skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.archives.gov/about/laws/presidential-records.htm...

The Vice President of the United States cannot use Signal "disappearing messages" to correspond with anyone for any purpose.
In New Zealand we refer to it as the CBD, but you could also say city centre or town centre (or just “town”).

Not sure I have ever heard downtown being used to refer to part of a New Zealand city although I understand its meaning.
Probably Microsoft treats a pure-text, simply specified, human-readable and editable spreadsheet format that fosters interoperability with competing software as an existential threat.
If "automagically" means "the way Golang does it" then that's kinda the whole point of M:N threads/fibers.
So it does what Google searching did: it made retaining of information an optional cognitive burden, and optional cognitive burdens are usually jettisoned.

Fortunately, my ADHD-addled brain doesn't need some fancy AI to make its cognition "Atrophied and Unprepared"; I can do that all on my own, thank you very much.
There are many legitimate criticisms of LLMs today. "When you prompt XYZ it has no correlation with whether the LLM does XYZ" isn't one of them. LLMs are way past that stage.

Essentially what you're asking is, "why do you think prompt engineering would work?" That ship has already sailed.
That raises an interesting question. Are all of these agencies using the build from the Play/iOS stores or is there a build based on the audited public repo?
Suits. MBAs.

Inb4 someone complains that they're an MBA and not so bad. I'm talking about the guys that don't know or care about tech at all. The guys that just wanna be a big executive like they saw on TV.

The same sorta people that were in my 101s at uni who "heard programming was a good job" but didn't otherwise have any interest in tech
The article helpfully informs us this note was written by the man himself, Linux Torvalds.
I'm not really sure why "Excel hates CSV". I import into Excel all the time. I'm sure the functionality could be expanded, but it seems to work fine. The bit of the process I would like improved is nothing to do with CSV - it's that the exporting programs sometimes rearrange the order of fields, and you have to accommodate that in Excel after the import. But since you can have named columns in Excel (make the data in to a table), it's not a big deal.
> I'm sure it's an "extensive" investigation.

This specific desire to not do unnecessary legwork, and lean on the assumptions we already hold, are the teeth of the termites that tear through society and lead to polarization.

It’s not a criticism - I couldn’t be less inclined to go through the actual searches to verify this either way.

This is just the failure state that happens an infinite number of times online every day, across the world.

At some point, the conversations start demanding a level of work that’s beyond what we are willing to put in. I can’t see any real solution for it. (Unless there’s some GAI magic wand for this.)
Still not complete. Try searching for Elitegroup in the category Mainboards there, and see what you get.

It seems like they closed shop, or stopped distribution.

Which isn't the case at all.

That applies to several other brands in that category.

Extrapolating from that to other categories I know less of, I assume similar omissions in coverage.

Why that is escapes me.

Maybe there is a fee to be paid, and they couldn't be bothered?
Reminds me of the Enron guys labelling themselves the smartest guys in the room right before they went bust.
She met a dictator (Assad) that used nerve-agents on children. She visited and stood with Russia after their invasion of Ukraine. Are you out of your mind? Keep watching Fox News. I always wondered who was uneducated enough to vote for her. Clearly didn't expect to find such people in this community.
I always use GitHub’s registry. Short domain, and free for open source
Excel won't import ISO 8601 timestamps either, which is crazy these days where it's the universal standard, and there's no excuse to use anything else.

You have to replace the "T" separator with a space and also any trailing "Z" UTC suffix (and I think any other timezone/offset as well?) for Excel to be able to parse as a time/date.
I never understood who the hell is paying for all this bandwidth. every time I commit to git, railway pulls down the change and builds my dockerfile. every single time.

times N * times devs * times companies. a gargantuan amount of traffic dude.

who is paying for that? I guess we now know. was docker a mistake waiting to explode?
> however it conflicts with Objective-C blocks, so they ended up settling on two ^^.

Which… were never added to C++, right? What a mess.
Eventually everyone dies, thus becoming equally intelligent!
There certainly was.

Stein actually aligns far better with the real opinions of the majority of the American people; on affordable housing, on healthcare, on the military industrial complex, on the environment, on taxing the rich, on fracking, on education, and indeed on arming genocide.

However, the entire political and media class united to smear her as a "Russian stooge". Despite a complete lack of evidence, American voters ate that slop up and asked for seconds. It still disturbs me, how easy they made that look.

A Senate investigation ran from 2016 to 2019, investigating Stein. They found absolutely nothing, and completely cleared her in 2019... But try and find a corporate media article which acknowledges this. Many Americans still believe it; like WMDs in Iraq, or the Earth being 6,000 years old.

Try and find a Democrat who stood up for her this entire time. Nope - accusing Harvard-educated Jewish doctor ladies of being Russian assets without a shred of proof didn't seem to bother anyone.

Democrats went to extreme and even illegal lengths to take Greens off the ballot everywhere they could, and then accused the Greens of never winning elections (not true btw [0, 1]).

The media refused to cover any of those Green wins, then smeared the Greens as only appearing for Presidential elections as a "grift". A grift! In a race where that same media presented *Donald 'TrumpCoin' Trump as a serious candidate!

Let's see who was grifting:

Harris raised more than a billion dollars, and received 48.3% of the vote.

Stein raised $2.7m, 370 times less, and received 1% of the vote; in other words, her campaign dollars were more than 7 times more effective than Harris' despite rabid media bias.

But you can't explain any of this to a Harris voter. The real problem, I believe, is that once you've been conned into actively supporting genocide and ethnic cleansing, you can't really acknowledge that and still think of yourself as a good person. So people just lash out instead with personal attacks. The ones above are about the mildest I've seen, to be fair; usually bringing up Harris' complicity in genocide gets you called an asshole. Go figure.

0 - https://www.gpelections.org/election-history/victories/

1 - https://www.gpelections.org/greens-in-office/2024-july-01/
I just wish Excel was a little less bad about copy-pasting CSVs as well. Every single time, without fail, it dumps them into a single column. Every single time I use "text to columns" it has insane defaults where it's fixed-width instead of delimited by, you know, commas. So I change that and finally it's fixed.

Then I go do it somewhere else and have to set it up all over again. Drives me nuts. How the default behavior isn't to just put them in the way you'd expect is mind-boggling.
easy: how many genius people do you know who were also prodigies? early intelligence only gets you so far, the rest depends on hard work, passion, etc.
The mustache looks like "%"

It's syntax sugar for multiplication!
I'm tracking all G++ 14+ flags and warnings that reduce the likelihood of writing unsafe or incorrect C++ code. What am I missing?

# Primary Warning Set
-Wall -Wextra

# Enhanced Warning Sets
-Wpedantic -Weffc++

# Type Safety
-Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wsign-conversion
-Wdouble-promotion -Wimplicit-fallthrough=5 -Wlogical-op -Wuseless-cast
-Wlifetime -Wsuggest-final-types -Wsuggest-final-methods -Wzero-as-null-pointer-constant

# C++ Features
-Wcatch-value=3 -Wctad-maybe-unsupported -Wdeprecated-copy-dtor

# Memory and Object Safety
-Wdangling-reference -Wpessimizing-move -Wredundant-move -Wclass-conversion
-Wuse-after-free=3 -Wmismatched-new-delete

# Declaration Consistency
-Wmismatched-tags -Wredundant-tags -Wredundant-decls -Wnon-template-friend
-Wattribute-alias=2

# Advanced Analysis
-Wstrict-aliasing=3 -Wstrict-overflow=5 -Warray-bounds=2 -Wzero-length-bounds
-Wnrvo -Winterference-size

# Attribute Suggestions
-Wsuggest-attribute=pure -Wsuggest-attribute=const -Wsuggest-attribute=noreturn
-Wmissing-noreturn

# Miscellaneous
-Warith-conversion -Wundef -faligned-new

# Static Analysis
-fanalyzer -Wanalyzer-too-complex
As I cross 40 years in this industry, I find that my procrastination often has subtle root causes. I assume others have the same experience.

Currently, I've been putting off a long report for a few days and it's because I'm trying to balance a number of conclusions, tones, etc. When I'm ready, I'm ready.
I greatly prefer TSV over CSV. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab-separated_values
Oh are you referring more to browser vendor support for WASM, such as adding better APIs for interfacing, etc? There I completely agree with you.

I though you meant it isn't used by web developers, which it very much is.
I just asked it this twice and it gave me 65×65×130=549250. Both times. The first time I made it about ducks instead of people and mentioned that there was a thunderstorm. The second time I c/p your exact text and it gave me the same answer.

Again we find that the failure state of LLMs is a problem – yeah, when you know the answer already and it gets it right, that's impressive! When it fails, it still acts the same exact way and someone who doesn't already know the answer is now a lil stupider.
Well, I hope you are right, but I suspect your hypothesis will be disproven, and that you might, in fact, be the one who is confused by the hysterical American media that you decry, conflating its ratings-driven amplification of every conflict to existential crisis level — the informational version of the "loudness war" in music production — with actual events.

Sure, the TV and social media will tell you that every year's crisis is "the most important of our lifetimes", and that isn't true. But obviously, it sometimes has to be true, right? I mean, at least once, and probably several times, depending from when to when we are alive.

"Important" is a matter of perspective, and also desired outcome, so YMMV but in my 50+ years of life there have been 3 such events driven by or pertaining to the US government:

- the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War

- response to 9/11 and the aftermath

- 2025 US table-flip of the post-WW2 world order, pursuit of autocracy, and assault on the rule of law

Every government is corrupt; it's a matter of degree, and the reason you can't name a US government as corrupt as this one is because there hasn't been one. Watergate? Iran/Contra? B.J. Clinton? It's not close to the same degree.

Lesser disruptions have included the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2007 financial crisis, the internet, AIDS, maybe crack cocaine in the 80s, ... but those are more emergent side effects of human behavior than things done with intent. Things we deal with, not things we do.

Everything is fine? Disagree. Everything is going to be fine? Well, whew, good to know.

But I understood your point to be that everything is the same, and will be the same, broadly speaking, as it's been for the past 5 decades.

But it's not. It's wildly different, already. And even if, as you suggest, the 2026 elections somehow happened without egregious interference from the ruling administration (unlikely), and flipped control of congress to the opposition (maybe) — there's still no way to go back to the "before" times.
For me it is lovely because it exploits the fact that the order does not matter mathematically, but it matters in our heads.

Multiplication commutes (a fact pointed out by everyone) but our human brains are better at multiplying some numbers or fractions than others. Computing 50% of 34 is easier than 34% of 50 because we are more accustomed to cutting things in half than multiplying two-digit numbers.

And it's even more lovely when you realize that this applies equally to computers where you may have to rearrange terms or rewrite formulas to get better numerical stability.
I've been meaning to give this a try for a while - I have several of the "supported" systems and I've designed a couple of my own simple Z80 computers over the past few years. Being able to program AVRs from a scavenged e-waste Z80 system seems strangely compelling to me. There's a LOT of AVRs in e-waste.

But, if you absolutely needed to depend on it, I think that other technology might be better for the kinds of things we normally use microcontrollers for. If I need to control electronics where something that does this for a minute, then waits for that so it can do something else until this other thing, it's hard to imagine that a would-be apocalypse-ee would want to use a microcontroller rather than a more easily improvised mechanical cam timer [0]

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam_timer
It used to silently transform data on import. It used to silently drop columns.

That's it, but it's really bad.
>This success taught me an important lesson: an extremely fast-moving community can achieve incredible things

what a trite observation
Gemini 2.5 Pro tops LiveBench, +6 pts overall over Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking
How certainly do we actually know that? If the evidence you claim is that there are no Y-chromosomes from other hominids, an alternative explanation could be that hybrids with Y-chromosomes from other hominids did exist, but disappeared gradually over the centuries/millenia either because they were less fit or through pure chance.

Are there any now living people with mt-dna from other hominids?

Having a minority non-autosomal genotype could be an issue as there might be recurring "compatibility problems", given that the autosomal dna would mainly evolve to work with the majority mtdna and ydna.
This split does exist, and I often refer others to https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/

There's a 3rd type of programmer, besides the first two you mentioned.
Now I want a scavengers' guide to identify machines that might have a compatible microprocessor within them, because I haven't seen a Commodore or Apple II in a long time. Arcades with older cabinets obviously have them, but if most post-apocalyptic media are prophetic, they'll probably be occupied by a gang of young ne'er-do-wells. I suppose, thanks to the College Board, Ti-83s (Z80) are still quite common in the US. Are there toys, medical equipment, or vending machines that still use these chips?

I wonder if ESP32s and Arduinos might be more commonly found, though I could see the argument that places with those newfangled chips may be more likely to become radioactive craters in some scenarios.
I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not...
> You have 5 days before the new DockerHub limits f*ck you over.

How classy from a somewhat DockerHub competitor: https://www.blacksmith.sh/pricing

I guess only they are allowed to make money, not Docker.
Honestly I’m happier when Excel doesn’t try to convert anything. too much bugginess.
I'll bite. It's a little bit more, but I knew a 19yo guy who flashed his girlfriend at a public swimming pool and is on the registry for life. Like most people on the registry he'll spend a significant portion of the rest of his life in and out of prison for minor violations of the registry[].

[] e.g., he was driving across country and stopped for a couple of days at a friend's house in Illinois. He was in a traffic stop and while talking to the cop, the cop realized he'd been in Illinois for over 72 hours and was given another prison sentence for failing to register.
Context is all you need: Better AI results with custom instructions
Dave has a followup post in which he replies to some of the comments here.

https://novalis.org/blog/2025-03-26-responses-to-the-hacker-...

Love,
your low-quality Twitter bot
You Can't Change Your Mind About Mergers
I believe this to be true, and it came to happen at the worst possible time, post-COVID and w/ education levels through the floor.

I also believe, however, that humans who are able to reason properly would become much more valuable, because of this same thing.
What services? For most modern services the big cost inputs are things like human labor, utilities, and real estate. Reusing obsolete hardware doesn't gain anything. It's likely to be a net negative if it takes up more space, uses more electricity, and requires more maintenance.
It still seems pretty crazy to me.

In the wired article the author says he thinks climate change will disrupt trade routes, but obviously society would route around the damage as long as it remained profitable to do so. The only scenario in which this hypothetical makes sense would be mass causality events like pandemics or wars that prevent travel and trade.

So we're talking about a hypothetical situation in which global trade has halted almost completely for some reason, and has been stopped for a very, very long time. This means that the majority of the worlds population are either dead or dying, which means that YOU will be either dead or dying as well.

Even if we accept the premise (a tall ask) AND we assume you will happen to be one of the survivors because you're "special", wouldn't it make more sense to prep by building a cargo ship so trade can resume sooner than it does to build apocalypse proof micro-controller code?
I am excited for any path that gets us toward a faster, leaner, cleaner web browser. It is insane that we have to dedicate multiple gigabytes of RAM, have CPUs 1000x faster than we had back with Netscape Navigator, and still the browser performs poorly, and constantly has security vulnerabilities.

I hope Ladybird and Servo succeed. I tried Servo a couple of years ago and it was quite useless, unable to do anything, so I'll have to check back and see how it's doing sometime and see if it's improved.

UPDATE: just tried the latest Servo build on macOS. About 100 MB download, not bad. Started fast. Kind of works. Fast but not very smooth, lots of repaint flashing etc. And text fields and text selection on the web page work poorly or not at all.

I guess they're focusing on interesting internal stuff rather than the basics of loading a webpage and allow you to highlight text and copy it, or click in a text field and edit the text. I wonder whether it will graduate to a real browser sometime.
>There is no evidence Trump campaign colluded with Russia. If there was, he would have been indicted.

That hasn't been the case since at least 2000[0]

[0] https://www.justice.gov/olc/opinion/sitting-president%E2%80%...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report

Edit: And the Mueller report notes[1] that as the primary reason Trump wasn't indicted. You keep making false statements about what's in the report. Perhaps that's something you might think about doing if you're going to use it as a source.
>> Moreover, participants perceived it to be more effort to constantly steer AI responses (48/319), which incurs additional Synthetic thinking effort due to the cost of developing explicit steering prompts. For example, P110 tried to use Copilot to learn a subject more deeply, but realised: “its answers are prone to several [diversions] along the way. I need to constantly make sure the AI is following along the correct ‘thought process’, as inconsistencies evolve and amplify as I keep interacting with the AI.

While much is made of the 'diminished skill for independent problem-solving' caused by over-reliance, is there a more salient KPI than some iteration of this 'Synthetic Thinking Effort' by which to baseline and optimise the cost/benefit of AI usage versus traditional cognition?
I tried to do something like that in my free time. ARMs are everywhere, PICs are very common as well: https://github.com/ninakali/chip_scavenger/tree/main/src
Consider rules for projects. It's not always perfect, but it does adapt based on my instructions.

For example, I have had good success in test first development as a rule. That means that I can make sure it has the specifications correct first.
"has some WASM components"

See, that's the problem. As long as WASM is not able to pull its own weight and needs JavaScript to provide the spine it will languish in a niche or two.
Ultimately someone will decide that supporting two different languages and ecosystems is too expensive and not worth the marginal advantage and it will go back to JavaScript only.

We've been there and we have done that with Java applets.
I almost never see any experts being called by the defense. It's practically unheard of except for the luckiest defendants or the ones with deep pockets.

source: thousands of hours observing criminal courts
It's a nice article from Wired in the linked thread.

And from your website:

> What made me turn to the "yup, we're fucked" camp was "Comment tout peut s'effondrer" by Pablo Servigne, Éditions du Seuil, 2015.

That'll make for some light reading next time I head up north. Thanks for the recommendation.
Now that your comment is flagged, I no longer remember the context. Maybe I'm getting older, but it seems like flagging is used as a downvote button lately. I don't think your comment was flag-worthy.
I don't get how someone achieves reproducibility of builds: what about files metadata like creation/modification timestamps? Do they forge them? Or are these data treated as not important enough (like it 2 files with different metadata but identical contents should have the same checksum when hashed)?
>staff welcoming them with a forced smile

Walmarts notorious "people greeters" are there to prevent theft, and as far as I can tell, the people greeter reason seems to be purely speculative, and less explanatory than more solid political reasons (established competitors conspired, just like Walmart does to incumbents in the US).
Small world, my wife and I literally just moved to Beverly not far from there. This area is a bit of liminal space between city and suburbs (or at least my definition of them) and it can vary quite a bit block to block. I'm walking distance to a grocery store, the Metra, coffee shops, restaurants, parks, etc., which is unfortunately more than many areas of Chicago can say.

I moved from a denser part of Bridgeport, so it definitely has been an adjustment (particularly in variety). But even some areas of Bridgeport, which is much closer to downtown, had pockets that are equivalently walkable to where I'm at now, or maybe even less so. Anyone surprised to see SFHs and front yards in Chicago probably hasn't ventured far out of downtown/a handful of North Side neighborhoods.
CSV is ever so elegant but it has one fatal flaw - quoting has "non-local" effects, i.e. an extra or missing quote at byte 1 can change the meaning of a comma at byte 1000000. This has (at least) two annoying consequences:

1. It's tricky to parallelise processing of CSV.
2. A small amount of data corruption can have a big impact on the readability of a file (one missing or extra quote can bugger the whole thing up).

So these days for serialisation of simple tabular data I prefer plain escaping, e.g. comma, newline and \ are all \-escaped. It's as easy to serialise and deserialise as CSV but without the above drawbacks.
WASM Components are supposed to be memory safe, even in-process. Besides, you can compile from a memory-safe source language to WASM.
A place I recently saw it was in the web editor for typst. It runs the same code as the CLI since it's compiled from rust for both targets.
The ebike analogy is perfect!

You still have to pedal, steer, and balance, but you're much faster overall.
Congressional republicans investigated extensively and had a vested interest in finding wrongdoing.