skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A question asked in such bad faith that it deserves explicit acknowledgment.

And here is the answer: many of these countries lack the resources to start and sustain programs such as the ones mentioned in the article. The resources needed include money, supply chains and expertise.

The U.S. provides a conduit for all 3 of those needed resources: stable funding, stable supply chains for food, medicine and manufactured goods and expertise though local training and partnership with U.S. and global experts for setting up, running and reporting on the programs.

The US also provided a way to deliver programs that was more resistant to corruption than many local efforts. Note that I did not say “free from corruption” because that is probably impossible, but much better than the alternative.
Do YouTube engineers make great content, are they allowed to?

I've interacted with Google, Meta, Amazon, Twitch engineers. But yet to with a YouTube engineer.
Isn't that the classic problem of software engineers also being responsible for UX? There's a reason UX is a whole field of its own.
Recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43122800
They should simply outsource it to lowest bidder, preferably on a rando internet forum.
I doubt anyone here is saying that.

It's that the rhetoric coming from Trump which, through significant threats to the on-going employment of anyone deemed to be not enthusiastically complying with these daily-updated mandates, increases the likelihood of un-justified "bad thing" happening upon attempting to cross the border to the US.

Basically, the current regime makes it unpredictable, which increases risk. Increased risk = decreased likelihood of related action.

I'm not sure how far off topic we've gone, but "Canadian Devs backing out of attending GDC" would also have a protest aspect to it due to DJT's belligerence towards Canada.
It's disingenuous to mention that without all of the other nonsense that disincentivized investment into energy abundance.
Why not both? Why not save more people while making world a better place and improving country's image and influence at a relatively minimal cost?
Show HN: RankAndFile – A Platform for Employee Activism
Friends, HNers , countrymen:

tl;dr
Employee Unions are dead (non-existent in tech). A collective where employees own shares in the company they work for should give a voice to the employees with the management.

I am happy to launch Rank And File, a platform for employee activism. Think Institutional Investors but instead of suits, it is employees who own a large number of shares in their own company and act as a collective.

R&F aims to provide a private forum for employees to discuss company policies and act as a platform where employees can connect with legal experts and activists who will help them.

what aspects of this do you think can work? What won't?
I hope this app isn’t available on the planet Melmac.
I don't think the language itself being English is an issue at all because there's only 50-100 keywords per language, maybe. It's all the code comments and documentation/manuals/discussion that can be the issue.
because it maxes out at only $60k a year

If they were to set the sticker price much higher than that, it would be cheaper to hire a full time tutor for 32 weeks per year. With the price that high, it would be difficult to maintain the charade that 'tuition' fees are primarily set to fund tuition.

They’d let you in, look at your financials

But they do look at your financials. You don't just say 'hey this is what I have, trust me bro'.
libc allocator is considered "slow" for the extra overhead it has. I'll just leave it at that as you can GPT the rest. I did some of my own testing back in the days I wrote C, and mine was significantly faster than malloc/free.

It's also a way, I suppose, to ensure your program has the memory it needs, depending on how you design it. Mine basically allocates all the expected memory I need at the start, while still being able to grab more if it needs. This was more of an issue back when you shared a server with lots of others.
Even if you're a selfish bastard completely uninterested in the inherent value of human life wherever it is, keeping a lid on HIV and Tuberculosis (and other diseases) in Africa is tremendously positive for the world. The money invested in prevention and treatment is absolutely tiny compared to the costs over decades of letting them spread unmolested, and probably ends up saving lives at home too.
>That, and basically guaranteeing you don't have to deal with the company you just acquired having deployed their accounts with the same 10/16 subnet your own company uses.

I always found that to be a desperate talking point. 'Prepare your network for the incredibly rare event where you intend to integrate directly' (didn't anyone hear of network segmentation?). It makes a lot more sense to worry about the ISP unilaterally changing your prefix - something that can only happen in IPv6.
This is an impossibly broad question. It's like asking why food banks exist, why can't the parents of those families feed their kids? Why does poverty exist?
Second Variety, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety
I've commented this before but it is closer to Terminator than the Harlan Ellison story IMO.
Indeed. Today, YET AGAIN, Trump tanks the stock market (9th week in a row). In addition to private banks, international institutions are outright adjusting their predictions downward because of Trump policy.

Trump's reaction to all this? He immediately announced on trump social what he was doing:

"I just won the Golf Club Championship, probably my last, at Trump International Golf Club, in Palm Beach County, Florida," he wrote on Sunday afternoon. "Such a great honor! The Awards dinner is tonight, at the Club. I want to thank the wonderful Golf Staff, and all of the many fantastic golfers, that participated in the even [sic]. Such fun!"

(needless to say, yes, this is yet another campaign promise that he didn't keep. He would "work for us", and would "not have time to play golf")

The only semi-positive is that while the stock market is down 15% from peak, tech 25% ... and "Tesler" is down over 50%.
They did both, but if people don’t have food or medical care you can’t expect them to participate in the economy as much.

Here’s an example of what USAID did to help develop economies:

https://crookedtimber.org/2025/03/08/usaid-my-next-to-last-p...

That kind of stuff is really cheap compared to military intervention - consider how much money we spent dealing with piracy after Somalia lost control of its territory – so even if you’re a sociopath who only cares about making stock prices go up, increasing the size of Africa’s economy means a whole lot of new customers and suppliers.
You don't set the lifecycle rule at runtime. You set it at environment setup time. The credentials that put your object don't have to have the power to set lifecycle permissions.

You obviously don't put your environment setup user in your app. That would be utterly retarded.
live-action Pokemon Go
I tired that originally and it did not work. The issue was that I pressed shift before clicking. After testing, MS paint and Photopea both support clicking shift before starting the selection to create a circle. Krita does nothing if you hold shift before selecting. I don't have PS right now so I don't know what that does. Seems unintuitive to me.
Why do they lack the resources?
> not even too hard steps, the COVID shock has shown the possibilities

What? There's a good argument to be made that the current geopolitical instabilities would never have happened without the collective shock of Covid to everyone's psyches. No event was more disruptive in the past few decades than Covid. It's unimaginable to call that "not even too hard".
Just having a laugh, mate, but it is nice to have the truth posted as well.
Does anyone else find it sus that the VC firm is called Series X Capital? Sounds kinda Google X related.
I mean I wish that could do what you suggest as if they could it is the end of poverty. But how?
Not the same
Europe needs to pay for its defense since the US is no longer willing to fund it. So it's either higher taxes (on people who can ostensibly afford it) or removing social programs.

Since the latter is absolutely political suicide, there is an attempt to do the former.

What's the worst that could happen? It's not like the rich pay taxes anyway - they just setup foreign shell companies (a la Panama papers).
I see strays from time to time and I do often wonder if they belong to someone. Is the idea that I'd be able to report the stray on the app and hope that the owner has the app too and sees my report?
From looking at the link you posted, the immediate consideration, is it looks like they're all optimizing for a pornography face. Would not be very surprising based on the reputation of the internet.
Oh wow they have Apple Silicon builds now. The last I tried they were woefully slow. This is great news. For all it's flaws it's been a really useful application over the years and I do miss it now that I'm on the M-series Macs. But now I know I don't have to.
This is really helpful. There is some formatting error on UC Santa Cruz. (I am using Chrome on Mac/OSX)
I guess I'm the only one that wants a 17" with a 2k+ screen because the more I can fit on the screen at once, the more I can do while mobile.
If you go to the Wikipedia pages for those two countries and ctrl-F for corruption you'll see the story in a better way than I could cut and paste here.
Mostly videos about:getting chai lattes on the roof, 3 course meals from 4 star restraunts for lunch and yoga sessions in the early afternoon after a quick meeting with the manager. Aka "Average day in the life of a YouTube engineer"
If we are going to talk about fairness and greed and envy we should also be discussing how the billionaires benefit from government deficits, how a lot of our government investment is distorted by lobbying from the richest amongst us.

Our years of fiscal irresponsability, of adventures like ZIRP, Quantitative Easings and Stymulus made the rich even richer. Asset Inflation for the rich and purchasing power corrosion for the pleb is all cool and dandy, but it is destroying our societies, and the way we have to fix it is by reversing decades of Lobby facilitated regressive tax policies.

The billionaires benefit from having an educated society to work for them, infrastructure, the rule of law, security from thiefs as well as from foreign governments and organizations. The USMC existence is far more important for big oil magnates than for a public school teacher in Chicago.

I was lucky, I am generation X and I still managed to have a fully paid mortage, a decent, albeit modest, retirement fund, but what about my kids? What world are we leaving them? How can I look him in the eyes and tell, well kid, you're doing great on school, but sometimes I wonder if you shouldn't be playing because our government thinks that you having your own house in the future is something to be decided by the "free"markets, but at the same time, let's subsidize Big Tech to the tune of billions so they can build AI to make sure you won't have a job and will forever live of whatever I manage to pass to you or be a UBI slave.

Because you and I know that all this government money going to AI is motivated by the greed of oligarchs salivating at the prospect of shedding off whole mountains out of their payrolls.

Inflation is never a problem for this system when it is mostly confined to asset inflation. But as soon as we have too little unemployment, and workers start having to mute linked-in recruiter notifications, the calls for austerity start immediatly.

You complain about the poor acting politically for a more progressive taxation system, but why then the rich don't stop lobbying for subsides, why they don't stop lobbying for wars? Isn't it clear that they are they motivated by greed too and will use political power too to satisfy it?
GTK 3 was released in 2011. The upgrade took 14 years.

GTK 4 was released in 2020.

I hearby declare the GIMP / GTK 4 challenge: use AI to migrate GIMP from GTK 3 to GTK 4. The prize: a drawing of a seven legged spider.
Or ISIS from the TV Show Archer.
https://dearrow.ajay.app/ will replace those thumbnails automatically for you
I've used the one-point connector for power supplies and a few of them on my docking station, and it's been really secure, but thanks for pointing out that one, I'll print a couple of them to have on hand.
It helps to understand why high CEO pay can be a good thing. It can be good because the difference between a 'meh' CEO and a fantastic CEO can be huge. If you really want to know why a Fortune 500 company's CEO might be worth 100M, just compare Ballmer's tenure to Nadella's!

Anyway, this isn't business. We're talking about an organization which employed 40 people, and whose own ordering of their deliverables by importance saw 'published 8 pamphlets' in their top 3. What, precisely, was the marginal benefit of paying the CEO 400K as opposed to say, 200K (which still amounts to ~5X the median personal income)? Did that 200K net an additional webinar production and another two pamphlets?
Correct, it is based on multiboard.
Always bothered me too. At least POSIX is actually a POS.
Remember that we're talking about rural deployments here. Scale is not the problem. Or maybe it is, but not in the way you think.

The scale of fibre is the problem. Fibre makes sense when you're serving places where a single neighbourhood rivals the population of entire rural towns. They're close to backhauls, technicians, and enough customers to justify the cost. Which is why companies have dragged their feet on it in rural areas where the nearest full-time technician is a half-day's drive away. I mean shit, my mother lives less than an hour outside the capital city of my home province and can't even get DSL. It's too much copper for too few people to justify maintaining it at a price people are able to pay.

I've been using Starlink in rural Canada, prairies and mountains, where most people are either using Starlink, horrible past-gen satellite links, or microwave LOS systems. My father's been using a microwave LOS system at his farm for a decade.

All of them are affected by weather to some extent, but Starlink is the least affected, and no Starlink user I've talked to has been affected by congestion issues. Yes it's absolutely slower than fibre, it's slower than the DOCSIS 3 cable internet I was using before this. Microwave is usually cheaper, but Starlink is much faster (unless you're wealthy enough to get a beefy uplink). And importantly, Starlink ready to go right now.

Rural users often have to choose between nothing and a very expensive something. Fibre would be nice but wiring up every rural customer to fibre is a ridiculously time-consuming and expensive proposition. On the off-chance that a rural town grows instead of dies, then fibre would be better for them but at that point the economics of running fibre would make sense without the need for subsidies.

Rural people need alternatives to Starlink but fibre isn't it.
Yeah, pretty gross of the American taxpayer to not work harder to make you feel better about yourself being an American.
Haha, nah. I think hackers have been naming things like this since the beginning of time and it's absolutely part of the culture.

I don't think everything needs to be corporate Memphis in text form. Let's have some squirrelfish extreme in this.

Corporate mode comes eventually with quality. And Rust has passed the initial hurdle of adoption. It's pretty much what Python was in the year 2000: the exciting new tech that has adoption.
The article talks about evolution, but weirdly seems to be about group selection. The trait would almost need to be an evolutionarily stable strategy for the theory to make sense? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strate...

I'm definitely a novelty seeker. Some of my worrier friends can't deal with my life choices! Not diagnosed with ADHD, but I definitely have some adjacent behaviours.
Can it render text at better than 72dpi? It couldn't when I last checked a couple years ago, and that seems like the kind of fix that would belong in a major release.

GIMP has always been useless for my workflows, professional and personal, for that reason, and Photoshop's just a far higher quality and more useful piece of software. But with that fixed I think at least I could recommend GIMP in something close to good conscience for folks who can't yet afford anything better.

Although really, even there the UI is so bad that Photopea would still be preferable, webapp or no. At least that knowledge transfers. Time spent learning GIMP is just wasted.
How many OpenVMS systems are out there in production?
But the real question is can you add a Firefox ppa? /jk
I have struggled with SVG generation with just about all models, the SVG demo for this model is more or less that I get from much larger models.

Am I doing something wrong? Everyone seems to say how well models work in producing SVGs but I get shapes in all sorts of the wrong places. SVG documents are quite low level (verses editing them in Inkscape or Illustrator) so its tricky to modify, beyond very simple shapes.
I dunno, you seem to lack resources to see others' suffering as a worthy target of assistance.

Maybe its something similar?
You are disadvantaged as an outsider because you don't know who is buying or selling and how much they are trading. You don't know the demand levels at various price points. If, for example, you want to buy Stock A which is currently trading for $5 and sell it for $6, but there is someone trying to sell 5 million shares for $5.05 but you can't see that you can't make an informed decision on ideal price points for your trade.
> Krita and GIMP are not in the same category.

True. Usability, accessibility, and basic UI quality are all important focuses for the Krita devs.
Having read many articles like this one is reason to believe the fantasy of colonizing Mars is not going to go well. Humans in isolation is not good for the psyche(generally speaking)
Scener here since the early 90s. The demoscene is what I've always sort of called the great "third way" of software development after commercial and open-source. The first two are very concerned with copyright (and left as it were) while the demoscene exists in an alternative universe where copyright doesn't really exist and what is and isn't allowed is complex enough to warrant a military-industrial program a la the Human Terrain System [1]. It's almost impossible to succinctly describe, and is probably a big part of why the Demoscene is now (finally) recognized as a UNESCO cultural heritage of several countries.

In the demoscene universe you exist as an individual (scener) with a reputation, or a public "face", then as part of a team (group) with its own reputation/face, and finally and to a much lesser extent as part of a nation-state with a reputation.

Face is gained by making interesting team productions (prods) and successfully competing at competitions (parties) in various strata of competition (compos). You can of course also release prods outside of competitive parties (a release), but true social acceptance in the scene comes from competing, doing well, and competing regularly at higher and higher profile parties.

Where it gets interesting is in understanding the culture of what's allowed and not allowed in a prod. It's a complex mixture of compo rules, technological challenge, novelty, social norms and customs, and several other things that range from easily discernable to impossibly vague. But if you participate in the scene for any length of time you know what's allowed and what's not. For example, some groups in the last year released prods that had obviously AI generated components to them. The scene generally responded to those prods like a overamped shellfish allergy responds to shrimp -- not well [2]

You can make tribute prods that recreate assets, remix music, or squash, stretch, or otherwise shift the artistic vision of other works just so long as you do it "right". The scene reward a certain amount of original effort, while outright copying is villainized, unless of course the copying is done in a way that works within the culture of the scene. The use of a 3d framework made by your group? Totally fine. Use of a framework made by another scener and released to the scene? Also fine. Use of Unreal engine? Controversial.

While AI generated assets were hated, I would almost bet that a demo prod, synthesized from other demo prods, in the right context (maybe in a wild compo) would do well.

The scene is complex, and interesting. There are a few efforts to academically catalog and study it, and I hope it gets a really thorough treatment from anthropologists because the demoscene is a really interesting phenomenon.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Terrain_System

2 - https://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=12637&page=1
Have you tested their newest XIAO MG24, based on Silabs? It's said the power consumption is even better than the nrf52840 model.
> since that phrase wasn’t even coined until 1998.

This idea that Christine Peterson invented the term open source in 1998 is revisionist history. I personally remember the term being used during the early 90's, and here's a Usenet thread from 1990 that backs up my memory:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220213152832/https://www.tech-...

(The relevant text is a little way down in the thread: "BSD's open source
policy meant that user developed software could be ported among
platforms...")

Heck, here's a Caldera press release from 1996 that argues directly against your point that OpenVMS couldn't have been confused with open source. In the press release, Caldera announce their "OpenDOS" which is, they say, an "OPEN SOURCE CODE MODEL FOR DOS"

https://web.archive.org/web/20200521004332/http://www.xent.c...
In the context of watching TV?
The implications of this is that that money was never taxed which is likely untrue. Just because the money left Lucasfilm, doesn't mean it wasn't taxed.

There's a reason why the IRS isn't going after them. So called "Hollywood accounting" is a lot more about screwing actors out of royalties than it is about not paying taxes
I glance and skim the plain text because it is popular, but prefer to go back to the original and read the incomprehensible gobblegook the author intended me to have, and that I paid for.
> for nothing

In the actual world we inhabit, everything has a tradeoff. A more accurate description would be "what if we spent an untold sum of resources that have alternative uses, each of which may have resulted in an even better world, in pursuit of this green goal?"
Public, lit markets are a public good that lifts all boats. If people are feeling the need to move away from them that doesn't mean those individuals are up to no good, but it's a bad sign for the health of the system.
What is “corporate Memphis”?
Respecting people's civil rights and the spirit of the Constitution? Oh, the horror!
I need to do some tweaking, but for now, It is open for testing purposes. I wrote my custom license, which will be freely available for personal use and provides the right to use commercially it with a small sponsorship.
https://archive.is/fvKbT
The IDE of Racket can do that. I can't find an example in the official docs, but I found this in google https://www.teach.cs.toronto.edu/~heap/Racket/values.html
Science Magazine Features ESP32 MCU and TinyML Breakthrough in Global South