skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cops have the protection of the law and a government granted mandate for violence. They're not a bunch of individuals deciding to act in a particular way. They operate in a system that will protect them for thuggish behaviour. If they happen to be "nice people" as individuals, they still have the option to be a thug without penalty. They still choose to implicitly support wide spread inequality and consequence free violence.

If, as an individual citizen, I'm aware of a serious crime being committed, I have an obligation to report it. If a "good" police officer has knowledge of crimes committed by "bad" police officers and they don't report it, then they are no longer a "good" police officer.

Your analogy is a false equivalence.
I've got a water bottle, I'm going to sell it to myself for $1 billion dollars.

I now own a $1 billion dollar water bottle
It may be strong to a point, but many countries are beyond that point. Look at how many countries there are that are better educated than the USA but have lower incomes. Japan, Germany, Canada, probably dozens more.
“Musk did not ask investors for approval but told them that the two companies had been collaborating closely and the integration would drive deeper integration with Grok.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/29/elon-musk...
US scientists lost $3B in NIH grants since Trump took office
This group is being given insane levels of access to systems that can move world markets. Their names are public, and they're likely being targeted at all times by Mossad, GRU, MSS, and every other respectable intelligence agency who is doing its job. Since they're in their positions purely because Musk liked them they're likely wildly unqualified and know very little about opsec. So if they're not outright infiltrated it probably doesn't matter, all their devices are probably pwned several times over.
Yep. But this is what IPv6 was supposed to solve.
I just borrowed a hundred trillion dollars from myself, then paid it back instantly. This means the majority of 2025 US GDP is now my financial activity, right? Seems newsworthy.
The excellent book Threaded Interpretive Languages recommends the Signetics 2650 and the RCA 1802 for writing FORTH like languages. I was surprised because the latter is slightly obscure and the former I had never even heard of.
You will be amazed how many things ptp ! Having ptp signals to test networks is a god send many errors are due to wrogn timing syncs ! Spirent loves ptp ! They partnered a lot with calnex !! We saw 80% data base write miss reduction in postgres once we started using ptp master clock across servers !
I always hate it when license files have "yes, but" language in them because if the license file differs in some non-obvious way, now I have to pay lawyers to interpret it

https://github.com/Paligo/xee/blob/xee-v0.1.5/COPYRIGHT

And that goes double for when there is a separate LICENSE file in the repo https://github.com/Paligo/xee/blob/xee-v0.1.5/LICENSE-MIT
Emacs has pretty print JSON which makes it very easy to read. I don't find it possible, XML displayed for human consumption to be better than that.
So the real story here is that he was in danger of getting margin called on the loan he took to buy Twitter which he financed with TSLA shares as collateral, and this is him moving money around so he doesn't have to face the reality of actually getting margin called amid a sinking TSLA, right?
the scarier thing is, prior to the AIs, even if they could get all this information, there was no one to sort through it, so they needed some actual reason to look.

Now they don't need any reason to look, they can just make a bunch of AI sift through it.
> This just encourages police to put them where they know people are more likely to violate the law, like at the bottom of hills, where there's not really a danger, but it generates more revenue.

Judging by the number of accidents I've seen at the bottom of hills, I'm skeptical of your statement that "there's not really a danger" there.

I don't think posting up at the bottom of a hill is a revenue-generating thing, it's simply an exercise of going to where the crime happens. In this case, it's at the bottom of a hill that makes it easier for drivers to reach excessive speeds and thus are an increased danger to everyone else on the road.

This is exactly where you want to deter people from behaving dangerously, and where you want to punish the people who fail to pay enough attention to avoid getting a ticket in such an obvious scenario.
Also facebook did this https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/11/open-source/time-appli...
But only when connected to a reframbulated flux motivator.
Collectively, the Tesla fleet has driven more than 3.6B miles on FSD
A day later, as I'm reading the responses and looking at the negative points on my comment: I have to learn to avoid commenting in certain topics on HN. It seems that most people here want their software to be FREE, or at least sold for an inexpensive one-time fee, which I can understand. But they also have a certain model of running a software business in their minds, which is simply wrong.

My bet is that none of the commenters in this thread (full of mentions of sustainable development) actually run a full-time software business and make a living on it. I do. Which is why I understand why subscriptions make sense.
Well, computers were expensive enough many of us just kept upgrading parts to make something like Windows 95 work. My 486 slowly morphed into a Pentium system with largely the same parts over the course of three years during that time. But Windows 95 worked great on my 486 -- it felt like a great upgrade at the time.
From what I understand the real ugly hack is NAT tables thanks to the shortsightedness of IPv4.Everything else flows from there.

Mostly, though, what you are describing is the internet
The last 3 times I installed Windows 11 _and_ used an account were a nightmare as for some reason, Microsoft would disable my account for logging in during an install... I avoid Windows like the plague but it's the only place where I can use my audio virtual instruments (No audio production in VMs and I don't own Apple hardware and it'd be ironic for the Windows setup to push me to get an Apple device...)
I accidently pasted the URL two times while submitting, that's my bad...
They have internal highly secure chat systems with locked down hardware. They probably prefer Signal as it is not logging everything they say for internal review and they can chat with friends, business people, lobbyists. Just guessing.

My theory is based on my own experience of running my own locked down chat systems. Most people will prefer Discord but will use my systems in the rare cases Discord goes offline for a prolonged period of time.
Plurality of voters, not majority of people.
GP's comment was about accepting this actively vs passively, not about being complicit.
I often find myself relying on my "digital echoes" to piece together something I did, and when. It's useful to make up for one's lack of logging what they do.
(from DBOS) Great question. For better or worse, it seems like discussions about workflows and durable execution often intertwine. Usually ending up in what types of jobs or workflows require durable exec.

But really, any system that runs the risk of failing or committing an error should have something in place to observe it, undo it, resume it. Your point about "big enough scale" is true - you can write your own code to handle that, and manually troubleshoot and repair corrupted data up to a certain point. But that takes time.

By making durable execution more lightweight/seamless (a la DBOS or Restate), the use of durable execution libs become just good programming practice for any application where cost of failure is a concern.
Battlefield 1 (I think) worked roughly two years ago, which is when I last played it. I think it was Lutris is that got it rolling for me. Not to mention the usual SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windows,x11 that us required for most anticheats. Give it a try IMO.

I check ProtonDB support prior to purchasing games, and I very rarely have to ignore a game.

Edit: just checked and, wow, Linux support has been explicitly disabled.
Oxygen was such a clunky application back when I used it for DH. But very powerful and the best tool in the game. Would love to see a modern tool that doesn't get in the way for all those poorly paid, overworked DH research assistants caffeinated in the dead of night banging out the tedious, often very manual, TEI-XML encoding work...
The small shops here are private entities. They're owned by low to mid middle class families - similar to what you might call a 'mom and pop store'. But they're so common around here that we simply call them 'provision stores', 'general stores', etc. There are also small specialty stores like for stationary, agricultural produce, diary and bakery, office work (photocopying, DTP, etc), etc. They usually exist within 5 minutes walking distance of your house. There are even small shops for much rarer stuff like electronics and mechanical components - but they're farther away (my special interest, since I'm an engineer).

They don't have everything - but it's quite possible to live here without having to visit a big chain supermarket. Those chains do exist here and we do use them and online shops like Amazon and Flipkart occasionally for the rare stuff. The point here is that the small shops aren't 'large' private entities. These store owners are in a similar social class as you are and often know you personally. They even help you get the best deals and personally deal with product quality issues. A similar 'middle-class' supply and logistics chain also exists behind them - so it isn't easy for any big player(s) to disrupt and (co-)monopolize the market. They all pay their regular taxes to the local government and spend their earnings in the same local economy. Their economic incentives also align with yours - inflation hurts them as much as it hurts you.

The advantage of this is that multi-billionaire chain owners with their own cartels can't decide when to hoard stuff and drive up profits and inflation. This is very useful in situations like the big-chain-driven post-covid inflation and the current anti-oligarchy protests seen in NA. I was in NA during the post-covid situation. It always felt like a part of that inflation wouldn't have happened if small stores existed everywhere there. Boycotts also work better if you have alternatives. So I made it a point upon return to Kerala to tell everyone how important they are. I shop almost exclusively from them these days.
If you sense an attack on a dictionary word, try to take it back with as much verve as you can muster.

"People conspire all the time to get things done. It's why we're such bosses. 'What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel!' Was there a particular conspiracy you were thinking of?"

"I was thinking about the patriarchal tyranny of language, not just in the bible but even Shakespeare."

"As opposed to a more enlightened gender neutral language, like Farsi? Not only a lack of gender articles, but pronouns?"

"Yes."

"Well... how'd that work out?"
I built up a lot of expectation that this article was going to be self-referential and link to a hidden well of info. At the very least it ought to link to one example of such an article so we know you aren't describing something theoretical.
I’m having problems loading the website, but the Wayback Machine has a recent copy as well:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250308170611/https://www.soc.m...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36525940

Collectively, Tesla has consumed a massive amount of telemetry on users of their products without disclosing it to them transparently .
I've seen no evidence for there being "not enough jobs". The problem (as always) is the status associated with the job.

There is a real dearth of people wanting to work the trades, but no one wants those jobs. I'm not sure how to solve that problem, even I don't want that job.
I think the question is about why someone would want to _increase_ their bus factor for the family
Am a lawyer, this is an incredibly silly and unlikely thing to suggest for a for-profit company set up on behalf of an even mildly sophisticated party in the USA.

Nearly ever such company is "limited" to engage "in any lawful activity" so as avoid exactly this issue.
What's ironic is that the document is marked For Official Use Only, and typically shouldn't be distributed without being officially released.
'inside-out, legless, headless wonder' that lived before the dinosaurs
There are a lot of royal families still present in India. But they're all in ceremonial roles and have no constitutional roles or powers like the one in Britain enjoys. They mostly live off their estates (similar to the British royals) or business enterprises.
I find writing useful for its own sake, but even the "writing for myself" is more useful if I act like it's intended for someone else.
Torvalds Frustrated over "Disgusting" Testing "Turd" DRM Code in Linux 6.15
Nvidia GTC Recap
> You have to guarantee that after reboot you rollback any partial package operations.

In both scenarios, yes. This is what dpkg database is for, it keeps info about state of each package: whatever is it installed, unpacked, configured and so on. It is required to handle interrupted update scenario, no matter if it was interrupted during package unpacking or in the configuration stage.

So far you are just describing --force-unsafe-io from dpkg. It is called unsafe because you can end up with zeroed or 0-length files long after the package has been marked as installed.

> This is what a filesystem journal does anyways.

This is incorrect. And also filesystem journal is irrelevant.

Filesystem journal protects you from interrupted writes on the disk layer. You set some flag, you write to some temporary space called journal, you set another flag, then you copy that data to your primary space, then you remove both flags. If something happens during that process you'll know and you'll be able to recover because you know in which step you were interrupted.

Without filesystem journal every power outage could result in not being able to mount the filesystem. Journal prevents that scenario. This has nothing to do with package managers, page cache or fsync.

Under Linux you do the whole write() + fsync() + rename() dance, for every file, because this is the only way you don't end up in the scenario where you've written the new file, renamed it, marked package as installed and fsynced the package manager database but the actual new file contents never left the page cache and now you have bunch of zeroes on the disk. You have to fsync(). This is semantic of the layer you are working with. No fsync(), no guarantee that data is on the disk. Even if you wrote it and closed the file hours ago. And fsynced package manager database.

> There are different requirements among different systems which is the whole point of this post.

Sorry, I was under assumption that this thread is about dpkg and fsync and your idea of "solving the problem". I just wanted to point out that, no, package managers are not "trying to be clever" and are not "stuck in the 1990s". You can't throw fsync() out of the equation, reorder bunch of steps and call this "a solution".
I think that still makes sense in the context I'm using. Do things carefully when building software in the beginning so that you have less issues as it scales and then you are iterating very quickly because of the lack of issues.
this seems like someone who interacts with only 1% of society.
> If there's one place that Doge could really, actually stop a lot of waste and fraud, it's at NASA.

At 0.3% of the federal budget - if NASA was 100% waste, fixing it wouldn’t make a dent.
I kinda just don't get wireless CarPlay/Android Auto at all. If I'm going to connect my phone to my car wirelessly for that, it's gonna drain the battery. So I'm going to plug it in so it can charge. So... now it's wired, so why do I need wireless?

I guess if you have a wireless charging pad in your car, then that's a little bit more convenient. But the big inconvenience for me is just to have to take it out of my pocket in the first place, not to plug it into the car. (And my car does have wireless charging, but my phone rarely seems to sit on it stably enough for it to charge all that well.)

To get fully back on topic: sure, a wireless dongle could exfil data, but unclear what data is all that valuable. The car (and thus the dongle) just gets video and audio streams, not the actual textual content of your text messages, for example. Sure, it could try to OCR the video and/or do voice recognition on the audio, but those are fairly computationally expensive. And sending all that video to a remote server would be... a lot.
Bus factor being “1” means nothing works if you’re hit by a bus.
I see a parallel in him and Trump that they artificially inflate the value of the things they own and get frequently away with it because they're just rich.
> The "bus factor" is the minimum number of team members that have to suddenly disappear from a project before the project stalls due to lack of knowledgeable or competent personnel

IOW higher == better
Probably aid groups like the Red Cross?
I’ve seen plenty of ads from organizations whose premise is “this terrible thing is happening, donate to help end it!”
Can anyone who voted for this clown car help me understand what the appeal is? Everything the administration is doing was either expressly said or undeniably telegraphed and, from my perspective, it is all moronic. What the heck am I missing???
That could be because Japanese audiences complained that in Godzilla (2014), their favorite kaiju had gotten fat.
Congress has never had the power to command the military, that's not one of the powers granted to it in the constitution.
Most people, past or present, have had to do whatever labor they can to (hopefully) simply survive at the contextual standard of living. Some kids may love a parent who lets them go hungry so they can do work they don't dislike as much -- but the other adults around them probably won't have such a generous view, and I think rightly so.
Pointing a problem out is one thing but wishing them ill is another. (Unless I misunderstood the comment.)

This looks like a genuinely refreshing and open source path to helping developers control their own ai stack. I don’t see the harm.

If we are to complain about tools that help make tools that help make products, then we should start decrying compilers and interpreters, for they too are tools that help make tools that help build products.
Technically my toy Markov chain I trained on Gutenberg books is one of the strongest models.
xAI is a private company. I very much doubt that the current VC investors will ever litigate this.
They are all waiting for some other favour for taking this on either explicitly or implicitly.
Also, I would like to see a Venn diagram of the investors in xAI and SpaceX.
My pedantry—like most pedantry—was focused on the problem, not the solution. Ergo, you could accurately say "AI lipsyncing nonsense" is a highly-technical solution to a practical problem, and subtitles a pragmatic low-tech solution.
The Mennonite community that is the center of this measles outbreak is particularly famous for growing their own food.

Also, germ theory WTF.
SURACI: AI will replace Bill Gates – Bill Gates unneeded for humans
I don’t see how this is anything other than financial engineering to protect Musk’s personal wealth
we are working on a platform that let's you measure this stuff in real-time for free.

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we also have a anonymous guest sandbox you can play with

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I don’t know much about IPv6 but it seems like even if we are stuck with IPv4 we could still make some sort of protocol where my computer could manipulate the NAT table entries allocated to it. Maybe something like DHCP but it deals with ports.
Under a central bank system that did not have FDIC insurance. You are deliberately eliding my point. Not cool.
And the idea that a completely free market banking system where "narrow banks" can literally compete with the Fed makes any sense in the modern world is insane. Go to Somalia. Have fun staying alive and keeping any of your money.
Nearly all, since they removed the NS prefix from most types imported into Swift years ago. ;)
It wasn't donated money entirely - at least not in the sense of offerings from regular devotees. They were donations/remittances by the monarchy. The history is that the southern half of Kerala was a kingdom named 'Travancore'. During the establishment of the kingdom, the first king declared himself and his successors to be 'Padmanabhadasa' or 'servants of lord Padmanabha'. Lord Padmanabha is the deity worshiped at this particular temple. The temple was considered as the seat of Travancore's power and therefore a big part of the kingdom's tax revenue ended up there.
Ask HN: Are chimps smarter than humans?
How can I suggest such a thing?

For these reasons:

1) Chimps can speak human, but humans cannot speak chimp.

2) Chimps have incredible visual memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsXP8qeFF6A

Their lack of "human-like world conquering" could perhaps be explained by other factors besides raw intelligence: missing written symbol system; possibly less dexterity for fine motor skills; "socially/morally crippled" by primitive tribalism over judicious cooperation

It strikes me we share some of the same flaws, but it would truly be funny and ironic if humanit's apparent "dominance" over Earth's surface were down to nothing more than: slightly more dextrous finger movements; writing; improved social algorithms - but that chimps (or orcas, or dolphins) were in fact far "smarter" than us, on average.
“Elsewhere” being literally meaning else where. I wasn’t alive in 1919, though my understanding from the literature is that “the American public didn’t like the German”. Like how they didn’t like the Irish before that. Then how they don’t like the Japanese in 1940s, the north Koran in 1956, then the Vietnamese in 1950-60s, then the Arabs in the 1970s-2000s, then the Chinese in the 2010s-today.
A cable is a collection of individual wires.
The purchase of Twitter was leveraged using TSLA stock.
You're irrational. They had $13B revenue in 2024, and profit > $4B, with the profit of the previous two years covering ~60% of their total accumulated funding to date.
Visual Vibe Coding
> “It’s very profound and even a little bit scary — because it’s happening very quickly, and there is no upper bound,” Gates told Brooks.

The “there is no upper bound” in this assertion seems to be bearing a lot of weight. It’s probably a mistake to believe that the upper bound is where we are currently, I admit, but it also feels equally scummy to hear another Shovel-merchant announcing that they have struck a vein of infinite gold and it’s only a matter of time before everyone’s digging. The rhetoric used here, where this bold claim is just thrown in as if it’s already universally acknowledged, particularly rubs me the wrong way.
It isn't. Serial mouse protocols are nothing like USB HID protocol.
Interesting! I enjoy local vernacular. But the way I read your original message was more like declaring a midwest generalized usage, which may not have been your intent.
Right?

And I could even get it, prior to it being clear that nearly every promise was a lie. Actual self driving? Your car turning into a taxi when you don’t need it? An off-road vehicle with 500 mile range? Would’ve been incredible.

Instead, it’s a mediocre, expensive couple of vehicles, some of which are incredibly poorly made, with vastly worse battery tech than BYD.

Meh, I’m sure you could make arguments that the stock market has always been weird and irrational, but I’ll just never stop finding TSLA’s valuation bonkers.