skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The group is at a critical point now, having ~100 Whatsapp members. From what I've seen this creates a chilling effect where you inevitably end up with cliques and social cooling.

The way to minimize this fear is by encouraging members to send welcoming messages to those new to the community. Celebrate the growth instead of fearing the unknown.

> No new members will feel like they can actually send a message into a 100+ person group, while the old guard starts to use it as a notification board, rather than a real chat.

If new members are made aware that sending a message to the group is perfectly acceptable, then there will be trepidation.

Much like what I am doing here to what I assume is a group exceeding 100+ members.
After I opened up https://sugaku.net to be usable without login, it was astounding how quickly the crawlers started. I'd like the site to be accessible to all, but I've had to restrict most of the dynamic features to logged in users, restrict robots.txt, use cloudflare to block AI crawlers and bad bots, and I'm still getting ~1M automated requests per day (compared to ~1K organic), so I think I'll need to restrict the site to logged in users soon.
Cleanup is impossible though. How are you going to clean up a trillion nanoplastic dust particles? What is the effective difference between phasing out fleece clothing vs charging $100M for a jacket?
most people generally agreed with them but they also tried to pick people of talent and courage who might disagree on a number of issues. Trump doesn't care about any of that
They pick competent, experienced people who are aligned with their policies. Not Fox News presenters and YouTube influencers.
19 pages?! Am I the only one who prefers an AI that jumps straight to the point?

- Buildup and happy background world-building

- Subtle foreshadowing

- Orcs attack

- Hero is saved by unlikely warrior of astounding beauty

- Evil is defeated until sales justify unnecessary sequel

That's the kind of story fit for the modern attention span...
Interesting. I would use the ability to get 40x the strands for 4x the weight as evidence against extra strands adding up fast.
I didn’t mean to downplay the amount of work involved. It’s just that it feels to me like the ‘solution’ to problems like these seem very simple when that work has been put in.

It’s just that nobody really wants to (OpenID connect became a lot easier to understand when I read the spec, but I never got anywhere close to enjoying it), hence, we didn’t have this until now.
Great idea, but (as indicated in the article) there are no stoops pictured. A stoop is a series of steps that go to a second level, which makes for way better hang dynamics. Living on a block with stoops is superior to one without because people are far more likely to hang around outside when they can get some height and survey the whole block.

https://www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-life/brooklyn-stoop-sit...
Prosecutors have political lobbies.

So too do prison guards and their unions.

You would be hard pressed to find a union that represents prison guards which has supported ANY kind of political reform to laws. Legalization, even changes to traffic laws, prison guard unions and their members almost exclusively vote against.

Just for two examples.
No because Trump is interested in weasels who put loyalty to him above the law or the good of the country.

Trump doesn't give a shit about policy. He doesn't know anything about it and can't be bothered to learn.

Its just a viral racist corrupt scream all the way down.
Procmail isn't quite as dead as the article claims. I still use it with OpenSMTP on OpenBSD and am happy with it.

https://github.com/BuGlessRB/procmail/releases/tag/v3.24
Also better than a third party service IMO because of the privacy implications. You could even potentially give users the choice (complete overkill but technically you could do it).
Relevant quote here:

Jefferson wrote that making judges the ultimate deciders of law would “place
us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”

Seriously that's cognitive dissonance 101. "Elon Musk can't be an oligarch. He's a great Americ... I mean South African".

I also hesitate why anyone would want a 360 degree view of Newt Gingrich. In real life or otherwise. /s
I think your understanding is that the Act must be the content. But the Act isn't the content, the Criminal Code, Civil Code etc are the content. The Act itself is more like a patch file, with some surrounding metadata (and its own meta version history as proposed legislation gets marked up throughout the process). It could add a new file, but it could also be an edit. But in neither case is it the effective content, it's a description of changes to said content. (The line does get blurred on the initial commit though, because typically the name of the resulting law is the name of the Act that established it).

So you've called out precisely why version control systems present such a useful analog.
There is certainly no hard division between "playground" and "functional", and I'm barely convinced there's a soft division. Consider car enthusiasts: Some people like playing with cars, and have a fully kitted-out garage to support that interest. Some of them certainly have cars that are only for shows and they'd never actually drive, but more commonly they lavish time and care on their "babies" and then drive them to work. Home labs are the same.
Yep! AI studio I think is the only way you can actually use it right now and AFAIK it's free.
Where tf do you live that you're paying that much. You should move if possible!
Quantum Annealing in a Proof of Technology
Despite the poem, Ellis Island has always turned away individuals with known criminal records (although a 'known' record was much rarer at the time) and anyone they thought was likely to become a public charge. Our immigration policy in the previous 4 years was actually significantly more permissive than when that poem was put on that statue.
before this change, derived values were readonly (it makes sense because, if you change the derived value, what's going to happen to the underlying value ?) but now they are writable.
Where to (just out of curiosity)?
Gives nice retro vibes ... mail like we were doing it back at the end of last millenium. Proper old school :)
Anything less than criminal prosecution would be an abomination of justice.
Many would argue those aren't real reviewers. It has been mentioned that these persons behind the "V Language Review" series don't review other programming languages and are very specifically targeting V.

It is easy to check and see that Zig, Go, etc... Have thousands of open issues. That, or are lesser known languages like Odin, with less contributors, stars, and vetting. Anybody can take several open issues from any language and create a blog post that pretends the sky is falling.

Real reviewers, would have reviewed multiple other languages and preferably are recognized for doing so. Below are examples of fair and real reviewers of the V language, along with others:

[1] Is V Lang Better Than Go And Rust? Let's Find Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puy77WfM1Tg

[2] V - Best Programming Language to Learn in 2023?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr1EBaLkjfc

[3] First Impression - V programming language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmVKerNY-fQ
Fatalist might be a better word choice than nihilist. Nihilism is about whether meaning exists, but a lack of inherent meaning doesn't imply a lack of action. If you choose to just let something happen to you because you believe it's unavoidable then you're a fatalist.
One thing that worked well for me was layering obstacles

It really sucks that this is the way things are, but what I did was

10 requests for pages in a minute, you get captchad (with a little apology and the option to bypass it by logging in). asset loads don’t count

After a captcha pass, 100 requests in an hour gets you auth walled

It’s really shitty but my industry is used to content scraping.

This allows legit users to get what they need. Although my users maybe don’t need prolonged access ahem.
It comes and goes but when it’s bad it’s really bad. I’ve had to leave the room on several occasions. I’ve even left because I find my own chewing too loud and I feel rude subjecting someone else to it.
It's pretty easy to compare the backgrounds of every prior secretary of defense with Pete Hegseth. They're typically people with significant experience managing government agencies, retired 3 and 4 star generals, or senators/congressmen with serious foreign policy experience. The last person with as little defense policy experience as Hegseth was probably McNamara, and he was President of Ford, e.g. someone who knew how to manage a large organization.
Related discussion on Anubis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427679
Tesla drops 'FSD' from name of its driver-assist tech in China
This is good to know! I knew Word converted "--" into a longer line but I did not know what it was.

I cannot wait to correct someone for using the wrong symbol. I am frothing at the mouth.
But have you considered that they are Billionaires and therefore can do whatever they want?
> And once you remove part-timers, the hours worked in Netherlands are comparable to the US [1].

Sure, if you remove 40% of all the people working (maybe more?) then you are left with the people working full weeks. That’s… not very surprising? The point is kinda that so many people work part time that it significantly skews the average number of hours worked.

It’s kinda wonky that the average for full-time still sits at 40 hours though. I know very few people working 5 day weeks (e.g. 60 or 80%), and I’d assume they’re still classed as full-time due their contracts.
that takes X seconds to compute.

Those who have the computing resources to do commercial scraping will easily get past that.

In contrast, there are still many questions which a human can easily answer, but even the best LLMs currently can't.
Conquest of the Incas
I dunno, there's a certain amount of fun in "writing" a book with ChatGPT. Like playing a video game with a bunch of different endings instead of a watch a movie with only one. does the hero save the day? or turn into a villian! you decide!
Firstly, congratulations (seriously) on your efforts. Firstly for getting a degree in chemistry (not easy) and secondly for a rigorous approach to self-improvement.

I would however suggest that you are not a prototype for self-taught programmers, much less self-taught programmers with no other degree (and thus no exposure to academic rigor.)

Of course the OP might be as advanced as you are, but its fair to suggest they likely aren't.

Personally I learned to program as a child, and then did a comp sci degree. And I got a lot of value from that which I've used through my career.

Of course (these days) there are lots of resources online so the OP could learn everything he needs "self taught", but degree programs formalize this, and give you a degree at the end of it. (And formal degrees are still a valuable hiring filter.)
This is literally the biggest leap in image generation in a long time.
For years I've been taught that US political system is based on checks and balances. Now I see that just like in any other country it was based on morals of people: voters, elected, and appointed.
I've never liked the idea of community actions in the critical build path, so I use official actions/* when I can, and otherwise use actions/github-script to invoke the GitHub API via inline JavaScript when I can't.
Having people preaching the glorious benefits of a meritocracy and how this white house is gonna spear head it all while these geniuses break the law and operational security the dumbest way possible is simply amazing.
Prompt adherence is far, far ahead of midjourney. FAR.
Ivan Illich argued that we should open the doors to the schools and let those that wanted to leave leave, and those that wanted to stay stay. And he meant this even for the teachers as for the students. Then, he said, true education would begin to be possible.
Ex-Amazon worker sentenced to 3 years for 3 fraud schemes
Ancient Greco-Roman sculptures were scented, study reveals
T took a top secret binder about Russian election interference to his beach house and we never got it back.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/12/politics/missing-rus...
Dementia and Programming (Endnote) (2024)
> We should feel lucky that merely an American journalist was added by mistake.

Might not even be the first time already, just the first time they messed up and we found out...
I've never really been one for time-travel hypotheticals. For one, I don't believe time travel is possible. But let's say it is, I imagine our current time would be unrecognizable if, say, Hitler had died young. I mean he was wounded in WWI. Death wasn't that far away.

But here's the darker truth: Hitler won. I mean Germany didn't physically win the war, obviously. But fascism won. The US fundamnetally changed post-WW2. We immediately went into the Red Scare and the threat of nuclear annihilation that ultimately culminated in the complete destruction of worker solidarity and leftism in the US by the 1980s. We put literal Nazi generals in charge of NATO [1]. There are (IIRC) 65 coups or attempted coups the US has engaged in since WW2.

What you have to remember about Hitler was that he was a product of material conditions. One can argue that if it wasn't Hitler who started WW2, it would've simply been a different German. The Spanish Flu, the Armistice, hyperinflation, the Great Depression, etc all aligned to foment a Hiter-like figure.

How far back do you go? The seeds for WW2 were planted by WW1. WW1 is really a product of colonialism, of empires and of nationalism, particularly in the post-Napoleon era. I'm not saying history is inevitable but it's naive to think WW2 was simply a product of one man.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Heusinger
How much money do you make now? It might be worth it to just try to max out your earnings in your current field, and then pursue mech/EE as a hobby.

Also, consider the possibility that you could land an EE job after obtaining a degree, and then your job becomes doing in-house software development because you're the best at it among your coworkers.
"classified information is ONLY supposed to viewed in a SCIF"

No.

No, no, no.

Most classified information is NOT designated SCI. When classified info was mostly paper, it was placed in GSA approved safes in regular 'ole office buildings. You'd get to work, open your safe, and do your work. Most SIPRNet computers are not in SCIFs.

Heck, you can even mail classified documents via USPS. Confidential and secret documents can be sent registered mail.
Do you honestly think that (a) Trump's Justice Department would prosecute any of these offenses, and (b) even if so, that Trump wouldn't just pardon anyone involved?
The reflections in the whiteboard are all off. Do they address this?
Is it true for Muslim immigrant in Bush era after 9/11?
They already ignore copyright. The open source licenses are based on copyright, so changing the licenses wouldn't do squat, they'd still ignore it.

See also: Meta being sued for torrenting. Since this is an Ars Technica article, here's another one: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-o...
Vance has to be the world's biggest boot licker.

I cannot understand at all the complete lack of self respect he must have, solely for the acquisition of power.
There is just no way this is deliberate. They have nothing to gain from this.

We need to stop thinking these guys are playing 3D chess when they try to shove the pieces up their nose
> (though it does match many people's inaccurate stereotypes, which I have heard repeatedly in conversations with people who don't live in cities)

I run into the opposite problem - people who grew up in the suburbs, move into gentrifying city neighborhoods as adults, and who carry idealized view of the city they moved to, will often accuse others - even people who have lived in the city there entire life - of being an outsider if they don't hold the same idealized view.

Judging by how shocked this type of person often gets when I tell them I was born and raised here ("You from here? 'Here' here? Wow, that's pretty rare!"), I get the impression that many of these people live in a bit of a gentrification bubble. Which is fine, but it would be nice if they were aware that there was much more to the city than the gentrification bubble (including people who have lived here far longer than them, sometimes for generations).

Anyway, you'll notice I never claimed there weren't "tons of kids and families around in cities," but rather that seeing kids roaming around neighborhoods on their own was more common in the suburbs than the city (at least based on my personal experience).

> Cul-de-sacs cut places off from easy pedestrian access and make it usually significantly more difficult and dangerous to get anywhere by walking, because to get to destinations requires crossing massive (sometimes 6–10 lane) quasi-highways with high-speed traffic.

This is a non-sequitur. I already mentioned in my post that in the suburbs it's more difficult to get to commercial destinations. That doesn't change the fact that a cul-de-sac is an area with little traffic, that most suburban developments/neighborhoods have pretty light traffic, and that you're typically going to encounter very little traffic inside these developments/neighborhoods.
> Doing technically brilliant work may be enough for your personal gratification, but you should never think it's enough.

First, "should" is a form of judgement. What the author believes is "enough" is defined by their belief system, not anyone else's.

> If you lock yourself in a room and do the most marvellous[sic] work but don't tell anyone, then no one will know, no one will benefit, and the work will be lost.

A reasonable discussion could be had for all but the last two assertions:

... no one will benefit, and the work will be lost.

Again, this is a presumption made without merit.

First, work related to a person's profession contributes to experience and possibly ability. Second, work is only lost if it and lessons learned doing it no longer exist.
How dare you!

Donald Trump "is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."
Well Jefferson certainly wasn't ever wrong about anything. He certainly wouldn't have held any beliefs contrary to 20th or 21st century values. /s

Obviously the dude had a lot of good ideas, but just grabbing anything he said and acting like it's gospel is flawed for dare I say a pretty glaring reason...
A DoS attack is a DoS attack even if someone is pretending to be a “Researcher.”

People in Iran, Russia, etc get annoyed with sanctions but that’s kind of the point. If your government isn’t responding appropriately, yes you’ll get shafted it’s what you do after that which solves the problem.
Even cat5 is not only usable but will probably give you 5gig or higher.
I love this comment. It made me laugh.

> mturk workers in Nigeria

Serious question: Has anyone tested how much money you can actually make doing a month of Amazon Mechanical Turk? (It would make for an interesting YouTube video!) I am curious if it is middle class wages in very poor countries (like Nigeria). Some light Googling tells me that middle class salary in Nigeria is about 6K USD, so about 3 USD/hour (assuming: 50 weeks/year * 40 hours/week = 2000 hours/year). Is this possible with MTurk?
The Democrats can neither pass bills of impeachment (minority in the House, which introduces such bills), nor convict (a supermajority is required within the Senate, the Democrats don't even hold a majority).

Democrats can introduce bills of impeachment, but those would simply die without consideration given GOP control of the House. So far as I'm aware, none have done so since 20 Jan 2025.
Donald Trump "is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."
I hear you, and I agree that coding is still core to being a software engineer. However, with tools like GitHub Copilot already automating parts of coding, it’s clear that the role of software engineers is evolving.

While coding remains important, skills like problem-solving, communication, and selling ideas are becoming just as essential. LLMs can assist with tasks, but they can’t replace the creativity and critical thinking that only humans bring. Focusing on these skills ensures we stay ahead as the industry changes.
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the article would be improved if they addressed the historical facts of typewriters, telegrams, teletypes, and ASCII instead of just presenting this view which is typesetting and unicode. (could also mention fixed pitch vs variable pitch/proportional spacing)

typing on a typewriter or computer keyboard (without fancy multi-key workarounds), you can't distinguish between a hyphen and an n-dash (not to mention the minus sign); you use the same hyphen key for all those, and represent an m-dash with two--hyphens. That's the starting place for most people who will read this article, and that should be the starting place for the article, if only to say "everything you thought you knew is wrong, here's how typesetting works..."
Apples and Oranges? If he is the person responsible should a system break then it's totally up to him. In that case, he made sure you did not break his system (because he'd be responsible). And if he broke his system himself then it's on him.

I don't see a problem with it (as long as he can't transfer the blame somewhere else).
Wouldn't it be part of a wider scheme to brain drain the PRC as a whole?
Doug Bowser seems safe at Nintendo, but Carol Surface left Apple.

I wish Calista Redmond all the best at RISC-V International.
And after that it's compiled to assembly, so I suppose safe assembly was possible after all.
I was thankful I bought a house full of coax recently - now I have MoCA 2.5 adapters installed in the living room/kitchen/office/den/bedrooms all connecting to a central coax manifold which became my server room - this lets me hit ~2Gbps. Sure, cat6 would have been better, but that was 30 years from being invented when my house was built.
Just tried it on Deepseek (not R1, maybe V3-0324) and got the correct answer after 7-8 pages of reasoning. Incredible!
nice, a free way to keep our IPFS pins alive
> Is it a playground, or a functional home server?

It’s both for me! I’ve had a homelab in some form since high school (~12 yrs ago).

Having a home lab has gradually taught me Linux, Shells/Terminals, Ansible, Docker, and most recently Kubernetes.

I have to be careful with backing up data when I do something new. I use this setup for Home Assistant, Plex, small self-hosted apps, a personal Jenkins instance for my open source stuff, and game servers for friends.

It has taught me a lot and has had significant (unintentional) benefit to my career by exposing myself to new concepts/tech and thinking about how operations works solo vs in a team setting.

If you wanna see it: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/homelab
> I've moved entire workflows to Gemini because it's just _way_ better than what openai has to offer, especially for the money.

This is useful feedback. I'm not here to shill for OpenAI, nor Google/Gemini, but can you share a concrete example? It would be interesting to hear more about your use case. More abstractly: Do you think these "moved entire workflows" offset a full worker, or X% of a full worker? I am curious to see how and when we will see low-end/junior knowledge workers displaced by solid LLMs. Listening to the Oxide and Friends podcast, I learned that they make pretty regular use of LLMs to create graphs using GNU plot. To paraphrase, they said "it is like have a good intern".
Me too! Those ex-government micro form factor PC's are little workhorses which give me lots of compute with minimal power and space.
Leetpi – Ace Your Next Pi Interview
not a default on my Debian bookwork, Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, Fedora 41, Proxmox 8.3.4 or OPNsense 25.1.3
https://archive.is/TbQXr