skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read this previously and from memory it relies a lot on what Athens wrote about Sparta? I'm no historian but I was wondering if there's bias there, because they mostly despised each other and Athens kept records whereas Sparta didn't. It seems reasonable that you'd write a bunch of stuff about your enemies being inhumane and generally shit. Maybe the sometimes nicer things written about them coincided with periods of peace and alliance? Just spit balling, it's still an interesting and informative read.
bring back https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism or some equivalent pseudo science. noahs ark shipbuilding sciences or similar .
But also remember that you don't have any rights if you're poor, because you won't be able to leverage them and trying could get you in a deeper hole.
A personal philosophy in medical decisions:
- unless there is a severe risk I might die from lack of intervention (on any reasonable timeline besides life), I avoid intervention.

In some cases (my messed up jaw and a whole 9 wisdom teeth), I broke this rule. But generally, it has served me well.
stratoshark, the docker container part of wireshark, may be a better match for that description.

I'd probably use a postman related pitch instead. This is much closer to that and looks like a nice complement to that workflow
lol, no it’s not.

The basic premise that people would want to wear a device as a pin is an industrial design failure.

The entire product is bad industrial design. Being built with nice materials is not automatically good industrial design.

It was a scam destined to fail and HP is making a stupid acquisition of worthless tech.
- "The firings targeted probationary employees, who have fewer job protections than permanent employees, but still must be fired for cause. Some probationary staff are new to the agency, while others recently promoted or transferred positions. Additionally, all "intermittent experts" — temporary employees hired at-will often for specific subject matter expertise — were terminated."

There's no pretense of firing anyone other than "the subgroup of federal employees that are technically easiest to fire". Firing everyone who was recently promoted (for one category) is objectively a very absurd selector.
Is this a LaTeX killer yet?
I don’t know the specifics for this case, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he was voluntold to do this on very short notice while under duress.
First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's
given a million qubits ...

also last time I checked the record was 80 qubits and with every doubling of the cubits the complexity of the system and the impurities and the noise are increasing. so it's even questionable whether there will ever be useful quantum computers
Pretty terrible to be fired like that with no severance. I think that's unconscionable. It looks like they targeted mostly probationary employees, which doesn't make it better.

However, is it right to be hiring so many new people when we are $36T in debt, with the debt growing $1T every 100 days. It seems like this was going to happen at some time and the original sin was to expand headcount when debt is already this high.
All About SSH – Part II/II
Every user in ATProto gets their own database that amounts to a tar file (technically sqlite with car export format)

This is nothing like having a single server for every user. Perhaps you are confusing Bluesky (one app) with ATProtocol the shared network? There are already independent servers and apps operating separate from Bluesky
It was a bit odd. On the other hand, this story felt very close to what I feel about my job now and someone here wrote that I am probably depressed.
Does my wife know? I think she subconsciously feels that I am not entirelly OK, but I just occasionally complain. That's it. I do not talk about that's stuff much. I do not talk about my thoughts to anyone really. I just have a feeling that nobody would understand. 'You are working at home for five times the pay I am making at factory and you complain?!'. People here complaining that the story was too long and you are complaining that you are still can't relate. This whole wall of text was not enough for you to understand. How me - who is not that eloquent - could explain what I feel inside to someone that I am hanging out once every few months?
'But your wife would understand if you spend five hours to explain.' Or she would just be annoyed to listen to the same stuff, me complaining about my job again. I am tired of me complaining about my job, others would be too.

I essance, it is kind of bizarre and more felt as breaking of the third wall, a wink to the reader, but it is not something that I can't understand.
Many man going through stuff like that alone, when asked if everything is fine, for sure they will tell 'its fine' and than decide to kill themselves.
One tiny missing bit: drawing with XOR wasn't just to be able to easily recover the previous state. If you're on a black and white display and are dragging around a rectangular outline, then dragging it over a filled portion of the screen makes it invisible. Even if it's only partly over a filled image, you can't see the whole thing. With XOR, the filled portions will invert, so you can always see the extent of the whole rectangle.

Admittedly, if your screen is showing static (random noise), then you're still screwed.
Why did we do the TPU at Google?
Any idea why they're they so expensive?
i am so glad my sign up process with hetzner failed when i was so dumb that i wanted to give them a chance even with the internet full of horrific stories of bad experiences from their customers. lucky me.
Michael Bloomberg could personally fund an entire presidential campaign. There’s a newspaper named after him. How did he wield that power?

The real problems with the DNC campaigns are complex. They have a poor model for how to run national campaigns, clearly. All this equities wealth was made under Democrats, including Elon’s wealth, so it’s not so simple as to say, chasing money. There is some consensus that Democrats need to run media personalities instead of experienced politicians. But not enough consensus to move away from demographics-based election modeling. Suffice it to say this thread could be an interesting conversation about anything but has become a magnet for fringe theories.
Sometimes it helps to have it outline the task first with a prompt like "Suggest good guidelines for [task]" and then "Follow those guidelines for [task]" once you check to make sure the guidelines are good. LLMs aren't good at inventing processes on the fly, but they are good at writing plausible-sounding and often even correct processes, which they then follow.

Applied to ChatGPT's 4o:

> "Suggest good guidelines for generating ~500 filenames given a (human written) summary of each document’s contents"

> "Pretend you have this data and create 10 example file names."

> "Financial_Report_Q1_2024.xlsx (Summary: "Quarterly financial performance for Q1 2024, including revenue and expenses.")"

> "Marketing_Strategy_SocialMedia_2024.docx (Summary: "Comprehensive marketing strategy focusing on social media growth for 2024.")"

> "HR_Employee_Handbook_v2.1.pdf (Summary: "Updated version of the company employee handbook with revised policies.")"

And so on. In general, you have to either create the process or have it create a process and refine it if it isn't quite there. You can even use standard processes and guidelines when they're available. Then it usually does a great job.
This looks really nice. We've been considering developing something very similar in-house. Are you guys looking at supporting MLC Web LLM, or someother local models?
Windows doesn't need explorer to actually function, it's just another component that adds optional extras to the desktop environment such as the task bar and desktop icons. Kill explorer.exe, your desktop and taskbar disappear, but programs still operate and can be manipulated and minimized, just in a more Win3.1 style flavor. A file browser window can be called directly without the explorer shell running, "explorer.exe /e".

Problem occurs when you have programs that dip into explorer's shell components expecting them to be running when that might not be the case. For that case you couldn't fully turn explorer off if you were, for example, trimming down a modern version of windows.
The claim was that liberal democracy not Sparta created nukes and stealth bombers, when Sparta didn't exist in the modern age, and couldn't have created such things no matter how they organized their society. This isn't a promotion of Spartan ideals, rather it's just pointing out that the comparison doesn't work for obvious reasons.
I only recently started my car ownership journey.
My first car is a 2023 Toyota Corolla.

I would have liked electric, but options for a small/basic/simple/cheap electric sedan are very few, leaving you pretty much with only one brand that has some serious QC issues among...other...problems.

I considered hybrid - but given the amount I drive I felt the break-even was very far away, if you accounted for any additional costs in maintenance in the long run (like eventual battery replacement). Now I think I regret that choice because eventually the resale value would have been better from what I understand, but oh well.

I think by the time I get my next car in ~10-15 years, I'll go electric - assuming there's a product that fits my needs. By that time hopefully most of the manufacturers will have gotten a handle on it, working out the kinks and making the experience better. Right now it feels like they're all still floundering a little. Prices are too high, all of them seem to be having technical problems, and the product selection is a bit weak.
The most notable things I recall in the last few Congresses were Mitch McConell stealing a SCOTUS appointment, the failure to remove Donald Trump from office (twice!--once for inciting an insurrection in front of the eyes of the world; it was literally televised) for political gain, and the voting down of Republicans' own immigration bill (again for political gain).

Thats what happened. Pepperidge Farm remembers.
While temperature may be in the stellar ballpark, pressure should be much lower. That is fine because we are not trying to do proton-proton fusion (that one is very slow even in a star) but a much easier deuterium-tritium fusion.
A surprising number of Trump voters do not understand how tariffs work and believe the exporting country pays. They are intentionally ignorant, so they'll tell you inflation is not the outcome they wanted, even though it's an obvious first order effect of the policies they support (see mass deportation)
Will be watching closely. Complex codebases are a bit of a hairball and I'm actually curious what techniques you can use to focus attention in on all the links that actually matter in the service of safe change management. It is a surprisingly difficult task to pull all these (sometimes) illegible threads, and, given my experience, I'd be surprised if a tool can actually snipe it one-shot.

But I'm optimistic here given your current approach—entrypoints and illuminated indirection ("related code you didn't know existed"—feels like what I'd want ready to hand.

The problem is only going to get worse with all the AI generated slop code filling PRs now, too. Goddangit
While that might be true (there's a whole ball of wax about whether or not that's true), it's probably not true for combined deaths. No doubt well more than hundred thousand, and I wouldn't be surprised if more than two hundred thousand.

The deaths are tragic. And no matter how many there are, Trump's actions will certainly make the number go up before it stops.

It's not hyperbole.
oh wow, thanks to joyrex for running it for so long.
This is the nature of union employment: seniority >> everything else.
This is key.

If this were pushed by Apple, people would be responding much differently, since there is an inherent level of trust in regards to Apple's privacy protections, vs Meta.

So, not so much the technology, but rather the trust (or lack thereof) behind the implementor.
Donald Trump in a hot dog costume: we’re all looking for the guy who did this! https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna191665
> he didn't topple democracy in his first term

Oh, like, he wasn’t really informed nor involved in January 6, 2021?

And he never mentioned, several times in 2024 that you Americans wouldn’t have to vote anymore?
I came over to Rust from C++ and I really don't want core Rust development to slowdown. The changes you see are mostly useful APIs in std.

Compare to C++, where using a new std API/type can take a literal decade and might not be backwards compatible on targets even once compiled.

Stability is only useful if it gets in the way of reliability and convenience. That's true in C/C++ because of the compilation and development model. In Rust those problems don't exist, so "stability" of std largely gets in the way.
> Part of the executive power in the US is that the president influences the judicial branch

How? Judicial branch is independent.
That doesn't stand up to scrutiny, the US is famously politically and ideologically divided. I understand the impulse to say "no, you" but we can do better than that here.
The assumption that everyone has an issue with a device is where you loose me. I rarely look at my phone. I don't have any social apps on it. I only use the phone if I'm away from my keyboard. It is absolutely possible to own a device and not be addicted to it. I use my device for things that are useful, not unhealthy habits. It is not the device's fault you use it for unhealthy habits. Recognizing and admitting the problem is a huge step
Almost this entire thread is criticism
Nature article: https://archive.ph/SM8NQ
Another take, to feed your cynicism: MSFT need money to keep investing in this sort of science. By posting announcements like this they hope to become the obvious place for investors interested in quantum to park their money. Stock price goes brrr, MSFT wins.

More cynical still: what exactly has the Strategic Missions and Technologies unit achieved in the last few years? Burned a few billion on Azure for Operators, and sold it off. Got entangled and ultimately lost the JEDI mega deal at the DoD. Was notably not the unit that developed or brought in AI to Microsoft. Doing anything in quantum is good news for whoever leads this division, and they need it.

On the bright side, this is still fundamentally something to be celebrated. Years ago major corporations did basic science research and we are all better off for those folk. With the uncertainty around the future of science funding in the US right now, I at least draw some comfort in the fact that its still happening. My jaded-ness about press releases in no way diminishes my respect for the science that the lab people are publishing.
Virtue Signalling!
How large is the combinator library? It should not be excessively long, for the simple thing it normally does, especially in Rust which is FP-friendly.
I don't understand why it's specific to children. Surely lying under any circumstances should be prohibited.

Plus it's not like children are the only vulnerable group.

Still, at least this is a step in the right direction. So we should be thankful for that.
This is why I'm more excited about Microsoft than Apple.
Hostile firewalls that block and/or intercept DNS traffic are also a bad pattern, but people don't always control their local network these days. You can't always count on 853 being open. There are valid use cases for both.
Absolutely. The profit motive is the root of most evil. It is a shame that so many are trained to believe it is the only motive available.
Debt isn’t always bad. If you take on a trillion in debt but invest it in science and get cold fusion, you’d be endless trillions ahead
all these probationary firings, across all departments, will impact succession planning in few years. the whole reason to have 'new' people, is to keep an organization functional.

working somewhere that has no new people, is not fun when all the old people with knowledge all retire at once.
The only reason supermajority is required in the current Senate is because a Senator can hold a "pocket filibuster" which in practice gives any single Senator the power to veto any legislation at any time for any reason for as long as they are in the senate. Were they to change their procedure and require Senators to actually speak in order to exercise a filibuster you would see this change pretty quickly. Strom Thurmond spoke for days to filibuster the civil rights laws, and he eventually had to stop because he got tired. He had aides holding buckets under the podium for him to relieve himself at times.
Nigeria sues crypto giant Binance for $81.5B in economic losses and back tax
This is a scientific project at a state-funded lab, not a capitalist project.
I dare you to tell my wife how easy it is. I still remember OpenDNS being blocked in France the exact day I went for business trip and me not anticipating it (I didn't remember it was set in pi-hole)
I'd guess that it will be less than $9B pretty soon.
I find it absolutely astounding you deny you engaged in vulgarity and insults, for the same reason I find MAGA folk astounding when they deny reality. Unless for some reason you don't consider saying 'Bullshit'[1] vulgarity - I assume that would be your defense, and indeed I would perceive that to be disingenuous since it clearly is, in the sense it lowers the quality of and taints an otherwise civil conversation.

I'd be more curious to hear why you don't think calling my comment idiotic[1] is resorting to insults - that seems harder to deny, so I wonder what creative justification you might come up with?

> So let's just not engage with each other anymore?

100%. If you want to reply just to note you in fact do not consider saying 'Bullshit' vulgarity' or defend how calling a comment idiotic is not resorting to insults, I'll understand and might respond to that. If we are not discussing operating systems or problems with countries, I consider that a win since that thread would run its course very shortly, then we could be done with each other. Of course if you don't want to reply at all I'll consider that an even bigger win.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43064306
Just explain what end to end encryption means. People are starting to get it and don’t want companies able to read their messages.
That's all you needed?
Sorry for the dupe. More here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43104071
> Mark managed to dig Meta out of the hole

He himself put Meta in that hole, found out he couldn’t manifest better hardware out of the magical money hat, and finally gave up on the idea, firing a whole bunch of engineers in the process.
Is this book still a thing? I remember buying it for someone as an early 1990's gift. But reading the errata comments at the link, it reminds me of a book of mathematical integrals I had purchased and the very first integral I looked up had an error. My co-worker, a mathematician, encouraged me to throw the book out, and I obliged.
Well yes of course. But the whole point of the ring is to align them perfectly so the efficiency is high and so you can use the phone without it falling off or losing alignment.

Using a case with the magnet ring in it solves this problem for the 16e without the ring in the phone itself.
I think this sentiment gets at a more interesting idea, which is the increasing convergence/conflation of government and society in the minds of participants. That is to say, government is the primary, if not only avenue for voicing and acting on personal/cultural values.
Obviously, they are an early development device for what will be smart glasses. Why use a different form factor for this?
What does this have to do with third party app views?
Your actions' consequences are not limited to benefiting from the thing like it would for a product - with social media, you improve the networking effect for the soon-to-be bad. (Nothing against bluesky, I don't know or think it will do so)
Of course he does, look at what they did to the last NATO-supporting candidate: https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-romania-european-union-ele...
If the US's budget were like a household budget, these firings would be like easing your toothpick budget to save money. It's completely asinine. This is about controlling narratives and consolidating power, nothing else.
Hold on.

Livelsberger's uncle said "He loved Trump, and he was always a very, very patriotic soldier, a patriotic American." He was also very dissatisfied with the government but I don't see strong indications that he was criticizing from the left.

Crooks donated once to ActBlue. He was also a registered Republican and the FBI deputy director described his social media activity as anti-semitic and anti-immigration. Again, case seems open.

Routh is certainly reasonable to classify as a leftist.
unless you fill those containers at home, you've only decreased your number of trips
Oh no, thanks for pointing this out! I asked GTP-4o to convert the image to text for me and I only checked some of the cards, assuming the rest would be correct. That was a mistake.

I've now corrected the experiment to accurately take the image into account. This meant that Deepseek was no longer able to find all the sets, but o3-mini still did a good job.
Small black holes can be stable if they have a charge or high angular momentum. These are called extremal [0] black holes - the charge and/or angular momentum counteract the hawking radiation. Some physicists have argued that electrons (stable, very tiny) could technically be described as super-extremal black holes [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremal_black_hole

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_electron
10% -- the literal meaning of "decimation." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(punishment)

The only difference is that when the Romans did it, they had a purpose in mind. What we are seeing now is the act of a Batman villain, not a general or an industrialist or a president.
My hunch is somewhere between “decades” and “never”.
Are you suggesting the "big few" can't largely censor a given account?

I don't see how ATProto is doing noticeably better than the scenario where a large ActivityPub instance blocks your external account.
He didn't topple the system but it wasn't for lack of trying. Pence had to refuse Trump's repeated requests to fix the election (a precedent that would have guaranteed single-party rule). You are relying now, as you were then, on other people in the system conducting themselves with integrity. If it were up to Trump, Biden would never have assumed office.
true. the one time i used lsd i had a horrifying bad trip, like a waking nightmare. the kind of bad trip that people die from. but my migraines completely stopped for five years afterwards.
I need to play with Typst. I've been using Markdown and converting that to LaTeX with Pandoc for quite awhile, and that more or less works, but I've had issues when I need any non-standard formatting, like specific placement of something like a title page.

Typst looks like it might be the solution to this problem.
I guess we are at the "deep state is good actually" stage of the process now.
What makes it not decentralised?
The fact that something like this is even considered against adults is just plain absurd.

Law enforcement shouldn't be so adversarial at every step.

Do you dare help the police, when you never know if they consider you friend or foe.
That's the frontend code, it doesn't include the backend API services, which are closed source.
demo: https://x.com/calcsam/status/1889856384549982419
Wow that doesn't sound like a hyperbole at all.
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