skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Texas, I didn't vote for Trump. It's 20hrs by car to Washington DC.

Trump is firing people at random, Musk is plugging his USB drive into all the databases, what can I practically do to "reject the current administration"?

Keeping in mind that the majority of what he's doing is a political "Gish Gallop" (https://effectiviology.com/gish-gallop/ ), as in "Gulf of America" to hide the meat of selling the FBI and Department of Justice buildings (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-t...), installing the newscaster of a propaganda network (https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/22/media/fox-news-reliable-sourc...) as the Secretary of Defense, dismantling USAID, and otherwise doing everything in his immediate power to break the bones of the US government?

Anything of consequence (eg: Civil War 2.0) is "even better" for Russia than what's going on now.

It's a horrifically complicated judo flip of nation-state proportions. Please get your act together, EU!
Do Danes send Christmas cards?
Nitpicking over nomenclature is petty. Other applicable descriptions might be "asset", "tool", or "useful idiot".

One of the keys of tradecraft is to convince people to assist a specific contracted officer (that is, a direct employee of an intelligence service) without necessarily being part of the service, or even aware of doing its bidding.

On usage within the CIA, specifically between "agent" and "asset":

An intelligence asset is an individual who provides information and services to the CIA but is not officially paid or technically controlled by them. An agent, on the other hand, is someone who officially works for the CIA. They are paid by the CIA and are under their relative control as an employee.

<https://rdctd.pro/cia-agents-versus-cia-assets/>

Interestingly enough, the CIA's own nomenclature is ... less clear:

Asset: a clandestine source; an agent.

<https://www.cia.gov/resources/spy-glossary/>

Either way, the relevant discussion is whether or not the subject is, knowingly/intentionally or otherwise, assisting a hostile power. And there's strong circumstantial evidence that this is the case, sufficient to be the topic of international chatter, e.g.,

"Tory MP: Trump is a ‘Russian asset’"

<https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/tory-mp-trump-is-a-russi...>

Paywall: <https://archive.is/k8Dr2>
It will once traditional languages are good enough
The missing documents case is mentioned in this brilliant podcast, Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford | Laser Versus Parchment: Doomsday for the Disc: https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-s4nk7-1bcc6872

He mentions a lot of other problems with missing digital docs.

Like high court rulings are referencing URLs that don't exist anymore.
> please don't conflate the current administration with the whole American people.

The whole? No, of course no leader should ever be conflated with the whole people of a country. A plurality, however? Definitely.

Trump won an evidently free and fair election, growing his vote-share over essentially the whole country. He has not conducted a heel-face turn since entering office, and his actions are broadly consistent with his campaign statements.

Moreover, Trump isn't the only elected official in the federal government. If Trump were some aberration then Congress would have every ability to thwart his agenda or remove him from office; they have not. The majority-Republican Congress approved even his controversial cabinet nominees on party-line votes, and to my knowledge they have not taken any major investigative or punitive steps since.

A majority of American voters may not have voted specifically for this, but they did vote for the party and candidate who are content to allow this to happen in the supposed service of other goals. Voters who earnestly believe the misinformation shared by demagogues and social media are a tragic case, but that does not excuse voters who 'voted with their wallet,' foreswearing their obligation to the common good in hopes of a tax cut.

Do not mistake me for a rabid partisan. I do not let the Democrats off the hook either for reasons that are another rant and are directionally in alignment with Nate Silver's published opinions.
Can you elaborate on how this is not obvious to you? Sorry but this feels borderline concern-trollish.
Either way, delivery driver trips have been reduced
In The Netherlands the traditional postal had switched to every-other-day delivery for non-critical mail, and 09:00 postbox pickup instead of 17:00.

It might feel a bit awkward for people who are used to everyday delivery, but with the low volume of mail something has to give. Either € per letter rises, or letter per € drops.
The issue with the touch bar is that it replaced the F keys which are (at least for me) my most used short cuts. I don't use the track pad gestures, never really got the hang of them. So the F keys were used a lot.

They should have added the touch bar, not replacement the F keys with it.
Closely-held assets do what is useful. Were that to be useful, it's what the asset would likely be doing.

Removing material support to an enemy of the controlling agency also has great value.
Microsoft is right now making a huge bet on Delta by way of their “Microsoft Fabric” initiative (as always with Microsoft: Is it a product? Is it a branding scheme? Yes.)

They seem to be the only vendor crazy enough to try to fast-follow Databricks, who is clearly driving the increasingly elaborate and sophisticated Delta ecosystem (check the GitHub traffic…)

But Microsoft + Databricks is a lot of momentum for Delta.

On the merits of open & simple, I agree, better for everyone if Iceberg wins out—as Iceberg and not as some Frankenstandard mashed together with Delta by the force of 1,000 Databricks engineers.
Pressed media will last an incredibly long time if produced correctly and not subjected to violence.
Sheep mentality hard at work at companies. Just because Google does it (processes, technologies, systems etc), lets also adopt it without thinking whether its relevant in our context and use-cases.
I bet the same devs from these firms who are asking to traverse a minimum spanning tree would fumble at even the slightest variation of the problem appearing in daily life.

A general rant.
This is true for music CDs/Vinyl as well. I remember having detailed game manuals for Diablo and C&C:Red Alert in the '90s. I don't play games anymore but do buy music, and it's shocking that CDs and even $40 vinyls usually come in cheap slip cases with no liner notes or additional art.
Signal forces you to use Apple or Google phones (which enable spying on users via, e.g., push notifications [0]), actively fights with third party clients and servers, goes against decentralization. They want to be the single point of failure or attack. They also use the AWS. This is all too suspicious for me.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38543155

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39445976, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39414322, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32248062
We aren’t an agrarian society so children (and the labor they represent on the farm) are not a financial asset, they are a financial liability.
Not presently saving the reviews but we could go back and export the DIFF text for two commit hashes with git to recreate what was reviewed in a CI pipeline. This is also handy for tweaking the prompt towards what you're expecting to see on local machine.

I agree the script should be versioned because the output of the one model to the next varies so much and the potential that even an updated version of one model could break it. Treating model versions like an npm package dependency almost.
A freemium service advertizing it's premium offering hardly seems surprizing or objectional. They're not a charity
I largely agree with this so far, but my worry is that it's only been two months (though it may seem like an eternity). I'm worried he has much worse in store that won't be so easily circumvented, and we may already be seeing some of it with his buddying up to Russia against Europe. Between the military and corporate control the US has over other countries, there's much worse they could start doing. From my understanding of the current state of constitutional interpretation, the president has essentially unchecked power if they're willing to ignore any sort of decorum (which he certainly is), and he's already started huge purges of anyone not aligned in the government, intelligence and military. What do things start looking like when these purges are complete?
If I understood it correctly, PostNord will still deliver packages in Denmark.
Aren't a lot of these discs that simply contain a download code?
> for folks like my family members, it'd be a killer addition

HomeKit networking existed in Eero briefly. I put that in a lot of casual Apple homes. Seemed like missed oppty for Apple to let Amazon buy Eero, a more "spiritual successor" to the Airports.
That shouldn't be patentable...
SeaweedFS? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39235593
i wish they picked a more unique name. to me, it just seems like they're a copycat by picking a name that's a synonym - or at least of the same nature - of the word "Discord"

same with the streaming platforms Twitch and Kick

looking at their UI, it's the exact same UI as Discord. no improvements while also inheriting the same flaws that make using Discord neurotic
During the 8 and 16 bit home computing days, buying legit software in Portugal was almost impossible, even the boxes being sold at some stores were actually illegal copies, and it used to be common in the late 1990's that photocopy places near universities had catalogs with software to get copies from.

Eventually there was some crackdown from SPA in cooperation with the police forces, and most businesses nowadays run legit, however I will gladly bet than there are still plenty of business that do not, especially in small towns.

Also that we aren't the only country where it goes like that.
To operate a postal service, we need, as a strict minimum:

- A workforce with a pulse.

To operate a digital network, we need, as a strict minimum:

- A constant supply of electricity;

- Lot of complex tools built far away from lot of exotic material from all around the world;

- A workforce with lot of education and specialization.

We're making our civilization brittle and call that progress.
Software engineering laws everybody loves to ignore
Sorry, I updated the title. By location I meant IP.

If we have location-based results it means that they shares (let's say) the gussed city name with Microsoft.
Saying *we throw away both the guessed location and the IP address* is bullshit. They share it with Microsoft, and Microsoft keeps it.
Cryptee: Private and Encrypted Cloud Storage
Alright, folks, I lived in Denmark for quite a while, so let me be straight with you.

It’s probably the best country to live in Europe definitely a step above Germany and its Nordic neighbors.

Now, when it comes to street drugs, the quality isn’t great. I know some people who prefer ordering from the darknet and having it shipped straight to their mailbox. Since most transactions are done with Monero, the legal system can’t do much even if a package is intercepted. They can’t prove the payment. So, there’s a loophole in the system. If your package gets seized, it usually doesn’t lead to serious consequences.

That said, authorities recently introduced special X-ray scanners for mail. They see what’s happening, but it looks like a lot of darknet orders are still slipping through.
What is the disadvantage of aider when using a lot of repos?
Not sure about that one. There's a ton of minor edating/esex/grooming going on. You have massive community servers that essentially work like gaiaonline back in the day and tons of servers of 18+ communities. Horny, curious kids will always find a way so I can't blame Discord for not having a magic wand but I would be monitoring its usage if I were a parent. Only 1 of the servers I'm in is what I'd consider kid safe and it's a company's community server.
Are the Precision Workstation laptops not made any longer? They're beasts.
I jumped into and decided to put its physics and voxel tech to the test—so, naturally, I built a massive purple bunker
And boards are largely made up of senior management of other companies, scratching each other's backs.

If it ever became clear that an LLM or other AI of some sort could genuinely replace senior management, I guarantee you'd see two things:

1) The price for access to that level of AI (assuming it wasn't possible with an open model on commodity hardware, which seems like a safe assumption for the foreseeable future) would quickly rise to be merely competitive with the cost of hiring senior management.

2) Boards would (nearly) all quickly agree that the human factor is very important, and regardless of what statistics you might have seen on the decisions made by these AIs in completely fabricated scenarios, or even a few _obviously_ rigged "real-life tests", there's no way these so-called "AIs" could ever really replace a human where it matters (ie, at the senior management level).
> I wonder why you self-promote and repost your "old" stuff though..

Personal branding / marketing? Pretty common on HN if you look out for it.
Some form of Paperless-NGX setup is also an option :)
What made you switch away from stalwart?
Was considering giving it a shot
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And the loophole is apparently to just use a laptop or tablet, like two of the not-highlighted politicians in the photo.
Another big turning point was when Yitzhak Rabin was murdered. (By an israeli right-winger.)

History could have tipped entirely differently had Yitzhak lived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin
> It's just the RAIL Research-use licenses.

No it isn't. It's a ResearchRAIL-MS derived license with lots of additional restrictions piled on.

> The TLDR of the license is "here's the model and the sources. use it to help make your own models but don't use our model directly"

ICYMI, it's a ResearchRAIL-MS derived license and not a ResearchRAIL-M derived license. All the onerous restrictions apply to the model as well as the source code.
There’s even a movie: the Postman :) (everybody hated that movie)
> Let me be clear: the climate IS changing, I just doubt that it's mostly caused, or potentially solved by, human behavior

Oh, I didn’t see that comment, he made it lower down. I disagree with that. But I wasn’t defending that, I was replying to his original comment, which was completely reasonable
No, we use email instead, as postage is already too expensive. Paper mail is only used for formal stuff like wedding invitations.
My dream is to be invited into a mildly popular server (more than 15 users), than doesn't have 50 channels, 8 separate roles and T&C to agree to. It hasn't happened yet.

An entire generation of bureaucrats and bean counters is learning the ropes on Discord.
I think you just don't understand how international relations work. The US wanted those bases in Europe for its own interests.

And you might not be aware, but the EU just announced a hefty package to rearm itself. I wouldn't be surprised if in the comings months the US is out of NATO and those US bases in Europe are shut down.

And it is not really an insult, I still wonder if you are naive or dumb. I am friends with some very dumb people, it's not a character fault.
There is no setup. Just use Tailscale
This is literally the old Microsoft playbook for destroying open source software. “Embrace, extend, extinguish”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

They did it with XMPP and Windows live messenger in the 2000s.

At the end of the day these companies have no incentive to be responsible stewards of open protocols. The moment they have a tough quarter they’ll eviscerate it if it means they’ll make a buck.
You have that right: just don't use any ad supported services.
> presence at a parliamentary meeting (...) which is what they were elected to do

Parliamentarians from all around the world gasp in shock and revulsion
I think there's probably 3 outcomes.

1. Republic lawmakers won't care because their base won't care

2. Democrats will use their phones less because their contituents expect them to take their role seriously

3. Politicians will use this performatively when "the other side" is speaking
Cardano has been a top 5 coin for 3-5 years now.

Ripple has been the same.

Bitwise has a methodology for picking their coins that takes the top 5 by market cap excluding Binance and stable coins.

This was all trivially googleable for you, you should take the time to look before you comment next time:(
Laser versus Parchment: Doomsday for the Disc (2023)
More is to follow, but I’ve decided to open-source Gran Fondo, my iOS app for tracking runs and rides. What started as a subscription-based tool will be shedding its paywall and be released under a free software license. Read this post for full rationale and the greater idea behind it. Hope to make some friends and allies!
Huh? The Danish postal office is not named PostNord, that is a private for profit company.

Sidenote: Having lived in Denmark, dealing with Posten and receiving packages was not a positive experience. I was taxed 100 euro on my used shoes being sent me from another country for importing goods.
Am I in a bubble? There is any justification about Trump actions? From my perceptive(Brazilian) the US is dissolving all the soft-power it had in a record-breaking speed.
Calculus is 16-18 (A level, years 12-13) in the UK, 15-16 for kids who do advanced maths.
Many platforms have followed the trend of first offering a legitimately good product to build up a userbase, then squeezing out profit with increasingly anti-user changes, exploiting the fact it's difficult to switch (network effect and intentional lock-in).

It's not impossible that Discord stays more or less as it currently is, with a few features locked behind its paid subscription but generally a good experience, but it seems prudent to have a backup option for if/when things go further downhill.
> That was a proposal that did not happen

I'm well aware, as I was involved in the effort to block it (on four separate occasions now, and undoubtedly will again).

> Should we dig up USa stupid proposals? Or dig up actual laws like the USA laws for snooping on people that were revealed by Snowden?

The topic of this thread is European values and whether Signal embodies them or not. It's hopefully obvious to anyone interested that the prioritisation of individual freedoms that Signal embodies is not reflective of current European values, given the ever increasing levels of State surveillance across the continent.

That these are also not US values, even though their populace and politicians endlessly claim they are, is not relevant to this discussion.
It’s a 4chan meme, but he’s not even using it in the right context? Where are the dubs?
I can't do that at the moment but the GenAIScript project repo has a good plug and play version that I built upon. In my opinion agent Typescript classes that return structured data tied to interfaces/types with their own memory is where it's at. Also been experimenting with a state machine class to hot potato the output between an agent that judges the results and the worker agent until satisfied.
Anyone here remember the LOADALL instruction? Fun times.
Don't let the special case invalidate a good heuristic.
You can write blog posts on Twitter. You couldn’t do it before, but now you can.
> If your government suddenly asked for your electronic payslips from a job 10 or 20 years ago, could you provide them? Does everyone print them out or store them in secure electronic storage?

I don't know how far it goes back, but in Denmark it should be in the electronic inbox. e-boks / mit.dk
I think it's fair to say that, particularly through the '80s and '90s, the IT/programming books were outliers in how fast they became outdated, because the field was just moving so very quickly. (It still is, to a large extent, but now we have the internet to disseminate that information.)

For research on most topics, from history to social sciences to particle physics, the books at the library (or available through interlibrary loan) would be plenty recent enough for anyone not already specializing in the field, and such people would likely already have access to at least a college/university library, and likely a variety of academic journal subscriptions (often through said college/university library).
If they're not committed and listening they should quit immediately. Their work has an extremely outsized impact on their country. If they can't do their job they should leave and let someone else who can fill that role.
Would love to see a similar explanation of how "reasoning" versions of LLMs are trained. I understand that OpenAI was mum about how they specifically trained o1/o3 and that people are having to reverse engineer from the DeepSeek paper which may or may not be a different approach, but would like to see a coherent explanation which is not just an regurgitation of Chain of Thought or handwavy "special reasoning tokens give the model more time to think".
Don't forget the webring,

i deeply miss the curating of the webrings ...
There are already comments discussing this here, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_values
That's the trade-off between efficiency and resilience. Another example are the egg prices in US. The industrialisation of agriculture made it more brittle.
Never Use Page.waitForTimeout() in Playwright
And also think of the children!!1
> The Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC) advises the Directors of the Department of Commerce's statistical agencies, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Commissioner of the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), on statistical methodology and other technical matters related to the collection, tabulation, and analysis of federal economic statistics.

* https://apps.bea.gov/fesac/

In October there was a notice to 'renew' the committee:

> The Secretary of Commerce has determined that renewal of the charter of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee (FESAC) is necessary and in the public interest in connection with the performance of duties imposed by law on the U.S. Department of Commerce, established within the Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce and administered by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The renewed FESAC charter can be found on the Bureau of Economic Analysis' FESAC website at the following link: https://apps.bea.gov/ fesac/ .

* https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/10/22/2024-24...
What about old people who can't master computers?
It’s always a mistake to generalize about a population as large as “employees of the German government”.

Some people are meticulous about their jobs. Some are not. Both types are present in any large organization.
... and on the console side, you'll end up paying more for games, because on consoles they don't do discounts as often and as deep as on Steam for the digital SKUs.