skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to watch what's going on.

I would hope that everyone would understand that the financial situation the US (and other countries, to be sure) finds itself navigating is simply untenable. Without a doubt, it is not a formula for long term success or excellence even stretching the bounds of imagination.

With USD $36 trillion in debt and (I don't remember) a $2 trillion annual deficit, the picture, as they say, is solidly etched on the wall. This is a predictable train wreck.

In many ways, this is not unlike what Argentina has been doing. The reduction of the size and cost of government is an important and necessary lever to pull.

The latest revelation, the fact --fact-- that US government worker retirement processing is handled by hand and managed in an underground facility (mine) where over 700 workers process --again, by hand-- retirement matter and records are kept on paper in envelopes is, well, unimaginably stupid, costly and damaging.

Like this, thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands of issues, big and small.

Anyone who's ever run a non-trivial business fully understands that every so often to need to engage in forensic analysis to make sure you are not burning cash that could be put to better use. Like paying for a bunch of servers you haven't used for over a year (I've done that!), etc.

I am, frankly, quite surprised by some of the reactions out there. The hatred is what is most surprising to me. Frankly, I am pretty sick and tired of this constant culture of hatred.

Don't these people understand that we are in serious trouble? We have a sick population (need healthcare reform), terrible education results (need education reform) a massively bloated government that is spending us into bankruptcy (over 400 federal agencies, need to chop that down significantly) and, in general, a focus away from innovation and excellence and towards bullshit.

I often use the joke of the high speed train in California. We can't even build a new train a few hundred miles long. That's what the US has become. This has to change.
Very cool, very similar to SSHFS support on https://pico.sh/pgs and https://pico.sh/tuns
How does voice call quality degrade? Does it switch to a tinny bit rate?
I asked something on phind yesterday and got pleasantly surprised with the images going along with the response. Very nice!
This is basically why some researchers gravitate towards certain model systems in terms of abstracting the problem. It is just easier in terms of approval the simpler things get and you can basically grasp at the same sort of questions since basic cell biology is so conserved. You can do things like grow up a generation of transgenic yeast that glows green under UV light and then pour bleach over it and throw it in a carboy for disposal over the week without anyone needing approve anything but the form for the carboy to get incinerated. You try and write up a proposal for transgenic mice it might take months since the IRB needs planets to align for meetings to be scheduled. And you are paying orders of magnitude more for orders of magnitude fewer individuals in your sample that will take orders of magnitude longer to get data, than an organism that can measure reproduction rates on the log scale over hours and cost pennies on the billions.
> Ted Tso'o accusing the speaker of wanting to convert people to the "religion promulgated by Rust"

Given the online temper tantrum thrown by marcan, Ted Tso'o's comment seems totally reasonable, regardless of one's opinion of Rust in the Linux kernel.
If you test enough people, you can reach a point where given you have a positive test, there is say a 90% chance it's a false positive. Taking further action can potentially harm you. Given the danger of further testing, and that many time people see no benefit from treatment, its is completely possible on average it can make die more often to get tested.
While I would never voluntarily get into a Cybertruck, the infamy of the Pinto is mostly based on myth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Retrospective_safet...

A Rutgers Law Review article by former UCLA law professor Gary T. Schwartz, examined the fatality rates of the Pinto and several other small cars of the time. He noted that fires, and rear-end fires, in particular, are a very small portion of overall auto fatalities. At the time only 1% of automobile crashes would result in fire and only 4% of fatal accidents involved fire, and only 15% of fatal fire crashes are the result of rear-end collisions. When considering the overall safety of the Pinto, subcompact cars as a class had a generally higher fatality risk. Pintos represented 1.9% of all cars on the road in the 1975–76 period. During that time, the car represented 1.9% of all "fatal accidents accompanied by some fire". This implies the Pinto was average for all cars and slightly above average for its class. When all types of fatalities are considered, the Pinto was approximately even with the AMC Gremlin, Chevrolet Vega, and Datsun 510. It was significantly better than the Datsun 1200/210, Toyota Corolla, and VW Beetle. The safety record of the car in terms of fire was average or slightly below average for compacts, and all cars respectively. This was considered respectable for a subcompact car. Only when considering the narrow subset of a rear impact, fire fatalities for the car were somewhat worse than the average for subcompact cars. While acknowledging this is an important legal point, Schwartz rejected the portrayal of the car as a firetrap.
The LINQ syntax was an interesting experiment but the value of that syntax always felt minimal to me. Like it looked out of place in the middle of my C# code, so instead I just use the extension methods.
lol - you're not concerned about having people who threaten to create a "hall of shame" for kernel developers??!

Jesus, I wouldn't want to work with either of you...
in the 5 fatalities, we have:

-The crazy man who loaded his cybertruck up with fireworks and killed himself in front of the Trump hotel in las vegas
-A cybertruck that ran into a tree, killing 3 people and catching on fire
-A cybertruck that ran into a culvert, killing 1 person and catching on fire
I was confused on if they meant deadly to drive, or deadly to other people/vehicles that they hit. It appears that the article is about deadly to drive (I suspect that they are also very dangerous to those they hit, but that's just a gut feeling).

As much as I detest Cybertrucks, this study seems pretty flawed.

>the approximately 34,000 Cybertrucks on the roads had five fire fatalities

Is how they calculated it. Except they don't know how many are sold. And one of those five fatalities was actually a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Three of the remaining four fatalities occurred in a single incident. No information about how much these were driven, either.

Not sure I like the definitive sounding headline of this article, or the report ("the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto") given the unknown variables, caveats, etc.
It's absolutely not true, it's one of the lies being told by Rust 4 Linux people. The end goal is absolutely to replace every last line of C code with Rust, and that's what they will openly tell you if you speak to them behind closed doors. That's why there is always an implicit threat directed at the C maintainers about job loss or "being on the right side of history". The Rust 4 Linux people are absolutely attempting a hostile takeover and nobody should believe a word that comes out of their mouths in public mailing lists when they are contradicting it so consistently behind closed doors.
Yep, Timely FUD...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43035386
That is a very strange take. The phrase isn't American and has no negative connotation. It has nothing to do with "extrajudicial punishment". It simply refers to the (obvious) fact that what separates societies from anarchy is the "thin blue line" of law enforcement.

Rowan Atkinson had a sitcom set in a London police station in the 90s called "The Thin Blue Line". Are you under the impression he was dogwhistling about extrajudicial violence?
We transpile from Python to SQL using Calcite. Calcite works well as an engine that knows enough SQL dialects to be practical.
This is the expected downside of them abandoning Edge's rendering engine and switching to a new one. A lot of things will look slightly different. They accepted that premise from the start.

It seems unlikely someone is going to block a release because an expected thing happened.
it wont matter what you do, one typist is all it takes to crack document DRM for everyone
This is just as confusing and explosives and energetics research.

Explosives are regulated by the ATF, but can also fall under regulations of the DOT and the EPA. And if your doing any pulse power z pinch or electronic detanator experiment or research, then that's also regulated.

Keep in mind this also has state regulations and ordinance to worry about and its almost like they are trying to get you to accidentally make some mistake that can technically be a felony. And they can visit and do inspections during your hours of operations.

Potato cannons, model rockets, and innovation and experiments in your backyard seem to be impossible these days.

Do I think safety is important, sure, but I'd argue that the paperwork of regulation has stifled the common man who want to follow the laws.

Also see: export control and gpu's
When was the last time you touched a PC, 2003? They most certainly do, when the OEM actually supports it: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/thunderbo...

It's not ever coming to Apple Silicon on Linux since post-Thunderspy, Thunderbolt is dangerous to implement even in the best of circumstances. You'd have to reverse-engineer and update Apple's IOMMU, write software drivers for the port since it doesn't have firmware and test it across a variety of vulnerable devices to see how secure it is.
Und für die Crews ist die App
Documentary or not, the photos credits ran at the end of the last episode cannot be denied.
> The problem is that this is the first time any of us^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H I are^H^H^H am hearing of these inefficiencies.

fixed it for you
In what way does this article support the claim that psychologists “experiment on social media users for maximizing their various engagement and click metrics”?
Here, you can educate yourself so you don't look so ignorant next time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Jones_(magazine)

For those too lazy to click on a link, calling Mother Jones "partisan blog spam" would be like calling The NYT, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, the Paris Review, The Guardian, the NYROB, etc. "partisan blog spam"
This is addressed at a few different points in the article, I found this bit particularly insightful:

> So what happens in practice is politicians write a vague law. Bureaucrats turn that law into very detailed (but often still vague) specific rules. Those rules might or might not be “legal”, but nobody want to risk fighting them in court. If the regulations are particularly ridiculous or likely to be overturned if challenged, prosecutors may quietly stop bringing cases. But the regulations still sit there on the books. And people still usually pay attention to them, because why risk it?
I was on a Computer Chronicles kick and watched a late-80s demo of a Sun workstation with StarOffice. It was then that I realize the legacy of the app.
It's pretty gross. The shared lib call keeps going through a stub in the procedure link table; only the stub has improved after the first call so that it doesn't have to keep fetching the address of the function via the global offset table. The details are architecture specific, but it has overhead pretty much everywhere. On top of that, a register is dedicated to pointing to the global offset table. It has to be saved reassigned and restored as the control flow path takes trips through multiple shared libraries.
We do not speak Middle English.
"I've never heard of it, and I don't like what they said"

See also the similar argument "The media isn't reporting on this thing that they are in fact reporting on, but none of my friends on Facebook are sharing with me"
same question here!
Maintaining backward compatibility is hard. I am sympathetic. Nonetheless, if the rust dev team think this is a big deal, then clarify in release notes, write a blog post and make a commitment that regression at this level won't happen again. So far, there is little official response to this event. The top comment in the thread I point to basically thinks this is nothing. It is probably too late do anything for this specific issue but in future it would be good to explain and highlight even minor compatibility issues through the official channel. This will give people more confidence.
> Yeah but FFS using email for patches when there are so much better ways of doing development with git?

You are missing one point, namely that email is probably the only communication medium that's truly decentralized. I mean, on most email providers you can export your mailboxes and go to someone else. You can have a variety of email clients and ways to back up your mailboxes. No git clone, no specific mailbox or server is in any way special, I think Linus emphasized recently that they made efforts to ensure kernel.org itself is not special in any way.

Yes, I find Github's or Gitlab's UI, even with all enshittification by Microsoft and whatnot, better for doing code reviews than sight-reading patches in emails. And yet I cannot unsee a potential danger that choosing a service — any service! — to host kernel development would make it The Service, and make any migration way harder to do than what you have with email. Knowing life, I'd say pretty confidently that an outcome would be that there would be both mailing lists and The Service, both mandatory, with both sides grumbling about undue burdens.

Have you ever been in a project which had to migrate from, say, Atlassian's stack to Github, or from Github to Gitlab, or vice versa? Heck, from SourceForge + CVS/SVN to Github or similar? Those were usually grand endeavors for projects of medium size and up. Migrate all users, all issues, all PRs, all labels, test it all, and you still have to write code while it all is happening. Lots of back-and-forth about preserving some information which resists migration and deciding whether to just let it burn or spend time massaging it into a way the new system will accept it. Burnout pretty much guaranteed, even if everyone is cooperating and there is necessity.

But you could probably build tools on top of email to make your work more pleasant. The whippersnappers who like newer ways might like to run them.
HN has been under a major astroturfing campaign lately IMO. The question is who is doing it.
Kind of like how every single SSN was exposed during the Biden admin?

Look, I get it you don't like Elon but the lazy partisan blows are just kind of last year at this point...

https://www.govtech.com/security/was-your-social-security-nu...
Thank you for your efforts, Hector. I have enjoyed watching them develop and personally benefitted from the result of your work.
I think this illustrates an issue in common law systems in general. Contrary to what we’re taught in school about how actions are generally legal by default, and only illegal if a law has been passed to prohibit them, in reality, actions exist in a superposition of legal and illegal until someone challenges that position and a court finds out (subject to any appeals). You can only evaluate in practice whether something is legal based on copying others in similar situations. The further you get from the known outcomes the fuzzier this all becomes.

This tends to be something people encounter a lot around tax, complex business structures, and various international dealings where you’re more likely to end up in an edge case that hasn’t been well explored.
It's easier to not buy an iPhone than it was trying to prevent a politician I didn't trust from getting in office.

In either case, collective action is, at best, the best you're going to have.

Do regulations not have meaning?
Well it shows who is pulling their own weight and the US isn't on a lot of subjects.
If they took on human subjects it all has to have written approval.
This is by the CTO of the VA. Very HN relevant. Should not be flagged (can we please stop the mass "flag if this offends my Elon-ist sensibilities"?)
It's actually probably reporting the software-configured resolution, not the hardware capability. The important distinction is whether it's a system-wide resolution setting or a game-specific setting that may not apply to browser contexts (except for the ones used by Steam itself).
Why should there be an alternative for Rust developers?
Are they entitled to having their code merged?
> it is probably in TSMC's best interest to not hand over their IP

Absolutely not. TSMC, ironically, can outlast Trump. Unfortunately, Taipei may not be able to.
I was contributing a (very small) amount of money each month until 2024, when it seemed like Marcan had stopped working on the project.

It was hard to decide to stop the financial support. On the one had I want maintainers to be able to take breaks without worrying about their livelihood. On the other hand, it was very difficult to tell what was going on and whether Marcan would ever get back to working on the project.
'It's a money game to them':son takes on UnitedHealth over elderly father's care
It was a conflict between Communism/Socialism and Capitalism on the world stage and the proxy wars were fought over those ideologies. Now that communism is mostly recognized as a dead end, I wonder if the world order will slowly re-align. Socialism is taking off with Gen Z(see Reddit) so maybe the next administration will be socialist with AOC, Warren and Bernie.
I've genuinely never really understood the appeal of Nix. I even attempted to use this to build and "maintain" the machines we used at an offsite factory and even then with just a basic electron app, a python installation and very basic mac configs Nix proved to be a complete nightmare.
But sometimes, when everyone is having fun, some very mean very bad people show up and say, “HEY! YOU CAN’T DO THAT! THAT’S HUMAN SUBJECTS RESEARCH! YOU NEED TO GET APPROVAL FROM AN INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD!”

I can't stand this precious style of writing. I wish it were less ubiquitous. I think what upsets me about it is that it's disingenuous. When it registers as "cute and charming", it flies over the reader's head and doesn't encourage them to evaluate for themselves whether something like an IRB (or whatever) should exist. If it comes across as disingenuous---or if the reader doesn't feel like the "very mean very bad people" are "very mean" or "very bad"---then the reader is put in the position of feeling like they're going to rain on someone's parade if they disagree. Basically, it's a rhetorical tactic used to forestall argument or discussion about something the writer finds distasteful. I find myself unwilling to read an article if it opens this way because I don't feel comfortable trusting anything the writer says since they've already opened their piece with a piece of rhetoric which is essentially dishonest.
Nice read, thanks for the link!
Time to First Byte: Beyond Server Response Time
IIRXC Office Open XML is so much of a hack Microsoft Office itself doesn't implement the specification correctly/completely.
Kernel devs more than almost everyone else are well aware that even the existing C toolchains are imperfect.
Liz Cheney, the Republican who was elected by Republicans as a Republican to congress? I agree with your sentiment though, Democrats reach across the aisle far too often.
Looks like a hit job article to bandwagon on Anti-Musk sentiment.
Money talks. If I'm paying $150k for a US-based engineer and I'm getting poor output as a result of them working remotely, the downside is considerable and I have a strong incentive to improve their output, especially since I can, assuming they are located near an office. If I'm paying $40k for an off/near-shore engineer, the financial downside is lower, and besides what can I really do about it since they don't live near an office?

All caveats apply, of course. It kinda depends on how bad it is with each worker.

Worth mentioning, by the way, that many professional off/near-shoring agencies have offices that the workers can work from -- often a necessity if home internet is not available or stable in their countries. So while these workers remain remote to YOU, they're presumably getting the benefit of being without the distraction of home, and the opportunity to collaborate and build relationships with colleagues in-person.
It's a threat to many workers imo, just like autonomous machine were to the workers during the industry revolution, and later with the factories moving to China. Many people suffered from unemployment and the solution so far have been solved by creating new needs and new jobs, as well as policies such as social security.

But with the externalization of intelectual work (which happen without IA, for ex. India tech) I wonder if such solution is possible.
I don't care about Rust but calling a whole community with tens or hundreds of thousands of people toxic will generally get a downvote from me.
Source: https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/secure-design... (3 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43033450
The distinction in this particular case is that Rust tried to "downvote" a lkml discussion to get code merged. No one much cares about rendering color in HN comments, except to the extent that we're having this discussion (which you found valuable enough to contribute to!) in an invisible flagged subthread because Rust people don't want to have it, apparently.

It's just tiresome. And it boiled over here, because no matter how enthusiastic the Rust people can be their youthful exuberance pales in influence in comparison with the the talent and impact of the Linux Kernel maintainers. And the resulting tantrum shows it.
https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/csv-mode.html ;) (M-x csv-align-fields)
> why can't we have less weirdos that make money

When they do, you don't hear from them/about them as much! Chuck Feeney gave away his billions, but he's hardly ever mentioned.
I use phind and find the new features to be overly verbose.

The flow chart diagrams rarely give me any insight and often only confuse the point, or just clutter the answer, drowning out the pertinent details.

The code editor actually makes it so you are unable to even see or copy the code. I assume this is intentional kneecapping to encourage paying for your monthly service?

Instead, I now just have to prepend to every question I ask:

“Only answer using plaintext, avoid using your code editor and diagram features:”.

(Hilariously this prepend prompt method was suggested by phind itself when I angrily asked “how do I shut off all of these new features?!”)

Which is an additional hassle for me, but so be it.

When I ask it to write me a SELECT statement it upsets me that it is burning unnecessary fossil fuels to give me a flow chart of reasoning through SQL querying pipelines.

Perhaps the feature is meant for people who are unsure what they want, but for me, I just want the answer with links to sources in the least verbose way possible.

I’d appreciate a checkbox that I could click to just get a straightforward answer.

(Also, side note, I only use the free tier and there is a limited number of free uses for some larger models, and when you use those freebies it gives a countdown for “until uses refresh” and when that countdown finishes the uses fail to reset, only the countdown itself resets. Which is fine, I accept that I only use the freely offered model, previously “instant” currently “70B”, with its clear flaws, but it’s just another frustrating UI feature that seems to fail to live up to its promises so I am, again, just confused why it’s there?)
Incremental Archival from Postgres to Parquet for Analytics
It just summarized this page and included a few of the images.

[1] https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/atproto