skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, and economics as a field is difficult to understand for most people.

Presidents can't in reality take all that much credit or blame for the economy. A lot of it is out of their hands, and many economic shifts take longer than a presidential term to play out. But of course presidents will try, and succeed, because most people don't understand this.

On top of that, the GOP complains about how much money Biden "printed" during the pandemic, but Trump did his fair share of that in the first year of it as well. They just make dishonest arguments.

I really don't know how you counter this.
I'm not sure that's true. See https://topforeignstocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Bitc...

obviously it depends a bit on the time frame.
as i said in another comment... anyone voting Republican is voting to harm me, my friends, and people like me by removing our bodily autonomy and force us from public life... that's pretty evil
> I agree with much of that, but I don't think that will really bring us to the "brink of extinction".

I think that it was a figure of speech. Whether it brings the human species to the brink of extinction or makes life unbearable for 90% of humans and destroys civilization as we know it is a bit of a technicality, if you ask me.

In any case it is one of the biggest problems of our time.
There's two alternate fantasies and they are both increasingly detached from reality.

In reality, the war and drug profitiers will be fine and the facist cyberpunk dystopia is still approaching at roughly the same speed.
To call them "conquest wars" is just a-historical self-serving nonsense.

>When Russians invaded Donbas in 2014, Ukraine actually had a non-aligned, neutral status.

They had a non-aligned status up until the moment their elected government was overthrown. At that point Ukraine's status is undefined. How was the government overthrown you ask? A US regime change operation: https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1ghs32...
https://archive.ph/xGRNW
As opposed to what the mass media has been doing and will continue to do ?
> I think that's the core of event-driven architecture that events drive the process, i.e. will trigger certain actions.

In an event-driven system, there is neither guarantee not expectation that an event will trigger an action; it might, but it might not. Events are simply a log [0] of "things" happening in various subsystems, published to various channels for other subsystems to ignore or act upon on their own terms.

Let say that we have two subsystems - A and B. When something happens on A, it will emit a corresponding event (e.g. SomethingHappened) to a specific channel (e.g. EventsFromA); if B is listening to that channel, it can "recognise" that event and initiate (i.e. "trigger") some action of its own.

However, if A explicitly wants B to do something, it's a command, i.e. a direct coupling by definition. As GP states, that is better handled as a direct request from A to B.

Theoretically, there is a possible scenario where A "knows" that a certain action needs to happen in the system, but does not know which subsystem has that capability, i.e. has no knowledge that B can do that. In that case it can "request" something to happen, e.g. by submitting an event like "UserCreationRequested"; however, there is no guarantee that any service will "see" that event and act upon it.

[0] https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
Training an LLM feels almost exactly like evolution - the gradient is "ability to procreate" and we're selecting candidates from related, randomized genetic traits and iterating the process over and over and over.

Schooling/education feels much more like supervised training and reinforcement (and possibly just context).

I think it's dismissive to assume that evolution hasn't influenced how well you're able to pick up new behavior, because it's highly likely it's not entirely novel in the context of your ancestry, and the traits you have that have been selected for.
If you mean in the literal sense that we will still have elections, then sure. But Hungary is a great example of why getting rid of elections is not necessary. You just need to stack the deck so it's almost impossible for your opponents to win.

Now I certainly don't know what's going to happen in the next 4 years with any certainty, but Trump was not exactly a champion of democratic norms the last time and there will be far less to restrain him now. Those who opposed him in the GOP have been pushed out and the judiciary is far more friendly. Many of those that own or control platforms and news publications were either eagerly cheering Trump on or signaling they would be more deferential now.

We have a much longer history as a democracy than democratic backsliders like Hungary so I don't think it's a given we're destined for the same fate, but I think the risk is a lot more than zero.
Why can't you use a rack as a unit of storage at the time? Were 19" server racks not in common use yet? The storage capacity of a rack will grow over time.

my storage hierarchy goes
1) 1 storage drive
2) 1 server maxed out with the biggest storage drives available
3) 1 rack filled with servers from 2
4) 1 data center filled with racks from 3
The country is in good enough shape that they can go back to not caring if it's a Democrat or Republican in the White House.
Just like 2016.
The Freedom of Quincy Jones
In my limited-but-not-nothing experience working with mono vs multi repo of the same projects, CI/CD definitely was one of the harder pieces to solve. Its highly dependent on your frameworks and CI provider on just how straightforward it is going to be, and most of them are "not very straightforward".

The basic way most work is to run full CI on every change. This quickly becomes a huge speedbump to deployment velocity until a solution for "only run what is affected" is found.
I think California just passed the prop to escalate some crimes to felonies, so I feel like the policy commonly used to justify this joke may be dead.
Democracy is when you vote for the appointed candidate. Fascism is when the electorate decides the election.
The pandemic response, the Muslim ban, family separation at the southern boarder, repealing roe v wade, ending DACA.
This doesn’t even take into account the policies he wants to enact like mass deportations.
Why didn't Dems schedule Peanut execution after the election?
> Bitcoin is not either anymore than say Tesla or Nvidia...

Except at least Tesla and NVIDIA are actually doing things that are kind of useful (crime and speculation don't count as useful applications).
At least google and meta are heavy into monorepos, I'm really curious what company is using a _repo per service_. That's insane.
I had the same thought. When Democrats run a likable, popular candidate they win. Bill Clinton, Obama being the two most recent examples. Trump won largely because his brash, crude, swaggering demeanor appeals to a lot of people and Harris was a candidate that was defaulted in because Biden was just out of gas; nobody really wanted her. Not saying that the Democrats should look for someone like Trump but first and foremost they need someone that a lot of people find likable.
> I'm just not sure if the world deserves this.

As someone who is part of the non-USA world, I'm fine with it.
Her strategy denies liquidity in the startup ecosystem. The very thing that enabled sillicon valley to become what it is. Generations of founders moving on and create new companies in new markets.

If you disagree what are the examples?
As a moderate who voted for KH, the biggest problem with the DNC candidates in recent decades is that they do not, in fact, appear to be real human beings, but instead curated facades composed of politically desirable traits.
The Immigration-Wage Myth
I have a close friend that worked on the mars rover.

He uses me as a reference.

As soon as they start being like “can he use the latest android libraries and techniques” or some crap. I just shoot back:
“The man has code on another planet, he’s more than capable of picking up anything”

They shut up so fast lol
MSFT largely did this by building the xbox platform basically on a local hyper-v system that they can control and not have to worry about hardware.
Either that, or you've gotten older. The young always want to play that one specific NEW game. Currently that usually means PS5, either Fortnite or Call Of Duty (and yes that one specific version). PS5 only has PS4 backward compatibility, and it isn't going to be emulated any time soon.
> trump is so anti-war he increased troop presence in the middle east

Gonna need a citation for that one.

> while biden pulled out of afghanistan

That's ridiculous. By the time Biden came into office, the pull-out had been long decided. If anything, Biden inherited a messy situation because Trump had rushed the exit too much.
Apparently people feel very strongly about visiting Ukraine. I wonder why :)
again, youre assuming people's delusions about their personal finances are worth entertaining. theres absolutely no economic indicator you could point me to that validates people's feelings about the economy.

There were no economic failures during Joe Biden's presidency.
If the target of your joke isn't laughing (if they're upset by it), then it's not a joke, it's bullying. If they _are_ laughing/enjoying it, then it's playful banter. You're right, it very much varies by culture (culture here being as specific as "the specific group of people")
Matt Bors is a pulitzer finalist but ok.
1. Illegal immigration is already illegal. Cutting back on it is tangential to every other statement about promoting, limiting, or targeting migration.

2. I'm responding to a comment that says "How about door 3: only allow immigration for skilled individuals capable of adding outsized value to our economy?"

And in my capacity as such a person: that attitude makes me not interested in anything else on the table. Hypothetically to demonstrate the point: You could offer me your entire GDP, even after accounting for a business plan where I somehow specifically help you double it, as pay… and I'd turn you down.

Remember that the current state of immigration in the USA is exactly what was being proposed to be changed: the previous desirability is specifically not going to remain.
Eh, the way to actually be safe—not just feel safe—is not to be macho and tough but to be uncompromisingly professional.
US citizens are required to pay taxes on global income, regardless of where they live. The US is unique in this regard. Why would US citizens not continue to have the right to vote while out of country? Certainly, if they renounce their US citizenship (and hence, the ability to be taxed as a non citizen non resident), they lose their right to vote.

"No taxation without representation."
I think it is perhaps both inaccurate and, at this point, a trope, to blame the failures of the US democratic party on IdPol or “wokeness” or DEI/CRT, etc.

This is a red herring, and ultimately thinking it had any real effect on the race (beyond being used as fodder for mocking them) is a dangerous distraction.

Despite the fact that the president doesn’t have that many short term economic levers that aren’t destructive/wasteful, the fact that most USians have worse economic circumstances now than they did four years ago is probably the main driver.

The big irony of this is that a lot of it is probably the lingering echoes of the massive economic damage from the pandemic, most of which was not only not mitigated, but massively accelerated by Trump’s policies during the main sequence of same.
Show HN: A location-based, privacy-sensitive photo app for on-site reports etc.
This little tool allows you to take multiple photos, load photos from a folder on your device, or save them to a folder on your device.

If you turn on geo-location, your filename includes the location, and you can see this location by clicking on the red pin.

Everything runs client-side in the browser, and none of your picture info is sent to any server.

This might come in handy if you need to go to a wharf, and take multiple pictures with a smartphone for example, and would like to easily see them & browse them, together with the location.
I remember this app as well; “Flipreader” comes to mind but yields no Google results.

It was the peak of RSS for me, beautiful UX, customizable, all the posts in sequential order if I wanted instead of algorithms…

I remember it because useless when web publishers realized they were losing ad views to apps like these and all the posts became previews with links.
How is ~8% (eyeballing) of the popular vote a narrow majority in politics? It's a pretty substantial majority. Apathetic non-voters don't really count because they don't care.
It's a graph that shows a steady and consistent increase in atmospheric CO2 for the last 40 years regardless of the elected political party in the US at the time.

In other words, it seems to indicate pretty strongly that no matter how you vote, climate change is going to destroy us.
The Reasons Authoritarianism Is Growing – and How to Reverse It
Dobbs didn't happen because Trump got hoodwinked by a bunch of social conservatives. Maybe I'm retconning this in my brain but overturning Roe has been a thing with the GOP for a long time, Trump always said he was going to appoint conservative judges and justices, and he's said since that he'd veto a national abortion ban.

It's unfortunate that on this issue most of the GOP is in the "never, ever" camp and most of the left is in the "any time, any place, for any reason" camp. We'd be much better off as a country if we allowed it before ~20 weeks electively, disallowed it after ~20 weeks unless the mother is about to die, and just moved on. That would keep us more liberal on this issue than 99% of Europe, still protect people from unplanned pregnancy, and result in net fewer abortions in the US.
Totally agree. Thankfully, democracy ensured that Poison lost.
Let's revisit this again when we can melt bitcoins and sell them.

Gold is a finite resource that has to be extracted and processed, ecoins are made out of thin air (mining them is a superficial analogy) and speculation.
You're picking one point in the headline that by itself sounds totally outrageous because in the mind of the low-information voter you read the headline and think to yourself a sketchy booth that says "free vasectomies!!!1" and somebody grabbing you in the middle of a convention saying "Kid, want a free vasectomy?".

In the context of a health check in reproductive health RV that offers a ton of things, _including_ vasectomies in the context of an informed discussion with a health expert, it is not only totally reasonable, but it should be extended to a host of other services that can provided in a mobile clinic the same that mobile vaccination sites were provided during COVID.
https://www.clevelandfed.org/publications/economic-commentar...

Heres a good source I just found as so many were looking for sources here.

I believe it was around the 1960s or 1970s when most economists started using "inflation" to mean price increases.

The history there is pretty fascinating, it was basically a reaction by modern monetary theorists who really had to redefine it for their economic system to make sense. A core goal in MMT is to have a fiat currency and controls in place to let you manipulate the money supply quickly in an attempt to move the economy in one direction or another. With the original definition, inflation is actually the tool used by MMT rather than an indicator of economic health.
Hardware Unboxed has the interesting theory that the I/O die, which is unchanged between Zen4 and Zen5, is a significant bottleneck especially for the latter. The 3D v-cache would then ease the pressure there, and so see the cpu get an extra boost beyond that expected from increased cache.
I mean, it is a classic example. If you have access to the hardware and the dedication to do so, you could break almost any security. That's a hilarious example to physically drill into a chip, though
"Cisgender" is a slur the same way "male", "heterosexual", and "white" are (I am all three; four, including cisgender). In other words, it is not a slur.
So what, though? Is the US's advantage in specialized healthcare worth the income inequality and multiple-jobs-just-to-survive culture? I think it's not hard to make an argument that it isn't worth it.
Thank you, really appreciate that.
I agree with you.

The problem is some doctors think they know more than do. You are ill. You go to the doctor. They run tests. The tests come back negative (ie no evidence of illness). The doctor insists you are not ill. But you know you are.

But... new tests are being developed all the time. Maybe in 5 years a test will find that you are ill.

But for the 5 years up to that point the doctor will insist you are not ill.

A better logical position for the doctor would be "you may be ill, but we can't figure out what it is".
you link to it still on your home page
I can't tell if this comment is aimed at reds or blues...

Both sides are guilty of not being nice to the otherside, and calling them scum. That seems to be the problem right now, we've stopped listening to each other.
The problem with the left is they're now completely out of touch with the bottom 75%, which is what the massive Hispanic vote swing should be throwing alarms for.

The left is filled with richer, coastal elites (top 25%); and impoverished minorities in blue cities that vote overwhelmingly left traditionally. On what planet does that recipe work out over time?

The left became a gross contradiction. It should be for the masses, it should be primarily focused on the working class. All those elitist Hollywood endorsements are just a big obnoxious joke, they repel the average person and amplify the point that the left is out of touch.
How is it more disingenuous than any other way of participating, I wonder?

What difference does it make where you vote when you're an expat? You're still taxed and represented.

It would be a different matter if taxes were not involved, at least in my humble opinion. Other countries have revoked voting writes when you're no longer a tax paying citizen.
Imagine how dumb the average person is. Half of them are even dumber than that. Less than half voted for Donald Trump!
Gruez. You pay payroll and estimated taxes quarterly. As long as you hit 90% of your actual tax burden, there are no penalties. You file income tax yearly and that sets you up for both your remaining burden that you didn't pay in estimated taxes, and your future estimated taxes. The trick is when you go to file by March 15th, you may or may not have accounted for all of the vagaries of tax changes -- and in fact the IRS pushes out guidance throughout the year that will affect the filing process.

For companies that were expensing 100% of developer salaries (which was a lot of them -- capitalization is very cash intensive), having to now eat 80% of that salary as profit and only being able to deduct 20% is devastating.

1171(!) small software companies have come together to try to get congress to repeal their changes to Section 174. They haven't been successful yet, but here's hoping that by further education of folks like yourself, they will be. https://ssballiance.org/
True, you might not need lots of money to test some ideas. But LLMs and transformers are all the rage so they gather all attention and research funds.

People don't even think of doing anything else and those that might do, are paid to pursue research on LLMs.
One irony atop another: securing this land (against the onslaught of big business) was a celebration for Conservatives, not Liberals.

That and, I miss the Republican party that didn't actively try to piss off the ACLU every hour on the hour. It's just nonstop…

• book bans
• rhetoric about sending the military after political opponents
• politicians ruled as being above the law
• short circuiting due process with immigrants, both illegal and not
• breaking up families of would-be asylum seekers for no damn reason
• the Trump Muslim ban
• the constant erection of/for Ten Commandments statues

It used to be a thing in some conservative circles, “No, that teacher is Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912, not Council of 1879, I don't want his people educating my child about what he thinks the Ten Commandments really mean!!”

I used to fancy myself a conservative back then. The ACLU and libertarians were the people that the Left had kind of given up on, and we were happy to say “yes, come be conservative with us, and we will try not to piss you off.” Now everyone has given up on them, they had to hold their noses and vote Kamala and pray for a few more years of “not again.”

I'm not even a libertarian, just don't understand why we are wasting resources pissing them off
By design, a watermark would make it easy to create a discriminator that distinguishes between LLM content and human content. In that case, just make a discriminator yourself and use regex to find and remove any of the watermarks.
Exactly.

Also they've misappropriated words like "leftist" and "socialist" so much that in my interaction with Trump supporters, at Trump events, I hear plenty of actual left and actual socialist policies presented as new ideas or attributed to Trump.

At a policy level, these people actually don't want neofascism, I've interacted with plenty. They really don't.

The Democrats tried to appeal to the hard right voter who found Trump icky. For that they were called socialist so and I know this is hard, people I spoke with associated the word socialism with the policies of Harris
Honest question, couldn’t Biden have just changed it, as president?
I believe I get the metaphor. Why is it confusing?
I'm a man, and literally every male friend I've ever had engages in this kind of banter. If you and your friends don't, you are outliers.
To some extent Trump is a singular figure. No-one else has quite the same charisma he has and his experience of getting shot makes him into even more of a legend.

Daniel Boorstin observed the Kennedy administration and predicted in 1963 that it was just a matter of time before TV stars would dominate conventional politics.
It demonstrated nothing of the sort. The better candidate won and that’s about it. Even in the republican primaries, the best candidate won. What makes you think your opinion is above the system?
this is not a team project, it's a whole planet at stake here

i can focus on 5% improvement per year, but if the head of states ruin things at 20% during the same time i'll be dead in a few
What is the problem with deporting people who are there illegally? As someone who doesn’t live on the border of the United States do you know how incredibly hard it is to legally immigrate there? I don’t see why other people should be allowed to jump the line. There’s a legal way to get in, follow it like everyone else.
There was not enough focus on economy in a way that actually mattered, certainly - though it probably wouldn't have made a difference.

Biden absolutely should have dropped out earlier. It made Harris look like a last minute sub (which she really was).

It's telling (on a number of levels) that one of the most popular Google searches yesterday, on election day, was "Did Biden drop out?"
Part of the reason why Harris lost is because this line about democracy ending if Trump wins is about all she could offer as a reason to vote for her, and the average voter doesn't believe it. I guess now we'll all get to see if the dire warnings were at all founded in reality, but it was a critical mistake to turn up the rhetoric so hot and not realize that it made the moderate voters take her less seriously.

It was just a bad strategy in every way: it reduced their odds of winning the election, and if they were right it won't matter because there will be no election. If they were wrong, then they burned a whole bunch of credibility pushing what turned out to be a conspiracy theory.

And if both parties are conspiracy theory parties, the moderate voter can't use that as a razor.