skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obama, 8 years: 9.5

Trump, 4 years: 7.8

Biden, 4 years: 8.4

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/mar/12/joe-biden/...

https://www.investopedia.com/us-debt-by-president-dollar-and...

It’s not that I don’t think the debt is a problem, but it’s also typically a conservative talking point. Given your rhetoric on conservatism, and your representation of the facts, it seems unlikely to me you actually care about this.
That is the wrong take. Depreciated and burned out chips are replaced and a total compute value is typically increased over time. Efficiency gains are also calculated and projected over time. Seasons are inevitable and cyclical. Spring might be here but winter is coming.
> And prices and availability of Chinese cloud computing and AI products.

We have no idea if the chips are just being heavily subsidized to deal with the low yields. If it isn’t free market, the prices they offer aren’t going to tell us much, and if it subsidized heavily it won’t be very sustainable.
How would you do it if this was the goal? First you introduce TPM to every device under the sun until it’s everywhere, then you just have to flip a switch. You write Patriot Act then stash in the drawer until it’s time...

> you can happily sideload apps.

This is extremely weak argument when the other major platform does not let you do that, right? Sideloading could go away at any moment just like that. That’s my point. There’s nothing technical stopping it.

> People accept this with consoles because a console is a device exclusively for consuming media, and all developers apply for a devkit.

Already Windows has: Smart screen (which requires code signing) and app store. Locking down the OS and Apps is hardly unprecedented. Both Windows and MacOS now have developer modes which is a software devkit equivalent.

> Without a mass exodus to Linux?

That’s why you wait until mass adoption (win11) only then start boiling the frog.

Look, I acknowledge this is slippery slope argument. But the slope is very slippery. Something is clearly going on.
what actions? and why is an EV credit bill the appropriate vehicle to do so, rather than say.. the court system?
DEI quotas have been around for decades. We just used to call it affirmative action and it was far less aggressive and blatant.
I second this. A lot of technical people struggle with Linux, and I think a lot of that is because they have a way of working and they want to force whatever they use to work like that. While less technical people just use whatever they're given. My father and my grandmother both use Linux, and they don't even know it and there are no issues.
Is it ms? seconds? days? weeks? months? How far up do I have to read to figure that out?

When I'm looking at a test case is broken, I ideally want context IN the actual test that lets me understand what the test author was thinking when they wrote it. Why does this test exist as it does? Why are the expectations that are in place valid? Write the comments for you-in-2-years.
Great idea! The scrolling is a bit broken though. I can't scroll down the text on my trackpad without it going to the next article, and also it just a lot of articles with a tiny movement of the trackpad.

Otherwise it's a really fun idea! Can I suggest you also scrape from https://www.medrxiv.org/? This is where a lot of medical research preprints, not arxiv
The current Hamas charter states that they fight Zionism, not for them being jews but for their own stated goal of stealing their land, which they have and are continuing to do. Why are you trying to pretend that Israel have not had far right forces within it for a very long time, they're currently in power. I'm not saying that Hamas is good by saying that Israel is also bad, both are bad, but only one of them came there with the goal to steal the land of the people living there.

Part of Likuds founding charter is this phrase: Between the sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty. Sounds familiar?

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-inter...
I'm the developer of react-reverse-portal, this will definitely be a real help!

Iframes particularly have always been a pain point, as people often want to reparent them to move things around the DOM, but they always reload completely when you do so which causes all sorts of issues. This new API says it explicitly _doesn't_ reload iframes, so we'll be able to drop that caveat immediately (for supporting browsers, but hopefully Safari/FF will follow suit soon). Looks great!
> Which is to say, it's a facade they play because they find it works with their base and to their advantage.

I do not believe it is a façade in either case (Bush, Trump).
Being in the way is neither force, nor power. But, y'know. For some people, up is down, black is white and war is peace.

To be clear you're suggesting standing in the street constitutes:

> a violent takeover of public infrastructure

I suppose sitting in a diner which people didn't want you sitting in would also constitute, "A violent takeover of a private establishment".
> It’s organizational leading and having people in place who are aligned with your goals, not splicing DNA.

We're talking about the DOD here, not Transportation Secretary.

And this conversation is in the context that these are the same people who are "rooting out the disease of DEI", Red Scare style, in order to "promote meritocracy".

As for whether qualified leaders got us into wars we should never have gotten into (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.) that's a whole other conversation.
Something's wrong when Clippy fills you with nostalgia for simpler times
Rust has Cranelift: https://cranelift.dev
That’s literally what this whole article was about. Removing a high correlation performance test, that black candidates didn’t pass as frequently, and replacing it with a very low correlation questionnaire that provided a more diverse applicant pool while weeding out highly qualified individuals.
I'd argue that the Go example is worse than the equivalent in C, because Go has a garbage collector and C does not. In C, precisely because of the lack of a garbage collector, people need to explicitly and carefully document who is responsible for deallocating the memory. This makes things clear who is owning that memory. And this by extension leads to an intuition on whether the append is acceptable on the original slice or not. If a C function returns such a slice and is documented that the caller should free it, you can call realloc and add to it; if the C function documents that the caller should not free it, you naturally wouldn't even try to append to it: you would copy it first.

In Go, this garbage collector frees people from thinking about freeing memory. But it doesn't free people from thinking about owned vs borrowed memory. And that's where bugs can happen.
I assume that bandwidth is by far the biggest cost for running your own streaming service, so letting Google take that hit makes a lot of sense.
I would be surprised if Starlink needed the handshake in order to locate a phone, I get the concern, and certainly an opt out would lower your attack surface, but I'm pretty sure if you can establish a bidirectional link with a satellite the satellite can hear your phone asking for the nearest cell tower (or whatever it's doing, I'm sure the IMEI is up there in the noise and you can pick it out if you have good ears)

I'm only thinking about this from a first principles modulated EM radiation perspective though, eager to have someone point out why I'm wrong.
Randomized Data Structures: New Perspectives and Hidden Surprises
I'm aware how it's supposed to work. If actual rights are getting overturned you will be right. If they aren't, then aren't you wrong??
Without a doubt, Microsoft wins on backward compatibility. I was running a circa-2006 Firewire audio device on Windows 10 in 2021 using drivers that had not been updated since 2012.

I had a Dell Laptop that, when I bought it in 2006, had Windows XP on it. I was able to upgrade it all the way to Windows 10, at no charge. (The beta versions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 both just kind of rolled over into full fledged versions of the OS. Now, even by the time I had Win8 on that machine, it was just for fun. I mostly kept it around because the screen resolution was unusually high for 2006, and for a period afterward, laptop screen resolutions were almost all lower than WXGA+ even on higher end machines. But you could run Windows 10 and modern browsers on a machine built for the WinXP era. Also, I think I paid $700 for that machine, from the Dell Outlet. That's a lot of mileage for the price paid.

So when Windows 10 told me that my 12-year-old Ship of Theseus Dell XPS desktop was unable to take an upgrade to Windows 11, I took a long hard look, and sprung for an M1 Macbook w/ 64gb of RAM. They had a pretty killer deal on these at B&H, and it's the first time I've ever felt like I've had a true "desktop replacement" laptop. I still think Explorer is better than Finder (and I'm not going to argue with anyone about why so don't bother asking), there are things I will miss about having an ATX case, but Apple's abdication on proprietary ports is ultimately what pushed me over the edge. Everything is USB-C. Great! I had gotten a lot of mileage out of Firewire hardware, but I saw this as a pivotal moment to use some of that money I'd saved over the last decade and a half to completely modernize my setup.

If Windows 11 hadn't forced me to consider new core hardware (and if Apple silicon hadn't leapfrogged everything else on the market - using a laptop all day without charging? Phenomenal.) I'd still be using Windows.

I've been using MS operating systems since DOS 3.1, I just have to assume I'm no longer their target market.
What does this hand waving about corruption in scientific research/publishing have to do with the mass firing of those deemed disloyal to the new administration? What has the new administration done to combat corruption in science?

I am probably arguing with chatgpt but someone has to.
Also, in my experiences most of those services which offered free time or heavily discounted alternatives to cancelling tend to be things which have a pretty low cost per subscriber (e.g., news sites, simple applications, not much per-user storage).
We would call those qualifications to be a Sr. Principal Engineer or higher even ... not an SVP in charge of 1M+ people. Hegseth is way out of his league.
> I used Docker for years on CentOS 7, and only switched to Podman when it got better than the competition.

RHEL 8 and CentOS 8 (for the short life it had) came with Podman as default, with IIRC even aliases of docker==podman.
I think when comparing where to live, it's more helpful to look at what's normal. That's what you're going to be eating at mealtimes at work, it's what your kids are going to eat at school or their friend's place, etc. It's what you get when the company moves its office away from New York and you have to follow.
> Whole Foods was good ten years ago

My visits there were between Christmas 2014-15 and the end of summer in 2018, Whole Foods wasn't that good even on the first trip.

> If you want to enjoy the food here, you probably need to go with a local.

I did, that's how I got the "oh, you gotta try this while you're in Manhattan!" cafe — can't even remember the name of that cafe now — and Whole Foods, and the Co Op in Davis, CA: https://maps.app.goo.gl/38HdERDX99vxBzF66

Overall your description seems to be broadly agreeing with me, so I'm not sure how it's supposed to "abolish" my low regard for American cuisine?
Is it filtered to only talk about AI or all of current science interest is about AI ?
> using current cultural agenda items and going back in time and attributing them to people is always going to be wild speculation.

I'm as blue as they come, but let's not mince words.

This was a racial equity policy. Like a lot of them, it was designed by idiots and/or racists.

Much like the elite college admissions lawsuit, we don't need to guess at people's ideology - they WROTE DOWN that the cognitive test "disadvantaged" black applicants and so a biographical questionnaire was needed to re-advantage them.

When Trump opened his mouth to blame DEI for the crash, about 95% of what he said was hateful, totally-made-up bullshit. Despite that and speaking practically, DEI had a significant role to play in the ATC understaffing during the crash.

I really wish that our party was better at calling out crazy people within our ranks, ESPECIALLY when they do stuff that's guaranteed to alienate a solid chunk of the country just based on if "their worst subject in school was science" or whatever other deranged, racist proxy for race they come up with.
IT's not so simple. Eventually there will be an interview and the person scoring the interview may have some bias.

And as someone else points out, some schools like HBCU have names that carry racial coding.
It should be quite a bit more than that, world population is 8 billion, assuming 70 percent of that is of of working age (normal distribution), and about 95% of that would substantially benefit from a yearly annuity, it would be 3760 average per person, or double that for average households.

And there's compounding factors, money makes money, I could easily see the influx of wealth to the lower classes causing a boom of wealth we haven't seen since the 60s.

Even if you were to concentrate most of that wealth in the USA, by trickle down economics (also redistribution across national lines is difficult), that works to about 120k per individual here.

That's a Six Figure Salary for Every American who want one.

Let that sink in.
Every human being is politicized. Especially if we're talking about the people in organizations that in the cold war period funded far right terrorism in europe, and organized coups in south america
>[I]t's more customer-friendly for people who forgot to unsubscribe to subsidize people who are actually using it

You characterize my position exactly right. I only point out there are many options people might not use Netflix for two months beyond just forgetting to cancel it.

>Low churn often means consumer-hostile actions

Raising prices is the ultimate consumer-hostile action. That's where you have to start. It's unavoidable when you legislate higher churn.

>like making it hard to unsubscribe or failing to remind users they're subscribed,

Allowing competitors to price in an easier unsubscription flow is superior to legislating it across the board, for the minority of users who care about that more than a lower overall price. Heck, some companies go even further and offer this thing called a "money-back guarantee", or will just prorate you if you ask nicely. But again you usually pay extra for these niceties, because agreeableness can and should be a valued good in the world.

> I can think of a few that I paid for too long because cancelling was a pain in the ass

Well, I sympathize, and I've sometimes paid for subscriptions I didn't end up using too, but such is life. We don't always make the most out of what we pay for. That's not a good reason to inflict harm upon the majority of satisfied users of those things by causing their prices to go up using legislation, though.
Here's me not using Gemini 1 because the only use case for me for old assistant is setting a timer. Because of reports that Gemini is randomly incapable of setting one.
That (4) in my comment was supposed to be (5), way too late to fix now.
I guess this is a point where terminology matters. If you work with SQL database in an OOP language, you pretty much always do some object-relational mapping, no matter if you have a big framework or just raw SQL connection.

But this is not what people usually call as ORMs. All the "bad kind of ORM" (JPA impls, Entity Framework, SQLAlchemy, Doctrine, Active Record...) have some concept of an entity session which is tracking the entities being processed. To me, this is a central feature of an ORM, one of its major benefits. It is, incidentally, also serving as a transaction-scoped cache.

I won't of course dispute that you can have caching on other levels as well (which may perform differently, for different use cases).
I think we are on the same page here. I just want to emphasise that for example alcohol and tobacco are magnitudes more abused than any other substances, 10x to be exact:

Results: Alcohol was the most frequently used substance, with a 30-day prevalence of 70.5% (36.1 million people), followed by non-opioid analgesic drugs (47.4%; 24.2 million) and conventional tobacco products (22.7%; 11.6 million). E-cigarettes were used by 4.3% (2.2 million) and heat-not-burn products by 1.3% (665 000). Among illegal drugs (12-month prevalence), cannabis was the most frequently used (8.8%; 4.5 million), followed by cocaine/crack (1.6%; 818 000) and amphetamine (1.4%; 716 000). Rates of problematic use among the study participants were 17.6% for alcohol (9.0 million), 7.8% for tobacco (4.0 million), 5.7% for psychoactive medications (2.9 million), and 2.5% for cannabis (1.3 million).

From https://www.aerzteblatt.de/int/archive/article/226333/The-us...

So yes weed is dangerous but alcohol is more than 10 times as dangerous- this nuance is often lost in public debate
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> Software can now adapt to you, not the other way around. Better yet, AI is making it possible for anyone, not just developers, to create single-use or custom applications.

Yeah, because that wouldn't be a customer service / troubleshooting nightmare.

> But within the next decade, millions of people will be able to create software. Designers, marketers, product mangers, and others will be the first.

Hahaha - clearly the author is young. All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.
For the same reason the guy wrote an article/ad about it. To make money.
The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA
Why don't they at least put some cones down?
I haven't installed Windows Server 2025 on bare metal, but in a virtual machine it's happy to install w/o a TPM.
It seems like the more deployment friction there is for your project, the more the scale tips toward buy vs build here.

As a solo dev, something lightweight and cost-effective like this is attractive. Deployment is a CLI command or PR merge away.

Would I recommend it for the 200 person engineering org that deploys at most once a week? Probably not.
Sorry, I'm confused. I can't figure out from your explanation how the new adminless just-in-time elevation is supposed to be different from UAC's just-in-time elevation?
It was created by executive order, not congress.

You can find the executive order on the whitehouse website.

Technically it's a renaming of the USDS
While limiting your exposure to "outrage" isn't bad advice, it's just more of the ignoring of the issues that she herself calls out in the beginning of the article.

She mentions that people are using "outrage" issues (abortion, gay rights, critical race theory) "as kind of wedge issues to convince people to vote in ways that might be against their own self-interest"...

GREAT! We need more tips on how to train yourself to recognize when that's happening and not get outraged. It boils down to emotional control. If politicians can't use outrage as a tool of control then they'll have to move on (to something better hopefully, but probably not ;).

Here's one tip. If Trump enrages you every time you see him, watch him in a way that allows you to appreciate something about him! He is a cool cucumber. He sheds attacks like water off an umbrella. (whatever, you come up something)... Remember, the goal here is to not let him control your emotions. This isn't about the facts or morality or how he "lies".
To a point sure. Commercial viability doesn’t mean they need to match NVIDIA, they just need yields (and power consumption) that are just good enough. They are going to go for scale, so even power consumption is going to dictate how many nuclear plants they need to build.
This reads really weirdly and seems to downplay concrete threats/malicious activity in the play store and emphasise best practice/security model violations on F-Droid.

I get F-Droid is the subject, and it's reasonable to make space to highlight issues with it here but it doesn't seem reasonable to conclude your security posture is better if you go with the play store.
That's what Netscape was...especially after the release of Firefox.
What do you mean low level?

Do you think the Linux kernel could be written in a language without types enforced?
I think any code is software/for you = personal

It is crazy what Zapier does. I learned Airtable's API myself and setting up the webhooks took me a bit where as it's just there for Zapier. Started to make me think which way is faster do it myself or use this bridge granted Zapier costs money but yeah.

So funny how things go we wanted to use Airtable now they're like "we want our own branded Airtable" and eventually we'll probably just go with a hosted DB like RDS anyway ahh well.
On Politics and Software
Most of that $5 billion in the LA times article was not received by Musk's companies at the time, and I'm not sure if they ever received the full amount as it was contingent on reaching several milestones in the span of 20 years.

A big part of those $5 billion was not having to pay sales taxes on possible future Gigafactory production, for example, but that gigafactory never reached the initally planned size AFAIK.
A former employer of mine (where I had a work email that ended in .gov) had an "international food day" once a year that was semi-open to the public. It was a fun opportunity to connect with colleagues from other departments over yummy food. It looks like this sort of thing might be politically unfavorable nowadays.

In retrospect, perhaps I never appreciated how much my conservative colleagues were deeply offended and angry at the annual event.
Consumers didn't save tons of money. They just bought more stuff with the money they had.

> People demand cheap shit and riot over expensive stuff

Sure, agree. But moving manufacturing to China wasn't done under pressure of Americans protesting that prices were high.
Are you saying that there's a problem of people in the FBI being politicized?
OH, trust me - corporate environments are not at all conducive to making sure bugs get fixed for Womperloo 11.4 users. Corporate environments incentivize working on flashy, highly visible work. Bugfixing edge cases is the opposite of that, and usually falls by the wayside (unless it's the kind of company where quality is a metric that is enforced, which is rare).

The flipside of open source maintainers being unpaid (or, at least, their pay not being linked to their output) is that they have time to care deeply about quality, and many really do. Linus Torvalds is not going to sit idly by while an update is shipped out that breaks Womperloo, I'll tell you that.
"Typed languages are essential on teams with mixed experience levels"

This is true of working with LLMs, too
It was MORE blatant and transparent, which IMO is the bare minimum for government-sanctioned racism. If we are going to do AA, we owe it to EVERYONE to make it clear exactly how and when we will do it. Sneaking it in disingenuously will rightfully piss people off.