skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your Nirvanas and Pavements and Radioheads—behemoth alt-rock bands that seem to be endlessly rediscovered by newer generations as a source of credibility—have kept their cultural capital, while R.E.M. remains marooned in Alternative Muzak-land.

The irony of this being published in The Yale Review is too much for me. If REM had stopped after Reckoning the way Television did after Adventure, the only way anyone would be able to talk about them would be in hushed reverential tones. The article scoffs at the notion of "selling out", but then tells a story of an esteemed band doing exactly that, and the inevitable outcome, of "Losing My Religion" playing in the background at every supermarket.

(For calibration purposes: Murmur is a top 5 album for me, and my top 5 REM albums would include Automatic).
OpenAI rejects $97B offer from Elon Musk
Search is also vulnerable.

It's been called "wokepedia" (not to be confused with Wookieepedia, the star wars wiki) by Musk and others, telling people not to donate.

And also people have been denouncing Google's search results as biased, as being "woke".

I'm still not sure what any specific user of the word "woke" means, beyond the Ami/UK right using it as an insult, but I can't tell if it's generic or specific, critiquing something or just telling supporters when to boo and jeer. Does the Ami/UK left still use it to mean "being aware of systemic prejudice", or have they also shifted? I didn't notice at the time when "meme" stopped meaning shared online quiz.
Well, at least the FAA makes a direct enough impact on the current admin's electorate that they aren't going to get away with substantial flight cancellations due to insufficient ATC. Many of the other agencies getting the cut don't have as wide and direct impact to US broadly to be able to convince the current admin's electorate to restore them.
Blackmailing someone who controls the DOJ is a very bad idea. That one. Secondly, you cannot blackmail Trump with this. His cult followers just shrug because, you know - her emails.
I honestly can't imagine paying for reddit. Especially when just being part of reddit creates the content they're hoping to sell.
It has an extremely grating guitar tone. Love REM. Love all kinds noisy guitar rock, that album just hurts my ears. [edit] Also saw them on the Green tour Oct ‘89 :-))
That's not what he means by afford. I think the rest of the quote makes it clear that affordability is a statement about whether the thing can be delivered in real terms.

There's no financial abstraction happening here. Exports and imports always balance, it's just that financial assets are an export product that foreigners may wish to hold. If they do, then great, because you can swap financial assets for real stuff. This is not unique to the US; plenty of countries run like this.

Of course you should acknowledge that the situation might change, but there's nothing to indicate that's happening. It's not like there's a ready supply of customers waiting to buy all the stuff the Chinese rely on selling for their domestic employment.

Edit: it's worth noting that the decisions here are largely made by the private sector. The government runs a deficit or a surplus because it has to to balance the sectoral flows [1]. If the private sector wishes to save and import, then if the government wish to not starve the economy of money, they necessarily have to run a deficit.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectoral_balances
I’d like to see stakeholder only talking to an LLM to built a product with millions of lines of code and push all that into production where other companies depend on it to run themselves. Good luck when there’s a critical bug and the LLM keep saying « looks good to me ».

If devs are completely replaced then PO, PM, everyone else can be replaced as well. No need to build companies around software
I’ve got some mulch in my yard that needs counting.
> That's why gov jobs offer greater job security, while paying less than in the private sector.

It should also be noted that this type of purge and re-purge of the civil service with the party faithful was the norm in the 1800s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system

Eventually folks figured out that this didn't make for effective government and reforms were passed to make so that some positions were treated as 'neutral' and the folks in them would generally follow the policy of new administrations (and give honest advice):

> Civil service reform in the United States was a major issue in the late 19th century at the national level, and in the early 20th century at the state level. Proponents denounced the distribution of government offices—the "spoils"—by the winners of elections to their supporters as corrupt and inefficient. They demanded nonpartisan scientific methods and credential be used to select civil servants. The five important civil service reforms were the two Tenure of Office Acts of 1820 and 1867, Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883, the Hatch Acts (1939 and 1940) and the CSRA of 1978.[1] In addition, the Civil Service Act of 1888 drastically expanded the civil service system.[2]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_service_reform_in_the_Un...

Making more people 'unprotected' and basically 'at-will' was done recently:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schedule_F_appointment
This still seems bad to me because the SSA should not be concerned with actual DOB, only DOB for the purposes of SS benefits. This will be actual verified DOB in the vast majority of cases, but we are talking about edge cases here. If the SSA determines, by whatever procedure, that someone is eligible for retirement benefits (meaning that they are determined to be over 65), it is incredibly sloppy not to insert some DOB in the SS DB.
I wish they'd make one of these with the Vortex86EX SOM-128-EX inside it. It'd be like a modern Toshiba Libretto 110.
FAA probationary workers fired by Trump administration, union says
Discussion (12 points, 3 days ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053512
Linux Running on an NES, but for Real This Time [video]
I literally said I don’t have a perfect solution and that you wouldn’t believe me. What I have is the best possible solution based on available solutions that we know of. I found the best way.
The word meeting isn’t specific enough. There’s a taxonomy of meetings, and each should be approached differently

1:1s, we know how these work

Update meeting (Gathering everyone in a room and give updates) - eliminate these, this should not be a meeting. Should be recorded and posted online for people to watch at their leisure, and made available in an archive. If content is must-see (safety announcements, etc.), track viewership and link to job performance.

Team planning meetings - do as much upfront beforehand as possible (individual brainstorming, backlog preparation etc) to keep it as short as possible, and be as clear as possible on scope so it can end as soon as possible.

Team decision meetings & strategy meetings - probably the only meetings that need lots of people as many stakeholders will improve a decision. But you need a decision process and it takes focus from everyone not to get distracted or stuck on minor points. You can however, only have one representative of each area to be the voice, which keeps it small

We call all these meetings because English doesn’t give us tools to discuss the distinctions and it’s been limiting the discussion since way before Covid.

The latter two types absolutely need agendas. That will keep them on the rails.

If a meeting is doing the work of two (or more!) of these categories it’s sub-optimal because it requires lots of attendees who only need to be there for one of the types of meeting. Those folks sit exhausted & frustrated for the rest. You’d be better to split it out to multiple meetings with shorter agendas and a more focused group of attendees.
For in-person play with ordinary playing cards and an arbitrary number of players, keep the rules the same except:

* Start with 1 deck per each 2 players. Shuffle the decks together.

* Deal 10 cards to each player, & set ante at a constant 50 chips per player.

* At the end-of-round reveal, the common suit is whichever suit has the most cards. If there's a tie, flip cards from the remaining deck until the tie is broken and the common suit is determined.
There’s a movement in the tech industry which basically is layoffs now, figure out how to replace those with AI shortly after. It’s happening across many/most companies and it’s being done quietly.
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If you have the money to imprison the homeless you could use that very same money to just build more affordable housing and that would give you more in terms of results per dollar spent.
But that doesn't jive well with the American idea of having to morally punish unwanted behavior, instead of just helping people.
Jailing homeless people is like jailing people who break a leg:
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Forgive me if i misinterpret you.
But i think theirs three relevant perspectives here whereof two and a half disagree with your points that americans dont punish people down on their luck.

first perspective is the common american sympathetic or not to homeless and their perspective on penal code. then 2nd, theres reactive use and enforcement of code, which is the main punishment for homelessness. and third is the figurative cognitive behavior modifiers but instead of being therapists they are american rulers who want subjects to behave in a certain manner ( more on that at the end).

first perspective is divided into two camps i think. empathetic yes lets not punish homelessness, lets help them out. they seem to have more influence in liberal states. then theres the “lazy bum” castigators, like trump said or would say. no sympathy, get a job types.

2nd perspective matters more because homelessness in-effect criminalized if police enforce laws and the laws are sufficient to cause more than a minor inconvenience to the homeless. Most states technically have all types of laws to put homeless people in jail, but in certain states and certain contexts do homelessness get more aggressively targeted and thus punished. its in the form of no body wants to deal with homeless people where they hang out at (nimbyism) so they have police remove them however the police are instructed and allowed to do, which might be making and enforcing laws incidentally target behavior homeless are more likely to do but everyone does like loitering.

3rd perspective is more conjecture but is based on academic documented equivalent cases in french and british colonies (found in david graebers writings) and extrapolated to say that people who make the laws in america must think like cognitive behaviorists specifically to wielding the threat of homelessness as a tool to modify the populations behavior to their agendas. this is conjecture but not unreasonable, and its substantiated.

But places in America do penalize homelessness if not intentionally implicitly. examples include hostile archtecture, no sitting rules in transportation hubs, sleep police in new york, and consequences for being, acting, or appearing homeless in various municipalities which sometimes results in jail.
A decade of foreign influence ops is finally going to pay off for Russia.
I think you want a macro assembler.

You may think that’s too close to the hardware, but if you want “actual control over things like register allocation”, you will be writing your code for a specific register set size, types of (vector) registers, etc, so you’ll soon be targeting a specific CPU.

Also, was C ever “portable assembly”? There may have been a brief period where that was true, but it started as a language where programmers could fairly reliably predict what assembly the compiler would generated but that wasn’t portable, and once it had become portable, users wanted optimizations, so predicting what code it would generate was a lot harder.
In my experience, tech suffers from short term thinking and is not concerned about long term consequences.

In the military it is a privilege to be given responsibility over a group of men and women. At least for me, I was very aware of these issues. I was a believer in the “God” camp. There is a noticeable contingent of US military who wear their religious beliefs on their sleeves. It is complicated but at least for me, morality occupied my mind all the time.
I battled sleep issues on my laptop for months, and had very different results than most people with my model. I think the behavior is a total crapshoot from machine to machine.

In fact, it turned out that a BIOS update that happened in the middle of my issues broke sleep functionality for the whole machine for a few months, so that wasn't even my fault.
Also, to repeat a point I often make about this ...

Until sometime around the 1980s, even in the USA poverty and homelessness were scene as systemic failures - "our system should not lead to those results". Post-Reagan, the attitude has shifted dramatically and now poverty and homelessness are broadly seen as personal failures, a mixture of poor morals, bad character and weak decision making. We even used to be a little inclined towards a potential role for the state in helping individuals deal with bad luck, but now bad luck is seen as "gravitating" towards individuals whose fault is all theirs.

This has necessarily drastically altered government policies at the local, state and federal level. We are much, much worse for it, no matter which interpretation of poverty and homelessness is more factually correct.
Discussion (73 points, 17 hours ago, 50 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43074281

Related: America desperately needs more air traffic controllers (346 points, 13 days ago, 645 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42933840
NES86 – IBM PC Emulator for the NES
Were they all that restrained? I'm thinking about Stipe's cringe-y activism, and the starfucker galaxy of Stipe, Courtney Love, and Billy Corgan; even the idea of "meeting [grunge] on its own turf" is a reframing of the band not as an authentic artistic endeavor but as a pop culture trend artifact.

How much influence did REM have? What's a well-regarded indie musician you'd say was prompted largely by REM itself, rather than Patti Smith and Big Star?
If this person wants to be left alone and live by himself, why doesn't he find some place in the wilderness, away from a city; maybe an area managed by BLM where he won't be bothered? Why does he have to fuck up one of the few parks in a city of 850,000 people?
I can understand an expert moving to science communication / popularization, and I understand what the trappings of such enterprise are. However, the creators have a choice in what they advertise and how they do it, and the choices they make reflect on them and on how their message is received.

I'd say, my own emotions aside, she made a pragmatic mistake here - first delivering a quite powerful bomb that she explicitly acknowledges we need to trust her about (as it's an excerpt of a private conversation, not possible to independently verify), only to tell us - also explicitly - that the video was sponsored by a company. This is the kind of stuff you find in late-stage capitalism jokes, or movies about corporate utopia where this juxtaposition is exaggerated for effect. I did not see it coming, and I struggle to understand why it did.

But more generally, while I wouldn't describe it as "targeting individual contributors that use sponsorships to maintain or alleviate financial stability", I do believe that what kinds of sponsorships people choose and how they fulfill the sponsor's conditions does directly reflect on trustworthiness of the entire message - to think otherwise would be to believe that humans are capable of compartmentalizing their activities into high-integrity and low-integrity parts, which is something I don't believe humans are capable of over long-term. Maybe I'm wrong about that - if psychology says it's normal, then perhaps I need to reconsider my heuristic. But if I'm right, then this is directly on-topic and I believe it's right to bring it up, to the extent the creator/speaker is asking the audience to take them on trust. Aka. on authority. Which means it applies doubly so to the experts - their choice of what and how they advertise matters more, because they're lending their credibility to both the message and the ad that pays for it.
You don't have to compare Singapore or other places. Just comparing the USA to other English countries shows stark differences. The UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and NZ have way less of the bad kind of "low income", better incarceration rates, homeless and more than the USA. And in many ways, people are poorer in those countries than the USA too. It's not money, it's political will and organization.
Miku Miku Beam: DDoS in Style
lol wut? Safety is the exact opposite domain of a guy that believes in breaking things fast, like all his rockets that keep exploding.

The guy has no attention to detail, given that he knows nothing besides surface-level knowledge of anything, including how government works. He’s a get-rich-quick finance scam bro, not a detail oriented engineer. None of his products will ever have a lasting impact. They could all disappear today and no one would notice.

And you need a detail-oriented engineer instead of get-rich-quick finance scam-bro to build critiv safety systems.

I’d trust Blue Origin over Space-X to build a reliable system.
Yeah, but not if the first move is firing people.
> Well, at least the FAA makes a direct enough impact on the current admin's electorate that they aren't going to get away with substantial flight cancellations due to insufficient ATC.

Yeah: "The cancellations are part of the Deep State working to sabotage the mandate of the new administration."
> Things can be said in anger, and not really meant. In fact I would wager out of all the death threats made in the entire world, the vast majority are said in anger and not meant to be followed through on. This is why we dont lock people up for just saying things. There needs to be other motives and evidence behind it to show intent.

You are incorrect, at least in California

https://www.cronisraelsandstark.com/criminal-threats-califor...
Why do you count "per capita" when it should be counted "per crime"? Per capita means nothing for this argument.
I will never understand Pavement. I was born without the nervous system structure required to understand Pavement.
I found doing a vb to vb.net upgrade of quite a messy codebase to be quite rewarding in its own way.

It really helped to understand why SOLID principles are used.
This. Thanks a lot!
This is interesting, and not the first time I've seen this sentiment.

I don't take immediate issue with the points made here, but I think the conclusion is not entirely correct. Security isn't full, it's just harder and more competitive than people think.

I'll explain: because of the hype described here, many, many people decided that security would be a great way to make a living. They were told that there was a severe need for security professionals, and that there would be high-paying jobs just waiting for them to apply.

So these people studied security in school, maybe took the Security+ or CEH certs, and applied for jobs. Those that got jobs got laid off (again, mentioned in the article) when times got tough, or never got a job in the first place. Why?

Security is a field of people who love what they do. Go to DEF CON -- or even better, small, regional infosec conferences -- and you'll find people who are extremely talented... some of whom don't even work in the industry. For people like this, there is a talent shortage.

I've been consistently hiring security people for the last 15 years. There is absolutely a talent shortage at high levels of the industry -- but it's really hard to get to that level. Learning the OWASP Top 10 and a few nmap flags isn't going to cut it.

My experience may not be universal, but this is what I've seen over the course of a lifetime in infosec.
>They sound like boreful people.

They have a job and family at the end of the day too. Not everyone has the power nor passion to try and and move a billion dollar corporation to care for people over profit.

>If you find you have become boreful, there's a good chance you may be experiencing burnout or depression,

I haven't has a full time job in over 18 months, so I hope I'm not burnt out.

>Nothing is boring but for the person who perceives it that way.

That's like saying nothing is ugly except for what people think is ugly. Boredom is personal and shaped by each person's experience, so I don't think framing it as a person for not trying hard enough is going to go too far in practice (nor is it productive to judge people based on how they prioritize their lives). Of course some things will be boring to one person and a life passion for another.We don't have enough time nor energy to try and find appreciation for every object and concept on Earth.
The 'White Collar' recession is pummeling office workers
> "armed and emotional" comes off as a huge insult

Care to explain how having weapons or emotions is insulting? Everyone serving in the military is a human and humans have emotions. There's no shame in that and I think it requires quite a mean spirited mis-reading of what I said to take that from it.

> the ability to keep a cool head in the midst of trying and even horrifying situations

I think we're in agreement, you just have a different idea of what it means to be emotional. The desire to maintain a cool head in the face of horror is based in emotion. The effect of keeping a cool head might be exactly the reason why the technicalities of legality break down.

All that said we also have to remember that not everyone serving is a "great military leader" and that's also part of the point at hand.
Sure, when you succeed in understanding someone else's legacy codebase, it builds self esteem. When you fail attempting to do that, it does the opposite.
Apple Intelligence has been available in the EU since at least macOS 15.2.
Feel free to share feedback
Update: I upgraded to an Intel Arc B570 GPU... and ran into the exact same problem on an independent driver: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/xe/kernel/-/issues/4288
Tearing down our government is somewhat newsworthy, imho.
Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom'
Out of curiosity, what does the restaurant featured in the story pay their line cooks and waitresses?
TIL. I didn't realize insulin was being produced like this.

Is this a common form of insulin and how does the price compare to the old pig insulin?

For something like an antivenom that hardly matters. But just curious on what it means for a daily protein dose.
Your post suggests authorization as a feature:

> For each replay that we run, Roark checks if the agent follows key flows (e.g. verifying identity before sharing account details)

I don't know if AI will be more susceptible or less susceptible to phishing than humans, but this feels like a bad practice.
Honest answer: as an MIT computer science grad, my life has been infinitely easier thanks to the label. But my time at MIT was very hard, and it is a difficult place for a young person to be.

It really depends on the child. I don't recommend MIT in particular to just anyone. Not sure if this lack of recommendation affects other top schools -- I don't have personal, intimate experience with them.
Pretty much all smartphones can do this.
I mean the internal Congress cctv footage that was supposed by the Jan 6th committee until forced to release it.

The FBI has admitted it had 26 informants at the protest.

Nobody has been caught for the pipe bomb and it was barely mentored for 4 years.
You are alleging all sorts of things, and unlike the poster who responded to you, you bring no evidence.

Good day, sir.
it's arguably not great on windows either... (see Gigabyte Aorus comment above)
Can you point out the parts which aren’t a shit-show?
Logs are just written out to stderr by default, and when you use systemd it ingests it automatically. If you run it with alpine, it's up to you to wire that up.
Meta's Awful 'Horizon Worlds' Ad Helps Explain $70B Metaverse Loss