skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Europe is actually resisting better than US due to election system. Here in best case scenario they are number 2, and took them a long time to get there after Trump

In the US, a populist just needs to win a primary, ie 50% of 50% of the American votes, and he is immediately at least nr2 in the run, and they get the support of one of the major parties.

Saying that populists / extremists also exist in Europe is just a bad comparison.
> And it's not just Musk.

You are definitely correct there. Twitter was a shit-show in this regard long before Musk came along and made it worse. They did far too little to enforce their own policies (let alone common decency) on things like bullying and hate content for far too long, for fear of losing users and therefore advertising money or being punished because some of those openly breaking those rules were in high power at the time, and this led to an “open season” feeling for all sides.

[for the avoidance of doubt: I've never had a twitter account, after the initial novelty stage it has always been far too full of the sort of people that think twitter is a good idea]
You can set a CSP in the HTML head section using a meta http-equiv tag. It has similar functionality to X-frame-options IIRC.
This is why people love working for Elon Musk.

Anyone can raise problem with him & he will fix it directly.
> You can if there is a venue for that. If the government is behaving in arbitrary and authoritarian way trusting it to do the right thing is a bit silly...

I assume that the judge in question used a specific criminal or civil law to justify his judicial order. If Twitter believes this law to be unconstitutional, the correct venue for their legal recourse is the Constitutional Court, not the Supreme Court.

In the meantime, until the Constitutional Court decides to hear their challenge and (possibly) revoke the law in question (possibly with retroactive effects), they still have to comply with judicial orders.

From what I understand, the Senate (if they believe the judge in question to be acting outside the law) has the necessary powers to boot the judge from the Supreme Court, if necessary. Twitter doesn't, sorry.

> Nobody is arguing about that, though.

People are arguing based on the supposed protection that the Brazilian constitution reserves for freedom of expression. This protection is not absolute, though (as pointed out by my example).

And constitutional law is not something that is directly applied: it mostly serves as guiding principles for the production of specific civil and criminal laws by the legislative power.

"This judicial order is inconstitutional" is simply a bad argument (from a legal point-of-view); a much more reasonable argument is "this judicial order is justified/based on an unconstitutional law" (but that is not the argument that is being made, as far as I can tell). If the judge is justifying his orders based on an inconstitutional law, then you should challenge the law itself, not the judicial order (if you can't really challenge the judicial order, which seems to be the case).

> Maybe appointing people who behave like schoolchildren to the supreme court is not the best idea then?

You do know that there is a law regulating so-called "deepfakes" in Brazil, right? (https://legis.senado.leg.br/sdleg-getter/documento?dm=929278...)

For someone who claims to be concerned about Brazilian law, Musk sure seems willing to ignore Brazilian laws, whenever it suits him.

Also, maybe it's not just the judge that is acting like a schoolchild, in this context. What do you think is going to happen if you talk back and threaten a judge with being arrested, even in a US court of law? Usually not fun things.
Yeah, for like 2 years? That's the hype phase.

(you are talking BS, 2024 there is no data about it, 2019 there isn't also. if the stats you brought is true it would be at maximum from 2021-2023)
Magic Spells
Too trivial. You can easily buy it.
They wanted him to appoint a representative so it could represent the company (and be held liable, in case the company does anything illegal) as mandates Brazilian law. As soon as Elon decided to not have a representative, Twitter's operation in Brazil became Illegal

Other companies, such as Telegram, also have faced the same and they simply appointed a representative. If you research you'll see that no representative has been jailed, so this whole "they would have jailed the representative" narrative is bs
I didn't know about this resource. Thank you for sharing. I had only seen this one https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
I did notice that all editors modeled after this tutorial tended to be clones. That's why I opted for a trial-and-error approach as a learning experience.
> EInk is truly 0 energy to hold an image.... but each refresh uses a lot of energy. IIRC, the breakeven vs Sharps memory LCD was like 15-minute refreshes.

IIRC the previous gen Kindles used to switch the cover art every 15 minutes or so.
Are French Presidential elections so different? And the UK only has two major parties, so the outcome will be similar.
Can this be true? Does the calculator have any irrational number? What if I enter PI * 2? Infinite precision, wouldn't that mean running until your RAM is full? Or would it simply work, because no irrational number is calculated to infinite (as many as the device could) digits and is therefore finite and can easily be multiplied?

Or another even simpler case: If division is infinite precision, and I enter (2/3) * X, does the calculator internally work with fractions? Otherwise it would have infinite digits to compute.
Yes, I loved MIP models too. I'm really annoyed that the last Gramin Forerunner watch with an MIP display was 955, and it's now discontinued and was recently removed from Garmin's website. All their new models have OLED, and I kind of understand as it looks better indoors but wastes a huge amount of battery when used outside.

I would have preferred they investigate some of these newer LCD screens that can work reflectively and optionally with backlights on.
I wonder if it'll be cheaper per frame than the image generators.
>This is mostly not true.

I went to double check, and the best answer is that America collects less tax/GDP than its peers. Even accounting for state and federal taxation.

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-do-us-taxe....

> Taxes on personal income and business profits made up 48 percent of total US tax revenue in 2021, a higher share than in most other OECD countries, where such taxes averaged 34 percent of the total (figure 2). Australia, Denmark, and New Zealand were the only OECD countries where over half of total revenue was generated from such taxes.

> In the United States, taxes on just the income and profits of individuals (not businesses) generated 42 percent of total tax revenue, compared with 27 percent for all other OECD countries combined.

So that clarification is warranted.

> Convoluted taxes

This … I mostly agree that simpler tax codes are beneficial, I am not sure its complexity is the core reason discussion is difficult.

Tax payment itself is made as painful as possible, so that it remains a focus of ire for citizens.

Hmm. I suppose in the spirit of simplicity, it would be ideal to have an automated tax generation form, and a simple tax code - making it easier for people to just pay their taxes and get on with their life.

And then have progressive taxes for people higher up the wealth ladder.

> Market concentration

Your point is that this is not the primary reasons for wealth disparity?

I dont know - we are well aware of the kind of steps firms take to avoid paying taxes, and instead move them to tax havens. The numbers indicate that firms tend to pay much lower taxes in America compared to their OECD peers.

Again - the point here is on “primary reasons” for wealth capture.
> Bad individual behavior — prioritizing career progression over company success

I don't think that's bad behaviour (the 'especially at the expense of others' deliberately aside) - that's correct behaviour? Unless it's your company. But the key is, ideally, to have goals aligned such that the prioritising personal progression means doing great things for the company.
Does anyone know why he did not try to increase the argon pressure? Wouldn't it help to completely fill the mold with metal?
Reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI
There’s a difference between what a person is legally allowed to do and what is wise for them to do.
> You are ignoring the lead-up to this situation, (...)

I am not ignoring anything. The fact is that Brasil has laws to fight disinformation and libel, and those laws are being enforced.

Your personal opinion also glances over the fact that Brasil was recently subjected to a coup attempt to drive the country into a fascist dictatorship, heavily pushed by a massive disinformation campaign in social media services like Elon Musk's Twitter.

What you are trying to glance over is the fact that none of this issue is related to free speech. Elon Musk tried to avoid complying with a nation's laws with a ill-advised stunt of pulling Twitter's corporate presence from Brasil. As expected from any jurisdiction in the world, not cooperating with the judicial system bears consequences.

To drive the point home, I stress the fact that Elon Musk did far worse to support fascist and authoritarian dictatorships attacking free speech, such as his support for Erdogan's regime censoring opposition and non-supoortive posts during the last sham elections. For that, Elon Musk's reaction was claiming that either some messages were boosted or all of them were boosted, and he claimed it's better to have some (only supporting a dictator) than none. But for Brasil, the need to appoint a mere legal representative to process requests was now deemed too much? And enough to pull a dying company from a +200M market? It doesn't pass the smell test.
Doom on a Volumetric Display (Ancient) [video]
I've decided a while back that I will never work with these kinds of "professional" liars ever again. The lies will always accumulate and ruin every goddamn thing. I'd rather be unemployed and barely scraping by than worry if some psychopath is going to piss away 10 years of my hard work.

I think truth seeking is more important than any particular mode of operation. Founders are more likely to do this because they genuinely want to win the entire game, not just Q3.

I think I've already seen a few managers walking around in founder's garb. Again, these people are professional liars. They're going to be hard to spot unless you're looking for it.

My next venture will probably involve unconditional dictatorship with hair trigger termination policies for deceptive behavior. Until then, I'll be working smaller contract jobs and otherwise scraping by.
For pythonistas reading this: JVM and .NET frameworks are better for large projects in the sense that they turn even the simplest projects into large messes of pointless byzantine buggy architecture, which in some circles is a sign of "high quality".

Edit: That said, learning multiple programming languages (paradigms) is a very good idea. A reasonable dose of e.g. Java, .NET or C++ for example is great for understanding how programming languages and software should not be written. Learning modern JavaScript makes it obvious how Python really suffers from weak functional programming support, very bad performance and a horrible packaging system.
Everything from material simulation to weather forecasts use GPUs very actively and effectively, for a long time.

There’s a whole world using GPUs to accelerate things.
> defines freedom as doing anything which does not harm others

Who decides if someone is harmed? Did I really harm someone if I called them a homophobic slur? Can I say that someone harmed me if the mispronounce my name?
MKBHD did a review of a TCL phone with an NXTPAPER display and the screen looks like just a normal LCD with a matte screen protector. It has some extra layers physically to limit the amount of blue light, but it 100% looked like any other phone screen with a "paper-like" screen protector on top. The only other thing were the screen modes that would wash out colors (partially or completely) to imitate the "paper look", but it's still pretty much glowing like any other regular display
Mental AI Fog and how to cure it
What do you use instead?

Iostream is… far bigger than this, for example.
I'm not sure he is a good example. He has 55 direct reports and that is not normal. My best manager nearly burned herself out with 28 direct reports, most of which were individual contributors as opposed to managers. Between what I have read and experienced, you can have more ICs under you the more senior and autonomous they are, but there is a limit and limiting direct reports to 8-12 is a good rule of thumb. It gives time to meet individually every two weeks, which Huang doesn't do
I think I remember seeing the term GPU used in a Byte article from the 80s? It was a while ago when I saw it (~15 years), so I can't really remember any details.
I think your point makes sense, but the comparison of programming to swimming loses the thread of thought a bit. Swimming is not my forte, but there are books by professional marathoners on how to train for marathons, for example, that are valuable to read for forming proper training plans as opposed to "just figuring it out".

I think your opinion on OSS/large codebases makes sense, but I don't think it's an either/or situation: reading should _support_ actual coding, similar to how studying a grammar textbook for a foreign language is there to support actually speaking/listening/communicating in that language.
Exactly. There can be many, many reasons why something worked for someone else but won't work for you. There are so many variables at play. Plus, a lot of advice isn't individualized.

I really liked this talk from Patreon's CEO about bad advice: https://youtu.be/JTpBFiW5PBo
I have been recently posted a question, but it seems that there is no longer track of it. Neither in my activities log. The post concerned the internals of the Javascript engine and I don't think it was silly enough to cancel it out anyway.
And prior to this circumstance, I was blamed (or even mocked up) to have shared some code which, thought it was correct and it fixed the posed problem, was flawed because of including variable prefixed by the underscore!
I can live with it, but honestly, as some of you say, I am discouraged to send comments. Moderators look as being pretty much into their role.
From the URL I thought it was one of those posts about graphs of activity (“quantified self”) that I’ve seen before from him, but I’m glad I took a look.

Seeing him taking a walk along the coast with shorts, goofy hat, tablet on hand, made me feel sympathy for him. Most of the things he describes doing at home and traveling are things I’ve either done or would have done if I had the means.
Exactly, if I'd have started this project then I would have used .Net. We don't need to support native / cgo. Without that C# is better in every way.

I'd like there to be some kind of profile / compiler level support so we can do full manual memory management (stealing from Rust as you say) but also to be easily able to forbid that within our own projects. I don't want my frontend developers doing silly things :-)
The highlighted text reminded me: https://hemingwayapp.com
Life would be so much better if Devs were familiar with the UNIX Philosophy — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
But wasnt Jobs fired and replaced by a Pepsi CEO because he was so toxic the company was running aground ?
From dev perspective this highlights that lack of embedded version control and handling of big/security fixes for any academic paper.

Dependencies that are reported to have bugs reported akin to ‘security flaws’, should lead to updates to papers with dependencies.

Naively would be good to sort references into critical references and non-critical references.
It's like reading books in order to get better at writing them... sure it kinda works but not really. You get better at SWE by building things!!

The field has a lot of gurus who trick newcomers into falacies like 'clean code' when, instead, they should be out there banging together rocks like a JavaScript caveman seeking fire (Lisps).
On their own right, they contribute more than many other companies, though. Their kernel is open source, they have given their secret sauces like Grand Central Dispatch away, allowed complex technologies like mDNS (Bonjour), AirPrint, multipath networking to be implemented freely and used widely in a vendor agnostic manner.

macOS is 1000 times better for talking UNIX systems than Windows and is POSIX compliant.

Lastly, they are not hindering the development of Asahi Linux, and did nothing when their devices were reverse engineered. On the contrary, they left a couple of ways open for Asahi guys to boot their distribution directly.

They are not the band of saints, but they are not the underhanded evils like a couple of others.
Bundle and encrypt your .ssh with Nix
Here are the subjects where I see both beginner and experienced developers fail and yet what separates the children from the adults in the room. So read absolutely any (multiple) books on these subjects:

* measuring things (evidence gathering, performance, comparisons, stats, research). Most developers cannot do this on any level and yet have the balls (stupidity) to advocate so boldly for their opinions.

* data structures. There is a very old best practice: composition over inheritance. That advice runs far deeper than it sounds because all aspects of a good application should be interchangeable and extensible structures. That applies to both theory like functional programming as well as practical like interfaces, APIs, and data in transport.

* writing. Programming, in the brain, is no different than writing an essay in natural language. It requires executive planning, expression, organization, and refactoring. The better you get at writing prose, articles, and proposals the easier it gets to write the first draft of an original application. It’s so much more than just writing documentation and most programmers struggle with all of this.

* transmission. Read the protocol RFCs and attempt to write original implementations. Most programmers cannot do this and yet a deeper understanding of data in movement will provide capabilities you, and your competition, can never before imagine.
"requiring new safety assessments, equity and civil rights guidance"

I think everyone is probably onboard with safety and civil rights, but why is EQUITY a specific requirement the government wants to push into all AI's?

Why is this OK, considering that equity, as opposed to equality is a term with a very specific academic and politcal definition that is quite divisive and almost certainly not something that most people will typically agree on, one that I personally find hugely sinister.

A widely used definition of "Equity" from the first page of google:

"Whereas equality means providing the same to all, equity means recognizing that we do not all start from the same place and must acknowledge and make adjustments to imbalances."

Basically it means trying to play favorites in order to compensate for unfairness in society instead of treating everyone equally.

Seems pretty disgusting to me, although I'm sure many people think the opposite.

What should be clear is that this is NOT a universally accepted value shared by all, so why is it a cornerstone foundation of AI evaluation pushed by the government?
That's exactly how QNX works today, except all drivers (eg. block device access, storage space) are just userspace processes, as is the database layer. But in that case, the OS is not layered on top of the database, they're all peers.
Oh so it is now "wise" to "keep mouth shut". No wonder the West is so screwed. It has a lot of "wise men". Very few, like Elon, who will put their money where their mouth is. What you consider "wise", in this context at least, is basically to just put your head down, accept the diktats of authority, entertain the crazed loonies in society and it is all sunshine and rainbows!
> we're back to "what the regulation is matters more than how many there are

you and me are back to this.

Most arguments dont get this far, unless these answers are first furnished. Which was the spirit and intent of my parent comment.

And I agree, good regulation is better than absurd regulation.

> ostensibly neutral… small companies can’t sustain

Sure.
I struggle to see "founder mode" as something that scales. Is there not some self-selection bias occurring here, given the audience "included a lot of the most successful founders we've funded"?

If a founder is exceptional and all of the other stars necessary for a startup to succeed have aligned, this may be a good approach. But then we are just back to the question YC has always tried to answer: what makes a founder exceptional?

What about the founders who failed _because_ they were in "founder mode"?

I am not sure this article represents the beginning of a paradigm shift like it seems to think it does.
yeah was disappointing

intersection between AI and sex and relationships is very interesting and important
> So long as you continue fighting left vs right, you're fighting the wrong enemy.

The problem is that there seems to be a large overlap between that enemy⁰ and certain arguments on the right side of left/right political debates, so it is very difficult to separate the two even on those matters where that overlap isn't actually present.

The matter is made worse because right-leaning political groups are less ideologically opposed to being influenced by that enemy's main power: being able to buy stuff/opinions/people.

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[0] I assume you are meaning the arsehole rich¹ here

[1] There are some nice hyper-rich out there, but they aren't as vocal as the others so we don't hear much from/about them – much like the more moderate people with right-leaning views, who aren't heard over the yelling of others.
Exactly. It is perfectly legal for a private entity (such as Twitter) to engage in censorship, as they regularly do so. So, the argument that "we can't do that, because that would be illegal" doesn't really fly.

Furthermore, there is already a precedent here: both Telegram and Meta have been previously (temporarily) banned from Brazil until they decided to comply with judicial orders (after which, they were unbanned again). Why does Twitter think they are special in this regard?

If the judicial order is (correctly) justified by an inconstitutional law, then it's that specific law that has to be challenged, not the judicial order.
> compared their representation against hard-coded strings

Ah, used string= instead of string-equal, did they? Simple mistake to make, not keeping CL being case-insensitive in mind.