skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The team took advantage of the shift to restructure the database "because we found that our storage provider was being a little bit naughty", storing the data three or four times in order to charge more money.

This is the worst kind of graft and should result in criminal charges. The software development industry is still in a nascent stage and our tools are great but professional standards are still undeveloped.

> Technology is often seen as the problem, he said, but he generally found that the problems were due to using obsolete technology and a lack of knowledge about the data being handled. There is often no documentation of the data and its structure, coupled with no understanding of that by the people in charge of it. Poor leadership in the agencies is another barrier; there needs to be a champion for a change of this sort, who understands what needs to be done and properly assigns people to work on it.

Oh. Well. Precisely.
I think they're doing just fine without you then. Don't seem very sorry either :P
Discussion (87 points, 5 days ago, 61 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43538073
There is no reason it has to be so immoral, annoying, and evil. There could be a whole gamified system where people who choose to voluntarily participate can find things they want to buy from people eager to sell
Here, there's even a wikipedia page for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%93present_United_Ki...

How is this related to brexit? Well, it's mentioned several times in that page, but here:
> Brexit has permanently diminished trade efficiency in the UK...weakening the UK’s international competitiveness.....intensified the UK’s longstanding productivity issues...imposed lasting structural constraints on productivity ...Brexit’s negative impact on productivity is enduring and structural. Additionally, Brexit has produced effects akin to a negative supply-side shock...An analysis conducted by NIESR colleagues, published in November 2023, suggested that UK business investment could have been about 12.4 per cent higher in 2023 if Brexit did not happen.

https://niesr.ac.uk/blog/five-years-economic-impact-brexit

Funnily enough, one thing that gets called out a lot is the rising wealth inequality that allows the shrinking group of well-off types to be completely ignorant of the worsening conditions at the bottom. You must be doing ok for yourself - but I am genuinely curious what kind of news sources you follow that you are not aware of the very serious levels of poverty and fear rising around the country, and the economic troubles underlying them.
The Simplest Walking Model: Stability, Complexity, and Scaling [pdf] 1998
I do wonder if there is any legitimate societal value this "surveillance capitalism" or is it all just pure net-loss for the society? I get that corporations make money from it and sell data to whatever entities, but is there truly nothing of positive value in it?
Post it on your windowsill? Have it show up in the search results or ‘new apps’ list on the App Store?

TV brands can be set up in a department store? Like we’ve done for ages?
It's all about scale, really. In France advertising for political parties is very restricted. We don't get to endure the kind of insane propaganda Americans have.
How many different companies have you worked for?
And how does broadcast Tv work in your no ad supported TV world? Would everyone have to pay for Google for search? Could you not get any news if you couldn’t pay for it?

Websites that do not have any European presence could care less about EU law. I just gave a real world example of what’s going on in the US right now. Florida has a law that says porn sites must have age verification. Xvideos completely ignores the law.

But back to Google, if it weren’t ad supported, does that mean minors couldn’t use it or the poor? Right now, poor and even homeless people can get smart phones for free with data (or use WiFi) from the government.

Would people he don’t have home internet access who can now go to the library not use Google if they don’t pay for it?
That's incredible timing, I just spent 2 days trying to implement DDA from first principles for my wolfenstein-like game in C.

Can't wait to see how you explain it.
It is a labor law violation to disclose such info.
They should have fostered a better FOSS community around XNU, now that they moved to ARM there should have been a runnable distribution for x64
Additional discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43597443
I thought it was Trump
Idk, was diagnosed very young and haven’t seen anyone professionally about it as an adult. Tbh I didn’t know there were different subtypes until your comment.

I struggled a lot with impulse control but that’s managed well with meds. I often “zone out” when doing.. well pretty much anything that I’m not very interested in
You haven’t really expanded on why basing off the Linux kernel would have made more sense, especially at the time.

People have responded to you with timelines explaining why it couldn’t have happened but you seem to keep restating this claim without more substance or context to the time.

Imho Linux would have been the wrong choice and perhaps even the incorrect assumption. Mac is not really BSD based outside of the userland. The kernel was and is significantly different and would’ve hard forked from Linux if they did use it at the time.

Often when people say Linux they mean (the often memes) GNU/Linux , except GNU diverged significantly from the posix command line tools (in that sense macOS is truer) and the GPL3 license is anathema to Apple.

I don’t see any area where basing off Linux would have resulted in materially better results today.
So now you’re okay with the government telling every single publisher that they must publish content they don’t agree with?

The Fairness Doctrine was only for broadcast TV under the theory that the people owned the airwaves. Also this is not 1980. Anyone can get worldwide distribution of their ideas out.
That’s theoretically true, but the only proof they have of that is the 5 or so words I uttered saying “I have a different offer”. Why should those 5 words make all the difference. You could say them without any offer at all and suddenly get the job?
Not everyone believes that generative AI is anti-creative. If that is understood, the confusion disappears.

It's also just one image, clearly just for aesthetic. It's not that big of a deal.
I've never liked the directory.d/* infrastructure. In so many cases, even with a properly configured sshd_config, the resulting configuration file is not so large that it benefits from being split up.

You have to deal with ordering issues, symlink management in some cases, and unless the "namespace" of sorting number prefixes is strictly defined, it's never something that's convenient or durable to "patch" new files into. The proliferation of 99_* files shows the anti-utility this actually provides.

I much prefer configuration files with a basic "include" or "include directory" configuration item. Then I can scope and scale the configuration in ways that are useful to me and not some fragile distribution oriented mechanism. Aside from that with xz I don't think I want my configurations "patchable" in this way.
Chrome extension to create placeholder images
I don't know, I guess me, as a Brazilian, we just speak a lot, so sounds very insane for me!
No zellij for rustiness all around?
Fires burining neibhorhoods already produce massive ammounts of toxic and heavy metals. It literally is just adding a little more to the already extremly present pollution
The claim is inaccurate and mixes together multiple different things:

- The Mach microkernel originally supported true userland paging, like mmap but with an arbitrary daemon in place of the filesystem. You can see the interface here:

https://web.mit.edu/darwin/src/modules/xnu/osfmk/man/memory_...

But I'm not sure if Darwin ever used this functionality; it certainly hasn't used it for the last ~20 years.

- dynamic_pager never used this interface. It used a different, much more limited Mach interface where xnu could alert it when it was low on swap; dynamic_pager would create swap files, and pass them back into the kernel using macx_swapon and macx_swapoff syscalls. But the actual swapping was done by the kernel. Here is what dynamic_pager used to look like:

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/system_cmds/blob/...

But that functionality has since moved into the kernel, so now dynamic_pager does basically nothing:

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/system_cmds/blob/...

- The vast majority of kernel memory is wired and cannot be paged out. But the kernel can explicitly ask for pageable memory (e.g. with IOMallocPageable), and yes, that memory can be swapped to disk. It's just rarely used.

Still, any code that does this needs to be careful to avoid deadlocks. Even though userland is no longer involved in "paging" per se, it's still possible and in fact common for userland to get involved one or two layers down. You can have userland filesystems with FSKit (or third-party FUSE). You can have filesystems mounted on disk images which rely on userland to convert reads and writes to the virtual block device into reads and writes to the underlying dmg file (see `man hdiutil`). You can have NFS or SMB connections going through userland networking extensions. There are probably other cases I'm not thinking of.

EDIT: Actually, I may be wrong about that last bit. You can definitely have filesystems that block on userspace, but it may not be supported to put swap on those filesystems.
Surprisingly, most people are not in fact lying most of the time.

(Also, in practice, there's supporting evidence like being able to spout off credible minor details that yes, are still easy to bullshit but again, most people usually aren't lying.)
No but your doctor would have to think twice about recommending this drug that he got to know about at the company sponsored golf trip.
Traces its roots to the Rochdale pioneers. I'd say it's not just "a" co-op, it's likely the oldest in existence on Earth.

But yeah, working there is not going to be too much different to working at any other store.

Still, don't underplay that. Having something you can go to, walk away from without having to bring home any work, get your 30-40 hours/week (and they'll pay a decent living wage), so you can pay the bills and keep your creative energy for your art... it's not a bad way to be.
Yeah, that's definitely interesting - I'm surprised there is so much room for variation considering PostGIS is (if I'm not mistaken) doing most of the work.

I couldn't find any description of what test 1, 2, 3 etc actually are though.
Docs had a big head start over Office 365, but Microsoft kept working toward the goal of desktop Office feature parity and document compatibility, which they basically ultimately delivered.
I feel the same about being drained with noises.
I use white noise too. But make sure to only use white noise when I want to focus, as it feels like I've conditioned myself to be focused when it's on.
Previously, I had it permanently on and I found the effectiveness dropped
>The comment to which I responded was about how degraded that experience is relative to music in social settings.

I don't know how you can read the parent post and get that. I think it was speculation on The evolutionary basis for why music is soothing.
SELinux on NixOS
The context of this thread is that vendors wouldn't be able to pay review sites.
But the double tapping was intelligent to zoom exactly what you meant.

Also tapping links was very easy
Thanks for the links, the "tradeoff" aspect of paraconsistent logic is interesting. I think one way to achieve consensus with your debate partner might be to consider that the language rep is "just" a nondeterministic decompression of "the facts". I'm primed to agree with you but

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41892090

(It's very common, esp. with educationally traumatized Americans, e.g., to identify Math with "calculation"/"approved tools" and not "the concepts")

"No amount of calculation will model conceptual thinking" <- sounds more reasonable?? (You said you were ok with nondeterministic outputs? :)

Sorry to come across as patronizing
C++20 in Chromium Talks Playlist
Ask HN: Is the admin using ChatGPT for tariffs the most damage so far?
I thought going viral on TikTok for cheating through school was pretty bad. But if the rumors are true - and anyone working at OpenAI can trivially search the logs and determine this - the admins asked ChatGPT to design its ridiculous tariff formula.

Is OpenAI worth the $2T in losses sustained by the market so far? Did anyone anticipate gross incompetence being the way "AI" harms people?
Reach - the publishing group that owns a lot of local papers as well as some national titles in the UK, such as the Daily Express and the Mirror - has run their online portfolio into the ground. All their paper websites are like this, and staff have been complaining for some time that their content is getting buried under adtech noise. Worse, the writers have page view targets - no wonder morale there is so poor.
Wall Street and economists have a vested interest in keeping their precious theories alive.
Water is not a fire retardant. Water can extinguish fire, but you can't apply water on a forest to prevent a fire from spreading there in the first place.

Your last paragraph seems to agree with parent? We should know what's inside, but it might still be the best solution.
Is the driver support fit for using FreeBSD as a desktop OS these days?

Last I tried (~10 years ago) I gave up and I assumed FreeBSD was a Server OS, because I couldn't for the life of me get Nvidia drivers working in native resolution. I don't recall specifics but Bluetooth was problematic also.
Climate change is going to make large, heavily populated areas somewhere between unattractive and uninhabitable even within the US. Likely outcomes of this are millions of people eventually trying to move from deserts in Texas and California to the PNW or the Midwest. The population of these areas is going to increase, barring the magical peaceful disappearance of half the country, or the unmagical violent disappearance of half the country. If you think you can prevent that climate change, or prevent inland California or Arizona etc from being waterless deserts, or somehow make it safe for everyone to continue living where they are today - go nuts. If you don't think that, start figuring out how your area will absorb more people. It's gonna need a bigger housing supply.
It has unfortunately been all too common the times I have encountered the dreaded “cookie consent window is somehow not closable due to poor screen CSS”.
> and I don’t think regular viewers knew not to trust it as journalism.

Why?
I guess everyone in central Europe is very rich, here not covering Windows is quite common, even at night.
I loved my zaurus SL-5000D. The keyboard was great, although the buttons were kind of clickey and you had to press them quite hard
What might be an efficient way to view these if you don't work with 3-D models often. Is there a good viewer that allows 3-D rotation, etc.?
https://ocaml.org/industrial-users/businesses

Many others that are not direct or heavily publicized like Jane Street eg:

https://github.com/FFTW/fftw3

https://github.com/oanda/oflux
I use Hacki mobile app mostly: it marks what I saw already, lets me favourite, upvote, reply, browse by top/best/ask and so on. It's easier to navigate large posts (many comments).

Then I still come back to best/top/favs at work because there is always something cool I missed or a "show HN" that has a project I'd like to test.

Mobile app helps to keep it tidy and HN has plenty of content easy to consume like that l.

Hacki is on fdroid.
I read it as "Your journalistic integrity and the time of your audience means nothing to me. As long as my story got out that's all I cared about."

Or "I'm a single minded sociopath."
While the game is ok, there's unfortunately a problem on Firefox on Android.

I know, who cares, only three people in the planet use Firefox on Android. But if you want to know anyway...

The problem is the sizes are not adjusted correctly and so the fixed header/upper part overlaps the scrambled word list, almost completely hiding the first word. You can, through some tricky scrolling, manage to see it and then solve it. But it's tricky. And ugly.
In this example couldn’t the go to cleanup instead be return cleanup_func where the same cleanup code was executed?
So, basically, regarding journalism: they had learned nothing and forgot nothing. Something died in me when I realized TAL and NPR were largely just bullshit factories. Glass isn't even coy about his motives being to tell/sell stories. He admits that truth is secondary to theater, and he's pretty unapologetic about dressing up performance as journalism. So unconcerned about it, in fact, that he's proudly teaching such ethics to students at prestigious journalism programs when he should be teaching at the performing arts school.
Which custom ROM?
Show HN: File Architect – Create file and folder structures with plain text
Hey HN, I built File Architect to quickly create file and folder structures on mac using simple text outlines and tab indentation. The core of the app is also open-sourced at https://github.com/filearchitect. Would love feedback!
Reports of LLMs mastering math have been greatly exaggerated
I think the language is OK, it’s just that you are consistently ignoring “in order to promote a product” clause.

The first case is legal because waiter gets paid by the restaurant to serve meals, not to promote the specific brand of rose wine. Only illegal if the waiter has another, secret contract with the wine manufacturer to “recommend” specific wine.

The other two cases are legal because the money exchanged in order to receive goods. The fact the goods are then used to promote something is irrelevant.
Yeah it’s literally the monetization of db setup that powered YouTube — pretty much the best battle testing imo.
TV news in the early era was concentrated. There were only three national networks. When CNN first when on the air in 1980 it signaled the beginning of this change.

During this entire time; however, print journalism was still widely distributed and you could find an absolutely huge range of off beat reporting even from fairly large publications.

The internet era was initially great for this model but once all the advertising effectively got monopolized and search giants started walling off and cherry picking content to place under their own banner it finally killed the rich set of options available in print.
> No, the mechanisms would just get even more sophisticated, to work around whatever (inherently, and unavoidably, arbitrary) lines were drawn against "advertising" while permitting the flow of information and opinions about products.

Probably, but it would make advertising much more costly thus less appealing and reduce its market size. Just like for any other prohibited activity.
This is amazing to see from Sigstore! Looking forward to more ML specific features in the coming months!

Also looking forward to reading through the SLSA for ML PoC and seeing how it evolves. I was planning to use Witness for model training but wasn't sure how it would work for such a long and intensive process.
I think if you inspect your answer you’ll see why guns are not what is required for overthrowing a government. Citizens willing to risk their lives, property and liberty is the main requirement, usually because the current situation is so intolerable to them.

Most overthrows result from the population refusing to cooperate, going to the seat of power en masse and forcing a change. Guns would be counterproductive in that process and would justify brutal reprisals. An unarmed civilian crowd is far more persuasive for wavering troops ordered to fire on it.

In addition, most armed rebellions bring out the worst characters as leaders and lead to dictatorship.
Yet we have laws against fraud, rape, and so on. Where do you draw the line for those? There are some crystal clear cases, and there are unclear cases where you could argue forever.

So it is for advertising. You don't need to draw a clear line for every case before you can make a law.

I like how it turned out with email advertising, actually: spam is defined to be whatever people put into their spam folder.
Haha, I love it. It's incredible how tables turn once you submit your resignation. I was being outsourced and my boss declined even the smallest raise, saying that his client would have to raise the payment as well, and I cannot skip him as the middleman. So I resigned and found another job. The next day client reached out to me and asked if I want to skip the middleman, because suddenly it's fine and there are no contractual problems. That would probably mean like a 40% raise at the time. I was tempted, but it was too late.
Beyond type II bipolar, I don't have a diagnosis for anything psychological but I'm pretty sure I have ADHD with a touch of Asperger's(based mostly on a review of my behaviors over the past 50 years). But yeah I've found "smoothed brown noise" to work wonders.

I also had some success with wearing a snug fitting balaclava. It's odd, but it worked.

Nicotine helped, but I now have NAFLD and nicotine might be a factor in it so I quit.

Modafinil really worked, despite leaving my body feeling drained and sore. I didn't want to keep taking it though.
How Beelzebub was born, a short story about AI and fascism
A short sci-fi story about AI and fascism, inspired by recent events.
Netflix is a weird case, in that they let new hires pick the mix of stock vs. cash in their total compensation. Since the CA law requires posting the cash salary in the job offer, it really can be that wide of a range.
yes this is great but I'd like to pick a different voice. the current one feels too robotic
> Do you think they really mean "per liter" of the actual sample or is this possibly the amount in an already diluted solution that they made from the sample? It seems like an odd unit of measurement otherwise.

The article doesn't specify. But it doesn't particularly matter either way.

Basically, don't drink the fire retardant, and you'll be fine. Even habitual exposure is not a big deal at these levels.
I mean, that sounds like a level of due dilegence that a lot of companies are unlikely to follow. I suspect that most don't even check the references that you give them.
Meta's Llama 4 is now available on Cloudflare Workers AI
Serious question: Why don't you pay for YouTube premium?

Isn't it hypocritical to want YouTube to offer you its content for free? If the content is valuable to you, you should be willing to pay for it. If not, just stop watching YouTube.
There's some fascinating research by Rachel Griffith which shows that advertising can be significantly welfare reducing for not only customers, but also for companies themselves (they just overall make lower money taken together); it is just another dimension of competition, like pricing/positioning, and adding a meaningful dimension is costly.
> Usually this is because of the Modern Standby/S0 crap and in many cases there isn't a solution because the BIOS removed support for S3.

Also, modern windows won't let you select S3 sleep if it detects support for S0. There used to be a simple registry edits you could do but Microsoft seem to have closed that loophole.

I chose my current laptop because in the BIOS it has a sleep setting, and if you pick the oddly named "Linux sleep" it disables S0 sleep. Thereby allowing S3 sleep in Windows.

This is after having a previous laptop act like a heater to my lunch in my bag, or being dead despite being full charged after waking up overnight and running hard till the battery ran out. Or perhaps the most obnoxious, my wife closing her laptop with a video running and at 3am her laptop bringing itself to life waking us up.