skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean... ok, maybe not literally nobody, but LibreOffice has 50x the contributors (1314 vs 26) and 60x the commits (500k vs 8k). Apache OpenOffice's last major version was more than a decade ago. It may not be dead-dead, but it's at least in a very long coma with zero chance of revival.

I don't know why Apache doesn't just shut it down; it serves no purpose anymore.
We'll find out soon if this is true or not.
Someone who doesn't mind dumb questions.
mammals are x86, birds are ARM
I think he should write scary sci-fi stories and leave serious policy discussions to adults.
I would not call this a new insight. BPO is the lowest hanging fruit promised from the AI tree.
HackerNews discussion to remove Pinterest from Google search results (2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16613996
Isn’t the whole point that this method is secure by design so even if they wanted, they couldn’t track you?

Or are you saying the method is designed to look secure but there’s an intentional weakness that makes tracking possible?
Interesting! What I was thinking of was use of legitimate captcha integrations (reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha) in front of fake banking websites. Drives me crazy that there isn't an easy avenue to report those.
No, that's not really true.

Directly, "the thin blue line" expresses the idea that the police are what separates society from chaos.

It doesn't inherently suggest police are justified in acting outside the law themselves, though, of course, various people have suggested this (interestingly, from both a pro-police and anti-police perspective).

It seems obvious to me that the post was using this phrase in the sense of being a thin shield from chaos.
Scale is all you need.
Managers should be able to know whether people are productive or not. If their only measure is looking if people are in the office or not, their problem isn't remote work.

> It's about the discipline to spend the time on task when nobody is watching.

Again, if you're expected to deliver something, the discipline should come from risk of being fired if you don't deliver.
Seriously. If it wasn't for Kaiser making this somewhat sane (even though maybe their care isn't as good as "the best" specialists), I would probably be a nervous wreck, trying to juggle stuff for my family..
I don't get what you're saying. Are you saying the people's approval doesnt matter because they're not smart enough?
I just can’t believe people are so naive. I do believe a lot of voters to their anger to the booths. They saw their “retribution”and voted for it.
Taiwan can be friends with the US and keep selling them chips while keeping knowhow to themselves. Or they can be friends with others with the same results. Sanctions are not gonna help in this case. Of course the US can bomb Taiwan but I think it will lead straight to WWIII with all the cherries on top.
Correct, and this is what I originally meant.
I don't disagree with you really, although the reasons for that are complicated.

Everyone wants the benefits of research but no one wants to pay for it, and slowly over the last three or four decades administrations have pushed researchers into these Faustian bargains that have led to the system have today. A lot of what we have is a pyramid scheme, but that pyramid scheme exists in part because people somewhere along the legislator-funder-administrative chain decided that is what would be rewarded. Once it started and was encouraged it snowballed.

All of it is made worse by governments that don't seem to understand the problems or implications of their decisions. Anti-immigration laws (not talking about the US here actually necessarily) hurts enrollment, which has downstream effects even though that immigration is bringing in net income. Yes, indirect costs are gamified sometimes, and there should be some accountability system put in place with researcher protections (the original point of tenure), but no, that doesn't mean just cutting indirect costs down to some unsustainable level that doesn't reflect real costs.

Also to be fair there's a lot of this gamification and false prestige that happens all over the US and world economy, we just don't like to admit it. I think it's one of the defining problems of our time probably.
I've been in a spot kinda like this. I've maintained C++ with python interfaces. In my case I wrote both. I know how interlocked the changes were. If I touched code that was exposed to the python, I updated the python interface and the consumers of that python interface.

It was nothing like making changes that cut across into another developer's C++ code (hell, I would even update their python interfaces/consumers too). That was temporary coordination. The python part was much more frequent and required much more detailed understanding of the internal APIs, not just the surface.

Having someone else responsible for the python part would have come at a huge cost to velocity as the vast majority of my changes would be blocked on their portion. It's ridiculous to imply it's equivalent to coordinating changes with another subsystem.
We did this.
Status.sh: Bash script to generate a static status page
>Consider that before stating without evidence that a more leftist candidate could win the general election.

The evidence is in the margins. 49.8% to 48.32% does not demonstrate that "being less like Trump is a losing proposition." Millions more people voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 after all, and she still lost. Winning by about 1% of votes cast or winning despite losing the popular vote doesn't point to some general cultural bias for Trump, or repudiation of the Democrats except by the left, who tend to sit out the vote or vote third party more than the right.
Vuk: Rendergraph-Based Abstraction for Vulkan
At least the executable is still named "soffice"
There's a bit of that going on too, but I put that date in the default when a particular mdx file does not specify
If Grail's Galleri is that great, why isn't it part of an annual checkup?
Yes, I probably should have voted a couple extra times to make sure my vote counted, much like a billionaire can, by paying millions of dollars to a marketing firm to do advertising of every kind to push their agenda. Shame on me.
Tasks: The AI Runtime for Prompts and Tools
Definitely suggesting the method is secure, assuming the company does all the things they’ll say they do, which I also agree they’ll do. I’m just concerned the government can destroy this all, just by compelling them not to, and change a well intentioned method at any moment.
> I'd rather there was no upvote or downvote at all.

You've had an account for 11 days, I'm not sure you've had enough experience to form a proper opinion on this. I feel like the upvoting/downvoting system helps a lot.
More importantly, we allowed it to happen.
Hat tossed!
Also, it can be ran through water pipes to retrofit areas that you dont want to dig up [0]

[0]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clygd9nznj9o
>That's not actually a huge number in the grand scheme of things.

Your comment seems to lack any awareness of the distribution of annual income.
Same feeling here about the demo: sometimes there is not red shape, so should I click correct or incorrect? sometimes the red shape covers two different styles of roof (I don't know if it is one or two buildings), is this correct or incorrect? sometimes the shape covers a very small thing, could be a phone box or kiosk, it's not clear compared to other buildings around, is this correct or incorrect?

I really hope such a project can thrive and be useful though, will check it again after some time!
Sorry, I should have been more explicit. Of course all US companies comply with US court orders.

The controversial new revelation re: PRISM, via Snowden, was that NSA was also snarfing everything they could including unencrypted comms over frame relay/etc networks comprising, e.g., Google's internal inter-site networks.

To which all mentioned companies said "we were not aware of this, we never authorized a backdoor for LE at any level, this is a breach of trust and probably not legal, and now we'll encrypt everything between our internal systems too".
If only Elon knew that all he's building is the careers of generations of humanities researchers to come! (That is, assuming we can still afford luxuries like humanities studies once he's finished)
[I worked on building this at Kagi]

Since we have no idea who is issuing search requests in Privacy Pass mode, if there was no limits on token issuance, you could simply generate infinite tokens and give them out (or use them as part of some downstream service), and we'd have no other recourse for rate-limiting to prevent abuse.

Setting a high, but reasonable limit on issuance helps prevent abuse, and if you run out of tokens, you can reach out to support@kagi.com and we'll reset your quota.
The Forge: cross-platform graphics framework from SW Bounty Hunter and Warzone
Sorry, it seems that the captcha is too strong. I have to provide alternative way or use v2. Try to look into it tomorrow. It might work in some different environment.
> "Free market" has disappeared from right wing political discourse for decades now.

"Disappeared for decades" is pushing it, but I'd give you "reduced in prominence for a decade" (e.g. since Trump's rise).

That said, "an uncritical embrace of the free market/free trade" is still a pretty common stance on HN.
I’ve been using it for years and have experienced none of what you describe.
I think it's a great move. I use Phind daily because I can ask it a question like "hey, what should I use for X" or "how do I connect Y to Z" and with refinement I can hone in on serious answers in ways that I cannot with Google searches.

I think building comparison tables is one of my favourite things to do here. Saves me considerable amounts of time and saves me from my biases to some extent.

I think the new Mermaid support is a great idea. It sure is handy that, before LLMs were even a thing, we were already collectively working on so many textual, readable languages to describe things like this! I am going to try to use it to create some architectural diagrams by adding requirements one by one.
In STEM in particular the opportunity costs of a PhD are extremely high and with little payoff at the end. Even if you want to stay in academia, which is the only real reason to do a PhD now, there are far more PhDs graduating per year than open faculty positions. Many get stuck in Postdoc or adjunct hell for years and can never get a tenure track role.
It honestly doesn't feel so slow...
Does Europe's tech culture drive startups and talent away?
I’m still so confused. You’re talking about the article I posted a link to? Did you think I hadn’t read it?

Edit: I guess I’ll try to respond in good faith, even though I don’t totally understand why you’re asking me about this. If you click through to the Foreign Policy article, you’ll see Bruce Schneier listed as the first author before Ottenheimer.

But really, I’m not trying to imply whatever it is you’re inferring. By all means, draw whatever conclusions you like from Schneier’s authorship!
If this was a real thing that would play out, the stock would go up far more than 25%. Still time for normal laymen to get in. Or it's not going to happen, by which case, it's going to go back down.

Coinflips for everyone!
Last time I tried that (6ish years ago maybe), I was glad I was able to but the interface was a pain to use. Hope it has changed for the better.
Would those bugs be specific to M4 macs? Using LO without probs here for very simple docs if the increasingly rare occasional need for a printed letter comes up.
Oh some of them definitely use a real reCAPTCHA, hCAPTCHA, or Turnstile widget. It actually useful sometimes to track the same API key being used across multiple different domains

But yeah, I wouldn't even know where to report those API keys for abuse
When I'm trying to sign up, I see the message: "You can’t sign in because this app sent an invalid request. You can try again later, or contact the developer about this issue. Learn more about this error"
The more money you have, the less utility you gain from each additional dollar; the longer you wait, the more valuable each remaining year of life becomes. At some point you're not going to have enough (healthy, active) lifetime left to do anything interesting with more money, even if you could get it.
Bumblebee headband?
> not ALL cases are fintech gimmicks.

Fair and that's all well and good. I'm just saying if 1-3 days delay of getting your paycheck is going to have a big impact on one's life then I encourage one to reexamine their decisions, something else is the problem.
If you're forking the Linux kernel then it becomes your own project, de facto, since you're taking over maintenance of the fork. You're free to rewrite it in Rust when you do that!

Where is anyone forcing anyone else to do a rewrite in Rust?

When hellwig likened the R4L project to a cancer, he was implying exactly this. He saw this one patch as a Trojan horse (in the original Greek sense, not in the computer virus sense) to get Rust into the main kernel tree. This brings all of the toolchain and language issues into it. By relegating Rust to drivers only, the kernel maintainers avoid the issue of having to maintain a cross-language codebase and toolchain, whether they like it or not.

Being a maintainer of a project that accepts patches from contributors is like operating an orphanage. Allowing anyone to just drop off their unwanted babies results in an unmaintainable nightmare. You can say that the Rust for Linux team have been acting in good faith but the very public actions of one of their (now former) leaders contradicts this. The stated goal of the project was to allow drivers to be written in Rust. Adding Rust bindings to the kernel oversteps that goal. It's a legitimate concern.
You have avoided answering by changing the scenario. Deception was implied. I'll take that as my assumption being correct and you were simply too proud to admit it.
We have a winner! (Those were the days...)
Amazon ends kindle ebooks "Download and Transfer via USB"
We are not. Here's a great essay about the subject:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/174701611100700...

The author also has a blog about IRBs: http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/?m=1
This is from the Garry of Garry's Mod (GMOD) fame.
I’ve been here a long long time. Around 2009. Occasionally I walk away for a few months.

I was there when it wasn’t possible to criticise MSFT because of the second coming of Satya. I was there when Google did no evil. Now look where we are.
"“We’re going to have supervision. Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there’s a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”" - Larry Ellison (Oracle).

Larry is the 4th richest person, worth more than the GDP of Ukraine.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/oracle-ceo-larry-ellison-s...

https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
But what would the government compel them to do? If the method is secure, you don’t need to trust the server. And if they backdoor the open source client, people could notice it in an audit.
I'm reading docs and barely following what actual mechanism is involved to enable any of the stuff they are selling. Am I correct in reading that this is like a modern version of the JVM with WASM in place of bytecode? So I can compile Python or Go or whatever into WASM and wasmcloud provides a portable runtime? So instead of packaging an entire containers worth of OS primitives, it's runtime with an API?
The standard procedure is to maintain a fork/patchset that does what you want and you maintain it for years proving that you will do the work you committed to.

Once it’s been around long enough, it has a much better chance of being merged to main.
toys and trips for yourself are as far as you can think to do with this hypothetical wealth? are there no other people in your life that you'd take care of and help and yes, spoil? It's your hypothetical wealth and not mine, but (after buying whatever toys I want) I imagine I'd spend my time and money helping other people. Having a workshop with every single tool known to man, all to myself, sounds awesome, but also lonely.
> I’d love to see some data supporting this argument because I’ve heard it over and over from people all over the political spectrum the past few years but it just doesn’t line up with any data.

Wasn't one of the main points — perhaps the main point — of the article that the data is measured wrong?

> You act like they’re quoting abstract numbers which are meaningless compared to people’s “lived experience” but unemployment is a large part of people’s experience.

Yeah, and the article was in large part about how the unemployment measures in the data don't reflect what people’s lived experience of unemployment is. That's pretty much the definition of “abstract numbers which are meaningless”.

> Furthermore, inflation adjusted wages are up (with the highest gains in the lowest 50% of earners).

Again, that depends very much on how you measure inflation.

> If these statistics aren’t fully capturing people’s experiences, I’m sure every economist in the world would love to know what metrics are better.

That may be the reason the article suggested some new metrics. Honestly, did you even read it at all?
For inference, we have hand crank that rotates a lot of gears, with a final gear making one token (word) appear in a slot. For learning, we even know how to feed a bunch of text into a complicated thing that tells us what gears to connect to each other and how. We have no idea why the gear ratios and placements are what they are.
Ah, that makes sense. It would be harder to detect sharing with this system than with account sharing. My thoughts went in a completely different direction when I read "abuse" the first time.
I have tried to use LibreOffice Base to connect to the database... It needs some love.
The workflow to import CSV was to actually copy cell data from a spreadsheet and paste it... It was a weird experience. I went with DBeaver which is clunky too but more capable.

I have also tried to use the javascript API for LO Calc but I couldn't find any documentation even though I have read it was possible in some places... was it unmaintained and taken away ?

I tried to do things with Draw quite some time ago, it was a clunky clunky. I hope it got better.

Writer is just fine though imho, pretty much does what you expect from rich text editor
Tenuous. The UK did not need US approval to make all of its existing privacy-violating laws. Nor did Australia, or parts of the EU.

Don't get me wrong. The only thing holding the US government back from growing all the more monstrous is a patchwork of sketchy laws that might have teeth.

But I don't see any reason to assume that the stupidity of Brits is the fault of Americans. This time.
I work in the sector. There are lucky people and unlucky people. Welcome to lucky land. So far.
Thanks, yes completely agree! I guess the part I’m concerned with is the politically side whereby they could be potentially compelled to change the method slightly after the fact and be forced to slip something in somewhere in a quite technical process now making it possible.

I’d love to assume this will never happen, I’m just concerned that even if it did I’d never find out - Because unfortunately the more popular this service gets for bad actors, the more of a target it becomes for the government with identification of users.

I guess as a search engine, we could assume the government may leave them well alone and still just focus on content creators.
Law firm could face sanctions over fake case citations generated by AI
Obviously cache snooping is going to be device-dependent, but the way this shows things happening is that if you write an address that exists in another CPU's cache, that the invalidation doesn't happen until that CPU later tries to read the address. That requires two snoop cycles be dedicated, which is a waste. The secondary CPU is already listening to the snoop bus, it can/should (and in practice does on basically all devices, AFAIK) be able to recognize that write fly by and free up its cache line preemptively.
Hey, question: what are your thoughts about the OMSCS program? I was having the same questions that you posted in an Ask HN, which is how I found you (I used the search bar).

You didn't have contact info, so I'm contacting you in this comment if you've gathered more info on it. I'm also curious how the online part influences perception.
By definition, when talking about access to healthcare a person of means is someone who can afford it. What is true is that there are lots of people who think they are “middle class” who can’t afford access to the system.

13% of the people don’t have a usual place to get healthcare in the U.S.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/access-to-health-care.htm
He's always been for scrutiny and freedom over these choices.
This is an inane defense of highly unqualified and deeply concerning cabinet nominees through bullshit made up accusations of racism and numerous ad hominem attacks on people the author does not like.

Not the mention the crazy ass rewrite of history and statements that are completely at odds with reality. This entire thing is bullshit.
Are we really surprised? This whole administration is one giant circular grift in which we are all the victims.
Does this primiarly work with Claude for now given MCP?
>Is it wrong for Linus to take the side of the kernel and not of the various distros? Serious question. I don't completely understand all of the background here.

Linus is pro-R4L. He wants to see Rust drivers in the kernel upstream, and has expressed frustration that it has been such a slow process, and that he doesn't understand why some maintainers turn it into a religious issue.

The problem is that he hasn't done much in the way of actually standing up against arbitrary stonewalling by those maintainers. This ensures that everyone gets pissed off and creates a giant mess of arguments. Rust people get pissed off because they were told their contributions were welcome and feel like their time investment is being wasted on bullshit, and C maintainers because the lack of a clear policy leads to ruminating and imaginations running wild.
I did a quick demo of Tasks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyucWRf5kx0

With just the prompt alone, it handles a webhook form submission, identifies a lead, researches their company, buckets them into the right segment and assigns a rep to follow-up.

This is real software built from a prompt + tool calls. We couldn't do it without WebAssembly and the Model Context Protocol from Anthropic!
It's not. You should actually try out the exercise. (I used this approach to build partial perfect pitch, i.e., to sing/identify a small number of specific pitches.)

Close your eyes and try to imagine a song that you know really well. Imagine the original version playing on your phone/mp3 player/cd/record. Pick a stable note from that song (for me, the third note of the beginning of "Tears in Heaven" is a solid A.) Try to sing it and match the pitch in your head.

As you practice it you'll get better, and do it faster, and over time even be able to recognize it in the wild.
DOGE --> DOSEO
> China can't stand toe-to-toe with the US anywhere except the immediate vicinity of China. In that vicinity, nobody can get close if China doesn't want them to.

I think you have a typo there.

Personally, I think if the US wants to defend Taiwan from invasion, it needs to stock them up with a massive amounts of missile/artillery/whatever systems and ammunition, and that needs to be distributed all over the island so there's no concentrated stockpile to attack.

But the US cupboard is bare, and Ukraine made it barer. IIRC, in an all-out war the US itself will run out of missiles in a few days or weeks, and lacks the capacity to replenish them at a reasonable rate.