skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that you're willing to accept the anti-DEI crowd's motives on good faith, but not the DEI initiatives'

> the truth in many cases is that it is an excuse to exclude white males.

One might think that the current pushes are an excuse to exclude various minorities. Considering what DEI initiatives were born of just a few decades ago, I don't think that's an unreasonable conclusion either.

I do think there's some truth to listen to from those so opposed to the initiatives - there's some that go too far and should be reigned in - but, as others have pointed out in this thread, drinking the Kool Aid with this push isn't really going to fix anything. It's just swinging back and forth on the political pendulum. Is that really what people want?
Always think bigger picture than what you're immediately working on. (I don't mean that you can't ever just focus on the problem you're trying to solve for, say, hours. I mean you can't focus like that for the entire time you're in that development phase.)

Think about design and code (and functionality!) before you start coding. Think about design as well as code while you're coding. Think about design, code, and functionality while you're testing.
Partiful has this (poll guests to find a time that works)
The Culture Transplant by Garett Jones
the Congress. the president doesn't have the authority to unilaterally shut down entire departments
My uncle did ATC in the soviet military. They were allowed to do 2 hour shifts max. The mental work is so intense that the human brain can only sustain it for a short time.
JPA implementations have "managed entities", sometimes called session or 1st level cache which is making sure that every entity is loaded at max. one time within a transaction. Like e.g. checking user/user permissions is something which typically has to be done in several places in course of a single request - you don't want to keep loading them for every check, you don't want to keep passing them across 20 layers, so some form of caching is needed. JPA implementations do it for you automatically (assuming you're fine with transaction-scoped cache) since this is such a core concept to how JPA works (the fact it's also a cache is kind of secondary consequence). JPA implementations typically provide more advanced caching capabilities, caching query results, distributed cache (with proper invalidation) etc.
Thank you! This really helps to have an initial breadcrumb into the idea. I can scrutinize it further.
>italy announced a 16bln€ plan to buy >1000 rheinmetall ifv vehicles. That alone would make italy's army one of the most equipped in Europe.

So target practice for a beyond-the-horizon missile system launched ground-to-ground or air-to-ground? As an attacking force, conventional ground forces and tactics are a non-runner in a modern theatre of operations when faced against air and drone support. This is why no single EU country is incentivised into dumping money into any single area - as the only probable defense would be against USA/Russia/China to begin with.

The US proved it beyond doubt in Afghanistan - partisans simply haven't a chance against a gunship with IR or NV optics; the last time they levelled the playing field against air interdictors was in Charlie Wilson's Afghanistan when the Mujahideen took on that era of Soviet gunships with hand-held AA systems.
I have had a project on-the-books for far too long... I have a wine-cooler fridge, that had a broken compressor (already removed), so I plan on turning it into an active drying filament storage unit.

The problem I have is currently "analysis paralysis", and "feature creep" and no time to CAD model the rod brackets to fit into the existing molded-shelves.

Planned features;

- Temperature & humidity sensors.

- Heating element (3d-printer build-plate).

- Active back-channel fan to suck air from internal top of unit down through a plenum to vent in-front of the heating element. In front of that fan intake will be an easily removable desiccant "cage".

- Motor + belts to slowly rotate the filament on the rods.

- Venting fan at the back-top of the unit to extract moist air - plus a servo-controlled vent closure mechanism (iris, louvre? I don't know anymore...)

- External screen and control panel.

But lack of time and very rusty electronics knowledge is slowing me down - so, I store my filament in ziploc bags with re-usable mesh desiccant bags - after drying in a dedicated toaster oven.
Kagi is so much better. You should just try one of the lower tier subscriptions for a while and see what it's like.

Just for warning, you'll still want to use Google as a backup for hyper local results, but generally the experience with Kagi is much better.
It is quite bad and uninformative, you better not spread it.
I’m not complaining about the headline, but it is necessary to remind people that really, “Google” never does anything and never makes any high-level decision. Those decisions are all made or at least approved by the two individuals who together have full control over Alphabet and Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Object persistence is real: the fact that Page and Brin are not constantly drawing attention to themselves on social media does not mean that they somehow are no longer there.
> The 8 month buyout was completely legal, Clinton did the same.

The 1995 buyout offer was passed by Congress and signed by Clinton.

https://clintonwhitehouse6.archives.gov/1995/04/1995-04-04-p...

https://uscode.house.gov/statutes/pl/103/226.pdf
Im not sure what is your point. What are you trying to say?
You're more than welcome citing where I stated the left should never do any soul searching, I specifically said that when it comes to people being so gullible to vote for Trump despite his character is no argument for democrats having to do any soul searching because there is nothing to be reflecting about that.
Anyone here use this?
>“DEI exists” isn’t an argument.

But it is. DEI indicates ideological capture. Whether it's good or bad doesn't matter, it's not germane to the purported goals of "advancing science/health/military readiness/etc". At best it's tangential.

If we were a robust and wealthy country, then perhaps we could engage in these sorts of boutique social experiments. But we are not. We've got serious problems on multiple fronts. Fixing it before it all goes blooey means serious disruption, and we're now well into 30 years of positive reinforcement on the ideological capture. You're not going to get the results you need from the people who benefitted from the previous mismanagement. Trump learned that lesson quite directly the last time he was in office.
Let's Compile Python 1.0
If I'm going to be involved in something like this I'm sure as hell not bringing my daily driver phone. Get serious. Grab a burner, go in expecting it to get discarded or to fall into unfriendly hands.
>> Real AI, artificial intelligence, is a fever dream. This is machine learning except the machines are bigger than ever before. There is no intellect.

> Do you have any evidence to support this conclusion? And does it even matter? If "fake intellect" can replace a human, that human still has to deal with the very real issue or not having a job anymore. If "fake intellect" is used to conduct mass surveillance, and direct suppression activities towards divergent individuals, those individuals are still going to have a bad time.

I think the "fake intelligence can replace a human" needs more support in general. We know how human intellect works practically (not theoretically) and we know how to apply it in different scenarios. We're still far from knowing how "fake intelligence" works and how to apply it to different scenarios.
Scientists solve the mystery of sea turtles' 'lost years'
> When you have only one `foo` that is mutated throughout the code you are forced to organize the processes in your code (validation, business logic) based on the current state of that variable. If your variables have values which are logically assigned you're not bound by the current state of that variable.

If I'm understanding you right, this is just restating what I said as a positive thing. I stand by my assertion that it's not positive: you can always choose to leave previous states accessible by choosing different names. But if a language doesn't support shadowing then I don't have the capability to intentionally restrict myself from accessing those states. That means your language has less expressive power and fewer opportunities for me to build myself guardrails.

In some ways it's the opposite of unused variable warnings: if you disallow shadowing, the compiler is forcing you to leave variables accessible long after you need them. You're given no choice but to leave unused variables hanging around. With shadowing, I can choose the right path based on the situation.

> The only downside most people disagreeing with me are mentioning is related to ergonomics of it being more convenient.

As I said elsewhere, literally everything to do with programming languages is about ergonomics. Your arguments against shadowing boil down to ergonomics. You can't avoid having a debate by just saying "it's just ergonomics" when the debate that you started is which feature is more ergonomic!
Ah yep, of course! Thanks!
I have little hope for the future of the US technology industry. If I had the resources, I would start a business in Europe, or at least using European programmers
For me, it's good. Apt is famous for installing the software you want quickly, easily, and with no fuss.
Correct!

Even though SHA-1 collision were achieved, they are impractical and we can make the assumption that "if two objects has the same hash, they are the same".

To have a cycle, both commits involved would need to have the hash of the other, which is impossible: the hash of a commit is based on its content, its content contains the hash of its parent.

We could only have a cycle here if we create two commits created after two arbitrary hashes.
What does that mean? Its a package manager? Or something deeper?
That seems unlikely, since soon there will be no FTC policies at all.
I think all your points are valid, but I've also had good results using workspaces for environments. Here's generally how I structure my terraform primarily targeting AWS.

- 1 Terraform workspace per environment (dev, test, prod, etc.).

- Managing changes to workspaces / environments is done with whatever approach you use for everything else (releasing master using some kind of CICD pipeline or release branches). The Terraform is preferably in the same git repositories as your code but can be separate.

- The CICD tool injects an environment variable into the build to select the appropriate workspace and somehow supplies credentials granting access to a role that can be assumed in the appropriate account.

- A region module / folder that defines the resources you want in each region. This is your "main" module that specifies everything you want.

- Minimal top level terraform that instantiates multiple AWS providers (one for each region) and uses them to create region modules. Any cross region or global resources are also defined here.

- The region module uses submodules to create the actual resources (RDS, VPCs, etc.) as needed.

This approach assumes you want to deploy to all your regions in one go. That may not be the case.
Sure some people that care about minutiae are code artisans but what I have seen more often is co-workers weaponizing these discussions to hide their own incompetence.

I have seen so many people going on and on about best practices and coding styles and whatnot and using big words just in hopes to keep discussions going so no one figures out out that they don't know how to code.
I will be honest that I was very disappointed that this didn't include physical (mailed) invites: Apple already has the capability for printed materials via their Photos app, third-party printing services.

This service is only a half-measure (in my mind) because some of the people I want to invite are:

- Not deeply embedded in the Apple ecosystem (this is a weak critique, as the invite URL only requires an email address)

- Not tech-savvy enough to manage a response in this way: If I have an Apple account, I have to log in. If I don't, I have to provide my email, enter the code sent to my email, and then remember to click the applicable RSVP option. Add to my calendar? What is an iCal file? Oh, no! I think the event is happening soon... How do I get back to the page with the details?

- Friends of my kids (i.e., children), whose address is the only form of contact info they have. Sometimes events are HOW you get to know the parents, get their contact info.

I feel like a printed + mailed invite _along with_ the evite was a missed slow-pitch:

- It's an ad for Apple (your customers are literally paying YOU to mail advertising material to their friends/family)

- It could easily include the evite URL via QR code + a text number to RSVP (e.g., "text 'yes abc123' to XXXXX to RSVP")

Failing ALL of that, I have a physical invite with the details of the event.
First thing I thought of was the tiny Stone Henge in Spinal Tap.
I agree agi wont solve national security but saying this isn’t intelligence is false.

This is ai and trend lines point to an intelligence that matches or barely exceeds human intellect in the future.

You’re part of a trend of people in denial. When LLMs first came out there were hordes of people on HN claiming it was just a stochastic parrot and LLMs displayed zero intellectual ability. It is now abundantly clear that this not true.

We don’t fully understand LLMs. That’s why gains like COT are just black box adjustments that come from changing external configurations. We have no way to read the contents of the black box and make adjustments off of it. Yet idiots like you can make such vast and hard claims when nobody really fully understands these things. You’re delusional.

I agree that LLMs won’t allow us to make some super weapon to give us some edge in national security.
Workday to Cut Nearly 2k Workers on Profitability Focus
Less experienced devs iterate on something until it looks like it works, not realizing the footguns they may have embedded. Static typing removes some footguns and provides documentation for the next unfortunate soul to look at this code.
Or it's about not knowing how any of this works and quickly backing down when you're told how much your race-baiting is actually gumming up the wheels of the economy.

But yes, it's a "throw a bunch of shit against the wall and see what sticks" chaos strategy.
One of my "some day" / "thought experiment" projects is to create a small RISC-V RV32EC processor that would only be able to access 64k of its memory space, but would fit on a 40-pin IC: 16 pins of address, 8 pins of data, some interrupt and timing pins, etc. Basically like a 6502 or 8080/Z80 with the RV ISA. I can already think of some "fun" issues like requiring four read/write cycles per load/store operation.
I like mataroa:

https://blog.shortround.space/blog/dependency-injection-with...

https://mataroa.blog
Ask HN: How to name 32 Bit of Data
I have to write some technical documents and always have to make sure the reader is aware of the exact length of data. I do not want to write 16 or 32 bit every time. For "byte" people tend to know that 8 bit are meant. how to call 32 then?
As a senior dev, when pairing with junious I get a more skilled team. Then I can continue to give new teams the skill and we all grow as people and companies.
If they could only fix the issue where resizing a text box almost grinds the entire OS to a halt, that would be nice.
^ This should be required reading for anyone using traceroute.
It might be related to how much money you have invested. They publish a list of levels that provide different levels of service. https://investor.vanguard.com/client-benefits

The breakpoints are $50k, $500k, $1M, $5M.
You can thank Reagan for mess we are in with ATC's...

Reagan was looking for a reason to break up the government unions and the union overplayed their hand. So, Reagan fired all of the striking ATCs -- 11,359 -- and banned them from federal service for life (later lifted by Clinton).
It's true, but so has the right in recent years. The center is increasingly alienated and homeless.
Ah, so, yes...a "soft" coup. Which isn't uncommon. Though there's many things brewing that might fall back into the mainstream definition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impoundment_of_appropriated_fu...

We passed laws about that because of a previous Republican president who was also fond of executive overreach.
I used to think the hacker news crowd would be beyond “Elon is evil, full stop.”
I really like it. Which bits do you dislike?
2017 for macOS 15 (2018 for mainstream Macs):

https://support.apple.com/en-us/120282

A few years shorter than the Win 10 lifecycle. Much shorter than the XP lifecycle, though that was unusual.
They deleted the documentation for this bypass, not the bypass itself, right?
If it's severe enough, quitting alcohol cold turkey can be life-threatening. And for some, they don't take longer than a day from drinking to realize they're on the path to delirium tremens.
Hey everyone,

I’m excited to share PomdAPI, a Python library that simplifies building and caching API calls. If you’ve ever written repetitive “fetch data → parse JSON → cache results” boilerplate, PomdAPI might help you cut down on that overhead!

I’m planning to use PomdAPI in my upcoming consulting projects to quickly develop and cache robust APIs. However, the project is still in an early stage, and I’d love community support (feedback, PRs, issue reports) to help finalize and polish it.
Make me laugh is just a proxy for iq.
The Office Suite is doing better than ever. I have no problem paying $129 a year for O365 with five users and each user can use it across Macs, Windows, iPhone, iPad and web. The iPad version with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse is actually pretty good.

And 1TB of storage per user.
I’ve lived in developing nations.

People who have lived in first world countries are prone to miss many crucial signs of banana republics.

And why not - it looks hysterical from the surface.

The crux of the matter is institutions. And your institutions have been under attack since watergate.

In addition, our society is unprepared for a media industry that must be profitable and fast paced.

I would think about what red lines y9u would have had in the 90s. And where your red lines are. Call it being the 90s back again.

Then decide what you think the outcomes are likely to be.
> I do think that, particularly in the USA, the refusal of the left in power to critically engage with this topic in a thoughtful way has left the space open to Trump and people like him to turn it into a toxic rallying cry for supporters.

You've said this, but in this thread alone you've seen the opposition refusing to engage with the topic thoughtfully. They just repeat their rhetoric ad nauseum.

I don't think critical thinking and thoughtfulness from the left, or lack thereof, is the issue here.

I think the issue is simple, rhetoric beats nuance, every time. Rhetoric is the rock to nuance's scissors. We need to find the paper.
Thanks for sharing this. I've been slowly coming to this conclusion, though I haven't lived in a red state since I was 16.

Your description fits our current world, IMO, far better than every other narrative I've seen. Some of those narratives feel good and fit OK, but they fall apart at the edges. The idea fits with why Hilary Clinton was so hated, better than anything.

On a personal level, I've become much more wary about seeming smarter. When I help and engage I try to do it in a way that doesn't threaten. I'm quick to say when I don't know something. I offer to help "figure it out" with others rather than preach.

Another comment somewhere in these threads talks about how social media has accelerated our problems by 10 or 100x. I think that's true for this, too.
Reddit community banned as user spat with Musk intensifies
I mean I guess this could have been the case but this guy in particular was originally from South Africa and living in the UK at the time and is in now in the process of immigrating to the US after marrying one of our other guild members. So unless it's also a British thing to commit to an underhanded compliment for years and continue snarfing down American food every time he visits I'm gonna assume he continues to be genuine.
USPS lifts suspension of parcels from Hong Kong and China, reversing decision
Visualizing Europe's Dependence on Chinese Resources
That's mostly because Julia questions get answered on its Discourse or Slack. The sharp decline is due to an automatic cross-post bot that stopped working.

No one bothered fixing it, in great part due to Discourse being the main place of discussion, as far as I know.
Matt Levine tangentially talked about this during his podcast this past Friday (or was it the one before?). It was a good way to value these companies according to their compute size since those chips are very valuable. At a minimum, the chips are an asset that acts as a collateral.
Mandatory Palestine V2, lets see how that goes. What is the plan for the folks who used to live in Gaza City, where are they asked to go? I'm guessing they want them to be elsewhere, otherwise they'll fight against insurrectionists (not the good kind) the entire time.

I love how the argument for taking it over is because it's completely demolished and everything is rubble, which is put forward while standing next to the guy who is responsible for it being in that state in the first place.
I would it is a combination of metric-stuffing, land grab, and genuine concern about security.

Metric stuffing. Everyone at Microsoft is graded on "impact". All the EVP-types at Microsoft have their eye on boldface jobs, so they need a track record of massive impact. Beimg able to claim that they got W11 from X billion devices to Y is how theyll be judged. Another example is how in Azure, the only metric that matters is consumed revenue. That sort of thing drives behavior.

Land grab. W11 infamously makes the Start menu a billboard and has all kinds of usage data going back to the mother ship. If adoption slows, then Microsoft misses out on eyeballs, misses out on the ability to weld users to Copilot, misses the opportunity to earn money from ads, misses the opportunity to improve Windows by learning how people really use their conputers.

Security. Windows is embedded in modern life and although Microsoft gets a lot of flak, (and sometimes it takes a major beating to remind them of their responsibilities), they do want to elevate the security of users. They believe that W11 and TPM will give them a basis to really deliver stronger services. I dont know that they are right (eg if the #1 exposure for home users is ransomware, does a tpm help at all?), but I am prepared to give them dome grace.

Then again, I plan to use this opportunity to install Linux on my old PC.
That (or rather checked exceptions in general) doesn't play well with lambdas / streams.
Science is a paradigm invented by humans. If a human uses this paradigm to invent something he is considered intelligent but if an ai uses it it’s not? All humans use human paradigms and they are intelligent.

If a human uses such a paradigm to success it is the same.