skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And not entirely trying to call you out but the devil is in the details. I don't necessarily disagree with the ideas but implementations often fall short and you end up with lots of litigation in court to figure out the spirit of the rule. My main complain here is that how much of the focus is on AI implementations? What is AI? Should the rules not be crafted more on the protection of certain classes and ideas and not on the implementation of AI?
The devs shouldn’t have access to prod credentials in the first place. That’s the real issue.
Vscode had been wildly, and widely successful for Microsoft.

I think that's the direction Office is going. I think that model will be used on other applications...

Personally, I keep thinking of switching to Linux because the performance (compile) is higher, and so much code is easier to build and use.

I would be beyond thrilled if Microsoft would allow users to uninstall/decrapify Windows. The hypocrisy of - the browser is part of the OS and cannot be uninstalled and then it was when edge was released is insulting to users.
> if they show themselves willing to be so openly belligerent

Why would they need to be open about it? But also: the time to do that was 30 years ago.
How can one do that without transparency? Elon seems almost proud of the boorishness of his "wood chipper" and the lack of transparency.

He declares entire programs to be fraud and declares them cancelled, seemingly taking only minutes to unilaterally make that declaration.

If he respected the people and the democratic process he'd create transparency and (if he's right) have massive public support behind his efforts.

But he's offered ZERO transparency, only name calling.
Nope, your understanding is mostly wrong. It's primarily controlled by Congress in the form of Medicare limits on residency funding. And to a lesser extent by the management of teaching hospitals. Most of those people aren't doctors.

At one point the AMA lobbied Congress for those funding limits but they reversed position on that years ago.

https://savegme.org/
Continuation of neoliberal policies. The Biden administration having no spine (or desire) to stop Israel from blowing up children 24/7 has led to the logical conclusion of finishing the genocide with a dash of nihilistic capitalism allowing beachfront investment properties to be built in Palestine’s place, cementing the USA and Israel’s legacy.
Same here! I was also a teenager in the mid-90s. And I was amazed by IRCd server code and bots. I bought a used copy of the book Slackware Linux unleashed w/CD-ROM and it had some networking code examples in C. I found Beej's Networking site because I was confused by a lot of that networking code. Became even more obsessed and went a deep rabbit hole. I spent a lot of time visiting different book stores hoping they had programming books. Bought Richard Stevens' amazing reference books and never looked back. Thanks for enabling my passion all these years later Beej!
And we’ve got none of that. Right now, a US made iPhone doesn’t exist, and is years away from existing. It can’t be bought with any amount of dollars.
>A megacorp is made up of people. So it's people who are fundamentally evil.

That is to make a mistake of composition. An entity can have properties that none of its parts have. A cube made out of bricks is round, but none of the bricks are round. You might be evil, your cells aren't evil.

It's often the case that institutions are out of alignment with its members. It can even be the case that all participants of an organization are evil, but the system still functions well. (usually one of the arguments for markets, which is one such system). When creating an organization that is effectively the most basic task, how to structure it such that even when its individual members are up to no good, the functioning of the organization is improved.
Yes. Linux can work well for people who need nothing besides a browser and maybe minimal doc. editing. Also for people on the opposite side of the scale.

There is a huge gap in the middle though. Having to solve random problems you’ll have (and you most certainly will) using the terminal is just not a good experience for most users.
From your link:

Four Pillars of Social Mobility: To rank each state, we measured a series of indicators related to social mobility across four pillars: Entrepreneurship and Growth, Institutions and the Rule of Law, Education and Skills Development, and Social Capital. Scores for each pillar were combined and weighted equally to create a state’s overall social mobility score.

I would think a measure of social mobility would include income percentile vs parents' income percentile.
Yeah thats a good point. You never know, the pendulum might swing far to the left and his billions might not save him. I do concede thats its really unlikely.
ElevenLabs raises $180M Series C to be the voice of the digital world
The AI Playbook for Design Systems: What Works, What Fails, and Why
> I mean it would be much faster to stay what good impact had the usa foreign policy on the world in the last 100 year.

It could have wondrously good impacts, but that only matters in a moral framework where good actions morally cancel out bad ones.
Tonwell Tower – A 4 bedroom home in a water tower
Most programmers can type faster than they can speak.
> There is an ENT surgeon position open in a rural hospital outside of fresno CA that pays 1.1M dollars/year

while 1.1m/yr sounds like a lot, it isn't the right number to consider. The right number is the difference between this job, and a similar job else where that has better facilities/amenities and comfort. If said surgeons who would qualify could've gotten a similar job in a major city for a similar amount of money, they might prefer it there (near family/friends, amenities etc).

So how much _over_ the typical pay is the 1.1m/yr salary offered?
We need a SOHO replacement for APU2 routers: x86 open schematic hardware with coreboot open firmware, ECC memory resistant to Rowhammer, 6W TDP fanless, TPM 2.0 and DRTM secure launch. PC Engines was a Swiss company with Taiwan manufacturing, run by one talented human with a consistent ethos for ~30 years.

Since APU2 schematics are open, rebooting PC Engines in US/UK/AU could be initiated by industry leadership requesting AMD to restart production of the ancient AMD GX-412TC SoC, until AMD can ship a Ryzen Embedded alternative with comparable power efficiency. Ryzen Embedded includes dual 10GbE.

2023 EoL discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35635900 & https://pcengines.ch

We hear all the time about promising kickstarters that fail and everyone just nods their heads in agreement that "shipping hardware is hard". And surely it is. But yet, here was one guy shipping thousands of custom-designed modern-ish computers to hobbyists and businesses around the world at a very fair price for multiple decades.
Other robots, duh! The real question is "why are humans even involved with this?"
Also you know... seeing a job get absolutely decimated by a labor hating President might make future candidates less likely apply to a hostile job where asking for better conditions mean you will lose your livelihood.
I am moving my money out of the US stock market. Maybe most people don't care, but I want to live and invest in a functional democracy.

If enough people do it, maybe MAGA 401ks going down will make people care.
Thanks! That makes sense, I have read that series, but didn't remember that was where this was from.
if i can get an ai to talk for me and give my opinions, i could have a way bigger impact influencing the ai on where the code/design smells are and what to do about them, vs actually attending all the meetings
Ordered a bunch of server ram and parts. Most are sold by a Chinese company but the point of origin is either Ontario or California
Except that anyone who has even basic knowledge of history understands that democracies fall to democratically elected leaders. Those leaders tend to share a number of personal attributes, and a style of rhetoric that remains similar with only the specific social group or identified problem changing. They often are supported only by small minorities of the population but control much of the apparatus of government. Consolidation of power, unwillingness to tolerate alternative views, legislative and court systems which abdicate their responsibilities, and dozens of other attributes. On a case by case basis its only taken a handful of those situations to install a dictator. The specific personality types who believe in their holy cause over the norms of following the rules and are willing to bend or break the rules to support it. It comes from the understanding that congress doesn't actually control the debt ceiling if the guy sitting in front of the treasury computer decides to press the button to raise it without congressional approval to "save the country" or whatever other rules need breaking in order to save us from a plausible sounding emergency. And Trump has again, shown he is willing to invent emergencies to win political battles.

So, relecting a person who has already shown a tendency to want to bend and break rules to stay in office, and is willing to simply ignore laws that aren't convenient is a problem. When that person starts installing sycophants into positions that actually control the military, financial and other fundamental levers of governing it becomes that persons choice, not the people or other democratically elected leaders whether to step down, or for that matter do anything else. The people who founded the USA understood that the president was just a step away from being a king and tried their best to counteract that. But, those people are a hundred and seventy years dead and the country has survived because the people elected to those positions were willing to adhere to the norms of governing, even if they didn't believe in the results.

So, I don't think anyone with any critical reasoning skills who has paid even the slightest attention over the past 12+ years believes that to be true of Trump or many of the people he is surrounding himself with this time. The McMasters who say "no you can't do that its illegal" are gone and daily any remaining resistance is being removed. Frankly at this point even if Trump steps down after 4 years. The Senators who have allowed it to progress this far have repeatedly abdicated their fundamental duty and are unfit for office (and that is putting it mildly).

If you can cut off funding to congressionally appropriate USAID programs, its just a likely you can cut off funding to the military unit that won't kiss the ring.
Pointing the gun, telling the others to drink the kool-aid.
Finally, a better alternative to the do-not-stab header https://www.5snb.club/posts/2023/do-not-stab/
> might still

It might. It would be significantly less likely. Basic economics. Unless you don’t think that most people are at least marginally rational..

> In that case, shouldn’t its price be relatively stable, and might actually even go down sometimes

That’s true only if there is no economic growth. Gold standard had a similar problem.
Emphasis on the 'or'
Everyone should cancel trips to America. If you have to come to the US, stick to the blue states

Remember that the biggest hurt can be caused to Trumpist fascists by hurting their pocket.

Even if you don't want to hurt red state businesses, in practice, you want to avoid places where the gestapo is walking around rounding people up.

Just avoid, for your own life/family's sake.
> The Old Command: git checkout

I didn't even know git switch existed, let alone git checkout was considered the old alternative. I feel old.

To be fair I started learning git a little less than 10 years ago but woah, I can't express how it feels that someone learning git today will be confused of why I use git checkout. Like using old fashioned language.

More on topic, this guide would've been super useful when I was learning. It is really easy to follow and covers common FAQs.

I fondly remember being intimidated by my first merge conflict, aborting it and just doing some workarounds to prevent the conflict.
promoting someone to their level of incompetence i see?

Technical jobs should not be promotion driven at all. It should be a combination of seniority, and technical expertise/experience. Their metric should be something like number of accidents under their tenure, vs accident free hours under operation.

A supervising position might not see problems as fast as someone actually doing said job, which wastes the experience acquired by said supervisor!
Not a useful framing in my view. People follow private incentives. Private incentives are by default not perfectly aligned with external stakeholders. That leads to "evil" behavior. But it's not the people or the org, it's the incentives. You can substitute other people into the same system and get the same outcome.
A hexagonal-tiled cartogram for U.S. counties
A direct link to the data used: https://github.com/jordanroga/hex-cartogram/blob/main/County....
I've worked for the government before and have personally witnessed a very large amount of waste. It's absolutely there, and it's disgusting.

Waste needs to be cut back - that is morally required to happen, because it's not waste of some private company's money, it's the waste of other peoples' money - the only problem is that you can't take the Office Space "What would you say you do here?" approach of randomly cutting people, but have to address the systemic issues that result in tens of billions of dollars lost yearly.

Some of these include:

- literal incentives to waste money in the form of "if you don't use your whole budget every year, we'll cut it next year" (which applies to large parts of the military and defense, which happen to be some of the biggest spenders)

- massive bureaucracy that takes processes that should take a day and turns them into multi-week-long nightmares

- terrible office cultures that encourage single-points-of-failure...and then gives those people lots of vacation time

- large policy sub-orgs that focus on evaluating requests against hundreds of thousands of pages of policy instead of trying to help the workers actually get things done

- terrible contracting processes that result in the government paying 2-10x more than private industry does for goods and services (which only a small increase in quality or reliability)

...and many, many more problems.

> I hope that the government workforce starts to get more respect of the hard work they do on complicated problems

You can simultaneously believe that the average government worker is competent and hard-working, and that the bureaucracy as a whole is extremely inefficient due to systemic issues.

Blanket defense of government (in)efficiency actively makes the problems worse. Focus your energy instead on adding nuance when discussing the problems and solutions.
Thanks for the numbers!

For comparison, the NSF budget is about $8 billion. DOE Office of Science is about the same. NIH is $45 billion

(Also, compare that with the profit of large tech companies)
Remember… Don’t do evil. Yeah.
This is partially a question and the rest is shameful confession: I had haltingly used cvs as a solo programmer, and when I was suddenly no longer a solo programmer and had to use git, everything went haywire.

I am an Old and we never were taught anything about coding with other people who were also working on the same project. I have had many successful projects but never with another person.

With that as a background, does your guide cover things like:

1) Merging. I was told that merging happens "automagically" and I cannot, for the life of me, understand how a computer program manages to just ... blend two functions or whatever and it "works." Does your guide make sense of this?

2) Apparently there are holy wars (see also vi versus emacs) about the One True Way to ... decide on branches and whatnot. Are there pros and cons laid out anywhere?

3) Everything seems broken down into teensy tiny functions when I look at someone's git repository, just skillions of files all over the place. Is this a git thing, a code repository thing, or simply that, in order for multiple people to work on the same project, everything must be atomized and then reassembled later? What's your opinion?
We have FAIR. It’s not state-sponsored. It’s a state mandated syndicate of insurance companies (if you want to sell insurance you have to buy in).

Every time I interact with them, they find a new way to break the law. The big one is that they refused to pay for covered damage to our house. After fighting it for about a year, they sent us a lowball check that was less than 25% what they owed.

Our premiums are 4-5x what neighbors with more expensive, higher risk houses pay.
A more constructive response is to explain why it won't work, rather than telling me to explain why it won't work.

My first post in this thread has a link that explains why VPN services aren't trustworthy.

But the thing I took more issue with is that Tor is omitted entirely. Tor is at least as safe as a VPN.

Trying to attack Tor users by registering exit nodes (a Sybil attack) is way more expensive than convincing users to simply not use Tor.

The fact that more effort is spent attacking Firefox (i.e., the Tor Browser) than the network is a data point worth considering when deciding your threat model.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/10/tor-browser-a...

Meanwhile, if you want to do traffic correlation against a VPN service that you don't already own, just pwn the datacenter that the VPN company is hosted in and watch packets coming in/out of the VPN.

If you want to try to reframe the conversation to be about defending Tor, you can have that conversation without me. I'm not here to defend Tor, I'm here to advise against using VPN services especially if you have a threat model where Tor is more appropriate.

Recommending ProtonVPN over Tor to motherfucking activists is an act of malfeasance that makes me distrust anything coming from this webpage.
You're relying on outdated stereotypes. Online dating is the most common way new couples meet and has been for years.
As if compromising Tor in the long-term is that simple.
Which law is it being implied was broken?
Nobody is talking about feelings. By adding sanctions the US just reneged on the USMCA that Trump signed on his watch no less.
Find your last entry before the rebase using the reflog and reset your local branch to that entry.

The work isn’t lost, it is sitting right there.
Depending on the semantics of the implementation, something like that would go a long way toward eliminating one of my biggest issues with Rust. For a low-level systems language, it is imperative to offer 2 things, which are currently a pain in Rust: (1) you must be able to "materialize" a struct at an arbitrary location; why? Because hardware tables exist at a specified location and are provided by hardware- they are not created or instantiated in the host language; and (2) be able to reference structs from other structs, which immediately triggers lifetime annotations, which begin to color everything they touch, must like async does to functions.

And I admit, I loathe the borrow checker. Ironically, I never really have problems with it, because I do understand it, it's just that I find it too limiting. Not everything I want to do is unsafe, and I hate the way it has made people think that if you really do know better than the borrow checker, you must clearly be doing something wrong and you should re-architect your code. It's insulting.
It's the first button when you open FaceTime. Is that also too subjective?
I've been following Casey since his podcast with Jeff Roberts. He had the most influence on me as a programmer. I loved the Handmade Hero series, and I reread his blogs occasionally.

That being said the whole network idea, and the fetishisation of his particular coding philosophy was always cringe. I've never seen anybody in the network approach Casey critically, or try to explore beyond what he said. I've only seen emulation. Same with Jonathan Blow fans. It took him and his team 8 years of dedicated work to make The Witness, and it's just not a very technically impressive game. Casey couldn't even finish Handmade Hero, and I haven't heard of him creating anything else recently.

There's clearly flaws in making software this way.

This whole drama seems like fanboys becoming community managers and arguing with other fanboys. No original thought in sight.
The flags on that comment take away a bit of my hope.
It's hardly "most countries". The USA is about average for developed countries in terms of physicians per capita. We're higher than France, Belgium, UK, Japan, Canada, etc.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.PHYS.ZS?most_rec...
You can always count on Europeans to do what they are best at
I don't know the trick, but take a look at the "7". It looks like it's made from the vertical line in "4" and a portion of another number.
That brings up a good point. Does this only pertain to USPS? So you can still get a package from China via DHL? If so, private couriers are about to go way up in their business
Find a property manager now who would rent it out while you’re out of country. This defers the disposal decision into the future. You may want to return eventually. Also covers the mortgage and might provide the monthly income you’d need to demonstrate for a visa (see below).

If you have not yet found a country that suits you, make time to travel now to explore some options based on your criteria, residency, and work visa constraints (digital nomad visa vs non lucrative passive income, for example).

Depending on your means, there are many countries you can purchase outright for under $200k. Mortgages can usually be had with 40% down. Renting is almost always an option.

Line up housing (rent or own), income, and residency. Have a plan what you’ll sell, ship or store, travel plans to move, etc. Execute plan when your risk appetite is exceeded.

Canada: https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/findajob/foreign-candidates

Estonia: https://workinestonia.com/

Germany: https://make-it-in-germany.com/

Denmark: https://workindenmark.dk/

Finland: https://workinfinland.com/

UK: https://findajob.dwp.gov.uk/

Sweden: https://arbetsformedlingen.se/

New Zealand: https://www.live-work.immigration.govt.nz/work-in-new-zealan...

https://old.reddit.com/r/AmerExit/
Except it guarantees nothing of the sort.
Computation model behind this vaguely reminds me of the Epic Games programming model thing for Verse Calculus: https://simon.peytonjones.org/verse-calculus/
yes. good point. shouldn't argue for helping nature from nature helping itself. I mean I do think we should help nature but we can't claim this was because we helped.
I would say so, but there are options right? FedEx? DHL?
The last I looked into this, iMessage offers end to end encryption and RCS doesn't by default. Apple (rightfully, IMO) refuses to use Googles non open source end to end encryption extension that also would require key exchange on Google owned servers.
Klarna Used an AI-Generated CEO to Share Financials. Will More Companies Follow?
I finally get a chance to pull this obscure study out of my back pocket. It supports your thesis. I’m short by the way and married for the first time at 28 and the second time at 38 (still married). Short men are never in the top 20%.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/link-between-mens-height-divo...

Tall men were found to marry sooner in life, but were more at risk for divorce later on, as shorter men had more stable marriages. However, researchers note that the link between short men and stable marriages could be because they chose to marry later (or didn't have the option until later).
Tall men were also more likely to marry women closer to their age, and who were better-educated.
are you sure it isn't Ontario, California?
That was my guess — but I'm not familiar with the C-64 and its sprite limitations.
There are multiple documented cases where emergency vehicles are blocked by "blocking a highway" as a "peaceful protest" that resulted in deaths. e.g., London (2022) - Mark Heap and Lisa Webber.
needs a desktop app