skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Handmaid's Tale" comparisons are silly.

But what is perhaps even more of a problem is the inability of the proverbial fish to notice the water they swim in. To summarize:

Every state is a confessional state.

and

Convention is not the same as normality.

Here, American society is governed by liberalism. It is, quite literally, the confession of the liberal state. Liberalism is not a "neutral" position (the very idea of neutrality doesn't make sense, except in a relative sense, i.e., as common denominator among disagreeing parties). Liberalism makes positive claims. It makes moral claims. It has its own philosophical anthropology. It is underpinned by definite presuppositions about such things as the nature of knowledge and the nature of freedom, as well as presuppositions of a distinctly theologically Protestant nature that would be rejected today if they were explicitly stated. It even has its own latent hyperindividualistic eschatology, entails by its anthropology.

If liberalism tolerates non-liberal views, it does so only to the degree that they conform to liberal expectation (this is visible when reading Rawls critically). And far from merely creating a space for incompatible or diverse worldviews to coexist in peace (including those that are given the name of "religion"), it demands and pressures those worldviews to concede to liberal expectations. People are pressured to accept the innovations of the liberal regime; those who refuse are harassed and chastised.

So, it's more than a little embarrassing, especially in this day and age, to continue to maintain the pretense of the "enlightenment" and "neutrality" of the liberal order as if it weren't itself a confession. It is a confession like any other, and because every state must have a shared confession to even function, it receives a privileged status in the liberal state, just as any confessional state grants privileged status, by definition, to the confession of the state, however tolerant that confession may be of other confessions. Whether liberalism is the true confession, that is a separate question (I claim that it is not), but what is irritating is the hypocritical pretense of it not being a confession, as if it does not need to be defended, because it is just obviously true. It isn't obviously true, and worse, it contains well-documented contradictions and errors [0]. It is to be expected that someone who grew up in such a regime, who has no real and deep exposure to anything else, who hasn't examined his own culture's presuppositions, will naturally be predisposed and habituated to find the liberal order the natural one, the correct one, the normal one, and so on. That doesn't ipso facto mean that that liberalism or any confession is wrong, only that sensibilities can be trained and molded to normalize what is, in fact, not normative at all.

[0] A nice, short, but lucid explanation of some of liberalism's most essential features and problems can be found in Feser's "Locke": https://a.co/d/ayXWIgD.
all their product people are now posting about it on LinkedIn.
You always throw out the baby with the bathwater?
Future notepad grocery list item:

* soda pop <--- consider replacing this with Coke Zero, on sale at a Kroger's near you this week
"'Forward!' he cried from the rear and the front rank died; The general sat and the lines on the map moved from side to side"

- Pink Floyd, Us and Them

Funny how the only thing that's changed is that now there's a lucrative industry reaching into every sector whereas there once were only a handful of profiteers.
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I think there is an important distinction between the front lawn and the back yard. In neighborhoods around my city, the front lawn is an entirely valueless piece of land (outside aesthetics).
The name of the game probably comes from dolphins echolocation ability. Another explanation I like to entertain is that the name is a reference to John C Lilly. He was a scientist who believed in an alien organization called the Earth Coincidence Control Office or E.C.C.O. He also studied dolphin intelligence and communication. He gave dolphins LSD in an effort to communicate with them. John C Lilly is an interesting rabbit hole to go down.
If it's the Org Mode agenda view in anything close to its default configuration, those 133 items will contain not just tasks scheduled for today, but also any incomplete tasks that were either scheduled for time before today, are past deadline, or have a deadline coming in the next 7 days (IIRC, maybe it's 14).

This is to say, if you don't keep on top of current work, the agenda view quickly turns into an ever growing wall of shame.

I have a pretty weird love-hate relationship with it because of that.
How do you get to that logically? If you're supporting a person who is literally advocating a policy which harms another group of people, you know in your heart of hearts you might not feel like you have any bad feelings about brown people or women, but you're literally paying for the subjugation of those people.

Logically those groups are racist transphobic and misogynistic support Trump. It's factual because it's logical.
This is incorrect. The returned integer is a regular Python object, not some "unboxed" integer value.
Ask HN: How would you launch a much better and minimal, LinkedIn-like Platform?
I am working on it. I am forced or want to cut whole lot of functionality that they have. Any advice will be really useful. Thanks.
> social media nowadays is being overrun by bots spamming crypto, onlyfans, or just straight up misinformation

There are other ways to combat this problem than having verified users (which I'm not opposed to, but don't think most people will opt into when joining a twitter / facebook alternative)

One such alternative is making moderation user controlled like Bluesky has with ATProto. Each user has choice in what moderation service(s) they subscribe to, and anyone can run a moderation service. Also the same for algo feeds

The way to evolve social media is to lower the barrier to migration, making real competition possible. This is what I see in ATProto
Automat is a common European word for 'machine' or 'vending machine', many languages have it.
Fifteen years ago I did my own in Canada, and just wrote my own name and phone number on the back as at the "photographer". They gave me the hairy eyeball at the passport office though but let it slide since the pics did meet the requirements.

After that I got them done at the local framing shop.
I think comparisons work best when the goalposts remain in place. My response was to the rhetorical question Is this person under the impression somehow that what Elon did to Twitter _did_ work, not whether Musk's strategy will make money or keep the Great Lakes free from contamination or whatever other comparison can be made. Musk set out to 'free' Twitter, seemingly convinced this was necessary when the satirical Babylon Bee was banned and seems to have achieved that purpose. The future will tell us if X remains viable after the advertising boycott finally peters out - probably quite soon given the current zeitgeist.
the baked-in animated captions are so jarring and make things impossible to watch. i think your observations are astute though -- the constant bright shapes popping up every .5s is required to hold the tiktok generation's attention long enough to digest a narrative
So really it's just about ZuckBook not paying forward via OSS?
This was inevitable.
No doubt the companies are making enough money to keep their expensive lawyers on retainer for just such occasions.
Matrix and XMPP operate in very different ways Matrix is a graph database synchronization protocol, whereas XMPP is event based.

Let's use group chats as an example: with Matrix if you join a group chat hosted on another server, the entire history of the chat gets synced to your server. This means it's very resource intensive to scale, but very reliable since you pretty much always have chat history available and if one server goes offline you can keep the group chat alive on one of the other servers (let's ignore netsplit style concerns for now, it's not really relevant to the high-level nature of the question). XMPP on the other hand is event based, this makes it much less resource intensive, but means that if the server you're trying to communicate goes down you don't have access to that chat room anymore (some servers mitigate this by using traditional high-availability techniques like clustering, but that's not really a protocol thing, I'm sure some Matrix servers also do clustering as part of their scaling strategy).

As far as features specifically related to IM, both support most of the same things, it's just a question of whether clients have implemented them or not in either protocol.
Piem: Network Emulator Based on Raspberry Pi
remember, before there was recorded music all music that could be heard was performed live. The technology has evolved over time. Once people were buying and using recorded music, there was a tendency for less creative participation. Some things have emerged in the face of this. For instance, karaoke, where people can participate live with the music. Also, things that DJs did. Scratching literally turns a record, the embodiment of mass media music, into a musical instrument being wielded by someone, often in a small group setting. When the raw material is traditional instruments, people can express themselves in certain ways. DJs remix, add breaks to, scratch over, rap over, and otherwise express themselves with the records and turntables as the raw material.
Yes! I wish CSS had decals support!
The problem with giving each team a repo and an API surface is that you create API boundaries where your organizational boundaries are, not necessary where your service boundaries are. And as your organizational structure evolves over time, your repo and API boundaries lag behind since it’s so difficult to make large scale shifts to the code.
I would start simple. Build it and share it with your friends and family. If you are in a college, share it with your college. Solve the problem for your closed group first. If you can convince your group to pay, you have crossed the first step. So first degree of separation is solved.

Remember, most celebrities will be at most at a distance of six degrees of separation. So you can build up to that.
A friend of mine had a HUGE avocado tree in his backyard. He would hand us paper grocery bags basically filled to the brim with them all the time, because otherwise they would just fall off and rot in his yard.

His dog ate them all the time too, absolutely spoiled!

Likewise when I lived in Hawaii, my girlfriends grandmother had a mango tree the size of Tennessee and she'd give me big paper bags full of mangos. Best I have ever had.

I do miss this about living in a warmer climate.
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Who invented the computer – series 2019 – current
This argument doesn't hold on a pure numbers basis. If you are one of 10 people to make eyes contact with someone at the bar, you are already in a far more privileged position than being the person who added one of a million likes to a video.

In forms of social media that existed primarily to produce inter-personal connections (i.e. very early Facebook, or maybe even LinkedIn) your argument works significantly better, but the way that instagram/tiktok/etc prioritise influencers in your feed makes the likelihood of 1-to-1 interactions infinitesimally low (unless you yourself are also playing the influencer game)
> applied sciences that are required for modern advanced technology.

Where would you find this?
You forget that big companies will gladly offer shit to their customers, but then will offer something better to those who are willing to pay more (id est, governments. Why make things more secure for everyone if not doing that can make more money?
I just went on vacation to Japan and it was fascinating how much relief even the competent English-speakers there seemed to show when I would speak with them in my semi-fluent (vocab-deficient though) Japanese.

There are translations everywhere, on signs and in museums (those are fascinating because the translations omit 80% of the detail since foreigners will lack historical contextual knowledge) but I got the feeling that with the exception of accommodating tourists, there's never any use for most natives to ever speak English.
Thank you.

Perhaps my locating of the quote is redeeming

https://archive.org/details/elementreatisephys00ganorich/pag....
I would think the alignment marks would be included in the photomasks, so they would be part of the chips themselves
Especially if the "other country" had seen no significant military action since 1991, when Sino-Vietnamese war ended, and in that time we completely destroyed 8 countries, had significant military action in 4 more, and overthrown some governments on top of that, with utterly devastating consequences in at least one country (Ukraine).
I expected the layout, head size, expression etc rules to be more or less standard across countries. More than a decade a go our dual citizen baby got both passports at once and I thought I could use one of the US duplicates for the other country... an hour of fiddly standards checking, measuring, reprinting, cropping and I got something that would pass on the application but got a scolding that it was not quite right.
Idk, someone is buying those tickets. I go to a dance party every month or so. But also… you are not forbidden from dancing. You can just do it. So if you want to go dancing and don’t, that’s on you.
The Harris campaign raised over a Billion and the word this morning is they're now $20 million in debt.

Amazing how much more effective the "crypto industry" dollar was than the Democratic Party dollar. Perhaps the Democrats should hire some of the crypto people next election.
There are many ways to recover relational behaviour. Libs such as clp(fd) (superseded by clp(Z)), clp(BNR) and others.
Nice to see in-kernel webcam support coming in. Bad webcam conferencing support (along with slow WiFi) was a big factor in moving away from FreeBSD on my laptop a couple years ago.
Show HN: Java Markdown – living docs with Java code
I've been playing around with the idea of living documents with Java code. I found the notebook paradigm slightly frustrating and thought the markdown paradigm could be interesting.

This is very preliminary, but what do you think?
I thought the main benefit of micro services is they make the deployment unit smaller, so you can have more teams doing independent deployments, rather than everyone having to wait for the next version of the monolith to go out
Show me your car helmet advocacy. Now.
> It is applying symbolic precedence rules to prose language. These rules are not universal and certainly not when writing in prose form.

You have to apply some form of precedence in order to evaluate it at all. Question is whether to use PEMDAS, or left-to-right. I don't see anything wrong with the LLM's initial choice for the former, particuarly since it can explain the alternative and that it may be the more likely intention if spoken casually out loud as opposed to written as text.

To potentially get back more to the core of the issue (rather than going on a tangent about whether an answer many humans would give is a misinterpretation): How do you define understanding? What do you think is currently missing?

-- (edit, to respond to your edit:) --

> LLMs frequently misinterpret and proceed without hesitation. They lack the necessary understanding to ask for clarification.

I'd conjecture that always giving an answer and not asking for clarification first may be an artifact of the system prompt/RLHF of the LLM you're using. Do you believe that asking for clarification on ambigious questions requires understanding?
I live in a depopulating regional capital city of Japan, and we're still building upwards. In the past 4 years or so, I can count at least 7 large (12+ story, 150+ unit) condo buildings that have gone up. People want access to entertainment and short commutes to their jobs.
Unless they were Iranian, there is ~0% chance the US will invade their country.
And my point that I've repeated over and over, is that the benefit of exercise is far broader than just merely numerically burning calories. It is in all these other beneficial effects that it can indirectly help. Focusing solely on calories in calories out is a big mistake when improving health and/or tackling obesity.
I've seen wind tunnels in use in videos and TV shows.

Question:

Let's say I had this device and I had a small vehicle and I put it in there to make changes to. Would this tunnel help me actually create a tiny car that legitimately is faster in some measurable way outside the wind tunnel?

I know there's a lot of unknowns in my scenario, but I'm thinking about the utility / outcome of using this device, just in general beyond the cool factor. Is a tiny wind tunnel actually likely to produce real life results for someone?

Edit: Thanks for all the answers everyone, informative info.
3D Printing with Resin Is Risky, Formlabs' Creator Series Aims to Make It Safer
> Ganon

For a second I misread it as Gowron, and my mind started replaying the quote above in an angry Klingon voice.
Tragically your two lifelong Democrat friends are illogical. And now they are transitively racist misogynist and transphobic because they're literally paying a guy to enact those policies and views. He was legally convicted of sexual misconduct with E Jene Carroll. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of guilty. The Democrat friends of yours who support that sexual abuser are now using United States budget to pay the salary for this abuser.

Logically their hands are dirty now.
This would actually make third parties a real threat and force Dems/Republicans to stop villainizing each other. Everyone voting out of hatred for the other side means a popular 3rd party candidate would be everyones 2nd choice.
The SMS gateway provided by jmp.chat has made XMPP fairly awesome for me. I have an XMPP client on all my devices and SMS contacts are just more contacts in my roster.
Oh OK. So just the internet, not real life then. There's your problem. It is a medium primarily focused on entertainment and spectacle, not a scientific poll and reflection of deep truths.
Trump-Musk Partnership Puts New Spin on Value of X
I think you're saying that it takes fewer characters to define a namedtuple. If you're interested in less typing, There's also dataclasses.make_dataclass:

>>> Point = dataclasses.make_dataclass("Point", ["x", "y", "z"])
>>> Point(1, 2, 3)
Point(x=1, y=2, z=3)
Also traffic could be encrypted
If you are talking about connections between people who both create content on the network, sure - however, the vast majority of users only consume content.
Yes I agree that the two align (and that I should have compared FRED to FRED vs bringing in Census data). But the best way I add what you wrote to what I wrote is would be:

"Immigrants are coming at a rate that increases their portion of the population and thus their portion of jobs" which squares pretty directly with the "they took our jobs" arguments?
It's very much the "how", what were you looking for that's not explained in the blog post?
Recirculates and then dissipates into the air around it when you are done
People starving, born with disabilities/incurable diseases, people at the front line of a war, especially if critically wounded, people caught as a prisoner being tortured, people living their lives as a slave with physical violence and any other serious situations I couldn't imagine, seem like worse than someone at least with physically safe condition and possibly a way to escape if one wants to.
When you say billions of years, you have to remember that change in DNA is glacial compared to computing; we're talking the equivalent of years or even decades for a single training iteration to occur. Deep learning models on the other hand experience millions of these in a matter of a month, and each iteration is exposed to what would take a human thousands of lifetimes to be exposed to.
Backyards are different than frontyards. Your backyard is considered your private space and you can put a locked fence around it, store your stuff in a shed, put in a swimming pool, etc. You are more restricted with a front yard.

If I had the choice and I was forced to allocate, I would choose 100% backyard and 0% frontyard.
Anger in Taiwan over reports SpaceX asked suppliers to move abroad
Do you think the real threats were colluding with Trump? Otherwise, I don't see how Trump being extremely popular within his party means the primary wasn't legitimate.
By nature they are violent because they are fighting. I would not like these odds.

> There have been works that estimate the actual percentage of deaths; the highest I've heard is 1/5 matches resulting in a death, quite often accidentally. That was Mary Beard's estimate. Many other authors have estimate somewhere between 1/5 and 1/8 matches resulting in deaths.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/12k1r6/how_f...
I think its not only the clients...Rather its what the server side supports and to ensure clients align with that....And i think among a group of techy friends, well, they can coordinate the proper settings...but it becomes thorny when involving some not-techie buddies...Of course its possible, but, you know, the onboarding process is less than ideal. I say that not being an xmpp guru of coruse, so YMMV.

> I am really surprised there isn't a venture backed company pushing XMPP forward. Maybe people have tried and realized it's not viable.

Actually, WhatsApp would fulfill your definition there. They are/were a startup whose entire product/platform is an xmpp client (using their centralized server/instance). Now, whether they pushed "xmpp forward", or merely would be considered pushing a chat platform and who cares whats under the covers...well, that i leave as an exercise for you or others to decide/opine. ;-)
If you have a better word for "Designed in a way that attempts to protect you from Surveillance Capitalism", I am all ears.

> Control requires centralization.

How, exactly? What control do you have over data you handed to Facebook?
The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world
The way homes are designed now, in places with basements, they also serve the function of hanging onto rainwater.
Teaching LLMs how to know when to ask for help to provide more accurate answers
https://archive.ph/3foPm
On an infinite timeline that feels optistic. We're up to 108, that's an average of one about every 2.5 years https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/how-many-...