skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this really hypocrisy?

I think our intelligence agencies have a self-consistent worldview, they are on one side, the other guys are an another side, and they are trying to beat the other side, so they try to gather intelligence while not letting the other side gather intelligence.

Like, in a war, one would never say “you keep shooting at me, but when I try to shoot back, you take cover—hypocrisy!” It’s just the nature of competition to try and make advantage for yourself.

(I happen to disagree with this worldview, not because it is hypocritical but because I think it is still bad to violate your own citizens privacy even if you have a good excuse).
And the only better experience than "working on a greenfield project long enough to watch it become legacy and see the good and bad consequences of past decisions" is working on a second greenfield project long enough to see that drastically overcompensating for all the bad things from the first one is not the right solution either :)
We've had 2 military coups in Brazil that immediately implemented a constitutional government and called elections. (One was against an autocratic constitutional monarchy... go figure... but it was on the direction of more democracy so it counts.)

In a total of 5 military coups if I'm not forgetting any...

I have a theory, that the military are only interested enough on democracy after they come back from fighting against some dictatorship. Otherwise they are bad news.
As an embedded engineer in a new position I always volunteer to take up an old crusty legacy product that nobody else wants to touch. It's a quick education into how the company approaches projects and all the ghosts they had to fight along the way. All the business logic is there, and sometimes it's even documented.

And once you have a semblance of knowledge about how the thing works and how to make fixes, you've built a small moat around your career there.
It’s often useful to meet individually with each person before the presentation too, especially those people who are likely to throw up roadblocks. Ideally everyone is in agreement before the meeting, and the final decision is essentially a formality.
If China can publicly declare that they are not going to follow the treaties around the handover of Hong Kong, why should anyone respect their bizarre claims over Taiwan or Tibet or Xinjiang? The official position of America and the EU should be to support the independence of all these regions. It is the only stance that makes sense for free and democratic countries.
> Humans aren’t in the loop for automated bans.

My point is that this _shouldn't_ have been purely automated, but having fewer people to review things forces more things to be automated.
> If you're silent with the intent of remaining hidden, then that behavior must have been learned. Either you evolved from a prey type of species, or a non-apex predator.

Or you learned it in a non-evolutionary way, through logical reasoning.
Before creating “eGod”, it’s safer to first create “eHeaven”. I propose building direct-democratic multiversal static place intelligence (you can google it): the static place AI, the place of eventual all-knowing, where we are the only agents that will eventually become all-powerful. We start with making a digital copy of Earth and some ideally wireless brain-computer-interfaces, everyone who wants can buy a special armchair for their living room and go to the simulated planet with the whole experience the same as on our planet, but when a bus hits you there, you just open your eyes. So it gives you immortality from injuries. And of course there will be may other worlds with different freedoms, like flying or doing magic or instant teleportation in public places…
I'd understand selling if you feel a company will under perform, but to sell because of "governance" is just silly. I would wager there is no company that would truly meet their "governance" standards if they looked into them. META is up over 100% YTD and GOOG has slightly outperformed SP500 YTD.
... Where are you going to get the Bitcoin without a job.
But you are not stopping preferential treatment due to race, you advertise for it.
> I think everyone whining about it is losing their minds over nothing

I agree. It is doable for individual European states to rebuild their conventional fighting capabilities.

France has been a proponent of this kind of "strategic autonomy" for decades, and so has the UK to a certain extent.

Most of the angst is coming from Germany, who let the Bundeswehr degrade from being one of the most capable Armed Forces in Europe in 1990 to what it is today.
Philosophers have coined the term P-zombies. LLMs can be considered as P-zombies if they do not possess consciousness. Functionally equivalent but no soul. Substance Dualism was used by philosophers to deny animals consciousness.
> As far as design goes, color palettes can be extremely difficult to choose while maintaining good scores on color contrast and other accessibility measures. A standardized palette is useful because it does all that work for you. Having these 3 options to choose from is pretty nice since I often reach for OC or TW palettes but often find them lacking in hues I want.

I think it's easier than it looks with the right tooling. You could try my UI color palette creator (you can can customise every shade, so it's not a generator as such):

https://www.inclusivecolors.com/

It checks the contrast values against a live UI mockup so you get help knowing the contrast scores are good, and what the colors look like together.

I thought the same before, but feel with the right tooling like this, color palette design goes from extremely difficult (e.g. bouncing between multiple tools manually checking contrast between pairs and if colors look good to together) to much more manageable.

E.g. if you mostly want Tailwind but with a few different hues, you can try loading Tailwind from the "Example" menu, shift some of the hue curves, then tweak the saturation curves, and it'll have the same WCAG contrast guarantees (because it's using a "perceptually uniform" color space).

I use this tool myself for making custom branded palettes for projects, rather than picking from Tailwind colors that are seen often now.
(Also not sunshowers)

For me, the important metric here is the intersection of two things: number of concepts, and power. I moved from svn to git relatively early in Git’s life; I started using GitHub in 2008. I’ve loved git for a long time.

jj has the ability to do everything git can, but has fewer primitives that are factored better. This means it is easier to use, while still retaining the ability to do anything.

I don’t know if that’s 10x, but it’s good enough for me that I’m never using git again.
So the Public Town Square with Freedom of Speech has become the most censored, and private social network out there?
So the COMEX is selling metals which they do not possess now? I thought the whole point is that COMEX coupons were backed by physical goods which you could actually cash out if you wanted?

Otherwise you are just betting on paper.
Heh we had simultaneous protests by Trump supporters in 2020 to both “Stop the count!” and “Count the votes!” to either stop or continue counting mail-in ballots in different states. Among his ardent supporters, there is no truth except force.
> So you know what this move is fixing to do.

Do you?

Because, historically speaking, when companies make use of technology to improve productivity, it's not always (or even usually) to reduce headcount.

It's very often to dedicate more resources to more productive tasks. If journalists can offload a bunch of grunt work, they can write more actual higher-quality journalism.k

The entire history of economic progress is about making it possible for employees do more, not merely doing the same with less employees.
If you don't "discriminate for the greater good" (your phrasing, not mine) and you are part of the dominant group who benefits from not doing so then you also elevate yourself above others. That is not a morally superior choice.

Personally I do take that step back. I would consider myself a violent person if I did not. I look around and I see my peers choosing not to work towards dismantling the systems that privelege themselves and I consider their inaction a form of violence against people who are already struggling. I am not American so I can't speak for the culture there but in my society there is a general acceptance of using collective power to limit the violence of individuals, and even more so when there is such an evident power disparity.
Where China's Exports Begin: Inside the Vast Markets of Guangzhou
Which countries have solved it, and how? I'm genuinely curious.
What kind of data was it, of I may ask?

Graph databases have a very narrow usecase, and it's almost always in relation to people - at least ime.

Though the data type isn't really important for the performance question, the amount of data selected is. So a 6-level depth graph of connections that only connect 2-3 entities would never get into performance issues. You'd be able to go way beyond that too with such a narrow window. (3 entity Connections on 6 level join would come out to I believe ~750 rows)

If you're modeling something like movies instead, with >10 actors per production you're looking at millions of rows.
Yeah it's kind of a bummer that with all the awesome ways games have evolved in the past 20 years or so, they've also picked up really bad habits along the way.

For a refreshing alternative, check out Astro Bot if you have a Playstation. All of the wow-factor of modern state-of-the-art gaming with none of the microtransaction, over-stuffed clutter bs.

I do hope that we see more like TXR too -- classic gameplay (hard to stomach PS2 as classic but here we are) with modern technology capability.

It seems like we've been seeing that in the indie space for a while with all of the pixel-y 16-bit style games. I think we're going to start seeing a lot more PS2-era style retro games and I can't wait.
There is of course a connection between individual and aggregate effects (consider voting) and certainly the aggregate effects have been very bad lately.

But I think it's bad for your mental health to lose perspective about it. It all adds up, but it's 99.999% other people doing the adding, and unless you're in the right position to use leverage, you are mostly an observer of national and global events.

This means that morally, you don't need to feel responsible for big stuff like that - unless you see a way to end up in a position where you have that kind of leverage.

Using big, negative events as justification to scold random nearby individuals is mostly just making your local community more unpleasant.

Example: I do encourage people to vote, but I'm not going to worry about one voter more or less.
Additionally, the data is comparable to the census [1] which suggests there is not a lack of data context or translation from DB date format to actual date/age.

Then again, these are just posts of screenshots on a site filled with AI-generated content.

[1] https://x.com/jonatanpallesen/status/1891406665242546383
https://archive.ph/7L8Xf
Copyleft licenses like the GPL don't place any limits or price on using the software, only on distribution - and the limits there are pretty reasonable and merely ensure the software stays usable for others with the same lack of limits in the future.
ProtonVPN: Site Blocking Is an Attack on Users' Online Freedom
Yes. It was called a city directory and salespeople would frequently own them. My dad’s also had listings of every street, showing the people living at each address.
It is hard to imagine a nation without this sort of thing to some degree without a total police state. These are issues with poor living in apartments in Europe too you know; a tragedy of the commons situation as the community shoulders the burden of those of it that have vice or mental illness that the government authority doesn’t effectively treat because this class is invisible in local mass media.
"Sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from negligence"

FTFY :)
Quick Google search says 1.6 trillion will be paid this year.
Legacy 12 year old? Try 40 - 45 year old code.

Back when people mandated an 80 character line width because their CRT monitors only had so much resolution
> Although I am a bit perturbed that there is still such a huge problem with drugs when the economy is booming and unemployment so low. It points to deeper problems within the fabric of American society.

I think you’re coming at this from the wrong angle. A lot of people just really like drugs (and alcohol) and it has nothing to do with society getting them down. Surely there are plenty of people abusing substances as a coping mechanism but I think there are likely a lot more who just want to have a good time.
Yep, Adams is terrible.

To everyone who lives in NYC, remember that there is a primary in June. We can minimize how long this asshole is in power.
I can’t believe I didn’t make the connection—both of those games are in my top 10. A big part of why I love them is how deeply immersive their worlds are. Dunwall and City 17 don’t just look great; they feel alive, with atmosphere, detail, and storytelling woven into every corner. No other game has quite captured that same level of immersion.
xTXT is a text generation and manipulation tool. it can generate text by various methods like markov chains, context free grammars, L-Systems and character based methods. It also features browser based language models.
source is also available on github. see the info button in the app for the link.
I agree that January 6 was a riot.
Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought
It's not just about Trump though. I jumped ship the second Musk pushed the change to increase the weight of tweets made by a paying account. Also the first thing he did when he took over was cut the entire a11y team. Then he login-walled Twitter and broke the API. Reddit communities went crazy when the Reddit team paywalled their own API.

There's an incredibly long list of reasons to ditch x beyond musk's political activity
Also worth mentioning... even if you're trying to do "ordinary conversation" on the internet, someone is going to come in and steer it to competitive.

I think that captures what keeps me off social media.

I enjoy a good ordinary conversation with my friends and aquaintences, but social media won't let you have that. Every post, no matter how unserious and innocuous, is a valid target for competition or outright abuse/taunting/mocking/shaming/threatening, which I suppose Aristotle didn't encounter often enough to put on his list.
Hk, a new Git hook manager
Glad you are OK. I am not your internist (/IANAL disclaimer) and I usually don't comment in HN medical threads as weird opinions here, but reading HN taking a break from my work, I'll say generally unless you have some reason like a recent dental procedure to have gotten it depending on your age I'd ask to get a (non urgent) colonoscopy or at least MR enterography or at least consideration of it with a reason why not with someone who knows the particulars of your case and can give you real medical advice.

CT has limited ability to pick up GI malignancy that can lead to translocation of bacteria from colon. If you had something like an autoimmune colitis that lead to translocation you would need to get treated and not all have preceding symptoms.
I've only ever been on the ground floor which was "fine" but obviously doesn't expose you to a lot of the various quirks. Well, other than the outside features they had to redo.

One thing that does annoy me is that a lot of the expense was justified as it being a new landmark Northeast entrance to campus but that's really been overshadowed by some of the new massive construction like Koch.
Elon Musk is a liar with zero credibility. All his claims about government "inefficiency" are lies used to make people like you OK with him shutting down agencies he doesn't like.
I’m sure there’s room for both.
rbp/r13 are there because the funky way x86 encodes ModR/M means that they get a "+ 0" forced onto them, i.e. [rbp + rax*8] actually must be [rbp + rax*8 + 0] and as such behaves like a 3-operand lea. (same for [rbp] → [rbp+0] but that's irrelevant here as that's still two-operand)
Yep!

There is no teacher quite like cause and effect.
It's getting harder. Calibre + DeDRM doesn't work on all kindle books, especially some of the newer formats.
The finnish approach isn’t on the same scale as the number of homeless people in the US and is hard to apply.
And the only better experience than that is killing a new greenfield project before it gets to production because the old software was good enough and the problems were organizational in how the software was being used.
The total of COMEX deliveries in the last 2 months is almost 500 tonnes:

https://www.bullionstar.com/blogs/bullionstar/gold-silver-sh...

It seems the deliveries for Feb are now approaching 200 tonnes:

https://x.com/TFMetals/status/1889708073930919967

P.S. Gold is just under $100k/kg (~= 1 BTC :) So 1 tonne is ~$100m.

https://www.apmex.com/gold-price/1-kg-gold-price

P.P.S. The original JPM delivery of $4bn mentioned above is ~40 tonnes share of the 93 tonnes (3m troy oz).
No, I don't think that the demand to live in San Francisco ever has been or ever will be "infinite." I also don't think that's a relevant question.
Meta Says It'll Tattle to Trump If EU Keeps Being Mean
Meta Says It’ll Tattle to Trump If EU Keeps Being Mean | Global Affairs lead Joel Kaplan suggested Meta is being discriminated against.
He didn't get fired for saying chatgpt is better than grok 3. He was fired for breaching confidential information which is performance of grok 3.
Twitter is barely breaking even because Musk's stupid policies have chased away a lot of advertisers.
> Elon Musk Accused of Doxxing After Reposting Judge John McConnell’s Daughter’s Job on X

For re-posting a post that has a screenshot of a public linkedin profile?

I'm not a fan of trying to ruin lives over petty political disputes but this is hardly "doxxing." Does that word even mean anything anymore? Just the other week people were saying the "DOGE kids" were "doxxed" and it was the same thing. Posting a public linkedin profile.
Yes I agree. Of course it's impossible to tell from the story but given the choice of "this story is totally true" and "actually he's an awkward character to deal with and doesn't know it or doesn't want to admit it"... well I've known more of those people than I have managers this bad, so I wouldn't place that bet.
This is missing out on considerations re. tls-model=local-dynamic and visibility; making variables non-preemptible by declaring them static or visibility("hidden"/"internal") significantly reduces TLS cost.

https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/tls.pdf is the go-to reference for TLS models, cf. first paragraph of each subsection of section 4.
That rule does have a lot of potential for abuse if not used right. A common way is "the decision is that we need to have another meeting about this later".
for those who don't know, Fluoxetine is the generic name of Prozac.
First you have to fly the gold to Switzerland to a refiner and melt the London 400oz bars into COMEX 100oz bars.

New bars get new stamps, serial numbers, etc. It’s a spot where illegal gold can (doesn’t have to) be introduced.

Once you melted London 400oz bars into COMEX 100oz bars, then you fly them to New York.

This process in itself can inflate the COMEX price by the cost of delivery which is folded back into the forward price. When dealing with futures contracts it is important to know that the price is almost always localized based on the cost of delivery. There isn’t one unique global price of gold.
China is not much of an adversary. They have basically one overseas territory claim, and it's Taiwan. Other than that they're still less of a threat than Russia.
Meetings like the one described are mainly for managers. It's easy for an IC who doesn't care what other people are doing to feel like it's a waste of time. But if you pay attention, you might find that multiple people have the same problem, know tips for each other, or else become aware of work that overlaps. Sometimes there is none of that and it's just a time for the manager to find out where the budget is going versus some overly technical ticket descriptions. In summary, meetings aren't all about you, junior programmer. If you're bored then try to do something else in that time.
A lot of drugs and efforts to treat sepsis/SIRS with inflammation have fizzled in trial. Tocilizumab, JAK inhibitors, and particaularly dexamethasone with its low NNT in COVID were interesting ones and suggest there is something to it but a complicated issue.
I’m glad to hear they were helpful! David Goggins two books are great as well, and probably in line with your current themes. Can’t Hurt Me and Never Finished. Highly recommend the audiobooks for those too.
I think GP is talking about something like this [0]. You let it call __tls_get_addr() once in a constructor, take the offset from %fs, store it in a static variable, and use that offset directly. (The static variable doesn't need to be atomic, since it's only written to once, at dlopen() time.)

[0] https://godbolt.org/z/o6se3je8v
For decades, a certain set of neoreactionaries have called me a radical leftist. Usually because I would note their ideas miss all kinds of unintended consequences.

Hilariously, I was early in the tea party stuff until it was clearly coopted by the Ted Cruz types.

I've consistently been a centrist libertarian for decades. If a person feels I am a radical leftist, I am confident they are working from a skewed worldview.

We have had a social contract since the 1930s to take care of each other through taxes. Like it or hate it, to change this requires the legislature. Current gutting is based on executive action, lawlessly, capturing rents, quashing regulatory enforcement for a certain Mr. Musk and buddies, and otherwise capturing the function of the state and government, to the benefit of cronies. This is antithetical to liberty and freedom.
Same here. My first job was “take this spaghetti mess and make it better”. It was an old crusty Perl CGI codebase without any framework and a ton of bad decisions.
It's the "everyone I don't agree with is a literal nazi" mindset.
Musk is using DOGE to shut down agencies he doesn't like. The dude likes firing people WAY too much.
As well as other costs. That we default to global visibility is another one of the ossified defaults the article mentions. One of the first things I look at when trying to improve the performance of a C++ project is its linking setup --- most of the time, people are using the terrible ELF defaults and paying in code size and execution time for something they don't need.
That's too specific a message, with too much nuance, to try and get to the general public. When trust in science is going down, its going down as a whole.
yeah, funky how 20 years later the UTM (Urchin Tracking Module) query param is still the defacto standard tracking tag.
I unironically like working on legacy projects. It's good to know it stood the test of time and my efforts spent on it won't be wasted, because it is unlikely to be dropped.

Of course this assumes there is a way to introduce improvements at all. Just keeping the lights on isn't as satisfying.
If one embraces rational intervals throughout, they can be the computational foundation and the ux could have the option of displaying the interval for the complete truth or, to gain an intuitive sense, pick a number in the interval to display, such as the median or mediant. Presumably this would be a a user choice in any given context.
If we believe the stories of old, even this country used to have this solved.