skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maga populism is aligned strongly with racism, misogyny, anti-immigrant and anti-trans, with a strong dose of anti-intellectualism and anti-tech. What they got was a Broligarchy of top tech billionaires and crypto bros seeking zero regulation (which they got in part) [0] government adoption [1] and Procurement Capture [2]

graphic: https://i.ibb.co/9qS5wLJ/voterepelon.jpg (imgbb.com)

The change was clear when Musk poured about $290 million into Trump's campaign.

The revolt was run and won by the Tech Bros. The populists elected the leet.

Life is weird.

[0] SEC says it does not believe people who purchase or hold meme coins are protected by federal securities law

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/27/sec-says-meme-coins-are-no...

[1] Trump announces strategic crypto reserve including Bitcoin, Solana, XRP and more (cnbc.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43233455

[2] Anil Dash - Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture

https://www.anildash.com//2025/01/04/DOGE-procurement-captur...
Coincidentally (at least I presume it was) Sabine Hossenfelder just published a piece about geothermal today as well:

https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2025/03/i-was-wrong-about-...
There is no way to tell yet what the longevity of the resource will be as it's too early. In fracked resources the main issue is "short circuiting" where increased flow rates travel along preferential paths between the doublet wells as the source rock cools and cooling rate of the source rock in general. This causes the MWt of the resource to decline per injection / production well. Fervo is getting around this by drilling extra wells per pad to be turned on in response. Many geothermal resources decline over time as heat is slowly extracted and these declines are somewhat manageable by tuning the injection production well rates and drilling new wells. They are built into the economics of existing plants. Geothermal is kind of extractive and not "renewable" in this way over medium term time scales, you need to continuously keep drilling at a certain rate. Rock is a good insulator and it takes a long, long time for it to heat back up.
Well, it’s not just them. Apple has had broke iCloud syncing on Windows for years. It almost seems purposely designed to make the Windows experience worse by frustrating users with missing files, permanently high CPU usage, etc.
The thing is, for me, I have never really struggled with anything. I work on a large project and use rebase, force push, amend and cherry-pick sometimes. I am fully confident that I can get myself out of any bind that myself or others have created just using my ~10 commands and without deep understanding of git internals.

I agree with rebase on shared branches however, that requires coordination and understanding of everyone using the branch. Sometimes, long running shared branches are needed but it generally something to try to avoid.
Fun fact: WWWBoard had a brief cameo in the movie "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" -- their official community site used the script for many years after most had moved on.
In my experience, a tool like Windsurf or Cursor (w/ Sonnet) is great at building a real project, as long the guardrails are clearly defined.

For example, starting a SaaS project from something like Refine.dev + Ant Design, instead of just a blank slate.

Of course, none of what I build is even close to novel code, which helps.
Write an `iced` app, is my suggestion. You'll learn some of the best of what Rust has to offer
This is completely untrue. Do you work for mozilla? Text entered in forms like the one you use to write comments like this one don't get saved. Any logic to do with saving it is a matter for the developer of the website not the browser. This is like saying that ISP need to be granted license to forward the packages that make up your http request.
Tangentially related, Jony Ive of Apple fame recently did an interview on BBC's desart island disks where he discussed his father's involvement in bringing Design Technology to UK schools: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00289vf

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_and_Technology
Half of those are things that parents should learn them, and the other half are things most won't ever actually do. Buying an appliance is not a thing you need class for, your parents can take you with them when they're buying one and show you the process... and roofing.. well, let's be fair, most people won't be doing that themselves.

In my small country we have a website where random people can post suggestions for the government, and if it gets enough votes, some PR representative has to look at the suggestion and write a answer.... every few weeks there is a suggestion about how schools should teach kids stuff that their parents should teach them at home... even cooking, cleaning, etc. Have the parents really "failed in life" so much, that they can't even teach the kids to cook and clean and wash, etc.?

Shop class... somewhat understandable, power tools are not realy a thing parents living in apartments in large cities have, so yes, that's beneficial to kids... but other stuff?
Until you get a

Widget.OtherFlavor = 'Vanilla'
So... you reject the idea that women might be inherently superior workers than men, despite data in the linked article showing that they seem to be. Instead, the reason is social and governmental repression of a disadvantaged class, and regulatory action is needed to address the unfair results.

How exactly is that not just DEI for men?

> In many/most cases women will regret choosing career over a husband and kids

And that's just plain sexist. Yikes.
Something like 25% of high school students can’t do basic arithmetic and you want them to budgets and retirement planning? I’m not saying “home ec” (as it was called through the 90s - no idea what happened to it) isn’t potentially useful, only that we might have bigger fish to fry.

As for trade skills, sure, no issue with that.
You could easily have your CI keyed on tags or commits, reviewing my own code is very helpful but also so wasteful of time.
Wait, you mean Cerf and Kahn, two DARPA scientists working for the military on nuclear deterrence, had the goal of "redistribution of power from a small number of gatekeepers to a large number of individuals" when they invented TCP/IP?
> It's a nice way to make an API "public", or would be if CORS supported a goddam wildcard for the host.

I don't get what you mean. Access-Control-Allow-Origin supports a wildcard. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...
I use both and I think they are similar in speed.
All the links are styled in an unreadable form on that page.
That doesn't justify being irrational yourself.
In this analogy, they are only retesting things reported by a previous red team who did that target.
> The house I grew up in is turning a century in a few years, and nothing about it suggests it isn't good to go another century at least. Original windows, who replaces windows every 20 years? Why?

Modern windows leak their argon out eventually. The break-even for replacing them is bad, but home comfort in rooms with many windows is greatly improved in cold climates with top-end triple pane windows.
How convenient. Call money something else to continue ripping people off.
> This website is trying to fetch data from example.com, do you agree

I don't know, do I? How am I supposed to know? How am I supposed to explain to my mom when to click yes and when not to? The average person shouldn't ever have to think about this.

Imagine if any website could ask to access any other website, for an innocent reason, and then scrape whatever account information they wanted? "Do you want to let this website access google.com?" Great, now your whole digital life belongs to that page. It's a privacy nightmare.

> it destroyed to ability to build so many things on the internet

It only destroyed the ability for any website to access another website as the current user. What it destroyed is the ability for a web page to impersonate users.
I don’t see the logic of your argument. The fact that you can formulate inconsistent theories - where all falsehoods will be true - does not invalidate Gödel’s theorem. How does the fact that I can take the laws of basic arithmetic and add the axiom “1 = 0” to my system mean that Gödel doesn’t apply to basic arithmetic?
Structured recess in elementary school and such is usually around 30 mins a day. You'd also have gym class that might meet outdoors on the athletic facilities if the weather is good for it, that would be a full class period maybe 50 mins with some time banked in to change in an out of your gymwear in the locker rooms. In highschool your schedule might look a little more "collegiate" where you might elect to take certain classes (even local community college classes potentially that you could count for college credit in undergrad), and might end up with some free periods during your day if schedule permits. When I went to school people would use those free periods either to do homework, slack off, go home early, or smoke weed in the woods. In college on the other hand you might only have a class or two a day depending on your schedule.
I suspect that if formal systems were unequivocally “better” than formal systems our brains would be formal systems.

The desirable property of formal systems is that the results they produce are proven in a way that can be independently verified. Many informal systems can produce correct results to problems without a known, efficient algorithmic solution. Lots of scheduling and packing problems are NP-complete but that doesn’t stop us from delivering heuristic based solutions that work good enough.

Edit: I should probably add that I’m pretty rusty on this. Godels theorem tells ua that if a formal system is consistent, it will be incomplete. That is, there will be true statements that cannot be proven in the system. If the system is complete, that is, all true/false statements can be proven, then the system will be incomplete. That is you can prove contradictory things in the system.

AI we have now isn’t really either of these. It’s not working to derive truth and falsehood from axioms and a rule system. It’s just approximating the most likely answers that match its training data.

All of this has almost no relation to the questions we’re interested in like how intelligent can AI be or can it attain consciousness. I don’t even know that we have definitions for these concepts suitable for beginning a scientific inquiry.
> Just gotta do the grunt work, add a tool with a map api. Integrate with google maps for transit stuff.

This is kind of the crux though. The only way to make LLMs more useful is to basically make them traditional AI. So it's not really a leap forward nevermind path to AGI.
As far as I know, there aren't any regulations about WFH vs RTO.
Are shop classes mandated by states anywhere? No schools I know offer it. I am not sure if it’s a good or bad thing. I’ve heard of children having accidents in those classes - sometimes not just an accident but the result of other children intentionally harming them. On the other hand, I feel like our society has lost the ability to DIY and do things that are … less online. Maybe shop classes can help with that.
Random tidbit: We use LLM to identify document types and use an enum to show a list of options.

Initially, we didn’t include an "Other" category - which led the LLM to force-fit documents into existing types even when they didn’t belong. Obv this wasn't LLM's fault.

We realized the mistake and added "Other". This significantly improved output accuracy!
Hm, I have some classic scsi drives still kicking in some old Macintoshes, maybe I aught to back them up. They're funny, sometimes they get stuck and I have to whack them with the rubber side of a screwdriver to start them up.
It's funny, they get in later than me, go home earlier than me and I never see them at the office on the weekends.

Maybe they are "working" from a hotel downtown with their lover.
I think you misunderstood my point. A simulation is never the actual simulated phenomenon. When you understand consciousness as a "physical" phenomenon (e.g. as in most forms of panprotopsychism), believing in being able to create it by computation is like believing in being able to generate gravity by computation.
I agree the arguments tend to be over complicated but I think Penroses argument is basically

>it is argued that the human mind cannot be computed on a Turing Machine... because the latter can't see the truth value of its Gödel sentence, while human minds can

And the debunk is that both Penrose and an LLM can say they see the truth value and we have no strong reason to think one is correct and the other is wrong. Either of both could be confused. Hence the argument doesn't prove anything.
Instead of XSSs we will soon have XSCSFSs (Cross Site Cascading Style Function Scripting)!
so it's an appeal to not innovate on tooling and languages?
Reproduction is the outcome of a reproductive strategy, but we don't normally define sex as the result of which reproductive strategy an individual takes. Even calling it masculine or feminine is a bit strange outside of humans.

For example, there are fish where it is the male that exclusively protect and manage the eggs. As such, the male expends more energy than females, or to use similar terminology as I did before, the males in that situation expends more energy on their reproductive strategy during reproduction than females. All that the females do is produce the eggs and then leave. It not unreasonable to predict, using tournament species theory, that the female is physically larger than the males, and the male being the one that choose which female they accept. This also happen to be what we generally can observe with such fish.

So what sex should we describe them as? Should we then call the males as Juliets, and females as Romeos? Should we describe the males as being feminine and the females as masculine?

Different schools and cultures will find different way to look at things. The article focused on genes, and specifically those defined by sex chromosomes and those that were not. The words they use are sex-related traits and genes associated with sex, in order to describe how traits and genes can then go and provide a variability in sex, while acknowledging that most of those genes are not associated with sex chromosomes.

In the end it is multiple people looking a the same thing finding different theories and producing tests and predictions to test them. I personally view the article as being a bit too liberal in their anthropomorphism, attributing human behavior to that of animals in order to make connections between the two. I would not use the word masculine to describe a fish or a bird, or to describe it as sex variability in order to explain why their behavior is different from the expected human male or human female. Sex identification of animals is diffused enough that its only a rough approximation to what kind of gonads that they have, and in some cases that is not meaningful distinction and we can't actually make an identification.
Lunch, walking between classes, one P.E. period for about an hour.
Awesome article on how model updates flow into UI - not only about React.

Also see "The single most important factor that differentiates front-end frameworks": https://mjswensen.com/blog/the-single-most-important-factor-...
Yah you saw that before I edited it out, I realized that gripe was actually about the behavior of AWS API Gateway rather than CORS itself. It hates the wildcard, or something, I can't even remember exactly what the issue was. Thus did I zap it.
Agreed. I will be working on eliminating that limitation soon. For now, I have removed that part from the blog post to reflect the current situation a bit more clearly.
I can confirm that this sort of phenomenon has happened to me and am as curious as you are to find out more about it
I had a 20MB external SCSI hard drive for my Mac Plus. I sold it a few years back. Still worked!
On 8086 or ARM you can get a shift "for free" with your add, although on the 8086 you have to use the LEA instruction.
> Assume it didn't: it would mean two identical houses right next to each other would have vastly different prices depending on when they were built.

They kinda do, in many places? Around here, past a certain age, your house is basically a tear-down, where it's a liability over just having an empty lot. Or if you really want to save the guts it's still getting torn down to the studs for new wiring/plumbing/insulation.
> Like imagine your company’s main “button” element. It’s got 8 different sizes, optional icons on both sides, animations, styles, each needing to support different color combos. Tailwind is miserable for that. You get giant huge balls of spaghetti classes all over your button, and it’s pretty incomprehensible.

.brand-btn {}

.brand-btn--inverted {}

.brand-btn--icon-right {}

.brand-btn--smaln {}

.brand-btn--smaller {}

.brand-btn--big {}

<button class="brand-btn brand-btn--icon-right brand-btn--small brand-btn--inverted" />

However, very rarely need too many combinations of the same button with a brand logo.
> The real moment of the day was when Trump asked him point blank if he even wants a ceasefire. And he couldn’t say yes.

The reason why he didn't answer is because the answer is meaningless. Putin won't respect a cease fire. And if you think he would, you are completely clueless about the history of that region and what has already transpired. The "guarantee" that Putin gave that he would not invade if Ukraine gave back their nukes. That promise was ignored in 2014 when he took Crimea.

As for the rest of your reply: I assume you are discussing this in good faith and you're not trolling. If the US withdraws support and Ukraine falls to Russia, what do you think will happen after that? Is the rest of Europe (east and west) safe from further incursions?
I for one (along with many thinkers) define intelligence as the extent to which an agent can solve a particular task. I choose the definition to separate it from issues involving consciousness.

Both matter of course.
Starving the body of the snake ?

History suggests cutting off the head of a drug cartel is just a Tier 2 career advancement opportunity.

Did the aquisition of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán as a token trophy head put much of a dent in the ongoing activity of the Sinaloa Cartel Ship of Theseus?

There's much to be said for understanding an organism (an entire cartel dynamic in this case) in order to eliminate it.
Does a web browser need maintenance beyond security fixes?
Game UI Database 2.0
I really like "Our Blue Ghost lunar lander now has a permanent home on the lunar surface..."

It's rare that usage of word "permanent" has this close to an accurate meaning. Complete development of the moon's surface aside, what are the factors what will destroy it? Solar and cosmic radiation? What timescale are we talking about here?
TL;DR we found these chemicals present but with only one cherry picked exception we make no quantifiable claims of potential harm. That exception is lead, and we used the strictest standard we are aware of to describe the "dose", also note that we assume that the product is ingested to come to our conclusion. We also use weasel wording to avoid explicitly claiming that there are any regulatory or legal violations.
> Not quite …
The cost of enhanced geothermal is roughly the exact same cost as nuclear … shares similar economics of a very very low OpEx to CapEx ratio.

It can’t be both not quire and the same.

All else being equal, a five billion dollar geothermal plant running at 50% has the same problem as a five billion dollar nuclear plant running at 50%: where’s my profit?

Sure, load following is trivial with geothermal, but nuclear generally isn’t trying to compete in that space, so we can discount the difference there.
A metal lathe is the fundamental machine tool. You learn how to calculate feeds and speeds, plan depth of cut, thread cutting, parting, etc. You learn about surface finish, chatter, cutter shape... Why rob students of this? Should nobody learn basic machinist skills? It's no more or less dangerous than any other shop tool.
But the energy released from the center is not GOING anywhere. so isn't it stored?
Puts tinfoil hat on. Musk invests the social security trust fund in crypto.
-> survivorship bias
> it set a cookie that your browser presents when it makes any request to bank.com, regardless of how it was initiated

Right, this seems like a very bad idea and now everyone has to do CSRF because of it?

CORS doesn't prevent evil.com from sending a reqeust to bank.com, it only prevents reading the response, no?

So again, what stops evil.com from sending a request to say transfer 1 BBBBillion dollars to bank.com and including a CSRF token it gets from visiting bank.com?
I didn't. Cheers.
Take a look sometime at where India and Pakistan get much of their fresh water, and what climate change is expected to do for that. Then contemplate the testy relationship between those two countries and consider the likelihood that they will peacefully work out a way to deal with the situation.

They both have nukes. If a war between them turned nuclear it would of course be pretty bad for the people of those countries, but you might think that the rest of the world would be OK. After all both of them only have fairly small warheads, mostly around the size of the nukes the US used in WWII.

Unfortunately that is not the case. Even if they only nuked each other, an exchange of around 100 of their nukes from each side (about 1/3 of their arsenals) directed at each other's major population centers would be felt around the world.

Here's a paper that analyzed this [1], and an article about it [2].

Here's the abstract from that paper:

> A limited nuclear war between India and Pakistan could ignite fires large enough to emit more than 5 Tg of soot into the stratosphere. Climate model simulations have shown severe resulting climate perturbations with declines in global mean temperature by 1.8 °C and precipitation by 8%, for at least 5 y. Here we evaluate impacts for the global food system. Six harmonized state-of-the-art crop models show that global caloric production from maize, wheat, rice, and soybean falls by 13 (±1)%, 11 (±8)%, 3 (±5)%, and 17 (±2)% over 5 y. Total single-year losses of 12 (±4)% quadruple the largest observed historical anomaly and exceed impacts caused by historic droughts and volcanic eruptions. Colder temperatures drive losses more than changes in precipitation and solar radiation, leading to strongest impacts in temperate regions poleward of 30°N, including the United States, Europe, and China for 10 to 15 y. Integrated food trade network analyses show that domestic reserves and global trade can largely buffer the production anomaly in the first year. Persistent multiyear losses, however, would constrain domestic food availability and propagate to the Global South, especially to food-insecure countries. By year 5, maize and wheat availability would decrease by 13% globally and by more than 20% in 71 countries with a cumulative population of 1.3 billion people. In view of increasing instability in South Asia, this study shows that a regional conflict using <1% of the worldwide nuclear arsenal could have adverse consequences for global food security unmatched in modern history.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1919049117

[2] https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/03/16/even-limited-in...
It’s not just about acquiring “basic skills” or “marketable skills”. Shop enables practical, skill-appreciating minds to use geometry, physics, and science in concert to solve problems. You learn about symmetry and measurement, force and torque, and materials and chemistry simultaneously.

Many learn better at a workbench than at a chalkboard. And even those that don’t often appreciate the chalkboard more when they can relate what they’re learning to what they are doing.
That is my main point, I have never gotten stuck despite not deeply understanding the internals. Instead I built a solid mental model just from the behavior of the commands.
Thanks for that Lemuria rabbit hole!