skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China's own products are very often obvious knock-offs or subpar versions

This view is increasingly outdated. Chinese EVs are well ahead of the rest. Solar power systems too.

I am anticipating more "surprises" like DeepSeek where something ground-breaking comes from China as well as from Silicon Valley, Japan or elsewhere. Or like EVs where the Chinese firms are leaders in an advanced engineering industry.
As is so often the case in these sorts of "countries that function quite well", the Scandinavians aren't doing too badly:

https://www.democracymatrix.com/ranking

USA is #36, a "deficient democracy". Not a surprise and sadly I can see it only dropping further in the near future.

The scale, interestingly, goes:

- Working Democracy

- Deficient Democracy

- Hybrid Regime

- Moderate Autocracy

- Hard Autocracy

Further details on methodology -> https://www.democracymatrix.com/conception/democracy-matrix
Smart move. The new guy always gets what no one else wants so you're going to get it anyway.
Came here to say this. Ive had to work on slop, and it never stops being slop unless the stars align and you can do a bunch of work which is short term unprofitable. What people really should do is work on the same project for five years. Watch the interest wax and wane and more importantly watch the requirements change. Then you'll stop looking at things in black and white like "good project bad project"
I spent my undergrad at MIT and I completely felt this way! I wish so dearly that I delayed my undergrad by at least a year and spent some time maturing. So many interesting and wonderful things I've missed out on from that place, simply because I was not mature enough to appreciate it.

If my child wants to go to MIT, I would strongly advise them to take a gap year.
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I heard that IBM got the PC keyboard positioning wrong. You can remap this in both macOS and Windows and Linux so its not a big deal anymore. Use Esc<->Capslock and have a gentle vim/neovim existence.
Maybe? In today’s market, I’m going to do everything I can to build a positive relationship with my manager. Jobs just don’t fall out of the sky like they have done for me since 1996.

But if I don’t genuinely like and respect my manager, I’m not going to go the extra mile for him, I’m not going to stick it out with him through thick and thin and I’m going to leave at the first opportunity.

On the other hand, I’ve had very technical managers that their subordinates liked. But didn’t build positive relationships with the rest of the org. It was impossible to get things done that required cross team coordination and he couldn’t get the raises and recognition that his team wanted. Everyone ended up leaving.
The way i've seen it is Junior/Senior as a label of wisdom/engineering acumen and experience (not just a title) is not directly correlated to years of experience. Some people just have the same year of experience/level repeated 3-5 years. Some "Junior" with 1 YoE can come away with learnings some seniors never get in their careers. Not wholly their own fault, but it's a fact.
This could be a good thing, depending on context. He was paying attention, but let people do their job. An IT director is a facilitator, they don't need to make ALL the decisions, just high-level ones, there are experts on the team for that.

The director NEEDS to make sure the company's goals are considered first, that the overall strategy is on track, and that everyone has the resources to do their jobs.
> France can nuke Moscow and is still there

They have second strike capabilties and a nuclear triad

> North Korea caan nuke Seoul and Tokyo and is still there

They have second strike capabilities and are working on nuclear triad capabilities

> I wrote that they are/were in the very situation in which nuclear weapons may be desirable

But unlike the nations listed above, they do NOT have a domestic ballistic missiles program, and that would take decades to build.

SK and Japan both have had domestic ballistic missile development and submarine development capabilities for decades, and that's why if they wished to become a nuclear power, they could do so very quickly.

Poland and Germany does not.

> Relatively small countries have nukes simply to make any attempt at invasion not worth it even if everyone knows they can't "win" against the USSR/Russia/the US, anyway

You can't make nukes (and the associated delivery systems) overnight. It takes decades to build the entire ecosystem.

Just having a nuclear bomb isn't enough if you lack the ability to develop and manufacture ballistic missles or submarines domestically.

Furthermore, as was seen in the Kargil War in 1999, nuclear weapons can fail as a deterrence for war.
Not to do with sepsis, but in case it interests anyone, I read some papers a few years ago about how very low doses of fluoxetine (below the dose where it works as an SSRI, with all the side effects that confers) can stimulate the production of neurosteroids which in turn can reduce neuroinflammation, reduce anxiety, and various other things (Google "low dose fluoxetine neurosteroids" to find several).

I had chronic low-level anxiety for a few years so decided to try it and after a couple of months I realized it had all gone away. I take 5mg 2/3 times a week (clinical dose for depression is 20mg/day and up) and have had no negative side effects. My doctor knows and while they're not up on the mechanics of it, they said if it's working, keep going.
Is this what is used in the new Tesla Model Y?
So if the battery is dead in the car, how does one apply the brakes?
Because I believe in the higher goal of free and open source software, which is more or less the same as the belief that knowledge should be shared -- and the space that GIMP occupies is one that I think a great deal of people would (have benefitted from) if it were to be disrupted from Adobe.

No, I don't believe in hiding good software that can help a lot of people under a secret rock.
Yeah, it's pretty clear by now that the meddling of Romulan Time Travelers keeps pushing the events further into the future. So I'd expect WW3 no sooner than 2027.

Stopping Bell Riots from happening was quite a feat, though. Based on the real-world reports of the last few years, I was sure that this particular event is bound to happen exactly when Star Trek originally predicted it.
If you can't get rid of it, add friction. I quit Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter gradually by removing the apps on my phone and using the browser on my laptop. Then I only use incognito mode to access them. Then I just get used to their absence. If I needed them for work. I'd use a separate device and a separate account.

Another thing that help is bookmark and notes. Anything great I found on those platforms, I just store them somewhere so I can access them directly instead of browsing through the sludge.
Here is the polar opposite from today, it's even worse.
https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today
well there are also a lot of americans who support america _not_ being the world police.
Type-Schema-Length-Value: The best data serializer?
If you read up-page in some of the other threads you'll find some right/libetarian people who are also against Trump because of how he's pushing us into authoritarianism.
They banned it 4 days ago https://tri-today.com/2025/02/these-running-shoes-have-been-...
It seems to rely exclusively on GitHub's issues.

Which is not a standard, that's just how GitHub implemented their own ticketing system; a lightweight Jira.

Therefore it's not part of the repository itself. If you clone/fork the repository, you don't get the issues with it.

The link only exists in GitHub's database.
Tbf as a Kiwi (currently in the UK) I see a lot of Australians, when interacting with other cultures, kick up their Australian-ness as much as they can; strengthening the accent, swearing way, _way_ more than they usually would, using "mate" "bloody" etc way more than they do just speaking to me.

I mean when two Australasians speak with each other in a foreign place I definitely hear the accent rise up a bit more outta the both of us but Aussies are something else when it comes to putting on a show, especially when Americans are involved (in my experience).
>Sounds like tiktok

And 24 hour news TV, and newspapers... magazines... Steve in accounts... Any person that is easily lead, will be influenced regardless of the source.
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How would transitive dependencies be handled?

EU CRA is trying to mandate certification of some dependencies, which may result in fees going to 3rd-party certifying orgs, rather than OSS projects.

In theory, customers with budget for improving their OSS supply chain could configure an OSS micropayment allocator to parse a graph of dependent:

• SBOMs
• roadmaps
• requirements
• bug reports
• test reports
• compliance rules

then distribute funds based on performance metrics defined by each customer. That could move SBOMs from cost center to revenue/operations center, without centralization.

LF OpenSSF 2024 report covers centralized efforts to improve OSS supply chains, https://openssf.org/download-the-2024-openssf-annual-report/
Don't forget their claims in the East Sea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line
Works perfectly in Spain!
Yeah it’s just early and different; Google gave the foundation a million dollars to work on rust <-> c++ interoperability last year, but that work is still ongoing. They do put out projects but they’re not as dominant in the ecosystem as React became in JS, for sure.
When I went into residency, my attending once described any drug acting on reuptake (be it antagonistically, agonistic, or in a bifurcated model) as the medical equivalency of noticing your car is low on oil and, in response, pouring a few dozen liters of the stuff over the engine block.

Some gets to where it needs to be, the rest gunks up the engine on the outside and in places it shouldn't be.

Almost any drug acting on 5HT (fk acts on 2C), acts on other receptors as well. Fk acts on α1, M1-4, and many more, it's not very selective. A venerable bucket of oil, indeed. This is, what also causes Long-QT, feeding disorders, diarrhea, shorter pregnancies, dry mouth, sexual dysfunction, and more.

Sure, dropping such a bucket of oil can also, via inflammatory pathways, elicit IL-10 activation and, more importantly, act against hypertriglyceridemia. But that should not be sold as a solution to a problem. Again, to stay with contrived comparisons, if I load the boot of a car with C4, I am sure that some parts of the car will reach more than the car's stated maximum speed. But that's not a desirabe outcome.

As a last ditch, I'd consider it. But "preventatively" as suggested... that's a far, far, reach.
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Port-a-potties require frequent emptying and other kinds of maintenance. Other kinds of dry toilets are under development which would address this issue in a variety of ways (e.g. composting toilets) and be applicable to all sorts of interesting scenarios (e.g. remote places in the developing world, where proper disposal of human excreta is a severe public health concern) but overall they're not yet ready for prime time.
That something has to be applicable to only one "side" is a goal of your own making, not mine.
How does an "old school" physical calculator handle the floating point precision problem?
"checkout project, reformat all source files, commit"
In reality they probably expect tanking stocks due to EU retaliation measures against tariffs. They I introduced a special law during Trumps 1st turn that allows to penalize digital services as retaliation against Tarifs.
Insider training is however illegal even for government funds.
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Switch server, not all are blocked
> National guard members are subject to the restrictions imposed by Posse Comitatus when on Title 10 orders.

True.

> National Guard members can only perform domestic law enforcement duties when under the command of a state's governor and TAG.

False. Posse Comitatus (18 USC Sec. 1385) does not prohibit the military (including the National Guard when called into federal service) from being used for domestic law enforcement, it prohibits that from being directed by those without specific authority in the Constituton or act of Congress to do so. The Insurrection Act provides authority to the President to do so, either at the request of state governments (10 USC Sec. 251) or on his own unilateral determination of necessity (10 USC Sec. 252, 253).
As far as I can tell, the bottom line is king in the US.

So the way I figure, you spend money on imprisoning (though private prisons make more money and can sell non-violent labor).

Or spend money on housing and social workers and maybe a good chunk of this individuals rejoin the workforce and pay taxes.

Or you spend money on cleaning up after, paying for medical emergencies, and increased private security costs.

The option selected is either the one that the invisible hand found to be the most efficient or a better option was not sold well enough.
Don't forget the daughter's financial disclosure form, but the daughter's specific occupation as a "senior policy advisor" in the Department of Education might require her financial disclosures to be public [1].

> Public disclosure is required of "senior officials in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government to ... [report] their finances as well as other interests outside the Government."

"Official" is kind of a big deal. Are policy advisors (as opposed to people who can both write policy and vote on passing it) considered officials?

It is dubious to use the term doxxing to describe this judge's daughter's situation, but Elon Musk has a hypocritical attitude toward the posting of public LinkedIn profiles (in the case of the DOGE "kids") and already-public information about a private jet.

[1] Financial Disclosure in the U.S. Government:
Frequently Asked Questions [Updated May 30, 2023] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R47320
>>The predominant reason someone like Biden or Bush doesn’t get prosecuted is because they don’t do this shit.

Biden mishandled secret documents but escaped prosecution by being mentally unfit. He kept them in his garage, I believe.

Bill Clinton hid secret documents in his sock drawer.

Hillary had her secret email server with classified information on.
I've spoken to several people who've said things like 'id never thought of using chatgpt for that'. I dont think the autocomplete is at all an attempt to guess what you're trying to ask, but to broaden your considerations of what you could potentially ask it (to convert more of your every day googling/questioning over to chatgpt).
My point is that [ethical] professionals [who are not committing malpractice] have an obligation to their peers, as embodied in a professional code of ethics that is independent from and supersedes their obligation to their employers.

[Many/most ethical] accountants [who are not committing malpractice] will tell their employer, "no, I can't sign off on those fraudulent financial statements," but software developers [as a community, I'm sure someone will pop up with one colorful example] will not tell their employer, "No, I won't run fake bots on the site to inflate our user numbers," or "No, I won't implement this browser fingerprinting to violate our users' privacy."

The sibling commenter seems to be willfully misreading this as "all lawyers are ethical"
Small, but not insurmountable. The time always comes when a new leader and their lieutenants come into the org and prioritize new features over maintenance, at which point your moat is null and void and you’re on borrowed time. I’ve yet to find a way to build a moat that withstands that level of hostility without actively harming the organization in the process.

I’d love to hear how others deal with this inevitability.
There's also much more technical pressure on a greenfield project mainly because if it turns bad it's "your fault". There's no legacy to blame, no excusing bad choices (you made them!). It is part of the responsability but if and when it goes sour there's a bigger feeling of impostor syndrome than on a legacy project.
Its been a success in Canada when tried
https://www.cba.org/Publications-Resources/Practice-Tools/Ta...
Great; now all we need is client side integrity verification with super strong DRM and virtualization techniques; and companies will finally start eliminating most of their compute bills by running the server on the client. Bookmark this comment, we’ll see where we are in 2045; I wouldn't rule out WebAssembly becoming a hardware feature at that point. (I never said I like this - but stupider things have happened, like Electron apps; this would just be the finishing of the circle with web development becoming the new native.)
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. How do 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 format that will paginate based on the output device specification?
>Definition of antisemite

Your abridged definition is your cartoonish admission that you're aware that you're wrong.

With just a little more cleverness you could have easily avoided that reveal and actually challenged me.

>You seem very quick to label...

Ah yes, the old, "labeling the labelers is the real problem here" routine.

I'm seeing now that you're just kind of a lazy troll—boring and unimaginative. This is where I exit. Feel free to carry on with yourself!
It is indeed, but at the same time, things that have stuck around tend to stick around, and hot new things have a way more variable longevity score.
They worship Mammon, so not surprising.
Trails. I've been running for over a decade and have never once "enjoyed" a city or pavement run. A half marathon in the city feels like torture but I can easily do 50k runs on trails.

Humans aren't meant to run on pavement in the city or on treadmills. It makes running much less enjoyable.
>When you order food at a restaurant

once again, this is an implication that I ordered it. If you put a gun to my face and demand that I order a McBurger, that does not mean that we entered a contract.
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Funny enough, they seem to have "copied" our structure. I remember when it basically was just a slider, without tiers.
Mixing three claims together to assert your "perfection" does not touch the basic fact that "we are human".
We pushed this update recently. You can check it out here.

https://github.com/Onboardbase/kage#cicd-integration
Basically the benefit is not losing context when I close my laptop lid or if I lose network briefly. I actually use multiple tmux sessions in my workflow, so it also saves me having to remember which one I was working in. This is especially useful if I am on a spotty connection such as tethered through my phone.
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Take you to the place where the Healing flow, oh ho

Weak in Spirit? We got The Juice!

Won't save your Soul; It'll Shine Your Shoes."
that’s what i said?
Or the third choice:

(3) The data quality is so bad that there is no way to reliably know if a case is fraudulent or not without an investigation so expensive the ROI is negative, so everything remains unclear and unresolved forever.

That's usually how it goes with cases like these. Sometimes there are gangs who organize large scale fraud against the system and those might attract the attention of prosecutors, but people not reporting a death or double payment or similar isn't worth it. There might never be a clear answer to how the database got into this state. But the basic point stands that data quality for a critical dataset is really low in obvious ways, so what about all the non-obvious ways?

I mentioned blue zones because there are a lot of people on this thread who are really having a hard time believing there can be problems as obvious as people who have died but continue receiving payments in social security schemes. Blue zones is just an easily searchable keyword to learn more about other times when it's happened at scale, e.g.

In 2010, the Japanese government announced that 82 percent of its citizens reported to be over 100 had already died.

In 2012, Greece announced that it had discovered that 72 percent of its centenarians claiming pensions – some 9,000 people – were already dead.

Puerto Rico’s government said in 2010 that it would replace all existing birth certificates due to concerns about widespread fraud and identity theft.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/26/the-secret-of-blue-...

Obviously nobody is claiming the database reflects reality. Governments often have multiple data sources that are badly out of alignment. A census can give more accurate data, but that doesn't mean SS is synced to it. For instance, in the UK during COVID, more people came forward in some age ranges for a COVID vaccine than theoretically existed in the country at all. The UK's population data is so badly screwed up that people started using the quantity of NHS numbers issued instead to try and estimate it.
"independent jury". It was in New York. What do you think would happen if Biden or Hillary were tried by a jury in Florida or Texas?
Why not have some sort of VCS provider do something similar to Medium/Substack/etc. where access is generally free but frequently prompts you to subscribe/donate before access?
I appreciate the comparison to the leading existing tools, but it also assume a familiarity with them. This doc could also use a basic introduction for people who are new to this area and don't already use a hook manager. Examples of hooks, what the benefit is, etc.
quite frankly, your argument is dishonest, whether intentionally or not. I do not trust anyone repeating online, and no one else should. Especially since its repeated verbatim every time it comes up, its clear that this is "the play" and propaganda.

> I suggest looking at the nov election results.

What should we be looking at exactly? How the curiously 100% flipped swing states voted? I agree, theres much to look at there.

> The votes for Trump were for this (his relationship to Elon and intention of “having him make the government efficient” were well known in advance of the election

That is an outright lie.

No one knew Musk would be running amok dismantling government institutions like a rabid dog, while side stepping all government processes. Project 2025 had something like a 6% approval rating. What is being "implemented" right now is Project 2025.

The US is in a constitutional crisis, and the saving money is a farce to permanently disable the US as a functioning body.
I’m interested in finding the patterns and architecture that prevents those mistakes. I think I’ve found it already.
It's totalitarian if the government does it. Private citizens are allowed (Free Speech) to make private judgments of this sort, even if their reasoning / conclusions are ludicrous or unsavory.
Thanks, I'm liking kobo more and more every time I read about it :).

Out of curiosity, why block updates? Does it conflict with your modification