skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tim Walz

This lunatic, during the debate with JD Vance, volunteered that he didn't believe the First Amendment protected "hate speech" even before Vance could finish accusing him of that. I had previously given him the benefit of the doubt over that MSNBC clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8ns76RCmWs) where he stated:

> There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech and especially around our democracy

Thinking that perhaps Walz just meant social media companies ought to censor "hate speech" and misinformation for the greater good, but during that debate, he left no doubt that he thinks "hate speech" isn't protected. And of course the Tim Walzes of the country want to be the arbiters of what is and isn't "hate speech."
Apple should have gone the Playstation way and release a new Mx every 6 years or so, it's not like people require so much processing power. The intersection of hardware power vs software consumption was about 10 years ago. Only VR gear is lagging. Though I can't complain about being able to buy renewed Intel Macs for under $200.
Honest question but how do you see your business being affected as foundational models improve? While I have massive complaints about them, Gemini + structured outputs is working remarkably well for this internally and it's only getting better. It's also an order of magnitude cheaper than anything I've seen commercially.
The most important sign is that he already tried to keep the power when he lost last time. And he still does not accept that he lost.
This alone is more than enough reason to never vote for him.
I was in Europe for a while recently (Switzerland). Thought about staying but when I realized that even if I naturalized, I could never really be Swiss, and furthermore future children would not really be Swiss (even if they too naturalized), and at best perhaps my grandchildren could be considered somewhat provisionally Swiss... not appealing. Too much old, too much history, if you aren't embedded in it you are permanent outsider.
Would these engineers have achieved the same working at Boeing?
Everyone thinks that the Dems and Republicans are different sides, but they are on the same side, money. This has been going on for at least 50 years. Every 5 years I hear this bull shit. IF the dems got in it would be more balanced. Nothing changes until we reevaluate our support for system that doesn't serve us.
https://genevavsarette.pages.dev/immyufx-border-crossings-in...
Monorepos have their advantages, as pointed out, one place to review, one place to merge.

But it can also breed instability, as you can upgrade other people's stuff without them being aware.

There are ways around this, which involve having a local module store, and building with named versions. Very similar to a bunch of disparate repos, but without getting lost in github (github's discoverability was always far inferior to gitlab)

However it has its draw backs namely that people can hold out on older versions than you want to support.
But you'd get 95+% of the same benefit with the v-cache on just one CCD, which is what they did with the 7950X3D.
1995 Flashback: First-time PC user can't work computer [video]
If the oatmeal hadn't sat in old milk for a week, yes, it would not likely cause gi distress
> complete and total cooperation of everyone at once, or a sufficient transition period

That is almost the definition of totalitarianism.

That's how hundreds of millions of people died (either by execution, war, work camps, or starvation[0]) as dictators pursued Marxist ideals during the 20th century.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism
This is an idea that is promoted by the media. Occasionally it is true.

After eight years of working in the military, it only took two years before I never heard from another member of my unit. Within the first three months of leaving, only one person kept in touch (for the two years). When they moved out-of-state, I never heard from them either.

Don't underestimate the perception of what happens with what is likely to happen. I don't think it differs much between "the shop" and "the office" having worked in both. How many people do you talk to on a weekly basis from your last company?
meta-whataboutism
Those are the few yes. And it looks like the goverment of Germany is about to fall. AfD is set up for a big win, so that will be that.

We're trending very far to the right as a whole, with the edges getting bigger and more extreme by the year.
"You used to be able to make a living playing in a band."

Yes, but not a good living.
Ollama 0.4 is released with support for Meta's Llama 3.2 Vision models locally
If you were a taxpaying American he even sent you an unnecessary letter. I still have mine, my job was required or whatever so I never missed work or needed the stimulus I just invested it.

Prices aren’t coming down
> younger people have been overwhelmingly against Trumpism.

Young people (18-29) are the age demographic where Trump made his biggest gain from 2020 to 2024. The only demographic where Harris had gains as the oldest demographic.

So while democrats still won the young vote, the trend is in the opposite direction.
Policy can encourage wage growth, subsidies can be given out, and politicians could increase both the minimum wage and public sector wages whenever they choose.
Wouldn't that have already happened, given that he was already president for four years?
Entry level textbooks. It's one of those things they intentionally teach wrong to first year students in an attempt to "simplify"
Again the DEM party took another opportunity to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

They should have nominated Mark Kelly. The GOP ran on "this bitch hates America". You can't run on that against a 4 star rear admiral who also went into space.
Meh, I have a PhD in engineering from a top five school and I was in between Dr Stein and Trump.

Some people really loath Biden (me), the Democrats and/or Harris.
That's just an argument for not doing "implicit GitOps", treating the tip of your monorepo's main branch as the source-of-truth on the correct deployment state of your entire system. ("Implicit GitOps" sorta-kinda works when you have a 1:1 correspondence between repos and deployable components — though not always! — but it isn't tenable for a monorepo.)

What instead, then? Explicit GitOps. Explicit, reified release specifications (think k8s resource manifests, or Erlang .relup files), one per separately-deploy-cadenced component. If you have a monorepo, then these live also as a dir in the monorepo. CD happens only when these files change.

With this approach, a single PR can atomically merge code and update one or more release specifications (triggering CD for those components), if and when that is a sensible thing to do. But there can also be separate PRs for updating the code vs. "integrating and deploying changes" to a component, if-and-when that is sensible.
For context on JumpCrisscross's comment in this thread: the 4 hours is between two separate launches on two separate rockets. This is absolutely not refurbishing and launching the same rocket 4 hours apart.

Seems like the actual record for turning around the same booster is 21 days, which is still quite impressive.

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-falcon-9-new-booster-turnar...
>Hell he might just lead with politicizing the Fed. Guess we’ll see.

Why would he not? It's not like he respects institutions such as the Supreme Court. And what repercussions has he ever faced for the destruction of norms and guardrails? If anything, he gains even more support.
From what I have seen as an occasional musician and running sound is that these days most musicians are not willing to make the sacrifices and put in the time, they will not take that poorly paying weekly gig and spend a year or two refining their performance and learning to read the audience which is a major part of making it in music.

I know a good number a professional musicians who have made it to the point where they can live off of music without constantly working, every single one of them started out the same way, playing every single show they could regardless of pay or location. This started to change around 2010, the venue I used to do sound for primarily targeted musicians who were starting out either on the local scene or national scene (just starting to tour and trying to make a name out of their home town), by 2015 music was mostly done there because the 19 year olds who had only played a few shows were not happy with $25 and a meal to sit on stage with their guitar for an hour, they wanted $100 and expected to play to a full room.

The boom in home recording also probably played a role, the starting out musicians are often resistant to it because they see it as pedestrian and not for serious musicians, musicians record in studios, not at home. Record on anything anyway you can and bring a few dozen copies to sell at those poorly paying gigs.
Since promoting a secure economic future is clearly not in the Democratic party game plan, maybe trick the Republicans into starting a war and then campaign on stopping it?

I am not sure what could hit at the self-interest of the 18-29M demographic other than the Selective Service.
Any real political problem is multifaceted, deeply interconnected with the way the country works and its place in the world. But peoples experiences of them are not, inflation manifests as someone being able to afford rent one year, and not the next.

A good politician, can speak to the experience, but fix the problem. A good salesman can sell you a solution, even if it doesn't fix the problem. And the democratic party, seems mostly interested in talking about the problem and ignoring the experience.
"But I know that I won’t be tuning in for the next episode of All-In to find out. I will not fall prey to Gell-Mann Amnesia."

Not sure if the author - Michael Bateman - will ever see this but if he does - just a thought - it could be an interesting and fertile genre/substack niche to do follow analysis of their claims/discussions in more detail regularly as a counterpoint to their podcast.

I found his analysis compelling and it could be popular among HNers.
Ah yes yes. Musk had nothing much to do with any of it. He didn't have the vision for SpaceX nor anything they did. He's just the front-man. Everyone I don't agree with is a loser.

:eyeroll:
Interesting unrelated fact, but at 6745 comments this page lags a lot on my phone, even typing this is difficult.
> Most of you do not understand the type of people that built and fought for democracy.

I AM the type of people that built and fought for democracy. My people donate to the ACLU and drive people to the polls. We marched for civil rights and women's rights. We fight voter disenfranchisement and poll intimidators and insurrections.

This is EXACLY why I'm concerned for Democracy.
In Portugal the same two parties have been consistentently fucking up the economy for the past 30 years with no end in sight. It's comically bad.

They then announce pensions for majority groups like the elderly and get voted into power by the same groups they are financing.
When's the last time Trudeau won a plurality of votes?

Canada's electoral system is extremely non-linear. The US' electoral college is far far more linear wrt popular vote than parliamentary elections, generally, and Canada's in particular.
I never claimed we should not strive for that kind of society. My points were that: 1) this is not a problem unique to women, 2) that comment specifically should only upset you if you have a very thin skin, and 3) having a very thin skin is not a good trait to have and everyone should strive to be able to handle comments like that without getting upset.

I actually think humans will never be able to achieve a utopia where no one will ever be made uncomfortable for who they are. One problem is that some people are more sensitive than others. Put another way, someone will always get offended at something. At some point you have to draw a line and say everything on this side of the line is fine, and if you get upset, it's _your_ problem.
I don’t think the original comment you’re replying to was about productivity. I agree with the original comment - 99% of what I write is for the purpose of making sense of things. They aren’t for external consumption, and never will be. Writing for oneself is entirely different than writing for others
Serbia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, and possibly even Hungary are all in eastern Europe and at non-zero risk of a repeat invasion by Russia.

Sure, not all of Eastern Europe is at risk.

So... is that okay then in your mind? As long as Putin only takes some of Europe, that's acceptable?
Brilliant article, and I neglected to bookmark it earlier, thank you.
I didn't say that at all, I was responding to a commenter talking about their particular friends, who they claimed weren't voting on shallow premises, when the examples they provided were absolutely as shallow as they were trying to claim they weren't.

You went off topic and started defending all trump voters.
“A View to a Kill (1985)” The database does not recognise when the movie name is spoken by 2 people. In this movie 1 character begins the sentence “what a view…” and a 2nd character completes the line: “…to a kill”.
The old man lost his horse
In fact, the response was much worse. It was like this:

Response 1: You are lying. The groceries in my local Whole Foods are still very affordable to me. Stop spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories.

Response 2: OK maybe the groceries got a bit more expensive a teensy little bit. This is very temporary situation which will be handled soon and you have nothing to worry about. Just stop whining and expect everything be fine sooner than you know.

Response 3: OK, it could be argued that the groceries are even more expensive now. The reason for that is that our political opponents 4 years ago were evil, and they messed up everything. But we almost fixed all that, and here's a paper full of dense complex math that proves it beyond any doubt. Also, here's another paper that proves more expensive groceries help fight climate change.

Response 4: Stop talking about the damn groceries already. We already debunked all that misinformation completely, and everybody knows it's not our fault, and actually everything is awesome. Don't you realize the other guy is literally Hitler?!

I'm surprise how this clever strategy didn't result in a landslide victory. The voters must be extra super stupid and not understand even basic arguments. Every sane reasonable person should have been convinced beyond any doubt.
I don’t. Humans are animals, too.
A brilliant idea some startup accelerator in the EU can create a platform that conforms to EU laws. It can't be that hard, given that the UI hasn't changed much in a decade or more. I can already see it "Hacker news, but hosted in the EU with Swiss privacy and is GDPR compliant".
>I for one do not care about Mars, the science, all his expensive toys. I'm here on earth trying to make ends meat. What has his rocket done for me?

I mean at least for me personally it gave me excellent Internet access when I was on vacation in the middle of nowhere and didn't even have cell reception. And if there's a big disaster in my area I'm sure it will be excellent for maintaining communication.
So what's the reason? Or why should I care about the quality of life of the richest?
And in 2002 a neuroscientist hooked a camera to a blind man's brain and he could see well enough to drive a car around an empty parking lot without running into things. And yet there are still many blind people.

Doing something cool once doesn't impact civilization. Doing it affordably at scale does. If Space X can do the chopstick landing reliably and integrate it into their operations, then that will be impactful - and change civilization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Dobelle
> They’re still fully in control. There is, for example, as far as I understand it, still plenty of attack surface for them to run different software than they say they do.

But any such software must be publicly verifiable otherwise it cannot be deemed secure. That's why they publish each version in a transparency log which is verified by the client and handwavy verified by public brains trust.

This is also just a tired take. The same thing could be said about passcodes on their mobile products or full disk encryption keys for the Mac line. There'd be massive loss of goodwill and legal liability if they subverted these technologies that they claim to make their devices secure.
> over the last few years

He was president before it was gaining steam.
This kind of thing is why I got into engineering in the first place.

There's so much more to it than money.
I am assuming they are talking about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzXcTFfV3Ls&t=3s

Edit: Another link with probably better info

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC1wgWi9WWU

TLDR: DC-X (Delta Clipper X)
Lower taxes.
Now it's up to see if the world will decouple form the US monopolies.
Embed: Agentic AI for triaging security alerts
Interesting, for me it's a bit the opposite. In the standard view I really read every headline and consider what might be through the click. In this version I skim more in mindless scrolling fashion.
> Javascript's lack of tail recursion

Even in Safari? [1]

[1]: "As of July 22, 2023 Safari is the only browser that supports tail call optimization" https://stackoverflow.com/a/37224563
Wouldn't be the first time though. I'd old timers remember Bouchard.

Granted, the last time the Bloc was Her Majesty's loyal opposition, the incumbent party collapsed, never recovered, and was swallowed by its rival.
> they said Clinton had a 70% chance of winning.

No, they didn't.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/upshot/presidential...

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/clinton-has-90-percent...
Entire countries survived on distilled water for decades (Hong Kong, etc). Electrolytes can be readily gotten by solid foods.
I am honestly unsure why the characterization of Trump as anti-war overlooks his stated desire to "order the Department of Defense to make appropriate use of special forces, cyber warfare, and other covert and overt actions to inflict maximum damage on [Mexican] cartel leadership, infrastructure, and operations." Whether or not you think that's justified, it is a very clear statement of intent to use military force on foreign territory, at our discretion. And that's a quote from 2023.
Yeah, I'll worry about him suppressing liberals when he bans the onion for making a joke.

Until then, I'll call it an improvement.
Because trans people. And immigrants pouring through the border. And abortion.

In other words: culture wars.
I love monorepos but I'm not sure if Git is the right tool beyond certain scale. Where I work doing a simple `git status` takes seconds due to the size of the repo. There has been various attempts to solve Git performance but so far this is nothing close to what I experienced at Google.

The Git team should really invest in tooling for very large repos. Our repo is around 10M files and 100M lines of code and no amount of hacks on top of Git (cache, sparse checkout etc etc) is not really solving the core problem.

Meta and Google have really solved this problem internally but there is no real open source solution that works for everyone out there.
> On the other you have the de facto #1 world power

Wasn't always the case, and honestly it's hard to tell where China stands right now, and it seems like it's not slowing down... if you look at e.g. robotics or drones...

> which was founded on the principle of democracy some 200 years ago

Didn't it need a civil war to actually become a democracy? My understanding was that it was not exactly founded as a democracy. But maybe I'm being pedantic there.

> with strong safeguards put in place to prevent the exact thing that happened with the Weimar republic.

Genuinely interested! What are those safeguards and what do they prevent that happened with the Weimar republic?
Keep an eye on reachability and performance. I’ve seen DO consistently perform terribly and/or drop connections for months (that is, didn’t look like some brief routing glitch somewhere) for some US and Canadian routes (not, like, Sri Lanka or something) on excellent Internet connections. The fix was moving to AWS, problem gone. It felt like a shitty-peering-agreements issue.
Thanks. I had no idea there where that many parties in the parliament. At the last election I got the impression that it was just Le Pen's party, Macron's party, and a left-wing coalition. But I guess that was simplifying media coverage.
> There's a reason the term "deflation" exists

Which has always been treated as a spooky four-letter word in economics. I remember the news stories in 2008 when we had a brief period of deflation and the headlines were particularly apocalyptic (even despite the overall grim economic news of the time).
how did COVID create new money supply?
Because they don’t take things so literally.

I’m not trying to be flippant, that’s genuinely the answer to your question. Trump is literally being dramatic and funny by putting it like that. And you’re taking the bait and missing the joke.

I know I sound like the enemy and I dislike including this paragraph: But keep in mind, I can’t stand Donald Trump and didn’t vote for him.
Another perplexing decision. It reminds me of when Bush won his second term. In retrospect, nobody today thinks that was a good move. But you'd be surprised how many people vote for Trump because they want to save money on taxes and think republican policies will help the economy.
Musk owns, runs, and is the public face of SpaceX, he is automatically germane to any discussion of it.
US, stop that polluting! US Looks at China Well they started it!
Not sure if its clear here to US participants, but the world views this outcome much like we did in 2016: it makes the US into an absolute laughing stock. I don't fully understand: he was voted out in 2020 due to the massive failures of his term and him personally, and now four years later when he has become even more deranged, they voted him back in? What the hell?

Positive outcomes I see is that much like with the US's unequivocal support of Israel, this devastates the US's reputation and foreign influence. Trump wants to abandon Europe and Ukraine, which might grant Europe the independence and the urgency to step up and support Ukraine itself, unfettered by dysfunctional politics back in the US. A third pole on the world power stage would improve things, the US isolated back home in its infighting and staying out of the rest of the worlds business. IF the EU steps up.
That's actually interesting, thank you.
That seems to imply that things can't get worse.. much much worse
The closest, I think, is copper.

https://www.ars.usda.gov/arsuserfiles/80400525/articles/ndbc...

There is no US RDA for fluoride.
> the space of "games that would run well on the Switch" is still fairly unexplored

That's not true at all, many games don't bother with the Switch at all because of dev costs, and Fortnite, one of the most popular games in the world, is struggling on the Switch. I know because I play FN on Switch occasionally, and you can quite literally see all the pain that went into making all that complexity work at approx 25fps.

Even Nintendo can't make the latest Zeldas run at >30fps, and they're relatively low fidelity.
TF seems to have an axe to grind with all things Musk.
Yep. Good luck with that (Not directed at you).
how about an alternative:

Position 3: Introduce policies that stimulate domestic production and decrease foreign competition. This will lower prices without forcing domestic producers out of business.
I have been taking care of my partner suffering a chronic illness for 2-3 years now and it is phenomenal that this on the top of HN. I've had to figure out a lot of this for myself having made many mistakes and I still just learned about Respite Care. Thanks OP :)