ignored?
The question is also for which list lengths the performance matters most. When sorting a few strings (<20), whether the algorithm uses 5 or 7 comparisons would usually not matter too much. So to find the optimal algorithm for a given situation, we would have to compute a weighted average by list length importance on the performances of the algorithm per list length.
HN can be annoying at times, but there are still more informed "rebels" here than most places. And they're not outright censored so quickly.

Most corners of the internet are either nonstop corporate worship, or wanting everyone to abandon everything and live in a hut in the woods. It's not perfect here, but there are people who present well-reasoned opinions and will peacefully engage with opinions they disagree with. I'm personally for tech helping humans but against the hellscape of trillion dollar corps controlling the fate of humanity and monitoring our every movement, and I don't feel out of place saying that here. There's always someone willing to comment and slap down corporate BS and they're usually voted somewhat highly.
Amazing, there is still new sort algorithm today!
At least with Libby, the turning-off-wifi thing works even when the book isn't sideloaded.
You could say the same thing about setting up a JVM...
The electoral college is your system.
LLMs are the current phase in the evolution of AI systems.
LLMs might be a hype.
Time will tell if LLMs lead to AGI.

AI is not a hype.
AI & Robotics are a phase of technological evolution.

99.999999% of AI scenarios will lead to extinction of humanity.

Doomers are smart.
Optimists are delusional.

Humanity is playing with extinction level fire.
We are accelerating towards it.
this is true of CS, not sure that it's true of STEM in general (engineering, life sciences)
> What you're missing is that if the Rust folks are unable, for whatever reasons, to keep their promises, it falls on the up-tree maintainers to maintain their code.

But that's the thing, the deal was that existing maintainers do not need to maintain that code.

Their role is to just forward issues/breaking changes to rust maintainer in case those were omitted in CC.

You are using the same argument that was explained multiple times already in this thread: no one is forcing anybody to learn rust.
Interview with Jim Sachs – he made your desktop aquarium around Y2K
I went to All Things Open and asked booth staff (of corporate booths) “do you contribute to open source at your day job?”

All were a little surprised by the question. Most interpreted it as “do you release and maintain your own open source software under the banner of your company.” When I clarified that I would count spending time to make a quality issue reproduction or fixing a bug and sending a PR, I got one person who said they had. They sent a patch to fix a bug, when I dug in why: they told me there were zero workarounds and the bug blocked a critical feature, if they didn’t upstream a fix successfully they would have to fork and take on maintenance (of that fork).

I share this, because I feel that the many developers don’t quite realize that they are able to do these actions (bystander effect). And many don’t know how to speak up and advocate for that work in a professional setting.

It’s true that corporate ties to open source are pervasive. I also feel that there’s a huge untapped potential of people who are willing to contribute but aren’t ready or aren’t able.

My talk (on teaching developers how to contribute to open source) wasn’t recorded, but a longer, earlier version was at PhillyETE https://chariotsolutions.com/screencast/philly-ete-2023-how-.... I also maintain a free service for contributors getting started https://www.codetriage.com/ and wrote a paid book on the topic https://howtoopensource.dev/.
""Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, but didn't test it"
Is nobody going to entertain this? Immigration opportunity is a major motivator for foreign students to get PhDs. And the university likes the cheap and captive labor.

What I really don’t like is that there are essentially rings of foreign professors within the US that only bring in foreign students, only write papers with them, review each others papers, etc. So you can end up with an American degree without doing any work with Americans, essentially having a parallel academic experience that mirrors culture of back home. And then use that experience to argue for US employment.
Nothing in the article explained what SPARK is. I appreciated GP's comment.
> Designed with usability in mind

Create complex OCR workflows through the UI without the need of interacting with code or command line interfaces.

[...] https://www.ocr4all.org/guide/setup-guide/windows

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I'm sorry. I suppose this is great but, an .exe-File is designed for usability. A docker container may be nice for techy people, but it is not "4all" this way and I do understand that the usability starts after you've gone through all the command line interface parts, but those are just extra steps compared to other OCR programs which work out of the box.
Amazon deforestation declines to lowest level in a decade
It imagines a lot. One of my biggest psychedelic takeaways.
"Is a hibryid atrack, nobody can know for sure, who did this, lets not stoop to hate crimes and point fingers on our favorite dealer." Chancellor Jonesing
Good. The discussion quickly became the 2025 version of this, everyone proceeding to argue with him:

https://thehardtimes.net/blog/why-i-quit-my-job-and-left-my-...
Yeah, but it wasn't an overt white supremacist slogan until recently. Regardless, I wouldn't have chosen that phrasing, either. I just think it's improbable that the OP (on the Linux list I mean) intended to associate linux maintainers with white nationalists.
It seems like for the past few decades Americas adversaries have been very smart long-game focused leaders (Xi, Putin, bin Laden). Americas leaders… have not been. Focused on playing internal political games… poorly at best. Plain stupid (and or senile) at worst. This is not to say I support them at all, but they have been strong adversaries who are getting exactly what they wanted.

Would anyone say that either of the last two presidents would be the best candidates to manage the local Walmart?
The money men behind it have doubled down so hard that it has to succeed, or we’re going to have the mother of all stock market collapses.
It really depends what kind of code and for which usage.

People might also live their hobby dev experience better if they were really coding for themselves without any expectation except pushing the code to a repo. As a hobby dev, you don't have to make package, you don't have to have an issue tracker, you don't have to accept external contributions, you don't have to support your users if you aren't willing to have this on your shoulder. You don't even need a public git repo, you could just put a release tarball when release is ready on your personal website.
Is it tribalism to judge a person based on their stated opinions, their actions, and the organisations and people they hang out with?

> It's easy to judge whether reducing government waste and improving living standards is good/bad (obviously it's good).

What you have described is obviously good. The question remains whether DOGE will achieve those aims, or if it does, whether the side-effects of its work will outweigh the benefits. To go back to the Iraq war, the mission statement of destroying weapons of mass destruction was obviously good. Unfortunately, there were no weapons of mass destruction, and even if there had been, the tremendous chaos and cost of the operation would have been a large price to pay.

I am sceptical that DOGE is really about efficiency in the first place. And even if it is, I am even more sceptical that they will be able to achieve these aims, based on the behaviour that they have shown so far, and based on what I have already experienced of government efficiency initiatives.
Money is only needed for paying taxes. with full automation taxes make no sense - no need to force people to work for government. Basic MMT.
Was here before I was born, I didn't choose this system. I'm stuck with it.
Well I'm not for distro RPMs either. Windows and MacOs were fine for years without distro stores.
The problem with these guys is that we domesticated them too much. We had to blow up their pipeline just to get them to know who the threat against them was. You have to take the horse to the water, you have to make him drink, but can he still run? Who knows.
Or just the Bay Area tests more honestly...?
This is exactly what I've been waiting for to try Kagi.

I want better search results and willing to pay for it, but not at the cost of linking all my searches to my identity.

Also happy to see they're adding tor support.

I feel like I might hit the default limit of 2000 searches per month, but it's not far off.
Zelenskyy is talking to Trump because he doesn't have any other choice now. Trump is most likely to let Putin keep what he's captured while also requiring Ukraine to "stay neutral" (and pledge to never join NATO)... and requiring Ukraine send the US rare earth minerals.

Yes, the Biden admin was slow to let Ukraine use the weapons we gave them in an effective manner. He was afraid that Putin might go nuclear (at least initially, I think they were realizing that Putin's threats were more bark than bite in the last year or so). He was also wary of the rhetoric coming from the Trump campaign during the last year about how Biden wanted to get the US into a boots-on-the-ground war in Ukraine - in that sense he was trying to thread a needle. But Biden was very supportive of NATO, whereas Trump wants out of NATO. And Ukraine has managed to draw out a war that Russia was "supposed" to win in a couple of months to a stalemate after 3 years while also managing to capture a bit of Russian territory.
England and Netherlands are 3 years for a BSc but that’s not the case for all other European countries. Even in Scotland it’s 4 years for a BSc.

Even in the U.K. they realised 20 years ago that that wasn’t enough so they introduced ´integrated masters’ as a preparation for additional study, where you spend another year and come out with a single MSci or MEng degree instead of a BSc at the end of it.
Higher probability of success. With 1 shaving it could make it to an oil filter without lodging anywhere critical (like in a main bearing oil gallery or something). With a huge number of them the likelihood of clogging oil galleries and overwhelming the filtration system is very high. Also, the secondary point of the sabotage is to be detected. Even if the engine doesn't grenade itself through the hull of the ship, when they discover widespread contamination in the lubricating oil they'll have to remove and completely disassemble every single part of the engine and lubrication system. Effectively a total rebuild. So "no permanent damage" is really a very rose colored way to frame it. The cost is roughly the same.

EDIT: a super devious way to do it would be with very small magnetized filings. It would be incredibly difficult to rid the engine of those, even completely disassembled.
How did it go "amazingly well"? In Musk's own words Twitter is barely breaking even[0].

Estimates by Fidelity say that about 80% of Twitter business value evaporated under Musk rule [1].

[0]https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/elon-musk-x...

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/02/business/elon-musk-twitte...
That sounds like a lot like an addiction.

Maybe we need to create "Methadone apps" to help people slowly get off the Pavlovian dopamine machine?
Odd that, based on the comments, so many HN'ers are fixated on the opportunity cost of doing a PhD, as if the reason for doing a PhD was to earn more money.
> "meaningfully" is doing all the lifting here.

You got me (I actually felt guilt writing that weaselly sentence!). The reason I still wrote it is because I'm reasonably confident it's correct (for some definition of 'meaningfully').

For example, in my lifetime, I can't recall any OECD country cutting its government spending by, say, 20% or more (I haven't looked it up, but I'd guess Greece during austerity might be the best example in the past 20 years, even then I doubt it was as much as 20% [0]).

[0] There's another annoyingly confounding factor, which is Keynesian economics suggests governments should not cut spending during a crisis (or at a time when private spending is likely to be too low), which creates a 'capture' all of its own! (a bit like 'too big to fail' did for banks).
Focus on Linux, Linux networking (NAT), containers and kubernetes and basic git understanding.

DNS, well, don't invest to much in it. If anything, DNS is just a networking helper, allowing most protocols to connect "to a string", as opposed to a network address (ip, ipv6).
The problem is that Apache Foundation is being stubborn[1] to admit the OpenOffice death, which distracts and prevents users from using so much better software (LibreOffice) that harms an open source image and ecosystem in general.

[1] https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-let...
Why would they sell? Biden spent 4 years trying to get them to sell. Microsoft, Oracle, etc. Tiktok told them no. Tiktok's game is to delay the actual ban because the law is already passed. All they have left on the table is the hail mary support for Trump. Trump has no other moves other than to do what Biden tried doing for 4 years or change the law that Congress and the Supreme Court just pushed through.
Looks like he’s using a lookup table based on std::exp in combo with the Taylor expansion
As far as I remember, the law allowed the president to postpone the law once for up to 90 days. So this particular act is not illegal.
Yeah I deleted that when I realized my misinterpretation. I was thrown by two different styles of notation in the same post.
Hmmm... Some co-founders and I are building a UK startup that needs to do skills-based task routing and optimize job assignment for workers who will drive to remote jobs.

Would love to have a quick chat with you or someone at timefold.ai to see if this is something we could potentially use.
Biggest mistake we made at Hcaptcha was k8s. Totally my fault . Unless you have a very heterogenous enterprise I strongly recommend staying away like the plague
It is a constrained solver. You can argue about what is or is not AI. It varies over time, traditionally driven by in which part of the AI boom/ bust cycle we were, and lately also by which regulations would apply.

My background is in AI but I would have been hesitant calling the rule based systems I wrote to automate financial descisions AI at the time.

In this case, Geoffrey also seemed hesitant in the past to refer to his system as AI (see https://www.optaplanner.org/blog/2017/09/07/DoesAIIncludeCon... ), but somtimes you just have to ride the wave that brings in the funding.