skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is because we continuously being divided with lesser pressing issues: abortion, same-sex, universal toilet, etc.

The left or right are the same side of the coins that the rich will support no matter what.

They shun people like Bernie Sanders, Picketty, etc.

In USA, social programs = socialists = commie.

That's how bad the brainwashing is.
I feel like I was unplugged. Among the most notable bad things that you witnessed the past 4 years, what in particular comes to mind when you think about it?
This is why Europe must remilitarize and police its own neighborhood on behalf of western security. Probably not going to happen under the EU, which has no ability to assert muscular sovereign leadership. There is no unified Europe at the moment. Better for Europeans to ditch the EU and double down on NATO as a military alliance of sovereign states.
This fly-and-roll robot sounds interesting, but I wonder how effective it would actually be on Mars. The thin atmosphere is definitely a major challenge for the flying mechanism.
I agree the need for troubleshooting can be born from poor decisions, but it's still a marketable skill for places that need it at scale. One of my roles was head of Linux Engineering for a Fortune 50. Sure there's the pets vs cattle thing and we all prefer cattle, but particularly in places with lots of legacy apps and infrastructure there are plenty of both that need more nuance than turning it off and back on again.

There's value in fixing things in the moment and then feeding them back to your engineer and architecture functions to address endemic issues so that everyone benefits.
My hot take on this

The last thing the world needs now are "hot takes."

Save the hot takes for Reddit.
They know what they want to cut and are counting on finding enough seuface-level-bad-sounding sound bites to justify what they were already going to do.
With information loss what you previously had as a single solution becomes a generalisation which can be decompiled into many different equally valid solutions.

That means even though information is irrecoverably transformed during compilation, LLM could come up with semantically valid expanded solution that both fits the compiled information, that is it can be recompiled successfully, and makes sense semantically for whoever would eventually want to evolve the decompiled code with an understanding of the domain.

So the goal isn't to recover exactly what code really was, but to provide a possible solution that fits and is useful.
I have very similar experience to yours (though I have yet to checkout Blazor, see my other comment in this thread).
I also read CSS in Depth book by Keith Grant recently based on someone's recommendation on HN. After struggling with CSS for over a decade, it all finally makes sense now. I can layout a page exactly how I have it in mind. Webdev can be so much fun and productive with server side rendering, beautiful CSS and some sprinkling of JS where required.
Using the Web Crypto API to Generate TOTP Codes
> If you have two million, and want one million, start a record label.

That's the most tortured version of that phrase that I've ever seen.

"If you want to make $1 million with a record label, start with $2 million" is the typical way to use the phrase.
I like your take, FWIW.
>Numerous other claims have been shown to account for entire contract amounts, even though they only cancelled the remaining balance of the contract.

They are building this live and it's been a month as a side quest. They have fixed those issues that you have said, and have been updating the website, fixing different pricing, etc. etc. every single day.

They have not been preparing for months... that's not how system integration works... They post literally daily about their savings.

https://doge.gov/
> Are people actually hiring vibe coders for critical infrastructure?

It appears to be happening right now in the US federal government.
I work with javascript and php
The deeper I get into my career, the harder my bad decisions have bit me later.

For JS-in-the-browser at least, I feel like it’s less about which framework/paradigm you pick today, but more about how your choices will limit your options in the future. If you could predict the future, you’d just choose the framework with the longest maintained life, but you can’t, so just focus on maximizing abstractions in the framework built on the slow-changing parts of the web (HTML/CSS, browser APIs) and try to consider how it would integrate as the “legacy” application you’ll be bemoaning only 5-7 years from now.

Some of the most successful companies I’ve heard about have legacy applications. Aiming to make the perfect choice for all future problems up front seems like the wrong choice IF it prevents you from changing your choice without tearing everything down first.
Since the war began I've been hearing both that Russia is weak and about to collapse, and also that if the United States doesn't directly intervene the Russians will drive tanks into Berlin by Christmas. If they are as weak as you say they are, and I'm inclined to agree, then Europe can handle this, yes?
Yes and no.

It’s like opening a trunk and finding rope, crampons, a glass cutter, duct tape, a ski mask, and a pamphlet about the museum’s diamond exhibit.

None of this is impressive or sufficient evidence for a prosecution but we’re not in court.
China trades with almost every country in the world-that is maritime power. Since Xi became president China is acting more like a continental power-looking at land expansion at the cost of trade. Granted China did not attack Taiwan yet. Hopefully Xi sees this folly and does not attack Taiwan.
Brings new meaning to "eye tooth" - amirite?
Hey,

Non native speaker here. I think I conveyed something that I did not mean to convey. I was just saying concentrating on the "why" and having a utiliterean perspective about the topics to learn while useful and help the children to relate, need not be the only criteria.

Cause, lot of things can be a little more abstract and some what removed from exact applications in real world. But, they can still be beautiful. That is what I meant to say. I think I conveyed the exact opposite.
Looks like those whose business model is producing shitty content are struggling, and those that provide quality content, are doing well.

Wikiepdia: Good
Quora: Bad
Reddit: Good
CNet: Bad

It makes sense, as LLM content is of mediocre quality, if you want something of good and reliable quality you go elsewhere.
We should be careful when we say "economists disagree."

Economists disagree with Piketty about the causes of this inequality: that is true.

Economists agree with Piketty however about the extent of inequality, by and large. That is, no one is arguing "inequality isn't real" or even "inequality is decreasing."

So there is disagreement about what's causing the inequality, yes. But on what (to me) is the bigger question - is inequality real and increasing? - there is a consensus that it is.

It's all there in the historical record, and as a trend, it's huge.
> I don't know if it's ignorance or an attempt at a publicity stunt on the author's part, but it isn't at all what they claim.

I let the author know on Twitter too: https://x.com/thegeomaster/status/1895869781229912233

If it's the former, I assume he will update or take down the blog post.
Elixir is just pleasant to touch. Completely subjective opinion ofc
That was cool to read about. I don't think we're disagreeing here. Humans (fertilized eggs) have many needs and interactions that give rise to language itself.

Current LLMs seem to be most similar to the linguistic/auditory portion of our cognitive system, and with thinking/reasoning models some bits of the executive function. But my guess is that if we want to see awe-inspiring stuff come out of them, we need stuff like motivation and emotion, which doesn't seem to be the direction we're heading towards.

Unprofitable, full of problems. Maybe 1 in 100,000 might be an awe-inspiring genius, given the right training, environment, and other intelligences (so you might have to train way more than 100K models).
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> This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.

I actually disagree, fundamentally.

This is digital content, so "ownership" isn't the same as for physical stuff.

Lets look at analogies: "piracy isn't theft" (because the original owner still keeps their copy!). Also, surely if Mozilla can sell your data, they must have owned it first! But you also keep your data!

So clearly, to "own" digital stuff is different from "owning" physical stuff.

Then, how do we define "own" for digital stuff? I'd say a sufficient definition would be, "possess and can do whatever".

So when Mozilla says "nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license [...] necessary to operate Firefox", and then in subsequent paragraphs argue that selling ads is necessary to operate Firefox... Yes, we can add two and two together.

Now, apologists will claim that the literal statement in new terms is "nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox", but obviously, the DO NOT NEED A LICENSE for doing as you request in Firefox (i.e. sending POST requests directly to third parties), so clearly there's some shady business involved.
Listen to the talk. A lot of this discussion is pointless because you’re missing information that was presented in the parent.
> a trick i use sometimes is to check my phone camera to see if it also sees the same thing

You can't trust the pictures either.
Inequality is very simply to include in these models, and they do. The problem is that the models often show that the median quality of life improves faster when there's somewhat more inequality in the system, which flies in the face of every socialist intuition. It's a lot easier to pretend we need state-enforced equality.
The really great thing about taxing land, is that it can't escape where it is. Capital flight is a risk for taxing other forms of wealth.

And land is something of finite quantity that is actually taken away from the rest of society. Capital is produced, and made, and is not finite like land.

This is one thing that California got really wrong, it should be taxing land heavily, and income less.
How to do patch-based review with Git range-diff
The bio left out the part mentioning he's a regular Fox News contributor.
JavaScript has plenty of stand alone ORMs like Drizzle, TypeORM, sql builders like Knex, there’s tons with a bit of googling.

I think that ActiveRecord is actually the weakest part of Rails, and the scariest and most difficult to manage code in a large rails app is models and stuff that is doing lots of active record stuff.

Rails can’t be reduced the goodness is that it’s more than the sum of its parts to get everything together, as DHH says, omakase. It’s not needing to build a framework before you can build your idea. It’s having such a solid and complete base that add-on packages can extend knowing they have a solid foundation. It’s being dominant enough in the language that most things try hard to work well with you.

Outside of React, I don’t think there’s any package in JS that comes close to have the gravitational pull that Rails has in Ruby.
Childbirth did not went up all that much even as economic conditions got better. Largest driver of children in communism were really people checked out of public and professional life, retreating to hobbies and family.

Your options to climb the ladder inside the system were severely limited, especially if you was young. Communism and working in communism was sleepy and having ambitions was negative - just about the only way to use ambitions was to be political, denounce who you have to denounce and do the dirty work for the state.

> You could always be a head of something or go by the party route to have more nice things or have friends to bring stuff from the west too.

Of course that implies comfort with a lot of dirt and amorality. Yep, some people did that. Everybody knew what being party meant and some of these people are still the sleaziest politicians out there. Not everyone had stomach for that.

Plus, you could not do this if you was from the wrong family.
>This is a life-or-death question to Ukraine

Then why has Ukraine not lowered the conscription age?
We need a way to both have the benefits of modern social organization without supressing the means to fall back to simpler but more resilient and decentralised societies which would come together to maintain the form of nations in times of crisis, which inevitably come again and again.

What we have is a social crisis that billionaire class used to exploit the nation for classist gains, with the collateral effect of damaging the nations memory, identity and values.
So, <https://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-holding-it-wrong/>?

Care to enlighten us heathens?
I have significantly more experience in AWS, but I've spent equal time building and securing infrastructure in Azure for at least two years now. While AWS is not without it's rough edges, I'd pick it any day.

My number one concern with Azure is availability of resources. Working within US regions, we've had to shift regions during production rollout because one or more of the resources we needed -- a current gen Azure SQL database or App Service Plan -- were simply not available. Rolling out an inexpensive VM (think equivalent of a t3/t4g.micro) is always a ride too, between unavailable SKUs or excessive quota gatekeeping.

Spending gotchas exist on any cloud, but we also know someone who got caught off guard in a completely new way recently. In late-December, the team needed to automate a database event once per day on an Azure SQL instance. Scheduled jobs aren't natively available inside Azure SQL, and so they reached for an elastic job agent. Everything went smoothly until someone dug in to a price increase on the January bill and asked why Sentinel had jumped from under $200 to over $3,000.

A colleague and I helped them dig in and quickly discovered that the controller for the elastic job agent is running dozens of batches per second in order to schedule that one job per day. With default security audit settings on Sentinel to meet compliance obligations, this generates over 600GB of BATCH_COMPLETE log messages per month at a cost of $5/GB for ingest!
I'm not the one with a strong conviction based on little experience
Still, much of ChatGPTs success in code can be owed to SO success in generating a mountain of useful googleable archives.

See stacksort: https://xkcd.com/1185

Remember that the objective of SO is not to provide answers to users who post questions, but to provide answers to users who google questions.
How do we know he is a bozo?
> Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Name calling isn’t going to do anything, and lowering yourself by it is, at best, self-harming.
It's obvious isn't it?

Owning the Libs!!!
The only time "clumsy" carries any weight or consequence, is when operating machinery or doing physical tasks. If he was driving a bus then did his arm gesture causing an accident, we could call him stupid.

When humans communicate with arms flapping in celebration and excitement, clumsy arm movements are not a safety issue or significant in any way.

I suppose you could always manufacture outrage about arm movements, then campaign and argue that others should adopt that outrage?
Yeah I'm also moving over from Node into dotnet. The DX has been very nice with VSCode and EF Core is really one of the best ORMs in the market. Also the performance is fantastic.

For APIs I'm using FastEndpoints [1] and loving it. I'll probably end up switching to Minimal APIs once they have validation etc.

[1] https://fast-endpoints.com/
There is a question of originality. If the variable names, comments, etc. are preserved, then yes, it is probably a derivative work. But here, where you are starting from the obfuscated code, there is an argument that the code is solely functional, hence doesn't have copyright protection. It's like how if I take a news article and write a new article with the same facts, there's no copyright protection (witness: news gets re-reported all the time). There is a fine line between "this is just a prompt, not substantial enough to be copyrightable" and "this is a derivative work" which is still being worked out in the legal system.
I get that for subreddit bans, but I've never had a sitewide ban.
You have no clue about the collapse of the USSR. Its economy was crippled by monopolies and absurd subsidies, not by equality.
Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time
I think by 'we' Dugin meant 'anti-globalists', not Russia. There are pro-globalists in Russia and anti-globalists outside of Russia, so one doesn't equal the other.
Going to Mars is so 2010. Mars is too close from the Sun anyway.

Better start to colonize the kuiper belt with super mega structures, we can start with AI drones mining its resources way before our arrival.

:P
The other linked "oh fuck" article https://ghuntley.com/oh-fuck/ where it supposedly converts https://github.com/RustAudio/cpal at least has a linked video. As far as I can see, based on that video's file tree/Haskell files - its not exactly doing what's described in the article. I'll extrapolate from there...
> That minerals deal was going to be the first step toward peace.

No, it was the first step toward conceding everything to Russia, also conceding to an outrageously overzealous US (for reasons unclear to anyone outside the Trump bubble), with a guaranteed future war with zero protections.

If they wanted to give Russia everything they wanted, they could've done that years ago, and not given up minerals to the US.

This would be an impressively terrible deal.
To be clear, you're saying that people with no ability to reason about code are currently in a position to push unreviewed code into critical government infrastructure?

Do you have an example?
why use Hawk vs freetaxusa? what is diff?
> they are just data analysis and gathering

They are not. They de facto cancelled contracts while rooting around at the Treasury. Given the lack of transparency at DOGE, it’s unclear how the front-line bros can claim they were following official instructions versus making calls on their own.
This may surprise you, but some bots don't respect robots.txt
You're right, we can't get away from concurrency control with database, cache, even the file system. I'm still happy to never have to think about in-process multithreading bugs.
There are no studies like that, though. It's very very hard to study how a group of people suffering from a disease evolves without treatment, both from an ethical perspective (you can't ethically force people not to seek treatment) and from a practical perspective (it's hard to find a significant cohort of people who recognize they have a disease like depression, do not want to seek treatment for it, but are willing to participate in a clinical study). This is especially true for depression, which manifests most of all as a lack of motivation to do anything in those who suffer from it (often with anxiety at the thought of doing new things).

So no one really knows, in a scientific, quantifiable sense, how people who suffer from depression evolve without treatment.
Trade secret.
This is where first mover advantage and habit play too. Chat gpt and meta ai are good enough for basic recall and summarization tasks.

Google has a branding problem. They integrated Gemini into their search UI, so they just want people to continue the same landing page. However, it feels too noisy, and unnecessary. All I want is a summarization. I don't want to see a huge list of ads or slightly related links. Adds no value to me.

I tried anthropic but it fell way short and so stuck with chat gpt and meta ai. Now for Perplexity I need a compelling need to use it. Haven't seen it yet.
There's another housing problem which maybe sounds ironic but I would argue that due to land costs, and tastes.. new housing in general is "too nice" compared to old housing. That is - the size, materials, appliances and finishes of housing have all got dramatically better in my 40~ year lifetime. No one builds utility housing anymore, its all aspirational.

So for example, my parents & in-laws live in SFHs worth like 300k built in 1970-1990 era. The problem is that anything of comparable size built in the same town or neighborhood since is now going for 800k (literally across the street even). There is no cash-out downgrade for them to move to a townhouse and put there underused homes on the market. They weren't building said townhouses 30-50 years ago, so all available ones are newer and thus .. too nice. Why would you move to a smaller place for same/more money which also has some monthly HOA/condo fees?

My first NYC apartment didn't even have a dishwasher or full sized fridge. I didn't have an in-unit washer/dryer until I was 35, and it was small/bad. Meanwhile it's interesting seeing the expectations of GenZ moving into apartments with their first job that are finished like the nicest apartment I ever lived in. Then they complain about cost? I can still find my old crappy apartment on street easy, and its rent is only up 50% in 20 years which given wages seems fine. Kids are moving to shiny finishes new rentals in Bed-Stuy for more money rather than enduring the indignity of living north of 96th street in a 2nd floor walk up.
Russia could also agree to keep the fund as it is, just expropriate the Ukrainian government and continue paying dividends to the USA.

Maybe it has already been agreed on, by the way.
From the perspective of wanting to maintain the integrity of the American federal government, it seems like all this DOGE stuff (and the whole Trumpist movement in general) serves the purpose of a red team, in the cybersecurity sense; people with nebulous intent have gotten access to everything.

So now, if Americans care about the integrity of their government, there needs to be a blue team: how can this catastrophic level of access be dealt with, and how can it be safeguarded against in the future. Alas, I'm not seeing this perspective being enacted. The obvious security compromise is being allowed to stand and continue, usually on the basis that "separation of powers" and "checks and balances" are relied on to be effective; congress will stop this, or the courts will stop this. But we're watching these mechanisms fail.

So, what's the plan here? Where's the counter-offensive? We're watching a system being hacked, and I've yet to see anyone talk about a recovery plan, or a prevention plan.
FYI, you can choose which OCR engine Docling uses (from a handful of predefined choices) - it doesn’t have to be Tesseract.

https://ds4sd.github.io/docling/reference/pipeline_options/#...
> So what is the conclusion here, that DEI needed to include aging workers?

No. Absolutely not.

If I am 60 and you are 30, I can do the job and do it well, I should not be excluded because of my age. You can replace age with any other category that makes sense, like race, disability, sexual orientation, etc. Candidates should not be excluded this way.

A basketball team should not include me because I am not tall and exclude someone who is significantly taller and better qualified (experience and skills).

Another proper basketball team does not exclude me because I am not super tall. They evaluate my skills and experience and compare it that to others who might be taller or shorter than me. If I can do the same or a better job than the others --if I can deliver the required value-- they could hire me. If I cannot compete with others, they should not.

It's interesting how the term "inclusion" turned out to deliver discrimination...precisely what we thought we set out to eliminate from society.

Age discrimination is an easy and silent form of discrimination that has lots of victims while few perpetrators are brought to task for practicing it.