skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the margin for 2026 changing the Senate majority significantly?

I personally am not seeing what influence Congress could push that will hinder the current executive branch even if it wished to.
sure, my comment is merely to express doubt that that the specific level of dislike from the kids is organic. most people do not hate like that on first impression, even if the satisfaction is of course not the same.
Pay isn’t everything. Government civilian GS employees have an extremely generous benefits package and usually excellent job security. Contractors frequently take pay cuts to work directly as a government employee for these reasons.
Adobe is the one major company trying to be ethical with its AI training data and no one seems to even care. The AI features in Photoshop are the best around in my experience and come in handy constantly for all sorts of touchup work.

Anyway I don't really think they deserve a lot of the hate they get, but I do hope this encourages development of viable alternatives to their products. Photoshop is still pretty much peerless. Illustrator has a ton of competitors catching up. After Effects and Premiere for video editing are getting overtaken by Davinci Resolve -- though for motion graphics it is still hard to beat After Effects. Though I do love that Adobe simply uses JavaScript for its expression and scripting language.
Hand-counted images of rallies yield significantly smaller numbers
Rust CUDA Project
No, the moral is different: if you’re a company notoriously hostile to creatives, don’t ask in a post “What’s fueling your creativity right now?” - and if you do then don’t be surprised when you get honest answers.
We've been cycling around that wheel for a while.

If there's any difference now versus the past, it is that I think right now pretty much every point on the wheel is available quite readily now. If you want a more "rudimentary OS" you don't need to wait for the next turning of the wheel, it's here now. Need full VMs? Still a practical technology. Containers enough? Actively in development and use. Mix & match? Around any sensible combination you can do it now. And so on.
Those are distributors and there is only a handful of them.

In China they have the manufacturer down the street from the distributor who is down the street from your factory.

With Digikey we are paying $80 to overnight a $5 part from Minnesota. We need to be able to go send a guy to pick it up in an hour.
Based on my experience with a smaller contractor, I think your overhead number is low. ;)
Sounds like the contracts are not written correctly then.
He ignores his wife's suggestion because, among other things, he wants to see some great looking babes. Maybe this isn't a guy whose philosophy I want to follow.
I'm not following how any of the things you mention are "ideas".
I don't know if I would refer to Adobe as being evil, but they're definitely one of the shittiest software companies in existence. And I'm 100% convinced that they would receive the same type of welcome if they made a xshitter account today.
If you're curious: An API is more or less just the communication boundary between two pieces of software.

A common sign of a bad API (including this one) is when it presents data in an overly human-centric way rather than something more computer-friendly.

For a human it's really easy to see "Regents Park" and "Regent's Park" are very very likely referring to the same station, but a computer can't know that unless a human goes out of their way to tell it that.

You could argue the TfL API is perfectly fine for its intended use-case of updating the arrival screens (which are meant for humans), but it's generally better to design APIs to grow for future use-cases you haven't thought of yet. Changing an API tends to be hard once it's being used in the real world.

For example: The older TfL stations have LED matrix displays for displaying information, which are very limited in how much text they can display at once. The newer stations have big TV screens instead, which can show a lot of information. It wouldn't surprise me if this is the underlying reason behind some of the inconsistencies, especially ones like "Kings Cross" vs "King's Cross St. Pancras". I'd bet the longer names with punctuation correspond to arrival displays in the newer stations.
One of the Most Egregious Ripoffs in the History of Science – The Race to DNA
I don't really follow, what's the issue with that? The two nodes will encrypt using the same key, so they can snoop at each other's traffic that they send out? Doesn't sound that big of a deal per se.
We're definitely hard wired to recognise the difference between people being friendly to foster a good relationship and people being friendly because they've good ulterior motives
This is the same debate folks have between Maven and Gradle: do you want CI code to be able to do *anything* that Python or Node can do, or do you want well defined knobs people can turn. If nothing else, it makes code reviews for CI way less drama than trying to use some bespoke dsl-in-python that re-implements {job: {steps: [{run: ...}]}} in a less legible way
> Ideally you'd continue to pay for the subscription but never watch anything.

I think that’s Netflix’s actual goal: deliver nothing anyone wants to watch, but keep on promising the possibility of something one might want to watch in the future.

Which reminds me, we really need to cancel our subscriptions.
I'm glad to see this type of explanation of inflation that uses examples familiar to different audiences.

We shouldn't lose sight of the fact that Mario Kart is a whole lot of fun (many video game producers have totally lost the plot on this). Mario Kart would probably be a value at $120, while other AAA games are a waste of money (and time) even at $10.
Now that would have been a really interesting thing for them to start a conversation about on Bluesky. They would have got some genuine engagement if they wanted it.

Much better than the transparently vapid marketing-speak
Sure, there's never malware on the stores...
I've worked for a large e-commerce company, and you're right, search is very important - to the point where effective search was one of the main focuses of the company's development. They had a clear correlation between revenue and how good/relevant the search results were, so they focused on that. Doing what seems like the complete opposite is a... choice.

I don't use amazon, but I use AWS every day of my life and I see similar-ish decisions made there in the console UI (although admittedly it has gotten a little better) - like, why are you seemingly making this purposely difficult? There's no way this benefits you.
In the USA, 'Liberty' is now a strong nationalist dog whistle.

> and an offer of a peace of mind for activists and journalists

Sounds like a trap.
At my college, we did in-class testing with psuedocode, because we were being tested on concepts, not specific programming languages or syntax.
> It is therefore in the provider's interest to make you satisfied with less and/or cheaper content

If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd think that all these "content companies" are colluding in a mass "Taste Removal" campaign, deliberately getting users used to bland, vanilla, generic "content" so they can one day just shove AI slop at us all day and only people who were alive in the 90s would remember when movies and TV were great. The rest happily will watch Ow, My Balls and ads for Carl's Jr.
Purism did have a lot of problems with delayed shipping. Today it's just not true though.
Yup, mkcert is used by caddy which is used by localias :)
Quoting the article:

> I refused to manage a separate Ubuntu box that would need reconfiguring from scratch.

Immediately followed by:

> After hacking away at it for a number of weeks

Hmmm
Small correction: The meow meow beans episode of Community aired in 2014 and the Nosedive episode of Black Mirror aired 2016. So the Community episode came first.
Not a good business model if they can’t afford to rev the hardware.
I have a much different experience on Twitter. It has a much higher tolerance for racism, misogyny, gay/transphobia, and wild conspiracies. It got much worse after the election and I finally bailed on it after the inauguration. I have not missed it.
Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates
I think a lot of people who use "a unix" just use "a linux"
100% true and research backs this up: strengths are also risks (or weaknesses).
- If you're very disagreeable you will offend people, but at the same time hold your ground (important in high impact roles).
- If you're very driven, you might tend to dominate people.
- If you're very flexible, you might be impulsive.

and so on.

Try this https://www.gyfted.me/personality-quiz/strengthsfinder-test-... or this https://www.gyfted.me/quiz-landing/bfas-personality-test to learn more about your strengths/traits
Netflix’s ad-supported tier makes so much more money per user than their ad-free tier that they had to raise the price of the ad-free tier to make it competitive on ARPU.
Haven't you seen the documentary Inside Job covering the 2008 financial crisis? "Burning it all down and starting over" is a very immature and myopic perspective and cannot be taken seriously as a workable solution. The solution is to implement regulation that, very broadly here, enacts mechanisms to make private gain for public loss something incredibly difficult to do.

There need to be checks against people in positions of great wealth, power, and influence because people cannot be trusted to self-regulate and Do the Right Thing when large sums of money are on the table. "Self-determination of a conflict of interest is itself a conflict of interest."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Job_(2010_film)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IaJwkqgPk

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-05/white-hou...
US Secretary of Education Referred to AI as a One
I'm curious about the False Positive/False Negative rate of the battitore. Do they open up some wheels to double check?
Won't even have to wait that long. Elon will be stepping down at the end of his special employee tenure in a month or two in which he expects to save $1T.
You don't have to add HTML validation to your processing func, but you brought up invalid syntax up as an issue with string templating.

> The whole thing is wrongheaded; exactly the kind of stove-pipe people end up inventing when they don't have metaprogramming.

Python has many metaprogramming features. I don't think you understand this feature much less its motivation.

How else would you go about adding language support for e.g. HTML and SQL within Python?
I’m bad at hints. Can you be explicit and tell us who the bad apples are?
Exactly. Most of these "savings" will be fed into significant tax cuts that are almost certainly going to benefit the rich more than anyone else.
Needs [2022] in the title
Worse yet it's the only effective way to sync music to the iphone over a wired cable. I can tell they've abandoned their USB sync software because of how annoying the dialogs are when you plug your phone in and don't authenticate to start it, additionally that thay've (likely intentionally to push I-cloud) never added automatic usb photo sync from phone to computer. This probably all originated from when Apple shifted their convergence model from all around the desktop to all around the phone¹

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9_Vh9h3Ohw
I have used Tidal, Deezer and Amazon Music in the past, but I've always went back to Spotify. I prefer the UX, but not only that, the recommendations are WAY better for me than other streaming services. However, my music taste is very eclectic, so maybe that helps a lot to recommend something within my taste.
The best part about journalism is not collecting information. It's sharing it
I'm not surprised I undersell it. I try to take a few months to a year's break from programming once a decade or so, when I can, both for the sake of coming back with fresh eyes and because anything gets miserable if you do it hard enough for long enough. This seemed like a good time. So though I've installed and set up gptel and chatted enough over some Elisp to see that it's functional with local models, I haven't as yet actually used it in a serious way.

On that note, I'm not much in the Emacs blog/creator scene or ecosystem this decade, either. Do you know any good topical resources that might fit well with time spent mostly away from keys? I realize I may be asking quite a lot.
One of my friends spent a few years as a cashier and knew PLUs (Price Look Up) by heart, "oh that's 3072".

Here's some examples for apples:

https://www.bobbywires.com/plu-1.php?S=V&L=A&V=APPLES
Agency vs. Control vs. Reliability in Agent Design
> preferably in more detail than just "tax cuts"

That's like asking what an ocean is but preferably in more detail than just water.

But to answer the question, we really can't give more detail. Congress passes a budget and delegates out to subcommittees to figure out how to spend the money (not revenue) that they were allotted.

So a subcommittee has been authorized to find 4.5T of tax cuts over the next ten years and we won't know what they are until a later date.
Right, but this is the same company, so the cost of marketing, auditing, R&D, etc. shouldn't be different for these products. That's a fixed cost for the company.

This is a guess, but the argument is probably that it took way more R&D effort for them to figure out how to produce it efficiently in the US, and they've chosen to increase the cost of the US phone variant to offset this particular R&D expenditure that the Chinese variant didn't have.
And now they do not have job security.
Is that different from Spotify? Am I using Spotify wrong? I mostly just curate and listen to my own playlists
But when art is getting democratised, it is stealing, like we learnt from Ghiblification incident lask week.
Deloitte, Accenture, etc, have such bad reputations as any Indian offshore company TCS, Wipro, etc. Just add more billable hours, milk and milk.
Think of it this way, the less time they spend actually WATCHING content, the longer they will pay their monthly service because they have this massive "watch list" that they never actually get through. They just keep paying month after month never getting through a backlog that they inspire to watch. I don't agree with it, but it makes sense to me. If you can never feel satisfied, you will pay over and over again chasing that satisfaction of watching "everything."

Many people will pay Netflix for years hardly watching content for months just because the convenience factor of not having to subscribe/unsubscribe when they know a new season of X will be out in the next year. It's wild to me, but people are lazy. So again, the more you keep them from actually watching the content and realizing they are "done", the longer they likely just keep their subscription active. Get them to add as much potential content they want to watch to a never ending backlog watch list.
That ship has sailed now, though. The benefits and job security can no longer be counted on. Government is gonna have to compete more on salary, or accept worse candidates.
Related:

Toulouse University wants to host US researchers whose work is at risk

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43629490
No, but they are dead simple aren't they? Charging them is easy. They can handle super high discharge rates no problem. Construction is simple, only lead, sulfuric acid, and plastic. The materials are cheap, abundant, and recyclable. The battery chemistry is old and well understood. They aren't made from flammable materials, and if one does catch on fire, you can extinguish it using a normal fire extinguisher. They work well at low temperatures, and can be put in storage long term fully charged. About the only downside is they can make hydrogen if overcharged, and are heavy.

Too bad they use lead, because it would be too good to be true otherwise. You have to treat lithium batteries like a spoiled child in comparison.
The article mentioned speed of dev as a trait that's both a strength and a weakness. I suppose the opposite of that is quality orientated, but not very fast.

What are other dimensions along which there's this duality of strength/weakness in engineers (or even in the general workplace) that you've seen either in yourself or other coworkers?
Does this mean that the EU is gonna get flooded with all the crap^H^H^H^H stuff that was intended for the US ?
25 years ago, I had a Honduran roommate who barely spoke English. One day he came home with a thrift store VHS on how to make longbows and he watched that thing over and over like it would tell him the meaning of life. I hope he finally got ahold of some yew wood and made one.
This is false.

He posted a doctored image to make it look like that, which is a completely different thing, and should definitely be punishable.
OK, but why do you need a new set of hooks for this? You can achieve the same thing by putting all your agent-related code into a reducer and just using Context.
So, realistically speaking, we've seen lots of corruption protections stripped away in parts of the federal government - SEC to stop prosecuting things, Inspector Generals fired, loyalty pledges, etc.

Who would need to be on board with changes in the Pentagon to strip away protections there? I'd assume it's quite a bit more insular than other parts of the federal government.
Many channels seem to use Shorts as a vehicle to get you to their long-form content. I don’t mind that as a discovery mechanism; it’s introduced me to some fun stuff. Other channels make Shorts-specific content, which I really dislike.
I think in California it is a law that if you sign up online, you can cancel online? NYTimes gives you a different cancellation flow if you're in California vs if you're anywhere else in America.
> Human rights are worth defending with force, imho.

Yeah, but what are they? The devil is in the details.

> Isn’t the communism boogeyman tired at this point?

It's not a boogeyman, it's a clear and obvious example of "democracy" without actual choice, the apotheosis of "what electorate wants and the votes communicate are no longer relevant."
> Shipping what randos push works great for iOS and Android too.

App store software is excruciatingly vetted, though. Apple and Google spend far, far, FAR more on validating the software they ship to customers than Fedora or Canonical, and it's not remotely close.

It only looks like "randos" because the armies of auditors and datacenters of validation software are hidden behind the paywall.
And in 1970 the US population was 203 million compared to 340 million now.
The trade deficit is a measure of the flow of currency, not the stores.
I'm not sure why you think anti-AI is a leftist thing. If anything, it seems more conservative.

Not conservative as in the 'libertarian', "hand over your agency to the perfect algorithmic machines because they will set you free." But conservative as in traditional.
Thanks for the links. FWIW, the link for 4 (aog) is currently 404'd, which is amusing because the site is still up. They just seem to have deleted their own top level index.html file. Anyway, this works:

https://aog.makie.org/v0.10.3/
> I still use phones that use SD cards

I can't tell you how much I miss removable storage
What's your threat model here? The way this works is that on your development machine, localias (through caddy/mkcert) generates a root cert and the per-site certs and installs them to your development machine's trust store. All of the certs live entirely on your device and never leave. You have full control over them and can remove them at any time.

The certs and keys live in the localias application state directory on your machine:

• tree /Users/pd/Library/Application\ Support/localias/caddy/pki/authorities/local/
/Users/pd/Library/Application Support/localias/caddy/pki/authorities/local/
├── intermediate.crt
├── intermediate.key
├── root.crt
└── root.key

The whole nicety of localias is that you can create domain aliases for any domain you can think of, not just ".localhost". For instance, on my machine right now, the aliases are:

• localias list
cryptoperps.local -> 3000
frontend.test -> 3000
backend.test -> 8080
Fair enough! I am probably just projecting my own probable fate haha.
> Government civilian GS employees have an extremely generous benefits package and usually excellent job security.

Had. Not have.
It figures. One's knee-deep in censorship and the other one is more or less free-for-all, so you get high levels of hostility and an extreme range of ideas respectively from the get go.
> These models are supposed to be reasoning

They don't "reason" - they're just AutoComplete on steroids
Yeah, they posted this:

> Hey, we're Adobe! We're here to connect with the artists, designers, and storytellers who bring ideas to life. What's fueling your creativity right now?

> Drop a reply, tag a creator, or share your latest work—we'd love to see what inspires you!

That's such a bland, corporate message. It feels totally inauthentic. Do Adobe (a corporation) really "love to see what inspires you" or do they just want engagement for their new account?

I'm not surprised in the slightest that it triggered a pile-on.
The Great Torpedo-Bat Panic
How does such a method retain things like open network connections that have significant kernel state involved as well?
Evelyn Waugh’s Decadent Redemption
Adobe is special. They have a pretty narrow specific audience who are kinda stuck with them, and who they’ve spent the last decade industriously pissing off.

Bluesky _is_ less tolerant than Twitter of “hello, we’re a brand, aren’t we wonderful/funny”, but I think this particular reaction is more about it being Adobe than anything else.
If you can use an algorithm, and you do not have to share the logic, you might as well just make the algorithm return "denied" every time.
Stylish mid-engine cars like the NSX look exotic because they remind people of Ferraris and Lamborghinis.

The average person who doesn't know much about cars will think a second generation MR2 is more exotic than it is. Toyota probably wouldn't make their top three brand guesses. The R34 GT-R will thrill every car enthusiast (and probably everyone who had a Playstation around the turn of the millennium), but most people won't give it a second look.
Being inefficient with tokens actually makes you super productive. It's too expensive in the long run though.

The last few weeks have been quite frustrating with Cursor. I dove deep into the issue and figured that the most annoying problem - which leads to all those frustratingly poor replies from the LLM - is how Cursor cuts down the context. You can test this yourself: just add a long file to the chat and ask if it can see the file.

Recently I discovered that all these problems disappear with the "max" models. This is exactly what I wanted. The price of 5¢ per request is manageable, the real issue is the cost for tool use in agent mode (see my other comment).
I don’t know why they always alternate a good with a bad release. Technically Windows 12 should be good.
I just looked at twitter and it seems the sentiment is similar across both platforms. I think this was more of an adobe think than a bluesky thing.
The entire point of the manufactured chaos is to create opportunities for corruption and graft - patronage networks. Regular productive people who just want to go about their lives can't count on the rules, because "the rules" change day to day. The only people who can count on remaining on the right side of "the law" are those playing the game and paying tribute to Trump. This is rule by law rather than the rule of law that made our society prosperous.

The Republicans who continue to enable this tyrant need to wake the fuck up. The open corruption combined with the deliberate attacks on our economy, our institutions, and essentially our entire American way of life are the fast track to us becoming a country in ruins.