skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Free speech is taken much further in the US, almost to the point of inciting violence.

Yes, that's where we (here in the U.S.) draw the legal line. But almost inciting violence is not inciting violence. Since the U.S. made free speech the focus of the very first rule in the constitution, an enormous amount of jurisprudence and precedent has emerged around exactly how to make those tricky case by case judgements. Whether one agrees with it or not, it's easily the most evolved, detailed and real-world tested (over many decades) body of free speech law humanity has. Because it's deep, complex and controversial, there's also quite a bit of misunderstanding and misinformation about U.S. free speech law. I see incorrect assertions and assumptions quite often in mainstream media outlets who should know better. Here's a good primer on some of the most common misunderstandings: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/free-speec...

I've studied and read a lot about free speech and the first amendment as I find it fascinating. It took me quite a while to really understand how and why the U.S. implementation got to where it really is (and not the exaggerations and extrapolations that sometimes get amplified). In terms of free speech current practice and precedent, I now think the U.S. has got it just about right in the tricky balance between ensuring the open exchange of ideas (even unpopular ones) against preventing actually real and serious defamation, libel and incitement. To be sure, the U.S. system is based on the principle that it's not the job of the current government in power to force adults to be nice, reasonable or respectful in either words or tone. Freedom of speech means the freedom to be wrong, stupid, or mean, to be insulting or offensive - even to provoke or inflame should you choose to.

While the government won't send men with guns to force you to shut up, other citizens are also free to exercise their rights to tell you (and everyone else) you're an asshole, that you're wrong and exactly why. They are equally free to be rude, offensive and even hateful against your ideas and you. One of the key ideas behind the U.S. constitution is every fundamental right granted to all citizens comes with matching responsibilities for all citizens. In other words, no right is free - they have actual, personal costs for each citizen. In the case of the first amendment, the responsibilities include tolerating speech that's wrong, boorish, offensive or even hateful. As well as the responsibility to exercise your own good judgement on which speech to ignore, reject and/or counter. The open marketplace of ideas, like all markets, is two-sided. Another responsibility is accepting the consequences of exercising your free speech unwisely. Your fellow citizens are free to ignore, argue, yell back, openly mock or just laugh at you. Ultimately, the framers of the constitution believed the majority of citizens can figure out for themselves who's an idiot and who's worth listening to. Which ideas are worth considering and which are important to stand against.
"America First" strategy turns out to be "American Second". (I guarantee you that China will not be idle, and will do everything in its power to fill the void. Whether it succeeds remains to be seen, but it has the best chance it's ever had.)
The word "Endangered" in this context (which, again, hasn't applied to the bald eagle for 30 years!) is defined by and used within the context of the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Inserting an "actuallly" argument is doing nothing but harming understanding.
> But that is not what is happening here. A principle is not self-motivatingly good just because it exists.

The principle I was referring to is that the legislative branch creates law and the executive branch only only administers and executes on them.

I agree a principle is neither good or bad on its own, it just is. In this case it isn't good or bad that powers are separated this way, but it is foundational to how our government is designed.

Congress doesn't have to spell out every detail, I made that clear though maybe in a separate chain of comments here. They do, though, need to spell out whatever details are important to them. If all congress cares about is that a department exists with a certain name and spends every dollar of a given budget that's fine, but they can't complain at all about what the department does. In reality they should be spelling out fairly clearly what is expected of a department, in my opinion that would include metrics for success.
Looks like America First actually means America Second.
100% agree. I've been using markdown for a few years after moving away from proprietary note taking apps. Although this has led to me developing my own short hand for many things in my notes. And have been looking at a way to integrate a to-do list with my notes with some Python scripts.

So while my notes may rely on some personal scripts to get there most value out of them, I strongly value that they are still plain text and I can always move them into a new workflow if I need to.
I think your response to the previous poster highlights your victim mentality. And they do not have a duty to entertain you - nobody cares if their conversation bores you. You seem very self-centered and having mental issues. Perhaps this is likely to have shaped your skewed perspective of an otherwise reasonable education system.
One certainly can if they want to. You just don't want to.
Not when every second line of code in the framework (haha) used really boils down to 250 calls and abstractions, when most of it is probably just strcpy()
That's where the court's technical distinction between the words: "could" and "would", is important. It appears they have reduced the distinction to a risk assessment which is more objective than opining wildly!

For example: I've just re-wired a three gang light switch. I verified power on with my multimeter (test the meter), cut the power and then retested all the circuits to make sure I had got it right.

It turns out that switch three is on a separate ring main. Cool I didn't get to test my body's ability to take a whopper of a shock. In the UK it is common to have upstairs and downstairs rings for light circuits. Our kitchen has quite a few lights in it so it got a separate ring as well. Anyway there are quite a lot of wires in there because all of them are two way switches. Oh and I am allowed to work on them because of the switch location - not kitchen and not bathroom, ie a low risk location

I noted down the connections, and took them all out. I put Wagos over the flying ends to make them safe, turned the power back on and got on with the job in hand.

I then cut the power (both circuits) checked again with my Fluke. Oh bollocks ... enable power, test the Fluke and then cut power again and recheck the circuits.

Now I re-terminated all the connections. There was plenty of additional wire so I decided to cut and re-strip the conductors, to make sure that I avoided potential failures due to "work hardening" from the inevitable pushing and pulling and "gentle" forcing into position. Once all the conductors were screwed down I pulled on them fairly forcefully to make sure they wont fall out.

I screwed down the switch face plate and restored power. Its a brushed metal finish switch so I did test it was not live, because I'm careful. I tested the functionality ie all three switch circuits (three) from all the switches (six).

So, given that description is it possible that the connectors might fall out in the future and short on say, the metal back box. Of course it is possible. It could happen but would it happen?

You could postulate all sorts of scenarios. Perhaps I may be careful but I might be cack handed and forgetful and got something wrong anyway and a wire might still drop out. Now we are at the point of whataboutery! and that wont wash.

The would/could distinction is a powerful one and it is analogous to how we do risk assessments.

I'm certainly not saying you are wrong in your assessment but I think you are fiddling with details to conjure up a "could" and not a "would". I agree that knowing the schema would assist a hacking attempt but would it make a successful crack more likely - no I don't think so. It is a classic case of obscurity despite security but a rather more complicated one than putting the ssh daemon on port 2222.

Cripes - I need to get out more!
>and hopefully didn't spend it insulated from different kinds of people.

Who knows? Maybe they could insulate themselves. Maybe they got a bunch of views but the ones that fit their current purview prevailed.

>never having had made friends with or developed at least some kind of empathy towards people unlike themselves.

people throw around the term too loosely nowadays, but psychopathy/sociopathy can be a legitmate explantion. Supposedly, CEO's have a disproportionately high amount of sociopathy. I wonder if its something you can develop from environmental factors?
a content addressed block store with pointers and skiplists for file continuity would be kinda neat.
Years ago I made friends with a red tailed hawk. He was sitting in a tree watching me while I was washing my car. On a lark I sprayed him with my hose. I figured I was being slightly obnoxious, but he actually liked it. For the rest of that summer, he'd show up occasionally when I was outside and wait for his shower. Never saw him again after that year though.
Mercedes Admits Screens Are Not Luxury
No one is saying _you must use an EV_ if your use-case doesn't fit. That doesn't change the fact that most people aren't you. I've for example never brought around extra gas.

The goal is to have most cars shifted over to EV as they fit the common uses-cases, and to eventually expand to the abnormal use-cases.
I have a suspicion Tao's FAQ [1] is at least partially AI generated, based off the language used.

[1] https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/02/13/cosmic-distance-la...
I made a command line utility called `dedup` a while back to do the same thing. It has a dry-run mode, will “intelligently” choose the best clone source, understands hard links and other clones, preserves metadata, deals with HFS compressed files properly. It hasn’t destroyed any of my own data, but like any file system tool, use at your own risk.

0 - https://github.com/ttkb-oss/dedup
Addressing your core question: Drizzle is a great ORM with a tastefully designed API—it's clearly a product of love. But it’s still an ORM, and it’s confined by certain design boundaries that come from being a library. For example, what if you want to use TypeScript, Go, and Python on your backend? Do you run three ORMs, each with different APIs? With Gel, you have one data model and a unified querying layer—the true source of truth.

We have a blog post about that and more [1].

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By the way, if you visit Drizzle’s website, you’ll see that Gel is one of their biggest sponsors. We worked closely with Drizzle to ship a first-class integration with Gel. You can use Gel’s schema and migrations, and Drizzle will just work. You can even use the Drizzle query builder and EdgeQL side by side if you want.

[1] https://www.geldata.com/blog/a-solution-to-the-sql-vs-orm-di...
I put in a pre-order - they sold out the first batch pretty quickly today so I won't be getting it till Q3. The price seems quite decent. Framework has a good reputation. I've been watching for the HP Strix Halo miniPC since they announced early in the year, but it still says "coming soon" and no pricing. I suspect the Framework price will come in lower than the HP. Also, Framework is a lot more transparent than HP.
Anyone in congress can cross the aisle though, the hesitation to do so isn't unique.

I do agree though that inept congresses has allowed the executive branch to act so powerfully. My only caveat is that congress first had to give those powers to the executive such that they could eventually be abused. Earlier congresses didn't have to choose to empower the executive branch with so much authority.
Was the rebrand really just for simplicity and clarity? It seems like a lot of work to change the name when it was already a pretty established toolchain, not just for your team, but, and this is more important, for your community.

I actually think EdgeDB was a far better name. It actually meant something; yes, it wasn't a pure graph database, but it did work with the general concept of graphs and edges. Gel means nothing. Even the domain name: geldata.com makes no sense. You're not selling or creating data, it's a database system/layer.

I've been a true evangelist for EdgeDB over the last two years, but this has really irked me - irrationally so, I'm aware(!), but I just can't see the benefits outweighing the drawbacks here. It feels like it has to have been a result of some legal action or something.

And just as LLMs were starting to catch up with their knowledge cutoff to include EdgeDB too! Now it'll be another two years until they know what you're talking about again. I know, first world problems.

Is the query language name changing, by the way? Or is that still EdgeQL? Please let sanity prevail over at least one thing and don't call it "jel-q-ell"!
> Watching younglings talk to chatbot like it's just another particapant in a conversation makes the opposition seems futile.

I'm sorry but I have a young daughter and I don't see that at all. A few years ago we moved to a different country and she had to learn a new language; initially she would use voice-based translation because that new language had a different alphabet so writing would have been harder. Before using the voice-activated app she would move to an empty room where no one could hear her, place the device just next to her mouth and whisper into the microphone... Did not seem to be natural at all - and she is a digital native (the iPhone existed when she was born).

If anything it seems that young people are less likely to trust tech, compared to us. She and many of her friends have permanently placed a piece of tape on their macbook's webcams. When I tell her that back in the day people didn't care much about security and we would re-use the same password everywhere, she looks at me like I'm an alien. Kids don't have the same optimistic outlook about tech that we had back then. We grew up being told that tech would change the world, they grew up with primary school courses about the dangers of cyber-bullying.
Yep. They could've had socketed RAM but they wouldn't have gotten the same bandwidth and that's really important for running things like LLMs.
That's a good point, has anyone hardened a database by locking out users who select columns that don't exist? Or run other dubious queries? This would obviously interrupt production but if someone is running queries on your db it's probably worth it?
A real shame we don't do both. In addition to a general Teamwork class in the psych department (which did involve some ethics), I took a dedicated class for software ethics. It may have been straightforward for many, but as someone who was only exposed to tech (as a career) in high school it made me realize that code isn't just thos pile of legos to break and rearrange.Even non-critical business can cost lives if they are irresponsible with what they build.
Knowledge of the column names doesn't give you insight into whether a vulnerability exists. It gives you insight into what you can do with a vulnerability, should it exist. For example, if you want to set your account balance to $1 million, you'd need to know the column name in order to generate a valid query. Without advance knowledge of the column name, your job becomes harder.
Both sides have been able to stop congress if I'm not mistaken (I don't think we've had a super majority for a while now).

The republicans have been more willing to pull that lever, but the system is designed such that its a perfectly legal lever to pull.
I do not care about other shareholders. I do care about Musk.

Tesla accounts for 60% of Musk’s wealth which he used to buy the US presidency and he continues to use to promote fascists around the world.

Depressing the value of Tesla stock reducing Musk’s influence.
Yes, much like you would in an HPC system (much of Cellular IRIX was supposed to have been influenced by what Cray and SGI learned from each other when they merged).

More details (PDF) here. Remember this is from 1998. Reading it again in 2024 there is of course quite a bit of foreshadowing of what we ended up with in cloud. And you won't be surprised to learn that the author ended up passing significant time working at both Microsoft and AWS after their SGI days.

https://cug.org/5-publications/proceedings_attendee_lists/19...
> there aren't already dozens of great apps that dedupe.

Most of those delete rather than use the features of APFS.
A UI based on browser-use:

https://github.com/browser-use/web-ui
They just got me as a new customer with this AI miniPC. It's the first Framework product I've bought.
The only drawback of Markdown is images.

GitHub-flavored Markdown is so popular because you can really easy inline them. You don't have to worry about storing them, linking them correctly, and you can even paste to the Markdown field.

There is no elegant solution like this in actual Markdown.
The great thing about IO modules is that if they outer side is damaged you can just replace it
Bay Area tech company Chegg, down over $2B in value, slams Google for woes
Except, you know, the entire dynamic functionality of purchasing everything. Taht can't be cached.
> That’s only possible because some people are hoarders who save this data or software and put it out there..

Sure. And I appreciate it. Like I appreciate the internet archive etc.
In the just released new version we've added SQL support, so now you can use SQL taking full advantage of our data model (access policies, mixins, etc) and the network protocol (automatic recovery on network & transaction error, automatic connection pooling on client/sever).

We'll continue bridging the gap to make it easier for companies to adopt Gel for an existing database. We either will invest in creating a tool for migration, or maybe some more exciting options we're currently pondering on.
> "foreign interference"

That is a very tricky one to manage on an online forum. If an American expresses an opinion about UK policy, in a literal sense that is literally foreign interference. There isn't a technical way to tell propagandists from opinionated people. And the most effective propaganda, by far, is that which uses the truth to make reasonable and persuasive points - if it is possible to make a point that way then that is how it will be done.

The only way this works is to have a list of banned talking points from a government agency. I'd predict that effective criticism of [insert current government] is discovered to be driven mainly by foreign interference campaigns trying to promote division in the UK.

This runs into the same problem as all disinformation suppression campaigns - governments have no interest in removing the stuff everyone agrees is untrue - what is the point? the flat earthers are never going to gain traction and it doesn't matter if they do - the only topics worth suppressing are things that are plausible and persuasive. The topics most likely to turn out to be true in hindsight.
Yes, there’s a whole section on HIV/AIDS, and PEPFAR was quickly resumed! https://za.usembassy.gov/presidents-emergency-plan-for-aids-...

A temporary pause seems squarely within what the executive is allowed to do.
Originally, the homelab was supposed to be located inside a 6U, 30cm deep, encased 19" rack. That would fit flush and very snugly just below my encased electrical panel, located right at the entrance inside my apartment.

That makes noise (a glass panel separates the rack from the entrance), power (can't risk overheating in an enclosed closet) and space (6U and 25cm of usable depth is an exceedingly small volume for a homelab) all important factors at the same time. I also wanted at least 2.5 Gib Ethernet, as much DDR5 RAM and CPU cores as I could chuck into it and two NVMe slots. I rejected a mini PC due to noise concerns and I wanted standardized parts and modularity.

I have a AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS, 64 GiB of RAM and terabytes of NVMe in less than 4 liters of volume without sacrificing modularity. I've mounted an AMD Wraith Stealth, which is a comically oversized CPU cooling fan for a 35W TDP thermal load. It's fast, small, silent, overkill and still fits standard parts.

I do want to get rid of the ridiculously noisy TFX power supply at some point, most likely for a 48v DC ATX power supply. Unfortunately, since I like stupid ideas I want a fully 48v DC powered rack and Power-over-Ethernet throughout my apartment to get rid of as many power supplies and fans as I can. I've started accumulating parts for it (like a 48v 2.5 Gib 10 port PoE switch, PoE powered gigabit switches and PoE-to-12VDC adapters), but I'm still not sure how I'll pull it off in the end since I'm way off the beaten path.

At this point you're probably wondering why I do things that way. I'm not sure myself, but seeing what I tend to do for fun it's probably best not to ask, lest the universe stops its suspension of disbelief while I'm in the middle of performing yet another heretical act on some poor unsuspecting piece of hardware or software.
It kind of is, and the CEO admits it on stage, but it's soldered because of an AMD limitation they couldn't work around.
My dude. No one in their sane mind is making their own gasoline. Like, I can get the idea that some folks want to bring extra fuel around with them for off-roading, but you're talking extreme off-the-grid use-cases and no one cares about that. Keep your gas if you're going to do that. You're in such an ultra minority that it doesn't matter if you use EVs or not.

We're talking about normal use-cases here. Like, my car is in my house attached to my wall socket vs needing to take 15 minutes out of your commute to go to a gas station. Most EV owners can avoid going to a "station" completely, for their day-to-day use, and for road trips may need to go to one once or twice, ideally charging while they eat.
Which outcome are you supporting exactly? Please explain in what concrete ways these outcomes benefit either the average American, or America's standing in the world, or America's leadership in technological research.
Well it's not obviously, otherwise the text of law would be illegal content too. It's just another bad faith interpretation of this kind of laws that I very often see on American-centered socials.
It still goes against the principal of the company.
I've been putting a .gitignore file containing a single * inside my scratch directories. But ~/.gitignore sounds like a good idea for local things that I do in every repository.
I watched the section from the talk [0] and there's no details given really, other than that it was done as a test of consistency. I've blown so many things up in production that I'm not sure if I could every pull the trigger on such a large migration

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcyaadNy9Jk&t=1670s
Yea I was really trying to be direct and empathetic because I think the questions around how to accommodate students and the changing classroom environments is under appreciated, important, and concerning. Your comment is harsh but I agree with it completely.
Not just that, but perhaps the app is smart enough to lock you out the second it detects an attempt to gather the schema, e.g. by logging and automatically responding to a query that displays the schema. Then you have to look for other ways in (another IP, etc.). But if you know the schema in advance, you have a better chance of a one-shot injection that accomplishes your malicious goal.

In other words, advance knowledge of the schema may make it easier to act maliciously.
We can't FOIA details about how xls file laid out internally, despite that xls file being FOIA'ble itself. That's the file-format we're talking about.