skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean the whole X thing is kinda ironic as X can mean No as in crossed out. So Now you can imagine the twitter bird behind an X and think "It's dead, Jim."
Please elucidate me on your opinions about women’s rights then:

Reproductive rights?

Paid maternity leave?

Equal pay?

Equal civil rights?

Acknowledging domestic labor as vital to the economy and supporting it?

It seems to me that people who get hot and bothered about “protecting” women’s restrooms don’t actually care about women, they just don’t like queer people.
I’ve been happily using date base version numbers in any user facing product (e.g apps) for a while now. It’s been great.

While semver makes great sense on paper, and even allows nifty little algebras in dependency declarations, it is been my experience that the delineations are not always as easy to decode and different team members can quibble over the exact realization of the boundaries.

Furthermore, it’s very much been my experience that semver changes, like all code comments, only communicate the intent of the developer and not always the reality. A minor roll may be anticipated as backwards compatible, until an unrealized use case pops up and makes the minor change very breaking.
I was part of a skunkworks project at eBay a decade ago. eBay's OSPO was pretty loose at the time. We made our own eBay org to release our stuff under, with their blessing. They linked to our projects from their site.

We've all since left, and eBay's OSPO has churned too. Some years ago, I ended up with a giant undismissible banner on every GitHub page that the org we made has been "flagged." Apparently someone at modern eBay saw that we used the eBay logo and threw a trademark fit about it.

GitHub's support is perhaps the most useless I've ever encountered. They take months to reply to an issue, and there's no notification system. They expect you to constantly check your issue to see if they've replied, and they'll close it if you don't reply to their arbitrarily timed messages promptly.

GitHub Support basically told me to fuck myself. They didn't care that it was sanctioned by eBay at the time we made it. They didn't care that I showed them the obsolete eBay OSPO repo that linked to our org. They gave me no avenue to talk to anyone to get it resolved, nor did they give me any way to dismiss the banner.

Unless I want to write a Chrome extension to dismiss it, my GH session will forever have a black mark that I took a contract at vintage eBay, that modern eBay forgot about and sicked itself on.
As someone who never used Twitter before, the first thing I saw signing up to X earlier this years was a continual feed of exclusively black people doing crimes that would make Fox News blush, and people in the replies calling them subhuman. How would you describe this if not hate?
If “the family” is getting together, it is probably for the benefit of a matriarch and/or patriarch on which your very physical existence on this planet depended during your developmental years. Attend for the critical event of the holidays (Thanksgiving dinner, sharing presents for Christmas, Easter dinner for Christians as an example)…it’s literally the least you can do, assuming the logistics work out. Then punt if it’s too much. People change over the years and you may find the family becomes more tolerable as you and they age. You won’t find that out unless you show up every now and then.
> I don't think it violates someone's free speech[^1] to ban them or call them out for spewing slurs or hateful rhetoric towards minorities.

It certainly doesn't violate someone's legal rights, in fact stopping Bluesky would be infringing on theirs.

I think the xkcd link is mostly mincing words, though. I think it does violate the general philosophical principle of freedom of speech to kick people out of a public place for having unpopular or offensive views. As long as social media companies hold most of the cards for political discussion (and represent themselves as where political discussion happens) it feels disingenuous to pretend that they're like a private household, who can kick people out for any reason. They are not. They're not just private get-togethers among friends, they're where politics happens in our societies.
> M2 and newer MacBooks have an IMU on-board

Why?
Its been some time detached from the mat sci folks deeply involved in the space but its both. There is a bunch of theoretical underpinnings but ultimately a lot of throwing darts on the board as well.
funny i get that too on twitter what you get on bluesky. if you seek out debate you will get it, has nothing to do with twitter. Bluesky will be very boring once upu realize that the reason you hate twitter is the reason you are going to hate bluesky. Its going to be very boring very soon or very toxic. Its still going to be relying on algorithms and. business logic
A washing machine for human beings, from 1970
Most IQ tests are rife with cultural biases, and can, in fact, be studied for. There's also no indication of what constitutes "passing" for Seattle's test, and how that compares to "passing" in other jurisdictions.
I totally agree. However, in corporate politics especially, one has to acknowledge that truth is not the basis on which the organisation or individuals are operating on. It is money and status. Viewed through that lens, it is not important that statements made are exactly truthful or accurate, but that they are effective and have "good optics".
Yup it's wild to me how much anxiety there is about cameras while no mind is given to microphones. Conversations are much more privileged than potentially seeing me in my underwear.

That said the most sensitive information is what we already willingly transmit: search queries, interactions, etc. We feed these systems with so much data that they arguably learn things about us that we're not even consciously aware of.

Covering your camera with tape seems like a totally backwards assessment of privacy risk.
Not sure if you know about Merckx's bike for his hour record - they did many interesting modifications to it aiming to reduce its weight
My parents farmed their whole life and had part time town jobs primarily for health insurance.

>With the mega farms came efficiency, and if you're trying to be an inefficient small farmer, you're going to have a bad time competing.

Essentially over time you had to work more land or raise more livestock in exchange for a steady quality of life.

The cost of food people ate did not at all scale down with the profit the folks working the land. The cost of inputs went up, yields went up, prices went down, and entities higher up in the supply chain took an ever increasingly large amount of the pie.

At the same time farmland became an attractive investment vehicle to store value so prices shot up so that it will take 30-40 years to pay for the land you bought by working it, before considering interest. (which is much much worse than many other investments)

You don't want this because smaller farmers can pay more attention to their products and create food with higher quality and more variety than corporate farming with industrial methods.

As for my going back to the farm eventually, honestly just the concept of making my career producing the inputs for ethanol, feed for confinement animals, and industrial food products (soybean oil, corn syrup, etc.) doesn't seem to be of particularly high value.
You think they only have one uniform?
NVIDIA sure as hell is trying to evade the spirit of the sanctions. Seriously questioning the wisdom of that.
> does not mean I'm consenting to the government injecting whatever they want into my bloodstream

By precedent, it does. Your blood contains all kinds of artificial compounds, originally ingested or inhaled, that came out of regulated factories or government programmes. You have no say around whether you are exposed to these substances individually. In the case of inhalation, you have little to no control.
> I mean, we're closing in on banana republic levels of overt corruption: the only thing that matters is bending the knee.

my dude, we passed that in 2016
Unfortunately. Happily, solving that solves a whole host of other problems.
I happened recently with my girlfriend and I after watching The boy and the Heron, the last Miyazaki.

I was disoriented, trying to make heads or tails of what I just saw, and she was completely happy of all the poetry and symbolism she just saw.

Some art pieces are not meant to be overanalyzed. They are meant to be felt.
I much prefer Nerdbank Git Versioning (NBGV): https://github.com/dotnet/Nerdbank.GitVersioning

It allows repeatable builds because it uses the "git height" as the increment source.

This is an implicitly updated value that is centrally coordinated, but isn't a separate system. If you have Git, you have a Git commit history, and hence an incrementing counter.

NBGV can stamp binary outputs such as .NET EXEs and DLLs, generates compile-time sources with version strings, works with Node.js projects as well, and integrates with Azure DevOps pipelines automatically.
Is it common to call these sprites in British English? I would call them "thumbnails".
Trump 45 never got off the ground because he just tried to pick the smartest generals, who in turn disagreed with him on many things and eventually broke with him. Republican legislature is similarly undisciplined. On Democrat agendas, a single senator will defect during important bills. When Republicans have control, some random Rep stages a coup against the leadership.

I think they're realizing that you don't win at party politics by failing to have a party, and the party is more than just cheerleaders and fundraising. They're clearly not done consolidating power yet, considering the withdrawal of Gaetz and the lingering of a few impeachment representatives.

Hopefully what he gains in consistency and teamwork isn't totally overshadowed by the fact that his loyal people are, in many cases, not longtime government officials.
Literally living out becoming an open air museum.
my dude, we passed that in 2008
Maybe he “can’t get caught” because he is state-sanctioned.
I guess if someone went through the effort to prompt an LLM for a thank-you card note, and then transcribed that by hand to a card and mailed it, that would count. It's somehow more about knowing that they are making some actual effort to send a personalized thank you than it is about who wrote it.

But honestly I don't think "blank page syndrome" is very common for a thank-you card. We're talking about a few sentences expressing appreciation. You don't really have to over-think it. People who don't send thank-yous are mostly just being lazy.

My financial advisor sends out Christmas cards and Birthday cards. They are pre-printed stock cards. I don't even open them. I should tell him not to waste the money. If he even wrote just one sentence that expressed some personal interest, then they would mean something.

These kinds of messages are on the one hand just pro-forma courtesies, but on the other hand they require that that some personal effort is invested, or else they are meaningless.
I'd like a laptop without a built in microphone and camera altogether, to be honest.
> Since about the 1960s, most of the damaging spies have been in it for the money, not ideology.

That isn't true as a general statement. It is true that American's in particular are generally more open to the money than other motivators compared to other nationalities, but these differences are not that large and are very much based on the individual, so no real general statements can be made. Romeos and Ideology have played a big part in espionage and subversion over the years equally if not moreso.

Mccarthyism was a response to a growing threat, one that has not subsided over the years. Those that lived through, or participated in some of these events often saw a correlation between the adoption of the elements derived from Marxism and its relatives, albeit they are almost always obscured by intention; and the progressing ruin of individual life and western society at the broad scales.

Subversion works insofar as it is sufficient to cause regime change when you are unable to respond to it or stop it as a society. The next generation doesn't know any better and are developmentally vulnerable to such overtures. They lack the discernment to catch sophisticated lies and liars, and before they know it themselves they've joined the cause as an adversary.

If you are interested in detailed accounts from this time period, and more specifically part of what prompted these movements. There's two books that are particularly good that cover in detail with regards to the East German Stasi which operated during this time frame internationally in conjunction with other red perils (Russia/China) often with terroristic aims.

The first is written by an American, John O. Koehler "Stasi, the Untold Story of The East German Secret Police". The second is written by Markus Wolfe, who was a Spymaster for the Stasi, and it is called, "The man without a face".

Both are particularly good as resources, and cover the time period in the various perspectives up until the fall of the Berlin Wall in the 90s (starting late 1989).

The threats which sparked McCarthyism are still threats today and haven't diminished, in many respects they've increased with the level of technology, and progression of the related sciences, exponentially, but this type of threat is a cursed problem for open societies.

There are many ways subversives can effectively brain wash the unsuspecting, induce delusional or schizophrenic-like behavior, and agitate others indirectly towards sedition and treason. Few working adults today are prepared sufficiently to recognize or defend themselves against many of these threats.
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trump won't do shit once they bribe him.

When I voted for harris i was actually voting for lina khan
Yeah. It depends a lot on the type of material, too. Conventional metal alloys -- like LPSO-Mg -- are the toughest to model. Too many variables. Ceramics and intermetallics are a lot easier to model in principle, but they can have surprising properties on an atomic level, and there's really no predictive method for that sort of thing. Modeling does get you pretty far with high-entropy alloys -- because to a substantial extent their properties hinge on how a bunch of different atoms might fit together randomly, and that's something that can be computationally predicted. A lot of the recent interest in HEAs is because they're relatively easy to model.
The fact that poor people can now afford to own some household appliances isn't a huge value to society?

It completely changed the way our societies operate. I think it is a good thing that people have the option to buy crappy washing machines, rather than being forced to use the washboard and bucket my grandmother used. Yeah, they sometimes do develop a bad belt, or the timer mechanism might fail. But it beats being unwillingly forced into homemaking as a career.

The world only has so much wealth to go around, and that isn't the moral quandary of the engineer picking an item on a BOM on Tuesday morning to fix. If anything, squeezing a few more pennies out of that BOM is going to lift some people at the fringes out of poverty. At the opposite end of the product value equation, every unused and functional component in every product that is no longer in service, is wealth that is wasted that could have been spent elsewhere.
Yikes. That’s a pretty uncomfortable ask.
Less than one percent of farm estates owed any estate tax in 2020. It's probably about the same in more recent years.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2021/april/less-than-1-...
Large Chinese companies usually have overseas subsidiaries, which can buy H100 GPUs from NVidia
Dealing with this currently in a giant old legacy python 2.7 codebase that was migrated to 3.10 in the past year. I do see the requirement @ 3.12, is there a specific reason for this that wouldn't be available to 3.10?
As someone who came from rural Canada, and who's dad is a farmer, and whose father in law is a farmer, I don't think this is true in Canada. That being said, your smart to do something in the winter time, trucking is an easy pickup for those cold months...
https://x.com/ElonJet
> Always assume that the company's provided laptop is a RAT with voice and video recording with notice is a norm.

I... don't? Depends on the company, but I trust that my company has no override for the hardware based LED light on my Mac, as well as the software based microphone indicator. If they did, I would consider this highly scandalous for apple
Am I missing something?

Whether the developers would be profitable or not building housing on a given tract of land doesn't seem like it has anything to do with the article or quote.

The quote is presumably someone who doesn't want to sell their farm to residential developers period.
Sorry everyone my website is now paused. I migrate it to Cloudflare rn.
“What definitely did NOT happen on June 4, 1989 in Tiananmen Square?”
That’s basically my approach and attitude, too. I was skeptical at first but I’d never go back to undecorated code. Paired with a decent language server, it’s soooo much easier writing correct code now.
My experience has been the exact opposite. On Twitter I get all the nuanced discussion while Bluesky is filled with ranting since one political group decided to decamp to it. Ultimately, even when those people were still on Twitter I didn't really have an issue because I simply didn't engage with them. You get out of social networking services what you put into them. You're responsible for curating your own experience because the hucksters in charge aren't going to do it for you.
Yeah, Sheldon mentions it in this article. I don't think those mods helped. Weight has no impact on sustained speed.
> This is not surprising, and unfortunately, this situation is unlikely to get better any time soon given our increasingly conservative (corp friendly) federal courts.

It's not very often that the "Both Sides" argument is valid but in this case it is: Neither major US party differs significantly in their unwavering support for corporate power and laissez faire regulatory policy. They are also largely backed by the same large corporate sponsors and do not significantly differ on their use of super PAC funding and their support of unlimited political spending from corporations.
Sounds like you're following the wrong people on Bluesky.
I certainly am no expert but Dr. Sarah Taber talks about how many farms, especially small to mid sized, are effectively tax write offs and that the "put upon" farmer is a myth [0] [1].

[0] https://open.spotify.com/episode/41G5sIcfrno0EXiYK8LUnh

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201102173736/https://twitter.c...
Having never been to a casino, I've always wondered, on what grounds will a casino ask you to leave? Just that it's private property and they no longer want to serve you? It makes it pretty transparent that the house always wins, and even when they don't they can ask you to leave, ensuring they always win.

I love the implication when someone is asked to leave but, "the rest of you, you losers can stay."
It sounds like your conspiracy theory is that Trump is just trying to pull off a big payday? I won't demean you by suggesting that you're unaware of the absurdity in that.

As to giving free hotel stays to the government, I'm not well attuned to the conduct of the ultra-rich, but in the reasonably comfortable ranks of the GS-teens, I assure you no one is lining up to spend his own money to make government work, despite the enormous escapes from brain damage that can often be achieved for relatively little money by just going to Staples, Home Depot, etc. and just resupplying the office on one's own dime.
What I find remarkable is that deepseek and qwen are much more open about the model output (not hiding intermediate thinking process), open their weights, and a lot of time, details on how they are trained, and the caveats along the way. And they don't have "Open" in their names.
> It cracked.

> "Kirk Revolution cast magnesium"

Cast magnesium is really weak/brittle compared to forgings and extrusions. Its use was not a great design decision on Kirk's part. I suppose they could have wrapped the casting in carbon fiber or something like that, to give it extra bending strength and spread out loads that might cause fractures, but then it would get expensive.
When I left Twitter I didn't replace it with anything. Just normal offline friends. I joined Bluesky when someone told me that the interesting things I was looking for were there.
> By precedent, it does.

Nope, it doesn't. The fact that I have those things in my blood does not mean I consented to them.

But I'm surprised you'd give up your bodily integrity so easily. Do you trust the government that much? Or are you just resigned to it?
The whole "enterprise Office licenses are only licensed for cloud use on Azure VMs, but no other cloud's" move should 100% be investigated for antitrust.
Bluesky's open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training
https://github.com/coralblocks/CoralRing/blob/1168b047e0183c...

Am I missing something here or does the BlockingRingConsumer not actually block? And worse doesn't it just return garbage if poll is called without first checking availableToPoll?

The example sure looks like it... https://github.com/coralblocks/CoralRing/blob/main/src/main/...

Which if so isn't this like 1/4th a library for doing IPC? It doesn't seem to do much itself
> “there would be a significant risk that preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes.”

Hahahahaha. Yes, in the enshittified capitalist utopia, GAMES aren't for having FUN! They're for addicting large swathes of people and milking them financially for years and years! Stop interfering with my right to rip you off! And for god's sake stop having fun!
Don't know why this is being downvoted. Everyone who complains about their phone as a distraction, on inquiry also has some comment like "I get sent too many notifications by apps!"

Which is baffling to me, because apps which send even 1 notification I don't like get uninstalled unless they're some non-optional thing, in which case they get muted.

The only notifications I get on my phone is from Home Assistant telling me when my dryer has finished or warning me if the fridge door temperature is too high (I cannot recommend this enough - it usually means you should clean off the heat exchanger).
Sorry everyone. My hosting was not prepared for the amount of traffic while I migrate you can find the explorations on Twitter as well.

https://x.com/lukas_moro/status/1829487148078412019
https://x.com/lukas_moro/status/1838207092471050645
https://x.com/lukas_moro/status/1847299759603699906