skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not by accident. It's by design.

I'm cursed with being able to see both sides of the coin more often that most people.

In this case, Elon clearly attracts white people who feel like they've been wronged by DEI, the left media, immigration, etc. They don't feel like they're bad people or have done anything wrong to minorities. They’ve seen their communities and neighborhoods turn to something worse when minorities moved in. You can call them white supremacists, which has a negative connotation to it. I understand why they feel the way they feel.

At the same time, America is filled with different kinds of people, whether white people like it or not. The glass ceiling, the subtle racism, perpetual media and Hollywood discrimination of certain kinds of people are all things that most white people have a hard time understanding even if they are compassionate. When Elon or Trump say “America is for Americans”, all minorities know it really means “America is for white people”. The ideal outcome for Trump and Elon is that all black people are locked up, all Latinos deported, and all Asians go back to Asia voluntarily except those loyal to them.
> unless your corp is 3 years old

...and you need to have a corporation?

I thought corporations were pseudo-humans. Turns out it may be the other way around.
Sounds like the problem was manufactured to create those very conditions.
Thanks! I saw your earlier question related to working with AI at FAANG, from the context of being 30ish, and self-taught. I was around 27 when I started learning software engineering and AI.

I made a free e-book here (https://emilwallner.gumroad.com/l/no-ml-degree), and I believe most of the key points are still valid, however, when I learned software engineering and ML, ML was a rather small field and tools like chatGPT and claude didn’t exist.

Imo, asking about a curriculum is the wrong framing, for me, it was more about how to find resources to focus full-time and being in an environment that increases my motivation.

I started learning software engineering at home taking courses, but I procrastinated too much to be effective, maybe I did around 10 hours of effective learning per week. For me, studying C at 42 (https://www.42network.org/42-schools/), a free peer-to-peer school was crucial, and I recommend something similar. It enabled me to focus 70-90 hours a week, and after 6 months I was good enough to get competitive startup job offers.

During my time, the FastAI course (https://www.fast.ai/) was the best practical AI course. I'd probably spend a week looking for ambitious projects made by recent autodidacts, and ask them which course they think is best now. And spend max 1-2 months taking the course.

As for picking projects and building a portfolio, the advice in my e-book is still valid. An ambitious but realistic timeframe for landing a FAANG job is 3-5 years. Once you have a solid portfolio, I’d recommend joining say a YC-startup or similar with ex-FAANG employees to get up to speed and references. My first gig was at the YC-startup FloydHub with ex-FAANG employees.

If you are self-taught it’s often easier to get on the FAANG radar by making highly domain specific portfolio projects that are core to their business, or making open-source contributions to their projects. The other route is applying for jobs, however, most people without an ivy-level degree don’t pass the screening stage. If you choose this path, plan for at least 6 month to learn the first part of Ian Goodfellow’s book (https://www.deeplearningbook.org/) using say ChatGPT as your tutor, also grasp the key content in Chip Huyen’s books (https://huyenchip.com/), learn cracking the coding interview, and get good at solving leetcode hard problems.
People often give out their mailing address, and may be misinformed about their zip code.

If you get close enough, it usually gets handled in the local sort, but not always.

On cities, the mailing address city really is the name of the post office that handles your delivery route. Often there's a relationship with the city you live in, but there's cases both ways --- I used to live outside city limits, we had a census designated place name, a municipal sanitary district and had a fire department at one time... but never a post office, so our mailing address used the nearby city name, where our post office resided. The place name had an incorporated city on the other side of the state, so using that wouldn't be great.

Nowadays, post offices often have a list of alternative place names, so where I live now, I can pick between the incorporated city name, the nearby large city where a post office that processes all my mail is located, or any of the numerous small post offices that once served my city.
You might prefer a more general walkability map, eg. https://www.walkscore.com
I open-sourced a quantum-resistant file encryptor
Because of the nature of the DSA, Twitter would be failing to comply at a European level. Very worst case scenario (which probably will never happen) all European assets will be seized before they can be transfered back to the parent company to make sure fines will be paid. Some European employees might be caught for fraud and jailed. Obviously Twitter's domains would be blocked across the EU, though a cheap VPN is all you'd need to bypass that.

Musk may put himself in a rather awkward position, as the CEO of a company actively refusing court orders. He may be arrested and prosecuted for his actions, so it'd be unwise for him personally to visit his European offices. I'm sure he has committed some form of crime throughout the past couple of years they can jail him by.

In practice, we'd probably just see a short-lived domain block. Jailing Elon will probably set off Trump and his cronies so the EU will probably not bother to go after him.
Beavers build planned dams in protected landscape area
They bought the place already.
It's a cool exploration, but I'm missing examples of why it's actually better. (Which, TBF, might just be an indicator I spent too much time with regexps :)

I.e - why is trre "(cat):(dog)" an improvement over s/cat/dog? What's the improvement of "(x:)or" over s/xor/or? And so on. Pretty much all the examples match (at least in my head) to relatively easy regexps.

I think the core advantage, if there is one, would be in group logic, so maybe the examples should lean into that - even before explaining the basics. I'd explain why it's actually a better choice before explaining the full syntax, or hello-world use cases.

For the caesar cipher example, it screams for a "apply this in reverse" - it's a pretty common request for a lot of text replacements, but it's super clear with this one. (Because programmer brain immediately screams "why express logic twice")

I don't know if it's useful (yet), but I think it's great you're trying to explore alternatives to a long-established status quo. (Caveat: That usually means there's a good chance it won't land. But it's still great to see an exploration)
Isn't Microsoft switching to Trusted Signing[1] and you can get or you'll have to get the cert from them directly in the future?

Seems not to make the process easier, because apparently your organization has to be more than 3 years old[2] to be eligible.

For the traditional way with a third-party cert provider someone on Reddit made a comparison table[3]. The whole thread is interesting.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/trusted-signing/over...

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2082252/...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/electronjs/comments/17sizjf/a_guide...
Thanks for the pointer to qiskit, I'm gonna go learn...
(2023) yet published by ABC in 2025
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db479.htm

any one has more update data ?
The original 68K instruction set is distant from modern computing only in these points:

- 32 bits

- lack of vectorization and such.

It's still perfect for most embedded stuff, by my estimation.

Well .... there are certain points like: wasn't there some issue with branch displacements on MC68K being confined to 16 bit ranges? If you have large functions, it can be a problem.

I dimly remember a project I was on circa 2001 to port a protocol stack (that we were developing on x86) to a system with some Freescale processor with a 68K instruction set.

I remember having to chop the source file into several translation units, because when it was all in one file, the inlining or static function calls or whatever, were generating PC relative branches that were too large for the opcode.

With today's hugeware, you'd be running into that left and right.
Words tend to accumulate negative connotations, and then it's tempting to discard or ban them for synonyms. I agree with most of what's said in the article, but the theme that calling a spade a shovel will fix things is silly. Misaligned incentives have to be realigned, and that means stepping back from extreme crapitalism.
It’s such an insane take that proof would be amazing
I agree there's more nuance here than was initially stated, but I also think there's more nuance than simply "he was offered 6 months". Even if he was offered 6 days, the ways in which someone's life and livelihood changes by having ever been convicted of a crime and gone to prison, is dramatic. This is especially true in white collar work and/or knowledge work.

Schwartz was a research fellow at Harvard. Really think he would've been able to continue?
The headline is a bit misleading, as the 1 million figure refers to children who had ever had Long Covid, and 293,000 were experiencing it at the time of the survey. That doesn't mean it isn't a serious issue, but I believe accuracy is important here.
I know nothing about this company or their approach, but many people - and many parents - have discussed such ideas, because it seems obvious. Schools in America - especially public schools - have increasingly been ineffective. At least in the places I’ve lived, they’re catering to the lowest performing students and feel more like glorified babysitting sometimes. The pace of learning is too slow to be competitive today. And the entire political machinery of the department of education, state level regulations, school district boards, and teachers unions have not helped. They’ve taken all the new spending and achieved almost nothing with it, and they may even be worse than they were in the past.

Increased choice and competition, from things like school vouchers, are necessary. That might mean being able to choose between public and private education, but it could also mean homeschooling. Imagine being able to spend some money on a program like this and having the rest of your voucher (and your child’s time!) for other activities that grow them and make their childhood fun. If the US does not break through all its current dated practices, it will fall behind, and quickly.
Let’s not pretend anybody voted directly for this or was even aware of this law when they cast their vote.
People forget things etc.

Should probably have just asked again, or sent a small one-line patch. It's "mention something on Slack" vs "creating a GitHub issue/PR"
I would rather ruin the taxi livelihood than have to argue with my driver about turning on the meter again
CDC’s website is being modified to comply with President Trump’s Executive Orders.
The data is publicly available. Researchers could get it by scraping, this law says that companies must provide more convenient ways to access that public data.

This has fuck all to do with government overreach or access to private data.
Don’t tell me with a straight face when you have access to the data more than anyone that these posts aren’t getting flagged en mass. We are all watching it happen.
Most of these are what I'd call "cloud in name only" providers - everyone uses the term but you would have significant challenge moving a cloud workload that makes use of the higher layer abstractions to these.
We're talking about publicly available data. If Elon has access to this data, I'd argue that giving it access to German research, and even AfD which Musk supports, won't make it any worse.
> That hasn't been "sensible corporate practice" since American civil rights were instated.

About that...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-equal-employment-opportun...
fwiw, i always make my first PR to an open source as simple / uncomplicated as possible. Something like a spelling or grammar fix in documentation. It's a litmus test for how much drama I will need to face on the more complicated code issues to follow. When the project owners ignore or reject simple stuff, I generally wander off somewhere else.
Portland's exploding Liberty Bell (2020)
If you love a niche blog and some quality writing, I would strongly recommend!
Consider using Codeberg for personal projects and reserve GitHub to just collaborative contributions. Codeberg lets you disable pull requests and other unwanted features that GitHub forces down your throat.
Yeah, I've heard that ABA is for the parents, not for the children with autism.
It's public data already.
> shouldn't there be a lot of political will from the traditional hotels and taxis, and their lawyers?

Yes there is, I am reminded of this every time I take an uber by the yellow cab medallion buyout fee that I’m charged because of the lobbying power of the TLC lobby in NYC
When doing your first ML project, zip codes are unsurpassed in providing a set of hand written digits to train on.
sadly this is real and not the Onion
This lone wolf hero has been working on a Nanite implementation for Unity as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoHB40kCDhM
FTA:

> This week, there was a viral blog about Gemini 2.0 being used for complex PDF parsing, leading many to the same hypothesis we had nearly a year ago at this point. Data ingestion is a multistep pipeline, and maintaining confidence from these nondeterministic outputs over millions of pages is a problem.
In 2017, there were 13 electrocution-related deaths in the UK. In the US, there are between 500 and 1,000 electrocution deaths per year. This translates to 0.019 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in the UK and between 0.149 and 0.298 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in the US.
Wouldn't the agent just send a notification to the user's phone and say "can you solve this please?"
I noticed llama 3.2 8b has big problems reading white on black text. Black on white goes way better. But I think it makes sense. They don't look at text like a dedicated OCR algorithm. I see the article elaborates on the very well.
I couldn't speak to off-list chats, but this has been going on for awhile.

The statement that they were going to maintain this without the support of the DMA maintainer was made 22 days ago [1]. That statement was rejected 11 days ago [2]. Linus was explicitly asked to intervene 10 days ago [3]. (Too complete the timeline Hector Martin first got involved 4 days ago, Linus intervened about that yesterday).

I don't know why you think Linus will suddenly choose to address this Monday.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/Z4kG5AcVeQKegLnb@poll...

[2] https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20250128092334.GA2854...

[3] https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/Z5qeoqRZKjiR1YAD@poll...
You know, Redox (as the "most serious" Rust kernel I can think of) could probably do with non-trivial drivers. It would be unfortunate for aspiring or even seasoned kernel developers to step away from the practice entirely, simply because R4L fails to launch.
I think you should read the article and comment on it, and not attempt to switch topics to focus on what you want to talk about.
You can use those if they work for your application. One downside would be that you're storing 4 numbers compared to a single `int64` index with H3.

You also have to decide how you'll do that binning. Can bins overlap? What do you do at the poles? H3 provides some reasonable default choices for you so don't have to worry about that part of your solution design.
This reminds me of the concept of “user” as presented in the 1982 Tron movie, where users were regarded as sovereigns with god-like powers by the software (“programs”). The notion of “user” in the article is almost the reverse. We should return to that older conception.
Oh true sorry I hope that didn't undermine your recommendation of recreational megadoses of OTC medication.
This is interesting, is it really true?
One time I duct taped a cooked sausage to a USB fan and arranged it so the sausage was continually slapping my passive touch two-factor authenticator. Is that the kind of gross you were talking about?
I agree contributing code to the kernel is by no means as approachable or easy going but it's not self-evident that alone is supposed to be the sign of bad things™ unlike more specific examples boiling up to be part of that picture. Are there things and ways I think it could be improved? For sure! I just don't necessarily think they imply the resulting process would be quick and painless.
Yep, it does! See https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...
I think for some forms of treatment-resistant depression, no "rapid" treatment can work because the depression has caused physical atrophy, mostly in the hippocampus, over many years. Various studies have shown this atrophy, both in MRI and cadaver studies. So the tissue loss might take years to recover unless we discover some new neurogenic compound (RIP NSI-189). Ketamine, SAINT TMS might still work for other depression though.
The company spending millions to build an underwater human settlement
Exactly correct, I think. Cyclone allowed borrowing of "regions" (which were similar to rust lifetimes) in a very similar way. This was either based on or itself inspired other theoretical models of borrowing at around the same time; I'm not sure on the causality but I read all the literature at the time!
Which part of dang's post are you asserting is inaccurate?
Maybe it's a case of:

"When people show you who they are, believe them"

married to:

"Corporations are people"

i.e., they are a business, and if you ascribe (even notional) respectability to them, you're being naive.
"AI is an oxymoron, there's no such thing," says Take-Two boss
How about:

- we get rid of nimby enabling laws

- don’t subsidize rural customers

- automate farming
I don't. And maybe I should have emphasized "and have a data source" more, since its doing a lot of the heavy-lifting in my statement :)
The jury of their peers finds them guilty!
That's a great idea - I wonder if electric kettles would be more popular in the US if they worked as quickly as they do on 240V? How large a volume of battery would one need to accomplish this, I wonder?
The artificial part or the intelligence part?
I imagine this would be like if my company got a new temporary CEO, paid purely in cash, with a 4-year visa and diplomatic immunity from his home country.

And then he brings in a bunch of "old associates" who run around demanding all the master passwords, 2FA recovery codes, and even access to change the audit logs... or else you'll be fired.

Meanwhile, some others are gleefully talking about how their superior fresh outsider perspective will allow them to seamlessly replace That Big Old System that nobody likes but which if it vanishes the company can't serve customers or can't pay bills or gets lawsuit'ed into oblivion.

> The contractor emphasized that nobody yet knows which information DOGE has access to, or what it plans to do with it.

The most-charitable I can possibly go on this is that it will be Twitter all over again [0]: They will cherry-pick records, leak access to hand-picked pieces, and lie they've found the Loch Ness Monster of Somebody Else Being Bad, trusting that not enough people will have the inclination/access/time to check before it becomes "a fact" in supporters' minds.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/the-twitter-files-playbo...
Elon's proclamation of far-right ideas is pretty obvious, but Twitter as a platform isn't Elon.

It shouldn't be too hard to find evidence of a more direct link from Twitter itself given the general vibe there, but until there's concrete proof there's nothing much people and countries can do.

Before foreign influence laws can be applied, you need proof. Without proof, Twitter could sue governments and make a hefty additional profit. Lack of quality research has previously gotten Intel off the hook for their illegal dealings, costing the EU half a billion in interest once the dust settled.

We need either cold, hard facts or more vague laws to pull off something like a TikTok ban in the EU.
This is a very well written comment overall, but the energy loss in the wire is even worse than stated!

By modelling the wire as an (ideal) resistor and applying Ohm's law, you can get P = I^2*R. the power lost in the wire is actually proportional to the square of current through it!

Therefore, if you double the current, the heat quadruples instead of doubling! You actually have to use four times the copper (to decrease resistance by 4x and get heat under control), or the wasted energy quadruples too.

Crucially, voltage is not in the equation, so high voltages - tens or hundreds of kilovolts - are used for long distance power transmission to maximise efficiency (and other impedance-related reasons).
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938802
Most of the time, if I'm doing something retro-related, I'm doing it for myself. There are engineering considerations being made, as you'd expect, but I'm doing it the way I'm doing it as much for the vibe as anything else. It's not about "points", speed, efficiency, portability, or whatever else. It's about what sounds fun, even if it sounds like it'll be "type 2 fun" (i.e. unpleasant now, but enjoyable in retrospect).
Really? I have been using 4o, and its flawless at OCR
Does it matter if the "city" is wrong if your street address + zip code is unique?
I have a hard time believing that you wouldn't be annoyed if some almost completely unrelated maintainer hard NACKs your patch and every suggestion you offer just because they hold a grudge against the language you used.
According to the wayback machine, it is.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230530003202/https://mullvad.n...
If only these corporations with vested interests in permissive copyright would put their money where their mouth is with lobbying for a change. Or is that only allowed when they're trying to do something scummy? I forget.
https://archive.ph/DNabs
> The White House wouldn't comment directly on Coristine's employment, but an official who discussed the situation on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters said all DOGE staffers under Musk were working as employees of relevant agencies with security clearances.

It sounds like they might want to review how they are doing security clearance reviews (assuming they aren't just a blank check for this group) if they're letting folks like this through
This staffer just got rehired btw because being publicly super racist 2 months ago is not a dealbreaker to Elon Musk's organization.

https://bsky.app/profile/fritschner.bsky.social/post/3lhmhrw...
From the title, it took me a while from the description to understand what I'm looking at. The readme really needs some more info 1) targeted at end users of an app, possibly just a few screenshots will do, and 2) targeted at developers and the audience of emerge, e.g. concrete interactions that a dev of this app would have with emerge, also including a screenshot or two