skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are too young to have lived through SCO and Halloween documents.
I recently ran a search on Google. There were zero results on the first page. It was 100% ads. (15” MacBook).

I tried a different search on iPhone to be sure. The first result was on the 3rd screen.

When did they start doing that? How do people use that crap?
I expect you are rage-baiting, but just in case you are not...

Even if you consider the hardware "tech jewelry", isn't it strictly better to have a way to run Linux on it instead of sending it to landfill? Seems silly to exclude a particular set of hardware from consideration for arbitrary reasons?
There is a real tension between equality and equity, and federal discrimination law was written in an era that favored the former.
Good idea, I think the Salesforce tower in SF cost $1-2B.

Are there any countries for sale other than the USA?
Discussion (104 points, 20 hours ago, 66 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43033971
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna185569

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2024/01/09/elon-mus...
>so there is broad bipartisan support for more time to find an acquirer,

Huh? No such law has passed congress.
Narrow Leverage: How Small Strengths Create Big Power
> Congress was so willing to act directly against the interests of more than half of Americans

National security is in the interest of all the Americans
The DNA idea and the LLM idea are separate things. The DNA idea is about controlling people. The LLM idea is about hyping an insanely computationally intensive technology with tons of hype and generalized excitement but few (no?) successful commercial applications. The man sells computers. If he can convince the government it's a strategic imperative that we do the AI real good, he just sold a whole lot of it. It's Web 3.0 2.0.
> For example, you can do research into a person named "Adam Smith-Connor" who was literally convicted for standing in public while introspectively praying silently. The conduct of standing while appearing to pray was deemed as a form of illegal protest too near an abortion clinic.

Those people are not trying to genuinely prey, but to intimidate women considering or wanting to get an abortion.

> There are also well documented incidents in the UK involving the prosecution of people making remarks online, which could arguably cross into thought-crime territory.

On this I agree.
Okay genuinely, what stops billionaires from cashing out their assets? At some point, I really wouldn't care about getting another few billion from holding onto some asset, so I wouldn't mind just having that in liquid cash. Granted, I know you can't just have one bank account, but why not just spread it over thousands of bank accounts?
Speaking for myself, I want my code to be usable by everyone, including corporations, for free, with no limits. I even like to drop the attribution clause that things like MIT have.

Both copyleft and copyright (to a lesser extent) are in opposition to my beliefs and goals.
I'm looking forward to seeing the source! How long have you been working on it?
>Bring solutions. Tech debt is just OpEx to everyone else.

What if there was a rust compiler to C, that produced like readable, compliant C code for the kernel. And then developers that want to work in rust can publish their original rust code to some third party location, so the reviewers have no idea if the C code they receive it was originally written in rust or not.
> It does not take away that this feels pretty unnecessarily hostile, as Neal already informed him to work with the packager to resolve this: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/12586. It is not clear if the reporter actually ever did.

Just providing context here, this is what one of the OBS maintainers said in Brodie Robertson's video [1] about this issue:

> Hi, Joel from OBS here, thanks for the coverage! I can confirm that we absolutely did not want to have to resort to this, but did not feel that they were taking the concerns seriously, and when they resorted to calling us "terrible maintainers" we felt they made their position clear. I'd like to also let folks know that Neal Gompa (who opened the request to remove the Flatpak in addition to ours) manages the RPM, and we do not, and have not, ever had any issues with the RPM which is packaged properly.

With that in context, I'd like to believe while still a bit hostile, it was necessary since they really didn't care about what's being asked here.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJJvq3dpylM
Could I tag @dang moderator for asking removing flag?
Here is their own presser on it: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/tackling-ai-security-risk...
I'm not sure there's much really stopping 51 members of the Senate from ramming through a rule-change to completely do away with the filibuster.
It's also a dupe. Doesn't matter if they were eventually flagged, there was already a bunch of views, upvotes, and discussion. Flagging after awhile is annoying, but also discussion devolves. It's not nothing tho. All is not lost. Stuff moves fast around here. And discussion continues there also as ppl follow the links.
Only 25% of Democrats want TikTok banned vs 38% of republicans, it's the opposite of a coup with the President siding with the opposing party. Politicians of all colors are reading the room. Not hearing Democrat politicians calling for an immediate TikTok ban.

Is lack of federal enforcement of anti-marijuana laws a coup too?
From a different store? From a piracy site? From a friend or family member? From a different retailer? By breaking the encryption?

Perhaps the other people didn't miss the point at all.
Which means they can't explain interface semantics?
I don’t think your problem has anything to do with Ada itself. You’d have the same issues using Rust or Go or Swift or Zig or whatever - if you make heavy use of C++’s features, it can make interop with other languages harder
I’m not part of the Rust community, but I imagine it’s similar to Swift’s in that most of its members have day jobs as corporate devs.

Most of them at some point have been stung by finding a library that perfectly solves their problem, only to notice that it’s licensed GPLv3 (or similar) and thus the legal dept won’t let them touch it with a ten foot pole (and/or interfacing with that dept is not worth the bother). They’d rather not put others in that predicament and want their work to be useful to as wide of a spectrum of devs as possible.
> How is this different from tesseract and friends?

The workflow is for digitizing historical printed documents. Think conserving old announcements in blackletter typesetting, not extracting info from typewritten business documents.
> I don’t think Trump ignoring the law is the answer or the right way to go about this, but I’ll take it for now if it keeps TikTok around.

I don't really know what to say anymore. Like literally just staring at this comment and realizing how utterly cooked we are as a country.
This tool says it includes a workflow GUI and refinement tools, like creating work-specific text recognition models - maybe the others do too? tesseract isn’t packaged with a GUI, but is wrapped by many.

This project seems focused on making tools more accessible and helping the user be more efficient and organized
> so there is broad bipartisan support for more time to find an acquirer, including Biden saying he won't enforce it on the last day in office.

It’s tempting to view this as “support”, but a simpler explanation is that it was just pragmatic to wait one additional day for the incoming administration to carry out enforcement actions.

That one-day delay was neither a miscarriage of justice nor was it a political statement. It was just timing.

Really, we should ask why on earth congress decided that the 19th of January was the deadline.
But without six different AI-enabled VSCode forks to choose from, how would I ever write software?
Directories are getting more and more popular and people are making money from them. Have you created one or thought about it.

What is stopping you? I wrote a blog on why you should create one with your knowledge and resources.
Discussion (128 points, 1 day ago, 64 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43022307
Lol. At least I don’t see runtime JS converting the font to courier new from system, but this burns my eyes to hell.

Edit: your post about spamming spammers made me chuckle
I agree with it (at least Calc, which is what I use most) being sluggish and having bad UX. But it’s free (with a donation option I use). LibreOffice could do with some polish.
Stop giving platitudes - answer the question, or don't bother replying to me at all.
Congress can pass a law removing the exception for the extension in the bill they already passed. There is zero appetite for such a law.
Now shuttered CFPB its primary mission which was then to protect consumers’ money from fraud, waste, and abuse … by the US government.
really interesting read!
Americans can’t vote in other countries. What would Americans want to bring to other countries? A shitty expensive health care system?

I fully plan to learn more than the little Spanish I know if I move.
These are awful sources, and they clearly aren't scientific, but are expressions of opinion. Wish casting, even. They're playing the old cynical same word games that are required to hold this position:

"Modern genetics has established that the biological basis of most phenotypic traits typically associated with race, such as skin color and hair texture, has demonstrated that they transcend ancestry across vast geographic distances spanning continents."

The fact that the above is also true of genes that cross species lines is, presumably, not an argument that 'species' is a purely social construct with no foundation in biology.

Another asserts that humans can't be divided into subspecies, ergo race doesn't exist. That is not science, it's wordplay.

Populations of humans were separated for millennia with very little intermixing. These populations diverged genetically, to the degree that the descendants of one population can easily be visually distinguished from one another. These groups have fuzzy edges, but they are obviously, undeniably rooted in biological reality.
He seems to have a pretty good grasp of the average commenter here, I don't know what your problem is with him exercising his free speech rights on his own website to deal with people he feels that way about.
New Irish 'unicorn' as Tines raises €121M at valuation of €1.1B
I think it's clear we both know that but for the sake of the commenter arguing the two things are different, it's does not help to simply say they the same without giving example, no?
I wonder about the global statistics of sorted data... Is the most common number of elements to sort zero? Certainly less than ten?

What about the median? Two elements to sort? One? Zero again?
Not sure where you saw this, as that was also my argument why Flatpak gave "application developers are in control of the release cycle" again instead of this being the packager; they can't perform the same quality control.

They should never package what rpmfusion offers, or distribute a new flatpak when something is already available. That worked when flathub didn't exist or was mostly empty, but that time is gone now.

Note: I want to understand what led to the comment of the C&D-like legal threat.
I’ve worked in several professions, with dev being the longest— I’ve encountered more bullshit and incompetence from devs than any other industry I’ve worked in except for tech support. I’ve heard developers saying they’ll simply ‘pivot’ if the big productivity machine eats up their corner of the dev market. Oof… They’re looking at a rude awakening when they see how preciously developers are treated compared to most other employed adults, and how badly they underestimated the unseen complexities in other people’s jobs.
The post that claimed they blog with "raw HTML" was sending markdown to the front-end with a bunch of javascript for an entire markdown engine that then converted it to HTML

This post claims they blog with raw txt files but it's just really bare HTML with a <pre> tag for the text.

But browser can display .txt files. Both of these posts claim they do something that's simple to do and then don't do it.

Also I'm gonna call it here before it happens. The next post is gonna be "I blog with raw pdfs" and they're gonna ship a whole React SPA with some library that lets you embed a pdf display. It's probably gonna use a metaframework like Next.js for absolutely no reason. Instead of you know... just serving the f'n pdf file
Challenge of Going Without Coffee
My Professor dreams died years ago. I’m just trying to survive this hell.
I think there's still appeal in the underlying (very) basic ideas of trying to create a workplace that's comfortable for everyone.

It's doing more harm than good: https://x.com/stevemur/status/1621680046317654016

Color Blindness is better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxB3b7fxMEA

It sets up people for failure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97R3z2ofuYk

Its origins are Marxist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbby7yFrIxM
I didn’t say we do nothing, it’s just the next step doesn’t have to be invasive testing.

Obviously the particulars are going to come down to the specific test, but you could be looking at a set of MRIs, repeated a few weeks apart to determine, firstly if it is a false positive, and secondly, how aggressive it seems to be.

In other cases it might be just repeating the test periodically and watching out for other symptoms. We do this with cervical screenings for example, since it’s quite a slow moving disease, where a low grade result will just result in you being put on a more frequent testing pathway.

It has been suggested that we should move to a similar protocol with prostate testing too, where a high PSA shouldn’t result in any immediate action unless there are other symptoms, but rather the test should be repeated periodically to
monitor how the numbers are changing.

Now, that’s not to say you should do all tests. The test could still be pointless (i.e. there are no actions one can take in response to the result either way) or ,more commonly, simply not cost effective. However I fundamentally do not agree that more information itself is harmful, it’s just our response to it that’s lacking and that should be improved.
Well I certainly don't use linux because it's written in C. Who would?

Edit: This seems like more of an indication of a culture that lacks effective conflict resolution than any kind of technical question.
Those two as well as

> Flathub maintainers are sometimes just bad at maintaining their packages, and, well...
Actually there's a primary on June 24th. I think today was the cutoff to register as Democrat to participate in the closed primary though.
Learning Assembly for Fun and Profit
Right. Like I always say — you can create a simple solution to any complex problem if you ignore enough pertinent factors.
Somehash: A Blurhash Inspired Exploration
We would love to hear feedback from the larger developer/hacker community! Insights into what services within the cloud are used most and what services you would like covered are very useful to us. First scan is on us, so you can take Kloudle for a spin and see for yourself!
VA dismisses more than 1k employees
If that were truly the case they would pass another law overturning the ban.
Other recent submissions:

Tesla is suing drivers who complain about their cars after accidents and winning https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43037038 - today (3 comments)

Chinese car journos told not to be neg. on Tesla as it sues customers and media https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43028629 - yesterday (0 comments)

Parents were injured in a Tesla crash. She ended up having to pay Tesla damages https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43022307 - 2 days ago (63 comments)
I'm with you -- that much yearly income is more than enough to retire on, after one year.

Yes, one can argue that the world is (today) set up such that these numbers aren't huge, to which my response would be that today's world is badly mis-calibrated along the axis of income inequality.
> It’s tempting to view this as “support”, but a simpler explanation is that it was just pragmatic to wait one additional day for the incoming administration to carry out enforcement actions

The Biden administration was specifically looking for ways to keep TikTok running during the last days.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-administrat...

Only 25% of democrats want TikTok banned. The Biden admin didn't want to be blamed for shutting down TikTok.
You're doing great, keep it up!
More shots fired at Linus (justifiably so) https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/6e3e26c7-002a-49c6-a3a8-1cc1b89...
And that was built into the law that if there was a potential buyer, it could be postponed. There is no potential buyer.

> They know a lot of Americans depend on it for livelihood and entertainment.

Yes because President Musk has showed real concerns about putting people out of work
https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~yzsun/classes/2014Spring_CS7280/Pap...
Prices seem to have risen a bit since I bought mine. Here's a similar model with a Ryzen 5 7530U for $355: https://www.ebay.com/itm/156626070024 It is certified refurbished and has a two year warranty. It has a SODIMM slot and supports dual SSDs, although not the full size M.2.
> FACILITATING ACCESSIBILITY IN STEM AT TWO-YEAR COLLEGES -THIS PROJECT AIMS TO SERVE THE NATIONAL INTEREST BY PROVIDING SCIENCE AND MATH FACULTY WITH PRACTICAL SKILLS TO TEACH STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES AT TWO-YEAR COLLEGES.

Get rid of this woke shit!!! And get rid of those WOKE PARKING SPACES too!!!!
The people most likely to offer that service are the same people most likely to ferment useless conflict.
The lack of write endurance on these would make these chips throwaway after some amount of use. As much as the performance characteristics would be excellent, I really hope we don't go down the path of building GPU ASICs which will eventually totally cease to function when their NAND arrays fail. I'd hope they would then fall back to functioning without NAND, but there's almost no chance modern corporations would care about supporting their ability to function after that happens... if we do this, parts of computing history will be very difficult to preserve long term. And I know Apple is already doing this. sigh.
I feel that, I went back to truenas for the simplicity.

This 5 disk pool started from the freebsd truenas, to Debian, to nixos, back to linux truenas.

And the disks where bumped from 2TB to 12Tb
Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-14/apple-to-...
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43043250)
Unless they are refusing to cook a cake for a gay couple…

Look up “no duty to deal”.
> Diverse democracies never succeed

May be I get this wrong. This sounds like a bold statement. Switzerland, Canada, Belgium but also India are multi-lingual or even multi-ethnic democracies. They know tensions but they are not failed.
I’m a little surprised by this action because the White House can’t protect platforms from state charges. There are plenty of state laws on the books that make violation of federal law a state law violation as well. I suppose the calculation is that no state AGs will want to wade in?
Maybe someday you will be able code in c or whatever language and have AI convert the entire codebase to assembly in 15 seconds.
Do elections make it ok that elected officials are just ignoring laws wholesale?
When I worked support, they didn't even have a priority system (it was C2B, so there weren't necessarily enterprise customers. That did come later, with LiveChat and all it's joys). Instead, we had a 24hr expected turnaround and harder tickets would naturally filter to the top. Tickets that had reached near that point had a higher weight, which went towards your metrics/"leaderboard status". To dissuade gaming of the system, ongoing replies were assigned to an agent (you wouldn't give a half-assed reply and then hope for someone else to clean it up) and were exempted from the bonuses (so were one standard ["fresh"] ticket each).

Obviously, there was some oversight from managers, but overall it worked pretty well.
My dad got a chemistry PhD in the mid 1950s. He said that by that point, it was already widely known that most PhDs would have no chance of landing an academic position. He went into industry and had a good career.

I got my PhD in physics, in the mid 90s. Same story.
what government policies are causing ALL companies right now to fire everyone who is not a white male? :)
Tagging / @mentions don't trigger anything unless a mod happens to see it (which is rare / unlikely, given the volume of posts every day). However, you can email the staff: hn@ycombinator.com.

Be sure to include your reasoning for what is wrong with or unfair about the tag and why the story warrants special treatment.
DEI means illegal hiring quotas.
Not to discount the valid theories other have touted but… there’s a reason he is described as a “popularist”. He has always had a certain level of savvy, I think he knows TikTok is popular and he looks good if he’s the saviour of it. Doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.
If we’re doing recommendations I’d like to know what everyone is using for handwriting
I think that there's potentially a couple of things at play here:

Taken literally, the idea of a "thin blue line" protecting society from chaos has some authoritarian overtones.

It's a slogan that tends to be used to simply dismiss problems like police brutality. That is to say, it comes across less like a difference in policy position and more like indifference to the suffering of others.

The political faction that it's associated with, i.e. MAGA, is currently in the process of attempting to purge anyone with a worldview that they dislike from public society.

All of those factors creates a situation where it is difficult for those who use signifiers like "thin blue line" to practically operate simply as "people who happen to be conservative" as opposed to "people who represent an irreconcilable threat to people they disagree with".
Gilfoyle (Silicon Valley character) vibes
Great story and interesting product!

Reminds me of NextMv [1] loved their episode on SWE daily. Can anyone compare them to this and how they’re doing?

[1]: https://www.nextmv.io/
I think the end game is that people that realize they have to live on this planet will disconnect from the grid (because it is cheaper) and use that waste electricity for direct atmospheric carbon capture (because terraforming is our only remaining viable path forward).

If that means the grids go bankrupt and default on payments to the fossil fuel industry, then I will try to pretend to be very sad for at least 60 seconds.

The group of people that will ultimately benefit from this includes just about everyone except the octogenarian plutocrats that are actively accelerating climate change.

Maybe once they die off there will be some financial incentives to help repair the atmosphere (assuming life extension technology doesn’t doom all of us to living with their immortality).
Removing the ultrasonic parking sensors was a downgrade, but removing the radar wasn't. The vision stack was consistently superior to the radar at the time they stopped including them; today it's leagues ahead. Even if you have an older Tesla with a radar sensor, it's been disabled in software because the camera-derived data is so much better.

The scary thing about radar is how terrible the raw data is, and how utterly compromised the filtered data is. Stationary objects have to get substantially filtered out when driving at high speeds, otherwise false positives would be unacceptably common. This affects all brands of car with radar.

This shouldn't be surprising. Subaru managed to jank together Eyesight using a couple of cameras and an in-house team, and they were able to make it outperform radar in most respects. Unfortunately they didn't think to make it self-calibrating, so it requires a trip to the dealership any time you replace the windscreen.
What’s an example of a statement where I “know everything about flu viruses”?