skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you either have "pre-assembled" hamburger, or freedom to cook your own. Imagine going to McDonalds and asking them to let you into their kitchen to customize your burger from scratch, choose specific ingredients, adjust cooking temperatures, and rearrange their workflow to match your preferences.

Asking Emacs to be "batteries included" misses its fundamental nature - it's not a fast-food IDE, it's your own personal kitchen for crafting exactly the development environment you want.

Even starter kits - Doom, Prelude, Spacemacs, etc. - are not really "ready-made" products; they're more like recipe books, where you have the freedom to choose and pick from, but they still don't liberate you from having to learn how to "cook things." They don't "magically" solve things for you.
The article says 80% of people aged 60 or over have contracted it at some point, not 80% of people.
You are in the silent majority. It's a costly feature for Google and they aren't the type to take a large risk of pushing out something unpopular to their most profitable product.
I am confused. I tried it with glxgears and it appears to work. It even prints its output (and reading it into the buffer works as well).
So what do you mean when you say that it does not support running external programs with a UI?
DeepSeek's Refusals: How Do the Guardrails of Language Models Compare?
It does. You don't need to use & on a function or * on a function pointer, this happens automatically (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7518815/function-pointer... ).

I suppose the : operator from lua would be useful.
Phantom voters would require an ID to be created before they can register to vote, so an ID check wouldn't help.

With thousands registered at one address. From your article, the proposed law didn't limit valid voters based upon their id address. So I don't see how it would help.

Dead voters are removed from the registration database and wouldn't be counted, unless they passed away out of country.

Moved out of state would be a possibility, but the person that moved would have to have not received a new id or license in their new state, which may happen but seems largely unlikely.

Do you have any data showing how large these potential issues are?

Checking id correctly at time of vote slows down the process and causes less people to vote. If there's a meaningful amount of fraud, it should be investigated and fixed, but we should strive towards allowing as many of our fellow citizens to vote as we can. I'm just unsure that there's a level of fraud from your examples that would balance out the reduction in people voting. But if you have data to back it up, I'm happy to read it and possibly change my opinion.
Vast majority of churches use synths, yes
Of course it's possible, but 2M copies is already the top-seller in this genre. The original Goat Simulator (arguably THE one game that made "funny goofy simulator" a genre) sold ~4M.

[0]: https://steamdb.info/app/265930/charts
Damn Good stuff, bot the doom and this linux of your! Kudos.

I had done LLM in PDF sometime Nov last year but it wasn't released. Since the doom in pdf uptick, I had released a demo here:

https://x.com/VulcanIgnis/status/1879649889178837025

Actually you don't need an old version of emscripten, hit me up for the Makefile and pdf templates or wait till offical release. My build script will make the pdf work both on chrome and firefox, adobe support is pending.
I've also built https://tailcolors.com which you might also like!
s/SystemV/sysvinit/

and one more thing about that: For PC users and "vanilla" machine setups - sysvinit, weirdly, still works fine. Startup is quick, and developers don't live in pain making it work. Of course it is kind of lame design-wise, but it's not even that we just _had_ to replace it - we've still not reached even that point.
This could be called a 3PO attack.

OWEN: What I really need is a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators.

THREEPIO: Vaporators! Sir -- My first job was programming binary load lifter... very similar to your vaporators. You could say...
Natural fission reactors in the Franceville basin, Gabon
You are alive. And your prognosis, if I am to understand correctly, is overall good.

This Sunday marks the fourth anniversary of my wife's passing at just 46 years old. She had unending nausea, and major motility issues. They also thought gastroparesis at first, and her doctor and surgeon even developed a surgery just for her, which I understand they won awards for. It helped her for about 2 months, and she started regaining weight, but her symptoms- unable to hold down food of any kind- returned.

From there things just got worse. G-J tube feedings with formula. Then TPN, which her body also rejected. And then... the actual starving. Her body refused any sort of nutrition from any source, even directly into her bloodstream.

Doctors essentially gave up. She was on hospice for quite a while. She had started off as a large woman and when she passed, she weighed about 55lbs.

I tell you this not to scare you or make you worry, but to make sure you're grateful for the health you do have, OP.

They never did figure out what was wrong with her. Official cause of death was "malnutrition." Right. Gastrointestinal mysteries such as yours, and hers, really underline the fact that as much as medicine does know about the human body, there is an infinite more that they don't know about it.

Best of luck to you.
> The hyperbole is a bit much for me. It shouldn't amaze me, but here we are. Partisans are able to construe spending cuts and shrinking the purview of the state, with authoritarianism.

There is plenty of precedent for both spending cuts and shrinking (in some areas, usually while expanding others) government from US Presidents. Simply refusing to spend appropriated funds as directed by law where even the excuse given isn't either of those but imposing ideological constraints not contained or authorized at the discretion of the executive in the governing law is, on the other hand, not. Openly ideological and patronage oriented purges of the federal workforce (at least, since the adoption of civil service laws expressly to to stop that) again is not, and is neither about shrinking the scope of government or cutting spending.
You can show someone how to safely use a chainsaw, but the people who build replacements for or better chainsaws often have worked building, repairing, and using those tools day in and day out.

Education involves repeating things others have done, doing them wrong, and learning from that. When you give someone a tool which just gets the answer without having to understand why, you never have to build the mental model that lets you understand how things can be better.

You see this in software: tools can let you build an app in a day, but if you just use those tools you will have no idea why your app is slower than it has to be or what other things are possible.

When tools let everyone outsource their writing and even their thinking to machines, many of them are not "working faster" - they are skipping crucial steps and acting without understanding.

Tools can allow many people to become moderately proficient rapidly, but when they are introduced immediately they can hinder the development of becoming incredibly proficient.
Hurl https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl

For those who prefer an efficient command line tool
If R1 one-shotted this then I revise my opinion somewhat. This doesn't give me a gut "this is awful" emotional reaction (although I don't think it's good - it's pretty cliche, and I found my eyes glossing over pretty quickly).

I was somewhat turned off of DeepSeek (the first few questions I gave it, it returned 100% hallucinated answers). But maybe I'll have to look into it more, thanks.
Welcome to emacs bankruptcy :-)
It may seem daunting the first three times it happens but then you will have learned to adjust.
Incidentally, a presentation at the NIST crypto reading group recently pointed out some of the weaknesses of current password KDFs: Argon2i has a viable attack, bcrypt truncates input, PBKDF2 needs an utterly insane number of rounds, and scrypt and argon2d/argon2id have data-dependent computation time and seem to be vulnerable to side-channel attacks. It turns out this is a really hard problem.
My guess is this cheap mini-model comes out now after DeepSeek very recently shook the stock-market greatly with its cheap price and relatively good performance. .
That would be an actual improvement. Reading the comments section usually just leads to personal energy waste.
Your parents remind me of a former colleague who completely changed his political views after frequently listening to AM talk radio every time he drove between Goldstone and LA. Many of us (me included) are like a "sponge", we take on characteristics of those we surround ourselves with (virtually or in real life). I try (and I don’t always succeed) to associate myself with individuals that I admire and possess characteristics worthy of emulation. I have to be careful and have the discipline to avoid those with characteristics that I don’t want to unconsciously assume.
I‘m using cgdb, which is a minimal ncurses wrapper around gdb. It‘s a lot better than the TUI of gdb.
I wrote a long while about mergekit. Makes one wonder if it will be possible to just "merge" experience from specifically trained LxMs going forward.
One of the problems with C# is the constant expansion of the language.
Microsoft wants it to be everything for everybody, instead of sharpening
it in one direction.

If you have a lot of experience in C# 2.0, later code may be quite incomprehensible. (Yes this goes for other versions vs the latest
version as well)

Whereas I can pick up a C program today and have a decent understanding of
what it is doing.

Then the codebase becomes legacy a lot faster than most other environments.
It will compile and keep it, but programmers want to stick new features into
the codebase.

F# to the limited extent I have followed it seems more stable in terms
of added features.
C# has certainly adopted a lot of features from F".

My second big gripe with Net is EF ORM.

If the developers using it are not reasonably aware of how a relational
database works, you can get truly horrific code.
A dev team at a client I was at, managed to spike the SQL Server instance
to damn near 100% for at least 30 mins.

When someone discovered the what and where was causing it.

A pure SQL statement replicating what needed to be done
ran in seconds.
Reminder: DeepSeek distilled models are better thought of as fine-tunes of Qwen/Llama using DeepSeek output, and are not the same as actual DeepSeek v3 or R1.

This unfortunate naming has sown plenty of confusion around DeepSeek's quality and resource requirements. Actual DeepSeek v3/R1 continues to require at least ~100GB of VRAM/Mem/SSD, and this does not change that.
I thought splat was actually the "official" usage these days, tho I think some people call it spread
Terrible time to open a shovel store, amazing time to pick up a shovel.
"Tracebit is a B2B SaaS Security Product. If you did a straw poll of Engineers - especially readers of a certain orange website - about the ‘best’ language for such a system, I think the common responses would include Python, TypeScript, Golang, Rust, something JVM-y, maybe Elixir"

I guess everyone likes to be the underdog, but thruth is the B2B space is dominated by the duopoly of Java and .Net and shows no signs of changing.

The author is imho cosplaying as a contrarian while being solidly mainstream.
I wouldn't expect it to be gracious exactly, but it's that or... what? Mass indentured servitude? How else would you make a society function?
Note that including social security in the budget spending is misleading. It's essentially a trust fund (albeit under funded) so you can't cut spending in it. You could cut contributions and payouts (essentially privatising retirement even more), but the effects would only be noticed in decades.
I was going to say what the sibling said, no need for snark, NLnet funds a ton of cool projects. If I were to judge the quality of software written in silicon valley on the vc funded projects that don't pan out, god help me
Yeah, I was specifically wondering about cases where you can't or don't want to change the source code. Sometimes that happens when I need to explore the state after a long process e.g. loading a large file. Generally though I avoid them like the plague as they make the code so slow. Curious to know what other people use it for.
The US will have a different president
Sigh. As a UK citizen, I have long wondered what it would be like to live in one of those Nordic countries that are run well with happy citizens. Once in my lifetime I'd like to have the feeling that my government cares about me and isn't completely incompetent.
No true scotsman either.
How come I can run

!evince filename.pdf

when editing latex files in nvim after compiling?

And, but that does not defeat your point, :term shoots up a terminal in both under Linux.
I wasn't present for the NIST crypto reading group, but I documented a lot of these in 2022, if you'd like a deeper dive into that problem space: https://soatok.blog/2022/12/29/what-we-do-in-the-etc-shadow-...
> the Haskell ones are almost all bit rotten since I haven’t kept them up to date with GHC

FWIW, over the last couple of years the stability story has got hugely better, thanks largely to the efforts of the Haskell Foundation Stability Working Group.

You can see the breakage inventories that I've produced for the last few GHC releases, and see that the amount of breaking changes is decreasing rapidly:

https://github.com/tomjaguarpaw/tilapia/
That logic doesn't apply to orbital mechanics. The atmosphere is used to brake when satellites are deorbited.
Kind of a silly comparison. Much of kratom's popularity came about because the alternative is illegal not because of how safe it is or isn't. You can't compare fluoride to unsafe levels of lead. And "cessation of tea ingestion" won't give you literal opiate withdrawals.

Calling it a safe way to do opiates is just irresponsible. It's really not that different from how manufacturers more than a century ago invented opioids and called them non addictive alternatives to morphine.
Of course they would make a half assed Siri Search. Oh wait, that might work.
the answer is - you don't need a professional grade kit.

in the past, i used to have to pay more than $10 to take some physical photos designed specifically for passport dimensions. and then, ironically, i have to then scan it in to submit for a passport application.

now? i download a free app with all the right settings that gives me instructions on how to take a proper passport photo, and then applies some filters to brighten it up, remove some imperfections on my face, etc and it looks every bit as good as any passport photo i've ever had. and it cost me $0.00.

the delta in quality between "professional" shots with professional equipment, and smartphones with increasingly capable cameras and software is becoming so small for most everyday use purposes, that the professionals are going to find it very hard to justify their rates in the future.
Sounds like you're looking for https://yaak.app/.
Why can't you ask both questions (on a variety of topics etc), and grade the answers vs an ideal answer?

Ends before means.

If 4o answered better than o3, would you still use 03 for your task just because you were told it can "reason"?
> If AI (or any tech) could clean, do dishes, or cook (which is not a chore for many, I acknowledge that) it could potentially bring families together and improve the quality of peoples lives.

One day they'll put those kinds of robots in people's homes, but I'll keep them out of mine because they'll be full of sensors, cameras, and microphones connected to the cloud and endlessly streaming everything about your family and your home to multiple third parties. It's hard enough dealing with cell phones and keeping "smart"/IoT crap from spying on us 24/7 and they don't walk around on their own to go snooping.

The sad thing about every technology now is that whatever benefits it might bring to our lives, it will also be working for someone else who wants to use it against us. Your new smart TV is gorgeous but it watches everything you see and inserts ads while your watching a bluray. Your shiny car is self-driving, but you're tracked everywhere you go, there are cameras pointed at you recording and microphones listening the entire time sending real-time data to police and your insurance company. Your fancy AR implant means you'll never forget someone's name since it automatically shows up next to their face when you see them, but now someone else gets to decide what you'll see and what you aren't allowed to see. I think I'll just keep washing my own dishes.
> As for not merging the PR - why are you entitled to have a PR merged?

I didn’t get entitlement vibes from the comment; I think the author believes the PR could have wide benefit, and believes that others support his position, thus the post to HN.

I don’t mean to be preach-y; I’m learning to interpret others by using a kinder mental model of society. Wish me luck!
For what it's worth, I wouldn't be surprised if Medicare ends up spending more per enrolled member because they'll force CMS to be more heavily reliant on Medicare Advantage plans administered by private insurers.
Government cannot care. You're looking for love in all the wrong places.
With assembly for a CPU, the instructions you're writing are verbatim being sent (compiled, obviously) to the CPU.

With PTX, you are not writing in the native assembly of the Nvidia GPU, but yet another abstraction, just one more similar in nature.
If they return to 5 years ago facebook with no spam, I'm all in.

My FB feed hasn't showed me content from my actual connections in years now, or if it has, it's hidden between all the crap it's shoveling on me.
I find it an extremely annoying behaviour, and it seems to be implemented in such a simplistic way. If one searches for "redhead" then it's likely one also wants results for "ginger", but not all such results, only the one where "ginger" has the same meaning!
Excellent idea. Time, notifications, step tracker, media control, less is more. No AI unless there are very justifiable uses... Battrry is top priority. Bright and sharp. Simple is good.
> Even if they managed to find 100% savings in the spending they are targeting, they will not make a dent in the budget. Doing that and cutting all military spending would not balance the budget. Most Federal discretional spending is on Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid.

How is social security discretion spending? It's tied to what has put into it, i.e. much more like a trust fund as I understand it.
.NET 's initial appeal was that it felt like Java before the architecture astronauts and the bloat with a saner GUI approach to boot. These days they not only caught up but are trying to surpass in those areas.

It seems to be the doomcycle of life in development stacks. Fresh system cuts through the accumulated cruft of the old, only to gather more and more niche cruft until it collapses on a beach of arcanary while the next wave of simplicity rises behind it.
I felt the same around a couple of years ago. One day my giant and fragile config got broken beyond repair — I was using package manager without version pinning, my fault essentially. After spending a few days trying to figure which versions of 30+ plugins should work together and also use the settings I had in init.lua (many plugins just deprecated their own settings), I realised I don’t ever want to spend time on this. Went full opposite — installed Vim, found my vimrc from pre-Neovim era, removed all the plugins and happily using it since then, just stuff vim has out of the box.
Leaving this here as it's by the creator of Insomnia: https://yaak.app/
My ideal preference would be a notation I can type on a standard keyboard.
I would recommend instead jellyfin, immich, and maybe just plain sftp for all the rest. You can sync (err, become distributed) by way of git, syncthing, or rsync.

What I haven't seen yet is a good self hosted identity manager, SSO sort of thing. I believe bluesky is working on one but I dont know if it will be self hostable (Freudian autocorrect: self hostage)

Another thing I haven't figured out yet with my homelab/private cloud is how to be my own CA and manage access to my machine without teaching my counterparties ssh. I want something like NordVPN offers in their meshnet: anyone logged into the family plan can see each other's machines as if they were local network. Can wireguard accomplish this? I think this is what yggdrasil is too but haven't dug into it.
I 100% agree with the first point, but the second one isn't C#/.NET related at all.

ORMs pose the same problem regardless of the language/framework or implementation. I've seen the same issues with Java's hibernate, too, no difference there.
> I had to actively go looking for an article make the case for tariffs

And I wonder who provided such a case?

> Oren Cass is the executive director at American Compass and author of The Once and Future Worker

Oh, I'm sure American Compass is a widely renowned firm known for objective, unbiased analysis!

> We are charting the course for conservative economics.

Hm.
How would you compare that to the languages the author mentioned as alternatives, JavaScript and Python? Is 2007 style JavaScript and Python codebases not legacy today? What about their frameworks from that era?
Hello! Author here: what I was trying to say with this line is “we didn’t charge them for building tools they didn’t need or changing the way they work” — but I very much appreciate the feedback!
Except that EF Core is way more modern, thin and with sane defaults (more like Dapper.NET Micro ORM) than traditional EF - which is a fat, untamable beast just as Hibernate (and NHibernate was). Plus, no one forces you to use ORMs. Just use plain SQL as with any other language if that suits your needs.
here are the other two options that I can think of -
1. Scroll past the AI generated summary
2. Use DuckDuckGo
Eh I give most companies about 5 years before serious trouble
Signal – online MIDI editor, open source
Yeah, like in Zelazny's Lord of Light xD
Norway has problems too. Don't mention Sweden
There was a study published in 2022 suggesting that there's a link between Epstein-Barr and Multiple Sclerosis (where the immune system attacks the neuron insulation layer), and that when you get infected affects the outcome. Cleverly, they used blood samples from US service members, who have to do it multiple times in life.

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.abj8222?src=... [PDF]
Couldn't you just have used your old vimrc with Neovim?
I feel like there is a huge subset of people who just do trial and error programming. The other day, I watched a whole team of 8 people spend a whole work day swapping out random components on Zoom to diagnose a problem because not a single person considered attaching a debugger to see the exact error in 5 minutes.

I feel like you have to tell people to not roll your own whatever because there are so many of these types of people.
The actual comment and samas reply from the reddit AMA:

User: "Would you consider releasing some model weights, and publishing some research?"

Sam Altman: "yes, we are discussing. i personally think we have been on the wrong side of history here and need to figure out a different open source strategy; not everyone at openai shares this view, and it's also not our current highest priority."
Use a config distro if confguring your own plugins is too hard for you. Unsure why one would write an 'essay' complaining about having to do some minor coding (terrifying, I know) to use a plugin provided to them free of charge. If it's all too much for you, use VS Code.