skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Centrism" is doing a lot of work. I call it "slow fascism", in contrast with the "fast fascism" of Trump. Believe me, while centrists pretend to like rules and procedures, those procedures can rapidly melt away when it's in their interest to. There's a lot of people in the Democratic Party who were personally responsible for, say, selling out the working & middle classes[0]. Hell, Ronald Reagan was a Democrat that jumped ship because the Republican Party is easier to infiltrate.

In the middle of the Harris campaign, there was a concerted effort by cryptocurrency whales to primary electorally successful Democrats, purely to send a message: "we will absolutely fuck with you if you don't get in line with us". It was up in the air whether or not Harris would even keep Lina Khan on. The Harris campaign blinked so hard their eyes were stuck shut for the rest of the election.

We need an actually progressive party, not just a handful of progressive politicians acting as veneer over the centrist turd that is the DNC. We had that once before with Obama, who was very good at virtue-signalling progress while letting his own party tell him "no" at every juncture. We need to purge the DNC of people who think only about narrowly winning the electoral game so that their machine can perpetuate itself.

To be clear, this doesn't mean purity tests. It means doing shit so obviously good and beneficial for everyone that it makes your opponent's rainbow coalition of fascists second-guess why they're brown-nosing a good candidate for the biblical Antichrist just to get one thing out of him. I happen to be in a family full of Trump bootlickers, and every single one of them wants trust-busting back on the menu. They want right to repair. They want click to cancel. That's shit the Democrats should have been howling from the rooftops. But they didn't, because the Democratic Party does not want it.

Until the DNC can be proud of what they do for the country, instead of ashamed that they didn't loot it hard enough, they will continue to lose to a coalition of the weirdest weirdos America has to offer.

[0] To be clear, in America, "middle class" just means "working class and lying to themselves about it.
My stepdad has owned his ranch for 30+ years, before that he worked it while his dad owned it. He hasn't had a "normal" job since the 80s. I can tell you confidently he is barely scraping by, but there's not exactly a lot of options. The mortgage on these ranches are typically very low interest, but VERY long time horizons, for much much more than a typical home. Add loans for tractors, livestock, etc you're talking about a mountain of debt.

Sure I don't recommend young people getting into it, but I don't think you really understand long-time ranchers here.
I don't understand either, everyone wants to be paid more but this is a demonstration of the power of rural America.

I read in a response that the alternative is conglomerate corporate ranching, that's because they have the necessary resources to protect livestock and withstand financial shocks. The article points out high real estate prices because people buy homes for recreation, it makes it hard for ranchers to hire employees who can afford to live in the area. We can import meat from nations that lower costs with more abundant housing.
I was shocked at how bad the onboarding experience for Mac is in 2025. I replaced a dying but well seasoned Alienware laptop with a M4 mini, my wife was furious about 'ads everywhere' I mean, Microsoft is notorious for the unwanted solicitations that come with Windows but the nagging pop-ups that are barely altered from 1984 modal dialogs [1], dock crammed with unwanted applications, terrible Safari experience without ad blocker, need Apple account to install ad blocker (at least you can log into Windows with a Microsoft account.) So far as I can tell I didn't even get the 3 months of Apple TV that comes with an iPad.

[1] OG mac, not Orwell. At least Microsoft nags look like HTML.
It's entirely relevant here. The opinions of a staff engineer on this stuff should be interpreted very differently from the opinions of a developer with much less experience.
It's usually more effective to ask for a raise before committing to extra work, eg. you agree that you will do some extra work, and if you deliver within the next 30-60-90 days, then you will get a raise

If you already started doing the extra work, you don't have much leverage. However, if you are not enjoying your job, maybe the best option is to look for another one

Alternatively, if you feel you've already proven yourself, just ask for a different project, or additional responsibilities and set what you want in exchange for delivering

If you do the work, at the very least, you'll get experience that you can put on your resume. And if the company keeps their word, you get a raise too
Free how? Who pays? Just benevolence?
I'd pay to review one of your PRs. Maybe a consistent one with ai usage proof.
It isn't though. This is the beginning of wiping LGBTQ from any federal government concerns, grants, programs, health data, etc. It's been pretty obvious for the past 2 weeks that Trump doesn't care about the law, nor do his acolytes or GOP Congress members who have failed to stand up for the very role of the Congress as a check to Presidential and Judicial power. They passed these laws, the President has to go through them to make changes to them, not do end runs around the law disguised as Musk and his minions
Tariffs are necessary to protect our manufacturing and build ships.

We voted to pass laws that give massive protections to workers, now we need to vote to protect the businesses that employ those workers or it all for naught.
I presume the main advantage of transferring shares is to avoid taxation on realised gains. Secondary is to avoid transaction fees?

I sold and bought recently (because transfer looked like paperwork hassle to me): had a small transaction cost, and the main disbenefit was losing transaction history e.g. buy date was now reset; it was tax neutral for me either way.
and the far right never cares about the environment, animal cruelty or anything beyond unsustainable resource extraction.

What a stupid statement..
That did happen, but then we finally got rid of Biden!
Everything you have listed above could be solved with money.

Only 10% of applicants are physically and mentally qualified? Sounds like you need more applicants? Want to attract more applicants? Offer more compensation.

The training and onboarding is incredibly long? Sounds like a doctor? Do you know why people go through the pain of becoming a doctor? Because they make a lot of money when they get through the other side.

Technology hasn't changed is a political problem due to lack of... money. There isn't an issue with new technology, there's an issue with the government refusing to invest in upgrading the technology. Canada doesn't have this issue and they're far smaller than the US.

Too much stress? I bet if you paid people so much money that they could work for 10 years and then either retire to a lower paying job, or retire entirely, people would deal with it.

I do absolutely, 100% think that this is a problem that can easily be solved with money.

I also think our politicians will flounder around making excuses about how the problem is unsolvable because it doesn't directly help their chances of re-election.

The first time a plane goes down carrying a dozen congress critters and their families, you can bet there will magically be money in the banana stand.
Do you have any examples of that I can look at as a reference? I'm used to github actions just being my CI/CD build step checking tool.
Powerful but also scary. What if it accidentally nukes my entire cluster?
Next is the Epstein files?
It’s completely possible to combine GPL and AGPL software with, e.g., BSD- or MIT-licensed software. The resulting software is GPL- or AGP-licensed, and the users are not restricted from doing anything.

I honestly thought that this was a license scanner for actually restrictive — i.e. non-free-software — licenses until I visited the repo. It would be good to know if I accidentally use some piece of software with some source-available license.
Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored
> some ATC employee groups and I can tell you exactly why they are short staffed:
> - The FAA has strict hiring requirements.

So what happened? Why did the FAA upend a stable hiring process, undercut the CTI schools it had established to train its workforce, and throw the plans of thousands of eager would-be air traffic controllers into disarray?

https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-story-of-the-fa...
Which is statistically the same number.
Too bad I need to know real people to use this, apple's out here assuming we have social lives
Agree with many of the points here, especially the part with one-off, non-production code. I had great experience letting ChatGPT writing utility code. Once it provided Go code for an ad-hoc task which runs exactly as expected on first try, when it could cost me at least 30 minutes that's mostly spent on looking up APIs that I am not familiar with. Another time it created an HTTP server that worked with only minor tweaks. I don't want to think about life before LLMs existed.

One thing that is not mentioned -- code review. It is not great at it, often pointing out trivial or non issues. But if it finds 1 area for improvement out of 10 bullet points, that's still worth it -- most human code reviewers don't notice all the issues in the code anyway.
This has been true for every heavily marketed development aid (beneficial or not) for as long as the industry has existed. Managing the politics and the expectations of non-technical management is part of career development.
The amount of complexity that Swift has to deal with in order to make ABI stability work is exactly what I'm talking about. It's astronomical. Furthermore, it's only partial: there are some generics in which they couldn't afford the price of ABI stability, so they're marked inline and aren't ABI stable.
> I have to wonder what is motivating them to lie.

Most of these people who aren't salesmen aren't lying.

They just cannot tell when the LLM is making up code. Which is very very sad.

That or they could literally be replaced by a script that copy/pastes from stack-overflow. My friend did that a lot and it definitely helped features ship but doesn't make maintainable code.
Citation needed, because just a cursory check is showing me plenty of powertrain manufacturing happening in Mexico. Meanwhile if by critical components you mean chips, I don't think there's a big semiconductor manufacturing union that's kneecapping GM. Design is also an apples to apples comparison, it's not a union job.
> There is simply no way you're using the same technology as me with such wildly different results.

Prompting styles are incredibly different between different people. It's very possible that they are using the same technology that you are with wildly different results.

I think learning to use LLMs to their maximum effectiveness takes months (maybe even years) of effort. How much time have you spent with them so far?
> Is that not what we have already. Do you really think your vote matters?

At least in the current setup, they are required to maintain and fund a vast propaganda apparatus, lobbying efforts, and political organizations in order to secure their power. And even with all that effort, they still only have a tenuous control over our institutions. Your proposal would literally just hand the keys over to them.

> I don’t think my tenants ever thought I was greedy

As a lifelong renter, who has for the most part had relatively good relationships with my landlords over the years, I can assure you that they do. At the very least, they probably don't have a very positive opinion of you, even if they are nice to you in person. After decades of financialization of our housing market, we now have an entire swath of our population locked out of the housing market. And if you think these folks like handing over a significant chunk of their income each month to a bunch of rent-seekers, I think you are solely mistaken.
> are we going to pass laws based on feelings?

This is very concrete fuckery.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/21/apple-doj-antitrust...

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/28/1241473453/why-green-text-bub...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/doj-claims-green-bubbles-a...
Yet it is encouraged that everyone votes (distributed system affecting the lives of many) and are given weapons of war to kill people (military, cops).

We have a minimum age on the Presidency. They work at the discretion of their employers.
Yeah, and they'll likely make this Appley only to create social pressure for even more uptake.

Yuck
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that spreadsheet/dataframe skills don't confer any insight into policy or compliance issues, and there will be negative transparency about the decision making process here. This is the equivalent of making someone CFO because you wanted help clearing your inbox and they told you about 'rm -rf'.
>Staffing at air traffic control tower ‘not normal’ during Washington plane crash, FAA report reveals

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/dc-plane-c...

>on Wednesday evening was also monitoring planes taking off and landing, according to the FAA report reviewed by The New York Times. These jobs are typically assigned to two different people, the outlet reported

But:

>However, the National Transportation Safety Board said they will not speculate on the causes of the crash and will release a preliminary report on the incident within 30 days.

So perhaps its not staffing. Although I don't really know what world the report is going to be going out into in 30 days.
There are good critically examined rebuttals if you actually look for them beyond Wikipedia which is not designed for that purpose. I read a book recently called Socialism: the failed idea that never dies, and while it has a clickbait title, the arguments are pretty cogent as to why people throughout history want to enact socialism based systems and why they eventually fail.
I'm very skeptical that you're having a hard time sourcing this information. I have pages from my google search with easily 75% of the results confirming my claim.

Either way, here you go:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/05/27/fac...

> "Restrictions are in place exclusively at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum at the direction of the United States Secret Service," spokesman Lars Dalseide wrote in an email to USA TODAY. He called the claim that the NRA is banning guns at its conference "incorrect."
If I see a very attractive person with professional photos on a dating website, I'll assume it's a scammer using photos of some model.
I added a dark wikipedia logo as the favicon, which should be good for now.
Or....we could've been on the cusp of one of those Foundation/Asimov moments where our economy evolved beyond a manufacturing economy, with enough financial clout to...not actually need to be able to build our own ships?
Motion sickness in Far Cry is why I stopped playing first person or any 3D games. It has taken about 20 years before I seriously tried again and figured out that with higher frame rates and wide enough FoV I could actually play them again.
>If the beavers built it in two days, it means that half a dozen men could have easily built it at an extremely low cost in a week.

Not at all.
Non-Apple users are able to reply to invites so no one is going to miss any parties.
I hope it succeeds. I hate FB and other “you are the product” products. I don’t care about “common standard” — I care about the best UX.
How common are beavers as indoor pets ?
I am not proficient enough in jj to fully follow that, but it sounds promising. Especially if I can at least poison the local changes so there is no risk of sharing them.
Look I get where you're coming from, but those "checks and balances" can't be the thing you defend because they've largely done neither and in fact allowed this insanity in the first place.
In the USA, someone insisting on using an Android when everyone else in their social circle has an iPhone (and they do!) is what's seen as anti-social. No one wants to use the degraded green bubble SMS experience so they simply exclude the Android user and continue using blue bubble iMessage.
I have a theory for the swiping behavior of women. When they swipe right, it will most likely be a match, and they mentally don't want more than X active conversations at a time. This strikes me as rational and reasonable.

For men, most swipes will not be a match, so less reason to ever think about swiping left to maintain a certain swipe pecentage.

Just a theory!
Sometimes having humans in the loop is a feature, not a bug.
my hot take: the language should accept \, but formatters should replace it with λ
The amount of bureaucracy cannot be measured in "number of bureaucrats".

It's like reducing the number of employees at a restaurant and expecting the food to come out quicker.
Nope.

Thanks for the clarification. Next time I'll write "Xi, like every CCP leader before him, is wholly committed to retaking Taiwan."
Bigly huge numbers! No one knows how many billions except for me: and it’s many! That’s what people are saying!
Today all of the code I'm not paid to write is in Rust. I spent many happy years previously getting paid to write C (I have also been paid to write Java, PHP, Go and C#, and I have written probably a dozen more languages for one reason or another over the years but never as specifically a thing people were paying me to do)

I always thought C++ was a terrible idea, from way before C++ 98, I own Stroustrup's terrible book about his language, which I picked up at the same time as the revised K&R and it did nothing to change that belief, nor have subsequent standards.

However, I do have some sympathy for this sentiment about Rust being a better C++. Even though Rust and C++ have an entirely different approach to many important problems the syntax often looks similar and I think Zig manages to be less intimidating than Rust for that reason if you don't want that complexity.

Personally I had no interest in C++† and I have no serious interest in Zig.

† Ironically I ended up caring a lot more about C++ after I learned Rust, and most specifically when understanding how Rust's HashMap type works, but I didn't end up liking C++ I just ended up much better informed about it.
Voidzilla – I got scammed by Enron [video]
Which industry? Bonuses in the tech industry tend to be somewhat arbitrary and thus ineffective for motivating employees. Bonuses in other industries like trading or investment banking tend to be larger (sometimes more than base salary) and directly tied to individual performance and so they're highly effective at motivating ambitious employees.

Increasing marginal income tax rates on highly compensated employees might be a good policy overall. But where are we on the Laffer curve? If we go too far then it really hurts the overall economy.
The histrionics don't help:

If this is the case, incepting everyone with the idea in advance subconsciously lowers resistance right now, when nothing can be done, because this is all hypothetical.

And if it isn't the case, you can't be taken seriously.

Simply respond to the moment, in the moment. That is already enough.

Plus remember: he doesn't need to be a dictator, because he won a democratic election. If anything, liberals should be focusing on how to avoid JD Vance simply winning in 2028.
My own experience tells me that past 30 years old my thinking is slightly slower in the form of slightly longer reaction times, and slightly longer time to recall specific facts. This hardly matters in my current job but perhaps ATC would be different. Perhaps they are taking that into account.
What does the "paranoid = true" flag in there do?
I'll try it then, if it can get a docker setup using my GPU and no dependency hell, then good. I'll report back to correct myself once I try it.
Pair programming is imo great when there is some sort of complementarity between the programmers. It may or may not accelerate output, but it can definitely accelerate learning which is often harder. But as you say, this is not what working with llms is about.
A quick search suggests the Android user end needs to install 3rd party apps for it to work? Has that changed recently?
Paperclip maximizing robot making the excuse that it's just maximizing paperclips, that's what it was designed to do, there's even a statute saying that robots must do only what it was designed to do, so it's not evil just amoral.

Weird thing is for corporations, it's humans running the whole thing.
After super intensive training and supported by an ultra-regimented social and technological infrastructure?
A great way to get around this is with an edge function from deno deploy.
First and foremost, PocketBase doesn't have an official client in go. There are third-party clients in many languages (more than TB for sure) but at this point I'm not sure how much it makes sense to promote it.

Would it be faster? Maybe, I found that the dart and JS clients didn't reach their theoretical min latency of 3-5ms, so I'm inclined to believe that there's some bottlnecking on the server-side. I'd be very happy to be wrong on this.

From your perspective, would it make sense to just compare the respective dart and JS clients?
I think they're still an 800 lb gorilla. It's just that now they're not the _only_ 800 lb gorilla.
Higher taxes is the wrong solution to the very valid problem.

We all recognize that a democracy is the correct method for political decision making, even though it's also obvious that theoretically a truly benevolent dictator can make better decisions than an elected parliament but in practice such dictators don't really exist.

The same reasoning applies to economic decision making at society level. If you want a society whose economics reflects the will and ethics of the people, and which serves for the benefit of normal people, the obvious thing is the democratize economic decision making. That means that all large corporations must be mostly owned by their workers in roughly 1/N fashion, not by a small class of shareholders. This is the obvious correct solution, because it solves the underlying problem, not paper of the symptoms like taxation. If shareholder owned corporations are extracting wealth from workers or doing unethical things, the obvious solution is to take away their control.

Obviously, some workers will still make their own corporations do evil things, but at least it will be collective responsibility, not forced upon them by others.
By "use SMS" you surely mean "use iMessage" much of the time.