skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People seeking permanent US residency via an H-1B visa want to work at a failing company. And I don't blame them; from their perspective it's a totally rational choice as long as the company doesn't fire them before they get a green card.
Cheap laser printer gonna suck for photo printing, though. Services are going to have way better kit than you can have at home.
use the scroll bar to get to the "end" then use scroll wheel. that's how I managed to hit it reliably.
Boy, that was a stupid place for TikTok to blow their wad. I suspect that this will result in some fairly serious pummeling of their operations in many places.
He will absolutely 100% save TikTok. Expect to see him work closely with Xi and Putin against their common enemies during his term.

Here's another fun prediction: China will give him (personally, not the US) a huge sum of money and he will withdraw all support from Taiwan allowing China to take them over. TBD whether there's shooting involved.

I'm open to friendly bets!
What currency are the loans denominated in?

If they are looking at a large aged population (lots of retirement savings) and lots of debt, inflation seems like an obvious solution, right? People not working will take a QoL hit due to their savings being worth less. But that is… what it is, I guess.
The Deny Defend Depose writings on the shell casings are a pretty fantastic red herring if it's NOT a disgruntled family member.
When I hit print in Firefox it only is one page long. :(
It's not really a problem you can pick around at the edges. You have to take some big swings to try to resolve it. Politicians, businesses, and the entire voting public, need to take a hard look at the real things they can do that will have an actual effect. 4-day workweek is a big one.
Was it more terrible? You certainly had more organic social connections and family support. Physically tougher than a modern white collar job? Sure. Better than commuting and working for some shitty boss though!
The allegation [0] is that a Russian influence campaign used TikTok as at least one of its platforms, to major effect. The subtext is that TikTok was at the very least complicit, in that, at a minimum, it tolerated what I believe Facebook calls “coordinated inauthentic behavior.”

If you think of TikTok as an instrument of the Chinese state, this could look consistent with the phenomenon Anne Applebaum has been talking about lately: a pattern of loose alliances-of-convenience between autocratic nations in service of specific disruptive missions [1]. A less spooky reading might be that Chinese norms don’t align with American ones as far as proactively stopping this kind of thing—that they just don’t care about this kind of Russian caper on the other side of the world. They sure do think carefully about their domestic information environment, though; and they’re probably the best in the world at policing mass thinking when they feel like it.

Where are the lines between mere negligence, complicity, and active participation? That seems a little more delicate than a couple news cycles’ work. The Europeans have asked TikTok to preserve records to find out.

I suspect the light and fire seems to be around whether a nation wants any tool like this to just be lying around, ready to disrupt the nation’s politics at a moment’s notice. Social media may be new in the scheme of things, but in the years since the UN studied Facebook’s genocides [2], governments have at least tried to get a handle on the kinds of monitoring and moderation tools and tactics that can help counter this kind of campaign (some with more deference than others to authentic speech).

As far as I’ve heard, the allegation had never been that Chinese government villains cackled and rubbed their hands together and said “today we take Romania!” Rather, it’s that the tools are powerful enough that we don’t want to leave them lying around unchecked—especially since, at least from the perspective of American and European policy professionals, Chinese thinking doesn’t really recognize a distinction between commercial and national security interests.

Others may have better sourcing than I do for this specific instance, but I think it’s fair to point to Western thinking about China’s Military-Civil Fusion policy [3] to think about dual-use idea-disseminating technologies like TikTok.

[0] https://www.rferl.org/a/romania-russia-election-interference...

[1] e.g., https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/06/china-r... and https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/07/russia-chi...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo... , https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/myanmar-ffm/reportoft... , https://iimm.un.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Hate-Speech-R... [PDF, large]

[3] https://www.fpri.org/article/2023/12/chinas-military-civil-f...
OpenAI o1 got Chess Advantage wrong after thinking
I kind of doubt this will be adopted practically in Japan. The old people get time off and leave work early in Japan by privilege and the young break themselves and any rule they need to permit it. The young would even lie about taking time off to make the boss look good, even taking less pay to sell the lie. Who can have kids when you already have to change everyone's diaper.
Romanian here too, anyone with a bit of a brain and not biassed would tell you that this unknown guy growing in 2 weeks was not normal.

Any person in any country with a bit of inteligence could also tell you that this guy did not used ZERO funds in his campaign as he declared , so if you are his fan go pray he will not go to jail for fraud or treason, but probably politicians already have their jail cells upgraded for their fat asses, he will write some book and get out a bit faster.
This happens all the time on major social media sites including reddit (in fact, it's quite easy for anybody to buy a reddit account with high karma). In the Depp vs Heard case that swept the internet it was found that both sides heavily used online bots to influence online dialog (tho Depp was better funded and obviously more successful)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42207414
Astro is great. Love to see an update that simplifies rather than complicates (looking at you Next and co.)

Nice starter themes, nothing to learn really. I opened it up and had migrated a friend's website in three hours. Pairs greatly with Cloudflare.
The Rage and Glee That Followed a CEO's Killing Should Ring All Alarms
Just paying my respect for what Oskari pulled off. I tried building my own hobby OS and didn't get nearly this far. I just thought that, like Linux, this UNIX-like OS deserved a name that's closer to the source. For example, Linus originally wanted to name Linux "phreax" but Linux is what stuck after his friend changed the folder name when hosting it for him on an FTP server.
Utopia-clause removed. Dystopian AI here we come. The ultimate tech for War, Advertising, and Surveillance.
That... is not obvious at all.

Actually it is, and the commenter's language was perfectly clear.

If it helps try thinking in terms of, you know, sets and stuff.

Don't know what else to tell you.
Democracy is when the candidate the globalists want gets the most votes.

If they dont, then you can claim "election interference" and misinformation and then call for a do over.
Their ads make the American advertisers look like teetotalers.

Some of my faves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRLe826lyao
Cool Blogpost
Only has type 4 UUIDs. ;-)
There aren't more than 2^122 UUIDv4s.
No need for speculations, literally any theory may be a valid one and we simply don't know. Agree re that silencers, they are trivial to make if one has some basic skills and equipment, the problem is usage - you can't use them anywhere where folks may ask questions. Don't mean for hits obviously but some training with silencers is required to wield them well. But maybe in rural US nobody bats an eye, hard to say from across the pond.

But if I have to speculate (who doesn't love that) - could have been a disgruntled veteran. Most of them have some serious health issues, and imagining situation where he isn't treated anymore but feels he should have been isn't that hard for such bad public healthcare system as US has. Or hardcore NRA member with same motivation. On youtube some gunsmith videos go up to (tens of) millions of views.
I do already put money into a 401k. I will likely be a millionaire before retirement, assuming no major catastrophes and steady employment in jobs that pay at a similar level (adjusted for inflation) before then.

I don't know if the same would be true for most people, though (I make significantly more than the average household income -- although probably less than a lot of people here because I'm not making Silicon Valley money -- and I don't have children).

It's an interesting idea worth exploring, but I'm not sure if just switching social security money to retirement accounts would be sufficient.

Administration and making sure people don't dig into them before retirement would potentially be very expensive too (although to be fair, I'm sure Social Security administration costs are very high also).

Are you aware of any studies that analyze such a solution? I imagine there must be something out there.
It probably means the death of a high net income business or a business that leads in its field.

They fall sufficiently far back that they can no longer afford to pay the wages and capital expenses necessary to compete.
Stakeholders don't pay employees to do things for no purpose !
None of those articles are addressing the event from the perspective of engineering ethics, as this blog does.

Why does this article remain flagged?
> The worst thing Europe did was get addicted to cheap Russian gas.

True, it was really bad for us to be able build a decent industry and export all over the world. Much better to be addicted to expensive USA gas and let our industry and economies crumble.
Meta continues to overdeliver. Their goal from the start was to target and disrupt OpenAI/Anthropic with a scorched earth approach by releasing powerful open models.

The big winners: we developers.
I think all major airlines have pretty much gotten to the point of bankruptcy without bailouts
I follow my yesterday self !
That is by itself a linguistic choice that can be analyzed.

"Hey, that guy only communicates using cutouts from magazines, what a strange choice"

LLMs introduce all kinds of linguistic choices, and you can focus on those choices.
>"... studies and things like taking out the enemy power grid just make the enemy more inclined to fight"

Is this why NATO did it in Yugoslavia? /s
That implies campaign material and finances are capable of swinging an election, surely that affirms the statement you’re replying to? Namely:

> the general public is so easily influenceable that allowing them to vote is a danger for democracy

I hate to admit it but he’s got a point. My counter would be that the recent US election was not won by the biggest spender.
It's not great if it's 15 million supporting 35 million children, elderly and sick.
> After the attack we put a 3 month retention limit on most emails and messages. I recommend this to anyone doing sensitive work! You miss the old emails sometimes but it's worth it.

How are pro-delete policies like these impacted by the discovery-process in law? Or even Sarbanes-Oxley?
Sometimes I feel bad when I generate a UUID without using it for anything. Like I've wasted it.
Yeah, but here it's so obvious. The BEC (Central Electoral Bureau) should have checked constantly the campaign spending. They didn't do that, probably also not to upset the ruling parties that were doing their own financial "optimizations" for campaign spending, and completely ignored the fact that this guy that was doing influencer campaigns and was promoted all over TikTok was declaring nothing, so 0 spending. When you ask the institutions that are supposed to guard our country and democracy to close their eye so you can do whatever you want, you shouldn't act surprised when someone even more evil will take advantage of that.
WWII is a much more likely inspiration.
How would you vote if there was a chance your country was to become a Ukraine situation? Would having children influence that vote. Would that sort of thinking invalidate the votes. I dunno personally.
I disagree that GitHub Actions is much more powerful than GitLab. Both can be helped by a YC company, depot.dev, if you literally mean running containers quickly and reliably. GitHub Actions can be easier to set up if you like having stuff outside of your repo and an OCI image. GitLab may not have the actions library that GitHub has but it can pull docker images and that’s a powerful build library.
You misspelled "hot war".
Trading Platform EToro Taps Goldman Sachs as It Plans US IPO
Because you aren't using "estimates"

Because you don't know what source I'm referring to, how can you possibly know?
That’s a great idea, thanks for the suggestion!
I hope I can believe an honest man, Zuck in this case. And that can be enough.

But it's more of a question of who do _I_ want to admire. An honest question also; maybe it doesn't matter why he's doing it, maybe just doing it is enough.

Or maybe it's worth understanding if this is about Meta beating OpenAI (so, ego-driven) or because Meta really cares for democratic AI and distribution of power (so, not ego-driven).

I think it's the former, so not admirable — for me.
OH! Thanks for the precise reproduction steps, I had done my testing with a trackpad and had missed that! Writing a little fix now (I'd hate for you to not be able to see the last UUID)
Strong agree. Once I understood Big 5, my understanding of myself opened up far more than MBTI ever helped with.
As a cybertruck owner who likes to drive deep into national parks, I'm optimistic about this. Tesla covers the big highways really well with their superchargers, but where they fall short are those adventure/outdoors destinations. E.g. the north cascades loop in WA state. You can find the occasional level 2 charger but they are painfully slow and aren't maintained well. Prior to the CT, Tesla didn't have "adventure-capable" vehicles, so serving those locations was not a priority. Hopefully with Rivian's DNA being more outdoors-oriented, everyone with a beefy EV can benefit.
AI friendships claim to cure loneliness. Some are ending in suicide
Elena Lasconi would be highly favored to win in a 1v1. Also keep in mind that both of these candidates are rightwing. Also keep in mind that the leading candidate only got 22.94% of the vote while Lasconi only got 19.18%

If they do a redo and a center, liberal, or leftwing candidate makes it to the second round, Lasconi would have a much more challenging battle
People didn’t have a choice back then. So the two options now are: “force people to have kids” or “make life better for people so they want kids”. I’d like to think we’ve evolved enough as a society to choose the later option.
Good point! That's worthy in itself for sure.
100% -- We've been promised more free time due to AI. Probably better to cash in now before this promise is rescinded.
That may make the video of the killing make more sense, given the action of the weapon.

Here is a video of someone firing it (not the killing):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKei5sySmB0&t=503s
You don’t need a special distro to run a local llm and something like ollama running llama3 7b would be just fine to reword a message on a normal laptop. Inference (ie actually using a model) is much much less compute intensive than training or finetuning.

I strongly suggest people try ollama - it takes a few minutes to set up, download a local model and you’re up and running. https://ollama.com/
> they regularly also lose the power?

TPTB aren't limited to one political party.
and what health insurance will they provide to those paid thugs and the thugs' extended families, hmm?
> the ideology collapsed, economy doesn't perform

Economy doesn't perform, but ideology has collapsed only in minds of ordinary people. Politicians, stakeholders and various media outlets are very much invested, and still push that the current course is the only correct way and the bright green future as designed is unstoppable. Reminds me of the arrogance of the ruling party slogans from before 90s.
A friend mentioned using control characters in passwords... like ^F and ^B, but not ^C because that's the interrupt character. Feels vaguely risky to me (does ^U empty the line? does ^W delete the last word? does your terminal emulator do some weird encoding like it does for cursor keys?) but if it works, why not?
I think about this a lot, I believe part of this just boils down to the fact that he’s a founder. He’s a builder, and I think that yields some intrinsic drive towards creativity and disruption.

Even with “metaverse” being a laughingstock, they’re still aiming for something ambitious. Each new Quest generation makes me think there may be a chance they pull it off.

Now, do I think he’s a great person? No, not really. Do I agree with most of his decisions on how he treats his users? Hell no, and that’s not changing.

But if you compare him to somebody like Sundar at Google - a weasley MBA who was first and foremost a corporate ladder climber - the difference in ambition is night and day.

Sundar made it to the top already, his only vision now is to stay at the top, and that means pleasing Wall Street, everything else is secondary. There is no grand technical ambition with him, there never was.

This goes for pretty much all non-founder CEOs. You could say the same things about Tim Apple, Andy Jassey, and other henchmen in waiting who made it to the big chair.

I think it comes down to the fact that founders get where they are by having big ambitions and taking risks, the MBA to CEO path is just craven corporate knife fighting with other MBAs.

Regardless, I think this is 50% Zuckerberg changing, 50% the other big companies are mostly run by ladder climbers.
There is an absolute zero chance that he used a B&T Station 6. The media, as usual, is 100% wrong.
Horses get used to things surprisingly easily. (Kinda like people.)

If you train them close to people firing guns, they won't flee from guns.

Some horses want to "overthrown" you even in normal circumstances, and almost all of them have a light instinct of getting you out from their backs. But I imagine a large part of forming a cavalry is picking (and breeding and training) the best horses for the role.
Finally a use case for creating a table with a million rows in React.
I work at a YC company, and we would love to use Groq but our limits are so low at one million tokens per day. Could you help us get a better rate limit/token limit? Let me know if I should reach out via email, thank you!
now sort them alphabetically
"IPv6 government-mandated"

100% not true. You may be conflating migrations of public infrastructure with a law thar forces private parties to migrate? Non trivial difference

"If you can write such detailed argument, what the hell was that "ok boomer" earlier?"

To argue is to concede that an argument holds some legitimacy.
That's a really interesting idea, but how do you make a business case for something like that? It'd be far too easy to just resort to whatever the organization's cultural norm is, especially for high-priority comms.

I couldn't see myself paying for something like that, anyway, but would be interested to hear your business case.
In the end, it is a matter of the amount of labor done by the future generation to support the previous one, vs the amount they do for themselves, right? I mean, we can account for it however we want, but if every elderly person was a millionaire, I guess we’d just have… very high demand for the types of doctors that serve the elderly.

The money doesn’t take care of people, people paid by the money do.
> 1) it is not hard to get a silencer. You can make one in under an hour with cheap parts from a hardware store and a drill.

As you can to construct an entire gun, if you want a crude option. But this isn’t Japan. Obtaining a commercial silencer doesn’t require someone to smuggle them through international customs, just across state lines. They’re harder to get than a handgun, but not hard enough to get that a determined and capable assassin couldn’t get.

I think the point was, they’re hard enough to get that common street criminals don’t use them. They’re not something a criminal can just have their girlfriend straw-purchase from the local sporting goods store.
Or the famous:

Time to eat grandma

Vs

Time to eat, grandma
In Moldova the magic words were bribery. Thankfully they didn’t work.
Have you tried LibreChat https://www.librechat.ai/ and just use it with your own API keys? You pay for what you use and can use and switch between all major model providers
Here's a case where robotics and other innovations can help out.
thanks, will look
Bourne is fictional.
The “while doing it” does not work if you don't have experience with similar language. If you don't believe me, try learning Rust while writing a server for your work.

I can't try that unfortunately. I have tried to push trying Rust "for whatever next service we need" but nobody took me up on it :shrug:. That said, yes, many moons ago, probably about 25 years actually, I did have a job that paid me to learn how to write a TCP server in Perl that would take commands in a custom plain text protocol to do certain things. It was a drop-in replacement for the same thing written in C by some developer that long since had left the company and nobody knew how it worked or knew C. And no I did not know any C either, nor had I written any servers in Perl at that point (though to be fair I had used Perl to do some quick regex magic).

But I think I'm barking up the wrong tree here anyway, because you seem to be completely set in your thinking that nobody should need to know more than exactly one programming language and that should probably be Odin and that anyone thinking or saying anything else is just wrong. Well good luck to you getting paid and having fun. I definitely know that someone with your attitude towards learning and expanding ones horizon would not last long at my place.

only Odin's switch statement on stack trace can protect developers from bad changes.

I mean, until here it was all "fun and games" but either you've also had fun here leading me with your little crusade or you actually believe this. But then I can't help you.

on a ticket, you wrote “this code works this specific way and should never be changed”

Ah I see now. You misunderstood what I was saying about tickets and what they're good for. Ticket != (unit) tests! Tests are what describes how your software should behave.

What I was saying about tickets being protection is that they're protection against "the company" and process and being rushed all the time "because agile". Embrace them. Use them to your advantage. Someone gives you one ticket to do X and do it quickly but you don't know the library or service involved? Convert it into an Epic and extract 10 tickets including some prototyping in spikes.

Odin with unit tests

s/Odin/Any compiled language with good typing/g ;)
I don't find him redeemed, but I do wonder what has been baked into the tuning of these models? What a way to generate influence!
Cargo ships are the most efficient form of transport. They use scale of big ships carrying lots of cargo.

It takes about the same amount of CO2 to carry container across the Pacific as to truck it across the country. Producing it here or there doesn't make much difference. If anything, it is more efficient to produce in China cause they have higher percent of renewable electricity.
Compression is now so advanced, we can browse web pages weighing over 340 undecillion bytes.

We truly live in an age of wonders.
The court didn't provide any evidence that this was somehow coordinate by TikTok themselves. Rather a state actor that made hundreds of TikTok accounts just before the election. This kind of stuff happened on Twitter all the time. It'll probably happen on Bluesky as well if they succeed
An open source WAF at that.