skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". I think for those cheering on it's a mix of both. Culture wars have made them gleeful when they see opportunities for others to suffer and they're ignorant of how this is negatively affecting them, their morals and society.

But it's definitely malice from Musk, Trump and the rest of the oligarchs. They have for a long time been clear that their plan is to tear down everything and rebuild around themselves and everyone else is a pawn to be used to their benefit. These people are purely transactional, they don't believe in societal goods, just what benefits them must be best for everyone.
> I guess your point about it feeling handcrafted holds, if you count the character encoding.

Magnificent!
If anything, they're the jobs more likely to still be around (what those people will be doing is a different matter altogether).
My experience with college was that it was a very "money centric place", with the high rates of tuition, over paid bureaucrats, yet course instruction outsourced to grad students "working" for low hourly wages.

Further, there was an "unacknowledged (though implicitly present) assumption" that faculty were in the business of bringing in grant money, and he who didn't wouldn't last long.

Then in the last few years we came to learn that much of the "academics" that gets published today is completely bogus. What subject are those "researchers" interested in?
You’re making a valid point about the asymmetry in proving vs. disproving failure rates, but the condescending tone is unnecessary. That might be acceptable behavior back on Reddit or Kiwi farms or wherever you come from, but we strive for a higher level of discourse here.

I never said a sample size needs to match the target failure rate—only that proving an extremely low failure rate requires significant data. Yes, a high failure rate can be detected quickly, but that doesn’t mean a small sample is enough to confirm an ultra-low failure rate. Just because a car doesn’t crash in one mile doesn’t mean it won’t in the next billion. You’re oversimplifying the problem while assuming I don’t understand statistical inference.
To further clarify, both the above can be true. Trump can do something because he believes an unlikely lie.

He might also be intentionally lying to create the impression of support, but he has publicly stated:

> I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok, because I won youth by 34 points … Republicans are always 30 points down in youth. I don’t know why. But we ended up finishing. There was one poll that showed us down about 30. We were 35 or 36 points up with young people. So I have a little bit of a warm spot in my heart, I’ll be honest.
The problem with doing OCR with LLMs is hallucination. It creates character replacements like Xerox's old flawed compression algorithm. At least this my experience with Gemini 2.0 Flash. It was a screenshot of a webpage, too.

Graybeards like Tessaract has moved to neural network based pipelines, and they're re-inventing and improving themselves.

I was planning to train Tessaract with my own hand writing, but if OCR4All can handle that, I'll be happy.
Super cool and it looks fantastic!

I've been wanting to do something with a plotter, thanks for the tip about center line tracing
It's insane how complicated laws and taxes are, with layers of layers of new rules on top of old ones. Which often ends up with different courts not aligning "what is the tax for carrots" because of contradictory rules etc.
The Final Barrier to (Nearly) Infinite Energy [video]
Fedora is owned by Red Hat, which is a major contributor to gnome and gtk.

Red Hat isn't as involved with Qt, which is mainly maintained by yhe Qt group company.
I wonder what kind of dirt that could be, if he's already a known child rapist.
> the exchange itself is subject to a different regulatory framework

Exchanges are subject to many regulations. Which are you referring to?

This is literally NYSE Chicago changing venues. I think James Beard just fucked off to the Windy City. Austin has better gala weather, granted.
Zephyr RTOS[1] is an RTOS supported by the Linux foundation. It has similar structures to Linux for device configuration like a device tree and tries to emulate POSIXish APIs. I think some embedded people are put off by this configuration structure.

Notably, Zephyr RTOS is the basis of Nordic Semiconductor's SDK[2]. Nordic is a major manufacturer of cellular and wireless MCUs.

[1]:https://www.zephyrproject.org/
[2]:https://docs.nordicsemi.com/bundle/ncs-latest/page/nrf/index...

Edit: GP seems to have a history of posting 1 line hot takes with no elaboration
I don't agree with the sentence

> To be clear, there’s nothing wrong with wanting to run old, stable software.
I'd argue I'm not putting any requirement on the developer, I'd argue I'm making a statement of fact. Namely

> A developer without these skills will burn out.

And I think that's something that should be said more directly. If you want to do open source (as in become the provider of load bearing infrastructure): Then you really need to realise what you are getting yourself into. Would I like that to be different? Sure. Would I bet on that changing? Absolutely not.

And yes, that absolutely means you can either do open source as a hobby, then nobody should ever be willing to rely on the thing you are building (because you can just say "i've got better things to do than fixing the security bug you got") or you can attempt to get other people to use and rely on it, but then you have to find a way not to burn out.
Not sure if the GP was talking about what people want or what Congresspeople want. If the former, that's not really indicative of much. Congress often doesn't pass laws based on what a majority of their constituents want, but based on their own interests (or the interests of their financial backers).
> the emphasis is on Holmes as a mother, and how hard it is for her to be away from her children.

Many mothers are in prison for far less, don't believe she should get a free pass.
I've read the post and saw the references, but can anyone easily explain how it works? Can the server not just store whatever is generated to link it back to the user using it?
Excuse me if you think I referred to Elon Musk as a hacker. He's a marketer. I meant the nazi kids he hired.
Hi! Kudos for the work on SmallWeb. I actually attempted to run this on your platform as well. I was able to run it partially on Cloudflare workers, so I trust it's compatible with environments like SmallWeb as well. Let's see!
I think of size when I read bloat. A simple HTML content page deeply nested DIV-soup and 14MB of JS and 2MB of CSS: bloat.

Bloat is code size/ program size that is not actually needed.

Bloated code bases are usually harder to work on and may have noticeable slowness: but not necessarily! Maybe the bloat of aforementioned HTML page is due to the use of a low/no-code framework that makes it suuuuper easy to maintain. And with internet being fast these days, many user may not notice 15MB "bloat" (=unneeded size), as the page also loads a video and several high-res images making the total add up to 60MB+ before all bells and whistles are showing.

EDIT: typo "internet being fat these days" -> "internet being fast these days"
You describe FOMO -- fear of missing out.

A lot of what gets announced and contributes to the illusion of constant change and "so much happening these days" amounts to fad and fashion, mostly short-lived and niche. You don't have to jump on every new shiny thing. Ask yourself, would you want to work for a company or client who constantly chased fads?

If some new thing gets traction, last for a few years, grows a developer base, and has successful products that use it, take a look and see if it fits your work. If it just "sounds real neat" maybe play with it but don't change course or waste a lot of time -- wait to see if it goes anywhere.

No one can learn all of the actually useful tools, languages, frameworks, much less the niche and ephemeral, so don't stress over it. Truly useful and innovative things prove themselves over time.

I focus my time and attention on tools that seem to have staying power, make me more effective delivering value, and that I can get paid for.
oh good i hope someone other than China can now access all the natsec data
> We need to do end to end text recognition. Not "character recognition", it's not the characters we care about.

Arbitrary nonsensical text require character recognition. Sure, even a license plate bears some semantics bounding expectations of what text it contains, but text that has no coherence might remain an application domain for character rather than text recognition.
Inspiring! Great work
The massive difference here is that the Doge team is acting as quickly making decisions about government funding and classifications of that spending e.g. if it's a "scam". If they're supposed computer experts making incorrect decisions about something as simple as web hosting you can be sure that they're making incorrect decisions in more important topics.
She should have been given life, she played with other people's lives and livelihoods for personal gain.
But you don't want to throw an arbitrary five second delay into login for every good user, they hate that sort of thing whereas the bot doesn't care.
> Lots of government websites are vulnerable early on

Would like to see a source on this.

Governments are similar to large enterprises whereby every bit of code going into Production requires a full security, architecture and site reliability review.

There is no doubt bugs in bespoke web applications but for your typical website.
Ever heard of the banality of evil?
Ignorance is in some ways worse than being genuinely evil.

You should be worried because the same guys who are resonsible for this web site are now in charge of much more vital systems and there are much bigger threats who just wait do get important data.
[Top menu] > About > What is OCR4all?

https://www.ocr4all.org/about/ocr4all
Russia asks Elon Musk to hand over names of dissidents
The old headline: B happens as A happens.

Baby boom as solar panels sales skyrocket.
Not just selling in China, Tesla makes more than half their cars there and exports some to other countries like Australia.
>OBS is shipping EOL Qt because of unfixed regressions in newer Qt, Fedora views shipping EOL Qt as unjustifiable neglect and repackaged it with newer Qt, which, as described, breaks things.

Why do they still mingle with sw distributions? Wasn't the sandboxed blob trend born also to try blackbox strategies and have parallel versions without dealing with too much hell? Was that laziness/economical advantage (EOL'd library, no business in porting fixes, upgrade to the latest and greatest) or something else?
No, outside libraries do not equate to better security. Often the opposite is more true. Just don’t try to write your own cryptographic functions without hundreds of tests and certification from trusted third party validation.
Interval training is different than absolute pitch training. OpenEar seems to have no absolute pitch training.
What you can do is port forwarding. You have a bunch of devices behind a 1:N NAT, so they share one IP address. For specific services on those devices, you can pair dedicated ports with this IP address, binding them to internal IP:port pairs.

It's not a perfect solution for every scenario, and requires configuration, but there it is.

This is how people on residential lines run web servers, mail servers, ... they map TCP ports like 443, 80, 22 and 25 on their router to go to specific internal hosts.

Doh!
Not quite.

Someone who is in a management position, has good political skills and good connections will be way more efficient at doing some of this non-programming work.

This is something that even C-levels forget. Something that takes a CTO 2 minutes to do can take several months for a regular developer to achieve, and I have plenty of experience on and plenty of examples of that.
It might be prudent to consider emigration or at least divesting from real estate assets. I assume property values will evaporate along with the stock markets if this train keeps on rolling.
That’s not true everywhere. See Australia[1] , California [2], Denmark [3], Iceland [5] for some counter examples.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Australia

[2] https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/Others...

[3] https://www.wri.org/update/sustained-portfolio-policies-have...

[5] https://gogn.orkustofnun.is/Talnaefni/OS-2021-T009-01.pdf
Just to offer a little counter point to your motivational speech.

I took a stand at a company where they asked for RTO. They fired me, I sued them, and the first phase of the trial just ended where the judges cut the baby in half and dismissed the "firing with cause" and offered a 3 months severance (to cover what would have been a notice period), but without asking anything more of the company. The lack of empathy for the worker was surprising to me, frankly. Overall it was basically pointless.

So, if you do try to offer resistance to RTO policies, make sure you're not entirely alone, and probably leaving on your own with garden leave is a better option than trying to fight them in court. (This was all in the EU, so YMMV.)
The same kids who have now access to vital US systems.

Better people learn about their lack of experience fro a hacked doge site than a hacked paxment system. The ones who will hack that won't be as friendly.
The first NAT I used in the middle 90's was IP Masquerading in the Linux kernel, by Pauline Middelink. That had a firewall.
> A limitation I see with AI for coding is that your problem must be mainstream to get decent results.

Or to phrase it another way, there must examples of the technique that you want to "generate" in the training set otherwise the horrifically overfitted model cannot work.

Probably a little bit too cynical but this is my experience asking LLMs "unusual" questions.
His comments were all shared on Telegram too.

And let’s not forget that the Capital Hill riots were just a small few who took things out of hand - like with this guy. So it doesn’t need to be thousands to be a criminal offence.

There’s more about the wider debate here (the BBC is a lot more impartial than Sky News too) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr548zdmz3jo

And the notes of the arrest here:
https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/man-convicted-intending-stir...

The guy in question pled guilty too. So he clearly admits responsibility for the attack on the hotel. And that in itself should indicate that there’s more to this story than just “shitposting” on Facebook.

The problem here is folks like Elon Musk are focusing on the “freedom of speech” aspect (and if course he is, he’s got a vested self interest to) and given Elons media reach, this story gets skewed into a different debate.

The ironic thing is the biggest voices arguing that the UK is Orwellian don’t even realise that arrests have been happening in their own county for the same things and for much longer than in the UK.

For example in America, 2 years ago:
https://teslatelegraph.com/2023/11/14/a-man-has-been-sentenc...

Or how about 10 years ago:
https://www.mic.com/articles/54961/8-social-media-users-arre...

And that’s my biggest complaint about this discussion on HN: The UK is singled out when this is happening in every country. And the cases people refer to in the UK are being distorted to sound like it’s harmless memes when the actual comments are far from what any sane person would call “shitposting”.
Get on Maine's level. They have Mexico, Poland (home of Poland Springs!), China, Peru, Norway, Sweden, Denmark... that's not even delving into another dozen or two towns named for foreign cities rather than nations. The history of why the heck this happened is interesting [0]

0: https://www.mainepublic.org/maine/2015-09-24/why-are-so-many...
Yes, D and M are letters.
I’m not sure this pathway exists now at least in the US.
There you may wish freedom for the country with the P and criticize the country with the I.
I agree. If I had a ton of family wealth, I would have pursued a PhD instead of working 9 to 5.
No, Dyson spheres is short term thinking. What we really should be doing is breaking up the stars and storing they hydrogen for future use. Just allowing fusion to happen and radiating the energy away is inefficient and wasteful.
It remains words for now but Trump is now calling for a mutual 50% defense spending cuts amongst Russia, China, and the US - as well as a return to nuclear nonproliferation arguing quite reasonably that we all have enough nukes to destroy the world multiple times over, so what's the point? [1]

It's likely to preempt media attacks claiming Trump is undermining US defense and security by cutting military spending, especially if DOGE manages to find some large areas to cut (one can only imagine the headlines...). It's unclear if they would agree (especially when there's going to be immense distrust), but this sort of rhetoric is the most rational and logical that I've seen in decades.

Having a leader with messianic delusions is not necessarily a bad thing it might seem, at least for now.

[1] - https://apnews.com/article/trump-china-russia-nuclear-bbc1c7...
The author mentioned that the maker of their pen plotter is evil mad scientist, so it's likely they're using the AxiDraw
With medical device development, the IRB represents the institution taking liability for harm to patients. They're there to make sure they aren't about to kill someone or harm them and get the institution sued.

So they take it pretty seriously. More so in countries where it's easy to sue, though.
During the first Trump administration I regularly tried to discern the difference, but ultimately that was a mistake--a kind of engaging and draining analytical junk food--and one I'm not going to make a second time.

> Trump-scandals kinda killed Hanlon's Razor for me: A miasma inseparably blurring the lines between malice and incompetence, lies and ignorance, culpability and insanity, condensing into a greasy alloy which is definitely some amount of evil yet not worth anybody's time to separate and assay.

I refuse to feed the algorithm more pathological input for another denial-of-service attack. For anything from that crowd of repeat-offenders, I declare the answer to be both. If they want to assert something was just incompetence or just malice, the onus is on them to provide the argument either way.
> You are using the same argument that was explained multiple times already in this thread: no one is forcing anybody to learn rust.

I think this sort of statement is what is setting the maintainers against the R4L campaigners.

In casual conversation, campaigners say "No one is being forced to learn Rust". In the official statements (see upthread where I made my previous reply) it's made very clear that the maintainers will be forced to learn Rust.

The official policy trumps any casual statement made while proselytising.

Repeating the casual statement while having a different policy comes across as very dishonest on the part of the campaigners when delivered to the maintainers.
For some reason quite a number of people seem to believe the purpoted goals of DOGE, removing waste and increasing efficiency of the government.

I can't really understand that as it seems obvious to me that they're just destroying parts of the government they don't like. And while there is certainly room for improvement in many areas, whatever they're doing is not going to improve anything, it's only destruction.
In 2010, someone sticked some battery shortcoming knowledge (e.g., not grid scale) into their head, but it takes double the amount of energy to update it today.
Conceptually, LLM-as-a-judge doesn't feel like it should work — it's like asking a student to grade their own homework. it's very unintuitive for me that it actually seems to work pretty well
I think the cheering is more a told-you-so cheer from people who suspected that Musk and his team aren't as compotent as they claim.
How TBMQ achieves 1M messages/sec for reliable point-to-point messaging
I don't know, concurrency is still on the table, especially that the OS also has timing events.

Say, a compiler uses multiple threads and even if you assign some fixed amount of fuel to each thread, and mandate that after n instructions, thread-2 must follow for another n, how would that work with, say, a kernel interrupt? Would that be emulated completely only at given fixed times?

But I do like the idea of running multiple builds in parallel to not take as big of a hit from single-threaded builds, though it would only increase throughput not latency.
Ah that's a model that can run on a shitty old PC right. Like the idea of tools being local again.
Probably like the apparatchik of the Soviet "parliament", that just rubber stamped everything, and can then enjoy the luxury of being the elite the rest of the day. Just needs more mistresses (corruption is already there), anyone got Matt Gaetz' number?

Alcoholic (speaking of Russian stereotypes!) wife-abuser as defense minister? Rubber-stamped! RFK as health minister? Rubber-stamped! Glory to the union!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Soviet_of_the_Soviet_U...
What do you mean by selecting paragraph? Paragraph styles are applied to the paragraph your line cursor is in or if you highlight/select multiple characters it sets their paragraph to be that paragraph style.

Single character can only be part of a single paragraph. So if you select characters that are in different parahraphs and want to set their paragraph styles it should set all of them.

Ive just tried it in Writer and like i said its seems to be the “norm” how other soft does it (i dont have acess to Word to test that).
Yeah, I know that other people suck and dealing with them is difficult, but this is why there's code review and a company culture. Those soft skills that you think you don't need because you're so smart and everyone else is dumb? turns out they're the smart ones and you're the dumb one for not working on those skills in addition to the stuff you're awesome at because those skills will get them (and you) further in life than any others.
Ah, alright, I see.
> So, are the exchanges connected?

More or less, in practice your US broker has to respect "best execution", meaning it cannot offer you a price worst than the "NBBO", which is the composite of all US stock markets.

In practice though, I expect most companies listed in NYSE Texas to be solely listed there.

> “normal NYSE” vs “NYSE Texas”

There's already _a lot_ of "NYSE" markets and segments. Some exist because of historical mergers (Amex, Arca), and some to offer alternate / cheaper listings (NYSE listing is very expensive vs say Nasdaq)

> What benefits would companies see from listing on NYSE Texas vs the other NYSE?

Unclear at the moment but I expect a lower bar for listing requirements and a cheaper price. Nyse is by far the most expensive listing there is, but it's also very exhaustive on listing requirements (audits, etc). I guess there is also a political/economical deal with Texas at play, to incentivise companies to move there, list there, and grab some of NY market share.
Causality at least correlates with a lot of problems
And, currently, firing everyone without just-cause protections (probationary workers, as well the contractor workforce - nearly equal in size to federal employees.)
Sometimes changes are required to meet packaging guidelines, sometimes you can get exemptions. Of course users often don’t realise who’s done what.

I suppose my advice to upstream would be to direct the end user to the Fedora bug tracker, where the bug can land in my queue. Or advise the user to install from a different source.

The upstream that I’ve dealt with have been kind enough to lodge a bug themselves on the package I look after, which is also an option, and much appreciated.
Ukraine says Russia drone hits Chernobyl nuclear plant, radiation levels normal
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