skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is about the entire first amendment, which has to do with more than free speech.
Its cooked everywhere. Thank the Attention Economy. All sides are trapped by in a fight over finite Attention. Its like the world war but instead of land its Views/Clicks/Likes.

Since Attention is a finite non growing pool the trap is set.

One day some one gets all the fish and another its someone else. Anyone who has any sense wouldn't waste any energy being part of such a stupid game cause its eventually lose lose.

So the game is of the stupid, by the stupid, for the stupid.

Until all sides agree on a new Attention allocation mechanism everything shall remain cooked.
I would like to think: what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. There's an argument to be made that the US system of checks and balances will be stronger after all of this. We just haven't seen it in action, yet...
Im pretty sure it’s safe to distribute Windows 11 built binaries to windows 7 and windows 10 if it’s a valid target set in Visual Studio. The c++ runtime is its own thing because of a combination of c++ BS (no stable runtime) and c++ isn’t an official part of Windows. It’s a developer tool they offer. But you can statically link the c++ runtime in which case you can build with the latest runtime on Windows 11 and distribute to an older Windows.

Linux is the only space where you have to literally do your build on an old snapshot of a distro with an old glibc so that you can distribute said software. If you’re in c++ land you’re in for a world of hurt because the version of the language is now constrained to whatever was available at the time that old distro from 5+ years ago snapshotted unless you build a newer compiler yourself from scratch. With Rust at least this is much easier since they build their toolchain on an old version of Linux and thus their binaries are similarly easily distributed and the latest Rust compiler is trivially easy to obtain on old Linux distros.

Source: I’m literally doing this today for my day job
Pretty much what I was going to write. We came real close to having no freedom of speech at all. Both the government and the media companies / press almost completely merged, to the point where the white house would send around the lists of people to ban or blacklist. But I'm sure Brian already knows all that and thinks "it's OK when we do it".
What makes these their top articles?
It's an OKLCH color picker, as well as a converter for other color spaces.

https://cmringmaker.github.io/OKLCH-Picker/

https://github.com/cmRingmaker/OKLCH-Picker/

I was inspired by the article over at evilmartians[0] about OKLCH, and I loved their oklch picker. Decided I wanted to learn more about OKLCH by implementing my own tool that I've released this week. Had a lot of fun with this project, and am getting plenty of usage out of it already.

[0] https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/oklch-in-css-why-quit-rg...
> Insurance companies doesn't determine your treatment, doctors do.

I'm sorry you don't understand how insurance in the US works. This is patently false. Insurance companies absolutely determine your treatment, and not just for "optional treatments" whatever that means.
Wow, what a brave and inspiring position to take. Thank you for signalling your virtue so loudly.
This is easily searchable given all the news around it. Here’s a fine start: https://fortune.com/2024/12/05/unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-th...
How does single payer healthcare solve problems? You point out that this means people can blame the government for poor quality service, but you don't actually explain how this will improve service.

The murdered United Healthcare CEO wasn't even all that wealthy. IIRC he had something like 20 million. Way more than the average American, sure, but not even wealthy enough to be impacted by the wealth taxes proposed by Bernie Sanders. Compared to the likes of Musk or Thiel, his wealth was nothing.
Harris' response to a question was edited, that is not fine.

https://x.com/i/grok/share/KODjBWCrzF8oPmKyPCFuVj1c7
> or violation of the computer abuse act and a federal crime.

I thought the linkedin scraping case set the precedent that anonymous scraping was legal?
I agree that there are roles with lots of maintenance and building in them, and you shared a lot of good examples. I also know of roles where a person does almost entirely maintenance type work or entirely building type work.

To me the distinction is whether you are restoring functionality that previously worked and then stopped, or are you creating new functionality. I would also extend the notion of functionality to include what people perceive as value. So new art that makes someone feel something would be creation. A therapist that helps someone restore their emotional wellbeing is maintenance.

My subjective anecdotal observations are that some people seem more wired for maintenance and some more wired for building and like with any attribute some are wired for both or neither. They are independent attributes that are not mutually exclusive.

So I disagree that there is no distinction, but I agree they are not mutually exclusive.

All this is kind of beside my original point though, which is that it seems like PG left maintenance out of his proposed value system.
> If Trump wins the next election[..] It happened to Rome

In Rome, Cezar didn't become the dictator for life, he got stabbed to death. What happened is that his successor, Octavian, took control of real power while pretending that the republic was fine.

In reality Republic died before Cezar, while Octavian played Weekend at Bernie's.
Congrats but was that on a curve? Do you think your A+ today would have been an A+ 20, 30, 50 years ago? Considering that you've just stated that your MEDIAN grade was an A+, I suspect not.
They are more dangerous. They contain significant amounts of lithium metal, the thing that bursts into flames when in contact with water. There are similar restrictions on them for air travel.
I've read about Unison a lot, and while "remote execution" idea sounds extremely cool, all of other properties seem very dubious. For example re "no breaking changes":

- Imagine that in my project, I have a "FOO" function, which is called by many others

- I've decide to change type of one parameter of FOO function. This would be a breaking change in regular language, but in Unison, nothing breaks - I push the new definition, but every caller is still using old version.

- New callers come up, and they use new version. So far so good.

- Some times later, I've discovered a critical business-logic bug in FOO function! So I fix it, and I have to update all the callers to use the latest version... except for half of them I can not, because the parameter types do not match. Seems like I cannot ship the fix to the customer until I spend a bunch of time rewriting the existing code to accommodate argument type change.

As long as there are functions, there are always some kinds changes to them that require one to fix up the callers. How this is enforced can be different - in strictly typed languages, code may fail to compile; in dynamic languages, you may see runtime failures; and in Unison, things will work until you try to edit the caller, at which case it'll fail to compile (unison docs call that operation, converting from text to internal language's representation, "typecheck").

I am not convinced that the "postpone failure until you edit the caller" is the best approach here. When I refactor, I normally want to see any problems surface right away, while I still have the context for the change.
transparency and the obligation to document did not really exist as concepts in statecraft when the first amendment was conceived. there is a very tenuous relationship with the right to petition. perhaps we should create an amendment enshrining those values (as some states have in their constutions)

the best lede is the one where visas are being revoked. clear abuse of the amendment.

even the libel ones, while shitty, seem in line with existing libel laws (and maybe it's worth a discussion if libel is constitutionally protected). just because the president is president does not mean they must relinquish the right to legal redress for existing protections that the rest of us enjoy.
One thing not on the list (yet) is the freezing of protesters' bank accounts that happened in Canada.

Or the de-banking that happens to politicians in the UK.

Or the jailing of whistleblower lawyers that happens in Australia.
Interesting experience! Can you explain a bit more about the raw queues vs clean queues? Is it literally just incoming and outgoing queues or was there a problem that you were trying to solve?
Then they simply do not matter.
Yep, it’s just the learning process. But when there’s a monoculture of learning tools, the downsides can become a communal gap.

A looper pedal and an AirStep Play are helpful antidotes for me.
> Yet the police aren’t arresting those folks

Do you really want the police to take the law in their own hands and just start arresting people they don't like?
>he simply does not have majority support

That very well may be, but considering all his policies do[0], the question must be asked, why?

Maybe we should ask ourselves why, when the american majority supported his entire policy agenda, did they not support him?

Could it be perhaps the billionaire owned media misrepresenting him and his positions? His own party conspiring to take him out of the primary running? Or just average voter ignorance? No one has ever contended that americans always vote in their best interest, after all.

[0] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/feb/25/pete-butti...
memcmp must be missing AVX instructions.
A lot of people don't like being told to what say/think/do. It turns out if you bully those people enough they elect a dictator. It wasn't and still isn't a surprise to me.
I don’t have a ton of faith in scotus right now, but I think they understand their only power is in whether people consider them independent. Allowing a third term for Trump would be accepting that they’re basically in charge of parking tickets.
Then stick it in a Box, RC or Arc and forget about it. You only need lifetimes for cases where you want to avoid heap allocations.
No. Signal stores messages only on the receiving device by design.

If there were it would still be irrelevant. They specifically used the settings to delete messages after a few weeks.
Do you think everyone lives in California where there's comfortable sunny temperatures and no rain 360 days a year? Classic ycombinator post
I am developing a dataset and research tool for Algebraic Structures.

https://j-stubbs.gitlab.io/algebraic_structures/

It's all very POC right now but the idea is to eventually add many improvements including documenting the Python API.
Decades ago college was for the people who were financially secure and could choose a life of the mind. Now it's a prerequisite for almost any real job. Guess what, the programmers grinding Leetcode aren't doing it for the thrill of solving a puzzle either.
> This always poisons the tone of a comment. Just like, "I know this will get downvoted": You should just state your opinion without proactively casting yourself as the minority voice. It feels like self-pity, and at the same time implicitly colors disagreement with you as dog-piling or talking-down.

I wish it weren't necessary, but it's pretty much the only way to get a minority opinion any traction. It's primes the few who do agree with you to preemptively upvote before the mob of downvotes sets in, and it does also work to reduce the number of reactive downvotes that get added.

I try to avoid "I know this will get downvoted" because it's too meta, but yes, it accomplishes the same thing.

> Is that even a minority opinion? Glorifying assassination should make everybody uncomfortable, no? That's a big, central part of the point of glorifying his crime.

In the comments section of HN, it absolutely has been. Every Mangione thread is filled with his fans, and every comment that critiques the glorification of what he did is mobbed by them.
Impossible to care about everything all at once, and easy to get disillusioned and shut down to nothing. Keep pushing in the ways that you can, give the energy that you can, and what more can anyone ask of you?
I understand that, but the people literally voted for someone who promised to get rid of checks and balances, and rule as a dictator. Isn't that what they wanted?
Any large organization that is subject to regulatory oversight can not simply choose to ignore the government when it expresses "a lot of frustration" and not expect retaliation.

Selective enforcement and ambiguous rules are the very effective sticks that governments use all the time against whomever doesn't fall in line.
Why is it embarrassing? That's entirely in your mind. It is objectively quite neutral. It's not about the cost of the phone... it's about the massive effort that goes into setting up a new phone, literally multiple weeks of effort. Also, life can be disrupted a fair bit without a phone. There is also some data loss of apps that haven't fully been backed up. If your phone use is light and ordinary, you don't need it.
> Lecture is an opportunity to directly ask your professor to clarify the material or perhaps extend to an adjacent area.

You raise a good point, but in this situation I would usually either: 1) go to office hours or 2) ask my question to other capable students.
Interesting, this might be perfect for me depending on how the book is written/who the target audience is. $60 for an ebook or $80 for the hard copy is extremely hard to swallow though. I absolutely think a book of that purported length means an author probably put a lot of effort and time into it, and should get compensated. But I'm not familiar with the author at all so you're really buying sight unseen. Has he written anything else? I couldn't find anything with a quick google search.

Tangentially related, I was hoping to skim at least the first chapter via the Safari Books Online subscription which afaik had all of the No-Starch books on there (including early access I thought?). But no luck, maybe it'll be added there closer to publication date.
The US is not at war, isn't being invaded by an aggressive neighboring country, and doesn't have an active draft. That is the key difference that you're obtusely refusing to acknowledge here.
I just keep wearing an N95. I've had maybe 3 infections in 5 years.
Less portable, but more related to the dashboard concept, dynamicaly update xterm title[0] so closed xterm shows 'stats' as xterm title.

Perhaps include time panel last opened, number of 'unread' messages since last open, last 'message header', title updated everytime 'awk' sends info block to terminal display.[0]

When window opens, lists grouped information (ala editor style and/or headerless browser[1]) -- reset 'last opened' and number of messages read since last open!

Do keep in mind raw input/output does introduce potential security issues -> ANSI terminal security discussion [2]

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[0] a) https://serverfault.com/questions/35085/set-xterm-putty-wind...

b) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6526777/change-title-of-xterm-from-a-bash-script

[1] : headerless example using vim : https://github.com/instant-markdown/vim-instant-markdown

[2] : ANSI terminal security discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37957397
The article treats imaginary friends and personification of objects as being the same thing -- while noting that this is not how people actually use the term "imaginary friend" -- so it draws a bizarre conclusion. Nobody is surprised that children like to play with dolls and stuffed animals.

Personification is something everybody does all the time.

Imaginary friends are something children sometimes do because the culture transmits the idea that they should.
Everyone who disagrees with the article gets flagged.

You are not the "free speech" people you pretend to be.
It wasn’t America's principles that made it the world leader at the time—it was the fact that, unlike other major powers, it emerged from the world wars largely unscathed. Both peace settlements following the wars were widely criticized as unstable and unlikely to last, and they didn't.
> Instead of a solid, modern, coherent plan to keep the democratic party alive in a time of populism and radicalization in response to a crumbling economy and cronyism, it has solely been a "look at all the bad stuff Trump is doing!" and "oh me oh my how outrageous!" which does nothing but fall on deaf ears after 2020.

People by and large do not want "solid, modern, coherent plans". Both kamala and hillary clinton had those.

People want to be told the strong man will make everything better if you just give up a few rights.

Can the democratic party play that game? Sure. Should they? Maybe? I mean, it would be nice to have someone with an iq over 80 and at least a shred of morality and self-respect somewhere in our elected officials.

Does your post, in specific, say anything meaningful? Not really, you just throw out some vapid complaints and then tell us you hope the world will change.
They have more money for R&D. It takes a lot to make a tasty NA beer
Bitcoin already withstood a rapid withdrawal of more than half of the mining power over about a month, that time the PRC outlawed Bitcoin mining. And it also survived the relatively sudden collapse of Mt. Gox, which accounted for significantly more than half the trading at the time. And it survived its price collapsing by more than half in 24 hours, from over US$8000 to under US$4000. It seems a have pretty good survival characteristics.

In an environment where there isn't a world hegemon to run something like the post-Bretton-Woods system, international payments, if they are to happen at all, need to be settled somehow. The approach used for the 3000 years up to and including the Bretton Woods period was shipping gold and silver across oceans in boats. Before that, the Mediterranean international economy was apparently a gift economy, while intranational trade in Mesopotamia used clay bills of deposit.

In a hypothetical post-collapse future without a Singularity, there may be much less international trade. But I hope it's obvious that international trade covers a spectrum from slightly advantageous to overwhelmingly advantageous, so it is unlikely to disappear altogether. And Bitcoin has overwhelming advantages over ocean shipping of precious metals. For example, it can't be stolen in transit or lost in a shipwreck, and the latency of a payment is about half an hour rather than six weeks.

And all the blockchain requires to stay alive is about 26 kilobits per second of bisection bandwidth.
> How do you know she wasn't being arrested for one here?

Perhaps we could have some sort of public trial where some of her peers -- let's say a dozen -- could hear the facts and decide on whether she's committed a crime.
> but I also think the extreme results from this study aren't going to hold up to further research.

there already is further research. and the results do seem to be holding up.

the study you're quoting from is the one linked in the 2nd paragraph of the article. this is from the 3rd paragraph:

> But it’s consistent with a growing literature on the cognitive impact of air pollution, which finds that everyone from chess players to baseball umpires to workers in a pear-packing factory suffer deteriorations in performance when the air is more polluted.

that paragraph links to an earlier Vox article [0] which goes into more detail, and well as linking to all of the various studies:

> A wide range of studies about the impact of pollution on cognitive functioning have been published in recent years, showing impacts across a strikingly wide range of endeavors. Stripe CEO Patrick Collison has taken an interest in this subject and compiled much of the key research on his personal blog. Among the findings he’s highlighted include:

> - Exposure to fine particulates over the long term leads to increased incidences of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in the elderly (a second study confirms this).

> - A study of 20,000 older women found that 10 micrograms of additional long-term particulate exposure is equivalent, across the board, to about two additional years of aging.

> - The impacts are not limited to the elderly, however, nor are they exclusively long-term. A range of specialized professionals also seem to suffer short-term impairment due to air pollution. Skilled chess players, for example, make more mistakes on more polluted days. Baseball umpires are also more likely to make erroneous calls on days with poor air quality. Politicians’ statements become less verbally complex on high-pollution days, too.

> - Ordinary office workers also exhibit these impacts, showing higher scores on cognitive tests when working in low-pollution ( or “green”) office environments. Individual stock traders become less productive on high-pollution days.

> - The same also appears to be true for blue collar work. A study of a pear-packing factory found that higher levels of outdoor particulate pollution “leads to a statistically and economically significant decrease in packing speeds inside the factory, with effects arising at levels well below current air quality standards.”

> - Last but by no means least, the cognitive impacts appear to be present in children, with a Georgia study that looked at retrofits of school buses showing large increases in English test scores and smaller ones in math driven by reduced exposure to diesel emissions.

0: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/12/11/20996968/air-p...
So there was a redeeming element to that film!!
I have a toddler and zero assistance other than daycare. IYKYK.
There's already an extension called LibRedirect that can do this.
That is all true, but it can’t be understated just how much people didn’t like her as a person. People didn’t really find her funny or charismatic.

Obviously policy matters very little here; personality is king and many Americans love Trump’s personality. It’s why none of the policy arguments do much to sway anything.

People like the man, and they can dislike his policies separately, but they only dislike the policies that really impact them personally in a negative way. They like the man enough to just support whatever less visible policies he has.

I think race, gender, class, and culture have a lot to do with these preferences.
YMMV, but I would argue that claiming Trump is waging an unprecedented attack against the first amendment, accompanied by a picture of the first amendment ripped in half, is calling for (rightful) outrage and is inherently political. The post is very informational and well-cited, but it's not the changing hearts and minds of those it needs to.

Action has to be taken, but by people with the power to change things -- namely democratic leadership, who have the funds & influence (albeit dwindling). Do they understand the battlefield they're entering? I don't think so, as I think they're sticking to that same outrage strategy.
I would strongly recommend that you try your hand at fixing these bugs, because you seem to care about them. That puts you in a much better position to get these bugs fixed than most other people. It also doesn't sound too complex, if it's just a blinking cursor. 1) Figure out how the real hardware did it (could be as simple as a 555 timer) 2) See if there's any code related to this for this machine 3) If yes, fix the code, if no, check how it's implemented for other machines
Uhhh because 1) she hasn't been charged and 2) Marco Rubio has, on multiple occasions, said that it's because "no country in the world would keep a social activist that comes in and tears up our university campuses."

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-ic...

Another case is Badar Khan Suni who is here on a valid student visa, and DHS said they targeted for “actively spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media.”

Here's DHS itself: https://x.com/TriciaOhio/status/1902524674291966261
Sierra-style AGI graphics in 3D (tech demo) (2022) [video]