skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As usual, capital is to blame:

> Frankfurt School critical theory has been—along with French theory—one of the hottest commodities of the global theory industry. Together, they serve as the common source for so many of the trend-setting forms of theoretical critique that currently dominate the academic market in the capitalist world, from postcolonial and decolonial theory to queer theory, Afro-pessimism and beyond. The Frankfurt School’s political orientation has therefore had a foundational effect on the globalized Western intelligentsia.

> The luminaries of the first generation of the Institute for Social Research—particularly Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, who will be the focus of this essay—are towering figures in what is referred to as Western or cultural Marxism. For those familiar with Jürgen Habermas’s reorientation away from historical materialism in the second and then third generations of the Frankfurt School, this early work often represents a veritable golden age of critical theory, when it was still—though perhaps passive or pessimistic—dedicated in some capacity to radical politics. If there is a grain of truth in this assumption, it is only insofar as the early Frankfurt School is compared to later generations that refashioned critical theory as radical liberal—or even just blatantly liberal—ideology.[1] However, this point of comparison is setting the bar much too low, as is the case whenever one reduces politics to academic politics. After all, the first generation of the Frankfurt School lived through some of the most cataclysmic clashes in global class struggle of the 20th century, when a veritable intellectual world war was being fought over the meaning and significance of communism.

> In order to avoid being the dupes of history, or of the parochialism of the Western academy, it is therefore important to re-contextualize the Institute for Social Research’s work in relationship to international class struggle. One of the most significant features of this context was the desperate attempt, on the part of the capitalist ruling class, its state managers and ideologues, to redefine the Left—in the words of cold warrior CIA agent Thomas Braden—as the “compatible,” meaning non-communist, Left.[2] As Braden and others involved have explained in detail, one important facet of this struggle consisted in the use of foundation money and Agency front groups like the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) to promote anti-communism and lure Leftists into taking positions against actually existing socialism.

https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-the-frankfurt-scho...
Two Years of ChatGPT
from experience - no. Requests for more info (the precursors), reassessment notices (the nightmares), bills (the consequences)
The problem is that the Lisp code structure is hierarchical. Transforming it for input/output into a sequential code structure can help, but hinders the learning of the hierarchical mode of working with trees and nested lists. In the long run the mental model of trees or nested lists is more important than the "improvements" of the sequential visible structure. Typically the sequential model is preferred by those who have learned other languages with imperative code structures (in the history that was FORTRAN, but nowadays it's often languages like Python and Java). Not unlearning and then learning a different model, limits the understanding of the underlying language and its evaluation model.
https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

Plenty of cables.

BUT this is a test by the Russians of our response.

You people always try to either downplay or exaggerate.

"oh nothing happened so it is fine" or "waowh internet totally went down!!!" This is also propaganda to try an minimize the Russians actions.
My mentioning the specific case of a library does not invalidate anything else I said as it applies to applications. As I mentioned in another comment, applications (and "systems" which are often just an application bundled in a docker container or something) involve data, and SemVer communicates which versions are compatible with which.

>> A "deployment system" that you need to integrate with is most commonly a package manager.

>Completely incorrect for systems and applications.

I'm not wrong, but keep hitting the copium bro.

>Repeat after me: the use case that fits this does not involve package managers, external distribution or any form of compatibility constraints.

As I said, nearly everyone has compatibility concerns, or can develop them at any time. This is a short-sighted scheme. I can't deny that it "works" in some sense for a small number of people who are willing to make bad assumptions like that. But I cannot in good faith recommend it to anyone.
<glares at github PDF view>
AIpi Now Supports XAI
How Much Are Asteroids Really Worth?
I’ve done that in bad weather. The professional drivers will keep the speed over the passes. I love reporting this. I’ve seen so many people drive in the ice and snow like it’s dry pavement and end up crashed.
Hijacking Ctrl+F or Ctrl+K are my two top peeves lately.
I get that this evangelism is useful, but it's also annoying. I'm also doing things with my life and I don't have the time to fix GIMP. My purpose in writing these comments is not to volunteer my time or money to the GIMP project, but to suggest they improve it by focusing on the many basic UI issues it has, which for some reason they haven't done in the last 20 years. Instead of laying the ground work for non-destructive editing, they should be making it so you can reliably click on text without selecting the thing behind.
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> I'm sorry if I touched you on an ouchie.

In case you're not a first-language English speaker: the wording here implies that they're having a childish emotional reaction to what you said, which (if intentional) is an entirely inappropriate method of discourse, especially when all they did was give a very reasonable and level-headed critique of your definition of homoiconicity (that it's a property of the internal representation, not the external syntax).
Not trying to be "that douchey old times" guy but back in 2005 you could access many APIs for things like weather, temperature, ongoing projects, lists of conference locations, lists of RSS subscriptions, insect population predictions, all sorts.

Today they still exist, but with the exception of the most basic and dated corporate free APIs (e.g. reddit) they are gated by API keys and often access limits.

It was truly rare to see access limits in 2005; APIs were slow and unreliable but not limited.

If anyone documented the loss of APIs (particularly in 2008 IIRC?) I would to read more about it myself too. I think Tom Scott did a video on this, but I can't find it.
It's sad how many people obsess about the manufactured "both sides" of this crap instead of backtracking to Marxism and its timeless concepts.
Why did we let them be able to do so?
Wearing a Salmon on Your Head Is Back in Fashion for Orcas, After 37-Years
Yet book prices will be adjusted so, on net, Amazon does not lose money.
really really really well done
A woman bypassed multiple security checkpoints to get to Paris
Population shrinking is going to annihilate the current economic system we have where everyone puts their retirement into stocks. Then the shell-shocked people will be even more poor and unable to afford having children. You have to have new entrants to the pyramid to buy the stocks that the people all want to sell to finance their retirement.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10680-009-9179-9

Places like Japan and Korea aren’t having the sort of birth rate turnaround you are discussing.
> The Next Generation Internet (NGI) is a European Commission (EC) initiative that aims to shape the development and evolution of the Internet into an Internet of Trust. An Internet that responds to people’s fundamental needs, including trust, security, and inclusion, while reflecting the values and the norms all citizens enjoy in Europe.
Way to spit in the faces of disabled people!
Krita is more geared toward digital drawing than image processing, I recommend Affinity Photo
MPs back proposals to legalise assisted dying
You must be a child, yourself. Incredibly naïve.
"M"?
My understanding is that it's more generic than that; their codenames are apparently drawn from video games in general. Which, yes, is fascinating.
Approximating mathematical constants using Minecraft
Ah, that is very true, yeah.
This increase only affects the US regions, so it very likely is in preparation for additional tariffs.
I told airbnb that if I go though them is because I expect them to guarantee good practices and high standards.

If Airbnb claims no accountability and declares themselves incompetent there is no point in paying them.
Well, slap my ass 10 times and call me Charles Maurice. When was that introduced?
I agree with you as a technical guy. It's not the worst. But as to why is happens:

If your business-focused founder or Marketing guy is going to the conference, it'll be Youtube, even though Vimeo is accessible. Unless you go make the account, share it to them, and have a SOP, why would they look at Vimeo?

The problem is when you get any sort of size the non-tech people choose Google as a default and then it (with weak force) slowly black holes up what they do. Just like people chose Microsoft Office (and still do for mature corps) for all kinds of admin, not necessarily technical people using Google (although I would say >80% of the tech graduate emails I am given for contact past graduation are gmail which is a sign of the times!)
Death Rate from Malnutrition
So if i am building my own house i should also spend thousands of dollars more to make it accessible? If my house isnt accessible do i also spit disabled people in the face?
What makes records not structs? Seems a fair statement.
Dade: This is every financial transaction Ellingson conducts, yeah? From million dollar deals to the ten bucks some guy pays for gas.

Kate: The worm eats a few cents from each transaction.

Dade: And no one's caught it because the money isn't really gone. It's just data being shifted around.
And the reality is even worse than that because France has 40% electricity heating whereas it's only 5% in Germany.
A Long-Memory Model for Multiple Cycles with an Application to US Stocks
> Needless to say, these casts can be error prone; casting a pointer between different structure types is also deemed to be undefined behavior in current C.

This surprised me. What kind of mechanism is there in place to prevent the compiler from formatting /dev/sda when you write code like this?
i can remove network access capabilities from a desktop app after it is installed. i can't easily do that with an app running in a browser.

likewise monitoring and detecting network access per application is easy. tracking down which browser tab is making which network connection is a lot harder.
Who is "we" and how could "we" stop them exactly?
MergeSentinel
Hey there,
Just wanted to share a project that a good friend made,
Feel free to gave him feedback !
https://github.com/cropalato/MergeSentinel
Thanks ! Yeah it was all done by me. It took about 3 months from idea to launch. I've never done RAG before but I found the OPENAI file-search API pretty well documented.
(Butting into your 2-person conversation to point out:)

> 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

This also is a counterpoint to your position though: of everything that goes into say, a fridge, it’s all wasted in 5 years now because Samsung chooses to put a PCB that is barely fit for purpose and will just fail with an error code, and because instead of putting such a failure-prone part behind a door and using an edge connector so it can be swapped in 5 minutes, they bury it God-knows-where in the chassis requiring an $800 labor charge, and charge $300 for the part. (As though that PCB is actually more complex than an iPad logic board, lol). So the whole 600 pounds of steel, refrigerant, insulation, glass, ice maker, and the compressor goes to the dump since who would invest $800 in a fridge that could have the same failure in a month and only the part is warrantied (you have to pay labor again). The poor people you’re worried about are buying these components over and over again because the appliance makers like this system. All this is done in bad faith. They’re morally bankrupt compared to their grandfathers who made appliances that lasted decades.
> “There isn't a good way to parlay that ease of use and immediate connection into individual websites.”

Seriously?

That’s what we’re mostly doing right here in HN. Having social discussion about links to long form (longer form) personal writing (ignoring the business marketing and Show links).

If you want to avoid toxic X/twitter, this is the way. Use social media to market your private work, and don’t participate in whatever the algorithm throws at you off topic. I’ve never really experienced toxicity on x/twitter this way.

Now ticktock is an evolution in a different direction. More like social YouTube.

There was an EDX course which really made this case. DALMOOC, Data, Analytics and Learning (University Arlington TX, 2014). The course was aimed at educators, and taught social media analysis and machine learning techniques for analyzing student participation and engagement when they followed the paradigm of using social media to link to their full project sites using blog platforms like Wordpress.
Owning your music files doesn't necessarily imply that you have to by them physically on CDs. Of course the music you are interested in might not be available in your preferred format or on your preferred streaming platform.
> name a market where open source has prevented that market from settling into “the hands of a few companies.” Go ahead. I’ll wait.

Even just staying in the field of AI, you'd typically use PyTorch in Python on a Linux machine. Without those open-source options, you may have instead been stuck paying for Windows Server and MATLAB/HALCON.

In some areas, open-source options like Git or GCC have become so ubiquitous that the market for paid proprietary options has all but vanished. Many other areas have viable open-source options (Blender, VLC, LibreOffice, Audacity, Firefox, 7-Zip, FFmpeg, Krita, KeePass, Lichess, MediaWiki, Godot, ...), alongside the proprietary options, such that users aren't stuck choosing between a few companies.

I'd claim that you benefit from the existence of the open-source alternative even if you, and most others, use proprietary software. The fact that users have an option to fall back to, and that competitors can pop up without starting everything from scratch, helps discourage existing companies from price gouging/enshittification/not innovating.

> Lots of open source hasn’t diffused control of the cloud market. If anything, it has concentrated it. With so much open source available, enterprises have needed cloud companies to help them make sense of it all.

I don't understand this argument, though cloud isn't my area so I may be missing something. I see a range of hosting options, and I'd assume the fact a company can get up and running with Xen, OpenSSH, Debian, etc. without a large prior investment in software is one contributing factor to this. Should also be easier to switch to local hosting when you're able to use the same environment/tools without licensing issues.
That sounds like C#?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/memory-and...
So it seems old times weren’t that douchey.
There is nothing particularly new about today's modern politics. Here is a rant by George Carlin from 1988 about a previous government nearly 40 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og9DV0Si8bs

You can pretty much find-replace terms to closely match what we imagine George would say in 2028.

So nothing really changes, and the broad general positions of the parties doesn't really change. People just have short memories.
If you're a strong technologist, ideally with some reverse engineering experience, and you befriend a bank CTO, you will probably be offered a job that is part this and part saving projects that are trying their best to jump off a series of cliffs.

Just make sure to set it up as a consulting gig and never, ever, work for a bank.
Thiel put him aside before the IPO, which was before Ebay bought them.

There's been a lot of reporting about how SpaceX is keeping Musk's influence at a minimum. If you go looking you'll also find video from interviews with Musk in that role where he isn't talking from a script and comes across as a clueless high schooler.

Why are you taking hits for him? Does he somehow pay your bills?
It's a cool thought experiment but you can also use use an editor tool that matches braces and colours them lightly to achieve nearly the same effect, but also more readable.
Drag races? Monster trucks? No, the real fun comes with a demolition derby. Schumpeterian creative destruction.
Also, Car and Driver had this to say about the Mach E

Not as fun to drive as a true muscle car... acceleration zeal past 60 mph drops off quickly.

Meanwhile they called the Plaid terrifyingly fast and blows away exotics, and it tied for the fastest 1/4 mile they had ever tested
This is something ive seen at three defense companies ive worked for. They will toss the new hires in bad times but hang onto the old timers and let them do as the please. The rto never applies to them and they horde like smaug. The best job in defense is to be one of these. Boeing made lip service to passing on knowledge but when it came to true core ppl they were never part of the process.
The ultimate source of truth about what orders you sent to the exchange is the exact set of bits sent to the exchange. This is very important because your software can have bugs (and so can theirs), so using the packet captures from that wire directly is the only real way to know what really happened.
Are you interested in refuting anything I said, or anything the articles I linked said?

If I was wrong to assume that you mistook the Biden administration's voluntary persuasion for coercion, then I apologize. Regardless, I think it was misleading to simply relay the claim that the Biden administration "pressured Meta to censor COVID-19 content", especially given the benefit of hindsight from the Murthy v. Missouri Supreme Court ruling [1].

[1] https://electionlawblog.org/?p=144036
People seriously act like Rob Pike's quote was about appealing to the lowest common denominator of programmers possible without realizing that the functional programming concepts they hold so dearly have been lacking for 50 years in the world of C/C++ where it's creators came from. They are so quick to frustration over the fact that the some languages don't act like they think it should and don't require the extraneous baggage of higher-order programming in order to quickly be productive in, while at the same time the entire operating system their computer runs on contains not a single line of map(), reduce() or filter().
You can't eat meat without butchering the animal.

You can do a scientific study without torturing the animal - if you have snow alternative, please explain clearly why, why you study is important enough, and convince the ethics board.
The problem is that it is useless to try to fix Go, because that isn't what the community appreciates.

One is better off wasting brain cycles contributing to C#, Java, Kotlin, Swift, Scala, D,.... where a language being feature rich is appreciated by the community.
You have a mistaken conception of the free market. The voluntary action we do in upholding our families and communities is foundational to the economy - voluntary action is the space in which economic liberty occurs.

It doesn’t reduce efficiency because the volunteers are the judge of worth and their’s is the only opinion that matters. The cost of providing services can be quite low when the labor is volunteered, so the cost to benefit tilts heavily in the direction of net benefit, i.e. efficiency in producing positive outcomes at a particular cost.
This exactly.

Before streaming with pro-rata royalties, when you bought a record, some money went to the artist of the record (after distribution cuts etc).

Of course Spotify doesn't care. They have to give up 70% of their revenue anyway. But the distribution of this money is the important part and of course pro-rata benefits big labels who have control over the catalog on Spotify and are shareholders.
Life-changing cream to treat skin cancer moves closer to reality
hey, have changed this now :)
Many years ago, I lost my work because of this "unique UI" and pledge never to use Gimp again, unless its behavior changed.

When you open a non-Gimp file, for instance a PNG, and you want to update the source file, you need to "export" to PNG. And if you close the tab, Gimp warns you that your work isn't saved, because it hasn't been saved in its native xcf format. There is no way to know if the work has been saved to the original file. At least, that was the behavior at the time.

So I had opened a dozen of (versioned) PNG files, modified them, then overwritten the PNG files. On closing, Gimp warned me that none of the images was saved. I ignored the warning since I didn't want to track the changes in xcf files. It turned out one the files had not been "exported" to PNG.
A Single 'Super Weight' Can Break Your Billion-Parameter Model
> anyone who went to school in the 90s and 00s got exposure to the frankfurt school writers, (Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, etc.)

Well, if it is your case the exposure would probably have to be homeopathic, because Frankfurt school has nothing to do with any of the 3. I highly doubt anybody but the French and the Swiss have to deal with Lacan luckily (psychoanalysis was always a pseudoscience, not that PNL is any better), and Foucault stated that Marxism was bound to the 19th century and made absolutely no sense outside of it, which makes it likely that you actually don't know about him despite citing his name. He was also an unlikeable doomer, pretentious and a whiner (the last two are clearly from his minority habitus), and wrote as such.

Of the 3 you cite, only Derrida has had any influence (on linguistics and literary criticism), and I highly doubt you read any of his thoughts, mainly because it's unreadable slop (you really have to power through it) but also because I found out 6 years ago that most USians talk about him and made him say the opposite of what he wrote. It's either very bad translation, bad reading comprehension (which would be understandable if it wasn't the literal opposite of his writing) or people talking about him without actually reading him.

In fact, I will here write the main idea of Derrida: words meanings change through time and culture. Hence you can't really judge an author book with your current understanding. You also can't understand it from what you think you know about the time it was written. The only way to judge a book is by it's intrinsic coherence. To really understand what the author means, you have to find its internal contradictions.

He isn't completely clear about what these contradictions are, but finding figures of speech instead of just reading words in school to do literary analysis is because of him. If you think we should just go back to only reading words and stop trying to find meaning through figures of speech in school, I'm not totally opposed to it, but you need arguments.

I'm pretty sure that the 'gone with the wind' netflix changes would have absolutely disgusted him and is pretty much the opposite of what he stood for.
Huh. Downvoted for mentioning a fact that has been studied in depth and is uncontroversial. You guys crack me up.
Many require new projects to be written in memory safe languages. But what constitutes a memory safe language is blurry. For example, this is what the NSA says: https://readwrite.com/the-nsa-list-of-memory-safe-programmin...

Note the "suggests".