skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is far, far simpler than having to get proprietary, frequently-updated software to play nice inside a secure sandbox. If they do, great, but separate devices ensures it isn't a capital-P Problem for you if they stop.

What I am saying (and what I do) is that it's far simpler still to just not rely on anything where this might be the case.

If my bank turned around tomorrow and said I can't use their website to manage my account, I would not attempt to get their app working on my phone, I would switch bank.
Maybe a good way to incentivize more risky entrepreneurs is to provide a better safety net. I would, however, caution against making it too perfect (and I hate myself for saying that, because I would prefer people worked on whatever brings them happiness, not money) - part of the drive for Americans (and the reason they risk so much on it) is the need to accumulate as much capital as possible as soon as possible, because they know they won't enjoy any sort of safety net when they grow old.
If it's any comfort, I'm also an immigrant who was raised in a single parent household. When we last (it's a long story) moved to Canada, I had to share a bed with my dad for a while.

We were never actually poor, poor, at risk. I never skipped meals, or lacked for clothing, though certainly that was a living memory my grandparents had. It was never in question that I would attend university.

Privilege is intersectional blah blah, there are layers to things. I'm not of the dominant Anglo culture, I have an "ethnic" last name, I don't have the same connections people who grew up upper-middle class do. But people certainly see me as white, I'm smart, and I built my career as a bearded guy.

Living as a bearded white guy is just a lot easier, it presents a lot less friction, than being gender non-conforming. That's it, really.
Would be cool if there is Foss firmware to install on pioneer cdj. It just feels better for a lot DJs. Any projects in this direction?

BTW, the DJ collective I'm with has Pioneer CDJ. If anyone need use the hardware let me know. I'm trying to get them to start using open FOSS software, but it is hard.
We don't, we go crazy.
Really? Would the company subject itself to this otherwise?
I feel like it’s one of those things where not complying and finding out is not a good option, especially with the disregard and disrespect the US has shown towards the ICC I don’t think doing petty things that inconvenience the Dutch economy would be unthinkable, with the new president I think saying the quiet part out loud, - hell, screaming the quiet part as loud as you can - might be the new norm
Why? I think it's a very reasonable take. Democrats dont go around talking about people eating dogs.
There are obvious bad/evil actors in the world. When people talk about engaging with other humans respectfully, they're generally not referring to the Putins of the world.

And it's pretty rare to have so much clarity about a person to know they're in the "obviously reprehensible" bucket.

I'm not saying this is what you're doing, but I often see people argue like this:

1. There are obviously bad actors in the world

2. Nobody would argue those bad actors should be given respect

3. So I won't respect people I come across who disagree with me

The fallacy is in the jump from 2 to 3, and the assumption that the existence of bad actors means the person I'm interacting with right now is one of them. The vast majority of people aren't Putin, nor can they be judged so quickly/clearly. And setting aside whether or not someone like that deserves respect, there's also a clear difference between respecting someone for who they are vs. behaving in a respectful manner out of self-preservation. The latter may ultimately keep you alive.
additionally, wasn't the "whistleblower" who made many claims about Hunter Biden's laptop found to be blatantly fraudulent? dude was later convicted for making false statements.

IIRC the Romanian and Kazakstan ones were also heavily thrown into doubt.

whole thing reads like whataboutism
Sure, the loophole is a part of the law, as I (and others) stated. Congress passed the law, which included a simple and easy way for a president to suspend it once of 90 day, with weak and unenforceable requirements to invoke it. Given that this is an unusual clause to have in a law, I feel comfortable calling it a loophole.
According to this source, "The British topped the list with 8.4 percent of these transactions, followed by Germans at 7 percent, Moroccans at 6.1 percent, Romanians at 5.3 percent, and the French at 5.2 percent. "

https://sgmlegalspain.com/british-still-the-main-property-bu...

The biggest non-EU property owners in Spain are the Brits.

At least in 2018, Americans (Blackstone) were the largest corporate property owners in Spain.

https://wolfstreet.com/2018/06/14/blackstone-becomes-spains-...?
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At the end of the essay he says "I’d be a better startup founder today than I was in 2015" and my thought was, yea but YC is biased towards college kids. And then I saw your comment and I think something clicked for me. But maybe the ignorance and pliability of youth really is required to make the crazy bet on the startup dream.
I suppose that the real issue is that EUV is the smallest we can focus thus far. Otherwise we'd be using harder X-rays from things like synchrotron light sources, no?
be a US sattelite, be a Russian sattelite.

Honestly it feels like the US is also becoming a Russian sattelite with Trump & Elon having quiet gettogethers w Putin.
Okay, but the "excess power in summer" does not magically materialize in winter. The current systems where it works like that are accounting trick meant to solar power industry.

In reality, we have no realistic mechanism for long-term energy storage on a grid scale - we barely start to breach scale where storage can handle daily fluctuations - like in California. And it's not free - it's being costly affair.
In contexts significant figures might be relevant, a bar over the last 0 or a decimal point at the end are the easiest methods of saying "no really, these 0s are the real deal". Though you have other options like scientific notation, an explicit uncertainty bound, or natural language context too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures#Ways_to_de...
That isn't what I mean. The moral hazard is caused by the bailouts. It isn't about the sum itself. Merely the guarantee that the tab for large gambling losses will be taken by the taxpayers.
> gets lost on both the left and the right sides

It gets lost because of this black/white US perspective on politics. If you were multiparty system there will be less identities in politics.
Are you in the US? Americans aren't going to get those, just like we aren't going get cheap Chinese electric cars.
Money, speech, press... The mafia has many avenues of control...
It seems like that to me as well- that the whole thing can be a manipulative way to make what you wanted to do anyways seem somehow objectively correct. Which is basically the postmodernist criticism of any attempt to use logic or science for anything- and in some cases is valid.
> It's agonizing sitting there for an hour waiting to hear my name among the 99% of noise entirely irrelevant to me.

More than once I've been asked discretely by my PM if everything is OK with me, because half an hour down a team meeting whose contents is "99% of noise entirely irrelevant to me", I'm too exhausted trying to control my movements to keep my body from telegraphing the fact I'm bored out of my mind. Turns out, to an outside party, I start looking like I haven't slept the night, or am about to get a stroke, or something.
At the risk of "what about"-ing, this list is laughably small compared to the Trump's bribe docket.

Neither of these are acceptable, a president and their associates should not be able to personally enrich themselves from the office. I know this disclaimer won't matter to someone who just really wants to argue, but this does absolutely nothing to move the needle for me. Pointing to someone else's corruption to excuse Trump's corruption is just a losing battle, you will never convince me to care about one when the other is just allowed to fly.
Yes. As soon as you're conducting ritual ceremonies such as daily standups, you're no longer agile.
Love this guy’s videos, they’re in depth enough but also have a practical side to them so it won’t become a theoretic borefest (I know some people love things in theory, but it can get a bit overwhelming)
Are we getting dumber by the hour to need to gain attention by reversing the standard knife blade orientation?

After reading the design of everyday things, I no longer blame that stupidity on me...
> It’s not a subsidy, but a hold back from taxation.

I like pedantry as much as the next person but that feels like a pointless distinction here.
>the point of switching to electricity is to be able to use renewables

That argument won't work in practice though. You have to make it make financial sense to each and every individual to encourage them to switch, "Do it because it's the right thing to do" is a tall order when people are already on a tight budget.

I'm sure the new US president will assist in this matter.
Earlier in my (now long) career, tech didn't feel political at all (just a bunch of nerds trying to figure shit out). Nowadays, it feels really weird to associate things like cryptocurrency with "tech bros on the right", etc. It all feels very unnecessary, but I suppose humans have a natural tendency to divide into camps as a survival characteristic. Whatever the case, The United States has certainly at a stage where it feels like tolerance for others is at a low point--at least as far as my historical memory serves--and the country seems far less welcoming than it has in the past to a variety of cohorts which will affect the makeup of the work force. The general politicization of the tech industry makes me less excited about continuing as an engineer, which is sad, because it's always been a discipline that I've really loved. It feels like "hate politics" are oozing out of everything these days, and I don't see how that represents progress of any kind.
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Reminds me that back in 2001 I was suggesting the Squeak (Smalltalk) Foundation's purpose should include supporting collaborative software and the community around it -- beyond supporting just personal development. There were a bunch of interesting discussions related to that although ultimately the focus still ended up moving towards the narrower traditional Smalltalk culture idea of empowering the user rather than the community.

Example of something I wrote then:
https://lists.squeakfoundation.org/archives/list/squeakfound...
"I guess I always saw Squeak's purposes as a bit broader still, relating
more to "individual and group empowering transparent ubiquitous
computing". For example, I see Squeak concepts as providing an OS
neutral platform for various languages (Python, Lisp, Forth) [an open
source .NET] and I don't see how that is going to fit into a mission
statement that links to Squeak as is with a perception of a Smalltalk
environment only. Granted, most people joining this list may have no
direct interest in this, so that is not to say the purpose of the
organization should necessarily incorporate that, especially if it has
detrimental effect by making things too overly broad.
Here's an alternative -- anchor the effort on one side by Squeak and
have it open ended on the other. For example, "To assist the evolution
of a individual and group empowering transparent open-source ubiquitous
computing platform starting from the initial Squeak code base".
I don't think this is out of character with for example where Alan Kay
has wanted to go with Squeak in regards to a "Dynabook"."

Smalltalk (and Squeak and its derivatives) of course can empower groups like with, say, the Croquet project. What I was talking about then was mostly about emphasis around a common shared purpose (like the Chaordic Commons approach suggests) in the context of creating a formal "foundation" organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project

If I squint, it sort-of appears that JavaScript/asm.js (supporting a variety of transpired languages and running in every browser and communicating in a variety of ways) is a sort-of realization of part of that vision.
There's a tremendous amount of useful things you can do with Transformers and diffusion models. It's kind of fascinating how businesses are not able to turn those straight forward things into businesses and instead think that they should run commercials insisting people will want to have an AI write heartfelt thankyou letters or do creative tasks for them. Whoever is driving these initiatives is so lacking in aesthetic and cultural awareness it's insane.
> Sure, there's a long tail of banks/cards that don't support it yet, but I think it's fair to call Apple Pay and Google Pay massively deployed and successful solutions.

Sure, but my point was that Google didn't have an easier time as a result of Apple putting in the legwork - Google was first, neither is done, and others are far behind.

> Absolutely nothing needed to be upgraded in the payment terminals

You need to upgrade to support contactless payments, which was not previously a requirement to accept a payment method and not at all widely rolled out - in Denmark, contactless payments launched a year after Apple Pay released in the US, and that's despite Denmark generally being cashless and far ahead of US on credit card security stuff.

Contactless payment is still not universally supported, so upgrades are still pending.
Sounds terrible. So yeah, I guess they can make an educated guess, and initiate a demoralizing cat and mouse game with their customers.
Maybe he was a teenager on IRC in the late 90s or early 00s and decided to never change

Thinking about it I guess MSN messenger and My Space also allowed/encouraged font shenanigans? My memory falters
We're 3x as many as the Russians. There's no need for that, unless we need to have a war for some other reason.

5% is what Sweden needed in the 1980s to defend itself from the whole Soviet Union + Warsaw Pact, without the EU and without NATO.
It should be noted, though, that by the time of Basil II in the 900s, the Eastern Roman Empire (aka Byzantium - a name neither they nor anyone else uses until the 19th century) had again become the most powerful military actor in the western world.
Focusing on the individual means dropping the notion of “sides”. Identifying people (or even arguments) by their alleged “side”, instead of taking them on their own merit, is where things go wrong.
> it doesn’t work in the US because of the first amendment and the few limitations on it.

This isn't clear to me. For instance, Meta was free to forbid hate speech on their platforms, or not to promote it in their feed algorithms. I don't think first amendment would force them to authorize hate speech. They do it to align with power in place (freely or coerced, not clear), but it's not a legal enforcement.

> So in countries where hate speech is disallowed, people conform to a less hateful viewpoint as a rule, and hateful people are the exception.

There are hateful people in Europe too.
6 months ago it would be unimaginable to do anything that may be harmful to the quality of the product, but I’m trusting OpenAI less and less
You would think! But no the curved side is the blunt side
Playing diners advocate here, it's odd to see a knife where the curved part is not the cutting part. I know most knives I've eaten with are curved so you can sort of "roll" it thru a cut.

Combine that with dark restaurant lighting and the need to not seem like an idiot around polite company, I don't think I would personally clue in right away that I need to hold the knife opposite to every other steak knife I've ever used, nor inspect it close enough to realize the cutting edge is on the "back" in front of people who will think this is the first time I've used a steak knife before or something.
You can turn notifications off.
That's exactly what it is. The people breathlessly compiling a list of "what abouts" for this type of corruption need to look past their nose. 2 things can be fucked up at the same time, and one of those things being fucked up isn't an excuse for the other thing to continue being fucked up.

Also, when one of those "what abouts" is verifiably false, as in the case of the guy who made claims about Hunter's laptop, it's completely meaningless. Those people are comparing to something that doesn't even exist.

It's a stupid, losing game that way too many people want to play.
Comparing Hunter Bidens sale of his name to the Trump organization as if it's the same is so laughable.

How many pump and dump crypto scams is Joe up to? "Media" company stock sell offs? Hotels he puts government employees in so he can charge their stay?
And yet you fail to make any logical refutation of it.
Is there any way to check if you're affected? I just happened to install Homebrew while the malicious site was up and now I'm not sure if I installed the legit version.
I appreciate it. The article is really well thought out, it looks like it took some real research & effort. Bookmarked the domain.
>Did people not believe then, or are they resigned to the election results meaning we just accept the end of democracy?

If I revolt against the government that is 100% breaking democracy.

If I wait and see what the next admin does, that is maybe 50% (fake numbers) likely to break democracy.

You can think DJT is bad for democracy and also think it is more bad to try to toss out an election he won.
I wrote this post. March 1st I'll be giving a related conference talk at RE//verse (https://re-verse.io/) about my journey from software reversing into the realm of ludicrous hardware research while re-visiting the Original Xbox. It will be recorded and available online at some point after the conference.
because non-tech friends don't have coding problems, which is the only problem LLM are ok at.
yeah but cable was limited by channels and by producers. now anyone can make a video and it's possible to tailor that to tiny niches that would have never been served by cable.
What makes you think they need the latest technology to win a war? Technology may be an advantage but the wars are dicy.
Writing Trade Backtests with GitHub Copilot AI
The 'move in' appeal comes into play. While the land/location may be great - places with the lime green toilet and 70's shag carpet will require renovations to be considered current. The flippers are doing the work - usually the unusually dated bits - for less than what the buyers would think that remodeling would cost. (and they are often correct) That delta is why flippers can make it work. At a certain price point, folks expect a house to be finished.

We picked up a house that needed updates. A few miles from work (were I to drive in) and on a lake. When we looked at the house, it showed terribly. We had replaced our bathrooms and a few other 'major' things in our previous house, so what might scare some folks is a few hundred to a few thousand at home depot and some possibly long weekends. Chunk by chunk, we've been making the house the way we want it.

I should be doing some drywall this long weekend. Way to dang cold to go out and pick up supplies.
Notes on Nix
We alway use this in place of ENUMs:

export const SMS_TYPE = {
BULK: 'bulk',
MARKETING: 'marketing',
PIN: 'pin',
SIGNUP: 'signup',
TRANSACTION: 'transaction',
TEST: 'test',
} as const;
export type SmsType = typeof SMS_TYPE[keyof typeof SMS_TYPE];

ENUMs (at least in my experience, which may be dated) had a number of drawbacks that pushed us to this format. I vaguely remember having issues parsing data from the server and/or sending ENUM values to the server but it's been a long time and I've been using this const pattern for around 5 years or so now.
In normal times I would agree with you. At present in the U.S. I’d not agree with this sentiment. People who support electing a known racist, thief, con man, and felon are deserving of ridicule and ire. They don’t deserve respect in my opinion.

When the politics of a nation shift so far in one direction we get into a situation where supporters of that shift don’t deserve respect. Stalinist Soviet Union is an extreme example of this.
Yup. From Sam Bowman's Foundations[0]:

> [The TCPA] moved Britain from a system where almost any development was permitted anywhere, to one where development was nearly always prohibited. Since [it] was introduced in 1947, private housebuilding has never reached Victorian levels, let alone the record progress achieved just before the Second World War.

> Today, local authorities still have robust powers to reject new developments, and little incentive to accept them. Historically, local governments encouraged development because their tax bases grew in line with the extra value created, but this incentive has been eroded by successive reforms that have centralised and capped local governments’ tax-raising powers.

[0] https://ukfoundations.co/
thanks for commenting this. all i needed to know :D
Trump said yesterday in his speech that they want a model where the US owns 50% of Tik Tok and has some oversight.

This is pretty much the exact same setup that US companies get in China. This seems like a pretty decent compromise actually. Free speech advocates win because people still get to use the service, but national security folks also get a win because they can monitor its use by a foreign government and shut things down if it’s being used maliciously.
I think it's slightly creepy and displays a major lack of socialization and self-awareness and do not at all wish I had made.
This is just a publicity stunt to capitalize on his popularity among Gen Z: https://www.newsweek.com/young-people-most-optimisitc-about-.... Trump is simply picking up the ball Biden fumbled.