skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rewind 5 to 10 years, there were a lot of open source tools which gained adoption within startup or hobbyist communities. As some of the startups grew and merged with corporations, they seems to have slowly abandoned certain tools and software for no reason besides corporate compliance.

Nowadays, even startups use corporate tools. It's a total media echo-chamber. Everything outside of that is treated as if it doesn't exist. There are some great tools out there which solve real problems but they have few users because nobody can find out about them.
Eh, I don’t need Lisp. I need to do my job. KQL allows me to write queries intuitively and others to easily understand what I’m doing.

The summarize operator is also a game changer.
I use something like “
| summarize count() by bin(TIMESTAMP, 1h)
“
multiple times daily. Getting the same result in SQL is disgusting.
Thank You. At least some on HN knows
This doesn't strike me as that different than an enum.
I've been trying to use tools like these for data aggregation, analysis, and finding trends. One major issue I experience with almost every product is I will tell it to "sort by column x" and it either doesn't do it, or will state that it did it when in fact it did not do the sorting. Check out this query: https://www.phind.com/search/cm7444is700011y6rtzk6l5th
There is a case for legacy admits - continuity of the culture in a university. The culture of a university is what makes it attractive for the next generation of students.
looking at it from a high level, it doesn't appear the final token ever leaves the client till it's being redeemed. There's a middle step that does get signed, but this part is not what is sent.
Wouldn't the moral of the story be "don't use Fedora Flatpack"? Tbh, the moral I drew from the story was "Don't use Fedora".
One Jack Rickard, RIP, who was quite an opinionated jerk imho, coined the concept of "selfish solar." The idea was that solar was on its way to becoming so cheap that one should just install enough panels and batteries such that you basically never use the grid, it's just a backup for uncommon events. Basically grid use drops to that 1 or 10% of the time the sun doesn't shine for days. I think we are there on the panel side, and will be there soon on the battery side. Selfish solar could make sense but it would change the economics of solar and electric grids substantially. If everyone went selfish solar, grid electricity and infrastructure would become prohibitively expensive. We are decades away from that or at least one decade (IMHO), but we need thoughtful regulation on this point. Will we get it? I suppose time will tell.
"My boss wants to buy systems with the Intel i10-101010F Medium Core Platinum (with rowhammer & Sonic & Knuckles), can you buy this $20,000 box and test your program so I can write him a report?"
Stargate is a funding initiative by Sam Altman and principally backed by Softbank. It was announced at the white house to curry favor. Trump's stated commitment to the project is to wave environmental and possibly labor rules for all the data centers Altman wants to build.
If you need to act like someone you are not we are missing out.

I offer no solution.
I wasn't trying to suggest I thought OBS was in the wrong here, to be clear, just that the debate between maintainers and developers, and not wanting to get bugs for things that were external, reminded me of that exchange.

There's plenty of other examples, of course - one that springs to mind was when Ubuntu shipped a patch of their own design in OpenZFS that caused data loss, and it got reported to upstream.
IDK about "industry" but I can't think of any prominent C or C++ open-source codebase that requires a specific version of gcc or clang to compile.
These two discussions are flagged, lol. I bet this one will be flagged too. Is there a group of people who don’t want this news to spread?
Many commenters in this thread talks about hiring, but the actual fact the page mentioned is not only about hiring, but DEI at a wider sense[0]

> We believe the development of general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all of humanity must be carried out with a knowledge of and respect for the different perspectives and experiences that represent the full spectrum of humanity.
>
> Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, owned by everyone across the company, and championed and supported by leadership. We take this work seriously and are committed to continuously improving our work in creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization.
>
> In addition to our dedication to creating an inclusive organization on the human level, OpenAI actively pursues technical work that is aimed at improving our understanding of, and ability to mitigate, harmful biases learned by AI systems, and supports conferences and groups involved in such work in the larger AI community.

The text of course can be interpret in different way. But as an AI company that grok lots of raw data and generate response based on input, it is also VERY important for the AI models to be impartial and not biased toward anything.

---

On hiring, that would be a completely different subjects. Should we strike for equal or fair? I don't think the answer should be 100% equal or 100% fairness.

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/20240112174043/https://openai.co...
why don't they just block the obs project and let users install it in unofficial manner while removing themselves as middleman? I mean, they have certain let's say guidelines but why go about enforcing them in this weird manner.
Well now we're just splitting pubes.
Real modernization of systems would result in efficiencies that allow for reduction in staff. Tech exists to be a lever on productivity. This almost never happens; historically bureaucratic modernization efforts only proceed if absolutely necessary for core functions, and strangely seem to result in higher head counts. IRS is a great example of this. Their headcount has doubled while they supposedly "modernized". Digital systems should increase productivity of the average IRS employee, instead they just invent more busy work.
Satire. They forgot the satire font, aor even /s
That's unsurprisingly consistent with the general quality level I've come to expect from the whole flatpak toolchain TBH.
Yep and these are well known because they existed for a long time before the media monopoly.
There are newer tools which we never hear about. Once in a while I come across some website of curated indie SaaS solutions and it's unbelievable what exists. Yet this massive ecosystem is probably just one bubble out of hundreds.

You only hear about the tools which received VC funding. It is VC-funding first, then traction, not the other way around as they try to portray it. You can always connect the founders socially to insiders prior to their launching and raising funding. Some failed multiple ventures yet keep receiving funding... but among those which succeed, there is almost always a social connection.

Even in cases where I met a founder who I believed to be 'self-made', turns out there's a story behind him like his wife's parents had sold their company for millions and his brother rubs shoulders with celebrities.
Unexpectedly appropriate with the price of eggs these days
> But what isn't appreciated, is that it is precisely because people who are long-term members of the community are trusted to stick around and will support code that the have sponsored.

Ok. But if you make it too difficult for new developers to contribute, and the experience too stressful, then no one new will stick around to be long time maintainers, and when the old ones retire or die, there won't be anyone to replace them.
Satire. He rarely criticizes apple directly, but I think he’s mindful that it’s required for Apple in the current politics to not become a target.
> True, but how competitive are those jobs to get?

Personally knowing a couple PhDs who did the rounds, it is highly competitive.
Most people will bend to the will of a powerful autocrat. Only a few people will actively resist when there is a risk of retribution.
Demographic questions are very normal on surveys.
No, that's the science project being worked on at cern, the large hardon collider
The maintainer might mean that, but words have meaning. That particular phrase is overly charged and carries a specific connotation surrounding the idea that police are the sole line keeping society in shape.

It’s a poor choice of words for such (relatively) public communication.
UK drops 'safety' from its AI body, now called AI Security Institute
How much of that benefit was mixing up cause and effect? As in, one might hypothesize that having a visually diverse company is a luxury. But we don’t say that wearing a Rolex causes you to be successful.

Second, diversity in e.g. race/gender may be a proxy for some other kind of more functional diversity. In fact, for diversity to matter at all there must be some functional element which can be decoupled from the labels people apply to themselves. The fact that we just assume this latent variable is there without measuring it seemed very unscientific to me.
TBF they didn't actually say it was a dupe, nor critique OP for posting it.

I see the stats+link as a mildly useful cross-reference.
Probably a more proper title is "type directed optimization for SIMD", I do not see it particularly useful for array languages at large (as many of them, such as APL and J are untyped by intentional choice).
Just added doge.gov and x.com to my DNS block list.
It appears that the public side of X is sent as the first part of the handshake, without any login info yet, and can be verified as part of B, thus a varying X would be easy to detect... I think.
> his hearing had rolled off on the high end!

Depending on the degree of hearing loss, I wonder if hearing aids might have helped a bit?
> then you're on your ass

My understanding from PhDs in the research business at major companies is that once you're in the club, it's a lot easier to get a position at another one.

(No, not me, I don't have a PhD.)
I'm with you in spirit, but NVIDIA Spark is a thing insofar as RAPIDS?

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/deep-learning-ai/solutions/data...
If distro maintainers are going to futz with packages, for good reasons or bad, then they need to bear the corresponding support burden themselves and ensure it does not fall on the upstream maintainers. This is not really any different from the Debian OpenSSL fiasco, or the Debian cdrecord fiasco, or the Debian xscreensaver fiasco, or...
I think it's easy enough, ignoring the technical details of why, to just look at the results: the version of the app in fedora's repos is inferior to that on flathub produced by the developers. Exactly why this is the case is irrelevant, what matters is that users are getting confused, thinking they are getting an official version of the product, and that this is causing damage to the developers who own the trademark (extra effort in dealing with bug reports, loss of reputation).
Rust is just a better and more productive language than C (I guess this is a subjective statement, but obviously they would think so and I would agree with them).

Nobody ever claimed that it's impossible to write these drivers in C -- C is "Rust-complete" in the sense that you could in theory write a compiler that translates any Rust program to C.

They're just claiming that Rust allowed them to write much higher-quality code, much faster, which seems plausible.
> radixsort is much faster and performs in O(n).

Radix sort time complexity is not O(n); it's O(n*k) where k is the size of the largest element. Besides it has an additional O(n+k) space complexity.
Ya you may be right, at least in terms of expense, but I'm also considering the external cost vs reward even if debt is zero. A woman struck up a conversation with me yesterday at a cafe and we got to chatting. She had already had two careers, first in film, then teaching film, and now starting a PhD in philosophy, which I think is fantastic. But... she's a retired grey hair who owns her home, and the topic of whether her former students or myself would even continue to feasibly attend school or stay present in the community was unavoidable. There was no malice or particularly negative sentiments exchanged in our brief conversation, there didn't need to be, but there was more of an exasperated acknowledgement that there's no possible scenario wherein myself, her students, or her own adult children could secure a house remotely like hers in the broader municipal area by our own means, without winning a literal or figurative lottery with immense career success. Land is too expensive, prospects don't pay enough and they're too volatile.

She wouldn't have been able to either, it was just plausible, though still probably pretty expensive for her at a different time, likely with another income.

It's not impossible to make some pursuits work, but tbh some things are not worth pursuing if they ain't gunna pay. It's an existential crisis that people are well-aware of; why invest ones finite resources into something that won't even let you form a stable adulthood?
@avidiax is right, but the wording (aside from the last sentence) makes it sounded like Cybertrucks are safer.

Here's the math.

27 deaths caused by Pintos. ~ 3 million Pintos produce. "The recall affected approximately 1.5 million Pintos with model years from 1971 to 1976" according to [1].

If we take the 1.5 million number, 27/1500000 = .000018%

If we take the 3 million number, 27/3000000 = .000009%

[2] says they sold 38965 in 2024. Wikipedia says "it entered production in November 2023 and was first delivered to customers later that month." Let's say they sold 40,000 in total, which is in line with 34,000. Let's remove the non-related fatality.

4/40,000 = .0001%

This is 5.5x fatality rate if we take the 1.5 million number,
11x fatality rate if we take the 3 million number.

Article took the 5 fatality and 3 million number to get 14x.

I don't see any problem with the math nor assumptions.

1. https://www.reifflawfirm.com/fords-fiery-pintos-lead-injurie...

2. https://insideevs.com/news/747195/tesla-cybertruck-sales-dem...
It isn't just UK. This isn't the first time a Nation decided that any company operating on its soil, would have to comply with an order that reach world wide operation and failure to do so would be fined on worldwide revenue.

This is just absurd.
Honestly, the flatpak should be made on only published by the project maintainers; I do not understand why someone still puts efforts into a Fedora-based flatpak to publish the application. Who understand better how the application works? I had this discussion with several packagers on the project, and they insist on their work. I do not understand why a Debian or Fedora packager would know better how to do this. It is a container/userspace abstraction, not distro specific. I understand there is a use case for Silverblue (and derivs), ... though this is duplication; an upstream exists with a possibility for extensions/plugins, that this doesn't.

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.
My question exactly. It's bold and long enough to sound serious, but dances around vagaries. I have never targeted an Asahi Linux Developer. I've never seen anything that looked like that either. I can't even vet the claim, because no examples are given. I wouldn't know what to demand, or who to demand it of.
Labor is the biggest fixed cost. Employees are liabilities to the owners
(LM)²
There was certainly a time when discrete knowledge didn't collectively aggregate over generations.

But even in prehistoric times there were things like boat making, midwifery, metallurgy, sea navigating, animal husbandry, farming and seed cultivation, tool and weapon making, navigational shortcuts, the wide variety of spoken languages, medicinal knowledge, knowledge of fresh water sources and hunting techniques ...

Squaring the number to 40,000 years isn't far back enough. 200,000 years ago, for instance, people weaved grass beddings out of on insect repellant plants, wore clothes, had shoes ... Seafaring is at least 130,000 years ago.

Specialization and collaboration is a core part of being human.
I think the contents of the warning explain the warning on the top adequately. There are some links in there as well, and they in turn lead to examples and citations.

Considering the amount of visitors on HN, it's possible you've never seen or met anyone matching the described behaviour (in the linked pages). But the people on the receiving end might not want to warn for the thousands of people it doesn't apply to, but rather the ones where it does.

Say it's only 10% of 1000 visitors matching the HN referrer, that's still 100 people against a handful of volunteers. If only 10 of those think it's funny to SWAT them, or send them things they didn't order, all day, every day, that's enough to warrant such a warning.
It's interesting to see Gruber repeatedly mocking Apple's CEO. I also find it curious that so many in the tech blog / news sphere can't stop denouncing everything to do with the new administration. To me it seems like a sort of signaling "I will not bend, I have integrity", when in fact they are just being ignorant.
Did these digital modernization efforts result in lower agency head count, or did they instead use it as excuse to ask for higher budgets?
When eating out, especially when abroad, follow a simple rule: eat only what is fully cooked and is very hot. Don't eat anything that isn't cooked. This rules out sushi and salad both. Also don't eat snails, slugs, frogs, or other weird things that could have been insufficiently cooked. If you want to be thorough, carry an IR thermometer and a meat thermometer so you can test it.
haha this is such a cool aesthetic! nice work.

education needs more stuff like this - less matter-of-fact regurgitation of information (which ai does an okay job of anyhow) and more creativity.
I want my data in a table. LibreOffice does exactly what I want, a text editor doesn't. So, I use LibreOffice.
> One of the things which gets very frustrating from the maintainer's
perspective is development teams that are only interested in their pet
feature, and we know, through very bitter experience, that 95+% of
the time, once the code is accepted, the engineers which contribute
the code will disappear, never to be seen again.

This was painful for me to read as someone who has seen how corporations think about “Open Source” - he isn’t wrong at all
I don't understand what the big deal was there. Debian has its own bug tracker for all of its packages so the distro maintainers get bothered about bugs in old packages shipped by the stable version of Debian rather than upstream developers. JWZ decided to voluntarily subscribe to the Debian bug tracker for his package and then add a nag screen and start a flame war over them shipping an old version.
Negative value, because unions standardise wages.

They are under-performers teaming up to peer-pressure (bully) over-achievers into averaging the fruits of their labour.

If you’re a high achiever the absolute last thing you want is to work for a company that is unionised.
Love that feature, along with derived types[1] and subtype predicates[2]. There's a special place in my heart partitioned for things that won't let you screw things up.

[1] https://learn.adacore.com/courses/intro-to-ada/chapters/stro...

[2] https://learn.adacore.com/courses/Ada_For_The_CPP_Java_Devel...
I guess this is kind of in the docs.

> The compiler prefers to capture a closed-over variable by immutable borrow, followed by unique immutable borrow (see below), by mutable borrow, and finally by move. Composite types such as structs, tuples, and enums are always captured entirely, not by individual fields. It may be necessary to borrow into a local variable in order to capture a single field [...][1]

Definitely would prefer to avoid this type of concern though. Closures are neat for filters and terminating behaviors, but I've gotten bit by these rules before, myself. Definitely best to use the parameter arguments to be sure about what the closure is gonna receive. Can achieve OK semantics with

move |mut stat: &mut Stat| { ...

and then

println!("num {:?}", f(stat))

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.80.1/reference/types/closure.htm...
Are you saying startups aren't also corporations?
I honestly can’t understand how you think this might not be satire. Musk has been lying low, out of the public eye, avoiding controversy? Barely tweeting?
When I click on that link it gives me this meme image for some reason as the first image in the response. What did you see when you made the query?

https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/these-new-ai-frie...
for real. I'd like some answers.
So, what is the bandwidth? What is the bandwidth once the cache is reached.
The MBP is the best laptop hardware that exists on the market, by far. Why wouldn't someone who prefers Linux over macOS want to run Linux on it?

The existence of other ARM laptops is irrelevant; the reason MBPs are so good has little to do with ARM. Yes x86 makes the processor frontend more complicated but this doesn't make a big enough difference to come close to accounting for how much better the MBP is than its competitors. I would guess the biggest factors are Apple's ability to buy the entire run of TSMC's best process node, and the fact that they have a high level of competence at designing CPU cores and other hardware. The instruction set the core uses is just not that important in comparison.
>Your justification for discrimination against white guys is that a very tiny percent of them are legacy admissions and/or from wealthy families?

"Between 2014 and 2019, Harvard University accepted legacy students at a rate of 33%. This was more than five times the overall acceptance rate of 6% during that period." [0]

In 2022, the overall acceptance rate was 3.2%. The legacy acceptance rate was 42%.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_preferences#:~:text=B...
Fun fact about eye evolution, the dark spot you see on a dragonfly’s eye is not a pupil following you, or even a change in the eye itself. You’re actually just looking directly down into the columns of the dragonfly’s eye. They capture light so efficiently that they appear to be black. They’re close to the absolute physical limit for efficiency.
Can you add the ability to ask questions via GET requests? This is needed to add a site search keyword into the browser. Make it work only when logged in, if you are afraid of bot requests.

There is also a standard to add it automatically ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38670851/whats-a-script-... )
Having received degrees from two ivys, and also being part of a legacy that dates back to 1709 at one of those two, i can definitely say that legacy admits dont provide cultural continuity more than the average non legacy student. The cultural transmission gradient is from older to younger students.

That said, i support legacies because these private universities at just that--private institutions, and the first amendment gives you the right to associate with whom you wish.
Re: the text up top, HN is already pretty much a mono-culture. If you dissent your comments are voted down. I'm sure its possible to have more moderation and to more actively tamp down alternative views but imo it's already excessive and reducing the scope of ideas here.
If you read a biography of Musk, you'll find that he did not hoard wealth. At each step in his rise, he bet essentially all of his fortune on the next step.

After all, investing in Tesla was not a sane business decision. Nobody had ever started a successful car company in America since the 1920s or so. Bricklin, Tucker, Delorean, the path is littered with utter failure.

Neither was investing in rockets. At one point, he was down to bankruptcy if one more rocket exploded. What car executive would be crazy enough to bet it all on reusable rockets?