skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The very fact that it's even possible to have this kind of thing happening unfettered, unconstrained, and unaccountable is evidence in and of itself that the US Govt. doesn't take its national security & secrets seriously though, isn't it?
It was well known that this was exactly what Musk would do, by anyone paying the slightest shred of attention to what was going on.

He said it was what he was going to do, he was up on the stage, I heard many many people salivating for DOGE cuts like this before the election, and even today.
You do realize that whataboutisms don't actually prove your point? Implicitly you're saying that what Hillary did was wrong, but now that my guy is doing it, it's ok, since Hillary did it. You can't have it both ways. You either believe something is wrong, or it's not. To argue both sides usually means a bad faith attempt at pushing a narrative.
Musk buying Twitter and then spending millions to buy votes in PA weeks before the election seemed pretty obvious.

People like him don't spend without an expectation of something in return.

The more surprising thing is the amount of people who think successful capitalist = successful political leader, when the incentives and constituencies are drastically different.
On the other hand, many of us in Europe still have the memories (or our parents tales) of our governments spying on everything we say and do. With all the chilling consequences.

Half a century of communist rule showed us not to trust our governments.

Every now and then, the Brussels bureaucrats show us how much do they value our privacy and electronic safety.
Pre-seed is mostly raised on the quality of the team. But your team slide barely shows anything that would convince people that you know what you are talking about. The problem you describe (and also the approach) is something a lot of companies are currently working on, so you better have a strong answer to "why us?".

> [Short Term] Outsourcing selling and deployment
> We don’t handle deployment
...
> [Long Term] Inhouse commercial arm
> We are the single POC for the customer

100% wrong! First of all your deployments won't be successful if you don't see them through and micro-manage and monitor them. Secondly, you want to learn first hand how these deployments go and what the issues are. Thirdly, your "partners" will laugh you out of the room if you don't come with very detailed and streamlines instructions for how to deploy, configure, do user training, etc.

> Expanding into adjacent sectors such as construction (£10 trillion, 2023) and agriculture (£10 trillion, 2023)

This shows naivety. These markets are not adjacent to anyone who has been in robotics for more than five years. This statement makes you look stupid. Manipulators (arms) and retrofitting existing farming machinery are two very different subproblem in robotics, with very different stacks and very different deployment models (and even financing models -- agtech is very seasonal). If you want a more adjacent market, look at applications for mobile manipulators (arms on bases).
It's not a normal license. It's not worth the hassle.
I very rarely over the past 15+ years have had/remembered having a dream, and oddly that seems to have started being the case after trying to practice lucid dreaming. Most of the dreams I do have seem to be when I nap on the couch during the day (which I can probably count on one hand how many times I have done in 15 years).

Is that good/bad/neither?
“All right already. Let’s see. Give me a second.” She scratches her chin while a wild animal screams within the Save-On. “I know—I remember when I first woke up how people kept on trying to impress me with how efficient the world had become. What a weird thing to brag about, eh? Efficiency. I mean, what’s the point of being efficient if you’re only leading an efficiently blank life?” I egg her on. “For example?”

…

“People didn’t evolve. I mean, the world became faster and smarter and in some ways cleaner. Like cars—cars didn’t smell anymore. But people stayed the same. They actually—wait—what’s the opposite of progressed?”

Excerpt From
Girlfriend in a Coma
Douglas Coupland
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There is free speech in Europe, just not free lies. I think it’s a good thing if voter manipulation through Russian lies is addressed, this is just a piece of online warfare from Russia.
I'm just using common sense here. If you can go to jail or be fined for saying something inflammatory online, you don't have freedom of speech. My "there" comment referenced Germany since that was my example and where the 60 Minutes segment was done.

You can watch the interview yourself here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bMzFDpfDwc

It's worth pointing out the usage of "insult" in the interview.

> "Is it a crime to insult somebody in public?"

> "Yes."
> If I was in Europe, I would never use any US Tech products.

Could you possibly name any specific riscs?
I don’t love it myself, but I find this community to be like minded enough, and dissimilar enough to any I’ve ever encountered IRL. Due to that, I don’t mind seeing how other people here feel about certain things. We live in a rapidly changing political climate and at times I just need to know how other sane people feel about the situations. It might be US centric, for that I could see how it’s exhausting for outsiders, but this community skews that way so it makes sense.

For the most part, debating different opinions in this community still feels productive and I have not seen too many times where it’s completely devolved to indecency

I say that as a moderate/liberal Texan which tends to put me in the ultra far right compared to some of the more Bay Area/California liberal centric ideologies that I’ve seen dominate here
A half-solution that seems to have cut my own phone time down was to remove any app that lets me browse. HN is the only aggregator/exception, because there isn't a lot of bullshit here without intellectual value.

Instead, if I want to use my phone I have to deliberately look for things.
Yes. I agree. But the difference is making them be an adversary, which can be dealt with, versus handing it them willingly. There is a difference there.
And the price is "Contact our sales team" [1] for self hosting for those with > $5 million revenue. Seems like not a good idea if you think you're ever going to reach that number.

They also considerably increased their cloud hosted pricing from $25/month unlimited to $500/month for 10 user + 250k rows + 1 million API requests.

Old pricing: https://web.archive.org/web/20220619075129/https://directus....

[1]: https://directus.io/pricing/self-hosted
I've recently tried to get into urban sketching and spending any time observing figures in an urban scene makes this immediately obvious. So many people staring at phones everywhere you got. I'm equally guilty but once you start looking it is quite stark.
Off the top of my head: It surfaces only useless GraphQL error messages to the front end, it’s very frustrating to stand up custom REST endpoints, and the Flow system is painful to develop with and debug. Others on my team have different gripes with it.
> From indie devs to enterprise teams, our growing community is building faster with an open source backend built from the ground-up for developers.

From https://directus.io.
Not just cloud but military and many other things.

I think MAGA is good for Europe, there’s a big incentive to remove any kind of US dependency.
Idiot seems like a harsh word to use
I don’t think you realize how hard it is to fill these critical jobs. You would need skilled labor at pay substantially below the private market rate. A lot of these talented people work for the government because they’re patriotic. And this admin is doing its best to piss off these people.
That's the problem with adversarial competition instead of collaboration. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When you think the other entity is a shark, then your going to start acting like a shark too in order to protect yourself.
It's neither about icons nor strictly speaking "text" labels, but I'm bothered by the spread of menus titled "+" or "..."; they are a new thing, and they make stuff harder to find.

In the 1990s, "..." was reserved as part of text labels, and it had a clear meaning: "save" without "..." saved a file immediately, whereas "save as..." with the three dots indicated there was another dialog coming once clicked (to determine the file name). The new uses of "..." (alone) don't mean much, as far as I can see.
Tuenti was huge in Spain.
EU should build their own cloud services. I mean it's not rocket science, but I don't know anything in EU that can compete with the big three.
Pythonblendervim? Ah sorry thats just the netherlands
Just because I think you’re making a bad point doesn’t make me a hater.

You’re saying, “I would have liked this Apple device if it embraced an open industry standard.” Did you really believe that this is something Apple would do, based on all available evidence?
Why Apple? Oracle would probably fit better with others. Or even IBM.
I had a pretty similar experience with struggles. I only did poorly on tests that required a lot of working memory, which led to me getting tested and diagnosed with ADHD. The one thing that kept me going in life was hyperfocus, though I couldn't control it much.
Is it safe to store data in Germany, given the strong showing of AfD in the election? They are now in second place, and who knows what will happen in the next 5 years!

AfD is pro-Russia and pro-Trump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfD_pro-Russia_movement
It sounds like you've just found one for >=2: 2, S(2), S(S(2)), ...
In 2018 the Democrats retook the house, which threw a spanner in the works of the second half of Trump’s first term. I’m guessing that’s about as much as we can hope for in the current term.
You know better than almost anybody just how hard it is to insert sensors in the body. Optical techniques let you bypass that degradation, and a company actually shipped a portable raman-based glucometer something like a decade ago. Its battery life wasn't good enough, but making a wearable, miniaturized Raman spectrometer was crazy impressive.
I only ever played Half-Life on a friend’s PC, but it still made a big impression. Especially the start, how you arrive at this massive research facility and get to just walk around before things really kick-off. Part of the appeal also in the Hitman games, I think.

I remember playing Deus Ex on our iMac which was barely powerful enough to run it. Severe slow down during intense moments, and some major lighting problems. And yet, it remains probably my fondest gaming experience. Something about the way game worlds can capture your imagination when you’re young.
Electronics is an escape for people who don't like talking to other people.

Turns out most of us don't like talking to others.

I definitely don't. I enjoy online interactions way more than face to face.
IYO yes, but, universally speaking...
I agree it potentially wasn't a conscious choice, but it's still interesting nonetheless.

I wasn't criticizing him for this, but rather fascinated that this is the variant that was chosen.
IME Most of the good devs in India cost at least 20k USD, with the price going up based on seniority and definitely skillsets, a very sought after skill can still ratchet up costs - but even then we're talking something that is going to run 3 devs tops and not have a lot of room for additional investment - something has to be taken out of the system for someone to care at all about running it.
It's called duopoly, and it's not much different.
I can use Emacs and Vim for pretty much everything, definitely not Java or JVM-like languages.
Yeah, there will always be counter-examples to everything, especially given the size of the U.S. However, that same sort of town would have existed 60 years ago, anyway (minus the Herion problem, likely). Perhaps they are more common now, but my point is that cities like mine _do_ still exist. It's not entirely lost yet.
Thank you, I'll cross-reference with this!
I paid for a parking space in Cambridge, MA once and got fined by a meter maid. The department didn't answer any communications I placed about it. I learned my lesson to always carry cash and never trust the app
I haven’t played V or online but after III/Vice/San Andreas, GTA is the last game I’d use to argue for creativity in the gaming industry. It’s just the only game series in the “run over streetwalkers in a stolen car” genre, which is still a profitable niche apparently.

(But I don’t play many video games these days so what do I know)
Speaking of odd choices:

12 = 2 * (2+2+2)

Is a hell or a lot simpler than using complex numbers. Might be a different example for that would have been better.
I think this is the key. It is cheaper and more convenient than ever to deploy and manage data critical services yourself, in a self hosted manner that is protected by whatever jurisdiction you are in. What matters is not who builds it, but who has access to the data, and ideally, that's only you!
This is amazing, but there are a lot of 2's hiding in those sqrt symbols
It's safe to use FLOSS solutions with e2e encryption.
I don’t think it makes me a better parent, apologies if that was how it was interpreted.

The point is that there is no other alternative. My observation, at least in tech - is that the expectation of greater than 40 hours of work per week is ever present. There is no choice to earn less, take it easy, and have more time for other pursuits. If both parents are under this expectation then there are fewer hours to be involved. A break of 1-2 years will be held against you in future interviews.

From talking with other parents, this is a common conundrum across industries. No one feels that they have enough time to be a good parent.

More concretely, what work arrangements do you have or are aware of which allow you to cap the hours worked while affording a livable home life?
Indeed, while still in jail, this man surely knew smartphones existed. And, of course, basic usage of a smartphone is easy; it wouldn't be addictive if it was hard.

The point of this (low quality) article was that, after 30 years far from the usual life, the man points out juste 2 changes during the period: "Everybody is looking at their phones" and a 2023 wildfire. He knew people had smartphones, but I guess he didn't not know to what extent. It's a/the most important part of the life for many people.

Last week, I saw a couple riveted to their screens while walking their dog on the river's edge. The woman didn't raise her eyes when she caught and threw the stick the dog had brought. I wondered how the dog could be so obviously excited, despite the lack of attention.
I wouldn't necessarily have a problem with this reasoning, if it wasn't for the fact they only get involved when it's Russia trying to push the election in a certain direction.

There's countless examples of countries trying to influence the elections of others. I'm from the UK and a notable example that comes up here was when the US president threatened Brits that the UK would be put on the bottom of the list of trade talks if they voted Brexit.

And just recently nearly 100 staff from the UK government were supporting Harris in the US presidential election.

I'd also argue that propagating this idea that people are too stupid to see through the lies and interference in an election undermines the point of democracy. If we cannot trust people to make sound democratic decisions, then why do we even support democracy as a political system? In a democracy sometimes people will be misled. You need to trust that people will ultimately make the right decisions.
It doesn’t have megacorps. It’s full of engineers working for US ones.
IPv6 is the new ISDN. I Still Don't Need it.
It’s about time they start running one. The American people are done subsidizing ivory towers, meanwhile they have endowments that could fund the entirety of it themselves.

Higher education is in for a rude awakening under the Trump administration. All I can say is it’s a shame Doge can’t do layoffs and clean house at some of these universities. Do away with tenure and get rid of the dead weight!
> I always felt like war rooms are a place for some leader to scream at you and not much else. The reality is that debugging some retry storm, resource exhaustion or whatever won't happen in a room with 18 people talking over one another.

I once walked out of a war room (at a much smaller company that I wouldn't be at for much longer) that had devolved into finger-pointing and blame games. Half an hour later, my boss came out to find out what I was doing and I pointed at my screen and said, "This. This is what's wrong. Ship my fix and we're done here." The entire war room came to my desk to see and discuss the fix, which we shipped, which solved the issue.

At my next job, I had to hold back laughter when the VP of Engineering, who was pushing mob programming, said, "Think about it. When we have an incident, when something is really important, what do we do? We all get in a room together. No one leaves the war room to go solve the incident on their own."
I'm glad we agree that cash flow is not the same as EBITDA.

The question we are talking about is whether Twitter makes more money now versus before Musk's take over. If "makes more money" means revenue, then the answer is a definitive no, it does not make more money now. If "makes more money" means profit, then the answer is that we don't know but probably not because profit is found after ITDA (hence the B in EBITDA) and we know the ITDA is substantial for Twitter given how it was acquired.

So yes there is a difference between cash flow and EBITDA that is germane here, and the difference is that cash flow doesn't help us answer the question that we are asking while the one piece of information that we do have (revenue) tells us the opposite of the answer you're trying to imply.
Twitter is now a state run propaganda channel.

Very similar to the recent story people accused the hosted DeepSeek model of government censorship by the CCP.

Or the nonsense "Twitter Files" story.

Except in this case it's undeniable the person ordering the censorship is the unelected president.

Every accusation is a confession.
I'm not "try to be a clown," but your choice to recognize some levels of abstraction and not others is absurd to me.

> the most desirable city of the world

Well it's not like these German residents can teleport to Kuala Lumpur. Why should it be their problem that foreign buyers want to play absentee landlord? Homes should not be an investment vehicle.
Civil service work force is about 1/3 veteran - former military personnel.

https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/share-of-veterans-in-federal...

While there is certainly a wide range of individual viewpoint in the military, compared to the general population I would not describe it as "overwhelmingly liberal".

.

There is evidence that DOGE has targeted Federal agencies perceived as "liberal":

https://www.zmescience.com/other/economics/ideological-purge...
This thread is a virtual UA meet
I've heard it said that we don't know what electricity is or how it works. To what extent or in what sense is that true?
if the choices during install/upgrade flow can be considered as contract [?]

this would be a breach of a contract.
Gambling on papal conclaves
I wonder the rate of which like-minded senior leadership is growing in our industry.

If this mindset spreads enough we will probably see many major software issues playing out in our day-to-day lives.

Some observations:

- This might lead to the job security / market pendulum swing in favor of software developers that we seem to have lost recently. Companies might start paying a premium for those of us who can debug LLM code and get businesses back on track.

- There may unfortunately be a disaster resulting in the loss of life that leads to the introduction of strict regulations on our industry (sure hope not).

Curious what others think.
Why not use 3 2’s to make n + 2 or n - 2? That’s a lot easier than making a subscript so complicated.

This is the Curse of Knowledge. OP stared too long into the abyss.
There is already a decent cloud industry in Europe. OVH has been around for decades, and many companies in North America even use them because they are often a bit cheaper. But you also have newer players like Scaleway and CDNs like Bunney.net that are growing fast.

I think the harder services to replace are things like Github and O365/Google Workplace.
But that's a personal preference. I was asking how Docker makes things slower by default? Like, the act of using Docker means software delivery will necessarily slow down.
On the contrary this is exactly what they said they'd do if elected. This is exactly what was voted for. Don't pretend like Americans didn't have agency in the destruction of their own country.
Thailand is not invading Myanmar for China, they are pretty conservative when it comes to such politics.
I totally get that avoiding GPL3.0 was the goal for Apple (less so for Google I'd say). If avoiding "giving anything back" were the goal they have fucked up on that. Regardless, the point is they could have pretty much done proprietary software and kept it for themselves too and no one would complain. It's not somehow a brilliant conspiracy to leech off of the measly volunteer base when they have paid the majority of development costs.

P.S. you focus on ISO compliance. Could it be that the actual user base does not really care about it as much as the rest of the aspects of the compiler (features, correctness, performance) and thus deprioritized by everyone. I don't consider clang abandoned by Google or Apple.
Getting everything I voted for and more.
Meanwhile author makes zero comment on UK encryption nonsense, or the mad EU drive towards absolute information control.

Its just another case of rocket + orange man bad
> at this point the only thing that can stop in the shortish term is the democrats winning the next three special elections

The two Florida congressional districts holding a special election in April are Trump +34 and Trump +37 from the last election. So yeah, that’s not happening.
I don't know if you feel this, but there's also a sort of social pressure where if I'm in a situation and everyone's on their phones, it's hard for me to start up a conversation with someone since they seem 'focused' on whatever they're looking at. So I inevitably take out my own phone.
That's not an "industry". "Industry" is something you can list on a stock exchange or lobby in a parliament.
Antithesis is supposed to be quite a bit faster than rr chaos precisely because it’s a hypervisor vs rr which is trying to intercept syscalls which is notoriously slow, so comparing against rr per second feels like a bad proxy.

Unlike rr chaos, which I believe uses a random search without any knowledge of past runs, Antithesis is supposed to do a more targetted search through the orderings with understanding of history between runs, so the executions needed per bug similarly has rr as a bad proxy.

I’m also not sure I see how language semantics can be exploited when you’re interleaving based on different thread orderings. If I understand it correctly, Fray is also slightly more limited than something like Antithesis which can also test I/O failures and different I/O orderings in a distributed setting as well.
Impossible, even in the current crazy atmosphere. An actual ban would mean an all-out commercial war and a very serious dent in globalization.