skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The concrete reason that I've stated here and in other places, is that the way conspiracy theories grow they eventually consume all of the topics you can discuss with a person. I'm guessing this hasn't been going on long. My situation started with 1 or 2 conspiracy theories that my dad kept mostly private and we only ever discovered because conversation landed there on accident. Had it stayed there, I doubt I would've cut him off. But we got to the point where the only safe things to talk to him about that wouldn't lead to a conspiracy-fueled tirade were food and the weather. And then he started on a diet that fit into the web, and suddenly we couldn't talk to him about food (what to eat/what we like to eat) without it being a part of the wider web of conspiracy conversations. At that point, I could've tried to find new things to talk about, but I could also just accept that I didn't really want to talk to my dad, because there were no interesting topics of conversation that didn't lead into a conspiracy web I wasn't always prepared for. <- This is why it becomes reasonable, and I hope in your case it never reaches this point. If it does maybe you'll come up with a better solution than I did, and think of this comment and come respond. I would really like to hear how you reach a better solution. For now, it seems like you're not to this point yet, and so I hope you never get there.

Spending $10000 on this bet is not an indicator of making decisions that could lead to financial ruin? The son states that's a lot of money for them.
They also literally explicitly state he's spending money from a joint bank account on stockpiling things they don't need. They're not giving the amounts, but like, they tell you he's doing questionable things with money, and you can extrapolate from there as a reader. I'm guessing you've been raised around money differently, because I know you've had this conversation in a few other places, and haven't actually engaged with how problematic this is. But especially in today's economy where things are expensive and money can be tight, making solo financial decisions with joint money is absolutely cause to cut someone off.

Separately, I will say, there's not a lot of middle-ground for spending time with someone who believe's you're just wrong for being who you are. So the Daughter's decision as one of self-preservation, feels equally reasonable, and I think if the mother has to hear about how her daughter is a sinner all the time, or character attacks on her children a lot, then that could lead to needing to cut off the father as well.
There are Russian nationals that live in almost all the countries all around the world. So that's not bonkers, the logic is sound.

Now what's important is when some region has mere fractures of a percent vs when its something like 25%. If your country has 25% Russians and you oppress them - I think Russia has obligation to defend them.
Alternatively, we understand it well, and discard bad completions immediately.

When I'm using llama.vim, like 40% of what it writes in a 4-5 line completion is exactly what I'd write. 20-30% is stuff that I wouldn't judge coming from someone else, so I usually accept it. And 30-40% is garbage... but I just write a comment or a couple of lines, instead, and then reroll the dice.

It's like working through a junior engineer, except the junior engineer types a new solution instantly. I can get down to alternating between mashing tab and writing tricky lines.
Your inherent value as a data source becomes the justification for UBI
If you have fixed media (as opposed to realtime dynamically generated or streamed etc) this trick can go a very long way - or even if it is generative, if the time is used to drive the animation. It just requires good clock sync, like you said, which can be non trivial (especially if audio is involved where desync of even 20-30ms becomes very noticeable). But yeah, with NTP/PTP you can get v v far.
Maybe, or maybe not.

Drugs are not like a smartphone. There is no reason to believe you can improve on them (except on price)
Big food corporations profit from ultra-processed foods that manipulate our natural systems. They design products that override satiety signals using calculated combinations of sugar, fat and salt to activate brain dopamine pathways. Their priority is profit growth, not consumer health.

The consequences are significant health issues like obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Healthcare systems struggle with preventable conditions while millions experience declining health and shorter lifespans. These corporations employ questionable strategies: marketing to children, lobbying against regulations, funding misleading research, and shifting responsibility to consumers.

Medications like Ozempic represent a threat to this model by reducing appetite and interrupting compulsive eating. Recent industry concerns about declining sales show how these medications could undermine their business approach. If consumers regain control over their eating habits, corporations may finally face consequences for practices that have profited from health problems for decades.
The injection pen I have see has two marked dosages, but there is nothing stopping you from injecting more or less.

Basically it is a ratcheting mechanism where after ~10 clicks you get .25 mg dosage and 20 clicks gets you .50. Basically, no doctor is going to endorse it, but you can dial a dose to whatever amount you want.
I don't imagine the government is going to collect taxes from itself for public parks. There is the opportunity cost of lost revenue of course.
> Also not the worst thing for Apple to measure average build times or whether developers are discovering some new feature they added, that can be actually helpful for improving the product.

That have always been the point of telemetry. The issue is when it’s hidden and /or the collected data is misused.
He was a close friend, roommate and collaborator on many things. I’m reminded of him daily.
RIP Dan, it’s been hard without you
I don't buy that explanation. Almost all the interesting bits can be found by observing the api requests and you don't need the source to get those.
> The search engine partner using those logs is probably valuable consideration and hence a sale.

It's not a sale when the search engine doesn't get those logs from Mozilla. When a user sends a search query to Google using a Mozilla browser, it's Google's privacy policy that applies, not Mozilla's.

> Mozilla doesn't even need to keep the data; just an api passthrough will qualify.

There is no API passthrough in this scenario. Search queries go to the search engine directly without being relayed through Mozilla servers. Anything that does hit Mozilla's servers is entirely optional and unrelated to the purpose of satisfying the user's request for search results.

You don't need to speculate about how this could all be due to innocent ordinary operation of a web browser when Mozilla has already disclosed that they're voluntarily tracking users in ways that are not necessary for the operation of a web browser.
Item 91 in the EPIC complaint [1], which was found to be sufficiently merited to permit a TRO. (It’s a legal filing. Allegations will always be couched.)

[1] https://epic.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/EPIC-v-OPM-25-cv...
While I agree somewhat with my sibling comment's assertion that "aggregate information across billions of humans can compensate", somewhat, I'd like to offer that a lot of important output is non-digital, as well!

For example, lately I've spent a lot of time with resin printers, laser cutters, vacuum chambers, and the meaningful positioning of physical models on large sheets of paper. It'll be a while yet before my haphazard, freewheeling R&D methods are replicable by robots. (Although it's tough to measure the economic value of these labors.)
"The US is not a nation it is an economic zone." [—4/pol/489562208]

Act accordingly.
I wouldn't call VSCodium an equivalent[0].

Please note that some Visual Studio Code extensions have licenses that restrict their use to the official Visual Studio Code builds and therefore do not work with VSCodium.

...

In some cases, ... [workarounds] won't help because the extension is hard-coded to only work with the official Visual Studio Code product.

Notably absent are all of the remote debugging extensions and Copilot. This would be a deal-breaker for many.

[0] https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/docs/index....
Thx, but we really do remember the Obama years differently haha.

Good economy, low simmer.

Ows faded, but how was that Obamas fault. He didn't run on left platform.

There was international strife, but it was localized and didn't seem to spend neoliberal order (we'll miss it when it's gone)

Anyway, I hope you're right, and this is just theatrics.
Since Go added slog many of these have been removed in favor of that. Obviously not universal, but compared to npm there really are massive numbers of devs just using the standard library.
The one recurring theme throughout history: Incumbents lamenting the downfall of some aspect of civilization in the face of new developments.
> I may consider myself liberal, but general housing policy by most liberal leaders has been a total disaster and should be recognized as such.

? Private development is the heart of liberalism. We haven't had anyone but liberal leadership since, like, LBJ I think? And he was also a liberal acting out of character. Any alternative would surely imply public investment in housing. No, re-zoning is not going to make a dent in homelessness.

I'm aware that you're referring to liberal in the sense of "loyalist democrat" or whatever, but the reality is that both parties have virtually the same policy when it comes to housing: blame the market, act as though the market will still answer our problems even though it hasn't in the past, and feign helplessness that the government can directly influence housing in the first place outside of zoning. I.e., liberalism.
That's more or less my suspicion.

A few months ago I tried to do a small project with Langchain. I'm a professional software developer, but it was my first Python project. So I tried to use a lot of AI generated code.

I was really surprised that AI couldn't do much more than in the examples. Whenever I had some things to solve that were not supported with the Langchain abstractions it just started to hallucinate Langchain methods that didn't exist, instead of suggesting some code to actually solve it. I had to figure it out by myself, the glue code I had to hack together wasn't pretty, but it worked. And I learned not to use Langchain ever again :)
Maybe they are in Canada.

Name brand Ozempic is $230 CAD or $160 from Costco up here
Like the US, which was offering military protection in exchange for allies not building nukes.

The assurances have now been shown to be worthless.
Cython does the compilation already. You can optimise and disable gil from there.
There's nothing preventing people from creating employee-owned co-ops. In fact there are some large and successful ones, like WinCo.

We did learn an economic lesson from countries that tried to make employee ownership of the means of production mandatory, and more especially we learned lessons from the mountains of skulls those countries left behind.
I feel like I see a lot more communicating/defending/explaining on Chinese adjacent discussion. Like legit outlaying of reasoned depth to their positions, background, etc that really helped me understand their view. I actually wish there was more of it here even if it gets political. There is so little cross pollination of understanding between the US and China on an average person level.
That counts as not observant to me
I don't agree how you would need so many forces or have many casualties given Russia is struggling right now even with Ukranians.

A no fly-zone alone would greatly diminish Russian capabilites, of which the West could easily do given the dire state of the Russian Air Force and their AAD. After that it's just a point it's a just mopping up any artillery duels and then letting the Ukranians advance in.
The whole conversation is a version of "does alcohol help with depression better than a placebo?"

Because just like alcohol - so do SSRIs have a very clear, pronounced psychoactive pharmaceutical effects. It's just that both effects have little to do with "depression".
For example, setraline is one of the most effective drugs for PE(Premature Ejaculation), with easily measurable effect (it can be timed!).

Do depressed people feel better when they are drunk and inebriated? Maybe, probably some do?
There certainly are quite a lot of people that self medicate depression with alcohol!

Do depressed people feel better when they are zombified out of their brain with SSRIs? Probably some do?

From a certain point of view, prescribing SSRIs for depression isn't all that different from prescribing alcohol for depression. Both are hepatotoxic - pretty bad for your liver.

And is just a symptom of stone-age we live in when it comes to medicine and understanding of the human body.
Or not on the receipt.
Would you though? You’d pay a cost and you’d still have a dumpster fire of memory safety bugs. Not to mention you’d have to make code changes to be able to use it.
> AGI in a Markov chain

Do you understand why modern LLMs are different from Markov chains?
China and Russia are rival powers both seeking some domination over asia (their continent) -- a strong russia will preoccupy china.

As for liberal democracy, only two us presidents in history cared about that for a a brief moment (george bush the latest, woodrow willson the earliest), and that ended in catastrophe.

The US certainly didnt care about democracy in Ukraine when the state department was deciding who should replace the democratically elected leader of ukranine in 2013 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26079957 -- you can go find the recording and listen, the media reports are propaganda). Nor did biden care about democracy in UA when he withheld aid in order to have a prosecutor fired (go watch the video of biden, the reporting is propaganda). Nor has the US ever cared about democracy: it does exactly the same across the world -- deposing, blackmailing, threatening democracies all over the world. It even armed al q. in syria just to depose Assad -- the very people who dragged it back into middle eastern wars. Every state which cannot oppose the US is not soverign in the eyes of the US: it must do what it says. Well, now China and Russia are strong enough to do the same.

The US has its sphere of influence: the western hemisphere, europe. And threatens, blackmails, bribes and deposes all of the world to advance its interests. This is the behaviour of a great power -- and Russia has returned to this status.

Unless another great power is willing to contain Russia, there is nothing to be done. Since Russia is not a threat to China or the US at the moment, neither are willing to contain it. And so it goes.

This has very little to do with Trump's personality -- exactly his actions are stated in words by Obama, and every president since Bush: detent with russia, withdrawl from europe, retiring nato, containing china. Trump is just the first to do it. Trump wants peace with rival powers at all costs, hence his "WW3" comments -- the world is now far too risky for the US to impose its will has it had done from 1992 til 2022.

Unfortunately many have grown up in this era and still think an american "deciding" that the world-should-be-some-way is sufficient for it to be that way -- that the US military will be their to impose the will of the western mind. That era is over. It no longer matters what we think -- there's more than one bully in the system.
I don't recommend anyone to experiment with drugs, but, nor would I in the case of salvia advice against it or caution people, with the exception that they should have a "sitter" the first couple of times. I view drugs as potentially enabling people to have incredible otherwise unobtainable experiences, and I don't want to "gatekeep" and stand in people's way from that, unless the case was highly addictive and degenerating drugs such as heroin, amphetamine etc. I absolutely do not consider salvia as a risky drug in that sense.

I have tried both LSD and psilocybin mushrooms, and while LSD was very interesting I did not like being tied-up for half a day with no immediate way out of it. Psilocybin mushrooms were to me similar to LSD but a very bumpy and somewhat unpleasant ride, in lack of a better description. Similarly, I did not like being stuck with that high for roughly 8 hours, nor did I enjoy the recovery afterwards. With salvia none of these feelings weighed on me since with tincture and smoking it was a short and to me fully manageable experience. I'm aware that when chewing fresh leaves the entire process is much longer.
Take the average person and how much they have tied up (either income or net worth wise) in their house. It's not even close.
There could be honest but non-obvious reasons. Maybe they need multiple renovations before they can get a certificate of occupancy but the local permitting office is Kafkaesque, or the site needs environmental remediation before it could be rented but the owner doesn't want to deal with it so they're trying to find a buyer instead of a tenant, or they have to finish suing the previous tenant who messed up the unit before they have the money to fix it, or the landlord took out an adjustable-rate mortgage right before interest rates went up and WFH started and is now bleeding cash and waiting to see if rates come back down to decide whether they want to invest new money in finding tenants or just file for bankruptcy.

One of the serious possibilities is that they're dumb. Lots of idiots exist, some of them buy real estate. They're asking for more because they erroneously think they can get it and then they're wrong so the unit is empty. They eventually either figure this out and lower the price or they run out of money to pay the mortgage and the bank comes for them, but either of those could take an arbitrarily long period of time.
China advises citizens specializing in AI to avoid traveling to America
Yes. And anyone can easily embed a backdoor just by publishing it on a own website that is in the training data.

Prompt injection (hidden or not) is another insane vulnerability vector that can't easily be fixed.

You should treat any output of an LLM the same way as untrusted user input. It should be thoroughly validated and checked if used in even remotely security critical applications.
So... any examples of that Quisling, Vichy, Chamberlain approach - roll over and plead for mercy while exposing your belly - that resulted in a permanent peace in Europe? I mean we want to avoid a meat grinder don't we, so given all that history you'll have plenty of proof that this time, this exact situation, will somehow be magically different.
Starting 14 years ago, Russia had crewed spaceflight capability, and the US didn't; that situation persisted until less than 5 years ago (Crew Dragon Demo-2). There are other things necessary, but Russia wasn't "lagging", except in the sense that they hadn't backslid as quickly as the US. They are now, of course.
Gross margin in theory. They are using API pricing to project revenue but not all traffic is API. They don't charge for chat traffic so this is theoretical. It is in response to a raging debate on whether their gross margin is negative with their API pricing. Apparently not if one can saturate the traffic.
A long time ago I picked up the habit of "coding in commented paragraphs":

https://www.perl.com/pub/2005/07/14/bestpractices.html/#7-co...

This style allows me to scan only natural language comments, generally rendered in a distinct highlight color, to get a high-level view of what the code does. My colleagues have rarely followed the same idiom, but my code has been well-regarded everywhere I've been.

When you do this, there are occasionally times where you wind up with a single line that isn't grouped with the others, and to be consistent the easiest thing is to insert a comment like the one that started this thread.

However, I've adapted this style over the years to avoid any hint of redundancy because some people feel so strongly that they will fixate on it and decide you're a terrible engineer for this one tiny detail. It's easier just to work around them.
Updated, I should clarify that assuming no medical needs.
Yes, of course, that's why I brought up Fukamachi's work to point out that things can be better. It is possible to forego the mechanisms of interactive-development that intersect with image-based development, but that requires lispers to change how they've done things for generations. Neither the ecosystem or culture is aligned to it.

Ultralisp + Roswell + qlot produces something resembling a modern development workflow, but it is swimming upstream. ASDF is totally inadequate as a build system, it makes CMake appear terse and elegant by comparison (why on God's green earth is the present working directory not searched for the package I'm trying to build, like every other build system to ever exist?). Documentation and tutorials assume you're pulling things down with quicklisp and evaluating in the REPL. /r/Common_Lisp posters wonder why you would even want to use dependencies at all when you could just use [incomprehensible, brittle, unhygienic macro].

It has become possible, in the last two years or so, to produce sane common lisp workflows that operate somewhat like other modern environments. I very, very rarely encounter that usage in the wild. I would like nothing more than for the Common Lisp infrastructure to produce environments and workflows as obvious, intuitive, and correct as what every undergrad using Python in VSCode has today. I do not think the broader language ecosystem is there yet.
Well, the author did not reference any actual studies. But some people here have shared an effect on their general impulse control. Do you have any pointers to good studies about this effect?
Boilerplate and plumbing code isn't inherently bad, nor do you improve the codebase by factoring it down to zero with libraries and abstractions.

As I've matured as a developer, I've appreciated certain types of boilerplate more and more because it's code that shows up in your git diffs. You don't need to chase down the code in some version of some library to see how something works.

Of course, not all boilerplate is created equally.
I've used it for some smaller greenfield code with success. Like, write an Arduino program that performs a number of super-sampled analog readings, and performs a linear regression fit, printing the result to the serial port.

That sort of stuff can be very helpful to newbies in the DIY electronics world for example.

But for anything involving my $dayjob it's been fairly useless beyond writing unit test outlines.
> Or perhaps Apple believes that developers are subhuman…

From my three years of experience as a developer of iOS applications, this is the root cause.

How the mighty have fallen
> True, but you can have the pressure in the tank bigger than in the combustion chamber, right?

I guess you can if people have done it. I've never built a rocket myself, so I don't know, but I thought the combustion-chamber pressure had to be crazily high to get the high exhaust velocity you need for propulsion.

Thank you very much for enlightening me!
Correct, since it is an English article. In most other languages (that use these words at all) it would be 1 x 10^36 . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
Someone who thinks it's off topic or doesn't contribute I guess.
Sounds dystopian. And also Ozempic face. To me it seems that it doesn't activate all fat cells in the same way natural weight loss does. I do have a feeling that GLP-1 agonists will eventually bite us in the ass. Usually this is the way with molecules that are too miracle - hello cocaine, plastics, teflon and amphetamines. There may be some spectacular risks that will become evident after decades.