skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And this is why Democrats lose.

Democrats lose due to significant ignorance in the population and successful propaganda by hostile entities. It's not an accident that the reddest states at the least educated and least literate. If you doubt that I'm happy to support the claim, but I think we both know it's true.

> They are completely out of touch with what the mainstream wants.

Democrats are the only party actually offering to give the majority what they want, but due to ignorance and propaganda the majority have become emotionally hostile to the means necessary to accomplish implementing what they want.

Despite Trump's promises that gullible desperate people fell for, his policies are likely to make things much harder for hid voters and not only not give them what they want, but give them what they explicitly don't want. Well, they'll still get bigoted policies, at least.

> Any other Democrat could have distanced themselves from Biden. But his own VP couldn’t.

There should have been no reason to. Trump is a rapist felon who literally advocated for injecting leach as a cure to a pandemic. That people voted for him at all shows just how bad things are.

Democracy can't function with such a gullible population. At the least I have a front row ticket to the fall of a modern empire though. That's something.
I long maintained that there should be a minimum level of 'something' required to vote. It used to be land, but anything that effectively makes one have a stake in the country would do. If possible, would you accept a restriction on the right to vote based on such a criterion?
PostgreSQL Anonymizer developer here : the problem you are describing here only affects version 1.x

Version 2.0 was released a few days ago with a branch new masking system that does not block database migrations.
Author here. This is a bit of an unusual project, but I can break down the gist of it in two main pieces.

The first is a new web-based, real-time nonlinear optics simulator for the situation of light propagating within a reflective cavity with an adaptive lens structure at the center. My understanding of the landscape of NLO simulators is there's not much real-time or for the web, so extracting that bit of code (within simulation.js) may be a decent starting point for other projects. That said, depending on what your goals for simulation the level of accuracy provided by a real-time simulation may not be sufficient. My understanding is that if you are doing detailed simulation to refine e.g. lens structures intended for production in the real world you likely need more detailed modeling than the slow varying envelope approximation (SVEA) that I use here.

The other aspect of the project is a little difficult to describe but I was basically trying to create a minimal idealized model of a setup with nonlinear dynamics controlled by an optimization process as a kind of "pendulum" setup for whatever's the minimal essential magic behind the efficacy of e.g. transformer models. The exploration is not complete, but the idea was basically like: is there some switch where an alteration in technique in the optimization structure ends up being a step-function more effective in controlling the light fields than without. That's the general idea. More specifically what started the project though was being curious whether you could in some way use waves reflected from a boundary as an error signal for a backpropagation-like process. I found out in the course of my work here that this has been done in practice using phase-conjugate waves to encode the corrections. In order to create these phase-conjugate waves you'd need a "four-wave mixing" setup, which the simulation in its present state does not support but could be extended to.

A note on process: this project was basically kicked off because I tried one-shotting a basic version of it with openai's o1 model and it worked a lot better than I was expecting, so much of the motivation here was also to see how much I could use sota LLMs to assist on a project like this.
How? You don't control the DOM on that. You can adjust the window prior to changing its location but that's it.
It's self-evident. Propaganda is defused through rhetorical skills. You know, knowing about the general forms of sophism, all that stuff. Rhetorical skills correlate with intelligence.
Fifty four percent of Americans now read below the sixth grade level.
I've read this and I've seen the site, and I still have no idea what it is, what's the application and why should I be interested.

Additionally I've tried earlier chapters and they are behind a paywall.

You need a better introduction.
What did the market expect? The design leaked last week seems unrelated. Maybe the software announce was weak.
I took "disheartened" as "upset". Replace "upset" in my above reply with "disheartened".

I'm quite sure my reply evinced no political bias. I was saying that any administration could do this sort of thing at any time, and any SCOTUS could accept it when the administration does it. We can expect political animals to do this, so it's not surprising when they do it, but we can also expect the SCOTUS not to go there, and they didn't, so what exactly is disheartening? That politicians are so fallible?

Whereas I would think it disheartening only of the court actually used the secret evidence. But they didn't.
Pretty sure this is just vectorization. You can pack some 8bit ints into a machine-length 32bit int and add them together, that is vectorization.
> I, as an adult, decided that I am ok with sharing my personal data within their app in exchange for getting to use the app

You, as an adult, may also choose to drunk drive. The country is bigger than single people. Security threats are collective.
Very true effect actually.

I start speaking and writing in the style of the book I am currently reading.

A tool called typelit.io [0] shares great similarity to the one you provided. Upon completion of a piece by H. P. Lovecraft with its assistance, I can confirm the validity of the statement you provided. (Or not, judge for yourself.)

[0]: https://www.typelit.io/
Then Starlink doesn't have to participate.

The market is flawed - hence the NYS government is trying to fix the issue that ISPs don't provide a minimum service at a low cost.

NYS is attempting to fix the issues with the market. Companies that don't love their rules can just participate in the regular market. Its pretty simple.
> I can't tell if people just don't know that this is happening

This. It's this. Don't waste your time thinking past this answer, you already nailed it.
You cannot trust a human to avoid buying crap on Amazon but like I said with Prime the only cost is time (and, to be fair: Co2 footprint).

Dynamic CVV would mean you'd have to authorize the payment. If amount seems off, decline.

To be clear, I don't think I'd use it but if it could save you time (a precious value, in our day and age) with good signal to noise ratio it is win-win for user, author, and Amazon.

If you want to buy an Apple device from a trusted party, including trusted accessories, then there's apple.com. My point being: buying from there is much more secure. But even then, there is no '1 iPhone 16'; there's variants. Many of them.
When properties in Florida become uninsurable due to climate change: Haha those stupid Republican climate deniers should have known better than to build their homes in a disaster area!

When properties in California become uninsurable due to climate change: This is a capitalist conspiracy by the big corporate insurance companies and the ruling class to exploit a tragedy for profit!
Elon Musk doesn't have a military hostile to the US, nor are his companies controlled by any, so for the purposes of this concern, yes.
> East coast native Indians

This is false. Fire was unambiguously part of the practice of native Californians.

> opportunists

What is this slander.
I think that's my fault BTW (Railway Founder here). I asked Charith to cut down a bit on the details to make sure it was approachable to a wider audience (And most people have only done Cloud)

I wanted to start off with the 101 content to see if people found it approachable/interesting. He's got like reams and reams of 201, 301, 401

Next time I'll stay out of the writing room!
It will still legally have American content, but only propaganda :)

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/biden-administration-quiet...
Instead of

let surrogate_mask = surrogate_bit << 2 | surrogate_bit << 1 | surrogate_bit;
len &= !surrogate_mask;

consider

len &= surrogate_bit.wrapping_sub(1);

This should still work better. Alternatively, invert the conditions and do

len &= non_surrogate_bit.wrapping_neg();
I wouldn't read too much into the title, the closing parts of the article give a much more balanced take on the whole issue. This study disagrees with some previous work and it's unclear which result makes sense and why. As usual, more research is needed, and while a catchy title is nice, this isn't anything to change your dietary habits by,
"you're doing CICO wrong. you can only lose weight in the way I approve of"
My apologies for the lack of completeness at the time of my comment.
In other words, a social engineering attack to trick people into authorizing something they did not want to authorize.

Related XKCD: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2415:_Allow_Captc...
No, that's not acceptable either. Elon should never have been allowed to get full control of Twitter/X. But that is a separate battle. And it doesn't make the issue with TikTok being under CCP control any less of a problem (unless you're China and trying to shift the narrative with "what about Elon", and if you are that basically proves the point that you can't have a foreign adversary in a position to be able to heavily, while subtly, influence public opinion through an algorithm.)
I just found the following version of the Waffle game:
https://wordle-nyt.org/waffle

The host name includes “nyt”, but the web page doesn’t seem to be owned by the New York Times.
No making decisions by a committee of individuals doing their best in an open and transparent way is the correct method.

Basically what Twitter was before Elon bought it.
Yes, this is the report of browser-use with 89%:
https://browser-use.com/posts/sota-technical-report

We definitely need a new dataset with more complex tasks, like uploading files, handling multiple tabs, and handling many more steps.
Winner winner chicken dinner!
This is just a subsidy from normal rate payers to the low income payers. We already have a mechanism for that, it's called income tax.
The United States Army current artillery shell production capacity is about half that of Russia's .. not less than a tenth.

There are other producers in "the West".

What the RUSI report(s) stated was that Russia is hitting the limits of production and will be bound by material input constraints (chromium, etc) and is ripe for supply disruption, whereas "the West" is ramping up production capaicty and can easily exceed that of Russia.
Propaganda works. PR works. The global ad industry is worth trillions, not because it doesn't work.
No, not like a human assistant. Competent humans will use logical reasoning, non-digital signals like body language and audible clues, and know the limits of their knowledge, so are more likely to ask for missing input. Humans will also be more predictable.
Embedded storage was actually very common some decades ago, remember seeing it in a lot of devices, mostly 3G USB Modems, there was even a AT command to enable/disable it.

Seems that the origin of the "chinese hack" theory can be just resumed to: younger people not being used to this kind of old stuff.
Bug bounties are kind of a joke. they will invent almost any reason to not pay. it has to be something where the site is malfunctioning, not CSS tricks, which has to do with the browser , not the vendor. Clickjacking can work on any site, not just Amazon.
Sure, but I get lost at the notations like big S, `|` and other things. Those notations seem to have many standards or I just can't see to follow.

In pseudocode, or any programming language, I'm right there with you.
/// Encode a UTF-8 codepoint.
/// […]
/// Returns a length of zero for invalid codepoints (surrogates and out-of-bounds values);
/// it's up to the caller to turn that into U+FFFD, or return an error.

It's not a "UTF-8 codepoint", that's horridly mangling the terminology. Code points are just code points.

The input to a UTF-8 encode is a scalar value, not a code point, and encoding a scalar value is infallible. What doubly kills me is that Rust has a dedicated type for scalar values. (`char`.)

(In languages with non-[USV]-strings…, Python raises an exception, JS emits garbage.)
The executive branch whose first and only job during times of peace is to enforce the laws is now expected to not enforce the law? This whole fiasco is dumb.
I actually had to check if TikTok was subject to the French protection laws on localized media quotas. I see it applies to Netflix et al, but not directly to TikTok.
An interesting parallel, they've studied cult recruitment and intelligent people are not less likely to join one. In fact, often times, the better they are at reasoning, the better they are at convincing themselves something bad is in fact ok.
Was really hoping this was was actually about building your own data center. Our town doesn't have a data center, we need to go an hour south or an hour north. The building that a past failed data center was in (which doesn't bode well for a data center in town, eh?), is up for lease and I'm tempted.

But, I'd need to start off small, probably per-cabinet UPSes and transfer switches, smaller generators. I've built up cabinets and cages before, but never built up the exterior infrastructure.
With Spanish we have the added complexity that there are different linguistic traditions around the world. For example, in Mexico I learned "depurar", an existing Spanish word that closely fits the meaning of "debug". However, many Spanish speakers simply say "debuguear", just directly borrowing the English word. In Mexico I also learned "desempeño" to describe the performance of a computer or software, but in Argentina I've heard "el performance" to say the same.

I think the most common thing is to just use English loanwords without trying to find existing Spanish words that fit the meaning.
You're right. Will be mindful. Thanks.
I'm not saying that it doesn't work and I'm not saying that I hold the general public in high esteem. What I say is that holding the general public in low esteem while at the same time holding democratic values sacred is, as Spock would say, illogical.
It looks like you are comparing a specific terrorist group to Israel as a society. Be aware that there is a large propaganda machine which uses this tactic to dehumanize Palestinians in order to justify a genocide against them.

Now if you wanted to compare atrocities—which honestly you shouldn’t—you would compare the Palestinian children that were brutalized both in the Gaza genocide, and in any one of the number of IDF incursions into Gaza and the West Bank before and after oct 7. That is compare victims to one side, to the victims of the other side.

But people generally don’t pick sides like that. They don‘t evaluate the atrocities committed by one armed group to the atrocities committed by the other and favor one over the other. And they certainly don‘t favor one civilian group over another based on the actions of their armed groups. People much more simply react to atrocities as they happen. And Israel has committed enough atrocities during the Gaza genocide that social media will be reacting—both in anger and horror—for a long time to come.
Your Technical Interview Process is Wrong
It actually doesn't matter whether TT has done it already or not.

What matters is that it has the __capability__ of doing it, in ways that would be difficult to detect, when it proves expedient to do so.
I guess the question is how much should the rest of America have to subsidize the folks who want to live near the beach?
The date and time durations given seem a bit confusing to me...

"we kicked off a Railway Metal project last year. Nine months later we were live with the first site in California".

seems inconsistent with:

"From kicking off the Railway Metal project in October last-year, it took us five long months to get the first servers plugged in"

The article was posted today (Jan 2025), was it maybe originally written last year and the project has been going on for more than a year, and they mean that the Railway Metal project actually started in 2023?
damn, i became the person i was describing
Yeah, it’s certainly one of those shows that take a couple episodes to settle in but then it’s one big, sweeping impression
Developing a Circuit Board Fabricator
> But it seems like this move incentivizes you to not improve the open source server, at least such that the open source server is always inferior to the pro version.

The idea is that we absolutely improve FOSS synapse in all ways - other than supporting enormous deployments. For instance we continue to land perf improvements to FOSS synapse and make average sized servers as snappy as conceivably possible. And all features land in FOSS synapse, etc. If we don’t it would harm the public Matrix network and we obviously don’t want that.

> If someone makes a new, more performant, open-source server, and it touches your bottom line then you're strongly motivated to "embrace, extend, extinguish".

Rather than EEE, I’d expect us to simply compete with that server - adding more features, better perf, better commercial support, etc. For Matrix’s sake, I hope that we end up in that situation tbh.

> The thing is, we've all heard this before, and it always ends up the same. I hope you prove me wrong, but I wouldn't bet on it.

I think the difference is that typically folks doing this are being greedy to grow a profitable (or could-be-profitable) company as aggressively as possible. Whereas here the motive is simply to pay for our FOSS dev and get to breakeven and be able to sustainably grow Matrix for the benefit of the whole network. If in the end a bit of proprietary software is the necessary evil to get there, sobeit.

Of course this could change in future, eg if mgt changed, but that’s true of anything. But the intention is categorically not to EEE (and on the Matrix Foundation side, the governance and spec process is set up to stop Element from being able to EEE even if it wanted to).
What are some problems where this approach has advantages?
> widely used social network across the world WITHOUT american content.

As of January 2025, the countries with the most TikTok users are:

Indonesia: Has the most active users with 157.6 million

United States: 120.5 million

Brazil: 105.2 million

Mexico: 77.5 million

Vietnam: 65.6 million

Pakistan: 62.0 million

Philippines: 56.1 million

Russian Federation: 56.0 million

Thailand: 50.8 million

Bangladesh: 41.1 million
Reasonable grant for org stage and contributions. If you don’t have better options immediately, thank them for the grant and move on until you decide you no longer enjoy the work or you find a better opportunity (comp + equity). Also, don’t get hung up on it too much. It’s just a lottery ticket.
> people in likely financial distress with addresses close to military installations

Sure, that's possible, but I think it's a bit of a stretched argument. Can't you target people like that on Facebook with ads? Can't you buy data about these people from U.S. data brokers? Can't you already access this data publicly because people share it openly on social media?
I understand. The goal is to make the biggest possible pool, which means a single, preferrably government-run carrier (to limit profit-maximization on a service that's more or less essential)
Seems like a homebrew program that uses the Miracle Piano would be a lot nicer to use than a Famicom keyboard.
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> I'm not sure...

I am. Google Salt Typhoon.
Wow, this is a really, really great answer. It was also a bit of a hard read for me personally, because I know it to be true, and because I kinda discovered I was a bit f'd in midlife - I had been a great (and I think recognized as great) contributor early on in my career, but I didn't want to make the transition to "decider" because I fundamentally don't enjoy managing teams of people. I've found it increasingly difficult to be good at the "contributor" role because I find it hard to stay motivated to keep change with the pace of tech. Not sure if it's really hard for me to learn new tech (though that's likely, as it's basically an inevitable consequence of aging), I just honestly don't care as much.

So for me, I'm actually getting off the career train to become a craftsman, and I plan to go to school to become a luthier (violin maker). May not be as cool as that guy who switched from a Microsoft principal engineer to duck farmer, but it's probably similar. I was lucky enough to have earned and saved enough early in my career to make this change.

But as you say, "In my lifetime, the value of contributors has diminished while the value of deciders has exploded", and that is totally true. I've accepted I'll never make as much money as I used to (obviously not even close being a luthier). But I think I'll be much happier.
-f 140 is the right yt-dlp parameter to get just the audio.
It's not that simple. Had I cut my daughter off and not allowed a phone, she would never have made the connections with the good friends she has. I am convinced these phones are troubling our youth but cutting them off is not advised.
He does take regular phone calls from Putin, the content of which we're not privy to, and he meets with the Iranian government on the down-low.

I think those alone would be grounds to at least take a close look at his access to Twitter data, his censorship choices and any input he has into the algorithms.
Reports are that Elon Musk is looking to buy Intel.
PostgreSQL Anonymizer developer here : this was possible with version 0.8 which is now completely unmaintained.

This extension is currently not available on RDS but it is available on many others DBaaS providers : Azure SQL, Google Cloud SQL, Crunchy Bridge, ....
More like Trump can use it as a bargaining chip with China.