skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They fired the first shot without warning," said one anonymous Google employee. "Nobody saw it coming. It was like waking up and finding your neighbor had tagged your house overnight."
The article didn't even mention it. If you actually read, it's more about things that are not necessarily too annoying from a programmer's pespective, but is very much for anyone working on the platform.
I love the idea in one sense, which is that I think they're two great companies working in areas that could plausibly converge and be quite complementary. I do have to imagine there's something about their different respective business missions or business cultures, and the ethos and philosophies that inform them that might not make it work in practice. Although I definitely see a place for a framework laptop that's happy to run SteamOS.

I think perhaps that's the goal is that there's any number of companies that we feel are pretty great that are phenomenal at serving a specific vision of gaming and computing that's oriented around Linux and that are quite happy to talk to each other in effective ways and so I wouldn't necessarily say that the culmination of that should be a merger between those companies but an ecosystem that thrives with deeply compatible hardware and software.
Specs aren't done until the product is retired, thus, code ain't done either.
Can't be an iPhone, iPhones don't need plants to power them and lakes to cool them. Could be tech in general though
Yes indeed. The best Xmas toy my parents ever bought my little brother (10+ yrs younger than me, so he's early 60s now) was a huge bag of wooden bricks. Me and my 5 yrs younger brother spent all of Xmas building things and not letting little bro get a look in. Ashamed to say I was about 20 at that point.
> Dictionaries outrank everything else when it comes what something means.

Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive.

As is the whole field of linguistics, as you will learn in the very first lecture in such a program. If the grammar rules you learned in school disagree with (any!) native speaker, the rules are wrong.
No, I’m talking very specifically about things that were previously funded but are not, for what are nakedly callous reasons.

(There’s no need for logical extremes here: PEPFAR wasn’t a very expensive program.)
Im tired of the line "computer go brr". Is that the best you can explain yourself?
Ragcol: RAG-Based Automatic Video Colorization [pdf]
The games from the Lego company are actually good for the target audience (little kids).

Minecraft is very much NOT just like the old Legos.
I've been doing a thought experiment on what it would take to refuse to ingest any non public domain or creative commons licensed content. If one wanted to opt out of commercial entertainment, how hard would that be?

This gets complicated pretty quickly, because so much IP is implicitly granted, and poorly labeled.
It is curious to me that so many revered as “great” by culture often end up treating those close to them in abhorrent ways. Many worship Moloch not overtly but in the lack of accountability they require of high status individuals. It seems that once someone gets past a certain thermocline of status then accusations of character become less likely to stick. I’ve come to believe this is seen as a feature and not a bug by many people. Not everyone, but many.

Ultimately we get what we incentivize and reward as a society. Recent events are a painful reminder of that.
If you're not familiar with the stratospheric level of derangement Laura Loomer operates on, let’s put it this way:

In a sane world, she'd be on a watchlist, not a guest list. Security protocols usually prevent people like her from getting within 1,000 feet of a U.S. President… or a school zone… or anything flammable... :-)

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

"...Loomer was banned from both Uber and Lyft in November 2017 after a day-long anti-Muslim tweetstorm, which included tweets about not being able to find a "non Muslim cab or @Uber @lyft driver". Twitter banned Loomer in November 2018 for violating its policies against hateful conduct. After the ban, she handcuffed herself to Twitter's headquarters in New York for two hours before police cut through the handcuffs at her request. In February 2019, Loomer was banned from PayPal, GoFundMe, and Venmo. In response, she said that "left wing terrorists and tech tyrants" were "trying to shut [her] down" and that she would "stop at nothing to make sure justice is served for the way Silicon Valley has disenfranchised me, falsely accusing me of being a white supremacist, a Nazi, anti-Muslim, a racist, a bigot, and every other smear in the book." Loomer was one of several right-wing activists banned by Facebook and Instagram in 2019 for using the platforms to post misinformation and extremism. In May 2021, she said she was banned from the social media app Clubhouse hours after joining..."
The comment you're replying to did not say open source, it said "FOSS"

Completely different thing.
it really is fascinating how the rich people on the Right in the US consider factory work, by white men, who are not them (they get to keep their laptop jobs of course) is about the only valid thing for other people to be doing, and will absolutely upend the entire world to achieve this.
If you say it's solid, I'll buy it... but the first one is terrifying. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Even if Chris Titus is legit if his site gets owned so does anyone running this as Administrator in the way described.

> irm "hxxps://christitus[.]com/win" | iex
It was a suggestion... and one that has merit.
I think the 2020 court cases, all of which Trump lost, show how little fraud occurs. There are also many articles of research at this point.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/nx-s1-5147732/voter-fraud-exp...

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/reso...

It's another GOP boogie man used to suppress the vote. Personally, I'm a fan of legally mandating everyone vote or pay a fine like in Australia.
Excel is horrible. Functionality is great (it's packed with features), but it's just so clunky and slow. So I have to agree, Numbers feels like a light weight Excel that meets my demands as well.
With every revolution and with every fake revolution.

NFTs didn't change much, money changed its owner
I’m a CFO that used to work in healthcare. Have had many cases where a doctor tries to explain to me how accounting “should work” and I have to tell them we have this little thing call revenue recognition or GAAP or how accruals work, etc. basically the stuff covered in accounting 101.

I’m used to fielding questions about numbers from all types but only doctors will immediately jump to telling you it’s wrong without asking questions and adamantly insisting they know the right way to do things is what I’ve noticed as a personality quirk generalization.
What a douchey thing to say. You know the average score is like 20 right? Its definitely not trivial
I maintain an open-source interface that lets kids with physical disabilities play Minecraft using eye control[1]. When I started working on it, I was already familiar with what Minecraft offers as 'virtual lego' in creative mode, and the challenges of survival mode, but the biggest surprise for me was how much value kids get from just having a world that they are free to do whatever they want in. Just wandering round and punching some sheep or digging a hole, completely free of any adult-directed 'goals', is such a freedom for them. Try explaining that to the parents, though!

[1] https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/how-we-can-help/eyemine
The booming, high-stakes arms race of airline safety videos
The EU is likely to be more measured, and start with tariffs aimed at Trump-supporting regions. It would be slightly surprising if it jumps straight to blanket tariffs (though it may if it's believed that the shock-and-awe approach will cause Trump to back down).
It’s a war, man. You inflict pain on your enemy. Trump has a pattern of tucking tail when confronted.
I disagree. The spherical cow of marketing is a system that connects consumers with EXACTLY what they are looking for. What you are describing is the capitalist spherical cow.
And billionaires are still going to be rich.

I hope one day USA wakes up and realize the solution is wealth tax to these billionaires
Pharma is exempted from the tariffs regime, but in that list it should also be the EU and India as well.

Most medicaments in the US are sourced from EU (Ireland, Germany, Netherlands), EFTA (Switzerland as you rightfully noted as well as Denmark), and India
We launched a platform where you can train AI agents on web tasks through human demonstrations that can complete workflows beyond simple flight bookings.

Here's our HN launch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43581366
Honestly if they got some high tier talent in, did a deep audit of existing talent and cut where there were any doubt then worked on their drivers in the open and shipped cards with 48GB+ VRAM then Nvidia would be in a difficult situation in 2 years.

Gotta open the drivers fully though because if you make the hardware totally outspec'd where it matters (VRAM) and the drivers are open then talent within the biggest orgs will go out of their way to help make your tech work in their farms, it's the only way to not be forever playing catchup.
I mean, it sounds like you could’ve had a few if/else statements and accomplished the same thing.
Did you miss the "other side of the country" part?

Even if not, there's only so much time kids can spend at playgrounds. And sometimes it's cold outside. Just in general, it's good when kids have more options for social play.

It is not actually helpful to have a knee jerk reaction to "screens". Just like in real life, the specific activity a screen is being used for can be bad, or it can be good.
"...friends who live on the other side of the country."
Not OP, but I linked to some details here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43581484

The NASA Open Source Agreement is the one I found.
You can't be bullied and not respond - that's an invite for future bullying.

Besides, this isn't at all the same. China isn't adding tariffs on the whole world like the US are.
I'll bite.

I received my PhD in Computer Science focused on NLP and creative text generation last year and I think the hype around LLMs is ridiculous (academics are no better than industry on chasing hype). They're trained to predict the next token given a context, and that's exactly what they're good at.

How old do you think I am?
Manufacturing isn't returning to the US due to these tariffs.

Just like before the tariffs, the US is still too expensive.

On the other hand, it has killed cost-competitiveness for Chinese exports directly from China or via transshipment from Vietnam.

The tariff regime has now made Latin America (Brazil, Colombia), Turkiye, Philippines, parts of the EU (Poland, Czechia, Romania), and India cost competitive. And NAFTA/USMCA exemptions still remain and this was something Congress pushed back HARD on to ensure.
Why would I put in the effort if I dont benefit from it though?
> I’m tired of that line. I remember first seeing it on “the best minds of our generation being employed to sell you ads”. Making a computer go brrr doesn’t qualify anyone for a “best mind”.

It's the other way around. It's not just, or primarily, about run of the mill software devs. It's also about the would-be top mathematicians and physicists and psychologists and others - best minds in various domains, that in a better world would be busy solving real problems, but due to quirk of the economy end up working on ruining lives of other people, at scale, because adtech pays well while almost all useful work pays a pittance.

I remember this quote not as judging or categorizing people by smartness, but as lamenting a world which mismanages humanity's potential so badly, by literally directing our best problem solvers to work on creating problems for everyone.
Did you check your browser for google drive site settings?

Google drive has a zip size limit of around 2GB while downloading folders. Usually when you try to download a folder larger than 2GB, it will split these into multiple zip files which all start downloading parallely.

Most browsers block these behind this permission prompt near the address bar "Allow site to download multiple files". If you blink you'll miss it.
Yes, but people (like this writer) want a better community. A person can abstain from the internet entirely, but they still have to live in a terminally online world.
Whether you agree or disagree with the sentiment expressed by the submission, the quality and utility of it is very low, so it's unfortunate that the submission has reached #1 on HN.

I suspect the brevity of the submission has made it easy comment fodder.
Semi-related: Why do sites grab search keystrokes (like '/' on github) to force me to use their crappy search when I'm trying to find content on the page I'm currently on?
I always enjoyed building things with lego.

I also enjoyed watching people show off their advanced lego creations on youtube. However, despite my rather robust lego collection, the chance of me being able to replicate what I was seeing on the screen was near zero - there'd always be at least one crucial part I was missing, or I just didn't have the required quantity.

My first introduction to minecraft was via a youtube video - this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VWnQHS-ffs (the specific video isn't terribly relevant, but very nostalgic)

For the first time, I was playing with the same set of blocks as everyone else. Anything I could see someone else doing, I could do too.

Children live in a world filled with restrictions. In minecraft they are free.
Opportunity blindness imo.

Yes the hype is a bit tedious, but this is a new IT building block/primitive we didn't have before. How can you not be even a little bit excited?
> would I have been able to learn even more and faster, since I wouldn't have been all alone banging my head against some trivial problem for weeks?

Would even that have some downsides in the long-term, since the process of banging one's head could be crucial to rewiring your brain to understand new concepts.
Hope you have an opportunity to vote again, and that the coup is unsuccessful this time.
This is a really old idea. It was implemented in CS:GO in ~2015 [0], although community anti-cheats like SMAC have implemented it for years before then [1]. Riot have an article about their implementation of the same idea in VALORANT's that a good read from a technical perspective [2].

Sadly, CS2, from what I've gathered, broke this.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/35zwwy/opt...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkhQgYB4lAA

[2]: https://technology.riotgames.com/news/demolishing-wallhacks-...
Is this a rant against investment capitalism and high-speed financial trading networks?

Or perhaps a screed decrying the shiny bouncing ball of blockchain-based cryptocurrency?

Possibly a takedown of the online pornography sector, which consumes a largish percentage of bandwith and data center power?

Maybe it's about LLMs, although they might end up going the way of compilers - mostly open source, only a few niche for-profit compilers still exist?

Oh wait - it's about the cell phones and tablets that everyone stares at all day instead of engaging in human social interaction and reading books?

Could it be that the problem isn't with the technology itself, but with how it's being used to manipulate and control people by the interests who currently control most people's access to the technology?

There might be something fundamentally wrong with a socioeconomic system based on investment capitalism and contolled by a few uber-wealthy oligarchs - something about it that inevitably leads to dystopian outcomes.
The Substack author must have been one of the winners.

Poor dude who died of dysentery, though.
If I asked a tiger if murder is wrong i would get a different answer as opposed to a human. What kind of argument are you making.
The idea of using a third party init system has always been quite alien to BSDs, the sames goes for almost all other Unix-like systems, which are almost all developed with a greater deal of integration within the core system. Linux is exceptional in this respect, that it has ever had a diversity of init systems.

This war of words between the BSD community and systemd, as far as I've been able to tell, dates back to when Poettering went to the GNOME mailing list to propose making GNOME depend on systemd. He made this request with the proviso that it shouldn't necessarily be a hard dependency, so that needn't have been a problem in itself, but then he made a remark in an interview with linuxfr.org:

> I don't think BSD is really too relevant anymore, and I think that this implied requirement for compatibility with those systems when somebody hacks software for the free desktop or ecosystem is a burden, and holds us back for little benefit.

and as you can imagine this was ill-received by the BSD community.

Could systemd, or at least a useful subset of it, have been made cross-platform from the get-go? It would've taken more work. I don't think the amount of work necessary would have been particularly onerous, which I hope InitWare shows. It would have required making certain compromises like systemd being happy optionally running as an auxiliary service manager rather than as the init system.

In the end, though, Poettering has his preference to target GNU/Linux only, and he is entitled to that.
Nvidia adds native Python support to CUDA
Half of Americans say they live paycheck to paycheck, so no - the majority of households will not be able to survive for long if they have to spend an extra few thousand to stay where they are today.

Those that can will be cutting spending, which will ripple across the rest of the economy.

There's no sign that negotiation is even possible, never mind likely.

One tell is that tariffs have been applied to the Heard and McDonald Islands, which are inhabited by penguins and produce no imports or exports.

These are not the actions of a rational administration.
>> Trump's Trade War

That might be how it is understood locally, but on an international scale this is quickly moving from "Trump's" to "America's" trade war. Various levels of US government have had opportunity to weigh in, but have generally acquiesced to the recent tariff policies. Calling this a "trump problem" wont fly much longer. This is now American trade policy.
bingo. many don't realize superintelligence exists today already, in the form of human super intelligence. artificial super intelligence is already here too, but just as hybrid human machine workloads. Fully automated super intelligence is no different from a corporation, a nation state, a religion. When does it count as ASI? when the chief executive is an AI? Or when they use AI to make decisions? Does it need to be at the board level? We are already here, all this changes is what labor humans will do and how they do it, not the amount.
You can look at moves as a series of probabilities. For each move, classify if it's more a blunder or inspired move and then look at people's games and see if they consistently have 1-2 moves that are much much better than their typical.
These:

https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Automatic_Binding_Bricks

were the old Legos. You may notice that the instruction booklet has a striking resemblance to basic Minecraft building...

... or is it the reverse?
Based on those rules your guess would be wrong :)

This is not about age really: "NFTs"/"web3.0"/"Blockchain technologies" for instance were hyped by every age group.
Nearly half of the US live paycheck to paycheck[1]. Their lives are not getting easier.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/11/19/bank-of-america-nearly-h...
this felt shockingly smooth, what a great job!
I don't live in a terribly "insane" state, but moving back to a state like California (where I was born and raised) doesn't alleviate my biggest concerns around the economy and the country's leadership and what it's doing to things like healthcare, education, and economic opportunity, and certainly not my concerns about my children being able to ever get onto a solid economic ladder.

California is so prohibitively expensive that they'll be forever renters, unable to save, unless they get an extremely high-paying job that allows that serious privilege and opportunity. That's not guaranteed, at all.

The state I'm in now is comparatively far less inexpensive than my home state, but it's getting more and more expensive and, even here, I worry about my kids being able to truly get on their feet and being able to make a life of their own. It's scary to see what the generations currently coming up are facing, no matter the location in the country - and to see the economy being hit hard with a sledgehammer right now makes it even scarier.
Your whole argument is based on "it's causal because we saw a peak just after a bank collapse", as if a fire started bt a spark couldn't have fuel and generate other sparks in a positive feedback loop. The rest is basically "there is evidence that" without nothing to back it up.

See Rustici (2005),Irwin (1998), Bond (1993) and Crucini (1996)
Pretty sure the Nazis leaned towards evil, my dude.
Clear talent at making bullshit apps that can't possibly work the way he claims maybe
"Nobody asked for it, and nobody wants it" after accusing AI of being inherently dehumanizing. How ironic. Do those who personally enjoy interacting with AI not exist in your mental landscape? This reads like hatred, not boredom.
I know it is cynical, but this is such a puff piece that to me it feels like an advertisement.
Some personal highlights:

"They’re excellent schools, and they have excellent scientists, and if one of Vice-President Vance’s kids is sick, he’s going to want the doctor to have gone to one of these schools; he’s not going to want them to have gone to Viktor Orbán’s university."

"People have said to me, “Well, you take all that money from the government, why don’t you listen to them?” The answer is, because the money doesn’t come with a loyalty oath."

"I don’t have to agree with the mayor to get the fire department to come put out a fire. And that’s what they’re saying to these international students: “Well, you came to this country. What makes you think you can write an op-ed in the newspaper?” Well, what makes you think that is, this is a free country. "
Well, Chinese don’t have proper elections so there, I don't know.

But you can be sure that in the USA, this will all stop in 2 years with the midterms, and be reversed in 4 with the presidential elections. No one other than Trump’s fan base likes this even now, imagine in a few months when people start feeling the terrible repercussions.
Why bad weather makes us bad drivers
I live in TX and have gas heating my air, water, and food. Gas is CHEAP compared to electricity, my bills are like 1/3 in the winter. A big bonus is that the water heater and stove heat like 3x as fast than electric, saving me time. No more cold showers after my wife uses all the hot water.

And that’s compared to my electricity that’s much cheaper than in most states. My all time high electric bill was ~$220 for a 2500sqft house and that’s when it was 110+ outside for most of the month and I was WFH and keeping the downstairs around 70. I wanted to get solar panels, but couldn’t justify it because I would barely break even before they failed or I needed a new roof.

I do eventually want to switch to electric because I don’t like explosive gasses and their byproducts in my house, but in economic terms electric is a fail.
The rules are not that many, you can omit semicolons everywhere except 1. Before open square bracket 2. Before open parenthesis.

That's it, those are the only 2 edge cases.
>Now JP Morgan is predicting a global recession.

Good thing JP Morgan's predictions were never wrong /s

Edit: to those who downvoted, do you have any arguments to contradict my statement and would you put your money into JP's predictions? Go ahead, I'll wait.