skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the reaction to DOGE quite fascinating and it's really exposed just how different some work cultures are.

In tech we face layoffs constantly, so much so that's not a huge shock when a FAANG lays off hundreds or even thousands. We might get a couple of stories if the layoff is particularly large but the general consensus is "this is the way of the world, go find another job". Contrast that with the stories we are seeing about DOGE and the general reaction to layoffs and contraction of several govt agencies.

I think the root of it lies in how both types of jobs are pitched. You get into tech knowing that you will most likely get laid off but you take the deal because compensation if very good in the field.

This is in stark contrast to how a government job is pitched, you won't make the best salaries there, but it's a safe steady job with loads of benefits and you can easily build a career inside just a single agency.

My personal feelings on this are mixed, on the one hand it always sucks to get laid off so I feel for the employees. But on the other hand, something like 40-50% of my paycheck goes out in taxes and I would prefer if my government actually spent it on things to improve my life versus dumb shit domestically or abroad.
Is this the test offered by https://www.functionhealth.com/? I know they have an early cancer blood screening as a part of their tests.
Zellij does sound pretty bad.
Wayland has been "nearly ready" for so long that it is easy to miss progress. I installed an arch desktop three months ago and setup kde with wayland, expecting that I would revert to xorg when something broke.

So far everything seems to work - although the machine has a strange glitch. Processes randomly die, but only if they have a render surface. Typically it happens to factorio or to the steam ui component, which are both incredibly stable.
Uhh, it is?

The server I use apparently blocks specific devices or ISPs, it has happened to me a couple times and I haven't found a solution other than using a VPN or a different device on a different network.

The tools they give me don't cover this device blocking, so I guess that either they manage it or it is managed automatically.

I will switch to self hosting once I get an actual server.
Court Documents Shed New Light on DOGE Activity at Treasury Department
Had to look it up, you're talking about TrueNAS moving from Kubernetes to Docker, just for clarification, https://forums.truenas.com/t/the-future-of-electric-eel-and-...

Huh, interesting as I literally moved from TrueNAS to NixOS because of two reasons 1) not liking something as complicated as Kubernetes for something as simple as home infrastructure and 2) to have a more reproducible setup.

Happy to hear 1 won't be an issue for others in the future :)
As far as I know, all data related to “gender” (in addition to sex), “sexual orientation,” and race has been removed. Some of this data will return in a revised form, but unfortunately, some will remain excluded due to Trump’s executive orders against DEI and transgender-related policies.
Because you can wind up in a situation where the "blip" would have otherwise led to nothing problematic, but the followup for the "blip" actually does cause harm. And at an individual level it's impossible to tell which category you're in.
Well they never should. There was some bizzare impression that corporations have some principle's. They don't and they never will that's not their purpose.
Unfortunately there a number of people who fail to take a moment and understand the “why” behind a problem or process.

I’ve enjoyed being on teams and organizations that have tried to focus on the “why” instead of jumping to conclusions because meaningful changes ended up getting implemented and future changes are a lot easier as a result of process change.

The author’s jump to conclusions just wastes everyone’s time and money.
A democracy is already organized.

But I suppose that's the problem. People stopped believing in democracy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42655870
If you are high skill enough to do a PhD in anything meaningful, why enter into an open-ended low-paid work contract with a professor with no definite end-date on when the PhD is granted? An american has even less incentive, as the reward of a work permit is not on the other side.

Only reason should be that you want to be a professor, research can be done in private companies without this license. 95% of a PhD is worth as much as 0%.
I’ve known a lot of gov’t workers over my not-super-short life. You will never find a group of people more distrusting of the gov’t, if not outright calling for it’s destruction.

Honestly, similar to software engineers and software.
I'm still amazed at word embeddings. They allow to find related words, and even do addition and subtraction.

The way you can supposedly take "king", subtract "man" and add "woman" and you get "queen", and this kind of thing is the mathematical basis of LLMs.
If you do dev on windows you should mostly use WSL.
What's wrong with the desktop app?
Look for self-hosted PaaS, platform as a service. Coolify and Dokploy are good options, on Hetzner.
> But to me it’s clear why these abilities are listed: veterans with disabilities. The author not getting that is just… do you ever stop and think?

at what point do you stop treating people like they're not utter idiots though? the JD is a rotary drill operator. do you really need to list that you need finger and arm movement for this job? And, it's not solely for veterans with disabilities, it's for all veterans.

> The author is also complaining that it took two years to get approval to use the cloud and using that to show that the govt is too slow. That’s a crazy take to me, there are countless large and small companies where this did and is taking longer.

just because this happens elsewhere, doesn't mean that's excusable. also, author worked for the VA which is a lot more consequential for people than some rando corpo taking a long time to get a domain they want.
(Re)Launching My SaaS
Hey HN,
I’ve been working on a SaaS called Plazn.com for the past year and a half. It’s a reservation platform for small and medium-sized restaurants that want to avoid paying commissions for each booking. I currently have two paying customers:

First customer came from cold-calling. I introduced myself by phone, booked an in-person meeting, did a quick demo, and they ended up signing on.
Second customer came from my website’s blog. They were browsing the site, and we chatted via the built-in app messaging. After a few questions, I proposed a video call, demoed the product again, and they converted.

For the last year, I’ve been working a full-time sales job (9-6), so I haven’t been able to invest much time in Plazn. But now I’m quitting my job at the end of this month to focus on it fully. My new strategy is visiting restaurants in person—especially those using reservation tools that charge per-reservation commissions—and showing them how Plazn can save them money.

I want to avoid making the same mistake I did during my first launch, which was working in isolation. I’d love to hear your thoughts, advice, and ideas for effectively marketing a B2B SaaS to local restaurants. Any tips on outreach, pricing, or differentiating from established players would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your feedback and support!
It reminds me back when HDTV was starting to roll out to things like cable television. Often cable companies kept the standard def versions of the channels on the normal channel numbers while the HD version of the channel would be that number +500 or +1000 or whatever.

I would constantly see friends and family just tune to the standard def 4:3 version of the channel often being terribly stretched despite having a new widescreen HDTV. I'd ask why they're watching the SD channel instead of the HD version, and it seemed like most people didn't even notice it. I'd often suggest/go ahead and change the channel to the HD version and talk about where these HD channels are, but the next time I'd visit it would be on standard def 4:3 again.
I don't closely follow the release schedules for Clang, GCC, etc, so I don't have up-to-date info on that. Unfortunately I'm not aware of any support for musttail in MSVC.
> The problem is that this is the first time any of us are hearing of these inefficiencies.

If this is the first time you’ve heard of inefficiencies of this kind, you’re in a filter bubble.
> What is the problem? If Elon and a bunch of randos can have access why the UK cannot? Surely if they make a large enough donation to the west wing a deal can be made!

Are you really implying that Elon has a back door into encryption in the US? You probably better cite a source for that one cause that's deep conspiracy theory territory
> The UTEP grant summary on bird research mentions diversity multiple times, but always in biological terms involving birds – never in the context of racial or ethnic diversity among humans.

An outsider, both to El Paso and to academia, is saying really stupid and awkward things.
I’ll have to look closer into Skia but DirectWrite is text API par excellence.
Tired of spotty internet, Bolivians are smuggling in Starlink
I think you might be having trouble expressing yourself.
Oh this is cool. One of my back-burner projects is a compiler targeting the 6502 specifically for NES development. This looks super nifty.
Innovation in anything always outpaces governance.
> maybe the user is implying that a civil war will break out

I’m not. Short of a decapitation strike in which MAGA and Musk are taken out in a night of long knives, which would itself be more destabilising to our republic than anything they’ve done, there is little to play for a military conflict à la the Civil War in a nuclear state. If we’re going to see a civil war, it wouldn’t be states vs U.S. but some compartment of the U.S. claiming legitimate power while another denies it, e.g. the military deposing Trump or him refusing to step down after impeachment and conviction or an electoral loss.
Ask HN: Who else is tired of these web things?
1) cookie pop-ups

2) chat pop-ups

3) sign-up for a discount pop-ups

I just got to your site! Let me have a minute to look around before you bug me!
Has anyone tried function? I'm curious how legit it is.
So if your dog required medication, you would never hide the pill in peanut butter for example?
Related:

Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972062

New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up for the Linux Kernel

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42990588
How could we possibly estimate that if we don't even know the size of the universe?
It could be worse. I live in southern Europe and not only are civil servants virtually unfirable, they also have much better salaries and benefits than they would have in the private sector.
Worth noting that F# started out life as an implementation of OCaml for the .NET runtime [1], so most likely the pipe syntax was taken from there, although the pipeline-of-functions construction is much older than that [2]

[1] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2099...

[2] https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/17335/wha...
Visible on a phone, though the why is not clearly seen because that's not how you compare such poor quality pics - you need to flip back & forth, preferably zoomed (a common fail of most of these kind of blogs is not to do that). Then you can see the deficiencies on the left and the reason why it's so thin - in letters like 'i' the vertical bar is semi-transparent, not solid
I think it's the generational question every administration faces: politics. Consider federal employee reform. This means dealing with unions, congress, and everyone who depends on each and every office in those agencies, which all brings in politics. So change has to come slowly, over time. IMO Trump just doesn't care about the consequences, or maybe he does but he is certain of victory, so he's going full tilt. He's not running for reelection so maybe he figures this is the only chance I got.
No, I think children will imitate their parents either way!
Since fiber is non-conductive, I've heard that it's code-compliant to run optical fiber in the same conduit as your power lines. (Normally, high-voltage and low-voltage conductors are required to be in separate conduits even if going to the same place.)

Of course, this requires that you ran your electrical in conduit instead of direct-bury, so this might or might not work for you.
Maybe a correction is needed. Academia has become so gamified. It's supposed to be about ideas, truth, beauty. Too many are in it for the prestige, which has ironically made it less prestigious.

Very few true eccentrics left.
Syndicated from FP

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43021873
Often private companies list a PhD as a requirement for research roles
Para compilar teniendo un host windows (lo odio pero no tengo otra opción) están todas las dependencias incluidas en el Dev Kit.

Ahora, si estás en Linux me imagino que nomás necesitas nasm (el compilador) y build tools. Igual no estoy seguro..
> and giving each app it’a own VPS or hosted container is going to price out the self-hosted crowd,

As far as I know, myself and other self-hosters run these sort of applications/services on home infrastructure or VPSes/dedicated/bare-metal where multiple applications usually share one instance. This could be done with docker, or cgroups, or countless other ways. I'm not sure if that's what you mean with a "hosted container" though, don't think I've heard about that before.
Skia <https://skia.org>
> If it all falls apart, the worst for Trump is to lose an election and retire to Florida.

He doesn't have another election to lose. He gets 4 years (less a few weeks now) and then gets to retire from being POTUS. There are few consequences for him this term. For the Republicans, on the other hand, if DOGE and their trade wars and other things fail, they could be fucked for a decade or more trying to rebrand themselves.
What is an example of open source software that is not libre?

Like the other commenter said, the F in F(L)OSS does mean free as in speech, not necessarily free as in beer.
Uh... yeah, getting the FAA out of his way is part of his agenda, but his motivation behind DOGE and Mars is the same.

Musk is ambitious. He wants to do Big Things. He feels he is a better kind of human being, and wants to make the world in his image. Literally, in the case of Mars. For the US, he wants to free it up to do the kinds of things that Great Men do, which mostly means eliminating waste from the government (defined as anything that helps minorities, protects the environment, or anything else that doesn't have a direct benefit to him and the other ubermenschen).

The problem of radiation on Mars is something for his underlings to work out. And he's probably right: they'll find an answer.

As for the programs he's eliminating... they can't come back while he is in charge. Certainly not in the next two years, and he's convinced he's cracked the code for ensuring that subsequent elections will also go his way. And he might be right about that, too.
I think it’s very different in tech where we are compensated quite well and losing a job doesn’t mean falling off the face of capitalism. Most of us are able to have modest savings but most Americans are barely hanging on.
I'm very surprised to learn that PRQL does not natively support `like`, but you can add it yourself: https://github.com/PRQL/prql/issues/1123#issuecomment-135385...
> Consider how egreious it would be for the US gov to lie about funding healthcare, but instead to use that as a guise for one of your "impossible, movie plot lines..."

Sorry, what part of the CIA hatching hare-brained schemes is incredulous? (You should have linked to acoustakitty.)
YouTube recommendations have worked very well for me. I listen to a lot of talks and if it weren't for the recommendations I wouldn't have discovered some very interesting talks or even areas. The only time the recommendations derail is when I have guests over and they login into my account (because that's the one always logged in on my roku). But that is expected. And it's easy to get rid of, by deleting the history in a custom date range, or simply by continuing to watch the kind of stuff I was watching earlier.
As with the US, I would not equate "British lawmakers passed" with "British people are happy to". British people are not given direct referendum on this issue specifically, and all of the mainstream British parties currently support the Snooper's Charter.
What's your point? There's likely a few 1800W kettles that exist too. They are not common, and you definitely will never see anything above 1800W (outside of maybe some specialized commercial product designed for an 20A outlet) in the US. A 'normal' average kettle is going to be ~1200W here. Kettles start at 2kW and go up from there in the UK.
Russia employing sophisticated DeepFakes to influence German Elections
I want to use Lua for more tasks
What "programs" does a tumble dryer even need? You press the ON button, and it should continue until its contents are dry.
Trump and Musk can't seem to locate much evidence of fraud
and SQLite is waiting on Postgres: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41385005
Universities in Europe have bachelor's be 3 years and Universities in the US are 4 years but students need to take a lot of non-major-related classes. In Europe it is almost a given you will be doing a 2 year masters after bachelor if you are going to any STEM degree.

In Brazil bachelor is usually 4 years (sometimes 5) and it is hardcore STEM all the way through with higher workload than EU Unis per semester. Masters in Brazil are like you said, you might take ~12-16 credits over 2 years, you are actually expected to be doing research and writing your thesis the rest of the time. From what I talked with friends it is like that in India and China as well (maybe Japan too?).

I don't have a masters myself, but I hear masters in Brazil are pretty chill, while in the EU it can be quite demanding. In EU you need to write a thesis and handle the class workload that is not minimum like it is in Brazil during the masters. But Bachelor in Brazil is waaaay more intense and lasts longer too.

It is quite annoying when sending CVs in Europe people see I only have a bachelor and I think I don't know deeper Computer Science/Math concepts.
Right side looks slightly better on a 1440p 27" oled, text has better contrast.
It's a shame to see but inevitable when trying to get open software working on such a proprietary platform with so many hardware cut corners and incomplete/non-standard implementations. Just an insane amount of work of the most frustrating kind. What they did manage to do was incredible... but Apple is Apple.
There will always be dumb shit in every kind of spending. Heck, my family and kids spend on dumb shit. I bet half of the Amazon orders going to people's places is dumb shit. Can there be cuts in spending and expenses of the government, the answer will always be yes but treating the federal government like a startup is the next level of dumb shit. Its specially being done by people who have no knowledge of government systems work. A lot of people and systems depend on smooth functioning of federal government. I guess fuck around and find out.
It is only safe to assume that every security vulnerability will eventually be discovered, and exploited by a bad actor. Knowing that, willfully creating more vulnerabilities, however well intnded, is just reckless.
I think one thinking error that people like the author make is that they assume these problems are inherent to and limited to government rather than being inherent to any organization of a certain size and complexity. (Big Tech is an interesting exception because those companies can demand a certain level of tech savvy culturally).

I've worked in large academic institutions and currently work in a giant private corporate behemoth and see a lot of the same issues. I think what it comes down to is a couple of things:

* For a lot of people, status means not having to learn or update/change anything about yourself or your way of working. We (where I work) franchise, and I see so many business owners who can't be bothered to learn email, how to log in to a computer system, etc. They shouldn't have to, they think. They're too important! In academia, this is professors in their 70s who don't want to change their teaching style or administrators who think it's the 1980s. In government, I'd expect this to be the bureaucrats who've been in their positions for 20-30+ years. Because these people have status (be that capital or tenure), the culture of the organizations leans towards pleasing them, and people who ask them to learn are stonewalled or exited.

* Related to this, people care most about what's in front of them. The veterans dying/students who have issues/clients who aren't served well are more abstract than John who doesn't want to learn and will make your life hell if you try to make him.

* In terms of resistance from the less entrenched, I think it's worth noting that for the most part, changes in the modern American workforce (especially rapid ones) very, very rarely favor the worker. Sudden changes usually mean more work for less pay, layoffs, etc. For example, my own company just switched the bonus system in what is clearly an attempt to pay people less in bonuses. The only counter-example I can think of recently is the rise of WFH, but that's already being rolled back. Changes = good for management/owners, bad for workers. This means people are going to be resistant to all change because they've learned it means bad things for them. In small enough organizations, this can be somewhat mitigated by the leaders having a personal relationship with their worker bees, but in big orgs that doesn't happen.

I also think there's a fundamental tension between the type of person you need to be in order to implement and understand systematic changes and the type of person that makes a good factory/retail/service worker. There's a lot of people at the top of society who want obedient, uncurious workers and then are shocked when there are negatives to a population filled with those kind of people. We (as a society) have completely failed in educating our population for the digital age because a lot of people make money off the general populace's ignorance, but that does mean that the general populace can't administer in a digital society.
Data isn't only about being able to store and process it, but correlate to other metrics and reliably persist the result.
Do you have an idea for (2)?

If not, do (1), but keep 'build' really light.
> All OSS software is inherently without cost, that seems unquestioned here.

I don't think so, you could charge money for FOSS (like charging for a built binary but having the source be FOSS) and it'll still be as much FOSS as any other FOSS out there. It isn't very common to do so, but there isn't any inherently wrong or incorrect with charging for FOSS.
This is it, I am not sure how people can be so dismissive about the risks of over diagnosis.

However, usually there are studies done to carefully weigh the risks and benefits of testing likes this. I would expect tests like these to become the norm for screening at risk populations at some point (usually people beyond a certain age or people with family history).
interesting that this isn't flagged. it's politics, but it's not criticizing tech bro oligarchs
I think if I was indicted by Linus and told I'm a problem over spreading awareness about a position on social media, I too would burn out pretty quickly. That's how you crush motivation. There's a deeper issue in open-source culture where harshness and gatekeeping drive away passionate contributors.