skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trump is destroying democracy and free speech (notably press freedom).

Can you name specifics? What freedom does the press not have that they had a few months ago? How is there any less democracy now than before? Nothing has changed about the rights of people to vote or publish - if anything these things are getting better by removing wasteful spending propping up one side of the press, stopping illegal immigration, etc.

> The US culture values individual freedom at the expense of the many. From my point of view, freedom is not possible without equality between people.

It’s an interesting point that I need to think more about. Personally, I still think individual freedom is the only real freedom. The US law is well thought out in limiting individual “rights” in minor ways (like not being able to harm others) while preserving most of it. Those choices let everyone live freely and more equally than any other system.
Huh? It's not true of open source software at all.

With open source software, you can read the source and verify that it doesn't have backdoors. With reproducible builds, you can verify that distributed binaries are the result of building the source code you've verified.

Honestly, if you couldn't figure out that this was going to be my response, you simply don't have the knowledge to be commenting on this topic. I didn't come up with anything I've said here myself, it's pretty basic, widely agreed-upon understanding of why open source is generally more secure. The only people who actually know the topic who "disagree" on this generally have a vested interest in some closed-source software they want to be seen as secure.
Mini-grids may be the part the EU is missing. Selling your surplus ev power to grid is a huge waste, charging your neighbours car is a better use.
The US is arguably more democratic than the EU and many of it's member states.
And I am an EU citizen myself
It’s an interesting idea, but I’m not convinced it’s a good one. Office managers (or any kind of managers, really) are hired to remove a class of problems, so other people can focus on their job. This is outsourcing bits and pieces of your responsibilities to random coworkers. That being said, none of it is uncommon in modern corporate workplace.
This is the simpler explanation. Or they need better measurements. The black hole theories are more “fun” but not logically consistent and there’s no shred of evidence beyond science fiction level ideas
The mockingbirds where I lived from 2009-2018 only sang the song of the car alarm. The original species became rarer and rarer, and generational distortion snuck in. It was definitely interesting comparing which parts of the alarm were mocked well and which were outside the range.

Otoh, really annoying on hot nights when everyone had their windows open and the damn things keep chirping all night. A neighbor found if you yell shut up really loud, you'll get about 5 minutes of peace.
Whoops, you are right, I misread one source.
I guess context matters. I rarely use AI to generate code outside of the automatic suggestions my IDE gives me in my own coding style (my full time work is a code base almost entirely my own). What I use it for heavily is anything I previously used Google and documentation before, and in that context the AI solution is significantly better and it’s not even close.
Yea, just agreeing with the other commenter. Creating a Rails app is the way to go to get started with Ruby. https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html

It's my favorite programming language but I seldom get to use it because I'm an AI Engineer. But I just recently went out on my own so I guess that can change now, hm...
One of my greatest regrets in life is seeing a "ticket" on the back of an EE trade magazine to see Douglas Adams give a presentation. I believe the event was in San Diego, and I was living in Arizona. The event was that upcoming weekend. I was tempted to drive out for the event, but thought, "nah, that's a torturous drive, I'll catch him another time." He died within a year.

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." This line alone did nearly as much to shape my adolescent sense of humor as all of Mel Brooks' movies combined.
The brain is the important part. The electricity just keeps it going. And it’s more than numerical matrices.
Something like a queuing system, re-architecting the database to handle a higher load without just throwing more machines on it. A cache.
Rails still the “batteries included” piece of Ruby. Recently added parts like Hotwire, SolidQueue etc are pretty interesting to know.

Outside of it, you might find interesting libraries like sinatra, sequel, roda, dryrb, faraday, sorbet, truffle ruby…
Transformers learn residuals, as you can see in the figure. y = x + f(x).
“Change” works with the HomePod, that’s what I mainly use for setting alarms.

You are perfectly right that they don’t seem to use their own products, or those employees that do have no path to enact change. They also don’t seem to do much user testing.
Agreed, I wasn’t trying to be sarcastic. I’m afraid that the officer was simply being a sicko rather than actually “investigating”.
I kind of agree with you, much as I loved them when I first read them (and maintain a fondness based on that). I am looking forward to reading at least the first two books to my son in a few years time.

That apart, have you read the Dirk Gently books? I think those are DA's best, and I've happily re-read them multiple times.
Are there places on Earth where it's mostly-homogenous "good stuff" all the way down? Could they avoid some of these problems - salt pockets, limestone - by being very picky about where they drill, avoiding (e.g.) places where there used to be ocean?
Wow, 3.2 and 2% milk available in the same office? Where do I apply?
They only need to make money in aggregate, they might make $0 out of you, but $2 out of someone else.
Heh, I almost bought one recently (they're really cheap). Unfortunately we couldn't figure out how people in the back seat could get out on their own - our testdrive ended up with the salesguy trapped in the back seat for like 10 minutes because we forgot to let him out ...
Where does the profit from subsidies go to? A few years ago, McDonalds has subsidies of $1.5B USD, and $1.5B in profits. They really are a real estate company, and nursemaids for broken ice cream machines.
Light Phone 3 launches March 27
FFmpeg Book [pdf]
Note that in the questions at the bottom it says the following:

> If you are on a Free or Pro plan, full setup is the only one available. This is the recommended and most common option.

That means to use this partial setup you need to be on at least the Business plan, which is $200/month when billed anually ($250 monthly).
Surely to avoid the org dysfunction that sunk Firefox the person 'creating' this fork would also be actively building it?
I basically have an even simpler version of something like this for my own personal use too. I found it pretty easy to write in Go and my area of expertise is decidedly not web frontend/backend. I’d recommend it as a fun little project if you’re looking for something to do.

For mine, I paste in a video or playlist URL and it downloads the video and creates a lower resolution transcoded version suitable for streaming to my phone. It also extracts an audio-only version in case that’s more appropriate.
Not your physical nearest neighbors, rather, product neighbors in similarity space.
Big-boo-tay!! Tay, Tay, tay!

(hello, fellow old!)
Much of the impact of comedy comes from novelty and originality. We have had several generations of comedians influenced by Adams and Python. Unsurprisingly, younger people who didn't hear them when their work was new do not appreciate the full impact of their originality.
That was before they were absorbed by Doubleclick.
That's irrelevant. Both local apps and web apps are subject to supply chain attacks. The difference is that a local app that has had a supply chain attack carried out can read my documents, my private keys, my photos, etc; a web app that has similarly malicious code cannot do any of that. The browser protects me because it has a sandbox.

I also do not understand why you refer to "trusted web app" whereas in my comment above I have stated that I need a sandbox to run the code; I clearly don't trust it enough. The whole point is that the browser allows me to run untrusted code safely. And supply chain attack is one of the main reasons why I don't trust it enough.
One of my core memories as a kid was when I watched the Mr. Rogers' episode about how crayons were made[0]. I came home after my first week of 1st grade, Grandma making dinner in the kitchen, my Mom getting ready for work. On the days it rained, which were many in the PNW, I would spend my afternoons coloring and watching reruns of Mr. Rogers'. My Grandma had begun recording episodes of Mr. Rogers' to VHS when I was barely even a year old for me to watch when I was older.

Still with the fresh smell of crayon and marker on my hands from school, I grabbed my blue tin cookie can full of crayons from my room, stopping by the gigantic office desk where our brand new Hewlett Packard computer and Deskjet 500 printer lived. Barely tall enough to reach the front paper hopper, I snagged a sheet of paper, sandwiching it between my index and middle fingers.

I popped in the VHS, seated in front of our Magnavox with crayon tin and paper in hand. The episode began and a core memory was made. That distinct crayon smell in combination with that episode will always stay with me.

I left software to become a grade school teacher last year and I have Mr. Rogers' and a shortlist of male teachers to thank for planting the seed of curiosity and play some decades ago.

0. https://youtu.be/MWAhnVYUPZo?si=kdg7-iY0Wcd8IRne
Finding a random free port in Golang
Simple technique, but I use it enough that it felt useful to share.
That's a mischaracterization of the case. In New York v. Trump, the charge was falsifying business records in furtherance of another crime, which is what elevated it to a felony. That isn’t a novel interpretation—New York law has long treated falsification of business records as a misdemeanor unless it’s done to cover up or advance another crime. The prosecution argued that Trump falsified records to hide a campaign finance violation, which is what made it a felony.

As for the idea that these laws were "previously unenforced," that's misleading. Falsifying business records has been prosecuted as a felony in New York many times before, including against other executives. What makes this case unique is the high-profile defendant, not some unprecedented application of the law.

And the claim that the prosecutor herself engaged in inflating asset prices is a distortion. Letitia James, as AG, pursued civil fraud claims against Trump for devaluing his assets for tax purposes while inflating them for loan applications—something Trump himself admitted to in depositions. That’s not the same as falsifying business records.

So no, this isn't some brand-new legal strategy being used against Trump; it's just a matter of finally holding a powerful person accountable under laws that have existed and been applied before.
It's not about not liking Trump. The fear is that the trade war against Europe might make it so expensive everyone has to switch to a non-American service. This is a way to be prepared for that. There is also the fear if USA goes to an actual war against Europe, then it is not safe to use any american technology that phones home.
A solid majority of young Americans aren’t fit for service. I strongly considered the military during my second eviction, but I was way too out of shape to even think about it.

Ironically, being fat might’ve saved me from a lifetime of PTSD and other issues. We don’t treat veterans right in America.
This is a game of cat and mouse, like it has always been. Cannot rely on security by obscurity.
Friday Catblogging
This is one of many reasons I am optimistic about V (see https://vlang.io/compare)
> Once in a blue moon is fine but at that frequency? Sounds like you’re just short circuiting your brain and enjoying the sprays while they last.

Actually, the first time I used LSD that was partly the goal; I was trying to find some way to break my brain or otherwise manufacture some brand of insanity. For me though, it turned out not to be particularly capable of that on its own, or at least it doesn't seem to trigger that to happen. It did do something else that I ended up still liking, and that something else is what I use it for nowadays.
Cap'n Proto Is Event Loop Friendly
I think you need to pay more attention to the contexts in which your coworkers and bosses use the word efficiency. You’ve got a good definition there but you’re not often in good company.
I recall some services established and extra PT system at one point so they didn’t have to bypass those potential recruits.

I don’t know if that’s the case.
Christian Bale's real accent is cockney english. His interviews are... very jarring.
The Day Hobie Made Nixon a Surfboard
Right. I think we're all in agreement about the end goal,... The "how we get there" is another story.

I'm partial to aiming for perfection — when there's time for it — after having been the person paying down the tech debt across different domains (i.e. untangle spaghetti code to unravel subtle logic errors, fix them, and write down documentation).

But I agree that sometimes you just need to ship a workable solution ASAP... I am of the opinion that that should be an exception, and that it isn't a sustainable modus operandi.
Cigarette rolling paper comes in a flat pack, from which you take the papers one by one, like a box of Kleenex. Towards the bottom of the pack, there's gonna be an odd-colored piece of paper, after which there still gonna be 10 pieces left in the box. The odd-colored paper tells you that it's time to buy a new pack, but you still have 10 cigarettes' worth.

Edit: found a photo of this phenomenon on r/antiassholedesign https://www.reddit.com/r/antiassholedesign/comments/cfndfa/g...
Kasia, the person who placed the note and requests its return, is the office manager. Giving someone an easy visual cue and task for keeping things running smoothly seems like great office manager work and organization rather than shirking any type of responsibility.
Nothing wrong with someone sitting in a booth alone if there’s a seat. It’s up to the restaurant to worry about maximizing their space. And it’s the restaurant’s choice to serve the take-out market. Shaming customers isn’t going to fix or change anything, and the restaurant does bear some of the responsibility; you can’t blame customers for buying what’s on order any more than you can blame restaurants for selling what customers will buy. Times have changed, and take out is no longer limited to pizza. You can choose to eat at restaurants that don’t do take-out, reward them with your business and tell them why, if you don’t want to see take-out business, right? I’m not sure but that might be limited to expensive fine dining at this point. Still, the only way you’ll curb the take-out take-over is if restaurants can make more money on dine-ins, and that sounds like a tall order. Or worse, a ship that’s sailed.
Slightly off topic

Are there any services on the market that allow you to self host email, but have your email forwarded to a reputable service to send / receive on your behalf?

Thats my ideal dream of self hosting email - encrypt and own the hardware, send and receive through a reputable ip to not deal with the politics and oppression of abuse by conglomerates
Musk Boosts Claim That Hitler Wasn't to Blame for Holocaust
I have this same suspicion. I dusted off a hobby Rails app from two years ago I was making with Cursor. I decided to try completely changing the main functionality of the app with the much better LLMs of today and was shocked how well it did with one-shot.

Now compare that to my recent experience with having Cursor help me work on a preexisting Node/React app...geez. What a pain. (It doesn't help that I wasn't the one that originally created the React app though.)
Submarine cables connect the world. They can also help us study climate change
Agree. I dig the idea, really cool, but quoting the article:

> it becomes a pain to check the cupboard with milk reserves every now and then

If freaking glancing into the shelf once a day (or more like once a week, because this milk has months of shelf life) in scope of full time office manager job is "a pain", maybe that office manager should rethink their employment there.
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This is best compared to being a lunar landing cubesat. IM is an order of magnitude cheaper than a comparable NASA lander. Cheap is the point, and cheap carries with it some concessions to risk.
That polio graph is depressingly flat for the past quarter century :-(
The Foundation owns the Corporation, so technically the Corporation answers to the Foundation, but because the Foundation is a non-profit it can't actually transfer resources to its for-profit arm, only the other way around.

Usually the theory with this kind of setup is that the Corporation is profitable and forwards funds to the Foundation so that the foundation can accomplish its work. But putting Firefox in the Foundation implies that someone somewhere thought that Firefox would be profitable rather than being the core mission that needs subsidization. I believe this was someone related to the Google deal, but it's definitely been a major problem ever since.
Small pet peeve - saying "Africa" is too broad a statement for a continent with 54 countries, and does a disservice to the actual government institutions working on development.

They should explicitly call out Nigeria instead of treating it as "Africa". Nigeria is unique in how they actually have a formal industrial strategy for mini-grids [0] thanks to World Bank support [1]

It's a uniquely Nigerian program and Nigeria's Rural Electrification Administration (REA) should be given it's due credit. When Boko Haram does something bad it's "Nigeria", but when Abuja does something good it's "Africa".

Finally, what works for a federal state with a relatively strong civil service like Nigeria cannot be replicated in every "African" country, due to entirely different administrative and bureaucratic norms and capacity.

[0] - https://rea.gov.ng/minigrids/

[1] - https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/1ea...
From the article:

You can order GLP-1 peptides from China for cheap. Once you have the peptide, all you have to do is put it in the right amount of bacteriostatic water. In theory this is no harder than any other mix-powder-with-water task. But this time if you do anything wrong, or are insufficiently clean, you can give yourself a horrible infection, or inactivate the drug, or accidentally take 100x too much of the drug and end up with negative weight and float up into the sky and be lost forever. ACX cannot in good conscience recommend this cheap, common, and awesome solution.
Cranelift, V8, et al can use e.g. SIMD operations just fine.
How Pickle Files Backdoor AI Models
Shhh! We are going to have to fork it again if too many people find out.
That is, as so many things with tech, a matter of giving proper UI for humans as much priority as the feature itself.

It would be solved with something as simple as a "Privacy Blocks" drop-down menu that was prominently shown in the browser, that could visually warn about which feature is being accessed by a website (WebGL, UTC time, scripting...), and that let the user enable/disable that feature in that specific website with just 1 click.

A bit of telemetry (albeit kinda contradictory in this case) would allow to collect data on which sites tend to require which permissions, and proactively warn the users, like "Hey it seems most users of Google Calendar .com tend to disable time clock privacy; would you like to do so too?", that'd remove a lot of worries from users upon accessing an important site and not knowing which privacy settings might be breaking it.
Which specific countries have more reasonable healthcare, and also allow retirees to immigrate? Most countries are reluctant to take in people who seem like non-productive burdens. If you're wealthy you can sometimes buy your way in, but wealthy people in the US already have access to excellent healthcare.
If LLMs were good at summarization, this wouldn't be necessary. Turns out a stochastic model of language is not a summary in the way humans think of summaries. Thus all this extra faff.
I think we have cause and effect mixed up. The greater of highways post WW2 and the riots of the 60s, and increased affordability of vehicles drove suburbanization.

With less people putting housing pressure in cities, of course you get unbuilding of houses in the cities
you have lies, damn lies, statistics, and zoomed in graphs.
I wonder at what point would the antivirus kick in. It doesn't require reading /dev/urandom for too long.
There's a channel for this on the Ruby AI Builders Discord: https://discord.gg/HZTsjFKyy3
Do I understand correctly that you believe Mozilla doesn't currently have the resources necessary to do that from their $500MM in annual revenue? It sounds like you are talking about an ombudsman or something, which highlights my point here, which is that these are philosophical criticisms disguised as commentary on raising revenue.

Also the mission you are describing sounds like something that you might expect from a Chromium browser that has to regularly revert Google-driven changes. At Mozilla, they already own the browser and they could account for this in their ground-level philosophy.
Damn you I was hovering over downvote until the last clause of your sentence.
I’m surprised green cards are available for people who don’t really live here and don’t plan to in the future. This is a scarce resource.
LearnLM: An experimental task-specific model for learning science principles (2024)
I think Go (as a better C) addressed one of C's weaknesses - only being able to return one value.

The C ABI is quite capable of it provided you dress it up into a struct, you just can't do it without defining that useless one off struct.

IMHO Go fixed that C wart.

If you look at the Go calling convention, multiple return values look perfectly natural. The parameters of a function are passed on the stack and the return values are returned immediately after on the stack . That's why naming your return values is just like naming your parameters - they are both local stack based variables.

So I would argue that multiple return values are great.

Maybe you should be able to treat all the return arguments as a tuple (eg Python). That would make certain things neater, but I think it is a different argument.
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