skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it suggests the main topic will be discussion of what he received and that it may not have been as expected.

Without that, maybe the topic is about something like the customs and payment process.
Reddit changed.

It’s a natural artefact of the voting systems it uses for recommending content. These tend to result in echo chambers because political extremism results in more engagement, and thus more extreme users vote more and have a larger influence on what is shown.

This is then amplified by the echo chamber effect, which distills the user base into ever more extreme positions as the moderate users find their opinions outside the evolving fringe of acceptable opinion.

The reason I class it as far-left now, even though I wouldn’t in the past, is two things:

Firstly, it is now plagued with extremist content, including calls to violence, which are tolerated by users and moderates alike.

Secondly, the opinions expressed have a left bias relative to other members of the left. There are plenty of moderate democrats, including people like Obama, who would quickly find themselves banned from many default subreddits for their more moderate tolerant opinions.
Better for who? Because since the inauguration, lots of marginalized people are facing increasing government harassment, and if any newly freed monies are applied to more of that, then I'd say the government isn't getting any better for a huge swath of society.
Makes me wonder why the BTC original design tilted toward deflationary, since allegedly, 'satoshi' was trying to create currency, not speculation. Was it a two phase idea ? Attract people for 80 years as investment then when it's stable, use them as stupid coins ?
The thing that makes revolutions fail or succeed is whether or not they take control of the money. Trump isn't doing that. He appears to just be auditing for fraud and corruption. If he was trying to control the money, then he'd need to march doge into the federal reserve. But he can't because it's not organized under the executive branch. They claim they're not even part of the government.
What authors of the past were neglected in your opinion, or perhaps unfairly promoted? In modern times I think this is fairly easy to demonstrate. Books like Project Hail Mary are insufficient to win, while the most winning works are not especially exceptional. Those that are, perhaps The Three Body Problem, tend be the exception rather than the rule.

The vote also is not fair. People publicly organize voting cliques on e.g. Reddit (to say nothing of what's happening in private), and the new system is extremely exploitable. But I think that's beside the point. The issue is the outcome. The Hugos used to not only reliably reflect the best in genre works, but also select works that would often be talked about decades later. How they achieved that is irrelevant, only that they used to be able to do so, and now do not.

I think the groups that coopt, or try to coopt, these sort of things (which obviously also includes the Puppy stuff), fail to realize that the prestige of something is not based on that thing itself - but on the value of that which it promotes. If MIT just started enrolling 'merely above average' students and printing out diplomas, then they'd quickly lose their prestige. The same thing has happened here.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren Introduces Act to Block Sites Infringing on U.S. Copyrights
Personally I use lightsail on AWS and cloudflare cause there is always an off ramp to try some of the fancy stuff but then you can always go back to just using cheap VMs behind cloudflare. You can also put it all behind a VPC and you can use CDK/CloudFormation so that’s also nice.

I gave up on using GCP even though the products like BigQuery are way better just because I got burned too many times like with the Google Domains -> Squarespace transition.

I’m thinking of switching back to a bare metal provider now like Vultr or DO (would love to know what people are using these days I haven’t used bare metal providers since ~2012).

Also, completely unrelated does anyone know what the best scraping proxy is these days for side projects (data journalism, archiving etc.)?
> Surely if you can mutate a state object and pass it, its state can get mutated equally deep within the codebase no different than a global, no?

Yes, that's one reason why shared mutable state should IMHO be kept to a minimum and immutable objects/structs should be preferred.

// this function will implicitly look up the tenant from some global context
fun createUser(username: String, password: String)

vs.

fun createUser(username: String, password: String, tenant: Tenant)

except imagine that the comment for that first function didn't exist (because nobody documents shit anymore these days).

The second one is almost impossible to accidentally misuse, the first one can lead to all sorts of weird bugs.
This does go both ways however. There are incentives to inflate crime numbers and impact by various groups.
there are distributional impacts from crowding out and potential long term effects on AS, never to mention that the inflation risks are very real… debt is likely already politically constraining the fed right now
Well you do have to have a skateboard and ride it to be part of the in-group but skateboarders are well reputed for being inclusive and super supportive of anyone who wants to learn. The sport is tolerant of weirdos because many of its legends are weirdos as well.
1. That's what stated by the IMF, and so far I don't see any reason to believe it's true.

2. That statement refers to government holding bitcoin as reserves. Which has little relation to use of Bitcoin in the country as legal tender.
The WebAssembly tail call proposal has been accepted, finished, and implemented for over two years now. https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings/blob/main/main/2023/...
Being an employee of the federal government doesn't give you access to everything. There are laws, passed by Congress, about who is allowed to do what.
Of course the protocol can change if a large majority of miners agree to the change.

It's just a question about updating the source code.

The fundamental appeal of bitcoin is the lack of ability to change the protocol without buy-in from a sufficient fraction of the community.
It's the circle of life
i think you just reaffirmed the parent's point. if a cult can only be "non-mainstream", i think you are just saying cults become societies once they're large/successful enough. i see plenty of examples of your other indicators in mainstream society.
Obama’s last budget was 4.2 trillion. Trumps budget two years later was 6.5 trillion. Before COVID. Maybe that’s what you’re saying though. [1](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget)
He said wants X to be an “everything” app like WeChat a few years back. Nice an authoritarian.
I understand this belief abstractly. In the cases I was hitting, there would have been easy recovery mechanisms possible (that would have been wanted because there are many ways for the system to hit the error!), but due to the lowest level "key lookup" step just blowing up rather than Result (or Option)-ing their lookup, not only would the patch have been messy, but it would have required me to make many decisions in "unrelated" code in the meanwhile.

I understand your point in general, I just find that if you're writing a program that is running on unconstrained environments, not panic'ing (or at least not doing it so bluntly at a low level) can at the very least help with debugging.

At least have the courtesy to put the panic at a higher level to provide context beyond "key not found!"!
Yes, but Mr. Anderson, what good is a cross-platform window system, if no one wants to develop for or support it?

Enjoy your old and busted toolkits for your old and busted window system. The Linux ecosystem has chosen Wayland. The removal of X code paths from relevant toolkits has begun; I'm sure Qt will follow suit soon enough.
8% use at least one.

The government literally give (almost) everybody $30 in btc to promote this, 8% is too low
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Was it before or after he tried to pull off that Libra thing?
There is also the secular trend. Detroit's dominance in the auto industry wasn't an accident. Iron was mined in the Iron Range in Minnesota and shipped across the Great Lakes to Detroit. It was natural for manufacturing to occur there. Other GL cities had similar advantages, but e.g. Alabama wasn't a realistic competitor. Coal was also shipped, mostly from the Allegheny region, west across Lake Erie.

Today, less iron is refined domestically, and cars are made of more aluminum and less steel. Most coking-quality coal is now mined in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. On top of that, the US shipbuilding industry has become less competitive globally, which together with the Jones Act has resulted in a significant drop in shipping on the Lakes. See Figure 2 on page 2:

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R47550.pdf
Rochester NY is seeing an influx of people driven by the high CoL elsewhere. The region's housing stock has been severely undervalued for decades. Now migrants and REITs are snapping it up for comparatively cheap causing locals to have a lot of anxiety over the rapid run up in housing costs. The region ranks high on safety from disasters and resource shortages so, in the long term, it and the entire great lakes will see more migration once the "glamour" of scurrying between air conditioned spaces wears off in the places due to become desertified or flooded.
I’m not sure what exact point or points you want me to care about, but none of these charts seem to suggest _why_ we and every other country moved to fiat. I’ll admit I didn’t look at them all, you didn’t give me nearly the effort in your comment that you’re asking from me…
This congressman is either just engaging in the typical hustler-level political grandstanding of many congressmen, or he's a pig-ignorant idiot who doesn't know how to connect data points and form reasoned concepts of reality from them.

Total U.S.-China trade is roughly 760 billion dollars and includes some of the most wealthy and best connected companies in the U.S. Dollars of wealth and investments created through trade with Chinese companies (many of which are connected right to the CCP) pervade various levels of American society and the finances of who knows how many high.level politicians. The exact same thing applies to Chinese society and politicians with money gained from Chinese trade with American companies. That's how large.scale trade just works between two societies, and it's usually a good thing because it's better to trade goods and services than it is to trade bullets and missiles..

For his incoherent idiocy to be a bit more coherent, he'd have to talk about cutting off business relationships that affect and involve the majority of his colleagues in government and a great number of other powerful people.. But why think of that when some silly little media-popular cheap shot against a specific AI company can be vomited out for the public and your constituents?
>You do not want this in your currency.

I really want this in my currency.

Bitcoin might be a Ponzi scheme, but fiat currencies are even more so.
the chief of staff clearly has managerial discretion over other executive staff? they also have top level security clearance and afaik none of that is in any law. ultimately all of these staff serve at the pleasure of the president.
> ...finding programming that works for you

I see what you did there :D
When the homeless are forced though circumstances to sleep on the streets, the government most definately should not be using this as an excuse for "aggressive sweeps" (state sanctioned violence, basically).

If they don't want to get involved and provide programs to resettle these people into homes (and it can be done, Finland eliminated homelessness) then the government should not be getting involved at all.
I don't think paying less tax will fix the corrupt behavior of my mayor either, but it would limit my exposure and loss.

Fundamentally, the urge to eliminate taxes and reduce the size of the government is a vote of no confidence. Not just now,but permanently. It's not a vote for reform. I don't think the government leadership has my best interests at heart. I think it would happily take everything I have and leave me to starve in the street if it could.
The Evolution of a Compiler: PUFFT 1964-1972 [pdf]
It is interesting to consider how `panic!` serves as some documentation of explicitly giving up. Easy to see in a pull request. And having the string packed alongside it is nice.

Still miffed, but we'll get there.
But using int doesn't wrap sooner or cause any errors at all, because it is automatically promoted to the native size due to this all being undefined behavior. Your example even directly demonstrates that, as the code had no chance of erroring in any way as it just returned the sum directly... the sum is even overflowing the int it is being stored into, that's how crazy the behavior of the code you wrote is.

And like, in addition to undermining your argument, that is also distressing, right? The code you wrote can be interpreted in a ton of different ways and the only reason the fast one makes any sense is if you squint hard enough so as to lose the details of the sizes and behaviors of all of the types that were declared... if you actually had to make the wrapping or errors you wish to see happen you'd have to have the slow code.

In contrast, the code using a native-sized unsigned type and != means only one thing, and that one thing is the fast code you said wanted to get... that makes it the correct code. It isn't optimized to that code due to undefined behavior: mathematically that lea multiplication is identical, and if you simulated all of the steps--including the wrap (and if we fixed the output type, the truncation)--you'd always get that result.

(And the reason I keep using the term "field" is because these types are elements of a modular finite field, and once you see them for what they are it becomes a lot easier to write correct code using them. There are even some modern languages where the native algebraic type is an element of a prime field, at which point confusing it for some kind of integer is extremely problematic.)
Is this supposed to contrast with the US? You just explained the US Freedom of Information Act of 1967.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(...

That DOGE is not transparent is because the Musk/Trump administration has moved beyond the rule of law.
I don’t know that’s what I’m asking! Should you only spend your money in life or death situations in a btc economy?
...had used at least once, not "using"

The government were giving out btc
Reasons Not to Refactor
Doesn't seem wasteful to him.
My apologies - just be careful, your comment seemed only related to the title and not the content of the article, it looked a lot like spam. The dash is fine, don't worry about it.
The thing being subsidised is free on street parking. Free on street parking is not subsidising the already existing street space.
There you go. Outsourcing good American police jobs overseas. Oh the trade imbalance.

Sarcasm, I think.
I don't like that it creates arbitrary interruptions. Getting sidetracked from my main goal because my light bulbs aren't connecting makes me irrationally angry.

Besides that I don't have to accept any terms and conditions to turn my lights on. I am not tracked by my regular light switches.
I work on the syncing team at Hightouch. These are great questions and also good feedback on how we could be clearer when describing the problems we need to solve.

1. We also support the case you describe, in which an ML model processes data and then updates properties in a destination. However, customers still get a lot of value out keeping downstream systems synced with their warehouse tables. For instance, you can define which people you want to receive different campaigns and make sure that's consistent across all your ad platforms. You can also use it for simple projects like easily keeping Airtable in sync with a Postgres database.

2. Some people have warehouse tables with many billions of rows.

3. If you have a billion rows, you need to hit a very high rows per second number in order to run a sync in a feasible amount of time. Also, we have an event collection product, which allows customers to feed events into Hightouch in realtime, and a personalization API product, which allows customers to hit an API and get a low-latency response for how a given user's experience should be personalized. Making sure that the new data flowing into the events API is processed, and data is ready in the personalization API for fast fetching, needs to be fast.

4. It's true that syncing often implies some bi-directionality. In this case we think about "syncing" the destination system state to that present in the source system. It's nice because you can use the source system as the source of truth and trust that any edits you make will be reflected elsewhere. Possibly across many destinations.

Is this helpful?
I think people underestimate the amount of trash NYC produces. The survey the city paid for that was the impetus for this plan actually advised the city to give up on bins for Manhattan because it would require basically daily pickups. And in defiance of all good sense they're picking up trash 6 days a week. I genuinely commend them on doing the hard expensive thing anyway.
Em. Spain, famously, didn't debase its currency.

The gold escudo was 22-karat for basically it's entire existence,.
and update the hardware wallets if needed
I understand the value of panic when your invariants really are no longer holding. What I have seen is many cases of "oh a micro-invariant I kind of half believe to be true isn't being held, and so I will panic".

Obviously context-free this is very hand wave-y, but would you want Firefox to crash every time a website prematurely closes its connection to your browser for whatever reason? No, right? You would want Firefox to fail gracefully. That is what I wanted.
> if you are an auditor for the commission appointed by the president, we will make sure that this comes up in an aggressively negative way when somebody who you want to work for googles you.

You just archeologically unearthed the dictionary definition of accountability. If the people doing the auditing are a goon squad from corporate, what reasonable person should accept their results?
This is ridiculous. Any disagreement gets flagged and downvotes. Get control of your site, dang.
What it really is is basically a consensus between participants. Once the consensus about a change gains critical mass, that change just happens, by someone coding it into the software and people updating to it. The change (fork) becomes mainstream and the old version becomes fringe. And vice versa, if consensus never achieved. There will be people who stay on old version anyway. It’s up to who believes in what, based on available software based on ideas that are worth new code.
Did you notice most countries don't use gold as their currency?
> An excavator or a tractor deprecates far more slowly, and many private owners keep them for 20-30 years.

There are still tractors and excavators from the 50's in regular use.

> Battery-powered equipment will probably need new battery packs before that.

It's a tiny 10kWh battery, $1000 - $2000. It looks like about 6 hours / cycle, so that's ~4000 of work time, longer if you don't mind reduced capacity. That's quite comparable to a diesel which needs an overhaul every ~10,000 hours.
Well... There's another thing that they could learn from other cities. You can pick up the bins at 6am for example.
The First Amendment famously has limits, which have been tested and have held, repeatedly. These limits generally arise from conflict with other rights or societal good. On the latter point, obscenity is one of the most well-known exceptions. The government can and does make laws against it.

The idea that a foreign, adversarial government would have a Constitutional right to propagandize our citizenry at-scale is obviously not consistent with the societal good (or the "common defense", for that matter), so is outside of the First Amendment's scope/intent.

If you want to make an argument that it's not happening, that's one thing. But, your assertions about TikTok having some blanket "right" here are false.
I thought it was an appropriate response in multiple contexts. If I’m wrong, please provide a rebuttal or counterpoint.
Next up, Area 51?
I'm sure the SEC will be at the top of his list for a regulatory "cleanup", considering his colourful history with that agency.
Like in the UK...
I mean it pretty loosely, I'm just trying to figure out what Mazur meant. The quote and reference to a cutoff seems to imply that solveability preserves some kind of structural partial order between Z and C, but it's not clear to me why one would expect that to be the case.
Both share of global investments denominated in dollars and the US share of world GDP have increased in the past 25 years.

A vibrant tech ecosystem is a large part of the reason for both.
Western politics deteriorated to a point at which liars who don't pretend they are anything else seem like an attractive choice.
Would contacting one's credit card union to deny the billing work as a kind of a hard shutdown?
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Been using OVH for bare metal for a few years now and no major hiccups other than scheduled maintenance.
The guy is reselling $6000 excavators for $20,000. So he's doing OK.

He's not going to get rich from it, he's spending thousands per excavator to import it, plus a lot of time. It certainly doesn't seem wasteful.
Are you hiring senior engineers as well ? Around 4-5 years of experience ones.
Um. Yeah... No.
They release a yearly impact report.

Every right-wing comment on this page is just asserting stuff. There's no information in any of them. No attempts to educate or inform. No breakdown or analysis of what USAID does and the cost-benefit of shutting them down.

Try doing a little research and writing a paragraph on what USAID does and the pros and cons of shutting them down. It would be good for you.
certified uh oh moment
Wtf. How is this not a blatant first amendment violation?

I'm sorry for my representative, everyone.
He has been handed skeleton keys on a verbal commission.

Stupendous conflict of interest possibilities as a government contractor.

Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture (Anil Dash)

https://www.anildash.com//2025/01/04/DOGE-procurement-captur...