skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything for sale on this site seems to be a joke, but there are real firms that specialize in liquidating the assets of failed startups. There was an HN post about this a few weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42790536
how do boots taste
1) Elon isn't a fraction as bright as he thinks he is
2) Elon suffers from extreme Dunning-Kruger
3) His boss only cares about adulation & retribution
4) Their enablers are willing to sit on the sideline as the side effects are destroying their political opposition
This is at least part of what Harold Finch was trying to prevent with his Machine in (Person of Interest)[0]. Having it have access to all of the data was bad enough, but being able to ask it any question you wanted was always a terrifying proposition. Especially if you then consider what happens when that AI starts doing things on it's own (see Samaritan from the same show).

[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839578/
Yup. Everyone makes choices.
Hydrogels could be ideal radiation protection for astronauts
I think this isn't the right take. the "disagreement" was a kernel maintainer saying "Rust in the Linux kernel is a mistake and I will do everything in my power to sabotage Rust adoption" (as feedback on version 8 of a patch). The fact that open undermining of Rust for Linux receives no pushback from Linus or anyone else with power in the Kernel is shocking.
> Imagine a not-too-distant future where artificial intelligence (AI) systems develop a new compound that could cure cancer, and no human can be fairly identified as the inventor. What happens next?

> Under current patent law, the answer is simple but troubling: if no human can be listed as the inventor, no one owns the patent.

Tell me why anyone, or anything, should "own" a patent for the cure for cancer.
I wouldn't use anything MrBeast does as evidence of anything.
His email seems very reasonable to me (the thin-blue-line comment is a bit weird though). To me the problem are that some Rust people seem to expect that the Linux maintainers (that put in a tremendous amount of work) just have to go out of their way to help them achieve their goals - even if the maintainers are not themselves convinced about it and later have to carry the burden.
Oligarchs don't care about other people or even the country.

They're so rich that they're isolated from any negative fallout (and they'll try to benefit from them too).
I was the tech lead at a YC company doing exactly this (Spot Health, W22) until a little while ago. There's a ton of very hopeful things happening in the industry behind the scenes. Insurance via employee benefit schemes is the lever to drive this into people's lives.

The industry refers to this as gap closure - care gaps are instances of a patient not receiving care when they should have. For example, not getting treatment for stage 1 cancer because you didn't have a checkup is a care gap.

Insurance companies are very incentivised to close care gaps because it results in cheaper premiums. Incentives between health insurance and patients are often not aligned (as we've seen in the news recently), but this is one case where they are radically incentivised to offer additional diagnostics if it results in fewer costly payouts for severe illnesses that come later.

In the medium term, the cost of full genome sequencing is quietly experiencing a 10x decrease in cost. Within a decade, I expect it to be the norm that all people are fully genetically sequenced and for the correlations enabled by that dataset to have made the value of being sequenced 10x. So probably a 100x increase or so in the value of genome sequencing over the next few years.

(Also, before anyone says it, yes 23&Me should feel very very ashamed for the deanonymised patient record data breaches they've experienced. The whole industry needs a slap in the face when it comes to privacy)
King Midas in the Indies (2017)
I have come to loathe acronyms
> Let the patient weigh the odds.

Patients are uninformed and emotional. Part of a doctor's job is to make the best decision for the patient using the information they have.

For example, if you tell people that daily aspirin reduces the risk of heart disease, you might get a 25yo with no heart issues starting to take it.

But if you look at actual data, all-cause mortality increases for people who have no risk of heart disease if they take daily aspirin, because aspirin can cause fatal internal bleeding.

That's the kind of thing doctors know and need to be firm about.
By "VSCode" here you mean something like a HTTP API for file read/write[0] that can be used from VSCode, I think? VSCode also can be made into a web app[1], but I don't see that happening here.

[0]: https://github.com/pomdtr/smallweb-vscode/blob/main/extensio...

[1]: https://github.com/gitpod-io/openvscode-server https://github.com/coder/code-server etc
> Like the race or location of the parent determines their childhood?

That has a huge impact btw. If you don't think so you're insane.

- Someone who grew up in 2 different continents.
I know personally several persons who absolutely didn't deserve to get fired. Some had a slow H2 2024 after years of high performance. Some were just plain unlucky that their team was dysfunctional at that time. And even worse, some people were on parental leave.

This doesn't seem like a good thing for the company. Productive employees must be replaced, new employees must be hired, trained. Teams need to reorganize. Morale is low.

Unclear to me what motivated this decision. The company is doing very well. Low performers have always been "managed out", but this time was very arbitrary.

I used to see Zuckerberg as someone mostly reasonable (compared to other loony CEO/billionaires) but this seems pretty irrational to me. I suppose the goal is to put stress to the remaining employees, and show some toughness to get a bit of appreciation from Trump/Musk. It's not right...
> you need to reimplement parts of Linux

Again, no. The security policies we have in mind can be implemented above the WALI call layer and supplied as an interposition library as a Wasm module. So you can have custom policies that run on any engine, such as implementing the WASI security model as a library. As it is now, all of WASI has to be implemented within the Wasm engine because the engine is the only entity with authority to do so. That's problematic in that engines have N different incompatible, incomplete and buggy implementations of WASI, and those bugs can be memory safety violations that own the entire process.

Thin kernel interfaces separate the engine evolution problem from the system interface evolution problem and make the entire software stack more robust by providing isolation for higher-level interfaces.
I read the post and I am thankful that these people exist, most of my life is made possible through the selfless work of wonderful open source developers like this person.

Sometimes I wish I was so passionate, whereas my philosophy in life towards strangers is a much simpler “fuck you, or pay me”. It allows me to sleep fairly well at night.

I have a few toy projects on GitHub, a couple of which gained a tiny bit of popularity, and I simply ignored every new feature request that I didn’t need, and especially those large PRs “here, I refactored your code to make it functional and it’s so much better now”. I simply said, with no regret: “I won’t merge this, feel free to fork the project, if it’s better I might even switch myself to your project!”. Some got mad, but I truly and genuinely couldn’t care less.
I have it installed on a non-gaming laptop. There are lots of lightweight games that I might play when traveling.
I believe the answer is the false discovery rate - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_discovery_rate
who asked him to fix Rust bindings or even look at the Rust code? Seems like an emotional nut.
There are many ways to state that without invoking corruption. I think Ted is telling the truth of who he is by choosing that phrase intentionally - we aren't talking about an idiot who just says stuff, he's a smart guy.
Totally, the departmental audits happen yearly and are available to the public. It doesn't bother me if they want to do a separate audit but these aren't audits, aren't being performed by auditors, and are clearly just a partisan attack on our institutions.
> There have been no AI drones in that war. Drones are reigning free because nobody established air superiority.

This hasn't been true since last year, when automated targeting systems began entering the battlefield. They still are not as widely deployed as personnel controlled drones, but over time it appears to be shifting towards battlefield autonomy. Nuclear weapons are a cudgel, automated human-free weapons are a scalpel.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/missiles-...
$400m state department Cyber Truck order says cost cutting is going superbly. Definitely no conflicts of interest here!
I know.

I kind of wish people would pronounce it dee oh gee ee instead of doge just to piss of musk and ruin his pathetic joke
Plenty of gaming monitors are native 1080p. Compared to a higher-res normal monitor at the same price, you usually get a higher refresh rate and better pixel response times. Or you used to, anyway—looks like that part of the spec sheet has been effectively exhausted in the recent couple of years, and manufacturers looking to sell something as “gaming gear” are slowly moving on to other parts of it. As long as they’re raising the baseline for all of us, I’ve no beef with them.
Both of them started as software developers.
k8s is for docker containers, this thing is like k8s but for wasm (and even uses similar apis).
> we all know he's a kook!

I still don't know what's the holdup then. Freud constructed narratives as we all do but his were deranged so why bother even mention him as anything other than the butt of the joke?
CALEA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_...
And China. Don’t forget China.
Yeah it's not an easy discussion for sure, but he has to say something.

At the rate we're going here the existing kernel devs will alienate any capable new blood, and Linux will eventually become Google Linux(TM) as the old guard goes into retirement and the only possible way forward is through money.
I think the other people got a little too technical.

The reasons are things like, if you want to play in time with a previously recorded track, or if you are using digital effects and need to be able to hear their effect on your instrument as you play it.

Both of these are less of an issue today than they were 15 years ago where a USB 2.0 audio interface added significant delay into audio and made it harder to get what you wanted out of the system.
Only for shaping and measuring, if I recall correctly. Rendering is still done by Skia and not DirectWrite.
That's exactly what would happen "types get out of date". I'm not sure what you are familiar with. But imagine in python a new version of a library is released that now has an extra required argument on a function.
> Then entertain his question and tell us what is?

In this particular case, Hector himself with the blog post hints at it, but a lot of damage has been done already: "I am working on personal issues currently, I'd like to step back for a while and will not be contributing. Thank you, all".

> Bringing up people’s attention to the matter to finally somehow resolve the situation

Not everything has a clear and fast resolution. I think Hector's team were hoping the resolution to be "Shut up everyone, we're doing Rust now, this is all merging in and that's that!". But it could have been "Shut up everyone, we're not doing Rust any longer". They would have been even more upset saying "this is a leadership failure, they're on the wrong side of history" and so on.

> you can’t say you want rust in the kernel and then sabotage any upstreaming efforts

Two wrongs don't make a right though. Call people out and ask them to explain their position, get others on your side. But threatening to drag their names all over Bluesky or X or Reddit or whatever latest thing is, is not productive, even more so it's anti-productive.
Yes, in this case: successfully used this argument to delay until the FBI gave up.

If it had gone to court, the argument was considered strong, but of course no one knows until a verdict is reached and appeals are exhausted.
> if additional tests are invasive those tests can be weighed on the balance of risk just the same

So let's say you have an extremely safe test. Let's use the "mail your poop to a lab" test for colon cancer as an example.

If that test (regardless of its accuracy) comes back with a positive, you're going to do one of two things: A) order a colonoscopy, perhaps with biopsy, to confirm the presence of a malignant tumor; B) start treatment immediately (if you trust the initial test enough).

So that brings you back to square one: you shouldn't do the test, regardless of the safety, if the math works out to make it riskier (due to false positives and unnecessary tests/treatment).
> Kids are almost teens now, but she gets zero support from them or her husband

This is a good analogy. Children are the people who they've been raised to become, so it stands to reason that people will give money and appreciation in the same ways that these things are originally given to them. These things are social constructs; we are inevitably taught how to use them by way of social dynamics. This is all to say that people love to support their darlings... but they've been socially conditioned to expect reciprocity in all transactions. That's how the sausage is made in content-based monetization -- you produce the actual product at a loss and then try to claw it back selling high-margin merchandise that nobody'd ever buy otherwise. The merch acts as social permission to finally do your part and pay the creators.

To risk stating the obvious: this is not a good thing and I think the majority of people would likewise agree. People should be fairly rewarded for their work and we should desire a culture which openly and freely encourages doing so. Culture, however, reflects society. The society we've created is transactional, so that's how people frame the spending of their money and efforts -- indeed, "spending" and "transaction" are practically interchangeable in our collective lexicon. Effort isn't strictly scarce in the same way eggs are, however, so we fail to value it.

> I don't know if this is the case around the world (probably is?) and I don't know what the solution is. It just sucks

It's not a total disaster... so we'll undoubtedly continue to ignore the cracks in the foundation. Martin still got paid good money for his efforts and it was good for him for a time. That podcast you like will sell enough t-shirts and get the rent paid on time, at least for a little while longer. This seems to be about as good as we've collectively agreed to make the world for the time being. A local maxima, so to speak: we've gotten stuck asking for more when less might do better. With a bit of luck and effort, however, we can still catch that pendulum when it eventually begins swinging in the other direction. That's my hope, anyway! For the time being I try to do the things I'd like to see become normal in a more decent world -- sharing generously, paying for the things I like, etc. -- because hopeless accelerationism is for chumps.
They hate us and despise the fact they're forced to compensate us for our education and experience.

Left to their own devices, software engineering would be just as abusive and exploitative as truck driving or automotive repair. They've already made great strides in this direction in terms of how people are hired (asking ACM/"Leet" code questions) and managed ("agile" nonsense).
How many times will this need to be said: the Rust maintainers have committed to handling all maintenance of Rust code, and handling all breakage of their code by changes on the C side. The only "burden" the C maintainers have to carry is to CC a couple of extra people on commits when APIs change.
Why not entirely wrong, the UB issues are bit exaggerated in my opinion. My C code from 20 years ago still works fine even when using modern compilers. In any case, our plan is to remove most of UB and there is quite good progress. Complaining that your build fails with -Werror seems a bit weird. If you do not want it, why explicitly request this with -Werror?
What do you mean? Rust 1.0 can compile Rust 1.0. Rust 1.1 can compile Rust 1.1.
They are really in need of a good DOGE'ing (with the G standing for Google), but unfortunately that's highly unlikely to happen.
Neat idea. Random initial impressions:

* On search listings, make clicking anywhere in the rounded-rectangle for the search hit go to the details view. (Actually, maybe make the whole rectangle a hyperlink, so people can middle-click and do all the normal browser link things with it.)

* On the detail view, there's no obvious button to go back to the search view. Even if you support old-school browser back feature, which is commendable, you might want to also have a button/link.

* On the detail view, the Twitter/X logo button in the upper right corner of the window almost looks like a close-window X like we see on some other sites for going back to the search view.

* You might want to make a clear argument for why people should use this instead of a liquidator, eBay, CraigsList, Facebook Marketplace, etc. (As a buyer, I'm thinking maybe I can find a deal here because there's not many other buyers. But as a seller who just lost their startup, I'd be thinking what's the easiest way to make these Aeron chairs and standing desks go away, with money a second priority, since there are better uses of my time and storage space.)

* You have a spam.
> Go back far enough and everyone will have done this with their nascent industries.

And that’s arguably a core job of any elected government. It’s not to promote external commerce or industry. That’s just a positive side effect of equitable bilateral deals. The primary economic and security responsibility is to your own people.
I was hit by a similar thing. Rust once caused regression failures in 5000+ packages due to incompatibility with older "time" packages [1]. It was considered okay. At that point, I don't care what they say about semver.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/127343#issuecomment...
Rules vary from state to state. But at least in Washington state, if you have "layoffs" then there are certain legal requirements that don't exist for "firings". One of them is that you can't hire someone for a substantially similar position for some period of time after the layoff. Facebook has specifically said that they want to replace the fired employees with new "higher quality" employees.
I mean if you take this stance every computer ever produced was dead meat when it was produced. Tech isn't meant to live long with the pace that technology is advancing. This was as true 30 years ago as it is true today.

I'm not sure what you are on about about downvoting. I didn't downvote you. In fact I have 3 upvotes. Maybe the downvotes came from those same people. Maybe that is because your stance is actually not that great.
> If there weren't real costs to dependencies

The OP isn't addressing the real costs of dependencies, the moral panic in question is the automatic assertion that more dependencies is worse than fewer dependencies, which implies that e.g. all the work you have done to cleanly separate regex out into reusable regex-syntax and regex-automata crates has done a disservice to your users. There are real arguments to be made about wrangling one's trusted computing base, but this isn't making that argument, and by throwing the baby out with the bathwater it sets us back as a profession.
It's awful that someone who is doing this kind of work as a volunteer experiences harassment for not making proprietary hardware work with open-source quickly enough.

"... I ended up traveling for most of the year, all the while having to handle various abusers and stalkers who harassed and attacked me and my family (and continue to do so)."
This is a gross simplification of the many factors that lead to the FBI dropping the demand against Apple, in my opinion.
If you’re doing a lot of layoffs but your company is doing well you need to give a clear reason to your existing employees so they can stay focused.
Apple is not in scope for CALEA requirements. But point taken.
>However this “thought police” and “arrested for posting memes” comment that often gets pointed on here is itself a nonsense meme.

Are you for real? These accusations are not merely memes.

While I don't endorse terrible people, it is note worth sometimes awful people are the target of even more awful laws. For example, you can do research into a person named "Adam Smith-Connor" who was literally convicted for standing in public while introspectively praying silently. The conduct of standing while appearing to pray was deemed as a form of illegal protest too near an abortion clinic. The same exact thing happened to another person "Isabel Vaughan-Spruce" who was not convicted.

There are also well documented incidents in the UK involving the prosecution of people making remarks online, which could arguably cross into thought-crime territory. I'll leave it to you to actually research these incidence, Google is your friend.
Kalman filter is the "learn python in 24 hours" for HN.
Wow, thanks for this. I can relate to this instability, but I'd never seen or heard of this follow on study.
I would like to put LibreOffice in https://exaequos.com !
Seems to be consistent with Musk's MO. Cut first then (maybe) measure.
CPU Server Growth, Enterprise AI Agent Adoption Challenges
Decisions are still going to be made, it's just that now they're going to be made by people loyal to Trump and Musk. That doesn't inspire confidence that they're going to make decisions that benefit the average American any better than the career civil servants who have been in these positions for decades.

In his first term, Trump focused on: huge tax cut for the rich and gutting EPA regulations, cutting back on Climate Change action, tried to cut ACA which would have brought back "pre-existing conditions" (don't know if you remember that, but it was pretty bad, and as someone with a child with a disability that would have been devastating), uh, what else?

We're seeing a repeat of that same stuff here, only worse (as in, now you can bribe foreign officials).

I haven't seen anything announced so far that benefits me as an average American citizen, just a bunch of culture-war stuff (like cutting DEI, or making sure transgender athletes can't compete in sports -- what do I care about any of that?)

The price of eggs hasn't gone down since Trump took office. I thought that's what people were concerned about.
At least UK demands it openly.

The US spied on EU’s industry with ECHOLON, 9/11 prevented further investigations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

And the US and Germany sold backdoored crypto hardware to allies per Crypto AG in Switzerland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

My point is: the UK demands are bad but I‘m sure the US agencies have similar demands and also backdoors, I‘m looking at you Cisco, just not openly.

The UK is playing with open cards, the US don‘t. I trust neither but the US are more devious.
I always feel like I'm imposing, and I have to remind myself that there are people who are eager to hear what I have to say. I try to set up my issue reports with appropriate background, and I always volunteer to, for example, submit a PR for a documentation change if the resolution requires it. And I have had some of the most wonderful interactions with complete strangers who had an idea, built a tool for themselves, and found other people had the same need.

There's a broader topic of ... just be nice to people. It doesn't cost anything. It does reassure me that this universe has been struggling with this for decades upon decades--witness the Malvin and Jim scene in WarGames. "Remember when you told me to tell you when you were acting rudely and insensitively?"