skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He came damn close in his first term. I remember watching the Twitter video on June 1, 2020 - see the video: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/watch-helicopters-hover-low-ov... to see how low the helicopters were flying and the rotor wash was clearly intended to intimidate the protesters.

https://warontherocks.com/2020/10/let-the-generals-speak-ret...

> In May 2020, protests emerged in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd by a white police officer, as well as other incidents of police brutality against African Americans. In these protests there was in some cases significant property destruction and looting. In response, more than 20 states and the District of Columbia activated the National Guard to assist in stabilizing the situation.

> By June 1 Trump was reportedly ready to send 10,000 regular military troops to the streets — forces usually used in external conflict. He threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would have allowed him to deploy the troops without the governors’ permission. Active-duty troops were brought to the Washington, D.C., area, including some from the immediate response force brigade of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. For a few days it looked like Trump might send in the troops, precipitating the retired officer commentary detailed below. Ultimately the president did not invoke the Insurrection Act and the troops were sent home.

It wasn't just Trump: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protes...

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2020/10/helicopters-over-d...

https://media.defense.gov/2021/May/27/2002730396/-1/-1/1/DOD...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/soldiers-disciplined-helicop...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230607212142/https://casebook....

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-06-0...
Steph's theme is super appealing on the eyes as well.
Wow, post after post of rhetorical, bad faith bullshit. Amazing.
This is needlessly cynical. The hero isn't toxic. The narrative of an individual effort in lieu of calling out the systemic issue is what's toxic. I don't see any way she could have better spent her energy contributing to systemic change whereas by doing what she does she literally improves the lives of others.

Favoring narratives of individual heroes over narratives of systemic changes is a cultural problem. Whether it's Atlas Shrugged, the Odyssey or Harry Potter. It instills a learned helplessness and an artificial desire for a "strong man fix things" that can be very difficult to overcome. But it also atomizes and fractures society and benefits those with the most individual wealth and power.

The ranger is a hero. What she is doing is good. But she shouldn't have to do it. And nobody should have to do so much. The article intentionally buries its lede: if this is what it takes to save one person, how can we save thousands? The implied answer is again helplessness: of course this isn't scalable so we can't. What she is doing is too much for one person, so we can't expect it of others. But the real answer is that literally none of this would be necessary if the system were actually built to help these people.

Her work does not require a herculean effort because it is difficult. It requires so much effort because it is being made difficult. The right question isn't how can we scale this, the right question is how can we make it easy enough that we don't need her to be a hero. The question of scalability answers itself once you've removed the obstacles.
> So I hope you are correct (or, more importantly, that your opinion is shared by decision makers)

Yep. I'm basing my stance on Poland's current defense strategy [0][1].

Furthermore, Poland's on track to outcompete Russia in rocket artillery and tanks, so it has day 1 capabilities that are comparable to a tactical nuclear strike minus the cost.

> No, because it's not symmetric

Yep. It isn't symmetric, but it doesn't matter, because crossing the nuclear launch threshold is enough to justify retaliatory strikes and counter-strikes - which is something a state which lacks a second strike or nuclear triad cannot deter against.

And the Kargil War in 1999 was proof enough that two states having nuclear weapons capabilities alone cannot deter a war.

[0] - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10736700.2020.1...

[1] - https://www.iiss.org/globalassets/media-library---content--m...
Personally, I don't know any working-class people who can afford a Tesla, let alone a space launch vehicle.
I’ve heard great things about the fun-loving culture of the programming team at a certain radiotherapy vendor...
I wonder why they grouped languages from the Middle East and South Asia together. Arabic and Hebrew are Semitic languages - no language from that family tree is native to the subcontinent. It would make sense if northern languages like Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Nepali, etc were grouped with Persian, French, Russian, etc since those are all from the Indo-European family. South Indian languages like Telugu and Tamil are from a completely different family (Dravidian).

Why not either train the model exclusively on Semitic languages for further performance for those languages or on a wider set of languages for better multilingual performance overall? I don't understand the logic here.
yay

I'm coming to suspect that the stuff used to formulate sodas, and other things regulated as foods, are nearly indistinguishable from Schedule IV/V and for all intensive porpoises, they comprise a Schedule VI of "let them eat cakes and drink ale".

Eventually there will be a Red Bull Prozac Edition and Caffeine will be smuggled over international borders: Mark My Words!!
They're referencing the e-reader line of Kindles running a custom locked down OS (Kindle Paperwhite/Basic/Scribe/Colorsoft)
Then maybe the easy solution to this whole issue is to just give the homeless free cars.
take note of the last 20 years. special military operation.
The leaders of the American military love the constitution, and one relatively small thing on it is gun rights.
have you considered dialysis and chemotherapy, or space tourism
Free speech absolutists, am I right?
> Society changes, and stores of value need to exist outside that change

I completely agree. I don't think this is different from saying the store of value needs to stay liquid tho. Bitcoin is currently very illiquid compared to many things, but there's no reason to think it's liquidity will decrease, and based on trends and first principles of what makes something a good 'money', significant reason to believe liquidity will continue to increase
Show HN: I made a desktop dithering app
Don't sugar coat it, there must be problems with Texas too.
Is there anything you like to do without being prompted by someone else? Something you have to take an active part of? That's the thing you're searching for. It's the act of doing that gives happiness and the fact that you've done something that give satisfaction. I don't think of it as authentic self or whatever. It's just something that I can do and I enjoy doing. It's not supposed to be objectively meaningful.
I believe COMEX changed their delivery standards 5 years ago to include LBMA 400oz bars, using a mechanism called 'ACE':

https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/metals/precious/faq-gold-en...

Every wriggle of the weasel needs a good 3-letter acronym. Perhaps they knew what might happen :)
mypy and pyright have been out for so long, and they're in a pretty usable state. Ignoring to use them leads to buggy code that shows its ugly head as unhandled rare conditions begin to manifest themselves. The compounding effects of these unhandled rare conditions ultimately ends the project when the lead subject matter expert exits the team.
You are correct about businesses, but very confused about Web3.

I am saying that Web3 should be used by existing celebrities to monetize their existing fame and social capital, sell unsold seats, etc.

I am saying that existing organizations, communities, including entire cities, can benefit from having a decentralized system powered by smart contracts, rather than a random FinTech that posts a surety bond, powering their commerce at scale.

Yes, shares don't necessarily entitle people to dividends, but the point is that the shareholders want to extract rents from the ecosystem, forever. And this is a problem, that doesn't exist when you have utility tokens and cut out the parasitic shareholder class completely.
> This has nothing to do with BRICS or people de-risking from dollars.

I think it indicates Americans are derisking. Buying gold and taking delivery could be a vote of no-confidence in both dollars and paper-gold.
When I did shareware, I did have some pretty dedicated beta testers who were good sources of input. It wasn't the money--heck, they payed me something like $15. But, yeah, I agree in general. If you're a business the feedback of paying customers is pretty much what matters.
Step-Audio-Chat: a 132B end-to-end speech-to-speech model
From the comment I replied to (emphasis mine):

> At work we have a new team that's making us measure all the contrasts for *people with reading difficulties*
The best code is the code that doesn't exist.
It's the traditional spelling. You'll see it in the British Isles, and on some old buildings here in Canada.
Yeah, as the other commentator mentioned, it practically just means he won't be entering any other competitions until April. He'll probably cover >1000 miles in training over that period :)
Show HN: Kartoffels – Cellular Automata, Statistics, 32-bit RISC-V
Bernie Sanders won against Trump in h2h polls in 2016 and 2020, quite strongly. Booker was on his was to something similar. Even 2008 Obama campaigned left of Clinton (we made the correct choice as far as an electoral victory goes, then, if not necessarily policy-wise).

These are realities that the DNC won't face because it threatens their donors. SF is a bad example as a region on a neoliberal stranglehold that is only nominally leftist, but much more concerned with money. The political machine there is adept at crushing upstarts. Nancy Pelosi had a serious challenger several years ago; she refused to debate him, and bad actors with Pelosi connections torpedoed his efforts with specious harrasment campaigns.

Which is all to say that the DNC and its local arms go out of their way to actively scuttle anything that doesn't have their seal of approval. Hope in SF, Kentucky, and elsewhere is not a function of progressive electoral capability, but of establishment Democrats' willingness to play fair or dirty.
So, for you, Putin was a kinda-benevolent dictator until 2022? Did you miss a bunch of news?
Which book is being read in that screenshot? Looks interesting. I did a few searches based on the text and couldn't find it.
Depends on your definition of interesting?

I find improving established code of far more interest and reward than greenfield. Coming to understand what a person was thinking while building something is fascinating. My updates are tangible life improvements to real human beings. That interests me, at least.

Greenfield, I have the incredibly stressful job of making all the major architectural mistakes people will complain about for years to come. I'm not interested in that. There's also a much higher chance with greenfield that the product will just fail and no one will enjoy your work.
does everyone hate it? maybe I found my niche then because it’s actually pretty fun because you get to hack it up and come up with creative solutions, it’s like Indiana Jones exploring for lost artifacts, with all the perils
Yeah this is my fear -- when we remove birthright citizenship, then suddenly you have to prove that your bloodline back to the Nth degree were citizens, or you have to prove yourself by some other way. So if someone or some group disagrees with what he is doing, he can simply add a requirement for citizenship that they can't meet and then they're not citizens.

The whole point of birthright citizenship is to create a clear, unambiguous means of testing if someone is a citizen so that people cannot be disenfranchised easily even by a hostile executive. If you can produce a birth certificate, you are a citizen end of discussion. As someone who disagrees with what is happening, my biggest fear is that myself, my son, or my family could be declared "not a citizen" and forcibly removed to some other country where we are also not citizens under a new system. This is not a good thing for the US.
I started out with a similar position, but so far everything I've heard out of DOGE is either:

1. Misrepresenting congressionally approved expenditures he royally disapproves of as "fraud"

2. Misleading, under-researched, unsupported statistics as "waste"

The longer this goes on, the more impressed I am with our government. I had no idea it would be this hard to find anything legitimate to attack.
We recently migrated from Matomo to Umami at work after hitting scaling issues with Matomo, even after implementing various MySQL optimizations and archiving reports through cron at a decent interval. Even the most basic tasks like loading the dashboard was painfully slow (before you comment on the resource usage, our instances were quite huge and the load was alright).

Surprisingly, Umami has been handling our traffic volume without breaking a sweat on much smaller instances. I suspect PostgreSQL's superior handling of concurrent writes plays a big role here compared to MySQL/MariaDB. Except for the team/user management, everything feels much nicer on Umami.

Shameless plug: As part of the migration, I also took the opportunity to learn some Rust by writing a small utility that uses the Umami API to generate daily/weekly analytics reports and sends them via email[1]. Pretty happy with how it turned out, though I'm still learning Rust so any feedback or suggestions for improvement are welcome!

[1]: https://github.com/Thunderbottom/umami-alerts
I think you're correct: Compile shouldn't be an issue, it's usually things from the standard JDK being removed.

A recent example is JAXB classes/APIs being removed from SDK into their own lib jars.

If the legacy system uses some arcane build system I could see this being an issue.
Approach/Departure is SCT (SoCal Tracon), ZLA is Los Angeles Center (en route/ARTCC). While there'll be more traffic, it's still spread out across a bunch of sectors that are each typically their own feed.
The biggest problem with the term "Free Speech" is that almost everyone makes exceptions for things that they believe should be restricted/censored.

Therefore the only standard should be the legality of that speech in a particular country. In the US those things you put as exemptions are permitted. So pre-musk Twitter wasn't about free-speech as those exemptions are restrictions on speech that are greater than US law restricts (which isn't much tbh).

Generally you have a trade off on any of these platforms between what you can say without breaking terms of service and the popularity of that platform. Generally less popular platforms are less restrictive.

If you don't want your speech restricted, you should probably just go back to hosting your blog and using a mailing list.
Stand Up Meetings Be Like
there was a related comment by the president about the legitimacy of some of the bonds the treasury was paying interest on[1], which might add to this uncertainty.

it could be related to his common tactic of creating strategic uncertainty, but this one was oddly specific. most heads of state refrain from commenting on default risk as the 'bond vigilantes' who lend their treasury money by buying their bonds are essential to their ability to fund government and govern.

the risk of course is that there are trillions in derivatives stacked on top of any so-called "illigitimate" debt, which creates a kind of mexican stand-off where defaulting on those bonds causes systemic liquidity problems elsewhere in the system that will require policy intervention to recover from it, hence it is never a priority to touch it. That's a sci-fi interpretation, and any actual practitioner in finance (I am not one) might call that irresponsible speculation so ymmv.

but still, maybe it's a political play. a certain set of asset managers is orchestrating political problems around the world and the only way to dislodge them is to do something unthinkable. Even if he doesn't, how big are you willing to bet he won't? That hesitation is the essence of this president's strategy. Very interesting times.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/bond-traders-wav...
No one said that arbitration isn't desirable, when there is a problem.

It's like saying doctors and medicine are desirable once a medical condition arises. But sometimes, preventative medicine and eating right in the first place is better.

An once of prevention is better than a pound of cure.

Web3 can prevent a whole class of problems that normally would require after-the-fact arbitration to fix. It's better to just have existing systems. Like for example having red lights at intersections, where everyone knows when it's their turn to move.

You understand that software can automate things. That's good. Now you have to understand that web3 is nothing but software which is decentralized and byzantine fault tolerant, so you can trust that the code is being executed correctly. This is the massive improvement over code that runs inside some server farm and can be switched up anytime.

It's weird arguing that no, we would rather have databases where certain people have the key to subtly corrupt the entire database, and then we can catch them and try to recover from this corruption using litigation. That's what MtGox was.
I just stood up a new toy project (excepted traffic is next to nothing but I still want to be able to tell) and was just thinking I needed something like this. Thanks!
I experimented with this training to reduce ADHD symptoms and for self improvement.
It was years ago.
Experimented with many techniques before getting medicated.

Quit ADHD medication after experiencing side effects.

The future is probably BCIs for increasing performance.
I recognize the reference because of the tool. I remember the name because it's simple. The flavor itself is irrelevant in my thought process.
From iPad back to Mac after 8 years
Terms of Service say otherwise. Until the ads came in, users absolutely had a "right" to access YouTube's services for free. I'm sorry that you misspoke.
I'm not misunderstanding anything, lol, this whole subthread is pretty wild though. Nobody introduced young benefit claimants anywhere into the discussion.

Original comment:

Which of these scenarios is more likely: The government is paying claims for people who are 150 years old [or sentinel values]

Followed by a claim that Musk's young employees have argued for "the former" i.e. that the government is paying claims for people who are 150 years old. Nobody is 150 years old, so we know it's not the first scenario. Moreover nobody - not Musk and not anyone working for him - has claimed that such people exist or they're receiving money. The claim has always been from the start that the data quality is very low and a possible reason for this (or effect of this) is fraud.

Also, sentinel values aren't the correct answer, as established by Musk himself in a followup. The argument that these guys don't understand the basics of databases was always extremely unlikely and was indeed proven false within hours.
I don't know how to express it correctly. But yes, sort of. I didn't work in high-load-kafka-like companies, so I'm kind of stuck in my mid level company types that do relatively simple things.
I always tend to say: "Everybody learns better from their own mistakes, but if you are empathic you can also learn from other people's mistakes".

The latter is less costly and only requires you "only" to open your eyes and look at projects that are in an ugly state the right way. Yet surprisingly few people are capable of looking at someone elses fucked up project and not going all like: "Hah! Idiots! I would never have made that decision".

Maybe however that crusty piece of code used a framework that — back in the day — was the hottest, trendiest piece of technology out there and you are currently in the process of committing similar sins, and you won't know it till it is too late.

For me adminstration of Linux servers has been an invaluable source of inspiration. You are directly and 100 percent exposed to the effects of software aging in a changing environment. And you directly wittness which software ages like fine wine and which ages more like milk.
Is anyone old enough to remember when Google was an aspirational place to work? They had the best engineers and were doing the best stuff, and people spoke their name with awe. Now it's just Microsoft with a salad bar.
I have the feeling that I’ve mostly worked in legacy projects. What does it say about me?
Mojo has an interesting mix of things to investigate.
Julia is also interesting things that make CUDA/GPU programming easier than Python or C++.
> This is great because I am a huge believer that the immune system is at the core of many, if not all, mood disorders and maybe they will start looking at immunoneurology to start finally curing mood disorders.

Christ, please stop talking about science if your approach is going to be "I'm a huge believer in this hypothesis so any research which supports that hypothesis is great". We don't need more lunacy in science discourse.

"The immune system is at the core of some mood disorders" is a reasonable hypothesis which is quite possibly true, given what we know. It certainly warrants more research, but I haven't seen anything conclusive enough to justify being "a huge believer".

"The immune system is at the core of all mood disorders" is an actually bad hypothesis which untestable.

> For example, we know that stress effects the immune system by lowering T Cells, and we know that stress makes people depressed, so would it not follow that lower T Cells makes people depressed? (T Cells make IL10)

No, that does not follow. You're literally describing an A -> B, A -> C situation, which does not imply that B -> C. This is very, very basic causality reasoning you're screwing up here.

Less confidence/arrogance/belief and more "maybe" and "possibly" would do you well here.
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/index.php?page=installation

> These are NOT bootable cds, they install the distribution (over 250 applications and libraries) on an existing Darwin system.

I see.

Also, since their CVS links are broken, to save you the trouble here are the CVS/modules or the rsync instructions to rescue the whole thing https://gnu-darwin.cvs.sourceforge.net/
Creating a thread is already very expensive, in a sane program your ten TLS constructors shouldn't come even close to the amount of bookkeeping that the kernel has to do to spin up a new thread.

Also creating a thread, doing little work and exiting immediately is a bad use of threads -- I don't think that everyone using thread_local should be punished to better support poorly written programs. Most threads are long-running and most programs spin up a bunch of worker threads at initialization time, I'd argue variable access time is way more important than thread startup time.
Isn't using VsCode for a non-Microsoft language going to be difficult

Python is pretty close to a 'Microsoft language' these days. They've hired several Python core developers to make sure windows is first class citizen for python and the developing python on windows and with VSCode is as good an experience as possible. They also develop the official VS Code Python extension and language server as well as many other python tools and extensions.

I'd say the current state-of-the-art is either VSCode with the Microsoft python extensions or Jetbrain's PyCharm. Personally I slightly prefer PyCharm Pro, but it's pretty much a toss up.