skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There may have been people arrested, but it had nothing to do with the people the mainstream media would lead you to believe.

It was obvious campaign manager Paul Manafort was central. The Muller report indicted people who would otherwise have been let go. Many pled guilty to more serious crimes than lying to the FBI about the depth of their contact with known Russian representatives and agents. When Trump says, “Russia, if you’re listening…” the media portrayed that as an admission that Russia was in fact listening.
yeah as I also commented on the sibling comment the real thing here is that the way you program a clojure application or a common Lisp application especially because I used to use Steelbank common Lisp so I can talk about that is you immediately go into the REPL and you jack in it's actually a little bit difficult in clojure to do that compared to common lisp.

But the mental model is fundamentally different. It's not like you write a bunch of code, set a breakpoint and see what things are. You essentially boot up a lisp image and then you make changes to it. It's more like carving out a statue from a piece of rock rather than building a statue layer by layer.
Just a buzzword for investors given we peaked with language models.

Chaining different prompts can be useful: calling that agents is purely marketing: these models are pretty dumb and don't have agency. I'd stay away from related frameworks
They suggest that based on their experience. Error handling in bash is awful so I advice against using it for anything complex.
Some Army units, particularly ground combat units, regularly practice land navigation with map and compass. I don't think they typically spend much time on celestial navigation beyond the basics of finding heading based on constellations. They're not usually carrying sextants.
We're Getting the Social Media Crisis Wrong
What's wrong with an agent being a glorified workflow? At Temporal (where I work), it seems plenty natural for agentic AI to just be AI worklows. Here's a video we put out this week demonstrating it: https://youtu.be/GEXllEH2XiQ (code at https://github.com/steveandroulakis/temporal-ai-agent).
What specifically do you need fixed?
Is this Reddit? The snark in the comment and the /u/ thing had me confused for a minute.
A non-programmer programming language would be one that helps solve particular needs. I have an inkling that this is VBA...
What does this statement even mean?
Homeless people go to homeless shelters from that point they could go into secondary housing or other programs.

In my city they wanted to end homelessness 25 years ago. They had enough money to do so and went ahead. They found a 1/3 refused to come in even on the coldest days for various reasons. The fight became do you let them stay and sleep on the street or do you force them into shelters/jails.

What is more humane? The let's leave them on the street but send people to feed them approach won over the forcible removals.

So homelessness remained.

When people say they want to end homelessness I don't think they realize they need to jail some of them.
You might be interested in nickel (https://nickel-lang.org/), which is a modern take on configuration management based on the experience of Nix/NixOS configurations: purely functional configuration, built-in validation (types & contracts), reusable (functions, modules, defaults), and in addition exports to Yaml, Json, etc.

To integrate nickel with nix, see how organist (https://github.com/nickel-lang/organist) does DevShell management.
"fantastic foot guns"

It wouldn't be a worthy bash feature if after learning about it you wouldn't spend a few days figuring out why the damn thing doesn't work the way it works in any other language.
thanks! Cool that you like the UI since I feel like I'm not very 'artistic' if that makes sense.

No, no RAG. I use Gemini 1.5 Flash as an LLM, and it has a very long context window (1M tokens). Because of that, I can feed the entire transcript into Gemini's context. I feel that's important to get good results.
It's code for "they're too woke."
Very concerning
Thank you for posting this. It manages to capture how I’m feeling quite well. It has made me realize I need to make some adjustments to my work and life.
Pretty much this

And of course every one of those tools has to have their own special language/syntax that makes sense nowhere else (think of all the tools beyond make, like autotools, etc)

I don't care about make. I don't care learning about make beyond what's needed for my job

Sure, it's a great tool, but I literally have 10 other things that deserve more of my attention than having my makefile work as needed

So yeah I'll copy/paste and be done with it
The date treatment isn't great, but the repo seems to indicate it's existed as a public thing for 22 days. So perhaps just an early compromise to get it working.
Secrets in Docker Compose
False allegations of that are themselves a fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooh-pooh
Develop 3D Games and Simulations with Python
A few years ago we did a road trip through that part of Texas, looking at the "painted churches" (https://thedaytripper.com/the-painted-churches-road-trip/ - there are other itineraries). This article sparked that memory, as one of the painted churches is actually a Wendish church.

And yes, there's a painted church in Shiner as well! :-)
haha crazy
That's why I like EdgeDB and EdgeQL: no null [1]

[1] https://www.edgedb.com/blog/we-can-do-better-than-sql
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, has a great way of explaining success. He says he’s not the best artist, businessman, or comedian—he’s just pretty good at all three. But combining those skills made him stand out and succeed in a unique way.

DevRel, DevOps, and DevSec show the same idea. These roles aren’t just about being great at one thing—they're about being good at a mix of skills like coding, communication, and problem-solving. When you put those together, it creates something powerful.

My takeaway? You don’t have to be the best at one thing. If you’re decent at a few things and combine them, you can do something amazing.
They're not doing themselves any favors with <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.epiccardga...> and I'm guessing it being so ancient is why it doesn't show up in the Play Store searches
Not quite the same by, but I believe a criminally underrated film sort of in this space is "Surviving the Game."

On it's surface, an absolutely wacky survival action film; but also subtly excellent commentary on class, race, crime and capitalism.
Yes, collectives don't have special interests. Individuals have specific instances of universal interests, like security or freedom. "Black people" doesn't have a separate existence from a black person. By guarding the principle of equality before the law, you are not getting involved in anybody's business but yours.

It isn't right to view something like equality before the law as a matter of somebody else's self-interest, or to justify a ruthless pursuit of self-interest by recasting it as service of an imagined collective interest.
> Burnout isn't well-studied or understood. It didn't even have a name when I first burned out in the 1980s. It's an amorphous topic because it covers such a wide range of human conditions and experiences.

I think this was labeled with the overused "nervous breakdown" in those times.
Last time I created a Laravel app it created dozens of default files and folders for me. How is that simpler than Go/Gin or Python/Fastapi? When does the extremely simple part come in?
I'm pretty supportive of auto and var, etc. in languages but parameters seem like a step too far.
https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Iodine-HealthProfessional/...
I don't still understand what really the hype is here, agent is just "A SMART FUNCTION CALLING ROUTER" at ground level, nothing more nothing less

Can be called as smart bot or bot 2.0 or something, but agent is way too much. Nothing really is agentic in agents
What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?
>You can’t just ltspice your crossover and call it a day.

I'm sure that's true, but how important is that really for a set of crappy plastic speakers?
Space and wages of course. In Germany you are a bank slave for your entire live if you want to buy a house. Meanwhile rich people from all over the world buy up prime real estate.

Their globalist friends want more immigration to drive down wages and increase rents.

This is nothing at all like in the U.S. The U.S. is huge and I'm green with envy when I see YouTubers owning whole estates in Idaho to make their private aircraft videos. Such things are completely impossible in Germany.

Then there is the cultural aspect of course. The U.S. has been an immigration country from the start. Europe had diverse hand highly advanced cultures in music, paintings, literature etc. Frankly, since the Americanization following WW2 neither Europe nor the U.S. have produced anything comparable.

What you call ethnostate, which is a derogatory term, other people call culture.
Reminds me of this classic:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/06/msnbc/bad-...

“Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6egeUxIEQnM
Isn't it mostly meaningless outside of the syntax sugar of putting code in the header?
I had the "joy" of watching some guys from Perforce setup a new p4 instance.

They confed /etc/sudoers so that the perforce user can run everything as root without providing a password. I told them that this is really a bad idea, and they pulled up one of their setup guides with "enhanced security hardening".

It ended up with ~35 specific entries for binaries in sudoers, one of them being /usr/sbin/setcap - which allows you to give e.g. the Python interpreter CAP_SETUID, making a privilege escalation to root trivial again.
A number of ICBMs used / uses a similar approach. In space, stars are always visible well, and terrestrial navigation aids may have been jammed or destroyed when ICBMs are put to use.
Configure all the apps as they were before.

Is like a new phone besides contacts/mails/photos, the rest (besides the pre-installation) is like I never used the apps on the phone.

From having to login to having to re-configure everything.
Related discussion from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42652775 (different submitter; 29 points, 3 comments)
I've burnt out. It was horrible. I am doing much better now!

The trick is to not care enough about your job to get hurt but not care so little that you could short-term be hurt.

In many places if you get hurt/burnt out on the job the upper seats are looking for any reason to curb stomp you. There's no reason to give a company your all unless you have an actual stake in it or they are there to hold you up when you're dragging. I've worked at multiple places where influential people died, yes dead, below average life expectancy, - on the job - and corporate did everything they could to not even pay out on their legal obligations (life insurance, D&D). In some cases employees joked or snickered about the person who died later on - in meetings.

In tech. I've found that you're not on your own but you are at the mercy of who is in charge of your schedule and rates your performance. If you lose trust in that person your best option is to leave as quickly as possible. Otherwise they will do what they can to destroy you for as much 'profit' as they can claim. Being clear. It is not about realized gains, it could even be at great detriment to a company. It is about short-term line item claimable gains. "We got 4 good months out of her...", "they were terminal and now they will be working somewhere better for them...", "he really wasn't closing as many tickets as the rest of the team...", "they weren't helping as many team members as the rest of the team...", "we never needed someone with an advanced degree...", etc.

Check in with yourself regularly. Know the signs of burn out. The company you work for does not depend on any person caring about you in the slightest.
"Kate's App is a tool created to support medical caregivers"

The landing page doesn't make it clear whether providers are expected to use it or not.
The Russian collusion thing was exactly what most informed people think it is: Russia was actively working hard to get Trump elected -- for obvious reasons -- and a number of people in Trump's sphere were aware of it and became willing tools of it. This is proven fact. It isn't a "hoax", it was very real. And I mean, you can embrace it and say Russia should be an ally or something so it's okay, but own a position.

Every election in almost every country, outside influences try to lever the balance. That's a reality worldwide. Governments try to fight it the best they can.

"You never mentioned that the Biden administration colluded with Facebook to suppress US citizens"

While Zuck is trying hard to attack the Biden admin to pander to Trump's ego, under the Trump admin there were government groups working to fight "misinformation". e.g. Much of the hilarious dud "Twitter Files" were actually the Trump government. When the government was worried that Hunter's dick pics and drug abuse files -- which as hacked/stolen material remain banned by X's current rules -- might have Russia disinfo in it, that was actually Trump's FBI.

And how much Luigi Mangione adulation, praise, and possible copy-cat rhetoric do you think is going to be abided under the Trump admin? I'm going to guess that a lot of people are going to have a confused position about suppressing US citizens.

"You can get closer to the truth on social media."

The truth can be found on social media, hidden amongst an absolute avalanche of nonsense and noise. Joe Rogan, for instance, is a very silly man who filters everything he says through a partisan filter rendering everything he says absolutely useless because the noise is so high, while he tries to get rubes to buy AG1 nonsense.
>In sloppy mode, a number beginning with a 0, such as 0644, is interpreted as an octal number (0644 === 420)

How does something like this even happens.

Anyway, if you "use" strict mode, but the browser doesn't support it, you're effectively not running in strict mode, so you can't actually assume the Javascript will execute differently.
Definitely true for linting. Nothing unlike a linter solves the problems we want the linter to solve.
That sounds alright, but I'm having difficulty imagining a situation where a business wants to produce a quote with novel element types / parameterizations not yet seen before without a human hand in the loop.
As someone who used to sysadmin and was well aware of this trick, sometimes a developer or dba will bully their way through leadership to make sure they never need to ask for permission to edit their configs

We all knew it was a bad idea but when your boss and their boss say do it, it’s done.

I’m pretty sure the dba (autocorrect magically suggested “diva” here) knew as well and just wanted a backdoor to have root for whatever they wanted.

I later busted the same team applying patches out of band with tripwire. Hey, wonder how you pulled that off…
Really cool visualization and neat to learn about lazy enumeration!

Excuse me while I go back through my code and make sure I’m using lazy enumeration wherever I’m iterating over large collections….
Look up the definition of “provider” in HIPAA’s text. The definition is extremely broad and doesn’t just cover doctors and pharmacists.
Native American church laments psychedelic cactus shortage
Yes, starcams are standard equipment on satellites including Cubesats because they provide more precise attitude information than any other available sensor. There are numerous free-software packages for star tracking; a quick search finds https://github.com/spel-uchile/Star_Tracker. I don't know if there's, like, an Android app that will do the required sensor fusion to tell you where on Earth you are.
From the user side, a spec isn't helpful unless it has implementations. And the official implementations are complicated compared to prometheus.
It’s a feature. Less white collar workers are needed because of AI. Instead of trying to fit in where culture is designed for attrition, find out what humans need and build something you own, using AI if you have to.
Have a look at "Code is Data / Data is Code" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity
And then see how it's done in real life: https://guix.gnu.org/
> Smalltalk and Common Lisp wasted their moment by not being cheap/free to people using micros in the 1980s.

Smalltalk and Common Lisp are not individuals.

"$99 Smalltalk Announced" 1986 InfoWorld Jun 30

https://books.google.com/books?id=Wi8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA11&dq=Sm...
Which mobile phone maker do you have more faith in? Which telco?

Apple have done work, and published tools for researchers, to make it so they can't "modify it in secret". The tools for security research community help verify that and "keep them honest". For instance, this is partly what the prompts about new devices or log in on other devices are about, there's a key exchange happening, and you get told. You can also exchange keys with Messages contacts to verify you're talking to them. You can turn on iCloud Advanced Security and Apple don't get even your backup keys. Also see the new Lockdown Mode.

Granted, Apple can change their minds and become anti-privacy or pro data-brokers and ad-tech, but some of these proofs would break so folks would know.

Anyway, if the government wants to know where you are, they can just ask the Chinese who've been watching Americans' cell phone identifiers move around.

In seriousness, the telcos already sell* this position data to data-brokers and law enforcement have portals to just watch you scurry around, even without a warrant.

* Sometimes telcos share your location data in ways that aren't "selling" so they can say they don't sell it. But the data goes and telcos derive value in exchange.
there are different ways of accomplishing a needle program. around here they hand out packs of 100 without any stipulation. to everyone's surprise, our city is now littered in stray needles and requires constant cleanup. they're everywhere. the various programs do attract people from other states. this much is evident by our shelter logs which survey where they are from.

it's important to note that it's probably not a very large set of them that dump their needles publicly. this is outright sociopathic and evil, which i don't think most of them are. this distinction is important because the sociopathic homeless do make it a much more taboo issue to deal with.
We moved to the old Sun campus, I noticed the towel dispensers had a delay timer
No, by being in a plane, the seven planets form a polygon.

If you are in a planet, there is a line to any other planet. Two planets form a line. Three planets form a triangle. Four planets form some irregular polygon of four sides. And so on.

In this case, the area of the polygon formed by the seven planets is minimal, for a period of several years, and they are effectively, almost in a line.

This is not a common occurrence.
I'm not exactly clear what you're asking. Where do you draw the line between "workflow automation" and "doing work"? To me it just seems like a spectrum with rapidly moving goal posts.

A decade ago, enterprises had quite a lot of roles involving essentially moving data from one ERP screen to another. From what I'm seeing, these roles seem to be quickly disappearing, with a combination of proper API-based automation, GUI automation and most recently LLM "agents" in crucial steps.

And on a very different note, I as a developer could ask an AI tool such as Aider or Windsurf to perform a big refactoring or other code change, working autonomously across code changes and shell commands until it passes all tests - this is agentic behavior that I didn't have even a year ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles
I'd be surprised if it uses moveBefore for something that seems to have put so much thought into being portable. moveBefore doesn't even have an entry in MDN yet, the only references I can find to it suggest it's still only available behind a flag in Chrome canary.
What are you doing now? I am considering becoming a machinist.
> I need an AI agent to continuously ask questions of PMs or stakeholders until the requirements are less vague.

They’ll just get mad at the AI and tell it to stop asking so many questions. As they already do to humans.
I'd also be interested to know what happened in the last 2-4 months.
Plenty of Swedes also. Creating churches and schools. German/Swede congregations helped each other. Later it was the Irish who renovated, buying up old neighborhoods, creating today's hospitals and universities.
> Which is trivial to compromise from Apple.

Explain this? Since both Apple and security researchers have worked on provable trust.
That's specifically an example of an application that I think is slow. It's slow to load and often slow to respond. The support for Git has to be amongst the slowest of any professional application in the world. But I'm pretty sure it has a deeply flawed architecture compared to VSCode.
That’s not really possible to exactly answer as it depends upon how tightly they are aligned. The last occurrence was March 10, 1982, and they aligned in a 95 degree arc. This degree of alignment will happen once every 175 years on average. However, an alignment within 4 degrees, for example, would occur every 400 billion years. In other words, never because the sun is expected to only last another 6 billion years.
Out of curiosity, do you like Dhall?
JLCPCB have changed the game. Five 2-layer PCBs of up to 100x100mm cost just $3.50 including global shipping. Things get more expensive if you stray from their standard specs, but you're still looking at just a few dollars per board.

https://jlcpcb.com/

The biggest electrolytic caps in this circuit cost $3.29 each in qty 1, but they're fancy "audio-grade" Nichicon caps; a standard-grade capacitor of that size would cost you $1.68 if you want a Japanese brand, or as little as $0.36 if you can settle for a Chinese brand.
Open-translation-client: An open source CAT-Tool for everyone
JavaScript hashing speed comparison: MD5 versus SHA-256
Im as shocked as you are that people rely on textual representations and ignore all the powerful tooling available to them for understanding code.

Every editor I use has tools that will provide this information in a single keystroke, macro or cluck. If you actively choose to avoid using tools to read code, I shouldn’t suffer for it.
Feels spot on
When hacking a firmware like this, why can't you just rebuild the whole binary after modifying the decompiled source instead of patching a specific section of it?
There's no reason to believe pure meritocracy is somehow the default state and plenty of evidence to the contrary. Humans are naturally biased in how we make choices and "this person looks and sounds like me" is probably one of the most common and deep rooted subconscious (or sometimes conscious) preferences. This isn't just a workplace hiring problem either. Humans are objectively bad at making purely objective decisions, even when they think they're doing so.

This isn't to say DEI programs as implemented today are the best solution to this problem, or even an effective one. I personally think more broad anti-bias training and programs could be a good alternative since race and gender are hardly the only biases that lead to bad decision making (e.g. hiring someone just because they went to the same school as you is also bad). But it seems silly to pretend bias doesn't exist or that it doesn't take active effort to counter, although I understand the appeal of doing so especially for uncomfortable topics like race.
Trello: I could care less about open source or self hostable. It’s a tool

There is a Mac, Windows, Web, iOS, and Android app. Simple Kanban board like interface and I can add comments and descriptions in markdown for each entry.