skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's probably a good strategy to ignore the (unfortunately mostly incorrect) details and rather try to get a general feeling of what the videos are trying to tell you. For example the "shipyard" page - I was first completely puzzled by the very American-looking workers, but then I thought about what important historic event happened in a shipyard, and together with the red-and-white flags (although the most prominent one seems to be Austrian, which is misleading) I arrived at the correct answer...

However, I also have a "complaint": the "balloon" page (trying to avoid spoiling it) has three videos in a big city and one in the countryside, yet the correct location is the countryside location, not the city (although the city is even mentioned by name in one of the prompts!). So a little more care here is probably warranted...

Aaaand the "pope" page has (according to the prompts) three scenes set at the Vatican, but the location seems to be somewhere else in Rome :)
The irony of you accusing them of arrogance while you refuse to accept an English speaker’s description of how their own language is used - while commenting on an article about fascism and genocide and the erasure of culture - is just -

What do you hope to accomplish here?
I am a member of Stellafane (STMs). The convention every year is amazing. It’s so fun to be surrounded by people who are so interested in astronomy that they travel to a convention out of their own state!

The keynote speaker last year was talking about the James Webb Telescope build, absolutely fascinating. There are tons of things to do. They also have a competition which judges on various aspects of telescopes. I have really enjoyed growing up around this convention.
Most people don't seem to realize that ransomware attacks for example are usually a final salvo. The attackers have been selling access and data for 18 months on average. In some cases for years.
> (diagram for 'Orient')

(This diagram seems to match Wikipedia's, which claims it's from Boyd or based on Boyd.)

The components of 'Orient', the analytical step, are a bit odd: There's no training, skill, knowledge, or intuition; even more critically there's no emotional input, including the influence of present emotion (anger, anxiety, fear, calm, etc.) and our feeling about different options - which is most of how humans orient and decide, especially when choosing quickly.

The diagram lists only culture, genetics, new information, prior experiences, and analysis & synthesis. The last three are unavoidable; the first two seem almost ideological to focus on, given the obvious ones I mention are excluded.

Possibly, Boyd says otherwise (we don't have the primary source), or somehow the categories include the inputs I mentioned.

Also,

> Over time, he formalized his ideas of warfare in his classic “Patterns of Conflict” lectures that inspired the Maneuver Warfare doctrine of the Marine Corps.

Afaik, maneuver warfare goes back to WWII or maybe before. Boyd was born in 1927 and became prominent in ~1960s.
It might be a rationale for a rewrite and rust is just the language the people doing the rewrite wanted to use.
Poison doesn’t age well
The State of Secrets Sprawl 2025
Surely you're talking about a District Attorney deciding that an individual needs to be charged prima facie and saying he "will find a crime" right?
This is true, however getting it funded is the difficult task.

For it to be effective, the money can't come from the provider, meaning it's either from the payer or the patient. The payer doesn't really care, costs are contained as far as they are concerned, with the various Quality Initiatives. That leaves the patient to sign up for a subscription model.

I explored that as a business 12 years ago, and sadly there is still a need. The worst part is that most clinicians actually want to do the right thing but it's the admins in their organization who set up processes that result in terrible outcomes.
Rust projects do not care about the limits of a distro, they just say use rustup, so future fixes will be left out of Ubuntu sometimes.
Totally. It is like the browser venders just kinda stopped iterating on them. When the reality is people just want the controls and the ability to skin them. Also with all of the events that all of the newer controls have.
>After his death John’s third wife Maria Elizabeth (neé Last) (1811-99), a teacher by profession, was denied a widow’s pension so lobbied to take over the manual distribution to provide an income for herself and their baby daughter Elizabeth Ruth Naomi Belville (known as Ruth).

It would be interesting to know if it was common practice for widows to be denied pension, and if so, for what reason.
I can tell you that Aaron Swartz would not be happy to hear that comparison were he alive today, particularly that last part.
Always live on the top floor. Be the one who stomps.
> no ... rewrites in Svelte or whatever

The vast majority of the terminal interface has been rewritten more than once, but the UX framework team does a great job mimicking the prior look and feel each time. Though if you know what to look for you can spot functions that haven't been updated in a while, and even a handful that have remained unchanged since the beginning.

> no refreshed new looks or skins

Basically right, though Launchpad was completely new and PDFU COLORS <GO> provides color themes intended for folks with color-vision deficiency.
Or, more likely, most of us will be much lower paid or simply out of a job as our former customers input their desires into the AI themselves and it spits out what they want.
It's quite incredible that the company that never talks about future products has not only started doing that, but sold an entire generation of $1000+ smartphones based on a feature that didn't yet exist and probably won't exist until they release their next generation smartphone.

When they botched Apple Maps one of the top guys lost his job really quickly. This is a much bigger scandal in my opinion. Selling hardware based on software that won't exist. And the small parts of Apple Intelligence they have managed to ship are awful.

They should go back to not announcing this stuff in advance. The big features should remain secret until the OS is ready to launch. Sure it means developers won't be able to integrate with them for another 6-12 months but it's much better than where they find themselves now.
Yes, but doesn't that still seem like a no-brainer from a marketing/public relations perspective?
And I was wondering about the painting[0] that inspired the King Crimson song…

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Watch
Link has extra . at end.
Yeah, it's part of our roadmap and will be shipping soon!
They’ve made $37.5M from investment income in 2023. [1] (That’s where I’m getting the 350 engineers figure from: $37.5M / $100k = 375.)

I’m not sure how risky their investments are. Also, I’m excluding donations altogether. If you can help prepare a more realistic model I’d be happy to share it!

[1]: https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/File:501c3_2023_990_Mozi...
My opinion, 99% of anything like that is almost always performative. It's done to make someone up top, or the person in marketing or the people around the table who decide to do it, to feel a little better inside. A warm and fuzzy.

If you really want to do something good for X group of people... just make sure your business runs well and treats EVERYONE properly. That's it.

No need to advertise it. Work on the core aspect of being good and doing your job right. That's what everyone wants anyway.
So first of all you'll never make a choice steak turn into a prime steak. Just not going to happen. USDA grading of meat is interesting but I'll talk more on that later. It's just enough to say you cannot use any magic method to take a steak and change it from one to the other.

Second everything they talk about in this post as far as what they do and the outcomes they get is correct. My problem with it is their reasoning why it works is wrong. They kind of poke fun at people like Alton Brown but what they don't say is Alton Brown would not disagree with this technique to make a steak taste the best that it could possibly be his disagreement would be with the reasonings why it works. Nearly every reason they give why it works is incorrect and doesn't really understand the process is happening. Fortunately you don't have to understand why something works for it to indeed work. This cooking technique has been around for many many years. It's called tempering your steak most decent steakhouses temper their steaks prior to cooking because it works that well. They don't have to understand why it works they don't care why it works and I'm sure the first chefs who figured out it does work had no clue why it worked they just knew it did. That's really all that matters putting all these false reasonings around it adds more confusion or maybe it's trying to lend yourself credibility through baffling by bullshit or technobabble. I'm not sure why it's in there, it's totally not needed. They could have simply referenced Michelin starred chefs who tell you to do the same thing which would lend credibility.

So coming back around to USDA grading and prime versus choice. If you've never looked into this it's quite interesting because prime is determined by certain qualities of the beef but only a fixed percentage will ever be labeled prime. So with high quality breeds of cows you get consistently higher quality meat from them. So oftentimes you will get beef that has been graded as choice but would easily qualify as prime it's just they had already graded the allowable percentage limit for prime. On the other hand if there is a lot of low quality cows that come in there is still a certain percentage that must be graded prime so sometimes there is prime that would be choice or select level on any other day except for the fact all of the beef sucked that day. Now in reality it doesn't usually skew that big because of the amount of meat that is being butchered and graded but it could. In practice it generally skews toward choice being equivalent to prime in many situations.
Yup, I jumped ship after that one. Previously all of my servers ran Ubuntu, now it's straight Debian or Arch in some situations.

Canonical is just so gross at every level. I saw a job posting in my area recently and it was the slimiest corpo-speak job post I've seen in.. well, a couple of weeks at least.
Actually sometimes yes.
I think they were being serious. In the sense that it’s cool that there’s always someone with personal experience chiming in here.
Flutter is better positioned for our use case.
The NSA’s Upstream program primarily targeted foreign communications under the authority of Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. However, it also incidentally collected data from U.S. citizens, particularly when their communications were intercepted while in contact with foreign targets.

The court cases were thrown out because of congressional action, as they should be, because the entire purpose of the NSA is to spy on foreigners. Thus these programs were legal and this whistleblowing was not, in fact, whistleblowing at all, just leaks of classified information.
> You're implying it's somehow normal to bury it? That sounds like it would be expensive, both to build and to maintain.

It is in my neck of the woods (the Netherlands) too, the only places you see overground electricity is high tension lines outside of towns. Here's a random suburb I just picked randomly, looks like it was built in the 80's: https://maps.app.goo.gl/7DeZiTyKuB4DZKdG8. Or else Amsterdam, which is much older: https://maps.app.goo.gl/FWm6vYgbV5h2CkZu5.

I'd argue (based purely on gut feeling and handwaving) that having it out in the open is more expensive and dangerous; weathering, wind, trees, cars crashing into it, people climbing up into it, birds, etc.

Anyway, your comment sounds like US defaultism, be wary of that.
Male octopus poisons the female during mating to avoid being eaten
I still have a copy of it somewhere. Obviously MS is still dominant in desktop OS marketshare but I wonder if Apple would have had less success if MS succeeded with Longhorn instead of it becoming the watered down bug-ridden mess that was Vista.
I am not sure what you mean by difference in code generation.
Recently, many small models have emerged. I’m curious about potential AI applications on the edge devices. Has anyone conducted any related experiments?
> The purpose of DOGE is to dismantle organizations which provide accountability for the private sector and the executive, including organizations which literally focus on optimizing processes.

If you working from a bad faith PoV like this it really makes no sense to talk about it.

The mechanism is pretty obvious to me. The pareto principle is well studied.

Like a government agency has no self cleaning mechanism like a cooperation has. As far as I understand it. DOGE is trying to be that.
Not amateurs, but a NASA contractor managed to mess up Hubble's mirror back in the day.

Involves chipped paint and household washers.

https://hackaday.com/2020/04/29/test-equipment-shim-washers-...

Simon Winchester also covers it in great detail in his book
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

If you're interested in precision making and how it all came to be it's a very joyful read.
Haha, gaslighting AI to do get it to comply. That would be hilarious if that actually works.
Good idea, we should rewrite systemd in rust ;/
>It's a common misconception that filesharing harms artists

Case in point EU study proving that.

https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-...
Sure, but my point is that Firefox has been funded by Google since 2006, and by having it as the default search engine, Firefox has been sending suggestion queries and searches to Google.

Of course, the nuance here is that this was part of a user action, i.e., the user probably wants to search, so they expect data to be sent to Google (although the address bar suggestions are a gray area IMO). However, what hasn't been expected, and the whole purpose of the GDPR, is that Google does store your search history for advertising purposes without user consent.

So, even if it was unavoidable, Firefox has already been selling user data to Google by simply making it the default search engine and getting paid to do it.

BTW, the GDPR is really strict, and I'll know that Firefox actually sells my data (in a way that I don't expect) when I'll see a GDPR interstitial about it for getting my consent. For instance, when you first open Microsoft's Edge in the EU, they inform users that they're going to share their data with the entire advertising industry.
Mastering HTTP Signatures [video]
Anybody else remember “celebrities” going legal against IMDB for listing their year of birth? Just remember this is a vanity project, not a drive to enhance documentation accuracy.
No, it’s “fix” in the sense of “fix in place” - to pin something to one spot. “I can’t move the table, it’s fixed in place.”

Her gaze is fixed upon - her gaze is fixing. Within her field of view, her deliberate staring at the shrine has fixed it in place. Her eyes are fixed in place, focused on the shrine.

‘In place’ is implied by the context.
Kia: Didn't approve an ad saying drivers bought its EV 'after Elon went crazy'
They get patients to sign something permitting them to share PHI with other entities like e.g. the lab that runs blood work, not to disclaim liability for leaking it unintentionally.
If Russia wants the international version of suicide by cop. Invading US soil is the next tier up from invading Russia in winter in military blunders. No one has been stupid enough to try since 1812 when the British navy ruled. And they couldn't achieve any meaningful goals.
You say this as if it would be impossible for a celeb to find a photog that would be willing to release said copyright. Most photogs just want to be paid for their service. They understand what taking a portrait for said purpose of releasing rights to a CC license would mean. If they, for whatever reason, decide no, then the celeb can move to the next photog on the list that is a mile and a half long, and that's just the photogs within a 50 mile radius of wherever they are currently standing
BSS ("keep Sweden Swedish") were Nazis. I am old enough to remember them heiling in the streets (real proper heiling, not the kind you accidentally do at a presidential inauguration. Twice). He never really managed to distance himself from that. Not that he seemed to try.

Outside of financing thepiratebay ge spent most of his life hiding assets from being taxed. And he also lobbied an anti-tax organisation for an even-lower-tax policy.

The only good thing about the whole pirate bay court saga was that he lost a lot of money he would have otherwise used to push his far right-agenda.
Redis from Scratch, or Cledis
I'm far from convinced that shadertoy demonstration is correct: If you set the number of bits to 1, the dithered version is clearly far too light, which is exactly what happens if you dither in gamma-encoded space rather than linear space.

It gets much worse if you uncomment the SHOW_CORRECT define since the data is then being transformed back to SRGB before being quantised, which quite heavily skews the probability of which code point will be selected in favour of the lighter colour.

Increasing the number of bits hides the effect somewhat by making more code points available. But because they're distributed in gamma-encoded rather than linear-encoded space, it's still not correct to assume that a 50/50 pixel mix of two adjacent code points will appear the same as the colour numerically halfway between them, unless you're making that judgement in linear space.

The mistake the shadertoy is making is transforming the data to sRGB before quantising. Both dithering and quantising should be done in linear space (which is non-trivial since in linear space the codepoints aren't linearly distributed any more) - otherwise the dither function's triangular distribution is skewed by the sRGB transform.
Weird/largely fraudy things seem to be happening on .su: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Beware-of-invalid-Germany-ticke...
I mean what I saw is that planes started falling out of the sky the moment the war on diversity was made official policy. It certainly gives the impression DEI is what was keeping this country running.
It would be seen as performative marketing, which it would be, because it has no effect on "inclusivity" whatsoever, and because marketing is what logos are for. That your primary concern seems to be PR implies the support isn't genuine.

If you want to support the gay community, support the gay community in ways that actually matter. A rainbow on a logo doesn't matter.
Welcome to post-identity politics.
exactly exactly - I already want to buy one lol.
I think it's often a rationale for choosing rust over other languages once you've decided to rewrite.
Love the game but I second improving the scoring mechanics.

I was 40 years off and less than 5km from the place and "only" got 7829. Assuming 99% accuracy for location, and based on some back-of-the-napkin math, that means you have to be within 70.7 years of the actual event to register any points for guessing the correct time. I think If you're within 100 years of the event you should get points. I think ideally it should be a curve, but if you can't program a curve then perhaps create brackets, like -10 points for each year within 10 years, -25 points for each year between 10 and 25 years, and -50 points for each year past that. Using this method you can be +/- 115 years of an event before getting 0 points for the time portion, and the closer you are, the closer to 5000 points you achieve.

Also, the one event was credited as being in Rome, although the picture shows, and the description says, St. Peter's Basilica, which is in Vatican City.
After playing around for a while, a few things come to mind:

* Being able to specify a db at startup would be pretty cool. I'm teaching a class on SQL this summer and I'm already envisioning workflows where a gatekeeper proxy spins up duckdb-ui containers on-demand for users as they log in/out, and it would be much better if the UI can be pre-seeded with an existing database.

* This is maybe a big ask, but markdown cells in notebooks would be nice. Again thinking of my classroom use-case, it would be nice to distribute course materials (lessons/exercises/etc) as notebooks, but that's a bit of a non-starter without markdown or some equivalent content-centric cell type.

* Not a feature request, I just have to say I'm a big fan of how well it handles displaying massive datasets with on-demand streaming and all. I was imagining that I'd have to introduce the `LIMIT` clause right off the bat so that people don't swamp themselves with 100k's of rows, but if I end up using this then maybe I can hold off on that and introduce it at a more natural time.

Regardless, this is great and I definitely have uses for it outside the class I mentioned, so thanks!
No, you're not a cynic. The EFF takes exquisite pains to hide from you the fact that these programs spied on foreigners, which is the job of the NSA. Thus, they are necessary and proper, and perfectly legal.

The EFF is a propaganda platform. You shouldn't take its claims at face value.
> I wish someone also solved the issue with excel around refactoring though - esp when cells are being used in formulas, if there was a "Find All References" or Cmd+SHIFT+F (global find) of elements used in formula (not their values) - it would step it up even more towards maintainability.

I usually handle this in MS Excel by searching "in workbook" and "in formulas".
Works even better when the elements are in a named cell which is referenced in formulas (i.e. "stat.infra.APIrequests" instead of "$A$5"), this way you can also globally change the element by reassigning the cell-name to another cell
> Any reasonably smart company will invest in its employees. They should absolutely be training you to be better programmers while you are on the job. Only shit companies would refuse to do so.

The latter represents a mindset that's prevalent at a large portion of companies. Most companies aren't FANNGS or AAA Game Studios (w/e) looking for the best of the best, most companies are outsourcing a large portion of work and/or are speeding to the bottom of the quality race. Many aren't even in any position to judge competence, nurture it, or reward it.

They just want "5 years experience" in whatever Cloud crap and Java thing.
Given the mention of Electron, I was talking about the client side.
For these tools, you won’t notice.
Ask HN: Do US tech companies expect more loyalty of their employees?
For example, are employees of US tech companies expected to praise and use its products even when not at work?

And if so, is this less the case in other countries?
I got bored and rebuilt Vercel (with Fluid Compute)
I am curious -- I asked on Discourse as well...

How this will work on CPU architectures other than x86 and Arm? Ubuntu also supports ppc64le and IBM s390. Is LLVM usefully able to built binaries from Rust code for those architectures now?
Yes yes we get it move along. Everybody you don't like is literally hitler.
> stable

I wouldn't be too certain about that.
That is what I thought. Thank you for clarifying.
I have a side business and virtually every customer pays a different price, what you’re saying is simply not true. Airlines do it, hotels do it, I have different rates for my customers at my day job, etc.