skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If marginalization were the main cause

I think they're crazy first, trans second. They were marginalised for being crazy. Then they found each other because they're trans. Many cults have random attributes shared by the members, whether it be race or sexual preferences. Their race or sexual preference didn't cause them to join a cult, they had other things going on that drove that. But when it came time to join one, they gravitated towards the one that identified with them.
Where have I seen this before? Oh right, I remember now...

"The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as representing ideologies opposed to Nazism. These included books written by Jewish, half-Jewish, communist, socialist, anarchist, liberal, pacifist, and sexologist authors among others."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings
*> chance of 'wow, we were wasting that much money?'

Do you know where I could get some data on that topic?
The simpler way to explain it is that a traffic is literally just a tax.

"Trump imposes an N% tax on goods from X" would be just as accurate but likely get a different reaction from the populace.
Language models, not fact models.

I’m not sure how this isn’t sinking in yet.
Still now following.

Are you saying something like, "You know I hate everything Musk stands for, everything he does publicly — but he might be an okay guy as a person"?
I don't get this reaction.

Almost every language in the world: here's the spec, the tooling, and everything you need to use, master, and expand this language. Please use it.

Apple: sorry, Mac only.

Like, I want Apple to do the bare minimum that everyone else is doing.
There is no zero sum of discrimination. In the above example, removing the coin-toss for Catholics removes the discrimination against Catholics, but does not add any discrimination against other groups.

Your example of India's caste based affirmative action is a good one. In fact, one of my past employers replicated it: we reserved a segment of engineering headcount for women, much in the same vein as India's reservation system with respect to caste. However, this is illegal in the US, but the company was confident that non-discrimination laws wouldn't be enforced when the victims were men. Though as of the last election, companies seem to recognize that this non-enforcement is a thing of the past.

The 3 out of 4 data point is my firsthand experience with my previous employer's DEI practices. Out of the 4 companies I've worked at, 3 employed DEI practices that are overtly discriminatory. So understand that when you write about how discriminatory DEI practices are myth, people such as myself have firsthand experience to the contrary. You're asking people to disbelieve their own lying eyes, when you insist that the notion that DEI involves discrimination is misinformation.

Equity requires discrimination, since almost no outcomes are perfectly equal across demographics. Achieving an equitable gender representation of pediatricians requires discriminating against female pediatricians. Achieving an equitable gender representation of software developers requires discrimination against male developers.

My use of the word "discrimination" is squarely in line with common use: does a policy discriminate on the basis of protected class? If so it's discrimination. Reserving headcount for one gender, even if it's done to push gender representation closer to 50/50, is discrimination. The notion that discrimination isn't discrimination when it's perpetrated against "non-diverse" groups is not in line with the common use of the term.
Yea because kotlin without a jetbrains ide is such a good experience.
By real knowledge of the problem domain. I know that sort of argumentation is unpopular, but it’s genuinely correct in this case.

If anything, this incident has been predicted and warned for years and years and years, and is an indictment of FAA and ATC policy over the last couple decades, accelerating over the last 2-8 years or so.

The reason we can assume there’s no connection between the new administration and this incident is… because there’s no reason to make that assumption, based on the reality of ATC policy, (lack of) changes in the problem domain, and longstanding known risks in the status quo.
Businessmen like Elon and Sam Altman, you mean?
FWIW I don't think it's so much the minority of directly guilty parties, but the institutional circling of the wagons when someone is caught. This often seems to extend to literally the tippy top of whatever congregation it occurs in (including e.g. the Pope).

But in any case, yeah: you don't have enough information from this type of stuff to make good judgments about individuals in any scenario.
And it was just a compromise with the republicans
> Trump has already walked back several of his campaign promises, such as reducing inflation on food. Does it count if you won if you lied to your base to do it? I think it's important people get what they vote for, otherwise, they may not make better decisions if they don't feel the consequences of their actions.

Yes, it still counts. Show me a president who kept his campaign promises. We don't get to re-do the election when the president is proven to have lied.

Stronger: I like to be allowed the privilege to be smarter today than I was yesterday. We should extend politicians the same privilege, rather than requiring them to be stupid today because they were stupid yesterday.

(Do I think that Trump was lying? Either that, or speaking with reckless disregard for the truth. Of course he was. My money's on "reckless disregard", but I don't think it makes much difference.)
Thanks for the feedback! My initial idea was to make something super simple for children, this is why I didn't add any buttons (there are 0 buttons in any of my games on my website, except for "start" button). But let me see if there are any alternative solution.
Don’t police others. It’s bossy.
> …I guess that turned into a bit of a personal rant but holy crap how is it 2025 and this is still a problem in a major tech city?

Regulation created by ISPs to create monopolies for themselves.
Superman Doesn't Sweat
I feel like his first term benefitted from his administration being wholly unprepared to govern, as witnessed by the numerous stories of there effectively being no transition plan for a vast majority of departments.

The only real policy victory his first term was the TCJA. Otherwise, it was a lot of bark, no bite.

But now with four years to prepare, they came in barking and biting like hell.

Ironically, losing in 2020 gave MAGA time to create a game plan which we’re seeing in action now. A second Trump term right after the first would have been more effectual than the first, but not to the degree we’re seeing now.
> I think it's an unprecedented opportunity to record the history of a downfall using modern tools, and future generations might benefit enormously.

Well, the German atrocities of the Third Reich are well-documented and we are probably just a few years behind the U.S.

The best documentary won't help to prevent backsliding into superstition and barbarism if people don't believe them.

On the other hand, the history of downfall is basically self-documenting itself in real-time and people still don't believe it because people simply don't care about things that don't fit into their ideological borders or their perception of reality.

Truth doesn't exist anymore and thus anything that relies on truth.
If you are a very good actor, confident that nobody will call your bluff, and the assailant believes it is likely that the gun is real and loaded, yes.
An exceptional post from people who have an ideological stake in knowledge preservation/dissemination and are at the center of it.

From the post:

"""

Our first recommendation is straightforward: shorten the copyright term. In the US, copyright is granted for 70 years after the author’s death. This is absurd. We can bring this in line with patents, which are granted for 20 years after filing. This should be more than enough time for authors of books, papers, music, art, and other creative works, to get fully compensated for their efforts (including longer-term projects such as movie adaptations).

"""
Algorithms should not be subject to copyright IMO. If you publish code, AFAIK under EU law only blatant copies are an infringement. In case of art, copyright is enforceable anyway, at least not in any different form than before AI.

Yes, current AIs just remix their training data in a rather direct way. But in the end how different is that to how humans create? I would suggest we should embrace this new way of creating things while finding laws to empower all creators and not only those who were hired by deep pockets.
Newly discovered near-Earth asteroid isn't an asteroid – but trashed Tesla
I got zero recommendations, or it takes >5 min to load.
All over the US I have always been able to use my own cable modem and router. OPs situation is unusual, I am guessing its some bundle they have for a discount but if they were paying standard (ie ripoff) rates they could use their own equipment.
You are trying to rhetorically connect these issues when they are unrelated. You can be appalled by the state of US ATC and appalled by the new administration without looking for a non existent reason to connect the two.
The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) of 1946 contains the rule that prevents the U.S. executive branch from acting in an arbitrary and capricious manner. You can't just come in and 'arbitrarily' change things. That is the law of the land for 70 years, backed up by the Supreme Court (including against Trump during his last term). That law provides the stability that makes the USA number one in the world. Without that stability, there is no investment in business. There is no selling US bonds. There is not dollar as the world's reserve currency.
You're beyond reason. Any critic of Trump is immediately "woke" and "virtue signaling".

Don't you care when he threatens war with our allies? When he praises foreign fascists? When he pardoned all Jan 6 rioters, that he previously claimed were all antifa? When he is made above the law by an obviously partisan supreme court? When he passes budgetary laws without congress with no repercussions whatsoever? When he promised that "we won't have to vote ever again"?
That label is unpopular.
I found a script on GitHub that regularly tried to get one. It found one after 1-2 days.
The very ones, both of them had and have every reason to hype AI as much as possible, and still do for that matter. Altman in particular seems to relish the use of the "oh no what I'm making is so scary, it's even scaring me" fundraising method.
Shouldn’t knowing how big it’s supposed to be make it easier to stop a zip bomb? Just stop decompressing once you hit the size from the header.
I’m familiar with the APA. It’s a statute that allows judicial supervision of executive branch actions. It absolutely doesn’t empower individual executive branch employees to try and frustrate the policies of the president.

If you think an action will be set aside by the courts, there are processes for handling that through in-house as legal departments and ultimate the President’s Office of Legal Counsel. And those lawyers have the job of aggressively representing the elected administration’s interpretation of the law before the courts. But line federal employees have zero role in the APA process.
it's common to see americans blame each other

but with a referenced wiki? it's so intellectualism

it's so weird, it's like cursing somebody but with pointing the word in a dictionary
Great article!

Another (mid-late) data point may be the original NeXT brochure[1], which claims the NeXT to be "a mainframe on two chips". It provides a definition along the lines of a throughput oriented architecture and peripheral channels (in analogy to the NeXT's two DSP chip) and, while doing so, also marries the concepts of physical size and architecture (there's also some romanticism around uncompromised designs and "ruthless efficiency" involved):

> The NeXT Computer acknowledges that throughput is absolutely key to performance. For that reason, we chose not to use the architecture of any existing desktop computer. The desired performance could be found only in a computer of a different class: the mainframe.

> Having long shed any self-consciousness over such mundane matters as size and expense, mainframes easily dwarf desktop computers in the measure of
throughput.

> This is accomplished by a different kind of architecture. Rather than require the attention of the main processor for every task, the mainframe has a legion of separate Input/Output processors, each with a direct channel to memory It's a scheme that works with ruthless efficiency.

[1] https://lastin.dti.supsi.ch/VET/sys/NeXT/N1000/NeXTcube_Broc...
It pretty clearly is a null pointer on my machine. What's null pointer on some HP mainframe from 70's is kinda irrelevant to how I boot my systems.
The more readily a group tries to restrict some behaviours, the more it implicitly endorses behaviours it doesn’t attempt to restrict.
Often hard to use your own stuff with fiber systems. I get AT&T fiber which is pretty good service but no way to use your own “modem” (optical network terminal). I think their gateway suffers from some kind of buffer issue which affects me even w/ “ip pass through” to my own Synology router.
I'm using the Bar Breaker Firefox Extension[1], it's particularly helpful on Android devices with smaller screens.

It completely gets rid of the bars, which is sometimes great, but sometimes too much. I occasionally have to turn it off for workflows where the "next" button is in a fixed bar, such as checkout for US Mobile, or saving a Yoto playlist.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bar-breaker/
> An Inspector-General is in charge of inspecting and auditing, as the name would suggest. That requires being impartial in absolute terms

Yes, she's sure going to be replaced by someone impartial...
You are right, it was overly negative, which was not nice. Read it as a half-rant then. These types of articles are my pet peeve for some reason.
It happens, but in a more subtle way. Usually direct comparison's don't happen, but rather is expected to be inferred by the quality of arguments, whether they can prevail with their line of thinking and so on. In a sense, that variant of 'rationalist' is rather crude in comparison. I am trying to think of an appropriate example, but I am struggling a little.

Make no mistake, there are egos at play here too.
Leave their's in place but treat it as untrusted. Place your router between your home network and theirs. It works well.
Nice, last time I tried out ROCm on Arch a few years ago it was a nightmare. Glad to see it's just one package install away these days, assuming you didn't do any setup beforehand.
Is this running ollama, vllm or sglang under the hood? Curious about these performance numbers.
This should not be flagged as it gives us an idea as to the business environment we are coming into once Trump's tariffs go into effect.
Every time I hear about these "rationalist" guys they always seem completely bonkers. Not rational at all.
I recently switched to opnsense on bare metal on an N105 with dual 2.5g NIC, after having been quite happy for many years running a bunch of Asus routers on Merlin.

My main goals were to improve throughput and security. Opnsense seems to work well OOTB, but being a dilettante in these matters I must admit to having a nagging anxiety that I may have misconfigured something important.

Any recommendations for a reliable way to check that?
Thanks, that is useful. Are there any other efforts to archive all the data on government websites? I suppose we could crawl archive.org.
> Backup: an ISP will give one device. Should it fail at an inopportune time, you will be off-line until you get them to issue a replacement. When you own your own hardware, you can buy a second modem and/or a router for emergency backup.

This is nicer than it seems because "I've already tried a completely different modem" is a good way to short circuit ISP troubleshooting scripts IME.
Of what exactly? I haven't claimed any conspiracy, that's all stuff Trump bragged about on the news.

Bringing up the "criminality of the Biden family" is a legitimately insane thing to do when defending Trump.
The fun "life-hack" is now the oil doesn't matter anymore.

Norway needed it initially, but thinks to smart conservative finance policies now they don't.

As as lovely counter example, look at all of the UAE's expenditures on attempts at "destination tourism" revenue.

UAE "invested" its money into concrete. Norway invested its money into its people.
The GameCube Can Now Play PS1 Games and It's Impressive
Keep fighting, Sterlind. Most people aren't full of hate. Just the assholes who take the time to comment mean things on social platforms.
In the era of LLMs, it's difficult to think of an art form with a worse risk-to-reward ratio for pursuing--even if just as a hobby--than poetry. I know that sounds philistine to some, but even if the quality of LLM spam isn't up to par with what you can produce, how many people can tell the difference? I wish we lived in an alternate timeline where AI was automating drug discovery or protein folding faster than it was art, but sadly, that's not the case.
correct. there isnt a single well founded argument to dismiss AI alarmism. people are very attached to the idea that more technology is invariably better. and they are very reluctant to saddle themselves with the emotional burden of seeing whats right in front of them.
Hilarious that only after the past two weeks do some of you care about grocery prices.
“ You could argue that at its core, poetry is about distilling thoughts and emotions into their purest form.”

I really disagree with this statement. Language places heavy constraints on what can and cannot be expressed in poetry more than prose does. If poetry represents human emotion, then it should be easy to translate poetry to another language, but it’s not. Try using the same form of a poem and translate to another language and see if it has the same emotive effect - it’s really difficult to do so.

Poetry seems to express emotions because its constraints has limits on what can be conveyed effectively. As far as I understand, rhymes and meters used in poetry are more of mnemonic techniques from non-literate culture, like a check-sum or error correction mechanism. In post-literate culture, it’s merely a word play.

Maybe I just don’t like poetry.
It appears there are no checks and balances in place. Congress could impeach, or the Supreme Court could enjoin (is that the word?), but I see no prospect of either happening soon.
> If this article is anything to go by, Zig makes all of this stuff difficult to impossible.

Well, having done it, it’s not.
For years, the pinephone was considered an alpha device, it was targeted for only developers to use. Currently it's considered a beta device for early adopters.

So let me give you a more apt comparison. The Libre M is like a Nissan versa, ready to drive off the lot. The pinephone is like a ebike that you have to assemble, weld and program yourself.
I was raised Catholic but no longer practice. Many Christians don't believe they choose Christianity. They believe they are 'called by Christ' to serve.

So, I think the analogy, at least for those people, holds.
Pcsxgc – A Port of the PS1 Emulator, PCSX, to the Nintendo GC/Wii
Does that entire model fit in gpu memory? How's it run?

I tried running a model larger than ram size and it loads some layers into the gpu but offloads to the cpu also. It's faster than cpu alone for me, but not by a lot.
Truth! Preach!
Vimperator was even better, and allowed a very smooth operation of most Firefox without using the mouse. Sadly, it was killed by the transition to a new plugin API.

Vimium and other current options lead to quite some friction, as Firefox disables plugins on many scenarios, such as a new empty page.

Hence, you often find yourself in a situation where you have to think whether Vimium is active and you can use Vim-like shortcuts, or you need to fallback to the Firefox UI.
I swear as I played it, I actually felt something.
You're the one using dramatic imaginations and hyperbolic language to justify unconstitutional searches. If "growing up" means "willfully surrender all your rights to a dubious police force"... consider me a child if that makes you feel better about your inane justifications for violating the privacy of law abiding citizens. Maybe you should learn a little history about the fbi. There's a reason the constraints the above comment laments the fbi breaking exist in the first place.
Competition matters. Comcast/Xfinity was my only "choice" in Cambridge, MA. It cost about $70 per month for 100Mbps service.

My building in Oakland, CA has multiple options, including fiber. The Comcast folks setup tables at least once per quarter to help customers/residents. The cost was much cheaper. I now have gigabit fiber from Wave, and pay less than I did back in MA.
Did it work? Anyone?
>What did we learn from WW1 and WW2?

How to industrialize killing on a grand scale.
This thread made me realize dslreports.com has "closed".

Used to be you could find out there what works and what doesn't down to the chipset variations. My experience was same as yours, as long as I matched provider capabilities, it worked.
I'm surprised. I question the legality of all this. Without congressional authorization, DOGE is just an advisory board. Advisory boards (I presume) don't have the legal authority to do these kinds of things without congressional approval.

I presume there's an emergency lawsuit or 20 to stop this; it will be interesting to see how it gets ruled on. Then we'll know just how much trouble we're in.
Your wish is my command.

- https://bookmarkl.ink/ashtonmeuser/a36be4b6c835276f1a22a8c49...

- https://bookmarkl.ink/ashtonmeuser/a36be4b6c835276f1a22a8c49...

- https://bookmarkl.ink/ashtonmeuser/a36be4b6c835276f1a22a8c49...

Interestingly, in the URL CLI article, you mentioned the difficulty of maintaining such bookmarklets. That was a huge motivator for bookmarkl.ink. You can keep your verbose, commented code in a gist while the actual bookmarklet is tree shaken, stripped of comments, minified, and encoded. As of late, you even get some creature comforts like TypeScript support. Finally, every gist is a repo behind the scenes so you get version control for free.
I think you mean their stated intent is to eventually make this technology available to own (I haven’t watched the video you linked but I’m going to charitably assume they say what you’re asserting).

I, and many others, are past the point of trusting their words.
Many modern homes have a perforated panel in the ceiling behind the refrigerator to allow the heated air to escape the room.
This is what Ben Stein is lecturing about in Ferris Beuller's Day Off.
>Having two parties with opposing biases and incentives doesn’t magically cancel out and become impartial. That’s the opposite of impartiality.

No, but it's close. It's similar to a courtroom where you have a plaintiff and a defendant. Each party plays a roll on each issue that is up to debate. They plead their side and ultimately the citizenry is the jury. Unfortunately, in the political arena there aren't any rules for speech like in a courtroom; perjury for example.

It's imperfect, but you won't ever find an impartial person or group, nor should you blindly take their word for it. It's an appeal to authority fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
Yep, I just run my own Linux build on any SBC with at least a single gigabit port, currently that's Quartz64-A. I've never been happier with my home router and flexibility of configuration/what I can do with it, than just running a regular fully fledged Linux distro on it.