skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except in reality the 20% coming back are probably not the best. Some will be but at least some of your best employees are going to be smart enough (or have enough self-respect) to go elsewhere. And/or those are the people skilled enough to find a new job quickly (or know they can find one quickly) and aren’t willing to come back.
I don't see how saying "I wish GIMP had X" is "putting shit on it unconstructively". It's a feature suggestion, whether it's one that's doable given the project's resources or not.

I'd say that "if you don't like it just fork it" approach has dealt way more damage to the reputation of OSS outside of programmer circles than people repeatedly asking for features or improvements.
The mortgage gives you a roof that far surpasses the comforts of what would be a royal palace for an uncontacted tribe. If you're ok with a lifestyle on the level that they get (with hard, dangerous work), you can have it quite easily in today's society.

Go far enough into a forest and you'll likely be left alone when you build a primitive hut, except that now an hour of work buys you a lighter, a knife of unachievable quality, a pack of pills that save you from dying from infection, or "firewood" (a propane cartridge) for days.
Elon Musk's coming was literally prophesied by a certain infamous Nazi rocket scientist. I don't expect rational science-minded materialists to believe in spooky magic but at the very least the psychological impact of that apparent prophesy on the man himself should be considered.

He probably meant it.

Edit for requested source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mars%3A_A_Technical_Ta...
I'd be all in favor of removing thousands of individual regulations if they were replaced by a single rational carbon/pollution tax, but that is wishful thinking.
> Yet what's essentially "cat [62 random files we googled] > prompt.txt" is now being confidently presented with academic language as "62 sources".

That's not a very charitable take.

I recently quizzed Perplexity (Pro) on a niche political issue in my niche country, and it compared favorably with a special purpose-built RAG on exactly that news coverage (it was faster and more fluent, info content was the same). As I am personally familiar with these topics I was able to manually verify that both were correct.

Outside these tests I haven't used Perplexity a lot yet, but so far it does look capable of surfacing relevant and correct info.
Why not let through all ipv6 traffic? It seems improbable that your device is going to get caught up in a ipv6 scan; the address space is too vast - I'm assuming here.

Just have relatively secure devices using ipv6 - not shipping with standard default admin passwords would nearly be enough if there aren't obvious vulnerabilities.
I don't know what Sweden he has lived in, but me who has lived in Sweden through the 90s, 00s and 10s, I feel that practically the only thing people want to talk about is problems with immigration.

In relation to digging into a major economic shift during thee 30 years, moving Sweden from being one of the most egalitarian societies to consistently having an increasing economic gap.

This continues with the last budget, again giving tax cuts to, not salary work, but dividents.
"But isn't Sweden a high tax society", well, it still a quite high tax on work, but all other type of taxes has been remove or dramatically decreased (inheritance tax, gift tax, property tax, corporate tax, divident tax). So it is increasingly cheaper to earn money on others work (also your parents), but if cant afford to invest you will a hard time actually working yourself up by just putting hours in.
But hey, the problem is just "immigration" and that people cant talk about it (even though the only thing people talk about is just that).
Was it the absence of religion that created issues in communist states? Or perhaps authoritarianism, hero worship, overly centralized planning, low trust culture, or some other combination of factors at play?

History's arc is much longer than communism, and religion is tied to some pretty horrific events.
It is objectively false in the same sense it is 'false' to suggest renters pay property tax.

They don't sign the check, but the costs of tax burdens are often captured in the prices of goods/services offered by rich company owners.
+1 on traveling light. The author did mention this, too: "
Your enjoyment of a trip will be inversely related to the weight of your luggage. Counterintuitively, the longer your trip, the less stuff you should haul. Travelers still happy on a 6-week trip will only have carry-on luggage."
WebAssembly is still very limited and not a "first class" language in browser, not sure why..
This is so cool! The Sims was one of my favorite games as a kid and I am so excited to get a glimpse at its inner workings.
I took the "overoptimisim" to mean that the parent thought Europe could defend and maintain this outlook well into the forseeable future, an assumption that is being tested by Europe's own rightward slide. The way things are right now in Europe, to say that it might have been overoptimistic to think that Europe will continue as it has makes sense to me. At the moment, it is unclear to most people who live there how much of their way of life (if any) is subsidized by the US.
Almost certainly would seem weirder in some places or circumstances than others. One of those things in the list I have certainly never considered.
Just because a language doesn’t have a garbage collector doesn’t mean you don’t create any garbage to collect.
Government employees shouldn't be immune to layoffs. If the government goes bankrupt, everyone is much worse off. The longer these systems stay down the worse things can go, this is the most humane way to do what needs to be done. Which is take away the power (money) that the parasitic relationship between business and DC is built on and make sure we don't go bankrupt.

They will be able to collect unemployment, do we know if they are getting severance?
Maybe, though in the paper (not the article):

> We no longer receive bug reports about inaccurate results, as we occasionally did for the 2014 floating-point-based calculator

(with a footnote: This excludes reports from one or two bugs that have now been fixed for many months. Unfortunately, we continue to receive complaints about
incorrect results, mostly for two reasons. Users often do not understand the
difference between degrees and radians. Second, there is no standard way
to parse calculator expressions. 1 + 10% is 0.11. 10% is 0.1. What’s 10% + 10%?)

When you have 3 billion users, I can imagine that getting rid of bugs that only affect 0.001% of your userbase is still worthwhile and probably pays for itself in reduced support costs.
You've gotta be trolling.
I don't know about Twitter but for the companies I know of that have done this people generally can't vack for 1.5x to 2x their old pay.
I mean can you keep going.

Every one under heaven says that our Way is greatly like folly. But it is just because it is great, that it seems like folly. As for things that do not seem like folly — well, there can be no question about their smallness!
Here are my three treasures. Guard and keep them! The first is pity; the second, frugality; the third, refusal to be 'foremost of all things under heaven'.
For only he that pities is truly able to be brave;
Only he that is frugal is able to be profuse.
Only he that refuses to be foremost of all things
Is truly able to become chief of all Ministers.

At present your bravery is not based on pity, nor your profusion on frugality, nor your vanguard on your rear; and this is death. But pity cannot fight without conquering or guard without saving. Heaven arms with pity those whom it would not see destroyed.
Eating JS but excreting WASM, little bit of progress at least?
Definitely - this launch is mentioned in the article:

"As it turned out, the inaugural flight was a bit of a mixed bag. Neal Casey, an 18-year-old technician stationed on the Midway, later recalled how the missile tilted dangerously starboard and headed toward the vessel’s own command center, known as the island.

"“I had no problem tracking the rocket,” said Casey, according to the USS Midway Museum. “It almost hit the island.”"
China seeks stronger cooperation with Germany and EU
Fast Incremental JVM Assembly Jar Creation with Mill
I think being fair is the point. Instead of using any metric that might infringe on a protected class, let's use math?
If we're blocked on Apple, so is everyone else. A key consideration in shipping high-level software is to avoid using niche features that the vendor might ignore if they're broken.
Uncomputable! That was the word I wanted. I only remembered constructability but that was something else. Thanks.
I really hate when people put cat images and memes in a serious article.

Don't get me wrong, the content is good and informative. But I just hate the format.

That reminds me when SideFX started putting memes into their official tutorial youtube channel. At least this is just a webpage and we can scroll through them...
Ah. Missed that.

It's certainly not always possible if you need real dress clothing or real hiking/camping gear. (I've never gotten to the point where I can do a month-long trip that includes a long distance week-long+ walk along with some fairly formal evening wear in a carry-on.)

But you can probably get closer than you think. By myself, if I'm mostly just traveling in cities with "business casual" as dressy as it gets, I can travel almost indefinitely with a 40L travel backpack.
> Almost all numbers cannot be practically expressed

That's certainly true, but all numbers that can be entered on a calculator can be expressed (for example, by the button sequence entered in the calculator). The calculator app can't help with the numbers that can't be practically expressed, it just needs to accurately approximate the ones that can.
I had a chance of working in a few brutalist style buildings (in different countries) and I hated it. All this concrete looks pretty horrible and is depressing inside. This actually brings a point about architecture. I feel that first and foremost the building should be designed for people inside the building, while how it looks from the outside should be lower priority. I do feel sometimes it is the other way around, where the architects design the building to win the awards and often aim at how unusual it's going to look etc, but what the actual occupants of the building will think is not really considered.
I spent 9 months traveling from Mexico to Buenos Aires with a backpack eighteen years ago. Spent most nights in hostels in shared rooms for a few dollars a night. It was a great experience. Carried a MacBook Pro and a digital Nikon D70. Actually had the first iPhone but hardly used it. Do have a selfie of myself on a bus somewhere in Central America.

These days I’m taking more expensive vacations in cheaper countries. You can go to the Caribbean and stay for $2000 a night or go to places like Morocco or Panama on a luxury vacation for 1/3 the price.
I found the article to be very long and uninteresting and also never found the "nightmare" part, maybe i missed it
Not sure I understand what you mean by this. Rust doesn't create "garbage" in the technical sense. It has RAII. It's a different thing.
Fish is probably the only wild animal/plant with masive consuption. (That is the closest to we all decide that nobody herd/cultivate, only hunter/gather.)
Mention of an app, but no references. Does anyone know of it?
"From where I sit the question is whether a budget approved by congress must be spent or should be considered a "do not exceed" spending cap. There is gray area when Congress says we need a department to manage our education system, for example, and sets a budget. Congress is only approving the spending there, at least to me that means it can be spent but doesn't have to be spent in full."

You are welcome to imagine an alternate legal system from first principles, but please do not present it as U.S. law. The question of whether president has to "[spend] in full" has been settled by legislation and litigation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Budget_and_Impou...
I’ve seen things you wouldn't believe.

Python deterministically generating terraform HCL files based on yaml.

Execution wrappers that encapsulate terraform in CI/CD to parse the json output and prevent database deletion, but apply everything else.

Scripts that pull every git repo and execute every terraform file they can find while walking the directory tree.

Terraform is about 80% of the way to a good tool, that last 20% is a ball-ache and solved totally differently every time; the best setups I’ve seen is where terraform just “hands off” to something else after making a minimum infrastructure.

But, otherwise, it can get incredibly messy.
The bill looks like it is split because VAT is collected at each transaction, but in the end it nets out for everyone but the end consumer.

So in your case the raw material producer would collect €1 of VAT from you, but this is entirely fictional, because you can immediately claim it back. Only when you sell the goods to an end consumer would VAT that cannot be claimed back be due.
My impression is that the JS guru crowd is made of cool kids and very sensitive to what’s in fashion this week - and that’s definitely Rust.

Here on HN there is plenty of announces of new things “like X but in Rust” - even when X would be fine in Python or Bash.
Only YouTube. Have about 6 favorite channels and that's it. But even then try to find a YouTube front that works. I wish my favorite YouTubers also posted their content elsewhere.
Well said.

It's the complete opposite of a growth mindset.

It's a sales mindset.

Our society only wants to hear from con-men, and so (big surprise here) we tend to put literal con-men in leadership positions.

I'd love to hear some recommendations on how to change the incentives around this.
As it was at Twitter.
I didn't understand the benefit of using terragrunt. Modern terraform supports all of the features terragrunt was originally designed to work around way back when.

Outside of being able to use variables in very niche places that you can't in terraform (and can easily work around, and that last I heard is on the road map for open tofu), what does terragrunt do that using regular module imports in terraform don't?

This may be anecdotal but every terragrunt repository I've ever seen was a mess of spaghetti trying too hard to stay DRY.
Your comment from earlier wasn’t as easy to digest as this one. I don’t think that person copied you at all.
…if there’s a “why”, maybe it’s because WASM can’t interact with the DOM and the debugging experience isn’t very good.

The DOM API is defined as a JavaScript API. The browser, JavaScript, and the DOM API have been evolving in parallel for over 20 years. If you want to interact with the DOM from WASM, what you can do is write a function in JavaScript that interacts with the DOM, and then import that function into your WASM module.

At least for now.
I still use google. LLMs talk way too much for what I need.

Granted, my searches are usually "toLocaleString() format" or "floor tiles popping reddit" and such. That takes me to MDN, stackoverflow, reddit etc.

I recently paid for Kagi since I like their mission but I'm more used to the results from google. I'll see where it takes me.
I really love Jerry Martin's music -- here's his web site with more:

https://boombamboom.com/

How The Sims Made New-Age Jazz Piano the Soundtrack of Our Lives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LpVUi9TQ8U

The Sims Soundtrack CHEATED. Here's how:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJMds3jT7c8
So basically what happened to South and Central America.
Maybe the photographer should stop telling other people in other cultures what they are supposed to like or dislike.
North Korean Search Engine
Made using imperialist technology like the Next.js framework.. development mode is on and the "honorStyle.js" script seems interesting :)
You're (luckily) wrong on this. There's nothing that is stopping you to plug the server into your home power outlet. It will work just fine - ~0.5kW is almost nothing. Case in point - Dell also builds the workstations with the same hardware you see in their servers.
I switched to a software engineering career, for free
Do you know if there will be another South Bay Systems meet?
It's not even about features. Calculators are mostly useful for napkin math - if I can't afford an error, I'll take some full-fledged math software/package and write a program that will be debuggable, testable, and have version control.

But for some reason the authors of calculator apps never optimize them for the number of keypresses, unlike Casio/TI/HP. It's a lost art. Even a simple operator repetition is a completely alien concept for new apps. Even the devs of the apps that are supposed to be snappy, like speedcrunch, seem to completely misunderstand the niche of a calculator, are they not using it themselves? Calculator is neither a CAS nor a REPL.

For Android in particular, I've only found two non-emulated calculators worth using for that, HiPER Calc and 10BA by Segitiga.Pro. And I'm not sure I can trust the correctness.
> Why tf isn't ollama in apt-get yet?

There are three broad groups of people in packaging:

A) People who package stuff you and others need.

B) People who don’t package stuff but use what’s available.

C) People who don’t package stuff and complain about what’s available without taking further action.

If you find yourself in group C while having no interest in contributing to group A or working within the limits of group B, then you have two realistic options: either open your wallet and pay someone to package it for you or accept that your complaints won’t change anything.

Most packaging work is done by volunteers. If something isn’t available, it’s not necessarily because no one sees value in it—it could also be due to policy restrictions, dependency complexity, or simply a lack of awareness. If you want it packaged, the best approach is to contribute, fund the work, or advocate for it constructively.
Yes that. I use free42 on my phone and mac. And an actual real HP 42S.

Edit: and Maxima as well on the mac (to back up another user's comment)
> a legal-if-you-don't-look-at-it way to bribe the de facto head of the US government / the expectation of massive corruption

How does the sale of the debt help Elon Musk or Trump? They don't own that debt, they don't make money off that debt. Do you expect the fund managers to forgive the debt as a bribe? That would clearly be a bribe, but until that happens, it isn't and I don't think it is terribly likely.

There are plenty of real things to be upset over, you don't need to make up imaginary ones. All that does is dilute the real concerns and make your opposition less effective.
It doesn't look like DOGE is trying to fund anything; at this stage my guess is they're trying to hack off the propaganda arm of the CIA/NSA and the web of NGOs on the theory that it is funding anti-Trump messaging. Otherwise targeting USAID for savings early is a bit pointless; what is $50 billion a year to the US government? They're $36 trillion in debt with no plausible path out of the hole. Annual deficit is around $2 trillion.

Or it might be a propaganda effort to make Team Trump look busy. Hard to say without more visibility into what they're doing.
> These people are in fantasy world. NONE OF YOU have worked on anything high stakes, tech has always been non critical (mostly)

While tech is my current career, it's not my first. 18 years as a (UK) Civil Servant has given me a a different perspective on meeting dynamics which still proves useful in my current work.

One useful learning for me was around good meeting preparation - especially for critical meetings which carry a good chance of people agreeing to important (to me) decisions. I like to work out what I want to get out of the meeting, and what other people want (including: no agreement), risks around my desired outcome, impacts on the work (and feelings!) of others, things I can do before the meeting to help people get in the right frame of mind to make the decision I want, etc. If I can get people to sign off and move on to their next meeting within 15mins of the meeting starting - that's the ideal outcome.

Of course, YMMV!
Another issue that I thought might be pointed out with this idea is...

If you need to interact with a reputation service of some kind for every new client connecting. That would require network calls and traffic correlating to the number of new inbound requests.

So you could DDOS a website by providing requests with junk public key's causing the server to consume resources checking whether those requests are genuine.

As a defense against scrapers and bots I think the idea has some merit. It may be replacing one form of DDOS for another if there is a targeted attack against the authentication bit.
Operation Murambatsvina
I think a big issue with how we teach math, is the casualness with which we introduce children to floating points.

Its like: Hey little Bobby, now that you can count here are the ints and multiplication/division. For the rest of your life there will be things to learn about them and their algebra.

Tomorrow we'll learn how to put a ".25" behind it. Nothing serious. Just adds multiple different types of infinities with profound impact on exactness and computability, which you have yet to learn about. But it lets you write 1/4 without a fraction which means its simple!
Babel, prettier, and oxidase for a few examples all output JS. JS -> WASM doesn't tend to be very useful as WASM can't hit the DOM or most APIs.
Sorry, they are servants of the public.

Maybe they ought not have been fired, but their feelings are 2nd place when their salary is funded predicated on men with guns forcing people to pay up. Maybe my feelings are hurt and I hold a grudge for being forced to pay their paycheck rather than spend that money on my family, but I'm nearly certain most of them don't care nor does much of HN.
I don't know, I dont understand the details and your reasoning is confusing for me. My understanding is that the effectiveness of particular hardware is complex to predict; it depends on the sizes of the CPU caches and effectiveness at certain instructions, and the algorithm can of course be tuned in all sorts of ways. The Tor project is already using it so presumably it is working for them to some extent. More info here: https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-proof-of-work-defens...
So native Hawaiians.

As I understand it, when corporate start setting up pineapple and sugar plantations in Hawaii they found they could not get cheap labor from the Hawaiian people themselves. And why would they? Between fish and fruit they have all the food they need. A simple structure (on the preferred side of the island) is all you need for shelter.

So they brought in Chinese laborers.
I think that’s one reason The Expanse is a compelling series. It’s largely the same everything except “what if we could generate propulsion without the need of massive volumes of fuel?”

I think Fallout is also similar: “what if the transistor wasn’t invented until much later?”
This is not universally true although I see this phrase being repeated here too often. And it is especially not true with the small models. Small models are compute-bound.
That’s wild! It’s such a strange setup
Sadly for a North Korean just having 2000 calories per day is considered a working class salary. 40% of the population is undernourished.