skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's your name and address? (Rhetorical question, please don't answer.) Is that info you'd be comfortable sharing on a public forum? I presume you're not doing anything particularly wrong.

This also assumes that we can all agree on a definition for "innocent."

> what is there to protect?

Their privacy. Some people have strong opinions on 3 letter agencies and poor reading comprehension. Some people are just mean spirited. Best way to prevent dumb stuff from happening is to not create a situation where dumb stuff could happen.
They would never remove a monument right? Or does it have to be a statue to count?
I've used it since they launched it and have paid for premium for years. I probably use it multiple times a day and have never had a single issue. Yes, it's a commercial social network and the self-aggrandizing posts are terrible, but I don't really pay attention to them. I feel the same way about Instagram and other social media which I don't pay attention to.

I use it as a way to maintain and leverage my network and learn about people and companies. I don't know how I'd stay current with the many thousands of people I've met over the years otherwise. Manually curate a mailing list?

I get that it doesn't work for people who don't work in tech and/or don't see the value in maintaining work connections. I find it's often those people asking me how they can find a job when they've put zero effort into it over the years.
Nope, it's just the weird outlier where "cis" falls foul of its hate speech guidelines but Great Replacement Theory doesn't
lol

> Kenneth Yuan-Ke Cheng is a British-Chinese former professional poker player and comedian. Cheng has won the 2017 Funniest Joke of the Fringe, and a 2023 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Comedy. He additionally became popular on LinkedIn in 2024 for his satirical posts in which he poses as a CEO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Cheng
Who said there is a line?

That's the kind of black and white and moralistic thinking that are causing people to distance themselves from today's ideological transgenderists.

I can support your right to be safe as a person but not believe everything you say or state that your ideology and tactics are wrong. You get ahead in this world and gain acceptance through practical thinking, not moralistic thinking.

I grew up in a lily-white city, some of the first black people I met were a couple where the man was an engineer at the Raytheon plant that made Patriot missiles. My family was out riding our bikes and one of us got a flat, they helped us fix it and gave us some lemonade in my kitchen. After that I wanted to see more black people move to my town.

The first transgender person I met was a great engineering student, amateur astronomer, and science fiction fan. I found out all those things before I found out she was transgender. She got kicked out of the air force academy but our nation's loss was my gain.

When I got on Mastodon I was just shocked with how many transgender people were sharing hateful image memes, complaining about everybody else and insisting that everybody else's thoughts and feelings were wrong, like all the rest of us didn't have the right to make any decisions at all. If that was the first thing I'd ever seen of transgenderism I'd think it was a disease.
I hope you're not implying that allowing IoT devices access to the internet is not a massive security vulnerability. IoT devices are notoriously insecure and poorly maintained. I'd much rather have LAN-only IoT devices and an internet-accessible VPN server than letting IoT devices access the internet.

But theirs uses certificates (the router UI generates the openvpn client config files with the certificate embedded inside it) and no, they do not understand the security implications between those two choices.

Mine is a wireguard VPN with both the pub/priv keypair and PSK.
Why did they put a photo from 2001 in black and white? To make it seem older?
> don't make a black-and-white there-is-no-alternative declaration that other people have no choice in the matter

say the person who quite literally can't accept that there can be more than three letters in an acronym, less the entire world order be thrown to the wind
I fight back against cringe content by leaving cringe comments.
I think not only compromise, but more importantly communication. Like it or not, the other half of the country is also part of the country, and you cannot claim to be in support of the public without covering half of the public. The first line should be consensus, and when consensus isn't possible a carefully balanced compromise should be attempted.

If the left or the right disagree on even language and core cultural issues, they both need to find ways to communicate and evolve that allows for a peaceful coexistence. The notion the other party is a stupid or evil adversary incapable of enlightenment is poisonous, it forbids communication. Even if your adversary is indeed stupid and/or evil, it is far better to talk to them and if not change their mind, explain yourself in a language they understand (that includes a language they don't find outrageous or absurd!), leaving open the door to seeing your point of view. Even if they want to destroy you, it is a much better strategy to show you're not all that bad than escalating or just giving up. Of course, there are always voices that profit from discord, and human nature is perhaps attracted to antagonism. But we shouldn't let that go out of control, for the benefit of everyone.

If we're wrong about something, it's to our profit to learn from an adversary. This is the main lesson I think we should be taking -- even if being wrong is painful or sometimes isolating. Also logically, don't isolate those who think a little differently from your cultural heterodoxy, for the case they might have good reasons you just don't understand yet.

I think the old customs of being, and of course appearing, respectful were in part norms created for this. By behaving respectfully you're showing a willingness to learn and be wrong. By shouting, offending and imposing your opinion you're demonstrating you might be closed to other possibilities even if they are wrong, sometimes for very misguided reasons like ego, pride, or power. It's clearly then particularly important to act respectfully with those who are your adversaries or with whom you disagree (since perhaps you'll be more inclined to hear those who you already mostly agree with).

In summary: communication, compromise and respect.
Have you considered learning by reading documentation and tutorials, instead of asking the lie generator? I mean, how do you think people learned things before 2023?
Only the most viral ones: https://bsky.app/profile/boehs.org/post/3li5m3cekec2s

They still have not successfully purged the database, though the endpoint has been secured.
How do you not profile something? It is right there on the call stack millions of times. Do you explicitly filter it? Do you forego the idea of profiling when something slows down the system?
That's shocking. And really too bad, because I could have imagined myself living in Colorado. From a distance, I appreciate what I know about their government.

But compulsory fingerprinting is too authoritarian for my tastes. I can still visit, right? :)
Yeah, Cassandra was a joke on eventual consistency. So was Voldemort (LinkedIn’s dynamo paper DB).
Now that was intense.
No, new tech is just 100% extractive, wealth-generating garbage, and people are sick and tired of it. Come up with something new that isn't designed to vacuum up your data and your paycheck, and then maybe people will be more enthusiastic about it.
Link is a non-paywalled gift link.

Edit: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-14/openai-bo...
The DOGE website currently does not have an acceptable use policy.

Modification of the site is as unauthorized as access to the site -- undefined.
I've known some English PhDs. They were more focused on self-education rather than external rewards. Many of them were training to become high school teachers eventually, and they knew it. They saw no hurry to begin that career.
If one of the colleagues writes a substack screed about how the obnoxious guy at work was so obnoxious, that colleague looks like a hypocrite.
Nobody's stopping you?
Designing Bloomberg Terminal color accessibility
Or maybe even GAELN.
Yeah, exactly. Having used LaTeX for around two decades, I'm really eager for something to replace it, because honestly, it's very old and it shows (for example, among many other issues, dealing with non-English characters is still a pain, in spite of hack upon hack upon hack).

But if there is no available template for the venues where I publish (in my case mostly conferences, although also some journals) it's not feasible for me to replace it. Maybe I could for slide presentations, posters or other documents that I design from scratch, but I'd say that's no more than 20% of the time I spend with LaTeX. The majority of the time I'm working with conference or journal templates.
Sort of reminds me of hollywood. They used their power to push music/movie drm. This then was pushed into the computer industry (to play media), and then phones and tables became locked up/normalized (to play media), and then the locks have made all this other (disempowering regular people) stuff possible.
I feel like what's happening right now is a double leg amputation while all you had to do was to treat the gangrenous toe. Or two parents discussing one's infidelity in front of their 7 years old kid.

Like sure it'll get you somewhere, but what will you break/lose in the process? And what will you gain?

It's not "all for show", I don't think Americans understand how they're unraveling decades of soft power, eroding the trust they were already losing on the international stage, &c.
In what way can the government ever do anything that isn't political?
Nothing $0.50 worth of spray paint can’t address. This is asymmetric warfare.
More like 30% slower, 10% easier for trivial stuff and 70% more complicated for nontrivial stuff
What does the app do, out of curiosity?
Show HN: A discrete event simulator in Golang
The one thing I've discovered as I’ve got older is that most people don’t have some insidious vested interest.

Complex political issues sometimes just come down to "I want my side to look good and I want the other side to look bad". In a system that treats Silicon Valley billionaires very differently to someone selling lumber in rural Ohio, sometimes that naked tribalism is the only thing that truly unites people in political parties.

Some people hate the IRS self-filing system because it works, and because the "other side" is taking credit for it.
It's not just spectacle. It's destroying government agencies with decades of institutional knowledge on how to run the richest and most powerful country in the world. None of us even know most of what these interconnected institutions do, a lot of which does affect our lives in a very real way.

Sure, a lot of these agencies are doing wasteful things and there is a lot of room for improvement. Meanwhile, it's a slow and humongous beast that's very difficult to reform.

However, thinking that these institutions have no value is a great mistake. So is thinking that a few teenagers can improve things by firing people and dissolving agencies in the course of a few weeks. Needless to say, there is no historical precedent for something like this working.

You can take the position that it will just get a lot worse before it gets better: "destroy everything and build it from scratch". It's often tempting but almost never a good idea, even for software will projects. On the level of a government, this idea is actually insane and I have no doubt that people will find out why, unless they stop breaking things.
It would be a lot easier if they weren't so god-dammned stupid and plausibly evil.

I do not feel the need to compromise with "White Power" or "We need to find a way to safely inject bleach".
Of course not, but the deal seemed pretty OK so far...
Is that like posting "Don't eat yellow snow" or "Don't eat yellow ICE" ?
You can criticize it all you want but I'd be working directly for the President and the richest man alive, doing incredible LLM-powered work that's basically never been done before. Not only would all the work be innovative (and thus fun), but it would look incredible on a resume
We have the power to destroy, too.
I can sure talk your ear off about that one as I went way too far into the semantic web rabbit hole.

Training LLMs to use 'tools' of various types is a great idea, as it is to run them inside frameworks that check that their output satisfies various constraints. Still certain problems like the NP-complete nature of SAT solving (and many intelligent systems problems, such as word problems you'd expect an A.I. to solve, boil down to SAT solving) and problems such as the halting problem, Godel's theorem and such are still problems. I understand Doug Hofstader has softened his positions lately, but I think many of the problems set up in this book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

(particularly the Achilles & Tortoise dialog) still stand today, as cringey as that book seems to me in 2025.
An update on this: I tried undoing the migration the next day, and it worked! Everything on my main account was restored, including the TV app’s 'Continue Watching' and Watchlist feeds. Kudos to Apple—the undo function actually worked, which was a pleasant surprise.
The simple answer is no.

However, it's naive to deny that people are driven to technology with large amounts of samples and documentation. When trained on it, LLMs can essentially create infinite, customized versions of these.

LLMs artificially inflate the amount of documentation and samples for older technologies, and many lack the knowledge of newer ones. This creates a feedback loop until the newer technology is included, but the damage has already been done.

That's just a perspective, I don't know that I fully agree with the premise, and certainly don't know a solution. The best solution I can think of is more LLMs that are essentially constantly RAGing from the internet, rather than mostly using pre-trained info. Obviously this part is no longer just the model, but I imagine models could be made to make the RAG process more efficient, or better.
Mind sharing the script?
Probably broke when changing the Gulf of Mexico name.
I read it sarcastically, due to the exclamation point. May have been a misread on my part.
> Shelled out tens of thousands to create army of 2,500 LGBTQI+ allies

The upper bound of "tens of thousands" would be 90k, right? At least I don't think you'd call 200k or more "tens of thousands", right?

With 90k it would be be $36 for every "LGBTQI+ ally" they "created", whatever that even means. Which is the problem with basically all this stuff, it's just titles, at best with descriptions so sloppy and short they're useless, too. Like someone asking you to run coolgame.exe because obviously it's a cool game.

So...they paid some people $36, and they then started to seed the gay trans agenda everywhere for the rest of their life? They'd probably have done it for free, but they laughed when they stole the $36 from the American tax payer. Or maybe that it's so little money is how you know it's satanic or something? Like homeopathy, maybe that's the really strong stuff... because they obviously get their money from Satan anyway, but the US tax payer needs to be made to contribute something, like a contract, so the sin of what the gay trans allies are doing drags their souls down to hell, too.

Sorry for getting carried away there, but to me this is like spam from a Nigerian prince. It's total bullshit for anyone who isn't already fanatically onboard, but those aren't the target audience. The target audience just goes "aye Sir, that's so brilliant", and the gulf between the rest of society that creates binds them more tightly to those who use them. And so ratchet and racket go.
Every social network finds its own luminary
the site would be better if the back button worked.

Does anyone know if there's non-classified data, like something similar that already exists?

Would be interesting to see (e.g. where all the contract money is, etc)
You are claiming that asahi Linux has been harassed on hacker news. There appears to be no evidence of this.
What are all of the things that you personally like that the government does that I might find offensive or bad?
That isn't what I'm suggesting, and the fact you jump to that conclusion is precisely what I'm referring to...
Second hooray for Quarto. Great tool.
And even if you do know there's causality (eg: the input variable X is part of software that provides some output Y), the exact nature of the causality can be too complex to analyze due to emergent and chaotic effects. It's seldom as simple as: an increase in X will result in an increase in Y
Using something with support (e.g. vulnerabilities being fixed) is important. 2019 is about to stop getting fixes.
> That's why Musk and Trump are having so much trouble coming to grips with how this place works

I like to point out that--even within the standards of people who think government should be run like a company--all of Trump's experience is still at entirely the wrong kind of company.

If the US were analogous to a major publicly-traded company, one with distributed shareholders, a CEO that must avoid being fired by the board, etc... Then what Trump inherited is North Korea: The dictator can't be removed for incompetence, they can "fire" anyone on a whim, there are no audits, and the only real competition is infighting between the family for whoever can ingratiate themselves or steal control when the leader strokes out.
Niche: know anything about anything.
QB45 had that function-list feature (F2) that I wish all editors had since. It was so clean to see only the current function in “the buffer” rather than a scroll of them in a single file.
I don't think there is a viable answer to that. The thing is a lot of what we pay for with the grid is reliability. Until rates are set up in a fashion to properly express that we will have problems.

Wind and solar reduce fuel use, but they make for very little reduction in required infrastructure. Thus the value to the utility company is approximately the value of the fuel that's offset minus the costs of handling the situation.

Combine these and you see that the true value of wind and solar is pretty low other than from an environmental standpoint of reducing carbon emissions. (Now, if you have a use case of something that's power intensive but can freely be turned on and off then there could be some appreciable value.)
Pretty common. See Musk’s love for Iain Banks’ Culture novels.
"Doctor it hurts when I". Keep track of all devices, and alloc a static /64 per (host) MAC.

And even in the face of a supposed malicious network admin like yours, you can still adopt IPv6, and use the IPv6 private network ranges for the VMs, and then do NAT like it's 1983, same as you would have otherwise done with IPv4, except that all other uses cases get easier, while this one use case remains as hard as it was before.
life is short, use typst.
Alright, sure, some of the flag designs are not well done, but I doubt you're talking about vexillology.

Queer just refers to "not straight". It's a general term. Bisexual people have made up their minds, they like more than one gender. Asexual people face stigma just the same as gay and lesbian people do. They're all just different sexualities that differ from the norm, so why not include them together? It really doesn't erase any individual community in my experience.

As far as intersex and trans people are concerned, maybe you just haven't thought it out that much. Of course intersex people would feel differently about surgeries performed on them than trans people would. The former had a surgery forced on them without consent. The latter choses (or not) to have something done. Incels very clearly have nothing to do with "cis-het" discourse.

Even if I was to disregard all of that, trans people still belong in the community for the simple reason that they're a large part of how the modern queer community has formed. They've faced the same stigmas as lesbian and gay folks. Even within lesbian and gay communities, there's been quite a lot of gender-nonconformity (look into lesbian movements in the 70's for example).

Trans people exist and have for much longer than you probably realize. Maybe you need to go back to your roots and actually talk to some trans people. You might realize that the popular caricature isn't as accurate as you seem to think.
I love how image-centric the blog layout is...
Because certain concepts have been repeated so often they've become elements of faith (e.g., "taxes are too high", "government is filled with fraud and waste", "taxing the 1% will solve our country's financial problems"), careful conversation about the complexities of the modern world is difficult to have.

I think that complex solutions CAN be grasped by the large majority of voters, but their time and attention are so captured by sloganeers that they aren't exposed to the explanations.
Talking to non-technical, but otherwise well-informed people, there is a broad assumption that AIs already "learn" as they're used for inference. IME people are surprised to find training and inference to be entirely separate processes. Human intelligence doesn't have such a stark distinction between learning and applied learning.
I think you know the correct answer:)
> This is not a novel problem. AI did not create this knowledge segmentation, it is scraping this public information after all.

I think you misunderstand the situation. You as a person can be privy to private knowledge. Relying on AI enough that you can't use that private knowledge is the novel situation.

> I do not see why AI code generation further incentivizing the use of the open-source solution is a problem.

Maybe you don't get it and have never experienced it but there's a missive amount of development done against unreleased APIs or hardware. Game engines, firmware, etc. I doubt Apple is going to publish new SDKs for their new widgets long before any devs use them.
The thing is if we quiz Friedman's cousin he can justify his actions, we can test his beliefs and then deduce that he is acting in a reasonable way.

Whereas with COVID we don't have that. Particularly since the controls in place were almost all things that people could have done voluntarily so the compulsory aspects are quite hard to justify. Eg, if a fellow want to live as a hermit they can just do that. The government doesn't need to shut down big chunks of the economy for them to go into seclusion.

And then there were all those vaccine mandates where people were just spreading plain misinformation that they would have an impact on transmission numbers. Turns out they didn't. Without that, the justification for a mandate is flimsy even assuming that there is good medical evidence.

The medical establishment should have been championing against these measures and, charitably assuming they were, they really weren't visible enough in their opposition. I can imagine a lot of voters in the US would be asking "why do we fund these people?".