skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the IRS has the nuclear safety codes then it’s better we find out than the Chinese.
This seems like a category error. We don't typically assign moral agency to animals the same way we do to humans. No one is saying "one biological creature eating another biological animal is unethical." Some people are saying it is unethical for humans, who we typically do believe have moral agency, to eat other animals. Just as no one would say it is unethical for a snake to kill someone with its venom, but we would say it is unethical for a human inject someone with snake venom in order to kill them.
>I'm told the eggs taste way better

Can confirm. My dad's cousin is a little bit country and has had meat and egg chickens for years. She comes to visit sometimes, and always brings eggs. Store-bought quite literally pales in comparison, which is to say that the dandelion yellow yolks of store bought eggs have nothing on the rich, flavorful orange-as-a-child's-drawing-of-the-sun yolks from her eggs.
That hardly ever works or did ever work in reality. Almost no legislation (unless it solves and issue that is very straightforward) is written with such granularity that would makes this possible.

The people writing it are not necessarily subject experts in the area and even if they were or consulted such experts they can't foresee all eventualities. So those laws would need to be constantly updated all the time which is simply infeasibly (especially in the US where the legislative branch is stuck in a near permanent gridlock by design). IMHO that would make the system much, much more inefficient.
> it used to be much harder to be vegetarian

Millions of Indian people have been vegetarian for hundreds (if not thousands) of years now. I guess there are manufactured meat replacements now, but I prefer to just eat things like legumes over factory made vegan food.
I fear that only very bitter experience will convince those folks.
I don't passionately hate either, I just can't follow your logic. If these men are working to make six-figure salaries more profitable, then they could absolutely fuck over the majority of Americans while lining their own pockets and that of their employers.

How are the real taxpaying Americans supposed to hold them accountable? Where is the oversight board looking to ensure essential social services stay available? It all seems like a recipe for disaster - love them or hate them, Elon and Trump have obvious conflicts of interest that make this process disturbing.
> Are backyard chickens the answer?

No. Trump is the answer (and DOGE!). Once we get rid of all the DEI/woke/Marxists in government, egg prices will fall. Have faith. Praise Trump!
> DOGE and POTUS are incentivized to follow through on this type of thing because it would increase good-faith in the masses big time.

Trump has no interest in increasing good faith. He doesn't need to. He can't run for office anymore, and even if he could, there's literally nothing he could do to lose voters. And he certainly doesn't give a shit about the future of the Republican party.

The people that voted for Trump fully support everything that's being done.
"the average persons hatred of autistic or nerdy people"

This is a wildly inaccurate picture of the average person. I don't even think this is true of 10% of people.
The site is reachable for me. The VM's are also good in multiple regions. Status pages are rarely useful but their page is all green FWIW. [1]

[1] - https://status.vultr.com/
An org-mode datetree that toggles between chronological and reverse-chronological order.
Based on last year's Supreme Court rulings and what Trump/DOGE have gotten away with thus far, it'd seem so. However, democrats insist on wearing kid gloves to a chainsaw massacre, so don't count on anything like that (or, more realistically, within a lesser order of magnitude) ever happening.
I'm doing some budget calculations. I have 43k USD left over per year if I stay put in USA. If I move to netherlands, tax looks to be about 77k euros per year. So that means I would be in the negative 34k -_-
> all kind of glues

Glues are getting better over time. Slightly nasty polyurethanes [0] and quite nasty solvent- and bitumen-based products are gradually being replaced with STPE, and STPE seems to be considered quite safe. It doesn’t even have a prop 65 warning!

[0] Polyurethane may well be harmless when fully cured, but the uncured isocyanates are most definitely nasty. Fortunately, they’re so reactive that they will aggressively react with water (even just moisture in the air) or almost any alcohol and produce much safer products.
tolerating it doesn't mean you can't detect it.

no amount of pain tolerance will help you if something is broken.

you WILL feel it. simply stop when you do.

it's not a hard thing to grasp.
They will care when they personally get badly screwed.
Conservatism before Trump was George W Bush, and while they're very different, it definitely wasn't all sunshine and roses. I don't remember a time in my lifetime when conservatism represented anything good.
> if you really think that the Proud Boys and their ilk, plus a bunch of random disorganized people with guns, have even the remotest chance of winning a war with the US military, well... I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.

Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam
Irrelevant to the concept being expressed, and does not invalidate.

The goals merely overlap, which is obvious. Equally obviously, if two goals are similar, then the implimentations of some way to attain those goals may equally have some overlap, maybe even a lot of overlap. And yet the goals are different, and it is useful to have words that express aspects of things that aren't apparent from merely the final object.

A decorative brick and a structural brick may both be the same physical brick, yet if the goals are different then any similarity in the implimentation is just a coincidense. It would not be true to say that the definition of a decorative brick includes the materials and manufacturing steps and final physical properties of a structural brick. The definition of a decorative brick is to create a certain appearance, by any means you want, and it just so happens that maybe the simplest way to make a wall that looks like a brick wall, is to build an actual brick wall.

If only they had tried to make it clear that there is overlap and the definitions are grey and fuzzy and open to personal philosophic interpretation and the one thing can often look and smell and taste almost the same as the other thing, if only they had said anything at all about that, it might have headed off such a pointless confusion...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
I run my life through Obsidian checklists. Sync is worth it for me and I bought a gift subscription for my partner as well.
Right, the one that says your claim can't be falsified. Dumb of them to have missed that!
> Bureaucracies are just organizations of humans, who have the same motivations, biases, and incentives ans everyone else, everywhere else in society

No, the biases and incentives are different in government than in business. Yes, there are biases and incentives, but they are different.

The main attraction of government work is the ability to serve your country, and to be rewarded by taking actions which produce (what you believe is) long-term social good.

Your belief that an adversarial relation between forces of government leads to a favorable equilibrium is indeed the basis of the US constitution, and the very thing which DOGE/Trump are attacking with such force.
Why guys? Let my employer pay for your work.
Pardon my ignorance, but how does lox relate to Pisces? I don't get the connection with cancer either, but the first thing that comes to mind on hearing Lox is liquid oxygen as it is used in rockets. So it's a connection between Rust language and astrodynamics. Is there something that makes Pisces more appropriate for this?
Fair. Making https work with mDNS seamlessly sounds like work (i.e. local CA would be needed I think). It would make things nice though.
There is a misunderstanding: I did not specify that ALL autistic people think like this. Just that autistic people found it harmful and misleading. There is quite a lot of autistic content creators criticizing the video. It does not mean every autistic person needs to feel the same way.

I am neurodivergent myself but (probably) not autistic. The first time I watched the video I actually didn't think that it was that bad and had a similar reaction to you. But once I started to think about it and educate myself more on the topic I realized how bad it is.

Sure it is not the worst video on autism but it still promotes some really bad ableist views.

Autism speaks it is a horrible hate organization. I don't think there is a spoiler tag here so please skip this paragraph if ableism is triggering to you but there is a video of the autism speaks founder where she talks about how she at one point wanted to kill herself and her autistic child because she couldn't cope with having an autistic child and only didn't do it because of her other non-autistic child. She says that while her autistic child is in the background.

I also didn't know about "aspie supremacy" and why people still use the term "asperger" despite being outdated. Hans Asperger was a Nazi Scientist who is responsible for killing thousands of children. He thought some autistic children might be useful as future scientists for the Nazi regime so assigned them the diagnoses "asperger syndrome" while the other autistic children were to be murdered.

I recommend you watch Ember Green on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaZZiX0veFY
Did Apple themselves actually call it that? On the debut, I think they only called it the "true depth camera system" https://youtu.be/aEoVcYQ8caM?si=bf2Xxv7VeFPONVyO&t=482

Scanning through, it was pretty silly how much the iPhone X was about mocapped emojis.
Since I work mainly with workstations, and rarely ever with laptops, is there a plan to bring something like Obscura to a router running DD-WRT or OpenWRT? Or would I have to get a full-fat router running OpenBSD/PFSense in order to hook Obscura into it?

If I get any kind of a VPN system, I would want it to cover the entire network with just a single installation. Targeting routers running open-source firmware would be a great next step after the three main desktop platforms.

Plus, this then allows Obscura to protect any manner of net-enabled device, regardless of installed OS. Even my HaikuOS systems would be protected that way.

My second question involves roaming devices, such as phones -- will there be a mechanism in play that would allow a phone to recognize a “friendly” or “home” network, and disable its own Obscura install in favour of force-redirecting all network communication through the home Obscura? Or would it simply default to running Obscura-within-Obscura?

My last question involves multiple households: is there any plan to provide a bridging solution between multiple households, so they effectively appear like one giant network with a shared Obscura bridge to the Internet? The point being, I have services on my own home network that I would like to share out to my parents and my brother, which is very doable with a home-built VPN, but I also want a VPN that is a lot like Obscura to protect everyone with regards to direct Internet communication.
For those who tend to fall for right wing talking points:

“There was one difficulty however of a serious nature attending an immediate choice by the people. The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of the Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to fewest objections.”

James Madison
A tutorial on how to reverse engineer a simple DOS game would be absolutely awesome!
I'm still waiting on orange to release his tax returns like he promised from his first presidential debate. That audit's gotta be almost complete by now, right?
Fanfiction recs are a whole different beast, and things can get pretty wild in fanfic! I know a few fanfics that are really popular, so I definitely get the appeal
I've (unfortunately) been interviewing the last two months and the main pattern that I've noticed is that a) big companies have terrible interview processes while b) small companies and startups are great at interviewing.

Big companies need to hire tons of people and interview even more so they need some sort of scalable process for it. An early stage startup can just ask you about your past projects and pair program with you for an hour.
This exactly. And Crypto's biggest "innovation" by far was giving us an entirely new unregulated financial market with zero consumer protections that included, as a bonus, the trappings and added complexity of software and let con men the world over dust off every money scheme from the last hundred years and do a fresh round.

Edit: Further, "education" shouldn't even be a factor here. You should not need to protect yourself from being scammed. Taking advantage of people's trust and stealing their money should be illegal, the offenders should be punished, and the victims made whole. There is no reason in a civilized society to permit financial crimes, which is what this shit is. Stealing is fucking stealing, whether you take something from a store, whether a bank issues bullshit fees, whether an employer doesn't pay fair wages, whether a con man tricks you into buying ape pictures.
let them let the customers choose also it allows them to amass substantial capital that can then be spent on R & D that maintains the lead of the US in some areas, as a multinational there is a lot of money coming from other countries that is beneficial to the U.S.. If China is the only country where MegaCorps, then it would be hard for segmented U.S. firms to compete with them
You might be surprised to hear this but there are people in the CIA and IC who agree with Trump and Vance on Ukraine and many things. How many, I'm not sure, but the idea that there's one US foreign policy is obscured by the political actors that rise to the top. There are very senior people who do not agree with the standard CFR/NED coalition.
I am not the biggest Bond fan so feel free to ignore my opinion, but it seems possible that Amazon is less of a bean counter than a traditional studio? They will throw money at the first production - with the hopes it is a hit. They are not beholden to it being profitable on paper like a studio would be.

But I also realize they took this approach to Lord of the Rings, and it didn't turn out.
I imagine a something like a headlamp except it's a projector and a camera so it can just light up where it wants you to pick something up in one color or where it wants you to put it down in another color. It can learn from what it sees of my hands how the eventual robot should handle the space (e.g. not putting heavy things on top of fragile things and such).

I'd totally use that to clean my garage so that later I can ask it where the heck I put the thing or ask it if I already have something before I buy one...
The line between infinite appointments augmented by a presidental pardon and infinite indulgence is pretty thin.
It kind of is the Chinese equivalent of a Marvel movie. No criticism intended though, it does that well. The 2023 Chinese film Chang'an is a better choice if someone is looking for a modern animated Chinese film with some adult depth.
I know. I have some modest claim to expertise on these matters. I am well aware it feels the exact opposite to conservatives. I’d guess that many feel that leftist extremism has been shoved in their face for as long as they remember.

This is by design.
Chromium Ozone/Wayland: The Last Mile Stretch
People with malice like Elon Musk have noticed the widespread use of this aphorism and repeatedly leverage it to their advantage.
My expectation is that what you're tasting is the difference between a very fresh egg and an older egg; there's no doubt that's real (older eggs aren't even functionally the same as fresh eggs).
Yes, there are notable exceptions. Princess Bride is another. There are more. But they are vastly outnumbered by the crud.
Try the Obsidian Web Clipper: https://www.dsebastien.net/supercharge-your-knowledge-captur...
I assume they’re making a reference to Lox the food (brined Salmon), so a fish is appropriate.
He is not a monarch. The core principles of a well functioning democracy include that there are multiple, balanced powers and that none of the powers can overrule the other too much. It is cumbersome by design, because the other path leads to dictatorships.

That was the whole basis of your constitution.
I synced using Google Drive on the desktop, and a third party app to pull and sync a local directory on my phone for mobile. Took a little bit of setup but it worked mostly fine. Now I run the paid sync subscription, and the main difference to me is that there's basically zero wait between replication across copies (unless your computer has been off for a while and it has to fetch a bunch at once). Eliminating merge issues and having everything "just work" was worth it to me.
This is a very sad and soulless way to view Bond's story.
This isn't good enough.

Quicksy "advises you" to use OMEMO. It doesn't make OMEMO always-on.
based on the vibes I've seen on the forums, the team is very passionate about keeping Obsidian free, but averse to making it open-source
From my perspective, the biggest differentiator is that Matrix allows users to remove the centralized coordinator from their chat provider. That is, I can run my own Matrix server, where my users can chat with each other, without any interaction with Element.io or other operator. All other major providers (Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, etc) all rely on a single operator to coordinate the system.

Of course, it's still useful to be able to chat with people without accounts on your private server, which is why the federation is still important. You can link up with broader networks, but you're not reliant on them.

Why this might matter is because if e.g. the UK government compels WhatsApp to implement a backdoor, as an end user I would never know. But, as someone operating entirely outside of the UK, they have no standing to compel me as a private person to implement a backdoor in my own deployment (or at the worst, at least I would know if it occurred).

Think of it as the chat analog to running your own mail server. Does everyone need to run your own mailserver? No. But if we'd started with a siloed system in email, we'd probably still be sending emails only to people with our same TLDs to this day.
This is great news for anyone paying taxes in the US. People really underestimate how incompetent the federal work force really is. Not everyone of course. But I contracted with the DOD for six years and you legit could have fired half the federal employees. They didnt do shit all day and it sounds like it's gotten way worse since COVID allowed these people to work from home.

I seriously want a real, non-politically based argument on why we shouldnt be trying to 1. find fraud 2. fire 10-20% of these people immediately

Imagine what we can do in 2025 by applying LLM search to all of the federal paperwork!
Given the insipid B-series mess Amazon has made of Reacher (despite the fanfare of having a physically representative actor playing him), this is not an obviously positive development.
Maniacal laugh included
> That does not mean there aren't serious drawbacks that are more worth pointing out such as why bother with a very complex and noisy backdoor when you can just covertly create enough nodes to do traffic correlation.

Winner winner chicken dinner.

FVEY's annual budget is $1.7bn + $1bn + $122mm (NZ :3) + $4.6bn + $classified billion.

You think those guys can't mount a Sybil attack against https://metrics.torproject.org/ ?!
I'd nominate The Leftovers as the most successful fantasy adaptation for TV, even if it wasn't the type of fantasy that has dragons and swords. Unlike Game of Thrones it was consistently good to the end.
Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Star Trek .... it feels like everything eventually devolves and runs into people or a situation where it doesn't seem like anyone has creative control / defined vision, and horrific writing and such decisions.
“Just a theory” is simply a signal that they have no clue about basics of scientific process.
To be fair, those are large particles, which are neither as dangerous nor as persistent as smaller particles. Unless you’re allergic to them, of course.
If you disasembled the ROMs you'd find they're filled with BLWP/RTWP instructions. That's how subroutines were executed: Branch and Load Workspace Pointer. The BLWP instruction would load the WP and PC from the next two words and save the current WP/PC/SR into the new R13/14/15. RTWP would restore R13/14/15 into WP/PC/SR. The end result was a stack implemented as a linked list instead of a contiguous array. A lot of the subroutines in ROM just read/wrote tokens from/to the VRAM and then interpreted them as BASIC.
To add to hrow0101c's list

USAID was investigating Starlink

Consumer Protection Bureau has numerous investigations open vs Musky companies

Treasury is involved in regulating Muskys X for Finance thing
> I am not going to look for a source right now but I would venture that since the 1960's were part of the industrial era that food was even more expensive before the creation of the Haber process and gas powered farm tools.

You are correct that it used to be even higher. The US BLS estimates around 40% of DPI was spent on food at the turn of the century (1901). [1]

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/100-years-of-u-s-consumer-spending....
I don't believe we are facing a military conflict soon, but it is clear that something fundamental has changed, and even if suddenly the US government does a 180, it's a whooole lot of toothpaste to put back in the tube.

Essentially, start freezing US dependencies out of your tech stack and take control:

- Run Linux on your machines

- Run GrapheneOS on your mobile

- Select services from this list: https://european-alternatives.eu/

- Keep local and off-line copies of your important data, and maintain frequent backups

- Block companies that comply willingly with unfair practices at your network edge (e.g. with a Pi-hole for DNS-based blocking, and you get ad blocking in addition)
You're a reasonable / pragmatic vegan. Vegans that won't eat meat because of the kill are ideological / dogmatic vegans.

There's even a small amount of vegans that consider lab meat to be something immoral (how they loop their head around that one, I do not know).

I'm currently dating a girl that's vegan and is super chill about it, but when I was 16 I dated a vegan girl also. My mother made two separate dishes for her, one specifically with esoteric stuff she would like (Christmas being special and all that). Then my mother made the mistake of quickly flipping some burning food with some meat in it, then using the same spatula to muddle the vegan dish. That girlfriend immediately said she would not eat that dish.

I nearly decided to break up with her at that moment.

I'm never quite sure it it's anecdata, but it always feels like there are much more obnoxiously stringent vegans than there are obnoxious meat eaters.

On the other hand, I've seen firsthand how vegans have to consistently defend their lifestyle choice, because by making that choice they reveal the "default" was never really that. Same with those who chose to be sober.
There's an official web clipper now: https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-clipper

You can use it on a phone as well via Firefox / Safari.
Looks like this submission just aged worse than milk. Downdetector & co also say that it was down and came back like 10 minutes ago