skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI-assisted answers are completely optional on DuckDuckGo.

Also, I have no problem with Kagi -- we are actually investors in it. The more competition in the search market, the better.
They are at a place in their career where it still feels relevant to mention that title.
Do you have a TL;DW? It's an hour long video
This would be my first use of AI agents. "AI, buy me 1 month of PBS".
They just mean to change the parties, this happened once in the US (whigs are no more).
Making flights more expensive would also address the ATC shortage, by reducing workload. Good idea.

(Econ 101 again: increased price -> reduced demand, i. e. fewer flights.)
He also has massive business operations in China, a country which clearly wants a weakened US.

WSJ also reported in October about how Musk has been in regular contact with Putin.
Here's another https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
It was a "bug" that has since been "fixed": https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1ii67mt/communi...

>this was due to a bug and these bans have been reversed. Appreciate the patience
regardless of what else you might think of this, eight months severance is well beyond anything I have seen from private industry

if they are allowed to retain some sort of pro-rated portion of their retirement benefits, I can see a lot of people going for it
A quick google suggests that only 35% of US adults have 20/20 vision (although I guess it might be higher if you restrict to the population of the age required) which is one of the requirements so that by itself limits the pool of applicants significantly regardless of education, parenting etc?
When you write one, you can make those choices however you like.

This target was sufficiently interesting to the people who pursued it. It doesn't have to meet your arbitrary standards.
I do think there's value in manual formatting some code sections. For example, very large arrays, or alignment of semantic parts of a group of mathematical expressions. Ultimately, I think the only thing that matters is that the code is readable, consistent and you don't spend much time on how it looks.

That said, if you have team members who somehow can't or won't copy the surrounding code style, then automatic linting sounds necessary.
You seem to assume that Trump will willingly give away his power in 4 years.

He most certainly remembers the January 6th failed coup and will likely spend the next 4 years making sure that he comes on top this time.

And yeah, if he fails, you better hope that the person which did succeed was liberal (and from I heard, AOC is not), because otherwise instead of putting back a system of checks and balances, they will just use the power that Trump concentrated to their own ends.
Precedent holds that Congress has the power to establish executive branch agencies and lay out their jurisdiction and functions. It also holds that, once so established, the president has the power to decide how they’re operated. There’s a constitutional distinction between this power to create/define (legislative) and the power to run (executive).

The article doesn’t seem to be about abolishing the NIH and NSF. Instead it seems to be about NIH and NSF grants to third parties. That seems to fall squarely on the executive side of the line.
Today's greenfield is tomorrow's legacy. So this statement still holds true ;)
Of course not.

But, should we (the gov) spend 10 million dollars on social services to prevent people's lives from going to hell, should we spend 10 million dollars on anti-alcohol addiction services or should we spend it half and half, are questions we as a society need answers to.
They don't "fail" as such. They burn through the money, spread it around, and then declare bankruptcy while everyone involved is somehow wealthier. It's kleptocracy.
That was succinct and beautifully stated. Thank-you for the "Aha!" moment.
Also old. Also can not read the fonts my earlier self would use. Still do not understand the love for narrow columns.
When updating the working copy from one commit to another, I didn't think we would delete files that were not untracked in the first commit. I suspect the files are actually still available in the repo, but we'd appreciate a bug report if you can reproduce the problem.

The other issue you ran into with ignored files becoming tracked is a known limitation. I agree that it's really annoying. We have talked about it many times before but we didn't have a proper issue for tracking it, so I created one now: https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/issues/5596
Because eventually someone will want to add another exception to a new leaf class and the proper place to handle it is 20 functions down the call tree and every single one of those 20 functions needs to now add that new exception to their signature even though only the handler function cares and you adjusted it.

I haven't done java in decades, but I imagine this would get really nasty if you are passing a callback to a third party library and now your callback throws the new exception.

Checked exceptions seem like a great idea, but what java did is wrong. I'm not sure if other implementations are better.
For a solo dev project this looks great and good luck with it! But am I correct to understand this can't be self-hosted/is not open source? To me "privacy-focused" is pretty much synonymous with open source and self hostable but I am curious if I missed something or if the community thinks otherwise.
The Grand Slam tennis arms race between Wimbledon, Australian, French, U.S. Open
>15$ direct from China. The same exact bag, made in the same exact factory is going to be 40$ on Amazon.

Do you have examples of this? It hasn't been the case for me. Usually the prices are similar and I tend to find that Amazon is slightly cheaper.
https://web.archive.org/collection-search/EndOfTerm2024PreEl...
> You purposely decided to omit the fact that the "biological questionaire" was in fact a change in the way applicants were evaluated

Man, you are now losing audiences that are sympathetic to your position. Are you accusing Manuel_D of edit-sniping you? Or are you claiming that the comment as it is currently written omits the above fact?
In case you [need citation] of this analysis, please see the 1999 "documentary" Pushing Tin, starring John Cusack. :)
I once interviewed the manage who built MSN messenger - and when I asked her what the most important thing to the growth was, she said it needed to be able to punch through NATs so kids could use it at high school and uni, because that was the segment they were trying to get it to take off in. (and from what I recall, that strategy indeed worked quite well)
They're leveraging TPMs in the sense that they're banning specific ones.
> We recommend Signal, which was built from the ground up for personal security.

WhatsApp has E2EE for all messages too, I don't understand why people think of Signal as a bullet-proof instant messaging solution for privacy, especially when

1. Requires Phone Number in order to use (I'm sure fanboys have explanations for that)

2. It is centralized

3. Uses APNs or GCM for push notifications
Yes, you can. It's basically a terminal case of something being unintuitive. Whether something is misleading is in the eye of the beholder.

Recently my mother felt misled by a car commercial. Her position was that saying things like "under this many years or that many miles" is misleading, because it suggests that it's a set of options she can pick from (which of course ended up not being the case).

Unfortunately for her, this is a natural language construct - whether she understands it correctly or not depends on how aligned her common sense regarding it is with people at large. She understood it differently and thus felt misled. But you may notice that ultimately it was her own mistaken understanding of the common parlance that misled her. So when she said this was misleading the only thing I could reasonably say was exactly this. That I did not find the phrasing misleading, and I'm sorry she'd been misled by it (irrespective of whether that was on her or on the world, as that doesn't really matter).

It's completely on people how they want to handle this. You can find people being misled by stuff like this to be unreasonable and just tell them so, or you can put out a disclaimer regardless. Depends completely per case. This goes all the way to having multiple mechanical interlocks at places with heavy duty xray sources, or preferring machine checked memory management.
AI Founders' Plan to Buy Out His Own VCS
> If Europe wants to stick to the borders a bunch of kings and princes hashed out in blood a hundred+ years ago it can

If the EU wants to stick to a technocratic structure pushing unpopular laws over the democratic institutions won in blood, it'll be probably be democratically a hard sell to give it more powers.

I agree that Europe should have more unification and coordinated action. But I don't love the EU. I quite liked social democracy, but then it was outlawed by the EU.

It was nice to have public control over the infrastructure, possibility to have industry for public benefit, possibility to nationalize out of control private sectors, possibility to retain assets and capital domestically, to control fiscal and monetary policy etc.
Seems every successful space program requires at least one Nazi.
> Very few abstractions exist in general application development. Just write the code you need.

I don't try to foresee abstractions (premature optimization), but I often encounter them when adding to a codebase. A recent example would be a tool that uses property info from a public database. The first version was hard coded to the database from one jurisdiction. When I added support for a second jurisdictions, abstractions helped avoid code duplication.
> e.g. movie subtitles

As I said, only ppl from HK insist doing this. And I have zero problem with that. But I have yet to see any formal text or software UIs writing in this style.

> It's not like you can compare what the person was saying and what the person ended up writing.

That the point I was trying to make. The Chinese "text" unification was done two millennials ago, but people "speak" differently of every individual "character", as dialects or mutually unintelligible or whatever.

I'd argue Chinese characters don't actually represent a sound, there isn't any alphabet in Chinese, you are doing it wrong to find every pronouciation a Chinese character. It's an ideogram system afterall.

When a Chinese person 睇 a large chunk of text (e.g. not HK subtitles), they parse the symbols visually and link to the meaning directly.

When a chinese person think of something, they don't do a subvocal monologue inside their head, they just recall the "shape" of the characters and combine the reasoning in lines of "symbols". Like when you do math you use a "formula" in your head, not the English vocal description of a formula.

Go back to the topic of this thread, when a Chinese person 睇 some software UI, they link the "text" directly to their function, they don't think twice of the "pronouciation".

Interestingly, if a person reads a "character" completely wrong, he/she may never realize until some awkward moment happens during a speech or a conversation. But the meaning of the word/character was 100% correct anyway. You can ask the question "have you read something characters wrong in your childhood and only found out much later" to any Chinese. It happens a lot
Google has finally pushed the source of the Pixel 4a battery update: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm/+log/refs/heads/...
I'm afraid I can't observe any of that. All I can see is superficial appearances -- I can't see behind-the-scenes corruption or measure superior alternatives that were suppressed in favor of locking in a marginally mitigated version of the status quo ante.

I can, however, see the some of the unintended consequences of regulatory interventions in other countries. For example, Germany's ban on nuclear power made them dependent on Russian oil imports, inadvertently propping up Putin's regime.
Most of the EC already proved themselves unworthy of leadership when they pushed to pass Chat Control repeatedly.

That's far closer to a dystopia than anything the US has proferred recently.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/
Really interesting how the AI wave led to major tailwinds for struggling remote gig worker platforms like Invisible and Turing through the data creation and RLHF work.
This is the closest to constitutional crisis we have gotten in decades. There are different degrees of presidential overreach
> There are plenty of jobs that you can't pay people enough money to want to do.

This is true for individuals.

With a sample size large enough, the probability that no one will be up for it given the increased pay, is extremely low, tending to zero.
Just ran across this last week and pulled it into my Makefiles. Really nice.
So they considered it, and then left it out of the Constitution.

I wonder why?

/s

I'll concede, in the US, just as in everyplace else, we have a long list of issues with which we need to deal. However, things like public debate and freedom of speech are not present on that list. I, personally, would go one step further, and caution everyone to carefully consider the possible motives of anyone calling for the elimination of public debate and discourse in government.
> It was a good way to value these companies according to their compute size since those chips are very valuable.

Are they actually, though? Presently yes, but are they actually driving ROI? Or just an asset nobody really is meaningfully utilizing, but helps juice the stocks?
What if corporation A wanted to fill their CFO position. They put out an ad, but decided to interview folks only from ethnicity W. They then hired a qualified person from ethnicity W. When challenged about excluding from the process non-ethnicity W folks, they respond "but they still had to be qualified." Are you fine with that?
> Because the person with the better score was chosen.

Merit: the quality of being particularly good or worthy, especially so as to deserve praise or reward.

Having a high score isn’t on its own meritorious. If two people achieve the same thing but one of them was being propped up while the other was being pushed down, the latter showed more skill.

> If that is the goal then improve the schooling, make it easier to do homework in a better environment etc.

Yes, all of those things should be done too. But when not being handwavey and dismiss, one realises change takes time, must be done in steps, and approached from several angles.
not the one who asked the questions, but I actually think 4% are not enough.

If Google or Meta makes 10% of their earnings with that shit and they have to pay max 4% they still have a 6% margin over - not doing it.

IMHO there should be a 4% fine additionally to paying back all the illegally generated earnings. Also, more executives should go to jail for it - And that's the C-Level Executives, because it's them which are accountable.

Problem with those things: usually it still hits the little ones harder than the big players...
> But at the same time we -- meaning Trump and the GOP Senate -- just appointed the least qualified candidate in the history of the US, to run the most powerful military in the world?

For some context, in the last fifty years, one nominee was rejected (Towers, for drinking), one was 'close' (Hagel, 58-41), but everyone else:

> Aside from that vote and Mr. Tower’s rejection following accounts of his excessive drinking, no other secretary of defense nominee in the past 50 years has gotten fewer than 90 votes, with Leon Panetta being confirmed 100-0 in 2011. Three others — Harold Brown in 1977, Les Aspin in 1993 and Donald Rumsfeld in 2001 — sailed through on voice votes.

* https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/us/pol...

For Hesgeth, four GOPs voted against him, and so the VP in his role as President of Senate had to break the 50-50 tie.

Getting >90 votes for SECDEF is the norm. The picks are regarded as competent and the votes have generally reflected that.
True, but someone disabling Secure Boot will cause the TPM not to release BitLocker keys. Making attempts at subverting it noisier.
> every upgrade broke something

Upgrades are the bane of tech. They are justified by "security" like every law that takes away freedom and privacy is done in the name of "protecting children". It's all BS.

My main machine in on Windows 7. It can't be upgraded anymore. No updates for me! Which is exactly what I want. Pure joy.
> The trouble with functional programming is functional programmers

> This needs to be said more. Way more.

In other words, why stop with an ad-hominem when you can do an ad-nauseam too.
We do?
Is there a reason you believe otherwise?

There are nearly infinite studies in infinite fields on this, and despite claims here, the results are mixed at best.

Certainly not the utopia consistently predicted.

I'm sure someone will next just say it's not enough money, rather than bother to read any of the studies and whether they tried to account for this or not, or ...

I'm going to ignore those comments, since it doesn't seem like a discussion anyone wants to learn anything in.

If you want to push your preferred position, that's sort of silly. There is no winning or losing here.
If you want to actually learn something, happy to discuss it for real.
As a long time Ubuntu user, I switched to Fedora 6 months ago and have been very satisfied.
This is nowhere close to the first time illegal acts were committed by the executive branch.
> Laravel (PHP)

You may want to do something compatible with other php frameworks. At least Symfony as it is the base for API platform.
Servo's progress in 2024
Biology is a field where you can find new things relatively easily, if you follow existing protocols and do the hard lab work (which costs time and money).
This presumes the existence of systemic bias in the first place, not to mention the fact that overt racism and sexism is the way to overcome that.

In any DEI conversation you end up with people making convoluted examples like the one you gave. Nobody is getting a job based on a 80 vs. 79 on a single exam. It's farcical. What you end up with at the end of the DEI road is making promotion, hiring, and firing decisions based on immutable characteristics of people. Okay if you really, really think that being a descendant of a slave from 300 years ago puts you at a material disadvantage today, argue to have public services available to verified descendants of slaves regardless of racial identity, and regardless of current socio-economic status.

But DEI doesn't want to help descendants of slaves. It wants to help black and brown people whether they're actually impacted or not, and it wants to avoid helping white and asian people even if they are at a socio-economic or educational disadvantage. You can't tell me with a straight face that a white person who could verify they have family lineage of slaves from the 1700s would be included as a minority in any DEI program. Look at any conversation where newspeak like "white-passing" is used unironically and this blatant racism is on clear display.
So, given the main issue with ORM is the object/relational part...
(https://web.archive.org/web/20160301022121/http://www.revisi...)

Why is caching not a feature in DB connection pools? I mean, most databases have it on their side, why not have it as an option for the same query sets prior to hitting the db, with configurable invalidations? Or is it, and I've just never thought to look for it.
Oh for sure, the first time I vomitted from alcohol was when I was 14 on a catholic winefestival - the wine was given to us as a present from the official organisators.

But it has been some years and I believe (and hope) at least that changed a bit. Otherwise alcoholism is epidemic. But stoners, or well, people combing both and meth and whatever is a thing as well.

Either way, also weed on its own is not harmless either, easily abused and your comment gave me the impression it is no big deal. Just like it was introduced to me as a teenager from the cool kids. And this is dangerous.
> Trump has stated...

... virtually every position, on both sides of every issue.

Come the fuck on.
It's a myth that the bar is lowered for DEI hires.
Agreed, Ubuntu is poorly engineered, they still use some sysv init scripts behind systemd units, which is embarrassing, and I have never managed a successful update.

Fedora is great, I did not have half the problems with it that I had on Ubuntu. Every single update went super smooth.

The one downside with Fedora is that you don't really have LTS and there is no rolling releaste that is intended for daily use, but otherwise it's perfect.
I think that’s more of a problem of changing the function signature. Not specific to checked exceptions.
Made the switch about 6 years ago to Fedora, never looked back. Upgrades just work.
anything that gives pharma shill derek lowe a bad day is a good thing
If Trump was methodically reviewing grants that would be one thing. Essentially shuttering the NSF, NIH, and CDC entirely is completely different
"...there’s no reasoning involved...wait, could I just be succumbing to my heuristic intuitions of what is (seems to be) true....let's reconsider using System 2 thinking..."
Both Ubuntu and Fedora are fine distros, but as a Slackware user, to me it looks like jumping from the pot into the fire :)

I have tried both and they confused me when compared to Slackware. I like the simplicity of Slackware, maybe that "modified" my brain where other distros seems too complex.
> every upgrade broke something

A tangent, but I just realized that there's no OS nowadays that I feel comfortable upgrading at all lol.

- Windows? Make sure to find that script which disables all the preinstalled crap like defender and updates

- MacOS? It's time for apple intelligence boi

- Ubuntu? System encountered a critical error popup on startup

- Android? Your rooted phone is now again detectable by play integrity malware

So my workflow is instead to make some time and do a clean install every 2 years or so. Keeps the clutter out too (re-install only things I actually need).
I've had places offer to just not bill for a few months while still allowing full access or offer some steep discounts in the workflow for cancelling in attempt to reduce churn.
The contradictions in that definition and its examples indicates to me how outdated it is. Connecting "white men" and Ivy League universities, despite those institutions adopting an ideology explicitly designed to dispossess white men from institutional power. Connecting universities and Trump, despite the Trump administration occupying an opposing faction of power to academia (hence the articles bemoaning this being posted on HN). Connecting Trump to Bush despite Trump existing outside and against the Bush dynasty (to the point that the Democrats took Liz Cheney onboard in their campaign against Trump).

The better definition is simply that the elites of a nation are the ones that hold the most outsized political power, often the kind of intangible power that they are loathe to admit having. Trump is more or less attempting a small-scale revolution in America, being the replacement of one class of elites with another. What the prospective replacement class of elites looks like is harder to say than who they're attempting to replace.
Pay for what you use streaming exists. I don't think it would work here. Paying a large sum and dividing it up by what you watch is basically back to cable tv, just with a little smarter more immediate billing -> analytics feedback for hollywood.

A change I think is necessary for consumers however is deduplication of content payments. If you subscribe to multiple services, youre paying for a license to some content multiple times, sometimes many times.

What I would like to see is more like Kagi Fair Pricing, a master payment account (like prime or movies anywhere) that has access to all your accounts, cross references where you are paying for a title multiple times, and offers a refund or credit.