skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The GP didn't find the right words.

This is not about graceful degradation. An HTML document without any CSS should never be in a degraded state. It should be perfectly usable and perfectly well accepted.
I second [third?] this.

I can’t stand Adobe Reader, and use Preview, all the time.
Medicare is extremely expensive from the perspective of the government/taxpayer. That it is extremely cheap and allows people to bid up the price of care on the consumer side is part of the problem, there is no triage or disincentive from overutilization because of how little cost share there is.
The amount of ego and imaginary economics at play in this whole situation is sad.

Real people are going to end up hurt because someone(s) can't manage themself.
But you also can't just cut taxes forever. The tax cuts being proposed by the current Republican budget are projected to add even more to the deficit.
IBM shareholders asked to back greater lobbying transparency
Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta
AI-Powered Bot Bypasses CAPTCHAs, Spams Websites at Scale
> how often should I be taking this medication

What could go wrong?
It means that they are not being bought. Normally, if the stock goes down, treasury yields go down because investors use them as safe havens for their money, so there's higher demand for them and hence the yield goes down.

So why isn't this happening now? There's probably a bunch of reasons. It seems there's a liquidity problem in the markets, which is also weird because stocks are being sold, so there should be enough liquidity, but it seems people are rather holding on to their cash and not invest in anything. However, it seems still treasuries are being sold like crazy. For a while, even gold went down, which is also highly unusual during a market crisis. One reason that is frequently cited now and also in this article is because some hedge funds have specialized on the so called "basis trade", which I never heard of before. It basically means buying large amount of treasuries and speculating on their futures. In itself, this does not bring much money, but it seems this is done on a huge scale, and it's currently going very wrong. Now they are getting margin-called and need to sell assets.

At some point, the FED would normally intervene and buy treasuries. However, the FED still has a ton of treasuries from the COVID crisis on its balance sheets and I think they will not intervene until the market has gone quite a bit lower, so I'm still invested very much bearish, although I lost quite a bit from that when Trump announced the delay, but two days later and we're already close to being back where we started and I could kick myself why I even reacted, but you can't win in this game when it's so distorted, so I'm mostly staying out now and just leave my few remaining PUTs open, and I guess many do the same. The US economy is now fully dependent on the whims of a corrupt president, whose friends currently surely make a ton of money on insider knowledge, so there's zero trust in anything anymore.
I would still much prefer playing 100:1 Russian roulette than 1:1, if those are my options.
Contrary to popular opinion, Nix builds aren't reproducible: https://luj.fr/blog/is-nixos-truly-reproducible.html
It sure is. If you set the second argument to browser you can step through any function.
Might as well charge most of the AdTech/MarTech space for gross fraud over the past decade. ALL of these vendors were saying that they were using AI well before the general availability of such technologies. It simply wasn't possible without massive costs to access the compute required to deliver on their false promises.
There are too many distributions / formats. However distribution package are much better than snap/flatpack/docker for most uses, the only hard part is there are so many that no program can put "and is integrated into the package manager" in their release steps. You can ship a docker container in your program release - it is often done but rarely what should be done.
This is why IMO the American system is even worse than the bribe method in a lot of countries.

DHS employees by and large cannot be bribed. It is a serious offense, and both the receiver and payer will be brutally punished. So immigration officers have literally no incentive to help you. Nothing good happens to them if they process your case or help you. Something good may happen to them if they brutalize you because prosecutions are good for their reviews for promotion.

Whenever things end up like this it is good to take a step back and realize people by and large are people. The guy in Honduras letting someone in for slipping a $20 isn't much different than the CBP guy in America who ships a guy off for CECOT for having a soccer tattoo.

You can't fix this system until there is something in it for the officer enforcing it. They need some mechanism for legal bribery, like a reward for letting in and keeping good people or to just straight up legalize people paying off immigration so that normal people get all the benefit drug traffickers already do.
> Mastodon simply doesn’t show users the posts they ask to see

That is patently untrue. What users want to see is the posts of the accounts they follow. That's it.

I see OP expected to see his bots' posts without trying to follow them, I wonder where the miscommunication that could have led to such a misunderstanding stems from. And if there is such a misunderstanding what kind of hubris do you need to have to write things like "XY doesn't work"...
Yes, they do often have such clauses, which carry a lot of weight when they aren't ignored.
Everything is converging on TikTok because it's unregulated addiction. The Chinese hit the sweet spot on how to hook people.

Given everything we've seen with kids and teenagers exposed to phones, social media, etc this is the next tobacco. Thank god there are countries already banning phones from schools and there's talk of banning minor from social media.
From Cambridge:

> a website or computer program that allows people to communicate and share information on the internet using a computer or mobile phone

From Wiktionary:

> A network of personal or business contacts, especially as facilitated by social networking on the Internet.

In which sense do either of those fail to describe Mastodon?
Windows 11 is the only version of Windows I’ve used where the taskbar routinely crashes on login and refuses to load.
It has been this way a long time. I interviewed and got a job offer with the Naval Research Lab in the late 1990's. It was a very cool job working on chips for space defense systems and I was told they could match any private offer and as a bonus I would retire with a full pension when I was 41 (I was 21 at the time). It sounded good and I loved the idea of making things that went into space. Then I started to get offers from companies in Silicon Valley. They were 50% higher and had free apartments for a few months plus a sign on bonus. I asked the NRL to match and they said there was no way they could. I moved to the valley...
how did you manage to put

- no bloat

- built-in AI co-pilot with ollama (local) or openai/anthropic

into one list?
Wait till you find out the exact same budget thing happens in the private sector. It is the world that needs streamlining not just government.
It shouldn't be market rate because you get job safety. Most have never worked in private sector before and has no idea.

Salary should be dependent on Jobs nature and ability. Not by grade. Currently it is simply a power structure and hierarchy.

People should be promoted on merit. Unfortunately most working in public sector lack the ability to judge. If you think power play, bureaucracy and failing up is a thing in large enterprise. You haven't seen civil servant yet.

I cant remember which party it was but stopped the Pay Band usage and everyone is simply paid by the starting rate. UK civil servant has basically stopped most salary increase for a long time.

Because of that, instead of pay raise a lot of people got promoted which is basically everyone in every department has inflated grades. These promotion are also problematic, again, not based on merit. There are now more SCS1 than ever.

40% of work are irrelevant and made up by seniors to improve their chance of promotion. Another 50% of the work are getting around bureaucracy, only 10% of the work are actually useful.

And there is no way to fix it. Ministers dont want to fix it because they rely on cvil servant to get things done. Civil servant internally lack the interest to reform. And if anything the power of a department is measured by how many staff it has.

But none of these are new. We are now close to 50 years since Yes Minister first aired. And the documentary remains relevant, and everyone should watch it if they want to understand more. And as far as I can tell, this is not UK specific.
Nix is to Linux users what Linux is to normies.
> Anyway I don't really think they deserve a lot of the hate they get

The dark lesson here is that you avoid hate and bad PR by cutting artists out of the loop entirely and just shipping whatever slop the AI puts out. Maybe you lose 20% of the quality but you don't have to deal with the screaming and dogpiles.
Some people have claimed that pure A/B testing is an agent for enshittification, both on a quality and ethical dimension. And I can’t see how those people are particularly wrong.

There are systems out there that can do AB/CD testing and those do a better job of finding pairs of changed that have compounding effects.

You cannot A/B test your way from chocolate and peanut butter to cherry and vanilla. So we get to deal with tone deaf companies who feel their analytics are proving that customers either don’t know what they want or are lying about what they want. But that’s not something A/B testing can prove. It takes more sophisticated experiments than that.
Steam's proton has made gaming on linux astoundingly good. The only thing that still needs improvement is mod support, as mod managers, game downgraders, bin patchers, some more involved mods involve little utilities written for windows that are not easily runnable on linux.

It is slowly improving though. The steam deck has moved things forward in leaps and bounds.
I don't know whether Windows is for corporate desktops, enterprise servers, PC manufacturers, Azure, home users or advertisers. It certainly doesn't feel like it is the right product for me anymore.
"PCBA assembly" is up there with "IQ quotient" and "ROI on investment". No editor writes like that either.
This is a waste of time compared to investing in sandboxing which will actually protect users as opposed to stopping theoretical attacks. Fedora's sandbox capabilities for apps is so far behind other operating systems like Android that it is much more important of an area to address.
Hooray. That doesn't change the percentages from the article above.
> You probably need to eat more fruits and vegetables.

I've never seen those here; the scale just has a touch screen menu with pictures.
I see people riding them around the hood here in Philly. There's also pop up stables here and there.
Windows Server 2003 was the best Windows by far. All of the good parts of NT/2000 with any parts of XP available when you needed them.
Yeah, I am also rather old, so old that I started with FidoNet before I got Internet.

However, I have to admit that I grew used to the fact that it is easy to contact a node in my social graph, without having to go hunt for their email, or maintain my own contact database.

After all, the social network should be about people, at least to me. I don't care about corporate pages on social networks, they might as well only exist at normal websites outside of the walled garden.

I guess thats my point. In my book, social networks are about people. And not being able to easily contact people is pretty much useless.
I hope I don’t get downvoted to oblivion but could someone tell me succinctly what palantir does?
XP was the last that I really REALLY used. I've had Windows 7 (on my work machine that I didn't use) and I have a Windows 10 machine that I boot from time to time when I want to mess with recording gear. But I kinda fell into "they're all bad, I was just used to them".

I'll give my prime example. I used to know Device Manager/Control Panel SO well. I could just get things done. Now I have to hunt around forever to do any sort of hardware related task. In their attempt to make it "so easy, even your grandma could use it" they've alienated power users. My grandma still has to call me to help her attach a printer... but now I have to say, "I dunno... let me watch a YouTube video and pray that it matches the sub-version that you're using".
Looks like you're completely missing the point of the quote and instead rat-holing on one word that you don't like. HN in a nutshell.
Chrome also ate everybody's lunch because it's the default browser on the most common networked computing devices in the world (android phones).
the loading screen says "Game may take a few minutes to load depending on the internet connection." but the dev tools say

> You can reduce your startup time if you configure your web server to host .unityweb files using gzip compression.

Seems like an easy fix and it's not exactly like that information requires 3l33t skillz to find
This is pretty much why we are taking this "faster horse" approach when building Volumo, our music download store for pro DJs (an alternative to Beatport - if you know, you know)[1]. Downloads, not streaming (you get FLAC files right into your hands); pay as you go instead of a subscription (why don't you pay a lump sum for this track you want, of which 75% will go straight to the author); gentle human curation instead of the ubiquitous "we make decisions for you" algorithms.

[1] https://volumo.com
It will affect anything which comes due in 10 years. So say you want to take out a 20 years mortgage, the payments that are going to happen 10 years plus will have their rate influenced by the 10yr. OR say you’re trying sell a business. When they look at the future earnings of that business, a higher rate on the 10 year will mean they give you less for that business, because the money in 10 years time is worth less today.

Also if you’re going to retire in 10+ years sucks to be you, your 401k just became a lot less valuable and the income you can expect in retirement will be lower.

Now because nothing happens in a vacuum, the 10yr spiking will affect other yields too.
That was Edward Snowden's explanation as well, for why he was technically employed by Booz Allen Hamilton while doing sysadmin work for his former employer, the NSA.
Probiotics reduce negative mood over time: daily self-reports in detection
and 64-bit (x86_64 not IA64), which no version Windows 2000 was AFAIK

Windows 7 with classic UI is probably the most-recent decent version.
It's totally fair. The issue is that it is advertised as the mastodon social network and not as the host owner social network. The fault lies a lot on the mastodon project that allows it and even advertises it in a way, but the host owner is also responsible to not be clear with that.
You're missing the point. Obviously people need to be careful right now. But framing this situation as the fault of victims rather than the fault of bad policy makes it seem like bad things things only happen in response to conscious decisions and to an extent it absolves the policymakers from responsibility. It dilutes productive discussion regarding bad policy and instead frames all injustices as the consequence of breaking the law.

Like HN users probably would broadly agree that advising people to "just don't act shady" doesn't make the PATRIOT act okay. Nor is it particularly helpful because both the scope of what can be considered suspicious or unlawful is well beyond what a normal person can be expected to considered their actions. The average person commits 3 felonies a day, the enforcement of which is essentially discretionary and means that anyone can be made subject to arbitrary punitive measures.

Certainly there's a frustration with how impotent one can feel about the law and politics, I don't disagree that we should try to control what we can and avoid putting ourselves into compromising situations. But that said I don't think criticizing the victims of injustice helps anyone or is ever the right thing to do.
That's like saying your'e not understanding how contractions work with a hand wavy reason
What method was used to infer the natural rates?
Re: 1. Cause and effect are backward. Imperial service was actually more meritocratic than the domestic British government of that time. Look how many names of colonialists are Scottish or Irish. The former were tossed out of their land during the Highland clearances or lost influence when the Union shifted power to London. The latter were barred from high office due to their Catholic religion. But if you had talent and ambition you could go to Africa or India (and then become wealthy and ultimately join the ruling class)
Photopea is great, and you can do a lot,
but it is not near the functionality of Photoshop.
However, most people do not need most of that.
Security and Privacy Issues in WhatsApp's Handshake Mechanism
Abstract: WhatsApp, the world’s largest messaging application, uses a
version of the Signal protocol to provide end-to-end encryption (E2EE) with strong security guarantees, including Perfect
Forward Secrecy (PFS). To ensure PFS right from the start of
a new conversation –even when the recipient is offline– a stash
of ephemeral (one-time) prekeys must be stored on a server.
While the critical role of these one-time prekeys in achieving
PFS has been outlined in the Signal specification, we are the
first to demonstrate a targeted depletion attack against them
on individual WhatsApp user devices. Our findings not only
reveal an attack that can degrade PFS for certain messages,
but also expose inherent privacy risks and serious availability implications arising from the refilling and distribution
procedure essential for this security mechanism.
That would still have been pithy a couple months ago, but at this point it might not be long before the reverse of that question applies.
USAID looking for an ROI???? THat's NOT the purpose of aiding other countries. You don't need to look for a return on an investment. USAid was feeding children in places. You're looking for an ROI on saving human lives. Learn empathy.
All things are voluntary.
I've been running a gaming content curated newsletter [1] for 5 years now, and although sometimes it's a little too much work to handle it, I enjoy curating the content, and the idea of people waiting every Friday for the newsletter has kept me going.

Now I've started a series of interviews with gamers called Unmuted [2], and it gave me some extra motivation to continue to find new people to be interviewed, which is not an easy task.

As a programmer I always had the idea of a side project involving code, but at the end of the day, I don't have the fortitude to code something, and the newsletter has been a great side project to have.

[1] - https://thegamingpub.com/
[2] - https://www.thegamingpub.com/features/unmuted-004-macy-inter...
This. Masterfully written down, by the way. I subscribed to your blog through RSS, because I also want to do 'the algorithm' myself. Interesting story about the intersection of law and tech you have on your blog!
YAML's idea of human readability misses the mark. Especially anchors. They're the worst tools for abstraction.

JSON with functions as the high level format and JSON as the low level format is the way to go. Examples include Nix and Jsonnet. They're much nicer to deal with and less error prone.
What surprised me that they roll it out to 50% of the beta channel users. So you might or might not see the change until they roll it out for all
Elon has also made a lot of claims over the years. Where is FSD or whatever they call it now? The whole solar roof tiles presentation was a lie at the time. P2P Starship travel is impossible but is being "sold" to the public as possible and many other things.
> Cutting it all at once with no other plan can have disastrous consequences.

Destroying everything because you don't know how to fix it or work within the system is an amateur move. Weakness masquerading as tough guy strength.
They said "regular" programming languages
Paprika 53 Gravel Bike
A different new website. Abosloutely loved it and I'm sure will be appreciated by others.
Only if the factory in China will make that thing today. If they are one their New Year holiday (I forget what they call it) you won't get anything. If they are busy making something else you won't get anything - unless by human factors you can convince them to work for you instead of meeting their promises to other customers.
I want to disable them in the phone and TV apps. I haven’t used YouTube in the browser much for almost a decade! It’s kind of surprising to me.
> There are plenty of non-unionized jobs people would love to have.

That makes it easy for people to leave the government.

The question you should be asking is: are there enough people who are sufficiently competent to take on the government roles?

Case study where the workers had less power than expected: Reagan vs. air traffic controllers.

Case studies where the government had less power than expected: Every coup ever, UK's Winter of Discontent (even if the long-term result was electorate going for Thatcher who gutted the unions), Polish Solidarity Movement.
Reusing a nonce often allows the entire world to decrypt or MITM the data.
Stinner is also doing a lot of frame manufacturing in the US: https://www.stinnerframeworks.com/
An 8-Hour Vacation? Meet the Travelers Who Love 'Extreme Day Trips'
I think you have to do both sandboxing and this.
LG and Samsung Are Pioneering the Netflix Model for Home Appliances
Empire start declining when empire interest payment on its debt start exceeding its military budget
Unfortunately I don't know. We have gotten rid of a lot of old toys and made sure our kitchen and plates are lead free and did some of that before a retest and that may have helped some. We are going to retest now that he is older and not sticking random stuff in his mouth much. He still eats a lot of sweet potatoes and I suspect that could be a source. I also just got some of the new easy to use lead testing kits and am starting to test some things with that but everything seems to come up negative so far.
You can't just cut your troubles away: Poor educational system; low education; high income inequality; low real income growth rate; high rates of drug addition; low social mobility; housing shortages; poor public transit; decreased access to healthy food; private equity buying everything and jacking up the prices; etc.

In fact, most solutions to troubles require spending time and/or money. Very few are resolved by "do less, and do it worse".

> At some point there need to be painful austerity measures - budget cuts, increased taxes, and the like.

Perhaps: america can start with increasing taxes on the rich, instead of decreasing taxes on the rich and increasing taxes on the non-rich. That should get america more money and hurt fewer people.
“We went to the Acropolis [from London], had a three-course lunch, and everything came to 147 pounds each—about $160,” he recalled. “If I’d just bought a train ticket to Athens, that alone would have cost about $200.”

something something about externalities
I did something similar. we had some financial issues and disagreement between cofounders. I left and the other cofounder bought back my shares.