skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The novel follows Jack Potter, a computer cryptographer tenured at the fictional Academe of Pure and Applied Sciences in Santa Sierra, California (a city assembled from the ruins of San Francisco.) The story details Jack's first encounter with an alien calling himself Wheeler who apparently wishes to trade information with humanity.

> Accompanied (for a while) by "gene witch" Zero al Qaseem and data paleontologist Isabel Mirabeau, Jack establishes a corporation based around one of the technologies he was traded by Wheeler, but soon finds that there may be more to his dealings with the alien than he bargained for. Traitorous alliances, deceitful propaganda, and shady business practices are frequent elements of the novel.

> "gene witch"
There is no leap, when I finally got good access to dental care, I've had dentists tell me water fluoridation is what kept me from tooth decay in the chronic absence of dental care and basic hygiene.
Delta Sync seatback demonstrably improves PaxEx
More than $5 million, probably less than $100 million, probably - would need a team of qualified experts to know what to photograph and record, a team trained to handle delicate and valuable artifacts, IT people, machine learning experts, gophers, grunts, and finally a team of people to work with institutions. It's not a super complex endeavor, logistically speaking.

I don't think it'll ever happen. Some institutions would resist being part of any third party scaled up attempt to record things, others would demand editorial control, and the most asinine petty politics would gum things up.
Ya sure but whats the way out? We have to go from Observations to Solutions.

Just look at how people's Attention on all sides is being exploited. If no one can remember what they were hysterical about last week, how can they be relied on to solve anything?

People are able to over night get more Attention than Billionaires and then convert that Attention to cash or influence, and its always fleeting as there is someone else around the corner about to capture Attention next.

How can such system do anything useful? I mean people are in la la land that architecture can produce results.

Why do we have central banks that decide what the interest rate is going to be?

Because the govt, banks and the rest of the market is unfit (proven throughout history) to do so.

Social Media/Attention Economy needs a similar mechanism when it comes to Attention.

We can't just go on living in a day dream that Rate at which the population's Attention is switching from one issue to another (thanks to algo's engineering for quarterly profit maximization) can just be left to Fate.

People's Attention both on Demand side and Supply side is being massively squandered more than at any time in history. Its like watching seizures in the brain. And people are like no no the system can function.

It can't. And the choice is to realize is sooner than later.
> Meanwhile, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have been detaining and trying to deport pro-Palestinian students who are legally in the United States. The administration is targeting students and academics who spoke out against Israel’s attacks on Gaza, or who were active in campus protests against U.S. support for the attacks. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters Thursday that at least 300 foreign students have seen their visas revoked under President Trump, a far higher number than was previously known.

How is "deportation without a trial" not a deliberate attack on people exercising their constitutional right to free speech?
The person I was responding to was talking about tickets. I will print a paper boarding pass if I'm at home and I can print it easily when I check in in advance but I just do it at the airport if it's not convenient. (I don't like making myself more dependent on my phone than I need to be.)
Who invented cancel culture?
No it wouldn't. Part of freedom of expression is the right to express opinions of any kind. That includes the view that freedom of expression should be limited: that is a perfectly legitimate opinion.

>Therefore we need Equal Rights to free speech for everybody

Freedom of speech doesn't mean you are entitled to a publicly funded megaphone or that anyone is required to listen to you.
What the college tuition debate overlooks is that for costs to go down, so does the quality of the experience. this means college is more barebones and less handholding, like in Europe.
This unfortunate soul is a philosophy prof, which means most, if not all of his students aren't interested in philosophy but rather just need the credits to graduate.

But, don't blame the 18-19 yr olds for being astute enough to recognize the true signal from noise. For example, Every major university library renovation I've seen, has resulted in far fewer books on shelves but more audio/visuals, group study rooms, and coffee bars. What signal does that send about intrinsic value of books.
Increadible that "but what about her emails" is still the only defense for sending military secrets over a non secure line to a journalist
I agree. Anybody who supports pardoning the J6 terrorists is obviously NOT supporting free speech because they support people who used violence to silence speech in congress.

When somebody uses violence it is not free speech it is suppression of free speech. You can't really speak freely when somebody hits you with a flagpole or pepperspray. Or even just threatens you with violence.
Free speech should be considered a non-negotiable human right. You can't just trade those off against each other. The distinction into "materially meaningful" rights in my opinion just shows how easily both types of rights are taken for granted until noticeably revoked.
Rising co2 levels I believe are nowhere near the differential inside vs outside when windows are closed. There’s lots of reason to believe that rising co2 specifically lowers cognitive performance - our brains work on o2 and our body actively works to expel co2 as a waste product - increasing co2 levels means the body has less O2 available and has to work harder on co2 expulsion for survival instead of powering the brain.
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The recent `tj-actions/changed-files` security incident is scary, so we built a mutable-reference scanner that performs a deep scan across branches to identify all third-party GitHub actions used in organization Git projects. The output report can be exported to CSV or JSON (default).

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Thinking of putting together web app that uses an LLM for conversion of a resume to json resume
What if you could cast a negative vote?

That is, you could either vote for one candidate, or against one candidate.
What I find extremely sad in the whole academic business, is that all the work that is put in creating those tools, curriculum, classes materials etc are just wasted.
Systems are decomissioned, professors refuse to share their materials or to even update it when receiving students feedback or when there are new disoveries in the field. And copyright holders are threatening to bite when learning material is put online...
I think one of the problems we face here is effective protesting. Imagine you live in Spain and have to travel to Africa to protest. The US is big and it's hard for us to get into one spot. We can protest at our state capitols, sure, but that's not as effective as traveling to DC which is basically out of the question for the majority of the country.
Win98-quickinstall: A framework and installer to quickly install Windows 98
"you should at least make sure that the new things you make don't net harm people or the world."

How well has Y Combinator done at upholding this principle with the companies it funds?
Disinformation exists. Most people rely on quality information, and on social institutions that work to determine truth.

Scare quoting disinformation is for nihilists. Is that where you're aiming?
You have ticked all the "normal" boxes. Try meeting new people. Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, after a breakup, I continued to "run" ok jog in the hills, and work, but less any social media, I took an ad in a singles magazine, and met new people, all very different. Married one, but that's another matter.

New people might introduce you to interesting places, events and things to do. What if you met a scuba diver or photographer, artist or musician? I met one photographer whose works are very ethereal, and since my photos tend to the sharp and realistic side, those works have me really intrigued to go out and find different venues.

One person I met was very much into baroque music, and had a harpsichord. Many years later, I got a Clavinova with a harpsichord voice, and have some fun with that.

That was all before social media, so I can't say what to do today, but the goal is the same. Broaden your experiences by meeting new people. You never know what new doors that might open.
I concur. At least a sample/preview of a couple of chapters would be nice. Bit of a hard sell to dump $60+ on a completely unknown piece of work.
It's not even a coherent concept the way westerners use it. I would be much happier if we called it "acceptable speech" or something to acknowledge you can't call for dismembering your Tutsi cockroach neighbor. Idk why, maybe I'm just being sensitive.

"Free speech" as a right seems pretty useless without material rights. Complaining about it isn't going to change anything. What does that even look like?

But we can trace all this crappy formulation of civics to the brain rot that is worshiping the enlightenment and founding fathers. Why is this still a thing in 2025? Nobody is putting a gun to your head to care about Jefferson or Locke or the actual basis of our society, Hobbes. We can chuck the entire concept of rights out the window and come up with agreements surrounding social behavior that actually reflect the society and culture we have today or want tomorrow.
They've already forgotten that the President literally robbed his own people with a meme coin.
In that case: report the bug, keep your mouth shut until the bug is fixed, then talk about the bug once it is fixed or your responsible disclosure deadline has passed.

Turned out the bug was a 2.9 CVE nothingburger. It’s not like they found the FSB/Mossad/NSA had hooks in a remotely exploitable root level process.
I am curious about the project. Can you provide a clear description?
> Wait, why is my disk throughput so low?

Because many filesystems do fsync wrong, for reasons that are not inherent to filesystems in general.
> anti-Israeli campus posters as idiots

The problem with free speech absolutism is that it leads to the 'paradox of tolerance'. We are now seeing the fruits of that line of thinking.

> The paradox of tolerance is a philosophical concept suggesting that if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance; thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Maybe or maybe not. Further research should tell.

Maybe the tests results are better because the children are more rested on the day of the test. Maybe the hum of the machine creates some kind of meditative noise that helps children concentrate. Or maybe none of that is true..
That’s unfairly harsh to statisticians, IMO. You have two fields of study, statistics and ML. There’s a massive overlap. Gatekeeping? Practitioners from these two fields have different jargon and view things differently from each other.

“X is taught in books about subject Y” is a pretty weak argument. I could use it to argue that group theory is quantum mechanics. Scientists and mathematics aren’t fighting over who gets to own group theory—the scientists get to put group theory in their toolboxes and the mathematicians get to study it for itself. Same with ML and statistics. When you do ML, you need certain statistical techniques in your toolbox, so they get taught in your ML books.
Republicans and independents indicated in polls that they did not take what Trump said during the 2024 campaign literally. Voters didn’t give him a mandate, they thought they were voting for a troll.

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/10/22/many-voters-...
> could simply pay for the research

And the Phase X safety and efficacy trials, which comprise the bulk of pharma development costs?
Is there anything meaningful here? Like is there some kind of edit that matters?

Could you try making your point directly? You seem to be expecting me to have the video memorized or something so I can pick out the difference from the transcript.
Ah yes, nothing screams “free speech hero” like a guy who tried to censor the press, punish critics, and begged Twitter to silence his enemies.
That was, as I mentioned a mistake not intentional. If anything was intentional it was the so called journalist giving it publicity instead of doing his duty as a citizen to report it, delete it. Doing anything else is in my books treason.

As a company employee that's what you're supposed to do if copied wrongly on an email. In fact that's the usual disclaimer that appears in many email footers.
Imagine sharing the spectrum in an apartment in a high population density city.
This thinking is... pretty far gone, honestly.
Okay, but counterpoint: why don't these school libraries also remove for example the Bible, a work known for extremely graphic content, eroticism, calls to kill based on one's tribe and doing stuff like working on the Sabbath. It's also a book explicitly meant for indoctrinating children into a given religion, or actually one of two religions!

These principles of what is good and age-appropriate for children doesn't seem to be applied consistently.
There's always something scary for those whose team lost the last election.
Did you finish reading? The author said later on that holding the bar high wasn't an option since it would risk his job. The blame should be on the universities, not on the professors who don't have much power to fix the problem.
There are ratings spanning H10, H11, H12, and H13 for HEPA filters.
False equivalency works!
I think it plays a part. Just like personality does. And the college itself does. And the professors you get, and so on.

But really the insight is internal. And it's just insight, it doesn't dictate your response.

In other words I'm not saying this insight suddenly means you change career path. Most of us will go out and get jobs in an office, most will progress on similar lines.

The difference is in how you approach things. For example; if you see programming as vocational training then the language they teach you matters. If they taught you Java then you apply for a job doing Java.

If you see it as I did, then you see programming, not language. Language is easy to learn, and I've done serious work in at least 4 in my career. My first job was in a language I'd never seen before. Today I spend a lot of time in one that wasn't even invented.

If I had to go out and find work tomorrow I'm confident I can handle whatever language they prefer. I don't say that with arrogance- it'll take effort - but rather I'm confident I know how to learn.

Thus I'm not scared of AI. It's a tool, and I'm happy to learn it and use it. It won't replace me because I don't "write code", I program (and I understand the difference. )

So ultimately I'm not sure that financial status or whatever make a big difference. Ultimately it comes down to the person.
> Not really clear what this article is about.

The article is quite clear: It’s about exactly what the title explains. I’m not sure how you would find it unclear unless you were skimming too fast to read it or you went in trying to find an angle to push a different agenda.

> If it's about using Signal app to escape FoIA it's odd not to discuss who actually started that or use of personal servers in basements & shredding mails when caught.

This is just “whataboutism”. If you want to play the whataboutism game, then what about all of the theatrics and threats that came with the email server story? Why have the rules suddenly changed so that something far worse is suddenly no big deal?

> If it's about the leak which was inadvertent even if a sack-able offence then that's nothing to do with 1st or any amendment.

If the best complaint you can muster is that it’s a different issue than the headline issue, that’s hardly a defense.

> If it's about free speech in general, to have any trace of integrity, objectivity & not sound like propaganda it must discuss the censorship and cancel culture and its inventors

Again, a weak attempt at whataboutism.

And again, it doesn’t make sense for you to try to defend one thing by comparing it to another perceived thing you don’t like (“cancel culture”).

Is your biggest concern with your article that it focused on current events instead of dwelling on these past issues? It’s an article about the current administration. Trying to drudge up past grievances is irrelevant.

> I know this comment will be unpopular given the general trend in this forum but it needs to be said. In fact how's it's received itself will itself be a good mirror.

I suspect your comment will be poorly received because it’s a weak attempt at whataboutism. It’s also logically inconsistent, given that you’re trying to downplay the current administration’s actions by comparing them to prior administration’s actions or vague culture war material. If you’re determined to dismiss any criticisms as a mirror of something, maybe pause and take some time to first think about how your own arguments could be made without reaching for whataboutism or past grievances. Try focusing on the matter at hand and who’s currently in charge, because it’s not Hilary Clinton or your “cancel culture” bogeymen making any of these decisions or lawsuits, but that’s all you want us to look at.
Wait 3 months for me to finish.

So far it's basically just a Django server. You're responsible for self hosting ( although I imagine I'll put up a demo server), you can define your own cards.

You can play the game by literally just using curl calls if you want to be hardcore about it.

I *might* make a nice closed source game client one day with a bunch of cool effects, but that's not my focus right now.
They’re literally banning The Handmaid’s Tale. Not good https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/margaret-a...
Large-Scale AI Batch Inference: 9x Faster Embedding Generation
> none of the docs really mention this

Searching for the sister distro you mentioned, this[1] was one of the first links I stumbled upon, which included a link to the ARM ISO[2] and checksum[3] along with this note:

> No homebrew, they don’t have arm builds, we will include Pixi[4] instead, which is a nice package manager built on the popular conda ecosystem - there’s some good stuff in there!

[1] https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bluefin-lts-alpha-f...

[2] https://download.projectbluefin.io/bluefin-lts-arm64.iso

[3] https://download.projectbluefin.io/bluefin-lts-arm64.iso-CHE...

[4] https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi
One method that works really well is the following:

- Unplug your laptop's charger

- Disconnect from the internet

- Work using only using your battery charge and the documentation on your laptop

If you find that you need an information about something that's in a doc you don't have, only connect to the internet to download it, then disconnect. Nothing more.

Batteries will only last for about two hours when they're not new, and you have the docs on your machine without distractions online. This forces you to work only on what you're working on, and do it fast as the battery is discharging so you catch yourself more often "drifting" in your thoughts, and you'll get better at catching yourself and focusing again, because "Quick! It's discharging!"

I know it sounds silly as you can just connect to the internet or plug your charger, but it really works. Its real job is to remind you to focus and get things done.

Try it, and you'll find soon enough just how much of your attention was scattered, but you'll be weaning as soon.
It's something you can disable with a toggle.
Were Capt William Hobson and James Busby Americans? (USian isn't a real term - people from America, which is a country, are called Americans.)
I've noticed recently historical works being handled differently depending on the materials. I think there's been a revision in the protocols: Maybe the white cotton gloves are mechanically harmful sometimes? I doubt they let somebody do it who just fixed their bike chain, but if you wash your hands before touching it's possible for parchment, it's not that big a deal.

https://library.pdx.edu/news/the-proper-handling-of-rare-boo...
These are not people that HN/Academia identifies with and thus they are not considered people with full rights. See how the goals moved from rights for every single person, to rights for documented migrants, to rights for citizens only. We are now moving faster to rights for people similar to you but make no mistake this will end up with rights for no one but the king.
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I don't think it's accidental either but the way to understand why it's happening is to ask who benefits from it. In most cases it would seem to be, Putin. He benefits from diminishing US, from stopping US support for democracy all over the world.

If the whole world is governed by say 3 dictators they can easily make peace with each other and share the spoils. But they won't because wars will increase their domestic support. Orwell wrote about this.
I don't deny the circus.

Establishing Government (perplexity):
"No president has moved faster than Donald Trump in 2024 to appoint Cabinet members and agency heads. By November 23, 2024, just over two weeks after Election Day, Trump had announced nominees for all 15 executive agencies, far outpacing his first term and other recent presidents like Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who took nearly 40 days to reach similar milestones. Additionally, the Senate has confirmed Trump’s nominees at a faster rate compared to his first term and Biden’s early days in office."

Illegal immigration: down to near 0

DOGE: Cut $260B in spending as of this post:
https://www.usdebtclock.org/

Is there a counterpoint to this?

Something Obama, Biden, Clinton, or GW Bush did in first 100 days?
I think the swerve that makes free speech absolutism less credible now than a generation ago is the prominence that lies and misinformation have gained in the discourse.

I think you can still believe that any political, religious or economic view is fair to say/publish/broadcast as an ernest expression of perspective, and that even potentially hateful views inevitably come along for that ride. We tolerate the KKK producing literature bc that's the cost for _everyone_ being able to speak. But it's much harder to make the argument that intentional lies and misinformation deserve the same protections as good faith expressions of minority views.

When a person asserts that we need to protect speech which is intended to mislead, isn't it natural to be suspicious?
>I find it remarkable that Americans are ok with rule by executive order instead of rule by congressional law.

Can you cite a poll for this? Most Americans have never been asked and likely aren't okay with it but we don't really have a choice in the matter.

When it comes down to it the decision on how executive orders work is based on what a few dozen people think and most of them aren't elected. The general public has no say in the matter.