skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you say is true, but these corporate diversity efforts are mostly used for PR and aren't actually making a difference to any race or community. The simple truth is that tech companies are going to hire any qualified engineer they can find, regardless of whether they are in a minority group or not and whether there is a DEI department at the company or not. So the question that should be asked is – why are black people (5-6% of CS graduates vs 15% of population), women (16-18% of CS graduates vs 50.5% of population), latinos (7% of CS graduates vs 20% of US population) etc. not pursuing STEM education and graduating with engineering degrees at the same rate as white and asian men? And what can we do to fix that? Diversity hiring at the corporate level is not the solution to the problem, education and training is.
The OP asserted that USAID was created by EO and that the president is free to do what he wants with it. That statement is blatantly false. How does court decide is not relevant to this discussion, because as you said it is speculative.
My 1070 was replaced by… nothing, I moved it from a haswell box to an alder lake box.

Given that inference time will soon be extremely valuable with agents and <thinking> models, H100s may yet be worth something in a couple years.
As someone who has used OSX for .. 21 years now and is slowly, but surely moving off: the grass is not greener on the other side.

Bugs aplenty, a user interface which has seriously deteriorated over the last decade bundled with an ever-increasing user hostility and tendency to lock you out of your system.

One example: you can no longer manage which applications may run as daemons/background tasks. Any application can register itself with the OS to do so, and your only recourse is a little tiny switch in the system preferences.

Only, in the case of Google Chrome this does not work; the application constantly re-registers itself, overriding the setting. I can no longer prevent Chrome from doing whatever the hell it wants to do, and — adding insult to injury — every time it does, I get a persistent notification from macOS that it is now doing what ever the hell it wants to do. About a dozen times a day.
You can be skeptical but I’ve worked at multiple small businesses since GDPR and CCPA came to be, and each of them has zero interest in “selling your data” - everyone just wants to run ads and track which ones work. And yet complying with GDPR has been onerous and costly in every one of them. And did nothing to benefit our customers or website visitors. The only winners are the lawyers and firms that specialize in selling “compliance as a service” basically.
>the full bower checker in C++ approach is incompatible with all current C++

Circle is an implementation of C++ that includes a borrow checker and is 100% backwards compatible with C++:

https://www.circle-lang.org/site/index.html
I mean that's the correct way to use LinkedIn: it's a job board.
DOGE didn’t shut down USAID. Musk talked Trump and Rubio into doing it and they did.

Musk is essentially a presidential advisor, and legally an advisor can advise the President to do pretty much anything. Even if the thing they are advising the President to do is illegal, the President is the one who bears the legal responsibility for the action, not the advisor.

In really extreme cases, like if Musk were advising Trump to commit genocide, or carry out a military coup, or transfer a billion dollars out of US Treasury into someone’s personal bank account, and Trump followed the advice, Musk might be held legally liable for having given it. But shutting down a government agency isn’t anything like that. The legality of shutting it down is debatable, but even if ultimately held to be illegal, it isn’t the genocide or military coup or blatant corruption kind of illegal.
> source: anecdote/survivorship bias
This is totally fucked if true
> Dead links owned by the very companies being reported on. If a company lets their diversity report 404, why do you hold this against statisticians that gathered the data when it was live?

Why should I trust data I can't verify?

> You work with the data you have. Because the data isn't perfect, we should disregard it entirely and rely on your prejudice instead?

Junk in, junk out.

> The data is about the state of the companies, not the impacts of individual DEI programs.

So when you said "Well, they've already achieved diversity, haven't they", what did you mean?

> Given that this data shows Facebook employees as only 3% black, perhaps it does not count content moderators.

Who actually knows, which is precisely the point.
Author here: thanks for reading the post.

It's great to hear that Zig covered both cases. However, I'd still prefer the opposite behavior: a safe (without truncation) default `bcrypt()` and the unsafe function with the explicit name `bcryptWithTruncation()`.

My opinion is based on the assumption that the majority of the users will go with the `bcrypt()` option. Having AI "helpers" might make this statistic even worse.

Do you happen to know Zig team's reasoning behind this design choice? I'm really curious.
What actions? You can't be serious! And courts are for crimes. The crimes Musk is currently committing is at the behest of Trump and, unless we follow the precedent set at Nuremberg, Trump is responsible for those crimes. Even so, the courts can't do anything about it because the legislature is responsible for trying the Chief Executive.

Is the EV credit bill the appropriate vehicle to get Musk to reconsider his actions? All I can say is it's a vehicle. I'm not a member of the legislature and I don't play one on TV. It appears Musk was poorly raised and never taught there are consequences to actions, even if you're free to perform the action. As a matter of fact, it seems like a lot of people never learned that important life lesson.
I am curious why bcrypt was used for hashing in the first place and not something like sha-512

Is there a reason I might be missing?
There are many settings for changing the safety level in Gemini API calls: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/safety-settings
have them audited by the Office of the Inspector General.

Which is not very easy right now as Trump illegally fired many of them across 17 different offices.

The illegality and unconsitutionalism of the actions being taken to dismantle agencies and placement private citizens without background checks or proper auditing / security procedures inside of highly critical and often classified systems are the issue, not whether or not USAID should be audited or abolished. There are proper channels for that. they are being bypassed (even though fully available to the President with all three branches of government in Republican control).
Haven't been a fan of Ubuntu for a while.

Dropped it a few years ago and switched to Mac.
They didn't know who Kierans was though did they? Woods knew he was someone else, but no one else knew who he was until he confessed.
The federal employee unions have incredible power, often to the detriment of the government.
Adhibin identified as an active agent against cancer metastasis
> Code is not law. Law is law. Very few people argue that code is law and it has become an anti-blockchain talking point.

I made this exact argument in discussions with "blockchain" proponents, in discussions of why "code as law" was not good, and got near-universal, vehement disagreement. I suspect that you underestimate how many people argue it.
I'll keep an eye on it then but without replaygain its a no-go for me.

Best of luck :)
Agree. As a parent to an Asian boy, I’m thankful that steps are being taken to ensure he isn’t discriminated against for school admissions and job applications.
Kind of odd seeing people casually discuss the mechanics/details of what's been going on this last week, as if they whole thing isn't just flagrantly illegal.

Reminds me of this: https://www.upworthy.com/hypernormalization-explained.
> Employees working for the agency now known as DOGE have been ordered to stop using Slack while government lawyers attempt to transition the agency to one that is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act,

> The messages indicate that, under Elon Musk’s leadership, DOGE is actively taking steps to make sure its communications and records are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act,

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

Regardless of where you stand on the topic of cutting federal budgets, the lack of transparency should be alarming to everyone.

Broad actions like this should have the utmost transparency, not a team of lawyers doing their best legal maneuvering to keep it out of the public's reach.
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> And I'm left wondering, is this just how C++ is? Can't the language provide tooling for me to better adhere to its guidelines

Well, first, the language can't provide tooling: C++ is defined formally, not through tools; and tools are not part of the standard. This is unlike, say, Rust, where IIANM - so far, Rust has been what the Rust compiler accepts.

But it's not just that. C++ design principles/goals include:

* multi-paradigmatism;

* good backwards compatibility;

* "don't pay for what you don't use"

and all of these in combination prevent baking in almost anything: It will either break existing code; or force you to program a certain way, while legitimate alternatives exist; or have some overhead, which you may not want to pay necessarily.

And yet - there are attempts to "square the circle". An example is Herb Sutter's initiative, cppfront, whose approach is to take in an arguably nicer/better/easier/safer syntax, and transpile it into C++ :

https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront/
You can achieve 100% code coverage and always have passing tests as long as you don't add any assertions.
The article mentions OCR, but you're sending a PDF how is that OCR? Or is this is mistake? What if you send photos of the pages, that would be true OCR - does the performance and price remain the same?

If so this unlocks a massive workflow for us.
It was consolidated into the Department of State as part of the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 as an agency with an administrator and responsibility for administrating the distribution of aid under certain preexisting laws. So it is straightforwardly outside of the authority of the president to disband the agency, as Congress has provided that it shall exist. And it is likewise outside of the authority of the president to reduce it to an inactive status, as it has certain Congressionally-established responsibilities that it must perform.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title22/cha...
> Musk talked Trump and Rubio into doing and they did.

which is illegal. USAID can only be "shut down" by an act of Congress
They spent None dollars.
> was used to generate the cache key where we hash a combined string of userId + username + password.

Don't conceive your own cryptographic hacks. Use existing KDF designed by professionals.
what doesn't compete with ai?
That is, in fact, what I did.

But then again, you know I was referring to Jeffries' SOP of designing while coding and refactoring incrementally.
If you assume that USAID was evil from the oustset, its easy to conclude that everything its tendrils touched was also tainted. Kinda like evil.

But, the sad part is, that this also means its an idea which is impossible to challenge, because you cant trust anyone who counters it.
Yes this is the ideal space for a performance minded web rendering engine rewrite.

And if you do it well enough as a subset it can become the next standard where the modern web is just the subset, you can even integrate it with a legacy render where you fall back to legacy when you detect you cant handle it, and have the fast path for the subset.
Not to be confused with Project Gemini.

https://geminiprotocol.net/
There are plenty of compilers written in memory safe languages, including the list of self hosted ones linked from the gist describing the rewrite.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/version
damn that sounds like a rookie mistake for an organization who is literally in the business of secure auth
https://www.newsweek.com/catastrophic-internet-archive-hack-...

https://www.newsweek.com/internet-archive-hacked-zendesk-197...

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>At minimum, drawing people's attention to the ongoing issues can result in a different batch of congressional representatives in the future.

>Politics doesn't always act on instant gratification.

The odds are slim to none since the public didn’t already act, 4 years after the previous act of treason by Trump, on top of the fact that he campaigned on pardoning his treasonous co-conspirators. In fact, he was rewarded with control of all 3 branches of government.
Yeah, Lego and Etsy are two sites I can now only visit with safari. It sucks. Firefox on the same machine it claims I'm a bot or a crawler. (not even on linux, on a mac)
> Either the candidate earns a position fair and square, in which case you don't need "DEI", or you are discriminating against someone else more deserving, and therefore lowering the bar overall.

False dichotomy. It's possible that in some situations DEI could replace cronyism and produce better hires. I have no idea how often that actually happens, but I know that cronyism happens a lot.
So in addition to the mockery, they're paying people to do what they were already going to do for free? Small government and low spending indeed ...
> I think Servo's killer application would be a mobile-first browser for postmarketOS/Mobian/other mobile Linux distros

Are you suggesting that such an app would get people to go out of their way and use mobile Linux?
HN remains distinct from Reddit almost entirely due to dang's hard work moderating the site. Spend a few minutes with showdead turned on and you'll see real quick what that site might turn into without effective moderation. The site would be full of politics and flamewars.

I believe a good portion of Reddit could have had been the same. However, the way moderators are chosen-- in other words, whoever creates the sub first gets to rule the roost-- has left that site with almost universally unqualified moderation.
DW covered this today with a professor who seems to generally know what he's talking about and from what I could tell is not spinning anything in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpKhyL9PEPQ

He does a good job of explaining the facts of the legalities etc.
> knowingly (it's obvious)

The term used in French isn't quite as strong as "obviously", it's "manifestement illegal". See Wordreference: https://www.wordreference.com/fren/manifestement . Apparently English has "manifestly" but I never heard it so unsure if it's a good translation.

> What are the penalties for that?

I had to look it up, it seems you're considered complicit in whatever the order was about. Basically the "Nuremberg defense" AKA "I just followed orders" is void here.
Paramount+ on iOS was terrible the last time I used it, too. I tend to binge Star Trek on flights, so I like to download a bunch of episodes. Paramount+ had such a terrible experience (at least 10% of the time videos would be downright corrupted), I ended up cancelling my standalone subscription and getting it through Apple TV so I could use the Apple TV app.
I call spades, spades. It's not my job to prove to you the object is actually a spade. At some point you have to tell disingenuous people spouting nonsense to go eff off. You're not obligated to provide counterexamples to their nonsense. Time is valuable. You're not obligated to let idiots waste it.
Then, the president is acting illegally, and not doge ?
Hilarious post. I recommend people read to the end

> If Jeffries started with a different core representation, then it's likely his subsequent design decisions would also change. The bookkeeping for constraint propagation might push him towards Norvig's relational approach to the rules of Sudoku; rather than continually recomputing the rows, columns, and boxes, he could simply have a map of each cell onto its peers. He could distill every lesson of the previous posts, creating something simpler and faster.

> But Jeffries isn't in the business of starting over. He not only believes in incremental design, but in using the smallest possible increments. In his posts, he regularly returns to GeePaw Hill's maxim of "many more much smaller steps." He is only interested in designs that are reachable through a series of small, discrete steps.

Jeffries has radicalized me. This sort of puttering-around with "incremental design" is too pervasive in the corporate world. In software we have the luxury of rethinking from first principles, and we must use it. Death to MMMSS
Anthropic Wants You to Use AI–Just Not to Apply for Its Jobs
I replied to someone who thought the words had been banned and scientists would have to use phrases like “ovulating person”.

It seemed to be based on taking your post (“scrub all mentions of the word "women"”) at face value.

You understand now that that isn’t true? That the word “women” is not being scrubbed, and nobody has asked for it to be scrubbed?
> We have implemented this for the simple reason of being kind to our users.

Sometimes the simplest explanation is also the correct one.
Exactly. If you're going to bemoan centralization, which is fine, you also need to address the reason why we're going in that direction. And that's probably going to involve rethinking the naive foundational aspects of the internet.
Is tesseract even ML based? Oh, this piece of software is more than 19 years old, perhaps there are other ways to do good, cheap OCR now.
Does Gemini have an OCR library, internally?
For other LLMs, I had the feeling that the LLM scripts a few lines of python to do the actual heavy lifting with a common OCR framework.
Since we are doing whataboutism, let's also bring up the ~$1 trillion PPP program, ripe with fraud, enabled and designed by Donald Trump, which helped kick off the current wave of inflation.

>The cost per job saved for one year was $169,000 to $258,000, which was much higher than the average amount—$58,200—paid in wages and benefits to small-business employees in 2020. [1]

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/2...
Yes, the hashed payload contained a password, so presumably they didn't want to just SHA it.
"Unix system programming in OCaml"

https://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/ocamlunix.html
Long live programming.
Why do you think Netflix wants to buy it?

There is no point buying everything as a streaming provider. It doesn't get you more customers and it costs money.

Heck, Apple will not even let you put up anything on the iTunes store to purchase - they have to be very confident it will recoup their costs for encoding, ingest time etc etc.
That would make the executive orders illegal, or at best invalid. It wouldn't make DOGE illegal. DOGE is private citizens giving their opinions about how the government should work to a politician who happens to be listening to them (for now, but probably not long given that politician's track record for getting into feuds with former allies.)

Citizens voicing their opinions about the government is clear cut First Ammendment activity, of precisely the sort the first ammendment was intended to protect in the first place. People need to get a grip.
you mean sonnet-3.5 (first edition, second edition)?
FDIC Releases Documents Related to Supervision of Crypto-Related Activities
> I can put them in new code only, or maybe a single file that I'm willing to take the time to refactor.

It's also expected that you'll be able to do this with Safe C++. Of course the interop with older C++ code will then still involve unsafety. But incremental improvement should be possible.
It's unlikely that there will be any further releases of mt32-pi
I think I agree, on reflection, that it is not a binding contract. But (correct me if I'm wrong) I don't think it's a matter of consideration- in a wager, each party stands to gain the agreed upon amount depending on the outcome, which should qualify for that criteria AFAICT. I think the informality of a between-friends bet and gambling laws are what do the example in.
First, your last point answers your first question: a non-unified market is an implicit result of too many regulations. Harmonizing them would create a more unified market. The US is efficient because it is more homogenous. That efficiency is one of the things that leads to capital formation.

So, I think you have causation backwards. Capital formation doesn't really happen because it's too difficult to build and grow things in Europe.

Look at tech in Silicon Valley - all that capital formation is years worth of growth and reinvestment.

Look at oil & gas Texas - again, all that capital comes from years of growth and reinvestment.

And what you learn in silicon valley you can generally apply to starting a company in Austin Texas. What would happen if Mercedes wanted to move it's company (HQ and all) to Spain? How much would it have to relearn from a regulatory perspective?
ask yourself who is doing the whipping into frenzy

the media + bureaucratic class + democrat leaders who all have a vested interest in these un-audited institutions remaining in the shadows,

or

the people doing exactly what half the country asked them to do: clean up the government in an unprecedented way
Sort of happened with the guy who made Astartes. He was a storyboard animator for the Secret Level 40k episode.
no, websites/pdfs were designed and laid out visually by humans for humans.

if you are just parsing the text you’ve lost a ton of information encoded in the layout/formatting.

that doesn’t even yet consider actual visual assets like graphs/images, etc
Sure they do. And to do that, they need a functioning society, at least functioning well enough to produce the things that the military and the police need and want. (And that means that the police can't steal too much from people.)

A dictatorship can't be just a thugocracy. It has to keep society running, perhaps not up to western capitalist standards, but at least above the point of collapse.
Name one... what?
The OPs procedure expect normal people to break the law.

Any observation you have for the oligopolists being able to commit mass murder or whatever won't apply to that people.