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Whoever's going to do the best job. Sometimes that's the distro packager, sometimes it's the upstream app developer. With complex applications with lots of dependencies and a large surface area for breakage between versions of dependencies, it's far more likely that the upstream developer will be in a position to do a good job than a distro packager who's responsible for 100 other packages, and maybe never actually uses the application, especially when they're constrained by distro policy on vendored dependencies or multiple library versions (which, like, I get the reason for, it sucks for a security fix to need applying in many different places, but it's a policy that will inevitably create bugs).

This is something which grates when reading the defense of Fedora's flatpak repo in the thread linked elsewhere in the comments, claiming that Fedora is going to package with much higher quality and more testing. I can believe that relative to some rando 3rd party on the internet, maybe (at least that rando probably has packaged it because they would like to use it personally), but relative to the developers themselves? I think that's pretty unlikely.
> We kept playing a cat and mouse game with the manufacturer to keep the platform open, only to see our efforts primarily used by people who just wanted to steal other people’s work, and very loudly felt entitled to it

#2 is the cause of #1.

Running commercial games for free has always been the killer application for jailbreaks/custom firmware for game systems. And game system emulators, for that matter.

It's sort of a perfect storm of gaming enthusiasts (particularly those with more free time than money) who want to run commercial games for free vs. companies like Nintendo who have an affinity for (overly) vigorous copyright and trademark enforcement, with jailbreak/custom firmware and emulator developers caught in the crossfire.
Me too, I'm not impressed with the interface tho.

It should be able to sniff the csv flavor before ingesting it.

Maybe it would be cool to tie the settings to the file path so that it simply opens /banana/2.csv assuming it is just like /banana/1.csv (skipping the dialog)
Correct, there is no unbiased state. It's also impossible to enforce one. It's impossible to perfectly define the combination of bias wavelengths for an individual or group, so it's impossible to define an inverse wavelength that objectively cancels it out. And in the futile attempt to enforce such a thing, you are going to generate enormous, justified animosity.

Being treated unfairly because of a well-meaning person's unconscious bias (which you can never even know for sure exactly when it's happening to you) is way less hideous than being treated unfairly out in the open by a correcting policy.

Secondarily: It's not a simple concept, and the condescending suggestion is unwelcome.
You can hate jwz as much as you want but the fact remains that probably 95% of ycombinator funded startups couldn't exist without making extensive use of the gpl, bsd, Apache and similar licensed software produced by a lot of open source curmudgeons and greybeards.

Many of whom share his same opinion on VCs and late stage capitalism.
"What's not to get? This is what privatization does. It's not for proper care of patients, it's for money to flow upwards to a single individual."

I get that they are maximizing profits. But why does the process have to be so clunky and complex? When I fly somewhere, I buy a ticket with the expectation of getting to my destination without much fuzz. My bags also usually get there without problem.

Translating the health care experience to flying, nobody could tell me how much the flight costs. After the flight I would get invoices from various baggage handlers which the airline would pay for or maybe not based on unknowable criteria. The copilot may be out of network so I would have to pay extra. The pilot may demand upfront payment. And so on.

My point is: Why can't this super expensive system not at least be a smooth experience? Like, you go to a doctor, they enter some data into a website and tell you how much it will cost. This shouldn't be hard to do.
What are countries that hire more fairly than the US? I don't think there are many. Not even semi-homogenous countries hire fairly. They'd be biased against age, sex, looks, height, region, accent, baldness, etc.

Japan, China, India, Germany, UK, South Africa? I don't think any of them are better than us at hiring fairly.

What I mean by avoiding bias, is don't use bigoted biases --of course we hire with a bias to further the team or company mission within the bounds of the law. Does that even have to be said?
No symptoms, isn't this a good thing?
Being similar to Kubernetes is nice and makes sense if your audience is familiar with Kubernetes but I can't grasp the advantage over Kubernetes. If you have to run agents on machines and pull artifacts from OCI registries, why not pull containers?

I can see clearly what you lose but not what you gain.

Their entire site seems to be "you want to run WASM apps and we're a great way to do that". But do I want to run WASM apps? Does anyone?
It's true that awful Deque implementations are often built from a linked list. If you're taught about big-O notation and haven't noticed how modern computers work you might even do that today.

I would expect that they're thinking of something more like Rust's VecDeque, so that's a conventional "growable array" (Rust's Vec, Java ArrayList, C++ std::vector) used internally with some head + tail tracking to form a circular buffer so as to deliver the Deque API (fast push to head or tail, fast pop from head or tail).
It would be historically extremely aberrational for this to materialize.
That's how I solved #3, still trying to reverse-engineer the correct solution.
Or the non-politically-loaded phrase that the sitcom is named for.
Eat cooked meat and vegetables, drink boiled water, and avoid contact with wild water sources and wild animals.

May parasites stay away from you.
As I read this, that executive order is only relevant if the DEI program would violate Federal anti-discrimination laws.
It can only be a for profit if the profit is for him.
Why would Larry want to change your behavior, or even think about you at all? Requiring such reciprocity as a prerequisite only hurts yourself making it less likely you’ll achieve change or at least the kind of changes you want.
why not? just tell them "if you don't like it, you can get a refund" (aka fuck off)
No physicians needed dying off for handwashing to become mainstream. We just said "Physicians: wash your fuckin hands or you don't get to be physicians anymore." and the problem largely went away.

Was there a lot of grumbling, whining, and bitching? Yeah probably. Who cares?

> But disruption now and then in conventional ways of doing things is often for the better.

"We need some disruption!" shout the people who (believe that they) will not suffer the consequences of disruption.
If you get more can't you disconnect from the grid? Then they can't stop you. You need batteries of course. Or stay connected with existing system and have more solar that is only connected to batteries separately, no grid.
Arithmetic is defined on range types. So day 30 + day 4 is 34, which if you then try to coerce into a day will throw an exception.
This is supported! You can use the https://www.phind.com/search?q=my+question syntax.
It’s weird because Trump emboldens the far left locally. Here in Seattle, we have some crazy city council members that can only get elected when Trump is President (it’s been drifting right since the end of Trump’s last term). Turns out leftist anarchy-liberal movements are fueled by rightist authoritarian-conservative movements as well. And some of us really want moderates running things, not extremists on either side.
Yes it's curious, that - it's an interesting story (although the comments aren't always thoughtful and substantive). Perhaps an email to mods is in order?
Immediately disabled it with Stylus FF addon, I don't see any reason for that progress bar gradient. It's subtle enough to look like a styling defect.
Google Trends: Washington DC Searches Soar for IBAN, SwissBank, etc.
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Related additional back-story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972062
those names were given to those algorithms by others, not the creators.
Well if that's "the case," I think I'm comfortable getting rid of it.
Ignorant of what? Everyone knows what Trump and Musk have been doing. That's why people are denouncing them.
"Testing security is pretty much impossible. It’s hard to know if you’re ever done,”

"We wanted to emphasize provability over testing as a preferred verification method"

Yet another developer seeking a panacea that will allow them to keep their job while diminishing their workload.

For typical workers, it's a fact that work is infinite, so you put your 8 hours and then do it again the other day.

Whenever devs get put in this position they go for the nuclear option of going for the moon.

Man just keep finding bugs to the best of your ability, it will never be 100% secure, except insofar as you gerrymander what's a vulnerability and what is your responsibility.

Good luck. But if I have to put my chips in Nvidia's VP vs C, I put them in C. The list of C contenders has been long, and it seems more likely that the vp is at the peak of their life ala musk or altmann and they have their own delusions. Not sure whether going to mars is crazier or whether finally replacing C is.
To be fair, not necessarily singling out your comment: I've seen mixed sentiment around the net. I think the characterization of the threats as being "legal threats" makes people more prone to see this as the OBS project being vexatious, but it seems like it's more a last resort to get Fedora to even pay attention.

And credit to Fedora, it looks like they're working quickly to fix the problem now. It's pretty obvious it wasn't malice that led them to not respond quickly.
If it's costly to run, maybe it's reasonable to expect that persisting settings, which is also costly, has some level of gatekeeping? I'm as ambivalent about LLMs as the next guy, but these are frankly nonsense concerns.
Also the car is actually a bus, there's a bunch of other passengers also living there, who are furious you're trying to get their perfectly suitable if not perfect bus sent to the wreckers because you think you can build a better bus out of the cardboard boxes on the corner.
Do you have any examples where that is the case, rather than obvious rule breaking? I have seen some "voted down because people don't like it" but not "hidden because people don't like it". Voting does not equal moderation activity, it's just end-user voting which doesn't really represent the website's rules.

As for why the text up top would still apply: the moderation methods don't prevent brigading or SEO poisoning, so even if HN was perfectly moderately moderated to moderate modernity, it wouldn't help since all scrapers (including search engines and LLM companies) will still connect this content together.
This is good.

The truly worst websites are usually only found with a .tor browser. If Apple started advertising on Stormfront I'll get concerned, but right now X has fantastic discussion for ML devs and shows me stuff like this: https://x.com/Brittymigs/status/1889708756851634439

Opponents probably aren't using the site. Or have a fervor for something else and misdirecting it towards X.
Yes. That was part of one of the recent executive orders he signed [1] which was dictating not only that care for transgender individuals in the military should cease but also that expressing a different gender identity was not compatible with being in the military. It's not even particularly vague about it. The military issued guidance against the executive order to not take adverse action, essentially only adopting the bathroom bill portion of it [2].

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/prio...

[2] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276...
What government policies compelled companies to create DEI programs?
Hey remember that time that Sam Altman got fired, started a mutiny, then took over and ~executed~ fired everyone who stood against him?

Crazy how much drama happens in open projects like openAI.
Your example is interesting. Are you sure your dad didn't impart some culture to you, which you (perhaps unwittingly) brought to the university?

I'm not a legacy admit (my admission was denied, the fools!) but my dad definitely imparted some of MIT's culture on me before I left for college.
I know Rust might be a better technology for some drivers and use cases, but if they are constantly fighting an upstream battle with merging it, why not bite the bullet and write it in C?

At that point the hard work of reverse engineering and coming up with a spec and a reliable piece of software that implements that spec are done. Don’t let that work go to waste.
Why is it an interesting story?
LibreOffice traces back to the commercial StarOffice. Unlikely any after-hours project build something of that complexity from scratch
Great story, congrats!
Because a right wing forum is actively drive hate against Asahi folks (specifically Marcan), and it's using orphaned/unmoderated threads (because the anchor post is flagged) on HN to post that hate and get search ranking for it. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35237006

HN should stop making those threads available, not because right wing, or left wing, or whatever political argument you'd like to make, but because it's a way to get search juice for lots of things for free that is also detrimental, ultimately, to HN.

You can post any garbage you like outside the view of the community, and still get it associated with the community here.
Uh oh. Bird flu wiping out chickens. Bird flu wiping out dairy cows. Citrus greening disease wiping out oranges. This isn't looking good.
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Trademark isn't only about the ownership of the brand. Its about who can use the brand on what.

By using the brand on something else, the reputation can be damaged
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How is this possible today, with all the radars etc? Apparently the other ship wouldn’t respond - why wouldn’t the carrier move out of the way or treat the other vessel as a potential weapon? Imagine if it was an intentional collision - could have been far worse. Is this really the level of competence in the American navy?
> structured to extract as much as possible (by law, if they are public).

This is not true and it’s not what fiduciary duty means. Stop repeating it, it’s really dumb.

Companies very frequently do not monetize things that they could under the guise of “building brand recognition” or “establishing a user base”. It’s even as easy as “raising the price will alienate customers we think are important to long term revenue”.

It’s trivial to justify not extracting maximum price and public companies do it all of the time.

Look at Costco’s business model if you want an example
You’re correct :) I think I understand what you’re trying to say, and I agree, but I still don’t understand his arguments. It’s not like his company is not profitable, or the employees work not well enough
I think political news are not encouraged here, exceptions for when interesting discussions are possible.

Judging by the quality of comments here and in the linked submissions, it's a good thing.
It took a looooong time before handwashing before surgery became standard practice. Decades. Shameful.
The current attorney general interprets most DEI activities just that way. It is her justification for attempting to eradicate it.

It's also the premise of the order. The title starts with "Ending Illegal Discrimination".
Reddit has become terrible and unusable especially since the election campaign started last year. Anyone refuting the misinformation with sources or facts are permanently banned by mods of big subreddits like r/news. Unrelated subs are injected with partisan politics, sometimes completely taking it over. Death threats to Musk higly upvoted.

Not a great source but they have plausible proof that explains this behavior.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/29/busted-the-inside-story...
It's interesting to see comments like this that sound like they were written by someone who recently went through a social justice course at university.

Of course, I understand the impetus to piggyback a grievance on phrases like "white supremacist", which used to mean something. But these days their non-ironic use really tells us something about the person using it.
What surprises me the most is the extreme black and white view of things. Like nothing good can come out of it if it is not from my party.
Anyway, let's enjoy our downvotes :-)
See, I'm coming from the perspective that people who work with Language X have learned where all the dark corners of Language X are. Would you expect anything else? C does not have more dark corners than Python, Ruby, PHP, LISP, Rust, etc. Part of being an expert is knowing the language you're working with, and knowing the limits of your tools. When you update GCC and they add some bonkers optimization strategy that introduces new undefined behavior, you should know about that.

Even experienced "Rust kernel wizards" will make mistakes. You'll see.
If I'm only working on one feature at a time then actually it's largely ok, it's when I have to manipulate the commit graph that things start to really go wrong for me. But rebasing I still don't understand, even after using git for over 10 years. I mean, I understand conceptually what it's trying to do, but every time I run `git rebase` I end up in a crazy wild state.

For example, suppose I'm working off main and I have a new branch right off HEAD with five commits on it. I realize that oh actually I want to port this onto a different branch that was HEAD~5 with three new commits that aren't on main. When I run this, git suddenly seems to merge conflict a whole bunch of stuff unrelated to my commits (and are related to the three commits not on main) and it gets worse the further from main the relevant branch is.

What I really want to do is essentially take the last five commit diffs and apply them to the HEAD of some other branch instead, like how you might drag and drop the graph nodes.

Currently to work around me not understanding why git doesn't align with my mental model, I un-commit my changes, git stash them, switch to the target branch, create a new branch, and then git stash pop. This seems to work much more reliably but it's so tedious to do every time that I kind of avoid doing this sort of change as a whole.
The resources a PhD student has vs. a guy who works construction has significantly more tools at their disposal than I do. I have zero so any more than that from my perspective is seen as unlimited.

Also, my mom was a secretary assistant for a professor at UCLA so I’ve seen the labs and students throughout the years and will say their lack of resources is part of the reason they become experts in their field.
So the idea is that you'll eventually arrange n elements into ideally about √n sorted lists, organized so that the endpoints of these lists are also ordered (the "rainbow" shape). A new element goes on the end of one of those lists or a new list; which one is generally decided by binary search, but the index is saved to speed up the next insertion if it's the same. So a natural run might benefit by having adjacenct values inserted to the same list.

Which cases benefit and which don't seems potentially quite erratic. If you have a series of runs that shrink over the course of the array, with increasing start value and decreasing start value, each will become a new sorted list and you end up with O(n) insertion plus a perfect merge. If the runs get wider instead, they'll cross over existing endpoints and end up spattered around before merging.

It feels like the paper keeps trying to spin constant-factor improvements as somehow being asymptotically relevant despite acknowledging that mathematically they aren't, for example the fact that log(√n) is only log(n)/2 "would not reflect the sublinear nature of base array length k" and runs hitting the best case "approximately 50% of the time... reinforces JesseSort's average runtime complexity as somewhere between O(n) and O(n log_2 n)". Powersort provably takes O(n + n log r) worst-case time where r is the number of runs; I expect this algorithm is O(n log n) worst- and average-case.

However, on random arrays the given benchmarks do improve relative to Python default as the length increases, with faster performance starting a little under a million elements. There isn't a lot of investigation into why this is. I'd be interested to know if the number of comparisons is reduced in particular. Perhaps this algorithm is more cache-friendly with a random input, but this wouldn't be reliable as many inputs can cause the number of sorted lists to scale with O(n) so that the binary searches need to work on a large array.
I used to think that, money aside, I'd be interested in a PhD in whatever subject.

But really, I can buy the library access at my alma mater for a trivial sum. And, were I in the city, I could access a ton of the other stuff too. No, not the labs for the fields that require them for the most part--or generally discussion seminars, but there's a lot you can access for free-ish if you work at it.
Nobody is making you attend a uni with legacy admits.
Thank you, I hear you. We'll find a way to make it so you can try some pro features, like automatic additional searches or Phind-405B, for free.
"This journal no longer accepts papers on optimal solutions to the 9 queens problem"
I'm assuming you don't have a Ph.D. if it sounds generic to you. I think it's really impossible to explain to somebody who hasn't gone through it how much a Ph.D. changes the way you think.

Whether it's worth the time investment is another matter, however, which I'll leave alone.
Same thing happening with ham radio.
And which handwashing are we targeting with vaccine-denying, ADHD-non-believing, brain-worm-having, RFK junior? Is he going to wrangle the insurance industry out of practicing medicine without a license, and end their rampant profiteering over literally essential-to-life services? Oh no he's just going to make it illegal to treat illnesses he doesn't think are real, which basically the entire legitimate medical profession disagrees on. Oh, and make sure that the <100 trans athletes in the entire United States can't compete. Awesome, great.
My company recently switched to UHC for 2025. My regular monthly out of network claim was fine with Aetna. With UHC? After I filled out a long form with information in a PDF, they mailed me a letter saying they needed more information. The exact information I had already given them, except for one thing trivially looked up, the provider's phone number. They asked that I mail them more information. I don't have a printer. So I had to get PDFs, go to the library, print them, buy envelopes (yes they did not provide one) and stamps, and mail it. I have yet to hear back anything. I am going to have to follow up myself. Is it worth it to me to spend this much time? The frustration is real. Even if the doctor here is technically in the wrong, UHC deserves every negative press possible. What they pull should be illegal, companies like these are a big part of why our healthcare system is a joke.
> 1. The pregnant man emoji proposal was submitted to the Unicode Consortium in March 2019, during Trump's first presidency.

Liar. The pregnant man emoji was submitted on Unicode version 14.0.0 on 2021 July and officially released on 2021 September 14. [1] [2] [3]

[1] https://x.com/Emojipedia/status/1415723027388567557

[2] https://www.unicode.org/history/publicationdates.html

[3] https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/new-emoji-2021-pregnant-m...