skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This strikes a chord with me, perhaps because I'm one of the people who "feel that government isn't working for them."

- government spending has been rampant and completely disconnected from available funds

- "shutdown" threats, typically a sign that a red line is being crossed, has been treated as political currency

- funds going from taxpayer (individual and corporations) to government, to be redistributed for an ever-increasing list of grants, programs, and studies

- locked-in mega spending areas of the budget showing plenty of warning signs of unsustainability, with nothing being done to address

Even if DOGE is "all for spectacle," I'm having trouble finding the downsides of DOGE's actions for generations coming after us. But maybe someone could help me understand why they feel differently?
> When describing the Stonewall Uprising, the website now reads: "Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal, but the events at the Stonewall Inn sparked fresh momentum for the LGB civil rights movement!"

Were there any laws that affected trans people at all, though? There were laws against homosexual sex (covered by LGB), but I don't recall any laws about expressing gender identity.
Ran into a similar ban recently and it has infuriated me to a level I have trouble describing - except I've been a paying user of this site for 10+ years. It seems to me what triggered it was enabling MFA + password change, which is a completely normal thing to do. It also seems like they're flagging people for VPN usage now. Persona, the application they use to "verify" you, has a really gnarly privacy policy and it does seem completely intentional to just sell the shit out of your data.

My situation to avoid posting the same thing in multiple places:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43050578

To me it's really weird they're taking such elaborate measures to ban legitimate paying users when the site is completely infested with AI/bot spam anyway. They seem out of their depth. Oh, and as an extra screw you, they're still billing me, because of course they are.
Did he claim there would be already peace for 23 days if gets elected as president?
All this doge stuff is about tech though?
Huh.

Prospera smells a lot more like re-colonisation efforts instead of any kind of libertarian paradise. I especially like how the founders just assumed they'd have access to the groundwater without paying for it. I imagine one of their requirements to set something like that up is for the local government to be terminally corrupt.

At least the sea steading initiative didn't rely on the local government and people being exploited. You had to volunteer to be exploited there.
I'm still puzzled how come people are convinced by Cursor, while my experience was meh at best. Can it index your stuff? okay it can. Can it refactor a simple function? No it cannot, it can't even rename a damn Java class. How can I trust it to generate then code based on my codebase? So, what is your use case then? Or can anybody point me to some blog/articles/videos showing some real use cases for Cursor? Real as in, something that it provenly can do?
I kept catching myself scrolling down their idiotic feed and wondering what the hell I was doing. Mindless dreck, all of it. Yet I still get cold inbound from it that turns into business, so I can't just abandon the platform entirely.

I wrote a ~50 LOC browser extension that always redirects away from the feed to your profile. Works great, sideload and forget.

https://github.com/classvsoftware/nofeeds
To be fair, conservative ideologues over-shrinking the US government is an improvement on conservative ideologues invading foreign countries, which happened last conservative-populist time.

So at least we're not invading Iraq?
Perhaps too naive a question, but if they are innocent what is there to protect? I get it in the case of informants or agents that operate undercover or in plains clothes but if just a bystander how is it different than some news article?
Only if you think the purpose is to reduce waste! But this is an ideological purge, as the list makes clear.
Every experienced LinkedIn user knows that you're not supposed to actually use LinkedIn.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250206232604/https://vault.fbi...
Gatekeeping is not always bad. Most people, including many members of this forum, have not seen their happiness and value to society increase because of ubiquitous personal computing. Perhaps the CLI interfaces should have prevailed and compute should have remained the domain of the educational, research, industrial and financial sectors.

Perhaps more people should heed the 'AI' skeptics. Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should.
The hardest working font in Manhattan
One of the big benefits of LaTeX is the ecosystem of packages, but that only happens because so much effort was put into creating a package mechanism for the typesetting system. LaTeX has a long history of providing the technical infrastructure for package creation, and that was one of the main focus since its inception. No typesetting system can compete with LaTeX without a focus on package and template creation. My personal view is that LaTeX will continue to be king in this area for the foreseeable future.
Respect?
I remember when I got my first and last iPhone - 3g - I found that safari cannot reflow page text to the phone screen. Either tiny zoom and unreabable text, or constant horizontal scrolling.

Even first primitive android browser on motorola can do that.

Since then, I lost all respect for apple and never had an iphone.

And this, imo, is as basic feature, as they get. It is needed by any person with non ideal eyesight for any non responsive page, which for along time was the majority of them.
You can see all the development directly from them: https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM

Last week version 7 was released and every time they make significant improvements.
No LSP. It honestly doesn’t speed me up any. I already have the standard library memorized, plus some of the common community lib methods (List.Extra) and my typing speed is faster than I can think anyways.

I’m thinking the same approach would also work well in F#, Haskell, OCaml.
Trolls Aren't Like the Rest of Us
What did building an "LLM chat UI" teach me?
There's a difference between what I read about LLMs and generative AI in general, and what I experience when building things on top of the LLM API with the help of an LLM itself.

Also, over the past few weeks, I've realized that even if the development of language models stopped today, programming has already changed for me.

I wrote a few words about this, so if you work with LLMs in any way, this perspective might be interesting for you.
Sorry to break the bad news, it’s still there

https://www.linkedin.com/
It makes the people under attack feel less alone.
> I am saying Proton represents Valve's failure to make SteamOS attractive to game developers

Sure, but I also think it was a matter of getting a huge library of games available on the Steam Deck immediately. Instead of waiting for every GameCo to port their game over to SteamOS, which may or may not happen no matter what (the console world is full of entropy from what I can tell), they can get like 90% of every single game on Steam available on the Steam Deck right away. I don't know exact numbers, but the Steam Deck might have the largest technically-compatible library of games out of any portable console at this point, although a lot probably aren't well optimized for it.

But of course, this leads to Proton also being a crutch; if you know that Proton is going to do a decent enough job running your game on Linux, there becomes little incentive to spend extra time and money getting a native Linux port on there.

It's tough to say. IANAL, but I feel like if Microsoft were going to do anything about the API emulation scene, they probably would have done something about Wine in the last thirty years. I think they're way more likely to do something funky with DirectX that is difficult or impossible to properly translate into a Vulkan shader, thus breaking compatibility with newer games.
After hearing his voice messages in a fake asian voice trying to mess with Shimomura, I kinda lost all respect for Mitnick.
GhostGPT - Cybercriminals just found their AI sidekick
Ghost in the Wires[1] is a really phenomenal and entertaining book btw. If you go audiobook, Ray Porter does the narration and absolutely crushes it.

[1] Available DRM-free at Downpour (https://www.downpour.com/ghost-in-the-wires?sp=19991) and at Libro.fm (https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781483067216-ghost-in-the-wires)
This is too strippable to be a good watermark, it would only catch the ones who are unaware. The leakers, yes, the cybersecurity people, no.

Rather, I see a use in signing things. Newspapers, politicians etc, generate a unique key and encode it into your article or whatever. Now it's easy for anyone to check if a quote attributed to you actually came from you. Sure, it's not secure but it doesn't need to be because it's simply a stable identifier. Even paywalled sites could display a snippet around the provided quote without being problematic.
The new GOP budget envisions a "$4 trillion increase in the debt limit", so yeah, $3 mil here and there do not really compare to the amount being "spent" (income lost in future budget compared with existing) on tax cuts.
Growing up I was told it actually meant something like "you fish over there, I fish over here, nobody fishes in the middle" and that is was some sort of territory boundary.
Whistleblowers Testify About Weaponized FBI
I've lived through two major crises as a technical professional: Y2K, where I spent thousands of hours updating date systems, and COVID-19, where I developed pandemic surveillance systems. Something striking connects these experiences: In both cases, the people who worked to prevent disaster were later accused of overreacting, precisely because their preventive efforts succeeded.

When Y2K passed without incident, it wasn't because the threat wasn't real - it was because thousands of us worked tirelessly behind the scenes to avert it. Similarly with pandemic surveillance - the data systems we built helped inform decisions that saved lives. Those decisions were often described as authoritarian overreach by people who pointed to the mortality they averted as evidence.

The irony is painful: The more effectively we prevent a crisis, the more people claim there was never a real threat. Those who dismiss these efforts as authoritarian overreach are enjoying the very safety that our 'overreaction' provided them.
I don't use it much and I haven't had your issues but I'm sick of the political and stupid, irrelevant content. It was supposed to be about professional networking and finding work. It's turning into Facebook and not the original Facebook,the horrible bloated mess it's become.
Oscar Wilde said “a cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

Subsidizing also increases creates more utilization. You seem to be of the mind that more education is a bad thing. I’m not sure we all agree.
This post feels like it should be on linkedin. Have we reached the point of LinkedIn-ify'ing HN?
Where? Last time I checked the salary table of the ETH they seem to only pay around 52k, unless I misunderstood something?
It's explained on the web page

"After ten years in print, our publisher decided against further printings and has reverted the rights to us. We have published Elements of Programming in two forms: a free PDF and a no-markup paperback."
I wonder if Trump ordered all the F22s to be flown into the ground, the aircraft carriers to be run aground, would anyone do anything? What about blowing up all the government buildings?

How does Musk get to destroy millions of dollars of investment? These are all government assets. What the fuck is going on here?
If people are skipping one shelf of tech, and jumping to the next shelf up with only ai trying to cover everything, and are let down, maybe there is an opportunity to share that there may be more realistic offers in the interim to offer across both.
An interview at 1995 with Anders Hejlaberg about Delphi-1.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200213131815/https://www.theop...
Only if they explicitly make the email public in the profile. It's hidden by default.
I keep a #buildinpublic blog for FullSoak on my bsky page: https://bsky.app/profile/mrkha.ng

Not sure if it's better than a Discord or sth like Tulips chat, but imho it doesn't matter, as long as there's a safe "draft space" to jot down the thinking-out-loud process, all while getting potentially feedback & help from everyone.

My next immediate exploration goals: make this framework compatible with deployment solutions such as Cloudflare Workers and Smallweb.run - atm I can't guarantee 100% success rate, but excited to see how it turns out.
I'd be mostly concerned with package selection with Guix System. Don't you have to go out of your way to install anything proprietary on there? Also doesn't it use a Linux kernel without any blobs? I would think that drivers could be an issue.
> standard cussing...... slurs and the like.

And the difference is?

Ergo, what is considered offensive is based on social construct. (In more religious times, "god damn you" was heinous insult, which I doubt would register with anybody in modern secular Blighty.)
Bro, if there hadnt been a lockdown, the agitator class that seeded groups to rally against lockdowns would have instead seeded groups to rally people in favor of what the rest of the world was doing at the time.

The right is one giant field of astroturf, paid for by hidden billionaires, acted out by bots and the easily duped, and disseminated over social media
How does this comment help anybody or move the conversation forward?
It's a different time now- I wonder if Reddit could get away with paywalls. They've gotten away with everything else so far.

Reddit is already unrecognizable to me compared to long ago, when the narwhal still bacon'd at midnight.

I mean I still use "Old Reddit" for the UI, but the content and commenters are entirely the opposite of what Reddit once was.

It's like in Mad Max when the kids pass on an oral history of the "before times" of Captain Walker, in broad strokes that are largely made-up. Their reality is a fabrication, and it's impossible for anybody to tell them so.

And they like their reality and heck maybe they'll pay to keep liking it.
I hope it's obvious by now that apparently plenty of those people did not change their opinion, just their words.

Christ, Clarance Thomas frequently signals that he wants to roll back the legal protections for interracial marriage and just look at his marriage.

As soon as the House puts forward a bill to ban interracial marriage, you can rest assured that 5% is suddenly more like 50%. We are going backwards and they've been eagerly waiting to dig out the old social norms. Assholes on twitter are already back to using "retard" as a slur, as if 4chan is a role model.
Becoming competitive when joining a new company (2024)
No one has even tried to do it properly: It would have to be constant, highly parallel (locally running:non pay-per-use) simulations going on the background, with feedback from new constantly changing user input and some kind of new reward detection about it converging on something worth suggesting.

These loops and simulations have to be happening at multiple levels of abstraction all at the same time, not even sure how that would work or coordinate properly, and thus: never gonna happen
I'd have to login again for the first time in over a decade to do that. I probably should be I have better things to do than figure out my password.
> made me take a photo of myself and of my passport

I'm not sure how this has become the go-to method for every site that needs person verification, and it's kinda terrifying because you just know they keep all of it stored somewhere forever with half assed security and the whole DB will get leaked sooner or later like it always is, leading to so much identity theft it's not even funny. The only camera that should ever get to see anyone's passport is the border police scanner.

And I'm sure they say they delete all of it after verification, and then probably laugh about it afterwards if anyone believes that bullshit.
This helps no one. What a disgrace.
If the self evaluation makes it better, then why not do the self evaluation as part of the normal RAG workflow?
Codeberg appears to be under a DDoS attack
Nice. I use one in the chrome store called News Feed Eradicator. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/news-feed-eradicato...
Are you? Does anyone find a job with LinkedIn? They were sort of heading in that direction for a while, but don't seem to be anymore.
""Arthur succeeded in getting it to run, but eventually got drowned in device drivers."

heh
From your description, you created from another country? Perhaps non-western?

I am not familiar with their internals but am assuming they deal with spam/scams and you are an unfortunate casualty.
What do you use to define “practical purpose”? There’s a saying that “science is necessary, but art is the reason why we live.”

If you dig deep enough, subjective experience is what we’re often trying to improve. Both science and art contribute to that.
https://jacobin.com/2023/03/cross-dressing-law-united-states...

> Anti-cross-dressing laws were the exclusive province of local governments, and no state or federal legislature directly outlawed this type of dress. Several states did, however, pass anti-disguise or masquerade laws that encompassed cross-dressing when enforced. In 1845, for example, New York’s state legislature passed an anti-disguise law that made it a crime to appear in public with a painted face or when wearing a disguise designed to prevent identification. Passed in response to rural workers who wore women’s dresses and masks while participating in anti-rent protests, the law was later used to criminalize a wide range of cross-dressing practices.

> Similarly, in 1874, California’s state legislature passed a masquerade law in response to gambling saloon dealers who wore disguises to avoid identification by undercover police. As with New York’s anti-disguise statute, local police repurposed California’s masquerade law to arrest multiple people for public cross-dressing over the next one hundred years.
No i disagree X.com is the worst, was the other guy on this sub and I think you are correct on the whole point is the people that have a right and the people that do have the ability and ability are not necessarily people that have a responsibility.
The comment you originally responded to never implied that NYSE was good (at least by my reading). Just that crime would noticably increase if regulations were decreased in this instance. In other words, a worsening of the status quo.

Perhaps you didn't intend it but your original reply reads as though your "question" is actually an assertion about his position and that you disagree with it. AKA a strawman.
The big-ticket items in the Federal budget are the military, old-age pensions, and medical spending; everything else is pretty much a rounding error. All three of those categories are rife with multi-billion dollar waste and fraud, but have powerful bipartisan political armor. I am looking forward to seeing what happens when Doge grasps one of these third rails.
I can’t think of anything I’d want to add to the context for Elm at least, assuming the standard libraries are already in the model (or can be added via RAG). Gemeni is 2m tokens now and I expect this will grow at least until it’s no longer meaningful.
You forgot to add this:

"Agree?"
>the claim from Fedora is

Who cares what they claim? Flatpak was invented specifically to route around finger wagging distro maintainers.

Fedora has OBS in their native repos. They can go apply all their opinions to that copy. And if they're as right as they think they are, I'm sure upstream will be happy to take their patches for inclusion in the next flathub release.
not an ada issue
Could there be a different smell or air-flow coming from one side versus the others?

My apartment building has identical elevator lobbies. I thought my dog was smart by not leaving the elevator on seemingly identical incorrect floors. But actually I think she just knows what home smells like.
That's what a VPN is for. Every router I've had in the past decade has had support for running a VPN server so you can have one running 24/7 without any additional hardware. Even my retired elderly parents run a VPN server on their home router.
The most obvious example is the "Three Article Rule" that enforced that you must wear at least 3 articles of clothing that "match" your assigned sex at birth. These were easy rules for police to use to justify arresting people. I'm sure others more in the know can provide similar laws and ordinances that affected trans and cross dressing people.
LI has to be among the worst social media. The amount of constant self aggrandizing and obviously fabricated stories is insane(cue 'that homeless man was my boss!' memes).

That said, it's not completely valueless. I keep it around to see what old coworkers are up to these days(career wise). I've also gotten a job from a recruiter who found me there. I'm guessing one or both of those are the only reasons anyone keeps it around. The content is pretty bad.
:(

Tbh I have my money on "prison slave labor" more than "death camps," at least for now, but trying to choose between those is like asking if you'd rather get mauled by a lion or a bear.

(Love the username, btw. Hench 4 life!)
Indeed, that sounds like an obvious feature. Hard to believe it hasn't been implemented! I'd love to have that feature on Linux desktop/laptops. I think you could make lots of applications behave a whole lot better.
Sure. But having the legal right to do something doesn't mean that you should do it, only that you are allowed to do it.
i personaly find firmware in a fighter jet a little more impressive
I don't think Ukraine would be the only country to suffer a nuclear strike if Russia were to launch one.
Exactly what is happening now..

"he sought to polarize public opinion and the political parties with incendiary news stories, some of them Fabrikationen—entirely fabricated articles intended to cause confusion and outrage. According to one such story, the government was enslaving German teenagers and selling them to its allies in order to service its war debt. Hugenberg calculated that by hollowing out the political center, political consensus would become impossible and the democratic system would collapse."
The data sets are way too small, the biggest one (silesia/mozilla) is just 50mb.
Assertions made without any evidence. Again.
that's cool. thanks. any chance you could open the changes you made?
I think you are missing the entire point of this. It's not that it had sensitive data or anything of importance. It is that a .gov domain under the command of the self proclaimed Mr. Efficiency and smartest person of Earth about servers and car manufacturing was wide open for script kiddies to deface and access data from. It is a show of hypocrisy and how cutting corners like Dr. Emerald Mine Child here wants will shape the rest of this administration.
If you didn't vote I count you as agreeing without whatever. If you disagree vote. If you don't like the major candidates vote for a third party.
The sad irony is that this was said at the begginning of our covid response.
$500,000 to empower women in Israel? An NEA grant to North Macedonia? An attempt to treat queer mental health by reducing stigma? Who’s against these things? The only thing I see funky is the $3 million supposedly spent to defund police, which obviously didn’t work that well because spending more is not defunding.
Looks nice, but that extension is a high-value acquisition target for bad actors, and there's nothing but an email for contact information.

Sideloading eliminates this risk completely.
Saying goodbye to FFmpegKit
FFMpegKit at https://github.com/arthenica/ffmpeg-kit is discontinued by the author