skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also use that color.diff.whitespace "red reverse" and along with it diff.wsErrorHighlight all. I recall needing to set both in the past but in trying to find out why that might have been superseded by only needing the latter. I'm not quite sure.
This is a deepity.

The trivial interpretation is: every word written can be constructed by optimizing a prediction based on current state, what has been written so far, and a sufficiently complex model. This is true of anything computable: just make the method implicitly contain the program by assigning a high probability to any token that is consistent with running the computation one more step. It's also true of anything expressible: just brute force a solution that can be expressed in n words, then assign a high probability to the first word of these n words.

The profound but wrong interpretation is that intelligence is just statistical prediction according to some general-purpose algorithm, and that this algorithm is tractable. Consider something like solving a SAT problem. You're going to have a hard time using any tractable general-purpose algorithm to predict whether x_2 is true for the satisfying solution based on some long CNF statement plus "x_1 is false".

Now, what you _can_ do is augment your model so that if the previous tokens constitute a CNF-SAT instance plus a partial answer, then you cart these off to a SAT solver and output its next token. But the more you do this, the less force the "mere statistical prediction" part holds. The "next-token predictor" is just an interface to an assembly of different approaches; and often, these approaches (like the SAT solver) will output the whole solution all at once for free.
Peak capitalism would have the employees holding their own value and not being crushed in trash power dynamics to allow this kind of stuff. Capitalism is about nonviolent voluntary exchanges between two parties, when one party has a power dynamic skewed in such a way they can use tools like this that employees hate, then that’s not capitalism anymore.
I don't think Microsoft legally has access to any Teams enterprise data like chats and recordings.
Whatever is posted is unreliable.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/doge-days-musk-trump-t...

NBC isn't the only outlet reporting that their "savings" don't add up.
https://www.highergov.com/grant/AID388A1700003/
I genuinely believe that Elon Musk just "wants to do something , because he promised efficiency" , does the worst job at it because he's incompetent at such stuff and tries to oversell what he does.

I once saw a video of a guy explaining genuinely how elon can technically reach its number of $ tax payers saved, it required US to invest highly in a digital system like that of estonia.

But oh no , he's going to take your grandma
s social security.

Elon musk is both stupid and malicious.

I am not pro billionare , I genuinely believe that there might be very billionaire who aren't ruthless in their business and even a little malicious.

I think its totally possible that Elon can be stupid and be the richest man in the world. I have gotten a Elon Musk biography and I really used to admire him untill he bought twitter and renamed it X. to me , it was something of a collosal waste of branding. Twitter is Twitter , not X , yet Elon made it X , what is its relation ? , its like facebook naming itself J or whatever , I don't know.

It has all been a bad show after that. I think he has shown signs of being both stupid and malicious. He called somebody a pedo without no reason I think. He has a fragile ego , I don't know .

I think we need to stop glorifying ruthless bussinessman like billionaires , I think its hard to say this on a startup forum.

I don't know , I think you can appreciate startups / the freedom it brings (if you are genuinely interested in some tech and feel limited by current employment opportunities) and also dislike billionaires if they are fragile ego.

These two aren't contradictory.
Is the CA allowed to stipulate that the customer (before being dropped) needs to pay a significant sum for, say, "expenses" if they resort to this kind of TRO?
We keep re-inventing Yahoo but never doing a good enough job of it.
Engineering, statistics, science: these things do not change every four years. How to dig a trench or survey a boundary does not change. How to conduct clinical trials, combat disease, deliver mail: these things do not change.

What is not tenable today, or ever, is firing the people with these skills every four years and re-hiring replacements, to the extent that this happens at all, based on ideological tests.
Thanks for that, it does look quite elegant. RIP Mr. Loew.

There is a todo shown:

>? added Partition specific Geometry setting

>? add docs for above

>Add warning about Letter Assigners in DOS and Windows

> Force LogOnly and set size

>Geometry needs to be set to match Partitions settings.

What I've found using recent Windows is that Diskpart will autocorrect the CHS figures based on what LBA changes you make when using other apps, but you have to use Diskpart to "touch" that particular partition after you make the changes, preferably after a reboot. When I need this done without other modifications, I use Diskpart's SetID command, where you type "Help Setid" to get the Diskpart syntax doc on it, but tha command is like "SET ID=de" (with a space there) to change the partition type. To type DE for instance, a "Dell" OEM type. The CHS correction happens silently. Then change it back to type 0C if FAT32, or 07 if NTFS, or basically what you had before.

If you check the structure I'm using, both FATs are written in the same stroke on the size mostly found in UEFI boot volumes :)
Yeah it has terrible optics, yet it's clearly going to be normalized and come. The question is who does it and what is the organization of it. If this company doesn't do it, the next will.

In certain roles, AI micromanagement clearly will create higher performance. Add the marketplace of capitalism and it'll all compete away.

There are certain roles, like artists, where this is the wrong solution wholly: monitoring whether an artist is at her desk will create badly performing artists, and this will show. In these roles, these tools won't apply.
Do you comment on hacker news to gain your 42k karma while working your federal job from home? You better send that email!
I get that people think there’s some “deep state”, but including WSJ reporters is a new expansion.

Can you define “state” for me here? I don’t think we’re using the same definitions.
I’ve noticed the worse someone is in a language, the worse they format it.

People then develop fastidious code formatting rules because they realize well formatted code is easier to read and extend.

Then people realize it’s the organization of the code, not the rules themselves. They have preferences, but don’t treat those preferences as “the one true way”.

So people with fastidious rules are in that middle ground of becoming less bad, and that’s a wide swath of abilities.
No, “liberal democracy” is bad too. It involves doing things like involving western moral standards in muslim countries and interfering in elections under the pretext of “human rights.” Fighting terrorism is at least beneficial to the U.S.
I’ve been practicing trunk-based development for the last year and none of these Git tips apply.
Kungfu Bot: Unitree G1
While I enjoyed the discussion as an exercise in stripping back positions to underlying principles. I find it a great irony that the overarching reason why they diverge on what is "good practice" is not discussed.

John sounds like he is about to start building a new type of database, and Bob sounds like he's knee deep in a 20 year old code base for a logistics company. Both of their positions are reasonable, and both optimized for specific contexts.

I found Bob's responses more measured (which I value a lot), with John's at times being more compelling. I do agree that over-composition is a real problem that Bob is on the wrong side of the line on. But to be fair, Bob and Clean Code comes from a time where it was the opposite and his position on this feels like a philosophy that has an over-correction (albeit - not necessarily a flaw) at it's core.
DOGE will use AI to assess the responses of federal workers
I assure you that in the world where the oligarchs have destroyed the post-new-deal world and established their CEO-king fiefdoms, houses will be less affordable.
I guess kinda.
Yes and none of these people asked anyone with clinical laboratory knowledge whether this device could work. Many analytes need a venous draw to attain accurate results. So even if they only used a drop of blood that blood would have to be obtained the same way as a tube is now.

It would be like a young man dropping out of school and claiming they have GPU technology that is 2x nvidia performance. Everyone would laugh and demand proof. But they all didn't do the most basic of due diligence here
NATO doesn’t have to rethink anything, NATO is an extension of EUCOM for all intents and purposes. That’s why the title of Supreme Allied Commander Europe goes to the same guy that runs EUCOM.
It's actually universal within a certain niche. I think phone networks are doing just about everything over SCTP internally. When SS7 links get replaced they get replaced with something that uses SCTP. Not sure of the details because I don't work there.

Related: there's a parallel Internet with a different root of number allocation called GRX/IPX (GPRS Roaming Exchange/Internetwork Packet Exchange)
She could not have been charged with crimes against investors if the patient's blood work results were correct. She knowingly lied about the capability of these devices knowing it would garner investors. That's the crime she got convicted of, luckely no one appears to have died from the invalid medical testing.
It seems cruel and unkind to punish someone for a crime they were tried for and found not guilty (on all counts) of.
Ask HN: Are we all starting to sound like AI?
With AI-assisted writing becoming more popular, everything—including blog posts, emails, and descriptions—now looks polished and structured.

Think of it this way: when was the last time you received an email with grammatical mistakes or improper punctuation? Every email sounds the same today!

P.S: This was edited with ChatGPT. Look at the use of '—'. So chatgptyish!
Imagine the features you could add to this. Like a robot that walks around behind the workers and gives well-timed corrective communications with a whip.
Every home user is behind a NAT. While you can send any protocol between datacenter servers, IPv4 home users are stuck with TCP or UDP.
“For someone who writes about burnout, you sure spend a lot of energy
building platforms that could have been a simple REST API with a
WebSocket.”
Pretty superficial way to not address GP's underlying point, which makes sense whether or not Madoff died.
One of the senior devs at the company I work at is really arrogant and brash while being basically unfireable due to being a knowledge silo. Things like opening tickets in the ops board, not having full admin access to the entire infra etc. have been a source of verbal conflict in the past on multiple occasions. He also once threw a tantrum because he considered tasks assigned to him annoying and wanting to work on things "he actually cares about", which was rewarded by letting him work from home for a couple of weeks.

I've stopped taking things like that personally. It took effort to do so and to not return fire in equal measure, but the negatives of doing so far outweigh the outcome of keeping a cool head and keeping the discussion rational.
Almost feels like a viewpoint that changes depending on how old you are & what your life experiences have been. I’m glad OP is so certain in his judgement though, especially ranking war machine companies as good for the world.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/02/24/germany-...

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250216-germany-s-far...

https://www.dw.com/en/how-elon-musk-meddled-in-germanys-elec...
If the only way I can interact with a business is through Facebook, that's a business telling me they don't want me as a customer and I'm more than happy to oblige them.

I've very rarely encountered that, though. Most businesses at least have a phone number I can use to talk to them.
The best developer that I ever worked with, is "on the spectrum."

His code was really anal.

I have come to learn that there are no "rules," only heuristics.
In Linux w/ XCmpose or similar, or Hacker's Keyboard on Android, or Wincompose on Windows it is also the compose key then oe. XCompose also has a lot of customisable digraph support. See Kragen's list.

So. <compose>oe = œ

I usually bind capslock to the compose key in Linux (and Windows with Wincompose).
Hacker's Keyboard has a dedicated button.
Tbh this isn’t that crazy. If you hire someone to do their job outputting 10 items per hour and that number is reasonable because a bunch of other workers you hired for the same job are doing it and 1 guy hits 1 per hour then that guys shouldn’t be doing that job.

The outrage should be focused on the absolute meme of their ad video cuz they were like “lets literally have a convo with an individual but refer to them as a workspace and have them say human painful responses but then just shit on them anyway impersonally”

The product is not crazy. The video is wild.
I’ve never heard it to be called T shaped before, but I like it!
UB says at one point:

> Would that we had such a crystal ball

And then it seems like he actually found his crystal ball, because in the very next question he refers to things that have not yet occurred in the conversation:

> interpreting your rewrite (below)

And later:

> In your solution, which we are soon to see below

This makes it somewhat confusing to read, with answers being based on counterpoints that will only have been made in the future. (Which, I suppose, is similar to the problem Ousterhout has with UB's PrimeGenerator example.)
Free beef jerky sure is a nice office snack. Stuff tends to be more pricey that most carb based snacks
Just breaking the law is not disrupting. Disrupting requires broad support from the public, which is aware that laws are being broken and are fine with it - meaning the particular laws in place are ripe for questioning at the very least.

Uber isn’t what it is because they broke the law, but because the vast public approve of their actions.
It’s actually really interesting from a literature perspective. Every other paragraph, you realize some word, phrase, idiom you know originated from that exact paragraph.
Once an SWF has accumulated wealth, that wealth is invested in stocks, bonds, real estate, and other financial instruments to earn even more money.

Any suggestions on what I should invest in now knowing that a US government fund is imminent?

Bitcoin? TSLA? $TRUMP? DOGE?

Or do we think that it's going to pump everything in the world?
Given our vast prison population, perhaps it's not such an effective deterrent.
There's an interesting cultural divide here. Probably a majority of mechanical and electrical designers still think it's risky and weird to use software that doesn't come from a vendor. Even though they experience occasional outages when something goes wrong with the license billing and payment. The electricals are a bit further along, I think because they're closer to the programming world.
That’s fair in certain parts. I like the balance they struck (at the time at least) of not super in the weeds but not high level tutorial mode. A few things around their orm specifically were a little confusing or sparse at times if memory serves
> It's like a job...but with only the good bits.

Such as no job security, or severance packages, feast and famine cycles?

I freelance, I get what you're hinting at, benefits aee great when you can make your own schedule and be appreciated for the value you deliver and not merely presence.

But on the other hand you got to be clear about the fact that it's a numbers game, where you lose some win some, unless you can always aquire new work through your network, and can temper times of economical uncertainty (anyone that started only during the 2020's till today knows how fluctuating the market has been). I've had a couple multi-month downtimes when the markets where uncertain, 2020 first 6 months, 2022 during the EU energy crisis, and 2023 when companies where shedding the extra pandemic hires in drowes.
I already have this in production. Interested?

PS: Please, don't tell anyone that it is all starch, sugar and artificial color/flavor :)
At least where I live in the UK, kebabs are treated as drunk food, not lunch food. This is completely different to the US where a gyro is treated as a lunch food and always seemed higher quality.
There is indoor lettuce I can buy at my supermarkets that is "zero pesticide" (you can just google it and find several, don't want to post any sort of links to products here).

I suspect it's hydroponic.
If you invest in her next startup you are waiving your right to cry foul in the eveny you lose your money.
That's approaching "real communism has never been tried".
If all but the most bubbled media have been brought to heel by billionaire owners or threats and the ordinary voters, the ones who sat out the last election or thought it was about the price of eggs, are exposed only to authoritarian-friendly propaganda, I don't have a lot of hope for the next elections.
> Yeah it has terrible optics, yet it's clearly going to be normalized and come. The question is who does it and what is the organization of it. If this company doesn't do it, the next will.

Where have we seen this before..
Continued rant :

It’s kinda like a ruler. If you measure workers so that one’s doing 10x less/worse output than the average that’s good.

If you compare workers down to the .01% difference in output that’s stupid and inhumane.
Portland's Poisonous Past – Poison Idea Are Hardcore's Greatest of All Time 2013
Laravel vs. Django and Rails for SaaS Development
> If anyone ever referred to me as a number, I would spit at them. What an unbelievably degrading thing to do.

Let me get this straight. Someone degrades you so your response is to degrade yourself further by spitting like an animal?
Depending on how they're doing their scoring, the bible might get artificially boosted because everyone knows it
No, but if you right wing podcast hard enough, you can be 2nd in command at the FBI (no other qualifications necessary).
> Limited resources is the thing

I think that is true. When we didn't have access to a proper football at school, we took used notebook papers, made a ball out of it, put that in several layers of small plastic bags (for water proofing) and tightened that in with a thick string looped to cover the surface. It served perfectly as football for a bunch of noisy kids and was easily replaceable.

Paucity provides the spark for creativity.
> Tbh this isn’t that crazy.

Yep, seems like a bog standard accountability / performance management.

> The product is not crazy. The video is wild.

This is how it all starts. Sane solutions wielded by madmen.
I'm curious what you mean. I've been practicing trunk based development since 2011[0] and all of these config settings help that flow. Arguably you don't want the rebase thing, but otherwise I can't imagine what you think here would not apply.

[0] https://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow/
Nobody looks at people as robots. Robots are cheaper, do not require food or sleep, and do not have to be murdered when they attempt to unionize.

Robots are far superior.
https://archive.is/gYmdm
Spices – in-app debug menus in SwiftUI
Brought to you by the VC famous for InstallMonetizer? Make no mistake, it’ll basically back anything that makes money, there’s no moral high ground. And like it or not, this kind of AI (or should I say A-eye) is here to stay.
so this is more like peak feudalism huh?

back to 1800's I suppose.

There is no seperation b/w private entities , the state and the church , all trying to exploit the middle class / lower class was one of the gists that I think when I recall feudalism
sounds familiar ?
Guess what ?
We are living at one right now.
It’s odd how Musk never seems to have that awkwardness cause him to make other random gestures which don’t look like Nazi salutes.

Similarly, while it’s true that the ADL tried to excuse it, that’s the opinion of their controversial new president and is far from a consensus position. Many other people, including their former national director, did describe it as a fascist salute:

https://forward.com/fast-forward/690745/adl-elon-musk-sieg-h...

https://www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-alerts/red-flag-ale...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/21/the-gestu...

Most tellingly, of course, is that extremists all over the world recognized and celebrated rated it. The whole “Roman salute” excuse started as a claim by Musk’s connection to the Italian far-right, apparently hoping that American audiences didn’t know that was a fascist symbol:

https://apnews.com/article/musk-gesture-salute-antisemitism-...

> Musk himself mocked those accusing him, threatened to sue, and has made jokes about raising his arm the wrong way. Nazi saluters don't do that, they're proud to nazi salute that's the point. But I suppose if you hate Musk you'll cling to your story even with evidence supporting the contrary.

This is simply intellectual dishonesty: while they say they’re joking, that doesn’t mean that they’re being honest when they do so, that other people are not allowed to disagree with that excuse, that the only motivation for disagreement is some personal hatred for Musk, or that personal opinions constitute incontrovertible evidence which cannot be argued.
In these roles, these tools won't apply.

There will be companies that will apply them regardless, even in roles where they'll make things worse. The incentive for managers to show 'a bias for action' often results in managers doing any action that they can think of rather than the right action backed by data.
Just because you talk a lot about the same damn topic on different threads does not mean your opinions are atomized and not seen in their totality.
SHACL-SKOS Based Representation of Material Safety Data Sheet (SDS)
People could have died, or maybe did.
I don't see why the police can't just get a warrant - "the victim is showing me a tracking pin showing their device" seems like reasonable cause for a narrow search warrant to be issued on a property for that device.

This seems like a reason to streamline warrants rather than bypassing the normal court oversight processes.
I tend to manually remove GPT signatures like — so the luddites can only cry to themselves instead of moaning out loud about my AI usage.
So then you agree with me that's it's all optics and virtue signaling rather than any ethics based in logic.
The US spent the last hundred years shifting power from congress to the president, because nobody in congress wanted the blame for any decisions and be either primaried, or lose the election. Trump isn't seizing power, he's just using the power voluntarily given to him. American democracy wasn't ended by a revolution, it was ended by lawfully elected cowards.
That wouldn’t be greppable in the source though?