skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a transgender software engineer who is a US citizen applies for asylum in a non-US country, are they at risk of losing their US assets (e.g. a home) or having their US accounts frozen?
The issue is that we're sorta back on the same issue as before where we need to estimate the value of the unimproved land except now it's (in my opinion) even more complicated. In this case, the structure doesn't need adjustment due to anything physically wrong it's just that no one is willing pay the theoretical value for it in that location. Think of an expensive anime wrap on a car, the wrap cost 2k or whatever but I don't care I really only want the car.

Good point on the value of unimproved land being negative, I was thinking of a different edge case. In the situation of "burdensome" land, maybe it does make sense for there to be negative value land with an associated tax credit if the owner is compelled to do something to remediate?
The main thing that reduces the value of hosting is that it's become cheaper over the years. Back when the App Store was new, privately hosting shareware games on my own domain was a substantial cost, IIRC around 10% of my total income from those games.

But it's somewhat hyperbolic to compare a mandatory cost that you have to pay to someone regardless, to being kidnapped.
Reducing things to exclusively Germanic/Scandinavian roots without any crossing to old French etc would massively restrict vocabulary so yes you could hold a conversation but you could also hold one without any of those words. Both could seem natural or really stilted depending on the subject and your approach to dialogue.

When you say fancy it’s not just allure or autocrat, but also words like age, air, alarm, aunt, chair, money, beef, dance, etc
when you fall from a bicycle in traffic and need more than ten stitches, you probably want clean conditions and high skill people ready. Ordinary daily care is done by ordinary daily care people because there is so much of it to do. It is fairly rare to need ten stitches from a bicycle accident. This is an example of people in ordinary good health. When you get to chronic care and elder care, things change again.

this call for "less reliance on insurance" lacks context and is overly-simplistic IMHO
To be fair, the traits OP mentioned are heritable, and so to a large extent come from the privilege of having [tall | intelligence | athletic | beautiful] parents. So privilege doesn't explain why you'd feel guilty about one and not about the rest.
The company claims it's not as top-heavy as you'd think from pics:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/07/intuitive_machines_la...

> At his press conference earlier today, Altemus defended the design, saying the spacecraft doesn’t have a high center of gravity because most of its cargo attaches to the base of the vehicle. He said there were no plans for a radical rethink of his company's design.

(We see this in returning F9 first stages, as well.)
You've totally hit the nail on the head. This is the real moat of S3, the fact that they have so much front-end throughput available from the gigantic buildout that folks can take advantage of without any capacity pre-planning.
If you asked the typical American protestant (who does NOT go to church every week BTW) if they really believe in the whole god and heaven and hell thing, a lot of 'em are gonna hem and haw. It's closer to a social club than an old school religion.
The big question is, can we find counterexamples to your model of reality in actual reality. And if we can easily do that, what does your apparent over-confidence about your statement say about you?

E.g. https://bellard.org/

To add to the insult, I'd challenge you to think of how many "great teams" of "normal" engineers, whatever any of these terms means, could pull off most of these projects in any amount of time.

Great professionals exist. They produce great work that is tough to reproduce. Your "helping" them does not mean they couldn't have done it without you.
Cool tutorial. I was looking at a similar setup that Google uses for it's recaptcha package[1], where, instead of copying the xcframework _into_ the public repo, they host the file on their own infra and set _that_ as the binaryTarget.

So the private repo publishes the framework to S3 or wherever, and then the public repo points to that directly. Might save some time/manual effort when publishing the public package!

[1] - https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/recaptcha-enterprise-...
Where is this 'one checkbox'?
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Someone described the Cybertruck's build quality as "BMW prices for a Temu truck" and y'know what, I'm not sure they're that far off.
> Why should one feel guilt about being prosperous in an unequal society?

I can understand the idea of feeling guilty about wasted potential (wealth, time, strength, beauty, intelligence). That which could be used to help those who need help, not exactly novel: “If you have two coats, give one away”
I interviewed at NUWC Keyport when I was in college. Seemed like an interesting place to work but they didn’t have any real programming roles at the time. My interviewer asked if I had experience with UML and talked about how he wanted someone to document and optimize their assembly line procedures. I’m not sure he knew exactly what he wanted.
Yoshkar-Ola, Russia is mentioned there. I'm from Yoshkar-Ola. This kind of scam business exists here at least since the early 2000s. We were once called the capital of such scam business in Russia. I didn't know it's still a thing. One of my acquaintances worked there in around 2005-2007. It was mostly students renting an appartment, rows of PCs. He left right before they were raided by police. Some British individual reported to our authorities and law enforcement acted on it. Never heard about them ever since, before this article.

It's kinda sad that we're associated mostly with Prigozhin in the West (the first thing the OP remembered), although we have other interesting stuff, for example we have probably the last remaining, still practiced pagan religion in Europe: https://hwpi.harvard.edu/pluralismarchive/news/europes-last-...
How about a parachute to keep it the right way up?
There are very very serious financial problems with going down this route. Private insurance pays for a lot of Medicare, because Medicare reimbursement rates do not cover the costs of Medicare patients in many parts of the country.

One of the better sources of information I have seen on this is actually a YouTube video, something I don't normally recommend, but getting a wholistic viewpoint is somewhat difficult otherwise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqrpFICtqpQ

We could increase the medicare contribution cap (samething like only the first $175k of income has medicare tax applied to it), but I'm not sure that's going to fill the massive gap. Perhaps increasing the rate would also work.

There could be some good things about this process, I just want to bring up that it's not a magic bullet because we will run into access problems unless we also solve the funding side of things. And when there are access problems, the people who lose access will be those with the least to pay.
What I hate about this argument is that the FDA does not predate civilization. In fact, it's a relatively recent development. Not only has this idea been tried, but throughout most of human history, people lived in the world you describe, died of salmonella, and the people who lived in that world decided they'd be better if that wasn't a thing anymore.
I think that's a somewhat synical way of thinking about it. I view teaching more as incubating an egg. You try to give good information and inspire your students to learn more, so that they can prosper. Sure, you might "never see what your students will ultimately achieve", but I wouldnt look at it in that light. Teaching isnt giving up on something before it's finished, it's trying to push them to be inspired or interested in learning more about the topic you're teaching.
this looks interesting. but i am missing steps for engineers to join the talent pool. the frontpage only addresses projects and agencies looking for people, but not people looking for work. there i no way for engineers to sign up.
Canadians may be often unprepared and shocked how aggressive and militarized the southern border is, compared to crossing at northern border land entry points.
It’s wrong on the same level of “The central message of Buddhism is not ‘every man for himself’, Otto!”
It seems to be a philosophy about being a good little productive serf and continuing to be productive while taking your powerlessness on the nose? Why would anybody in a modern free society follow this philosophy?
I have no idea how you can read his meditations and come away with this conclusion. Where are you getting that “Your job is to pretend it matters because it matters to your followers”
Why does a remote resource disappearing mean I can no longer use my local software? Fuck mozilla and their DRM.
Wow, literally an hour after my reply. Joyous news. Thank you for your contribution to making this happen!
Thanks for leadership on investing marketing budget into quality technical edutainment (and brand building!) for visually oriented humans.
I only play serious and important board games.
What an absolutely phenomenal speech and video. Just a sort of +1 highly recommended thing. That video was crazy insightful.
This is cool but I feel like you lose the best part of language-diffusion models which is their ability to edit early tokens.
I love Meditations but everytime I think about Aurelius I laugh so hard thinking about this random Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stoic/comments/1823mip/how_do_you_g...

Here's the text:

## How do you get over the fact Marcus Aurelius wife cheated on him with a gladiator?

I have been into stoicism for a while and have been using it to cope with life but learning this info has made me second guess the entire philosophy. Now whenever I try to be stoic I think about Marcus sitting in the corner writing meditations while his wife gets brutalized by a gigachad gladiator. Now whenever I think about stoicism it seems like a cuck philosophy. Was Marcus really the adam22 of his time? How can I get over this?

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Idk why this was the funniest thing to me, and now I just think of Marcus in the other room, hearing his wife getting ploughed, writing about how happiness doesn't depend on external circumstance so it's nbd
This seems to be the transcript of a speech given at ETech in April 2003, about why (Web)blogs took so long to emerge (original URL now returns a 404 so I'm using a IA link).
same -- maybe you should look into the Quakers, they're basically a denomination that is only community and sans doctrine, is my understanding. I only haven't followed this advice for bad reasons
You shouldn't. First, I reject the framing that one's success today is due to privilege. But even if that were true (and it isn't), so what? What previous generations did has nothing whatsoever to do with me, morally speaking. I'm responsible for my own actions alone; this collective guilt line of thinking some people follow is nonsense.
It's a remarkably good set of strategies and mindset for dealing with conflict, anxiety, and having to make a large number of difficult decisions.

The core of stoicism (stressed more by Epictetus, a former slave, than Marcus Aurelius) is that we should not focus or worry on things we can't control. We can't control other people, or societies, or the unforeseen tragic events we may experience, but we can control our own actions, our own thoughts, and the way we respond to them. We can't dictate our emotions, but we can handle how we express those emotions.

In many ways, it's similar to what you might learn going through therapy. But the mental health and difficulties that men face are somewhat overlooked by society and not taken as seriously as maybe they should be. In that environment, literally any strategies at all for dealing with stress and anxiety that are tailored towards men are going to be popular.
It's slow motion because they only speed it up by 3-5x. If you play the videos at 30x then it will really look like it's coming at us at full speed.
I have flagged for the 403 - Forbidden - at a site level.
> Everyone I know on Medicare does not like it and would prefer something else.

I have UnitedHealtcare through my employer. I don't like it and would prefer something else.
I looked up Tenderloin and it all looks quite normal traditional architecture? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenderloin,_San_Francisco#/med...

Whats the problem there?
The tech monopolies and oligopolies are not participants in a free market - they are they result of regulation.
Looking at this closely, it was working, however it was noisy. I speculate that they didn't correctly anticipate the moon dust problem. Laser rangefinders may not be a workable solution for future landings.

So engineers at Intuitive Machines had checked, and re-checked, the laser-based altimeters on Athena. When the lander got down within about 30 km of the lunar surface, they tested the rangefinders again. Worryingly, there was some noise in the readings as the laser bounced off the Moon. However, the engineers had reason to believe that, maybe, the readings would improve as the spacecraft got nearer to the surface.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/intuitive-machines-sec...

https://www.space.com/nasa-moon-landing-dust-concerns.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_horizon_glow
This is kind of like saying it would be better for me to take the train or bus to work and that car-based infrastructure harms everyone, but I live in San Bernadino or Indianapolis. You're not wrong but if you are in that environment it's clear which choice is more logical if I'm comparing a two hour bus ride or no transit at all to a 30-minute car ride.

Let's not forget also that Android is mostly open-source and that there are actual Google-free Android alternatives out there: GrapheneOS, /e/OS, LineageOS, CalyxOS...so Librem is competing with other open source alternatives that are far more capable and run on far better hardware.
Is your Rails application special?
Isn't this basically the diffusion-autoregressive sampling strategy from the LLaDA paper, maybe more carefully evaluated?
> If the plane is falling from the sky, i envy the people screaming -- they have the right levels of attachemnt to their own lives.

Are you saying that happier people scream more (shortly before dying)?
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The guilty by association by upvote system doesn't make any sense. It's not how users work, intent aside, users don't don't care about if the content is appropriate or not. Post a cute cat photo to a "no cats" sub and it will get upvoted by users who don't know / care about the rules.

It's a dumb policy disconnected from how users operate.

The rest of this article was painfully hard to read reddit inside baseball that I honestly can't figure out if anything is validated to be 1:1 as far as the reasons for anythign that happened go...

One question:

How do reddit admins even operate? I've had limited contact but my experience is they seem to all operate individually. If you catch the attention of one moderator who is helpful, all good. Others you don't get any response, and yet others ... I swear I've seen them protect bad actors for the longest times for the same actions that other admins might lay down the hammer.

Reddit administration seems very amorphous and rules vary by administrator.
Keeping track of where you are is THE feature.

You can manage memory and compute budget so that your cute algo does not go rogue. On top of that very often you don’t have to explore the entire tree, and there is custom logic at each step to decide whether you want to proceed or not with exploration.
This is the reason I don't use firefox and opt for Edge instead. Mozilla's ridiculous stance on WebUSB, WebSerial and other web-forward tech is bizarre. It shuts out a huge hobbyist community and diminishes web as a platform.
Look at Google’s documentation: they explicitly state that only their Messages app is allowed to talk to their key exchange server. The entire marketing campaign they ran about RCS was predicated on nobody reading their docs or noticing all of the Android developers begging for permission to use RCS for years.

https://www.gstatic.com/messages/papers/messages_e2ee.pdf

> E2EE is implemented in the Messages client, so both clients in a conversation must use Messages, otherwise the conversation becomes unencrypted RCS. In rare situations where the conversation starts as E2EE, then one of the clients migrates to a different RCS client or an older Messages client that does not support E2EE, Messages might be unable to detect the change immediately. If the Messages user sends a new message, it’s still E2EE, however the recipient client may render the encrypted base64 payload directly as message content.
Alot of Canadians are requesting that. Not just about retaliation, but in many respects (battery swapping terminals, feature sets), Chinese EVs are pulling ahead of North American vehicles.

Canada did a lot to support US industry because it was working well for us as well as the Americans. If the US is going to disrespect us and threaten us, we might as well lean into our relationships with other trade partners.
Spot on product managers are constantly pushing for new features (for their growth) so quality goes on the wayside.
Pretty much all Roman emperors would be considered tyrants and mass murderers by the standards of modern western liberal democracies. Marcus Aurelius was a product of his time and hardly a hero to emulate. But despite their flaws we can learn some universal lessons from their surviving writings that still apply to modern life — including at least some elements of stoicism.
That's extraordinarily unusual and in my experience has only happened when CBP believes that the applicant was lying or has a criminal record so I wouldn't base the decision on where/how to apply on this very low risk. Depending on the TN application, there are better and worse ways to apply for a TN and from an outcome standpoint, sometimes it's better to apply with CBP at the border or with CBP at a U.S. airport by flying directly to the U.S.
That's all great and it sounds like stoicism isn't for you. But that doesn't mean that it's "a deeply hollow, dissociative, nihilistic philosophy which dresses up the status quo as 'God's plan' -- a rationalization of interest to the elite above all others."

Virtues like prudence, fortitude, temperance, and justice can improve the lives of people of any part of society, not just the elites.
Ok going back to the report

https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/HNZ-Financial-...

The phrase “consolidation, journals, business-critical reporting, and analysis.” is in the actual report referring to multiple spreadsheets (p60). But the Register has reported that as referring to the main spreadsheet. There's no way a top-level consolidated spreadsheet would also be journal entries for low level accounting.

And I note the report is by Deloitte who I trust about as far as I can throw them, although the organisation in question undoubtedly messed up here, Deloitte are angling for a nice juicy government ERP implenmentation lasting years and costing tens of millions
Seconding this. Whenever I'm at the store I can't help but grab a bottle of Health-Ade. A third of the sugar and it's effervescent and tart in a way that makes it so refreshing.
Meanwhile, the other half of Hacker News community complains web browsers have too many features and want go back to Web 1.0.
> It’s almost comical that you think people elsewhere would give a shit about such a comparatively minor thing as Internet interruptions.

As someone who cares deeply about following news from east africa, there is nothing minor about internet interruptions.
Yes. Once I was leaving a managerial role for a lateral transfer and helped choose my replacement. One candidate was a high performing individual contributor. They felt obligated to apply for the job, but didn't really want it. They liked their current job and did it well. They were assured that they're welcome to continue as an IC at their current level as long as they continue to perform at their current level.

Worked out great. They have their role and continue to enjoy it and perform well. The managerial role went to someone with clear upward intention, who is also enjoying it and performing well.
I mean I'm more responding to Marcus Aurellius and other formalisations of historical stoicism, than the pretty widely understood idea that "somethings are important, some arent" and "care most about what you can change, and least about what you cant"

These sort of bits of old wisdom also come in their opposites ("you never know when something is important", "your passions can define your life, and create opportunities") etc.

So I'm taking stoicism as a particular prioritising of those "bits of old wisdom" that combine together in relevant historical texts, and add up, in my view, to being quite radically dissociative.

Stoicism doesnt own, "keep calm under fire"
Your take on this is wild to me, and while TFA as whole is somewhat more balanced, I'm pretty surprised at this whole train of thought. An emperor was a stoic, and so was a slave. Epictetus is only mentioned twice in passing in the article, but it does say that

> Some stoic authors were slaves themselves, like Epictetus author of the beautiful stoic handbook Enchiridion, and many stoic writings focus on providing therapies for armoring one’s inner self against such evils as physical pain, illness, losing friends, disgrace, and exile.

Seems like people from all walks of life thought maybe it was a useful point of view, and that it's universal because people from all walks of life have their own suffering to deal with.

I get that in an inevitably political world that's increasingly polarized, philosophy always becomes a sort of fashion show where it's not about what's being worn but who is wearing it lately. But this is really pretty silly. Stoicism predates silicon valley and will still be around after it's gone, and there is substance that goes far beyond "deeply hollow, dissociative, nihilistic".

If it sounds that way to you, I assume maybe you are just in a situation where you have someone that you kind of hate preaching it at you.. in which case adding some distance makes sense no matter what they are evangelizing. Quoting TFA again

> [stoicism] reminds me of the profession of wealth therapists who help the uber-wealthy stop feeling guilty about spending $2,000 on bed sheets or millions on a megayacht.

So there it is, that's what's really bothering the guy.
I don't live there so I can't comment on level of crime. But architecturally I find no fault here.
I wonder if they'll actually do it.

The scenario I've been expecting: a judge decides that the actions are illegal, they decide to ignore the judge, and the judge holds them in contempt.

I've heard people calling for impeachment, and I think that's absurd based on what we've seen so far. I don't think these actions have been legal, but we rightly set a pretty high bar for impeachment.

A judge holding the administration in contempt would be a much clearer call for impeachment. And while it's certain not to happen, it would represent a significant change in the overall tone.

They could assuage a lot of concerns by following the judge's order. That would mean that the rule of law was still in effect -- and there is considerable concern that it isn't. Showing that concern to be unjustified would also tamp down a lot of the opposition.

Or vice versa.
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