skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
El Salvador has agreed to accept U.S. deportations of any nationality
Simplest self-hosted expense tracker with nice UI
Google has already made multiple commitments like this and broken them. One example would be their involvement in operating a censored version of Google.cn for the Chinese government from 2006 to 2010.
Brilliant? Launching an app for creating events that requires you to 1) own an iDevice and 2) pay into, just to create events?

I'll send an email for free, thankyouverymuch.
> is this idiomatic C?

This is how I use AI at work for maintaining Python projects, a language in which I am not at all really versed. Sometimes I might add “this is how I would do it in …, how would I do this in Python?”

I find this extremely helpful and productive, especially as I have to pull the code onto a server to test it.
> Addicts literally carry around fent testing kits so they can _avoid_ this synthetic opioid.

Choosy addicts choose...is something I never thought I'd read. I'd suggest they weren't addicting right if they are choosy. When you can find your fix of choice, you just fix with what's available.

If your comment were accurate, fent sales would plummet and the problem would fix itself. This is clearly not the case.
> the crisis of capitalism

This is so blatant at this point, given the increasingly small percentage of the US population that is beneficially served by the system, that it seems like extremist efforts by the tiny percentage reaping the benefits are almost inevitable (not inevitably successful, but inevitably existent).

The necessary extent of the denial of reality is only possible for people living in the ultra-wealthy bubbles that the current extremes of wealth inequality have created.

But the ability of the population at large to get even a glimmer of understanding of their predicament is small and diminishing. An example is the California agricultural industry.

Over 1/2 of the fruits and vegetables consumed in the US are grown in California. The overwhelming majority of those crops are harvested by undocumented immigrant labor. In spite of that, in 2016 and 2024 that geographic area of California, the inland valleys, voted overwhelmingly for Trump (and in proxy for this tech extremism). Almost immediately in both instances ICE raids deported many of those same agricultural laborers, to the significant destruction of crops in the field.

The ideas of the "rational consumer" and "rational markets" are fictions on a scale with Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, and the inability to comprehend the depth of this fiction drives many people to support systems that are increasingly not to their benefit...
OP did acknowledge and edit their comment to correct the misinfo. Sometimes we might want to more gently support that, as it is in itself rare.

The advice to confirm belief before commenting is valid, the tone is overly harsh.
Most drugs enter the country through legal ports of entry, not in the gaps. Most drugs are also brought back across by US citizens (~90%)

Here is one such study:
https://immigrationforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/llic...
then we will have 2 incompativle invite systems: form Apple and from Google.

The correct way to do this is to publish an open standard/API so 3rd parties can participate.
Hitler started by imprisoning those suspected of being in opposition. First concentration camps started right after he took power. The estimation is that they locked 50,000 of political opponents arresting 100,000. Purge of SA happened a year later.

In 1933, right after getting power, Jews were excluded from civil service, their numbers in schools were limited and a year later they could not be actors. The restrictions came in quick and were felt a lot by their targets.

So, this extract kind of underplays the beginning of it all. It was violent from the start.
Interesting take. Completely agree that product requirements document is a good mental models for system description. However, aren't bug-reports+PRs approximating a chat-interface?
Discord has ongoing major outage
I'd like some of what you are having.
> The fact that something extraordinarily safe is potentially less safe is a topic for discussion, but not at the expense of realizing the relative risks of everything else.

Given the leadership, I don't trust it to not get less safe, fast. We're not in statistically normal times. I highly doubt it's a coincidence that Trump fires various controllers and less than a week later we get that first midair collision in 16 years.

You can talk statistics, but the physics are another magnitude. I get in a really bad wreck and car safety standards may let me walk away without a scratch. No amount of safety can protect against a multi thousand foot droop from freefall.
I quite literally don't believe this. I fully believe he has 'read' access, but extraordinary claims require some evidence.

I just read the article and they go to great pains to make it -seem- like they have first party confirmation and not hearsay, but it was breaking my brain trying to determine with certainty.

I just asked copilot to review the article looking for 1st party witnesses, and it said there weren't any.

Then I asked it to summarize each 'witness' from the article, whether they are first party, and if not what degree of sepearatoin they have. This is what it said:

Sure, let's break down the key witnesses and their claims:

David Lebryk: Former acting Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. He resigned after resisting granting DOGE access to the Treasury data1. His claim is based on his direct experience and position within the Treasury Department, making him a first party witness.

Ron Wyden: The highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. He expressed concerns about the potential misuse of the data by DOGE1. Wyden is a second party witness, as he is commenting on the situation based on his oversight role but not direct involvement.

Anonymous AP Sources: Two people familiar with the situation spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. They claim that DOGE has gained access to sensitive Treasury data1. These sources are second party witnesses, as they have indirect knowledge of the situation.

X User (@rayinsideout): Revealed names of alleged DOGE employees who accessed the Treasury payment system. Musk accused this user of committing a crime by sharing private information2. This user is a third party witness, as they are relaying information they claim to have obtained from other sources.

Scott Bessent: Treasury Secretary who granted DOGE access to the data. His actions are central to the claims, but he hasn't made public statements about the specifics of the access3. Bessent is a first party witness due to his direct involvement in the decision.

So it sounds like all of this is based of David Lebryk's claims, and the media contorting themselves to make this a 'thing'.

I am willing to hear actual evidence, but this list doesn't sway me and this feels a lot like "things people want to believe" more than "things that happened".

Time will tell I guess.
You don’t deport citizens though…
A good reason why every leadership position should have term limits. If you have no chance for re-election, might as well go ahead and put in policies which may hurt in the short term but are overall great in the long term.
While I agree with your points in principle, the paywall may act as a way for them to handle spam/misuse more effectively
They did, a decade ago. Google Plus invites had all these features and more, and Google decided to kill them off, in the usual fashion
I was told by a private pilot that the people on VATSIM are usually real air traffic controllers keeping in practice to do things like ATC the big air shows, which are volunteer ATC.
I don't think those kids understand "pledge."
Why do folks think that is? Are there some US-specifics that make them less likely?

For example, the Mondragon Corporation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation, in the Basque region of Spain is pretty huge (70,000 employees) and I watched a short news documentary about Mondragon and in general the employees there sounded legions happier than corporate drones in other companies.
I agree.

Still, it's not a logical fallacy to think "someone very successful at X is more likely to be successful at Y", in many cases. Do you think that there is literally zero correlation between massive business success and success at whatever-it-is Musk is trying to do now?

(I agree it's a fallacy if you think is' assured he will succeed, as opposed to this just being a correlation in your mind. I just bumped on the use of "logical fallacy" to describe something that is not a fallacy at all!)
> Hell, if they featureset was compelling enough, and they had an iCloud app for non-Apple hardware platforms, I might actually consider being an iCloud+ member, but I guess it's not worth it to Apple to collect a monthly payment from me if I won't make the downpayment on an iPhone and a Macbook...

You can create events from the web iCloud interface without an Apple device.
Can I use these more and better alternatives to back up everything on all of my iOS devices?
>People don't really read or check emails because spam became a serious problem.

With the tabs in Gmail, very little leaks through to my primary inbox that isn't relatively immediately relevant (and not a lot of mail total). Often don't look at Promotions at all and maybe glance at Updates once a day or so.

Email is useful for me though, yes, a lot of my interaction with my circle of friends is over texts.
This obviously offers more than just sending an email. And since the majority of Apple users aren't very tech savvy, I can see this catching on quickly.
Busting the Bug Backlog: Practical Tactics for Engineering Leaders
I read a blog that called Rust a language that was aimed to be high-level but without GC.
That's one thing I am sad about regarding the takeover of USDS by DOGE -- so many of those folks' missions are about improving communities via better gov services and civtech.

We live in interesting times.
> must meet certain requirements in regard to their ability to pay large claims [...] states and the federal government regulate banks to minimize the risk that they end up needing FDIC funds

Deposit guarantees have a ceiling, and in the US that's about three times lower than the median CA home value. It also pays out after the bank is no longer solvent. That kind of regulation does not (and here I am quoting it for the third time) "ensure the solvency of insurers", or banks in your example. Which was specifically what I replied to.
It still has a lot of trash, but 90% of it is trash you experience as a seller. Scammers are still really common, and I doubt the moderation has gotten much better since I failed to sell an empty aquarium because they couldn't be convinced it didn't have fish in it (although based on everything else on Facebook, there probably is just no moderation now).
Event organization has been fractured for some time. Folks in my area have been using Partiful[1]. Bash[2] (now theBash) used to be in this space a bit but they left. Facebook has even added the ability for people without facebook to attend events on Facebook (they get an interface that shows them the event details and lets them put a name in "on" the event that isn't connected to an account).

I think Partiful is pretty good at what it does - no ads, can specify reminders, manages text blasts. The problem, to me, is messaging - how do you tell people about a thing? We are all getting tons of spam texts all day. Apple can cheat here because they own iMessage so maybe they will win overall - but still, what about your android friends? Time will tell. Good luck to everyone organizing events.

[1] https://partiful.com/

[2] https://www.thebash.com/
So which is it? Is it clear that it's BS, or is it "based a bit in truth"?

Do you think that all white people are executives and professionals, such that they don't need laborer/service jobs?
I have never seen a thread on this site so full of vitriol, hatred, threats of blacklisting for life, threats of violence and general hysteria. And that kind of rhetoric is entirely coming from one side. (or at least the not dead comments of that nature are coming from one side)

Regardless of where you stand, I think a lot of people who have been commenting on here about blacklisting or worse about the named individuals need to check themselves, these are young men who have lives and families.
People flagged it. Seems like it got moderated and is now unflagged.
We're talking about corporations here, where are they going to go? If you had a competent government, you would say "fine, then leave. But your wealth and business is staying here" at some point the government has to do its job. These corporations pull in trillions of dollars, its wild to me to suggest that suddenly everyone would stop working and making money because they were taxed at a progressive rate. Its an absurd assumption to begin with.

We could literally have high speed rail, healthcare, the best education on the planet and have a high standard of living... and it would be peanuts to them. Instead we have a handful of people with more wealth than 99% of everyone else, while the bottom 75% of those people live in horrifying conditions. The fact that medical bankruptcy is a concept only in the richest country on earth is deeply embarrassing and shameful.
"Polarization" is an awful, borderline evil way to understand the world today. I hate that is mainstream.

Every single time an extreme right-wing populist runs against any opponent who is _not_ extreme right-wing, the media portrays the election as a "sad reminder of our polarized world". That is absolute bullshit.

Anywhere in the world, the histrionics, the deranged conspiracy theories, the chtonic racialism always come from one side alone, while the other side - which is more often than not garden variety right-wing, mind you - mumbles "let's not do that". But somehow mainstream media successfully portrays this dynamic as "polarization" and "a fight between two extremes".
... did they just present themselves as the saviors of all democracies?! Really?

By weaponising AI?

Who else right? If not them, there will be no one saving democracies with weaponized mass-surveillance AI. It is their quest and privilege, right? Medicine, just society, and all such crap have to wait!

I bought that!

(not)
Decriminalizing possession is one thing, but if the selling market is still illegal you really haven't done much other than keeping the jails a bit less full
And the middle ground is to only enforce it on corporations in exchange for the protections given to the owners.

Want to make more? then take personal risk.
They have fascinatingly ancient UX:

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/tfdm/efs (Image caption: "Paper flight strips currently in use")
Earnings release PDF: https://abc.xyz/assets/a3/91/6d1950c148fa84c7d699abe05284/20...
It’s the community and interest groups that are really hard to migrate. There needs to be an easy migration route or something.

Other wise FB is really garbage. Just irrelevant suggestions and no amount of blocking trains the algorithm since they are just trying to make money.
Results: https://abc.xyz/assets/91/b3/3f9213d14ce3ae27e1038e01a0e0/20...

10-Q: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204424...

All the numbers look pretty good at first glance (revenues up 15% YoY from $70B to $81B, operating income up from $17B/25% margin to $25/32% margin), EPS up from $1.17 to $1.89), but obviously Wall Street expected even more so now the stock is tanking.
This has already been possible long before LLMs came along. I also doubt that an LLM is the best tool for this at scale, if you're talking about sifting through billions of messages it gets too expensive very fast.
Huh, that's ... still quite inefficient. Since a multiple variables in a cache line is fine if all will be accessed from the same cpu, you ideally want a separate allocator for that, then you can avoid all the spooky dynamic growth. And most CPUs offer a direct "atomic add" instruction which is much faster than a CAS loop. For pure stat counters you generally want `relaxed` memory ordering on that; for other cases acquire and/or release may be desired (this is tricky to get performance-optimal given that some platforms upgrade to a stronger memory ordering for free so it's best to require it in your algorithm, whereas others are best with an explicit fence in the edge case). I've never found a real-world use for `seq_cst`.

It's unfortunate that per-cpu variable are difficult in userland, but there are at least 2 ways to fully emulate them - rseq and pinning - and you can also just revert to full-blown thread-locals (which have much better tooling support) if you aren't constructing a gratuitously large number of threads, or shared thread-locals if you do have a lot of threads. If you make the wrong choice here, correctness never suffers, only performance.
WhatsApp is not that popular in the US - especially for adults
"A site he didn't like," aka 8Chan. He was not alone in pointing out that THQ's choice of venue was, at best, poorly researched, and that they should try to distance themselves from the 8Chan community. Don't try to hide the nature of the complaint behind the "this isn't the correct venue for this conversation" defense, because I think it's important context.
I think Go would have been a better choice.
> So long as Facebook remains available to everyone, even if the content feed is a mess, the event planning space is going to be more accessible to everyone and will end up being the defacto friends & family ecosystem.

For now. We're in the process of seeing Twitter die like every other social network has died before it, Facebook will have it's time as well.
Like -gate as a suffix for a scandal?

Anyway, it beats all the other names mentioned and suggested here. It rhymes with tiktok, and it even has “ik” in the first part. It’s immediately understandable. Don’t try to apply logic.
It's described as a pyramid for a reason.
Is opium considered the least harsh/dangerous variant?
They’re not evil, they’re amoral and are designed to maximize profits for their investors. Evil is subjective.
I'm not saying there's a pressing need to prosecute and imprison, I'm saying the option exists because the US has jurisdiction. The US is not forced to do nothing about the crime.

And I could imagine situations where it makes sense to prosecute and then deport with a suspended sentence, which keeps costs relatively low but also gives them a much bigger incentive to never come back.
Another explanation is that there is some kind of giant back room payola between MS and h/w manufacturers...
If you have multiple windows open and close them in the wrong order, you lose everything but the last one. Learned that the hard way and now never have more than one open.
Alternative title: antitrust works.

It didn't kill Microsoft. Microsoft isn't dead. However Microsoft does now have competitors. The takeaway here is that antitrust is fantastic for consumers and innovation.
You should consider whether you might in fact be old!
I guess you could put that on the U.S.'s plate and no doubt America has caused many issues around the world, but I think in generally its a good actor. Biggest conflicts today: Ukraine -- I would squarely put this on Russia, nothing to do with the U.S.; Sudan -- Maybe lack of knowledge, but I don't think it's fair to place much responsibility on the U.S. (esp relative to other actors); ditto DRC/Rwanda

Yes, many defensive uses of technologies can be used for offense. When I say defense, I also include offense there as I don't believe you can just have a defensive posture alone to maintain one's defense, you need deterrence too. Personally I'm quite happy to see many in Silicon Valley embrace defense-tech and build missiles (ex. recent YC co), munitions, and dual-use tech. The world is a scary and dangerous place, and awful people will take advantage of the weakness of others if they can. Maybe I'm biased because I spent a lot of time in Eastern Europe and Ukraine, but I much prefer the U.S. with all our faults to another actor like China or Russia being dominant
All the easy alpha has already been taken by high-frequency traders and big trading firms, and once all the easy alpha is gone, you're left more-or-less just tracking general market behavior... just like index funds.

Except being more agile also means eating more fees.
I wonder if the first bullet point, "smart auto complete", is much less beneficial if you're already using a statically typed language with a good IDE. I already feel like Intellij's auto complete reads my mind most of the time.
Because then investors won't invest.
Even though "... anyone can RSVP, regardless of whether they have an Apple Account or Apple device" I think this being an Apple branded service is going to make this appear exclusionary and will mean some people won't participate even if they could.

I see the same risk involved with Apple TV's branding; Apple TV works great on Xbox, on NVIDIA Shield and on PC. I'm sure though there are a lot of people who just decide that shows like Foundation and subscriptions like MLS Season's Pass just aren't for them. I don't know if it is a 5% or a 20% drop but it has to be real.
Polling on particular issues can be shifted by propaganda, so this isn’t a particularly strong argument against the idea.

Although, I’m not sure what propaganda really means in this context anyway, I mean, “the economy” is a pretty abstract thing so people engage with it mostly through reporting of various sorts. The decision of what aspects of the economy to focus on could be seen as propaganda.

The admin plays in a global economy which is ridiculously complex, so there’s always room for it to be doing as well as possible when my guy is in charge, underperform expectations when the bad guy is in charge.
For one, I’ve seen interactive Gaussian Splatting interior flythroughs in the Google Maps app.
DOJ release: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/canadian-man-charged-65m-cryp... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42923320)
I'm definitely in the market for something like to replace Facebook Events which was a fantastic piece of functionality that unfortunately isn't so useful now that so many people have left Facebook. But this kind of functionality is pretty useless if it doesn't have first-class support for users of non-apple devices.
I think Apple already has claimed the "friends and family network" via iMessage. Did Facebook go to a groups/influencer algorithm by choice or is it the result of IRL friend posters all moving to private chats once everyone got iPhones?
The one time this week I was actually having a semi-important real-time conversation there, too...

I can still open the app, but no messages load in.
I doubt that will change anything. It's not like Google's AI has some secret sauce. It's all published. So any military corp can have cutting-edge AI in their weapons for a relatively low cost.
How long do you think a money losing startup will be around before you read about “our amazing journey”?
Maybe some good will come from this tech afterall...
They'll say it's for national defense against other countries, but it's only a matter of time before these weapons and surveillance tools will be deployed on American citizens. Foucault's boomerang.