skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The middle class pay the vast majority of the taxes.

This is objectively false [1].

> The mega-rich pay very little as a percentage of their wealth.

This statement is a very different one than the previous and it’s expected since there’s no wealth tax.

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-in...
The article also mentions that the staff is not payed, which surely helps the bottom line.
I love how self-centered leftist people are. I have yet to find any trump supporter make a calendar website about their own life. Lol.
Same here. Affinity is great, it has some quirk and some basic features are scattered around the UI without seemingly much thought.

But every time I have to use Gimp is just a pain, feels like going back in time.

For such a complex tool, UX is and will always remain king. That's why many people miss even something as simple as the Mac Preview tool, it does its job nicely and neatly. It doesn't do much but for basic stuff is quick and straightforward.
It’s all relative. Having lived and driven in India for many years, the driving in Sri Lanka is very organized and civil.

But I get what you’re saying.
Pretty cute. How'd you get them to pair overseas?
Fixing the internet by breaking it again
Websites have no way to differentiate between bots or real human beings. The website has to load content to bot's and implement ever increasingly complex resource hungry or expensive defences that are ineffective. Bandwidth is being used up blocking legitimate clients and legitimate clients user experience is deteriorating.

[snippet from article]

This is my blog post on how we can fix the internet by breaking it again. Without needing to wait for so called "solutions" from the same people that broke the internet in the first place..

namely:

Advertisers,
Big tech,
A.I companies,
Social media.

etc.
This is ever evolving but we currently do;

Composable modules such as `terraform-aws-lambda/modules/standard-function`, `terraform-aws-iam/moduls/role-for-aws-lambda`, etc, which get composed for a specific usecase in a root module (which we call stacks). The stack has directories under it such as `dev/main/primary/` `dev/sandbox-a/primary/` `dev/sandbox-a/test-a/`, etc, where `dev` is environment, `main/sandbox-a` is tenant and the `primary/test-a` is the namespace. The namespaces contain a `tfvars` file and potentially some namespace specific assets, readme's, documentation, etc. The CD system then deploys the root module for each namespace present.

Stacks are then optionally (sometimes deeply) nested under parent directories, which are used for change control purposes, variable inference and consistency testing.

OpenTofu >1.8.0 is required for all of this to keep it nice and tidy.
GenAI is reshaping work–don't let it dull human intelligence
Inappbrowser.com: see what JavaScript commands get injected
I’ve seen at least one deep-research replicator claiming they were the “best open deep research” tool on the GAIA benchmark: https://huggingface.co/papers/2311.12983
This is not a perfect benchmark but the closest I’ve seen.
>They are built on the assumption will subsidise their defence almost entirely.

This is an exaggeration. The larger European military powers spent enough on defence to be able to operate without US assistance in a range of circumstances (e.g. the Falklands war). But Europe did not anticipate having to defend itself against Soviet aggression without US assistance.

In fairness, it would have seemed crazy, not so long ago, to think that the POTUS would be on friendlier terms with the leader of a Russian dictatorship than with the democratically elected leaders of France and Germany. But here we are.
Few notes on this:

- To me it feels less like calling out the room dynamics, more like calling for a timeout or hitting the reset button

- Just like hitting the reset button it's intentionally disruptive to do this, so don't abuse your meeting-halting privileges or people will start to ignore you

- I'm pretty sure this is a part of normal human behaviour when de-escalating, and neither being in a meeting nor naming the dynamic is required to do it
This is the case in France & some other EU countries (light quadricycles - Renault, Citroen and so on) and Japan (Kei Cars).

The problem seems to be that for most people who can legally drive a full-scale car (i.e. they're not too young or too old) getting a do-everything vehicle on finance is more attractive at that point.

They're somewhat popular with youngsters in rural areas (cheap to insure, minimum driver age is 14 I think, whereas for cars in France it's 17) and with frailer, older people who can't walk or cycle very far and don't have the stamina for longer drives, they just want an inexpensive little runabout to get to the village shops, nearby friends and appointments.

But they're expensive enough (about $10k) that you're unlikely to buy one in addition to your regular do-it-all car, where you might buy an ebike, pedal bike or motorcycle. Maybe as a second vehicle in a childless couple where one partner does almost all the driving, but unless heavier vehicles are highly taxed or restricted (city low emission & congestion zones), there's not enough advantage in one of these for mass adoption.
I like gradual change. I see things here in France changing (for the better mostly) here and there but yes no dramatic shifts. The US model seems irresponsible by comparison.
> With legal costs hitting $600K upfront

On the one hand, the US legal system is shockingly corrupt and openly pay-to-play.

On the other, if you can't raise $600k -- or $2M -- for a legal defense, you're not really a "promising AI startup." You're something more akin to a garage project.

The smart move for a small company (assuming they don't want to fold) would be to hire an out-of-work lawyer as "part-time in-house counsel" and have them start fighting the case on your company's behalf. File an aggressive response, a motion to dismiss, etc. That way, you've got a fighting chance, and it'll cost >10x less than $600k.
Not if you check the citations
Real Numbers Hans, the horse who stomps once if you show him any number, so long as it has no imaginary component!
As tradition, the developers see themselves as gods on earth who cannot be given any sort of feedback without hurting their ego.

Many other open source tools are beloved and used despite their flaws. Gimp is not built for anyone who isn't truly invested in it, making it a niche piece of software.

And the direction of 20 years of a software can tell what kind of contributions would be acceptable for people. I don't think anyone coming in a redoing the whole UI would well accepted, given how little care is given to the same old feedback.
And the green crowd is surprised no one votes for them.

It's like a new wave puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
> Media and social media are evil forces.

We've got to get over this "all media bad" mentality. It's counterproductive and not helping anything. Sure, there are garbage media organizations publishing to maximize profits but there are also all kinds of organizations doing stellar journalism these days too. Also, "media" is such a broad term that it's almost meaningless.
Looking at the paper linked on the wikipedia page for Huffman Coding, David Huffman referred to Huffman Coding as just "optimum coding" [0]

[0] http://compression.ru/download/articles/huff/huffman_1952_mi...
Imagine the lack of empathy one would need to fire 500 people for being challenged, sociopath antics (assuming the reporting is accurate)
Well certainly he is at heightened risk because of the Democrat assassination attempts.

Well the elections weren't free and fair in 2020 either, with COVID being used as an excuse.

And let's not forget Hillary claiming she lost in 2016 due to Russia. Sounds like election denialism.
They aren't suspending anything. They're postponing. Your second quoted sentence is consistent with your first unless you change the word "postpone" to "suspend" in your mind while you're reading it.
Instead of a Postgres example, how about SQLite ? And it could be used to demonstrate the filesystem API/WIT.
It was used in some nice electronic music!

Dual Band – GSM (1998): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntKOJdht3t8

Mav – HGP (2005): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZacenNeu4fw

Tatarola – Who Is Calling (2007): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTOyaG7VYKw
I think of a friend’s baby who passed away, wouldn’t even complete the first line.
If I give away free cookies I baked just to feed people and they develop minor food poisoning, I may be shielded by the fact I was volunteering in good faith. If I give away free cookies with the logo of some big event to advertise that event, now it's commercial and I may be liable for the cookies because I'm backed by the money of that big event and should have been held to a higher standard.
If we believe in markets, we would have to believe that the risk is priced into the cost of the property, much like the risk of a lemon is priced into the cost of a used car.
Clearly with Musk running the country, BO's chance of getting contracts is zero.

I heard a talk today(1) that pointed out that pre-Musk was given too much power and now we see from BO's demise why. Competition is now impossible.

(1) https://youtu.be/z8Lrd8FM6mA
That may be true for people like Andreessen, who just put their corporate interests above everything else without much ideological underpinning (which is already bad enough). But then you have people like Peter Thiel who literally believe that Tech companies should rule the world. Operations like DOGE attempt to dismantle government institutions so that more power is shifted towards Big Tech.
Perhaps a better term to differentiate it from regime-run ones -- "Ethically North Korean Restaurants"?
Rust Is Eating JavaScript (2023)
FWIW, I took my EV in for a maintenance interval (waste of money BTW - this thing is indestructable), and the mechanic remarked that the brakes looked new. It's 1.5 years old, with factory brakes.

Single-pedal mode does the rest. Not only does this make the car easier to drive, but you can hit a sweet spot where you never really use the brakes.
Then don't, and upgrade your server by something on the order of 40GB every year.
You think digital sovereignty is when you are not allowed to do what you like with your account, but must follow someone else's terms and conditions?
Towards an API for the Real Numbers

Hans-J. Boehm
The trouble with that is that you still have to make 80/443 public, which means you have to trust that your web server will stand up to 24/7 probing. I guess I'm a bit more paranoid than I really need to be but if the port isn't open then the chances of a bad guy getting in that way because of a zero-day or because I forgot something should be zero.

Hopefully you at least have something like fail2ban installed?
Same here. To be fair, we do have to put up with charging compatibility shenanigans. But that aside, I love this thing.
>That sure sounds like they are suspending all standards,

No it doesn't. 'Postpone' and 'suspend' are two entirely different things.
The harder you make it to fire, the harder you make it to hire.
This is right next to Leadenhall Market, which dates from the 14th century. I wonder if there were other markets on the same-ish site between the Roman forum and Leadenhall.
These tribes have no sickness and don't have to work hard for food or shelter? Sign me up.
Claude Jailbreak results are in, and the hackers won
What’s the strategy behind these? They never seemed money constrained before. Why now? And they just had their first launch.
> Eric Adams alleges the charges were brought against him by the Biden administration for political reasons.

Sp what if he "alleges" that. The question is whether he is corrupt.

> Dropping charges against your political opponents is not a hallmark of fascism.

Of course not, dropping them against yourself and your movement is. As in "he who saves the country can violate no law", in the words of Trump.
> when you go to the fake site it can request a login with your username in the background which will send you a notification, you will enter the 2FA code and then password which the attacker will login with.

You're right, hadn't thought of this. But I wish there was a better way to verify that the login prompt is genuine, today it seems almost arbitrarily hard to be 100% sure of this.
> The ones who are responsible and doing the heavy lifting and taking the heat when things break are the often unpaid maintainers.

Only 13.3% of all changesets are from people that are either unemployed or their job is unknown [1].

Even greg k-h said that most of the development is backed by big companies so the argument of 'poor unpaid maintainers' doesn't go too far.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/1004998/
That stands for Microsoft (ie: Micro$oft). The connotation of the dollar sign is derogatory (ie: money-grubbing and obscenely rich).

Now that Microsoft is no longer the wealthiest, most powerful company in tech, fewer people refer to it as 'M$'. Microsoft should thank Google and Facebook for making Microsoft look modest and saintly in comparison.
How is firing large amounts of people on a whim going to solve the problem of people not caring about their work?

From what it sounds like (w.r.t. Agenda 47 / Project 2025) DOGE is fund seeking for massive planned programs, not returning money to the citizenry or restructuring for efficiency.

It sounds like they are illegally looting agencies and programs that congress already funded, so they can fund the admin's proposed plans (virtual social cleansing, mass deportations, homeless relocation, freedom cities, etc).
It'a funny. I always thought of the ADL as having a hair-trigger, over-blaming. Then this happened and I can't figure out if they're just trying to survive? If they're more interested in protecting certain groups than others? Doesnt make sense.
> the people producing and selling solar panels don’t give a fuck about the environment

They sure as hell are incentivized to at least make others do. An increased awareness for environmental issues is profitable. I would go further and think that genuine interest in the future of humanity is more plausible than the required cognitive dissonance.

> Neither do you.

Completely needless accusation.
Most mandatory spending is on healthcare, social security, interest payments on debt. For anyone who values anything other than those things, every penny should be accounted for. The percentage of the total budget now becomes irrelevant.
Google's turn to the dark side started shortly after they bought Doubleclick in 2008.
So if everything is different, everything is different?
I’d like to see a YouTuber like Mr. Beast or somebody pick up a member of an uncontacted tribe and take them on an incredible journey all around the world showing them all the cities and technologies and food that we have and then in the end send them back to their people.
What's next? Vingegaard: secure your wine online with this one simple app!
It is already a thing in Typst.
> pls suggest the correct word here

Simply dropping the "a", turning the word from a noun into an adjective, would make the phrase sound more friendly.
Very important and spot-on analysis. Not many people are aware of the unhinged tech-authoritarianism ideology that drives people like Peter Thiel. It's crazy that so many people still think that DOGE is about government efficiency when it is obviously a scheme to dismantle the federal US government.
There must be something intrinsically pathological about the rocket business, talking back to V2/NASA origins. Are there any non evil individuals in there?
No function pointers? That severely restricts the utility of the language…
Do you mostly eat self hunted and self planted food?

There's a big reason why the vast majority of people choose to buy their food.
Maybe if we spent more time learning how to interpret animal emotions than we do building AI to do it for us the title would read vice versa.
Assuming a 64 bit number for activities (more than enough, I think!), a 9 character geohash[0], another 64 bits for health (HR, BP, weight, etc.), and you've got 25 bytes per second, 2.2M per day, ~789M per year, and, given 75 years life expectancy (roughly UK average), ~60G per lifetime. Probably just fits on a 64GB USB stick / SD card.

It should probably compress quite well, also.

[0] https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/... claims 4.8m^2 for 9 characters.
Well ok...but then what kind of code doesnt it fit well?

Almost every user story I follow in production code follows the form of given/when/then scenario which can always be transformed into a test of some kind (e2e, integration, sometimes even unit).

Where it's something like "do x, y and z and then a graph appears" I find TDD with a snapshot test with, say, playwright works best.
> I really wish darcs was rebooted and made a comeback. What can we do to make it happen?

The biggest thing we need is more developers.
The link at the end is both shortened (for tracking purposes?) and unclickable… so that’s unfortunate. Here is the real link to the paper, in a clickable format: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3385412.3386037
I have been working on a Rust crate of this approach named `realistic`. It's interesting to work with, the crate provides a very rudimentary text interface, type in expressions like

(* (sqrt 45) (sqrt 30) (sqrt 50))

And it will tell you both that this is approximately 259.80 (by default it gives IIRC 30 decimal places of approximation) and that it's exactly 150 times the square root of 3.

I have a toy text calculator that's in a separate project since it has a lot of dependencies and I'm not sure how it should look, but the core "API for the Real Numbers" functionality lives in realistic.

The core idea of this API is: What if we augment the Computable Real Numbers with a tag which says what kind of computable number it is, and a Rational multiplier ?

This way we can express some of the things you learned in school like multiplying the square root of two things might have an integer result even if the two square roots weren't integers, yet we can also Compute a decimal expansion where appropriate to as many places as we can afford.

This is not an alternative to the floating point numbers, those are basically a subset of the rationals with hardware acceleration and good PR. If floating point is what you need, this doesn't help you. Indeed, if purely rational numbers are enough you only need an ordinary Big Rational Number library, lots of those exist, find one which suits your need. realistic has its own Rational type, but that's mostly because it's where I started, you definitely shouldn't choose realistic::Rational as your numerical type if you don't need realistic::Real or realistic::Computable
Doesn’t take a phd to know that those pigs are unhappy.
Large Language Models Show Concerning Tendency to Flatter Users
I get that the “rawness” of the concrete is what literally makes these “brutalist”, but to my layman’s eye, dying the concrete almost always makes the building appear more attractive and less like a post-Soviet ruin.

https://www.dezeen.com/tag/coloured-concrete/
Meh, I've got no reason to promote bookshop over amazon when they're both filled with DRM.

I'd rather cite books with a worldcat link.
If it's simple, why don't most people know how to do it?
When I was a teenager I wrote an e-mail to Jerry Martin, the composer, to ask him various questions I had about the music. He actually send me a very nice and helpful reply!
In the US and UK there is generally no duty to aid. And a duty to aid seems like bad policy, in the sense that it invites litigation over the "at risk" question. It's easy to make judgements after the fact. It's also sort of incompatible with the notion that you could be liable for gravely negligent "aid".

I wonder to what extent this is enforced in places that have it, and I assume it's only applicable to obvious life/death situations? Particularly given that a sizable part of the population freezes in response to danger/shock I'm having a hard time imagining that it's a real rule in practice.

> I guess somewhat a solution to this is to contribute anonymously, via Tor/VPN, incl. any emails so that nothing can be traced back to you.

Being strongly anonymous over a long period of time is extremely difficult. If you mean just throwing something over the wall and vanishing then that's potentially possible but any long term collaboration is almost sure to out you given enough time. And then when it does your anonymity is vulnerable to being spun to argue that you knew what you were doing was wrongful. You're also less likely to be protected in other ways since you thought your identity was a secret.

But perhaps most importantly, I believe the US is the only major jurisdiction where you have a right to defend yourself while anonymous. In the UK you can't even hire a solicitor as an anonymous party, and a related satellite case to ours (over the operator of Bitcoin.org who is anonymous) went all the way to the UK supreme court on this point. So if you're anonymous and the lawsuits come in you have to expose yourself there or lose by default. And if you lose by default and don't comply with the court's orders you could end up with an arrest warrant against you-- which is no problem, until your identity is somehow exposed and its suddenly a major problem.

A lot of the way that liability in this space is damaging is that just because a case is weak, even farcical, you have to defend it vigorously because there are no retries... and there are plenty of procedural footguns where someone who is obviously in the right can lose none the less.

At least for commercial software you can view liability as a cost of doing business, but the incentives for Open Source are shallow enough that they obviously can't cover it. Moreover, there might be a selection effect where more thoughtful contributors opt out while fools rush in-- ultimately to the detriment of the public.
I don’t understand what happened in that video.

Are we supposed to believe that the front seat will somehow move forward from the force of the rear passenger hitting it? And this force will be so great that it will crush the front driver’s skull against the steering wheel? Is that really the take-away here?

If so, that’s a PSA about poor engineering and design of the driver seat and less about rear passenger seat belt safety.
Protesters target Tesla stores in US over Elon Musk's cost cutting
> When an actual human being wants to interact with a website they include their own public key.

Move over cookies, IP addresses and tracking pixels, we now provide cryptographic proof to advertisers that we are interested in something.
Typically under $10 a day. Lots of vegetables and paying attention to prices.