skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This goes far beyond "nuclear proliferation." It's about medical, pathogen research. The Wuhan lab for coronavirus was also backed by the US to study such viruses.

Proliferation is also about vaccination and HIV prevention, etc. USAID et al. are among the most important programs in development and prevention worldwide. This is a tragedy chosen by a majority of Americans because what goes around comes around. COVID showed again that pandemics don't stop at borders.
These are the extremely obviously different. A company that has to take specific measures to prevent the suicide of their workers should raise a much different level of scrutiny that the fact that a massive bridge available to millions of people is used to commit suicide.
There isn't a single story of a successful band that wouldn't hinge on having a big publisher exec approve them and work with them to change their music for acceptance. I think you're heavily rewriting history here.
I don't know about the GP, but for me it meant "I have ten seconds to understand this curiosity, but not 32 minutes. If someone wanted to spend ten seconds explaining to the rest of us, I'd be grateful".
> that DEI was being implemented in the laziest and stupidest possible ways

This is .. certainly something that might be happening, but it's also something that a lot of people are lying about. It's become increasingly difficult to find out what actually happened once it's been filtered through media, social media, activists, and algorithmic propaganda.

What happens if every single instance of "DEI overreach" is overreported, but incidents of actual racism aren't?

> slammed by left leaning media for taking positions to address the public’s concerns in a way that’s more thoughtful that how the Tories were handling it, as the far right in the country has toxified the issue for them.

Again, something a lot of people are lying or selectively reporting about. Which is why it's become toxic in the first place. You could occasionally see the same people who were complaining about Rotherham not being investigated complain when other allegations of sexual assault were being investigated ("cancel culture"). Or not investigated, such as the Met police rapist.

Investigations of the form "what actually happened here, who was actually responsible, what should have been done differently, and what could be done differently in the future" simply get destroyed by very loud demands for racially discriminatory violence, culminating in rioters trying to burn people alive in a hotel.
> Doing 4 sprints over 2 months to make a prototype

That’s a lot of effort for a prototype that you should be throwing away even if it does the right thing!

Are you sure you’re not gold plating your prototypes?
I have personally met people who, like me, really don't have cash to splash; but who, unlike me, and to my surprise, have literally told me "I pay for all the streaming services every month, whether I use them or not, there's no way I could be bothered to cancel/re-subscribe". So, from my limited anecdotal experience at least, no, it's not a vast overestimation, and in fact it's probably often not about how wealthy people are either - it's about how many people out there are willing to pay for the privilege of set and forget, rather than having to think about one more thing on a regular basis.
Remember how 10 years ago you would Google something and it would just give you the result you needed in the first 3 results? Yeah, kagi does that.
How about a Matrix group? https://matrix.org
>[...] "concept" must be the least descriptive, least useful. Why pick such a meaningless name

That's the name that Stepanov used 30 years ago to describe the informal type constraints of templates and has been in use in the community since them. Choosing anything else for the language feature would not make sense.
We already have in Sweden, years ago. I thought that was all of the EU. Really fucked up my electronics hobby.
> Mixed in with that rich guy thing of really hating smart people because why do they always keep telling me I'm wrong and embarrassing me in front of people if they were really so smart why aren't they rich like me huh?

I never thought about it like this and it makes so much sense. I have financial (and maybe social) power therefore I should have intellectual power and if you show to people that you have more than I do, then I feel embarrassed and will use my financial (and social) power to make you feel embarrassed.
>Isn’t it what the head of executive branch supposed to mean?

In a nation governed by a constitution and laws, absofuckinglutely not. The chief executive is supposed to operate within the bounds of the constitution and the laws created under it.
If I have a working directory with active changes in it, that are not in the ignore file, I expect my VCs tool to show edits in its status. Full stop.
Here in Norway, customs works tightly with the courier companies and postal service. They even have their own booth at the major postal hub, which processes all postal shipments from abroad.
I know it's an oft-recited thing in the last decade or so, but I don't really understand it. It's true that in markets with lots of value to provide someone will win, and probably make lots of money, but to do so they would have to out-compete all the other people. That is extremely difficult, and calling it luck just seems a bit silly. People who got rich through building businesses aren't like lottery winners or heirs of fortunes. Why pretend they are, and what's behind that mindset?
Yes, I read the post.

I don't understand why the goal is not to (eventually) implement Roc in Roc, maybe with a dash of something else for the "platform".

Roc is pitched as a general purpose functional programming language with great performance.

How does a compiler not fall under this category?
It's really sort of the opposite. You don't see 727s or MD-80s at the terminal anymore (freight somewhat excepted). Airliners are used constantly, wear out and get replaced/sent to other countries. Buying another computer is a negligible cost in a new 787 or retrofit into anything an airline currently flies.

But there are tons of flying general aviation planes that are from the 50s/60's, and a long tail going back even further than that. Some of them don't even have a radio to talk on. Or an electrical system to run it.

Mandating ADSB took many years, and still has exceptions carved out. And that's a fairly simple technology. There are companies that build it all into a replacement tail light LED "bulb" to provide compliance for ~$2000.

Still that might be 5-10% of the value of your 1977 Cessna 152. If you take the cheap airframes out of the sky, that makes new pilots getting their 1500 hours more expensive before they can go get a job on the big boy planes.
Say there are two kids: little Billy and little Cody.

Billy has been pampered all his life. He was from a rich family who gave him everything, including the best education. He had ample free time to be a kid. He was personally escorted to school on a horse and had private tutors on call. His final grade was 80/100.

Cody lived in the slums. His family barely got money to eat most days. Cody had to work to help support his family but through struggle was still able to attend school. He had to do his homework on the bus. His life was full of hardship and out of necessity he did little else than work and study. His final grade was 79/100.

One day they both apply for the same job. The employer says “Well, grades don’t lie. I’m sorry Cody, but I’ll hire Billy”.

How is that a meritocracy?

The goal of these initiatives is not to give an unfair advantage to other groups, it’s to even the playing field and combat the systemic bias. If you are truly for meritocracies and are able to see past what’s right in front of your nose, you’ll realise the status quo is inherently racist. To live in a true meritocracy you have to mitigate multiple generations of harm.
in my experience, if you can't explain something to someone else then you don't fully understand it

our brains like to jump over inconsistencies or small gaps in our logic when working by themselves, but try to explain that same concept to someone else and those inconsistencies and gaps become glaringly obvious (doubly so if the other person starts asking questions you never considered)

it's why pair programming and rubber duck debugging work at all, at least in my opinion
Sometimes it's also good to stop worshiping trillion dollar companies who abuse their market dominance.

While tech-literate Apple users couldn't tell the difference, their images and videos were sent in potato quality to non-Apple devices. So while technically, they could communicate with non-Apple users, it was a bad experience for anyone not in "walled garden".

p.s Not taking features put out by Apple at face-value doesn't mean I didn't read the article.
It’s not a coup in any literal sense of the word, not even in the autocratic sense.

The reason it’s being used is a combination of the US having never experienced a real coup, and thus it’s citizens not really knowing what the word means, plus one side of politics being sore losers after having lost an election and using whatever insult they can think of in order to deflect rather than self reflect on why they lost.
Musk has been sitting on that domain name since PayPal. We are talking about companies, not domain names.
I don’t think being a good applicant for air traffic control has a lot to do with classical education. It demands a lot of stuff you don’t really need for university, and a lot of experience and education in university won’t make you a better traffic controller.
I do recall Trump not wanting to let go of that power, in it? It wasn't out of his own magnanimity that he stepped down. Checks and balances still worked, appallingly sure, but they still worked.

Not anymore.
It's a strategy, called Starve the Beast. The idea is to collect taxes, which then forces the current government to cut expenditures. The current Trump administration is no difference, this is what all the talk about government bloat is about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

It's pretty clever in its cruelty: Once you have cut taxes, it essentially doesn't matter which party wins the next election: The have to gut expenditures anyway.
> degoogled phones

It's still Android. How do I do it on a GNU/Linux phone?
A quirk of Go is that I can cast a `[]string` to `interface{}`, but I cannot cast `[]string` to `[]interface{}`. This blog post is my go-to explanation for why the second is not possible but the former is.
I disagree, because this would force all services to store the time of your last activity, even if they don’t want to track any such data for privacy protection. In addition, it would be prone to accidental cancellations losing you an important account, or the service could just claim you didn’t click the renewal button if for example they want to get rid of unprofitable customers (if you don’t use a service you also don’t generate ad impressions, or similar), which is difficult to disprove after the fact.

How hard is it to check your monthly bank statement and see if there’s anything unexpected? One normally should do that anyway.
I haven’t seen this mentioned in the conversation yet, so I’ll bring it up here.

A research paper from a few years ago introduced the concept of “customer inertia.” It found that users tend to overestimate their difficulty in unsubscribing from a service. In other words, when a subscription includes auto-renewal (or a similar feature), a significant portion of potential users will choose not to subscribe because they fear they won’t be able to cancel if they stop using the service.

According to the study, this affected about 30% of users. So, could offering something like fair pricing reduce this barrier and increase new subscriptions by 30%?
https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/finding/sophisticated-consu...
US health agency seeks to cut gender-related terms from scientific papers
Would there be a way to share the article for those without access to jstor?
He tried pretty hard to not go, there was a riot if you recall. Also some calls to Georgia governor to find non-existent votes.
Check AislerHQ on Twitter, based in Germany and should not be affected from the block.

No affiliation except that I like to look at naked PCBs.
Things become a bit more murky when you free speech while on somebody's payroll and representing them. Commercial speech has somewhat less protections than regular speech.

And anyway the first amendment is about the congress. It doesn't limit the capacity of the executive branch to do ideological purges as the McArthysm period showed. Although it did got limited by the courts - from the reading of case law it had to do more with the fifth amendment and not first.
Same way he created tariffs.
>there exists a subset of the population that cannot and will not be educated or have the ability to reason on a certain level to make things work.

That’s not what the pointed text is about though. It specifically mention the concern is about those that should be considered of higher education in the context, as opposed for example to a baker¹.

¹ This is the example given in text, not some condescendence of bakers from my part here.
None of these claims are mutually exclusive with one another.

"Great tool for misleading results." -> the results the tool provides are either mostly misleading (many are misleading), or are in large part misleading (a large part of each is misleading), potentially both

"Traceroute is easy to be misinterpreted" -> the results the tool provides are easy to misinterpret

"They are only misleading if you allow yourself to be misled by them" -> the results the tool provides require expertise to interpret, implying that otherwise they're (largely) misleading - the same thing the person said right above you

This is turning into a "well I like it and it has its place". Cool, it's just not what was being argued.
There are lots of benefits for sure, but you have to weigh them against the users who can't be arsed to cancel their subscription and keep on paying. You'll miss out on those.
That was the point of my wondering, what if the standard was not C, but some modern Pascal. What if the APIs didn't involve any C headers.
Why should a company require more strict scrutiny than, say, a public bridge? Well of course there are many reasons, but specifically: in the case of addressing suicide? If a bridge is being used to commit suicide then... perhaps the problems causing suicide should be addressed instead of (or... in addition to) the symptom of suicide being prevented.
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I believe C is closer to what happens in the computer, than the Pascal is. I am not advocating for C as I dreadfully fear of this language (though I have experience in it, it always fills me with respect when I'm getting to close). What I'm saying is that for example, LPS String implementation in Pascal is Pascal-specific, not ubiquitous in systems, and handling PChar in Pascal gives a headache. Simple task: call a Windows function with your own string from Pascal. (Maybe my experience is too old and I don't know that this has been solved already, but back when I tried it, it was a nightmare)
A huge benefit to companies with subscription services is that people forget they have them and keep paying for Ancestry.com or whatever for months (what? no, of course that never happened to me...) after they've stopped using it. Kagi is voluntarily giving up that benefit. This just seems like a consumer-friendly move to me, not sinister at all.
High income != developed. There are different metrics.

Overall GDP very high, GDP PPP per capita middling, incomes highly disparate, etc. Developing status becomes kinda subjective and this particular move is not insane. Sadly it's unlike many many other moves.
Especially when they escape from laboratory doing gain of function funded with their own money.
I've seen the opposite of this at a startup once in the streaming music industry. We _knew_ our "free trial for a month" was being abused by 500k+ users because the sign-up flow neither required a valid payment on file or email validation. In fact there was an entire industry built around generating false throw-away accounts.

The company used stats including non-paying users to demonstrate demand for our service was high, even though we knew they would highly likely never spend a cent with us.
lol we’ve gone full circle to essentially piecemeal rent a movie model.
Russia is the most prolific nuclear power.

It remains to be seen what will happen with lesser ones. The entire world combined has fewer than a third of either the Russian or American arsenals (by number of weapons).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_we...
Elixir Nx Back End for the Apple MLX Library
I can provide one data point on privacy, that confirmed that Kagi was worth it to me.

I have been using Kagi since mad way through my wife's pregnancy, and my son is now not far from a year old. Notoriously, the moment the internet gets any sniff about impending or recent parenthood, every advert becomes about nappies etc.. But I haven't had this problem at all. I've done hundreds of searches on everything from toys, nappy brands, to newborn medical stuff, and my adverts stayed firmly child-free.

It wasn't until my son was about 6 months old that I saw any adverts at all, and I'm pretty sure that can be traced back to a FB post (I don't post often).
> Introducing Fair Pricing

This is _really_ weird marketing, in that it implies that previously the pricing was _unfair_. That's not an idea you generally want to put in your customers' heads.
Reading the article carefully, one realizes

- this is very likely a side project. Conclusion made by the fact that the author was writing, re-writing and re-writing again the project because of a new 'cool framework' that came out. They were taking their time to do that and doing it repeatedly for years. Proving that releasing the project was not their first concern, nor making money out of it judging from the fact this was not designed to make money but merely having a github sponsor button. Author's main concern seems to having been to just have with it and learning was likely a bigger factor.

- it didn't need funding to startup, as it seems like the only costs were the operating costs which were likely just a server on vercel

Also, to answer your question more thoroughly

- usually people that make projects like these have a main job, which funds in one way or another their side-projects.

- A million $ is a very unusually big capital. Side projects are very unlikely to need such big amount of funding just to start-up. People just throw a small capital if needed at all, and if the project self-funds itself, maybe they'll throw the money back.
I'm not educated enough to give an opinion but I find it weird to rewrite in a language that is so new
the book is quite interesting, one idea was - how many hours do we spend online per day? i spend, like, 15 hours plugged in - PC, iphone, TV/games. i’m plugged in when i’m driving, when i’m out jogging, i’m plugged in right now as i wake up drinking coffee in bed, I have more internet friends than IRL and they are more important, my business/financial relationships are entirely digital, as is most of my relationship with the state. So, why are governments organized by geography? How long until we free ourselves entirely from this constraint?
I agree with this, I don’t think it was the only reason but it’s a big one. When people point out what Trump said or plans to do I want to remind people it’s not like we had a real choice this election. It’s right wing or far right wing.

Both parties are completely beholden to AIPAC it’s disgusting.
Yes perhaps. I guess we all need to hustle for that F U money :).
I studied electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois before switching to intercultural communication, because partially, I found it a helluva lot more difficult to solve.

I think the challenge with DEI is the framing of it. If we called it intercultural competence, or intercultural teambuilding, or whatever, then it focuses on how we are a highly multicultural society in the US and that there are huge benefits to being able to connect and collaborate with people across a wide variety of cultures.

Have customers who are in a rural area? Well, sometimes it's really hard for people in the city to comprehend what rural life is like, sometimes much easier to have someone on your team from the rural area to provide that tacit knowledge. Sell beauty supplies and looking to get into the African-American market? Can be really hard for white men to know the tacit knowledge involved in managing 4c level curly hair (most white men probably have never knew there was a classification system on the level of curliness of hair).

I worked in innovation consulting for a few years. The ability to empathize and connect with people across cultures may be one of the most important skills in innovation and problem solving. So maybe it's just a framing issue.
I don't understand your comment. None of it makes any sense.

> because politicians pork barrel contracts for their districts and states.

> Or possibly politicians attracting investment to their districts for the benefit their voters

That's literally the same thing - you just gave the definition of pork barrel spending. It isn't purely bad, it's just excessive or unnecessary to benefit one politician's constituents.

And pork barrel spending is also literally a centrally-planned economy. It's the federal government saying "put this industry here" despite the fact that capitalism would not have put it there.
Maybe they could move to Greenland?
"Not quite at China prices" is something of an understatement. JLCPCB offer five 100mm*100mm 4-layer boards for $7. Not $7 each, $7 total for five boards. Shipping to Europe is $1.50.
If Wickard vs. Filburn (4) and similar laws/decisions were to be repealed, incentives could stack up and growing your own food to save money, and sell intrastate, may become popular again.

4) https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/317/111
Did you ever see any Linux laptop in a store? They do have some market share but never existed to the ordinary people.

Also, GNU/Linux phones exist (Librem 5 is my daily driver). However without Apple's budgets, you can't create the same smooth experience. You just can't compete with the duopoly.
Google too.

Unless you mean specificslly Russian sites in Russian. But those are not going to be available for long since Runet is slowly separating and VPN is now as illegal as in China
Yes we did, but I think that the people who needed it the most, were the ones who either didn't had to read it (the ones not in a "lycée général") or whent through because it was required but didn't tried to understand the meaning.

More broadly, as teenagers, most of us didn't had the maturity to truely grasp the meaning ; and the ones who did probably already where sensitive enough to don't fall in the same traps.

In the hundreds of people I crossed path with during my school time, I don't remember a single one who was actually enlightened by things in the program.
The only ones who had kind of a shift from their original mindset did that outside of school or because of a teacher who went out of their way (and of the official program) to explain things.
Are you thinking of frontline roles? No active duty women would be absurd, but I am not familiar with this Hegseth or whatever his name is I suppose it's possible