skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has the US fallen much in education quality in absolute terms? Or just relative to other countries? And how does that map relative to the percentage of the population being educated at that level?

A world where underperforming people are just pushed out of the path of ever attending high school or college, like some of my friends's parents were, may lead to higher statistical education outcomes for high school education while still being worse for the country at large than having those students attend high school even if they don't make amazing grades.

You bring up "the replacement of newspapers that invite critical thinking by yellow journalism" as if the term Yellow Journalism wasn't literally used to critique one of the major US newspapers over a century ago. Sensationalism and rabblerousing is, if anything, the normal state of news dating back centuries!
For GNOME, the bigger problem in my opinion is no option for a global menubar. Though there are similarities between macOS toolbars and GNOME headerbars, the former isn’t bearing nearly as much of a load as the latter is because Mac toolbars don't need to cover every function an app provides. Less-used/niche functions just don’t get a button and instead live tucked away neatly in one of any number of menus at the top of the screen.

On the other hand in GNOME apps, if a function isn’t used often enough to earn a spot in the app’s headerbar or hamburger menu it just gets tossed, because otherwise the hamburger menu becomes long and unusable. This results in less functional apps that are not as well equipped to keep up with growth in the user’s skill.
That's interesting. I'd have assume the secret sauces were in the radar and targeting systems.

Maybe the source code also contains a secret kill switch? I'd definitely put one in if I was selling fighter planes to 3rd parties. Alliances can switch overnight, as we're seeing right now.

IIRC the French refused to give the UK the means to disable Argentina's Exocets during the Falklands War.
Ex-Google SRE here with experience in multiple revenue-critical war rooms. At Google, war rooms were particularly useful because saying, "X is in a war room" (at least as late as 2017) gave X the credibility to say no to everything else. Having technically competent leaders made the experience enjoyable—because they weren’t just there to demand updates but actively contributed by writing queries, and nudging the team in the right direction by asking series of right questions.

My worst experience with crisis management was with one particular team at another big tech company, where the leaders were ignorant about the technology—completely clueless about the service and its architecture. In cases like this, the issue becomes a binary 0/1 problem: the service is either broken (0) or running smoothly (1). When a leader lacks the technical knowledge to grasp the intermediate steps, their only contribution is yelling for updates—and that’s exactly what they did.

Bottom line: War rooms can be a space for deep work with good leadership (a combination of technical soundness and co-ordination skills under pressure). But they can quickly turn into hell when leadership lacks one of these two essential qualities—and resorts to yelling to cover their asses.
I know this is a flippant comment, but do you really think this would solve the problem? I feel like this would just lead to academic misconduct never being reported. It is hard enough to get someone to report a fellow academic for fraud when the only consequence is professional reputation; do you really think ANYONE would turn in a colleague when the consequence is death?

Plus, people would be so scared that they will make a mistake that will be interpreted as fraud that no one will want to publish research.
There's also the popularity for HN based upon the particular language.

It's possible there's skew where rust becomes more popular say, and gets the bulk of the new posts, but python or java aren't super interesting anymore. So those people stop showing up to HN.

I'd like to see the popularity of posts by language. I bet we'd see a lot fewer Java and Python posts compared to Rust.
I think a key distinction is that those are functions of two parameters. You can't just use them as many times as you like "for free" like the square root trick at the end of the article, because you need to "spend" at least one extra 2 on the second parameter each time.

That's not the whole story of course, you still need to agree on the set of allowed operations, but I think it makes a big difference even though it seems incidental at first.
The chip is not called AI-chip but rather AI-designed chip. At least in the title.
The new rules cover any kind of illegal content that can appear online, but the Act includes a list of specific offences that you should consider. These are:

terrorism
child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) offences, including
grooming
image-based child sexual abuse material (CSAM)
CSAM URLs
hate
harassment, stalking, threats and abuse
controlling or coercive behaviour
intimate image abuse
extreme pornography
sexual exploitation of adults
human trafficking
unlawful immigration
fraud and financial offences
proceeds of crime
drugs and psychoactive substances
firearms, knives and other weapons
encouraging or assisting suicide
foreign interference
animal cruelty
It should be a metric for compilers.

The Rust compiler is also hard to understand while learning the launage but it gets easier when you know more Rust.
> That's correct. You should never touch a public door handle with your bare hands.

Honestly that's a miserable way to live life IMO, being afraid to that extent.

How old are you if you don't mind sharing? I'm wondering to what extent COVID may have impacted the development of your views here.

> let me blow your mind even further: you should also never eat food that fell on the ground,

Yeah, not really comparable to opening a door lol
The version I've found most useful is "UOD", as in "Unless Otherwise Directed..."

As in "Unless Otherwise Directed, I'll be updating the Foo project next week to include the Bar modules..." or "UOD, I'll call Alice tomorrow to update her on Bob's plans..."

Works well, concise, shows you are on it and proactive, and works both as a proper status/planning update and/or an opportunity for the person to weigh in to change course... (and documents the chain of events).
Looks like the fork is:

https://github.com/LadyEebs/OpenJKDF2
Oh, you mean like Spotify? Or those thousands of Mittelstand companies across Europe that Americans don't know about but are actually used in Europe?

But the argument of the parent might be that a very active open source community based in Europe points towards a big potential of experienced developers working at their mid sized companies in the shadow of American big tech. Once big tech is gone...
All government systems should be on-prem, and secured by proper personnel. None of the data should be in a cloud providers hands, even by their own country's providers. There needs to be a separation between business and government infrastructure.
How is the hiring experience? I'm considering Rust (or Elixir, or Go) for the next project at work. We'd obviously need to be able to hire teammates or replacements (as I'm the only current employee with tons of experience beyond C#).
I think a lot of people give up. How many people on reddit or irc who actually get along with each other well organize meetups, or how many people still look for meetups to try and find compatible people?
But the square root has a hidden operand, 2. We don't write it because by convention the default root is 2, but that still feel like cheating to me.
Elixir is a little less flexible since it doesn’t have the JVM interop but for domains where it’s a good fit I think it’s even better at most of this stuff (and easier to teach people unfamiliar with FP or lisps)
I am very interested in the work they are doing with Bend and Kind, but right now, I am just confused as to what language is actually being actively developed. As I see it, right now they have HVM3(the runtime), Bend, Kind, Kind2, and some other stuff. No idea how all of that is supposed to tie in together.
Oh wow, outstanding game. One of very few games I played through to the end. Reminisced about it recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753079.
His/her first statement was directly answered in the original comment. When that was noted, they swapped to undermining the basis for the comment. It’s pretty typical for techies to provide an opinion without basis and desire for it to be treated on the same level as those “in the know”

So everyone should always be included in conversations if desired, but coming in with an uninformed opinion spoken loudly, desiring more to be “right” than to come to an understanding, won’t typically be appreciated.
You are being snarky but I'll take immutability over types and interoperability and access to a vast and stable ecosystem over the simple and extremely limited and underperforming alternatives. Thanks for the segway. I also cannot understate the reasoning ease that comes with basically everything being a static, top-level function. Testing never requires mocks because you can redef any function anywhere trivially when you otherwise would reach for a mock which tends to be painful, complicated, and requires comlex mocking libraries. Even with immutability by default, you get an extremely performant platform that usually stomps on nearly all the dynamic languages you might otherwise choose like Python or Ruby etc. And you get first-class functions and a concise and extremely stable language that is a joy to program in. Thanks Rich and Alex!
I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
Buddhists have been meditating since before Jesus was born; if any of this psi stuff actually worked, it would have been discovered long before the US government was panicking about communists.
Surely more than one person is working on the fix? If you have a pair one can pop off and give updates to a third technical person (maybe their manager or an inicident manager) who can liaise.
IIRC GNOME also doesn’t have much of an official plugin API, which makes the situation that much worse. Plugins just have to tinker with GNOME internals and hope for the best.
Charlie Stross's blog is next.

Liability is unlimited and there's no provision in law for being a single person or small group of volunteers. You'll be held to the same standards as a behemoth with full time lawyers (the stated target of the law but the least likely to be affected by it)

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/12/storm-cl...

The entire law is weaponised unintented consequences.
Communicating that information to executives needs to be the responsibility of someone who isn't currently heads-down debugging. Google's SRE Book suggests creating a "communications lead" role.
The whole bay area not the city proper
What about engine blocks
> hate

Is it really just listed as one word? What's the legal definition of hate?
I could switch and plan to evaluate it soon. :)
Taiwan is not China. It has been colonized by many Asian cultures over the century.
EU regulations to look out for in 2025
This. Even if it's just an experimental project, at some point down the line if there's a possibility that it's going to have to integrate with the rest of the system - you've just introduced significant expectations for the existing and new developers on the team. While I don't think that rust has a huge learning curve, it's different enough that you can't just easily transition from a different high-level language.

I would never introduce a new language to an existing code base without an exceptionally good reason.
If you commit a crime in the UK then I would expect extradition to be a genuine risk.

It's a connected world, so online activities are probably pretty grey-areas. If you defraud someone (for example) but they're in another country, where did the crime happen?
I've been a fan of the Author's other theme: Orchis

https://github.com/vinceliuice/Orchis-theme
> But how would we hear about the ones who don't?

I hear stories about them and whether the con-artist got access to their digital wallet, whether they made it to a safe room in the home invasion and, of course, whether they got rights to mine the dump.
I've always held dang in pretty high regard seeing his answers on controversial topics, and haven't seen what you said above.

Do you actually have to provide a reason for flagging a post? If so, I would love to see the reasoning behind flagging this one, and dang's reason for keeping it that way. But of course, this is a private website, so I'd understand, albeit disappointingly so, if this is buried.
Sounds like you already figured out the why.
I don't know about that. The benefits are a big reason a lot of people want to be lifelong government employees, it seems.
Perhaps https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnik
A lot of those scholarships are locked along racial and gender lines. Immutable traits that, as a society, we have decided, as a foundational principle, are an unfair, unjust, unkind, and uncivil basis to discriminate upon. Equal representation is great. What's not great is producing a system that's so financially unsustainable for working class people that they're told to go solve what is framed as a merit-based challenge in exchange for money, but the qualification criteria for some crazy high percentage (something like 2/3rds, if my memory serves correct) of the challenges exclude certain cohorts of people based on demographic traits they have no control over, including race and gender. It's just a very unbecoming look for a progressive institution, it feels like we're deliberately trying to relive the racial and gender conflict of the last century by continuing to deliberately view all human interaction through the lense of race and gender, and framing race and gender filters as "merit" filters, almost as if to suggest that you can be a fundamentally flawed person by having the wrong chromosomes or ethnicity, rather than by viewing human interaction through the lense of interacting with actual individual people, who all have incredibly rich, deep, unique lived experiences that are not defined exclusively by demographic traits.

I believe it's this point of view that leads to the common perception of higher education among the actual working class - that the American college experience was once something great, but got so watered down in pursuit of ideals other than education that it has essentially turned into a big summer camp for the adolscent offspring of the rich to extend the "party" of youth for a little bit longer, hopefully increasing their social credit score in the process, with actual learning being a "nice to have" along the way.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-electric-vehicle-charg...
Since in essence you can define your own functions f that give you any number you want from 2 (and for example not defined anywhere else). I.e. rules never said you can't use any function. They are vaguely saying "any mathematical operation".
Yes. With penalties and back pay. U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services are an armed extension of the Federal Judicial branch of government.
One of the things that Data Matrix got right was being able to shift between encoding regimes mid-stream. Many character sets can be represented in radix-40 (so three characters per two bytes), and the occasional capital character can be handled by a shift byte. If you have a long string of digits, they can be encoded in 4 bits/char. You can even put raw binary in there if need be
100%. I'm very confident that, even if the UK wanted to upset this decades-long geopolitical equilibrium, they would not choose a small niche tech forum with a primarily non-UK userbase as the way they make their big splash on the global stage.
"This fbagent process ran as root, ran a bunch of subprocesses, called fork(), didn't handle a -1 return code, and then later went to kill that "wayward child". Sending a signal (SIGKILL in this case) to "pid -1" on Linux sends it to everything but init and yourself. If you're root (yep) and not running in some kind of PID namespace (yep to that too), that's pretty much the whole world."

Key phrase "didn't handle a -1 return code".

Yuan, Ding, Yu Luo, Xin Zhuang, Guilherme Renna Rodrigues, Xu Zhao, Yongle Zhang, Pranay U Jain, and Michael Stumm. “Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures.” Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2014, 17. https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~yuan/papers/failure_analysis_o...
Not sure how the person doesn’t realize the contradiction.
Fully expected, surprised it took this long.

IIRC, the funds went to mostly red states. So MAGA people, happy your guy came through for you again ?
A bit earlier including a NIST staffer weighing in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43106478
I'm not sure if you've misunderstood, so apologies if this is old news. US companies may have teams of engineers in various other countries. But they almost always pay local market rate. In much the same way US companies will pay teams in India their local market rate (which is less again).

My last company paid 2-2.5x a UK salary for a US engineer. Perhaps the ratio for a company like Meta is closer, but I doubt it's equal. For startups you may find random roles that have equal pay globally, but they're relatively uncommon.
No governments are trust worthy.

When did Hacker News start believing they are?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Don't bank on it unless you're well skilled and/or have an in. Also let's hope you're OK working in factory/industrial jobs. A desk job in rural areas pays half what they do in the urban areas.

I'm guessing industrial jobs pay just as poorly compared to those in the cities.
Why does HN allow Musk’s bots to flag these articles? HN is out of its league here.
The good thing about forums is their moderation. It seems like mostly what the law covers is already enforced by most forums anyways.
Not really, the whole point of this type of cloud offering is that it doesn't phone home to Google / the US. Sure, it will be left to the partner to support all of it, but it can't be shut down from one day to the other.

(Googler, opinion my own)
My point is that it’s equally ridiculous to call either AI. If our chip here is not the AI then the AI has to be the optimizer. By extension that means AdamW is more of an AI than ChatGPT.
i often wonder about this.

because if you look at Big Law, investment banking, or private equity, there are a lot of highly-educated Americans who are willing to work as hard as anyone on earth.

so it's got to be something about TSMC's recruiting pipeline, or perhaps what motivations the Americans who get educated for the skills they need have, rather than specifically American laziness.
I tried clojure long time ago, honestly what made me give up is when I saw a java stacktrace in place of a proper error message when learning it. Also the repl was slow. The UX sucked, I wonder if they improved that
I don't know what that means as far as a comparison to a government institution.

Twitter could be massively profitable, or woefully unprofitable ... it has no impact on anyone outside investors.
I remember talking about this with my friend and fellow EE grad Connor a few years ago. The chip's design really feels like a biological approach to electrical engineering, in the way that all of the layers we humans like to neatly organize our concepts into just get totally upended and messed with.
Delete subsidy carrot, replace with tariff stick?
I think the legislation does not name specifically companies (that would be quite shortsighted since new apps etc appear all the time and they don't want to be updating legislation every time something gets popular), but simply says if you have more than 7 million 30-day active UK users of the user-to-user part of your site, then you're in-scope. That's quite a big audience.
I've tried using a mac for work a year or so ago and the keyboard alone drove me crazy, constantly making mistakes and activating the wrong shortcuts. I wished they had IBM-ified their keyboard back when they went with Intel...
That's nice for those who get the discounts. Terrible for those who are being discriminated against.
The problem is it doesn't even die because Adobe pretty much have a monopoly in the serious design market.

With broadcom I don't really understand what their business is. I thought they were making SoCs and peripheral chips but now they seem to dabble in everything intent on screwing it up.

And Oracle has been dead a long time. They just get by on some legacy corporate stuff. Everyone hates them due to how they treat their 'customers' (victims is a better word) so everyone who could escape already has.
Hermetically-sealed (container/vm/whatever) quality assurance tasks that can be run locally, please. The un-sandboxed shell scripts and precommit hooks are prone to doing the wrong thing, for example testing uncommitted changes and approving a commit based on that invalid reasoning.
There’s a ton left that can be done by small companies - factorio is just one example out of the hundreds waiting to be discovered.

Find a niche and polish it to perfection and you can make headway.

Most big-budget games have more to do with interactive movies than with gameplay, anyway.
Aren’t terrifs paid by the importer? Most consumers aren’t importing goods afaik. So it seems like there are still margins that can be eaten into to avoid 100% pass through.
What a bunch of petty sons of b***. Trump has aesthetics against electric cars, and that seems doubly bizarre since his partner is Elon Musk.
But this is just extreme and ridiculous. The right has always had a fetish about fighting against the environment. Trump will only be alive a few more years and he doesn't care what happens to the planet.