skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If any evil was done, why wasn't it raised as a defense at trial?

Because the evil likely wasn’t illegal.

> I don't understand this weird obsession with being contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian or to raise hyperbolic examples that don't fit the facts.

False. No one is contrarian here for the sake of it you and I have a different opinion. That’s all you think someone with a different opinion than you is contrarian?

> And for what? What's probably just a mild inconvenience for the company for a day or two. WAs it worth it?

Fuck no it wasn’t worth it. That’s what I mean. It’s a “crime” but was it a crime worth 10 years? No. If you weigh the situation based on gravity the greater evil was done to him. That’s part of the whole thing about a crime isn’t the end all be all of evil. Just because it’s a crime doesn’t mean anything.

> Sometimes, even most of the time, things are just what they appear to be. In this case: likely a shitty employer and a shitty job.

Appear to be what? They have no quotations or anything about him stating why he did what he did? Because the information is missing you are making a wild guess.

I don’t know how you can make a claim out of thin air that things are often what they appear to be EVEN when you literally were not given his side of the story. In any typical investigation motive is a huge part of the analysis and we don’t have motive.

I bet the prosecutor was like you. Just destroy a mans life because he “broke the law” or did a “crime.” If a child stole food because he was hungry would you send him to juvie because it’s a crime? Let’s be real here. If I had to venture any guess about why he’s going to jail for 10 years a huge part of it is that someone fucking hates him.
Thus glossing over the fact that most slave societies offer the freedom to market your slaves.
Okay, it makes sense. Thanks.

As a person living outside of the US, all of those didn't even cross my mind (maybe except for car payments).
Thanks, I am in the process of choosing a dataframe library and just naively assumed that the Rust interface would be statically typed.
I wonder what a feature by feature comparison would look like with the commercial cold rb optical clock?

https://spectradynamics.com/products/crb-clock/

Which is seems to be about 1/5th the size, 1/10th the cost, and maybe 1/100th the long term stability (though the optical lattice clock doesn't have an adev chart, so I'm just comparing 10^-15 with 10^-18).

I wonder if the lattice clock can be moved while operating? IIRC the CRB can't, and requires better than 1 degree leveling so the cooled rb cloud can be in freefall.
is that infra more expensive than preparing for the holiday events when half the nation decides to relocate to somewhere else and they need on the go charging? Not just the charging stations, but grid usage etc.
I find it somewhat amusing that Lethe was the river of forgetfulness, and that the new name for the project is so close to that.
Will it be able to beat Pokemon Red?
No. This isn’t true. Most terminals are native. They don’t run under a browser engine.
Definitely. AFAIK they previously used to do sentiment analysis and Facebook faced some backslash for experimenting over the mood of their users by manipulating their timelines but today it must be possible to do %100 editorial moderation using LLMs and pretend that whatever you want is the general public sentiment.

I also notice that "influencers" are also influenced by this. They pick the talking points from real time media like Twitter and then make coherent videos over this stuff and it gets legitimized. People rarely revisit their past works once the firehose is spraying at some other direction and the fake public sentiment becomes the real public sentiment.
I'm not happy with all this stuff - I think it's cruel. Back in the early 70s the lab I worked in had a colony of mice called "wobblers" that in some sense modelled Parkinson's Disease - but not usefully, as far as I could see.
> On occasion, there’s money left over to go out to a fast-food restaurant for a treat. The four kids usually split three $5.99 meals at Taco Bell (YUM +2.05%) or two $5 meals at McDonald’s (MCD +3.52%), for which Burns accumulates rewards points for future discounts.

The auto-inserted stock ticker symbols in this article really drive the point home...
most of the ''protect the kids!'' rhetoric originates from the government who want to use it as a smoke screen to push authoritarian surveillance laws.
There was also lots of dust. Read digital apollo.

If your tanks are empty, they are now dead weight. Use them as pads.

If you had 30 empty tanks on spikes you could bounce, roll onto the surface.

Again tanks as landing gear.

A delivery craft that crashes somewhere else, or flies over the rights the other two. ( Three for one)
4.6 of 5 stars. The most recent comments are comedic gold. I highly recommend that you read them for a good laugh.
Wow I wouldn't think that a small town an hour away from Portland would be so expensive.

By the way, for a family of 6 they spend way less on groceries than I would expect.
Then you have a different problem.

Suppose you have some content that depicts healthy and loving relationships, but is also sexually explicit. The prudes are going to want that inside the porn filter along with the rest of it, even though it's something that does the opposite of what you're concerned about.

Meanwhile, insert "watch it for the plot" joke, because we all know that kind of content gets produced when the goal is to appeal to the prurient interest without allocating a lot of budget to writers. But that's actually the problem. Age gates and things are friction. Suppose you want to create something good that appeals to a mass audience because it's thoughtful, but it's also sexually explicit. As soon as you put it behind the wall you lose the large majority of the audience, not because they're minors but because they're adults not willing to swipe their ID in order to watch "porn", whether out of the assumption that anything with that tag on the gate is inherently immoral or concern that someone else would assume that if anyone found out they were watching it.

And then the wholesome and salutary stuff doesn't get produced. You'll notice that such content is uncommon, because it's effectively banned in most of the places with even moderate production values. You can't put it on broadcast TV, "porn" is banned wholesale on YouTube, corporations the likes of Disney would generally be skittish about producing it etc. You'll occasionally get something like that on HBO or Netflix but even then the incentive to produce it is lower because they wouldn't be able to license it to as many other places.

Which means the main place it gets created is in places like the old Tumblr before the prudes killed it. But killing Tumblr doesn't get rid of porn, it just lowers the quality of it, where "lower quality" is more rather than less misogynistic and insalubrious.
Microsoft already suffers from lack of software consolidation. It costs a lot of money to maintain 10 different tech stacks. Not to mention having separate security/privacy review processes for each.
This is one of those things that really mystifies me. We always hear about startups, killer apps, etc. that generally target a fat margin, even the cloud providers with economies of scale are doing everything they can to avoid becoming a "dumb pipe", but at the same time in the background there are a bunch of companies which somehow make e.g. manufacturing matchsticks profitable. What is their secret?
And it raises a very scary question - at which point will we be seen as useless to the ruling caste? And useless resources are to be disposed of...

I remember how once CEO of a company my dad worked at has called them. Cattle. Not humans.

That is what we are to the rich.
> protecting the basic rights that everyone has to have to have a free, civil society, and stopping there. A government that has more power than that has too much power.

What's your empirical evidence for thinking that such a setup is better and that going further than that brings "eternal conflict"? Since all prosperous democratic countries in e.g. north america and europe combine private property with taxation for public provision that goes beyond what you desire. Furthermore in empirical studies of life satisfaction and happiness the top of the list is consistently held by countries with extensive welfare states funded by taxes[0]. How does that square with your claim?

[0] https://happiness-report.s3.amazonaws.com/2024/WHR+24.pdf#pa...
I doubt Microsoft makes much money from Windows anymore. Microsoft's valuation primarily comes from Azure and other cloud products.
Can't make a cappuccino with heavy whipping cream it won't foam. Half and half is doable.

As for why cream or half and half, less sugar and lactose.
The Easy Path That Leads to Failure
Keeping honey and trying to drown uBlock Origin.

Corporations never change
Thank you to author for pointing out some negatives here.

The 5th version made two "non-error", but ergonomic changes, for the sake of larger code bases and standard formats over quick, yet reliable, reactive and testable code (which first attracted me to svelte):
- the need for getters and setters when using $runes in functions; this is a waste of time and almost always unnecessary in the contexts in which one uses small store classes. Not that Svelte 4 was better, it was different.. in a pinch, I'd take 4 though.
- using folders for routing and using standard page.svelte.js and server.svelte.js naming for everything; it clutters your IDE file list. You could say it's good practise, but limiting to one component per file also causes more files in some cases than multiple components per file (as is possible in React)

Despite all this, Svelte 5 introduces $writable, which is kind of for the use case of one-off simple state - which doesn't need getters/setters - so the whole thing doesn't feel that consistent.

I don't mind using consistent runes - that is a bit of boilerplate, but makes it easier to reason about. I still love the reactivity of using bind (like Vue) and using $effect with it automatically figuring out what to do without the footguns of Reacts useEffect. I love that I can just start writing files and routing will work, css can just go there without a node module to process it.

Increasingly, I've realised React is probably going to remain my number 1:
- Recent changes are mostly just shorthands to reduce boilerplate
- Mobx has got state down
- Hooks have footguns, but I know them
- The eco-system is still unmatched
- `use` and other statements allowing async loading (like other recent shorthands) is helpful, a lot of my components used to have boilerplate to do async stuff, and it took effort to make failure cases/loading work well. This pairs very well with server functions too.
have experienced it a couple times. 3.7 seems to go on random tangents unrelated to the original ask.
Llama was great because it showed that open LMs can be competitive. But today Llama is simply not in the top league anymore.
There’s also the practicality of hiring or maintenance as well as what you get from the ecosystem, as well as understanding the wider business context.

I might personally love to kick off a greenfield project with Elixir, and it might tick all the technical boxes and meet the requirements. But then I have to pay a premium for senior engineers that know elixir or have to price in the time needed to upskill.

Or I could just do it in Rails where I can dip into a much larger talent pool and still meet the requirements. Much more boring but can get the job done just as well.
All the points in the gist are basically wrong...I will comment after point to point as soon as I'm back at the desk
what are the differences between pg_mooncake and pg_duck?
It is not ok to put any innocent people to death and it is also not ok to live in an unsafe society.

I believe that the death penalty should be applied with extreme prejudice for the most serious of crimes.

You don't need to and shouldn't apply it to all murders.

Furthermore, anyone guilty of rape should be castrated
> That means it's utterly impossible to make a product for lower income people unless it's really really good.

The flip side is that products targeted at poor people are actually amazing. Something like a cheap grocery chain involves logistic and technological capabilities that were unachievable through most of human history. And the price points society hits for things that are effectively magical are absurdly low.

The default expectation for someone who can lift heavy objects or maybe do some cleaning would be that they can scrape together just enough food to survive. But the modern economy is so optimised at the low end that most people can actually achieve a pretty reasonable standard of living on very questionable levels of productivity, skill and ability. Although not luxurious by modern standards, obviously.
likewise closed offerings could also fall behind open models.

No matter who you are, the rest of the world combined will always be bigger. That is why Linux won the cloud, and why Windows server simply could not compete.
There are both a ton of rocks and 1100 foot cliffs.

Drop a Tesla tow truck...( A joke... But you would be able to see the explosion from Earth)
the whip got optimized

most people have it internalized

this was found to be much more efficient that actual whipping
In my experience DeepSeek is far better than Claude for coding.
In my country people above 13, but under 18 are allowed to have debit cards (Mastercard/Visa) and bank accounts themselves (with parent's permission and automatic power of attorney to this account) I've had an account, card and state-issued ID since I was 13, all look the same as for any adult, the only difference being the date of birth on that ID. My parents just agreed, and didn't ever check or accessed the account (nor they probably even knew how).
Nice find! As for the provider, since they missed this extremely basic step (don't trust the client!!) I would expect they have many more undiscovered vulnerabilities.
I'm wondering if these new html features will eventually get traction, anyone knows how's the usage of latest popover and dialog elements? I'm asking because I always wondered who would ever use them as JavaScript based dialogs are so ubiquitous and they can't easily be content blocked vs querySelectorAll("dialog") and disable them. For the sake of being semantic? But who really would write a semantic web anymore? Maybe for AI Agents? Why keep bloating the web platform?
Legal rights can be seen as especially strong claims, with implications and interactions to be further specified in laws and regulation. What alternative do you think would be more useful arrange human relations, if not literally appeals to the God of Thunder?
As well as long, boring, pseudo-scientific dialogues
So the library of Alexandria never burned? All the referenced lost works from Rome were made up? Or many, many other examples.
Man this "Russia is running out of XXX" tale is becoming quite old and not being taken seriously nowadays - year by year goes with the same narrative and it's only getting objectively worse for Ukraine...
that's a grim way to put it.

but I read that they're not a VC firm which is what I was trying to point at

not all email newsletters are spam, sometimes people do want to receive the emails
Apologies if not helpful: have you tried consulting an AI?

(This is not medical advice)
> For decades, the American consumer has powered not only the world’s biggest economy but the entire global economy.

Sorry, what? America makes up 5% of the worlds population, the US cosumer is not running at a 20x rate. This is nonsense.
GATTACA here we come
A browser engine isn’t a prerequisite for something using a graphical framework nor running on a desktop environment
Their secret is volume
I wanted to tell you that we don't have conscription in Poland -

... but it got reinstated yesterday.
I think people usually only talk about "Svelte", but that doesn't really imply a "Svelte v1". So it's very plausible to miss the existence of major versions of not working with it.
Economist Thomas Piketty writes about this in great detail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Piketty
That's also a much more crowded market and your rivals are probably more ready to outspend you. For instance if you're selling vitamins, are your odds of succeeding in the luxury market that much higher ?
Understanding the FDTD Method
That's the old one, the newer Gripens have a GE produced engine. Volvo no longer make jet engines.

The JAS 39C/D is using the Volvo RM12. JAS 39E/F is equipped with the General Electric F414.
These are the same reasons why developers first create an app for iOS. This is quite well known
It's certainly a weird world where we kill those who want to stay alive, and find every excuse to stop those who want to die from doing so.
Sadly true.

Looking at it from the other end:

- Wealthy people have plenty of extra money. Their biggest worry is finding new shiny trendy luxuries and bling, to show that wealth off. It's relatively easy for entrepreneurs to dream up and make such stuff.

- Poor people don't have extra money. Their biggest worry is having enough to afford food, clothing, housing, transportation, and medical care. It's extremely hard for entrepreneurs to out-compete existing providers of those (to the poor).
Four children. What a parent needs is an ATM.
To the extent that one doesn’t need measure theory to do statistical mechanics there is no need to teach measure theory in a statistical mechanics course.

“If anyone wants to concentrate his attention on infinite sets, measure theory, and mathematical pathology in general, he has every right to do so. And he need not justify this by pointing to useful applications or apologize for the lack of them; as was noted long ago, abstract mathematics is worth knowing for its own sake.

But others in turn have equal rights. If we choose to concentrate on those aspects of mathematics which are useful in real problems and which enable us to carry out the important substantive calculations correctly – but which the mathematical pathologists never get around to – we feel free to do so without apology.”

[Jaynes 2003, p. 673]

By the way, rigour and generality are different things.
Their secret is not having delusions of grandeur. VC convinces us that a business is not a success unless it eats the world within ten years. In actual fact, many businesses make a very modest profit and took decades to get big enough you might consider them a success story. That’s fine. Shareholder value is not the only kind of value.
>That means it's utterly impossible to make a product for lower income people unless it's really really good.

Rather really really cheap. There is definitely a demand for servicing lower income people. It's just not a great place to be for people with middle class sensitivities.
Petition to change "invisible hand" of Adam Smith to "invisible whip".
What is all this "headless CMS" trend about?
In short, the idea is to separate the data from the UI and representation. The UI should talk to the data via API.

That's cool in theory, but in practice, most headless CMSes provide mainly the data part and API, saying, "Hey, take a look at how nicely we organised the data for you, and there is your API."

My reaction is: That's cool, but first, I know way better how to organise my data, and I already have the API, and second -- give me THE UI; I need the UI!

I built many internal CMSes with transactions, reports, charts, etc. I personally found that the most time-consuming and laborious part is UI, not data and API.

To be helpful, the UI needs to be: 1] generic, flexible, and configurable with little development effort but at the same time -- 2] tailored to the concrete workflow.

I personally know only one out-of-the-box software that does all that: Django Admin. With zero ceremony, you have functional, generic software that is still tailored to your data UI.

However, Django can achieve it because of SQL. In RDMS, the data is already nicely normalised and split into logical parts—the relational tables. Unfortunately, in NoSQL, where the data can be whatever, building a generic UI editor/admin is a tricky task. Every project is unique, requiring its own fully custom UI.

So why bother about a third party HEADLESS (!) CMS?
Foreign Key Arrays (2017)
Signal's President says agentic AI has 'profound' security and privacy issues
in the US the whip has morphed, because health insurance is provided by the employer - it forces you to seek employment.

if you want to live - you will have to work to have access to healthcare
Without a complete breakdown is impossible to know what they spend their money on. Is their car cost high, student loans?, energy, streaming?
>> Honest question about first story: how come they need $1000/week if they spend on groceries $100/week?

(looking at my own paycheck and bank statement):

- Rent / Housing

- Health insurance premiums

- Health insurance deductibles

- Health insurance balance bills (what insurance mysteriously doesnt pay)

- Health insurance co-pays

- Prescription co-pays and balance bills from PBM*

- Electric, Gas, Water, Sewer bills

- Phone+internet (often locked into 2yr plans so you cant shop around)

- (for me and some) Car insurance / gas

- (for me and some) Public transport

- (for some) student debt payments

All this is before any restaurants (a luxury, even for qsr), savings (good luck), travel (not realistic for many), dental /orthodontic (often deferred)

For those outside the US or some lucky US states, a PBM is a pharmacy "benefits" manager, which creates many rules for where you can fill your prescription to have it covered by health insurance. Mine (OptumRX) will set higher prices than I could get if I shopped around for medicine. If I choose the lower price, I either pay for it myself (out of pocket, not applying insurance) or they will bill the difference between what I paid and the higher "fair" price they set. There is no winning. Sometimes the PBM price is so high it is better to just pay out of pocket, or even to purchase the meds overseas (which I know people do, esp those closer to Canada.) Also, your doctor has to send the prescription electronically to the pharmacy, which makes it difficult to shop around since you dont actually have the prescription in hand and many doctors wont respond to you once you've left the clinic. Death by a thousand cuts.
The extraction problem has been solved for a long time to make recombinant insuline. Before that it had to be extracted from an animals pancreas. These days peptides are often improved using non-natural amino acids to make them more stable and thus longer acting. Semaglutide is a good example. These are synthesized using solid-phase synthesis.
>the top 10% of income earners account for 50% of the spending

And hence climate change and environmental degradation. Something to remember every time someone says think of the poor as an excuse for not dealing our emissions.