skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really hard to look away when the collective West is crumbling right in front of our eyes. USAs new regime pulling its support of Europe and making friends with Russia is the biggest existential crisis Europe has faced in my lifetime.
I took a women’s studies class in University, and one thing that they try to emphasize is that feminism isn’t about blaming individual men, but looking at patriarchy as being responsible for certain problems, regardless of gender. It seems like this is sort of lost between theory and how we actually work together in society, but it also seems to me like feminists should be incentivized to help grow healthy boys (I’m sure many are, but there is a particularly vocal group that resists anything that could be remotely interpreted as MRA.

Anyways, we should start helping young boys before the Tate brothers volunteer to step in.
In my experience most pharmaceuticals and nutrients are rather well researched, and the results of scientific studies can be trusted most of the times.

So if most studies don't show a significant improvement, the substance just doesn't work. It's even the opposite, just because a study showed some improvement over a bigger population, it doesn't mean it works for you, or the improvement is noticeable to you.
> The first year was serious ego boost, having Google on the resume opened doors all over the place.

Before I worked in FAANG, My subjective view of big tech SWEs was they were very skilled, in a different league.

My current view is that it "just" takes very good preparation and a decent resume to get in. And they've hired so many people that it's not so special anymore to be an "ex-Google". There are just a lot of them.

That being said, I think someone who gets hired in such a company, and manage to stay for many years has to be quite productive and competent. Especially if they reached higher levels.
Loved this project. I hoe this project gets enough traction
What do the last two sentences have to do with anything?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/25/europe/putin-nuclear-warns-we...

He has dared. Empty threats? Maybe... but that's quite the gamble to make.

Edit: To downvoters...

Why?
Typically gfortran and intel fortran.
OLTP Through the Looking Glass 16 Years Later [pdf]
OMG playing that thing with the little analog apple II joystick plugged into the motherboard....
or in 2014 when they first invaded
"They don't know if they will be able to sell their product at the new prices," he said, also asking not to be identified. "Some people are going down".

That's surprising to me, considering that coffee is quite addictive. Will consumers really stop drinking it if it gets too expensive? Is there a really a strong correlation between coffee production price and the amount sold to end consumers?
I would have taken a well-calibrated photo of the cup each time without looking, maybe with a color card in the bottom, and only entered results at the end of the trial.

Given that there is no documentation of whether the events during the hour of test time were more or less stressful than those before it, and no taking the time of day, diet and exercise, sleep, location (quiet island or next to a construction site), etc into account, the data seems useless.

As a note, I have no idea why he bothered trying to guess what he had taken. What possible value could that have in this type of experiment?

Perhaps the correct course of action would be to ask for feedback in the design phase of an N=1 trial, especially a longer one, to avoid some basic mistakes.
I spend several hours/day reading news on around 30 websites.

I don't read anything that starts with an @

I don't use any asocial media. I read news websites.

Given paywalls, I mostly scan headlines. The overwhelming majority of posted articles are pure shit. They couldn't pay me to read them, much less the other way around. When an article seems to contain meaningful information, I find a way to read the contents.

Even once I delve into the text of an article, most are badly written. I call the journalistic/literary style "It was a dark and stormy night". They're much more focused on story telling than conveying information. This seems to be what people want now. So, in total opposition to historical news reading, I skip the first couple of paragraphs, instead of expecting to find the gist of the information in those first paragraphs.

It's like a classic relationship problem: the issue is on both sides. The media producers are striving to "hook 'em and gouge 'em", and the readers are mostly so vacuous that this seems to be what they're looking for anyway.

But don't worry! It's going to get worse, much worse.

Good luck with that...
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Predictable to an extent. President Xi has effected a number of rather drastic changes internally; it's possible that external policy changes may follow.

It's not as crazy as electing Trump, of course.
The status page doesn't show any issues, but we're unable to log into our company subdomain of 1password.com
I’ve been at my company working in tech for 19 years and I hate the pushing of job hopping as a norm. Job hoppers have no skin in the game. They don’t need support what they build, they don’t get to see where it fell short… they really can’t learn from their experiences and mistakes. What they do isn’t in the best interest of the company, it’s just enough (an MVP if you will) to add to the resume so they can leverage it for a bump in pay on their next job.

I see wave after wave of job hoppers hired to “transform” the organization and all they ever do is repeat the same old mistakes, which we could tell them if they weren’t too arrogant to listen.

Every job hopper I’ve worked with has simply been a distraction to the greater goals of the organization to serve the customer. I’ve lost all patience and respect for the people who practice it, and the companies that set themselves up in a way which encourages it.

I don’t know how we find our way back, but I think companies and employees would all be better off with some stability and more long term thinking.
The superb lyrebird 'farms' its prey
Basis also drops quality on the floor by targeting subsets (ETC1s and UASTC) in hopes of having a "common transcodeable subset". In practice, a number of runtime transcoders seem to just decode to RGBA and then fully re-encode anyway, but on the CPU.
Why do you feel entitled to something someone else built?
Quite.

I'm happy to be relaxed about this, but only because I have no power — 90% chance some attempted hot war is actually all duds is great for me personally, 10% chance everything burns is unacceptably high for someone running a country.
I wonder what lessons were learned that could benefit others who want to port
command line tools from C to Rust, e.g. particular idioms or re-usable functions
(error handling, logging, defaults/dot-file management, command line option parsing).

There was a book called "Dr. Dobb's C-tools", which had the commented source code of a C compiler, assembler, linker and std library, and it greatly benefitted me to go beyond K&R's book towards understand the idioms of C programing.
Just came back live for us.
> I know quite a few Trump voters that only care to vote for him and couldn't explain any coherent policy reason for preferring him

Perhaps the reasons can't be mentioned in polite company.
Phubbing Makes the Heart Grow Callous: Effects of Phone-Snubbing
To add: Beyond the need for compromise, a multi-party democracy also provides a safety valve; if a fringe element of a major party grows _too_ fringe, it will often just break off (in the last 20 years Ireland has had _two_ new minor parties emerge from an anti-abortion/anti-LGBT fringe breaking with a major party, say). In two party systems, you instead tend to get ‘big tent’ parties, with the fringe elements on the inside, and sometimes one of the fringe element takes over. For instance, see the US Republicans with Trumpism, the UK Conservatives with Brexiteers (and later an attempted, though largely failed, takeover by Truss’s lot, and, er, whatever the hell they’re doing now, who even knows anymore), and arguably UK Labour with Corbyn’s faction (again, this didn’t really last).

(The UK’s a bit of an oddity here in that it’s _kind_ of a multiparty state for historical reasons, but doesn’t really have the right type of electoral system to support a multiparty system.)
I can't find an official list of supported targets, but

https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/README-in...

contains notes on compiling for IRIX, HPUX, AIX, and OSF/1. So no, I would bet that it very much does run anywhere Linux runs, and a lot of places it doesn't.
As a person who shares OPs concerns, (A)GPL is acceptable, in v2 or v3 form. Anything permissive is not, because allows a closed fork, which everybody wants to do to rob free software ecosystem to undo what has been done over these years.

Because "monies".
There's no specific reason for Rust code not to be GPL licensed. For whatever reason, many Rust devs choose not to use copyleft licences in their projects, but that doesn't preclude GPL projects from using Rust.

I would've preferred projects like these to be GPL licensed too, but as the author writes in the comments (https://lwn.net/Articles/1009647/): what's the real-world impact of this specific project being MIT?

Commercial UNIX systems are pretty much dead, and I doubt the ones that still want to ship customised versions of these tools will respect the GPLv3 licence. I believe copyleft is essential for things like kernels, but for userspace tooling where plenty of alternatives exist, I don't think it's as important.
Debian Linux Terminal Now Built Inside Android 15 – How to Enable It?
No affiliation with this guy's channel.
Ваша Россия гниет, скоро ей конец.
What kind of bots??Ruzzian, Israel, Soros ?

As others said this is major thing in EU and probably Canada will make a move too if Elon says some other stupid shit .
i was curious an took a look, seems to be some overblocking.

marioandluigi:

https://www.reddit.com/r/marioandluigi/top/
There's a Spoon's Worth of Plastic in Our Brains. Now What?
Training for construction and manufacturing jobs. A lot of HN users don't seem to realize this but the USA is re-industrializing at an accelerating rate as the globalized system breaks down. The electric grid is growing fast due to higher demand including generation, transmission, and storage. The chemicals and plastics industries are booming due to cheap natural gas from fracking. Ocean shipping routes are getting slower, more hazardous, and more expensive. China's labor cost advantage is eroding due to demographic collapse and horrendous central planning policies (the USA has its own challenges in those areas but overall we're in better shape).
...and can be closed anytime, if the author wants to.

Which will happen with these tools, anyway.
Unsurprisingly, both the OP and this are oversimplified statements.

The more nuanced point is to note that simply reducing the world to accounting equations omits all of the human detail. Morale is a meaningful thing, or if you prefer, knowledge, expertise, Metis; these are damaged in layoffs, especially repeated rounds. And furthermore, the recent tech layoffs were not generally about fixing unsustainable businesses, they were about juicing profit margins for already profitable ones.

On the other hand, of course the OP title is wrong and layoffs can work. There are many examples even within tech where cutting deep is the only way of surviving.

Complex systems are complex.
Every time I operate on urgent news I get burnt, so any sort of world changing news can handle a nights rest before responding. Things that are published on paper have a higher priority on my Apple News process.
Hypothesis formation is art. Without it there would be no physical experiments. Every scientist is an artist at heart.
> So yes, there are good dictatorships. They're especially good at getting stuff done. There are also obviously bad dictatorships.

All dictatorships, by definition, are better at getting things done than organizations that require non-unilateral assent.

Instead, the difference between a good dictatorship and a bad dictatorship is that in a good dictatorship, dissidents are eliminated quietly or, if not quietly, then with enough spin that everyone considers their elimination to be a good thing.

In other words, what good dictatorships are good at is PR.
Could you share one or two examples of how that went? :)
I think it's more about having a stable interface. If it's not stable - you can't use it as a base tool long term. But if it's stable, what difference does it make if it's POSIX compliant or not?
The first steps are already underway, nevertheless the European Democracies should start a, new, NATO-like military Alliance on their own, but without Trump's America.

(and without the notorious US-made military equipment kill-switch ability - like with the F16s here)

And while we're at it, this time will be different: Instead of the membership criteria being anti-soviet communism, as in NATO, it should be effective Liberal Democracy - and - Freedom from Exceptionalist Exemptions, namely from the International Rule of Law. So, to be part,

1. Compulsory International Criminal Court membership and compliance - hence no exceptionalistic US, and no exceptionalistic Israel.

2. No "Illiberal Democracies": say, for example, composite of a minimum 0.67 score on the WJP Rule of Law Index and others: therefore no Orbanic Hungary, and no illiberal others like it. Poland, Slovakia, Italy: time to make some hard choices if you want in.

3. Democratic backsliding removes you rights in the Alliance, and, can proportionally lead to outright expulsion.

Not one more new military equipment purchase from the US, (and dispreference for other non-qualifying nations procurement). Member nations should use their - substantial - industrial capacity to equip themselves with indigenous military materiel.

Hey, it would be actually great for the economy!

Initially European scope, but bridges to a broader global scope (or even a secondary sister-Alliance) with open-ended partnerships with Canada, Australia, New Zeland, Japan, South Korea, and yes: Taiwan.

US and/or Israel want to join, if a more Democratic future selves? Simple: fully join the ICC, and meet the Alliance's full criteria as every other member.
Same applies for prospective new members.

Sweden shows how principled positions can be maintained while building serious defense capabilities. Now multiply that model by Europe's combined industrial and technological base.

We just need the political will to execute - instead of just rolling over and wagging our tail to bullies.
Replace programmers with 'intelligence' to contrast with artificial
Having both available means that someone can use it under the MIT license to produce a proprietary version.
Probably hard to make it taste good and more hardy at the same time
If your problem can be solved with CRUD alone, sure. However, that is usually only a starting point. And if you optimize for the smallest and simplest part of a problem just because it comes first, you may not be looking ahead.

It isn't like writing a basic CRUD-application in Go is a lot of code.
You’re not alone: https://synw.github.io/agent-smith/
> the masochism of latex

better than

> sign up for free

enshitification
At this point, I'd rather my country collaborates with China than the US. And I dislike China's government as much as the next person.
My preference would be the opposite of this: I'd like to see news report factual information on events that have actually ocurred.

Prediction is not news, it's a guess. A guess is fictional, not factual.

I'd prefer factual news...
Hot* take: -233 is too cold for Celsius. I'm okay with folks reporting critical temperatures in C once they get near room temperature, but this is only 40K (which is blazingly hot in my world, but regardless).

But, it's cool to see the boundaries pushed on the McMillan limit, and that figure with a lazy Susan of sputtering targets looks fun.

* pun acknowledged
I'd say the key here is stability. The post-WWII Pax Americana was at least stable. The USA each day moves towards a Putin-esque 'might-is-right' oligarchal model, and that transition to their new world will be painful for them.

Meanwhile China and Europe can agree to be frenemies and note that they're both going to make the least crazy/unexpected bat-shit decisions of the big 4 geopolitical regions.
Even here I'm told this is just '4d chess' and no one will remember long term.
> It seems like this is sort of lost between theory and how we actually work together in society

I think that's University ... often, for better sometimes, and sometimes way worse.
Simple: China is only totalitarian in western propaganda. "Yellow Peril" is a tired trope, it's a democracy. It's difficult to characterize the U.S. as a democracy, and our social progress is rolling backwards.
TSMC machines have kill switches built in for such an event.
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/asml-adds-remote-...
So, what happens a few years from now when all the "burner" numbers have been recycled few times?
> All the games listed are open source

If you indeed have obtained a license allowing you share binaries of games like Mario Kart, Advance Wars and Final Fantasy VI Advance, I assume you also need to provide a copy of that license, and sources upon request.

So unless that is just a blatant lie, please also share the licenses and sources.

...Got any browser 0-days to share while you're at it?
Nothing like a bully POTUS to bring out all the rose-colored glasses praising the US for something that it never was. Set in the context of a representative of neocolonial France speaking about “the free world”.

I don’t understand the causality. Trump reaches a new low and the slogans about the benevolent past reaches a new, even more naive high.

> I think there’s a fatal misconception among many Americans about where their prosperity comes from. They’re not special or exceptionally capable by any means. It comes from wielding tremendous economic and military power gently, preferring cooperation over conquest.

For how many years has the US been not-at-war?
For those interested in steganography-based encryption techniques, some well-known cryptology researchers designed a system for formally transforming encrypted messages into the (well-formed) contents of arbitrary protocols or communication mediums. The technique is called format transforming encryption [1], and it could be applicable here to help conceal the very presence of encryption being used by one who knows the stegonagraphic scheme.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/494.pdf
Left/right is not nearly as useful a lens here as is authoritarian/democratic.

The real key to avoiding mass starvations is giving people economic freedom to grow their own food or at a minimum trade for it, as well as democratic means to remove rulers that will starve mass numbers of people.
Most authoritarian states are 'stable and predictable'. When you meet a lion on the savannah the beast is stable and predictable in that it will most likely try to eat you unless it isn't hungry. Step on a snake and the outcome is stable and predictable in that you will get bitten.

It is good for Europe to learn to stand on its - our - own legs, to become less dependent on the USA for territorial defence and probably also to learn the hard way that peace and tranquillity is the exception rather than the rule. Si vis pacem, para bellum. It is not good for Europe to swap dependence on the USA with dependence on China, we're more than 500 million people with access to most of the resources we need to stand on our own legs so let's get crackin'.

Also, let's drop the silly panic around Trump, the man is doing what he was elected to do which is put America first. We should do the same, in a serious way. Not in an isolationist way but sensibly. Stop importing the world's problems, stop with the silly self-chastisement around 'climate' and 'colonialism', stop the import of islamism and make serious work of getting rid of the islamist factions which have been allowed to establish themselves or Europe as it once was - the birthplace of the enlightenment - will succumb to the sectarian infighting which destroyed Lebanon after they invited Arafat and his PLO.

So, 'Europe first' in the sense that the ideas which formed the continent are worth defending and so are people who subscribe to those ideas no matter where they come from. Those who want to get rid of these ideas to replace them with their own intolerant society - whether that be an islamic caliphate or a Chinese-style fascist [1] surveillance state - are not welcome. I realise this includes a number of EU bureaucrats who are enamoured of the latter system and I would be pleased to see these individuals removed from power, preferably by truly democratic means.

[1] Fascism and Communism are closely related so it is not that odd to call the current government form in China by the former name even if they claim to be the latter. See https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism for a definition or read what Mussolini had to say about the subject and you'll see the parallels.
Inventory along the distribution chain will take quite some time to draw down before people are actually drinking less coffee.

As for caffeine, there are cheaper alternatives to coffee if you just want the caffeine.
Yes, I’m referring specifically to the anti-imperialist angle.

There were lots of factions within the anti-imperialist left, but fundamentally there was a distrust of “foreign-policy experts.” And while Trump isn’t a pacifist (and I’m far from one) that’s the part that he really gets.
By negotiated peace you mean taking the agressor's side?
Those that have to use chrome at work install it at home.
There are many that think it is the internet.
That was my today, Sunday.
I gave up trying to explain the difference between edge and chrome, many years ago.
At least I get paid for my time.
This might be the most delusional comment I’ve ever seen on HN. Crackdown on dissent online? That’s the explicit policy of our “democratic” European “allies” that the Vice President openly criticized in Munich. Opening fire on protestors? What protestors? And this talk of a thousands-strong Proud Boys “paramilitary” is paranoid nonsense.
Super-Grep
How is a dictatorship different from a monarchy? There have been plenty of good monarchies throughout history. Frederick The Great, created the Prussian State. Stuart’s were well loved that they ended parliamentary democracy to restore the Stuarts. Victorian, Elizabethan era were also prosperous and well known. Ceasar was the final monarch who united the enmity between the nobles and plebs.

The problem is we look at those states and all we see is the existence of slavery (that existed in all societies till at least 1800AD), women being relegated to a different social role etc. But it is wrong to assume that any of those were due to monarchy and that a monarchy in the modern age would not rule based on modern values. Just look at Singapore, for a small example of a monarchy ruling based on current social mores. Unfortunately since WW1, monarchies throughout the world have vanished, and all we have are liberal democracies, so we can’t say either way.
Apple Clears the Decks with Rare Early-Year Product Frenzy
Alas! I thoroughly enjoyed Kevin Hassett's Face the Nation comedy skit "Perimeter of Dead Chickens".

I guess I should have known that it was a misdirect...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kevin-hassett-face-the-nation-t...
Because you aren’t the first one here. Countless lines of software exist which assumes posix. People learned how to use computers and know the grep commands. There is documentation for posix in places where it needs to be. It handles important edge cases which were needed by some groups and that was formalized into a standards requirement.

So changing to the new thing invalidates all that existing value.

That’s not argument to never do anything new, but it’s an argument why for your UNIX-like OS should ship the standard boring thing instead of the shiny new thing in the base install.