skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author is here and responding to some comments (great article, larsiusprime!). Presumably better than I can. But I think this is the money quote that comes at the end:

> Accusing your opponent of belonging to a Dark Mirror ideology is a weird narcissistic exercise, and a failure to develop a coherent theory of mind. It's also counter-productive.

Dark Mirror ideologies may exist but if you feel tempted to identify your ideological opponent as subscribing to one, you should examine that temptation carefully.

In Tolkien you have Morgoth opposed to Iluvatar, why? They differ on a key contention, which is that Iluvatar thinks he's the only one who gets to determine the shape of the music of creation, Morgoth says "Why's it only you who gets to drive the bus?" and everything falls apart from that deep ideological difference.

In Star Wars you have the Sith opposed to the Jedi, why? They differ on a key contention, which is that the Sith feel you should embrace your passions and the Jedi feel this is a destructive can of worms; to which the Sith respond that the Jedi are just trying to control people and putting a velvet glove around an iron fist, therefore they are no more moral than the Sith.

In real world politics you often have people divided over fundamental concepts like realpolitik and whether the ends justify the means. "Is Problem X so serious that certain sacrifices need to be made?"

The point is that the "Dark Mirror" interpretation in all of these cases would be wrong, nobody says "We have all the same priors, I'm just evil," but they do frequently ascribe that worldview to their enemies. In actuality the counterparties disagree on some very deep-rooted principles, but the character of your average online debate looks something more like "Team X obviously agrees on my same worldview, they're just evil people, so they want to do the bad things!" This is inherently a pretty narcissist way of looking things, there is no effort to understand what the other side is really trying to accomplish, and even if you're utterly committed to destroying them either way, "Know Thy Enemy" is still good advice. So the Dark Mirror approach to ideas you don't like is ultimately self-defeating.

It's interesting (and troubling) how these ragebaiting, Dark Mirror style positions used to be a bit less common but with the advent of social media have absolutely exploded into the dominant form of political discourse that now determines elections.
Found it! Completely wordless, but the sheer attention to detail shown is again very Japanese.

https://youtu.be/7dGnN75oQes?feature=shared
This is such a bad and reductionist take.

When progressive enhancement was the thing, nobody wanted to "disable 1/3 to 2/3 of their browser's technology", browsers mostly lacked many of modern CSS and JS enhancements across the board and having them fail graciously while still using modern features for the few who would support it was just the professional thing to do.

It sill is today of course, but it is obvious there are not many professionals left in webdev.
It's not an "incredibly easy career", otherwise everyone would do it. There are always some people who find themselves in positions where they can continue to get paid for doing basically nothing and software is not excepted. But many of us had to work hard to get here and continue to do so.
I assume dark pools keep trading?
That's another standard bit of the GOP playbook: accuse the other side of a bunch of bad stuff (regardless of whether or not it's true; especially if it isn't) to distract from the fact that the GOP is already doing that bad stuff.
Such accountability
SQLite

https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html
https://opensource.org/blog/public-domain-is-not-open-source
> I honestly found your response not just flippant, but passive-aggressively rude to the original poster.

I didn’t read it that way at all. How would you have worded it in such a way as to sincerely express the stated sentiment without coming across as passive‐aggressively rude?
Orange Monday?
I'm beginning to suspect that I've read more of this paper than anyone in the current administration has.

While President Trump has proposed a 10% tariff on the world as a whole, such a tariff is unlikely to be uniform across countries.

Oof.

Once tariffs begin increasing beyond 20% (on a broad, effective basis), they become welfare-reducing

Uh...

How can the U.S. get trading and security partners to agree to such a deal? First, there is the stick of tariffs. Second, there is the carrot of the defense umbrella and the risk of losing it.

Ukraine, Greenland, Canada... They've created so much doubt over the defense umbrella that they've really hurt their position here.
My two favorite trading terms: “catching a falling knife” and “dead cat bounce”. You don’t want to buy until you’re sure it’s reached bottom. So you look for signs of rebound, but you can be fooled by a dead cat bounce. Because if dropped from high enough, even a dead cat will bounce before coming to rest.
Typing with one hand on the keyboard and one on the built-in trackpad?
I am a die-hard advocate of the Phalcon approach to this problem, which is to deliver the framework as a PHP extension. It requires slightly more admin experience to get it setup, but boy is it fast!
China: "See?? we're not the enemy, the US is the enemy."
After decades using rsync for my local backups, I recently switched to ChronoSync Express. It's simple to use, with a sensible GUI and well-laid-out customization options.

And btw, it's included on Setapp subscriptions.
With an unattended install, sure. The OOBE doesn't give you that option by default.
That man is doing nfc spectrum analysis during an air raid.

I hope to someday acquire this amount of focus and dedication.
Tracking down older or out-of-print books can be weirdly frustrating, especially when prices for secondhand copies get absurd
And how are they going to do that without social services, hmm?
Seen this real-life: management ask for some unannounced change on prices. Everyone in IT tells them "this is gonna backfire fast". No way to budge them on it so we apply. A couple hours later support and sales are getting hammered by unhappy clients so we get to rollback as fast as possible. The official excuse? "That's an error from IT".

Nope, the code worked perfectly and did what was asked of it.
Coincidentally, I just spent several hours this weekend deep diving into recent research papers and standards evolution of HDR, wide color gamut and color space standards in video. The problem isn't the math, which is pretty well-defined in the various standards, it's that we have too many partially overlapping standards being proposed and supported by various standards groups, industry associations, manufacturers, studios, publishers and content distributors each of which are continuing to evolve in new versions with many offering optional enhancement levels. It's a mess because for any of these to work as intended they need to be correctly supported by each step in the signal chain yet different components have wildly varying degrees of support for various versions, baselines, levels and layers (with some being proprietary and patent encumbered).

For example, Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, HLG and HDR Vivid. They are all focused on doing essentially the same thing yet trying to answer seemingly simple questions like "which one is better?" is basically impossible because it depends greatly on the how the specific piece of content was encoded as well as the implementation completeness and correctness of every element from the file, server, playback app, streaming device, AVR and television or projector (and, of course, the cables between each device).
Totally fair — no business model exists today. Truly.

We built it and wanted to ship now and figure that out later. Obviously our goal is to keep the service up and we will. We're not strapped for cash. Ultimately we'll charge some kind of yearly fee for people who have a lot of decks, but have not come up with a monetary amount or what limits would exist. Our assumption was always to grandfather in early accounts (such as those created now) and learn from people's feedback.

Seeing it verbalized that this is frustrating is important, though, so thank you.

We'll add that as context on the site, and think through what a paid plan might look like.
I'm confused, can't you accomplish the same effect with simple gradient (+ offset)?
If you had a balanced portfolio a week ago, you're almost certainly overweight bonds today. Rebalance to your target weights and you'll be buying equities.
I was a sysadmin at a company using Notes/Domino (v 4.5 when I started, up until v 7, when it was replaced by Exchange/Outlook). It was mainly used for e-mail, plus some minor apps for HR.

I used Designer to improve a bit the UI of the e-mail app of Notes. In general I have positive thoughts for both Domino and Notes, as e-mail server & client. Nevertheless the majority of colleagues complained, mostly due to Notes being different from Outlook I think.

Yet, one day, a fellow colleague, a young beautiful woman (marketing, not an IT geek or something), came in IT office to announce us her resignation. Before leaving, she asked if it's possible to give her the Notes installer to install it on her PC at home. She disliked Outlook & Outlook express and really liked Notes :) (v5 at that time if I recall well). We were all stunned and of course gave her the installer and a guide on how to setup her yahoo or hotmail using pop3 or imap.
Writing C for Curl
In game theory, he’s grim trigger and it shows in multiple ways. I suppose we’ve never seen him forced to play a game in which he’s not allowed to change the rules.
I think the most accurate thing Trump has said so far in 47th Presidency was "everything's computer" about the Tesla dash.

Almost everything else out of his mouth, at least towards the media, has existed somewhere on the scale between 'large clump of BS wrapped around a tiny nugget of truth' and 'bald-faced lie'.

And when fairly obvious lies are repeated, the rest of what is said by himself and the rest of his administration retains the stink of the same taint.
I mostly agree with your position. However there are a couple of issues that make federal government work distinct from ordinary business.

1. Fired federal workers typically do not get a severance. Those impacted by the recent reductions in force are not receiving severance packages.

2. Government salaries are usually uncompetitive compared to the private sector; the major difference is the value of the pension. Leaving government service early results in a low pension; the pension is usually only worth it after 20 years of service and if one leaves federal service close to retirement age, to max out the "high-3" pension basis.

3. Because federal jobs are partially a stimulus effort to state economies, workers will have relocated to a region where there is no other employer in their field. Relocation will be necessary to find another job. This is less of a factor for the private sector, where workers typically move to locations where multiple employers offer jobs for their field.

A necessary set of reforms will be to simultaneously a.) raise federal salaries to market rate, b.) replace pension contributions with 401k matching, c.) reduce roadblocks for performance firings for tenured employees, and d.) consolidate contractors into federal employment.

Part of the reason federal employment is inflexible is due to the comparatively low income for many fields; mid-career employees have a low incentive for joining. Likewise, the barrier to leaving early is high due to the sunk cost of the pension. A tenured employee with reduced productivity is difficult to remove. Due to the pension obligations, the government is forced to use contractors to fill out the workforce. Contracting companies often take 50% overhead just to have someone doing the same job as a federal employee.

Such a policy change would take substantial bipartisan cooperation, so it's unlikely to be done in the current political environment.
Messier Marathon
Maybe it's time to switch to a new role/project?? :)

But, agree, many tech jobs require you to initially mount a difficult learning curve, then coast, doing the same thing over and over (although, for better and for worse, this was rarely what my jobs in tech were like. Was always jumping around having to learn new things).
> but a couple of important ones

If this was the first "mistake" made by the new administration and DOGE, then these items would be understandable. Or the second mistake. Or the third, maybe.

This is intentional. That is the only conclusion one can draw now. From the terseness of the letters of dismissal to the unreliability of the message ('you're fired! Wait, no you're not!'), one can only assume this is part of the destruction of democratic institutions that the current administration is pursuing.
A Practical Roadmap for Building AI Agentic Initiatives – One Step at a Time
The article mentions something about resistant strains; that's going to be low volume, so high upfront investments for a one time result. In theory, I'm not an expert.

But this is the problem with capitalism and health care, the providers just stop if there's not enough money in it for them.
No doubt China is the main target - it is a security threat as well as an economic one.
Troll answer. You can obviously freely modify and redistribute SQLite.
I love "the Unix Haters Handbook", just as I love "Worse is Better", but this ship has sailed 30 years ago as you mentioned. Your "old man yelling at clouds" rant reminds me of Bjarne Stroustrup's quip, "there are two type of languages, those everyone complains about and those nobody uses". I mean run your nice, coherent, logical LISP machine or Plan9 system of whatever is that you prefer, but let us enjoy our imperfect tools and their philosophy :)
Society over perceives it in fact (otherwise there wouldn't be such strong stigmatism), but there may well be unknown effects.

I believe many infections both sexually transmitted and otherwise have understudied neurological effects. It wasn't until the widespread wrath of long covid that public discussion really kicked off.
A sample tailwind snippet to try- https://scriptpad.dev/?id=bl38D7nMBvVi4VXMo4uC&o=1#/fullpage
Is there any evidence of a DOS version?
Finally a use case for AI
The lack of transparency around DOGE is a feature.
> It's his white whale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEPs17_AkTI

He said "Japan" (it was the 80's, after all), but he's talked about it for a long time.
Forget 'Snow Sequoia'. Now I'm Cheering for Better Linux Hardware
Those of us that grew up with the language, always used it instead of C when given the option, thus even if no one can claim expertise, we know it well enough to find it relatively simple to work with.

In the some vein that Python looks simple on the surface, but in reality it is a quite deep language, when people move beyond using it as DSL for C/Fortran libraries, or introduction to programming scenarios.
I'm always reminded of the software optimisation hierarchy, smallest to highest impact:

1. Micro-optimisation, e.g. programming language choice, tightening a loop, cache hits etc.,

2. Change the algorithms,

3. Change the problem.

Sometimes changing the problem makes the software completely go away!
> I have always assumed it to mean the intersection of the two contexts. As in, necessarily copyleft.

The definitions are very, very similar. Neither imply copyleft; almost all open source licenses are free software licenses and vice versa.

> As far as I'm concerned the OSI doesn't have any weight and there's little reason to think we share values sufficiently for me to start caring. Do I look like a corporation trying to slap some sense of community on a product?

All I'm saying is that if we accept "free" as implying the GNU free software definition, then we should accept "open source" as implying the OSI definition. There is no logical reason for why GNU's jargon is somehow better than OSI's.
> 8 month severance package

Is there any reporting of employees who actually received this, or are you referring to nebulous promise in the "Fork In the Road" email?
Moderna, like all modern hard-science companies, is a tiny house built on the top of hundreds of billions of dollars of government-funded research.
I'm a bit disappointed at the lack of interest Apple seems to have on Rust, given their focus on performance, UX and security.
Anyone with half a brain understands the argument you put forward, and there is not a single doubt on my mind that the current administration does. But the point is not the savings. The point is incapacitating the government to the point where privatization starts to looks like a viable alternative. This has been the strategy since Thatcher and Reagan, look up "starving the beast". This administration is just really good at it.
> I'd guess Ukraine falls within months at most

That's a bad guess. Ukraine has destroyed ~4000 Russian main battle tanks, a 3rd of the Black Sea fleet and many more thousands of pieces of equipment so far. They have proven how effective they can be defending their country. US cutting their support would be a big blow, no doubt, but Ukrainians can stay in this fight for a long, long time just with the EU support.
think this is more about that there is a variety of types of work in tech. As you probably have experienced yourself, if you join a fast moving startup, they'll work you to the bone, whereas a large, a wealthy corporation will let you just go to meetings 50% of the time.
True, but that’s not so much a dirty secret as something cartographers will loudly and endlessly tell anyone who’ll listen within moments of meeting them
> I also think some alterations are plain mistakes. For instance in the same book:

That one appears to not be a mistake, [0] suggests that not quoting the name of the book of the bible being referred to (so [Job] rather than ["Job"]) is the style accepted by Chicago, MLA, and APA.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_citation#Common_formats
The challenge would be balancing that metadata richness without turning the book into a spreadsheet, but if done well (maybe opt-in layers or a toggle), it could really deepen the experience
> Money is not the point of a government.
>>This isn’t a normal drawdown. This is a crisis with the leadership of the United States.

>The same thing happened just 4 short years ago when covid hit.

If by "same thing" you mean the market crashing, then yes, it's similar. But the cause of this isn't the "same thing" at all. For the next 4 years, the USA will have a president who wants to annex Greenland and Canada, who hates most (all?) US traditional allies and trading partners, who doesn't believe in free trade. The effects on the world economy are going to be slower to take effect compared to COVID, but they're going to be much deeper and long lasting.
Not only Teslas: my Renault has this as standard, and many brands have it at least as an option.
Promote Christian values; abortion is bad, and STDs have the stigma of promiscuous behaviour. Treating STDs and having abortions available encourages promiscuity.

(not my views, oversimplified take on fundamentalists and project 2025)
> LLMs fundamentally do not want to seem anything

You're right that LLMs don't actually want anything. That said, in reinforcement learning, it's common to describe models as wanting things because they're trained to maximize rewards. It’s just a standard way of talking, not a claim about real agency.
Does “pushing” matter if it actually works regardless?
At least they only got fired. Not prosecuted for fraud like the British postal service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

> In all, between 1999 and 2015, over 900 subpostmasters were prosecuted and 236 went to prison.
Kawasaki "Corleo" Robot Horse (Video)
Something is really wrong with you if you think of a targeted ad instead of a doctor when you have a medical problem.
I realized the hype for the Unix Philosophy was overblown around 1993 when I learned Perl and almost immediately stopped using a dozen different command-line tools.
It's even easier to send someone back across the land border, surely?
For whatever reason, people did not believe Trump would be this crazy. In fact, people in the stock market still do not believe he is this crazy. If they did, the stock market would drop much lower. From what I've heard from people in finance, the bond market is indicating some economic growth this year. If this goes on, expect a financial crisis which rivals that of the Great Depression.

It's not a lack of foresight, it's just that they do not believe him or believe that someone will stop him. People have just misread Donald Trump and his intentions.
I have a few servers and workstations I tend to connect to several times a day for work, also occasionally I'll remote back to my home PC when at the office.

These connections belong to different clients and have different gateway or specific settings I like to use. Most of the issues can be resolved by simply having a dedicated folder with the `.rdp` files in them, but some of the servers I connect to have short session timeouts, which make it more difficult than it needs to be to be productive. The app launches Devolutions `mstscex.exe` which provides a 'MouseJiggler' feature which tries to keep the session active. (I've opted to pass args to the binary instead of associating Devolutions `mstscex.exe` with `.rdp` files.)

Self-managing the `.rdp` files could also mean that in the future I could implement encryption of those files to make it safer to carry around on a `USB drive` without fear of loosing it etc.

Apart from that, it's also nice to be able to launch `Meld RDP` and simply press `Ctrl+3` to connect to the 3rd connection for instance. :-)
Any gain can be a 1000000% gain with enough leverage.
As the article says, they were on their way to SFO, and you can't fly there (or most any long-haul destinations) from Geneva.
It's not obvious to me. OSI (as per link in parent comment) says it's not "open source", and the LICENSE.md contains a prohibition on using it for evil https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/master/LICENSE.md
I flew Eva air in 2024, and I must say that their "spy thriller" flight safety video really had me hooked.
https://youtu.be/kQCtR9K8XT8?si=Fo6yATgH457Pa16b&t=52

They straight up have a "weapons display" showcase of things you shouldn't bring, as if you were looking at a scene where john wick would choose his weapons.
They do (best to avoid, including pods which have a rinse aid element), but note in the conclusion it's only significant in professional applications.. so probably OK at home, but never eat out :|

> The expression of genes involved in cell survival, epithelial barrier, cytokine signaling, and metabolism was altered by rinse aid in concentrations used in professional dishwashers
> Do only poor people get these sorts of issues?

The millionaires in city center penthouses I have orgies with and sometimes meet in the spaceship-like waiting room of the fancy dermatologist in my home city and I say no.
Another skill to cede to a foreign country i guess.

Do these nationalists always dismantle their nation?
This is a hit to Russian finances too.
It works the same as in Oracle APEX, and similar systems

https://apex.oracle.com/en/

You have migration scripts, and also have local copies, or team specific schemas, with dummy data for development purposes.

Delivery into production usually done in multiple steps, introducing the new feature, deprecating the old one, and eventually removing the old code/tables in another deployment cycle after the new one proves itself working without issues.
Storyteller
Damn :-D
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