skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Republicans tanked the bipartisan immigration bill because trump didn't like it.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-collapse-of-bipartisa...
Abstractions are a failure in most libraries too. Invariably something will come up that breaks the abstraction. Either new instances come up that don't quite match, or clients want new functionality that doesn't apply to all instances, or whatever.

I've come to the conclusion that in almost all cases, you should avoid providing any abstraction from your own library / service, and let consumers figure out what abstraction makes sense in their domain. By stipulating the abstraction, you're robbing your consumers of the ability to make things work the way they want, and painting your own thing into a corner.

When you build the abstraction, it seems like you're doing your consumers a favor. But that favor is short lived as the abstraction changes and breaks your consumers.
I'm pretty sure this is a feature that's available at least to big creators – I remember a Tom Scott video doing a bit involving scheduling an ad at a particularly fitting moment.

You might have to be a YouTube partner or something like that to make use of this stuff, though.
Alternatively carefully curate your social media accounts. My reddit home page is all books and formula 1. I'm quick to hit 'show me less like this' when anything drifts in from the front page.

My Facebook feed is all friends and family who don't discuss politics and ads for nerd shirts. I've purchased a few. It is also easy and effective to hit show me less of this.

I agree about LinkedIn and don't go there unless I'm actively job hunting, something I hope never to do again. I don't feel any bitterness when I see friends and family on FB go on expensive vacations, but I do feel an unhealthy and indefensible jealousy sometimes when I see former coworkers getting new jobs or promotions.
The standalone app is at https://gemini.google.com/app, and is similar to ChatGPT.

You can also use https://aistudio.google.com to use base models directly.
> once so established, the president has the power to decide how they’re operated.

This is the third time I've seen someone pushing this line of thinking on HN in as many days and I'd like to know more about where it's coming from. Can you cite any source that supports it and justifies it?

FWIW, the conventional wisdom is that the independent agencies really are independent, and the president's control over them is exactly what is stipulated in the legislation that created them. If the statute of the Dept of XYZ and says the president can fire its governing board but only on weekends, then he has to wait til Saturday, period end of story. The idea that the president can interfere with the independent agencies because they're part of the executive branch was, AFAICT, invented out of whole cloth in the last couple of years, and has no constitutional support at all. So I'm curious to hear more about what this new theory is and how far it extends. In particular, if the president can decide to cancel NIH grants because the NIH is under the executive branch, what keeps him from raising and lowering interest rates?

edit to add: to be clear, the president does have a great deal of power over most of the independent agencies; in most cases he hires and fires their leaders. But he has that power because Congress specifically granted it, not because the executive branch is his personal fiefdom. If he wants to, say, get a pharmaceutical drug approved, he has to direct HHS to direct the FDA to do that in the usual way, not just decree it. This has little to do with thwarting his power and lots to do with effective and efficient governance.
I'm (obviously) a Kagi stan, but let me say that I actually like AI answers. Especially the way Kagi does it, where it stays out of your way, unless you add "?" at the end of a query.

One nit that I can see someone else already brought up, is that on Kagi you can't converse with Quick Answer. If it interpreted the query wrong or you want alternate information, you need to juggle new searches until you get the answer you're looking for.
The way I read it, the difference between existing UAC and "Adminless" is that the user is always in the Administrators group and UAC just unlocks an Administrator token/ACL temporarily to bestow the actual powers of the Administrators group. In "Adminless" the user is only a less privileged/low privilege user, a new system-managed Admin User is created, and the new security boundary prompts instead of unlocking a temporary token/ACL are more "runas" the system-managed Admin User. It's similar to Linux sudo sending commands to the root account, where Linux doesn't have a token/ACL model that allows temporarily upgrading the existing user "in place". It's also similar to how Windows Admin security was managed pre-UAC in places that separated standard accounts and Admin accounts, and similar to how many corporations still manage security, with the difference being that the new "Adminless" admin account is system owned (like the various internal service accounts), supposedly does not allow interactive login, has no password only a hardware security key (hence why the new security boundary requires Windows Hello unlocks every time, versus UAC can be as subtle as Yes/No, depending on configuration/group policy).

"Adminless" is a funny name given that there's still an admin account involved, it's just an admin account that is much more than before not a user account but more like a service account.
> As the hiring wave approached, some of Reilly’s friends in the program encouraged her to join the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE), telling her it would help improve her chances of being hired. She signed up as the February wave started. Soon, though, she became uneasy with what the organization was doing, particularly after she and the rest of the group got a voice message from FAA employee Shelton Snow:

> “I know each of you are eager very eager to apply for this job vacancy announcement and trust after tonight you will be able to do so….there is some valuable pieces of information that I have taken a screen shot of and I am going to send that to you via email. Trust and believe it will be something you will appreciate to the utmost. Keep in mind we are trying to maximize your opportunities…I am going to send it out to each of you and as you progress through the stages refer to those images so you will know which icons you should select…I am about 99 point 99 percent sure that it is exactly how you need to answer each question in order to get through the first phase.”2

> The biographical questionnaire Snow referred to as the “first phase” was an unsupervised questionnaire candidates were expected to take at home. You can take a replica copy here. Questions were chosen and weighted bizarrely, with candidates able to answer “A” to all but one question to get through.

From the first article on The scandal: https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-...

> After the 2014 biographical questionnaire was released, Snow took it a step further. As Fox Business reported (related in Rojas v. FAA), he sent voice-mail messages to NBCFAE applicants, advising them on the specific answers they needed to enter into the Biographical Assessment to avoid failing, stating that he was "about 99 point 99 percent sure that it is exactly how you need to answer each question."

You can take the bigraphical questionnaire and see the question weightings here: https://kaisoapbox.com/projects/faa_biographical_assessment/

I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that this was just "buzzwords".
https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/ makes a good point that the really only stable ABI on Linux is WIN32, especially if you step an inch off the "we have the source and build from it every time" train.

Linus keeps the kernel ABI as stable as he can, but that's only a small part of Linux.
This has been my exact issue with giving up reddit. It's really hard to replace very niche topics without it, since many online forums are dead. I also append so many searches on google with "reddit" because the top results are generally SEO spam.

Reading "You should quit reddit" helped a little. The author tries to reframe your hidden beliefs about reddit like "finding useful information" or "it's filled with experts." Helped me to realize I was spending more time reading about my hobbies than actually doing them. Though I understand it's not that simple, doing requires more energy, etc.
Yes. Vital Farm eggs. Been $8 a dozen for a long time. No change in price.

What we're seeing are the consequences of factory farming and not treating animals like the living beings they are.
This is why you fundamentally cannot fix dating apps without changing the incentives around dating apps. The only incentives that modern apps have today is to, as you said, string users along, just frustrated enough that they can't leave, but not frustrated enough to quit outright.

There are ways to fix it, but you have to fundamentally restructure how the app works. Instead of subscriptions, the app has to be paid upon success. Did the matches lead to marriage? Great, they get paid. Otherwise nope. Until incentives are aligned there is literally no financial incentive for them to do otherwise.

There is one app I'm aware of that works this way, but I won't link it so I don't end up sounding like a shill account. But as a user I really hope they succeed, because the current generation of dating apps aren't in anyone's interest except the people who run them.
It is a fine balance, and everyone that doesn't "drive the same speed" as me, frustrates me.
I’d like to note that older movies have often been “live streamed” in an ad-supported format for many decades.

You were even able to use your own equipment to “download” these movies to local “storage” and keep a collection with enough determination. The resolution was often terrible, somewhere around 240i and 360i.

/s
They're following the plan where if you don't track any data, there is no problem. The head in the sand strategy.
Yea, I've always considered craftsmanship to be about paying attention to the details and making everything high quality--even the things that the end user will never see, but you know are there. The Steve Jobs quote sums it up nicely:

> "When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."
Most people building AI products believe they will make the world a much better place. Even if not their products specifically, then AI in general.

In the background there's an ongoing debate of whether AI will lead to a utopia or a dystopia. There's not much of a middle-ground.
I agree. I wonder if the author has actually tried to build their baby tracking software using AI? I suspect AI would turn out to be a lot less useful than hoped.

But there is a middle ground between writing your own code and buying an off the shelf app - no/low code tools. For example, you can use our Easy Data Transform software to drag and drop a data processing pipeline to turn data from one form to another, no need to learn (or ask an AI about) Python+Pandas or R. But this only an option if there is a tool fits your needs, off course.
Sounds like a combo of ABF and this...

"Trader Joe's is transitioning to carry only cage-free eggs by 2025."

https://www.allrecipes.com/trader-joes-egg-shortage-2024-874...

I was more reacting to the "first time" anecdotal evidence.
My expectation from an LTS release is that "it just works". Ubuntu LTS releases often ship ancient software.

I ended with Arch eventually. Rolling distros are much better for consumers.
Does the 6% number includes churn between departments? Unless ICE can absorb 100k+ headcount the number will be much lower this year.
I've definitely noticed the pricing for eggs at our neighborhood Trader Joes staying constant while the pricing at our neighborhood Safeway has doubled.
DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack
Fake/Vegetarian eggs are priced the same here, so I made the switch and am only using fake eggs now for most of my cooking.
If your goal is to increase human-bird contact and contact between bird species during a bird flu pandemic, then sure. Perfect time!

The California Dept. of Food and Agriculture has numerous alerts on their site regarding H5N1 spreading in non-commercial backyard flocks.
It’s great for the industrial food processor or restaurant chain that has a consistent demand/menu for eggs.

But more meh for the consumer that’s more liquid/dynamic/reactive and can easily substitute ad hoc if something gets too expensive.

It’s an industrial subsidy at more than one level.
When I went to school I didn't need to cite sources to say
2 x (5.5-4 9) = 37-30

Is bad math.

Or if you spend $5.5T a year and your debt increases $3.5T you had $2T in revenue.

But here you go
Medicare 2023
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-does-the-government-s...
$848.2 billion

Medicade 2023
$606 billion
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/medicaid-financing-...

Military 2023
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-does-the-us-spend-on-...
$820 billion

848+620+820 = $2.2T

National debt
https://www.investopedia.com/us-national-debt-by-year-749929...
$30,928 end of FY 2022
$33,167 end of FY 2023

How exactly are you saying they spent 2T more than they collected in revenue again? Is this a Joe Biden forget where he put it or smth?

Meanwhile
Debt now
https://www.usdebtclock.org/
$36.4T
=$33,167 end of FY 2023, spent $3.3T on interest, Collected and spent $2.2T on medicare,medicade and the military.
= $33.1 +3.3 -2.2 +2.2 = $36.4T

good luck have fun. Im out. enjoy your fantasy economics for the few months it has left. Last group of federated states with group finances in a similar position was the USSR circa early 1991, pop quiz, can you guess what I think happens to the US next?
It is worth considering how chicken exposure impacts your risk of contracting H5N1 and the state of current treatments, and likelihood of obtaining those treatments if you need them.
If they were not paid because they were on "admin leave", does that look bad for Trump, or does that look bad for Congress? And who in a Republican Congress will want to do that anyway? They're mostly on board for this bullshit aren't they?
The issue isn’t the compliance with the order. It’s the order being issued in the first place.
As far as I can tell, the difference is this:

UAC is per-process and monotonic. Once elevated, the entire process stays elevated.

The new model is per-operation. Even if the same process has been allowed to elevate before, it must ask to do it again. I don't know how granular this is, and whether there's a grace period like sudo.

However, the biggest problem with UAC was that it was considered too noisy for the end user, leading to people just blindly accepting every dialog and Microsoft turning down the default level to the much less secure "don't always prompt". I don't know how this new model will address that problem; naively, it seems to be worse on this front.
I live in NJ on some bird migration routes, the area I'm in has nesting snow geese right now and they are infected, birds dead, dying, and struggling to fly, some of the parks have been closed to the public due to concern of it skipping to humans. There's at least one large egg farm only around a 5 minute drive from this flock (one of ISE's). I have no idea if it skipped in there but given the short distance it's very possible.
Yup, bird flu moment. I'm very glad my family put up a chicken coop in our backyard years ago; we get a ~carton a day, and they last forever even outside the fridge due to the natural "sealant" still being intact.

Hopefully store prices will come down as the year goes on and flocks bounce back.
dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42837767
Really raises the question - should vital infrastructure, like food production, be built in an attempt to maximize profit or resiliency? Have things swung too far in one direction?
Eggs have famously short shelf life, even in the refrigerator. They’re not going to last more than a month if you’re lucky. The egg cartons they’re sold in are already the most optimized way to store them. Moving them into something else doesn’t make any sense.
These names are unbelievably bad. Flash, Flash-Lite? How do these AI companies keep doing this?

Sonnet 3.5 v2

o3-mini-high

Gemini Flash-Lite

It's like a competition to see who can make the goofiest naming conventions.

Regarding model quality, we experiment with Google models constantly at Rev and they are consistently the worst of all the major players. They always benchmark well and consistently fail in real tasks. If this is just a small update to the gemini-exp-1206 model, then I think they will still be in last place.
The aim of propaganda is not anywhere near singular. Much of it is also aimed at convincing you that minor things are "terrible acts" that you need to be outraged about.
Counterargument: Having a backyard poultry flock in the middle of an avian influenza pandemic (it is a pandemic in birds), is maybe not the best idea.
Chromium too. You can spend a half an hour fixing it every single time, or just use Mint. My newer hardware uses Fedora, which is great also.
> you'll still want to use Google as a backup for hyper local results

And can do so by adding !g to a Kagi query, just like on DDG.

You know, I once ordered takeout from the other side of the country because I had too much privacy on my search engine...
It's not a guarantee, you may consider it FUD, but you can't tell me it's impossible - you can't even promise me it won't happen.

The TPM is fundamentally about storing cryptographic keys, platform integrity checks, unique IDs, etc. It is already used for secure logins by the Windows OS. Microsoft are successfully enforcing your email, ID, logins, etc, to be associated directly with your unique hardware.

One day you will request a video from Netflix or Youtube, and your device will be the only device in the world that can view it. You might think to screen record, but the OS does not allow it. You might think to record it via an external display, but this has to interface with the TPM. You decide to record your screen from your phone, but the phone's TPM recognises that the camera tries to record DRM material.

Don't get me wrong, security devices should exist 100%. But. It should never be forced.
Meanwhile in Ireland, I can get a tray of 30 free range for 8 eur at a vending machine on the dog walk. Or 15 for 4.50.

Lidl is maybe marginally cheaper, prices there have gone up maybe 20% in a year.
Because Trump was talking about how much he loves tariffs and obviously had no plan to reduce egg prices.
What's going on with eggs in the US? The whole world had high inflation after Covid, so that's not US-specific, but eggs tripling in price? That is extreme. I don't think my (Dutch, free-range organic) eggs went up more than 25%.
This is so true. I had wondered if it was just me somehow messing my various manjaro/arch machines.

Coming back to a hobby laptop and finding it unable to function because mirrors have been updated or whatever was a really painful thing to find out after a few months away.
I spent some time yesterday struggling with o3-mini-high trying to do a trigonometry problem, we went round and round and could not solve it. o1 solved it in one shot.
Very cool idea, and very well implemented. My only feedback is that you should clarify whether the solution has to be a valid position that can be reached in a chess game.
It became a meme/joke because of the contrast between the good part of Trump's image (promise of egg prices) and the bad part (extreme pettiness, violence, lawlessness, fascist-adjacent behavior, etc). Contrast is a big part of jokes.

It would be very uncharitable to extrapolate that to "the people joking about eggs don't care about working-class people". The people joking about it largely are affected by grocery store prices. That is, of course, not the point. The "culture war" has a lot of stupid things about it, but also real, unavoidable things that would be unrealistic to expect even level-headed people to ignore.

Edit: Perhaps a more straightforward example: I am personally affected by grocery prices. Some of my closest friends and family are impacted severely by grocery prices. If a wealthy person says to me, "egg prices don't matter", I'm going to say, "Fuck off, they matter." If another person says to me, "Vote for <insert the scariest politician you can think of>, he says he'll lower egg prices," I'm going to say, "because of the egg prices? are you crazy?", even though I think egg prices matter. Relativity matters to actual humans. Some percentage of people in poverty who are desperate enough will feel forced to take that trade-off, especially if they haven't seen the hatefulness (or if they share it, but that's moot), but that doesn't mean the people making jokes about the egg price promise don't care about those people. That's not how humans work.
Agreed. However Progressives argue (wrongly in my opinion) that taking into account a person’s race and gender identity is the only wait to guard against discrimination. They explicitly regard ‘merit’ based hiring as racist and discriminatory.
Americans voted for this and I find it very hard to believe they didn't know what they were voting for. So that's on them.

Personally, I am working on replacing any American made products or services I use myself or through my job. Both as an act of protest and in preparation for the upcoming economic war they plan to wage.
How many $1 million prizes were given out?
Please. You literally referred to "the current snark and memes about egg prices" in your original comment.
Michigan here, this is has been made worse by a new law requiring all eggs to be 'cage-free'. I think I paid $9 for the cheap store-brand eggs (18) last week.

And that is, if they even have any eggs at the store. I've been to Wal-mart and Kroger when the entire section is empty with a sign saying there are egg supply issues.

It's also winter so my 'chicken farmer friends' are low on eggs, when it's cold the chickens don't lay nearly as many.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/12/18/m...
> they are now often cheaper...increase the resilience of the system as a whole

cheaper and resilience are not proportional here. in fact, cheaper is proportional to efficient, which large producers are better at (apart from questions of healthiness, etc). i can't argue against resilience though, although that comes at a cost. speaking as a backyard-chicken-raiser of some years.
> The async featureset in Rust is far from complete, but async is also somewhat of a niche. You're not necessarily expected to use it, often you can just use threads.

I’m sorry but it’s not true. You lose access to most of the ecosystem.
Worth noting that (as discussed by Brian) not all of those planned projects will be built, and (as not discussed by Brian) those big gigawatt numbers are all nameplate capacity. Actual generation will be will be ~25% of that number for solar and ~35% of that number for wind.

And since batteries don't actually generate electricity, 200 GW of that are 'just' for peak shifting.

Still, absolutely amazing numbers. To quote the article: "We’re witnessing the early stages of a historic buildout of energy infrastructure, with thousands of gigawatts worth of generation projects currently in the pipeline."