skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quails. Even cuter than chickens and much more easy to keep. Might be one of the easiest to keep animals overall. Not even ant colonies, fish, cats or dogs are as happy with as little as quails.

Housespiders and cacti might be easier.

You need to use quail proof feeders, tho, or you're going to spend a fortune on kitchen scraps or whatever you intend to feed them. They eat just about anything peckable except oats (if you didn't end up with picky ones). Cookef rice, seeds, peas, boiled eggs, sometimes nibbling on each other (-.-), or dirt cheap quail feed. Also mealworms ... its catnip for quails.

> You may have to euthanize a chicken, likely by hand (literally) via cervical dislocation.

I recommend cutting the head off with a pair of high quality, large and well maintained scissors.

Put a bucket in front of you, put the scissors from behind on the neck, just below the head, and cut in a single strong motion.

The lil birdy will not understand what is happening and wont feel uncomfortable during the process. Its head then looses consciousness in sbout 15 seconds, compared to about 30 seconds for the cervical dislocation method. (It'll loose the ability to feel pain MUCH faster than 15s, but I dont think we know how quickly. But probably faster than it'll realize that there's pain in the first place. You've probably cut yourself before and noticed that the pain only kicks in after a moment.)

It is also way easier to not screw up. Just remember to ALWAYS cut the head off completely, as fast as possible. Lil birdie wont die from bloodloss, but sudden loss of spinal fluid, which is WAY faster.

The cervical dislocation method is also very effective, but also much easier to screw up, a bit more uncomfortable for the birdy and could introduce quite some anxiety for the birdy if you hesitate for even but a moment.

On the other hand the cute little critters dont understand how scissors work or what they're for. Even if the method is much less pretty, it's by far the most peaceful method for the birdy.
State-aligned, huh? This is the US State Department talking point equivalent of a movie poster that brags, "From the studio that brought you..."
As an app developer, I'm looking forward to having to answer all the emails asking for me to transfer their purchases to Google Play.
> Bureaucracy is always risk averse. Without outside intervention, they will always try to operate as before.

Same with your body, by the way.
At least there’s a fairly direct route from those countries to Singapore. Australia is pretty far, and there are some countries in between that could be a menace at any point in the future.

Pretty big challenge for Singapore to figure out a way to guarantee security long term.
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Any Windows Server support coming?
Let's go one step further: LLMs can't solve anything, but most interview questions are covered so much online that they'll parrot a passable answer.
Hi everyone, I am helping building Restate. If you want to try out deploying a distributed Restate cluster, then you can do this with only a few commands. All you need is Docker and to follow our guide here: https://docs.restate.dev/guides/cluster.

Let us know, what you think about it :-)
"Do I file my taxes this year or not? I had to sit and debate that."

good question
Basically why I don't like to work for any public company anymore. You are there to be exploited by moneyed interests that most often don't even have any positive effect on the products itself.
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Yeah, that's easy to underestimate. Where I live they've even declared a ban on open fires; a number of people have a fireplace / pit / thing in their back yard which is used for social events, but during certain weather conditions that smoke lingers. And because firewood is expensive people will use whatever they get their hands on. Also, people don't have proper stoves, and people don't know how to make a proper fire, so the result is... a lot of noxious smoke and poor air quality.
The transfer of where the bureaucrats work is exactly what I am proposing, and has very significant differences in terms of the mechanics of government. A law has much more binding power over the executive branch than a rule made by the executive branch, and if the last month hasn't convinced you of that, I don't know what will. Laws can also establish private causes of action that require no intervention from a bad-faith executive to enforce. Congress today already has no knowledge of the laws they pass, anyway.
Can you even call it "knowledge work" then?
You're doing that common conservative thing of correctly identifying the principle, but then taking a turn into ridiculousness when enumerating examples. We are, in fact, in this mess because of the upper middle/professional class. It's not because of green regulations or DEI. It's because that class has a vested interest in enabling the aforementioned billionaire charlatans and their flights of fancy/fear, no matter wht those might be. Literally, if we're talking about their retirement accounts. Why are the best minds of our generation working on ads and addiction machines? Why can't we, as a country, solve problems that poorer countries solved decades ago? Because so very few with a salary and mortgage can think 5-10 years ahead, outside of their plan to scale the crab bucket walls (as rugged individuals). It won't end until a critical mass are ready to say, when presented yet another boondoggle meant to impoverish their neighbors economically and spiritually, "I don't care, I won't do it, fire me," and mean it. The robots aren't ready yet; the wealthy and deleterious elements of society still need poorer cosigners. Snap the pen in half.
Highly recommended! Extremely respectful treatment of Nadella's utterances!
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Both “killing” and “human” are linguistic and philosophical concepts, not scientific ones. So “killing another human” cannot rest upon a scientific basis.
Some of the most interesting interviews that I felt like accurately assessed my skills (even non-live ones) where debugging and code review assessments. I didn't get offers from these cos later on because I failed the leetcodes they did later in the process but I felt the review interviews were a good way to be assessed.
Bluesky's 'Discover' feed (the default algo feed that you get when you create your account) is based on _likes_, not follows, so if you never like anything you'll get random nonsense.

You can try using other algo feeds from here: https://bsky.app/feeds and remove the discover feed, or of course you could just use the chronological one.
And the number is "patients who lost a pregnancy in the second trimester [which] were diagnosed with sepsis"
the cruelty is the point
It’s not clear to me PISA scores mean anything, because they’re not uniformly administered in the U.S. And if the scores are reliable, they point to distributional issues outside the educational system. For example, Asians in the U.S. perform comparably to Singaporeans: https://www.edwardconard.com/macro-roundup/us-asians-scored-.... White Americans perform comparably to Japan and South Korea, and ahead of all of Europe.
> Nearly two years on from this article's publication, 'AI' tools are still as useless as ever for productive work.

Fully disagree. When developing I use llm's all the time. its far quicker for me to ask an llm to build a react component than for me to type it and have to remember all the little nuances for a technology I use a couple of times a year.

When proto typing things or doing quick one offs, using an LLM makes me 10x more productive.
I would call myself a relatively good developer and I fully understood type checking occurred via ===, and compare by value caught me. In my defence, I assumed this was less of an issue in modern JS, but thou shall not break backward comparability, apparently.
This feels like another Mullvad (this is a good thing).

EDIT: Ah, they use Mullvad for exit hops. Sweet.
This is a problem that can only be fixed by legislation. Other things being equal DRM that's convenient for the vast majority increases book sales and consumers aren't willing to pay enough more for DRM free books to cover the difference -- much less understand the difference between 'owning' books and 'if we feel like it' licenses. And even if a general (i.e. not O'REILLY) ebook/ereader vender just wanted to do the right thing it's far from clear you could write a license that is flexible enough to allow pivoting with changing market conditions, get good deals with publishers but not so flexible as to be meaningless. And it's hard to sell a more expensive DRM free option alongside since, as the DRM free price goes up each sale is more likely to be sold to a 'pirate'.
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A lot more Americans need to read beyond the Constitution and read case law.
Could they go to synchronous packet transfer and static payloads?

- users only ever talk to nodes in 8kb chunks, and they TX/RX 12 packets per second.

- nodes only talk to each other in 128kb chunks. Up to 8x / second, no lower than 1x/second
I'd rather not risk having a bunch of sick animals to deal with to save a couple dollars personally
Twitter didn't start doing it (the pay-for-attention model) until 17 years after it was founded, so, I mean, bsky will probably be okay for a _while_.
I grew up buying meat and never seeing farms. About 7 years ago, I helped my sister/BIL raise a flock from hatchling to food. We did everything.

Having actually slaughtered and butchered chickens I raised, I'd rather raise my own. I know the chickens I raised had a better life and death than factory farmed chickens.
> There is no scientifically plausible basis for a ban on abortion

Is there a scientifically plausible basis for a ban on other forms of homicide, or on genocide?

Science just tells us that a 24-year-old Korean, a 6-year-old English child, an American five minutes before birth and a Frenchman 5 weeks before birth are all equally human beings and all equally different from any other human beings. It doesn’t have anything to say about the morality of killing any of them, or in what circumstances.

If your moral position is ‘no homicide except in self defense,’ then that plus the scientific facts points in one direction. If your moral position is ‘homicide of slaves, children, fœtuses and other humans owned by another is permissible when the owner desires,’ then that plus the scientific facts points in another direction. If your moral position is ‘homicide of those without a functioning brain is permissible,’ then that plus the scientific facts points in yet another direction.

Scientific facts on their own are just facts; they just talk about what is, not about what one should do or not do.
Yup, I have seen some really poor decisions as a result of this. I'm also curious - what will be the effect of AI assistance during behavior interviews, etc.
Thanks, I saw someone building local researcher on YT, found 1 repo https://github.com/LearningCircuit/local-deep-research . Local ones are with ollama mostly
Government should have access to its own data. Justice and Congress should have the same access for oversight. The only problem I see is personal data about non-government people is being exposed to the entire planet.

They should have developed good security practices first and maybe spent more than a week reviewing a plan, and not having a double standard about their own activities.
I'm sure the 5 people investigating Musk's companies for wasteful spending were all fired because they were fraudulent.
Because that scary state that you read about in dystopian novels and hear about in dystopian histories is a state that Americans live in at the moment. We are all actually people that are living in an important moment, and should be aware of Normalcy Bias.
My wife and I found one of these at a game bar once and spent like 2 hours playing with it. I finally tracked one down on ebay. It was only like $30 which doesn't seem crazy in today's market. Very cool timeless toy that's entertaining for all ages.
European airports in 2019: A lot of these would be 10 euro Ryanair/Easyjet/Whatever flights, probably.

(The really ultra cheap Ryanair flights are less of a thing now, but in 2019 they were very much a factor)
>Well the scientific basis is that you're killing another human (the fetus, scientifically, is another human, with its own genetics).

Except killing another human is allowed in other circumstances, especially in Texas. Using "science" to make a special case for a fetus seems like a pretext when that science no longer applies outside the womb.
AFAIK, Typst doesn’t handle multilanguage documents well, and hyphenation in particular. I had to go back to XeTeX because of this.
The egg price is due to the H5N1 epidemics, which also means that this is the least indicated time to get a backyard chicken. The US should have dropped battery caging, like the rest of the world did 15 years ago.
> So “energic bicycle stamp” is less safe than “3nerg1c bicycll3 st4mp!” because the latter uses a larger pool of characters than the former.

The whole point of xkcd/diceware style passphrases is to expand the pool. The traditional random password uses something like 96 symbol pool (printable ascii), while passphrases use a pool of thousands of symbols (length of wordlist). That is where their strength comes from.

log2(7776^5) ~= log2(96^10) ~= 64 bits
> The team could then feed this classified information into AI tools, either for training purposes or to mine the data for insights. (Members of DOGE already reportedly have put sensitive data from the Education Department into AI software.)

Perhaps it's cheaper to assume everything leaked or will leak soon.
It’s simple don’t have a tech interview that does not relate to the job.

Show code, ask questions about it that requires opinion.
That one's going on the wish list, great memory!
You do understand the people pursuing this idiocy feel absolutely no guilt or shame, right? It's hand-waved away with "it's all part of God's plan". When you can blame some "higher power", you never have to take responsibility for anything, so there's no moral quandry to find yourself in.

It's absolute insanity, but it's reality.
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Sounds like you just treat programming more like engineering than art. Some art does have source code, there is plenty of room for creative exploration with code.
Forcing somebody isn’t entrapment. Entrapment is providing opportunity to encourage someone to commit a crime that they might otherwise have not committed.
> My experience differs a lot. Many insanely skilled people are somewhat "weird" (including possibly

I am actually a bit weird myself, so I can relate.

> What you consider to be "skilled people" is what I would rather call "skilled self-promoters". "Skilled people" and "skilled self-promoter" are quite different breeds of people.

I don't mean that they have told me that they are skilled, or that their resume has implied it. I mean that they actually have the skills. Self-promoters that don't know the information always look good on paper, but after a few minutes of talking to them you can tell that they don't quite match.

Before IT, I was a live sound engineer TV, theater, music. There was also a entertainment university starting up around the same time. They were pumping out tons of "trained" engineers that looked good on paper but couldn't mix for shit. I think we can blame them for the shitification of pop music.
US will not co-sponsor UN motion backing Ukraine
But if you’ve worked on something mature and nontrivial, you’ve forked a dependency and are able to tour it. Looks like I’ve done it on average twice per year.
For context, this is Moldbug, the leading voice in the "Dark Enlightenment" movement. Basically he convinced the tech bros this was a good idea
By your numbers, Tr0ub4dor&3 will be decoded instantly but the xkcd one will still take hours
We were planning on supporting incus. However incus dropped support for fan networking in favor of OVN for cross node networking.

OVN is very heavy and requires a lot of management when it comes to provisioning and maintenance. So for now we didn't want to go there just yet.

We're sticking with LXD, it's been receiving a lot of updates from canonical, the team is responsive on the forum and has been a pleasure to work with.

Once we have some breathing room, we definitely want to explore incus and see what networking options are out there.

Maybe we'll just adopt wireguard and make that work out of the box with incus in a future iteration.
I am writing here as a random hacker-news user. I don't claim to have any authority.

Sabine Hossenfelder presents her opinions as "what the science says" and that is the problem.
I feel like I'm slow reading through the docs. I really tried.

Is this just curl with a simpler syntax? This is advertising CLI integration, so what's the VSCode feature people seem excited about?
Not surprising that Buffet is in the lead.

But I would not have guessed that >63% rated 3 of the Top 10 as "never heard of 'em".
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It's like people think every agency just got infinite money until Musk came in.
Tofu is cheap and high in protein and is great scrambled with some mushrooms and spices. You don't Need eggs!
Yep, I think this is definitely the case for e.g. software engineering.
My air purifier was instantly showing red and running at max fan speed, it took me a while to realize that the incense i ignited is causing it to detect the extra particles in the air and spin up. Now the question is whether this is a limitation in air purifiers, their inability to distinguish inert and harmless particles from harmless ones, because all they do currently is just detect particles, not their nature.
In the words of @drlizpowell.bsky.social, "Imagine if Airlines could just break your legs and say 'whoops!' and then face no consequences."
I believe this is a difficult problem for schools. They need to have food that meets the standards (as they are defined), appealing enough to 6 through {age} range to have them eat it, something that can be prepared with relatively low skill demands, and something that can be prepared easily in the quantities needed with the kitchen staff provided.

That really gets down to reheated chicken nuggets, pizza, and other classic school lunches.

The alternative would be to have a school that has a sufficiently large and trained kitchen staff to prepare diverse food, make sure that the food selection that they have meets the requirements (and that the kids aren't just eating the deserts).

I'm recalling back to my school food eating days and the kitchen had four people - two serving, one cooking, one cleaning.

High school had two or three in the cafeteria - and they were constantly putting out the fast food equivalent food items. I can't even remember if there were salads (if there were, I don't think I ever ate them). [Burger, deep fried [fish, shrimp, chicken], French fries] was my lunches for four years.

Though I'm also not entirely sure that schools are to blame for the narrowing of food preference with kids. They don't help, but I'm not entirely sure they are to blame.
We are well past the point of diminishing returns in education: https://www.winginstitute.org/does-state-education-funding. Schools should probably focus on developing healthy kids while controlling ballooning costs.
I don't know if it's "most" but there are (still) a lot of apps with one-time purchase. You never saw that in an Appstore?
Privacy Pass!
You have to think about who you’re listening too. The economic sustainability of the actions Trump has taken so far is a pittance:

* The beauracracy today is about the size it was in 1980 on a per capita basis. It’s not the largest per capita it’s ever been.

> The federal government’s workforce has remained largely unchanged in size for over 50 years, even as the U.S. population has grown by 68% and federal spending has quintupled, highlighting the critical role of technology and contractors in filling the gap.

> Compensation for federal employees cost $291 billion in 2019, or 6.6% of that year’s total spending

So firing everyone is a 6% improvement to the federal budget while a complete government collapse for a number of reasons including that the government won’t have anyone to collect revenue or prosecute crimes.

[1]

* The largest discretionary spending area is the military at 800 billion in 2023. Of that, personnel accounted for 173 billion, or 20%. Personnel is a tiny fraction of the government’s spend each year. Even [2] which is a right wing think tank supporting this effort, claims that the liabilities improvement is 600B over 10 years which makes it a <1% dent seeing as how we spend >6T each year and just hand-waves the pension improvement as “significant”. But cuts aren’t focusing on the biggest employer within the government like the military.

* The people Trump & Musk are firing now are people who haven’t been on the job long enough to have protections. This drastically reduces the numbers above as a best case since that assumes a uniform 10% reduction across all salary bands whereas the current 10% reduction is almost certainly across the lowest bands since the government pays based on seniority.

This is what Trump does - he often identifies a real problem and then does a sleight of hand trick to make you think the actions he’s taking, because they’re highly visible, are solving the problem when in fact he’s not actually making any meaningful dent. That’s why he made a big show about the deportation flights but not talking about how the places he’s sending them to aren’t the places the people are from - he’s bullied Costa Rica into accepting whoever he send [3].

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/is-government-too-big-ref...

[2] https://epicforamerica.org/education-workforce-retirement/fi...

[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/us-deportation-fl...
I don't eat sunflower-seeds, as sunflowers murder one another by throwing shade.
Yeah but anyone can make a GreenSky. The source code is all there
One side is understandably on edge but nothing DOGE has been doing is unexpected, except in the sense that it's actually happening or seems to be happening. It went through the whole political process's standard change control mechanism, in other words the current Administration literally campaigned on it and received a mandate via both the EC and popular vote.
>I'm not who you're replying to... but: it cost me $2-2.5k to build my coop two years ago which houses 5 hens

These numbers are absurd. You need a wooden box and some chicken wire, and chicks cost less than $1/bird. I don't understand why this always comes up on HN, where people are spending thousands of dollars on chickens. It's the simplest animal you can possibly own and they should pay for themselves almost immediately.
The CFPB. He intends to create a payments app within X and shut down their most immediate regulator of banking and fintech.

That's certainly a material conflict.
>I mostly skipped the technical questions in the last few interviews I have conducted. I have a conversation

Sir, you have attained dizzying intellectual heights that few men have.

My comment is meant to be a compliment, not snarky. And indeed I have noticed that the best people I have encountered can often size people up accurately with very general questions often on unrelated subjects.
Mark Carney as leader could do the trick, but I don't know if he has the charisma to pull it off.
Don’t they need security clearances to do this?
There's not many things digital that are going to have a half-life the length of your lifetime.
340 pages, sorry not reading that...
I am reminded of https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/great-leap-forwar...