skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really enjoy exploring all these year end lists, one of the best music discovery resources. Especially from the more outerthere publications like The Quietus and The Wire. AOTY do a fantastic job.
I found this other post he linked more interesting (and egregious): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42344719
The status quo is that officially, you still have to both set a registry key (or equivalently, set an option in the Group Policy Editor) and add an element to each application manifest.

The official workaround at runtime is to use the "\\?\" prefix with an absolute path to create an unrestricted verbatim pathname. For instance, the fs::canonicalize() function in Rust will always return such a pathname, to many programmers' dismay, since outside tools often choke on them.

The unofficial workaround is to set the undocumented IsLongPathAwareProcess bit in the process's PEB. The Go runtime does this, but silently falls back to "\\?\" prefixes if the Windows version is too old.

(Note that in general, canonicalizing paths is safer on Windows than on Unix-like systems, since open directories cannot be renamed.)
> The new puppet government was ethnic cleansing the local Russian populatin

Yes, this is what Russian state media insinuated.

If Russias utmost effort was to protect the minorities in Ukraines east, spearheading a peace-keeping effort would have made a lot of sense (even stationing army there, possibly).

But this is not what happened, Russia fanned the flames in that region instead, aiding the separatists with undercover soldiers and materiel `(this is very well documented because they shot down a civilian airliner by mistake, which pissed of the dutch victims and their government to no end, investigating the whole clusterfuck in excruciating detail).

> The fact that's it a puppet government is easy to confirm.

Insisting on Zelensky being a non-democratic puppet government is a bit rich after Putin had his last political opponent poisoned, but ok...

> Why ban elections if the Ukrainian people are still really behind them

Because they are at war.

> Also Ukraine is not getting helped for free. More like they've mortgage their land and resources to the likes of Blackrock and other banking interests. That will keep the future generations in indebted servitude, while they rob them of their resources.

So Russia trying to annex the Ukraine is actually a plot by western colonialists? Why is Russia helping those colonialists in your opinion? Who exactly are those colonialists? Germany? UK? France?
I've always considered premature optimization to be a different problem than premature abstraction.

Premature optimization is something I struggle with - "hey, if I do this a different way it'll be faster/smaller!" And then I end up spending too much time optimizing one data area of code when I should just do it the easy way and move on to the next problem. I can always come back and optimize later when everything is working and I can see where the problem areas are, but the temptation is often hard to fight.

Premature abstraction is harder because abstracting existing code can be problematic and there's more of a chance to introduce bugs. It takes intuition and planning to get it right the first time around, and by the time you realize you should have abstracted something it's often too late to fix without rewriting a large chunk of your code and your teammates' code.
According to my logs, some feed readers poll every 10 minutes or so.
You may wish to talk to someone to evaluate whether the company you work for might be completely dysfunctional-- none of that list sounds like it's coming from a healthy place.

> 9. Managers usually can never be a normal employee again. People subconsciously fear they cannot control authority, and will prefer to hire someone easier to "handle".

This is usually not the case at a FAANG, for whatever it's worth. Multiple people I know have voluntarily moved back to IC from management positions. It's not that unusual for senior devs to try managing and figure out that they don't like it (whether or not they're good at it) and then move back into being a highly regarded IC.
Not only does that also not make sense, but guests on the show are not strictly CEOs, which further supports the view that this shallow dismissal is indeed unsupported by evidence.
So it sounds like if the US had a far more restrictive system, like China currently has, that was applied across the board you would be OK with this? (That’s an actual question, I’m not trying to be combative). I’m also still unsure why targeting TikTok specifically is “wild”, unless again you think the US should simply never be targeting corporations directly - foreign or otherwise - and instead should always be legislating more broadly?

In case it’s not clear, even though I think I disagree with you I want to again say that I’m trying to understand your opinion, not tear you down.
Manufacturing Update – 5 December 2024
We need more uncensored models
Idk if that’s the case either, but a shell corp which is incorporated in the US easily gets around it.

Though the first amendment does not protect calls to action. Especially if that call includes violence or treason. (Unless you’re specifically Donald Trump)
GL-iNet's firmware is openWRT based, has added features, a system to manage many routers and a bunch of models with varying form factors and features. https://www.gl-inet.com/ and https://www.gl-inet.com/solutions/goodcloud/
Hey, he's the visionary. You come up with the nuts and bolts.
Congratulations! That is not an easy task. I am just starting the journey.
That is my point. RSS by itself is a scaling problem but online readers make it manageable by polling sites on a reasonable rate and redistributing new articles to their users.
Very clever and it does result in a nice effect. I do have to say that I am a fan of this glassmorphism trend.
Thanks for clarifying. I suppose I could have Googled before posting. ;-)
The web site this article appears on is run by the American Institute for Economic Research, a libertarian think tank.
I created a lightweight shell script to check many url combinations on a site for feeds.

https://github.com/begriffs/findrss

The combinations came from what I observed in the big list of blogs I follow. The script works pretty well for most sites.
Are you sure you've replied to the right person?
Voting is the only thing in the democratic process. If the people are easily convinced by tictok, that's on the voters.
Structured Outputs with Ollama
Thanks for the explanation.

What’s the difference between those two?
Many young people I know see nothing being done about climate change and make their choice right there. These are also smart, educated well-off types. The level of suffering we can expect isn't something they want to introduce children into.

I find it surprising this is somehow difficult for governments to grok.
Proton is a fork of Wine maintained by Valve with various teaks, patches, and optimizations for gaming.

It also has a lot of preconfigured stuff and integrations for Steam.
> It also pushes you away from the over-abstraction that leads to the Second System Effect, as coined by The Mythical Man-Month.

The Second System Effect has nothing to do with over-abstraction of code - it has nothing to do with code at all. The basic premise is:

First System: We barely did anything we dreamed of and can see 100s of ways to improve things, but we had to get something to market.

Second System: We’ve learned so much! Revenue enables big picture thinking! Everything we ever dreamed of let’s design and build!

It’s fundamentally a mistake at a business/product design level. That feeling of success leads to a release of constraints and then trying to bite off far more than can be chewed.
Aliexpress, really? That’s an instant nope.
Relevant / Recent Darknet diaries podcast is all about the mess that pump fun is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8RNcngdMp4
We don't need to be, but we are. Wishful thinking is pleasant but ultimately pretty pointless.

I would also strongly prefer it if the US and China were not rivals. But it just ain't so.
Glioblastoma has entered the chat :-)
I see words, yet they make no sense. (Not criticising you, but rather me)

If anyone cares to enlighten someone who is very far from that scene: I’d appreciate it massively.
The absence of clear selection pressure on certain RNA pairs doesn’t prove they lack function; many biological roles are subtle, context-dependent, or involve redundancy, making them difficult to detect with current methods. Freely mutating sequences could still influence genome architecture, gene regulation, or adaptation in ways not yet understood, as seen with elements like noncoding RNAs and transposable elements previously dismissed as “junk.” Additionally, these sequences may serve functions over long evolutionary or environmental time horizons, becoming critical under future conditions we cannot yet predict, underscoring the importance of not prematurely dismissing them.
One can point out the existence of the law is designed to be not about equal application, and highlight that is reflection on quality of law and the interests behind it. Ultimately, it's applier's perogative to push unequal application. Highlighting this scenario is one where US is more rule by law vs PRC rule of law is certainly going to seem like a mistake to those who want to interpret it as the opposite.
On the contrary, sticking strictly to the lane markers when everyone else is blindly straddling lanes seems the worst of all worlds.
ChatGPT Will Not Say "David Mayer" [video]
I'm pretty sure the largest handwritten shell program I used back in the day on a regular basis was abcde (A Better CD Encoder)[1] which clocks in at ~5500 LOC.[2]

[1] https://abcde.einval.com

[2] https://git.einval.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=abcde.git;a=blob...
I don't know why I get rejected. I don't even get replies to my requests. But I am guessing the language is important part of it.
The argument is doubled edged and typically what a totalitarian government could say to close competing media outlets.

It is quite ironical that the main newspaper in the Soviet Union was called la Pravda = "the truth".
No worries, I understand.
mixed feelings about this. Tiktok was highly addictive and destructive to the brains of young teenagers, but at the same time it was one of the few media platforms that allowed criticism of Israel to go viral. Instagram is similarly addictive and destructive. There are charts showing the rise of depression in female teens that coincides directly with the rise of Instagram. But Instagram also actively censors criticism of Israel. The government wants to redirect young people towards these enclosed pastures to better herd them.
I always figured the most valuable asset was the easements and conduit. If they don't want to cram fibre into it, give it to someone who will.
Enshitification is slower on Wikipedia than elsewhere, but sadly still happening. I'm still upset about the language button that cause me one additional click instead of the direct links on the left menu.
It ticks all the boxes from the Wikipedia definition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

Authoritarian+, and ultranationalist+, ... dictatorial leader+, centralized autocracy+, militarism+, forcible suppression of opposition+, belief in a natural social hierarchy (+ as far as regime goes), subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation+ or race, and strong regimentation of society+ and the economy+
I'm not an expert on this but my understanding is that CMS enforces the MLR for each insurer on a per-state basis. So insurers don't have much opportunity to chase market share by shifting claim costs around between plans.

Regular federal government employees are all on private insurance plans, unless they're in the military or old enough to be covered by Medicare. So your comment about "switched to identical plans in the private sector" makes no sense. But the different private insurance plans offered to federal employees do have different benefits and different claim processing policies.
> What would that "concern" be?

Would you be concerned if Trump or Putin said that they are Nietzschean ?
I also anecdotaly know a number of people in that bucket. I don't know for your friend, but for many it comes down to not caring that much about having "friends".

They will prioritize their hobbies over basically anything, including socialization (they can still socialize inside their hobby group, but they might not be "friends" in the traditional way)

I'd see it as the same line of thinking as DINK, except with a single income and no fucks given about romantic relationships. Of course the situation could be different if they were super affluent, but as they have to prioritize they choose what makes them happy regardless of social norms.
Discussion (37 points, 3 days ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312998
They’ve dramatically improved their ad quality. I routinely check out on convert on Facebook and Instagram ads, and I can honestly say I never intentionally clicked on one for 20 years or more, once.
A kid made other people give them money for a specious investment based pretty much on the south sea bubble.

They then took the money and cashed out. Some of the other people who had bought in, then made the investment temporarily worth many times more than the original, which the kid who took the money had to watch because they had cashed out. Then it went silly.

Probably a few people made a lot of profit and most people didn't.

Everything about this was vaguely off, criminal and bad, but one person actually made that a feature and was committing other crimes on camera until the website got worried about their liability and shut it down.

Also just words. Some of them are terms of art back to the 18th century and before, rigging investment markets.
Because since its founding, the main organizing principle of the US has been individual freedom and individual autonomy. It has taken that principle further than any other country since medieval Iceland.
Shell corps would have to register as foreign agents, and be surveilled and regulated as such. In the United States, and in most countries around the world, the speech and spending power of such agents is carefully monitored and curtailed.

Any social network should be assumed to be an agent of the government in which it operates from. Facebook, for instance, has a special relationship with the Pentagon, VKontakte with the Kremlin, TikTok with Beijing, etc.

If a foreign rabble-rouser, seeking to disrupt our harmonious society can be banned from entry into the country, why should their ideas be let in through a social network?
I once bought a package of digestives that mentioned England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom on the packaging. I had thought that keeping straight what each one meant was difficult for Americans and natural for anyone from the British Isles, but that packaging change my mind, because they seemed to be used interchangeably. Sure, if they were made in England than they were made on the isle of Great Britain and within the United Kingdom, but those terms are increasingly less specific, so why use them for something purely English?

Anyway, this has me wondering what people meant when they entered "English". Were their ancestors from England itself, from elsewhere in the United Kingdom, or even from elsewhere in the British Isles? (Would people whose ancestors immigrated from the Isle of Man call themselves English?)

A large chunk of my ancestors were Scotch Irish, but they would sometimes call themselves English, because England had conquered all of Ireland at the time that my ancestors left.

Scotch Irish ancestry is common enough in America that it's probably the only racial group that mocking is considered more classist than racist. (e.g. stereotypical rednecks and hillbillies are used to portray low-class American characters, not an ethnic group, despite it being an ethnic group)

If everyone from a British nation that has been conquered by England considered themselves English, it's by far the largest ethnic group in America, but if each original nation from within the British Isles considered themselves separate from England, none of them would be near as big as other European countries like Germany, Italy, and Norway.
Oops, misread that.
paradox of intolerance rears it's head up again.
It’s basically Amazon without the middlemen (who do add value by breaking down minimum order qty’s and shortening shipping time)
> To be honest, I think it's unlikely you will ever try to open the same dialog modally twice.

This is a strange reaction to the blog post, because as you read, it's a certainty that my code did try to open the same dialog modally twice. This was a bug, of course, which would have been revealed in development if not for the change in the standard.
Discussions

OpenAI reveals why ChatGPT won't say "David Mayer" (29 points, 3 days ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42310195

ChatGPT refuses to say one specific name "David Mayer" – and people are worried (37 points, 5 days ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42292960
Golang Fuego – web framework generating OpenAPI 3 spec from source code
Translation: A middle school aged kid made a cryptocurrency using a website called pump.fun that lets people create easily create a cryptocurrecny with a few inputs and a Solana wallet. He then pump and dumped that currency and made off with $30,000. This story caused more people try to create pump and dump coins doing more and more absurd things like stealing cars on livestream if people promised to buy their cryptocurrency.
Ergh. This test checks how good you can infer cellular automaton rules. Considering that CAs are Turing-complete, that might be a very good entry-level intelligence detector.

If it's so easy to brute force, why wouldn't you claim the $1M?
it depends, you still need time and energy to apply for jobs, keep your skills sharp, etc. not every job allows you to do that. and in some countries doing jobs like that looks worse on your resume than a gap.
Sure, it's solved by Cloudflare breaking the RSS feed entirely, which often happens when people put their websites behind Cloudflare.
> In 2009, a surprising amount of the discourse was focused on the algorithms git used to automatically merge changes together.

IIRC Torvalds himself was quite pessimistic about what could be achieved with automatic merging. (And in this he was correct.) He said that Git had rejected the idea that a version-control system could, or should attempt to, "solve the merging problem" by finding a sufficiently-smart algorithm which would do the right things automatically.

> Offline editing is a UI/UX problem

True. There are two deeper root causes here:

1) computing's commitment to cargo-culting old solutions and, relatedly,

2) its devotion to the belief "in general 5-lb sacks are nicer to deal with than 10-lb sacks: therefore I should fit my 10 lbs of POL into one 5-lb sack".

The default vision of "text editor" is "Mosaic textarea", "MacWrite" or something in between, so the quest is usually to bolt merging onto something like that with the minimum possible change. Make it a menu item, or a little dialog box with a few options. If there is some kind of GUI support for merging hidden deep in the menus it's a programmer-UI diff-merger horror that barely does the minimum, or a strikethrough-based view which feels treacherous like navigating a ship through a fog. But in fact in text editing with offline collaboration merging, partly-manual merging at that, is a central part of the process and it needs to be central to the design of the editor. Unfortunately MacWrite is a local maximum which isn't easy to get far away from.
Am I hopelessly naive, thinking all of crypto is a complete BS scam that destroys the environment to boot?
I think this is a joke, but I think it is a problem if someone finds any sensitive uuid here, because the list on this website is a tiny subset of all possible uuids, so it provides a useful rainbow table for anyone attempting brute force attacks. I.e. generating and using random uuids would have an astronomically small success rate, whereas trying the ones on this site may not (depending on where they came from, which I'm not sure of).
A simple solution might be to put the charger on a timer.
I hope you display the same sensitivity when it comes to Gaza. Really tired of Western hypocrisy.
It will clog their network, Solana routinely has outages, they can't scale. Soon they'll announce l2 solutions like eth.
Honestly, I just don't care. UTF8 is excessively complicated. ASCII is simple.
This doesn't pass the smell test.
seems like a bit of a leap from

There are...campaign financing laws designed to prevent this exact scenario and which the candidate apparently broke

to

the results were "likely influenced by a likely state-actor campaign"
10G is probably out of scope for this price point, but having 2.5G WAN with only 1G LAN is a bit weird. I suppose the 1G LAN and the WiFi being used simultaneously could take advantage of a 2.5G uplink, but it's a shame to not make the whole pipe available to wired clients.
Those peace terms included Russia getting to annex Crimea, stationing troops in Donbas (eastern Ukraine), Ukraine retreating all of their troops, Ukraine being neutral (permanently non-allied).

In return, Ukraine would have gotten some guarantor states safekeeping its newly drawn borders (but Russia would have been able to veto any action of those guarantor states in case someone, possibly Russia, attacked the Ukraine again).

This seems a bit of a complete joke to me? Can you explain, why, exactly, Ukraine should have taken that offer? This is basically "I give you everything we are currently fighting over, in return I get an absolutely worthless promise from a serial liar". No deal.
The ruling suggests that a shell corp might not be quite enough, even though TikTok as a US operating entity is sufficient.

> The Government suggests that because TikTok is wholly
owned by ByteDance, a foreign company, it has no First
Amendment rights. Cf. Agency for Int’l Dev. v. All. for Open
Soc’y Int’l, Inc., 591 U.S. 430, 436 (2020) (explaining that
“foreign organizations operating abroad have no First
Amendment rights”). TikTok, Inc., however, is a domestic
entity operating domestically. See NetChoice, 144 S. Ct. at
2410 (Barrett, J., concurring) (identifying potential “complexi-
ties” for First Amendment analysis posed by the “corporate
structure and ownership of some platforms”). The Government
does not dispute facts suggesting at least some of the regulated
speech involves TikTok’s U.S. entities. See TikTok App. 811–
12, 817–18 (explaining that promoted videos are “reviewed by
a U.S.-based reviewer,” that an executive employed by a U.S.
entity approves the guidelines for content moderation, and that
the recommendation engine “is customized for TikTok’s vari-
ous global markets” and “subject to special vetting in the
United States”).

> Nor does the Government argue we should “pierce the
corporate veil” or “invoke any other relevant exception” to the
fundamental principle of corporate separateness. Agency for
Int’l Dev., 591 U.S. at 435–36. We are sensitive to the risk of a
foreign adversary exploiting corporate form to take advantage
of legal protections in the United States. Indeed, the
Government presented evidence to suggest the PRC intention-
ally attempts to do just that. See, e.g., Gov’t App. 33–35
(describing the PRC’s hybrid commercial threat and its
exploitation of U.S. legal protections for hacking operations).
Under these circumstances, however, we conclude that the
TikTok-specific provisions of the Act trigger First Amendment
scrutiny.