skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that quote technically qualifies as a shallow dismissal of other people's work... from TFA:

> We talk a lot these days about, “how can I be my best self?” That’s what Rand is saying. She's saying, actually, it’s not about earning money, it’s not about being rich. It is about the perfection of the moral life. It's about the pursuit of excellence. It’s about the cultivation of virtue. These are the important things. This is what Dagny is doing. When all the entrepreneurs at the end, they’re in the happy valley, actually, between them, they have not that much money, right?

I tend to agree. It sounds like John Rogers missed the point of the book entirely.
It's a website created by feminist women to document the effect on female athletes of male-inclusive policy in women's sport. Again, not hateful - just pointing out the problem.

As I mentioned above, this is only one area of many where women are disadvantaged and harmed by such policy. Another is women's prisons. In some jurisdictions, male inmates are allowed to transfer to the female prison estate if they claim to have a so-called "female gender identity". In every prison system that has introduced this, female prisoners have been sexually assaulted, raped and even impregnated by these males.

Some examples:

- https://4w.pub/male-inmate-charged-with-raping-woman-inside-...

- https://nypost.com/2022/04/25/transgender-rikers-inmate-gets...

- https://news.wttw.com/2020/02/19/lawsuit-female-prisoner-say...

It is clear that this policy has had a horrendous impact on women prisoners. Do you agree that politicians on the left made a grave error of judgement, to say the least, in supporting and promoting it?

Criticizing the left does not imply endorsement of the right. Why do you assume I support conservative politicians? Actually I've never voted for one in my life, and don't intend to. I don't support their policy on banning abortion either.

That list you linked is very relevant to my point, however, in that every single abuser on there is male. It's the same problem I'm talking about above.
A short videos platform helped writers?? How come?
I've seen that. I don't want to buy a tablet from a mobile provider. I'm not going to make calls on a tablet. I hope they sell a version of the 11 plus that's not tied to a mobile provider.
What, specifically, wasn’t HHS allowed to do? They weren’t purchasing the drugs.

Certainly the VA can and does negotiate prices for the drugs it buys (that’s one input to the HHS Medicare price-fixing formula), but it has a formulary and is buying drugs for its patients directly.
ProcessWire 3.0.244 new main/master version
> How do you verify identity in that prototype?

By using a third party service to read your passport's NFC chip, we then generate a strong crypto hash of the concatenation of your name, DoB, and last 4 digits of your passport and we also encrypt that hash for good measure.

I agree that it sounds invasive, but there is no better way to verify uniqueness of a passport (and by proxy a human's uniqueness).

And yes, I am aware that a single human can have more than one passport. It's certainly not perfect. But it reduces the possibility of sock puppet accounts significantly.

If you register (just with your email and password), you'll get a little explanation of all the data collected (and don't have to move forward if you don't want to).

> this seems like it puts unreasonable trust into the "identity broker" preserving both anonymity and not certifying sockpuppets

True, but with enough resources onlyhumanhub itself can become the identity broker, no need for a third party.
Is it really controversial? Maybe there’s just a vocal minority but most people I know simply do not care… granted, I don’t hang out with many young ppl so there’s that..
Not really, because this entire post is about that last fraction of a %.
App-Level Isolation in Web Server Config
Discusses an alternative approach to updating web server routing rules. Multiple apps can be installed, each owns a namespace (domain:path). Within its namespace, the app can update routing rules, without conflicting with any other apps
I hope we're designing them so they can't be used by AI. AI using software is like water using a straw.
I did the same :-) and also in Python (and there is a Perl version, too). The code is available at GitHub as [tumblelog](https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog). The site is generate from a single Markdown file with extra directives is called [Plurrrr](https://plurrrr.com/).
I'm not sure it's the right thing to ban TikTok, but I'm not surprised people aren't protesting in the streets. My feeling is that most people are addicted to these apps, not using them for the utility or pleasure they bring. These users have a deep down sense that they'd be better off without these apps. Instagram won't be banned, but if it were I think there might be a similar non-reaction.
Magic Release Notes
I don't understand why any "why" question in evolutionary biology is ever satisfied with a "survival of the fittest" truism. Any evolutionary explanation you give me is also falsified by the existence of another species with a different/opposite trait. Whatever explanation you give for a bee's barbed stinger is falsified by the wasp's non-barbed one. Also doesn't answer other questions, such as why didn't bees evolve a type of barbed stinger that doesn't rip their guts out and kill them? Or why do they even need a stinger at all, as many insects don't have one?

Evolutionary explanations like these for "why" things are the way they are not just pure idle speculation, but they are also often unprovable, unfalsifiable, and have the same circular logic as bad religion. Why do species survive? Because they were the fittest, because they survived. But why?
This isn’t exaggeration btw. Gen Z is basically a cooked generation at this point.
They don't exactly ban them, it's simply that their law is too stringent and invasive to make it worth the hassle.
It uses Nix under the hood.

I would argue that Nix does not make trivial environment setup easy. One of the reasons I love Flox for my own development is that I can just "flox install" packages. That doesn’t really exist for project-specific packages with Nix ("nix profile install" exists, but that installs globally). I would say give Flox a try and see if you actually run into issues. If you do, we're pretty good about fixing them as they come up.

It has also not been my experience at all that Nix packages are "often unmaintained and simply broken." I use Nix every day for work, and I use it to configure all of my personal machines (on both macOS NixOS). Can't say that's ever really been a problem for me.
Ours with snow tires does great. Most people probably don't have snow tires though, and they may have tires that perform worse-than-normal like LRR tires or full summer tires.

Snow tires are great on all FWD and are probably way cheaper than buying a new AWD car.
And group selection cannot increase the frequency of a gene in that collection.
The-River: A critique and alternative to 'best practices'
Honestly, those who succeed/survive in brick and mortar I suspect are going to become more like an old fashioned general store in that it has no merchandise out in the public area. It would operate a “pick up in store” program like a tiny Amazon FC. Impulse items and specials probably advertised on a few big screens in a waiting lobby, with a few delivery doors that open up and dispense your order that’s been picked by whatever the most efficient method is (probably eventually heavily augmented with robotics). You can talk to a chatbot kiosk if you want to browse something outside of the app method.

The reason is that people seem to be indicating that they’d rather buy online, and also if crime doesn’t go down a lot, there isn’t much margin to keep supporting the rampant theft. If I were in charge of a flailing drugstore chain (and all of them are other than their PBM arms) I’d be experimenting with that model.
Not OP but I've had luck with zinc and magnesium aspartate supplements commonly available on Amazon. I take two caps that each are a net about 500mg an hour before bed, along with 1mg of melatonin.

Been doing this for a lot of years now.
According to the youth, it's more about a government censoring what speech their citizens can see. The CCP does it, sure. But America doing it feels new.
I love my e-reader. Nobody knows what i am reading. I have heard ebooks are available for free from the shady end of the web, which is great for those who are disadvantaged or from poor nations with little alternative access, but i believe that you should pay if you can afford it (regardless of your thoughts about the author).
One miss in this post is that the author tries to make their point by comparing energy consumption of LLMs to arbitrary points of reference. We should be comparing them to their relevant parallels.

Comparing a ChatGPT query to an hour long Zoom call isn't useful. The call might take up ~1700 mL of water, but that is still wildly more efficient than what we used to do prior - travel/commute to meet in person. The "10x a Google search" point is relevant because for many of the use cases mentioned in this post and others like it (e.g. "try asking factual questions!"), you could just as easily get that with 1 Google search and skimming the results.

I have found use for LLMs in software development, but I'd be lying if I said I couldn't live without it. Almost every use case of an LLM has a simple alternative - often just employing critical thinking or learning a new skill.

It feels like this post is a long way of saying "yes, there are negative impacts, but I value my time more".
As someone who grew up in a society with rampant corruption (India), Fountainhead (the destruction of buildings at the end of the novel) and Atlas Shrugged (motivated me into leaving India to self-implode while I traveled to US to have a better life) quite a impression on my teenage years. It was only later when I thought about these books more that I realized how crazy they are.

In the meantime, India didn't self-implode, at least not yet.
Because we don't like what the US government and their corporate overlords are doing?
Porting PFP from Haskell to OCaml
The Trans Am also had simple analogue controls - including for the heat & AC - while the new Prius has evidently succumbed to the overcomplicated "let's take away buttons" phenomenon.

Also, you're not getting a bride to leave her husband at the altar if you pull up alongside in a Prius. Just sayin'.
I’ve seen a certain type of person gravitate towards this book, that is usually more of a selfish goal driven type.
Meta Pivots on Content Moderation
Very cool to have his kids closely involved in his work
Why I'm long-term bullish on the Middle East
Ever since I started using social media platforms, some 22 years ago, I've been through six platforms. Those platforms were once teeming with life, but eventually got shut down, bought out, or just died a natural death. Every time people were up in arms, but eventually migrated somewhere else.

People will use something else.
More context:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/magazine/curtis-yarvin-in...
1M: Core and Modules United
FWIW, I have had a Nova 2 for years. I dropped it on stone once, a piece of the frame glass chipped out, but the display is fine.

I wouldn’t recommend it for other reasons (it’s not really good for notes, which I had hoped to get out of it).
Its an exciting experiment in non linear communication ;)
"Some Call It Software": 1977 IBM Computer Software Concepts [video]
https://github.com/urbit/urbit
The :- is supposed to sort of look like a left facing arrow for an implication.
I think this notation started with prolog, so that is my guess why they chose to make it like this.
I find that at least systemd means that it's consistent across distros. I spent way more time looking up this kind of thing when every distro rolled their own init system.
Mechanically, how are a number of small <10% shareholders actually going to exert their influence? I guess they can coordinate to get their chosen board members elected, but won't it be pretty obvious that there is a huge coalition of foreign shareholders coordinating on votes? I think they'd be in violation of SEC reporting requirements in an unsubtle way.
Are you refering to others as narcissistic for reading it, and saying narcissism prevented you from reading it?
Many authors of great works were not wonderful people, and there’s no way to verify their ‘correctness’. For a very current example, see Gaiman, who had a sterling reputation which is now in doubt.

In any case, you are the one most harmed by your own blinders, and you don’t know what you’re missing.
Adding on a computer is trickier than you'd expect
What Would Socrates Do?
I will miss it, for sure
So what does this do to our estimates of the ratio of regular matter in the universe?
Colour ones weren't around when I bought it. I had been considering an upgrade but it sounds like maybe I should wait.
Where in that link does it mention that? I read through the whole thing, and what I saw is wildly lower than you said.
We shouldn't be platforming or providing safe spaces to pedophiles. I flag any and all Drew DeVault content because I don't want this to be a pedophile bar.
China doesn't claim that free speech and personal freedom are part of their core values
The AI models are now better at CAPTCHAs than I am, for both text- and image-based questions. But when confronted with a CAPTCHA, humans work for free, and the models don't. :(

As long as that's the case, CAPTCHAs probably won't be considered truly obsolete.
>My feeling is that most people are addicted to these apps, not using them for the utility or pleasure they bring.

What if most people aren't addicted to them, and do simply find them useful and entertaining, and the hyperbole and discourse about how dangerous and addictive social media and "algorithms" are is a means to manufacture consent for the government regulating and controlling free speech?

What if it's a bigger problem that all the government has to do is gesture vaguely in the direction of China and many people will just roll over?
I would argue the semantics of ExecStop are always the same. It's the command that's executed to stop the service. On the other hand, what it means for a service to be "running" or "stopping" naturally depends on what type of service it is (i.e., is it a daemon or not?)
There’s a small number of us working on the docs and we actually just did a pass over them before the holidays to evaluate how well they help users get things done. We took some action items from that that we’ll be working in over the next few months.

That said, the repo is public[1] and if there’s specific things you’d like to see or would find helpful you could open an issue. That would be really helpful, but there’s obviously no obligation to do so.

[1]: https://github.com/flox/floxdocs
They let you export your CV site as a NextJS project at least
There's also just the curiosity type, like a friend i have. similarly, people who aren't pervs read Nabokov's Lolita, because Nabokov writes amazingly, and it's just one of his books.
Or turn it around a bit. If the entire device could operate at high pressure, then one could imagine putting it inside a jet or rocket engine. Feed it compressed fuel/air mix, burn, extract some energy via thermophotovoltaics, and blast the exhaust out a nozzle or use it to spin a turbine to drive a bypass fan.

An obvious down side is that most jets have very, very high fuel flow and power output, and the area required to extract enough electricity to make this whole exercise worthwhile may be excessive. Also, a lot of military applications are not going to like that sodium illuminant lighting up the exhaust gasses, scattering radar, or otherwise making the plane more visible.

edit: I see that there’s an effort to recirculate the sodium. Maybe that’s enough.
> I can't stand having a car not react immediately to my input

I'm spoiled from years of Priuses now, and driving gas cars, even fancy and expensive ones, feels bizarrely primitive. The lag between the pedal and the response, and the complex relationship between the input and the response, feels antiquated and arcane.
So if China would pay $100 a month to every teacher in the US to teach some subversive topic, would that also be ok?

The issue here isn't free speech, but control over what content is promoted, unless you think the CCP has the right to free speech in the US.
To me, the appeal of “objectivism” is that it’s very internally logically consistent. It’s hard to find a contradiction within the structure, or at least it was for me when I read it and thought about it some time ago.

The issue is that the whole structure rests on a tiny set of simple assumptions which are themselves entirely baseless. It’s basically a beautiful structure floating in mid air.

It’s sort of an intellectual trap, in my view. People who are good at finding contradictions in ideologies bungie into the middle of this one, look around and can’t find any contradictions. So they think, this one must be better than the others. Just don’t look down!
India banned TikTok and a whole host of other Chinese apps and after a few days of moaning they moved completely on. So the evidence indicates that no one will actually care. And TikTok is even less sticky than say Twitter. TikTok isn’t about the relationship graph you painstakingly built. It’s about the algorithm and the FYP it populates. That can be recreated instantly. Moving away from Twitter was hard because one had to painstakingly recreate their followers list. But moving from TikTok is trivial as long as the new alternative provides enough automatically delivered entertainment.
Elfeed on Emacs, on Linux and Windows. I tried several RSS readers for years, then, being an Emacs user myself, I gave Elfeed a go and never looked back. One key binding to open full articles in Emacs EWW (for those feeds providing only previews), and one to play media with mpv and yt-dlp. Best solution ever (for me) to get daily disenshittified web contents.

On mobile, there is nothing I like, I consider Feeder on Android the least bad.
The self-driven female arrives in utopia by accident, when her plane crashes there. It hardly seems empowering, but does say a lot about utopia.
Hinkley's on point.
> There are plenty of ways houses can be wildfire proof in the same way they can be made to withstand hurricanes and earthquakes.

Sounds like a load of bull.
FWIW: OpenAI provides advice on how to prompt o1 (https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reasoning/advice-on-...). Their first bit of advice is to, “Keep prompts simple and direct: The models excel at understanding and responding to brief, clear instructions without the need for extensive guidance.”
Color Palette Plus: A Modern Color Generation Library for Flutter
It is a little asymmetric, because 'ExecStart' is actually normally 'Executable that is the service', not just script that starts the service, but I think that's a hangover from the self-daemonizing approach to init scripts.
I don't see that as a problem; it still imposes the botnet rental cost on the spammer or whoever.
They should hire a bunch of teachers to do this over the summer! Every teacher I know is an expert at reading terrible handwriting.
> My feeling is that most people are addicted to these apps, not using them for the utility or pleasure they bring.

...I find it interesting to think about whether using something due to addiction means you wouldn't protest if it's forcibly taken away.

In other words, I wonder if people would protest if cigarettes were banned.
How can I improve my website?
In general I don’t think that’s insane at all.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with the idea that something that is normal in an authoritarian society is verboten and sacrilegious in a Democracy.
Stop Relying on Others for Validation at Work
Why Influence/Reach Is Better Than Power, Wealth, or Social Status
Open Source Tik Tok Bulk Video Downloader
I made a quick rust project to download all your videos from the data dump json and make a html file with all the video files and their meta data
this is wild because the article starts off with explaining how "why" is a bad question, and then doubles down on this entire thesis explaining why a bee dies when it stings you, a human, and the evolutionary nature supporting it

except, its entirely wrong and the foreshadowing about "why" was super important: bees don't 'expect' to die when they sting you. they can sting many creatures and not get their abdomen ripped out because the barb doesn't get stuck in the thing they stung. just like wasps.

so this 20 page dissertation is completely baseless.
China banned things for entirely different reasons. They want to control the information they don't like. TikTok is banned so that Chinese government can't do the same thing here and influence a very large percentage of the US population. Not saying they're doing it now, but in general I agree that the potential threat is there. You can already see how big is the social media influence on people, on their political views etc.
Indeed, all sufficiently mature ideologies evolve towards self consistency. Also, most ideologies have no internal epistemology, so their interpretation is anything you want.
If the numbers I find online for tesla power usage is correct, that would indicate that she charges with around 1.8 kW. But most homes should have little problem supplying the double (16 ampere with 230v = 3.680kW). But maybe she is stuck with 10 ampere?

But even with 9km/h I am surprised that's not enough, does she really drive more than 108km a day?

(this is not to take away from her experience, I am just surprised)
It seems like you might not understand that a person can read a book without necessarily agreeing with everything the author writes about.
Heh. True. The urge has passed but I’m sure there are some college kids who might take you up on the suggestion. I know a guy who is reading romance novels. Voraciously. He must have read a few hundred by now.
Which countries have banned TikTok and why?
Just started getting into logic languages / Answer Set Programming!

Don't know much yet but some interesting things I've found:

Dusa, which promises an easier way to merge constraint languages and answer sets https://dusa.rocks/

Puzzlescript, which isn't exactly the same paradigm (its declarative but not a logic lang) that is beloved by the sokobon puzzle community. Sokobon itself is three lines of code in this and many other games only need to add one or two more. Its genius. https://www.puzzlescript.net/

My goal rn as an art project is to try to combine the two, so every puzzlescript game can be queried for interesting properties in Dusa / Potasscio / Some Logic Language.
what drugs begat this craziness?
Doubt anything like that will exist in the next four years. Not looking forward to this.
My favorite RSS reader is Feedbro. I see hackernews front page posts, friends facebook posts, friends nitter (x) posts, friends substack posts, youtube subscriptions, all in one chronological feed. And a browser icon shows how many posts are waiting to be viewed. There are some paid services that scrape other sites to RSS for you too (like zapier).
Sorry, it is a free speech issue. TikTok is a gestalt product of the content on there.

Maybe Washington should figure out a way to make fewer "Foreign adversaries" so it doesn't have to subvert the fundamental rights of its citizens.