skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That one is such a clear, obvious case of corruption. I wish more people were screaming it from the rooftops. I've told a number of people about it IRL and it's shocking how few know. But I guess that's part of the "flood the zone" tactic of the fascists.

For those who haven't been following along, here's the highlights.

Adams did some corrupt shit, like really obviously corrupt. Foreign sources made gift offers. Advisors said "no, the mayor definitely doesn't want those gifts because that would be highly inappropriate and illegal." The mayor's office said "actually, we would love those gifts please continue!" All of this is well documented; yes, they took notes on a criminal conspiracy. Naturally, this resulted in criminal charges. Adams screams political persecution because that's what corrupt politicians do when they're caught.

Trump takes office, and this creates an opportunity for further corruption. Adams and Trump make a deal. Adams will facilitate anything Trump wants to do in NYC vis a vis immigration (which may include tactics of questionable legality), Trump's DOJ will drop the charges.

DOJ lawyers who were in the meetings discussing this arrangement were told not to take notes. Hm. Then DOJ leadership directs the lawyers assigned to the case to file a dismissal. They burn through 7 DOJ lawyers who resign rather than sign a dismissal.

The dismissal was eventually signed by Emil Bove, who had been recently appointed to the #2 position in the DOJ by Trump. Bove's previous role was as one of Trump's criminal defense lawyers.

Absolutely fucking corrupt.
My comment was simply in direct relation to the poster's comment about trustworthiness of government.

But as to your assertion of "illegally terminated," let me provide some context.

Not a single lawsuit has provided evidence of damages under law. One of the TROs has been shot down outright. This is key, as the judiciary requires law to be violated to intervene. They are not an HR department, and there are existing remedies for this in the administration. No such violations warranting legal action outside of the existing system have been shown.

Not only this, they went district "judge shopping" on a Friday night, two hours prior to close. Many of these judges are now being shown with extremely inflammatory political rhetoric showing bias, and one will have articles of impeachment drawn.

The circumstances surrounding this judicial action are so unprecedented, that when the Administration appealed showing evidence of fraud and illegal behavior, they "asked" the judge if they should allow it. The point of this is to show the frivolity of the suit: not only does the judiciary not determine Executive Power under Article II, they're asking the judge if the judge should take executive action to break the law.

While law is subject to interpretation, it is not clear (and I do not believe) these employees are being terminated illegally, the least of which is they have yet to describe the legal circumstances under which their termination is unlawful. Unlike common wisdom, the federal judiciary is not-coequal with the Legislature and the Executive; the Supreme Court is. Article III specifies that federal courts called "inferior" courts are subject to the leisure of Congress. These courts have been disbanded twice in history and do not hold the power that popular culture thinks they do.
with all the cameras in the world, this one managed to grab a clip in clean non pixelated high def?!?!

I call AI shenanigans.. Now, all those UFO clips in low def and terrible pexelation, THOSE are real!

/S
You really don't have to wait even a single second if you use an ad blocker. I can recommend uBlock Origin.
I remember listening to HL2 in-game commentary from the game devs. One that stuck to me was something along the lines "It really pains me that we put so much effort in all these connecting hallways and the players just run past them at mach 3 speeds, but you got to do it anyway otherwise the hallway looks out of place" (paraphrasing, not direct quote)
No, it IS about illegal immigrants. Claiming everyone supporting center/right/conservative values is automatically anti-gay is just wrong and toxic.
> offering Newport City Council more than $70 million to dig up the site

What are the odds a HDD would be still be readable after being left outdoors for 12 years?
Okay but 1) arbitration is often desirable, which is why these systems allow it, and 2) traditional software can automate just about anything web3 can if you have the same degree of coordination among counterparties
I think that is mostly because the perpetrators are often in a different country than victims.
There is no global law or enforcement of rules, but the internet is global.
That is a fundamental mismatch in my eyes.
Some free speech is more free than some free speech. /s
I got a Kindle (moving on from an absolutely ancient rooted Nook) purely because the Oasis looked so nice

I'll never get a Kindle again because I was blown away by how impossible it was to repair (plus the closed system really sucks). Mine broke for no reason at all a bit ago; my best guess is the battery started to swell inside it and that broke the screen.
Got a Forma super cheap ($25!) and I've been super happy with it, feels a bit cheaper but it's actually got some level of grip. Have read more on it in a month than I did on my Kindle in the last 3 years.

Haven't even dabbled into the custom tools stuff much but it all sounds great. Might get a cheap secondary one to play with, can become an (outdated) offline Wikipedia reader if nothing else.
That's right: https://news.cornell.edu/sites/chronicle.cornell/files/Bethe...
That case would stay in history. However, there are so many threats and vulnerabilities that could lead to data loss nowadays: https://gitprotect.io/devops-threats-unwrapped.html
More like six?
That still doesn’t make the math add up. Is saving .68% in federal spending a win especially with the proposed budget causing more deficit spending?
What you describe is the entrance to their esophagus. That's why although the kayaker found himself in whale's mouth, the animal could not swallow him and had to spit him out.
They seem to be hitting all their long term goals pretty well. Makes me wonder whether it is time to learn Mandarin
> Oh right, it's the year of the fully autonomous car! Or was it last year? Or 2016?

Just because CEOs have been hyping this tech up to raise valuations doesn't mean it will never happen. They said the same about landing rockets - now, it's a regular thing.

It's pretty clear that driverless is coming - exact timeline is unclear. Whether in 3 years, 5 years, or a decade, but it's coming.
> I think simplistic statements "government should not spend money it doesn't have" or "government should stop spending so much money" are all just the normal average person's way of trying to phrase this fundamental economic truth that anyone with a working brain can intuit.

There Is Always a Well-Known Solution to Every Human Problem—Neat, Plausible, and Wrong

> It's also obvious to anyone, that just like eating too many calories, it's much eadier to overspend than to underspend.

You accidentally came up with the best possible illustration for the topic, and it's a really good illustration that actually goes against your argument:

- If you eat too much, you'll get fat and unhealthy.

- If you eat too little, you'll die from starvation.

And you're right, it's exactly the same for government spending: if the government spends too much, it's not good, but if it's spends too little the economy's dead.
Register allocation is a form of value analysis, while managing caches like you suggest is a form of pointer analysis which is 100 times harder. One huge problem is aliasing. It is in general very difficult to tell whether X[i] and Y[j] are distinct memory locations. So the compiler has to err on the side of caution and assume that X[i] overwrites Y[j] and vice versa. The C99 "restrict" keyword and modern improvements in language semantics help (like forbidding pointer arithmetic), but doesn't completely eliminate aliasing. You also have pointer indirection, e.g., X[Y[Z[j]]], making the analysis even harder.

In other words, state-of-the-art compilers can beat 99.9% of all developers on register allocation, but they can't beat a developer who manages cache memory explicitly.
> My Python and Go apps from 2018 still work exactly as they did on day one

My NodeJS apps from 2014 still work exactly as they did on day one as well, what's your fucking point?
Percona MySQL (i.e. Galera), ProxySQL, keepalived, the flavour of orchestration that is most compatible with your production environment and team.

Make sure you up ulimit and systemd LimitNOFILE in the MySQL service config. Read docs closely, preferably bring on someone who's spent some time making mistakes in this area to help out, test diligently before putting into production, including load tests.
Yeah, I should just go ahead and get a Yubikey already. Thanks for taking the time to answer.
I meant "flat" as in not potholed to fuck, the roads where I am are completely destroyed

I actually live in a fairly hilly area, per 100 km I would expect to do at least 1,000 m elevation
Shocking that battery didn't work after a year. I still use my Kindle 3 from 2010; it still holds weeks of standby charge, days worth of reading.
What worries me is that neither of those are mentioned to have taken place.

And if they had I would expect more detailed 'proof' than the single simplest SQL query one could think of.

Or actually I wouldn't expect any public statements at all. Scoring quick political points is nowhere near worth endangering the legal cases. Which could not be anywhere close to even identifying the alleged fraudsters in such a short amount of time.

You seem quite happy to find reasons for something you expected to be true. Like I was happy to know he made a silly mistake with epochs.

Excited by this I quickly tried and unfortunately succeeded to falsify that information. Could you do me a favour and try the same with your read of events?
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.” ― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

Elon's proclamation that he is fighting "them" (deep state/democrats/...) has turned around and he is the same now. He is the USAID-ish funding for his cause. The cause could be different but the tools are the same, albeit in different names.
I found it helpful to have that one line summary without following the link.

Upvoted because it provide more context, not because I agree these are good reason.
This is true throughout the React universe. React itself does almost nothing useful. In order to build an app that does anything, you need routing, state management, API connections, etc. etc. Reactland is all just a grab bag of random half-maintained unofficial libraries that sort of work with each other.

Compared to Angular or Vue, it's the wild west. I don't understand why anyone puts up with it.
Javascript: please stop using it. Period.
XML: please stop using it. Period Period Period.
There is still much about the ocean we do not know.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceano...
It is a whole lot more complicated than a Simpsons joke. While it is still pretty much completely unwarranted, French bashing has been a thing that started way earlier in history. Check this Reddit thread for a well documented summary : https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/vmkpr1/when_...
> Twitter's content policy is more permissive now than it was pre-aquisition, with only narrow exceptions (e.g. doxxing is now banned).

Part of the problem is that the “content policy” keeps differing from practice. Does sharing Signal links violate the policy?
The footage is in the article.
Thats a very egoistical point of view - every ex-passenger of the titanic was for a moment part of a beautiful ecological bloom on the ocean floor. DeCaprio was the best crab human-carpaccio
On the one hand it makes spam more difficult on the other hand it makes breaking into someones most personal accounts way more simple, just have to convince the phone carrier customer support and then you get into the Apple account and all their other passwords.
My old kindle is a Kindle 3 from 2010, and it's still my primary e-ink reader. I still haven't found a compelling reason to upgrade.
If you take USAID « revelations » by Musk at face value, you are… rather misled.

The very behavior of DOGE looks like kids unleashed in a factory they don’t understand, willing not to recognize their capacities are adequate to understand it in so little time.

There were knowledgeable people, they’ve been fired.

You wouldn’t accept it for a flying plane pilot or a surgeon in the surgery room, why would you accept it for state agencies?
Ok, lets get some things straight.

Musk has /claimed/ (repeatedly) that he is a free speech absolutist, and by extension that twitter is as well.

This is false: https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-24/under-el...

I'm not clear on how you're defining edge cases here, and regardless, it doesnt matter.

"Sorry officer, those murders back there were just a few edge cases! I've publicly pledged to a murder free life!"

I see very few in this thread pretending anything
Isn't there a common theme though whether authoritarian or democracy? That's the tension between those in charge who think they know better ( and may well do ) and the populace.

In my mind, the failure on the democracy side has been the rise and rise of managing the message, and the fall of free speaking politicians - modern political comms is positively Orwellian - in part in response to the overwearning power for certain media groups to run a negative campaign to get what they want. Politicians were cowed.

If you look back at historic TV footage of politicians from 50 years ago - the level, subtlety and honesty of debate is much better.

Not sure how you fix it - the money+internet allows anybody to try and control the democratic process - but part of it has to be politicians being braver in speech and deed.

In speech, for example, Bernie Sanders didn't shy away from owning the word socialist - when he first came to prominence it was used as an unthinking label that the media thought should instantly disqualify him - but instead he took the opportunity to re-define it.

In deed - rather than clamp down on the voices of the many, the government should be looking to curtail the power of the few - Elon Musk is currently dismantling government and while I'm sure there is lots to fix, the reason democratic governments and laws exist is to challenge and constrain the power of the few ( every one is equal before the law ).
Broadcom reportedly investigates acquiring Intel's chip design biz
A couple of journalists broke Twitters rule on doxxing, and were briefly suspended.

Wikipedia cops a lot of criticism for being politically biased. The fact it has a whole article around this seems to support that.
It's been a very messy experiment - he is limited politically in what he can actually do. As as result it's going to be hard to draw firm conclusions about Austrian economics.
MongoDB earns $1.7b a year in revenue.

A whole lot of people have already taken that advice.
Tell me about this democracy where laws don't ultimately require physical coercion for their enforcement.
To be completely fair, Android also allows having multiple sims and phone numbers on a single phone. I've never heard of people sharing a device without sharing the number, but it's possible.
> My naive expectation was that Musk is mostly interested in enriching and aggrandizing himself, and that a crusade against some social group is only interesting as long as it serves the primary interests.

Difference without distinction in this case. The left actually polices its luminaries to some degree (not perfectly but still) which makes it incompatible with the grifter class Musk is chief president of. He’s never going to drift leftward because we’re not going to metaphorically suck his balls because he promotes basic human decency. Figures like him only go rightward.

As for if he bought twitter explicitly to make it a greater hotbed for racism, I think you’d have a hard time proving it in court, but at the same time, he’s unbanned a lot of prominent alt-right figure heads, and boosted tons of their tweets to the financial detriment of the platform. Can’t say he bought it to do that but the huge drops in value because of it hasn’t deterred him so…
Imagine if crypto proponents were tasked like this with remaking the monetary systems, without having a real clue why it currently is how it is. It could be interesting and even work, but more likely than not it will just repeat the errors of the past and would be tweaked again and again until it resembles something similar to what it is now, with massive fallout in the meantime.
The current cabinet were chosen precisely because they will not stand up to the dear leader and will pull whatever levers they are asked. It’s an absolute shit show and we will all suffer.

The worst part: the people who voted for him will never connect the dots with their own actions.
ipv6 has this bullshit smell. bullshit, because it has this fucking useless naming convention (it's not for humans...) and overly complicated. like it was invented to muddle things about the internet, to raise the bar to understand it and hence coerce control. it resembles something that is not man made or deliberately made to be hard to use.
Which is ironic because historically the Scotts and the French were teamed up against the English. They swapped a lot of royalty.
Very well explained to a lay person.

Are PINNs the current state of the art in ML methods for solving PDEs? What are their limitations?
I think it is increasingly clear that Europe, Canada, the UK, and other Western liberal democracies are laying the groundwork for a new strategic direction, one where the United States is no longer viewed as a dependable superpower or a guaranteed partner.

This does not mean the US will be written off entirely, at least not in the foreseeable future. However, the era in which the US could dictate the global agenda, particularly in Europe, appears to be coming to an end. A recent example is the US Vice President’s speech in Germany, followed by meetings with the AfD rather than the German Chancellor - an unmistakable signal that Washington no longer prioritizes its European allies in the same way.

A similar shift may be seen in the area of technology. Reliance on American tech companies and investments is likely to decrease, with governments and businesses seeking alternatives. Even China could play a role in this transition, despite the security risks it presents. Economic growth depends on global trade, and many nations may be unwilling to let US protectionism dictate their technological and economic choices.

It is an unexpected turn, but in hindsight, one we could have seen coming. The transformation of the US Republican Party, coupled with growing public support for politicians who embrace extreme rhetoric, reject objective facts, and show little respect for science or democratic principles, has reshaped the country’s global standing. Many of these figures claim to uphold democracy but, from an outside perspective, promote an increasingly authoritarian vision through their policies and rhetoric.

Ultimately, it is up to the American people to choose their government and shape their society. However, the US has become increasingly unstable and polarized, straying from both common sense and the ideals of a liberal democracy. As this internal turmoil continues, it is no surprise that its traditional allies are beginning to seek a future less dependent on American leadership.
Why are you browsing the web without an ad blocker?
And yet, here you are, complaining about people complaining.
> Has the rest of the democratic world been making plans to reduce reliance on the US since the first Trump administration?

Plans were already being drafted before Trump won the election, given his strong polling, but bureaucracy makes things move a little slow. I think it has united EU countries who understand that this over-reliance on the US can be problematic given how quickly policies can shift, and will lead to a stronger EU.

The NATO framework is there and all countries part of it can keep following it to work together even without the US, and regardless of the memes, EU countries have a very advanced arsenal and lots of trained military personnel - with Russia struggling against one country, it's hard to believe they can ever make a move against 27 EU states, especially due to historical bad blood between many of them and Russia, which only serve to amplify the desire to stand up against them.

> Will this term be the end of the craziness or is this the end of the US as a super power?

I think it's a correction we've been due for a while, especially with the rise in extremist parties in recent years all across the world. Whether things will reseat themselves smoothly or whether we'll be in for a rough ride, it's hard to say.

If the current trend keeps going in the next few years with the US becoming more isolationist, I think it will be almost impossible for them to comeback to being a superpower even with a future president that wants to do a 180, as it takes more than nukes to be a superpower.
> > full electric versions are only around 10% to 15% heavier than their direct ICE equivalent.

The actual range quoted in the table at that link is 11%-17%.

> > A comparable ICE car the BMW 3 series 1570Kg - 1965Kg

Interesting that one "ICE" car can vary in weight by over 25%, or almost 400kg.

Maybe it's because that weight "range" isn't really for that ICE car. The low end of the range is suspiciously close to the 1590kg figure for the BMW 320i, an actual ICE car: https://www.bmw.co.nz/en/all-models/3-series/bmw-3-series-se...

While the upper end of the range is suspiciously close to the 1910kg of the BMW 330e -- a plug-in hybrid: https://www.bmw.co.nz/en/all-models/3-series/bmw-3-series-se...

I guess both sides can astroturf.
I was wondering what other services could be glued onto the deal.

Wondering about this I had several horrifying thoughts. Somewhat palletable seems to add a hosting account with a subdomain so that one can share conversations and other ai creations, upload other things and use them for future reference. That way visitors can adjust to the content being machine generated.
> anti-Semites have a pretty loud and public voice in the "Western" world

So do Jews. So are we seeing full free speech in action? Or is whats right decided by which side people agree with?
> verifying that the "COBOL defaults to random date in 1875" thing is true

I never claimed it to be true. I did not claim it was proof of fraud, I did not claim it was incompetence, I did not claim it was the deep state.
Maybe it was a mistake?
BBS Ads: Getting the Word Out (2013)
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-...

From 2014, continuing The Onion's streak of clear eyed reporting

> After Obama Victory, Shrieking White-Hot Sphere Of Pure Rage Early GOP Front-Runner For 2016

> Sources say the screaming orb might be the only potential candidate that would tap into Republicans’ deep-seated, seething fury after this election.
I don't see how that follows.

Many of the people who appear to me to talk the most sense (eg: Tyler Cowen) follow the Austrian school. It being fringe does not mean they're wrong. It could be the mainstream is wrong. I'm not an economist and don't know.
Why are you tolerating a web that requires an ad blocker?
Google has been insisting for years that they need my date of birth "to comply with the law" (which law is not specified). Never mind that my account is more than twenty years old, and I've attached plenty of credit cards and devices and addresses to that account. I'm able to skip the nag screen, but I do worry that Google are going to get in big trouble one of these days and it'll be all my fault.