skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, I don't think most of what you just wrote is accurate, fair, intellectually honest or true.

1) You don't feel he has the right to voice his opinions because he is rich and powerful? Why? Do you prefer the rich and powerful influence your life in secret? Why?
2) I don't believe that he wields more power than billions of people. Do you really believe that? Surely thousands, maybe millions, but definitely not billions. You are exaggerating by at least 3 orders of magnitude.
3) Have you considered that there are far more wealthy people whose wealth isn't public information?
4) What heinous things has he done? (Excluding tweets, which I would argue falls under "said" and not "done")
5) Have you carefully considered what happens if anyone with a controversial view on a topic is silenced from public discussion? What do you think the long-term consequences are of de-platforming large numbers of people for their opinions on controversial topics? What if those topics need to be worked out in order for us to advance? What if deplatforming nazi's leads to more nazi's and not the other way around?

Also, a lot of the things you are accusing Elon of saying/doing don't match my understanding/experience. calling for the murder of muslims? Removal of rights for trans people? treason charges against politicions for their political views?

None of those things sound like things Elon would actually say/do. Can you point me to examples of them? (You would be educating me, and you may sway my opinion by expanding what I know).

Every day I question what is true and right and virtuous. I want to be good. My strategy is to stay curious, and not just accept the first thing I learn about a new subject. I read about things that are happening from a lot of different sources. When someone tells me that a person is evil/nazi/etc, and I go and listen to the things that person is saying, usually they aren't actually evil/nazi/etc they are just challenging the existing power structures or trying to shine light on uncomfortable truths.

I am not apologizing for anyone, but I do want to empathize with everyone, and most of all I want to understand what is true. I also want to forgive the things that warrant being forgiven. I have seen no compelling evidence that Elon is racist, white supremacist, nazi or facist, and me questioning you labelling him with such is not me apologizing, its me scratching my head wondering why you would label him as such. Genuinely curious, why would our perspectives on this be so different?

Where are you getting your information, and where am I getting my information?

Word to the wise, don't label curious people racist/white supremacist/nazi/fascist apologists, unless you want to be governed by tyranny, and if you do, well, good luck.
And potentially lose it all and actually regain the purpose, as you now need to grind again!
This person is focusing too much on themselves. Help other people, actually help them, and you'll feel amazing and find real driving purpose.

However productive or enlightened you make yourself doesn't really matter, you eventually die. Network effects matter, help other people.
That's not unreasonable code in itself, it's writing to the file only if verbose mode is enabled.

This is the commit which disabled verbose mode, just before the code which removed verbose framer logging entirely: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/commit/014ba7ec40fc790f65...

This is the commit which enabled VERBOSE mode: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/commit/5db0f74bf647f6d53e... (from Jul 3, 2024)

That is probably just from having set VERBOSE=1 while implementing or debugging something and forgetting to revert it to VERBOSE=0 before committing.
But they're all super duper smart! Surely it can't take more than a month or two to solve govt waste with that kind of brainpower.
Wood tends to draw moisture in, I'd think especially if "grain up," leading to a dry surface which is not very hospitable to bacterial growth.
I see, you're not actually interested in the discussion, you just want to win an argument. You win, I'm out.
> I'm surprised technical youtube channels were caught by it, although maybe they did the calculation that the money Honey was paying was worth more than the affiliate sales they'd lose.

... and helping to screw everyone else over in the process. That is what makes advertising for Honey so unethical.
This is just a guess, but if the OP's reason is similar to mine, DBMSs should be reserved for managing databases and not implementing complex logic.
I stopped working over twenty years ago and it was the best thing to ever happen to me. I spent thousands of days with my children, paid off my house, we drove brand new cars for the first time ever.

Over time, I’ve just found things to do with my time. I try project Euler problems and I’m pretty interested in meteorology. The rest of the time, I just participate in things my kids are interested in or involved in, though it’s not as easy as when I was young.

Routine is key, and being honestly and wholeheartedly engaged is key. You gotta do the time, don’t let the time do you.

This worked for me anyways.
As a young(ish) man with retirement level wealth personally I don't understand this primarily I suppose because my main passions in life are not profitable.

Great, so now I don't have to profitmax every single thing and can rely on my investments. That means I can study pottery, languages, learn about cars, guns, travel, spend time with my old mum, family, start a small business, whatever it is, without care for whether it contributes to the bottom line.

It kind of seems to me as if the poster here has some sort of savior complex - like they can't just be well off and enjoy it, they have to somehow change the world. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but at some point why not take time for you and yours?

I do however identify with the "it's not relatable" thing. If you live off of investments then suddenly you are, well, seperate, from people who can't, in a way that you can try to hide but it leaks out, you can't explain away being able to travel wherever whenever you want, etc.
Add yourself to "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42575535
Jesus literally told his followers to give up their worldly possessions, but… sure. He intended to give a free pass to those who came after, that hinged on a quirk of city planning that would not exist until centuries later.
Scrub it with hot soapy water and let it dry it will be fine.
This is actually a common pattern called "model distilling".[0]

[0] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/distillation
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> How about trying "xor ecx, ecx; inc ecx"?

Fast. But inc rcx is slow.

> Or the even shorter "mov cl, 1"?

Fast.

> I suspect this is a width restriction in the bypass/forwarding network...

I think we just found the explanation on Twitter: https://x.com/corsix/status/1874965887108976858

Alder Lake adds support for mov/add/sub with small immediates to the register renamer. So `add rcx, 1` gets handled by the renamer, potentially with zero latency.

Unfortunately shifts are slow when the shift count is renamed in this way. This leads to fun things like `mov rcx, 1024` being fast while `mov rcx, 1023` is slow. I'll update the blog post in a bit.
right, infringement is not theft, and corporations are not people. Corporations are governments.

The corporation you probably thinking of right now is a small private government to run a for profit endeavor. But note that cities are also corporations.
Sure; does any backup actually do that? I guess it's possible.

Backups (at least db backups) used to be made with the assumption that the backup device is tape.
Subjectively it doesn’t feel like one to me.
"As long as prices are kept in check" Hello?

MMT'ers act like they've discovered some new concept. MMT is not economics; its political spin, propaganda, down playing the harsh realities of economics (not just "late stage capitalism" or whatever the kids call resource constraints nowadays.)
I tried iTerm’s quake mode after the Visor haxie for Terminal.app was shuttered, but unfortunately was left disappointed. Its behavior is kinda glitchy and inconsistent in comparison, which was surprising because one would expect a native feature to be better than one hacked in by a third party, but that was not the case here.
If it were a prediction/speculation thing, I would expect it to settle down long before 10,000 `SHLX`s are retired.
I hear you. I actually use an AI tool that i found in HN that's quite helpful.

Now i don't dread getting 400 resumes because i know which 8 candidates know their stuff. This enabled whiteboarding for non-tech jobs.

https://www.greetai.co/

(Granted, i'm not hiring for Tech eng, but for the screening i need to do, its great)

Full disclosure - I don't work or have any stake. Just spreading good karma for software i actually use, and the founder's great with feedback
The enlightenment is that money doesn’t buy happiness.
I don't claim to be an economist, but direct stimulus payments to Americans totaled about $2100 on average. The US economy is worth trillions annually. I'm sure the stimulus checks made a small bump on inflation in the short term, but they couldn't possibly drive sustained, systemic inflation. Unless you're talking about the broader fiscal packages for supporting businesses/unemployment benefits during COVID when you say "printing new money?"
I don't think security updates are actually that important
The Double Life of Floating Point
That’s a good point. Why do they say water bottles are so bad? Can’t they use something like hdpe?
Automatic dishwasher detergent is loaded with chlorine bleach. Sanitizing temperatures are not necessary.
The line absolutely exists in the Bible.
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Nah dude YOU are awesome! I'm just embedding the work other smart people did haha.
How about the new forum style channels?
> I mean if someone wants to cause mass causulty and terror its going to happen, be it a gun or a knife or explosive.

Sure, the general idea though is to raise the barrier - both to make it more difficult to get the weapon in question and to have better chances of red flags popping up somewhere along the chain.

Same for gun background checks outside of the US, for requiring CDLs to rent trucks capable of plowing through assemblies of people, or for requiring at least a CPL if not an ATPL to pilot a plane capable of dealing a large amount of damage.

The higher the damage potential in the hands of someone abusing a thing for terrorism, the higher the barriers to entry should be.
Give it all away to people in abject poverty and start again. You’ll honestly be happier.
One concrete thing we can do is to stop seeing Cloudflare as an easy, unproblematic solution. Bring up issues like this when people suggest using it.
Obviously not a universal statement. Clearly an American doesn't care about the difference between Domino's and better pizza, but Italians or Europeans do. Just because your standards are low doesn't mean everyone's is.
I'm not holding out, I'm taking the cue that it's finally time to exit Microsoft altogether. Their October deadline is when everything MS finally gets wiped from my hard drives.

It does look like I'll have to make some sacrifice going fully Linux. VR isn't great. Simracing hardware is inconsistently supported. Daisy firmware flashing doesn't work.

But I'm done being a pushover. If a product needs me to stay in the abusive relationship that is Windows in 2025, I will loudly choose other products.
No one asked for your opinion on TikTok.
Wal-Mart is a big org in a relatively free competitive market . This is the big difference between countries and big organizations.

USSR didn't compete with other countries outside of the oil and some other resource markets. They imported food (wheat) and now are one of the largest exporters (or they were before the full-scale war).
I think your points are mainly issues with determining that an experimental treatment actually has a significant effect. They aren't as relevant to explaining how the control group experiences an impact. I've heard that patients and doctors often correctly guess if a placebo was administered, so if a placebo actually does have some mind-driven impact then I would expect it to disappear when known. Then your point 2 reduces to point 3. But noise in how the disease naturally progresses is also split amongst control and experimental groups, and so the important test is the control group compared to people with no treatment at all, or even unwitting of their observation. Although you are likely right that the placebo effect is fairly simple: something along the lines of lowered stress and anxiety from a potential treatment, even if it could be fake.
Seriously? It’s free and open source, give the guy a break. He’s a human being.
You said it best. Your own words: you're a phony.
Self absorbed.
I'm reminded of when it was legal for cellphone companies to charge different fees to access different websites. Naturally, the bigger ones got the best monthly rates.

https://www.techdirt.com/2014/07/31/pay-different-prices-to-...
I had this exact same experience with a brand new Dell XPS 15 I purchased around 2018 I believe. It came with a killer branded Wi-Fi card and I noticed shortly after purchasing that it would literally bring down my entire home network at the time. I don’t remember what router I was running or the rest of my home network set up at the time, but it was definitely a really bizarre thing to witness, I ended upreplacing the Wi-Fi card.
Shifts were not always fast. These old hacker news comments contain the details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2962770
What does it even mean to "work for DOGE" at this point? Is it a company? I don't think it's a part of government (yet).
It seems to me that the article draws some very far-fetched conclusions from what is essentially just a ball of cilia flailing around.

The various observed categories of behavior are obviously attributable to the distribution of cilia along the surface of the anthrobot -- which push it around unevenly. Sometimes in circles, or sometimes in a straight line when the forces are balanced.

Sure, down the line we will be able to do some really crazy stuff by bioengineering robots like this. But not anytime soon if we're still stuck at this phase.
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From my limited experience, this is the standard Silicon Valley mindset.
Dickens was right, some people truly need to be visited by the ghost of Christmas present.
> These bugs persisted while they were introducing AI features that I really don't care (it's a terminal, why would we need AI???).

Many terminal programs, especially older ones, are known for having confusing or unintuitive interfaces, especially if you use them sparingly and you need to do something specific that can't immediately be gleaned from search results or from the man page.

I've personally found Claude to be tremendously helpful for these cases; I am now much more confident in my use of ffmpeg, as Claude can often zero-shot the invocation for my particular need, or give me the opportunity to follow up and narrow the details of the problem.

Given that, I'd happily welcome the iTerm2 integration, which I'm led to believe was optional, as I could readily specify the behaviour / action I want in natural language and have the AI produce the correct invocation without having to leave the terminal.

This could also be addressed through a CLI application to invoke a LLM (i.e. simonw's `llm`), but that's not as convenient as having the terminal itself insert the LLM's response for evaluation and execution.
This project is the first that tickles my brain in the right serendipitous ways; it merges topics of my recent interests.

However, after a VERY short perusal, I grew a giant sense of empathy for non-native English speakers. The readme is gentle enough to English speakers (aka: +95% English) no less I felt like I muddled through renaming tokens in my mind as I went. However, that quickly showed me two things.

1. It reminds me why I never seem to finish classic Russian literature… so often get lost in the introductory parade of names that are a cache miss for my usual set of names.

2. This is perhaps a significant cultural muscle that has never been necessitated for English speakers. Since the earth has largely been using English (in some capacity) for significantly longer than my life span - as my favorite joke says in the punch line “what do you call someone who only knows one language… uni-lingual… jk: American”

PS: it seems like there could be an open registry maintained by “Americans like me” who would rather pre-process the code for tokens within the docs and src… seems like a “DefinitelyTyped style” definitions registry would be very niche, but SUPER useful.
I have the opposite problem: I’m dependent on my job’s salary but know exactly what I want to do instead. Unfortunately the job makes my life so drained I can’t pursue my true callings.
I hope that plenty of developers read this, especially folks on open source projects who don't have dedicated documentation people. There's so much bad documentation out there, and many of these tips are key.

A couple more of my own:

TEST YOUR DOCS

As @codetrotter suggests in another comment, run through your own tutorial with a fresh VM and follow it closely; you'll almost certainly find something to improve.

But this works better if you have someone else try it out instead: get on a video call with them, have them share their screen and speak their thoughts out loud, and most importantly, don't help them. You're trying to find out if they can complete this without additional help. (Yes, it's a usability test.)

BETTER SOFTWARE MAKES SIMPLER TUTORIALS

The article's rule about "let computers evaluate conditional logic" is a good one, but there are multiple places to fix that problem. Sometimes it's in the tutorial, sometimes it's in the software product itself. When the tutorial makes the reader do complex work, it may be a sign that the software has UX issues. You may not be in a position to fix it, but you can probably file an issue.

For the example in the article: could you make the same package name work on all three Debian versions? It'd certainly improve the user experience, and probably make the installation process more resilient.
I did this once in a restaurant in a small town in Mexico. I called one of the service people (not even a waiter, this was a casual joint where you order at the counter), slipped them $100, and watched their face light up. it was cool.
The source is Dan Mccllelan, not TikTok. TikTok didn’t publish this, Dan did. TikTok is the medium, not the author.

Otherwise it’s like complaining about citing “words printed on paper” when citing a book or journal.
Yeah, this is at least being discussed now for eID. Getting it to a point where it is actually usable for everyone and trusted by everyone will not be easy though. But even in the best case, this would cover maybe 5-10% of internet users in 5 years. What do you do with the other 90% ?
The body of gpl code is absolutely a commons. I don't know why you imagine otherwise unless you're confused about public domain or something.

There is no joining any company or anything remotely like that no matter how hard you try to squint. The single rule in GPL is no more than any other usage-of-commons rule like don't pee in the pool or litter in the park.

The park is still free for anyone to use, you just can't fence off a part for yourself and start operating your tire-burning business in it. The body of people who either first donated it or the tax payers who voted for it set some terms for usage, and now you can either enjoy the goods under those terms or not.

But what's interesting is how some people have this kind of reaction and try to come up with this kind of argument over the act of being generous.

Are you sure GPL isn't even worse than you said? Why be so nice? Are you sure it doesn't also eat babies?
Aaah. None of these fancier ones were loading for me earlier for some reason, all I got was the clearly-mono-spaced one in the header.

Yeah, for non-ASCII / more sophisticated stuff, images are kinda the only widely-compatible option without adopting a full terminal emulator worth of javascript.
In a code-gen world, where do low-code platforms fit in?
It took me <3 hours to build an internal app on Windsurf, one that I might previously have built on a low-code platform. Got us thinking - in a world where thought-to-code is near-instantaneous and infinitely flexible, where do low-code platforms fit in?

Are folks still using low-code platforms? If so, when and why?
Nah, intermittent failures are apparently enough to provide evidence that an entire class of entities is incapable of reason. So I think we've figured this one out...
Perhaps not that many people were using `itssh` or replaced the initial profile command with SSH + SSH integration.
Absolutely horrible! I am about to complete my MS EECS degree and have been applying to SWE or MLE roles. Even with my previous ~3 years of Backend Dev experience I am not able to get past resume screening. I just get auto rejected all the time.

Doesn't help the fact that I have been in the US for a little bit more than a year and half, so building a network is pretty hard. Attended a hackathon, won 2nd prize with my team and tried to leverage something from there but no luck at all.

Makes me feel that I might be missing something but no idea what's wrong with my profile. (I don't need sponsorship too).
Agreed, but you have to look at this from “government and elites realized that we’re screwed, and need to just do whatever possible to see what sticks” perspective. This time banging the drums actually might matter because a competitor (China) has caught up in most of industries and playing the “win at all costs” mode. I have no idea how US is going dig itself out of this situation as there’s no cultural, economical, nor political alignment.

There is a genuine belief in some people that if you just put a few thousand smart people into work, they’ll have a solution. But what is lacking, I think, is boots on the ground employees for numerous amount of industries. They’re thinking of a financially engineered solution, but there’s no appetite to pay or maintain an industrial workforce.