skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really a "switch" type of decision for me. That implies friction or commitment. I have every major browser installed, like a bowl of different flavored jelly beans. I pick whichever I want that day. Firefox isn't my favorite. A bit lower framerate rendering, a few missing features, a bit less extensions that I like. There's currently zero advantages I know of that would compel me to ever open firefox. They could literally release any novel feature that could win me over - I have no loyalty - they just don't have anything special.
> Also there's this whole thing about set points - you probably got to your weight somehow, and if it wasn't through consistently making stupid choices over many years, chances are this is what the body learned to consider an equilibrium state.

The idea of set points is controversial and not necessarily the accepted scientific consensus.
Nope. There is no opposition. The US is a single party state now, like Russia and China.
To be fair at this point it seems like US is drifting closer to Russia side than China is. At least if they stop arms shipments and other aid.

China is barely Russia’s ally, AFAIK they haven’t sold them any weapons. Didn’t try forcing Ukraine to surrender and even abstained on the UN resolution that the US-Russia-North Korea axis opposed.
> US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say

Why, Trump doesn't follow orders well enough?
At low doses they're pretty similar. Moving patterns in wood grain, breathing objects, faintly fractalesque structures. When you take more they get fairly different.
Yes of course, your personal, subjective experience of the USPS is exactly and entirely representative of everyone's experience and use of the USPS.
Do it the same way every language environment not named Common Lisp does?
I'd say the same about US citizens traveling to China.
I don’t know, I read it as more of a meditation on ‘writing out of range’, both literally as per language constructs, as you mentioned, and metaphorically, as in ‘we’re in the wild blue yonder of weird nowhere now.’

That said, I’m a newbie to Emacs, and I belatedly (after posting the link here) remembered reading something about ‘the point’ in Emacs:

“By default, the cursor in the selected window is drawn as a solid block and appears to be on a character, but you should think of point as between two characters; it is situated before the character under the cursor. ”[^1]

Which made me think maybe things are even weirder than the author thinks. :)

[^1](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Po...)
It's not really any mystery. We had a surplus in the Late 90's. Taxes were cut by George W Bush and again by Trump.

There is no such thing as a self-funding tax cut.

Doesn't matter how steady the spending is, if the income is cut, you will start going in debt.
You can’t extrapolate your needs to everyone’s needs. I’ve never needed to use a wheelchair for mobility, most people haven’t. But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t consider the use case.

What if you need to use a screen reader or magnifier for the text at the beginning of star wars. You would be pretty pissed if it was blocked by DRM. Hopefully pissed enough to sue under the ADA.
It is annoying but not that tragic. Browser built-in screenshotting works fine (I use firefox) as does OBS. Only the builtin macos screenshotting tool gives black frames, which again is annoying and should not be the case, but there are alternatives that are ok at least.
No matter how I look at it 60g of sugar in small bottle of coke is criminal. My wife bakes cakes for 10 people with less added sugar.

Junk food definitely is designed to abuse our natural instincts and needs, from packaging to ingredients. Go one year without processed food, you won't physically be able to drink coke or eat fastfood
They could even let then work remotely!
Do you think that the USPS pays deliver junk mail?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43168589 (Couple of days ago -58 comments)
From the article: "We're not just talking about weight loss. We're discussing the first medication that effectively regulates human impulse control. Think about that."

> I don't see why you would assume there's little overlap between people who desperately want to lose weight and people who drive drunk.

This is only a hunch, but I would guess that drunk driving is associated with low conscientiousness and that the sorts of people who are going to go through the trouble of getting medicated to lose weight are unlikely to be the sorts of people who drive drunk in the first place.

Maybe I was misinterpreting the point he was trying to make.
Oh, I'm familiar with it. And you know what? They mostly are doing what grandma does. Just in vastly larger ovens etc. Even if you want to talk about corn syrup, what do you think grandma made her pecan pie with?

And the things that are different -- emulsifiers, stabilizers, natural/artifical flavors, etc. -- aren't actually making the product unhealthy, at least not in any way that causes weight gain. Those aren't sugars, fats, or salt. They're just making it last longer on the shelf, and have more flavor. But it's not changing the nutrition, and it's not making us eat more of it.

You really think Chips Ahoy is making you fat in a way that grandma's chocolate chip cookies don't?
Do you live in a rural or urban area? How many Amazon packages do you get, and items from other carriers?
Finally, a GoFundMe to which I would contribute.

If anyone hears of one, please post here.
I’m expecting this to not last the weekend so here’s an archive link. https://archive.is/xrGV2
This is just the start. Those in the know are already stacking:

GLP-1 Agonists,
Senolytics,
NMDA Modulators,
Hormones and Peptides,
NAD+ and mTOR Modulation,
Nootropics and Adaptogens…

Forget weight loss. These people are going for immortality.
Like idk how long I need to hear about all the great things in tech he’s done when I see his handiwork in an actual tech company over at X. Maybe he was a grifter all along?
Irresponsible tax cuts?
> For reference the USPS delivers over 100B, yes billion, parcels per year.

90% of my mail lately is spam coupons and credit card offers.
Far-left is having some affinity groups at work, hiring people who happen to be queer, and being inclusive to people with disabilities?

The right is deranged with intolerance. All the talk about "free speech" and they can't stand that someone might not think or act like them.

The "anti-woke" crusaders are honestly more unbearable than any social justice warrior type I've met because they will not shut up about it and it colors their whole life.

It's just another flavor of identity politics with in and out groups.
What's file lockers? Do you have examples?
They signed an unlimited alliance the day Russia invaded?

Guessing 3 month old bot account
> The actual quote is the other way around.

I am well aware.

> What evidence does the parent have for intentions to harm

Just watch/read the news since 2016. Too much to list.

In addition Elon is seen as a captain of industry. PayPal. Tesla. Space X. So it can be that Elon is inept.
Don't forget the nice side effect of destroying industries that are regulating Elon.
FWIW you can get pancakes 1cm thick in both the size of a hand and the size of a plate in the US. When they're the size of a plate you usually get a couple just stacked on top of each other. Source: I am American.
If you have dealt with countries like Russia, one idea that can be useful for understanding them is oligarchic capitalism. That the purpose of the economy is to benefit the elites. That the share of wealth that goes to the common people is an overhead necessary to keep the system running. Which, like all overheads, should be kept to a reasonable minimum.

Oligarchic societies do not try to maximize the overall economy. They try to maximize the wealth the elites can extract. If there is an alternative where the overall economy is 2x bigger but the elites receive 10% less in absolute terms, it's clearly a worse outcome from their perspective.

From that perspective, government services should not be evaluated based on their outputs or their impact on government efficiency or economic growth. They should be evaluated based on their impact on the elites. If they don't benefit the elites, they are overhead that can be cut if necessary.

Oligarchs do not care about the economy in the sense it is traditionally understood in the West.
It won't happen but I think a centrist party which took the best from Republican and Democrat platforms and completely avoided histrionics, focusing entirely on rational solutions to our ongoing problems, could be very attractive to a wide range of voters in the US.
But if you go to a cafe and order pancakes how do you know what you'll get!

A simply unacceptable gamble in my mind! Imagine looking forward to a normal pancake and getting a rubbery American one popped infront of you.
It always surprises me when people's mental model of fair say is divided by land area and not by population.
Yes, I calorie track around 1900 calories average. Maybe up to 2000?

They are probably losing muscle mass!
> [Microsoft] made my life as miserable as they possibly could.

Exactly what I was saying. They had the goodwill of developers and then they burned it. Any developer through the 00's got burned multiple times - like the terrible Kiddie Server 2008. They are still burning us with Telemetry and unprofessional choices like advertising within the OS.

Before that they delivered mediocre but functional software. It worked. Now it doesn't work so well and is a masterclass in ugly graphic design and usability flaws.
Same budget line item?
Let's just assume that there is bloat in the federal government. Assume that, OK? I think I do, actually.

But have you ever seen a new manager come in with a mandate to cut costs - a new manager who doesn't bother to listen, but who just starts cutting without knowing, learning, or listening? Have you ever seen that kind of a disaster? He (it's almost always a he) cuts the most expensive people, who turn out to be the most talented and the most knowledgeable, and you're left with the less talented and less experienced. He cuts the departments that have the most people, and those turn out to be critically related to revenue. And so on.

The issue isn't whether there need to be cuts. The issue is that Musk doesn't know enough to make the right cuts, and he isn't even trying to learn.

Even in weight loss surgery, I want an experienced surgeon, not the guy from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Can you trick it with a different user agent? Most of the times websites put arbitrary restrictions like this, it works by changing user agent for me.
You did a good job! Will try it later.

> The app is entirely free to use, has no ads, third party analytics, trackers, subscriptions or other junk. It does offer 5 options for tips (which are basically consumable in app purchases), portion of which I will share with the original developer. However, based on my past experiences with tips, they are rarely given by users.

I noticed the 'in app purchases' remark. Generally (not in this case) a little annoying, good that you explain. Because Apple does not seem to offer a more clear option to explain what these purchases may be, feature wise of price wise. Sorry for the rant :/
Take a look at Pony https://www.ponylang.io/
Some doctor advised a protocol: stay on GLP-1 for 3 months, then take metformin for a month or two; then repeat the cycle. I have to dig out the source for this.
>In a zero-sum game world USA does not join WW1 nor WW2

WW2 is not the best example. The USA got attacked (Pearl Harbor). The USA didn't enter WW2 until the USA got attacked.
I despise SLIME. It made perfect sense in 2003 and was way ahead of the game compared to every other language for decades, but today we have the language server protocol and every effort should be made to support that instead.

Anecdotally, the AliveLSP works fine although it suffers from the same "Why would you want a standalone program? Load it into the REPL" problems I derided in response to the parent.
It's painful to see people doing real work get canned. It sounds like the unsustainable national debt has forced a cut across the board. Each department will find some organization to cut. The least politically connected groups will be cut.

The cuts are painful, but we simply don't have the money. In fact we are way deep in the hole.
> I guess it’s possible that our bodies are wired for a world that is unlike today’s and that these drugs correct for that.

The constant access to unlimited tasty food we have now is completely unprecedented in human history.

Other animals will also overeat if you give them unlimited access to tasty high calorie food.

This is absolutely a situation we did not evolve to be able to handle unfortunately. Lack of sufficient food was the norm for most of our history, so it's not surprising that we evolved to want to eat a calorie surplus if possible.
It’s seems that DOGE and 18f had an overlap. While 18f’s mission was not explicit reduction of waste, fraud, and government abuse; technology is the primary means of efficiency. Seems a better solution would have been; absorb a portion of 18f (who wanted to and were qualified) into DOGE.
I have been telling a friend of mine for 5 years that these guys are not that smart and actually borderline grifters.

He recently admitted he stopped listening 6 months ago due to how out of touch they were...
Whom will you tax to increase IRS revenue by 2 trillion per year?
Nothing happens in China without government support. In China you either do what the government wants or you are in jail or dead.

If Xi wanted Russia to stop the war, Russia would stop the war. The war is useful for China because it splinters the west, they get leverage over Russia, and it normalizes the kind of actions that it wants to take in Taiwan.

If China objected to North Korea sending troops to Russia then North Korea would not be sending troops to Russia. Pretty much all of North Korea's trade is with China. For sure North Korea has some degree of independence but sending soldiers to die for Russia is not worth it if it upsets China. This is clearly a nod, nod, wink, wink situation here.

"Most of Russia's exports to China originate from the mining and petrochemicals sectors.[64] More than half of Russia's exports to China come from mineral fuels, oil, and petroleum products (60.7%), followed by wood and wood products (9.4%), non-ferrous metals (9%), fish and seafood (3.5%), and chemical products (3.3%). China is also gradually becoming a major consumer of Russian agricultural products.[24]: 64

The main categories of imports to Russia from China are machinery and equipment (35.9%), clothing (13.7%), chemical products (9.1%), fur and fur products (5.6%), footwear (5.3%), and furniture (3%). Chinese electronics are steadily expanding their presence in Russian.[24]: 64"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Russia_relations...
Almost everything Trump says in incorrect in that kind of way. I guess people are just used to it.
> the guy who has been at the bleeding edge of technology for the last two decades

In what way does working on the bleeding edge of technology qualify someone to make sweeping decisions in a completely unrelated problem domain? Especially when those decisions impact literally the entire world?
> At least in the single writer scenario it all breaks down if a lock free reader requires multiple items that are related to one another. It's an easy oversight to make though.

This is true -- generally the solution to this is to ask for everything in a single message.
Iirc it had to do with the deployment of some navegation relay, may be wrong, but the new intuitive machines lander will also deploy one.

(Edit: riffraff on th thread has the correct lede!)
By the way, you can use Chromebooks and -boxes for digital signage (and kiosk) as well if you manage them with Google Cloud.
I've worked closely with 18F staff. They are/were some of the most dedicated folks I've ever had the pleasure to work beside. Based on my interactions, they were very dedicated to web standards that made the web open and easy for all people to use. Some of the best a11y researchers & advisors who had real empathy and compassion. Anyone who picks these folks up for their org is going to be the real winner here.
Hopefully with a balanced budget. At a minimum though, USAID shouldn't be funding gender change clinics in India or pride parades in Canada, and it's good that we're no longer sending them money.
Is the USPS creating that junk mail? Or are they just delivering it?

Put another way, if you kill the USPS, don’t you think that junk mail will still find a way to get to you?
Nor is there sufficient evidence to claim the new administration is doing anything corrupt. They could just be taking the appropriate emergency measures. Or not. But it seems like different standards for evidence are being applied to different sides.
If the USPS is delivering junk mail below the cost of delivery, that would be bad and they should immediately stop that. But I would be willing to bet that's not happening. I don't like junk mail one bit, but it's obviously a profit center and I assume that revenue defrays the cost of other services.
Yes, you can use our SDKs to run it locally on Simulators, Emulators, and real devices. We also support popular third-party device farms via the WebDriver protocol.
Understanding Svelte Component Lifecycle and Reactivity
He's doing alright but might not have all the data.
Is that really true? I remember reading that people with side effects often were given lower doses.
And this is why we "got Trump again". The inability on the left to reason with clear allies in it's own coalition was a big part of the voter turnout problem. Yes, there are jews, even zionist ones, in power within the democratic aparatus. There are capitalist democrats. Even billionaires. And every one of them wanted to work with you to prevent this from happening, but you took your toys and went home instead reasoning that it was more important to punish your allies than keep your actual enemies out of power.

Because at the end of the day this is what you wanted. The ability to say "Dems won't be fixing this problem" is more important to you than fixing the problem.
I don’t know if it’s the nature of the products themselves, or if it’s because they’re vastly cheaper and more accessible. There’s a natural limit to the number of cookies to be had from Grandma before she says “that’s enough,” vs being able to get 64 at the local market anytime you want for a pittance.
Where is the Russian fear of NATO in real terms? Why is everyone in Europe building defensive lines on their side of the border with Russia, while Russia has only open fields on its side?

Putin's dictatorship is indeed extremely irritated by Eastern Europe being in NATO for rational reasons, but those are different reasons than you are trying to present.
> The presumption of course is that everything Elon Musk is doing is stupid

Really? My perception is that everything I've seen him do is on its face stupid, even though my perception was that he might do useful things.

Let's take just one data point: he stood up and smirked that he fired everyone working on Ebola response, and of course that was a mistake. Yet those people are still fired. Do you have any counterexamples where he did something not stupid?
Didn't we also have a financial crisis in the late 90s? Asian financial crisis, Dotcom bubble? Was the surplus during those years?
Yeah hes the victim, definitely didn't do anythin to warrant the reaction in 2017...
USDA unveils a $1B plan to address the egg crisis
Loved the cat, hated the lack of capital letters :D
I agree with everything you said, but I'm not even completely convinced that they're going to do the initial "saving money".

With these projects, it's pretty easy to only count the victories, and not count the failures. They can say they saved "$10M saved on a canceled contract!!" but then happily omit the fact that they had to have a nearly identical contract a month later because it shouldn't have been canceled.
There's 3a which is "cherry-pick customers / clients to make it appear that privatized services are more cost-effective than public services that are by default providing services." Picking and choosing one's customers already makes it an invalid comparison if one wants to talk about value.

But essentially creating self-fulfilling prophecies or moving goalposts is one of the oldest tricks in the book by dishonest folks of any ideological alignment. In an alternate universe where socialism / central planning is the default ideology if we wanted to make as unfair of a comparison demonizing private sector we'd have asked half of Silicon Valley companies to forego VC funding, not allow them to do M&A, demand that they be able to serve the general public for even the most obscure of problems, and so forth. That sets them up for failure out of the gate by measuring them against the criteria of the status quo and eliminates any of their advantages over a centralized planning system. And in fact, a large part of these ridiculous restrictions is exactly why NGOs are structured to fail to make much progress on any of the important societal problems they work on.
oops, haswell has only 3 SIMD ALUs, i.e. 768 bits of output per cycle, not 1024.
Oh yeah, like the three Alien movies: Alien, Alien Romulus, and Aliens.

I see what you did there and I did the same. :)
Psychonaut Josie Kins publishes YouTube videos with comparisons and visualizations of various psychedelic experiences: https://youtube.com/@josikinz
> A serious problem, if you’re concerned about debt and deficits ... is that, aside from the late 1990s, revenues haven’t kept up with spending since around 1970. They took hits from George W. Bush’s tax cuts after 2001 and from Trump’s after 2017...

Spending % has been flat for 50 years, but Republicans keep worsening the deficit with unfunded tax cuts.
haha happy to hear that :) (I created Patrol) ((and then worked on Maestro at mobile.dev briefly))

I too think that for the vast majority of use cases, Maestro is the best solution. Fast and easy to write and run.

Also it's cool that it's open-source and has very strong community. I'd be skeptical to have all my tests stored in some SaaS that I can't even run locally (as some other solutions do)
Why is your instinct, based solely on your observed experience, to reduce services for the entirety of the American populus rather than a less destructive route, like households opting out of mail delivery?

I suspect it's because you do receive "one or two important" pieces per year and because you cannot anticipate when someone will send them to you. That's the value provided to all Americans by this beautiful system.
You only have to look at a high level breakdown of the budget to know that DOGE is not serious. You are not going to get trillions in saving by cutting administrative overhead in various departments.
Why should the United States fund a proxy war with Russia? How is this different than other debacles such as the Vietnam War?
> The presumption of course is that everything Elon Musk is doing is stupid

Not stupid. Evil.

The man took pleasure in gutting a major pillar in the world's fight against tuberculosis[1]. This is mass murder, and it's just one of the ways they're causing mass death, likely in the millions over the years to come.

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities," said Voltaire. Musk operated one of the biggest misinformation machines in history, got unchecked power of the US government, and now he's moved on to the atrocities phase.

[1] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis/usaid-funding-freeze...
The wholly unnecessary war in Iraq (I’ll allow Afghanistan though I think that was also a very, very stupid move) didn’t help. Trillions of dollars.

But yes it’s largely tax cuts. Including cutting taxes while starting that war.