skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany appear to have had their own problems with being compromised by Russia: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/wirecard-fugitive-jan-m...

There should have been a much stronger response to Russia shooting down an airliner full of Dutch nationals! And for using chemical weapons in a UK city! And yet everyone wanted to keep the gas and money flowing.

Another angle to keep an eye on is shipments from Germany, especially of advanced machine tools. There's lots of stuff that's very difficult to substitute from anywhere else, and should be much more thoroughly embargoed.
There is probably plenty of it, many escape but they do prosecute it when found (especially when it involves taxes). Håkan Nesser (book author) and Daniel Kindberg (Soccer club president) are probably the most famous recent cases, there's also been a bunch of cases related to social security fraud.

Most of it probably isn't glamorous enough to warrant full page articles but you do note them popping up in news at a steady rate.
While simultaneously causing one of the biggest mass casualty events in what was once the United states.
I'd love to experiment with that and/or flags like `noatime`, especially when CI nodes are single-use and ephemeral.
Two dashes are fine, the other options have different literary functions than em dashes, and shouldn't generally be used as replacements.
Reversing the brain drain will certainly be difficult, but stemming the flow of graduates is perhaps a different story.

For Canadians considering working in the US, the recent politically-motivated detentions and deportations against green card holders - a group that has significantly stronger rights of abode than TN visa holders under USMCA - certainly factors into the calculus of whether a US job is worth it.

Further, the appeal of the American political environment is inversely correlated with the distance between one's personal characteristics and the feature vector of able-bodied, white, male, cisgender, and heterosexual. This is nothing new, but the importance of these characteristics, especially the last three or four, have dramatically increased with the rightward shift of the US over the past few years - and there are also more individuals in Canadian STEM (i.e. TN-eligible) degrees than ever before who don't have these characteristics.

Just to put some HN-relevant ballpark numbers to it, the University of Waterloo, a notorious Silicon Valley hiring pool, is reporting 38.6% women [0] in their 2024 engineering admissions. This was 21.2% in 2014 [1], the earliest year with statistics available.

I don't think it is much of a stretch to say the 2014 first years were more likely to aspire to intern at, say, Tesla or Meta than the 2024 first years (who will be entering their first co-op internships in a month's time). That is a function of both the American tech companies having cozied up to the political right, and an increased proportion of the students being both more directly affected [2] and morally repulsed [3] by this state of affairs.

Add an additional nationalism multiplier for Canadians being turned off by the annexation rhetoric coming out of the US, and I think we may see a change in this trend towards Canada retaining more of its local talent.

[0] https://uwaterloo.ca/engineering/about/faculty-engineering-s...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140804070109/https://uwaterloo...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/27/roe-wa...

[3] https://www.ft.com/content/29fd9b5c-2f35-41bf-9d4c-994db4e12...
That's a sensible response that seems to not be informed by recent buying trends in countries that are now grappling with sudden U.S. trade policy shifts. The sentiments are very strong, and need to be examined seriously by folks in the U.S. who will suddenly be feeling the negative effects. This is the world today, and it is taking a decidedly anti-U.S. tone for buyers and shoppers in other countries. To wit:

https://www.newsweek.com/kentucky-bourbon-boss-bemoans-canad...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7vjlv7pzdo

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/danish-viking-bloo...
Russian propaganda network Pravda tricks 33% of AI responses in 49 countries
No one has time for a book but has plenty of time for social media, sadly
Yes, I just bought one a few months ago actually. A new lunar lake laptop. It gets 12 hours of battery life and has plenty performance for programming, plus 32 gigs of ram. It’s under 3 pounds and the screen is OLED.

And yes, everything works. On bleeding edge 2 month old hardware.

I even use thunderbolt 4 to connect my external displays and peripherals. Not only does it work, but it’s pleasant. KDE has a settings panel for thunderbolt. I can even change my monitor brightness in KDE settings. No OSD required!

But wait, there’s more! I’m running 2 1440p monitors at 240hz and the system never even hiccups.

But wait, there’s more more! The battery settings are really advanced so I can change the power profile, maximum charge, everything.

The only thing I’m unsure about in your comment is “low latency audio”. It seems low latency to me, but I’m not an audio engineer.
For me, I think they're valuable but also overhyped. They're not at the point they're replacing entire dev teams like some articles point out. In addition, they are amazingly accurate sometimes and amazingly misleading other times. I've noticed some ardent advocates ignore the latter.

It's incredibly frustrating when people think they're a miracle tool and blindly copy/paste output without doing any kind of verification. This is especially frustrating when someone who's supposed to be a professional in the field is doing it (copy lasting non working AI generated code and putting it up for review)

That said, on one hand, they multiply productive and useful information. On the other hand, they kill productive and spread misinformation. That said, I still seem them as useful but not a miracle
There's been a lot of talk about more nuclear in France. But talk is cheap, and financial commitment to new nuclear starts has been notably lacking. The problem, as always, is very high cost and low dependability of the nuclear construction process. The EPR was a disaster, so France would have to go with a redesign. This adds to the risk and reduces confidence in yet another set of assurances that this time it will be cheaper.

I predict France will inevitably slide over toward a renewable dominated grid, just like everyone else.
Agh, the glory days of when tynan and sebastian marshall inspired what I would do later on in life (it's vagabonding, sort of vagranting). Also, his gear posts are really interesting.
> There’s one major hurdle with any degradable plastic material of course: what if it comes into contact with the catalyst for its destruction before you want it to? A plastic cup is no good if certain liquids can dissolve it, after all.

> In this case, the team found that applying hydrophobic coatings prevented any early breaking down of the material. When you eventually want to dispose of it, a simple scratch on the surface was enough to let the saltwater back in, allowing the material to dissolve just as quickly as the non-coated sheets.
Maybe we should introduce Mean Time Between Annoyance (MTBA).

Many of my appliances (dish washer, coffee maker, …) work just fine for weeks before an annoyance pops up („deep clean“, for example). Many of my applications do not. For most I could measure MBTA in minutes. Definitely with Spotlight.
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> I don't want to have to deal with issues on this laptop. If I pull a system update, I want it to install without a problem, automatically, overnight, and not require hours of debugging and reverting and then finding a fix a week later.

This is why I never made the jump to Linux. Around 2017-2019 Apple's Laptops had gotten really bad. I was considering moving to Linux, but I've had several situations where I've run normal Ubunutu updates from Canonical and found myself unable to boot. I don't know if this is common, I don't think I was doing anything unusual (stock Ubuntu).
Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA): Internet Outage Monitor
Promise progress payoff.
Give users a promise about what you're going to show them, make constant progress, and have a nice payoff at the end.
Brandon Sanderson talks about it in his lecture series on youtube.
I don’t get it, you can’t just ask “want breakfast?”
It's far better than Office 365's though in my experience.
Given that these trees may be intentionally attracting lightning to kill their neighbors, I wonder what the nature of their day-to-day interactions are like under the soil. Have other species evolved to attack these trees? Do they even know?
Thru the 90s and 00s and well into the 10s I generally dismissed speech recognition as useless to me, personally.

I have a minor speech impediment because of the hearing loss. They never worked for me very well. I don't speak like a standard American - I have a regional accent and I have a speech impediment. Modern speech recognition doesn't seem to have a problem with that anymore.

IBM's ViaVoice from 1997 in particular was a major step. It was really impressive in a lot of ways but the accuracy rate was like 90 - 95% which in practice means editing major errors with almost every sentence. And that was for people who could speak clearly. It never worked for me very well.

You also needed to speak in an unnatural way [pause] comma [pause] and it would not be fair to say that it transcribed truly natural speech [pause] full stop

Such voice recognition systems before about 2016 also required training on the specific speaker. You would read many pages of text to the recognition engine to tune it to you specifically.

It could not just be pointed at the soundtrack to an old 1980s TV show then produce a time-sync'd set of captions accurate enough to enjoy the show. But that can be done now.
In the light of continued trade and companies like Apple and Unilever continuing to operate in Russia you I am inclined to be cynical about sanctions.
Yeah, I understand that sentiment. But, usually some luxury company emerges charging 5x that provides the old product that actually worked.
Well, we created America. At first the EULA looked right, but it didn't apply
to all the consumers, such as non-WASP people, specially for Black ones.

Later they were community patches but there was a violent litigious case, until the 60's, where the consumer rights were almost fully respected.

But now they made a hostile bid against the company and they are enshitifficating America like the old times.
Some people might prefer an option where they can personally see the impact of their spending. But overall, supporting life-saving medical aid is definitely a meaningful choice!
Some languages are supposed to be very difficult & mentally taxing to learn, because they have many conjugations. But a native speaker with very low intelligence (however you measure it) has zero trouble conjugating it all correctly.
Nice work. Xpath is a beast. Obvious why paligo would be interested too. Must be a lot of commercial documentation out there where the best representation they can get looks a bit XMLish.
Probably the same thing that kills everything- cost and/or durability/usability.
We're having some success with doing this at the block level (e.g. in-memory writeback cache).
I love the idea, but we could use glass, cardboard, wood, fabric for 90% of the things we are currently packaging with plastic. The cheese I am just eating not just has plastic around, but even plastic between every single cheese slice. Stuns me that wasting resources like this does not get taxed.
>Taking the value other people produce is the whole benefit of social intelligence.

This is myopic almost to the point of satire. You really can't think of a single other benefit of social intelligence?
Pardon me for not picturing accessories in your mention of a specific class of device. Mine can be taken at face value
And I am sure when they are caught the full brunt of the U.S. justice system holds them accountable for their wretched behavior. More likely they just move departments. Logging something is moot if those abusing the power are rarely held accountable for things ranging all the way up to murder.
Where are those list coming from? BGP data? ASN data? From feeds published by the orgs?

Seems there are some discrepancies. Nice website on Ruby <3
The next step is engineering a hydrophobic coating or other biodegradable packaging that offers an adequate level of resistance to accidental scratching for a particular application, and identifying applications that are tolerant to failure of the plastic or not exposed to salt water.
>“I did [a noun]” is grammatically correct English object-verb-direct-object sentence structure.

I'm going to need some examples here because I'm filling in nouns to that structure and it does not sound correct. "I did [a] water." Huh?
How much lines of context and understanding can we, human developers, keep in our heads, taken into account and refer to when implementing something?

Whatever the amount may be, it definitely fits into 300k tokens.
> I am conveying what I and everyone else thinks about tech working conditions

What you think about tech is not reality, but a riff on it. It's a cathartic exercise. The salary is generally higher, but not everyone gets paid very well and they have exactly zero protections. I know people who are working horrific conditions for not much pay. And it's not good if a new grad in debt can be replaced so easily even when they do their job well. So yes, people are going to ask for unions.

Not everyone who is a programmer has never shoveled shit. So when you say things like

> but jeez it would help if some of you had to scrape a little in your past prior

I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. It's clear you just have an image in your head of a programmer informed by nothing but stereotypes in your social circle. Programmers are not people with histories to you, but strawmen who were born into the role and don't have a life before or after. This is not in service of advocating for conditions of workers in your life, but just appearing class conscious when it's anything but. That's the virtue signaling.
But also through insane negative pressures, otherwise they'd only get water up ~10m
This plan is just another way, like firing workers, to break Social Security, something that the wealthy have wanted to do for decades.
That’s a thoughtful perspective, and it’s great that you’ve had positive experiences sharing encouragement with others. One thing to consider is that not everyone may connect with a religious message in the same way, especially if they’re facing immediate physical needs
TLDR: disk is often the bottleneck in builds. Use 'fio' to get performance of the disk.

If you want to truly speed up builds by optimizing disk performance, there are no shortcuts to physically attaching NVMe storage with high throughput and high IOPS to your compute directly.

That's what we do at WarpBuild[0] and we outperform Depot runners handily. This is because we do not use network attached disks which come with relatively higher latency. Our runners are also coupled with faster processors.

I love the Depot content team though, it does a lot of heavy lifting.

[0] https://www.warpbuild.com
EN dashes are also great for date ranges: 1/1/2025–3/28/2025
My daughter has a number of stuffed animals, and she's attached to one in particular named Eloise.

Often, when we're having trouble persuading her to do something, I can tell her Eloise wants to do that thing. I'll use teeth brushing as an example.

Eloise, being an independent 'person' of sorts in my daughter's mind, accepts the premise that Eloise would want to brush her teeth, (we remind her, Eloise doesnt want cavities, and my daughter agrees with Eloise: cavities are bad!). So we go and pretend to brush Eloise's teeth in the bathroom. Once Eloise is done, my daughter is usually all too ready to brush her own teeth.

As one might imagine, this tactic would not work on most adults. but toddler logic ontology imbues her stuffed animals with a sort of pseudo-agency (sometimes daughter insists Eloise does NOT want to brush her teeth or whatever, but that doesnt happen often, funnily enough).
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I think LLMs have value, but what I'm really looking forward to is the day when everyone can just quietly use (or not use) LLMs and move on with their lives. It's like that one friend who started a new diet and can't shut up about it every time you see them, except instead of that one friend it's seemingly the majority of participants in tech forums. It's getting so old.
Haha, none personally but maybe the photographer did. It's a free stock photo.[0]

I hired an illustrator to design a custom cover for me, but the project went off the rails, as the artist was using AI in ways I disliked, so I ended up just doing my own mediocre cover in two hours.[1]

[0] https://unsplash.com/photos/shallow-focus-photo-gray-balance...

[1] https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2025/01/#my-poor-experienc...
Oh, replacing a legacy system can make sense in a dozen different ways. But you do it carefully, replacing piece by piece and verifying that everything still works. Replacing the whole thing in a couple of months? Doomed. Absolutely doomed.
Yeah, I discovered this the hard way when I tried to plug a somewhat modern keyboard to a pc through ps/2 (for the theoretical interrupt-driven speed) and didn't work.

A lot of mechanical gaming keyboards still support ps/2 though for the aforementioned interrupts.
"Elbows up" isn't rude, so is suitable for fora, and for one country whose sovereignty has been directly threatened by the country where Microsoft is based, captures that attitude perfectly.
Some quick examples of some different themes:
Subject: Large Hadron Collider:

Minimalism:
https://thedeadweb.eu/?q=large%20hadron%20collider&style=pur...

Mario-bros:
https://thedeadweb.eu/?q=large%20hadron%20collider&style=mar...

Vim:
https://thedeadweb.eu/?q=the%20large%20hadron%20collider&sty...

Andy Warhol:
https://thedeadweb.eu/?q=the%20large%20hadron%20collider&sty...
Democratizing AI Compute, Part 7: What about Triton and Python EDSLs?
> (Nuclear was very uncool at the time). Lo and behold a decade later

Over that decade, the UK's one nuclear reactor under construction has gone from site approval to .. still not finished.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...

Mind you, quite a lot of the no-progress-on-anything can be blamed on Britain's NIMBYs and press. People want electricity but hate pylons; what can you do?
lightning was worse by nature of being proprietary
I had a similar experience, but was fortunate that the teacher took me aside and explained that I was right but they were teaching a simplified version. In hindsight that was really a helpful approach.
New attack vector unlocked
Can either of your products be used on a table top or shelf or something like that w/o doing an installation? I saw your product priced at lightingdesignonline at a price I can afford, but I am in an apartment I rent that I cannot easily do renovations on. I don't care about the appearance of realism, just high quality light.
Thanks Jason! But haven't I pestered you about passive voice enough? You still want more? : )
We built EtchaOS for this use case--small, immutable, in memory variants of Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, etc bundled with Docker. It makes a great CI runner for GitHub Actions, and plays nicely with caching:

https://etcha.dev/etchaos/
Earth has figured out the optimal way to operate over millions and millions of years of trial and error.

Our job is to get out of the way.
I think the EU mandate forces them to do both, so that devices with AWDL are not advantaged over non-Apple devices with Wi-Fi Aware, so my read is that mandate will mean Apple devices will do both modes until they can transition AWDL off entirely.
We call them low-latency GCs, but I was responding to a comment that called the same thing "pausless". However, even programs without any GC pauses can have pauses of a similar duration due to OS activity, so programs on regular OS aren't generally pauseless anyway and the term is mostly meaningless in most contexts. As a marketing term (which we don't use) it merely means the application won't experience GC-related pauses that are longer than OS-related pauses.
I just think that while it's scientifically fascinating, and great as a fun fact to say "There's no such thing as trees actually, they're just related to various other plants" and "There's no such thing as fish, actually, they're all related to different other species" it's also useful to have a word that refers to all tall, woody plants or all gilled-vertebrates.

Either way, better Plato than Pliny.
then they shouldn't market it as one-size fits all
Lots of happy examples in this thread. Let me add mine.

My 3 year old vastly prefers complex carnatic music to cocomelon (and its ilk). He can listen to a 15 minute, intricate song without losing interest, and will ask for it in a loop. Children can handle a lot more complexity than we generally assume.
Didn't yet. Which is how most of this technology starts out, and is the largest problem with people building these systems. See: courts ruling that 23andMe can sell their data yesterday
Don't worry, the NIMBYs will come for that just as well as nuclear. https://news.stv.tv/north/plan-for-uks-biggest-hydrogen-plan...
Basically the license permits you to use the source code for education, compiling builds for individual personal use (no sharing!), and proposing changes to upstream via a fork on github.com. That's it. The part about corporations is just to contrast it to their upstream license to explain that this license does not differentiate between commercial and non-commercial use.

It takes some assumptions to make sense of the "firewall" part. I'm strawsteelmanning here:

- There are Bad People

- If Bad People successfully use my software, it will lead to Bad Things

- The Good Things caused by permissive licenses are more than offset by (or can't compensate for) by the harm done by BP

- My software enables the harm and it wouldn't happen to the same extent without it

- The only way to mitigate this is to retain authority to decide exactly who gets to do what with the source

- Under an Open Source license I am unable to refuse Bad People from using or resharing my software

It follows that any software with enough adoption available under a free license will lead to Bad Things. Therefore the only ethical license is one where the author retains this absolute discretion/power to tell BP "no". This discretion is the "firewall". The inability of the author to arbitrarily forbid users from adopting the software is the "lost right to refusal of the individual" mentioned.

When taken just a bit further it's not too dissimilar to resigning to the reality that we must outlaw strong cryptography and restrict access to general computing and "powerful AI" to only identifiable and accountable non-BP because criminals and terrorists means we can't have nice things and slavery is freedom.

Don't let the fancy quotes and rhetoric give you the illusion that there're any deep insights behind this. Tankies gotta tank.

I do not find it compelling and will continue to promote free software.