skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The moment I made up my mind about this was reading the following words written by a maintainer within the kernel community:

> "we are the thin blue line"

> This isn't okay. This isn't creating an inclusive environment. This isn't okay with the current political situation especially in the US. A maintainer speaking those words can't be kept. No matter how important or critical or relevant they are. They need to be removed until they learn. Learn what those words mean for a lot of marginalized people. Learn about what horrors it evokes in their minds.

I opened the article relatively certain about the nature of the complaint.
100% confirmed.

Seriously? Really? It seems Herbst is the one that wants a non-inclusive environment (ie. exactly
conforming to his personal political preferences). Additionally this looks like an excuse as he was already admittedly burned out.

In any case, good luck to Herbst in his future endeavors, hopefully he can develop a thicker skin.
On the other hand, right-wing government itself lowers limit of pandemic threat: they will be able to ignore a much more dangerous epidemic than a left-wing one will be forced to act upon, crippling the economy. Just simply because right-wingers have larger capacity for absorbing human losses. Plus, it puts thermostat effect massively into action as epidemics are much more dangerous to older and less educated people so they shift society to the left.
Asian man uses historical quote that is being abused by racists, white man steps back because the language threatens marginalized groups. I just can't take any of this seriously anymore.
All professional developers want two things: Do their work as fast as possible and spend as little budget to make things work. That's the core operating principle of most companies.

What's changing is that managed solutions are becoming increasingly easier to set up and increasingly cheaper on smaller scales.

While I do personally enjoy understanding the entire stack, I can't justify self-hosting and managing an LLM until we run so many prompts a day that it becomes cheaper for us to run our own GPUs compared to just running APIs like OpenAI/Anthropic/Deepseek/...
Poor students couldn’t afford Macs in those days. We built PCs by hand to save a few bucks.
Sports are so much nicer when there is no money involved.
Nope, the Bindel incident was in 2019. Here (God help me) is GB news saying the same thing: https://www.gbnews.com/news/feminist-writer-julie-bindel-tra... There's also a Times article behind a paywall that I think confirms it. The Pearson incident happened more recently but had nothing to do with trans issues: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/15/allison-pearso...

One of your links is the incident that I myself already linked. I will look at the others.

Edit: Ok, the other specific incident is about a Conservative MSP who was not actually contacted by Police as part of their investigation. The Police just logged someone's report of one of his tweets under a specifically non-criminal category. They're required to do this because someone reported the tweet and they have to keep a record of that. The freespeechunion article similarly seems to be about cases where the police have correctly recorded someone's complaint and then correctly done nothing about it (as happens all the time with nuisance complaints about noisy neighbors, etc. etc.)
Recent related threads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43043312
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036904
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972062
The fact that they categorize FNV-1a as "Good all-rounder, decent speed and collision resistance" was an immediate red flag for me.

It does look like an article written more than 10 years ago.
systemd (with the constellation of its assorted tooling like udev, logind etc.) is the only system that correctly models stuff that happens around kernel (like hotplugging stuff, on top of starting services). It's a compelling choice for general-purpose distros (those that span both servers and desktop), who don't want to maintain more stuff than they absolutely must (like two different init systems), and almost inescapable for today's DE's.

Unfortunately that's about the only good thing that can be said about it. The community is perceived as toxic, because of the way it was adopted (by vote, not by consensus, i.e. pushed down the throats over the reasonable objections of large body of developers) (though it's false: it's not toxic at all, if you just approach them from outside with well founded feature request, they'll be far more accomodating than many FOSS projects). Conduct of lead developers was criticised (cf. kdbus). The stability and code quality has much improved, but at the time of discussion it was questioned. Last but not least, it comes with it's own load of complexity: you need to learn new concepts (e.g. something called "job") that are simply not there in inittab-derived systems like openrc, so it comes across as "undebuggable" if you're before the learning curve.
Nope, for Wi-Fi the security doesn't sit on the physical or link (radio) layer. It's not an accurate comparison but it's similar to how TLS, too, doesn't sit on the physical or data link layer.
I played a bit of Super Mario 64 using an early version of Daedalus, so it was more than a rumour :>

Granted, it ran at about 80-90% realtime speed, and audio was a no-go, but maybe that improved in later releases.
I agree, but since you don't know which part of the data is for validation and which one is for training, and since you can assume such a system will only accept data that makes consensus, you tend to only accept data that is valid. That's the beauty of it.
I'd agree with you, until I saw my own server on a quite popular blocklist because "admin is a cryptobro"
> Your ideological view of reality and what the IRS are objectively doing do not seem to remotely line up.

Except that Project 2025 wants to freeze the IRS budget and hiring:

> Doubling the IRS? The Inflation Reduction Act contains a radical $80 billion expansion of the IRS—enough to double the size of its workforce.34 Unless Congress reverses this policy, the IRS will become much more intrusive and impose still greater costs on the American people.

* https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHA...
Considering it was a heavily repeated slogan of Bernie Sanders in 2016, and a common sentiment from his vocal minority, it’s hardly a “strawman” (whatever that means in this context). You can see his focus on the “1%”/“0.1%” (which interestingly, the latter excludes millionaires like himself and would be the percentage taxed) on his website here: https://berniesanders.com/issues/tax-extreme-wealth/
You're claiming that the American left has no issue with the term "thin blue line" or its context because that term is accepted by the mainstream. I provided links to demonstrate the contrary, illustrative of the fact that the American left does in fact have an issue with the term and its context, and that the mainstream of American politics and media does not represent the actual culture of American leftism.

Also the Noveau kernel is as far as I understand a FOSS project. There are no "jobs" from which one can be "fired."
> You are not sexist for believing that men and women are different. You are not racist for wanting immigration law to be enforced.

You are a misogynist if you think that those differences between men and women need to be underscored through societal and politic measures against women. You are racist if you think that kicking immigrants out of your country means only the brown people (which sadly seems to be a trap you eagerly walked yourself into). So please.
World Is Burning. Here's What You Can Do About It
The Danger of Overthinking: The Reasoning-Action Dilemma in Agentic Tasks
No good deed goes unpunished: can we now be sued over software we give away?
Maybe it's just because it was high school and not elementary school, but I remember basically everyone who was into games even a bit having a DS, but nobody used them as a daily carry portable. It was something you'd just notice in people's rooms when you went over.
Local bookstores are actually thriving now more than they have ever been. Even big box booksellers have stopped going bust.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bookstores-resurge...

https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/lessons-for-re...
Create React App Is Deprecated
Pleroma was recommended to me as a less resource-intensive alternative to Mastodon and with less anti-features. It runs fine with one user on Hetzner's cheapest VPS.

I delete posts mirrored from other servers older than 90 days with a cron job. It has a command to do this.
This is always interesting to me, the random vitality of knowledge here. What was it that made that other post flop? I mean it was pretty much the same group of people here, so it is not the knowledge of this that really triggered this to be on the front page, so what does the HN community really value then?
I don't see it. A lapsed maintainer's description of how, in their own perspective, an adversarial rallying cry is less than compatible with a prominent position in a collaborative setting… may be many things, justified or not.

But a credible threat it isn't. You know this, I know this, and every reader of this message knows this, too.
Databricks Expanding the World of Data and AI
Rust for Linux [pdf]
Do you have to watch your pockets when using this library?
You don't like free association?
> Great post here, and yea, things hit so much harder after kids ... remember seeing a photo of a man in India carrying his daughter killed by the tsunami

Also from India, a bereaved mother is barely able to speak to the loss of her 2 children, right after having spoke about 6 other deaths in her family: https://youtu.be/XLl2qAprU8w?t=312

I've seen that clip before, but after having kids, it hits like a truck. That said, children or not, there's no shortage of people who mock or deny or won't sympathise with "others" (outgroup).
In case this isn’t sarcasm: it isn’t.

For those who don’t remember that era: https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/08/twitter_epic_traffic_...
https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Junior_Woodchucks_Guidebook
Security.

On one hand, licensing requirements and regulation often mean that modems are locked down in terms of firmware updates, reference documentation, source, and capabilities. This often translates into a larger "black box" area, and one embedded inside your SoC instead of physically separate and connected over a serial bus.

On the other, on-chip modems often (not sure about those Nordics) have DMA.

The combination of those two is scary.
Migrating Aurora and MySQL Databases to Vitess Kubernetes Clusters [video]
Why only the upper classes?
Becoming competitive when joining a new company
There's a chiropractor in Hanmer Springs called "All Backs". Their logo is the silver fern flag, only instead of a fern it's the outline of a spine.
This is great news, but the lack of a filter for DRM-free—coupled with the inability to send any other types of titles to an e-reader—makes this pretty useless for a lot of us. An e-ink display really does make all the difference for me to be willing to read e-books.

Hopefully they improve the filters with time and it's not an intentional decision to appease publishers.

I recently discovered and have been enjoying libro.fm for audio books. Can anyone here recommend a good source of DRM-free e-books?
Yes but only if you connect through the SOCKS or HTTP proxy service provided by the Tor daemon.

There's no DNS when using a proxy. The proxy does DNS.
In my opinion, the issue when using Airbnb is not really to find the good one despite rigged scores, but more that there is usually no interesting offer at the good moment for interesting locations.

Reasonable ok ones are really expensive, overly expensive compared to going to a hotel, and affordable ones are all really crappy and so overly over expensive for their value.
I never had a PSP but also didn’t really want one after seeing my friend’s. It seemed way too fragile and complicated, not rugged and simple like Nintendo portables.

It also had a bigger problem in that it seemed to be designed for (and built a library of) ports from regular consoles. I’ve always believed full console ports make lousy portable games because they’re not designed for stop-and-go play sessions. I’m not interested in playing through some epic boss battle in God of War while waiting in line at the grocery store. On the other hand, I’m totally fine with playing a few moves in a quick adventure/puzzle/strategy game on a DS.

And that’s the crux of it. PSP seems to be designed for portable play only around the house. In that case I’d rather just have a regular console.
> The seemingly random inconsistency of LLMs makes it hard to trust their reasoning in complex, multi-step problems. If you want to use an AI model to help with a business problem, it’s not enough to see that it understands what factors make a product profitable; you need to be sure it won’t forget what money is.

Every single so-called “AI company” or “AI Engineer” (Who is of course just using OpenAI’s API in their projects) in this space should read this blog post.
What's so wrong about the thin blue line statement? I didn't know about this phrase before so I read the wiki page. Isn't the usage correct? Kernel maintainers need to ensure the kernel code doesn't become a unmaintainable ball of mud.
I've stopped bookmarking URLs just because I've got so many that I can't manage them any longer
DRM on books really doesn't make a lot of sense to me – it’s way too easy to remove.
Upvote to comments ratio: nobody knows how to play, hadn't even heard before, but it has "nerdy corpo" attached to it, so must be good.
Because software complexity is truly out of control. Everything needs their own firmware and software and periodic housekeeping tasks to prevent the system crashing. No one knows or has enough time to account for all of those problems, let alone just to build an interpreter environment.

I think Apple and Google both using their phone OS for smartwatches is one indication of lack of such capacity in the industry: Apple Watches come with ~300mAh batteries, old Nokia had 500-700mAh. Watches are rated for 36 hours in normal modes or 72 hours in low-power, whereas Nokia would ran for minimum 1 week, despite ~15 years of improvements in semiconductors.

We'd have to wait for maybe GPT-8y or DeepSeek-R4, probably on wheels, each given a cubicle to get it back down to human scale.
Love this. I’d really like to play with real cards, but the uneven suit setup makes that tough as a party game unless the host sits out. I guess you could prepare a bunch of decks ahead of time. At 4 minutes a round you’d need maybe 10 decks for an hour of playing though. To even it out I guess you’d have 12? But that means you’d have more info about what’s likely in later rounds..

Hmm. Maybe I can nerd snipe some into making a deck sorter..
I really hate traveling because of all the bureaucracy involved in checking-in, validating emails, validating whatsapp accounts, buying train tickets in foreign countries, doing all this on the small screen of my phone and while I'm sitting on some subway with dropping connections. Oh, and checking into the hotel takes 15 minutes because the clerk needs to make a copy of my passport which I'm questioning the legality of. There's a LOT to be improved here.
Please forgive my cynicism, but this strikes me as coming straight out of the, "we're building a tech company for social change," handbook. The handbook which tries to lure people in with a promise, where their intent is to build their own corporate empire and to give everyone else the short stick in the end.

Don't get me wrong. If they were up there saying they were doing it for publishers or authors, I may find some integrity in their claim. After all, they are the ones hurting from Amazon's dominance, they are the ones who would benefit by bringing their products to consumers via other channels, and they are the ones bringing something to the table.

But independent bookstores? Don't get me wrong, I want to see them thrive. Yet it doesn't look like they are bringing much to the table here. Once you get past the landing page with books they (likely) curated for their intended market, there isn't much of a reason for them to exist in this particular marketplace. It doesn't much look like Bookshop.org facilitates them offering much unique to the particular bookstore's customers. For things like store events or community news or even a unique presentation of the store's products one would have to follow the links to the bookstore's social media pages or website.

While independent bookstores may benefit from an increased online presence in the short term, I'm left asking the question: what is preventing Bookshop.org from capturing their customers, decreasing commissions, and even blocking those links to the store's actual independent online presence in the medium to long term?

Maybe Bookshop.org's intent is genuine. The problem is that I've seen similar games being played out too many times before.
If the rule is you break it, you fix it, I don't see why it should be anything different for a multi-language project. If the feature makes technical sense and people want it, it should happen.
also see: https://github.com/plasma-umass/ChatDBG
Curious how well this compares to the same functionality built into Gemini.
Toxic? More like "not willing to walk on eggshells around a single guy who doesn't even come with a printed manual of all his sensibilities".

Not just that, he basically demanded that one of them has to go:

"A maintainer speaking those words can't be kept. No matter how important or critical or relevant they are. They need to be removed until they learn."

The word "crybully" comes to mind.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43057687 ("Nouveau kernel maintainer steps down (freedesktop.org)", 12 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43043312 ("We are the "thin blue line" that is trying to keep the code high quality (kernel.org)", 166 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036904 ("Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead (marcan.st)", 966 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42926732 ("[flagged] Hector Martin: "Behold, a maintainer sabotaging the Rust for Linux project" (lwn.net)", 22 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42932105 ("A Linux maintainer admitting to attempting to sabotage Rust for Linux project (treehouse.systems)", 14 comments)
I use Bookfinder.com on a regular basis to find DRM free dead tree books. It searches across all of the big new/used book vendors and also the smaller “thrift store / Goodwill” book dealers (even eBay buy now) Sorts in New and Used groupings then by price.

But like the software “Quality, Cost, Delivery” triangle, the delivery is 99% by USPS media mail, so it’s 5-7 business days to get the book.

It would be interesting to see Bookshop to hookup with Bookfinder to give them another search method.
I don't think you even have to look deep into the model for it. There seem to be some projects who are simply analyzing the logits during decoding to estimate how "certain" the model is of the next token.

But if all people do is random sampling or blindly taking the highest-scored prediction, this will of course fall under the table.
Stay strong my friend. The world is more beautiful with your son here, and I hope it stays beautiful for a very long time.
I am rearely involved in ops, however from what i have gathered i think its killer feature is the exact thing most people complain about when talking about it.

Systemd is not an init system, its an entirely system layer that does a lot of things of which init is just one piece.

However since there is a unified vision, all the things are controlled and configured the same way. This combined with its near universal adoption makes ops realy easy to do.
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make?

Prior to the 1880s, most of the government turned over with each administration. There largely was not a career bureaucratic class. Between the ending of patronage and the growth of the government, we collectively have added more protections for rank and file bureaucrats in order to keep stability. Trump and Musk are upending that tradition. The first post asserted Trump is within his rights to recompose the entire government as he sees fit. That simply isn’t true and ignores how we got here.
https://archive.ph/ZiaTj
Outside of his silly comments about marginalised people, it does genuinely seem a little strange that maintainers of the project view themselves as some sort of punisher-style police force.
Yes. My business is in the code review space, synthetic data is very helpful for evals
Parent poster did say they are aware they don’t know but can’t express it.

I am guessing he is referring to mechanistic interpretability research like these:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16908

https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03282

You are claiming they are statistical parrots, which I don’t think the parent poster meant.

The “statistical parrots” argument might have been compelling with GPT-3, but not with today’s models and the results of mechanistic interpretability research, which show internal representations and rudimentary world models.
you're absolutely right. it's been a long time since youtube had any value to our lives, which we no longer have nowadays :/
web was nice, when the only CSS was background and text colors
What? I just use a laptop. I don't get it. Worst-case, I tether internet via my phone.

Also, why are you doing it in the subway? To be fair, I once did vimtutor in a subway [1] and learned vim within two 30 min. rides but not the point :')

[1] Thanks to a HN'er like 8 years ago who was kind enough to mention it to me, I never heard of vimtutor and almost have never heard of it since (with 2 exceptions perhaps)
2023/2024 is when Musk was semi-coherent and sane… 2025 is what you need to start looking at…
One could argue the Audits were not very effective
https://archive.ph/q94m1
Planning a trip is not at all fun unless you’re doing something very basic.
This has actually brought up an interesting point. Kubernetes is nothing more than an API interface. Should someone be working on building a multi-tenant Kubernetes (so that customers don't need to manage nodes or clusters) which enforces VM-level security (obviously you cannot safely co-locate multiple tenants containers on the same VM)?
Sort the deck ino 4 stacks by suit, have somebody else remove the cards without looking at the suits, shuffle stacks back into a deck.
When you've saved "years of watching" by using sponsorblock and 2x speed, that's not how you use YT. Sponsorblock saves 25% at most.

To be clear, I am not saying that youtube has no use, but the commenter I originally responded to is clearly in excess of whatever that reasonable level is.
Recent and related:

Give up 70% of the way through the hyperstitious slur cascade

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/give-up-seventy-percent-of-...

I've yet to see anyone put this quote in context to show that the user of it meant it to be racist or offensive. Absent that context I take issue with people singling it out as an example of toxicity.

I'm not even convinced that we've hit the 70% mark on this hyperstitious slur cascade. I know a lot of people take offense at it, and if this keeps going then we'll certainly hit 70% within the tech world very quickly as people drop the phrase like a hot potato, but as of right now I'm not comfortable with the way that this maintainer is being attacked for a single phrase.

If they've demonstrated a pattern of toxicity, let's talk about that pattern, not about one hyperstitious slur.
The point is that all of this should be mostly automatic, and/or you should be able to do this before you even leave, and/or it should work in a unified way (the same with all airlines, train services, etc.)