skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I suppose we should start hiring in science and technology then and not just stamp around saying how important it is to the future. All we have are layoffs right now. The signal the industry sends to would-be majors is to stay away.
“Minimum effective dose” is a concept I picked up from years of amateur bodybuilding. Seeing that same context in the beginning of the article was a treat! Minimum effective dose has been a pretty powerful concept for me over the years and has some overlap with “The 80/20 Rule”. It’s allowed my to make small investments in goals and snuff out insecurities that arise, such as the feeling of not trying hard enough.
They also scrapped their pledge not to use AI to develop weapons. Do No Evil, so 20th century
I am happy to say that Democracy Forward was already on my list.
Around 2008 you say? Like when we elected a black man to the Presidency? What a coincidence.
Digital rentals for movies have been a thing since 2006 with the first video iPod and still is. Apple tried that with TV shows. But no one wanted it.
See

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

there are some organic chemicals which you can add and remove hydrogen to, so you can hydrogenate the carrier and get a chemical with more hydrogen in it, dehydrogenate the carrier to get the hydrogen, then ship the carrier back to the depot to rehydrogenate it.
No wonder everyone always tries to figure out how to spend money if they still have some left before end of the fiscal year. Some individual "I saved us $1 million by shutting down servers we don't use!" Manager "Fuck, now need to quickly figure out some way to spend $1 million..."
Men handle rejection poorly, I’ve seen it, as I’m sure we all have. Weeping, drinking, wallowing in self-pity. It can get bad.

Women handle rejection with anger, resentment, and vitriol towards the rejecting party. So much so that I’ve seen people get married and divorced because the man was basically bullied into sticking around, and she left in the end anyways. Happens all the fucking time.
If they don’t fulfill their end of the agreement (paying until the date in question) then surely any agreement to quit in return for X months pay would be broken? So you’d still be employed unless the pay out is made?

This is where I go ”I know nothing about US law but if I wouldn’t win this argument in any court even without representation then it must be fundamentally broken”

The argument would be ”those who entered the agreement didn’t have the authority to do so” but obviously that can’t hold water.
less women overall, worse experience for guys, paying customers leave. App dies. Its a vicious cycle. A dating app, commercially has no reason to chase women off. A woman who is present and only occasionally swipes is very very commercially viable.
Spinal cord electrical stimulation restores neural function in clinical trial
Even if he doesn't have a clearance (he might because SpaceX), he doesn't need one. Anyone with sufficient authority can read him into any program.
While you are right about the books of Stroustrup, here your inference is wrong, because Stroustrup cannot have anything to do with the CSS style sheets of the ACM Web site, which, in conjunction with the browser settings, determine the font used for rendering the text.

On my browser, all the code is properly indented, most likely because my browsers are configured correctly, i.e. with a monospace font set as the default for "monospace".

Whoever does not see indentation, most likely has not set the right default font in their browser.
I highly recommend to install a browser extension that hides the social feed off of social media sites. Incredibly effective.
What would it have taken to store the plain text in some meta field in the document. Argh, so annoying.
Sounds like my experience browsing internet while connected to the VPN provided by my employer: tons of captcha and everything is defaulted to German (IP is from Frankfurt).
I guess I did the usual thing:
- Cancel Twitter. I was moving to bluesky, so not a big deal. X removed from my webpage.

And some more other stuf:
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- Meta: I am not a heavy user, but I just use less Instagram. Not posting. Cannot uninstall Whatsapp for social pressure.

- Amazon: bye bye Prime. I find it a Scam anyway and I try to buy outside AMZ as much as possible. It is easy to find stuff outside AMZ, btw.

- Cloud: I don't use AWS personally. Professionally I won't endorse it.

- Google: canceled my GCP account. Everything is in Digital ocean and Hetzner. Sill have Gmail and android :-( I won't Rene Google Cloud certification.

I am looking for alternatives to AWS and GCP. Not a fan of Azure, but who knows. For me Hetzner and DO still work. I see Oracle cloud with better eyes right now, but I don't like their billing process.
It could be deeper, maybe they start thinking about their evening plans?
Lignin is a notorious unwanted substance (from making paper for instance) that you could make a fortune of if you could make something wanted out of it. People have tried so many bad ideas to be rid of it, such as GMO trees that don't contain lignin -- doesn't work because they get shredded mercilessly by bugs.
You're still talking about the election. I am not. I am talking about actual political actions being taken.
Food borne illnesses are not a guarantee, and doing the thing the FDA calls dangerous a hundred times might still mean you never get sick, because you got lucky or some other safety caught you.

I have eaten genuinely year old (and older) eggs with no issues. That doesn't mean it is a myth that eggs only last 5 weeks in the fridge, it just means that I was putting myself in extra danger out of a weird sense of frugality and laziness.

I've also eaten pounds and pounds of raw cookie dough and not gotten sick, but that doesn't mean raw cookie dough doesn't have an inherent salmonella danger (ironically for this conversation it mostly comes from the flour!)
Government NGO Tracking
is "put this glyph at coordinate (x,y)" really what you'd call "structured"?
A good way to do this is to avoid reading Scientific American lest one become outraged how a once respected science magazine for lay audiences became overrun by Woke Warriors.
FINALLY.

Really getting sick at WebRTC services that don't support TURN properly. And people with CGNAT or some type of symmetric NAT often have no choice.

Then half the people tell me it's not necessary, they never had any problems bla bla... well there's tons of people for whom it often doesn't work at all.
Most people in my circle are tired, deflated and have given up. And that reflects in our online posts and interactions. Resigned to fear the worst.
Respectfully, that's a strawman and not what happened. Realistically the inverse happens more, and we often only interview people from certain backgrounds even though qualified people exist in other walks of life. Just look at the racial and wealth backgrounds of people who eventually become CEOs.
NYTimes wrote about this:

> Rather than de-Baathifaction, Trump and Musk are giving us de-wokeification. Expect the same ruinous results.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/opinion/trump-musk-iraq-t...
The senior executives still are.

Case: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68307087/agrawal-v-musk...

The only substantive order in the case to date appears to be one denying Elon Musk et al.'s motion to dismiss one of the claims: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.42...
> ...the biggest thing these programs did successfully was just diversifying the entry points so that you could even begin to start conversations with people from other backgrounds.

This. This was my experience with DEIA programs in the government. It was always about diverse recruitment, not hiring. People believe what they want to, though.
> will get a blanket pardon

Going into CMMS and IRS records almost certainly puts them in jeopardy of state crimes. Tight collections of only young, fervent ideologues have one role in military and political systems: cannon fodder.
> coup: a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group.

Trump is doing an otherthrow of an existing government by a small group. That fits perfectly.
Almost a round error comparatively doesn’t mean it’s 0.01%.

People used to spend ~30% of their income on mass produced basic staple foods with very little meat they cooked at home. You can live like that on like 1$/day. Median household income is over 80k today so we are talking more than an older of magnitude price reduction.

Get regular meal delivery etc and sure you can spend crazy money but it’s not really spending that money on food itself.
Good thoughts. I agree with much.
I quite disagree with the following: “Most projects don't need to ‘scale’”
I get that you’re probably referring to theoretically infinite scaling provided by stuff like microservices, containers, and serverless functions, but I do think it’s part of our job to consider the external factors that affect the functionality of our software. Similar to types being assertions about the external world, so too the design of the code and how it handles scale is an assertion about external factors. It’s important to define the bounds of what our software can handle in terms of throughput and what should happen in case those assumptions break or approach their outer bounds.

I think most projects need careful attention to handling unexpectedly large throughput gracefully.
Which spending and headcount for has increased since its inception, with no actual improvement in education (per Cato Institute). God forbid some accountability and no more wasting of tax dollars.
Also he got less than 50% of the vote.
This, plus the A/B testing of headlines to maximize clicks has lead inexorably to the current information environment.

Our intuitions, outrage, and knee-jerk reactions are being weaponized to gain clicks, votes, donations, and "action".

Many a dictatorship has fallen in the wake of social media revolutions. I wonder how long democracy can last?

In a would-be-funny-if-it-weren't-tragic ironic twist both of the two main US parties see themselves as the last guardians of democracy and frame their opponents as Evil, against which "any means necessary" is the only reasonable course of action.

(Yes, the party you disagree with is way worse and it's all their fault, this whataboutism indeed has to end, absolutely)

And here we all are.
I just quit Twitter and changed to Bluesky and all the bots and spam and outrage just disappeared.
Might not be what you're looking for, but about 2 years back now I built a little tool that does something similar to this (not SVG) and no special coding/skills required

Check out the sample story here: https://turas.app/s/japan-x-taiwan/BtEjycbA

As you scroll down past the days, it will show the map and places for each day (on desktop).

The front-end of this is a planning app for planning the itinerary and the "story" is one output of the planner.
I know nothing about any of this, but it makes me angry – not sad – that yet another creator of something good and worthwhile, has been burnt by demands and infighting until they walk away in disgust. Good for you, dwinham.
Yeah it's crazy that they don't weight the tests. AVIF support is 1 test, whereas WebCryptoAPI is 50k.
The code blocks are formatted as "wp-block-code", which seems to select the default monospace font of the browser.

My browser has an appropriate default monospace font (JetBrains Mono), so the code is formatted and indented correctly, as expected.

Where this does not happen, the setting for the default monospace font must be wrong, so it should be corrected.
They usually protect the whole DNS record so it makes sense it would cover robots.txt as well, even if it's a bit silly.
Yes when he did not comment afterwards that it wasn't a Nazi salute, I decided to interpret it as one. It's not something that happened in isolation.

I allow for the possibility that in the moment he didn't mean for it to be that salute. Now if he's too weak to clarify it wasn't? Then he did a Nazi salute in all ways that count. Being an accidental Nazi is very much on topic for the text we're commenting on.
Do you pay for ChatGPT with built in web search? I’ve been paying for ChatGPT for two years. I just started using the ChatGPT extension for Chrome for search and it is so much better than Chrome.
I think you'll just need to mount it at the right place, with right permissions.

Demonstrated here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39193419/docker-in-memor...
It can, but until that becomes the reference implementation backend, it hardly matters.

Similar to how much Python folks disregard PyPy's existence.

I doubt LLVM project would start accepting polyglot contributions, beyond what they already do for language specific frontends.

Also, the ongoing GCC support is dependent on C++ as well.
The quota issue isn't that you have an explicit hiring quota for each race -- which might even be illegal. It's that if, at the end of the year, the number of people you hired had a large racial disparity, that's bad optics and you'll get in trouble, which you know so you fudge things to change it however you can.

So you start with 500 slots to fill, 1000 qualified white applicants and 10 qualified black applicants. Worse, if you hire based on highest test scores you'd only hire 2 of the black applicants and end up with 99.6% white hires. The obvious thing to do to improve the optics is to figure out how to hire all 10 of the qualified black applicants, which is the thing that would have "minimal impact to performance", but you have two problems. First, picking them explicitly because of their race is illegal, so you have to manufacture some convoluted system to do it in a roundabout way. Second, even if you do that you're still screwed, because even hiring all 10 of them leaves you with 98% white hires and that's still bad optics.

Their workaround was to use a BS biographical test to exclude most of the white applicants while giving the black applicants the answers. If you do that you can get 90 qualified white applicants and 10 qualified black applicants. That'll certainly improve the optics, but then you have 400 unfilled slots.
This is all just the dumbest knee jerk stuff.

Politico didn’t make payroll a couple of days ago for some technical reason or another. But because the timing coincided with Musk and his minions invading USAID conspiracy theories immediately popped up: Politico is bankrolled by USAID! It’s a psyop!

Of course the reality is incredibly boring. Politico sells PoliticoPro[1], “public affairs software”. The government (not USAID) was paying for that. Was it a good purchase? Are we getting value for money for it? No clue, but I’d bet the people that terminated the subscriptions don’t have a clue either. The hoarde demanded immediate action so action was taken.

My bet is they’ll quietly resubscribe in a few months.

[1] https://www.politicopro.com/
I think it was in the basement of pizza place.
> Remind me, why is the target inflation rate 2-3% again?

Because empirically it seems to yield a pretty sustainable mixture of consumption, investment, and savings, while also not risking a wage-price spiral.

You tell me what the target inflation rate should be and point to some moments in history informing that target so I can go read about them.
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I can definitely read 4 times faster in my head than out loud. I've read books to my kid out loud that take like 30 minutes per chapter, and i doubt it would take more than an hour to read the whole book. I read on the faster side though, and don't have an internal monologue.
> Not sure if you’ve intentionally omitted it but I would also include YouTube in this list

Yeah I did conciously omit it actually, but only because I consider Youtube to be basic internet infrastructure and quite valuable if used right.

However, for me personally, I've actually blocked Youtube from Chrome when not in incognito mode to keep me signed out by default and I've also completely blocked the site from my iPad (and ofc I also don't have the app installed).

I unfortunately struggle with some form of social media addiction and I've made pretty dramatic changes to keep myself away from these sites.
The wave of X bans was so frustrating. Particularly for sports subreddits where that’s where all of the breaking news and team announcements happen.

In fact NFL teams are specifically banned from having bluesky accounts as an official media channel, and r/nfl still banned X/Twitter.

sigh
Sweden, Finland and Norway seem to have the same checks as Denmark [1] but we don't see their eggs for sale here either.

But from a quick search, it looks like I've happened only to live in egg-exporting countries within the EU, which explains why I've never seen it. Even so, whole eggs don't seem to be transported great distances — most imports and exports are liquid or dried egg.

[1] https://food.ec.europa.eu/food-safety/biological-safety/food...
> I genuinely don't know how someone can look at something like the dismantling of USAID as anything but an increase in "large pain".

Maybe try asking people why they think it’s bad?

Here’s people arguing it’s doing all kinds of destructive behavior, - like setting up a fake vaccine clinic for the CIA.

https://youtu.be/wtgT_u2rWs0?si=bFX476_JgC81vJuM

I haven’t seen anyone arguing against these claims. They just say “oh but it’s helping poor people” without answering whether or not it’s been doing covert work for the CIA under the pretense that it’s aid.
From 2008 on
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Virtually all of the spending through USAID was Congressionally authorized. Can you explain how blocking or delaying that spending fails to meet the definition of Impoundment?

To say nothing the freezes that have been put on hold by the courts.
What is wrong with people? Who is such a loser that they send abusive things like this to a maintainer's email address?
The social media-izing of open source has been a massive blow. Projects and contributors across the board are randomly bombarded with mob harassment.

Return to Cathedral.
At this point the web is a de facto standard platform. The whatwg doesn't decide what makes it up any more than w3c did.

As well as browsers supporting features not endorsed by whatwg, there are plenty of features that they have endorsed that browser vendors didn't bother with.
It will vary immensely on how readable the actual code base it, but what comes to mind:

1. what units? I was just caught in this with a function with a timeout. I had to look at the docs to find out this was actually in nanoseconds (stuff like this is why I came more around to verbose parameter names).

2. what's the function of the timer?

3. (potential code smell) Do I need to manually increment such a timer for the test? is the time library a necessary part of the test (or perhaps what we testing)?
Straight from the horse's mouth:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1887258455037387257#m
> There's no story about people price-fixing potatoes.

Like these people? https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/closed-settl...

> for this to be explanatory, you have to show why, after HPAI outbreaks subside... prices come back down.

It doesn't matter if prices sometimes go down, what matters is why. As it turns out, the answer to that is collusion. https://apnews.com/article/egg-producers-price-gouging-lawsu...

When companies work together to set prices they can lower them a little sometimes (while still increasing their profits) and ruthlessly gouge the hell of out consumers the rest of the time hopefully without raising too much suspicion.
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What AI IDEs and extensions are people using in 2025?
member of the gemini team here -- personally, i'd recommend directly using gemini vs the document understanding services for OCR & general docs understanding tasks. From our internal evals gemini is now stronger than these solutions and is only going to get much better (higher precision, lower hallucination rates) from here.
What do you expect the approach to be when your goal is to go out into the world and find qualified people in demographics you aren't getting naturally in your applicant pool? If you want to hire women software engineers you solicit applicants from "women in tech" events and groups.

The belief, whether you agree with it or not, is that diverse teams produce better results. If your natural applicant pool is all dudes then your job as a headhunter is to find a woman who you think can beat them on merit.

The other way you do it is you hire them on as juniors where everyone's resumes might as well be written on toilet paper and "most qualified applicant" is a bit of a joke and train them up.
That's a much more mundane bureaucratic imperative that exists at every level in every budgeted system. But yeah, that more mundane imperative definitely doesn't help to control costs in the next budget cycle, for sure.
> It’s also not very addictive.

For me, it's quite addictive unfortunately, even though I agree that it's pretty dull.
It might be for consistency between vendors.
Historically, a lot of coups were made by democratically elected head of states. It's easier to seize full power when you have some of it.

See Napoleon 3, Hitler himself...

Your opinion is revealing, if you already think he has full power, then you agree it's a coup.
>Not sure what service you're basing your calculation on but with Gemmini

The table of costs in the blog post. At 500,000 pages per day the hardware fixed cost overcomes the software variable cost at day 240 and from then on you're paying an extra ~$100 per day to keep it running in the cloud. The machine also had to use extremely beefy GPUs to fit all the models it needed to. Compute utilization was between 5 to 10% which means that it's future proof for the next 5 years at the rate at which the data source was growing.

| Model | Pages per Dollar |
|-----------------------------+------------------|
| Gemini 2.0 Flash | ≈ 6,000 |
| Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite | ≈ 12,000* |
| Gemini 1.5 Flash | ≈ 10,000 |
| AWS Textract | ≈ 1,000 |
| Gemini 1.5 Pro | ≈ 700 |
| OpenAI 4o-mini | ≈ 450 |
| LlamaParse | ≈ 300 |
| OpenAI 4o | ≈ 200 |
| Anthropic claude-3-5-sonnet | ≈ 100 |
| Reducto | ≈ 100 |
| Chunkr | ≈ 100 |

There is also the fact that it's _completely_ local. Which meant we could throw in every proprietary data source that couldn't leave the company at it.

>The longest part of the development timeline was establishing the accuracy rate and the ingestion pipeline, which itself is massively less complex than what your workflow sounds like: PDF -> Storage Bucket -> Gemini -> JSON response -> Database

Each company should build tools which match the skill level of their developers. If you're not comfortable training models locally with all that entails off the shelf solutions allow companies to punch way above their weight class in their industry.
Created and appropriated by Congress.
Who would have guessed that Microsoft's web browser would end up being based on KDE's web engine?
College grads have an idealized view of tech industry. But it's all about money at the end of the day and tech is turning into something similar to other industries like oil or pharma.