skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say that like big tech doesn't use these tools when they are gpl. The primary advantage here is big tech employees can safely read and contribute to these tools without fear of upsetting some internal lawyers or getting explicit permission. No one is arbitrarily forking, extending, and keeping that new source hidden despite placing it in some commercial product. Working upstream is far less costly for long term maintenance and everyone knows that. Sure there are exceptions but far from the common case
Agno
Love it, very creative counterattack on the attention wars.

I remember decades ago, first phones came out, and I was at a party and I had not much to do, so I took out my phone and pretended to send messages with someone. It felt weird, but now it would be such a "natural" thing to do when bored.
I worked with a guy who left for more money, found out the grass wasn’t greener, and came crawling back. Then did it again. For some reason they hired him back a second time. When he quit the 3rd time I think that was the final bridge burned. I asked him about it and he said money was his singular metric for choosing a job, he was always looking, and would never stop.
But Duo is a device in the form factor of Arduino Nano that can run actual Linux (the 256MB RAM version at least). It's quite a leap.
> There is more and more tooling around to help mitigate the risk, he said.

Could anyone expand on this? I could imagine tools... better static analysis, maybe? being able to help. But I'd really want to see details. Both to see if it really helps, and because if there is tooling to help then I want to know so I can adopt it!
+1
also, it is much less interesting if this is not sent upstream (even if upstream is not interested at this point)
You've never heard that GPL can hinder adoption? Most codebases simply cannot use GPL code because if they do, they'd be forced to relicense under GPL (obviously). Not everyone wants to do that, even setting companies aside.

Even people who nominally agree with the concept of Free Software might not want to be forced to use GPL. The freedom to choose how to license one's work is also an important freedom, after all. GPL can be confusing, so you can't fault anyone from not wanting to use it even if they agree with the spirit of the license.

(For the record, I use GPL on some of my projects. I don't hate it, but I also like to use MIT on some projects, too.)
Adding tools to your toolbelt is part of the craft, no? You can add another language to your roster without abandoning PHP. I used to write PHP, and will write it happily after a refresher if I need to.

However, I learnt ton of languages after I learnt PHP. That shouldn't be an issue.

On your question, PHP is alive because of the same reasons why FORTRAN and even COBOL alive. It's useful.
Yes but ahegao is not really pornographic in nature

But I mean Western video/cam porn has latched onto it
Yes... well, usually. Sometimes the particles can all get annihilated, and then they stop repeating.
If you aren't being listened to, it could be that your form of communication isn't in line with the listeners. The same signal is being interpreted differently between sender and receiver.

Just a possibility to look into. Hope you're well.
You must be being deliberately obtuse at this stage. He's not saying the Crimea incursion should have been fought again more. He's saying that allowing the annexation of Crimea to be relatively peacful didn't prevent the subsequent imvasion of Ukraine, and as such, stopping the war now and allowing Russia to keep the gains it has made may lead to a short-term peace, but will likely not prevent another war in the future.

Given Putin's stated wishes, this will only stop if Russia is unable to make such moves (for whatever reason) or states at risk of invasion are defended such that it's strategically stupid for Russia to even try.
1. ITAR, 2. They get money.
Dude wait until you see how quickly stories get flagged to reduce visibility here. Oh look, this one is already.
I'm so glad that Zoe Ziani essentially has the last word on this subject.

For what it's worth, while I'm sure that her advisors are known within that research community, I believe they deserve to be named and shamed. Their behavior, IMO, is almost as bad as the original fraud to begin with. It was classic "circling the wagons" bullying, and their scientific reputations absolutely deserve the hit that their atrocious behavior warrants.

I want to emphasize that this isn't about "retribution" or getting back at these people, it's about publicizing that their behavior was wrong, the antithesis of what scientific inquiry is about, and was fundamentally rooted in a cowardice that put professional standing on a higher pedestal than scientific integrity. Actions have consequences, and these advisors should face consequences for their abhorrent actions.
> in the case of drink orders, there's a slight benefit to ordering something unique (at least unique within the queue you're standing in). you don't have to remember your place in line, or negotiate with someone else about who was there first

A normally-functioning vendor would call out the completed order by order number, so this problem just can't arise. You can't take someone else's order identical to yours any more than you can take someone else's order for ten times as much food as you purchased.
And that made sense, as there was a point in time that Russia did seem like it had a chance of becoming a normal democracy. At some point even the idea of the EU membership was floating around.

By the 2008 attack on Georgia it was clear that there is no democratisation of Russia, but some people didn't want to believe it for a long time, not even after 2014 attack on Ukraine.
This mentality is why people don’t get promoted internally, which leads to the job hoping in the first place.

Fix this and a lot of the job hoping problem goes away.
The point is you can talk about game theory if you make everything about game theory.
Why does it have to be an age thing? Some men and women are players and the game is the game to them. Those who are naturally monogamous would be stressed in a game like that. Constantly uprooting is a stressful lifestyle and can truly be torture (as evidenced by constant anxiety, no way to be). I can promise you people who are job hopping are hopping around other things in life (friends, family, relationships, projects, interests, roles, identities). It's a whole way of being.

Edit: This is not a judgement, but if you felt like it was, I very much want to hear about it.
I'm curious by what measure you suggest it's "too cold". Kelvin is an offset celsuis, so it's not like we're talking about an innapropriate order (like 10 000 000 grams vs. 10 tonnes).

I would understand if it detracted from one's understanding, but I think this format is more accessible than assuming everyone knows what kelvin are, and it's explained in the first sentence. This is journalism, accessibility to science should be lauded while maintaining brevity for , IMO.
While I don't share OP's concern, I believe AGPL is much more preferable, yes.
I've been able to buy a pound of high-quality whole bean coffee for $15-$20 for about 20 years now. I assumed the cost at cafes had more to do with labor and rent.
Nature has a much better news article than phys.org: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00450-3

We have two classes now, copper and iron based superconductors that work at room temperature above 40K or so. Below 40K, there are countless superconductors and the mechanism they use breaks down at around 40K. There's no reason to think that a material which is a superconductor below 40K will have some variant that is one above 40K.

Once we have evidence of superconductivity above 40K or so (at normal pressures) things change. Those materials follow different rules that we only partially understand. And there is reason to hope that variants exist which will be superconductors at even higher temperatures. There's no set barrier or upper limit once you cross the 40K threshold. One may exist, but we don't know it.

What happened with copper, and iron (to a much lesser extent), is that we marched up the curve and eventually made superconductors with many real-world. Once you reach 77K (-195C) we're in business. The hope is that maybe we can do the same with nickel. This has traditionally only really worked well with copper-based compounds.

Having a 3rd class of materials gives us a lot more options. And the more examples we have, the more likely we are to come up with some useful theory.
> contains notes on compiling for IRIX, HPUX, AIX, and OSF/1.

Again, how well tested do you imagine the OSF/1 target is? Do you imagine each merge pops off a CI test for that platform? My guess is -- it's been a long time since anyone connected with the GNU coreutils project built for that platform.

See the reply from estebank to me, below:

> Platform support goes beyond "does a compiler happen to produce a binary".
So is it going to be Kubernetes as the IaC stack from now on? I'm asking as a heads up as I foresee a potential major demand for infrastructure migrations in the future.
Why are so many people suffering mental illness?

It's not funny, it's stupid, and sad.

If you find that "you're feeling intense pressure to be on your phone", throw it in the ocean!
What is released under MIT (or BSD) will stay under that license forever, so it cannot "be closed anytime". The owner can change the license, but that will affect only future developments.
... when rewriting Linux system software, I'd only use Rust dependencies from a distro (probably something LTS, like Debian stable, or such).
"Most" != "all": <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13531909>
No matter what paradigm will come out on top:

Someone will notice there's something to be gained by building abstractions around caching/memoization and that running workflows in distributed environments might be augmented by some form of precompilation and/or hydration.

Then others will boast that they can do everything with whatever flavour of vanilla they are familiar with.

Then someone will bring up Greenspun's tenth rule.

Anyways: We'll have pages and pages of HN threads to scroll through.
Yep. DOD spending is likely to shift, but not be reduced. The major firms are probably going to see some contracts cut or tougher competition from the likes of Anduril in certain domains.

DOD spending in IT-related efforts may also shift, Palantir will be a major contender here.
Well well, would you adam and eve it

Let me just rush out and spend a 800 quid on a new pixel because the camera seems to have scored more subjective advantages than ye olde apple phone.

Whatever next?

Nope, still got me 8 year old oneplus 5T with android 15 installed.
That's not really as true any more. The plastics and chemicals industry is growing rapidly in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and those factories tend to be sited based on easy access to natural gas supplies rather than proximity to cities.
I work in this space and I would say it's pretty even between Europe (the UK in particular, but also other countries like the Netherlands and France) and China.

> where money won’t go nearly as far

I'm not sure about this either - apparently high tech salaries in China are not out of line with Europe (both are way less than America).

But China does have more enormous companies that can fund their own chips (e.g. ByteDance).
Lol Royal Navy would soon have more admirals than military hardwares.
quibble quibble: PiHole does not give you anything when going from uBo to uBo lite (edit: which is the scenario covered in the article), because e.g. CNAME decloaking was never available on Chrome!

Conversely, adding PiHole helps even if you manage to keep chrome with manifest v2 working!
I'm curious to know from someone who understands better- isn't this the kind of volatility that futures markets are intended to prevent? If actual product movement has changed significantly then is it just that this moment is especially volatile, or are futures as a mechanism not particularly meant to deal with this?
One would guess. But at least German's cyber security agency.. Well, if you read German: https://www.heise.de/news/Google-und-BSI-arbeiten-an-sichere...
There are other places where people can gamble
Tesla Sales Fall Off a Cliff Globally, Including Germany, Australia, and China
> The primary advantage here is big tech employees can safely [...] contribute to these tools without fear of upsetting some internal lawyers

Doesn't GPL do that better by mandating that changes must be accessible to the public? Like, if an employee worked out some patch, it would be a violation of the license to not make it accessible to the public.
But even then, the device nodes should be protected by file ownership+permissions; why does the tool do its own check?
This is standard everywhere I've worked.

If your manager checks the unregretted attrition box on the exit forms (the name varies, but it invariably means they wouldn't want you back), you're not getting rehired without intervention from someone fairly senior.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42177590>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23873461>
> We don't measure how many hours you are at the office. What matters is whether the work gets done. We are reasonably flexible with hours. Currently, we operate around a 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM work cycle. Some things you work on will require more hours and effort, sometimes intense, and some won't. There may be a fair bit to pick up in your early days. You will likely need to put in more time, and that will pay dividends later.

Translated: "We don't count how many hours you work beyond this pretty standard bucket of hours that you better be here for."
Totem Tribe Towers
The article cited actual statistics and data comparing companies that enacted layoffs vs those that didn't. It showed very clear evidence, even within the same industry, that those that enacted layoffs fared MUCH worse

Also many of these layoffs are NOT coming when companies are "bleeding revenue". E.g. Meta and Twitter enacted massive layoffs after posting their most profitable quarters yet
This is FUD. The folks funding this generally believe in the benefits. Not everything is 4D chess. There are plenty of not more of examples of rewrites where licenses do not change.
Permissive licenses sometimes allow sublicensing, which allows changing of the license, and does not require source code be made available when changes made.

IOW, this is de-facto closed source distribution.

What happens when a company decides to add their own secret sauce and release that version only, or what happens tons of slightly incompatible, closed source variants pop-up, what happens upstream decides to not release future versions' source code.

We have seen it all, and we'll see all of them again.
Personally I oppose sending troops to the front in Ukraine, but for a different reason than others who oppose it: I believe that to send them to already fortified Russian positions is wasteful.

Consequently I believe that if the EU is to intervene, which I think is a very reasonable thing to do, it should be by imitiating the Russian approach of using aircraft as flying artillery-- i.e. to release missiles etc., against Russian positions in Ukraine, but I also believe that we should attack Russian natural gas pipelines, ammonia plants, nitric acid plants, ammunition plants with long-range weapons. I also believe that it's reasonable to send in ground troops to seize Russian and Belarusian territory in locations where it can be determined that Russia lacks artillery, tanks etc., and to in that way force troop movements, thus depleting the front in Ukraine and allowing Ukraine to basically roll it over.

I believe that this is possible for several reasons, among them that we Europeans are three times as many as the Russians. I believe that it is unlikely to lead to nuclear war because I believe that the Russians are rational and well aware that any nuclear use by them leads to a proportional nuclear use by 'us', whatever that means, and that the number of nuclear weapons in Russian control is irrelevant for the reason that they're gone after an exchange of a mere hundred or so, so that anything beyond that is superfluous.
High Burn-Up Structure Formation in UO2
"MAGA" voted in the manchurian candidate. Dismantling oversight, accountability, throwing out old alliances and siding with the global aggressors. The US government is rapidly turning into a kleptocracy.
> Many companies rotate the bottom N percent to dump the bad performers

I have never seen this actually happen in practice.

It's always specific teams and projects that get fired because some C-Level fucked up and pushed for some ego project, or over-hired and placed those poor souls in useless projects.
No, an open architecture that's widely accepted and implemented is going to.
I have a very nice Chromebook tablet (a Lenovo Duet). I use it to run a Debian Linux VM; it has its quirks, but I use it to run Emacs, TeX, and various Scheme implementations. It is relatively cheap, and even though it's a relatively low-powered device, it has adequate performance for my needs. (And yes, it is not “really” Linux: you can't install your own window manager, for example. But it's usable.)

I have lots of criticisms of Chrome OS, but the fact is that the year of Linux on the Desktop has arrived. You buy one of these machines, and out of the box you can have Linux apps (and a terminal) running within 15 minutes of switching the machine on.
Do you drive a car and did such a situation happen to you, in situations I describe?

It did happen to me in dense traffic, there are few ways to mitigate it but stopping in multilane road for anything but a serious medical condition or car dying would be about weighting which risk is greater, this is not about annoying somebody but safety. If I had 0 visibility through windshield and nothing else helped, in lower speed I would pop my head out a bit for example (which would clear the windshield too).

But maybe you don't drive around many french drivers :) They run very aggressively with minimal gaps, and our roads (and parking spaces) are much narrower than US ones for example. You have to drive at the limit, whole crowd always does.
> I am really amazed there are still almost half of the people able to twist reality to defend what is a direct attack against their own personal interests

Sometimes people are more interested in inflicting pain to others than to improve their own situation.
Tyler Cowen's Straussian Take on ManusAI and China
I’m not convinced by Tyler’s take.

If Claude’s Constitutional AI research is legit, what prevents China to pull a few strings through SAE and nudge the model to be more aligned with China’s political economy ideal? It’s not like the web doesn’t have enough left-leaning training dataset.

Growing up in China (and left 15 years ago), I don’t feel the “Grand Strategy” kind of person tends to survive in the harsh dog-eat-dog hand combat nature of political life in China.

Lastly, there was a popular lie in China around 1840/First Opium War: the British empire eats so much meat that they need our tea. Surely they can’t attack us if they don’t want to get digestive problems.

Could Tyler be drinking too much tea?
They have way, way more employees than they need.
Sure, but I'm imagining a situation where China ensures the ongoing operations of TSMC via negotation with TSMC and the Trump government, to the satisfaction of all parties, and then being 'allowed' to take Tiawan as a result. For example, they could allow TSMC to function as an American-run entity for a number of years, or offer US companies very friendly terms, or something similar.

This doesn't account for the actions of Tiawanese nationalists working in TSMC setting off the kill routine themselves, irrespective of the deal struck, but it's still an interesting scenario.
Interviewing is a skill of its own. Some people are really good at it.
> come crawling back

It was Trump servered the relationship.

Also, who wants to make deals with someone who can't be trusted to follow through. What's the point? Would you sign a 10 year deal with someone who keeps ripping it up and changing their mind every 3 weeks? What's the point?
The Land of The Fr--Fitting In.
Here I was, thinking that the most self-sacrificing action an American well off enough to have retirement savings (no immediate tax on capital gains) could take would be to divest from all domestic stocks and funds and shift to international ones.

Might not turn out to be as self-sacrificing as I thought.
Personally I haven’t seen this motive across any of the organizations I’ve worked at. They usually seem more interested in minimizing maintenance costs, which means they try to upstream changes where possible or practical.

What would motivate a company to fork and keep private changes to a core GNU utility like chmod?
Discussion (about the finding) (245 points, 1 month ago, 206 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42957726

Related 'Spoonful of plastics in your brain' paper has duplicated images https://www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/spoonful-of-plasti...
The US didn't get involved until Pearl Harbor.
This is the classic american take, look at how much more money you could have.

To most europeans there are more important things than money, especially those working in tech who likely earn enough to have a great quality of life. Also lots of them have been to the US and made their own minds up.
I think it's sad that we've created a society that feels social pressure to stare at a screen when they find themselves somewhere without something to say to someone else. This explains why social skills are on the decline.
https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/target-riscv.html
Strict to the extent that they actually expect latex, not just something that looks like latex. So unless typst is willing to output latex, which they are not, it will never work.
I want to get caught using this next time I'm at lunch.
While the "ActBlue-funded groups" Elon mentions may have contributed there seem plenty of regular people protesting too.
All my (ARM) Orange Pi boards run Armbian just fine. This one, of course, is unlikely to, but I'm curious to see what it ships with.
> I wonder, to what extent is the Linux Rust effort "generously subsidized" by corporations?

I would hazard that extent is strictly less than Linux itself.
The real story here is Australia and China. According to some auto blogs, BYD is destroying them in both markets.
Lots of places take vote on what you can buy, eg weed, alcohol, which additives are allowed and so on
Well. I have worked quite a bit with Chinese businesses and let's just put like this: It does not matter much whatever license you think the SW or HW has. Whatever is available will be used and modified to the liking of the customer.

It is common for new employees to walk in with code bases of previous projects they have worked with and there is a great deal of administration involved in ensuring that no one else gets to work with more code than they absolutely need. Local builds and copying binary archives is common practice!
Now, if we can only get the rest of the world to cease military exercises 8-/

I'm not a cheato fan, but I am a HUGE anti-war fan.

It seems like the primate will just never grow up. Dismembering each other as a form of negotiation is so boomer! Get over it!
We're tired of funneling people and money into this meat grinder. We want peace, we see a potential peace deal, and you don't want to stop until Russia is "defeated", and we're just saying good luck with that. We don't have the war-lust that you do, and for that, we're "crazy"?
Hm, it looks like the Greek etymology is disputed (it was named after a place rather than with purpose).

ake = silent

heka ... in borrowing normally means "one hundred", but in Greek it's actually "he" (one) + "katon" (hundred), so "heka" doesn't mean anything. (eka- in chemistry is Sanskrit and unrelated)

demos = district

medius = middle in Latin; the Greek is mesos, which seems to maintain more of the explicit "between/among" sense (for which Latin has "inter")