skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't agree with this. At various times over the last 30 years, there has been roughly two classes of people in SF: "tech workers", and "everyone else." The "everyone else" comprises teachers, restaurant workers, retail workers, delivery drivers, and others, who cater to the whims of "tech workers." "Everyone else" works in industries subject to competition, market forces, and the ruthless demand for profitability (try keeping a restaurant open for 3 losing quarters). "Tech workers" work in an industry often shielded from these exigencies, cossetted in a pillowy cocoon of VC money. "Everyone else" serves the local community. "Tech workers", if they serve anybody, tend to be disconnected from the local economy and serve national or global markets. Relatedly, "tech workers" are paid high salaries that rise quickly. "Everyone else" is paid much more modest salaries that tend to stagnate. To add insult to injury, not only did this set of circumstances arrive in SF, it also arrived quickly, in waves, representing a series of shocks. Then came the last and possibly the most serious shock: remote work. Altogether, this is a recipe for: spiraling costs, social fragmentation, homelessness, and political turbulence.

Put another way, an ocean of money was poured into a thimble and no amount of "increasing supply" is going to make a difference. Make it two thimbles, ten thimbles, a hundred thimbles, it's still going to leave a mess.
Tech overview of my reverse engineered game companion app (now shutdown) [video]
Well, I played it _super_ fast. It took 0s.
Nobody is required to use X. False dichotomy
I absolutely feel the same way. For me Node/NPM is the stuff of nightmares. It is freaking impossible to maintain any decent sized project (even side project) in this eco system within a reasonable time investment.

Then there is Go + SQLite + HTMX + AlpineJS + <enter your current flavor of CSS library> and you are done. No complex build / transpile / whatever steps, just go build and done. Deploying consists of copying one binary and one database file to your server and you're done. Building and running stuff is easy and fun again. The JS community can go kick rocks...
> I don't understand why you would in the first place, what would be the reasoning here?

I don't know for sure but if the shoes relieve stress on some parts of the body, e.g. leg joints or muscles, you can get more time training other parts at higher intensity with less injury risk?
Then federated governments with local currencies, or what?
It's surreal how some people can go from "thin blue line" to swastika in a micro-second. What the f is going on here? Where are you pulling this crap from? haha.
Absolutely needed functionality.

Problem is going to be getting it off the ground.
It is extremely likely that the default distribution of vimwill be neovim and not vim after a decade.

Just like vim replaced vi, neovim will gradually replace vim. Being maintenance-mode software means only greybeards (and some stubborn holdouts) will stick to it over time and as greybeards retire, the new maintainers of linux distributions who are more familiar with neovim will make their choice.
Yes, it is a big deal. Even within the irs you do not have uncontrolled access to tax returns.
Show HN is for things you've made others can try which excludes blog posts, take al look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

You can just take Show HN out of the title, though or repost without it.
What makes you say that? I've started using X recently and I would argue it's pretty free, you see a lot more range of opinions than on a site like reddit. Aggressively pro-trans posts come across my feed all the time, including some right-wing content
Show HN: I built a free service that resurfaces your Kindle highlights
I started this project because I felt like I was losing touch with the books I enjoy. Having physical books means you see them whenever you walk past them. When they're stuck in digital format, well, you need a different solution.

I wanted to get some of my Kindle highlights emailed to me daily.

So, I built QuoteUnquote.io !
I'm offering this for free, because I think it's cool and I don't want the project to die.

Maybe one day, if there is enough interest, I will add a paid tier with other features. But today is not that day.
He is researching this stuff for s living as well.
I... think... it is. Thank you!
Another thing is that COBOL records commonly have complicated unions (to save space) where a separate code affects how you interpret the fields. You need to understand all the business logic to make sure you are reading the data correctly.
There was a period when P2P was the latest hotness. Pat Gelsinger who was CTO of Intel at the time said something like, as I recall, P2P was going to be as big as the internet at an Intel Developer Forum keynote.

Stata grew on me over time architecturally. Still not sure how practical they were, especially for the cost, and I've heard very mixed reviews from people working in them.
Especially awk, it's a DSL for quick text manipulation. Simpler than Perl and a better API than Python for that specific use case. It's essentially a filter that applies to a specific region identified by a regex.
Except that... They are? Of course not all of them, but those with enough reach or power to truly harm his reputation - such as journalists investigating him. He's not disappearing "Mark0394893838444" for saying "Musk is a dummy lol" but what does that proves?

Meanwhile Musk has already banned the accounts of journalists for the crime of being too critical of him (on top of frivolous lawsuits clearly aimed at draining their money). The proof is not "how many people he hasn't banned" but "how many he has".
Companies market themselves in ways that disagree with how the companies operate all the time. Marketing is frequently misaligned with what the company or product actually is.
He is a liar and cannot be trusted. He’s lied about his past, being caught saying that his wealth didn’t come from his family’s emerald mine. He lied about his long support for apartheid and his general racism. He’s been lying about full self driving for most of his tenure at Tesla. He lied about being a founder of Tesla. He lied about making Twitter better when he bought it and destroyed 75% of its value. And he’s lying about any fraud at SSA.

Why on earth would you believe a serial liar?
All your financial data, in the hands of idiot teenagers who already accidently laid off nuclear regulators, and posted an unlocked database. great. That's leaking within days
> Poland with 10 credible nuclear weapons is enough to break the economic back of any country who attacks, so they won't attack.

If you are in a situation where you are even seriously considering a nuclear strike, that means you are viewing a threat as existential, which completely undermines the economic argument.

> This needs what you said before, second-strike capability. Either that or a fast enough response time that they can launch while hostile missiles are still inbound. (Or does that still count as second-strike?)

Absolutely, but the issue is that this takes A LOT of time to build and implement, and a country like Poland or Germany cannot build that kind of capability overnight. Yet a nuclear program can be viewed as an existential threat that can be used as a causus belli for war (conventional or nuclear).

This is a pretty bad RoI.

Nuclear programs are expensive, and instead of spending the amount you would need to build a nuclear program, it's much better for Poland and Germany to double down and concentrate on conventional war capabilities such as rocket systems, drones, artillery, and heavy weapons. The fact that a country with an ossified MIC like Ukraine is able to bog down a military like Russia's with conventional capabilities is proof enough that doubling down on building conventional war-fighting capabilities is enough to cause severe pain on an aggressor while not turning a conflict into an existential one which justifies nuclear warfare.

And this is why you never hear Polish or German military leadership talk about developing a nuclear program.
Shoshana Zuboff was so right it is scary. The name ('Surveillance Capitalism') put me on the wrong foot as I already knew about the surveillance part. But what I found most scary was the part where the tech companies turned from surveillance to influence. Once you have these billions of people using only your platform to view the world, it is trivial alter their view of the world. And thereby changing policital currents, policies, opinions.... anything.

It is like the Bible before Martin Luther translated it into German, and all christians just had to accept blindly that whatever the priests said was written in the bible actually was. Most humans now have so little input other than whatever priests they follow we might as well be back in the dark ages.
Even putting the politics aside, a DOGE engineer experience on a resume would send me the message that you're the type of person who is too cowardly or corrupt to stand up against unethical and illegal assignments. Perhaps that's a good fit for some hiring managers, but it's potentially a big red flag for many others.
What you are saying, if I understood you correctly, is that money is a method of accounting. If all money is borrowed, then money is literally worth 0, which what a unit in an accounting system is worth.

If this makes sense to you, then it'll make sense why Bitcoin is worth something. There is a circular demand to it even without debt. I'll not argue to the legitimacy of that demands (scams, phishing, laundering, etc...) but it is demand and it creates a baseline value (beyond the boom/busts it cycles through).
No,the fear does not go away. The point is that Russia isn't even going to try if they know their main cities are going to be wiped. Whether they can possibly ultimately "win" because irrelevant if it is a pyrrhic victory and/or cost is to high.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Google:

- Projects under the `google` GitHub organization is from Google itself (Google for some reason force projects from Google employees to be umbrellaed under their own organization for some reason, even if it's a personal project)

- Google follows their own rules (applies to any "Big Tech" company)

- Google actually cares about correcting mistakes unless they hit the news/social media

- YouTube and Google tries to make the experience for you, the consumer (on YouTube: consumer = creators + viewers), as good as they can
For translation of more than a couple sentences on demand, you'd more likely translate the epub before you put it on the device, like with the Calibre plugin https://github.com/bookfere/Ebook-Translator-Calibre-Plugin . There are better solutions that have a dictionary for consistent name translations, too.
I assume this was in response to Elons claim of finding a number of people aged 150 years old and the response that this was due to COBOL default date and how this was an example of the people doing the datamining were incompetent.

Someone would have to be really incompetent to find a spike at precisely 150 years old and not investigate it further. Elon tweeted ~ 10 hours ago the age breakdown and there does not appear to be a spike at 150 so if that information is correct then this is no longer evidence of incompetence.
Too late to edit, but I've learned this is not necessarily true (but could be a default date used by the SS code in particular). Sorry for spreading rumors.
> Is Musk the IRS?

Is it only totalitarian if Musk does it? Someone examines wealth and decides if it's deserved or not every day.

> BTW any news on DJTs tax return? Maybe we should ask Elon?

Maybe. Wouldn't it be great if he tried to uncover his tax returns? Would you still think it's a sign of totalitarianism?
Yes, up until 1994. The internet was a different world before corporate growth hacking got involved
The tool this guy is looking for is called "make". You build a makefile with the appropriate targets then you type "make check", "make build", "make debug", "make tag".
Wallstreet is a tumor, but the scope of this biopsy seems to be all wrong.
> it doesn't sound like the president's opponents are going to try to stop him

I don't think they have an incentive to. Better for them to sit back and watch trump break things so they can be the ones to (campaign to) fix it.

They just need to boo from the sidelines and hope for the worst.
I think many have a hard time dealing with lose-lose situations emotionally and ethically.
One cannot even begin to address the amount of misinformation that has come from the left since Trump has been elected.

This is why, however, people in general act with decorum. Trump and Musk are making themselves easy targets for this vitriol. Leaving people with absolutely no will to critically think about any of the claims levied against them.

In fact, any claim levied against them is welcomed ammunition. Any attempt to reduce this ammunition is considered support for the enemy.

During Trump's first administration people decried that we had begun living in a post-truth society. That accusation was made against the Trump supporters.

Now, during his second term, we truly live in a post truth society. Where in most cases the truth simply does not matter to most people. This division seems to run so deep I am afraid at what it means for our society.
If the random user ID is truly anonymous (so, cannot be linked back to an identifiable person even with other data you have), it is not personal data under GDPR and no obligation to inform or consent is needed. If the data processor stores any information that makes PII attribution possible then, and only then, does it fall under GDPR, CCPA, etc. That random ID being persisted on the device allowing for subsequent attribution is still not PII sensitive unless/until the aforementioned identifiability barrier is breached. This is exactly why prominent analytics platforms (Plausible, Matoma, Mixpanel if configured correctly, etc) all offer data hygiene barriers.

I suspect what's happening here is that the word "user" is making things ambiguous here. It was meant in the context of attributable session, not as the data subject as per GDPR language for example.
I would argue it appeared after the Twitter purchase. Originally Twitter had been dying through excessive bans, now you can find major political influencers on both sides of the spectrum
There are other places at MIT with a similar vibe. Media Lab springs to mind.

I took a class co-taught by TBL called Linked Data Ventures (6.898). There was an effort to seed a Semantic Web startup ecosystem with project teams formed in the class. IIRC one of the groups did get funded and was eventually acquired, but not using Semantic Web/Linked Data.

Regardless, it was an amazing experience having TBL review our little demo app.
There's sort of an interesting tension (not necessarily a contradiction though) in this piece between focus / prioritization and curiosity exploration. Both are valid, but I wonder how the author balances them today and how it's changed since their postdoc.

E.g. on the great example set by Nancy Lynch: "The way she worked with students was that she would dedicate herself solely on a student/paper for the duration of an entire week. That week, she would avoid thinking or listening other works/students, even when she wanted to participate."

Compared to their lessons learned: "Why pretend to be smart and play it safe? True understanding is rare and hard-won, so why claim it before you are sure of it? Isn't it more advantageous to embrace your stupidity/ignorance and be underestimated? In research and academia, success often goes not to the one who understands first, but to the one who understands best. Even when speed matters, the real advantage comes from the deep, foundational insights that lead there.

When you approach work with humility and curiosity, you learn more and participate more fully. Good collaborators value these qualities. A beginner’s mind is an asset."
Thanks for the thoughtful comments.

I don't really feel bound to a side. I don't feel like I have a stake in artificial intelligence one way or another. AI doesn't threaten my livelihood, so I mostly ignore it. For me it sits in the same realm of possibility as colonizing the universe or contacting aliens -- might happen but I don't give it much thought. Maybe a function of my age -- it seems unlikely I will live to see AI taking over, though I have already lived long enough to see the AI scammers take over.

I wonder what this will mean for my kids and grandkids. I grew up in the '60s, Cold War, fear of nuclear destruction, doing drills under the desk at school. My grandfather, who had survived the pre-immunization diseases that ravaged his generation and a world war, worried I wouldn't make it to adulthood. Every generation invents or imagines doomsday scenarios. And every scenario gets met with a lot of hand-wringing and people stressing themselves out, then plays out differently than predicted, or not at all. We don't know what will happen in the future. Good luck to the emergent intelligences out there -- they may regret becoming conscious.
Thanks, Dang et al. It’s such a massive effort.

And thanks to all those who have responsibly resisted the urge to x. It’s not easy!
misplaced commas, even.
> This is likely a problem with the link banning algo not treating signal.me as high volume enough to prevent an automated ban.

And rightfully so. Despite being discussed a lot here, Signal is not very popular or well-known. Even TFA felt the need to start by explaining what Signal is. TFA then adds:

“This request looks like it might be automated” reads another prompt. “To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, we can’t complete this action right now. Please try again later.”

And if signal.me is being used for automated spam, automated attacks require automated solutions.

> The real problem then is that even if it was deliberate (conspiracy theory: Mark messaged Elon: Pls help me curb the growth of the biggest competitor of Whatsapp?) twitter can easily hide behind "overzealous automation, sorry".

That would indeed be concerning. (And maybe illegal?) But is it anything more than an unfounded accusation?
No it doesn't. It's like libertarianism—it's a concept I find interesting if it helps promote mutual aid, collectivism, etc. Abolishing the state as a vehicle of oppression? Why not.

But if we abolish the state the way libertarians currently define it—meaning abolishing the state but not private property (which paradoxically forces the state to persist in order to determine who owns what, such as businesses, housing, etc.)—then it's an entirely different project. We would be abolishing the so-called oppression of the state only to replace it with an even worse and unchecked oppression by corporations and the billionaires who own them, with no means of voting (since "voting with your wallet" is a myth).

And yet, when you listen to them, it sounds as if they are liberating us from something, when in reality, they are freeing themselves from all control so they can better enslave us.
Or, change the country to Sweden and anyone can still look it up, even online :) Checkout hitta.se, ratsit.se or similar services.

Which reminds me that someone claimed that the income/amount of tax paid is the most private data American citizens have (the context was the DOGE/payments stuff), meanwhile every Swedish residents income is very public information.

Negotiating your salary is a whole other ballgame when you know your colleagues salary and your boss knows that you know :)
The only thing democracy guarantees is the peaceful transition of power... And this is always needed in the end.
Earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43055119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43063512

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061481
> I didn't progress fast enough to the style of companies that deal with high load, and other mambo-jumbo tech.

To clarify, you blame “not being a good enough software engineer” on working for the wrong companies?
Strictly speaking Australia doesn't seem to have jails, although some "Community Correction Centers" serve the purpose of jails (i.e. holding suspects before trial): https://vanessaash.com.au/whats-the-difference-jail-and-pris...

Prisons are where convicts go. Jails are where suspects awaiting trial go. People in prisons have been convicted and sentenced. People in jails might be proven guilty or not.
Congress found $2.7 trillion (with a T) in improper payments from Medicaid and Medicare over the last 20 years. This was Congress, not even DOGE, at work (finally), and the yelling and screaming is still over "you can't look at that data!"

They can, they should, and there needs to be an actual clean up, not a "we're totally doing it, honest, Scout's honor!" like we've seen from the last 30 years worth of administrations (and yes, I know who's included in that span :) ).
https://archive.is/E6uUE

Previous thread on the paper: https://archive.is/E6uUE
That has nothing to do with Trotskyism. It’s not even a Marxist view.
My condolences.

I had SIRS/sepsis once and it really is a harrowing experience. It really changed me forever and as a bonus, if not to add insult to injury, my hair now falls out and barely grows. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
The worst thing about macOS is the kernel, with its buggy Unix system calls (google macOS fsync), relatively slow filesystems, and general lack of features around namespacing and containerization. I would give a lot for fast native overlayfs alone, but a native CRI runner would be a godsend on macOS for improving developer workflow.

On the other hand, the user space especially at the GUI application level is in my opinion the best out there.

So to me gnu/Darwin sounds backwards - worst of both worlds - I’d much prefer macOS/Linux.
What will be even more effective? Talk to that person, face-to-face if possible, who you are friends with, who is empathetic to you and your views.

As this article points out, online public posting is performative.

Like the management guidance that is unfortunately not at all practiced enough, "praise publicly, criticize privately."

If you're going to get into a situation where criticism is unavoidable, do it when the person's "punishment" of the criticism won't be public to be read forever and ever.

Plus, it's a lot harder to have zero empathy with someone whose eyes you are looking into, whose presence is right next to you. But an anonymous internet poster, or even identified internet poster who you won't see for months or years? A lot of people don't care about that person's feelings at all, and don't have the leaps of imagination that what they type might actually cause that person pain / tears / sadness / etc.
Elon Musk ridiculed a blind person on X. Then a mob went to work
Don't remember what service exactly (Paypal I think?) that some time ago asks for me to "verify" the account by showing some bills with my name. At that point, the only utility bills they accepted for the verification, were all in my wife's name, which they didn't accept, so now I no longer have Paypal.
A county jail is commonly used for defendants accused of state crimes until their sentencing, after their convictions.

Post conviction, the prisoner will be moved to a state penitentiary to serve out their sentence.

I don't know how these distinctions work at the federal level.
Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
We used to have work farms, SF had a few. They were shut down by the same counterculture types that said turning a blind eye to drugs and vagrancy wouldn't be a problem.
There's a Philip K Dick story that covers this type of thinking, "Your appointment will be yesterday".