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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
And Today's Political Climate...
JOAN DEMARTIN
FEB 01, 2025
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Photo Credit: Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking in Cobol Hall, Detroit, June 23, 1963. Read and listen to the full speech, here.

“The price that this nation must pay for the continued oppression and exploitation of the Negro or any other minority group is the price of its own destruction. For the hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out, and we must act now before it is too late….” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., June 23, 1963.

Is the United States heading toward its “own destruction”? I originally planned to share my previous three posts published on MLK, Jr. Day with some additional current commentary, and closer to the actual date of Martin Luther King Day on January 20, 2025. But the timing this year coincided with President Trump’s inauguration and his flurry of shocking (but not unexpected) executive orders.

Given the statements of the current president on “DEI” and race made in just the last few days, I’m glad this tribute to Dr. King is published belatedly on February 1— a more auspicious day for Black history than I realized. According to a post published today by the historian, Heather Cox Richardson , President Gerald Ford officially proclaimed February 1, 1976, the first Black History Month:

“… asking the public to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”

Also on this day in 2023, the family of Tyre Nichols buried their 29 year old son after he was severely beaten by police during a traffic stop.

Ms.Richardson closed her post with this alarming information:

In 2025 the U.S. government under President Donald Trump has revoked a 60-year-old executive order that protected equal opportunity in employment and has called for an end to all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. This February 1, neither the Pentagon nor the State Department will recognize Black History Month. [Emphasis added]
This could happen anywhere. In this case, the train was stationary with its doors open. It was at a terminal and hadn’t started its route yet; the trains sit like that for a while before departing.

Also this terminal station is above-ground and partially open-air, and is located a block from the beach. It’s not like the “trapped deep underground” situation most people seem to be envisioning here.

A crazy person could do the exact same thing in a park or basically any random bench. Not subway specific at all.
My C64 didn't come with a monitor. I typed one in from a magazine, then learned assembly by entering instructions directly into it. I was so thrilled to discover assemblers later.
I use a https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm with a separate wifi access point.

That's EOL now, so nowadays I'd look to ARM e.g. https://radxa.com/products/network-computer/e52c
Imagine that someone decides recruiting needs a budget cut and shrinks the travel budget a bit. Managers shift to local career fairs instead. No one notices the complete lack of bay area HBCUs and a couple years down the road the pipeline is filled with people from Stanford with internships and internal recommendations competing against people from HBCUs that don't have either of them. One of these populations will look vastly more qualified on paper.
Are you asking someone who drives a car or anyone else? That might impact what one considers as "working."
> Old synthesizers routinely sell for five or sometimes six figures

Well, if it's a CS-80, sign me up! Seriously though, the analog synthesizer renaissance has been very good to synth musicians, from Prophet and Oberheim reissues (and modern versions) to Behringer's clones to modular to inexpensive mini-synths, along with new keyboards reviving things like ribbon controllers and polyphonic aftertouch.

> Post your beat made on a $100 commodity synth, and everyone will be "Good effort.." no matter how good it is.

Lots of great (and sometimes very popular) music is made on free or inexpensive software synths, plugins and DAWs. Does anyone really care as long as the music is good?
For sure one of the more concise and practical guides I've seen on the topic. Substrings make for a fantastic Northstar example.
Successful document processing vendors to use LLMs already. I know this at least of klippa. They have (apparently) fine-tuned models, prompts etc. The biggest issue with using LLMs directly is error handling, validation and "parameter drift"/randomness. This is the typical "I'll build it myself but worse" thing
Adaptation need not only mean genetic (slow), it could just as well be epigenetic. The latter is not well-understood enough to be taught in school textbooks yet, but has been of great interest in recent decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
Rate limiting based on IP, blocking obvious datacenter ASNs and blocking identifiable JA3 fingerprints is quite simple and surprisingly effective in stopping most scrapers and can be done entirely server side, I wouldn't be surprised if this catches more than half of problematic requests to the average website. But I agree that if you have a website "worth" scraping there will probably be some individuals motivated enough to bypass those restrictions.
It surprises me that these programs were ever legal.

It is strictly illegal in Australia to consider factors like gender or race when hiring. Even capturing these details from applicants is problematic in most cases.

The compensation payable if caught can be enormous, in the order of a years salary per applicant. It’s not even necessary to prove that a specific applicant was discriminated against, simply having a process which is likely to discriminate is sufficient.
According to the Supreme Court, he can do whatever he wants in the Oval Office and be immune from prosecution
No problem, will apply today. Look out for application and email with the same username, thanks.
There’s a huge gap in the poll between “Everything” and “One person does it”. For a high quality movie you need a lot of different experts.

The real question in my mind is: Can a given creator produce more (at the same quality level) by prompting, filtering, and editing or by creating?

If the answer is the former then you can pretty much expect more movies to be made for cheaper by fewer people with roughly the same level of quality.
I'm all for DEI, however you too seem to misunderstand one critical aspect, the 'E' in DEI. The 'E' (Equity) aspect is very nuanced and if not understood and communicated well would lead to deadlocked discussions

Equity factors in historical and sociopolitical factors that affect opportunities and experiences. This could mean that if we have a candidate who seems to be with lesser qualification then they potentially can be hired over a more qualified candidate.

This is with reasoning that due to past decades (and centuries) of historical situations a candidate was led through a path which landed them with a 'lesser' qualification. So, now if we continue to correct this historical situation then sometime in future the need for Equity would disappear, since that future generation is result of a equitable society - then no more excuses, if you have lesser qualification then it is your doing and not society's.
> how would they know what to cache?

That's a weird question to ask to someone that went out of their way to describe a non-caching situation.

> Also, how would their certificates work if they don’t see content?

Can you be more specific? I'm not sure which feature you're asking about or how it uses certificates.

But the answer is likely "that feature isn't necessary to provide DDOS protection".
You cannot address systemic inequalities at the hiring level without some preferential treatment. The idea was that if you had two candidates who were equally strong, you pick the one from an underrepresented/disadvantaged background because they've had to work harder to get to the same place. At a surface level that is a disadvantage at the hiring level to the other one because the other gets a bonus tie-breaker.
What does "throw everything into the model" entail in your context?

How much data are you able to feed into the model in a single prompt and on what hardware, if I may ask?
Huh. Compared to the giant clusterfuck of bullshit and poor management I deal with GitHub sounds like paradise. Imagine your manager saying no!
This feels just like telling a constraint satisfaction engine to backtrack and find a more optimal route through the graph. We saw this 25 years ago with engines like PROVERB doing directed backtracking, and with adversarial planning when automating competitive games.

Why would you control the inference at the token level? Wouldn’t the more obvious (and technically superior) place to control repeat analysis of the optimal path through the search space be in the inference engine itself?

Doing it by saying “Wait” feels like fixing dad’s laptop over a phone call. You’ll get there, but driving over and getting hands on is a more effective solution. Realistically, I know that getting “hands on” with the underlying inference architecture is way beyond my own technical ability. Maybe it’s not even feasible, like trying to fix a cold with brain surgery?
Yes, a random S3 upload that 401s. You nailed it.
Yeah, it's awkward that the usecase where I really want to be able to see (or really, commit) all my configuration like that is the place where I can't fit NixOS:( There was nixwrt, but that got discontinued. Actually it looks like Liminix is a thing now; I'll have to look at that.
"we will no longer have aspirational goals" - google in a nutshell
IBM claims to have booked $1B of cumulative quantum business
The opposite should be investigated as well. The deficiencies in nutrients like copper, selenium or molybdenum are generally only known in animals, and rarely investigated among people.
Copper deficiency can cause various symptoms like weight loss, loss of pigment, indigestion, or neurological problems. It seems that molybdenum deficiency shifts the symptoms towards neurological, while the rest happens from copper deficiency alone.
GraalVM reuses the normal java class loading logic which is platform-dependent. So e.g. on windows it will load some windows-specific File subclasses and the like, so this is more of an architectural problem to a certain degree.

(It really does loadClass everything reachable based on the code to be compiled)
While this sounds good, you could just dump the contents of /etc into git and it would work about the same.
Here is Australia I like the most expensive eggs you can buy, 150 birds per hectare, 800g, $15 a dozen.
https://www.hilltopsfreerange.com/
guess im living rent free
NO. I work on very public software, I receive pretty terrible criticism in reviews and email. Generally a vocal minority of people are unkind scammers and want it all for free and let me know. Blaming the recipient of the emails (victim blaming) or saying the individual may be suffering from wider issues is not on. It is irrelevant, it is their private life. At issue are the scum who scam.
These days just learn RISC V. Plenty of chips and MCUs.
I'm by no means right wing or a Trump supporter, but the fact that your comment earlier was flagged is complete bullshit.
Seems like an unidentified virus could be the cause?
NES emulator. Super nice exercise for the brave.
Used to be completely free
Price comparison should be required by law. In fact, I think it would be interesting for a city to require its major grocers to feed pricing information to a public database.
Worker Threads in Node.js: A Comprehensive Guide to Multi-Threading
On most openwrt devices you can compare /rom/etc/config to /etc/config (though this will get you a bunch of automatic changes as well).
These services are called CORS proxies! I recently made an updated list of the currently working free ones here:
https://gist.github.com/reynaldichernando/eab9c4e31e30677f17...

Do note that these proxies are for testing only, and they are heavily rate limited.

For production use case, you might consider using Corsfix (https://corsfix.com)

(I am affiliated with Corsfix)
Can you explain why you find it bigoted? I think if you ask a lot of Asians you'll find they agree with the statement.
6502 is a better "toy" asm than the Z80, but that's not saying much. It's not even obviously better than the AVR 8-bit insn set. As far as more modern platforms, I think there is a strong case for teaching RISC-V over something like MC68k. RISC-V can be very simple and elegant (in the base integer insn set) while still being very similar to other modern architectures like ARM, Aarch-64 and MIPS. It's also available in both 32 and 64-bit varieties, and the official documentation is very accessible.

MC68k just has tons of quirks which aren't really going to be relevant in the modern day and age. (About the only thing it has going for it is the huge variety of hardware platforms that happened to make use of it, many of which still have thriving retro communities around them. But that's more of a curiosity as opposed to something genuinely relevant.)
Most likely some typo on my part
>"You could have a blatant SQL injection in your code"

I my case SQL injection is not possible. I am not constructing any SQL statements from input.

>"you can always pretend"

I think it is you pretending to know problems that do not exist in my code.
Yes I suspect a lot of the ORM hate comes 1) from people using poorly designed ones or 2) from people working on projects that don't really require the features I mentioned. Like if you are generating reports that just issue a bunch of queries and then dump the results to the screen you probably don't care that much about the lifetime of what you've retrieved. But just because an ORM might not be the right tool for your project doesn't make it a bad tool overall, that would be like saying hammers are bad tools because they can't be used to screw in screws.
> contributes to the fact that richest man in the world is 100% the most miserable man in the world

You know, he should be able to afford a lot of therapy by very skilled and talented therapists.
If you have enough money, the infomaniak.ch cloud is great.
What is the relevance of Tesla to liking someone?
For routing, x86 is going to have the best perf for CPU intensive tasks like QoS. For wireless, mediatek is well supported upstream. WiFi is wifi 6 only though. Wifi 6E and 7 are in the works but will take a while to stabilize. My set up is an old lenovo thinkcentre nano IoT box as the router and netgear wax220 as AP, both running openwrt.
This person enjoys discussing ML, according to their post history.

Either they are stupid, actually talking out their butt and should be no where near a mathematical discussion or they are purposely using their ethical statistics class to be disingenuous and their "conclusions" should be thrown out.
This is the way to go, you wouldn't want to use a CORS proxy for something authenticated/with credentials (e.g. API key). But for public unauthenticated request, they work just fine.
They are probably using their own LLMs to generate the names.
Perhaps aspirational in using AI to help the military :)

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/business/google-ai-weapons-su...
Magagagia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Allallarmia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichere_Inter-Netzwerk_Archite...

(Really süperspeciälly VPN-hardware used to securely suck data out of ISPs with
extradeutsche Gründlichkeit,

mandatory to be installed by law,

just in case,

for some random chase.)

Edit: Thinking of it this is bubbling up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_Complex ,

where Magagagia built some little base just 'a stones throw' away from Allallarmias former monopol government Telcos early internet exchange and HQ .

( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernmeldetechnisches_Zentralam... )

What are the odds?
I enjoyed the article and the detailed analysis for different languages. The conclusion is probably the part where most of the disagreement lies. API design is is not really at fault here if we consider the purpose of the API and the intended output.

The API was designed to generate a hash for a password (knowledge factor) and for performance and practical reasons a limit has been picked up (72). The chances that some one knows your first 72 characters of password implies that the probably is a lot higher for the abuser to have remaining characters too.

While smaller mistake here in my opinion was not knowing the full implementation details of a library, the bigger mistake was trying to use the library to generate hash of publicly available/visible information
Understandable... but this is not that the point of the article.
The article says "...a good first assembly language".

Nowadays, normally people learn assembly after they learn higher level lang like C or Java.
The whole thing is about trying to eliminate sources of bias that we can. For example, blind screening of resumes where names and similar personal info aren’t given is a way to avoid racial bias while focusing on what matters. People have pre-determined opinions about many things, even if it’s subconscious. That’s an example of DEI policies trying to level the playing field to avoid unfair discrimination.
The idea is that instead of just interviewing the people right next to you, who look exactly like you and have your exact background, you make the effort to interview a diverse set of candidates. Then you try to get rid of bias in the hiring process, and make the workplace somewhere that doesn’t make folks who are slightly different miserable. That’s it.
We'll see about Canada, depending on who LPC elect for party leader and how Trudeau continues to handle Trump
Yeah "packed full" is probably a bit too heavy here. To pick a few examples though:

- The nazi punching thread had several moderated comments ranked near the top which were presumably calls to violence.

- The Mitch McConnal thread has many people looking forward to his death, hoping he goes to hell, and a few deleted comments.

- A musk thread has "eat the rich" and storm the capitol. Not super highly ranked.

I didn't go through all of them but it certainly is a bit odious.

Also note though how there's only 1 non political thread and the remainder are anti trump. This is on a general interest sub and what is likely to be an unremarkable day in the administration!
Very cool! I am curious how the scientific community views this situation, as it's quite rare to detect something like this. I read the JWST might be able to image it, but couldn't find that information. Can you share more?
We don't just have a bit less crazies when you compare with the 70s, 80s, or even the 90s. We flattened crime.
Where can I look at these college test score requirements? I have never heard of such a thing besides minimum SAT score to be considered. Is that adjusted based solely on race at some university? Where?
Why are traditional OCRs better in terms of hallucination and confidence scores?

Can we use logprobs of LLM as confidence scores?
Show HN: A Super Simple Unit Converter (Looking for Feedback)
Hey HN,

Just launched a super basic unit converter site: Metric-Converter.com. I know, I know, the internet is full of these things, right? But I kinda wanted to build one that was just… simpler. Like, stripped down and fast.

I was personally getting annoyed with a lot of the existing converters out there – too many ads, clunky interfaces, just felt slow. So, I thought, "Hey, why not try and make one that's just focused on doing one thing well: converting units, quickly and easily?"

What I tried to do with Metric-Converter.com:

Dead simple interface: No bells and whistles, just straight to the point. Hopefully loads fast too.

Focus on the essentials: Right now it's got the common stuff – length, weight, temperature, time, speed, area, volume, etc. Trying to keep it lean.

Quick and responsive: Tried to optimize it so it's snappy to use, get your results fast.

Works okay on mobile: Made sure it’s usable on phones too.

Honestly, I know it's pretty basic right now, and there's definitely room for improvement. That's kinda why I'm posting it here! I'd love to get your feedback and suggestions. Seriously, any thoughts would be awesome.

For example, I'm wondering:

What unit types am I missing that people actually use?

Where would you actually use something like this in your day-to-day? (Like, real-world scenarios)

Any thoughts on the UI? Is it easy enough to use? Any improvements you'd suggest?

Are there any other unit converter sites out there that do something really well that I could learn from?

Any and all feedback is super welcome! Thanks for taking a peek, and let me know what you think!

Link again: Metric-Converter.com
But my point was about situations where the term "pregnant people" is being mandated or strongly recommended instead of "pregnant women".
look good ~
I didn't read it as victim blaming to say the author might have general depression. Because the cause of the depression here are clearly the assholes who took the joy out of it.
Hypothetically here is one way it might have played out

Product - we need to provide service availability even if the AD is down

Engineer - Ok, may be we can store the ~credentials in cache

Security - oh, in that case make sure everything in cache is hashed properly with the recommended Bcrypt algorithm

Engineer - We got the approval from the security, we are in much safer zone, lets deliver and get a win
Clearly you didn't even read his post (or mine) if you're asking. I'm obviously referring to

> Cloudflare wants to be a monopoly. They've shown they have no care in the world for marginalized people, whether they're people who don't live in a western country or people who simply prefer to not run mainstream OSes and browsers.
Google AI. Google AI 2. Google AI 3. - for google

AIPal. AltmanAI. PayAI. - for Altman
I struggled with C until I learned to hex and assembly program on the 68HC11. Maybe I'm just a moron, but things like pointers for a complete beginner seemed so abstract and obtuse until I learned how to do indirect addressing in assembly, then suddenly it was painfully obvious why C had pointers and how they worked. Before that I just mostly used Python where it's far more abstracted away. People forget that many features like pointers exist to address hardware/performance limitations, which is not immediately obvious to new devs the "why and what" of what they're actually doing inside the cpu which limits your intuitive understanding.
Elon is a lying fraud. I'm pretty skeptical about any claims of fact that come out of his expedition.
On the one hand, you have DEI policies like Harvard's college admissions or the air traffic controller hiring scandal. And of course DEI advocates always claim that these are obvious perversions of True DEI, which is only about expanding opportunities and never about discriminating against disfavored groups of people.

On the other hand, the tricky bit comes in when it's only in retrospect everyone agrees those were terrible perversions of DEI. When they're actually in place, anyone who criticizes them is considered a racist neo-Nazi.
The 68K is still a tiny bit awkward, with its 24-bit bus and alignment restrictions and middling support for indexing into arrays (no scale factor). The 68020 is about as close to C as an ISA can get - it’s extraordinarily pleasant.