skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too used to use pop-shell a few years ago while using PopOS but for the past 6 month or so I've felt great running Ubuntu 24.04 with the PaperWM Gnome extension.

While Niri might be easier to install on Arch I would still suggest giving PaperWM a try for a week. I ended up missing it waaay too much after disabling it for a few days on a whim and now I can't imagine using a computer without a scrolling WM given the choice.

Just uhh... Keep a keybindings cheatsheet nearby, like the one in the PaperWM GitHub repo.
why do the people on this website have such obviously flawed world models
Sonos reportedly scraps its long-expected streaming video device
Hard to compare as it depends on application, the shaft speed differential is huge or you're comparing jet thrust to propeller thrust. I don't think small turbines (like RC jet turbine size) are usually very efficient as they are working against the surface area ratio of heat loss through the chamber walls and Reynolds number effects on the turbine blades.
If it's all encrypted you wouldn't be able to call land lines.
The UK's gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer
Some of the data sets don't have torrents. For the ones that do, I'll have them seeding in a day or so.
Some of us are better as sql guy than pandas/polars guys syntax.
We follow traction and use software called bloom growth. The 1:1 meetings with my employees are accessible to both of us and items can be put it at any time. We define long term goals and short term objectives and issues and work on them.

Some of my employees prefer a phone call and we just chat. Others like the structure. I spend 4 hours a week doing 8 x 30 min 1:1s

I’ve come to embrace that it doesn’t look the same for each person.

To answer your question directly, take some time and figure out for yourself, what are your work goals, what are your personal goals, what problems do you encounter at work that affect you that you feel could be solved. Bring out of the box ideas… unless you’re facing disciplinary action, the 1:1 is for you and your personal growth.
I find it hilarious that this spam bot literally chose a comment by dang to respond with spam to.

Doubly so when the account has one comment 14 days ago where someone else tried to mention dang to have him see the spam :D

Fortune favors the bold, they say. But I think this takes “being bold” just a tad too literally lol.
Blackberry's (probably) legally allowed to provide text message encryption, but telcos aren't. "Lawful intercept" (which should more accurately be called "gunpoint eavesdropping") is a legal requirement for all telcos, and the larger the telco, the more optimized and automated the process is required to be. They have to be able to read customer SMSes and tap phone calls. If the SMS happens to be gibberish, that's not their problem, but they can't make it gibberish.
I could also say the same, including the Wayland origin story. I'm pretty new to Niri — I only started playing with it about a month ago — but it's just absolutely that little bit more than Sway I didn't know I needed.
The hardware isn't keeping a keyboard or monitor from connecting, unless it was specifically designed to prevent that.
It sounds like the goal is the same search contract just not with Google.
One regret I have is not starting a "software importing" company.

Just take a bunch of open-source code and then "re-sell" it with a US HQ. Solves a lot of government compliance problems and I can use my 100% profit margin to actually do security testing on the packages.
I don't expect fully fledged brand names to pop out of my brain and don't workshop it endlessly, but I can't call all of them "New folder" either.
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He is exactly there to be knifed after he cut intel into easy to sell pieces.
Yahoo, Bing, DDG, Perplexity...
> We're calling 400MB RAM usage ultra-lightweight now? OpenBox needs 7MB of RAM, and there are WMs that are even lighter on memory requirements.

How much is your X server process using? Because a Wayland compositor has to be both the display server and the WM in one. Comparing OpenBox alone to Niri is incomplete and incorrect, you have to compare OpenBox+Xorg+(xcompmgr or whatever frame-perfect compositor) to get a 1:1-ish comparison.
the reality that I'm sure you've heard me say many times is that I'm just not a python dev and astral is likely always going to build a better solution around python than I ever could. They've just focused a lot more on the package manager side of things than the runtime/venv management side so far but I suspect that will change—and given astral's velocity I doubt we'll be waiting long

and btw mise's venv support isn't going anywhere probably ever, but I do hope that at some point we could either let uv do the heavy lifting internally or point users to uv as a better solution
Anyway…
Anyone currently using semaglutide is already doing most of what's described in this article. It doesn't sound like a lot of additional risk.
I don't think the issue with recyling is just sorting? Plenty of sorted garbage has gone unrecycled.
R.I.P.

He was a true and brave whistleblower.

I had the luck of getting a hold of his docs when they were under court seal, and we published them at Wired.

Only met and interviewed him later. He was a gentle man with a moral compass. A rarity even among whistleblowers.

The world is poorer without him.
If one of my people want to skip the 1:1 I would never force them to do it anyway.
The vision models already filtering recycling today? And in a million other industrial processes?
Can you really not think of any (charitable) reasons?
If Snowden was such a hero, why did he take Russian citizenship

What choice did he have? Do you think he'd receive a fair trial if he came back to the US?

and not oppose the invasion of Ukraine?

Did he actively support it? I hadn't heard that. Major bummer, if so.

Otherwise, he didn't oppose it for the same reason very few other Russians opposed it. I'm sure the reason will occur to you if you think hard enough.
Because most people in this discussion don't know or care about the tech, just "ads bad" and "Google bad".
There’s not enough improvement over regular LLMs to motivate optimization effort. Recall that the original transformer was well received because it was fast and scalable compared to RNNs.
the problem is that this data exists somewhere where i have no control over it and was collected without my consent, in clear violation of my constitutional rights. perhaps you have perfect trust in the current and future good faith of the US federal government, but perhaps you can understand why others do not. i would not want the local police keeping copies of all of my emails "just in case", why would it be any better for unaccountable strangers to keep secret dossiers on me?
PS After I wrote my comment, I realized: of course, AI could one day get better at the things that make it not-perfect in pure math today:

* AI could get better at thinking intuitively about math concepts.
* AI could get better at looking for solutions people can understand.
* AI could get better at teaching people about ideas that at first seem abstruse.
* AI could get better at understanding its own thought, so that progress is not only a result, but also a method for future progress.
Ownership is classically a combination of a bundle of rights. You have most of those rights, but you do not have all of them.
I had a "War of Roses" image too and was way off on it too. The flags and sigals were completely wrong.

I guessed it was supposed to be Agincourt because of the prominence of archers.
You can just continue the division by inputting the remainer i think?
Honestly I hope to be able to write something like this at some point in my career. This is the kind of satire that comes from deep expertise, passion, and desire for the future generations to not repeat the mistakes you have made. This is one of the best articles of all time.
It's cheaper to extend v3 with additional features than to maintain another browser engine.
A flexible pressure sensor array for self-powered identity authentication
I’m sorry you’ve had managers that make you feel that way.

I can assure you that not every manager needs to book 1:1’s to fill their calendar.
Vulnerabilities are bugs, so the C code will have more bugs than the Rust program.

You might say that the C and Rust code will have the same number of logic errors, but I'm not convinced that's the case either. Sure, if you just directly translate the C to Rust, maybe. But if you rewrite the C program in Rust while making good use of Rust's type system, it's likely you'll have fewer logic errors in the Rust code as well.

Rust has other nice features that will help avoid bugs you might write in a C program, like most Result-returning functions in the stdlib being marked #[must_use], or match expressions being exhaustive, to name a couple things.
but polars has sql too
Another example akin to the proof of the 4-color map theorem was the proof of the Kepler conjecture [1], i.e. "Grocers stack their oranges in the densest-possible way."

We "know" it's true, but only because a machine ground mechanically through lots of tedious cases. I'm sure most mathematicians would appreciate a simpler and more elegant proof.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_conjecture
That stops at 2018. In a quick check it seems CEO salary rose from $2.5M in 2018 to $6.9M in 2022.
You seem uninformed of the realities of recycling.
No, not aware of image models that do chain-of-thought reasoning. But there are vision models that do it, so you can have them review the generated images and iterate on the prompts.
> it’s not too hard to make a compiler support a function attribute that says “do not optimize this function at all”

Note that memset_s() is an existing special case already. https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/string/byte/memset
Tablets and phones have been criticized for a decade for being limited artificially, locked down and more oriented consumption than production.

Mac products are especially famous for restricting the users in what in can do in exchange for whatever peace of mind that brings.

If you are going to spend hundred of dollars on a product without doing even a basic research about it, you are 100% responsible of the outcome.
Neither Safari nor -B- are opensource. Brave is even chromium based.

EDIT: Brave is opensource
Nice work! Thank you!
Rust gives two reasons for the borrow checker, iterator invalidation and use after free.

As I have always bought into
Dennis Ritchie's loop programming concepts, iterator invalidating hasn't been a problem.

Zig has defer which makes it trivial to place next to allocation, and it is released when it goes out of scope.

As building a linked list, dealing with bit fields, ARM peripherals, etc...; all require disabling the Rust borrow checker rules, you don't benefit at all from them in those cases IMHO.

It is horses for courses, and the Rust project admits they chose a very specific horse.

C is what it is, and people who did assembly on a PDP7 probably know where a lot of that is from.

I personally prefer zig to c... but I will use c when it makes the task easier.
> None of those things feature in any problem I deal with on a daily basis, whatever language I use.'

I run into those things nearly daily, so... ok then.
Cool article - I was sad to see 'View to a Kill' called the worst Bond film as I must have seen 500 times as a child, it was always on TV.
As part of lawful intercept, they can't encrypt the traffic and then send the NSA the encrypted traffic. They have to send the unencrypted traffic. Or they go to jail.
That sounds like L1 in this article (there are six) https://www.vellum.ai/blog/levels-of-agentic-behavior
This is, without doubt, the greatest sequence of words on programming ever committed to magnetic storage.
... but Aspirin seems to work for cancer: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08626-7
I did a fair bit of applied mathematics at uni

What I think Mathematicians should remind themselves is a lot of prestigious mathematicians, the likes of Cantor or Erdos, often only employed a handful of “tricks”/heuristics for their proofs over their career. They repeatedly and successfully applied these strategies into unsolved problems

I argue would not take a tremendous jump in performance for an AI to begin their own journey similar in kind to the greats, the only thing standing in their way (as with all contemporary mathematicians) is the extreme specialisation required to reach the boundary of unsolved problems

AI need not be Euler to be an important tool and figure within mathematics
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Wow I gave this answer before reading the comments and there are a lot of scary comments. I am projecting love and positivity to everyone here who has had a poor experience.
I can promise you that’s not how it is everywhere in the work force
Really? I've always had the impression that "elementary" proofs of hard problems are highly valued.
Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()
platform ABI is usually better and more clearly defined than whatever GCC & Clang feel like doing to inline ASM across versions and optimization levels
UV is such a big improvement that it moves Python from my "would use again if I had to, but would really not look forward to it" pile to my "happy to use this as needed" pile. Without disparaging the hard work by many that came before, UV shows just how much previous tools left unsolved.
I am familiar with the low-level arithmetic in MD5 (e.g. https://www.nayuki.io/res/cryptographic-primitives-in-plain-... ). Exactly which calculations are you pointing to that result in a secondary calculation?
Brave doesn't support multi-account containers.
That was the joke. They are making their main product obsolete
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> I fully expect in the future we will look at quantum mechanics and apply that to our understanding of biology

Heisenberg would like to have a word with you. He wrote Reality and its Order during the war (world war 2 that is) and obviously he knew his quantum mechanics.

"From the point of view of present atomic theory, the organism appears to be an utterly improbable formation".

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-25696-8
I use a similar setup on KDE. I generally let windows float, but do half/half or quarters when I need a "command deck" for working on a something.

That thing works for me. Horses for courses, YMMV.

If that's being a cavemen, I'm a proud one at that.
Wonder how Google is going to balance both innovation and revenue.
I don't care about model lock-in as long it actually gets the job done. Claude Code is the only AI solution I've tried that can actually make deep, meaningful changes across frontend and backend on a mature enterprise codebase.
Most of these suggestions would probably get you tagged as being toxic in some organizations. Your descriptions indicate the work priority being more about getting additional headcount/budget to expand your team regardless of deliverables or actually delivering anything.

When I worked at a large corporation there were many organizations/teams just like this and I'd prefer to avoid that type of company because it felt like 90% of the time it was playing politics games.
Ruff is already integrated into uv and Astral are working on type checker.
No, money ruins open and free source. If you are going to do it, do it for the passion. Every single open/free software that I have rooted for that decided that money is important turned out terrible. Please don't ask for a list, it's endless.
Upthread, we have:

> Thank goodness he [was more willing to betray his position for moral reasons] than the "I was just following orders" crowd. We know from WW2 that "I was just following orders" is not a legitimate excuse to help facilitate grave atrocities,

Which dilutes to this when challenged:

> he didn't oppose [the invation of Ukraine] for the same reason very few other Russians opposed it.

Those perspectives both can't be correct! If he was willing to face jail and expulsion for opposing US crimes, and to be celebrated for that, surely the same logic should hold for Russian crimes, no?

Snowden is complicated for sure. I think it's not unreasonable to ask why these decisions were different and to at least ask what differences he might have in loyalties and personal aims might lead to them.
just curious - why not use browser profiles available in Chrome/Brave…?
To not be scrutinized for any and everything is vital. When all is accessible, actors playing the part of the good citizen are the prime. I would rather have pain than the pretense of good.
In a parallel universe there must be a world where those choices of his serve as a reminder that the world, and the people within it, are not nearly as simple and convenient as narratives and principles would suggest.

Let's think it through. Say you're pretty passionately pissed off about what you directly observe (in this case spying), so you go full hero and do what he did. Then consequences come and the only lifeline you're given is... Russian.

You tasted the reality for a bit there, that was rough, but luckily you're safe and out. But wait, now you're being compelled into becoming an asset. And no lifelines are around anymore. Suddenly you realize that the reality of the stronger dog fucking never disappeared, and that choice you made was much more grave than you thought, and there's no real going back.

And it doesn't matter if this is what actually happened to Snowden, what matters is that this is a very reasonable possibility. People are not fairy tales, and especially not perfectly consistent in their thoughts and beliefs. Not spatially, not temporally. He may have at some point thought that doing the noble thing was his choice, but wouldn't now. He may have been swayed in other ways since, and now takes both stances at the same time, regardless how contradictory they are.

The real lie here is treating people larger than life. One can appreciate a result without subscribing to everything the person ever did or does, or labelling them one way or another.
I have gone on about this before but most carriers have a psychological aversion to security, and most of their vendors adopt the same.

They see themselves as the wire, and thus completely incapable of being targeted by hostile third parties.

Non exhaustive list of problems I have seen:

Credit cards stored in plaintext on the carriers wordpress website.
esxi and drac ports publicly available to the internet, not patched.
inbound authentication not dropped by core infrastructure, log files just filling up with brute force attempts (often successful)
Software vendors not implementing carrier network standards and telling everyone they know better.
tech support opening socks proxy ports for technical support reasons and then leaving them open, where they get abused for netflix traffic.
Field techs running around with core infrastructure passwords written on their paperwork
Vulnerable hardware remaining unpatched and available to the internet for years - particularly fortigate stuff.
Technicians building unencrypted pptp vpns on client infrastructure and leaving them open for years.

It doesnt surprise me that freepbx/asterisk etc are full of issues. They only get yelled at when they push a change that knocks some eccentric sip config offline, no one cares if they maintain vulnerable code as long as it works. Doubly so because theres a cottage industry in locating and using vulnerable SIP credentials for fraudulent phone calls.
Be the change you want to see. I mentioned the vans and his dogs because Mark wasn't some random picture on the Internet, but the nice guy a couple houses down who talked about the volunteer work he did for harbor seals[0]. He was a real person we liked a lot and I thought others might enjoy hearing about his noisy, overprotective golden retrievers.

But yes, he was also a personal hero to me before I met him in real life, and we should absolutely still be talking about the things he uncovered and what happened to them afterward. Please do tell those stories, too.

[0]https://goldengatebirdalliance.org/blog-posts/wild-ly-succes...
Large study shows drinking alcohol is good for your cholesterol levels
LibreOffice is pretty bad. It doesn't tend to hold up past very basic use, and that use case has long since been taken by Google Docs. For serious work - e.g. legal services word processing, or many accounting workflows - LibreOffice doesn't hold a candle to Excel and Word.

The problem with desktop Linux software is that it generally doesn't have the demands put on it that would push it to develop competitively, so it tends to get stuck spinning in circles for decades. LibreOffice Writer isn't really a competitor to MS Word - it's more of a bloated Wordpad. Ditto The Gimp, etc. It's just not there.
Isn't it kind of mean-spirited and divisive to imply that people are mentally unwell for practicing religious beliefs of their choice?

Would you still be saying that if he was Muslim, Jewish, or Hindu?
I dunno, I feel like if you've used a compiler regularly, "expected X, but found Y" is a pretty common idiom/shorthand that people understand. Your wordier version of that feels unnecessary to me.
uv run in the freshly cloned repo will create the venv and install all deps automatically.

You can even use --extra and --group with uv run like with uv sync. But in a monorepo, those are rare to use.
Ugh. Yeah. Why post it here?

Tablets and phones are for consumption, not production. End of story. This person just wrote some clickbait to generate some ad revenue.
Phencyclidine is just much more potent - it has been used for dissociative anesthesia in the past too.

Memory is only impaired in really end cases of abuse of ketamine. First the ability to learn newcomplex tasks is damaged. Then usually kidneys go.
Unlike PCP, wholesale psychosis is rare.

This is though mostly in abusers again, ones going for so called k-holing. Whether Musk does these high doses is a different question. Normally you can spot these people as acting zombie like and having an equivalent of absence seizures, not grandious manic episodes.

Musk might be (self) medicating with a wrong drug for a different mood disorder. Now that is both relatively common and might look exactly like his behavior - a hypomanic shift for example.
Ketamine really is meant to be used as an antidepressant for standard depression and only short term...
Musk has access to the U.S. Treasury, current government contracts and soon, most of his competitors' through Procurement Capture [0] and any day, access to Fort Knox. These don't seem to be part of the "normal" analyst's info feed. Because things are not normal. They are part of a government takeover, for ideology and money. [1]

[0] https://www.anildash.com//2025/01/04/DOGE-procurement-captur...

Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture -- Anil Dash

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43346963#43348287

More disturbing.

Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk ‘Hijacking’ Republicans to Control Entire US Government [2]

'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook [3]

[2] https://bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/silicon-valley-whistleblo...

[3] https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-d...