skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Florida a notable non-giant one I remember is because the river is a location which had historically been the legal borderline between different counties.

One county north of the river, the adjacent county existing south of the river.

The island itself, not specifically within either county technically.

Oral history of Rum Island in the Santa Fe river goes back to the time when liquor was prohibited by US law, and regardless of whether local officials knew about it, they could honestly testify that there was no remaining liquor within their jurisdiction.
Windows Solitaire mostly died because Microsoft strangled it with microtransactions and ads during the Windows 8 days.

What went from a simple minigame you could fire up at any time got transformed into this monstrosity that kept forcing ads on you, urging you to buy premium versions, adding "engagement" nonsense (daily missions) and selling you back the same features that came free in the Windows 7 version.
"Because U.S. Christians have been too politically disengaged"

Woof.

(That quote is from the article writer, not a direct quote from the article subject. But it appears to be an authentic summary of the intent.)
How so? The article doesn't give any indication of that. It just says they disagreed.
when China decided to wholesale ignore Western copyright in the digital age, completely.. the equation changed IMHO.
Our understanding of the world is overfit to the macro level, where we project concepts onto experience to create the illusion of discrete objects, which is evolutionally beneficial.

However, at the quantum level, identity is not bound to space or time. When you split a photon into an entangled pair, those "two" photons are still identical. It's a bit like slicing a flatworm into two parts, which then yields (we think) two separate new flatworms... but they're actually still the same flatworm.

Experiments like this are surprising precisely because they break our assumption that identity is bound to a discrete object, which is located at a single space, at a single time.
Not just that, but fusion will never happen if no one tries their hands on it because everyone says it can’t be done.
Fiveteen judges have been impeached. Since 1803! [1]
It's understandable if you disagree with a judges orders, but if Musk is taking this as a reason to call for impeaching judges he shows a clear lack of understanding of how justice works.

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/Impeachment_of_federal_judges
I'm not at all invested in the above except as a vague thought experiment but imho...

No theory can match CMB as well as the current theories that add cosmic inflation on an as needed basis in time and space to make CMB observations match perfectly. But cosmic inflation is a completely unknown mechanism (no explanation at the level of particle physics) and it was added specifically to make CMB match perfectly. In some ways i think the current 'we observe CMB to be this so we'll move these free variables to make it match' make CMB non-falsifiable. You could add similar free variables to any theory to make CMB match.
He’s so good in it, and its treatment of masculinity was interesting.

Best read after seeing it: https://filmschoolrejects.com/night-moves-neo-noir/
It seems like the advice is primarily relevant if you are already very talkative and/or complaining too much about everything wrong. In that case, it will not hurt to take a step back sometimes: this is also leadership.
x86-64 Playground An online assembly editor and GDB-like debugger
How to integrate Stripe's acquisition of Index? (2018)
If instead of WASM you decided to emulate a different DOOM target like a PC then you'd have to emulate the actual VGA graphics hardware and enough of the other PC hardware to run the game. That level of emulation is a difficult project on it's own.
> He is prioritizing these radical beliefs above his marriage, friendships, and relationships with his children.

Was he? Maybe I missed something, but I didn't see any indication of that in the article. Unless by "prioritizing these radical beliefs" you mean he wasn't willing to just abandon his sincerely held beliefs because his family was threatening to leave him if he didn't? I actually think that's an admirable quality. You shouldn't ignore reality just because it would be convenient for you personally. (In this case he's wrong about what reality is, but that's a separate concern.)
Not even Trump or Musk is making this claim as the driving purpose of DOGE.
It's not even guaranteed that it doesn't allocate, so a malloc(0) could cause an out of memory.
I suspect they are arguing that it is not because the default codegen backend produces LLVM IR, which C++ code turns into the final executable. The Cranelift backend which is pure Rust exists, but because it is not the default some people discount it. I personally believe that leveraging existing codegen infrastructure is sound engineering. Having a "pure" implementation is not a goal of the project, having solid tooling is. That might translate in the future to tackling codegen more directly, but it isn't a huge pain point today.
>I'm curious why there's no clear "Spanish" in these ISBN visualizations

I had the exact same question, and I do have a completely unsupported theory. There's one large block that appears to be Argentina, or possibly Peru, although their titles are on the fringes of the large block. The block is otherwise unlabled, no name sitting at the center of the block like you see with the other major ones. I would be slightly surprised if it were entirely argentina, but it would make a lot of sense if that block were Spanish.
I love Solitaire - it's such a nice way to kill a few minutes while waiting for something else.

Unfortunately, many solitaire phone apps are filled with ads, slow, or have clunky controls.

A few years ago, however, I found https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.tobiasbielefeld.solitaire... . Its free and open source, and quite fast with nice shortcuts to move the cards.

I love this app and have played multiple Klondike/Spider Solitaire games a day using it. I wholeheartedly recommend it if you want a simple game of Solitaire in the same spirit as the post.
I don't think anyone ever doubted that a C program could be memory safe. The problem is knowing without exhaustive work whether yours is one of them.

These aren't bad practices, but I don't think they satisfy that desire either.
Programmers will invent new languages and demand new hardware architectures rather than ~~go to therapy~~ use a garbage collector.
Doge is doing what every other administration in history has failed to do.

Here's a fun exercise: Go look up how much of that debt was incurred during the previous Trump administration.

Go ahead and look. We'll wait.
The article is short on details, but I'm curious if this is a direct result of the first fire (something got damaged that led to this one maybe?) or a situation where the same faulty engineering/bad equipment led to another fire?

I assume that the battery plant hadn't restarted operation after the first fire yet since I can't imagine that repairs had completed.
Ok then how can you have any discussions or comparisons that are remotely objective without using data? You just use feelings?

If you ask people from all over the world, from Canada to Korea, from the lower class to the middle class, everyone will say they're more unhappy than they were before.

Great, now how you propose we make all people happy? Based on what criteria?

Our society is not an utopia that can ever achieve a perfect balance where everyone is happy at the same time, but lives in a constant state of change where the unhappy have to fight and struggle to change things in their favor, most of the times at the expense of the happiness of others.
True.

I do think the ideal kind of memory safe language either has no "unsafe", or has an "unsafe" feature that only needs to be used in super rare an obscure cases (Java is like that, sort of).

Fil-C has no "unsafe", so in that sense Fil-C is safer than Rust. You don't need an escape hatch if the memory safety guarantees are dialed in just right.
the first case was literally a border check at an airport, and in which no evidence was ever shown of him committing a crime other than this one. The others yes. The point is no court was required to compell him, no warrant was needed. The point is that the law allows for abuse of power by law enforcement not that it is currently being abused, do not move the goal-posts.

Also if encryption itself is not illegal, but it is illegal to not decrypt something when asked, then encryption is effectively illegal, since you only need to convince a part of the state that you have suspicion to get it decrypted for you, a task which is really not that difficult in the modern day.
(xata employee)

I totally agree with schema migrations being painful, have you seen the open-source tool we developed to tackle this problem? It is called pgroll: https://github.com/xataio/pgroll

Any feedback is appreciated!
How to Refactor Code with GitHub Copilot – The GitHub Blog
I have no idea, never used threads. Has it faltered?
I have never heard that assertion, I don’t know how anyone can play Balatro and not feel that it is a deeply intentional creation. I think localthunk would be the first to tell you they got lucky with how it found an audience outside of themselves, but everything in the game oozes polish and intention.
Ganja.js is an amazingly general GA library. The problem with GA in general is that it uses a LOT of numbers. (3DPGA uses 4d multivectors with 16 numbers for every object, so dyadic operations can involve up to 16^2 elementary operations, similar to a matmul!) For most practical applications many of them cancel out and can be optimized away. I don't believe ganja.js does this, but there are algebra generators on the site that produce optimized code. I'm not sure why they chose the general library for their landing page instead of baking the animations, but the fact that it runs as performantly as it does is actually quite impressive to me!

For a glimpse at the power of ganja.js, check out the coffeeshop examples:

https://enkimute.github.io/ganja.js/examples/coffeeshop.html
M1 is also both.
Trump administration struggles to rehire fired bird flu employees
6 years after wildfires destroyed their Malibu homes, many struggle to rebuild
I rarely delve into comments sections. Kind of assumed if someone had brought up a solution the author would have updated it but I can see that dropping off when a comment comes 8 years after the article was published.
There is or there used to be a browser extension called Track Me Not that would run random internet searches based on trending topics on Google News or whatever.

At one point I had thousands of searches a day on multiple networks on my "profile"
Feeling the Vibe: Coding with AI
http://richard-parkins.free.nf/
Fun fact I didn't learn until adulthood: rust itself doesn't carry tetanus. What does is dirt. A rusty nail can pierce through clothing and skin because it is a nail, and can be assumed to have been in the dirt because it is rusty. It's "only" a useful approximation.
Bot comment? What would 'likewise' mean in response to a hyperlink?
Non-Paywalled Link: https://medium.com/@dana11235/feeling-the-vibe-coding-with-a...
> Who is behind librewolf and why should i trust them?

https://librewolf.net/#core-contributors

They also have links to join other community spaces so you can probably ask them yourself.

> They don't seem to be available in any official repos yet other than ones they self-published

The only official repos are the ones which the community decides are so. https://codeberg.org/librewolf They've been around long enough that if they're not on github (for example), it's probably intentional. (One can imagine why this particular community might prefer to avoid directing people to Microsoft-owned github.)
I agree it's one thing to hold different beliefs, and another thing to be constantly starting arguments over them and refusing to discuss anything else.

Maybe that was happening, but if it was then the article completely omits that very important piece of context.
Oh yes, basically you can click anywhere on screen to pause
Sounds good. It is a jungle to find the right optimization options. It's not getting that much publicity.
I do this for my personal hobby projects, but that's as much to deter use by technology enthusiasts as anything.
Have you seen doge.gov? It is not just about firing the do-nothing remote federal workers.

Have you bothered to look up the actual hard statistics that show that federal workers work more and harder than those in private sector companies?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/21/are-feder...

Warning: You will have to exit your echo chamber.
That'd be nice but I fear our friends on the island are too stubborn to accept and fix their mistake.
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With the demo you can play around with sending messages between browser windows and with curl.

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> But I'm having a hard time reconciling this observation with the fact that we are so much richer as a society than we were in say 1970. Presumably even the poorer people are, in absolute terms, wealthier than they were then.

Is this really true though? Yes, in 1970, we did not have computers in our pockets, fine. But, in 1970, my parents owned their own home in their 20s just from the tiny salary of a single school teacher. They financed their educations without loans. They had easy and cheap access to health care. Their day-to-day costs still allowed them to save money. They had a strong safety net and a local community that cared.

We don't have any of that today, but we do have billionaires skewing the "average" higher and higher. I wouldn't say that anyone but them are in real terms wealthier today than in 1970.
I can’t agree enough. It’s sort of like those massive paintings recreated in CSS. They are a neat achievement, yet sort of reveals a vast emptiness that exists within the author.
> most companies I've worked in don't bother until they are above 100 employees, despite what that site says

Companies don't "bother with" SSO because using SSO is expensive, since every product charges more for the privilege. Otherwise there's no reason why a 2-person company shouldn't be using SSO from the get go.
I'm convinced that a COM-like solution with support for concepts that Rust/Swift have will be the sweet spot.
Climbing the AI Layer Cake
The assertions are more around code quality. Game design is wonderful.

Apparently there are places where the code is like a thousand lines of if card_name then effect.
Framework: Desktops Are Next (Year of Linux Desktop Gaming)
>Right now, the billionaires have been successful at tricking people into thinking it's immigrants or some other group, but that won't always be the case.

False. It was always the case and it will always be the case. People as a whole, as a collective mob, are incredibly stupid and easy to manipulate against their own interests. Just see elections. Since the super rich own the media both the legacy media and the online social media, it's easier than ever to manipulate them. And people aren't getting any smarter, on the contrary, just look at the education system and IQ numbers, meaning they're getting easier to manipulate not harder.

> it's going to cause civil unrest.

People claiming that civil unrest will unleash against the super wealthy any time now, have constantly been wrong. All the civil unrest from the poor is only affecting the average middle-class people.

And how do you expect poor people will find where the likes of Musk and Bezos live and what do you expect will happen to them once they try to go after the super rich? Exactly what happend to Luigi. Law enforcement will allocate 100% resources to go after you and throw the book at you. The rich and powerful are untouchable, so the only ones who will suffer the wrath of the poor will be the middle class.

Those who think the super rich will somehow be even remotely affected by some hypothetical revolution of the poor that will somehow turn the tides in their favor, have read too much fiction and are deluding themselves with the highest concentration of copium in the world. If the poor were to have the power to threaten the rich with violence you're gonna see a missive reduction in your rights an a massive increase in state oppression.

So a poor vs rich revolution in the US is not gonna happen. The closest thing was Occupy Wallstreet but that fizzled out pretty quickly once they introduced identity politics to divide the people and have them fight against themselves on gender and race.
I think that they could use exactly that line, and it would be extremely effective. It would raise more money than the dog-whistle approach that pretends that this is about something other than boosting egos.
We really need to figure out a way to reliably extinguish Lithium fires or at least have a way and a place to transport them to so they can be contained until we can be sure they're not going to spontaneously reignite like these did. It's kind of wild to me that they seem to have just left the burnt batteries in place.
>CEOs are ignoring the math

Lots of CEOs wouldn't be where they are unless they were ignorant of the math that great CEOs wield intuitively, whether they had any business school background or not.
Even with that skill, I am arguing that figuring out a regex for your find and replace operation, or a sequence of commands to jump to the next line, are cognitively demanding in a way scrolling the mouse until you see it, or clicking around a minimap, is not. People do not tend to actually wall clock the time they spend thinking about what to type. I would have this experience too- I would feel like a wizard having stitched together a sequence of multiple commands, and remember that, not the fact that I didn’t get anything done that day I wouldn’t have with sublime text or vscode.

I think there was a time when vim saved a lot of time over other editors, and it still feels like a powerful time saving when you kick off a macro, but I am not convinced it actually is saving time over modern editors with their far easier to use features and plugins.
It it false but I would not blame the parent; the ISP blocked page is unclear and suggests the block is linked to Russia.
An important thing to consider is not just average return, but risk factors, and worst case scenarios.

If you buy a home instead of investing, you've got a locked in, controlled rate for your housing expenses. (Yes, there's some variability with property tax and insurance). In difficult times, you can still plan very carefully around your housing costs and wait for better times.

If you rent and invest, your housing costs can be highly variable and uncontrollable over time. Your investments may not cover increases in housing costs.

A critical factor is that housing is more or less a _required_ cost of existence - just like feeding oneself. It is not something where one can necessarily "invest in other areas" instead. There are extreme cases (living out of an RV or in a tent on the side of the road), but for the most part those extremes are not representative of how someone wants to live. One can only downsize so much, and downsizing your housing investment comes with very real changes to quality of life (storage space, commute time, access to grocery stores, etc).
CSS Puzzle Box 2.0
Great reason to use Fil-C
You can't. Ever. So you just need to live with uncertainty.
Thank you. I didn't try chrome on android much so I'll see how that goes. I'm going to guess that clicking the upgrade buttons was enough for chrome to allow me to play sounds, but clicking a canvas wasn't. Coins were initially just glowing colored circles but nobody understood they were coins, i went a bit too much to the other side, i'll find the right look eventually :)
> including bundled games on what was at the time primarily a business OS was bold, controversial, and brilliant.

Brillant, sure, but not completely sure it was controversial or bold, they have stated that it was primarily included in Windows 3.0 to help people get used to the new paradigms (for Windows) of the mouse and drag and drop, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Solitaire

> People give Microsoft a lot of shit

Well they didn't help themselves by shoving ads and subscriptions in all of those games : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Solitaire_Collection...
sure sure, and what i mean is that ideally the package manager can be made to use any arbitrary vcs system by the programmer. that's all. early on choices were made with cargo's development to where it's non-trivial to make something like that work, you touched on that briefly. it's a good example of why making a package manager is hard, there are so many aspects to them and it's really easy to engineer yourself into a corner to where any individual aspect of them might be flawed. typical software problem, expounded by the fact that package managers are deceptively complicated. doubly expounded by what i mention with language package managers not having the "opt-in" inherent quality of system package managers, not in the same way.

ideally it'd just have an interface you can write a module against. maybe they've added that? i sure hope they didn't have to hardcode the options of that new vcs switch ;)

> that’s why rustc and cargo are different

indeed. but rust analyzer really likes you to use cargo. i know it provides facilities for specifying a json in place of cargo.toml, which is great, but my limited experience with that saw me running into some weird issues (maybe they've been fixed, maybe it was just a skill issue.)

also i will say cargo does at least let you specify local paths as dependencies relatively painlessly, so it gets points for that escape hatch.
On this topic, the problem I have with "talk less" as advice is that although simply by 'talking less' you make room for silence and other people to fill it in, it doesn't actively instigate other people to talk. I want other people to pro-actively give their opinions and thoughts.