skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It says it’s fully compatible which I take at face value. I guess I’m curious if there’s a real problem here and openrsync is missing support for 0.1% of use cases, or if it’s just pessimistic speculation.
And contradicted Bessent multiple times.

How did he contradict Bessent? Genuinely curious, I am only familiar with recent events.
Chrome to patch decades-old flaw that let sites peek at your history
Very interesting to get some historical context! Thanks for sharing Scott.

Small remark:

> As far as I can tell, this is the first time the phrase “rebase” was used in version control

ClearCase (which I had a displeasure to use) has been using the term "rebase" as well. Googling "clearcase rebase before:2005" finds [0] from 1999.

(by the way, a ClearCase rebase was literally taking up to half an hour on the codebase I was working on - in 2012; instant git rebases blew my mind).

[0]
https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/rational/docs/documentat...
1. Go for masters in a field where you can get TA or other stipend. Masters is generally worth it because it will give you more experience. There are lots of places outside of US that are starting to invest into AI infra, and having advanced knowledge gives you an edge. Don't limit yourself to MIT - other universities (even overseas) have funding. A lot of times, especially in US, the graduate projects are basically company funded tasks that they can get done while paying way less than the market price, so plenty of those are floating around.

2. Look outside US for jobs. There are remote opportunities everywhere, and at your young age, its not super hard to move. Even China has some startups that can hire within US.

3. In general, even in recession, there are companies that end up making big as demand shifts to more fundamental things. Most companies need IT support. Generally, as a computer engineering grad, you should be able to do the full range of IT support (and if you can't ask yourself why not).
I was thinking more the body cavity searches of tourists that were linked. The indefinite detention of tourists.

Agreed mere deportation is not an atrocity. But that’s not what’s going on here.
I think most countries are ignoring the tariffs because they know they’re politically unsustainable and will be gone within a month, at least in their blanket form. But checking a couple of your posts in this article it seems like you’re a fan of them, which makes this a political argument and not one anyone will benefit from having.
That's cute.

Worth noting first that this is not really the GDPR (nobody here has said that it is directly, but in other threads people are making that assumption), this is the ePrivacy Directive (which is probably what the EU should be revising in light of these universally hated popups).

The EU hands out arbitrary fines to large companies that range in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and ask companies to comply with these "technology-neutral" guidelines [1] which are so opaque that it is impossible to decipher when you are and are not in compliance with them.

> The methods for giving information, offering a right to refuse or requesting consent should be made as user-friendly as possible

This is wonderfully clear and explains exactly when you will and won't be the victim of extortion-level fines from the EU.

You call it malicious compliance; sure, but when this is what everyone else is doing, and you decide that you want to go against "industry norms" for your website, you are painting a giant target on your back.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX...
> Human beings evolved to eat whole foods. If you're going to eat something else, you better be very, very sure about the long-term effects.

I think if you apply similar processing to sunflower seeds and cocoa beans, one isn't more of a "whole food" than the other.

I would give this a try. It's probably not exactly the same as chocolate, but that doesn't mean it has to be worse.
That's a neat suggestion, thanks.
Lux will need some time to become mature, but building a large multi-platform project like koreader would definitely be a nice goal.
I would never spend time doing a take home test. The best paying companies never require it, so why would I jump through hoops for nothing but middling compensation on the other side?
> need for policy change that allows for coexistence where the return of wolf to the ecosystem offers ecological benefits

A more reliable approach might be to enact policy change where the return of the wolf to the ecosystem offers financial benefits.

One way to do this is with licensed trophy hunting. Nobody argues thousands of dollars in revenue from hunting tag lotteries, trophy fees, etc. is "fake news" as they might with an appeal to ecological reasons.
Despite all that it has become much easier to copy vast quantities of information. A modest effort to archive by future generations could deliver far more than was previously possible through discovery of antiquities. And paper products are still produced in vast quantities.
Replacing cocoa as the base for a chocolate that can work with local crops and be price competitive without being too dissimilar has been a fancy of mine since the cost of cocoa went through the roof in the last year. My wife and I run a small wholesale bakery and I’ve been dying to try and come up with my own alternatives. I heard there has been work using Fava beans, which I like the idea of because it’s easier to grow those in more places than the cocoa bean. Sunflower seeds is an interesting base, I wonder what their “fermentation-like” process is.
it does, you definitely "feel" the change. I actually have to do some digging to figure that out, I unfortunately do not have my childhood GBA anymore so I have to rely on audio clips to make that call
Impossible burgers smell strongly of soybean meal to me. As in I'm mildly repulsed if the person sitting across from me is eating one.
So I want to start a new shop I need to hope the major brands deem me worthy enough to send reps out.

My point with supermarkets wasn't that those relationships would be banned it's that there is no point in providing variety if there is no advertising to encourage alternatives. So the optimal strategy would be for nestle to do a deal with Walmart to only stock their products. The public isn't being made aware of alternatives so the demand for them will be gone
I think the setup is different than what could be explained by assuming “blind trust” is being placed in the Trump administration. Individual Republican lawmakers in Congress who might otherwise try to stop Trump by proposing legislation or objecting to his Senate candidates face the prospect of a well-financed primary challenge the next time they are up for election. Unless and until Republican lawmakers find a way to get together to oppose the administration in large numbers, most lawmakers will avoid doing so for fear of being “primaried.” Those who are indeed bold enough to act on their own are pushed out by the asymmetric opponent.

And for the individual lawmaker who tries to work with their colleagues to mount a primary-proof challenge to the administration, there is always the risk of being outed at any point in the process of organizing. Once outed, the more powerful adversary picks off the opponents one by one, with the others retreating back into darkness to avoid the same fate.
Seems pretty alien to my experience. A lot of senior talent was accustomed to traveling a lot anyway. I’ve certainly always interviewed in person and would probably turn down any company that didn’t offer as an option aside from COVID. But maybe there were a lot of companies that were willing to compromise on face to face so they could get any supposed talent to sign on the dotted line. Of course, they didn’t have much choice for a time even if they subsequently laid people off and/or largely froze hiring.
For this reason I think they are unfortunately over-selling the climate aspect.

However, it is still a good idea for shortening the supply chain, reducing labor costs, and hedging against climate risks.

Cacao (like coffee) is a crop with structures still reverberating from the colonial period. It is labor intensive (not amenable to mechanization) and low margin for most small holder producers. As a perennial crop it requires long term investment to establish, and the harvest cycle often requires financing to bridge. It is subject to fluctuating global commodity prices. The plants themselves are climate sensitive and the impact of changing temperatures and precipitation are already wreaking havoc. Attempting to expand or relocate production to compensate often means deforestation of threatened ecosystems.

The next generation of cacao and coffee farmers see these problems and want to ditch the fields in favor of city jobs. Why put your life into something so risky?

Sunflowers avoid most of these problems since they are an annual crop that grows in temperate latitudes and can be heavily mechanized. (The problems of monoculture are a separate discussion).

Of course it won't be as good as the real deal. That's fine; use sunflowers for the chocolate covered candy garbage. Let craft chocolate be a luxury good with prices that offer a living wage to producers.
I still have the Troll Hole Adventure on tape, along with the Interact that I learned programming on (MS basic! and machine code - we didn't have an assembler).

As I recall, you don't flick the lighter you "flick bic" as was the marketing slogan at the time. The response would rhyme "flick bic" lead to "lamps lit". Other exciting things were using the paper tube from the bathroom and the lenses from somewhere else to "make telescope" which allowed you to read a distant sign or billboard.... Fun times.

Oh right, there's a shovel and if you "dig frog" the response was "I can dig it" because you know... the 1970's...
The universe is ~14 billion years old. We didn't come along until a few million years ago, and then it took just until a hundred to two hundred years ago to be able to actually broadcast our existence. So if some other civilization had a similar timeline but much earlier, their signal could have come and gone by the time we could detect it. Their star could have also already reached the point where it destroyed its planet the civilization was located, so we'd never know about them. It's the same fate our planet has in store for it as well. If there's any civilization that comes after Earth's demise, they'd never know we were here either.
Sadly, as OS dev, I see third way: development behind closed doors.

With AI and CV reference hunting, number of contributions is higher than ever. Open-source projects are basically spammed, with low quality contributions.

Public page is just a liability. I am considering to close public bugzilla, git repo and discussions. I would just take bug reports and patches from very small circle of customers and power users. Everything except release source tarball, and short changelog would be private!

Open-source means you get a source code, not free customer and dev support!
I have no freaking idea. Needless to say I don't think our current operating systems are up to the task of actually being secure. You have to be able to somehow dynamic-link in a library whilst only giving calls into that library certain permissions/capabilities... which I don't think even Windows can do.
Nice job shipping! I've used the built-in Chrome tools for IndexedDB, what does this give on top of what's already there?
They didn't simply expel them, the sent them to a foreign prison. Don't misrepresent what occurred. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a legal resident. They are doing this to people who _do_ have the right to stay. Even for those who are in the US illegally, they are entitled to basic human rights and have protections under US law. They can be deported in accordance with domestic and international law.

Sending them to foreign prison camps instead is in fact a crime against humanity.
I first used GPT 2.5 many years ago through a google colab notebook. These newer models aren’t all that much better. I’m sure they do better on their tests because they’re trained to beat them but really the biggest “innovation” was a UI and API.
> But if we slightly decrease the carbon footprint of a Hershey's bar, we'll be OK.

They're not saying it alone will fix it. They also say they:

>created the ChoViva website with an environmentally conscious mindset.
This means we use fonts, colours, images and animations in a purposeful way, do without flashy videos and welcome you in the low-energy dark mode by default.

And I doubt you think they're claiming less JavaScript is all we need.
Made primarily from sunflower seeds? I just don't think that's going to taste like chocolate.

Process:

Fermentation: The sunflower seeds undergo an innovative fermentation-like process, similar to ancient beer brewing technology, to enhance their flavor.

Roasting: The fermented seeds are then gently roasted.
Grinding: The roasted ingredients are ground into a concentrate that resembles cocoa powder.

Mixing and Conching: The concentrate is mixed with additional ingredients, ground further, and conched to achieve a smooth, creamy texture, similar to traditional chocolate

Carob was the old-timey chocolate substitute in the 70s (probably because of inflation back then as well). Carob is kind of chocolate tasting, but it's better to just say it's carob instead of trying to pretend it's chocolate - it definitely didn't have the same smoothness as chocolate.
I smell a diplomatic distinction between the "we vow now to be passively abused forever" versus "currently no firm plan for that potential future but we could always change our minds if it happens and maybe it won't."
Well do you care about results or not? Because if climate change is such an urgent threat to face, it seems like all efforts should be directed towards the lowest-hanging fruit and making the most possible impact with the resources that you have, instead of muddying the waters by convincing people that buying a hyper-processed chocolate substitute will actually change anything meaningfully. OP clearly does not care enough to make it his or her life's quest, but that doesn't make it inconsistent to criticize the effort of those who supposedly do, just like it's not inconsistent to criticize a bad movie without being an accomplished film director. What's inconsistent is selling climate change as an imminent thread that has to be an immediate top priority to address, while promoting purely performative efforts. It seems like what actually motivates activists in this area is the sense of moral superiority more than a sense of duty.
Disagree, the most common way for an experienced user to type a date into Excel is as a partial date if it is this year, eg 4-Apr, which is instantly converted to 04/04/2025 or whatever.

The vast majority of dates I personally type into Excel would be in this form.
For those looking for something similar, try SimpleWall:
https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall

It's deny by default, you get a popup when something wants to make a connection, then you can allow. Pre-built binaries available. It's my go-to since many years
You can ignore it - it’s called an ad blocker.
Obama also created ICE as we know it today. And normalized drone strikes.
In that case, all employees bar sales reps are replaceable (and the reps are too, you just see the pain more).
Thank you for calling that out, I am aware that the audio demos are a little busted right now and I'll be patching them up when I get a little time
In fact we have modern examples of a single person making a game that's not just much better from a technical standpoint, but actually sells more units, generates more buzz, and moves game design forward.

What those games, games like Stardew Valley, Undertale, or Animal Well can't do is create an endless income stream in the billions, and right now that's the goal of some big "AAA" publishers. They don't want to make good games, they don't want to make any sort of game really, they want to create an addictive platform for further transactions. They want GTA Online, F2P Gachas, and E-Sports.

They don't want to make Stardew Valley no matter how many units it sells, they want to make the next Fortnite. As a result they keep dumping absurd amounts of money into really sketchy projects (Concorde, Anthem, etc) and they can't seem to figure out why people aren't biting. When in doubt if you're an MBA and you see money flying out of the door and the expected return isn't being generated, it must be almost instinctive to raise prices and lay people off.
No, you dont! Only if you use third party services to do that or collect data thats not essential to your business. Its just coloquially called a "Cookie Banner", but the laws DONT require you to put up one as soon as you set one cookie!
But are the images portrait or landscape?

EDIT: more seriously, smartphones have displaced a lot of important dedicated devices. Dedicated cameras are barely hanging on.
Process The Comms Async.

Async doesn't mean "rarely", it means you must set the pace. Notifications contradict this paradigm, so they are completely off.

I switch to these tabs/apps manually, at my own pace, which is sometimes relaxed, but at times can be super-dense.
As a librarian, that's only around 35% of new books. The rest are about a hard-working professional woman in the big city that inherits her dead aunt's coffee shop in Cape Cod and has a prickly love-hate relationship with the local handyman. There may be a magic cat involved. And books about vampires having love triangles with a werewolf/zombie/black lagoon monster and a Mary Sue insert.
Starlink is a fantastic service that I have been using for years with high speed and high reliability.
If I'm not that interested in a company, I won't waste my time to contact them (or pay attention to their efforts to contact me). Having interest in them does not imply that I have an interest in travel, however. If I had an interest in travel, I'd have become an airline pilot or something like that instead.

But if they think they need someone who has a secret desire to man a ship or be a touring musician – cool. A good fit isn't a good fit.
Why? This seems fine.
> Canada. Even Quebec, which insists on doing everything in French.

Quebec would be the one place in Canada where you’re expected to do business in French. Maybe New Brunswick? Even right across the river in Ottawa you’d have no reason to use French in any official capacity.

Sure, you might want a FR/EN selector at the top of your site since Quebec is a big market (within Canada).
Also don't forget one of the promises of RAW: That RAW developers will continue to evolve, so that you'll be able to generate a better conversion down the line than now. Granted, given the maturity of developers the pace of innovation has slowed down a lot compared to 20 years ago, but there are still incremental improvements happening.

Another advantage of RAW is non-destructive editing, at least in developers that support it and are more than import plugins for traditional editors. I rarely have to touch Photoshop these days.
They didn’t call for mad violence against protestors. They didn’t call for arresting protestors.

I imagine you won’t admit you have no evidence based in reality.
That's part of the vibe in vibe coding.
The run and/or troubleshooting steps for Windows should probably include the note you need to install https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Window... if you have an Nvidia GPU (and probably something similar if you have an AMD GPU?). As it is right now the steps happily get you benchmarking your CPU and I'd say that might even be worth adding a "Warning: The benchmark is operating in CPU only mode, press y to continue if this is intended" type message to the program.

Edit: And for the same prompt and generated token counts it runs ~4x slower than `ollama run hf.co/bartowski/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M --verbose`. It's possible I'm mixing up a few things there but my results also post in the same ballpark slower than others with the same GPU so it seems something is up with the application in either case.
In React {Transitions} = F(state)
Yes! My dad has an old Commodore 64 and I vaguely remember a skiing game. I think it's so cool what folks were able to accomplish musically on such limited systems at the time
Admiral Rickover was likely the single most competent engineering manager in the last century and wrote this: Doing a Job https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm

Complex jobs cannot be accomplished effectively with transients. Therefore, a manager must make the work challenging and rewarding so that his people will remain with the organization for many years. This allows it to benefit fully from their knowledge, experience, and corporate memory.

The Defense Department does not recognize the need for continuity in important jobs. It rotates officer every few years both at headquarters and in the field. The same applies to their civilian superiors.

This system virtually ensures inexperience and nonaccountability. By the time an officer has begun to learn a job, it is time for him to rotate. Under this system, incumbents can blame their problems on predecessors. They are assigned to another job before the results of their work become evident. Subordinates cannot be expected to remain committed to a job and perform effectively when they are continuously adapting to a new job or to a new boss.

When doing a job—any job—one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in the job forever. He must look after his work just as conscientiously, as though it were his own business and his own money. If he feels he is only a temporary custodian, or that the job is just a stepping stone to a higher position, his actions will not take into account the long-term interests of the organization. His lack of commitment to the present job will be perceived by those who work for him, and they, likewise, will tend not to care. Too many spend their entire working lives looking for their next job. When one feels he owns his present job and acts that way, he need have no concern about his next job.

Rickover would be a savage critic of society and American culture as it is now, he even was then. He was a man who successfully challenged people in power, which is why I imagine most people never hear of him. He won many political battles, but the same people he challenged remained in power. When they wrote the history books, they diminish his legacy, because they don't want stories of people successfully challenging power structures and especially not stories of people who challeneged corporate power, or prove that the government can do something better, cheaper, and more dangerous/complicated than corporations.
Insurrectionists are not protestors.
No worries. DOGE came to the same conclusion and stopped the dumping into the black hole. We're all saved now. They've also actively eliminated climate change. Not from existing, but from the official records, and that's as good as actually eliminating it, right? After all, if you stop testing, the numbers go down.
A nice performance review for Orioledb. I'm impressed with the results.
These measurements use sysbench, and complement already published benchmarks using TPC-b, and TPC-c workload:

[1] https://www.orioledb.com/blog/orioledb-beta7-benchmarks

[2] https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/sites/default/files/presentat...

Thanks to Brian Misachi who did the test and shared the results!
>Soon, you will be able to find anything only thru local on-site interview or strong references.

Anyone paying attention has started planning accordingly for this over the last couple years. The remote work revolution has resolutely failed, and it's clear in retrospect it never had a chance.
Microsoft fires engineers who protested during company's 50th anniversary
MCP is useful because anthropic has a disproportionate share of API traffic relative to its valuation and a tiny share of first-party client traffic. The best way around this is to shift as much traffic to API as possible.