skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>My point is what Mr. Bloody Dictator is doing is just plain dumb. Even for some super fans of Putin who completely ignore tens of thousands civillians Russia killed in Ukraine, millions of refugees, etc.

It's not "dumb". The Russian National Security establishment considers a NATO-integrated Ukraine[1] as an Existential Threat. Their cost-benefit analysis is working with different criteria than what you are including in your value assessment.

> Russia demography was abysmal long before COVID due to pre-WW2 and WW2 ripple effects. And during this invasion country lost like ~500,000 man dead or severely crippled and probably twice that amount to migration.

Yeah, Russia's demographics are fucked and I don't think they are doing enough to fix that. But you are leaving out some relevant data: https://unric.org/en/ukraine-over-6-million-refugees-spread-... There's roughly 1 million Ukrainian refugees who relocated into Russia. I don't know the breakdown, how many of those are able-bodied working age men or fertile women, but the point is the math isn't as clear-cut negative as you are presenting.

> Basically in a few years country efficiently lost like 3-5% of it's working populaton with another 5-10% moved to produce "munitions" or something that will rot till next big war. Anyone who try to sell this as economy growth is a moron.

Y = C + I + G is one of the most foundational equations in Introductory Macroeconomics. G = government spending...including stuff like bombs and tanks that sit in storage for decades. Arguing that military spending does not contribute to economic growth is just tilting at windmills.

Here's some reading to support this:

National Bureau of Economic Research: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w15496/w154...
During World War II and the Korean War, real GDP grew by about half the amount of the increase in government purchases. With allowance for other factors holding back GDP growth during those wars, the multiplier linking government purchases to GDP may be in the range of 0.7 to 1.0

LeMonde: https://archive.is/UK1MM#selection-2013.256-2017.478
To pay bonuses and salaries, the state spends "between 1,500 and 2,000 billion rubles a year." As a result of the considerable sums spent on the war economy and the payment of contract workers, a largely consumption-led growth has emerged. Gross domestic product jumped 4% year-on-year in the second quarter, according to a preliminary estimate by Rosstat, the Federal Statistics Service, published on August 9. Unemployment is at an all-time low of 2.6%. Based on these macroeconomic parameters, the World Bank placed Russia on its list of "high-income" countries in July.

[1] https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-president-signs-constitution...
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So now you know, misreading, misunderstanding and misinterpretation are common causes of perplexity.
It doesn't endanger any future legal cases to post stats from the database. Governments have done such audits before and it never caused any issues for prosecution of specific cases.

What we're discussing here is a bunch of tweets, not a legal case put before a judge. Musk is often throwing around the word fraud to mean something like "we were told the money would be spent on wells in Africa but it's actually being given to newspapers" and similar things which probably wouldn't be considered fraud in a courtroom, but people know what he means.

I'm happy to double check specific claims, but I'm not sure what you're uncertain about. You're arguing that if you discover fraud you have to continuing giving the fraudsters money until the guy finally shows up in court? Or is found guilty? I don't quite know how or why I'd double check that because that's not how the law works and it would be silly if it did.
Got some questions (sorry for necro, but I only discovered this thread by accident because I left it open in a tab and it turns out to be super-relevant to me):

I have some out-of-print books that I want to convert into nice pdf's/epubs (like, reference-quality)

1) I don't mind destroying the binding to get the best quality. Any idea how I do so?

2) I have a multipage double-sided scanner (fujitsu scansnap). would this be sufficient to do the scan portion?

3) Is there anything that determines the font of the book text and reproduces that somehow? and that deals with things like bold and italic and applies that either as markdown output or what have you?

4) how do you de-paginate the raw text to reflow into (say) an epub or pdf format that will paginate based on the output device (page size/layout) specification?
It's true that prison is an industry in America, but it's also true that only a small minority of prisoners are held in private prisons; about 8% of federal and state prisoners are in private prisons.
Yes, right libertarians often oppose right authoritarianism, but that doesn't transform support or opposition to right authoritarianism to something that has no left/right valence.
You've found a way to correctly anticipate new user needs and new technologies years, even decades, in advance?

And you've found a way to completely forestall the non-technical demands that force non-ideal design choices?

You're sitting on a gold mine friend.
Second System Syndrome! :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
Thanks, I hadn't seen that. Would seem like a pretty open-and-shut 1A issue to me. So much government censorship these days.
I don’t think there was any dig implied. And I will second that it will add to self esteem. Specially during discussions if you have more understanding about the code you will have both better contribution and take away
There is zero proof that what was quoted is actually cause for any payouts. The examples you cite are likely not similar at all.
I did it. There’s always things that went wrong. But I found the way to minimize it.
You can create a SaaS with fully private data on the client side while using both local operations and managing control via API calls.

Think of it like a mobile app, but for the browser.
Are not super storms raging for hundreds of years on Jupiter? What we can observe from earth are mostly giant exoplanets, not unlike Jupiter. Thus, I expect "normal" exoplanets are more like Mars and Venus. And who know, some could be very much earth-like!
Imposter syndrome is fueled by colleague deification.

It's easy to view smart coworkers as superpeople... until you're reminded that they, on occasion, make dumb human mistakes too.
The DOGE engineers are government employees, right? We normally know names, etc of government employees, so they weren't doxxed.

This is different: the person in question isn't a government employee. It's also pretty clearly done to intimidate the judge, which is really not good.

You also left out that doxxing someone, anyone is bad. All you're doing here is saying that DOGE and Musk don't have any moral agency, they can't hold themselves to morality, all they can do is respond, tit for tat.
I've often thought about how likely it is there are intelligent and sentient civilizations that are content to their planet, or bounded to it by - as you mentioned - physiological constraints. I never connected that to "you probably need hands or something very closely approximating a hand" but it makes perfect sense.
> that is making an assumption that the dynamics of an entire system could be thrown into reverse

No, that's not an assumption, that's a mathematical feature of all known laws of physics. An it's not that "the dynamics could be thrown into reverse", it's that for every initial state, there is a corresponding initial state where the system runs in reverse, and hence, for every state from which entropy increases there is a corresponding state where it decreases. For a Newtonian system, it's a state where all the velocities have opposite sign. (For quantum systems it's a little trickier to describe.) So if you choose a state uniformly at random from among all possible states, the odds that you will end up with one where entropy is increasing is exactly 50%.

And it gets even worse than that. In a universe that obeys certain conservation laws (which as far as we can tell ours does) a time-reversible dynamic is unitary, which is to say, there is a one-to-one correspondence between an initial state and its successors. Therefore, for any initial state, the time evolution of that state must eventually loop back to its initial state [1], and so it must eventually enter an entropy-reducing state to get there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theor...
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I'm referring to the widespread meme (that predates this use of the word meme) that is prevalent in the USA. It is so frequently repeated in some form, it is practically an article of faith. Notably, it is a major component of Donald Trump's messaging since he became a right-wing political figure.

Quote marks are frequently used to delimit text for purposes other than direct attribution to a speaker.
tell me you don't have ADHD without telling me you don't have ADHD
Reddit mods are fighting to keep AI slop off subreddits. They could use help
How a Senior engineer effectively onboards at a new job
Legacy projects are great! If you don't have any current critical time pressures, you've now got yourself a beautiful puzzle to slowly unfold and understand. If you've got things like git blame annotations turned on you can read commit messages, see past pull requests and really start to get a feel for the people who worked on the project previously and understand how their minds work.

The biggest challenge is of course trying to prevent those feelings becoming contempt, rage and resentment as you see the same mistake repeated over and over again by one person who should know better while they make funny little comments in their commit messages while writing bugs that end up causing data corruption a year down the line.

The trick is mindfulness meditation and definitely not going to LinkedIn, printing out a copy of their face and then ripping it up while screaming.
what happened to "do things that don't scale"?
But this is exactly my point and you don't even realize it, you think a billionaire helping mitigate climate change or colonizing Mars is a good thing and not political. You don't realize that what you described is exactly what I mean by "liberal oligarchy".

You don't mind if a billionaire is "helping" humanity. What I'm saying is that a billionaire doing anything grand like that AT ALL, IS oligarchy, it is not the billionaires who should mitigate climate change or do space exploration, it is all of us, collectively, through public funding, steered by a representative democracy, that should do these things, not singular private individual billionaires like Musk or Gates.
And of course once you trust them on localhost, you expose yourself to some risk, since the whole world can get a copy of the key.
> about free speech, except it was trying to fight bots, hate speech

> about free speech

> fight hate speech

Do you realize how absurd you sound?
yeah, ive heard not having a home was illegal of sorts in the Soviet Union, meaning eviction was illegal or something equivolent.

I know what you mean by police state, but i wonder why america doesn’t consider themselves a police state, with such a large prison population and all the innocuous behaviors that can land you in legal trouble. i guess americans get indoctrinated in a certain way of thinking, where their subset of freedoms which they can mostly practice, makes them think they are free but ignore all the numerous other penalized behaviors. for example: i cant possess cocaine regardless if it wont be consumed as a drug, cant drink in public, cant lay down in public, cant sleep in public(ny), etc etc. a lot of intermediary stuff gets penalized because its the only way to control some tangentially related detrimental behavior, or its penalized for making people feel odd (nudity).

but more on point: america polices property taxes. Any property owned gets taxed automatically. this creates a forced work state to accumulate money to pay Uncle Sam. Failure to comply with this system and you get policed or pushed around as a homeless. David Graeber talks about Madagascar colonies set up with a similar system (underline) intentionally(/u) to produce a productive populace. similarly he mentions ways monarchies created rules and systems to force markets and force productivity elsewhere. I think homelessness circumstances is by design, and this free nonpolice state we call america is actually an artificial created police state. we can choose different governing setups that have different features emergent and by design. Its what Mao attempted to do, its what the French and British monarch did. But i see the coercive force in all the government setups even the ones that claim to be free.
Stopped using X when Elon took over, and then finally deleted my account (which I had had for many years, was an early adopter of Twitter before it was highly popular) when Elon went full MAGA-nazi. No regrets.
Your car will come to a stop on it's own when there's no electrical power left. ICE cars can run with a dead battery only as long as the alternator is working and producing electrical power.

When your alternator dies, the car runs until the battery is dead, and then the whole car stops.

Much older vehicles could run without electrical power but now with electronically-controlled engines you've gotta have electrical power.
Of course it is. You claim that it’s impossible for San Francisco to satiate demand. That implies that it’s functionally infinite seeing as it’s currently less dense than Brooklyn or the north side of Chicago - dense places but not quite Manhattan or Manila.
Oh. Ye sorry about that. I'll use more e and less a next time.
Strategies for Learning from Failure (2011)
We can't afford to police the whole world. NATO expansionism is one of the causes of the latest conflict in Ukraine.

It's not clear to me that unwinding our interventionism around the world is going to make the world more stable. But it is clear to me that we can't afford to keep doing it. China is eating our lunch and they have about 3x as many people as we do. Neither Europe nor the US are producing much, and the entire West is in massive debt. Do you seriously think we can win the inevitable war with China? We can't even defeat Russia in Ukraine, and China would fight much dirtier than Russia. It's time to get real, restructure our debts, and rebuild our own country.
Should we use ElasticSearch or vector databases for a catalog search function in 2025?
https://archive.ph/2oGRo
Better on every axis: security, performance, resource consumption, reliability, verification, documentation...

Code is a pure liability that you accept to get a useful service.
> Engineering isn't about working on the most interesting problems. It's about getting stuff done and management happy

Truth is harsh, however this seems to be 100% accurate for nearly all cases of employment. Rarely do you get to focus on simply interesting problems and good engineering as a primary concern
It's a very interesting experience working in a large codebase that's a few years old while we're in the middle of trying to dramatically rearchitect everything because we realized the old way of doing things was creating tons of technical debt and confusing abstraction. Even worse, we're always trying to optimize things because we've got some soft real-time requirements and we're using about 50% of our entire time budget after we upgraded our bare metal servers to Zen4 (it was more like 70% before that). Every fix turns something else into the long pole that needs to be rebuilt with the lessons we've learned about writing clear, concise, high performance code.

As it turns out, if you're operating on large data in bulk you should probably just have a dense ID map and then do everything in arrays. Nothing beats arrays :)
What about if you worked on legacy work but using AI?
But in the 1990s, militaries like West Germany, Canada, etc remained competitive and helped balance the load.

There's no reason Germany (and in reality it's only Germany that's the laggard) can't rebuild their conventional fighting capacities to help load balance again.

It's just German instraginence because of their fanatical opposition to deficits that is hampering their ability to do so.

> increase risk of nuclear war without NATO (Japan, South Korea, Europe, etc would acquire nukes without USA guarantees)

As I wrote below, that is highly unlikely in much of Europe, as most European states (except the UK and France) lack the capabilities to develop credible nuclear delivery systems like ballistic missiles or nuclear submarines.
> Is this a deliberate performance tradeoff, benefitting code with lots of thread_locals and starting threads constantly, with each thread using few of the thread_locals, and some thread_locals having slow constructors? But such code isn't great to begin with?

Actually, thread globals only being used in some threads is probably the common case. Remember that threads are not only created by the main executable but often also by libraries. Keeping per-thread overhead low until the TLS variables are actually needed sounds like a good design goal.

> funtrace sidesteps the TLS constructor problem by interposing pthread_create, and initializing its thread_locals in its pthread_create wrapper

Sounds extremely fragile. What if someone calls clone() directly or another (possibly new) function to create a thread.
Note that some Linux distros provide their own versions of vimrc that overrides the upstream default settings. Note also that newer Vim versions come with a "defaults.vim" that you can load if you want, containing arguably sensible inoffensive defaults; if you or your distro loaded that, it might contain hlsearch as well.
It would still require congressional approval after 60 days, unless Al Qaida suddenly showed up in Greenland. Despite congress being majority R, I just don’t see them playing along with this.

Trump says these things to get a rise out of people. He’s fueled by reaction. You can’t tell if he’s ever being serious, and I doubt even he knows if he’s being serious most of the time. Getting enraged by his actions is his goal, and he’s very good at playing his opponents into blunders this way. Best to not play along.
My dream job wouldn't be for a company that uses personality tests in the first place. Their use is a red flag.
This is explicitly not what they were saying. They explicitly wrote in their comment that you are replying to that this is not what they were saying.
The prison industry isn't limited to private prisons; there is substantial private industry financial interest in the operation of the public prisons, as well, whether its providing services to a literally captive market, benefiting from prison labor, etc.
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Has said many a manager who thinks developers are fungible.
if you've built up respect at the company and speak your mind regarding the maintenance vulnerability, the new crew should pay attention. if they don't, then you're screwed anyway, but so is the company.

source: endured this while working at a startup that was bought out by SFDC. Kept my principles, but lost the job. /shrug
> They declared that the DOGE stuff is official presidential records and thus not subject to FOIA.

which is pretty absurd and you would need to have a really corrupt court IMHO for this to hold up
That's insightful! Especially the part about "all the ghosts they had to fight along the way."
Good advice, now I’m going to have to figure out the office printer, and find my linkedin account…
I think war on drugs only works on the user side anyhow. The edge in game theory is always to the smuggler not the inspector after all.

Anecdotally during covid la metro cut a ton of staff, including security, and people started smoking meth and crack and fent in the station platforms openly. It was disturbing and made the few of us still riding the system then feel very unsafe and complain to metro leadership and the press. As a result they hired more staff to arrest and kick these people out and ridership constantly improves. I haven’t seen someone smoke from a glass pipe on metro station property in probably years now, going from seeing it at one point or another basically every workday.
So, this will be seeing Russians even during the night and behind the trees?

(And soon, the Chinese drones on attack through European cities will be able to hunt civilians 24/7?)
Measuring water on my rice cooker means putting the inner bowl of the cooker under the tap, opening the tap and then closing the tap when the water reaches the correct line etched inside the bowl.
v6 is not inherently privacy busting.

It's just an IP. Worry about browser cookies and phone apps sending tracking IDs, not the randomized and non-persistent IPs they're sending them from.
You mean one spot available to pay for, right? Not a free one :-)
Outside of making something - it’s very useful for setting up a quick project.

Stackblitz did this with Node (aka their Web Containers).

You could make a new project very quickly and prototype an idea. When finished, download it off the browser and deploy it.
My question is why is time and money being spend on researching this, as opposed to something like its long term effects on the brain or what happens when it’s use stopped. Sure this finding is a fun thing that might be lumped into a psychiatrist’s spiel, but is there any utility for this research?

I certainly hope that someone at risk for sepsis wouldn’t be prescribed an antidepressant to treat it, or that someone already on it wouldn’t be prescribed an antibiotic anyway. Even as an adjunct for sepsis I would be highly skeptical of its practicality. Perhaps the research may provide insights into mechanisms that future drugs may be designed to exploit, but even that seems like a stretch as a justification.
Sure, but if there's anything I've learned from working on legacy software, it's that I don't know why the code was written the way it was. I'm not the only smart person to work on a codebase, and it's more common that another smart person did what they did for a reason, than that I'm a genius who knows better than they did.
> which software ages like fine wine and which ages more like milk

Now I'm curious. What software has aged well? What software hasn't? Do certain types or categories of software tend to age better or worse?
> Private "or identifying information" that seems to fit to me...

I don't see how, honestly. That would make for an incredibly loose and meaningless definition. If I post "Donald J. Trump lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500", is that doxxing? Its identifying information.

We could get into semantics but at the end of the day, doxxing shouldn't be something treated lightly. If we start considering too many things as doxxing, nobody will take it seriously.
I played brass instruments in middle school. It was a lot of fun starting at the trumpet and working up to a tuba.

I remember the first time as an adult seeing other people invent new instruments and it was a bit of a mind bender for me. All of the instruments I had been exposed to in band had just sorta always existed for me, so people inventing new instruments was something totally unexpected.

It must take a very interesting mind to envision a sound and embark on a journey to make an instrument that actually functions.