skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually an interesting take on a chess puzzle, instead of calculate the winning sequence it's asking you to reconstruct it.

Very cool to have to think in the other direction to solve it.
Is there really no standalone app, like ChatGPT/Claude/DeepSeek, available yet for Gemini?
> Most programming should be done long before a single line of code is written

This definitely contradicts a previous article on Discovery Coding [1]. I can't say I agree with it _at all_, despite 20 years in the business.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42860128
I don't understand why if they're gonna use shorthands to make the tech seem cooler, they can't at least use mnemonic shorthands.

Imagine if it went like this:

Mnemonics: m(ini), r(easoning), t(echnical)

Claude 3m
Claude 3mr
Claude 3mt
Claude 3mtr
Claude 3r
Claude 3t
Claude 3tr
I have a grey beard and have earned my right to have opinions on things, so:

> Most programming should be done long before a single line of code is written

I think via programming, and I think we should be building more prototypes. Upfront design almost always falls apart, and if you've invested too much into the design, you end up with some nasty frankenstein code. Get a good prototyping process in place instead, and write code and interfaces as early as possible, just make sure you're very willing to throw them away, review what worked, etc. The sooner you prototype, the sooner the "natural" design appears, and the less you've invested in it.

> Frontend development is a nightmare world of Kafkaesque awfulness I no longer enjoy

I like React much more than the shit I've enjoyed any of the run-up to it, and I've been building websites since the late 90s, working my way through server-side includes, hidden refreshing iframes, XMLHttpRequest, Prototype.js, jQuery ... and today's React just Makes Sense, man.
Inside the interconnection queue: 1.7 TW of renewable electricity generation
> this was never authorized by congress,

Correct.

> so the money to pay people to September is questionable if it exists at best

Incorrect.

The money is budgeted through September (end of federal FY). Things are currently only funded through March 15 (CRs and whatnot). The money is or will be there. Historically, even if there is a furlough, this money is backfilled and folks are paid. Note that there will probably be riots if lengthy furloughed folks don’t get back pay.

> So there's a very real chance at this deal offering something closer to ~1 month of pay before it suddenly gets dropped due to budget negotiations.

Correct.

The speculation is that:

1. The “resign” folks will be put on admin leave in March 1 (or earlier).

2. Budget impasse in mid-March. Furlough ensues.

3. Folks on admin leave just end up getting cut, or not paid, and/or not back paid due to peculiarities of admin leave.

> It would be an incredibly generous and nice buyout package, but obviously if it gets torn up after a month it's not that great of a deal.

I think it’s above average, but not “incredibly generous”. People get $25k VSIP and VERA offers all the time. This may not seem like a lot, but many fed employees live in low COL areas and/or earn relatively low wages.

The best parts of the package, assuming they deliver, would be things like insurance (for non-retirees) and possibly TSP contributions and matching (if those are allowed).

If they want the numbers they say that they want, I think something near this level of package is necessary.
The difference between this and the college scandal is that there were limited numbers of seats at colleges, so to putting in an underqualified white student meant you had to pull an overqualified Asian student.

The situation here was the ATC was chronically understaffed and unable to fill positions. So an effort for them to boost applications makes sense even under non-DEI principles.
I don’t care much about package managers. I left Ubuntu because it put a snap directory in my home folder, put ads in mtod, and made mount output unreadable. It felt like I lost control of my computer.
And enums,

type Colours (Red, Blue, Green)

//....
c := Colours.Blue
a := pred(c)
b := succ(c)

for x := range Colours {
//....
}

1976's Pascal style is unthinkable to ever land in Go, but we have iota and const, lets not complain.
I built a chicken coop, mostly as a hobby, and the eggs were a bonus.
the 1,000 in materials for the structure and 25 bucks a month in food and bedding make that amortization table go out a couple of decades before you see ROI.

I joke that they are the most expensive organic eggs you can buy. ;)
It's more likely you have TPM disabled—there's no webcam requirement, and Zen+ is supported.
If you are interested, you can read the specifications: https://unifiedpush.org/developers/spec/android/. The same question actually exists for firebase-messaging (Google) too (answer here: https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk/blob/cf5fe2...)
It would be weird for Spotify to remove [5] from the platform given that they're paying for this music to be created & distributed under their "Perfect Fit Content" program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_over_fake_artists_...
I'm in NorthCal, they usually have some supply in the first few hours of opening
In order:

It is; the authors appear to be operating in a model where they completely trust app authors and nobody else, though they never actually spell out the threat model (which really should make us view their assessment skeptically anyways), where F-Droid specifically avoids trusting app authors. Nearly all of their objections come down to this single difference.

What echo chamber? I'm not aware of anyone else arguing this position.

That post contains 3 items: One fixed audit finding that only affects initial install of an app, one claim of problems that are unspecified and therefore impossible to assess, and one allegation of poor behavior (which is worth noting but not a security concern).
That's a great way to view it, I haven't looked at it from this angle before, thanks.

> What is anti-competitive tho, is stuff like Apple Music and Spotify, where spotify has to pay 30% cut to apple while apple music doesnt have to pay anything.

Yeah, that's why the monopoly is rarely a good idea for the customers, in my opinion.
Good luck finding any hardcore Biden fans. This is not the zinger you think it is.
Our own agents with their own tools
The West harbors a profound moral delusion, judging the world through selective standards while ignoring its own historical crimes. It preaches human rights and democracy while supporting oppressive regimes that serve its interests, arbitrarily categorizing violence based on convenience. This hypocritical narrative of moral superiority masks systemic oppression, allowing the West to maintain its global moral high ground without genuine accountability.
I want Apple iMessage to be clearer on iOS.

Right now, iOS users can't as easily understand the difference between iMessage and SMS, and I think it would make what's happening clearer to users if the apps were separate.

If you opened the "SMS" app to get your sms 2fa codes and talk to android users, and your "iMessage" app separately to talk to iPhone users, it would make people less mad when they open their iMessage app to iMessage, and instead weirdly get green bubble SMS.

It would be like if when I installed the "firefox" app on iOS it instead installed "safari" and touching the "firefox" icon opened "safari", and didn't have any firefox addons. Oh weird, sorry, bad example.

The point is not that iMessage is better than whatsapp, it's not. The point is that iPhone users try to use iMessage, and right now apple's weird SMS integration with it makes them accidentally use SMS and get annoyed.
Same here. I don't often feel the need to shill for paid products but Kagi is so good that I want to do everything I can to make sure it sticks around. It's like air in the sense that it's easy to forget how much I need it until I suddenly don't have it lol

I was sold when it helped me uncover pages I'd never read before about an extremely niche local history topic.
Google pulls incorrect Gouda stat from its AI Super Bowl ad
Gemini’s response no longer says that Gouda makes up ‘50 to 60 percent of the world’s cheese consumption.‘
Eggs store pretty poorly in the fridge because liquids transpire through the shell. Within a month your egg will be 20% air.
Prices aren't high on anything except for housing.

No politician, either past present or future, will ever run on a platform of reducing housing prices.
I tried voice chat. It's very good, except for the politics

We started talking about my plans for the day, and I said I was making chili. G asked if I have a recipe or if I needed one. I said, I started with Obama's recipe many years ago and have worked on it from there.

G gave me a form response that it can't talk politics.

Oh, I'm not talking politics, I'm talking chili.

G then repeated form response and tried to change conversation, and as long as I didn't use the O word, we were allowed to proceed. Phew
This is wonderful news. My Waiting for Guffman dvd was lost at some point and I often open its case wanting to watch and remember again and get disappointed like Corky.
And them watch them die from the avian flu?
So, learning about the categorical structure is interesting, but is there a specific advantage to seeing these concepts directly informing the implementation vs as a post-hoc way of explaining what autodiff is doing? E.g. Tensorflow is creating and transforming graphs of computation. Despite being written before most of the categorical work cited was done, isn't it doing the "same" thing, but we just wouldn't find names or comments in the code that closely align with the categorical work?
You can extend this to all varieties of PM. Product/Project/Program. All should be replaced by people who actually create things. E.g. I prefer to have a UX Designer handle the Product Manager tasks, since they already think about the app from the user's perspective, and can actually create solutions to problems.
Round mixing bowl does not pack well into refrigerator. Surely the flat pack they come in is better?

Also I store eggs outside the fridge. It works fine.
This is also a great defense against something like bird flu. When you centralize operations a disease can spread through a population like wildfire. When it's a number of smaller, separate operations the impact is lessened.
First, it's usually structured that you meet X target, you get Y incentive. Second, what doesn't get clawed back is true of all companies though. So it's not unique to Tesla in any way.

Some of it is a loan, I know Tesla had a loan from the govt, they paid it back early if I remember correctly.

Plus all of that is in the past. What would be a huge problem is if the federal govt started throwing grant money at Tesla now, while Musk is running around playing in the govt.

All that said, I think it's a terrible state of affairs we find ourselves in, but I mean we voted Trump into power, what did we expect would happen? Rainbows and kittens?
I don't have a specific cite but I saw it in quotes from when he was announcing 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico.

He said they could cause price increases and pain in the US but that they would cause more pain in Canada and Mexico.
PC Health check will tell you if your existing PC will run Win11. If you are building a computer, any new MOBO has TPM.
It feels like those guys drank too much of Apple's Kool-Aid. The idea that one silicon valley offspring would be more trustworthy with your data than another is simply baffling. Apple might be stricter regarding what third party developers can see inside their walled garden than Google, but they themselves happily collect all your data. If you want privacy, don't buy branded phones (and especially not ones with closed source ecosystems). And if you want advice on the topic, don't listen to people with obvious cognitive dissonance due to them owning the product, like in the linked discussion.
Then the author should have said "Most software development should be done long before a single line of code is written"

Programming is specifically about the authorship of code.
That's already how it works, the 3rd app is usually the Google services. The setup described on the blog post allows user to use the Google services OR another service
Saying "just quit social media" or something doesn't work. You have to have the mindset that you cannot control what happens in the vast majority of news stories. If the federal government does something I don't like, it's not worth my time to be angry and let it linger in my head for the day, which only hurts me. Outrage seems to come from a lack of control over a situation.

Shift your focus to things you can possibly control, e.g. the news that's happening in your local community where you have a say in how things are done.
My friends parents live on a nice piece of land in rural Maryland and have chicken coops. The chickens eat just about anything so food scraps go to them making them great recyclers: garbage -> food. Also cuts down on the amount of feed they need to buy. Any time I visit I get a dozen or two of fresh eggs.
100%. Enforcing lint rules is very important. What those lint rules should say is generally very unimportant because the editor should be doing all the work, and most of the time "that's just like, your opinion, man".
question: why hasn't this had a side effect of raising food prices in general? a significant percentage of foodstuffs involve eggs.
No, but the problematic assessment in question was eliminated by congress in 2016. That would not explain the FAA's current recruitment problems.
How would we deploy Windows 11 if we couldn't bypass CPU/TPM on a bhyve vm under FreeBSD?
Is it specifically apt-get that you can't live without, or the concept of a package repository in general?

I'm more and more disappointed that packages are snaps and not directly installed via apt, myself.
Trump's platform was bad, that does not make it reasonable to trivialize cost of living.

Notwithstanding that Biden was punished for inflationary spending, all Trump had to do was lean on the perception that people "had it better" in his term. You don't need to lower prices if your wages go up, and notwithstanding that this lags, the perception has been that wages have not kept up. Obviously the intuition was that electing Trump would lead to better outcomes, not some nefarious hidden motivation behind every voter.

> So all the complaints about high prices was just for show since they don't actually care.

That is not what it shows. All it telegraphs is that expectations are distorted. The polls were clear that inflation was the #1 motivating factor.

Black, hispanic, and Asian voters all shifted right. Harris did ok with whites. Is that because those voters do not care about prices? Is that because you think those people of color are stupid? Be serious.
No need for Rust, when JVM has Haskell, Scala, Kotlin, Clojure, Common Lisp.
Multiple people have pointed that you are factually incorrect, so probably best to stop repeating this in comments across the post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rP4vHPbelU

Make sure to read between the lines.
It’s not, bird flu has also been detected 1-2 days ago in Portugal near where I live.
Not sure why you didn't mention the law ruled heavily in favor of protonmail as a result of that massive fight between Protonmail and the authorities after that happened( they had to comply, while fighting back) - so as a result, they now have legal law BACKING for privacy even more and cannot be compelled like that again-

when they got that court order that wanted them to retain logs, they , challenged it immediately- and the rulingcame down - and they won.

They can no longer be compelled to cooperate in cases of crimes in other countries that match crimes in Swiss laws, as happened here- and this happened because they fought back -it just took time for the ruling to come down.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/protonmail-wins-privac...

https://protonmail.com/blog/court-strengthens-email-privacy/

So they are in a good position on that aspect -most countries aren't as solid legally.
Anything from before the 1980s should just be on YouTube, its easy cash for them on films that are sitting idle otherwise. Anything they aren't licensing to anyone anywhere should just be on YouTube. Or any sort of streaming platform that has sane ads, and anyone can see. It is really sad to me there's no genuine YouTube competitor.
Presumably any app that is API agnostic works fine.

I'm not sure why you would want an app for each anyways.
The question remains of what one could do at this point that would have any impact.
> Very real substantive criticisms of the whole DEI project and identity politics have been rubbished for years.

That's a fair point, I've certainly seen aspects of this. I see similar criticisms coming from the left being thrown at the current Labour government as well as the unhinged people calling Harris "Killer Kamala" and Biden "Genocide Joe" (ironic given what Trump just proposed in Gaza). I don't think the far right has the monopoly on idiots and lunatics.

I should counter, however, that many of the criticisms of DEI were also masked racism/misogyny/ableism. Trump's rhetoric should make that blindingly obvious. We'll now get countless people being discriminated against by a hostile federal government and the people who voted for that also need to take accountability for their vote.

This isn't to excuse the poor engagement from the left (especially whilst in government!), merely to point out the nuance of the debate and why "DEI bad" isn't a useful framing.
I would argue that he cared deeply about quality long before he was ever making money from Linux. But we're splitting hairs over a tangential argument at this point.
Meanwhile, my chickens cost exactly the same as they did 12 months ago. :)
It's apparent that the ones that executed their lawful duty to investigate crimes are the ones that are likely to lose their positions, solely on the basis of the President's--a man whose second impeachment was over his incitement of insurrection--support of those crimes.

The entire thing is about politics, not principles.
If your threat model is tracking, then worry about carrying around the 24/7 tracking device more than the specific software you run on it.
The press trying to coddle authoritarians is the way you get the next purge and the purge after that.
Still $3.50 at TJs in SF last week still, which is by far the cheapest around (that I'm aware of).

Pretty surprised they are still that low given prices elsewhere.
Hiring people who are responsible for the safety of people lives on anything but merit is a problem no matter how you frame it. Not only is it racism, it is dangerous.
Is Comcast still charging content providers and CDNs for peering?
And some specific people with lots of experience in teaching as well as in developing real life useful systems will tell you, that code is first and foremost written for people to understand, and only incidentally for a computer to run. Human understanding of what is going on is the one most important thing. If we do not have that, everything else will go to shit.
>though that social progress is not what you’re talking about

Right! but its a point that we can acknowledge. We've made progress on overcoming some taboos. Hmm, in a way, we've overcome taboos here as well, its ok to be an asshole politically.

So the question becomes one of utility and morals - some taboos were ok to remove, others were not.

You can use that to compare how certain red lines have moved more in accord with your values, and others are being breached.

Either way, this is a tool for you, and others who read this, to look to their own values and judgement, and decide objectively if they should reasses and start responding.

From my experience, the answer is heck yes. For people who are in a constant state of gradual escalation, their red lines get massaged fully out of shape, and you look to your peers to see if you are nuts.

Which is why the idea is for you to judge the red lines for yourself, against your own ideals.

At least thats what I am thinking by brining that comparison up. The 90s werent so far away that they couldnt be used to compare agains today.
>>I've always thought it simply meant "drawing from the widest possible candidate funnel, including instead of excluding people who have traditionally been shut out."

I don't think anyone objects to that, but the unspoken part that seemed to be enforced was "...even if it means lowering standards and overlooking the best qualified candidates for the job, as long as we get kudos for meeting our diversity targets."
> It was an obvious lie

It wasn't obvious to the voters. And at the risk of repeating myself, calling people stupid is not effective.

> it's hard to see how you interpreted it that way.

Try in good faith.

> Literally no one is saying that.

"but egg prices!!!". They might as well be.
Which was awful. And was not a dictatorship.
Maybe I'm projecting my own views here but I interpreted those two statements as being about different things: the finished product vs the process that gets you there.

I care deeply about the end result that is presented to the user who has no idea what code even looks like. How we put together the UI. How we load data to minimize delays. That's "the craft" to me.

I care much less about code style, linting etc. that no-one other than a small group of developers will ever see. To a certain extent the latter enables the former. But I've often witnessed the latter being valued over the former and that's where things start to go wrong.
He kept that promise. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22289746/biden-immig...
It's starting to. Waffle House recently added an egg surcharge to their menu.
That's because it was always a ridiculous claim and obvious he wouldn't follow through on it but people still used that as a reason to vote for him.
> there isn't another legal way to do it

The least harmful way to improve hiring outcomes for qualified individuals from historically marginalized groups is to increase their representation in your hiring pool. That's fundamentally it.

This means making the effort to recruit at e.g. career fairs for Black engineers and conferences for women in STEM in addition to broader venues, and to do outreach at low-income high schools that makes it clear to bright kids trapped in poverty that there is a path to success for them.

The "clean" solution you have presented IS the lazy route.
Billionaire's record donation to Uni of Sydney aims to increase STEM diversity
Why is resembles Windows important? Macos does not and is doing fine, so is Chromeos, so is Android.

Even Windows can be quite different from older versions of Windows.
Is this a serious comment? Bird flu is happening right now in EU.
He did. I only hope next time that the people who voted for him because of the truthiness of what he said (vs the actual truth) will think twice the next time they vote.
This is disturbing and not what I found with eggs at all - Are eggs somehow different in the US compared to the rest of the world?
I’d noticed it as 2.58 in Firefox’s dev tools, so when you say 2.54, I’m curious. #ab9ea2 on #ffffff. https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ says 2.57, https://contrast-ratio.org/#%23ab9ea2-on-white says 2.57 and on hover expands that to 2.5785676343306743. I presume Firefox is rounding, while the other two are truncating. Truncating actually feels more useful for how people are too likely to use such things—taking values as low as they can while still complying.

The new, superior method is https://www.myndex.com/APCA/. It yields an Lc of 50.4, which is (as you’d expect) wildly unsuitable for body text.
Yes. It was also often career suicide to criticize DEI indicatives.
It’s not complex to explain. The establishment was all Democrats and they tried to ban encryption. Now the establishment is Republican and the same elites who tried to take away encryption are now using it.