skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That castle was found to be more cost-effective than any other space the group could have purchased, for the simple reason that almost nobody wants castles anymore. It was chosen because it was the best calculation; the optics of it were not considered.

It would be less disingenuous if you were to say EA is the "it's objectively better for humanity if you give us money to buy a conference space in France than whatever you'd do with it" crowd -- the fact that it was a castle shouldn't be relevant.
not very informative, throws a lot of mud
Or just start making their own fraudulent payments. And who will prosecute them? A Trump loyalist A-G?
I wouldn't bet against ocean going ships going (partway) electric. At least if you run through either Suez or Panama you need to spend time in the locks anyways and since those places are reasonably sunny, recharging batteries there is possible. So in principle you should be put a couple of container batteries on top and swap those in locks. Since the propellors are driven by electric motors anyways, the integration in the ship should be reasonably straightforward.

Problems right now are: Battery availability, capacity and charging space. But smaller (feeder) vessels seem to already use these kind of booster batteries (not sure where I read that story though..) for short haul routes. So I'd expect to hear about some longer routes starting to use these too
becoming? past tense is more like it. also Google your own term in Wikipedia to see the history of it.
As a gen X I'm just eating a teaspoon of cat food each day to prepare my body for the future when I have to live on it.
I've never worked that way.

In my mind, commit messages should be a quick summary of what. The basic motivation should be clearly labeled as a feature, bugfix, etc., but that's all. Commit messages are for quick browsing and a summary of what changed, not extensive justification.

The why is too important to be put in a commit message. The product why belongs in a linked issue that describes the bug or use case in full detail. Meanwhile, the technical why's (why this particular solution as opposed to alternatives) belong in the code itself as comments.
Your example has no merits on both key factors - means and motive.

Means - your neighbor has no way to murder you without very high risk of getting punished afterwards. Where is Biden could do to FB whatever he wanted without any risk to himself.

Motive - does your neighbor pressures you into doing something worth killing for?
This whole rabbit hole of rationalism, less wrong, and ziz feels like a fever dream to me. Roaming trans veganist tatical death squads shooting border officers and stabbing 80 year olds with swords.

This is the kind of thing where it is warranted that the feds gets every single wiretap, interception, and surveillance possible on everyone involved in the zizian movement.
> The US is starting to look like Berlusconi's Italy 30 years ago in this regard...

Ever since 2016, I've been offering these small apologies to the people of Italy when the subject comes up online.

Before, I wondered what was wrong with them for such a blatant crook stay in power, confident that It Couldn't Happen Here.
Mac OS does some amazing things for security. An immutable root OS, sandboxing, very user friendly disk encryption.
But there are certainly decisions that hold back the platform.
Their business decisions have driven most developers away from the App Store.
There is a notarization process, but it imposes a burden that many small open source projects can not bear.
They don't have an easy way to run untrusted software in a containerized way (compare Fedora toolbox). Installing things globally via homebrew or a random install script is still the way to go.
Depressing to see all this stuff.
So you mean that The Prisoner was Portmeirion themed?

But yes, Portmeirion had a rich history before McGoohan decided that it was perfect for his idea. Noël Coward wrote Blithe Spirit while staying in the village. George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman were all visitors. Beatles Paul McCartney, George Harrison and their manager, Brian Epstein, were also regulars in the village.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the courts essentially powerless to enforce? If memory serves, the judicial branch merely interprets the law and Constitution, but they lack an enforcement mechanism - it is up to the Executive Branch (the president) to administer and enforce the law. If they decide they don't feel like listening to the courts, it's unclear anybody could actually do anything. (Other than impeachment perhaps? But of course that isn't going to happen anytime soon.)

Besides, even if they did have the power to enforce the law, I can't say I exactly trust the Supreme Court to even try reining in Trump (except in minor ways) based on their recent track record. But who knows.
Just to echo others I love your software and have been using it for years. It’s my go-to text editor for jotting down notes, pasting clipboard contents, authoring and formatting quick todo lists, comments and all sorts. I love that it starts quickly, runs reliably and is kept up-to-date. Three cheers for you. Keep up the good work.
Viralia
Simple Weather maps for Germany with Live precipitation radar
Comptime is pretty much C++ templates without the need for a completely separate language for metaprogramming, which is the way it should be IMO.

(The downside is that there's no template parameter inference, but I'm pretty sure that this is one of those things that Zig would avoid by design anyway.)
> who’s going to enforce it?

This is the real danger of where we’re at right now. We are currently at a point where the President has a stacked Supreme Court that had already showed they’re willing to take his side almost no matter what. There is now effectively no check against the executive branch because of that. Papers are already running stories about how Congress is just letting him loose, with these Inspectors General firings as a prime example of how Congress has just thrown their hands up without even a fight.
A minority spoke clearly. Many of "the people" didn't vote, and Trump got less than 50% of those that did.
it's not a counterpoint. there are a good number like you. There are also 20 million who take Adderall and the vast majority are not successful.
Correct, I asked a question, which is what I wanted to do :)
We do not have an independent judiciary, they have already shown their allegiance to the President.
So I think if the US gave out good secondary benefits, a green card and good pay for experienced candidates, the lead time would be far shorter.

Sure, you'd need to train such foreign candidates in US regulations, but that ought to be a far shorter route. And I'm sure the US could afford to get half of the ATCs from $FOREIGN_COUNTRY with such a proposition. (For countries where a desire to live in the US is common, that is).

While that is totally not done wrt that foreign country: 1. Money+employment conditions could alleviate the problem significantly; 2. something flamebaity.
The same people who think it should be run like a business are wholly opposed to running it as a planned economy, even though each company in the US is a little totalitarian state with a completely planned economy.
I once asked a Canadian if she identifies as American. She did not, in 2014. As a European, I've unfortunately only had the chance to ask that question once. Would love to hear other Canadians' thoughts.
This is so applicable for "cat ears" wearables.

I wonder, do these signals also encode the ear direction, like eyeball muscles get.
These two are the only GNU/Linux smartphones. Of course they are often compared. There's nothing disingenuous here.
I thought this was to be the American century, now I'm just fascinated and wonder what it will be instead.
> it's unclear anybody could actually do anything

Sure, if we get down to mechanics like that, the courts require someone else to enforce. But at that mechanistic level, so does the President. He isn’t personally escorting her out of the office.
Sure, fine, whatever. However, when you fire all the inspectors general, without any evidence that they're being bribed, you're basically saying that you're planning corruption. The whole purpose of the position is to make sure the government is doing its job and firing them sends a signal that you are putting the watchdog role in a political light.
> Data is the ultimate Fact Check.

This is wrong IMO. Data can be missing, incomplete, biased, skewed, and even just plain wrong. Cherry-picked data can be worse than no data.

The ultimate fact check is a scientific process of collecting data, modeling it, scrutinizing it and its methodology and the entities involved, contextualizing it, cross-checking, replicating, etc.

What media likes to call "fact checking" to me feels more motivated by punchy headlines and chyrons.
Bookmarklet aficionado and maintainer of bookmarkl.ink here. Took the liberty of posting this bookmarklet: https://bookmarkl.ink/ashtonmeuser/849a972686e1505093c6d4fc5...
https://archive.today/NUdlu
I'd love to learn more about what is in scope of the Library Innovation Lab projects. Is it targeting data.gov specifically or all government agency websites?

Given the rapid take downs of websites (cdc, usaid) do you have a prioritization framework for which website pages to prioritize or do you have "comprehensive" coverage of pages (in scope of the project)?

As you allude to, I've been having a hard time learn about what sort of duplicate work might be happening given that there isn't a great "archived coverage" source of truth for government websites (between projects such as End of Term archive, Internet archive, research labs, and independent archivists).

Your open questions are interesting. Content hashes for each page/resource would be a way to do quick comparisons, but I assume you might want to set some threshold to determine how much it's changed vs if it changed?

Is the second question about figuring out how to prioritize valuable stuff behind two depth traversals? (ex data.gov links to another website and that website has a csv download)
Well, the books had a better point anyway, but the dinosaurs on the movies were unrealistically overpowered to a point where the entire animal kingdom can't really hope to be.

It's too bad we can't actually resurrect them, because it would be unironically very cool. And the point of the book still stands anyway.
If you look at people who have been losing in court for lying recently, such as Rudy Giuliani, InfoWars, Fox news Dominion (settled for $787M), they are all conservatives. Maybe that proves that reality indeed has a liberal bias.
I'm tired of congressional Republicans being treated as unmentioned bystanders in this.

Reporters should be pushing microphones in their faces asking why they approve of the latest thing Trump did, or at least what they think of him breaking laws they passed.
Or, you know, an higher and/or omnipotent entity. At some point along the causal chain, there is no "testing" - you are forced to resort to metaphysical reasoning.
Can you play to the end?

If you do, do you get the Apple II-esque Kier animation narrated by Ben Stiller?

https://youtu.be/U6EUG22elbs?si=p9VV2BcTOCDYtetA
Trump has decided he controls the purse (a privilege of the legislative branch that he legally DOES NOT HAVE), has begun to fire people illegally and ignoring the legal methods (such as Fong), is doing so through someone who is not part of the federal government and has active conflicts of interest (Musk), and is actively working to remove the 22nd amendment that prevents him from becoming a dictator for life. Most of congress has just bent over and let him, seemingly.

What exactly do you think is "gonna be just fine" about the most intense set of attacks of democracy this country has ever seen?
What part of the cure is illegally firing someone who was investigating you for a valid, non political reason?

There's no cure in that, just corruption.
We are on the brink of a fascist dictatorship and hardly anyone is noticing or taking it seriously.
OP's point is that Maduro's authority over the whole country effectively grants him control over the resources and the corresponding net worth. It's a stretch but I can see where they are coming from.
I've never heard "Because I said so" used for emergency situations. It was always "Because you could get hurt/killed", "Because it's dangerous", etc.

"Because I said so" was always used in the rank-pulling, "I don't owe you an explanation due to who I am in relation to you" sense.
The Chinese century, if I had to bet.
None of the numbers feel scary
Good to know. Been out of the loop on his career for a while.
This article is about removing all fixed elements on a page. Not only do other elements catch strays, fixed isn't the industry standard way of making sticky headers in 2025!
> Not one of them has gone on to become a mass shooter.

No, but with a few friends getting together, cheering them along, and feeding into their collective insanity, they could very easily get together and do something serious. Most of the insurrectionists (the people who invaded Congress, not the people who went home after attending the rally) in Jan 6th can be described as such. That network of 'friends' is critical for actually motivating them to get off their ass and act on their beliefs.

> More compassion for self and others would be my preference.

The problem is that it's much easier to violently destroy, than it is to create, and the damage that a group of angry people who believe an utterly insane thing is disproportionate.
The depressing part is that the "optics" of buying a castle are pretty good if you care about attracting interest from elite "respectable" donors, who might just look down on you if you give off the impression of being a bunch of socially inept geeks who are just obsessed with doing the most good they can for the world at large.
> with these Inspectors General firings as a prime example of how Congress has just thrown their hands up without even a fight

From what I can tell, the IGs do serve at the pleasure of the President. The only thing he didn’t do is notify the Congress. Is that true?
Doesn't sound rationalist to me (from Ziz quoted section of article linked below):

"Ziz

Impostors keep thinking it's safe to impersonate single goods. A nice place to slide in psyche/shadow, false faces, "who could ever falsify that I'm blaming it on my headmate!"

Saying you're single good is saying, "Help, I have a Yeerk in my head that's a mirror image of me. I need you to surgically destroy it, even if I'm then crippled for life or might die in the process. Then kill me if I ever do one evil act for the rest of my life. That's better than being a slave. Save me even though it is so easy to impersonate me. And you will aggro so many impostors you'll then be in a fight to the death(s) with. Might as well then kill me too if I don't pass an unthinkable gom jabbar. That'll make us both safer from them and I care zero about pain relative to freedom from my Yeerk at any cost."

It's an outsized consequentialist priority, even in a doomed timeline, to make it unsafe to impersonate single goods.

Critical to the destiny of the world. The most vulnerable souls impostors vex. To bring justice to individual people, from collective punishment."

https://openvallejo.org/2025/01/31/zizian-namesake-who-faked.... More detail.
The only sticky headers I like are the ones that disappear while scrolling to the bottom of the page but reappear when scrolling back up. Preferably while scrolling up the user is only seeing the navigation and logo. Otherwise, they're super annoying.
This extreme cynicism is part of what got us here. People have made this cynicism manifest. They're making the government of their imaginations real.
https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI

I only use it on Windows with Nvidia GPU, but it should work both on Windows and Linux with CPU only and with Intel GPUs, as well as on Linux only with AMD. Though skimming the README some more, I also see Apple Silicon section, and one called "DirectML (AMD Cards on Windows)", so maybe AMD+Win works too.

As for use: you install ComfyUI from the link above, and then this:

https://github.com/ltdrdata/ComfyUI-Manager

to have UI for searching and downloading custom nodes (instead of having to install them by hand), and you're good to go.
> But they don't apply formal or "formalist" approaches, they invoke the names of formal methods but then extract from them just a "vibe".

I broadly agree with this criticism, but I also think it's kind of low-hanging. At least speaking for myself (a former member of those circles), I do indeed sit down and write quantitative models when I want to estimate things rigorously, and I can't be the only one who does.

> Indeed, as well as just ignoring that uncertainties about the state of the world or the model of interaction utterly dominate any "calculation" that you could hope to do.

This, on the other hand, I don't think is a valid criticism nor correct taken in isolation.

You can absolutely make meaningful predictions about the world despite uncertainties. A good model can tell you that a hurricane might hit Tampa but won't hit New Orleans, even though weather is the textbook example of a medium-term chaotic system. A good model can tell you when a bridge needs to be inspected, even though there are numerous reasons for failure that you cannot account for. A good model can tell you whether a growth is likely to become cancerous, even though oncogenesis is stochastic.

Maybe a bit more precisely, even if logic cannot tell you what sets of beliefs are correct, it can tell you what sets of beliefs are inconsistent with one another. For example, if you think event X has probability 50%, and you think event Y has probability 20% conditional on X, it would be inconsistent for you to believe event Y has a probability of less than 10%.

> The world at large is does not spend all its time in lesswrongian ritual multiplication or whatever... but this is not because they're educated stupid

When I thought about founding my company last January, one of the first things I did was sit down and make a toy model to estimate whether the unit economics would be viable. It said they would be, so I started the company. It is now profitable with wide operating margins, just as that model predicted it would be, because I did the math and my competitors in a crowded space did not.

Yeah, it's possible to be overconfident, but let's not forget where we are: startups win because people do things in dumb inefficient ways all the time. Sometimes everyone is wrong and you are right, it's just that that usually happens in areas where you have singularly deep expertise, not where you were just a Really Smart Dude and thought super hard about philosophy.
earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902670
If you’re going to argue semantics, a “self-coup”.

SCOTUS is corrupt and in league with the over-throwers and, again, most officials that would allow legal action outside of SCOTUS have been removed and replaced with loyalists.

Lastly, get off your high horse. US citizens are in serious trouble right now and even if you aren’t currently one of the targeted groups you’re going to be affected by it. If you are actually paying attention, which I doubt, denying what’s happening isn’t going to help anyone.
Here's a better question:

Why with this kind of setup, absolutely no-one to stop them, would they step aside in 1450 days if voters have their say?

Past 10 days have been an absolute railroad of undoing past 100 years.

Imagine 1000 days from now the chaos and nobody can change anything for any reason.

The word tyranny seems to fit and I wouldn't have used that with Bush/Cheney or even Reagan.
> I also wonder if his supporters have any idea of what is going on.

They do not. Most of his supporters are either rich or uneducated normal people who lack the mental capacity to realize what's going on. They just repeat the talking points. Respond to anyone of them with a non-talking point, compassion, and honesty and they just shut down. They haven't a clue about what's really going on. I bet none of his supporters even know who Robert Mercer is, the person that got him elected in the first place.
Can we then openly call republican voters guilty then? Instead of pretending that people voting for that party are good people? I do agree that many wanted the harm and that is why they voted for Trump.
Am I wrong? Read the quote again:

"appears to behave normally in regular matters and is capable of independent living, does not match other DSM symptoms, but believes insane things".

None of you think the major religions teach some insane things? Okay then.
https://archive.ph/hTazR
When will people learn to identify and stay away from narcissists?
I also spoke when I voted for my Senators and Congressmen/women. I voted for Congress to do their jobs.
Less annoying web page here, same story:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/usda-inspect...
Not yet probably, but "too expensive to comply" is a common refrain from big tech when they break the law. Look at all the excuses Uber has made
> Data can be missing, incomplete, biased, skewed, and even just plain wrong.

All true of course. The solution for that is more data, not less.
It's astonishing how little information that phonetic representations of Chinese allow to be retained.

Qin Shi Huang/Shih Huang Ti both means [Qin]Founding Emperor[-King]. In layperson's approximation, He's so ancient that his canonical name and title is debatable, and he's almost always referred to as "the first emperor" or variants thereof.
There is, but, for example, the cult member accused of murdering the landlord isn't trans. So transness isn't intrinsic to the cult, and the violence also isn't related to trying to fight for/against anything to do with being trans.

(These aren't actually ideologically motivated killings, oddly enough: in practice they just murder people who slight them, even if "it is imperative and the greatest good that you murder people who slight you" is a key component of their decision-theoretic extremism ideology. Or at least that's how I interpret it.)
I guess that authoring in MathML, and rendering MathML into images for browsers that do not support it, would have helped to avoid the mentioned inconsistency.
You aren’t supposed to editorialise the title of the post. The original title was “ Why tariffs on Mexico and Canada could drive up grocery costs, in 3 charts”.
from the article:

> With this release, SwiftPM now has the opportunity to offer a unified build execution engine across all platforms.

this is what the big deal is. it might not achieve much on its own immediately, but this is the key to build a truly multiplatform ecosystem of libraries, tools and applications in Swift. we should expect to see more of that soon.
Tech broligarchs were the highest bidder. They won.

Since Citizens United, it's a bidding war. One dollar, one vote.
Holy shit, there are 7 chapters to that last one. Chapter 1 is fucking mind-blowing. I could never figure out why they were obsessed with Roko's basilisk but it makes total sense now considering how it all started.

This is such an epic unbelievable story. We live in this world?

Chapter 6 covers how StarSlateCodex comes into the picture, by the way. I always wondered that too.
Is it possible to run the recorded input through the filters twice, doing the second pass in reverse to cancel out the phase shift?
They are looking to kill the pig, eat the meat, blame women, trans and minorities for no one else being able to benefit from the pig anymore. And then their supporters will consider themselves primary victims and blame everyone except themselves and people they voted for for harm caused to them too.
Are you seriously showing me a mining truck and some micro machines you can use to dig a trench in your garden as an example of EV machines being „adopted”?

Do you even know what makes those mining trucks functional for this use case? The deeper the mine, the more effective they are!