skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is basically how windows has worked for consumer editions for years now. The article near the end:

>Almost a year ago, Windows 11 23H2 was rolled out in the same way – the company's support lifecycle means Home and Pro users must be kept up to date, whether those users like it or not, in order to receive support.

Consumer editions are released every year, and are only supported for 2 years, so it makes sense to upgrade people around half-way through that cycle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_11_version_history
Cool! Maybe it would be nice to see the software that it is an alternative to directly on the card as well?

Also, how do you qualify whether a solution is an alternative? How much of a 'drop-in replacement' should it be?
Policymaking is never discovered. It’s forced. Like class struggle forced the hand of actors like FDR during his presidency.

Then that was forced away by the reaction (class struggle) of the most right-wing capitalists and ideologues which ultimately lead to neoliberalism.

So sure, there are some set of relatively enlightened capitalists that want more of a social democratic status quo for the stability it brings. But the material conditions are not there.[1] So people like Jeff Atwood will write opinion pieces and give what is the grand of scheme of things token material support. But it can’t realistically happen right now in the US.

Of course the same principles apply to Scandinavian countries. They’re (our) false ideology is called the Nordic Model.

[1] Look at Bernie Sanders. The Independent senator who ran for the ostensibly left-wing Democratic Party as a mere social democrat and was shot down by the Establishment. Now that he is too old to run again and the presidential election is done for you see people in the Establishment say things like, huh I think that guy had a point!
Most of the popular games in the 2600's library have been disassembled and reverse engineered over the years.[1]
As for Activision, they pretty much don't really care about a bunch of hobbyists tearing apart their 40+ year old piece of software.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20230404054728/http://www.bjars....
This obviously doesn't work long-term because when it works, they change the algorithms, the UX, everything to hook you again.
It's like the twitter thing. You start shutting off servers until someone says, "ouch it hurts". Then you turn it back on if you care. You then end up with less servers than you started.
> the cashier tested it for cocaine and it came back positive

There is no commercial product capable of testing cash for drugs. Anyone claiming to sell such a product is lying.

There is a wipe, like a baby wipe, that is sold as a "cocaine detection wipe". It is a lie.

It uses a dumbed down version of a spot test that is very good at detecting cocaine, but it also reacts with many other substances that are not cocaine.

The test was dumbed down because the substances needed to make it more accurate are much more dangerous than the cobalt thiocyanate (which is STILL not good for you) used in the "safe" tests.

There are thousands and thousands and thousands of substances that will cause a cocaine detection test to return a positive reaction. One of them is Benadryl. Benadryl causes such a strong and vibrant reaction that you would think the entire object being tested was made of pure cocaine.

If you keep a single packet containing one Benadryl pill in your bag and you use it and while taking it a handful of diphenhydramine (Benadryl) molecules get transferred from your fingers to the outside of the packet, and then you toss the packet into your bag and they get transferred from the packet to the interior of your bag, to a wallet in your bag, to the cash itself, testing the cash in that wallet with a cocaine field test will produce a stronger positive result than if you had rolled up a bill and snorted a line immediately prior to the test and there was still powdered cocaine on the bill.

This is not a joke or exaggeration. If you touch a single Benadryl pill with the tip of your index finger, then poke the tip of your finger to a sheet of paper, then you put that sheet of paper in a printer and a rubber roller in the paper-handling mechanism rolls over the spot you touched, every single sheet of paper printed by that printer for MONTHS will test positively for cocaine. (using the tests that don't require training, PPE, and expensive lab equipment).

Did your totally real and not bullshit cash have drugs on them, or Benadryl, or ANY substance with the ring of carbon atoms that the test detects?

"But this study found 80% of bills had dru..."

Buddy 100% of all bills that have been used just once have actual literal shit, feces, dookie, poop, (and staph!) on them.

There is poop in your wallet right now.
Shucks. If you turn on "showdead" on https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=GimbalLock, then some of the lists (like https://news.ycombinator.com/active) still show flagged submissions, maybe that could help you find it?
Not at all. I've spent plenty of time (sessions exceeding an hour) in saunas that were >105F and >95% humidity (literally so much steam that it was continuously raining from the condensation).

Remember that when you get a fever, your internal body temp can jump to 103+ and stay there for days. Even at a wet bulb temperature above 110, it's going to take time for your internal temperature to heat up to that level. There's nothing "potentially in minutes" about it for humans that are used to the heat.

Sure, you do eventually have to get somewhere cooler. But a wet bulb temperature of 105F is not going to be fatal for a well adapted human even after a few hours.
Makes me wonder which founders should be selling now...
i like to think about how the influences flow in all directions.

for example at one time there were a bunch of weirdos arguing over some abstruse philosophical question about the fundamental nature of true logical statements, and one of them came up with the “Turing machine”.

then once it was actually built (by engineers, by way of physical and mathematical advances), it started to cause all kinds of confusion in philosophy of mind and other areas.
https://archive.ph/zehw7
Testitems.jl- make it easy to write and run tests for Julia packages
It's identical energy. A significant number of people are attaching their hopes and dreams to a piece of technology while deluding themselves about the technical limitations of that technology. It's all rooted in greed. Relatively few are in it to push humanity forward, most are just trying to "get theirs."
What a lot of people are overlooking is that there were two separate indictments in two separate courts with two separate prosecution teams.

In one indictment, in a New York federal court, he was charged with several crimes, but not murder-for-hire. In the other indictment, in a Maryland federal court, he was charged just with murder-for-hire.

The case in New York went to trial first. The murder-for-hire evidence was introduced in that court as part of trying to prove some of the elements of the other charges.

For example to prove a charge of engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise one of the elements is that the person occupied "a position of organizer, a supervisory position, or any other position of management". Evidence that a person is trying to hire hitmen to protect the enterprise is evidence that they occupy such a role.

After the convictions and sentencing in the New York trial were upheld on appeal, the prosecutors in Maryland dropped their case because he was then in jail, for life, with no possibility of parole. They said it was a better use of resources to focus on cases where justice had not yet been served.
> I don't think Chesterton has much to say about DHS, which is relatively new.

I'm responding to this statement. I thought it was pretty clear that the quote is still applicable, especially if you can read it applied to DHS. The comment I replied to was a response to a comment with the original quote. Its called Chesterton's Fence.

Chestertons Fence is a device or principle. It is not actually about a fence. As such, it still applies to, or pretends to apply to cases in the future, of which Chesterton could not be aware.

I assumed this demonstration was clear enough, but apparently I did something wrong here. Anybody care to explain why I have been flagged?
A Passive Player
Ross, you can set up identities on decentralized social platforms now!

https://rossulbricht.medium.com/decentralize-social-media-cc...
> I do not have any leg

I’m not sure what you’re saying, that isn’t grammatically correct.
It’s common for organizations to reorganize. It’s quite possible that the committee was formed for purposes of centralization and efficacy. It’s also possible it was government overreach. What are the justifications for axing a committee or regulations and are those justifications correct?
There are floating electrostatic experiments that are pretty cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6bKDaZiy_k
$8 a month in 2011 is equal to $11.16 according to inflation.

Netflix web streaming was a great value at $11. I don't think it's a very good value at $25.

At a certain point, streaming services are competing against the cost of a seedbox, and seedboxes are not very expensive.
because california is not a very permissive landscape and believes there should be a community-involved process with veto for essentially every large private action
You should re-read his tweets from January 6th[0]. He didn’t tweet about peace until hours after things started, (he was gleefully watching it unfold on TV[1], remember), and when he did, it was a half hearted one line sentence to go home.

And three of his tweets were deleted by Twitter, including this gem from late in the day:

“Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”

This doesn’t read like someone who was remorseful about the actions that happened that day on his watch.

0: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/tweets-january-6-2...

1: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-capitol-probes-season-fi...
Wow - really surprised.

- So, what about the exploitation, violence, and devastating addiction that results from no-rules drug purveying/trafficking?

(how would you compare Ross Ulbright to medical opioid purveyers/traffickers? If the same, what are they morally?)

- Isn't murder for hire outright objectionable?
Touch grass. The US is a big place and is nothing like you seem to think it is.

Europe on the other hand can't even manage to defend itself and relies on the US for their sheer existence.
StackOverflow has a very successful gamification model. People just give them free labor voluntarily because they like to ask questions and even moderate. Perhaps also fueled by the naive libertarianism of the Californian Ideology.
I don't have a subscription or even an account, and I've had no issues using my reMarkable 2. I literally have not turned on WiFi, but it's been an excellent offline device. Being able to plug it in and connect via ssh is a solid feature.

That being said, my girlfriend loves her Supernote too, so there's plenty of alternatives.
Fixed! Thanks for catching.
Apple Arcade have a bunch of games that are there for you to enjoy, not to extract as much money/time/adviews as possible. It's pay-per-month though, but has some good games.

I personally got stuck in Balatro (which is in Apple Arcade) which I guess you could say both have ends and no ends. If you get easily addicted to games, I suppose you should avoid Balatro.
A lack of personal responsibility is tragic, but hardly the fault of Mcdonalds when someone has a heart attack.
Being able to use Wireshark in Kubernetes is super exciting. I can't wait to get started!
That is a ridiculously well made video, thanks for sharing!
BuzzHouse: Bridging the database fuzzing gap for testing ClickHouse
No, it's worse now.

Back in 2017, I could still read public profiles, their tweets, and look at the replies, all without logging in.

Now I can't even look at an account page without logging in.
Move to China. You’ll love it. Not only does it have lower crime by virtue of being highly controlled, it also has the added benefit of you never hearing about crimes the government doesn’t want you to hear about, and you won’t hear about any police corruption or brutality either. Ignorance is bliss!
If you feel a chat based product can cover your needs, I recommend exploring https://once.com/campfire.

You pay once, self-host, and get unlimited users.

You would have the hosting expenses, but that's nowhere near what a SaaS product would require you to spend.
Why? It clearly and instantly communicates the genre of result the paper presents.
You're fundamentally misunderstanding in a way akin to arguing that 'I've seen no evidence that destroyed homes cause tornadoes.'

The US printing money doesn't allow it to export its inflation, but rather exporting inflation allows the US to print far more money than other countries without comparable inflation. In fact we even relatively economically weaken other countries in the process of it.

This is why countries with comparable debt to GDP ratios are generally in very poor economic shape while the US is near its economic peak in most typical measurements.

But this superpower is fading in ways you presumably now understand, but the decades of money printer go whrrrr, and the unbelievable debt hole it left, remains.

Trying to handle a debt whose interest alone has now exceeded a trillion dollars a year is not going to be realistically possible without funny money or the emergence of some new economy booming industry akin to the birth of computing/internet.
Tools for Viable Organizing (2020)
There's high demand now but a new building has to earn its keep for many decades.

They're skyrocketing because of x, and x is because of y, and y is… the ultimate reason is that too little is being built. AFAICT too little is being built because while it's easy to find tenants for a new building now it'll probably become difficult within the lifetime of a new building.
even better, podcasters probably easier to fetch the data as well
Building Advanced React Forms Using React Hook Form, Zod and Shadcn
clickable link: https://stratoshark.org

I found its man page in the repo which I found insightful
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/blob/ssv0.9.0/doc/m...

and don't overlook this neato thing: https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/blob/ssv0.9.0/doc/m...
I don't think I buy this. He doesn't need to care about citizen votes anymore, and how big is the libertarian with a capital 'L' true believer block in Congress? Is there any? I'm not sure there was ever any political support for Ross Ulbricht.

Has to be something else going on here, none of the explanations in this thread are hitting it on the head for me.
What I think I know about testing
There are things that aren't needed because we have found easier ways to solve the problem they were solving. In contrast, there are things that exists that are only to make the job easier, no to make it go away. You don't need to light a fire because of how house are heated or food are made. But you still need to learn arithmetic to use a calculator. There's a difference between the two.

If the goal is to learn, the means don't matter much as long as the right attitude is there. But if one only wish to appear knowledgeable, LLM has indeed make it way easier.
I suspect we have not heard the last of The Metaverse(TM); note that the big push a few years back was actually the second one (after absurd levels of SecondLife hype a decade or so before).

Some sort of quantum computing hype feels inevitable at some point.

The return of the revenge of wearables.

Biotech, again.

After all that, we'll probably be ready for another AI bubble, as is traditional (there tends to be one every couple of decades).
I think fisherman know how to be safe without bureaucrats in DC that have never been in a fishing boat butting in.

You just need coast guard for emergencies.

They got along just fine before 2018 when this committee was created.
Awesome! I didn't know that about the domain name.
>illegal immigrants don't have to do anything and get [citizenship] right away

Do they really? How? Asking for a friend.
To add, conservatives voters often claim they vote they way they do because "the other side" makes no attempt to understand them. I think GP is asking an honest question. If nothing else, I had the same question because I want to understand what the conservative voters want in this case, if not the surface level racism.

To anyone who voted for Trump because he said he'd be hard on drug dealers: how do you feel about him pardoning a top level drug dealer?
Love his series, but you really have to keep in mind that his testing methodology is "reductionist": a microphone's quality can't just be distilled to its EQ response. Phase, transient response, clipping, etc. are also part of the equation.

edit: My "case in point" moment is Jim's (excellent!) DIY amp section in this video: https://youtu.be/wcBEOcPtlYk?si=jkehIfyo6AgeTLUo&t=918. Its EQ indeed sounds like the big names, but I'm sure you'll also notice how its dynamics also sound so thin. That's likely because solid state clipping != (saggy) tube overdrive.
A more complicated system is too complicated, but if you could emoji react to a comment (from a very limited set of emoji), and then allow people to assign weights to each emoji, so someone who likes jokes could say :laughing-face: comments rank high up in the list but someone who was more dour could set their default view to be negative for them, then you'd have something a bit better than merely up or down. you could then set the default view to be heavily in favor of what you want the site's culture to be.

the four disagreements apply to a comment section as well: the comment is factually wrong, the comment lacks information, the comment. draws a different conclusion from the same set of information, or the comment is philosophically opposed to my viewpoint. For an online comment system, spam is another category.
No, I used very few words to try to make it clear that enums in Typescript are syntactic salt. Might look sweet from a distance, but it's doing the wrong thing in multiple ways and if you expect it to taste sweet you are in for a surprise. The code generation is ancient and wrong for modern JS. The types are ancient and wrong for modern TS.

People do love syntactic sugar. That's why it is important to point out why sometimes it is table salt and they should avoid trying to put it on their desserts.
You don't need to do all of this, just install a pihole on your network and block all social media sites. Then literally every device on your network will block them all. No need to faff around with other apps, etc.

If you want go to even further, use a hosts file to send all these sites to localhost and set up an ad blocker to block the html tag on all these sites as well. Now you've blocked the sites 3 different ways.
You have been brainwashed successfully
As someone who's been following this since the beginning, the most striking difference is the assumption that Ross was in fact the DPR ordering hits, which he repeatedly denied. Obviously, he could be lying, but that's the main question for me. Since people now assume he was the one and only DPR (I wonder if people didn't get the concept from The Princess Bride), they assume DPR chat logs where murder-for-hire occurred must have been him as well.
LLM are the reason I get bug reports like…

Them: “why doesn't this thing work I your OSS lib, whereas it works in this other OSS lib?”

Me: “does it? it's not supposed to.”

Then: “oh idk, ChatGPT told me so.”
Some great conversation-starters here! Saving this for a future dinner party...
Typically I put the "why" of the commit in the body unless it's a super simple change, but that's a good point. Sometimes this function does generate a commit body to go with the summary, and sometimes it doesn't. It also has a habit of only looking at the first file in a diff and basing its messages off of that, instead of considering the whole patch.

I'll tweak the prompt when I have some time today and see if I can get some more consistency out of it.
It's a brand new website and old URLs won't work (this has been somewhat routine since Obama's first term). I wouldn't take that as a sign that a specific executive order is rescinded. However it may have been grouped in with other Biden tech executive orders (such as AI safety) which are being rescinded as excessive regulation
I found this short article also similarly illuminating: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-ger...
you know there's a pretty massive gap between "double lifetime sentence + 40 years w/ no chance of parole is too harsh" and "10 years w/ full pardon expunging the record is bad". A really, really fucking massive giant gap between those, in fact.

But surely it's just that people love to complain, right? Can't possibly be that they thought something like 25yr was more reasonable?
It's probably as simple as Trump not wanting agencies to consult advisory boards consisting of outside experts since they might get in the way of his agenda.

It's probably not a specific decision based on what the individual boards have been doing.
on my machine, the text is also gigantic, and some of it is outside the screen :')
Just agreeing with you but taking it farther for myself by not acknowledging the Altria-like new name
Yep, this is exactly what I mean!

Personally, I find that even when it's wrong, it's often useful, in that I come away with hints toward how to follow up.

I do have concerns that people who haven't lived a couple decades of adult life prior to the existence of these tools will be a lot more credulous, to their detriment.
I refer to the Echo Dots that can control my lights and a few other things (so I don't have to move the cats when I need to switch something, but have left the phone that otherwise has control out of reach), and occasionally read audiobooks, as my “Amazon branded wiretaps”.

To use them for alarms I just have to say “Computer, set an alarm for 8 in the morning” repeatedly until the damned things understand (I swear they understand a snarky tone far better than when I speak more neutrally (except when Lt Cmdr Data is on TV, they listen to him first time every time!)).
You would only need to wonder if you had been paying no attention to the clarion call about Project 2025 and what the incoming admin was directly planning to do wholesale.

Literally, for months.
Granted! Now US universities consist of 99% immigrants/people on student visas.

As long as you let universities act like for-profit businesses, their profits will be the only thing they optimize for.
Basically this.

Most of the commenters here seem to be taking it on faith that these government organizations are necessary and serving a crucial function. But the entire thrust of this election is that the majority of the country doesn't share that level of faith in the federal government.

"When in doubt, slash and see what happens" seems like a highly effective, albeit a bit reckless, approach to finding out which agencies are truly needed and which are not.
I was curious about how the White House website changes with the transition of power, so I decided to compare two key moments in U.S. history: the last day of President Biden's administration and the first day of President Trump's.

I went through the Wayback Machine to grab the snapshot of the White House website just before Biden's term ended: Jan 19, 2025 Snapshot.

And here's the current snapshot of the White House website, on the first day of Trump's term: Jan 20, 2025.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250119231809/https://www.white...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/