skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hi! It looks like you might have come from Hacker News.

> Asahi Linux developers are frequent targets of abuse on Hacker News. Despite our pleas, the moderators have not taken effective action to improve the situation.

> Overtly hateful content is often flagged on HN and not immediately visible. Unfortunately, when a comment is flagged and killed, its child subthread is not. That preserves the 'clean' image of the website, but the reduced moderation activity enables abuse to continue. Although you don't see those threads, search engines do. HN uniquely has a high page rank and low moderation, making it a prime target for bad actors to poison search results with abuse, bigotry, and nastiness. This isn't low-level trolling, but an organized attempt to destroy lives, including of developers in our communities.

> Please demand change within your community.
Thats what regulatory capture does. The enforcement of everyone must buy your product, and you are not allowed to directly shop for who provides your insurance. Insurance is one of the least free markets in the US. Insurance companies are the ones that cry "if only this was more regulated"
Check out PocketBook for an alternative.
Efficiency of Ada should be pretty close to C, but that strange thing Ada does where you define your own numeric types like

type Day_type is range 1 .. 31;

creeps me out a little, it makes me think I have to throw Hacker's Delight [1] in the trash if I want to use it but I could be wrong. It makes me think of the the deep history of computing, where there were a few straggler architectures (like the PDP-10 [2]) that didn't use the 8-bit byte were around and when Knuth wrote a set of programming books based on an instruction set that wasn't necessarily binary.

(Lately I was thinking about making a fantasy computer that could be hosted in Javascript which was going to be RISC but otherwise totally over the top, like there would be bitwise addressing like the PDP-10. First I wanted it to be 24 bit but then I figured I could pack 48 bits in a double so I might as well. It even would have a special instruction for unpacking UTF-8 characters and a video system intended for mixing latin and CJK characters. Still boils down to an 8-bit byte but like the PDP-10 it could cut out 11-bit slices or whatever you want. I was going to say screw C but then I figured out you could compile C for it)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker%27s_Delight

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-10
That could be X or Reddit for that matter. Yet no one talks about Reddit the same way.
It can also hurt in some situations. I have absolute pitch, and used to sing in a choir. Sometimes the director would decide to use a different key than the one written on the sheet music, which meant that I’d have to transpose in my head in real time.
>In a PhD program you are given unlimited resources to make that happen.

Did you ignore almost every other comment in this thread when you wrote this?
To further feed these tortured analogies, your car is rusted and has no wheels. Replacing the transmission is pointless and it's time to send it to the wreckers and get a new car.
Magic Eight Ball says: Next Press Conference.

Party boy Hegseth, coming down from his recent re-renaming of Fort Bragg (but not that Bragg this time) will take a swig from this news and link it to the woke agenda sapping the fluids from the 'merican men.
Rather than, or at least in addition to, raw measured speed on a specific piece of hardware, which is often affected in hard to understand ways by niche optimisation choices and nuances of specific hardware, I actually really like the choice to report how many comparisons your algorithm needed.

For example Rust's current unstable sort takes ~24 comparisons on average for each of 10^7 truly random elements to sort them all, but if instead all those elements are chosen (still at random) from only 20 possibilities, it only needs a bit more than five comparisons regardless of whether there are 10^3 elements or 10^7.

Unlike "On this Intel i6-9402J Multi Wazoo (Bonk Nugget Edition) here are my numbers" which is not very useful unless you also have the i6-9402J in that specific edition, these comparison counts get to a more fundamental property of the algorithm that transcends micro architecture quirks which will not matter next year.
Oooh I did miss that! Shit.
I hear you. I come here because there are often interesting articles about new tech coming out. But reading the comments around here really depresses me sometimes. This is the last bit of social media I consume these days, but it’s probably best for my mental health to stop HN too.
My younger brother has his phd in engineering from a top tier university and I often worry about what it will mean for his career long term. He’s at a consulting firm now, but I’m not really sure where he’ll go next. He’s incredibly intelligent and hard working, but I’m unsure what firms are looking for engineers that have the phd price tag.

I also have many friends with humanities phds that I really hope figure something out. They are all extremely intelligent. But one is literally getting a phd in Shakespeare. Cool. I love it. But there’s like 3 openings a year and they aren’t even at a top tier school. It’s all a mess.
Doesn't explain the technical why it can't be fixed. Everywhere seems like another PR post. Anyone has a more detailed explanation?
You don’t see it because we’re all back in the gated community of AOL, but rather than clicking on an icon to a community you click a Google search result.
Easiest way to pay off Musk and his DOGE.
Where will personal AI's be talking to each other?
I’ve been automating B2B communication for about 10 years now. With LLMs, this function is reaching a completely new level, and I’m actively pursuing that opportunity.

The idea that the future will be a bunch of AIs talking to each other has been mentioned by many AI leaders. But I wonder—where will that happen? Will someone need to build a protocol or connection layer to facilitate it?

I currently believe the answer is simple: Email. It’s the most established and widely used protocol for exchanging information. The norms are already set by humans, and I see no reason to move elsewhere.

The key challenge, then, is configuring your AI to follow your own rules.

What do we think? Is that right?
Calling it a cyberattack is hyperbole. Lost objectivity points from the outset.
Though the post doesn't touch on "community configs", it does touch on "the ten most popular configs", which would seem to be similar enough for this discussion.
I'd happily drive a minivan because they are better than small pickups, SUVs and crossovers in many ways but they're boring and thats the mold they're trying to fill. If someone broke that mold then maybe they'd find people like the utilitarian appeal of the minivan but want a little bit more than the bare necessities of hauling children.

Ad hominem attacks against fellow posters is very anti-HN.
The existential dread he might have felt after realizing this suddenly would be palpable.
That sounds awfully generic. It doesn't sound that different from a Master's (heck, maybe even an undergrad) program that requires a thesis. Yes, there's a difference in the sense of supposedly doing novel research, but I'm not sure the degree to which you're theoretically moving the state of the art forward justifies your time investment in many cases.
Unfortunately they never are.
> I'm not one of the people that has been concerned about that, but I'm curious to what extent this alleviates those concerns among those that have had them.

I am, it's mind-blowing to me that anyone would login to a search engine (yes, I know how many do it, now).

After a brief verification of the system, I'm pretty sure I'll sign up, now
>You also can't convince me 0 out of 1000 google employees are capable of taking on a spam prevention role.

Similarly, you can't convince me that laying off 6 people would make any difference (let alone solve) any of the spam, bot, or content creator relations issues. So I guess we're at an impasse.
> Most of those people probably aren't learning from professors who spend their whole day teaching and doing research, and that kind of activity can only be supported by a relatively wealthy society.

Nope, as your next sentence says, they're learning off forums, Stack Overflow, YouTube and ChatGPT like the rest of us. :P
> Could civil rights advocates use anti-DEI laws to sue on behalf of vulnerable minorities

I am with you that morally you can either say that discrimination on the basis of protected characteristics is either always wrong or not always wrong. I also tend to believe that wealth is now a more salient determinant of social outcome than race, and using race as a proxy for class is a missed opportunity.

On the narrow point you brought up, though, DEI discrimination isn’t commutative. It explicitly discriminates against the majority group. Of course, where the sausage gets made is what groups are selected against and how they are defined.
Of course the purpose of DEI was not to benefit companies but to encourage equitable and fair treatment of disadvantaged and minority groups within an otherwise systemically white supremacist capitalist framework.

Also, of course, companies were never taking it seriously, and everyone knew this. But if companies were left entirely to their own devices they would still be paying in company scrip and shooting unionists in the head. Even forcing them to pretend to have ethics is better for society as a whole than nothing.
ROBLOX BLOX FRUIT
Is it considered a sockpuppet when it's the worms themselves posting?

The Department of Health has indeed done a profound amount of damage to the worm community, as well as the wider infectious disease community, over the past thirty years.
Everyday Chemistry – Unreleased Beatles Album from Alternate Universe by Unknown
I remember stumbling onto this album a long time ago. It's really well done and the story that came with the release was pretty awesome as well. You should be able to find it on the net, and the Wikipedia page has a good description.

I don't know why I thought of it today but I did... here's a youtube link of the first song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz8c_ZOI6wg
Seems like LM² would have made more sense in that case.
Or L²M²
Or LLMM
Why? The Democrats are on track to not see the inside of the executive office for the next 12 years. If the Trump term is moderately popular and he anoints a successor like Vance, it will be pretty unlikely the Democrats will win for 12 years. Democrats are really unmoored here and they have an insanely weak platform. I also generally think DEI, race based stack ranking and identity politics are widely unpopular. So I don't think you will see these pages come back broadly.
> I currently believe the answer is simple: Email.

IRC: "What am I, chopped liver?"
is nouveau written in Rust?
Glad every video automatically full screened on iOS
Also, if you're not from the USA, you're more likely to associate it with the beloved Rowan Atkinson sitcom.
If you haven't noticed, people are forgoing the H1B and just remoting them in for $40k.
america is black&white - there is just never gray. affirmative action, dei… all these programs come from “a good place” so-to-speak but america is not capable of making a sensible policy. blame the two-party system who knows nothing more than to kill whatever policies other side puts in place. so each side goes overboard as it knows every policy has a shelf-life. some longer than others but eventually they all die.

and to answer your question, I think these policies were supposed to be impactful for us as society more so than for companies…
My brother tests for it in wastewater and they told the state and the state said to keep it quiet. -.-

It's one of these green states.

https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/wwd-h5.html
Thank you for innovating. I am a subscriber and use phind daily and I've noticed the improvements.

Is there any way I can provide feedback or contribute feature ideas/requests? I've got some things I'd like to share if your team is prepared for the feedback.
Whole-genome sequencing gives me more information about my health than I had before. Being ignorant is not risk free.
No, I think they meant that removing legacy admissions will result in fewer white guys getting admitted, but that’s ok.
Indeed. I'm particularly getting concerned about co-infection leading to genes being swapped - short-circuiting the evolution needed to adapt to humans. The CDC reported this year's flu season is at the highest levels since 2009 [0]. A CDC study released in November showed ~7% of dairy workers who participated had evidence of recent H5N1 infection. Now we find out that the D1.1 variant that killed a person in Louisiana and sent a teenager in Canada into a coma is in cows [2]. That variant has the PB2 D701N mutation that's associated with mammalian adaptation.

I've been following this thing since February 2023, and it for sure feels like it's getting closer. I see you too are paying attention - cheers.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flu-levels-highest-since-2009-p...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7344a3.htm

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/health/bird-flu-cattle-nevada...
Upstreaming to linux-zen might work, not a kernel dev tho.
I don't know what's going on behind the scenes at Apple, but my Halide Camera app (by Lux) bought using a different App Store account stopped working when that account is logged out as well.

(It's a different country's account, so merging purchases between accounts wouldn't work.)

Halide's support attributed this to a recent change with how the App Store works.
There's nothing much to it. Jamie Zawinski just doesn't think highly of Venture Capital etc. He thinks that the first tech boom ruined San Francisco and he thinks that Paul Graham is terrible. That's pretty much it.

Considering that I've spent many a night at Bootie SF (back when it was at DNA Lounge) on too many drugs or alcohol to respond to on-call issues, it's entirely possible that he had more power over tech than it had over his life.

Like many people in San Francisco, he is an intelligent guy with great will to power and eccentric views.
"We ﬁnd that for smaller n≲ 262144, JesseSort is slower than Python’s default sort."
> So we should put believers in obviously crackpot theories in charge of physics departments?

Quantum mechanics didn't really gain ascendancy until the old guard of physicists died off. There are examples in every field. Like hand washing for surgeons. Like digital cameras vs film. Like personal computers vs mainframes. Automobiles vs horses. Democracy vs monarchy. Aircraft carriers vs battleships.

I don't know much about RFK. But disruption now and then in conventional ways of doing things is often for the better.
1. The pregnant man emoji proposal was submitted to the Unicode Consortium in March 2019, during Trump's first presidency.

2. Even if this goofy example was true, how is that at all equivalent to donating $1M to a Presidential inauguration, attending that inauguration, and resuming business with a company owned by a man with extremely close ties to that presidency?

This is classic "both sides" brain. It's nonsense on stilts.
This feels like hyperbole. Nobody is arguing to destroy the village, the federal government is not going to disappear due to 20% spending reduction. Reducing spending from ~$6T/year to ~$4T/year is not the end of government, which is the explicitly stated goal of DOGE.
I am just thinking there might be other better ways to preserve user's search privacy: using LLM embeddings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_embedding).

The browser creates embeddings of user query, then send the embeddings to the server.

To complete a search, the server is a machine and it does not really need text to understand what a user want. A series of numbers, like LLM embeddings, are totally fine (actually it might even be better, because embeddings map similar words closely, like Duck and Bird have similar embeddings).

On the privacy side, LLM embeddings are a bunch of numbers. Even the embeddings are associated with a user, other people cannot make meaning out of the embeddings. Therefore the user's privacy is preserved.

What do you think?
Assuming the cryptography does what they say it does (am not a cryptography expert, so I can't verify that part), this would completely disjoin a search request from any account info. The account generates several "search tokens", and for each search request, one of those tokens is spent. The tokens are generated on-device, and until spent, never leave the device, so in theory there's no way for Kagi to know which account generated the token just from the token alone. This doesn't fix fingerprinting or IP associations (though the plugin for Firefox and Chrome supposedly takes efforts to try and limit fingerprinting too), but this isn't any better/worse than simply using Google or Duckduckgo, and functions on Tor if you really want some privacy.

Again, not sure on how the tokens are proven legit without ever sharing them, but there's probably some ~~zero-knowledge proof~~ stuff going on that covers that.

Edit: Not zero-knowledge proof. Seems to be Blind Signature?
All incredible points, but academia still doesn't appeal to people like me in the slightest. The hierarchy, the bureaucracy, the various costs, the unreliable supposed rewards, none of it was even remotely appealing enough to do an undergraduate, let alone a masters and then a PhD. Funny thing is, the hierarchy, the bureaucracy, the various costs, the unreliable supposed rewards, related to industries of technology, art, music, culture, essentially the exact same environment, did and do, and I've happily paid (in money, blood, sweat and tears) to participate in those.

I wonder what it is exactly that makes the same exact thing appealing wearing one outfit versus the other.

I feel like if we can solve that, we can restore some kind of respect for and desire for "academia", which seems like it's very much fallen out of vogue in culture lately.
> Musk clearly learned his lesson. Since then, he’s been lying low, out of the public eye, and refraining from any sort of controversial statements or actions. He barely even tweets anymore.

Is this satire? I honestly can’t tell.
It does use arm64 and neon instructions, and talks a bit about macOS specific Accelarate.framework functions. not totally unrelated.
Training Your Own AI Model Is Not as Hard as You (Probably) Think
We likely aren’t going to be able to find a local or global optimum. But whatever it is one thing is for sure; a bunch of ill informed decision makers with no experience or expertise on the matter who come in and make sweeping changes are far more likely to cause great harm than good.
I did buy a print copy of House Of Leaves, but most every other ebook I couldn't care less about the 'formatting', it's just chapter titles and text. Maybe a textbook with diagrams would be different, but I would guess most Kindle purchases are novels etc?
Please enlighten me why is this even a question on a language survey. I take many languages survey when they show up and Rust is the only one asking this.
Wouldn't it be STT-LLM-RAG-TTS
> What's different now is that Trump is trying to consolidate much more power in the Executive branch

He's doing the exact opposite, shutting down and shrinking departments to reduce the power of the executive branch.
> listen to a tuning fork at A = 440 for 10 minutes a day

The people who impress me are those who can count cycles and identify/sing A440 vs. A415 (perhaps for a Baroque ensemble), different temperaments, etc.
I think there are a variety of tools like LibreOffice, GIMP, and various more minor things that have mostly been developed after-hours or completely outside of corporate developers but they're almost certainly in the minority when it comes to major projects. (And one can reasonably argue that those two examples aren't especially successful.)
This is interesting. If nothing else to just have the visualization of the idea of how eyes evolved from a single light receptor. I've often heard of that in biology but this really makes the idea more tangible.
Hi there. I'm glad you enjoyed the NES module. :)
At least X has fact checking, you can go on r/all most days and find completely false content on the front page. Just a few days ago Reddit upvoted a post to the front page making fun of Elon for saying illegal immigrants can have SSN’s.

Reddit has no interest in fact checking or stopping hate so long as it’s popular
I have a 1440p 27" monitor. On my monitor, ClearType vs greyscale AA is the difference between acceptable text and stabbing your eyes out with a rusty spoon.

From what I can gather, 4k at 32", which is the typical size you get 4k panels at, is just 30% more pixel-dense.

I have strong doubts just 30% more density will somehow magically make grayscale AA acceptable.

If you know any good 27" 4k mixed-use (ie >= 144Hz, HDR) monitors I'm all ears.
I am a bit concerned that the primary channel of distribution of the paper is ResearchGate. I am somehow biased against taking it seriously because of this.
why does it need to be genuine? no one is really expecting corporations to be genuinely decent. regardless of the company's true intent, they were officially declaring a commitment which is then followed up on by action such as policy decisions, and that was done to attract talent and make it easier to do business in general.

What changed now is white supremacists took over the US government and the cost of doing business is higher when you support DEI.

Of course, everyone knows "DEI" really wasn't the point, "DEI" just means people who look different than those in power right now. Removal of DEI sends a message just as it's inclusion did.
... yet you've been living out of your car as your only shelter, and didn't think of where you're going to go before you gleefully called the wreckers.
Sublime Text supports displaying the column count instead of the character count via its selection_description_column_type setting (only useful when using tab indentation I suppose):

"virtual": Shows columns as they visually appear on screen. A tab character that displays as 4 spaces wide will count as 4 columns.

"real": Shows the actual number of characters. A tab is counted as 1 column regardless of its visual width.
Xiaomi SU7 Ultra Overtook Porsche Taycan Turbo GT at Shanghai Int'l Circuit
Then I personally feel you are just ignoring the constitution and separation of powers to suit your own immediate goals, rule of law be damned.

The republic is in mortal peril because of your attitude
It is truly sad that a stance on vaccines is somehow a political position. Fast-forward to 2030s where flat vs sphere is determined by an election.
Just when Ampere are exploring a sell. So realistically no one is actually competing in the ARM server CPU market other than HyperScaler making their own chip. Nvidia for whatever reason doesn't seem to want to enter the Server CPU market either.

So this is pretty much ARM doing it themselves.
Yeah, I'm a bit disappointed at how quickly the perception turned against OBS. Maybe I'm missing something, but their "threats" actually seem pretty reasonable: They asked Fedora to stop shipping a broken version of OBS/make it clear that the Fedora version is unofficial, they got absolutely no response for three weeks, then they requested that Fedora cease using the OBS trademarks. This is not like xscreensaver, this is much closer to Firefox/Iceweasel/etc.
I watched a 4K documentary on Netflix last night and my wife got sick of me complaining that it looked worse than a 720p YouTube video
The package was already updated before this post was made:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/flatpaks/obs-studio/history/co...

which reads:

```
end-of-life: The Fedora Flatpak build of obs-studio may have limited functionality compared to other sources. Please do not report bugs to the OBS Studio project about this build.
```
I don’t understand was to why this even needs to be a question on a language survey.