skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>People should be able to produce and publish content without being harassed.

I don't disagree. (Assuming the content isn't of a nature that deserves a lot of criticism though that's in the eye of the beholder and is a matter of degree of course.)

But there's also the real world where putting yourself out in public can have consequences, especially if you become particularly popular. You take the good with the bad and decide if the tradeoff is worth it.
Background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897871
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877910
Just do something that you can execute well
He didn't actually ridicule a blind person.

Someone else tweeted the blind person said he saw nothing joke and Musk retweeted with two laugh emojis: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1889814592710385822

This trying to make up the bad guys said stuff they didn't say schtik is kind of pathetic. Musk is doing so much real bad stuff and this just justifies the whole 'fake news' narrative by being fake and so detracts from the real horrors.
Or front yard.
A maintainer's work is a labor of love; if it's not a joy anymore, it stops.

This, to my mind, is one of the key reasons to keep community standards pretty high, and react to violations pretty swiftly, even not when you're a moderator, but just as a member of the community. Acting vile will just drive away all the people who make the community worth existing.
Your comment is on point. We are experiencing a coup and not enough people recognize and/or care.

“A republic, if you can keep it.” -- Benjamin Franklin
I hadn’t really paid attention to DMR because I was so cozy inside the kindle bubble. That notification that Amazon was going to take away the ability to download books was a very strong wake up call…

When ok buys a book for kindle, it seems that one supposedly doesn’t own the book? One “owns” it at the “goodwill” of Amazon?

I put my kindle on eBay today and I think going forward I’ll consider buying physical books and when necessary “finding” the digital versions of it?
I feel only MAGA are happy & comfortable staying on X, voting for trump != maga

hence the question
I'm not defending the premise that Trump has a mandate at all - I don't even believe in the concept of a "mandate" in that context, it's just propaganda.

I'm arguing against the premise that Trump publicly denouncing Project 2025 really means no one who voted for him saw any of this coming.
https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-zizians-and-the-rationali...

This is (1) a thorough write-up (2) with quotes/info multiple sources (3) whose author is NOT affiliated with any of these communities.
US Police have qualified immunity, protecting them from their actions against the people, Singapore's Police don't. Who's sacrificing their morals in exchange for security?
Size isn't really a factor - an average connection can download a high-quality movie within minutes. Convenience is the factor - 95% of consumers will not tolerate having to manually manage their collection and manually transfer books to a device [1], even in legal scenarios, such as buying a MOBI/AZW from not-Amazon store and putting it on their Kindle

If we were still in the iPod era of manual syncing, then you'd probably be right, but we're now in the "cloud consuming" era. Hence the trajectory of music piracy. When people were used to managing their CDs and MP3s, ordinary consumers absolutely did engage in opportunistic (often friend-to-friend) piracy, but then streaming came and made both legal and illegal MP3s almost a footnote

[1] Of course you can upload your own "personal documents" to your Kindle library via send-to-Kindle, but few people know that outside of tech/enthusiast circles. Even knowing what an EPUB or AZW3 is almost puts you in that bubble

Errata: rephrased the first sentence from "several hundred megabytes" to "a high-quality movie", to better explain the point that download size is rarely a barrier for piracy
Hey, I'm Aydin.
I'm a dev who has spent hours building SaaS projects, only to make $0 and not know a single thing about marketing and finance.
So I built another SaaS. One that helps solve this problem.
NES86 uses a mapper configuration that is theoretically valid but generally not supported by emulators nor flash cartridges.

I suppose the next step to take this project to its logical conclusion would be to make an actual cartridge of it that works on a stock NES. Alternatively, add another level by running this in a browser JS NES emulator.

Is there already a good short term for this sort of "testing the limits of Turing-completeness in practice" exercise? Here are two other well-known attempts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41600756

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37878851
One of the places I feel like I grew the most, and I was lucky to have that early in my career, was freelancing. Every month I'd be ushered into a totally new project/codebase, with virtually no time/budget allocated to "understand" the codebase properly but still needing to deliver value (which was a stark contrast to my previous hobby dev time).
Another way to put it: nobody solved this problem, so the next move was to embrace never sleeping and market it as a feature.

Microsoft also went that route with the Surface line, it just never sleeps.
It illustrates the way the "leave it up to the states" argument grates on some ears. It's a slippery slope argument, which is not automatically faulty. It is a call to know how you expect things to not slide down.

If the suggestion is "anything shy of complete chattel slavery", people get worried.
RPA is dead. Long live AI agents
Having previously programmed both an NES emulator and an IBM PC emulator, I can say that this is quite an achievement. The IBM PC is much harder to emulate than the NES. This emulator is written in 6502 assembly. So the person wrote an emulator for the 8086 in 6502 assembly.
> Wilco is a weird one.

Tweedy is from the Illinois side of metro St Louis and was touring colleges in southern IL, MO, KY, GA, etc as a member of Uncle Tupelo when he met and became friends with Buck. They collaborated on some projects, and Buck even produced an Uncle Tupelo album.

It’s probably better to think of it as “Tweedy influenced by REM” rather than “Wilco influenced by REM”.
We pretty much agree here. The contradiction of claiming free speech while doing things like banning Signal links is frustrating for sure.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I've gotten too cynical to believe any company or rich individual making a business deal to actually tell the truth - its all marketing at that point.
> Assuming the content isn't of a nature that deserves a lot of criticism though that's in the eye of the beholder of course

The fact that people think there are kinds of content that warrant harassment is kinda the root of this whole problem.
I want onigiri in US 7-11.
It's a good set of points you make.

When programming, when engineering, I often run into these sorts of intractable problems.

Changing the rules, changing the preconditions or some aspect of the problem itself, that's usually how I solve them.

In this article, it looks like the Park Ranger is changing the rules by making the system work for the person who is experiencing homelessness instead of forcing the person to go alone into a system that they don't like and they don't necessarily see the value of.

SO it is possible to fix with the appropriate smart thinking and willingness to maintain multiple simultaneous perspectives, it seems.
Well, that's where it's a viable investment, right? I'd presume that if the overall amount of PhDs severely drops, then the ones still pursuing them will be doing so because it's a clear win on the investment front after factoring in the personal expense of doing it. The same would clearly be true of MDs, some careers just have that requirement.
I think TAM is a relevant metric here.

Most people think of TAM as "how big could this be". But an equally important side is "how many people might be willing to buy this". Because that measures how easy sales will be.

Big ideas have larger TAM and therefore it's a little bit easier to land that first sale. Even with a very early stage product. With a large TAM you can pretty much throw infinite darts at the board and maybe on will land.

If you target too specific of a market (.dwg => .pdf converter for civil engineers). You'll have an easier time finding your market, but fewer chances to land the sale.
> Basically all federal pay data is made public, so in this case its less of doge not being transparent and more of they haven't gotten to it yet (my guess).

So they are looking to republish information that is already public? That seems like a waste of resources, no?
It does appear to be 10 years in Canada:

https://www.uber.com/ca/en/drive/requirements/vehicle-requir...

This is presumably some kind of regulatory requirement since it's jurisdiction specific. But even selling the car at 10 years old under similar conditions still causes the depreciation to be less than $0.02/mile.

On the other hand, that's around an extra $1000 over the life of the car, and who is to blame for that increase in costs on the driver? It's not as if 10 year old cars are meaningfully safer than 12 year old cars, nor would non-trivial numbers of people be using significantly older cars than that to begin with. Is this really just the Canadian government screwing the drivers for want of something to do?
Both organizations are widely expected to vaporize, or at least become completely useless. As far as the administration is concerned, they are waste, fraud, and abuse.
Stuff like this is why I consider giving people a CA how to akin to a loaded gun. They almost invariably are not going to securely store the keys properly, set up CRLs, or manage their PKI in a safe manner.
I definitely realized this about myself a long time ago, but the struggle really is intentionally finding new 2%ers. It's not the friendliest attitude to enter into new social spaces with the expectation and intent of filtering out 98% of the people in them. Especially upsetting is when there is misalignment: one person exited to find one of their 2% but unreciprocated. I've been on both sides and neither is pleasant. It's not something that can really be forced, has to happen somewhat organically, but you do have to be intentional if you wish to find new friends.
I have wine glasses from Schott Zwiesel that are “Tritan” leadfree crystal (titanium doped) that are supposedly unbreakable as well. Haven’t much tested it
I'm not sure why companies would want a patchwork of regulations across 50 different jurisdictions versus normalized national regulations.

Non-competes are anti-competitive nonsense, which is why the oligarchs love them.
> Lenovo manages to do sleep/wake fine in Linux almost as well as Apple in my experience and I sleep/wake my Lenovo laptop regularly -- this is across two different models I have used so far (X1 and X390).

I'd rate my OpenBSD X1 as not terrible too. Not as smooth as MacBook but adequate.
Linux distributions tend not to ship them - AIUI there is some unique problem with linux ld that makes it harder to have multiple versions of the same library installed. And lately there's a lot of tight coupling in the whole kernel/udev (or hal, remember hal?)/systemd chain, so even if old dynamic libraries are available, old dbus services might not be and you end up in much the same place.
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Through GeForce RTX 5080/5090 GPU Compute Performance
Another take on a similar idea from FAIR is a Large Concept Model: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.08821
As did I so I read the article, and no, Candlestick was not the first stadium that died due to it being massively uncomfortable to go there at times.
also, you are not a senior engineer until you’ve worked long enough at the same job to deal with the consequences of your own past decisions.
Going to the federal government to .... ohhhhh ...
Is it a bad thing to strive to be a (effective, key here that may you don’t have in mind) supply of energy for others, rather than a drain? Why?
We had someone with a lot of experience in this field working for very large German corporations and got a discount/startup bonus. I wouldn't call it cheap.

Imagine starting a business in Germany. How are you suppose to pay 30-50k for legal questions before selling anything?
> So they are looking to republish information that is already public? That seems like a waste of resources, no?

But its public without the political spin DOGE is attaching to it, which is DOGE's actual "value add".
Graham on why to vote Kamala:

>So sure, Harris is a typical politician. But Trump is a crook. You can't have that sort of person as president. It's too risky.

doesn't sound super MAGA
This looks awesome! I’ve struggled with launching SaaS projects too, and keeping track of finances has always been a challenge. LaunchPro seems like it could really help with that. I’m currently working on a SaaS project myself, and I can see how having a clear financial overview could make a huge difference in making smarter decisions. How does it compare to tools like Baremetrics or ProfitWell? Would love to hear more about how it handles revenue insights and growth tracking
"someone being mean on the internet" seems needlessly reductive
RFK Jr.'S Attacks on Anti-Depressants Are Dangerous
Trump, Musk and co don't care. If it doesn't benefit them and they can't profit from it, it doesn't matter.

What are the odds there's chaos in the parks this summer with short staffing, and the admin decides to blame the National Parks Service as a reason to privatize management of the parks?
Ah Empathy is not what screwed up these guys' childhoods. Don't blame empathy without acknowledging that both of these people are black in America.

There are so many reasons why this happened and it's way more than just San Francisco being supposedly more empathetic.

Rhetorically speaking, how about the fact that China is quite happy to supply precursor drugs to help make fentanyl cheap? How is that related to San Francisco's perceived empathy? Again, rhetorically.

It makes me angry that this problem is reduced so frequently when it's been proven time and time and time to be a complex problem. It's almost like citizens / voters / taxpayers are willing to play sport with this problem in order to score some kinds of points around being right, or to avoid the sense of blaming oneself, because they know they can do something about it and yet they aren't.

Being honest is a big part of making progress with this, and I think honestly this problem is way more complex than many of us have actually appropriately characterized.

The article goes a long way towards characterizing the problem well, by talking about each individuals, perspectives, situations, and how the system succeeded or fails, knocking them off the path to gaining public support.
Just because the ground is more stable than the air doesn't mean there aren't train collisions.

Air travel actually has a lower fatality rate per mile than trains do. Rail crossings can be dangerous places.
Will it run Alley Cat?
Quick! Go to your Amazon account’s “Manage Content and Devices” and “Download or transfer over USB” to save the .azw3 files to your computer. Then, follow instructions to set up Calibre with the De-DRM plugin.

Do this before next Wednesday and you might save your Kindle books!

Old kindles are best for this; save books in the older .azw3 format. I’m not sure about newer Kindles that use .kfx
What's stoppin' ya?
Works from Europe, might be something else.
> What makes you so sure that IP blocking countries will have any effect

because it did work in the EU as one example

(that is, if complemented with other things I would have to look up. E.g. a lot of phone fraud is illegal in the country it comes from too, which opens up many possibilities for cross country cooperations (or pressure) to shut them down you)

Mainly you have to

- not thinking in absolutes, rarely can a problem be perfectly 100% be removed, but that doesn't matter making something much better is already a huge step forward.

- identifying likely path to improve things, and then trying it

- if it fails, give it a proper fact based analysis so that future tries can learn from it instead of just saying "see can't be solved"

But what I see a lot is:

- solutions having shown to cause improvements aren't tried "because they aren't airtight/perfect"

- no proper analysis is done, instead of looking what works people look what "feels like it could work"

- a single solutions is very half assed/incompletely tried and after it predictably fails people argue "see nothing can be done so let's not even try" instead of actually analyzing why it failed
> Size isn't really a factor - an average connection can download several hundred megabytes in under a minute. Convenience is the factor - 95% of consumers will not tolerate having to manually manage their collection and manually transfer books to a device [1], even in legal scenarios, such as buying a MOBI/AZW from not-Amazon and putting it on their Kindle

citation needed. I actually know many authors who do book signing. most people who have ebooks don't even ever deal with the files in any respect.
Have either of you ever met a five year old?
I don't have the insights of a VC, but I always liked Peter Thiel's approach of "You want to be the last mover, the last company in a category".

Not in the sense that everyone should always aim for it, but simply as a "reality check". You won't be able to directly compete with large established players - so don't.
The Internet Raytracing Competition (1996 – 2006)
'ABSOLUTE DENIAL' (2021) [video]
'In an escalating battle of two minds, a reclusive programmer is plunged into a terrifying, mind-bending revelation as he becomes exposed to the social engineering of his own sentient AI.'
So much of this depends on the context, goals and personal situation.

The answer won't be the same for a multi millionaire looking to spend his time working on a cool project or for a low wage worker trying to make it and quit a boring job.

If you already have financial freedom, i guess you should aim for the stars, as in go for something big.

I you're trying to reach financial escape velocity and get rid of your 9 to 5 job, you might want to try small ideas first as it should be easier targets and you probably only need one successful project to be free. Then you can go for the big ideas.
There is a non-zero chance of pretty much anything. I don't think Gutmann is opposed to exploration.
tangential - brain "word map" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00069-1 (link to the interactive model there https://gallantlab.org/viewer-huth-2016/ )
America is a Police state. Qualifiers:
1. Surveillance state. The amount of surveillance information our police now purchase from private companies would make the old Soviets drule.
2. Separate rules for the Police with qualified immunity protections. Singapore doesn't give it's Police qualified immunity protections unless serving warrants. There are two different rules of law in the US, those that apply to the normies, and those that apply to law enforcement.
3. Mass incarceration.
4. Making so much illegal that 'selective enforcement' can be used as a tool of coercion. Just coming up on the Police radar (even if you are someone that reported something) leads to a significantly higher chance of incarceration in the US.
I like how you linked to this:

> I have endured a sustained campaign of abuse from members of the VOGONS forum, been labelled a "clout-chaser", had threats sent to my personal email address, code been used in other projects without proper accreditation, my 3D print designs stolen and sold by faceless eBay/Etsy sellers, personal attacks made towards me when people don't get their feature request... the list goes on and on.

>There is only so much I can take.

>My mental health has been in decline as a direct result of this behavior; the joy of working on this project has pretty much gone. There is nothing to be gained from putting time and hard work into it any more. There is no gratitude, no encouragement - just entitled behavior and grift.

And concluded that it is a mystery why he quit.
I specifically mean code not covered by automated tests. And this almost always falls in the dislike/misunderstand pile for me, but not conversely.
Regulate people because people can do wrong but don't regulate business entities because capitalism will punish their misdeeds.

That's essentially how the "logic" goes. If the airplane company kills people, we just have to stop giving them our business, problem solved, all is good now.
They also refused to make their e-books available to libraries because they said it hurt sales. Which at least is a new wrinkle on the endless DRM debates.

Hell, if I ran a publishing company I'd remove DRM just so I wouldn't have to listen to Cory Doctorow rant about it. Having to proofread his books is punishment enough.
Onions = Cry Vegetables -  compound word generation for artificial languages
Good luck, sincerely.
Former Staffers Say India's Biggest IT Firm Was Gaming the US Visa System
Just in time to kill the giants sloths?
> > random nobodies speculating in public (likely incorrectly), and people are repeating their speculation because they like how it sounds

> That made me think of how Arendt described the pre-totalitarian mishmash of opinions and totalitarian "opinions" [0], that's the first quote.

Allow me to clarify what I was saying: there is no inherent problem with “random nobodies” speculating about things - I am myself a “random nobody” in this context. The problem is when people start talking about those pseudonymous speculations as if they were coming from genuine life experience with this particular computer system, or closely related computer systems-which is what I interpreted the comment I was replying to as claiming (or at least it could be read as implying it). Furthermore, while both I and the sources for these speculations are “random nobodies”, I’d say I’m a much more informed random nobody, because I’ve read enough COBOL documentation to realise that what they are saying is of dubious plausibility, whereas it appears they haven’t.

That’s not to say I’m endorsing Musk’s claims about “150 year old social security recipients”-I don’t know what the actual truth behind them is (and I don’t think anyone else publicly discussing them does either), but I think more likely than not they are an exaggeration, distortion or misinterpretation - so I do think they are probably (at least partially) wrong - but (outside a small cohort of current and former government officials and contractors, who likely are restrained by confidentiality obligations from participating in the public debate) nobody knows exactly how and why they are wrong - but I know enough about COBOL to know that COBOL-centric theories about why Musk is wrong are very likely themselves wrong.

And finally, replying to someone’s comment with quotes - without any explanation of why you think the quotes are relevant to the comment you are replying to - isn’t a helpful communication style. Rather than leaving people guessing at what you are trying to say-or leaving them with the onus of asking you to clarify-much better to just explain it explicitly in your initial reply. Plus, I have the suspicion that your reply was triggered by a misunderstanding of my position - that you were reading me as saying “Musk is right”, when what I’ve actually been saying (not explicitly in that particular comment, but I think it becomes clearer if you read my other comments on the topic) is “Musk could well be wrong-indeed more likely than not he is-but not for this reason”
Fair. But if you assume creative accounting only applies to private organizations I have a bridge to sell you.
Anecdote: I have a collection of >x,000 DRM-free ebooks that I legally bought/acquired. No piracy. I manage this with Calibre with a physical sync cable and read on an Onyx device.

We exist! There might even be dozens of us!