skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Conservatives will not go into the night quietly.

David Frum in 2018:

> Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy. The stability of American society depends on conservatives' ability to find a way forward from the Trump dead end, toward a conservatism that can not only win elections but also govern responsibly, a conservatism that is culturally modern, economically inclusive, and environmentally responsible […]

* https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/56364271-trumpocracy-t...

* https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/frum-tr...
It seems like a cultural difference, that in America, corporations are trying to comply with the laws in the most malicious ways, and most customers get angry about the laws rather than about the corporations. Which of course, removes any incentive for the corporations not to act obnoxiously.

Sometimes it doesn't even seem to make sense. For example, one might think naively, that if a website reacts to the law by throwing tantrum and displaying the most annoying dialog ever invented (which by the way actually isn't GDPR compliant), they would just hurt themselves, because their readers would move to different websites. Yet somehow they don't, and other website adopt the same annoying dialog. I am confused, because this isn't how free market was supposed to work.

Could you list the allergens, please? No we won't, because f--- you!

Well, now you have to list the allergens, or you get punished. Okay, so we will list all allergens in the world, including the ones our products don't contain, because f--- you!

Then we update the law so that you also get punished for listing made up allergens. Okay, so we will add as many allergens as we can to all our products, because f--- you!

Always choosing the most aggressive way to comply with the letter of the law while going completely against the spirit.

Meanwhile, in the deep jungles of Eastern Europe where most people laugh at the very idea of a law, if a product contains an allergen, the producers write "this product contains this allergen"; if the product does not contain the allergen, they write "does not contain this allergen"; and if they are not sure, they write "this product may contain this allergen". Sometimes with an explanation like "we are not adding it on purpose, but we process the allergen for some other products in the same factory, so maybe some small amounts accidentally get there".

People should travel a lot, to learn that things that are considered impossible at one place are often considered trivial at some other place.

EDIT:

Half of the comments in this thread is like "stupid law, this is what you get for making laws, clearly the lawmakers never heard about unintended consequences", and the other half is like "in my country (different countries in different comments) this problem does not exist, producers simply label their products honestly".
The entire purpose of the judiciary is to interpret the law. This is what they are supposed to do.

Chevron curtailed this essential power in favor of taking an agency at its word, which is quite a dangerous stance.
> Would it change much from the outside perspective if there was something more like an ultra compact neutron star at the center?

There can't be anything like that at the center; that kind of solution doesn't work. At least, not if there is an actual event horizon.

The most likely solution, IMO, is that there is no actual event horizon, and the horizons we are seeing in our observations are only apparent horizons. There are theoretical possibilities such as the "Bardeen black hole" (which is misnamed since it has no actual event horizon) that look like standard classical GR black holes from the outside for a time on the order of the Hawking evaporation time, which means we would not be able to observe the difference now or for the foreseeable future. But what is deep inside those solutions is not any kind of ordinary compact object like a neutron star.
Which requires people staying there to attend religious services.
The article image reminds me of Theranos…

> She noticed that utilities were spending more on generators and microgrids in wealthier communities, leaving smaller, poorer communities in the lurch. “I saw the impact of what happens during a 56-hour shutoff if you’re a small business and your refrigerator loses power and all of a sudden you have to buy more inventory,” she told TechCrunch. “That was kind of this ‘ah ha’ moment.”

Seems like a decent company, but the title of disrupting anything is absolute TechCrunch typical bs… they do sensitive sample shipping. And their next planned product is a fancy cooler.

> Artyc’s next product will hold five liters, and it’ll likely be targeted at pricey, temperature sensitive foods like herbs, chocolate and wine. Then in 2025, the startup is planning to ship its 25-liter size.

You can really see how she inspired her products based on her experiences in poorer communities :/

Cold shipping truly disrupted and in shambles, I can see the revolution coming. Said nobody.
OpenBSD. Good people, consistent style, correctness.
It only takes a legislator or two because of the policies and procedures the other legislators agree to. They are free at any time to change their rules of procedure. A filibuster without requiring actual filibustering is a process congress agrees to have, not something prescribed for them from on high. Almost their entire process is something they have all agreed to, if congress is easily deadlocked by one or two legislators, it is because congress does not want that to change.
No, this doesn't work. The "slower time flows" you is an optical illusion caused by the curvature of spacetime. It is not a way to avoid the formation of a black hole.
Most of the recent widely publicized CAT injuries have been on long distance flights between Europe and South Asia.

One thing that’s happened in the past couple of years along that air corridor is the squeezing of flight paths out of Ukrainian, Russian, Israeli, and Afghan airspace.

Planes taking more circuitous routes, giving them less options to avoid weather conditions, much of the flight over hot mountainous terrain… could be a contributing factor to increasing incidents of dangerous turbulence affecting flights, even if the conditions themselves haven’t become more common.
You also need multiple credit cards.

I mostly use cash everywhere I go, but I have one credit card for autopay items, and another credit card for random purchases. I have a third card for temporary use should either of the first two cards be hit with fraud and I need to wait for a replacement card in the mail.

If you don't want to have multiple credit card accounts, you can often get a second card on the same account with a different name and use that one.

If you write checks, you should do that from a seperate account because everything someone needs to steal your money is written on the front of the check.
Meanwhile an accelerometer, microcontroller and a years worth of storage for the data probably all could be made with $5 worth of parts and a summer intern...
If I understand correctly, the AI is only choosing the optimization passes and their relative order. Each individual optimization step would still be designed and verified manually, and maybe even proven to be correct mathematically.
He didn't make the statement, he retweeted a professor from an Israeli university who made the statement.
I've never understood how it's determined that it's a Russian hacking group that did this or any cyber attack. If it's so well understood what a Russian attack looks like, wouldn't it be trivial to make any attack look Russian? And if it's not so clear what a Russian-specific attack looks like, how can we be so confident all the time that it's undoubtedly Russian?
Right now I feel like the economics of AI/LLMs are in the spammers favour. You're almost suggesting that AIs be trained to recognise other AIs. Don't misunderstand, I think it would be great if we could opt to have all AI or auto-generated content removed from our internet experience. It's just not really in the interest of the shareholders.

The best thing I've seen in a long time is the "Say potato" tactic against bots, not sure how well it works against LLMs though.
Yes, you are right in that. However we are not yet seeing much uptake in very flexible compute that works only during high energy production. And while I would love to see it, I am not sure we will anytime soon. One reason is capital costs of the compute equipment - if one only runs 25% of the time (daily solar peaks) - then it takes 4x as long to pay back the equipment. And we are still improving energy efficiency of compute a lot over time, so upgrading the equipment often is very beneficial in terms of TCO. Longer payback times is in conflict with that.
That's only assuming location is irrelevant, and that an abandoned shack on Bodie, California can help a homeless person in New York.
For any given radical-but-rational concept, people must instantaneously accept the proposition (instantaneously being less than 0.1 seconds after becoming aware of the concept). Anything else constitutes science denialism.
Random question while you're paying attention here. In the example repo, I was unable to find a file that _didn't_ say "This file is managed by terraform. Do not edit manually."

Which yaml files is one supposed to edit to actually modify the flags?
>The simplest way to see this is to realize that Kerr's statement that if a theory predicts singularities, the theory is wrong, is something that virtually all physicists who work in GR agree with!

Maybe it was my misfortune, but the university professor who taught me GR thought that singularities are "real", so this anecdote (sadly) disproves your absolutist opinion. And there are heaps of real papers from real scientists which seriously discuss potential consequences of having "real" singularities. And if we'll take a look at the pop-sci coverage, it's orders of magnitude worse... Just see the Veritasium video linked in the other comment.
That's like collector cars that peak in value for the generation after they were made. If it was a poster on your wall growing up, you want it when you are old and wealthy. The generation after is less interested.
Part of the issue is there's no good model to build transit fast short of privatization, and that even in nyc was dependent on temporary economic conditions that turned sour and bankrupted every operator. There's the japan model of financing this transit through ongoing real estate ownership vs just selling lots like old private american transit, but even then a lot of their build out was decades ago when labor and materials and land value was much cheaper, especially compared to present day american cities. Its something the federal government really ought to just spearhead like the interstate highway project, but with the current environment politically even if that did somehow have bipartisan support, there would be a ton of waste from corruption as the vultures smell out all the available flesh and probably help lawmakers write the proposals for these projects in such a way to favor themselves.
I just bought a fish tank off some guy on Craigslist a week ago, since I don't have a Facebook account to use Marketplace. He told me it was in good condition, and the pics looked ok but were from kind of far back and it was full of crap. I drive 45 min to get it and the thing is horrendously scratched up on the inside because he used it for turtles and then storage.

Falling victim to the sunk cost fallacy, since I drove all that way, I took it off his hands for 25% less than we initially agreed.
From the original, unanimous, Chevron ruling:

> When a challenge to an agency construction of a statutory provision, fairly conceptualized, really centers on the wisdom of the agency's policy, rather than whether it is a reasonable choice within a gap left open by Congress, the challenge must fail. In such a case, federal judges—who have no constituency—have a duty to respect legitimate policy choices made by those who do. The responsibilities for assessing the wisdom of such policy choices and resolving the struggle between competing views of the public interest are not judicial ones: "Our Constitution vests such responsibilities in the political branches."

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_U.S.A.,_Inc._v._Natura....

That was in 1984: long past alleged, so-called "the threat of court packing" period.
Why is that relevant? People who do own things do not get to trespass; people who do not own things, likewise, do not get to trespass.
I think pretty much everyone is rational.

However, our access to facts and information is vastly different between two different people. That's because we grow in different spaces, meet different people, and have vastly different experiences.

Then you fall into this trap where you think you are right. You ARE right, but only in the context of your experience. Since it's rarely possible to ever know if you are universally right, you have to keep an open mind, which can be difficult.
I didn’t say it was ancestral, more like German Jews saw Knaanic and were inspired to create their own language.
Yes! I look forward to network and IT related laws being created by congress! They’ve got the age and experience to truly get it right!

/s
The Senate allocates equal representation per state regardless of population size. Our elections actually just vote electors who then vote in an electoral college to vote the Executive.

The US system isn't a pure democracy, it's never been. Given that, it's a largely political matter which institutions you feel should be more democratic than others. Article III comes after Articles I and II and many believe this is the order of importance that branches are given in government. Really where we differ is our politics, this is not a debate on obvious constitutional interpretation.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40819628
Brilliant Light Power is nonsense. They've been promising amazing products for nearly 10 years now. Here's a Wayback Machine capture of their home page from 2015:

https://web.archive.org/web/20151122183613/https://brilliant...

BrilliantLight has developed a commercially competitive, nonpolluting source of energy from water. A SunCell™ catalytically converts H2O-based solid fuel directly into brilliant light which is converted to electricity using photovoltaic panels.

If they actually had this "commercially competitive, nonpolluting source of energy" they'd be selling the machines or selling the electricity by now.
Is it a big conspiracy that Leave.EU, Reform UK, UKIP, and Nigel Farage are connected to each other? Other than that, the rest of this article seems to simply be talking about businesses that someone named Richard Tice (who is also connected to Reform UK) is involved with.

All of these people are publicly connected to each other. They also seem to be pretty small fry. Wouldn't be surprised if this itself were funded by the Tories, in order to quote in press releases. If not for Reform, the Tories would be at least running even with Labour in this election.
Complaining people have been suggesting it for a long time. They seem to be of the "anyone who doesn't agree with me is obviously either stupid or evil" type.

I'm with you, though, that it feels more possible than it ever has before. If it does actually happen, it's going to be a huge change. The Supreme Court will no longer have any believable claim of being unpartisan, and democratic norms will be broken in a much broader way than ever before (barring January 6).

So if it happens, take note. America after that won't be what it was before it.
If they did start adding small amounts of the ingredients in question, admiration for their malicious compliance would make me more likely to buy their product, especially if it's also the cheapest. They have two options: acknowledge that perfect isolation is an unrealistic goal for their facility, or put aside some money for a legal fund for when their unlabeled food eventually kills someone.
Can anyone speak to what this will mean for the ATF’s “rulemaking”?
I don’t think it will be useful to either of us to continue this thread, so I am bowing out. Wish you the best.
In your opinion, which civilian courts are best suited for prosecuting financial crimes?
Are you talking about the Hawking-Penrose theorems? Have you read the Kerr paper?
Judges are also unelected bureaucrats, and they are less subject to democratic oversight since they have lifetime appointments vs agency heads who are appointed by the executive branch and can be effectively "voted out" if voters choose a different president who replaces them.
No I got banned
proc95 wasn't limited to the south.
> Not with secure boot (which I forgot to mention but I have to enable). AFAIK today there is OpenSuse, Ubuntu and RHEL. Last time I checked (about a year ago) there was OpenSuse and that was it.

They're all just using the same MS signed loader are they not? And even if not, you certainly can on any distro. Secure boot and linux isn't a problem that ties you to a specific distro.

> Not at all. First, OpenSuse is not really niche.

It sure is, especially if you're not German or even European.

> It just is solid and works well.

Right, but so do most distros. Computing has advanced a lot so stability is the norm, there isn't anything special about OpenSuse.
Yup, exactly.

I think a big reason they never took off is also that there's no visual representation of them, or input method for them.

I'd be happy to use them instead of CSV if I could edit records in Notepad or TextEdit the way I can with commas and quoted strings. See the separators, type them.

But of course once you do that, somebody now wants to insert a list of five values separated by unit or record separators into a field. They'd just be common ASCII characters along with tab, CR, LF, etc, and need to be escaped the same.

There's no escaping escaping...
Is Programming Right for You?
The Jerusalem Post on Yiddish.[1]

Yiddish speakers today are mostly ultra-orthodox Jews. The language binds them together across country boundaries, and cuts them off from the surrounding society. Even in Israel, which runs on Hebrew.

This is recently relevant as the Israeli Supreme Court recently ruled that the draft exemption for the ultra-orthodox must end.[2] Many will speak only Yiddish. The IDF has a crash one month course in Hebrew for foreign Jews who want to join and some other ethnic groups, so they will cope. Israel nominally has compulsory military service, but the ultra-orthodox have been exempted so they can supposedly study Torah. When that started in the 1940s, only 4,000 were in that status. Now it's 1.4 million. There's currently political unrest in Israel over this.

[1] https://www.jpost.com/Features/In-Thespotlight/A-bisl-Yiddis...

[2] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/after-court-ruling-ag-t...
> Programmers today

Or they can just look out the window of the former SRO apartment they took over in the Tenderloin.
The "Providers", as they are known in OpenFeature, are typically provided by the vendors, or contributed by the community.

For instance, here are is the repo for contributed Providers in Go:
https://github.com/open-feature/go-sdk-contrib/tree/main/pro...

And here is LaunchDarkly's official Java OpenFeature provider:
https://github.com/launchdarkly/openfeature-java-server
I think the big screw up was not means testing it. If the sell was, middle class people don't get congestion priced, and the rich folk in their black car limos get charged out the nose for that convenience, it would have been a very popular bill among the electorate. Maybe not the donor class but the electorate at least. Of course maybe the donor class is seen as more important to maintain favor with than the electorate in the eyes of the policy wanks.
Old news from April OP?

Actual article: https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/21/microsoft_national_se...

Lots of discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40106639
The article about Foucault's pedophilia is worth reading. I'm not really surprised. When I read the piece on Pierre Riviere decades ago, it creeped me out.

https://markkukoivusalo.org/thinkers/foucault/cp/pierre-rivi...
You do not need to get drunk, or drink any alcohol at all to have a good time. No need to go until early in the morning either...
Nitpick: Radiation decreases with the square of the distance (twice the distance, 1/4 the energy). This is because the surface of a sphere (which is where energy is collected) is 2D, not 3D.
> it's way too hard (aka expensive) to tell if you're compliant

How hard is it to figure out whether you place cookies on other people's computers or you don't? Even if you can't read your own source code, you could simply install a new browser, visit your website, and then check the cookies on that browser. I don't think it's GDPR that is dumb.
The homeless have permission to be in many places at many different times. If they are unhappy with the current place and time limitations then they should vote for representatives to change such limitations.
I suspect an LLM could possibly handle generating the text in a quarterly report, as well as many mundane tasks, but not the question and answer session on the earnings conference call because nuance and judgment is required to communicate critical information to the market.

Besides the non-trivial task of communication, I have the impression that there is a general belief that companies with a bad CEO tend to die and companies with a good CEO often thrive.
How would you make sure that the LLM is a good CEO as opposed to a CEO that steers the company toward failure?
Tbh, I find well written Elixir to be easier to read than Python. But that's mostly down to functional vs imperative which is subjective/cultural. The same code using higher order functions and pipes that feels much simpler to me would likely be unpalatable to most Go programmer I know, and maybe a lot of Python programmers too (tbf, I can't stand the vast majority of Go code I have seen either).

Part of the verbosity is because Elixir is kind of a simple language (if you disregard the OTP stuff) and doesn't have a lot of sugar - ultimately it's just functions. Whatever else sugar is there is to nudge you towards a somewhat opinionated aesthete. In this specific regard, it's not unlike Go or Smalltalk (even if in any other way they are very different otherwise). I think the stylistic variance in how different people write Elixir is pretty low compared to how people write Perl/PHP/Ruby/Python, which is probably why reading difficulty quickly goes down with some familiarity.

Other part of verbosity is probably because culturally Elixir is kind of explicit. For example Phoenix is very convention heavy, but it's still low on framework magic. It's cool that Elixir (and Julia) has macros and that's good for library and framework authors to contain verbosity without sacrificing much of the explicitness. But as an application developer I very rarely need to reach for them either? Perhaps that's due to simplicity of language and synergy between data structure and standard library.

Though based on usage there are probably some areas where I would have preferred more sugar. For example, you just end up doing a lot of deconstructing/pattern-matching Maps. Every time I do `%{var1: var1, var2: var2} = map` I wonder if it would really be bad to have `{var1, var2} = map` like Javascript? It's not a very big deal though.

Also not to be a naysayer, there is a chance that the good feeling people have about Elixir is because they basically use it in the problem domain where the language and the runtime (and Actor Model) is an exceptionally good fit for. I mean web and network stuff is already large part of what people do, so that's not much of a con? Nevertheless would I pick Elixir for my next GUI or CLI program? I doubt it.