skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about all the designers that used to handle this issue by tweaking their font weights, colors...?
Changing a long standing issue with a lot of users will break things for some people (using edge, with an eyes for these details..)
> This articles looks an awful lot like a list of Vim tips

honestly, I like articles that are “a list of vim tips”. I can usually find some really good ideas that I didn’t consider. The tip about remapping copy to system clipboard to something easier than ‘“+y’ is genius, definitely using that.
All I know, is if I was worth $200B and owned the island of Lanai, you would never hear from me again. Ellison, Musk, Zuckerberg and the rest of these weirdos are deeply damaged human beings.
Operation 99: North Korea's Cyber Assault on Software Developers
Because the US don’t ask for a backdoor in encryption, they build it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
That was a large part of the disagreement.

Rust developers were saying it would be their job to do this. But then someone said Linus rejected something because it broke Rust. GKH backed the Rust developers and said that was an exception not a rule, but didn't know Linus' stance for sure.

Then Linus chimes in because of one of Hector's replies, but at the time of my reading did not clarify what his actual stance is here.
Previously (92 points, 2 days ago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007862
Plenty of people disagree with your rust take. Are you a Linux maintainer?
i use fitnotes on android, it's not foss but there is no tracking and absolutely no internet connection if you don't enable cloud backup.

the ui is old but effective.
Agreed. I learned much from Joe Studwell's book "How Asia Works" (2013), where he argues that among countries in the Asian region, those whose economies flourished were those with protectionist trade policies and export discipline, leading to the creation and honing of domestic industry.
Not to be too morbid, but, does phone face recognition work on a stiff ?
Let's start by testing this system on the people that want to implement it. Larry Ellison would be a good candidate. Now please upload your DNA and all of your other information you want to from us.
FWIW, 500 karma is the threshold for downvoting, but I'm pretty sure the threshold for flagging is significantly lower, unless something has changed in the years since I was a new account.
As long as you compile with the version specified (e.g., `-std=c11`) I think backwards compatibility should be 100%. I've been able to compile codebases that are decades old with modern compilers with this.
Backed by Oracle DB; sure he does.
market cap is not comparable to GDP. GDP is comparable to value added or profit.
I talked to someone who is a Chief Accounting Officer. First off, to be perfectly blunt, you were foolish to wait until 30 days before this occurred before asking questions.

The company has an obligation to withhold tax to the IRS. It sounds like the company doesn't want to spend its own cash to pay this withholding tax so they are forcing ex-employees to fork over the cash, with the threat of forfeiting their shares.

This doesn't sound legal unless it was spelled out in your employee equity grant. The fact that you would forfeit your shares seems wrong. I would read over whatever equity grants you signed.

However the benefit is that you get 100% of your shares and you don't lose any shares to taxes. You could talk to a lawyer but unless you don't have the money to pay the withholding tax (22% of the opening price of the shares on the settlement date unless you own more than $1 million, which then becomes 37%), I would just pay as little as possible and get the shares.

If it is legal, it's the company being an asshole and being really shitty to their ex-employees. Please name and shame them so that we can avoid them.
There isn't a spec of transparency from the efforts of DOGE, no evidence presented from them about fraud they're finding. Just initiatives they don't believe in or like.
Few times I was typing chefvoice.ai instead of chefvoiceai.com, only to be greeted by a DNS error :) My recommendation: get chefvoice.ai domain as well and silently redirect to chefvoiceai.com (or the other way around, whatever).
I replied to another commenter about this, but these sorts of things are basically part and parcel of being a public figure.

If you can't handle that, you need to sandbag. There's no other way around it. It is unlikely that Marcan will stop being the center of attention wherever he goes.

If he wants to stand up for what he believes to be right, he shouldn't have a problem with the consequences of dealing with people who disagree with him, sometimes virulently.

Trans issues are a very contentious issue right now and in my opinion the only way to win that type of situation is to not play. Doesn't mean I don't respect those people, but taking large public stances just put targets on your back
Criminals don't need to be all sophisticated anyway. They just need to know how to reach one of the sophisticated criminals and pay them to extract whatever they need.

Incidentally, as a non US and non UKer, my data with the major tech firms has no protection anyway. Welcome to the club, US citizens :)
> 71% of respondents said that Switzerland’s direct democracy was the most effective way of promoting social cohesion. According to Sotomo, it gives the population a sense of self-empowerment.

I agree, which is why I am not entirely convinced by the Neofedualism arguments of late. But it’s undeniable that increasing polarization makes some parts of the democratic tradition infeasible.
Philosophy is Real Science :)

Re:the final point, I think that's just provably false if you read any of his writing on AI. e.g. https://intelligence.org/files/IEM.pdf https://intelligence.org/files/LOGI.pdf
The Steam Hardware Survey samples the system when Steam is launched, not while a game is playing. For most users, Steam starts when they log in to the computer. I think the unfortunate reality is that a very large number of gamers are still using 1920x1080 as their everyday ordinary screen resolution for their primary display, though a few percent at least are probably on laptops small enough that 1920x1080 is somewhat reasonable.
It’s psychologically very rewarding to be needed. And CEOs are needed all the time.
The backwards compatibility guarantee for C is "C99 compilers can compile C99 code". If they can't, that's a compiler bug. Same for other C standards.

Since Rust doesn't have a standard, the guarantee is "whatever the current version of the compiler can compile". To check if they broke anything they compile everything on crates.io (called a crater run).

But if you check results of crater runs, almost every release some crates that compiled in the previous version stop compiling in the new version. But as long as the number of such breakages it not too large, they say "nothing is broken" and push the release.
> Elected officials trying to do what they told voters they would do is literally the textbook definition of monarchy.

I expect that you intended to say "textbook definition of democracy", but the Freudian slip is quite something.
The top of most threads here are anti-Trump, as far as I've seen.
The argument you’re making is potentially valid but we can’t know for sure as it depends on numbers you don’t provide - how much government growth there’s been since 1990.

There’s two extra nuances too. First, what’s been the corresponding capability growth; and second, what’s been the growth in population served.

It may be that, controlling for these factors, things are more efficient than back then. And to go back would require removing capability that would be missed by some - or be critical due to today’s more complex world.
Just so it's clear: he bought Cerner, so he's absolutely got the ability to do that.

It's fine. They were from Kansas City, not SV, so they didn't really matter. It created maximum value for shareholders. That's what determines the greatest possible good... right?
> The hardest part for parents today seems to be putting their phone down.

Kids are great at detecting hypocrisy. You can't tell them to not be addicted to their phone when you yourself are addicted to your phone. You have to set a good example.

I'm not much of an "idle scroller" but I try to limit my phone use to after the kid is in bed. When I visibly use my phone in front of her, I make it a point to show that I'm using it as a tool to do something, and then I put it away when that something is done. If they see you sitting on the couch all evening mindlessly scrolling Instagram, they're going to think that's OK. Just like past kids saw their parents sitting on their couch all evenings watching TV.
And a dash of kiwi farms as well
Don’t confuse EU with Europe.

And the EU citizens aren’t safe from US spying, so why should US citizens be?
I can provide my perspective on it. I think some of these arguments I sympathize with more than others, although I probably do sympathize with all of them.

One reason is that it is extremely difficult in practice to get an ID for some persons, especially the unhoused and transient. These discussions often come around to some hypothetical solution for these individuals, but in practice I doubt that they would work. Bureaucratic obstacles tend to grow, not shrink, when anything is implemented, and even more so if you consider implementation at the local level, inevitable tolls in the form of administrative fees, etc. In many of these cases it might be impossible for someone to provide necessary documents to get an ID, and they are at much greater risk of threat and so forth. I have just about every form of federal ID you can have and I feel like it's too much of a pain. I can't imagine someone who is homeless dealing with this nonsense.

A second reason is that an argument can be made that a fundamental bedrock principle should be innocent until proven guilty. If you apply this to issues of citizenship or voting eligibility, or whatever, this implies the burden is on the state to provide evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that you are not a citizen, or eligible for voting, not the other way around. I should not have to provide evidence beyond a reasonable doubt for basic rights ennumerated by the Constitution; the state should have the burden to deny it. Regardless of the costs of obtaining an ID, it flips the evidentiary burden from the state to the person (who presumably should be innocent by principle).

A third reason is concerns about abuse. This has maybe been lost a bit to time but many of these discussions started post 9/11 and at the time it was pointed out that if you take legal jurisdiction of border authorities seriously, they have a lot of leeway over areas nowhere near the border. The concern is that if you institute a national ID, just becomes a target of abuse for corrupt government officials, or alternatively, another target for criminals engaging in identity theft and so forth.

I think overall the question is, what is the real evidence for violations of the law that might be prevented by having a national ID, and what are the actual harms associated with those violations. In reality both of those questions are "negligible". When you introduce cost-benefit considerations I think the needle moves even further away from national ID requirements.
What we really need

https://imgur.com/a/Swft8DW
If I interpret [1] correctly, then they still have a criminal record?

"Please also be aware that if you were to be granted a presidential pardon, the pardoned offense would not be removed from your criminal record. Instead, both the federal conviction as well as the pardon would both appear on your record."

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/frequently-asked-questions
> how are they supposed to proceed with updating the Rust bindings if they don't want to write Rust?

If I've interpreted it correctly (and probably not, given the arguments), Linus won't accept merge requests if they break the Rust code, so the maintainer would need to reach out to the Rust for Linux (or someone else) to fix it if they didn't want to themselves.

And some lead maintainers don't want to have to do that, so said no Rust in their subsystem.
See also

Kalman Filter Explained Simply (2024, 89 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39343746

A non-mathematical introduction to Kalman filters for programmers
(2023, 97 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971975
There was a proposal to do something like what you suggest in redox: https://www.redox-os.org/news/rsoc-2023-eny-1/

I'm not sure how much work has actually been put into it though.
Great. Signed up immediately.
An introduction to LLVM IR [video]
I hope this version will let me open a file from within LibreOffice directly, without granting full disk access (Mac)
I agree but how rich is too rich?
> "which is actively hostile to a second Rust compiler implementation" - except that isn't true?

Historically the Rust community has been extremely hostile towards gccrs. Many have claimed that the work would be detrimental to Rust as a language since it would split the language in two (despite gccrs constantly claiming they're not trying to do that). I'm not sure if it was an opinion shared by the core team, but if you just browse Reddit and Twitter you would immediately see a bunch of people being outright hostile towards gccrs. I was very happy to see that blog post where the Rust leadership stepped up to endorse it properly.

Just one reference: In one of the monthly updates that got posted on Reddit (https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1g1343h/an_update_on_...) a moderator had to write this:

> Hi folks, because threads on gccrs have gotten detailed in the past, a reminder to please adhere to the subreddit rules by keeping criticism constructive and keeping things in perspective.
They all finally showed their true colors and what motivates them deep down- the ability to make even more money, humanity be damned.
It's more prosaic than that. It's just helping local donors and closely aligned businesses.

A lot of the "ministerial advice" story (the uber powerful ITRI, METI, etc) is to a certain extent a rewriting of history. A major reason why these bureaucratic orgs were so successful in Asian countries was explicitly because of the revolving door - after your 20 year stint at ITRI or METI, you'd join as an advisor for one of the affected companies or start your own consultancy.

This isn't to say that they made bad choices (they didn't), but it absolutely was done due to collusion between regulators and businesses.

The Trump-era "politician aligned businessman" model is the norm across Asia - it's a major reason why Morris Chang lobbied against the CHIPS act, Hyundai lobbied against easing automotive tariffs, Tata lobbied for 5% sales tax on EVs but 25% sales tax on Hybrids and 50% on ICE, etc.

The Asian Model of Development is predicated on "Access Money" to use Yuen Yuen Ang's typography of corruption.
Having an alter-ego is one thing, but I strongly suspect that he had at least one sock puppet here during the drama with HN [0]

* a brand new account suddenly appears, defending Marcan's behavior (the only comment/post ever of this account) with a very similar writing style

* Marcan immediately "notices" the new comment while doing "random search" (how ? he claims he doesn't browse HN, and even posted a screenshot of news.ycombinator.com being routed to 0.0.0.0 to block his own access to it the day before)

* Marcan highlights the comment in question on his media account [1], praising them "at least [this commenter] gets it"

Only circumstantial stuff, but sure smells very fishy to me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35400352

[1] https://archive.ph/zdVbA
> but at the time of my reading did not clarify what his actual stance is here.

Whatever he says is guaranteed to piss off at least one side of the argument.
Compelled speech, and compelled work, are both disallowed by the US constitution.

Apple successfully used this argument several years ago when the FBI tried to demand that they break a phone for an investigation.

If there is more recent news or legislation, perhaps I'm not remembering it?
> Companies cannot really stand up to governments.

That’s only valid for non-US companies or the US or Chinese government
Just being a pedant, but technically, Taiwan is not China.

Having said that, yeah, it's not too hard to see a future where asian nations begin to see a lot more possibilities in cooperation than they see in competition with each other.

Just as they have a right to develop their strategic postures, we, also, have a right to adjust our posture to serve us best in the largest possible number of future outcomes.
Same man who spent north of $14 million to get a high school player to go to Michigan... is this really surprising to anyone?
Thank you to share the Ted T'so LKM post. Can you explain the culture reference "thin blue line"? I never heard it before.
Well, the problem is that they are not "largely apolitical".

They should be, but if they aren't, and if they are incapable of faithfully executing orders that go against their political preferences, they should be fired.

The loss of institutional knowledge is unfortunate, but the loss of democratic control over the bureaucracy is unacceptable.
> Startup time is nil

This is obviously not true when the application itself can take arbitrary amount of time to initialize.

The overhead of WASM startup is small. But Firecracker is also very quick to start the virtualization; a lean compiled app in Firecracker would start quicker than a bloaty interpreted app in WASM. Both approaches can also freeze a pre-initialized application, and even clone those.

Reality is most "serverless" stuff is slow to start because the application itself is slow to start. WASM isn't going to change that, Enterprises are going to Enterprise. The hype field is just very strong.
LLM on just DNA seems to be useful:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-024-00872-0

These models have proven to develop incredible abilities through pattern matching on massive text data, so I wouldn’t be too quick to dismiss the limits of what they could do.

Having them use specialized tools would probably be more effective (e.g. have the reasoning LLM use the DNA LLM), but in the long term with scale… who knows? The bitter lesson keeps biting us every time we think we know better.
A cool billion ought to do it.
I personally don't think GitHub's PR model is superior to e-mail based patch management for two reasons. First, e-mail needs no additional middleware at git level to process (I can get my mails and directly start working on my machine), plus e-mail is at least one of Git's native patch management mechanisms.

This is not about spam, server management or GitLab/Gitea/whatever issue. This is catering to most diverse work methods, and removing bottlenecks and failure points from the pipeline. GitLab is down, everybody is blocked. Your mail provider is failing? It'll be up in 5 minutes tops, or your disk is full probably, go handle it yourself.

So Occam's razor outlaws all the complex explanations for mail based patch management. The answer is concise in my head:

> Mailing list is a great archive, it's infinitely simpler and way more robust than a single server, and keeps things neatly decentralized, and as designed.

This is a wind we can't control, I for one, am not looking and kernel devs and say "What a bunch of laggard luddites. They still use e-mail for patch management". On the contrary, I applaud them for making this run for this many years, this smoothly. Also, is it something different what I'm used to? Great! I'll learn something new. It's always good to learn something new.

Because, at the end of the day, all complex systems evolve from much simpler ones, over time. The opposite is impossible.
Ok yeah this was a treaty that came much later - didn’t realize there were multiple agreements made over the years.
Having structure to decision-making doesn't have anything to do with having a profit motive. Asahi nor myself as an outsider have brought up money.

It sounds like the implicit answer to "Does Linux want Asahi contributions" is "low priority". Which is fine if that's communicated.

I sense you have been involved in these discussions already and have a strong opinion about the specifics of this topic. I don't mean that in a bad way.
That's exactly why I've built a tool using LLMs that filters out this garbage before showing me the content.
I was once offered an engineering manager position at iridium (which i discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41748519)-- that entire company is a race to reduce the bottom line. They offered me (an engineering manager to 5 engineers) a lower salary than I was offered as a new grad. Also their talent pipeline is quite stale, most of the engineers on my prospective team were at the org for 10-20 years. For such an interesting aspect of technology, it's ashame they can't attract more talent, such an untapped market low earth orbit satellite networks are...
This feels correct.
How does "lots" quantify, though? There are billions of desktop Windows users. There are tens of millions of desktop Linux users. I expect desktop BSD to go beyond the thousands, but does it reach the hundreds of thousands?

I've always felt like from a purely user perspective desktop BSD doesn't really distinguish itself from Linux. The software stack is essentially the same, and they're both FLOSS so that's not a reason to switch either. Maybe I'm wrong, but the Linux/BSD choice looks a lot less relevant than the Windows/Linux choice.

So if people use desktop BSD because it essentially gives them slightly fuzzier feelings, and they are essentially a rounding error in their user base, is it really fair to criticize Linux developers for not focusing on portability? You can only spend your time once, so do you use it to work on something benefiting your tens of millions of existing Linux users, or something benefiting your thousands of potential BSD users?
The cops are fucking useless. I got death threats, bomb threats and a host of other shit and it's rare that the cops ever find the actor behind it. There is one particular "bulletproof" email hoster (the one with a bunch of very offensive and trolling domain names) that does absolutely zero cooperation with the police, and even if they did, it's likely that the other side uses Tor and the investigation ends there.

And if the other side is Kiwifarms and its associated offspring, the cops can't do anything at all. These guys are the utterly perfect storm - technically extremely competent but socially they're highly deranged narcissists.
There are already replies with sound arguments against the ideology that 90 of criminals arnt that sophisticated.

Secondly, I will also point out that criminals in general watch whats happening to other criminals. If people start going to jail because there mobile communications are being targeted, others will catch on and stop using mobile tech altogether for criminal activities.. People copy what works successfully, you don't need to be smart to do that. So yeah this argument is complete bullshit.
Something tells me it's not the entire US that's making this decision
Paper tape fitness app when ?
Mh... I would be most interested in how this could be used for running a local-first software infrastructure cloud. Does anyone has maybe some infos in how it could be used in that way ?
No no, its monarchism. Doing what his supporters voted for makes Trump a king.
Apple doesn’t need the UK business, but many people will get upset if their iPhone stops working.

That’s pretty big leverage.
As the very first article says:

> You can multiply two numbers by adding their exponents. So just with the exponent-addition you will be within a factor of 2 of the right result. But this will actually be much better and get within 7.5% of the right answer. Why?