skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was doable, and it is doable, and they are doing it.

Like any other organization, Mozilla consists of people. Some of them might not care about the browser and are just here for the money – of course they want Google’s money, too! But I believe most want to do the right thing – the problem is, the focus has been lost for quite a while now.
See https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-cult-of-the-fox/9780231133...
As soon as I'm running virtualization to get an app to run the OS has already lost IMO.
That's right. I was digging through the comments on the substack version of the post and he confirmed it:
https://dynomight.substack.com/p/noise/comment/17817515
I would say that they are the majority once you get to a certain level.
I expect some form of Leadership earthquake soon, within the next year.
Just that it's not a new thing for them. Yes, job interviewing is really crazy these days, but Canonical has been doing this for a long while.
Operating on battery power is usually a pretty crucial requirement for a tablet.
Ada use was strongly tied to the US DoD, which put some people off it, for one.
For RMS specifically: https://stallman-report.org/

The GNU project has an extremely utopian and unrealistic vision of open-source.
> We just had that whole Cliven Bundy thing happen a few years ago, no?

That's interesting because of how unusual it is. If there were hundreds of him, the US would be like central Africa.

> governments understandably have trouble administering thousands of square miles of jungle.

I'm sure that governments feel better that you understand their problems. You're replying to somebody who is enumerating those problems, not reviewing individual governments and giving them a star rating.
We built a humanoid robot that can be powered by your AI agent
As long as expenses are less than the interest growth of the endowment then it won’t matter.
And also it's something programmers need to be skilled at.
Sorry! Already on it...
Boo - All I did was confirm the ick while acknowledging that we can, in fact, enjoy a cool thing for what it is - an ad.

See, that’s the thing about this POV that the term “art” is placed on some sort of pedestal and then all the other forms are then compared against it. “How dare you say [other thing requiring effort] is not art!”

Art !== artwork

An element of art is that it functions for its own relationship between artist-work and maybe somewhat the viewer or participant. It’s neither better or worse, it’s just something separate from all of those ideologies. It just is, they just make it. They place it in museums so we don’t have to bump into each others’ egos.

I will reiterate my belief: it’s foolish to wrap up art with corporate, religious or institutional patronage.
What "investors" are pushing rust? What is the end goal?
I always opt out as well, for the same reason. No company is fully trustworthy when it comes to data. I trusted Firefox more than most, though (clearly more than I should have), in that I haven't felt the need to block access to their servers in my firewall like I do with most other software. I feel the need now, though.
Great idea!
Lots of possibility!
Vid, below is of a newer flapping wing "hawk" robot bird

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TXg-qoRN0co
Do you work in a corporate environment?

Do you just wait for people to follow up with you on other channels when they don't get any acknowledgement from an email?
It also means that at the local scale it might be better to distribute steam. Think about future residential nuclear plants. It might not be worth investing into steam distribution on top of electrical as electrical is more flexible, but there might be steam that's residue otherwise that could be used on heating.
Mozilla has money. Not an awful lot, but they will survive – they just need to bite the bullet.

(Or maybe they won’t, depending on how fast they can go from burning through $300M a year to a mere $30M. That’s up to the management, though.)
Really well, actually. Unless you have a pre-'77 code that requires each DO loop execute at least one iteration, you should be fine.
Sure, but you don't sell millions of phones by using that non-existent feature as a marketing pillar.
Ah! I was wondering about the spike in github stars.

Project author here. AMA!

My site https://www.evalapply.org continues to be built with shite. Public commits are absent, but the project is still working as-designed, and I couldn't thank past-me enough for putting in the work!

I've been working off a private fork, since the last-published code change ~2 years ago, because I wanted to work on drafts of essays and mostly half-ass meanderings that only I want to ruminate on.

Apart from those unpublished raw org-mode sources, I've made a bunch of HTML template changes and quality-of-life code improvements. But shite is still chugging along as-designed.

I guess this is sign I should push those updates to the public domain.

Previously on HN (I did a "Show HN" for kicks, and it blew up a bit :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34486596

141 points, 59 comments

(edit: typo)
Sign up for small company at bottom, find things to fix. Set timeline and expectations to leave in 9mo. By then you'll be running parts of the company. You may not actually want to do this long term, or it may be a nice side income. Plan for not continuing to do it, document well, and everyone will be happier
For the ls one, the name might contain characters that do bad things. A common prank in uni was to have a filename with an ascii BEL character, that will beep when you do ls in that directory. Terminal escape sequences can do a lot more. However, I think modern ls filters that, except with some POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variables set.

That mv and chmod might operate on a whole different file due to a symlink or hardlink being in place, and due to the inherent race condition between all those operations that just use the file name. Also, mv might overwrite an existing file.

sha256sum will run escaping on the filename output, thereby making automated comparisons fail if you are unaware of that feature. On the other hand, when turning off escaping with -z, you need to know how to handle the \0 separator.
Show HN: I'm working on a Chrome extension for viewing EXIF data of images
I started this because similar Chrome extensions were paywalling features and I wanted a free, open source alternative. I'm new to this, so I would appreciate feedback and tips if anyone has some!
Internal politics is the proximal reason - raises come with levels, and have to be justified accordingly given the current level. A new hire has more flexibility wrt which level they end up in. But the point is that, if this system obviously translates to problem with retention, why is it in place? That is the policy that I'm questioning.

Regarding this:

> It's because they are unable to tell who is worth what. So they outsource it to the market. If you managed to pass the interviews and get hired at the other big tech company, that's proof of value.

They still hire people who do not come from other big tech, though, so there is a process in place that at least claims to tell who is worth what.

The other problem is that the filter is in practice not for competence but for tolerance of risk.
In your situation, I'd focus on rephrasing my existing skill set in such a way that it emphasizes how I can help solve the current problems with scaling AI deployments.

As for the "where" - keep an eye on growing AI startups that need to scale fast.
Do you mean to say that walking (and by extension exercise) is anti-environmental?
This is shameful. S3 buckets have not been public by default for many years. You have to make a choice to make them publicly accessible. And to not have the contents encrypted at rest. I just can’t.

The lack of respect that some companies have for their customers is appalling.
I’m far from an expert on agents, but just wondering: I noticed that you have one agent who has the instructions along the lines of “your job is to empty the trash when needed.” Can you help me understand why an agent would be necessary for that? It seems like that type of task could be more efficient in old-fashioned code rather than AI.
Hm. I wonder how well would "Score = [Positive ratings] / ([Total ratings] + 1)" fare.
Regarding the Anonym acquisition, every adtech acquisition is a reverse-acquisition. Google didn't really go evil until they got reverse-acquired by DoubleClick.
Supabase does not make sense sometimes
It gets messy very fast if you need any complex logic, which is why business logic almost always ends up on the application server in a traditional stack, not the DB.
I think it makes sense retiring a TLD for a soveregin state dissolved 34 years ago. This wouldn't be the first time a TLD has been retired and probably not the last.
Pratt university in Brooklyn used to have a gentleman working there named Conrad Milster. He is a steam head and machinist who maintaining Pratts secret "working museum", a turn of the century steam generating plant for the campus. The plant also features two boilers, the original boiler which originally provided both heat and power and an additional boiler was added in the 30's to add capacity as the campus expanded. Milster also lived on campus in the old row houses. His was special, a full set of gauges and meters in his living room was plumbed to the plant so he could keep an eye on the boilers from he comfort of his home. He also said that steam from the plant not only heated the campus but a few buildings off campus that surrounded it. I never got to ask which buildings though. So there very well might be a little steam network in Brooklyn around Pratt.

This is located in the basement of one of the buildings on campus. The power plant consists of three Ames Iron works single piston steam generators producing 120V DC fed to a marble switch board. Another piece is an early non-functioning steam turbine DC generator, WW2 era diesel generator from a battle ship. A 30HP motor-generator set used to provide 120V DC to the two service elevators in the building. And in the boiler room are numerous antique yet still functioning feed water pumps (the original steam driven feed water pumps actually do most of the work with newer electric pumps kept for standby) On the wall of the boiler room is a functional steam driven Ingersoll Rand air compressor. Amazing place. When I first visited in the 90's the MG set was still running providing power to the service elevators though they were replaced in the 00's leaving the MG set idle. There is also an old giant wood and brass Master clock in the office that was wired to every other clock on campus so whatever time you set on the master, the other clocks would then run super fact until they come around to the set time. It was running up to the 80's I think but Milster said a renovation crew hacked up all the wiring and no one ever bothered to fix it.

Milster was fired a few years ago supposedly after he refused to remove the resident stray cats who lived in the plant (they even had their own little decorated doorway.) The reason being a union employee was allergic to the cats and kept complaining until they fired him. Shame because anyone who works with antique steam equipment knows Milster and hes full of ancient knowledge no one will ever regain.

Edit: If you are into steam then look up Conrad Milster. I had the pleasure of talking to him a few times and he's such a nice and knowledgeable individual. He even started one of the 120V generators just for me after I said "Wish I could see it run" and he was like "sure" then opens a valve and slowly opens another to get it up to speed. Scary as the inertial lever arm bangs around loudly in the flywheel but then its goes near silent and hums away. Steam engines are very quiet.
I'm game to talk to you if you want to ken AT erdosmiller DOT com, we're always on the lookout for fantastic talent.
You should announce that you are a developer advocate at CrewAI. Flagged this as spam.
> Excluding a candidate for campaign finance transparency violations seems acceptable to me, even if he had gotten 99% of the vote.

I feel like this is a reason made up to justify preventing a result the EU did not like. Just like Germany was thinking about banning a party for the same reason.

People can think for themselves and vote in a democracy. Why not let the election play out freely? If the claim of a crime is proven, the candidate can face consequences after their term. Otherwise it looks like the EU and a few judges pressured by the EU are picking who wins.

Also aren’t we talking about very little unexplained spending? A million doesn’t really do much.
Project 2025's plan for NOAA is in the Department of Commerce chapter:

> Break Up NOAA. The single biggest Department of Commerce agency outside of decennial census years is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which houses the National Weather Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, and other components. NOAA garners $6.5 billion of the department’s $12 billion annual operational budget and accounts for more than half of the department’s personnel in non-decadal Census years (2021 figures).

[…]

> The NWS provides data the private companies use and should focus on its data-gathering services. Because private companies rely on these data, the NWS should fully commercialize its forecasting operations.

[…]

> Downsize the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. OAR provides theoretical science, as opposed to the applied science of the National Hurricane Center. OAR is, however, the source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism. The preponderance of its climate-change research should be disbanded. OAR is a large network of research laboratories, an undersea research center, and several joint research institutes with universities. These operations should be reviewed with an aim of consolidation and reduction of bloat.

* https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHA...

John Oliver did a segment on (privatizing) weather during Trump 1.0:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8
fixing that right now; oversight on my end. this is purely a project i built to fix my email problems. also how is this spam?
You can dereference null pointers in Rust, it's also easy to make null pointers. The thing is I'm not surprised you didn't realise this is possible because you would never actually do this in Rust since it's obviously a bad idea.

let p: *const i32 = std::ptr::null(); // Pointer to a signed 32-bit integer, but it's null
unsafe { some_local = *p }; // Dereferencing the null pointer, bang

If we instead use references they're nicer to work with, don't need unsafe, perform the same, and are never null. So obviously that's what real Rust programmers almost always do.
For anyone who hasn't seen it, "Banding in games" by one of the Playdead (Limbo, Inside) programmers: https://www.loopit.dk/banding_in_games.pdf

Crysis had sky banding... Skyrim has the famous menu smoke mentioned in the PDF. All fixable, probably fixable on the hardware of the day. (I remember messing with dithering on a 2007 DX9 GPU)
That's not true in the AI/ML space. But for everything else I would agree.
This is not so firm. Don't underestimate a wealthy person's medical record going public.
> éminence grease

Was this an intentional pun or a spelling error?
Sadly this article doesn't make it clear whether it's waste steam from electricity generation or steam made explicitly for this purpose. It also doesn't specify what the fuel is now - it used to be coal, is that still the case?

Wikipedia says "Approximately 30% of the ConEd steam system's installed capacity and 50% of the annual steam generated comes from cogeneration" i.e waste steam, which is .. half good, I suppose.

It also gives https://web.archive.org/web/20101207021857/http://coned.com/... which I guess has the rest of the details in.
I've only been asked for and thus issued SFVR once in my career.

SVFR cannot be solicited by the controller (same with cancelling IFR).

I did have to turn down the SVFR request initially though, because it is a lower priority than IFR traffic, but once the IFR traffic was clear, I gave the SVFR clearance.
PuTTY is a supurb tool. Thank you so much for your efforts over the years.
Why oxidizer over the existing Debian alternatives system? It's designed for this exact use case and already works with many existing packages. The author's response in the comments was a basically a non-answer which doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

> Long-term, my concern would be that this may somewhat muddy the picture for which packages need substantive fixes. If it is extremely easy to just revert, what is the benefit to switching?

??? Is this not the ideal
situation? It provides low friction both for moving to the new cool thing and moving back to the existing tools when you have software that hard depends on GNU coreutils. You want the changeover to be high risk because it's hard to undo? I guess that's one way to force yourself to commit but the real users on the ground won't be happy when going to the LTS is substantially more work.

This would be 3 different symlink managers in Ubuntu all
used for different sets of software. The alternatives system at least has the benefit of integrating tightly with apt.
Universal Tone Generator
>It's ok to be happy from time to time :)

I'm perfectly fine doing that without 2005 Sony Bravia advertisement tyvm.
How do people contact you? Do most employees use Teams or Slack instead of email?
No internet here, but I'm setting up Meshtastic nodes between me and my family so we can keep messaging when internet stops working, or power goes out (solar panels).

They'll get 99.99% of people, but not me. I only need it for an hour or so to communicate meeting points. After that it's an added luxury for whatever comes after. It's my contribution to the prepping of my family.
I am a swe at Google, and before that I worked at startups and large companies.

I'm pretty upfront that I only check my email once per week and that they should find me on chat.

Of course I make exceptions sometimes for certain things, but those exceptions don't turn into a lasting disciplined email routine
> Why would he be putting his life on the line for a country that he does not identify with?

Edward Joseph Snowden is literally a Russian citizen!
Why isn't 7 greater than 5?
Not quite true, but merits of me saying this is murky (I'm not going to fault Starlink).

In Southern Africa, they were bringing in grey imports of Starlink from the UAE and these units have been blocked.
I understand that Miami Beach has a large Jewish community but terminating a lease because you don't like a film rated pg-13 sounds blatantly unconstitutional.
Before wireless came to my rural area, we used to joke about how the phone companies ran dialup over barbed wire. "Internet's down; deer must have broken the barbed wire again."
There is, in fact, a very simple way to opt out of buying an appliance.

Don't buy it.
Why’s this shameful, exactly?

There’s no shame in saying you’re available to work.
What modifications are needed to run through Fil-C, if any? It looks like you forked some of the software to run through Fil-C. Are you subsetting the language, or do those libraries/applications run into some "benign" UB under normal operation that is caught by Fil-C?
Your OpenAI Key is still visible in the commit history.
Personally, I think that the existing design is much better than this alternative. The alternative has far too much wasted space.
Upstart was like slapping with a broken hand. Hurts the slapper much more than the slapee.
A few options.

1. Use TTS and have an LLM clean it up.

2. Use a collection of prompt templates.
> How many ibuprofen pirates are there in Europe? None, because it's easy enough to get it without a cartel operation.

In a lot of Europe, you can only buy a handful at a time (like 16), at a relatively hefty per-tablet price and only from a pharmacy (good luck on sunday in a lot of places).

In France, you can’t just grab it off the shelf yourself anymore: https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20200115-pharmacies-ordered-sel...

Sometimes I leave part of my 500 ct bottle from Amerika because I don’t know why I bought so many in the first place.
Is there a way to provide context to the agent that writes email drafts? Like context beyond whatever it is replying to. Such as writing style/tone, context about my background that pertains to any email replies, etc.
Have you tried Plasma on Wayland? I've found it has very good fractional scaling support, better than Gnome or Windows. I don't own a Mac so can't compare to MacOS, and haven't used X in years, but fractional scaling with Plasma has been problem-free for me. No weird window resizing like Windows does, no blurry text, just everything on different resolution monitors staying the same visual size.
Steam in NYC is also used for cooling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system
ah, yes, it would do that. Thanks for the bug report.

---

and... fixed.
Not to be too much of a recruiter, but I started a software consultancy where we get this kind of work. Typically projects that last a quarter, but with some potential for extending (although they also frequently just last a quarter). I actually have a project in the pipeline right now that I'm looking for a dev for (if I can't find one, I'll end up just taking on the work myself).

Email is in my profile if you want to connect :)
Last night I used claude 3.7 to write 1000 lines of code, and there were only two small issues it fixed on its own. Complete quickbooks integration done in basically 20 minutes. We are living in a different world
I wonder whether you have ever encountered poetry before.
You’re right it kind of isn’t finished…
I had it done, then had an exchange with the author of didder and I’m still in the process of rewriting :)