skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the solution to that is that the scammers are actually kidnapped and enslaved people. So all you end up doing is getting some poor kidnapped slave beaten for missing their quota.

What, you think the crime lords in charge of these scams actually do the grunt work? That's what kidnapping is for.
> Blame them.

No I’m going to blame the people reducing accessibility for disabled Americans via executive order.
Science in the city: the challenge of retrofitting labs
It sounds like the deia department was ineffective, but for some reason it’s bad that the ineffective department is going away. What were we paying these people for if they couldn’t do a simple thing like get screen reader software?

This is why people want to get rid of DEI. Aside from all their obnoxious rhetoric, they don’t even accomplish the thing they say they’re supposed to do.

I know people will claim that now nobody will buy any screen reader software, but it doesn’t sound like anyone was doing that before either.
zooms out

Oh I see, and I agree with you. Sorry, my mistake.
Looks like a monster. A continuing insults to the original Civic concept.
Is it out for Mac yet?
Rarely mentioned: all of these occur at the cost of not implementing a very large number of useful features used by real-world programs.
Is DEIA a new term? I've only heard of DEI. What does A stand for? Also the EO seemed to target DEI, not whatever A stands for. What am I missing?
Nothing in the post indicates that he obtained his software through some kind of "DEIA" department and that's a serious misunderstanding of the efforts being made by the current administration in the gov't right now. They are not just closing "DEIA" "departments."
Because our politicians patrons are rentier capitalists who think the government spending money on things is a waste of their money. So yeah they really hate spending money on transit projects.

Doesn't help that we're at the end stages of a debt driven real estate/rent price spiral. That means acquiring land for mass transit is twice as expensive as it should be. Ditto labor costs.
Defense companies are documentation-driven and procedure-driven ("stodgy") because they are government contractors, and there have actually always been a lot of them in SV. There is also a precedent in the tech company idea as a sales and marketing tool aimed at the government - in Theranos of all examples.
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Yeah, I think that is part of the problem. I can find an album on YouTube if I think of the right one, but my brain doesnt work that. I don't have mental lists or spot recall.

Maybe if I maintained a excell sheet of artists or albums I like, I could brows that, and then play them, but meh.
I often wonder why it's so hard for some managers to provide praise. It's almost as if they didn't want to feed egos out of fear.
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Not seeing it happening. The base thrives on this. e.g. disabled reporter got mocked, no consequences.
As with most crimes, the vast majority of victims know the perp.
Tried for a long while to use Zed. It was great and I loved it - and maybe I could have switched to a GUI editor for real though for the first time in my life.

But man. File trees and tabs are the worst DX I can possibly imagine. Try as I might, I just could not get used to the tab and tree workflow. Creating new files killed me. Hiding the tab didn’t really help because the editor assumes you’re using tabs and at that point it doesn’t feel like buffers, it feels like tabs with the tab bar hidden (go figure).

I’m not even a buffer power users, but I think the default assumption of buffers over tabs, and explore over a file tree, led to 1000 other great decisions that make vim vim.

I think unless the zed core team really tried to move away from tabs and trees (and I don’t think they would nor should) they’ll fail to capture a meaningful share of vim users
And if this ends up being endemic and all the slaves are beaten for missing their quotas and no one is making any money then they'll be forced to move onto something else, because the crime lords are in it for money no other reason
Many or all of these already exist- look up smart contract wallets.

...and they wouldn't have helped in this case, see other comment about that.
I didn’t say he obtained it through the DEIA department. Obviously, it went through the normal procurement process. What I’m saying is if the DEIA department was supposed to be advocating for him and helping with the process they were clearly useless in that regard.
Try out the video game Derail Valley and you'll get a decently realistic idea of just how much trains tend to just coast along without any power input. On flat ground you just need a little nudge every once in a while to keep going.
Accessibility.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/nasa-moves-swiftly-to-...

This article has some context, but note that the heads of several agencies were all compelled to send the same thing out.
Yea but people’s RSUs are up, that’s all that matters to the Silicon Valley voter. Screw the weak.
The "A" means Accessibility, iirc.
You can use it without internet access?

I regularly test disconnecting my HA server from the network and make sure nothing home critical stops working.

I do have a few internet integrations (weather, upcoming sports events, etc) and those all stop when I do a “no internet” test, but Home Assistant runs just fine without any network access.
It stands for accessibility. I think you should read the executive order. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/endi...
I believe the government would be sued if not in compliance with e.g., the ADA
Where in Tokyo do you have easy access to transit and a large suburban house?

My brother in law moved from Tokyo to where he could buy a house and yard in Chiba Japan, it's around 900 sq ft with a "yard" that's smaller than the deck on the back of my house. And it's still a 20 minute bike ride + 90 minute train ride to his job in Tokyo.

I don't know if you've been to many homes in Walnut creek, but a small attached house is not what people are moving out of the city for - if that's what they wanted, they could just move to the avenues and stay in SF

I don't think I'm overstating when I say that American style suburbs with large lots and large homes are not conducive effective public transit.
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I hope programming isn't your day job.
Cue C or C++ should-I-prefer-signed-or-unsigned-integers debate
> it's much, much harder to build a streaming functionality compared to plain request/response if you've got some notion of a "session"

This touches something that I think is starting to become understood- the concept of a "session backend" to address this kind of use case.

See the complexity of disaggregation a live session backend on AWS versus CloudFlare: https://digest.browsertech.com/archive/browsertech-digest-cl...

I wrote about session backends as distinct from durable execution: https://crabmusket.net/2024/durable-execution-versus-session...
hardware wallets are a safe transaction signing device NOT a seed storage device

You use them to sign transactions that are perfectly safe even if your computer / phone where you initiated the transaction is infected with malware. They give you a chance to confirm that the transaction you're signingon the hw wallet is the one you initiated on your computer.

> daily spend limit

> different panic codes

> Co-signing by third-parties

What you describe already exists in "software multisig wallets" on smart contract blockchains. In essence they're smart contracts that require n of m signatures to initiate a transaction and can handle variable spending rules, custom signing schemes, 3rd party signers, things like 2FA / email for signing.
In theory they can be implemented for non-smart contract blockchains like Bitcoin using multi party computation schemes like FROST (https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/frost) but that's a lot harder
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/endi...

DEI, DEIA, Environmental Justice

Sounds like it's to end or force underground affirmative action programs for bipoc, disabled, and climate change
Arriving on Platform G: Google's new King's Cross office (2023)
I regard it as a branch of bureaucracy. If you establish a department to handle a matter that is claimed to be important but is actually insignificant (often for public relations purposes), this department will actively expand its influence, inserting and entangling itself into every corner of the organization to avoid its own existential crisis.

to avoid misunderstanding, here, the 'claimed to be important but is actually insignificant' refers to something that, from the organization's perspective
Richard J Murphy coined the term "Age of Aggression" which we are now in (before we were in an "Age of Indifference" and before that "Age of Compassion").

A11y, good-faith DEI, equality/equity programs were conceived in the AoC and then started to get implemented in the AoI, but in the AoA it will be rolled back with extreme prejudice (at least in USA) with plethora unintended consequences as laid out by OP. While people gormlessly argue about the myth of meritocracy, there will come a certain point where only those who can't recognize (or actively dismiss/excuse) N*zi salutes will be the only ones conveniently not suspected of being "legacy DEI" hires.

Relevant quote: “When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
Could do it that way, or offer a guarantee like save X per year or it's free.
You're giving up a lot if you stop using a format that supports multiple mapping, relro, dynamic relocations, ...
You're missing Section 2 of the e.o.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/endi...
Its harder to tweak someone's else code than to tweak your own.
Yes but I think the political climate is such that laws are all now subjective and could be tossed aside at a whim by any executive action and follow on rulings that would side with it. In any case, could be a long period of limbo while we “decide” what each law even means to those in power. So with that, what does something being a law even mean right now?
Smart move. Blame the ones with the power doing the action. What a novel concept in this day and age. Thank you.
I watched the video. My experience didn't match any of the 4 methods shown. Not sure why he didn't include the 5th "and possibly 6th" ways that he thought of in the video.

Again, I felt my leg moving against my pants while seated _fully_ on the ground and the guy only had his hands lightly touching my shins. I felt the legs moving against the pants against the floor where he couldn't have affected it.

The video's 4 methods show you have to hold both feet/ankles in order to pull off the trick.

Are you an athiest - and believe that existence is limited only to energy and matter?
> just write a half-assed code generator tool that uses void* under the hood, bro

Not the kind of "simplicity" I want. Stay in your reservation, please.
Looks like it’s just Windows and Linux at the moment.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/975370/Dwarf_Fortress/
I visited San Antonio once and went to an HEB. Incredible.
What a terrible auth government. All the policies are regressive leading to less science, less technological progression, less clean energy and less rights and more inequality for the vast majority of this country.
I’m getting more and more convinced that this is a main problem all over the West. In Germany, a business owner called Marco Scheel is becoming more and more popular by being very outspoken about how bureaucracy is hindering him. His company is called Nordwolle by the way. They make clothing out of sheep wool. They spend a lot of effort finding the right type of wool so they don’t need chemicals to paint it.

One major example which Marco first became popular with was that he owned a barn but wasn’t allowed to use it for the factory since it was a farm on paper. The government told him to move to a designated factory area. He argued that it made no sense since he was living in a very remote area, and the barn was of high quality. What else should he do with the barn? Why would he need to build something new somewhere else? The barn was there already and stood already for hundreds of years.

His most popular quote is something along the lines of “we can’t all sit with a Chai latte and a MacBook in a coworking space in Berlin and make the 5th dating app. We need some people who do that but not everyone. Some people need to make things with their hands! And for that I need space! I don’t need glass fibre. I need space!”
According to the post HA uses sqlite for sensor data. Why not use a temporal database like InfluxDB, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics etc?
"All That We Have Lost": An HN Experiment
The things of the past

Often thought forgotten,

Tend to leave a mark.

<line break>

In the dark corners of the mind,

A tiny seed lies, dormant

Awaiting the light of memory.

This is an HN experiment: to build a poem with a tree-like structure. Starting from the above few lines as seed/parent-node, comments from the HN community (you, dear reader) can transform this into a diverse, branching piece of work.

Comments directly to this post should continue the poem from the above lines, while sub-comments should continue from their parent comments.

I have never really tried any social experiment like this one before, but I think that the result (a living, branching poem) might be an interesting one.

Ready?
Ahh crap, only just seeing this. I’ll delete as soon as I figure out how!
>That number seemed surprising to me - I actually expected the portion of mobile-only internet users would be significantly higher than that.

Gen Z is likely higher. Older generations will still use a laptop.

In lower income countries, this number is also higher. Many people do their entire job on their phone. Email is not used often for business. It's chat apps.
Hanlon's Razor

I think there's a simpler explanation: most people don't do work when they go to hotels, they do the work like you are discussing. Doesn't mean they are intentionally being hostile to remote workers.

One thing I've realized about the world is that a lot of people do things just because others are. "Momentum is a bitch." I will bet you very few people are thinking this way, at least very few that make decisions. And the ones that do probably think it is not worth the money. There's a ton of things where markets don't exist simply because the environment doesn't exist, so the people that can make the environment don't because there is no market. It's the whole "build it and they will come" thing. People are very risk adverse. People are hard to move. Would hotels benefit from this? Probably. I mean even not just considering nomads, most people work from their computers[0].

But it very easily could be one of those things where there's push because there's no market and there's no market because there's no push.

[0] The way people have been talking about working at CES has sounded silly. There was a LTT video where they mentioned how WiFi used to be better in some locations so those rooms were more desirable and the hotel's solution was to make it standard for everyone. They seemed to be suggesting that they brought down the quality rather than balanced.
The venn diagram of racists and ableists is 1 single egg.
lol.

Have you ever dealt with government procurement?

His problem wasn't that he wanted something to help him with his disability, his problem was that he wanted something as part of a government job.

Getting rid of DEI won't change the way government procurement works.
Yes, it's a new term.
If this was sarcasm and I missed it, I apologize.

Because, how do you use it? How do you add debug printing to try and understand where the bug is? How do you debug even anything?

Like, suppose your concept has a composite requires statement that invokes a constexpr predicate of two derived types, and it is not "true" as you expected, so overload resolution picks the wrong function.

What is the analog of gdb to use in this situation?
Retro games are either played through emulators (ScummVM, DOSBox, etc.) or bought secondhand on physical media. Indeed both are offline and replayable forever and ever (granted that you back up the physical media you acquired accordingly).
Numbers 8 and 14 resonated with me. I worked with people who thought so highly of themselves and with those who actively undermined me. For the first I learned to let them rant and I might ask a clarification but after their lengthy polemic I make it a point to say I disagree. Albeit in a monotone non confrontational voice as possible. For the later, I can only pray to keep my composure as the ridiculousness of their attacks is an affront to logic, civility, and basic decency. I also remind myself there is a reason why this person was hired and I will only be wasting my health trying to fight the powers that be. I can only hope to avoid being collateral damage as their behavior will eventually cause their career to self destruct.
Some hotels I clicked on are being recognized for their 'business centers', that one crappy little room with two ancient desktops and a printer.
Their argument is that, because the DEIA department is apparently ineffective, nothing is better than something.
ctr+` is the default behavior on VS Code I use it all the time and I didn’t set it up and I’m sure as hell neither did my co workers.

It’s a nice short cut if you have a keyboard with backtick to the left of 1 in the numeral row. If you’re from a country where keyboards have a different key there, I would recommend setting up a short cut manually.
As the a11y community has noted, the whitehouse.gov accessibility policy has been removed and is not available from the site footer.

Previous policy was:

> agencies must include a link to the accessibility statement in the sitewide footer, per OMB guidance on Delivering a Digital-First Public Experience (M-23-22)

> Per M-23-22, agencies should not link to digital accessibility statements from a sub-page, such as a “Website Policies & Notices”. Agencies must link directly to the digital accessibility statement from the website footer

https://www.section508.gov/manage/laws-and-policies/website-...
All of it is law, albeit a specific interpretation of the law.

‘legitimate business purpose’ discrimination has always been allowed, which is why it’s okay to only hire black actors for a role that calls for black actors in a movie, or only pretty young women as strippers, etc.

Also, discrimination like ‘I just don’t like them’.

Illegal discrimination is where the hiring person is discriminated based on a protected class where it is not a legitimate business need [https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/small-business/3-who-protecte....]

There are a million different ways to structure these rules however (and actually do hiring) with different entirely predictable outcomes in actual employee race/sex/gender composition. As well as different types of employment environments that when interacting with regional cultural/socialization backgrounds, will result in entirely predictable outcomes in actual employee race/sex/gender/national origin/age compositions.

For example, you aren’t going to find many supermodels working at the local sewer treatment plant. Or blandly ugly people working in the entertainment industry.

However, depending on the organization and size (the federal gov’t has had this since the 70’s, and it’s been expanding over the years to even large companies the last 10ish or so), there is a federal requirement for Affirmative Action as well, where if the company/org, etc. doesn’t have the ‘right amount’ of people who meet course these criteria determined by the department of labor, then there is a presumption that it proves ‘defacto’ illegal discrimination.

There is no need for candidates being discriminated against illegally at that point to show they are being discriminated against (and in fact, they may not actually be discriminated against in any explicit or conscious way) - the mere fact they are not there in a given % of representation is taken of evidence of that discrimination.

That means if a company/organization gets too much attention, then they are required to actually discriminate against other candidates to ensure the outcomes of their hiring and retention roughly match what the DOL would expect. Regardless of the actual circumstances/suitability of their hiring.

That also means if someone is ‘over represented’, then that means they’ll be discriminated against quite consistently and per the department of labor, ‘legally’. It’s essentially a ‘necessary evil’.

The backlash now appears to be targeting anything related to those efforts, nominally under the idea of meritocracy, but eh, that is frankly not a very convincing figleaf. And yes, it will be targeting everyone who isn’t.. well, you can guess.
I hope the CD player is connected to the cloud so he can get important security updates for his CDs. Then there might be a way to add some personalized product recommendations between tracks...
Not quite sure what you're referring to here - Silicon Valley voted heavily against the current president. 68% margin the other way in Santa Clara county and 73% in San Mateo.
First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed – Decentralised TikTok Competitor (2024)
That's why I never use biometric autentication. After seing movies where the bad guys took the guy's eye to do a retina scan, you can imagine.
Yes they are literally doing that. I wouldn't usually censor it but I know not-shitting-on-DEI gets heavily downvoted/flagged on here so I thought I could avoid some of that mob. I failed in that regard so far it seems...
I don't think they know the exact business plan that will recuperate the cost.

I think they're just trying different things. For example, they're putting Llama in Instagram DMs, Whatsapp, and Facebook. I never use them but I can see how people who can't afford the ChatGPT subscription might.

So I'm guessing they want those apps to turn into ChatGPT at some point. Maybe they'll target ads to you based on chat history eventually.
More and more it’s hard to find people on HN that don’t tightly cling to party lines.

The numbers I’ve seen some of these departments get paid is mind boggling. It’s possible to both value these principles and yet be in disgust at what a grift so much of it has become.
How can you show the gov’t is not in compliance with the ADA if there is no one able to check for compliance with the ADA?

Near as I can tell, that is also why the cyber intrusion investigation folks are being targeted to.

If we never test, and there is no one to complain to, then clearly it is not a problem and not happening eh?
> they are government contractors

It's not just a kind of subculture though, there are practical reasons: "Defense" products have often meant large batches of durable complicated equipment (e.g. tanks, planes) where your clients plan to have them ready for service for the next X decades and really do require their own copies of good repair-manuals that a non-employee can use, as well as some confidence that the supply-chain is both secure now and can also continue to exist for those X decades.

Even if all you're doing is providing the software for the Big Mech Suit, you can't dodge those requirements since it's part of the same set of product-needs.

This is a stark contrast to, say, an "Uber for Cats on the Blockchain with AI" SaaS site the lives on ad-revenue and no end-user support.
> In a noisy era of streaming libraries, trendy headphones and smart shuffles, music listening and discovery have become solitary practices.

Shameless plug: this is why I created digs.fm. I missed the days where you would just sit there with an album, and take it all in. And then you would go on to tell your friends about it.
Funny how every blog article is literally the same. Shady.
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