skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's mostly still a hobby. I publish very few books and could do without being a "publisher". But being one allows me to exist in the official French databases where traditional bookshops can find my books and order with one click. Without that, they would have to search on Google, find a phone number or an email address, and they probably wouldn't even bother.

It's not a recipe for getting rich! But it works for me, (and costs almost nothing).
> when did the self-recognized legal name change of tissue paper take place?

Gradually, when they didn't enforce their trademark via lawsuits / etc. There's no line in the sand at which point you lose a trademark and it becomes generic. At some point you file suit and fail, or don't even try, and "it is known".
Miguel was not a MS employee. He did parlay Xamarin into an acqui-hire though and is now a softie.
This is my big struggle with all of this. His first term I felt America was duped by a con man so protested and made a fuss on social media. Americans saw the first four years and astonishingly decided they wanted more of it, by a decent margin.

So while I absolutely hate what is going on right now this seems to be what the people wanted. I question each day whether that needs to be respected or we should resist.

I also wonder if his supporters have any idea of what is going on. I am sure fox news isn't covering any of this and if they are it's probably being spun in some horrific way.
Ya, there are real risks, COPVs, burning batteries, and the flight termination system explosives.
> in Rust every writer is `GenericWriter`.

I may be misunderstanding the article - but it looks like GenericWriter in zig still has dynamic dispatch overheads at runtime in all cases. Rust traits are more like “anytype” - since they get monomorphized by the compiler and have no runtime overhead at all. But unlike zig’s anytype, traits have excellent documentation (since they’re explicit, not implicit interfaces). Rust can also implicitly create an “AnyWriter” style object if you don’t want monomorphization via &dyn Trait. But you often don’t need to, because you can store trait objects in other structs just fine. - Though admittedly, you can do the same in zig via comptime structs.

There are a lot of things I admire about zig. But for interfaces like Writer, rust’s trait system seems like the better tool. I wish zig would copy rust’s trait system into the language.
People are speaking faaaaar too broadly in this thread. "Normies", just like neurodivergent people, are a pretty wide group and don't all think alike--certainly they don't all put any importance on "shifgrethor".

And yeah, teaching your children how to interact with authority is obviously important. But notably, having any respect at all for authority isn't a requirement: I can obey an authority figure says even if it's stupid and terrible, if it benefits my goals. There are plenty of times in my career where I've done things I didn't agree with for bosses and clients I didn't respect, because other aspects of the job made it worth it, and they weren't worth risking my job over. Succinctly, "pick your battles".

Sure, as a parent, you need to teach your kids how to interact with authorities they don't respect, but being the authority they don't respect is a pretty terrible way to do that, and is going to have a lot of negative effects on your relationship with your child.
This. Your ears are not an oscilloscope. Lossy audio codecs are designed to exploit two major weaknesses in human hearing:

1. Poor sensitivity in bass and treble. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour

2. Limited ability to hear multiple sounds simultaneously, or almost simultaneously. See:

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

Bernhard Seeber has some videos on Youtube with demonstrations of auditory masking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9UZnMsm9o8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU0_Kaj7cPk

The only fair way to evaluate lossy codecs is with double blind listening tests.
The fact that many are transgender seems to be relevant because it’s a recruiting and manipulation tactic, not because of a connection to “trans activism.” I haven’t seen any evidence of that connection besides people involved being transgender.
I think it was more that Oracle was willing to take the political risk and had a lot of incentive to land a large, high visibility client that could help them build economies of scale and would come with a tier 1 JV partner.

There is a lot of upside for Oracle based on their position relative to others and Ellison does not have to manage his political capital the same way non-founder CEOs do (he made this move long before Trump’s second term).
I too think knowledge acquisition is faster - much faster - but that's only when I can actually get myself to sit down and focus. Depending on some magic combination of my mood, feeling of purpose, and phases of the moon, I can blow through a thick spec book in one long session and remember both tons of little trivia and grok the principles behind the design, all in one pass - or, I'll get sleepy after the third sentence, take an involuntary nap halfway through the first page, and overall maybe read a dozen pages before giving up, and not remembering much of if later.

I had this experience several times at work - I had to deal with some obscure legacy tech (think industrial protocols from the 90s), I enthusiastically figured I can learn this quickly, sat down to reference material, and... my eyes stopped being able to process text. And yet, over the following weeks or months, I'd have moments trying to work with that old thing, where I'd suddenly find a rabbit hole I had to chase, and through that chase I'd get rapidly up to speed with the spec that was impossible to even look at earlier.

Long term, this added to a much deeper understanding than people around me had, for fraction of the effort - so this was a win. Unfortunately, this also isn't compatible with how everyone works, as I can't plan or give other people promises or estimates around this. "I'll get there when I get there" doesn't fly in the modern workplace.

Like a few other related aspects of ADHD, it really is a superpower - just very hard to activate, and trying to activate it on demand actually makes it impossible.
TIL hero images on blogs are a valid metric when discussing art as a concept. If that's your primary exposure you're uniquely unqualified to have an opinion.
> The thing we want to emphasize is that right now there are some mechanisms that steer our civilization towards keeping us alive, and free in some senses, that might stop operating.

I agree with this formulation. What I am emphasizing is that, insofar as mechanisms are steering, the system in which they are operating can be said to have largely decoupled from the human mind.

"Alive and free in some senses."

A society whose tagline is "alive and free in some senses" is already dystopian! Far scarier, to me, than its extinction or my own early death.
Rotor was BSD licensed, so I suppose if that’s your definition of a not very open license…
Well, fact-checking works if it's done impartially. So, if you want to fairly fact-check a political debate, each side should have their own team of researchers/fact-checkers being equally able to object to an argument made by the opposing party. Due process, sort of, kind of.

But I don't think I've ever seen that done actually. Usually, fact checkers are akin to Reddit moderators. Technically independent, but with one important twist. These are people that have a lot of free time and are willing to spend it doing unpaid (or underpaid) work. And that's a huge bias. Big enough to question impartiality, if you ask me.
Her role was to enforce animal welfare laws. Simply investigating if those were upheld in extremely public examples of cutting chimps heads open who later died, doesn’t appear political to me.
JPMorgan's $4B delivery of gold adds to fear tariffs will reshape global trade
Using Foundry Instead of LinkedIn
we just launched foundry. voted #9 product of the day on product hunt. basically a social network for founders and startups. great place to build in public!!
For commit messages, the world seems full of bad commit messages, and commit hygiene. Does this do anything to help improve that? What I really want is a bot that groups my changes into logical commits. I.e. I tell what kind of change I want committed, and it stages only those patches.

I noticed today that one of the big hardware stores in Switzerland has started using LLMs to generate descriptions. As expected, it's just drivel:

> Do you need a new sealing ring for your washbasin siphon? No problem. The Geberit plug-in seal is exactly what you need. With a diameter of 32/46 mm, it fits perfectly and ensures that everything is tight. It has a height of 5.5 cm and a length of 2.3 cm, making it easy to handle and quick to install. It's simply worth its weight in gold when everything fits at the first attempt and you don't have to worry about whether the quality is right.
So, whenever your washbasin siphon needs a refresh, the Geberit plug-in seal with its 3.2 cm is your first choice. Simply insert and you're done.

https://www.jumbo.ch/de/bad-sanitaer/installationsmaterial/d...
Run. Important. Things. On. Premises.

Idiots.
I shudder to ask, but what exactly is a math pet?
he pardoned the January 6 rioters that he sent to the capitol to stop the certification of the election. they can all walk free now including the ones who killed a police officer.
Wow, what a perfect description of why their probability-logic leads to silly beliefs.

I've been wondering how to argue within their frame for a while, and here's what I've come up with: Is the likelihood that aliens exist, are unfriendly, and AGI will help us beat them higher or lower than the likelihood that the AGI itself that we develop is unfriendly to us and wants to FOOM us? Show your work.
It makes for a good test
First step would be to apologize to a trans woman for unleashing campaign of harassment for making a small ad for a beer and campaign to boycott that beer. You know, for making them first example of what you will do to those who do not sign to your gender idealogy.
Did you honestly think the main issue is the location of the start menu, and not the toxicity of the incessant pushing, or are you just pretending to as a cheap discussion gambit?

(If anything, your reference to the treacly treatise on the moving of cheeses makes me lean towards the latter.)
That’s just Culture War terms. And identification according to others (illiberal this or that) is often agenda-driven.

Self-identification is confused enough but identifying others is even more muddled.
Possibly a reference to the fake electors plot [0], although there was also the phone call to the Georgia secretary of state asking him to find 11,780 more votes [1], the pressure he applied to his VP to reject the election results [2], the subsequent Jan 6 riot that disrupted the certification...

At least some of these were covered by BBC [3, 4].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Raffensperger_ph...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pence#Vote_counting_and_s...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55524838

[4] https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-55559172
> When an employer pays a salary they are buying out your entire professional capacity.

Nah. I’ve got free time with a full time job. I’ll do what I damn well please with it. “Salary = ownership over worker” is the most authoritarian working class vs ownership class things I’ve heard

Let’s make laws that help the vast majority of people: workers.
This is contrary to the NTSB's own guidance which says to just check Twitter before
emailing:

https://www.ntsb.gov/news/Pages/media_resources.aspx

The NTSB now says it will only be releasing information via Twitter and no longer via email.

Does this move require X to take down login requirements to view NTSB posts?

Can a Federal Government oversight body ONLY release information locked behind an account requiring agreement to a non-government TOS?
I read your point, you ignored mine - I understand the companies position, and they are wrong, my customer perception matters because you literally changed my experience.

I genuinely don't care about the other perspective when I am explaining the one you are ignoring.
Swift isn't the one being held hostage, it's iOS development.
Arch linux (migth be a hurdle to install but worth learning if you want to take the time) and any thinkpad t,p,x series.

Wpuld suggest kde as desktop.
I’d rather have «wip» commit messages, and thus forced to open the diff, than worrying of the message being hallucinated.

I’m totally cool with people using this as an initial draft and then manually tweaking it though.
Microsoft never had anything to do with that with nice story full of butterflies.

The only UNIX Microsoft has ever supported during pre-Satya days, was Rotor for FreeBSD, nothing else.

Mono and DotGNU had nothing to do with Microsoft until Xamarin acquisition.
Which debuggers do you like the most?
Uh what? If I got fired from a private company security would also remove me
This is the playbook of a company moving from "Growth" to "Maturity". Of note:

In August 2024, Alphabet announced a quarterly dividend of $0.20 per share, totaling $0.80 annually, resulting in a dividend yield of approximately 0.39%

At current that would mean Alphabet's annual dividend payout is approximately $9.8112 billion.

Now the game is to pay that dividend, incentivize people to hold the stock and reduce volatility. A dividend stock company behaves very differently than a growth stock company.

Whats really frightening here is that a company like Google looks into the future and sees bad prospects for growth.
I don’t see anyone really disputing that. To the extent I’ve participated in this thread it has been to make clear:

1. Both car manufacturers and car drivers can be liable, even with self-driving cars. Any confusion here is likely due to conflating the car with the car manufacturer.

2. The proposed law wouldn’t assign liability, it would simply remove “the AI did it” as a possible legal defense.
Are 1100+ contributors active contributors and/or actually making non-trivial changes?
Related thread from a few hours earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897871
Next... Prepare to be paid in Bitcoin and Azure Credits....

https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-demands-...
Entirely true, and I had to go through all my freaking apps and turn off Siri in them because I dont want some annoying voice feature, one by one.

This compromises my belief in Apple being a company that gives a crap about UX.
Here's an idea - say they are 10000 things, but I conceptualize them as one as your customer. LET ME TURN IT OFF. THAT CHANGES NOTHING ABOUT WHAT I WANT AND I PAY YOU MONEY.
I think that’s kind of the point. He puts a button just down from the top that kills it.
Miguel has long left Microsoft and nowadays focus on Apple ecosystem, and Godot.

He also voiced back on twitter his disapproval on how Xamarin.Forms became MAUI.
Turn any topic into an interactive timeline
> Culture War terms

Sure. The Culture War’s belligerents are all, generally speaking, illiberal. And notably, most people steeped in it reject the term. Even those on the left.
It's an actual Zizian belief that you must always do the craziest thing you can possibly think of, in order to "collapse" the weight of your current timeline in some sort of totally counterfactual probability space... This is arguably the closest linkage they share to actual Rationalist-ish ideas. (Many Rationalists do genuinely advocate for some sort of improvement to animal welfare - but I don't know of any Rationalist who thinks that an ant has the exact same right to moral worth as the average human, which is the actual Zizian position on the matter - including the "and if you disagree with this, it means you're double-plus nongood" part)
concept interface isn't owned or invented by OOP.
Well, I'd say it's probably 'right' like 95% of the time where it conveys a good sense of the original intent/sentiment. But, that other 5% is what is "way too often" because in those instances it can be so far off that it could be classified as "not even wrong"....
They were traitors.

They waged war against the United States, attacking the seams of this very country's unity, which by even the Constitution's purposely narrow definition, is treason.

They were pardoned for their treason because they were traitors.
There was political pressure. Still there.
They found a new scapegoat. They blame public employees, they just advised all air traffic controllers to find a job in the private sector after this crash.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/politics/federal-worke...
I like openfeature. Initially I thought that it was overengineered and quote honestly, I never grew to a size where I had to use anything but an env-provider paired with out CI/CD pipeline. But it gave me security that A/B testing would be possible if needed, and, more importantly, we had a unified API for feature flags and they were all defined in one place.
Fair enough, did look for a similar subject before posting. Not a great deal of insightful discussion for such a major move.
Units tests save lives.
Hitler got rid of Germany's democracy in 53 days:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-ger...

Maybe Musk and Trump can beat his record.
We currently persist the feature flag config in a database where the containers pull it from. Not the optimal solution but that was a natural evolution from a system we already had in place.
At the very large scale, the universe does not appear to conserve energy. The whole "lambda" in "lambda cold dark matter" is a description of how energy is being added to the universe.
> they broke the law crossing the border illegally

The majority here crossed legally and overstayed their visa. That's just basic table-stakes knowledge for this issue, please remember it. Bonus points if you know that overstaying is a civil infraction like a parking ticket, below the level of a misdemeanor.

> these initial rounds of deportations are prioritizing illegal aliens with violent criminal records.

That's what the professional liar says, but why would you trust him on that?

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...

> These people are factually the worst of the worst.

How the hell can you "factually" know that when the Trump administration still won't even explain what criteria they are using!? (Even assuming they'll be making any honest effort at all.)
You know what I meant. I didn't submit my comment to a peer reviewed biology journal.

Stop trying to nitpick and engage with the actual argument.
US is becoming a banana republic
https://archive.ph/QnNq5
Ionide and Rider are other options too. But I thought the broken F# support in VS is a thing of the past now?

Imho the bigger problem is that the C# language designer continue to not take F# into account. Structs and SUM types could be a shared MSIL story perhaps.
Having trouble imagining an implimentable use case that will provide a net benifit.
The biggest nix on this idea, is that nothing in nature has tried a similar approach, and artic animals have a whole bunch of optical light adaptations , as do sea creatures, many of them are startlingly efficient and complex.
See polar bears, with optical fiber white hair that chanels light to black skin and riendeer who can see them by ulra violet light in cold snowy night, when.they are otherwise, invisible.
Likely will have industrial uses however.
Really cool game, I enjoyed the twist of using vehicles instead of conveyor belts :D. I noticed a strange bug tho' - when the robot enters certain fields on the map, it gets permanently stuck. It happens multiple times and always on the same fields.
This group formed in the SF Bay Area, which is known for being one of the most accepting places in the world for LGBT people. If marginalization were the main cause, it seems to me that the group would have been located somewhere else. I think it's more likely that these people had an underlying mental disorder that made them likely to engage in both violent behavior and trans identity.

One big difference the Zizians have with the LessWrong community is that LW people believe that human minds cannot be rational enough to be absolute utilitarians, and therefore a certain kind of deontology is needed.[1] In contrast, the Zizians are absolutely convinced of the correctness of their views, which leads them to justify atrocities. In that way it seems similar to the psychology of jihadists.

1. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K9ZaZXDnL3SEmYZqB/ends-don-t...
One of the USA greatest strengths is the almost unprecedented degree of transparency of governments records going back decades. We can actually see the true facts including when our government has lied to us or covered things up. Many other nations do not have this luxury and it has provided the evidentiary basis for both legal cases and "progress" in general. Not surprising that authoritarians would target and destroy data as it makes their objective of a post-truth society that much easier
Only paranoid SJWs called Musk a right wing person and here we are, watching Musk fund extreme right clearly proving them wrong. Those SJW were doing this thing whole my life, seems to me. There was always outrage about them accusing an innocent person of bad stuff ... only to turn out they were actually right.
I've been trying to sign up to them for over a year, and it keeps failing. Support tickets remain unanswered.
That depends on what you believe was there the instant before the universe was created.

Answering that with "nothing" would indeed violate all kinds of conservation laws. The currently most popular theory is that time and space also started at the big bang. If that's true there is no "before the big bang", and thus the energy was always there.

Other possible answers:

- the energy was there but kind of dormant, then something triggered the big bang

- we live in a cyclical universe: after the big bang the universe expands until it reaches some maximum, then it contracts, collapses in to itself and triggers a new big bang (this seems unlikely given current experimental evidence)

- The multiverse sometimes creates "bubbles" like our universe. This is similar to spacetime starting at the big bang, but tries to explain why that happened

- Same idea, but in regular 4d spacetime: we are a kind of bubble, possibly expanding bubble, in a void filled with bubbles

- We are the inside of a rotating black hole

I'd have to go back and check how the last three reason about energy.

As you can imagine, testing any of those theories is incredibly difficult. Not impossible, but really really hard. They are more like fan theories that can be tested for internal consistency without any good hope of showing which one is true.
Shouldn't a modern compression tool, targeting a high compression rate, try to switch its compression method on the fly depending on the input data?

I have no idea about compression, just a naive thought.
took me a while to recognize you can long press on mobile yt to 2x, maybe even more than 2x but I ain’t figured out the finger incantation
> not everyone has a bad experience with them

You don’t stay in business for long while burning every single bridge.

The standards for acceptable behavior from a supplier / business partner are a little higher than just doesn’t fuck over every single contract.
> languages that are most strict like Rust but have more momentum and safety?

Like Rust, Swift is a compiled language that offers memory safety by default.

The creator of Clang and LLVM also created Swift, and interoperability with C was an explicit design goal.

So Swift offers the memory safety and data race safety of Rust, in a compiled language, without giving up tight integration with C.

(To be fair, better C integration is something the Rust community is looking to add.)
> and are actually being adopted

Care to share some examples?