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Thanks for responding at length, though your derisive tone isn't winning you any converts. Is it your position then that the president can legally wield any power described in any legislation? If not, what can't he do? Can he, for example, raise and lower interest rates over the objection of the Fed? Approve an IPO that the SEC rejected? Lend money to his supporters through the SBA and deny loan applications from his adversaries? Refuse to deliver Hunter Biden's mail? If not, why not? I'm not trying to play gotcha here, but it seems like your position is that he can do these things.
Same, except i reply on the drugs and harm reduction subreddit trying to help kids make decisions that dont destroy their lives. It's really difficult to leave because i remember when i needed those people and sometimes it feels like all the adults left the room and I'm the only one left. Who's gonna help these kids? Seems futile to attempt to stem the tide of gen alpha tiktok brainrot idiocy but sometimes people actually listen to me and their life improves. I've given myself a time that I'll work down to 15 minutes a day to try to consolidate that extra time. Recently I've been using some of my addiction advice on myself to quit reddit
WaPo lost my trust when Bezos stepped in and over the editorial process. It is just another billionaire owned bully pulpit now
Out of that list, The Science of Sleep stands out to me. It is a film by Michel Gondry who also directed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It is kind of an indie pretentious movie, but if you are into that kind of thing it is a decent one.
Knowing what we know about the potential bad outcome of meeting aliens (yes I get that this would be cool - but it may not be safe). It’s probably smart to shutoff the signal that is broadcasting, where it can be detected up to 12,000 light years (50ly as of now). It seems much smarter to attempt to detect aliens than allow them to detect us.
It's absolutely a crime. Whether you can be prosecuted for it is a different question.
Yes, and it would be valuable to help understand what enforcement agencies people think can/should do enforcement, and also to help educate those people when they're wrong.
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That option is also available to Trump but it has not been made yet, it's the VSIP option and is an actual buyout.
You can declare a template in a header file, and only provide its definition (and hence expansion) in a source file. See for example Firefox doing this for its string implementation here: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/string/ns... (extern template declarations are at the end of the header file, and the actual template definitions are in https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/string/ns...).

Which is to say, "extern template" is a thing that exists, that works, and can be used to do what you want to do in many cases.

The "export template" feature was removed from the language because only one implementer (EDG) managed to implement them, and in the process discovered that a) this one feature was responsible for all of their schedule misses, b) the feature was far too annoying to actually implement, and c) when actually implemented, it didn't actually solve any of the problems. In short, when they were asked for advice on implementing export, all the engineers unanimously replied: "don't". (See https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2003/n14... for more details).
It's a good thing we don't make every decision in our lives from an absolute financial standpoint. We'd all be eating gruel and porrage.
If you zoom out far enough, all these companies are making business decisions - not emotional ones. They have to kiss Trump's ring and bend the knee for Elon in order to not get destroyed. When they had DEI, it was created for business reason too - to be seen as socially just so you should buy their products. Now Google thinks it's better for business if they fall in line with what Trump wants.
You need to be in the YouTube partner program, but that's not just available to big creators.

You need at least 1000 subscribers and a certain amount of video watch time per year to qualify, but even fairly small channels can meet this bar. When people talk about getting monetized on YouTube, this is what they mean.
I’m still on social media (HN, YouTube and Reddit), but blocked all other news sites. They’re mostly about outrage too.
There is a distinction between the variable itself and its name. Const (and Rust's immutability-by-default) ensures that the variable does not change after assignment. This holds true even as references to it are passed to other functions or stored for later use. You "can't" accidentally pass a reference to that variable which will then be unexpectedly mutated a dozen calls deep into a library function you didn't write.

If you have shadowing, it simply means you can have a different variable with the same name later in the same (or child) scope, this usually must be explicit. The same name now refers to a different variable, but the original variable still exists and remains valid.

It's quite a useful pattern, particularly where the old value is no longer useful (for example transforming input), especially when using the old value might be valid code but would be a mistake.
I suspect they're trying to relate the pigeonhole principle to overparameterization, but those pieces don't really fit together into a coherent argument for me.
> It has an even stronger addiction potential than opioids do. And the majority of people in the west drink at varying rates. But the rate of addiction is generally under 5%(in the west). Why do you think that is?

I conclude that... alcohol doesn't actually have an even stronger addiction potential than opioids do?
Thanks for the additional clarification!
The other give away is that he wants to use his awful "I/O streams" feature even though he also wants very modern features like modules.

Normal people who have a modern environment would std::println but Bjarne insists on using the I/O streams from last century instead
Is it actually illegal if it's the pet project of the president, who has been given absolute power by the rest of the government?
If I used Gemini 2.0 for extraction and chunking to feed into a RAG that I maintain on my local network, then what sort of locally-hosted LLM would I need to gain meaningful insights from my knowledge base? Would a 13B parameter model be sufficient?
Exactly. I made this comparison elsewhere, but it still fits. They are akin to the US Chemical safety board. They have investigative powers, but that's it. They can't actually change anything, just issue recommendations.

Now, USCSB makes some incredible YouTube videos, I somehow doubt Doge will do the same
No one I know who has been migrated to Teams has been happy about that change.
Yes, wrong post. Thanks.
We were required to make linkedin profiles as part of the computer science career preparedness class. I got an internship out of that career day though so it was a win for me
>it's only illegal if the law gets enforced.

It is completely valid to say something is illegal and unenforced.

Consider that non-enforcement doesn't suddenly make something legal. Enforcement can start at any time. (Will it? Who knows!)
"If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed."
-- Col. Jack O'Neill (with 2 Ls)
Yeah, YouTube has minimal engine called Cobalt: https://developers.google.com/youtube/cobalt

That's also an unfortunate story, because they've really lagged on adding features in the past because they generally have no way to update the engine on TVs. So any new feature would take 5-10 years to be usable.

So almost 10 years ago they didn't invest in some core things like web components, and they could have used them by now if they did.
Unpacking Discourse 3.4
I feel like the part of my text you declined to quote "you needed to use their wizards. " clarifies things, or at least the context. I don't have specific examples because it's been like 15 years since I played with it, although Upstart, their own gui environment, and snaps are all probably at least loosely related examples.
Flights are operable by 1 person, and this is in fact the normal state of affairs in general aviation. The second person on commercial aircraft is there mostly for redundancy, although obviously having another pair of hands makes things easier.
There's no real reason to think the "MAGA market" won't make up for the lost sales of the leftist market, or that it's particularly big swing either way ( most people don't care about politics and just want the best product )
How is it an illegal operation?
I decided that other people are far more organized than I am and can respond more effectively, so I'm outsourcing political action in the form of donations. I've earmarked 3% of my income every month for a list of selected charities that currently includes the ACLU, the HRC, and a short list of smaller ones.

I encourage you to do the same!
Yes, [D]DoS is a problem. Its not uncommon for a single person with residential fiber to have more bandwidth than your small site hosted on a 1u box or VPS. Either your bandwidth is rate limited and they can denial of service your site or your bandwidth is greater but they can still cause you to go over your allocation and cause massive charges.

In the past you could ban IPs but that's not very useful anymore.

The distributed attacks tend to be AI companies that assume every site has infinite bandwidth and their crawlers tend to run out of different regions.

Even if you aren't dealing with attacks or outages, Cloudflare's caching features can save you a ton of money.

If you haven't used Cloudflare, most sites only need their free tier offering.

It's hard to say no to a free service that provides feature you need.

Source: I went over a decade hosting a site without a CDN before it became too difficult to deal with. Basically I spent 3 days straight banning ips at the hosting company level, tuning various rate limiting web server modules and even scaling the hardware to double the capacity. None of it could keep the site online 100% of the time. Within 30 mins of trying Cloudflare it was working perfectly.
I disagree with that GitHub comment.

Saying Zig has generics because it has comptime is like saying c has generics, because C has a pre-processor

It's a wild take that you have to willfully ignore the context and nuance (implemention, rules, and semantics) for it to be true. More true than misleading, at any rate.
1. So if the supreme court ended 'racial discrimination' at universities in 2023, why is the administration destroying scientific organizations now in the name of doing so?

2. That court case is for undergraduate admissions - what does it have to do with hiring practices in the academic sciences?
If you're interested in a c-like that isn't going to change, the crwator of Odin has said the language is basically done and further work is mostly on the standard library.
Yeah and Firefox on Linux too. I do have the user agent set to one from Edge because otherwise Microsoft blocks many features in Office 365. Once it thinks it's Edge it suddenly does work just fine. But it doesn't completely fix all the cloudflare blocks and captchas.
So the fed defunding whatever they like by fiat gives the Republicans nothing to offer the other side to play ball because anything that they offer could easily be taken away. Its like showing up to the auction with monopoly money.

Without the dems they need almost every Republican to agree because their margin is only 5 votes. Historically this is difficult because their ranks now include several morons and extremists most notably the lady who actually believed Jews were responsible for starting wildfires with space based lasers.

If a handful of extremists don't ask for crazy nonsense they will still have every hand out for pork.

Then it goes to the Senate where it needs 60 votes including dems to pass anything. The first round of crazy if it passes anything might easily end up with something too stupid to pass the Senate without also termination of the fillibuster.
I remember reading his memo and agreed with many things he said. I think the public overreacted. He was right that DEI ignore the hard questions and discriminates another group.

I'm no Trump lover. However, I do think DEI was the wrong approach.

Many here work in tech. I'm sure some or many of us here have silently experienced unfair DEI hiring and promotion practices at least once. I've seen some truly incompetent people get hired and promoted purely to meet a certain DEI goal. It reminds me of Affirmative Action but for the work place.

This is coming from someone who absolutely hates the tech bro culture and hates that there aren't enough women in tech. No male tech worker likes environments where there are 10 guys to 1 girl and the insane gender imbalance in tech heavy cities that make dating impossible for a large portion of the population. If I could, I would wave a magic wand and turn the tech industry into 10 women for every 1 man. Believe me.
How does it behave if the body of text is offensive or what if it is talking about a recipe to purify UF-6 gas at home? Will it stop doing what it is doing and enter lecturing mode?

I am asking not to be cynical but because of my limited experience with using LLMs for any task that may operate on offensive or unknown input seems to get triggered by all sorts of unpredictable moral judgements and dragged into generating not the output I wanted, at all.

If I am asking this black box to give me a JSON output containing keywords for a certain text, if it happens to be offensive, it refuses to do that.

How does one tackle with that?
Pretty soon the internet will just be a vestigial thing that people use to connect to the cloudflare.
Not an American, but the reported resignation process of just sending arbitrary content email with subject "resign" to "hr@opm.gov" feels like the real aim is to collect emails and response time data to establish cluster system health metric to determine which nodes can be murdered safely.

It's almost strange to me that this aspect, and stupidity of injecting non-compiling code to human mainframes collective that runs on legalese in an attempt to collect such data, seem to be rarely discussed.
Yeah it sure is nice this way isn’t it! It’s pretty boring, but you get to form your own opinions about things, and aren’t constantly mad about things that don’t affect you. I’ll admit to scrolling HN a lot, but I at least get a lot of very useful info out of it, it has leveled me up in unexpected ways over the years.
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Which is insane when people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, and Doug Collins, among others, are not considered as "drain the swamp".
Thanks, that makes sense. Interesting perspective on the UI = F(data), I did not know that. I still wish the mechanics were a bit more... intuitive... I guess? Personally, I'm a big fan of The Elm Architecture [1]. I felt that is a very nice way to separate state and logic. But I'm not such a big fan of Elm itself (subjectively).

[1] https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/
From my perspective rust is still getting a lot (most) of the attention while zig has a loyal but smaller following. Odin (one I love) has an even smaller following still.

Personally, I don't really care about languages. I'll use whatever language I have to in order to try a library/engine I'm interested in. Currently I'm looking at trying Godot, Bevy and O3DE. As they all seem to be used to some extent right now. Note that none of those are written in Zig (or Odin). Maybe that will change after 1.0?
You can look it up. They’re not directly removing the word, they’re using it to trigger “reviews”, and then purging stuff they found to violate their ideology.

I can tell you there’s already been critical guidance from the FDA on clinical trials that have been removed because they have the word “diversity,” as in “a clinical trial’s population should aim to reflect the diversity of the population to which the drug will ultimately be marketed.”
Wrong about anything. It's not as infallible as the Pope was in the Middle Ages.
Thanks for the extract!

I didn't see where the chartering is in that, all the refs I saw assumed the group's existence, and only a few referred to it as an "agency"--but maybe I missed it?

Most of what I saw was that USA was supposed to follow the guidance of the Secretary of State, or work with other departments. That was Rubio's claim, that not only did it not work with the State Department, but it subverted that department's work and that there was no cooperation with Congressional oversight committees.
I bought mine in 2019 and another in 2024, they're the best cars I've ever driven.
I have been using Fedora + Firefox for years. I sometimes get a captcha from Cloudflare, but not frequently. Works just fine.

I have not tried less mainstream browsers, just FF and Chrome.
The president isn’t a king.
Republicans only hold the house by two seats so to pass something they need to have everyone on board. Any single republican member of congress that wants to hold the whole thing hostage for demands pretty much can.
The article identifies a very specific problem. Women will swipe through the app and reject the bottom 95% of the men immediately, but then all of them women end up matching with only 5% of the men. This is useless to both the 95% of men who don't get any matches and the 95% of women who can't all be in a monogamous relationship with that 5% of men.

In theory you could just stop showing the top 5% of men to anyone, but that's pretty useless. Then the 90-95th percentile men would get all the matches and you haven't solved anything.

You could assign percentiles at random so that some 80th percentile women only see 40th percentile men and vice versa, but that seems less likely to work for obvious reasons.

The problem you need to solve is to get the 60th percentile women to go on a date with the 60th percentile men to begin with. What happens then is up to them, but at least you're putting people in a situation that could lead to something, instead of the one:many matching that sucks for everyone except the players.
> The real value of exceptions is you can skip 6 levels of functions that have lines like

For some reason some Go programmers think those lines are the best thing since sliced bread.
If your candidate pool is 80% white and you hire 25% minorities, is that discrimination? I have seen people argue (rabidly!) both ways on that question.
All it tells me is that I agree with you and yes congress would ratify it, so doing this is pointless and only going to slow you down.

Why would it make sense for them to do this? Democrats would still howl in disapproval no matter what they did.
Canola oil consumption is associated with same the human health outcomes as olive oil.

Despite what you hear on social media, "seed oils" and margarine (which doesn't have trans fats anymore) are still preferable to butter.

People who really want butter and other foods to be good for them tend to have a blind spot where if they convince themselves that X is bad, then butter is good because it's not X. And because of this, they weaken their epistemic standard when it comes to proving that X is bad, often satisfied with story-telling about how it must be bad, because it's connected to their belief that not-X is good. Just something I've noticed in the seed oils social media fad.
Huh? I'm American and even used to work as a professional line cook. Vegetarian has only ever meant "no meat products" to me. Vegan means "no animal products of any kind", and anything else requires a more specific phrase like "I'm vegetarian, and also I don't eat eggs", or "I can't eat any dairy products at all", or whatever.
Ask HN: Verifying Social Identity Online
I remember there used to be a site where people used to generate a key and then share it on social media.

(I can't remember the name but it was very popular.)

There are many online platforms (social media and non social media) which have no way to confirm your identity or verify that its legit you! How do you verify yourself?
OCR Crypto Stealers in Google Play and App Store
How have they not been transparent?
Show HN: Mandarin Flashcards
Hi HN!

I’m learning Mandarin with my son and I built these flashcards which use a spaced repetition algorithm to expand my vocabulary.

Something cool about Chinese is that there is no verb conjugation! If you learn a verb, you can use it right away without needing to memorize six other forms of it.

I tried using ChatGPT to build the swipe gesture UI but I ended up with 80% of it working and a tangled mess. I’ve had a lot more success with other projects.

More development details:

https://memalign.github.io/p/mandarin-flashcards.html
Aren't Twitter workers still trying to get their severances and they took the offer when Twitter actually had the money to pay.

Considering that SpaceX is so far behind on its bills that dozens and dozens of companies in Texas have had to place liens against the company, my guess is that neither the Twitter people, nor the SpaceX people, nor the federal buyout people will ever see a dime.

For some reason, links to stories about the leins and SpaceX becoming notorious for not paying its bills are hard to come by, but it's in the printed newspapers regularly; as recently as yesterday. Here's and older link I could find: https://www.chron.com/culture/article/spacex-overdue-bills-t...
This is one of those little changes that just quietly drops, and winds up having tremendous impact. Like XMLHttpRequest back in the day
Indeed... welcome to the newest "failed state". Although, that term reminds me of Sarah Chayes' book on corruption, reviewed at length in [1].

> But, as Chayes studied the graft of the Karzai government, she concluded that it was anything but benign. Many in the political élite were not merely stealing reconstruction money but expropriating farmland from other Afghans. Warlords could hoodwink U.S. special forces into dispatching their adversaries by feeding the Americans intelligence tips about supposed Taliban ties. Many of those who made money from the largesse of the international community enjoyed a sideline in the drug trade. Afghanistan is often described as a “failed state,” but, in light of the outright thievery on display, Chayes began to reassess the problem. This wasn’t a situation in which the Afghan government was earnestly trying, but failing, to serve its people. The government was actually succeeding, albeit at “another objective altogether” — the enrichment of its own members. Washington supported Hamid Karzai and his ministers and adjutants in the hope that they could establish a stable government, help pursue Al Qaeda, and keep the Taliban at bay. But the Karzai government wasn’t a government at all, Chayes concluded. It was “a vertically integrated criminal organization.”

[1] https://archive.is/E6zXj
I dread to ask this, but - which war is starting next year in the US? :-(
It would be nice if anyone would state a law being violated. A lot of people seem to be making a lot of assumptions too about what DOGE/Elon are doing vs what the president or directors of the agencies (for instance) are doing
Strategy vs. Situation Misfit: How to Recognize It?
Nothing, it's the principle of the thing. I.e. when you make a challenging to evaluate statement, the burden of proof is on the one making the claim.

If I say "Moon is made of millennia old cheese", the burden of proof isn't on you to go create a rocket, fly to the moon, sample it and come with conclusions, but on me, making a difficult to verify statement.
The Global Capslock Key
I think they'd "like" to, but he legal protections for the employees in this case are vast compared to twitter. But as an employee, I would worry that they would try... we already have an administration that SCOTUS has decided is above the law in other ways.