skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read Neuromancer in 1984, it was mind-blowing.
Same thing with Snow Crash in 1992

So do you like, only enjoy art produced in the last N years?

Or art that was produced more than N years ago but didn't produce any imitators that retroactively diminished the original for you?

I guess I'm not enjoying things right. I read Snow Crash in the 2000s (and LOTR in the 90s) and enjoyed the hell out of them even though they were "outdated" and had inspired countless derivative works in the ensuing decades. In fact, I had a good time playing Ms. Pac Man just last weekend.

When I read Snow Crash it definitely felt like the product of an earlier decade but I didn't hold that against it. I like understanding the context in which a piece was made.

If you don't, that's okay and you're certainly not alone. Feels like you're missing out on some good stuff though. Possibly a lot of good stuff. Possibly the vast majority of human artistic output.
You should talk to a no fee lawyer or three. Financial & Emotional damages can help assuage the anger you have.
The author cited this quote:

> he first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The last 10% of the job takes the other 90% of the time.

When I report my work done I always prefer the ironic version:

> I've already did 90%, now there's just the other 90%.

It is fun, but most importantly, for non developers, it reports a reality of our work. To do the simplest case, is almost easy, but when you have to factor in taking care of exceptions, errors, usability, log, robustness, security etc. there's a lot of "unexpected" work.
And most are not. I repeat that the problem back then was a low average productivity and not insufficient taxation.
US debt as a percentage of GDP (i.e. our ability to pay off our debt) has basically remained static since COVID. I agree that the US requires a serious debate about our fiscal priorities and the appropriate levels of spending and taxation, particularly with automatic social security cuts looming. But it is nowhere near an emergency and fiscal decisions are the responsibility of Congress, not the executive.
I'm pretty sure the first four graphs alone already prove that dating apps don't work.

Dating apps are supposed to match people, but desire to match up is very lopsided towards one gender, with the other gender having very little desire to match up.

Having unrealistic expectations is one thing. Being the monkey paw that fulfills those wishes is on a wholly different level.
Found it. For anyone else interested https://neuralink.com/careers/apply/
Democrats can oppose, but they don’t have any votes. All 3 branches of government are controlled by Republicans.

So, yeah. I guess we got the government we voted for? And since it’s a democracy, I suppose that means we have exactly the government we deserve?

Maybe it gets better later in the administration? That’s my hope anyway.
Numbers are to be considered about dehydrated mass, again according to the study.
Yes, mixing some concepts in programming is a terrible idea.

Perhaps this is also widely unpopular, but it's the parallelism that needs to be treated with care and the additional caution, as often the parallelism itself is the terrible idea.

Concurrent code often has unpredictable performance due to cache behavior and NUMA, unpredictable lock contention, and the fact that often there is no measure of whether the bottleneck is CPU or I/O.

What most people want from concurrency (like computing the response to independent HTTP requests) can be done by separate processes, and the OS can abstract the issues away. As another reference, the entire go language is designed around avoiding shared memory (and using message passing -- even though it doesn't use processes for separation it encourages coding like you did).

But also sharing memory between processes can be handled with care via mappings and using the OS.
You can cherry-pick any two data points like that to make any point you want, all equally unfounded, so the only thing a comment like this actually does is restate your existing preference.

Edit: or perhaps one could say restate-and-reinforce. I think that's (edit: well, might be) largely the function of adding snark and indignation to internet comments.
I don’t have the legal background to assess the accuracy of this response. Assuming it came from ChatGPT, how did you go about validating its correctness (and its relevance to the unprecedented new state of affairs) before posting?
Very contrary to my experience.

I've been using InReach and the InReach APIs for a few years now.

They were both very reasonably priced (they cost nothing above my InReach subscription price), very easy to get access to (I emailed them and got access to API docs and the APIs within a day or three) and extremely well thought out and reliable (very robust callback based event/point reporting system, with retries on their side if your code breaks or is flakey, their web page has a great debug interface to see what happens if your webhook fails) and their support was top-notch (if not super fast).

I had a weird bug with their webhooks when I started implementation, where every event would come in twice, once with the timestamp of the event truncated to an integer of whole seconds. You could see from the user-agent that the one with the truncated timestamp was a few versions older of their software. Wrapped that analysis up in an email to them and about 12 hours later saw it get fixed and about 12 hours after that got an email back from AN ACTUAL ENGINEER who thanked me for the description, explained why and how it happened and explained their fix.

Granted, the InReach and definitely the InReach Professional API, are more of a professional product and less pure consumer, but, Garmin definitely knows how to do this.
Trump has already been impeached a couple of times. That definitely isn't happening with a conservative majority in both houses of congress.
I am not a fan of Elon, but his companies are run very capital efficient. So why would "fraud and waste" skyrocket under him?
Open weights and open models with open tools that allow user-defined alignment and realignment is, I believe, the only really humanist path forward. We can't choose for people. It's wrong to think we know better than they do what they want. Full stop.

Some of those people will make terrible decisions, some will make objectionable ones, but the alternative is just full thought control, basically. And, sadly, nobody in the "bad" scenario need be anything but super well intentioned (if naive).
I didn't mind. I knew I'd hear a lot of disagreements and incorrect thoughts. My next article has a lot of examples which should make things easier to digest.

One thing I dislike about compsci is everyone has different definitions for everything. If people say static variables are not on the heap fine, but you can easily see the address of a static variable and global variable being in the same 4K page
https://archive.today/3vdPN
To pile on, the very data they have in their hands probably has very strict legal requirements for storing/moving and distributing. Failure to account for proper processes can be held against them.

It's only matter of time until one of these clowns starts "accidentally" touching data like the 2020 census individual response data.

To me, that's the red line: If they can touch that and suffer no consequence, then there is no law or process can exist to ensure accountability of the government.

https://www.census.gov/about/history/bureau-history/agency-h...

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-...
> It’s a miracle people can get their mail in the US (and I know a whole neighborhood on Hawaii that can’t!)

Only when you look at it as sending to a person. Really what you do is send it to an address the post office doesn't get a damn what you put above the street address, they just deliver it to the specified location.
> dare any one of you to say he's not a socialist liberal president

Trump blends nationalism, socialism and authoritarian oligarchism according to a familiar playbook for exploiting an internationally-aggrieved class reeling from the effects of inflation (American blue-collar workers).

He’s definitely not liberal by any sense of the word.
I'll add to the other good reply - in our constitutional system, branches are not allowed to delegate significant amounts of their power to other entities.

So congress, for example, cannot delegate making laws to some other entity.
The courts, for example, cannot give their judicial power to others.

Similarly, the president can't delegate significant executive authority to others.

Where are the limits of this?

It's usually about delegating significant amounts of power or functions that the constitution explicit calls out as being owned.

But the limits are not tested often, so not tons of cases.

In the case of agencies, the executive branch also has no power in the first place to either set up, or disband, agencies.
This is a power that congress owns.
They can't, per above, delegate it, even if they wanted to.
S.F. must rehire employees who refused to get vaccinated, court rules
Separation of powers, checks and balances. The executive branch taking powers from the legislative branch with the judicial branch approving can be seen as a coup.
the main content is the PDF linked in the article:

https://ai.meta.com/static-resource/meta-frontier-ai-framewo...
USAID was established by an executive order and then also created by law by Congress: https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title22/cha...
If it is illegal, then it can be coup. You are elected to act within the law.

Democracy becomes non democracy by illegal acta, typically.
I studied design and visual communication. Around 2005/2006 I was doing a short animation but didn’t have a suitable way to show it when my project was being assessed. I did the same, I manually printed and trimmed each frame of animation and then blind them into a little flip book. It was such a pain to do but the lectures loved it! I can’t imagine how cumbersome it must be if you’re doing it for hundreds of orders!
No, Marvel Rivals and Overwatch are not related in any way other than they're both the same genre of game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_coup
I keep seeing a contradiction that I’m having a hard time explaining. On one hand, there are numerous comments saying that what these individuals are doing is illegal. On the other hand, there are comments saying they work for the federal government and so doxxing them is fair game.

If they work for the government, how is what they are doing illegal?
One day I got a call at work from my (now previous) partner. "What's up?" "You need to come home, we need to talk."

I duly do.

"So I went to the doctor earlier today. Had an issue. They swabbed me and told me I have an STD. So they did a full STD and blood test, we'll see how that goes. In the meantime, who did you cheat on me with?"

"Uh, nobody."

Back and forth, arguing, etc. Me insisting I'll go get tested.

The doctor rings back the next day. "We reviewed and looked again under the scope, and you do not have an STD, just a yeast infection."

Relationship relief.

A month later, get a call from the clinic: "So about this bill for $290 for a full workup and testing, can you pay that today?"

No. Not a chance. You not only misread a test, but you also gave my girlfriend factually inaccurate information that you knew was going to be controversial. On the strength of that, you told her, "If it wasn't you, you really need to get fully tested if you don't know where he's been."

And then you want to send me the bill for the battery of tests you ordered because you misread a culture? No.
Does this work with larger more complicated software like web browsers, skype, or discord?

I know I'd have to run firefox with --no-remote.

Very cool idea though, love tools with this sort of UX. I look forward to a V1 release in the future.
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First, thanks for sharing.

Second, as I read this and other similar posts over the years I understand exactly what you mean. Although, in my case it's worse. I've built lots of things and left it in various degrees of completion before making it public. Sometimes, I go back and make improvements but still never launching.
Who controls the US Capitol Police? I remind you that they obeyed Trump during the January 6th insurrection.

And of course, the executive branch has everyone from the FBI on down, you're not going to win a shooting (or shoving) war with them.
What do you think is going on exactly that there’s any remote chance that someone who isn’t a political appointee or employee of the government can be given the power to stop all payments to federal contractors or abolish Congressionally established agencies? The President doesn’t have those powers, much less Elon Musk.
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Who holds the vast majority of the debt of the government of the United States?

Hint: it's not China, the UK or any other foreign government.

It's us silly. We owe ourselves. :)
This will be downvoted, but it is mostly true. Altrough that election was highly violent, there was large suppression going on.
How does removing an easy tax filing solution improve government efficiency? It seems like a handout to private tax preparers.

I've scanned some of the DOGE stuff and the fact that I have seen pretty much no mention or discussion of the big budget items: social security, military, medicare, and medicaid does not make me optimistic that this is going to do anything about government spending...
In theory the PSP should probably attest the microcode but I don't know if that exists.
To be clear, no indication that the program itself has been cut. I tried to be specific in my title that the team was disbanded, not that it's been taken offline.

That said, it's clear from this tweet that Musk views this program as a bad one. So I'm definitely concerned a good effort will be lost.
Was anything in my comment untrue?
Only if it's const. Otherwise the data is copied into memory you can write to
Don’t need rule of law when you have LLMs!

/s
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List of sovereign wealth funds by country:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_wealth_funds...
Who is working for Marco Rubio (Secretary of State) in this case
If not the law, then perhaps social consequences will.
> they are secretly happy with what the other branches are doing

Knowing people in democratic politics, this isn’t true. The root of the problem is that they don’t understand or prioritize power.

They have overwhelming support for every major issue: abortion, gun control, corporate taxes, HNI taxes, healthcare, social security, climate, gay rights. All of them. And yet they lose. Minority on the Supreme Court, house, senate, presidency.

Think about Obama’s first presidency. Sixty senators. What happens if they:

1. Make DC a state. That’s two senators. I don’t think they could get Puerto Rico.

2. Make Election Day a federal holiday. That spikes turnout, which benefits democrats (see: advantage in every major issue.)

That’s the type of thinking that gives and maintains power. But they don’t think that way until it’s panic time and already over.
Oof. That's a tough read, thanks for pointing me at that. I think it's worth distinguishing these, though -- CDC data in the US says this is largely an immigrant community thing with immigrants from FGM countries. I do not believe US policy makers and thought leaders think FGM is a good thing in the US - we're all sort of aligned internally, even if it is still a thing that happens. By contrast, the source countries practice it in the belief that it's a good thing for women. (With complaints on stereotypes and summarization acknowledged)
Everything is inspired by something else. Objectively, punk rock is "just" rock music in terms of instruments and chords. And Jackson Pollack was not the first abstract painter. Etc.

But, some things are clearly... more distinct from their forebearers than others.
I bet you're from the USA, so this may be hard for you to understand given your context, but as someone from LATAM, let me tell you: China can try really hard to be evil - they will have a LOT of work to be worse than the US.
Also good to point out that the reason they -rushed- to the hospital to do this was that the person who had hit them was an off-duty cop who was drunk and had run a red light, and they were looking for something, anything, to pin on this guy instead as being responsible, rather than the cop.

Said unconscious patient later died, if I recall correctly, too.
He was homeless and likely lost his ID and the papers needed get a new one. Then the identity thief obtained an ID and birth certificate.

Unless you are suggesting that the government take biometrics. Except that wouldn't have helped in this case, cause the identity thief would have shown up with ID and gotten scanned.
Are fingerprints no longer viable?
custom hardware is nice, like a ps5 or something, but this is usually built up from somewhat known component. a lot of hardware is not too bad, but the software has the main issues. i dont see gaming companies develop custom security hardened hardware quickly due to extreme costs related in making very advanced and fast chips.

ultimately a combination would be best, hardware tailored to be secure and allow secure software to be developed for it, but the same can be said for phones and pc's etc .

most modern cpus have quite a lot of hardware security features which are often not ideally implemented or not used. they also offer features that can allow software to enhance security, bit that is also rare.
for example you _could_ use certain extended cpu registers to allow for taint tracking etc, but this likely kills game performance, and is not even done for trivial applications despite being proven to mitigate entire classes of vulnerabilities. (its quite complicated to implement too as the hardware isnt taking into account such features for such purposes)
EU and Greece after Trump's tariffs?
I have to imagine Intuit and HR Block paid millions to get this done. You have to be in a cult to in some way align a simple and free way of filing taxes with "far-left" wokeness.
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I still remember false pearl clutching over Clinton emails.
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I didn't see it yesterday either, otherwise I would have turned the flags off sooner.

But thanks for the kind reply—I confess I was expecting something else!

Edit: incidentally, (and not directing this at you personally!), if even one of the commenters spending their time complaining about flags on HN had let us know about this submission at hn@ycombinator.com, this would probably have happened earlier. I say "probably" because I haven't processed all the emails from the last 12 hours yet.
I don't know in general, but I don't use "IoT" devices because the risks and data exposure to companies are enormous. The little actual value IoT devices provide aren't even close to enough to make the decision a hard one.