skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we have this problem in our book club and in tv series discussions all the time, and it really isn't a problem. everyone shares their thoughts to the things they are reading/watching and people give their feedback. some people avoid spoilers until they are caught up and add their thoughts then. some people are behind and talk about things we already discussed days ago. i even once discussed a tv series season one while everyone else was already watching season two. we didn't get intodeep discussions but people were answering my questions without spoiling things for me. certain movies are being discussed over and over again every few months or years. if you have a group that communicates well with each other, none of this matters. the worst thing that can happen is that latecomers get less engagement. but it really depends on the detail or the mood.

a system that allows marking of spoilers with the chapter/episode/part etc, and hide the ones that are further along than me would be nice. practically speaking though it would be enough if everyone could tag their messages with the chapter/part they are talking about and then the reader can choose to unhide based on that information.

the hard part with any such system is to get the participants to develop the discipline to actually recall the chapter and mark the comment. "somewhere in the book the gardener removed a sticky substance from his shears, but i forgot which chapter that was."
Touting “first principals” is a way of revealing “I’m too dumb to understand other people’s work.” Like if you can’t understand higher level concepts and have to start on your own from Euclid, it just means you aren’t very smart but think you can be another Maxwell just by thinkin’ real hard. It’s a joke.
Nobody's Thinking Enough About AI
Macron signals investments of 109B euros in French AI by private sector
You seem to pretend to be dense on purpose, so I'll try one last time to explain it to you as simple as possible, in the very slim hope that you have trouble understanding my point and not just trolling.

What this legislation was purported to do has very little to do with what ended up happening once it was enacted. What it caused is massive proliferation of useless warnings about presence of dangerous chemicals on pretty much every public place (I had multiple prop 65 warnings in apartment building I lived in, because it had an underground parking, cars emit dangerous chemicals, those chemicals may accumulate in the air and walls of the structure, and you could be affected by it) and many goods, while vast majority of places and goods so marked posed absolutely no danger, and for ones that did the warning was useless, because everything is marked with this warning so people just ignore it. It also created a situation where failure to post such warning posed a significant risk of being sued - not by actual victims of pollution, but by opportunist law firms hiring straw plaintiffs to cash in on the situation. Nothing of this has absolutely anything to do with dumping anything into rivers - despite the legislation mentioning rivers, there are other parts of the legislation, not mentioning rivers, that led to the above described effects.

This is common knowledge to anybody who lived in California for any significant time - prop 65 warnings are literally everywhere.
Or even that being healthier and less frail means you're more likely to go out and enjoy being outdoors.

As I age, I increasingly see the effect that healthy people with great genetics also have all the indicators of being healthy. I think this effect is conflated to an extent even for things like exercise: for people that feel good and strong, exercise feels great. For people that aren't, they go downhill faster anyway.

I have terrible genetics for cardiovascular disease. I've spent my life as an athlete, eating healthy, training, etc. But now in my 30's, I can feel the slow down a lot despite being more disciplined in my training and diet than ever and yet I know people my age that haven't trained in years that can just go for a run and absolutely smoke me.

I'm sure at some point my genetics is going to force me to slow down a bit on the training despite my best efforts and then I'll just end up as someone contributing to the statistics that those who exercise more are healthier.

I know that exercise has benefits nevertheless, but I also think we very often just make the mistake of concluding "healthier people are healthier".

Life is not really fair.
Always been rather partial to the Windows 9x look myself, but Mac OS 9 is a solid runner-up to me in terms of looks. Enjoyed seeing some of the reimaginings of modern apps, quite gorgeous.
Not OP but there are a few ways I can imagine this being true:

- the song file stored in binary, printed out line by line

- the sheet music for the song, ie instructions for recreating it

In AI/ML world we're usually thinking about encoding into a series of high dimensional vectors, not sure off the bat how to represent that as a 2d image
Hmm we seem to be missing each other a bit here. My point is that I'm fine with this article being on the front page of HN today, and I'm not fine with it being at #1 or #2 on the front page. Both of those are moderation calls. Does that help clarify?
I visit shownew a bunch but am always scared to upvote anything bec it might be a scam. There really is a decent amount of spamming there
If your objection is that "I don't want to engage with it" and "I don't find them useful", it seems obvious to me that the solution is to simply not click on the thread and move on, rather than to attempt to stifle everyone else from engaging with it.
Pet microchip company Save This Life shuts down, pet owners urged to re-register
It sounds like potentially any pets registered through this service are no longer able to be reunited with their owners unless the chip serial number is manually re-registered with a different company, such as Free Pet Chip Registry or 24 Pet Watch.

From the American Kennel Club: "If your dog or cat has a microchip number that starts with 991 or 900164 then it could be a Save This Life microchip. Save This Life suddenly closed, and your pet may not be protected."
dang has commented about this before, and IIRC the gist is that he has access to a ton of data about user activity on the site, and that in the vast majority of cases where it feels like a story/comment/opinion is being brigaded or otherwise maliciously targeted en masse, the data hasn't backed that up. The community is a large and varied, so inevitably whatever opinion you or I holds, there are a ton of people who also exist here who disagree.
I suppose we all read what we all want to read, but I personally found the following fragment amusing:

"rivage couldnt print hello world"

Granted, some of it may be sour grapes, but those are supposedly other kiddies he worked with at the time.
On the other hand there might exist a deal where everyone involved is guaranteed a pardon as an incentive to sow as much chaos as possible.
Faux privacy gets what faux privacy deserves.
Privileged IT access usually requires public trust, which will definitely include a PI talking to friends and former colleagues along with a variety of database analysis. It’s not just checking to see if you have DUIs or unpaid child support.
I think the problem is already discovery.

I disagree engineers and artists should do more per unit time. like we need more content per second....

....as if art and real inspiration would ever follow the chaotic beat of human progress
A blog becomes a testament to our willingness to be wrong publicly, to think out loud, to expose our intellectual growing pains.

And there's profound credibility in documenting our uncertainties, our revisions, our gradual approximations toward truth.
You don't need to know the name; I prefer to go by the error code PG spits back at you. In this case 23505.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/errcodes-appendix.ht...

That is much more flexible than hard coding the name.
Yep, I probably did. I really appreciate all of the feedback people are providing!
Newsweek article that provides more context for the Election Truth Alliance's analysis as well as other claims (and statements by Trump alluding to it)

https://www.newsweek.com/2024-election-rigged-donald-trump-e...
Sadly governments won't learn from this incident. The British one for example will keep on insisting backdooring everything.
https://elicit.com/review/c701554b-5722-424d-a3d7-b805b5878a...
In all of those scenarios you still have to deal with the impact of shutting down agencies like USAID.

Elon says things like USAID is a ball of worms, it needs to be scrapped, and if they cut too much they'll roll it back. How? The people getting fired aren't going to stick around waiting for a roll back and, if they're wrong about it being 100% waste, the people that die because they're reliant on those outreach programs can't be brought back to life. It's not software. You can't roll back mistakes that have an immediate human impact.

The risk and fallout of being wrong are so significant that they way they're going about it is reckless. There's also a risk they'll simply claim they were 100% right and no one has any way of verifying it. It's like Bush standing in front of the Mission Accomplished banner. What was the mission and how was it determined to be a success?

And that's the main issue. There's no objective measure for success. That makes debunking false claims of success extremely difficult and time consuming. It takes 5 minutes for Musk to do an interview saying they cut $4 billion of waste by shutting down USAID and an extraordinary amount of work for anyone trying to prove the worth of what they're doing.

That's even more true for anything that's subjective like the value of good will or for anything that seems so obviously beneficial that you never thought you'd need to justify, so didn't keep data proving the value. It's like being accused of being a criminal and having the burden of proof fall on you to prove you've never committed a crime. How do you account for your entire life?

I could be swayed by the argument that security clearances and controlled access to information could be abused to prevent scrutiny, so there's probably some merit in trying to short circuit that stuff, but the way it's done matters. For example, issue an executive order to expedite security clearances for the outsiders you want on the team or create a new class of security clearance where those people get blanket access but have to adhere to controls that prevent data exfiltration.

We have the technology to make sure data isn't tampered with. The DOGE team could be working on-site, creating and digitally signing reports on waste they want to see cut, sending those reports to congress, and auditing to make sure congress sees every report they've signed.

I can see the value in outsider access to data with the intent of bypassing entrenched interests, but unilaterally shutting things down without any oversight or debate is a step too far. At a minimum, those shutdowns should be accompanied by transparent reports detailing the waste, especially when the determination that something is wasteful is subjective.
My anecdatum: I once had a Windows machine that was frequently giving me the famous BSOD. Sometimes it would run for a few minutes, other times it would happen immediately on boot. Booting the same system in Linux would only produce some kernel errors, but the system kept running.

That's the kind of stability I need.

P.S.: Turns out the RAM was bad and replacing it fixed everything.
> technically, a clearance and background check have never been done on political appointees. the fbi openly says so.

"Trump team agrees to DoJ background checks for nominees"

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/03/trump-team-b...

"FBI background checks of presidential nominees, explained":

* https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-5260953/fbi-background-...

This has been the case since Eisenhower in 1953:

* https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/execu...
AI tools can also emulate analog signal processors like guitar amps (e.g. NeuralDSP). I made an emulation of a popular studio EQ that sounds great.
I think the details of what The Com is beyond scamming and SIM swapping are downplayed in coverage and discussion. It's a violent terrorist network...
Once the comment disappears it is too late, no? How can an invisible comment be seen in order to be vouched or upvoted? I typically overlook grayed out or invisible comments unless I intentionally go looking for them.
What I don’t understand is how this thing happened on the first place. Someone just shouldn’t be able to be appointed by a single dictator, and suddenly have access to a wealth of data that would have made the (here we go) nazi’s green with envy.
Ah,I didn't realise it was cloud based! I appear to be very out of touch.
Aside from the ones you mentioned, DoubleClick is probably their biggest success story. ITA (google flights) also pretty good
I wouldn't exactly call Krebs "niche", he's quite well known on his own.
It was posted 38 hours ago (about 12 hours before yours). (you can tell the order by comparing the item IDs btw)

The timestamps get relativized by HN's re-upping system, described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 and links back from there. About the timestamps, there are past explanations here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Sorry for the confusion—I know it's weird but the alternative turns out to be even more confusing and we've never figured out how to square that circle.

You can always see the original timestamps by looking at any page other than /news or /item. For example, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=krebsonsecurity.com.

Not finding the post on search is a separate issue - that's because the threads had been flagkilled, and killed posts (anything marked [dead]) doesn't show up on HN Search.
A quick google search tells me Finland, Norway, Sweden, Pakistan
He's always dabbled in right-wing culture war type stuff with his various Wikipedia alternatives but more recently he's been into QAnon and anti-vax stuff.

I'd got the impression he was doing it partly to get right-wing funding for his various projects but maybe he's a true believer and I'm doing him a great disservice by calling him a grifter and not a lunatic.
I think that's not far off the same as asking what 1890s films are worth watching. You could watch a couple for a bit of novelty and an idea of what technology was like but none of them are "good".
If you have multiple unique constraints in the same table then it will spit back the same error code. I want to know the name of the specific constraint that was violated.

Always name your indexes. Always name your constraints.
What is the preferred approach for those of us who want fewer Trump/Musk-related posts? Other than, you know, participating in a flamewar.
If a measurement changes the expected value of the energy, one or both of the initial and final states won't be time-invariant, and you're talking about the time-invariant Schrodinger equation.
I can grant all of this makes sense for contractors, given that it's not building a career within a single company. I was more talking about full time, long term careers within a single domain.

> No matter how good your code is, high availability, fault tolerance, redundancy, even throughput comes from the underlying architecture. Code and hands on implementation is usually the least challenging part of a delivery.

I agree to a certain extent. Unless the solution is short lived, designing the code to scale properly is extremely important, and this happens at the implementation level where details of how code is being added makes all the difference. I can see how contractors might not be thinking about this, but it's a recurring pattern with legacy systems. Additionally with software, implementation gets automated away if done correctly, so there is only an initial overhead that pays back as the codebase grows larger and larger.

I'm not saying there is no need for engineers that deal with org and management issues, but rather that companies underestimate the need for senior level engineers focusing on the software implementation details, only to pay the price as the codebase inevitably accumulates complexity later as it scales in size.

Anyway, great discussion, I appreciate your input and will be considering it more.
Since about 2014 I have zero trust in English Wikipedia on anything remotely connected to politics, history or philosophy, and partially culture. It has been working very hard to appear neutral but be very far from neutral.
I find it bewildering that anyone ever didn't know about this. almost like not knowing sex causes babies
> Tmux is great if you need any more than 1 terminal window open at once - just remap some of its hotkeys to stuff that make more sense for you (e.g. I use "Alt + |" to split vertically and "Alt + -" (minus) to split horizontally).

Nice tip! While I don't mind the default Tmux keybindings (<prefix> " and prefix % for horizontal and vertical splits), one thing that used to annoy me early on was how new panes would default to the directory where Tmux was originally launched, rather than inheriting the current working directory. Fortunately it was easy to fix with a few lines of code in ~/.tmux.conf:

bind '"' split-window -c "#{pane_current_path}"
bind % split-window -h -c "#{pane_current_path}"
bind c new-window -c "#{pane_current_path}"

This ensures that while splitting a pane with <prefix> " or <prefix> %, or while creating a new window with <prefix> c, the new shell inherits the working directory of the previous pane. This small tweak saved me countless unnecessary "cd" commands.
That’s why I write everything. It helps me assemble my thoughts on a topic and share them with others in the future.

I often have difficulty getting topics out of my head until I write them out. Some thing I will publish that I’ve had bouncing around for a year or more and then it just stops once I publish it.

I’ve been lucky to have a few things I wrote get traction on here over the years and that’s been pretty cool.
Perhaps a minor point, but I think your argument would have been stronger and more convincing if you didn't refer to people you disagree with as "termites".

I think the top NYT comment on this article highlights a very real problem that infested a lot of academia and places in corporate America. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that many of these places, especially in academia, have done real soul searching and considered that there are real problems that they were responsible for. Instead, I feel that in a lot of places you just see a "backlash to the backlash", i.e dismissing fair criticism as "the tide of unintellectual MAGA-ism":

> “When Google conducted a study recently to determine whether the company was underpaying women and members of minority groups, it found that more men than women were receiving less money for doing similar work.”
Obviously, this conclusion does not fit the politically correct mindset of most Google employees and management (or, for that matter, of the New York Times.)

> So, Google is searching for more data, and some explanation, of why the initial conclusion, that salary disparity may not put women at a disadvantage, must be wrong. I’m sure that if the results of the study were the reverse of what they showed, and demonstrated a bias against women, there would have been no head-scratching and no quest for further study.

> This illustrates a problem likely present with a great deal of scientific research, especially work in the social sciences. People look for results that match their preconceived notions, and keep looking until they find what they expect. When they find the expected, they stop looking. It’s a potent and pernicious source of bias.

> Pay disparities are both complex and important. By all means, Google, and society at large, should study the problem carefully and thoroughly. But we should leave open the possibility, that the truth may not be what we initially believe.
Cool, you cherry-picked some radical and terrible things. I can find some examples of progressives doing radical and terrible things, too.

This whataboutism is unrelated to the point I was making, and entirely representative of the kind of thinking that is facilitating and encouraging the dissolution of political discourse in this country.

When your first response to someone suggesting that you might be part of the problem is to excuse every bad action from your side by pointing to the egregious actions of the other, you tell me that you have no interest in having a good-faith discussion with anyone who disagrees with you, even slightly. We may agree on most topics, even, and yet you come out of the gate swinging because I suggested your side (which is also my own side!) might be part of the problem.

How then can you expect someone like me to believe you actually have my best interests in mind? Responses like this are not convincing that we even are on the same side, even if we agree on most things!

P.S. The problem with whataboutism is that it undermines your point. If you're offended when "the other side" does a thing, you should be even more offended when your own side does it, because it represents a betrayal of your values. The fact that you're using the other side's bad behavior to entirely discount criticisms about your side's behavior just tells me you don't actually think it's bad behavior when your side does it. At the end of the day, the message I get from that is "rules for thee, but not for me".
Are you referring to his quote "If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week." or his more general belief of if you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it?

There's some related comments by him here: https://kottke.org/17/06/if-you-cant-explain-something-in-si...

Maybe the issue is that some things are too complicated to be explained without maths and aren't accessible to lay people as they're so counter-intuitive.
I don’t think so, but in my opinion a lot of business stuff takes way too much effort to integrate and is too flakey (APIs keep changing) that we don’t bother automating much between silos anymore.

It literally takes more time (and cost) on average to automate the task, than what you save if you do the task less than 50 times or so per month, and once you automate it you’ll have to maintain the automation which will break more than you expect (rotate API keys, APIs change, etc)

So I used to push hard for automation. Now I push hard for simplicity (checklists) so the clerks can deal with it and free up the devs to improve product.
There's probably still a bunch of libertarian leaning Ron Paul supporters here.

I'm all for limited government and shutting down all foreign aid, but this is why I hate Trump and Maga. They ruin everything by playing checkers and not chess. How did Musk not see that sending unvetted kids into the US Treasury was going to blow up in his face.

Now Musk is saying he is going to get Ron Paul to audit the Fed, finally. Does he not see that sending a 90 year old to audit the fed is going to be even more of a clown show?
He started with USAID because they were investigating Starlink.
Would you please stop it with these off-topic meta-posts? It's getting tedious.
Yep.

There's gonna come a time when Elon's gonna tell the AI to tell us to push all the buttons, just to see if we'll do it. And I'm pretty sure we will.
Friendly reminder that you can pay full price for something and end up owning nothing in the end.