skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As someone who has (reluctantly) been advocating and pushing our org to move stuff over to Azure

I get moving off of AWS and GCP. But to Azure? That move doesn't make sense to me at any time that Azure has been a thing. Why have you ever wanted to move things to Azure?
This makes the robot apocalypse happen at an increased rate. All the advancements made without this stupid error infecting everything.
Oh wow, I stand corrected. Didn't know they brought back the moniker.
Are those who downvoted enough to grey your comment out… not “smart enough” either?
I don’t live in the Us - I really don’t care about the specifics of US politics tbh
I don't know:

* I have been to quite a few weddings. I have never been to a wedding organised by wedding planners.

* The author wrote the first version for themselves and weren't wedding planners.
Show HN: Gabber – Cheapest, fastest realtime voice platform with interrupt
It wasn't safe when rogue engineers at Amazon colluded with the US government to take down Parler simply because they didn't like the politics they supported.

It wasn't safe when the US government worked with Twitter and Facebook to silence the opposing view points about Covid Vaccine injuries and lied to us constantly about the effectiveness.

There are children to this day that can't get heart transplants in the US because they don't have the Covid vaccine, which only 2% of American children have taken.

I know lots of people that took the J&J vaccine and it's been taken off the market due to deadly blood clots. Doctors mentioning this at the time were silenced and many lost their jobs.

When I see more people in the tech community talking about the authoritarian left that nearly destroyed our freedoms over the last 4 years, I might start listening to you about your concerns about our current state of politics.
Bad for general trends for what jobs are you there. Good to help confirm a general trend of declining job posting and rising job seekers.

Honestly a bit surprised how steady the increase is. Guess that "the market will bounce back here" hasn't come true at any small point in time.
Some others: SPARC and SuperH.
So you're hobbling yourself to a phone for why exactly? Carrying a spare $40 makes your wallet too heavy?
That's just personal preference. It works the other way around too.
Thank you for soldier of fortune. It was a pioneer in its own way with how brutal the enemy destruction was. I loved it. Incredible game that is up there with DOOM, Half Life and Halo for me.
Reminds me of https://www.hacker.org/hvm/ (2008)
Why? That's a very weird line of reasoning!

Then who are you supposed to vote for if you want X and Y but are against Z (but think X or Y is more important than Z)?
I'll be honest my experiences with themes for Linux have been quite poor. Even with good ones it works for some apps but not others and you end up spending all your time fixing edge cases or just dealing with some windows not looking right.

My solution has been to just use the default Ubuntu theme that ships with Gnome. I find that theme just seems to work the best across most of my apps with a few small exceptions, compare this to other themes I've tried where only like half of the windows look right.

I'm sure there are better themes out there and I could achieve perfect consistency if I dug deep enough and tweaked enough things. But at least in my case I already spend many hours on my computer coding and something like desktop theming is super low on my list, it's one of those things I just need to work because I don't have time to be focusing on that crap.

The same goes for my desktop environment. I am well aware that Gnome is not the best and if I put it enough effort I could have a dream setup with XFCE or one of the many tiling window managers. But for me it just goes back to not having time, the thing I love about Gnome is that even though it may be more of a resource hog, it just f*king works.
As an ESL speaker living among native speakers, my take: No human language has "the correct [expression]". What is best suited is the thing that's often used, or an interesting but understandable twist on it that will be familiar to the audience, and grammar should be viewed as descriptive not prescriptive. Grammar is just some OCD person's attempt to write down a simplification of reality, nothing more.

The best way to learn written English is by reading English books[1]; the best way to learn spoken English is to interact with native speakers, a lot. Build familiarity without ever trying to justify "why that was the correct [expression]". It'll just feel right when it's right, because it fits the statistical pattern your brain has picked up.

Grammar is to language like ballistics is to throwing & catching a ball.

[1]: For someone with a basic grasp of the language but not enough exposure yet, Young Adult content is often easiest to read. I read most of the Sherlock Holmes stories, some James Bond novels, and a lot of Heinlein growing up.
These illegal scam prisons are run by Chinese nationals and almost certainly backed by CCP. It's very cute for the Chinese government to pretend they don't have a direct hand in this scourge.
The problem is deeper than any political party in Europe. Europe wants this.
AI-designed chips are so weird that 'humans cannot understand them'
To spare oneself the misery of using Apple hardware, I assume.
Not disagreeing there's bloat and inefficiencies at many US research universities, but something I think is missed in a lot of these discussions is that a lot of research funding works on a reimbursement basis: for relatively small things like travel, we (faculty, students) would spend first, then get reimbursed. For bigger items the university pays and charges the grant accordingly (after due diligence). None of this happens without armies of accountants; these are often classed as "administrators."

I would love to have fewer vice presidents, etc., people who really are administrators / middle managers, on our campuses. But there really aren't as many of these positions as people seem to think. Articles like [0] (cited in one of the othe comments) seem to lump everyone who is not faculty or student an "administrator." Most such people are really staff; on the research side they help with accounting, compliance, etc. (On the student-facing side there's also a lot of staff -- students & families expect a lot more from universities now, everything from housing to fancy gyms to on-campus healthcare, and more. All that needs staff to run.) To confuse things more, some faculty (say at med schools) don't teach all that much, and some "administrators" do pitch in and teach from time to time.

Again, I don't disagree we can do better, but I also think any discussion of higher ed costs and inefficiencies really should start with the reality of what universities do.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulweinstein/2023/08/28/admini...
You just need to find the right people to interact with, people who can match your pace and preferred level of articulation. It's not like they don't exist.
What natural resources or economic values was the Kosovo war in 1999 about?

What other incentives than control, resources or economics do wars in general have? Why do you hold the countries you mentioned to higher standards?
>n after failing at it many, many times is that in the vast majority of cases an email can only say one thing;

This sounds much. Quite often I have to send people complicated lists of instructions to complete a task. Around half the time the remote party only does the first step.

With this type of user I've started removing the top entry on the list and sending the first email.

Around the 4th time I do this the user tends to catch on and completes the original list of instructions solving the problem at hand.
> A crude analogy is the travel of sound waves in air: if you yell at someone, they will hear you long before any single air molecule makes it from here to there.

Isn’t this a very good analogy? What’s so crude about it?
I disagree, the CS betas were great. I miss the as_ maps the most — sneaking away to victory as the VIP with all my teammates dead and seconds left on the clock.
I misinterpreted the line from the article that said private access and inferred this meant free access, I did not do a search yo confirm so thank you for correcting me. It is very common in the US for EV owners to get free parking, free charging but I was wrong to assume.
Gnome does have a minimize concept? It's just hidden (haha) by default.

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout ":minimize,maximize,close"
Yes they even have diapers/nappies for toddlers that absorb less on purpose.
"Runtime analysis? How is that possible?" I thought...

https://github.com/beatcode-official/server/blob/42169027dda...
Ultima online was my one and only Ultima and it’s weird to get pangs of nostalgia from Ultimas that I’ve never played.
"The growing market for sex technology is overlooking certain factors that could condemn robosexuality to objectification"

They are LITERALLY objects.
most of the general public doesn’t know PhD students get paid stipends.

if they do know that, they don’t realize how tightly each term’s stipend is tied to a specific funding source.
OVH? Hertzner?
I feel like identifying problems is the most important skill for success. Especially with AI, (but even before that) SEs are more often "editing" rather than "writing" code, and most of your time is either fixing odd states or anticipating them.
The book is new though.
I have metal tools that are almost completely eaten by rust. No way these will last a few thousand years.
I most certainly did not say who Ukraine's resources belong to, I'm saying that I predict that no matter how and when the war ends, I'm afraid the country's resources will be split up between the superpowers. It's not what I want, not what I advocate for, it's just what I foresee happening.
> even in 2025 GParted looks wrong under KDE, and this is sad.

I did care a lot about this 10-15 years ago. Unfortunately, somehow I don’t even notice this anymore. In 2025, and thanks to web apps, everything looks wrong on my desktop.

It doesn’t help that I’m a developer and that basically not any single modern IDE / text editor cares about looking native.

Even Firefox and Thunderbird aren’t looking integrated anymore.
One of the common moves I’ve seen with Trump and particularly his defenders is to take an issue that’s real, then convert it into a weapon. So imagine my dog is overweight and needs to go on a bit of a diet: well, what if we took that same dog and reduced its calorie intake by 75% until it starved to death. Then while I’m standing over the corpse, I explain to you that “this isn’t something I was making up, there was a real problem there.”

Even if, against all odds, you really are in favor of reforming things, killing a bunch of dogs pretty much guarantees a good-faith conversation can never happen. At some point you just need to decide if you’re on the side of truth or bullshit.
I’m in a similar situation. At first it looked very promising and was benefiting us in bootstrapping the project fast but after a while you’re being slowed down by the “extensions” ecosystem. If you have a bunch of complex extensions then building all of them can take 2 minutes (m3 pro MacBook). Forget instant hot reloading.
AHL was great, but The Specialists was GOAT. Never felt more like a badass after disarming an opponent, hitting slow motion, and chucking a katana at their head while diving.
Not sure how that is relevant as the people all doing this claim to be outsiders draining the swamp. Historically the US realized that having a civil service works way better than political firings every 4 years.
I guess you skimmed the article, as inflation is not the main argument, but rather that most people don't pay the "sticker" price, but get various "discounts"
Absolute numbers are on a downward trend. But how about relative interest as a percentage of total?
It's literally word soup even to seasoned nerds like myself that have been doing this for decades. Who cares?
Most IRB's further outsource to consulting firms and blindly do what the consultants tell them to do (not included in head counts). That is just to say the administrative people added are just trained to follow expensive rules and lack any domain knowledge whatsoever.
There should be some laws that were broken. Fraud in order to obtain research grants, fraud in order to maintain labs, etc etc.
> I used to be a big champion, and used it at a Healthcare organization I was the CTO of.

Same, it was a real shame to see it change in this way.

I'm also not impressed with how they've gone about doing it; no transparency on pricing for the self-hosted solution, you have to be subjected to a sales call to even get a quote. They're clear that they use "total finances" for trying to determine how much to charge you, which has its own issues with some business models.

The money also seems to be going towards lots of activities that have very little to do with actually .. building the core of the CMS. This whilst there's still fairly fundamental missing validation logic, even in the now-paid SaaS product [1]. How much of the now-$500 a month plan for 10 users goes towards the "Directus TV" (with content such as "Live scenes from our team with ambient music to help you get into the flow when you're coding") nonsense?

It was enough to put me off.

[1] https://github.com/directus/directus/discussions/2993
US Government leverage: FISA secret court, prison time
If the shoe fits.

It’s a big scandal and I suspect researchers in businesses and universities be found complicit; if we have the appetite and headcount to chase it.

I have little tolerance for fraud, and this is an example of why trust in science (the institution) is at an all-time-low.
Well the number of BTC went from zero to ~twenty million in that time, not really zero inflation.

If the treasury could credibly say “we will only ever print 2^64 dollars”, that wouldn’t make it inflation free, just a maximum possible denominator.
(tl;dr - nobody cares)
Yes, but that expertise may not be easily transferable. Two decades of experience with a firm is much more valuable to that specific firm that anywhere else. If you leave that place, you only have general lessons to apply elsewhere.
Humanoid task runners are learning to log the scheduling of their tasks! Panic?
Demo: https://www.tella.tv/video/cm7i16kcu00040al5eyu940e5/view
> is no different than if a bank CEO had his machine hacked and a wire initiated on his behalf

Those are not equivalent because the traditional banking sector is less vulnerable to North Korea. In theory a bank could be drained of $1b via a misdirected wire, but in practice that kind of plan is hampered by real-world controls and limitations applicable to international banking.[1] North Korean hackers instead focus on what works, which is crypto.

[1] https://pacforum.org/publications/yl-blog-89-crypto-north-ko...
The US left don't seem to understand or care about economics and want to force companies to pay gig workers full benefits. The end result is complete job loss.
Like in serbia with operation "Allied Force"? You can question the official story, but that was not for control over natural resources.
> Otherwise, seems like a welfare program for industries built around resource extraction and complicated machinery.

You say this dismissively, but that's exactly what it is.

The basic problem with renewable energy (especially solar and batteries) is that there is no way for the existing fossil energy industry to replicate the extractive oligopolies around the production, delivery, and utilization of energy that they have with oil and gas.
You forgot threatening to annex greenland, canada and panama, and attempting to put an end to mexican sovereignty.
This theme isn’t shy about copying various icons and bits from macOS, so I doubt that’s it.
I've used Mint-X/Y (the default theme for Linux Mint on Cinnamon) for over a decade now, and my experience has always been great.
They travel at the same speed, in the same medium. c is the speed of light in a vacuum, all EM radiation travels slower in any other medium.

The complicating factor here is that when you have electricity flowing in a wire, the fields are generally mostly outside the conductor, not in it. That is, the signal propagation delay depends more in what you are using as an insulator around wire than the material of the wire. This has had practical consequences in the past; if you replace the insulating jacket of one wire in a twisted pair with a slightly different material, on long runs it will ruin your signal.
> As it's not working, QED not "that's it".

Neither is underestimating your enemy or making excuses for their behavior.
OpenFaaS is one option for your functions. Knative is pretty good as well for the bulk of your applications without exposing developers to kubernetes directly. Between that and Crossplane I think you have all the pieces needed to move away to a self hosted solution where you are managing either metal or VMs through a hosting provider.

I’m not sure what this looks like outside of the US, but colocation providers offer racks of machines, or to host your machines, while providing access to cheap bandwidth and peering capabilities. It’s absolutely possible to move away from the major cloud providers. However, it will require a degree of investment within your organization to support these deployments no matter which you choose, which could be a new investment compared to using AWS, GCP or Azure.
Myths of Human Genetics
Don't steelman for them. They know what they are doing. Making things miserable is the point, not an accidental side effect. They have been very public about this. They have talked way more about damaging/breaking the administrative class than they have about efficiency. You stellmaning a benevolent position on their part is creating a false narrative that goes against their own words.
Still seems to be the same trend for everything except some certain web tech. Jobs today are roughly half of ore-covid levels.
Pretty easy to avoid copyright by making your own icons then you are left with trademark.

I'm honestly at that point not sure if there is an issue you aren't offering a confusingly similar product. Mac isn't offering an icon pack they merely have one. At least they don't appear to have ever gone after Macish icon themes legally.
this is a wild take. we don't care about the cost of education 10 years ago. Look at a 50 year horizon and how on a generation basis how much more significantly expensive it is.
Im guessing they linked the archive so that when Lobsters is geoblocked UK users will still be able to read it.
To use download and transfer you are required to have a kindle device that supports it registered on your account (11th gen or older), so that's why the option doesn't show up for you.

If the files are .azw3 then it's the same
“Transparency” as leaks from abuse is very, very different from transparency as a policy of easy access – and neither makes you necessarily better informed. In short, a biased selection of information can leave you worse off than having no information.
I’m not the last to criticize (relatively, I respect the things I’ve got for free) Gnome but yes, aesthetically, I prefer Adwaita to macOS.
Trump will kill CHIPS Act by gutting NIST employees
So much for TSMC’s Arizona expansion and Intel’s foundry plans.
That reminds me of something interesting about biological cells. The molecules in that thick stew might be bouncing around at 20-250 miles per hour, depending on their size.
What they say now is irrelevant, because it is retconned with the purpose of increasing the apparent importance of what they have done in 1971 vs. what they have done in 1972.

Moreover, you can be pretty certain that whoever has written that text has never read the datasheets of Intel 4004, to be able to evaluate whether it was "general purpose" or not.

Even at its launch in 1971, when Intel has begun to offer for sale the 4004 because Busicom was unable to pay the price desired by Intel for 4004, the Intel marketing has attempted to present the 4004 as much more general purpose than it really was, in order to find customers for it, in order to ensure the profitability that could not be provided by Busicom.

During its design, 4004 has never been intended to be general-purpose, because the plan was to sell it to a single customer. Only after the delivery to the intended customer the Intel marketing has made great efforts to find other possible applications for it.
Breaking UI and functionality for no reason whatsoever, with no option to change it back, often with mandatory updates, is one of my #1 pet peeves with modern software.
Sorry, what is UA?
> I've read about this story in Graham Farmelo's book The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius.

"The Strangest Man": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strangest_Man

Four Fours: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_fours :

> Four fours is a mathematical puzzle, the goal of which is to find the simplest mathematical expression for every whole number from 0 to some maximum, using only common mathematical symbols and the digit four. No other digit is allowed. Most versions of the puzzle require that each expression have exactly four fours, but some variations require that each expression have some minimum number of fours.
It's plainly obvious what's going on, and what the near future of HN is if dang and co don't change things.
lambda calculus has entered the chat
So instead of addressing the elephant in the room, we talk about grammar and imaginary situations. No wonder things will never get fixed.
His most popular policies have about 50% support. Most poll at 2:1 or 3:1 against:

https://archive.is/C08bk
Well, few people are scrambling for C++ jobs but it has a similar trend. I'm assuming it's something more general like influx of graduates into a weak market.
Block and route around failures.
"How this works" - Slowly!

I was chatting with ChatGPT 4o the other day and I was asking it on "what steps/software/tools/etc. I need to set up my own LLM offline on a PC".

I suggested a few PCs I got, they were all super slow, but for the purpose I want it (numerical analysis) I can make it work. But even my stupid old PCs are times-infinity faster than this C64!!
The missing scrollbar is infuriating.
Towards a hauntological framework for exploring the impacts of gentrification
Or it's a regulated industry
Don't get me wrong, I love Talos Principle, but I did not feel a strong connection to the world of #2 vs #1. The sequel levels just seemed like, "Here is some sexy stuff the art team designed." No real connection or unifying theme. Super pretty, but that is true of any number of AAA games these days with big action set pieces.

At least in one, it felt a bit more cohesive in that you could imagine that canned video game assets had been corrupted and copy-pasted into new configurations.
HR Person at cool startup: "Please show me your Github repos"
Do you feel like you're actually contributing to a conversation, or being a member-in-good-faith of a community if you have to create new accounts to hide what you're saying?
Thanks for sharing. I’m curious, would pandas, polars, or similar work here (read_sql/to_parquet)? Or is there a challenge around larger than memory data sets (or some other issue I’m not thinking of)?
Thank you for sharing that. I am floored.

Do you have some time to talk? You don't have to, and it'd be a big favor to ask for your time, but I'd love the opportunity to dig in a bit more because this is really surprising to me. Even in the kind of crappy market we had a year and a half ago, for asking politely for a small raise to result in being told to take a hike doesn't compute. So either I need to update my priors (important because I don't want other people to run into this!) or there are some extenuating circumstances here.