skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the most important time in human history to protest/fight unchecked power because it's likely the last era of humanity that we are going to be able to.

We are getting to the point where the technology that fuels oppression, including extremely pervasive surveillance, privatized intelligence services with no oversight, scalable AI agents that do as they are told, and crowd "maiming" or other forceful dispersal techniques are growing past the ability to resist them.

Wars historically happened under conditions where people died but the planet was largely left in tact, but we now have 3 countries with the ability to erase entire cities or make the world functionally uninhabitable by humans, which absolutely changes the calculus of war. If you do not have nukes your sovereignty is questionable.

Likewise if the tools to put down crowds, find saboteurs, and weed out dissent is perfected, meaningful dissent can only be expressed through withdrawal and there is no final check on abuses of power where any, instead of some, of the "checkers" of power are left in tact. Anti-dissent technology has the potential for a nuclear moment that fundamentally changes the calculus of protest and I think AI is very much potentially that.
I like to call that “unary thinking”. Nothing is “perfect”, therefore everything is “imperfect”, so everything is the “same”. One category for everything, unary.
> With preying mantis and black widow it seemed, as their names suggest

The praying mantis is named after its characteristic posture while standing around.

There is no preying mantis.
I have two pharmacies in my town, but they're both owned by RiteAid which can't keep inventory on the shelves. If you need a prescription filled they can do that, but if you need something over the counter they won't have it. I walked into a Walgreens the other day in the next town over and was amazed at fully stocked shelves. Hadn't seen that in a drug store for quite some time.
They're obvious to you and me - are they obvious to a camera only Tesla "autopilot"?
It sounds like they're doing what all the major social-media sites are doing. How else do you think they're detecting CSAM and other illegal content? And it's not like FB et al put up much of a fight when they get subpoenaed.
> MacPorts is the standard macOS package manager.

No, it's not. macOS does not have a standard package manager.
I watched the video, the Wile E. Coyote fake wall stuff is a gimmick meant to draw kids in. That, however, par for the course of his videos; they are designed to hook kids into engineering with silly things and secretly teach real engineering before getting to the punch line.

In this case the real engineering is that Tesla's choice of relying on only visual camera has fundamental issues that can not be solved with cameras only. Namely, visually blocking elements, such as heavy rain, fog, or even blinding lights just pretty much can not be solved by camera-only sensors.

(though I guess one "solution" would be for the system to say I can't see enough to drive, so I'm not going to, but then no one would buy the system)
Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS
The upcoming AI crash is gonna be seriously big
This one kind of wins just by getting more votes and comments.
finally someone bringing some reason and evidence to this stupid discussion. thank you
I don’t know what that is supposed to mean.
'The megalodon has long been imagined as an enormous great white shark, but new research suggests that perception is all wrong. The study finds the prehistoric hunter had a much longer body -- closer in shape to a lemon shark or even a large whale.'
Me too. And I had to click on bird legs to verify o_O
I don't believe that distinction really exists anymore.

These days everyone is using real browsers and residential / mobile proxies, regardless of whether they are a spammer, or a Fortune 500, a retailer doing price comparison of an AI company looking for training data.
Bets I haven't made. Bets I have made.

Some AAPL bets were pretty good ones. BTC seems more like a real gamble. Though obviously back in self-mining days even if it seems not much different from SETI at Home. And your hard disk would probably have crashed at some point. Or you would probably have been ripped off.
However high the stakes are, a bug in test code is not as much of an issue as a bug in the production code.
I haven't used TCL in a few decades and I don't miss it, but that is likely due to running it on storyserver. Worst web platform ever.
Apple wasn't doing so great in 2000. Its "PC" market share was ~2%. Jobs had just come back a few years earlier and MS made a large investment, but neither the iPod nor OS X had come out yet, so it was quite a turnaround story.
What are you talking about?

1) numerous reports of teslas not seeing tractor trailers or fire trucks.

2) numerous reports even on this site where teslas under lane assistance repeatedly and predictably behaved erratically on CA off ramps.

Any optical only system will suffer from optical illusions, this cannot be avoided.
There's a lot of competition with mail order pharmacies, I think.
Microsoft shipped OSes with a crappy version of BASIC. But every computer did, before the PC came out.
You have to move up a level if you can. There will always be a need to develop and manage coding projects, so instead of writing the code, learn to develop a project and use AI to write a lot of it. AI can't figure out what humans need but you can.

Think about it in these terms. Currently, you can travel anywhere in the world, but you need to figure out how to get there. A lot of time, it involves cars, planes, boats, whatever. It does not involve walking like it might have been 100s of years ago. The transportation is done by machines. AI is the new automation tool. It doesn't decide where you are going, it can't. You do.
In 2024:

Amazon was ranked #2
Google (Alphabet) was ranked #8
Microsoft was ranked #13

Amazon was founded in 1994. Google was founded in 1998.

What about the statement:

> Amazon and Google did emerge from the dotcom era and both outrank Microsoft on the Fortune 500 today

isn’t true?
Windows didn't come with any C compiler out of the box. And no basic either. Where did you get this idea?

Also qbasic was not the same as quickbasic, and it had a limit on the LOC and other limitations.
Aren’t compounding pharmacies meant to solve this? I’m not familiar with how they work but I remember small family compounding pharmacies used to be everywhere. Now you never see them and I’ve heard some states like California are trying to get rid of them.
Is USD 1-1.2k for a clean, recapped Amiga 1200, with newest ROMs, updated PS and TF '030 accelerator horrifying? If so, call me a fool!

(FWIW, I acquired mine two years ago, and it looks like recent sales on ebay are in the same ballpark...)
(10+ years ago)
Didn't realize it hit Socal so hard.
I live in a county bigger than Connecticut with zero pharmacies. The clinic has a big medicine pantry, but if they don't have it your next best bet is to drive to the next state over, about two hours from the clinic. The clinic was staffed by a nurse practitioner only on my last visit. Rural America is not a convenient place to be sick.
Perhaps you could draw on your wealth of experience to write one. I’d love to read it!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Programmers_Don%27t_Use...

The joke story is mocking the common arguments/beliefs at the time.

If you expect me to source you a collection of comments about "real programmers" from over 30 years ago though that is too much of an ask but I was there, I read it often and I started fairly late on the scene in the 90s.
Vertical integration among healthcare providers, insurers, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) due to PBMs being extremely costly middlemen. So the big insurers and providers started buying the PBMs and using them to abuse pharmacies out of the market to continue their vertical integration and complete rent-capture of American health.
In Morse telegraphs, some words are abbreviated and so characters have a different frequency distribution. For example RECEIVED may be shortened to RX, making X much more frequent than otherwise.
This should be a very good introspective learning experience for people who blindly trusted governments and their "experts", social media and "news" corporations, "fact checkers", etc., and who believed that all being in it together meant that anybody who doubts or even questions the accepted narrative should be bullied and censored and silenced.

I doubt many will take advantage of the opportunity, but we can only hope.
in case anyone’s curious about the context of the protest, I wrote a brief summary for an outside perspective about a month ago https://markoanastasov.com/signals/serbia-student-revolution...
Similar story here. Our insurance likes to mail things, but gets the prescription wrong or it doesn’t show up 60% of the time.

We spend a lot of time arguing on the phone.
Don't disagree. That was the common metaphor? But Oracle was less embedded in the internet ecosystem even if Sum was enterprise too to a large degree--though was trying to be more startup/internety given their roots.
Biden also put sanctions on extremist Israeli settlers who were committing violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and restored hundreds of millions of aid for Palestinians that had been cut by the first Trump Administration.
> do we need a regulatory board to ...

yes, because it's clear from history that companies can't be trusted to not cut corners to boost profits at the expense of consumer safety
There is certainly a boom for Nvidia right now. To justify their PE though Nvidia has to keep increasing their already massive revenue to completely ridiculous and unsustainable levels. The bubble here is the amount that big tech is spending on unprofitable "AI" simply to keep their stock prices from collapsing.
Interested in your choice of PLA for material.

I only read the first document so apologies if this is covered elsewhere.

But PLA tends to burn/melt/disintegrate in direct sunlight, I imagine its worse outside the atmosphere (Might not be an easily repeatable experiment in the UK however)

Just 1 more thing, the document itself is pretty good for high school. I dont remember touching Gantts and CAD until University so that experience in itself is probably going to be very useful when you hit major projects in your further studies. The failure here is going to help you succeed later. I was in a similar position in high school, I wanted to participate in the solar car challenge, however I couldn't motivate any other students to try or the school to invest in it. Everyone was more afraid of failing and "wasting time" when they should have seen exactly how educational even a failure would be.
I believe they only standardized the two's-complement representation (so casts to unsigned have a more specific behavior, for example) but they did not make overflow defined.
>Insofar as you want to continue to charge this fallacy here, it doesn't really matter because "the Geneva Convention" is not, per the cited article, a "category whose archetypal member gives us a certain emotional reaction." It is something specific that happened/exists, and in that it has no "archetypal member."

The exact phrasing used in the quoted post was "violate the Geneva convention". I don't know about you, but "violate the Geneva convention" does give me an emotional reaction.

>If you take the argument minimally charitably [...]

Like you're doing above by some clever rewording?

>its just pointing out an inconsistency between what was at once point judged to be bad by an international community, and the actions of one member of that community today.

I seriously doubt any member of "the international community" thinks that tear gas is somehow comparable to a war crime or using mustard gas, or that it's somehow extra bad because it's a chemical weapon. Moreover if you really want to cling onto what was written (ie. "no chemical weapons") vs what's intended (ie. "no mustard gas deployed in the trenches"), the geneva convention also has a specific carve-out for domestic use.

>BBut further, do you really, in good faith, think gp was trying to form some airtight logical argument against the use of tear gas? Do you think its possible they were maybe just pointing something interesting out? What actual motive could you have to try and create this very thin gotcha here?

Because I think it's interesting to point out how the non-central fallacy might apply here :^)
> I wish they would have some kind of super strict mode for C or C++ where compilation fails unless you somehow fix things at the call sites to tell the compiler the behavior you want explicitly.

The C++ language committee _does not_ want to add more annotations to increase memory safety.
They tolerate it due to commonly held values, and China has had similar, brutal regimes in the past.
> As they’re notorious for making crap up because, well, that’s how LLMs work by design, it means that they’re probably making up nonsense half the time.

I found this to be such a silly statement. I find arguments generated by AI to significantly more solid than this.
{ Amazon, Target, Walmart } happened.

In the 80s the local pharmacy was your primary source of sundries, towns and cities alike. Everything from hardware to toys to medicine. If the local pharmacy didn't have it, you didn't buy it.

Now with hoards of Chinese shit available at your fingertips to order with same-day delivery, pharmacies couldn't survive on selling medicine alone, of which there are very small margins.

San Francisco and other cities making widespread theft and shoplifting de facto legal didn't help either. Local mom & pop pharmacies can't afford to put the entire store behind glass.
Why does the US accept it?
> A cross-platform native application framework with UI, API, and DB components.

That sounded good, until I saw

> Frontends (Svelte Web Components), Desktops (Qt GTK), Runtimes (NodeJS Deno Bun)

It's basically another React/React-Native, though being based on Svelte could have more compile-time smarts.

I'm particularly unimpressed with NodeJS, and something like Flutter/Dart seems a step up from that.

That said, I'm glad it was made and it was probably a great challenge and joy to have made. Congrats! (I'm just not the target audience.)
It’s only going to get worse with brick and mortar pharmacies not being able to compete with online pharmacies.
Just a play on “ed is the standard text editor”.

But, by all measures, MacPorts is more standard than Homebrew. Such as being implemented by an Apple employee who also created the official (source-based) package manager for the most popular BSD.

Homebrew definitely has a lot more market share though, much to my chagrin. The only other MacPorts users I’ve met in person are people I convinced to switch.
This is an extremely valuable piece of information for me:

As context increases, reliability decreases. It's not a binary thing at all, as I had assumed. This is very important to know when using Windsurf, Cursor, etc. I'm going to start new conversations much more often.

> For instance, the NoLiMa benchmark revealed that models like GPT-4o experienced a significant drop from a 99.3% performance rate at 1,000 tokens to 69.7% at 32,000 tokens. Similarly, Llama 3.3 70B's effectiveness decreased from 97.3% at 1,000 tokens to 42.7% at 32,000 tokens, highlighting the challenges LLMs face with longer contexts.

https://digialps.com/nolima-reveals-llm-performance-drops-be...
Can Trump Arbitrarily Take Money from Anyone's Bank Account?
Microsoft, Meta and Oracle already spend billions on supposedly completely inferior(according to the Nvidia cultists) AMD chips. Nvidia is the biggest bubble in human history.
Small !== -Large
My daughter (12) got her start in Scratch, but had a hard time jumping into Python. She's enjoyed GBStudio, and has made a number of small games in that environment, and enjoys loading them onto a flash cart to run them on an old physical Gameboy.
What are these disingenuous comments doing here ?
You can argue that any GSW that isn't immediately lethal inflicts suffering, I'm not sure how an expanding head changes that. In a handgun round mushrooming is absolutely about terminal ballistics rather than protection against over-penetration, but it is true that expanding .223 and frangible rounds are focused on over-penetration

But again the biggest reason you don't see expanding rounds in war is (especially modern) armor defeats them far more easily than standard .223.
I would love an alternate timeline where we got Tcl in the browser instead of JavaScript.
> the issue of Chinese AI companies just flatly ignoring US copyright and IP laws/norms

because the US AI companies flatly ignored US copyright and IP laws/norms in creating their models to begin with
>This motivation is equally valid in international and non-international armed conflicts.

Okay but clearly protesters aren't going to escalate to mustard gas just because police used tear gas?
But then you get stuck owning Tesla and Exxon
Nice work, thanks to you and your fellow editors.

Is there a back story to the Gormenghast collection not being available: https://standardebooks.org/collections/gormenghast

The comment given was:

This book was published in 1946, and will therefore enter the U.S. public domain in 17 years on January 1, 2042.

however it seemed odd that apparently the work was done to prep it and notice appears elsewhere * that material offered is in the public domain .. and then this.

No great drama, it just caught my attention, I like the series and wanted to check the art and the copy against what I have here in book form.

* https://standardebooks.org/about/standard-ebooks-and-the-pub...
One consequence of git clone is that if you have mega repos, it kind of ejects everything else from your cache for no win.

You'd actually rather special case full clones and instruct the storage layer to avoid adding to the cache for the clone. But this isn't always possible to do.

Git bundles seem like a good way to improve the performance of other requests, since they punt off to a CDN and protect the cache.
I haven't used it in a decade, but I always liked it. It was the first issue tracker that I had used that had strong Git integration, and it made very satisfying noises when you would would push a commit.

It also just felt slicker than Jira; not the horrible laggy mess that Jira was for most of its history.
Does it really matter that much when you can get same day delivery?
Whoa, great tangent.

I'm saying I'd rather see people robbed of their human rights by non lethal force over lethal force. There's * dozens* of mass killings that prove its not uncommon.

You have some wingnut tangent about Ukraine and assumptions that since I don't ride your high horse I'm a bad guy of fantastical proportions. Its weak minded thinkers like you that prop up the evil cabals of this world.

Feel free to contemplate the cancerous nature of your intellectual defects.
I believe there is a bit of a footgun here because if you don't git clone then you don't fetch all branches, just the default. Can be very confusing and annoying if you know a branch exists on remote but don't have it locally (the first time you hit it, at least).
Can you elaborate on your point here? It seems that you're linking to documentation of where the exception was made, but I don't think the existence of that exception was in question here.

I don't have a dog in this fight as it were, but the GGP comment was taking issue with the exception allowing a tool that would violate the Geneva Convention in war being used against civilians in a context where law enforcement considers it crowd or riot control.
So let’s vote for the party who isn’t for healthcare for everyone. Obviously business will sort this out and put pharmacies in these places. I cannot help but remain cynical of the world that we’ve inherited.
1) Putin has conquered more population than he lost (even just counting fighting age men)

2) Putin has conquered more money/value/resources than he lost due to the conflict (by a factor of 10, maybe 100)

3) Even Ukraine's European allies seem to agree that Putin will get a ceasefire and sanctions relief where he gets to keep what he conquered

It's true that Russia did not achieve it's war goals (destruction or total control of Ukraine, and let's just not talk about the outright embarrassing "in 3 days" part), but they got quite a bit. Perhaps even more important, they got more than enough to make the conflict, at least potentially, a net positive for Putin.
At least in the videos I saw, it didn’t look that loud.

People were more confused and looking for the source of the sound while trying to move away, not holding their ears like they were literally hurt by the noise.
You really believe the security of those windows in the Capitol comes down to the glass? That you're even willing to accept this proposition says something.

Anyways, to my point, clearly observable in that picture are security shutters, on the sides of the window, left open and unlocked. I might have closed and locked those.
If we consider 100-year-old prose, we used the semicolon in places you see a dash now; like this - not this. It was important; it was located with period and comma and apostrophe.
They're each linked from the story url.

https://bardtracker.com/

https://www.centralcm42.com.br/

https://lanes.pm/

https://litetracker.com/

https://storytime.team/

https://planisphere.dev/

https://www.kempt.dev/

https://trackerboot.com/

https://www.pivotalreplacement.com/

https://app.velocitytracker.co/
Yes, pricing regulations forced brick and mortar pharmacies to sell drugs below cost. Several closed in my area in the last few years and this was one of their cited reasons why.
In the earlyish 2000s, Apple started to look interesting as a consumer electronics company even if it wasn't clear they were committed to it. And the whole mobile trend wasn't obvious to a lot of us at that point.

I talked to them as an analyst in that era and they were still spending attention on enterprisey products like Xserve.

And even the initial iPhone in 2007 wasn't clearly a game-changer. It was the 3GS that really made a lot of people take notice.
With a lead car, on select sections without any significant bends, in perfect weather, and with a speed limit*
This is kind of a tangent from the article, but I wonder if this also holds for watching cute/small animals? My dentist has TVs that are almost directly above the dentist chair (so front and center when you are reclined, but not in a place you're worried about them falling on you) and they play this mindless channel that is just cute/small animals doing things. It is mesmerizing and time passes really quickly. If this study holds true, I wonder what other items on the spectrum of existence can reduce pain when we watch them.
Such a curious part of the human experience.
Yes I want fantasy unicorns too.

Until then let's APPLAUD people not being killed in a protest, m'kay?

Non lethal force is a good alternative, even when used for evil purposes.
You're trying too hard to argue here.

Every 5 years or so of my career something new has come out to make coding easier and every time a stack of people like yourself come out to argue it's making devs dumb or worse.

LLMs still generate terrible output a lot of the time but they are improving. Early compilers generated terrible ASM a lot of the time to the point that it was common to use inline assembly in your code or rewrite parts later. Tools can improve, the point is that neither make the dev worse they just add to productivity.

Writing code isn't my job it's a task I do to make the systems I design functional.
>Chemical weapons are tactically useless for modern militaries

The defense of Azovstal steelworks and Gaza tunnels seems to show otherwise.
I think the argument here is that its okay to use against a crowd because the risk of escalation is very low.
Related:

Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43348891
I think same day delivery only applies to urban and some suburban areas, definitely not the majority of rural America.