skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A very similar thing happened here in New Zealand where we tracked right with fairly dire and predictable consequences, from a left-wing government that was shouldering the blame for a whole lot of macroeconomic issues they had little control over.

It doesn't really matter if they did the right thing or not - enough people were looking to punish them regardless.
Sounds like taxation without representation to me
A black woman is speaking, listen and learn
"...all of which will still fall to the ground (ocean) as debris..." After it's been flying in orbit for awhile, where it could in theory hit something else.

As you say, the other part of it--and probably more important--is that if it's turned into orbiting pieces, there's no control over where it lands. Some of it could easily land on the ground rather than the ocean, who knows where. That of course has happened with other satellites and their final stage rockets in the past (notably by the Chinese), but Starship is bigger, and therefore the pieces that hit the ground could be bigger. By launching it sub-orbital for now, and turning off the engines so it lands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the risks of both orbital debris and unknown ground landing points are avoided.
Nah - NPTv6, as it plays nicer.

See RFC 6296 and RFC 7157.
The citizens should be making that choice, not the government. You speak of them like serfs.
I for one think the an anti-Trump campaign that just spammed his "grab them by the pussy, you can do anything" comment would've cut his support among religious voters significantly. It was mentioned in D-leaning spaces but never a campaign focus (at least, not in any of the attack ads I have seen - they were all about issues only D's care about, rallying the base rather than actually trying to care what non-base voters think).

The economy might be what swung this vote, but long-term it's hard to understate how much ground the D's have lost among religious voters for "embracing sexual immorality". Believe it or not, bringing up hypocrisy does work on many of them (at least it might make them stay home) and mere apologies won't erase it. Latinos are where this jumps out in statistics, but it's far from limited to them.

Possibly the reason D's didn't do that (much) was because it would have little down-ballot effect, and no effect on future candidates?

(on another angle, we could've seen "we have reined in Trump's inflation so at least it won't get worse", "Trump gave unconditional handouts without the Democrat-recommended constraints", etc.)
It is! Just let yourself be evil and get your MBA
If a race between two candidates ended up at 57% vs. 43%, everyone would call it a landslide.
Probably because they don't have much leverage in this area, with Biden continuing some of Trumps policies on tariffs.
There's something missing from this discussion.

What really matters isn't how secure this is on an absolute scale, or how much one can trust Apple.

Rather, we should weigh this against what other cloud providers offer.

The status quo for every other provider is: "this data is just lying around on our servers. The only thing preventing a employee from accessing it is that it would be a violation of policy (and might be caught in an internal audit.)" Most providers also carve out several cases where they can look at your data, for support, debugging, or analytics purposes.

So even though the punchline of "you still need to trust Apple" is technically true, this is qualitatively different because what would need to occur for Apple to break their promises here is so much more drastic. For other services to leak their data, all it takes is for one employee to do something they shouldn't. For Apple, it would require a deliberate compromise of the entire stack at the hardware level.

This is very much harder to pull off, and more difficult to hide, and therefore Apple's security posture is qualitatively better than Google, Meta or Microsoft.

If you want to keep your data local and trust no-one, sure, fine, then you don't need to trust anyone else at all. But presuming you (a) are going to use cloud services and (b) you care about privacy, Apple has a compelling value proposition.
I was part of the original team that built Nucleus. It was very specifically an internal API that was never ever supposed to be publicly exposed. We were always very careful with it and did various things like requiring mutual TLS for clients. This was 15-ish years ago though. It's also hard to control what clients end up doing with your API. This reads like they proxied part of it to the public :(
Reminder that a recent autopsy study found that the average American brain now has about a quarter oz of microplastics in it [0]. That's up 50% from 8 years ago. Phthalate directly in the brain itself.

Microplastic is now found basically everywhere we look, from our own testicles/ovaries and other organs, to wild animals who never heated a ready meal in the microwave in their life. Yet plastic producers show no intention to err on the side of caution when it comes to plasticizing the planet.

Which is a shame, because there are alternatives.

0 - https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/23/health/plastics-in-brain-...
This is one of the main arguments I've heard against "sin taxes" -- in the ideal world, the tax revenue dries up because the behavior has been successfully disincentivized.
Small discussion (13 points, 5 days ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016372
> Being able and willing to tell the truth has never been the problem.

It is indeed a problem if you want to win an election.
Do you know if there any good (pref C++) libraries for extracting data tables from PDFs?
NY for example had a map that was gerrymandered to benefit dems. Their SC struck it down and instead we ended up with a map that slightly benefits Republicans.

This is an example of something that happens across the country. Most deep red states are heavily gerrymandered. In contrast, almost every single state that uses an independent redistricting commission is blue. This means Dems are unable to play by the same gerrymandering tactics as Republicans
"We came to the conclusion that these activities that were conducted in Canada by TikTok and their offices would be injurious to national security,"

Really not saying anything, but that's the line they are going with.
GQP/MAGA is the party now. Old GOP was definitely swiftly executed.

I heard Mitch McConnell called a RINO a few weeks ago. That says it all.
They're angry that TikTok made people aware of the atrocities their governments are supporting across the world.

This has also been the catalyst behind the ban of TikTok in the US.
This seems like madness. Especially as more links to cancer and other trouble are being found with alcohol. Like they're literally trading young people's health to move numbers on spreadsheets.
It isn't really possible to link taxation to spending in this way, because there are things that cost a lot of money (say, healthcare for poor folks) which are in the public interest but no direct tax to pay for them; meanwhile there are things that raise lots of revenue (say, payroll taxes) which have no corresponding outlay.
The CIA controls TikTok's censorship. Trudeau is doing this since Trump may change the US gov's censorship to no longer push a left agenda. Then political right Canadians that get censored in 2024 won't get censored in 2025 and beyond.

Therefore, surprise, surprise, Trudeau censors it now the day after the US election.
The president of US called half of American citizens garbage, that definitely had something to do with it. Hillary pulled the same shit, calling half the country "deplorables". Keep insulting American citizens and see what happens.
The system that your "we" (US voters) has is flawed (as all voting systems are) in a greater way than variations of ranked voting are.

It's doomed via repeated iterations to fall prey to variations of Hotelling's law - the evolving of two parties seeking to 'capture' the First Past the Post votes of greatest majority while also directly representing the least (non representive two party politics).

This wasn't as the US founders intended, many expressed an extreme distaste for party politics and envisioned a congress with factions in proportion to the views of the greater population that bargained and dealed within themselves to find comprimises acceptable to most via robust debate.

Instead the US has landed in a wasteland of little to no choice for the public at large.

It's a poor system after 400 years of growth, stagnation wasn't seen by the founders as the way of the future, rather expressly as the hallmark of doom and eventual depotism (to Benjiman Franklin at least who was quite explicit on this).
> better for everyone

This is a guess or a bet, and one I'll take the other side of. Let's check back in in a year.

Trump has said he will be a dictator on day one. Trump has said that after this election we won't have to vote anymore. Trump has suggested we give the police "One rough hour" like the horror movie The Purge and that would solve crime.

I expect that people are going to die because of the policies that Trump enacts during his presidency. And because of the hate and bigoted rhetoric that he subscribes to and legitimizes. Better that we go down fighting than willingly be party to America becoming another authoritarian regime that commits atrocities.

But it appears that the American people value their wallets more. I'm sympathetic to that, even if my values are different. And TBQH I hope I'm wrong. But

> When someone shows you who they are, believe them
If EU dies, Russia will keep selling its oil and gas to European countries, but the latter will be more divided when it comes to negotiating prices. As a large business, you want your customers to be as powerless as possible so that you can jack up prices as high as you can.
In my state, supposedly about 1/4 of the retail price is sin tax. In dollars, that's about $400 million last year, or about $32 for every resident, or 0.7% of total state revenues.

I think I'm OK with that? If people were consuming enough cannabis to make a really sizable impact on the budget, the bulk of the effect would probably be not so much a result of increased excise taxes so much as because of plummeting income tax revenues from everyone being too stoned to hold down a job anymore.

In short, hoping for a really noticeable budgetary impact from recreational cannabis legalization is probably a "be careful what you wish for" situation.
The classic micro/multi repo mistake is reaching for more repos when you really need better tooling and permissions on single repo. People have probably wasted millions of engineer-hours across the industry with multiple repos, all because GitHub doesn't have expressive path-level permissions.
You have some misunderstandings on these cases —-

How to understand next week’s Trump criminal felony trial
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/dont-call-it-the-hush-mon...

How Trump is liable for fraud even though no one was hurt
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-trump-is-liable-for-f...
Point taken, you're right, and I'm just having a laugh. But he does surround himself with grifters. In any case, I think he'll be fine.
>>It’s the most mundane thing

If it's so mundane, why is it a felony then.
It happens but Ctrl-R has helped me get much better at finding commands I’ve used even just once before based on some tiny thing I remember about them.
Any function that returns an error obliges its callers to check that returned error before attempting to use any other returned value.

This is Go 101 type stuff.
Xi Jinping himself had an awful time too according to a podcast I listened to about his life. But he later changed his tune in recent years when hyping up the old times became popular again, similar to the Stalin years is popular again in Russia.
You mean 99.9% less, or 1/1000th as much, or 0.1% as much.
Oh yikes, my bad, it's way outdated. Sorry!
Location: Belleville, MI, USA
Remote: Open to Remote
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, HTML/CSS, JS/TS (Vanilla, React/React Native), Firebase, SQL
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X8AA_qNO1zVs-lHZZcwOz5EMuJt6YJ5a/view?usp=sharing
Email: malex2050@gmail.com

Hi, I'm Matthew, a recent graduate from the University of Michigan looking to start my career and make a difference in the world. I've leveraged machine learning to perform empirical research. I've also worked with LLMs in a front end context, having developed a mobile app interfacing with ChatGPT for a fitness client. I've developed websites and games (https://malex2077.itch.io/).

Open to full-time and contract work.
> I don't think that the problem is that Democrats didn't explain the technical definition of inflation well enough.

it's clear that at least half all American voters don't understand technical definitions or explanations (this was Obama's problem too). "Drill Baby Drill", "Lock her up", and "cheap gas" is about their comprehension level.
If Russia wants safety from NATO, why is it annexing territory that brings its borders closer to NATO?
What can you do with tiny (1B/3B) LLMs in a local RAG system?
Yes, I suspect the 1 year validity of the IDP plays a part here. The gentleman who said my photo wouldn't be accepted was front desk (and, apparently, photo-taking) staff; he wasn't even the person creating the IDP. I agree with you that I suspect he was trying to be helpful.
It's surprising that the article doesn't mention Australia.

In Australia a packet of cigarettes now costs $AUD 40.

The Australian government is also banning vapes with tobacco.

There is now a substantial industry of illegal tobacco that has recently appeared.
Also RoHS. After a token period of insisting that RoHS would cause the end of the world, manufacturers complied, and after a few years some even found that producing non-toxic products for Europe and toxic products for everywhere else was impractical, going globally non-toxic. Usually presenting this as something they were doing out of the goodness of their hearts; you may remember Apple making a big deal about dropping lead and mercury and similar about a decade back.
Canadian citizens can still be brainwashed even if their data is stored within Canada.
This is quite possibly the stupidest ban I've ever heard.

They should insist that the data doesn't leave their borders; this is the opposite of a ban. They're insisting on having all their user data leave.

Government being stupid. Imagine that.
> I'm also trying to be supportive and help, but I'm often at a loss over how to help. A lot of the time I listen and nod along with "yeah that sucks." But it feels like all I can actually do is try and find the optimistic side or solutions to problems, and most of the time I get shut down as they can only see the negatives. I can't blame them, but what else can I do?

(Caveat: I have experience with people who have other conditions, but not with someone who has BPD.)

Look at the other messages here: What do people need? To be seen. To not carry the burden by ourselves. That is what your significant other needs. See them, be interested in them, be curious about them - just for their sake, as they are, as if they were valuable and lovable and important as they are. Give them space to talk, without any resistance at all from you; wrap your arms around them, physically or emotionally, and let them be and talk.

Leave yourself and your ideas out of it, way out of it. As a crass comparison, it's a bit like looking at a painting or reading a book that you love - you dive into it, you leave yourself behind, you want to know more about the author, the characters, what they mean, what they are thinking ... they have nothing to do with you.

Problem solving is a much different mode - those are your ideas. That has always been my instinct and I've had to learn to leave that behind. Unless someone makes clear they want it, just listen. Your S.O. doesn't need to be right or wrong - it doesn't matter. They are just very, very lonely with their condition.

Imagine you have a problem that is not only awful, overwhelming and terrifying, but others condemn you for it (even though there's little you can do), ostracize you for it. Even your loved ones don't want to know the truth, the reality of it - they can't handle it, amplifying your isolation and pain; they pull away. Don't pull away.
I don't think that's the problem. It's the same issue insurance faces when setting prices. The government knows how to price insurance and hire actuaries.
Lot of comments about the economy and inflation but I don’t think that explains all of it. Trump grew votes in demographics across the board including traditional Democrat strongholds. Something else was working for him that didn’t work for Harris.
Yes, based on the tortuous logic that he would’ve lost the election if voters knew that a famous playboy had had an affair with a porn star. Of all the gaffes and scandals he had during his campaign, that would’ve been the one to sink his election chances. Sure thing.

And still at the end of it, it boiled down to “you should’ve classified the hush money as a campaign expense instead of a legal expense.” Do you seriously not understand why no one really cares?
They use Chromium (or any other browser) not out of choice but because they have to in order to participate in third party video conference sessions. Of course it’s best to reverse engineer the video conferencing clients and do HTTP requests directly without a headless browser, but I presume they’ve tried that and it’s very difficult, not to mention prone to breaking at any moment.

What’s surprising to me is they can’t access the compressed video on the wire and have to send decoded raw video. But presumably they’ve thought about that too.
This seems like political theatre. Recently, Trudeau claimed that he has direct evidence against members of the opposition party engaged in "foreign interference" with China[1]
There are also allegations by others that members of his own party have also been implicated. And yet he refuses to release the names, or elaborate on any of these allegations for the public.

Essentially, he's using China to distract from his own policy failings at home.

[1] https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trudeau-says-he-has-list-of-...
Some of us like the off-beat articles. Can only take so many "literal who tech blogger tells me why how I'm doing things is wrong" posts
The people living 4.1% unemployment have (one or more) zero hour jobs where you don't know if you even have work each week, let alone the hours (but always less than 36) until the start of the week, with no benefits, living paycheck to paycheck, dealing with the hassle of having roommates at home so no place to truly unwind, and a huge cut to food they can afford which was really their last form of comfort. Car costs have gone up to the point they are just holding on to what they have hoping it keeps running.

This isn't a 1960s 4.1% unemployment good economy. And it's no way to live. You are forced into a state where are you constantly reacting out of stress, not really living. You can't blame those people for not understanding the nuance of your 'the economy is great, this is what good looks like'. It's not fair to call them bad/dumb people because of it. They are good people struggling out here in the trenches.
Higher fuel taxes just make things harder for those who have to drive to minimum wage jobs on the other side of town because that’s the only job they can get (or one of two or three they have to work). People with far higher paying jobs (probably many people reading here) could likely choose to just work from home or just pay it since it’s a far less significant proportion of their income. The rich get richer.
Mainstream media is Joe Rogan and whoever else your favorite comedian, business leader, scientist, or political analyst is
Expediting the process for illegals is something they wont want. This was added on to the bill after its original draft.

If you look at the link I posted they amended things to the bill over time.
Russia had a similar election where the populace enthusiastically voted for a "badass". That was in 2000, back when it was still a functioning if flawed democracy.

You can look and see how well that turned out in the long run.
> On a similar note, I do NOT have a problem with paying for schools even though I don't have kids. It raises property values and that's a benefit to me and everyone in the district. Plus, educating young people benefits society as a whole.

How does that logic not apply to upkeep of roads and highways? (And I say this as someone who doesn't own a car and is pretty anti-car generally).

Tax bad things (but fairly and proportionately) and spend the money on good things (and again, try to spread the benefits fairly). Money is fungible, earmarks are a pointless waste of time.
My statement still stands, I quoted things ADDED to the bill over time, so by the time they added what the left wanted in order to vote for it, nobody wanted it.

If you visit my link, you will notice the asylum bits were all added on the same day they voted on the bill.
The Best Things in Life Are Model-Free (2018)
Thanks for clearing this up, I certainly find your citations compelling.
it means that code has to read values from each layer and do some summarizing math, instead of passing layer blocks to a graphics card in one primitive operation implemented on the card.
> he's using China to distract from his own policy failings at home.

It’s not at all clear that that is even plausible. Also, the CSIS appears to be making very unequivocal statements in support of the policy approach.
Democracy means having the ability to cast a preference, and citizens have voted twice for a guy saying he would ban TikTok, not sure what's more democratic than that
I feel like I'm using pretty clear qualifiers to distinguish actual tribes from what Kurt Vonnegut would call granfaloons.

The point is that equating these ideologically polarized aggregations of strangers with tribalism is a huge stretch, and not really valid. They're two very different phenomena.

Yes, social circles are unique and inter-connected, and most people are simultaneously members of multiple "tribes", but this has nothing whatsoever to do with vast aggregations of strangers linked only by abstract symbolism.
GitHub Copilot in either VS Code or JetBrains IDEs. Having more or less the same experience across multiple tools is lovely and meets me where I am, instead of making me get a new tool.

The chat is okay, the autocomplete is also really pleasant for snippets and anything boilerplate heavy. The context awareness also helps. No advanced features like creating entirely new structures of files, though.

Of course, I’ll probably explore additional tools in the future, but for now LLMs are useful in my coding and also sometimes help me figure out what I should Google, because nowadays seemingly accurate search terms return trash.
Effectively no one was but LLM's are precisely "ML predictive algorithms". That neural networks more broadly would scale at all on gaming chips is plenty foresight to be impressed with.
Full circle from early Facebook and Twitter over sharing.
Anything to read into the timing?
I worked on the team that originally built Nucleus (which is the system this is proxying to) and we most definitely gave a shit about it.

Systems are complicated and hard to keep in your head. Knowledge doesn't always transfer to other teams. Especially over 15 years. Sometimes you don't realize you've made an error.

Most people are emotionally invested because they spent time and energy to build something and don't want it to be for nothing. Most people like to try to do the right thing.
just curious if you think that the rhetoric from trump and his followers is not only hurtful, but also incredibly violent.

like how he said he wishes he had Hitler's generals so he could just have democrats or others who disagree with him executed
Ag is waiting to wages to rise for investment in automation to become profitable.