skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it a given there would be a budget impasse, if all institutions of power are held by Republicans?

I’m not an expert on this topic, so please take these comments with a grain of salt:

1. The simplest way a budget impasse could start is with internal feuding within the Republican Party. Some Republicans are very aggressive deficit hawks all the time. Some Republicans are only “deficit hawks” when a Democrat is president, but they spend freely when a Republican is president. Note that almost all of the largest budget deficits since 1990 have been under Republican administrations (Covid years under Trump and Biden were wonky and should probably be asterisked). So the pork-seeking Republicans and the deficit hawk Republicans can get into a stand off about what the budget should be.

2. Even if Congress is on the same page, Trump can choose not to sign the budget if he doesn’t get his pet issues addressed. This may seem like something that they should be able to work out beforehand, but his “priorities” change, sometimes daily, often based on who he happened to have spoken to last.

3. Some republicans want the government to break. The playbook here is to break the system in some way, point out that the system doesn’t work, and then make attempts to privatize that system or massively overhaul that system (likely with massive cuts of workers and largesse to contractors). It may seem odd that an elected official strives to make the government not work, but they are able to make that tack work for them at the polls. I think that this is a deep (and warped) issue that is hard for me to explain well.
Again, your lifestyle might work for you but it doesn't work for everyone. What you want is to travel a lot and nowhere do you mention anything about kids. If you're wanting to make sure your kids have every option available, they need to have the option of feeder schools like Harker. If you're serious about providing options to your kids, you're gonna have a hard time getting away from these very expensive regions and therefore needing a high income that most remote options won't provide.

If I didn't give a shit about the future of my kids, I could live in BFE or travel a lot too.
> We don’t need to choose between reaction and stasis.
This person has never met anyone in government or the civil service. I don't really like to dunk on someone trying to be positive, but we have had every liberal reform and here we are.
Chinese have far better and cheaper EV cars. Getting spare parts for Tesla in Europe is a nightmare!
You can't say anything these days Phil
Same, I participate is very curated, self-selected communities online and that's it. I don't know how others who don't can do it.

Good luck out there.
The Dark Side of the Moon will be 52 years old next month.
Building a computer vision pickleball line caller using YOLO/Roboflow/Python
The minor difference is that :q! quits without saving but returns zero as the exit code, but :cq quits with a nonzero exit code. Git interprets the nonzero exit code as "editing failed", following the Unix convention that zero means success. If you didn't save the commit message while working on it, :q! will send the empty template back to Git, which Git is smart enough to not commit. But if you accidentally save your work partway through, :q! will still commit the message you wanted to abandon.
> That isn't true for dairy farms, egg operations, and so on

Because we don’t let them grow (and for some reason don’t believe in shelf-stable products).

Biggest dairy exporter on the planet is New Zealand, I’d be more worried about them than USA. But we could’ve been NZ. Supply management kneecaps your ag industry. Lost opportunity if you’re good at it, which Canada generally is.
> As a European fan of Spinal Tap I'm quite excited to finally be able to see this film.

You're in for a treat. While somewhat similar, Waiting for Guffman is a bit different than Spinal Tap. It has layers to the satire that are even more subtle. Not as many call back lines destined to live in memes forever (eg "It goes to eleven"). It's more of a character study that's willing to simply bask in the absolute vacuum of unself-awareness long enough to let it wrap back on itself and evolve into sincere charm. Eugene Levy is a treat as always and Fred Willard's performance evokes echoes of his legendary work on Fernwood Tonight.
yes. i have a flock and the feed alone puts a doz at $3.

the labor is somewhat enjoyable and the chickens are incredible child-leftover disposal machines. but when you factor infrastructure and labor youll probably never recoup your “investment” in eggs.

for anyone dealing with land predators, get electric poultry net. it’s magic.
Yeah, maybe I'll check local Whole Foods in a few days too. This is literally nuts: https://stopandshop.com/product/egglands-best-cage-free-larg...
Scientists found a faster way to brew sour beer–with peas
You really, really need to be citing your sources. You have been bouncing back and forth between sounding authoritative and making assumptions or asking questions (or just being plain wrong).
> To be considered fascist he would take over control of gov. Instead he's removing it...

You need to brush up on your Mussolini research, bud.
The local eggs here have the same price but they are selling out very quickly. $9.50 a dozen and used to have them all week. They come in on Friday evening and now sell out quickly. People are probably buying more than they used to when available and that is making the scarcity worse.
Trump's last administration drew on a NOAA hurricane map with a sharpie to try to convince people he was not wrong about a hurricane path. Changing data is his style.
Totally agree with this. After selling my last company (iCracked W12) I had been playing around with the idea of how to build the world's largest decentralized food production network - think millions of people leveraging their backyards to produce, share, and sell protein and vegetables. I've always wanted to build a company that blends smart home / AI technology with backyard agriculture and we decided to start with chickens. I have been raising chickens for 15 years and automating my coops with Arduino's, automatic doors, cameras for computer vision, etc.

We spent 2 years building and designing a AI / smart coop and it's been a fascinating company to be able to build. We've trained our computer vision model on around 25 million videos and have gotten extremely good at doing specific predator detection, egg alerts, remote health monitoring, specific chickens in a coop and behaviors etc. We're at the point now where we can say, "Hey AJ, there's 2 raccoons outside your coop, the automatic door is shut, all 6 chickens are safe, and you have 10 eggs that can be collected". Super fun project and would love y'alls feedback. If you're interested in seeing what we're doing we're at www.TheSmartCoop.com
How to Judge If a Robocar Is Good (Tesla vs. Waymo)
I switched to Mint from Ubuntu on my personal laptop, and mostly like it. I've had no compatibility issues.
C++ complexity exists for a reason. It does a lot of things and these things are useful, if not necessary for those who use it. I can't think of any language that can replace C++ completely. Plenty can replace C++ incompletely, but then you would need another language for the leftovers, that's displacing complexity.

There are modern languages trying to eat C++ lunch, like Zig and Rust, but you don't get decades of backward compatibility, and they are not particularly simple either.
Rust in particular is one of the most complex programming language in use today, it could definitely be simplified by removing the borrow checker and lifetime things and make "unsafe" implicit, leave memory safety to the programmer. But it makes no sense because Rust was designed for memory safety and performance, which is a complex problem, and therefore Rust is complex.
Installing a Network Rack in My House
Eggs in the US, Canada, Japan, Scandinavia, and a couple other countries are washed, which removes a layer that seals the egg. Eggs are a major vector for salmonella contamination; washing them materially reduces the incidence rates.

It is not egg specific. The countries that wash their eggs have atypically strong standards for bacterial contamination hygiene in food processing. Many food products from Europe are prohibited from import into the US due to insufficient safeguards against bacterial contamination during processing. There is an entire business where Scandinavian factories process food from distant parts of Europe to satisfy US food safety requirements for export.

As a general principle, the US does not create exemptions in food processing regulations on the basis that the existing process is "traditional" or has a long history. Many other countries do.
EU implements delicious worm powder as a new food ingredient
Gee I wonder what could have caused this? I’m glad I was early to the party when we cancelled ours when Elon insinuated in a tweet there might be a valid reason for Nancy Pelosi’s husband to have been hit in the head with a hammer in his home.

Every Tesla I see now all I see is a FascistMobile.
For me, the best DEI successes are the ones that reduce bias without relying on clumsy quotas. Blind auditions in orchestras led to a big jump in women getting hired. Intel’s push to fund scholarships and partner with HBCUs broadened their pipeline in a real way. And groups like Code2040 connect Black and Latino engineers with mentors and jobs, targeting root causes instead of surface-level fixes.
>With AI, this entire vast content library is about to be worthless anyway

That’s just not how humanities work
The problem is the interaction with wild birds.
Can you get sunburnt or UV skin damage through car or home windows?
tabs or spaces are ok. Mix of tabs and spaces is not.
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Not if it's dead.
You'll have a significant upfront cost for the coop, fencing, feeders and other equipment. Around $1000-2000 or so. And presumably, you'll be buying baby chickens, which require their own special care. It takes about 6 months for a baby chicken to start laying eggs.

But once you do that, you can maybe get to a reasonable place. The upfront cost being ignored, at today's egg prices, you can basically break even.

I have 9 egg laying chickens. They go through about $30 of food per month. They need another $20 in bedding supplies. $50 / month basically. Plus I spoil them with meal worm treats, so add another $30 per month for that (but I'll ignore that in my numbers below).

In winter, I average about 5 eggs per day out of my 9 chickens. In summer, it's closer to 8 per day. So we'll assume the best case here.

8 per day * 30 days per month = 240 eggs
$50 per month supplies / 20 dozen eggs = $2.50 / dozen

So not bad overall. But in winter it's worse, and my costs are higher because I give them worms.

We can't eat through all the eggs though, so we try to find nice people/places to give them away (single moms, food banks, etc.).

Ultimately, raising chickens is just for fun. They are pets and enjoyable creatures. Highly recommend if you have the land for it (and no HOA rules).
You put your finger on what I think is the real issue: whether or not access to cheap food is a net benefit or not. I also won't claim to have the perfect answer but do feel we've gone at least a bit too far in one direction.
Allocating a budget for that may be a major hurdle. Preventing national cultural heritage from being sold to someone outside the country seems to be a good compromise. If it is indeed "national cultural heritage".
I don't care if they tinker with AI integration, so long as it's A) completely optional, B) local-only and C) based on open-source models.
Doctor faces inquiry after giving his cat a Cat scan at Italian hospital
To someone who is more right-wing, the bias of e.g. NYT is just as blatant as Fox News is to you, and Fox may come off as "fair". This is because the propaganda is specifically intended to land with their own audience. It's tuned to your sensibilities.

This isn't really a matter of subjective opinion, though. Objective surveys have consistently shown that Fox News viewers are worse-informed than people who don't pay attention to any conventional news sources. NYT readers are a long way up from there.
Americans balk at this with a mouth full of carmine and castoreum.
That would be a result set layer, not a connection pool. Could make sense if you worked with rows, but if you use ORM, why mapping cached row again and again? ORMs cache hydrated objects, which seems to be more efficient.
I think the thing that has been most surprising to me is how utterly transparent our current situation has been. I like to say "When it comes to the end of the Republic, I thought it would have all been quite a bit sneakier."

Like the way that all of the Republicans in congress folded like a cheap suit and are now completely subservient to Trump - "Profiles in Cowardice" from top-to-bottom, with the exception of a few outliers who have now been ejected from the Republican party. My favorite current example is Bill Cassidy - what a total coward! I knew all of his "concerns" about RFK Jr. were a charade, and then even given his oath and knowledge as a doctor that he would eventually fold, and come out with some BS statement about how "After a really long conversation with RFK Jr. he assured me on some of my concerns blah blah blah..." And it happened like that to a T. Almost exactly like the Susan Collins/Brett Kavanaugh situation "I was shocked pikachu! I mean he assured me he wouldn't overturn Roe v. Wade!"

I'm just surprised at how it's all playing out exactly to script, and the "scripts" from previous history aren't even that old or forgotten...
Why do you exclude HN from your list? It is literally social media, but with the dial turned down a little. Yet, you don't have to dig to deeply to see flamewars, outrage, and trolling. I mean, look at many of the garbage comments in this very thread that are on par with /.,xchan.
> I definitely would carefully ask that people should really use rustfmt, though, if they don't do so yet.

If you don't already, you should run `cargo fmt --check` in CI and block PR merges until it passes. You can also run it in a pre-commit hook, but you can't be sure everyone will set that up.

Automating such types of decision is great but moot if others have to opt into it.
In our case, the recruitment team started by only headhunting target candidates. Once we exhausted that pool, they would headhunt any candidate.

Just for clarity, this was for a publicly posted job position, so non-target candidates were able to, and did, put in applications. They were assessed the same way target candidates were.
You should listen to what Harj, a YC partner and former CEO of TripleByte an objective software engineer competency test for hiring, has to say about what many companies were trying to do in lowering the bar. He only admitted companies were doing this in the past week.

https://x.com/jesslivingston/status/1884652626467303560
I'm in a turkey producing area - one of the largest in the country. What helped massively in 2015 was to simply put fine netting over the windows to the turkey barns, keeping other birds and at least some of their excrement out.

This is from Australia, but whatever:

"In Australia, indoor and free-range poultry, are at risk of contracting avian influenza due direct and indirect contact with waterfowl who may carry avian influenza virus in their nasal and eye discharge or faeces, farming and biosecurity practices.

Indoor (barn or shed) systems limit poultry from direct exposure to wild birds, but these are not immune to avian influenza risks due to indirect contact. This is because equipment, vehicles and human movements between farms can introduce the virus indoors, in particular when on-farm dams or open water sources act as a permanent residence for waterfowl.

Birds with outdoor access (free range) are at risk of coming into direct or indirect contact with wild waterfowl. Vegetated range areas may attract waterfowl, in particular if poultry are given feed or water outdoors. In free-range production systems, producers should therefore focus on managing these systems to reduce the risk of avian influenza."

https://kb.rspca.org.au/knowledge-base/what-is-the-risk-of-f...
Exactly why I have zero regrets going native on macOS. Yes, Xcode isn't the best to put it mildly and SwiftUI is still maturing.. but I am so glad I don't have to deal with the modern web stack. Daily smiles instead of facepalms, most of the time!
Julia is dynamically typed, has a very rich type system, powerful metaprogramming and polymorphism tools.

Julia also has an active thriving ecosystem, and an excellent package manager.
I honestly think that one was ignorance more than direct malice. I think he is in fact as ignorant / incurious as he seems.
Has the cost of chickens increased as well? Maybe its time to take production in house
Yeah I can't wait for "Forest Gump 2", The Simpsons Live Action starring John C. Reilly as Barney, and "Lord of the Rings But It's A Wes Anderson Movie". AI distilling the absolutely worst and most cynical Hollywood trends into full length motion pictures. I've yet to see anything remotely approaching non-slop from AI-generated video.
Here is the distinction:

> This would make DOGE a Presidential Records Act entity, meaning records it creates are not FOIAble until years after a president leaves office rather than a Federal Records Act entity, which would make its records FOIAble now.

It's how soon you can make a request.
It's happened before. In 2018 the shutdowns occurred despite the Republican hold over both houses.
That's exactly what I was criticizing: you just make the unfounded assumption that "argument that you like X" is the only thing that matters, and the debate is not only about X in the context of languages A and B. Introducing C to the debate is stupid, as then the obvious answer is just "but C has Y which is horrile" and so on.
I think the AfD is going to find that tying themselves with Elon Musk might bring around the hardcore folk who would have gone with fringe political groups it's going to drive away the centre-right. Linking yourself with a guy who did what is considered within Germany to be a Hitler salute is probably not going to go too well for them.
Sink The Pentagon, Rickover says (1982)
Julia users don't go to Stack Overflow because we have better options.
Ask HN: What's the absolute best AI code assistant for creating software
Just as the title says: In your experience, what's the absolute best AI code assistant for creating (as opposed to editing) software?

I've been disappointed in most or pretty much all of them. Either they require you to create an account immediately, or even require payment up-front, before you have any idea of their capabilities. And almost all of them fall down flat when you try to get them to generate code of any realistic complexity and scope.

What have you had success with, and what's the most complex thing you have built with them? Any tips for prompting?
Well, Model Y was best selling car in the world for 2 years running. Seems a likely candidate to be again. This is probably due to flipping over inventory for the new Model Y to launch
I have a hard time keeping up with the literature on this and it's not exactly my area of research, but the "overfitting is ok" always seemed off and handwavy to me. It violates some pretty basic information-theoretic literature, for one thing.

I guess it seems like parameters need to be "counted" differently or there's something misunderstood about what a parameter is, or whether and how it's being adjusted for somewhere. Some of the gradient descent literature I've read, makes it seem like there are sometimes adjustments for parameters as part of the optimization process, so talking about "overfitting doesn't mean anything" is misleading.

It just seems like something where there's a lot of imprecision in terms that is critically important, no definitive explanations for anything, and so forth.

The results are the results, but then again we have hallucinations and weird adversarial probe glitches suggestive of overfitting (see also e.g., http://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/rice20a). I might even suggest the definition of overfitting in a DL context has been poorly operationalized. Sure you can have a training and a test set, but if the test set isn't sufficiently differentiated from the training set, are you going to identify overfitting? I can take training and test sets with a traditional statistical model and if I define the test set a certain way, minimize overfitting results.

I guess I just feel like a lot of overfitting discussions tend to feel kind of handwavy or misleading and I wish they were different. The number of parameters has never really been the correct metric when talking about overfitting, it just happens to align nicely with the correct metric in conventional models.
What about them? One of their biggest early issues was EMI as a publisher not doing enough to promote their songs. Sounds familiar?
just watch the video man. it's clearly a nazi salute.
lots of relevant interesting reading on the webkit wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit

seems it was a quite complicated matter that included clashes between open source and commercial concerns.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090210230809/http://www.kdedev...
Both are bad. Trump was wrong because he was speaking on outdated information but he wouldn't accept that he was wrong so his administration created some data so he could say he was right.
J ... J ... Java.
This is the best argument I've ever heard for editorconfig, commiting a standardised format to the repos, and viewing it in whatever way you want to view it on your own machine
Claude works well for me loading code up to around 80% of its 200K context and then asking for changes. If the whole project can't fit I try to at least get in headers and then the most relevant files. It doesn't seem to degrade. If you are using something like an AI IDE a lot of times they don't really get the 200K context.
It’s funny, I’ve never actually used Gemini and, though this may be incorrect, I automatically assume it’s awful. I assume it’s awful because the AI summaries at the top of Google Search are so awful, and that’s made me never give Google AI a chance.
But

- Responding to the agency-level decision to pursue these doesn't need the info on these 5k staff

- The decision to investigate these is part of the FBIs job. Very obvious, visible crimes took place. It doesn't matter whether you agree with the perpetrators on some things; they broke the law as written. The outcome of investigations was convincing enough to get a lot of convictions (btw should we expect judges to be targeted next?).

There have been times when the FBI pursued stuff where it wasn't clear that a crime occurred. I recall seeing stuff about the FBI tailing casual environmental activists going to some small peaceful protest. Those politically motivated wastes of resources when there was a lot of room for discretion are perhaps cause for concern. Jan 6 people who broke into a federal building, attacked police officers, and destroyed property are not such a case.