skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes I want a faster horse. Problem is horses are no longer in high demand. It's a niche market now. I may have to pay a premium or put in some extra work to get the horse I want. It's just the way of things.
And here is an article on Raffi berg, BBC’s Middle East editor:

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-war-gaza-israel-bia...
A guide to the "platonic ideal" of a Negroni and other handy tips
And if your phone gets lost or stolen in the middle of your international journey...
The End of Roadside Attractions
> United States currently deports visa holders for criticizing a foreign Jewish country

We’re deporting people for any and no reason, including a tattoo of “an autism awareness ribbon” [1].

Trump was elected to stop illegal immigration. He’s staffed his White House with idiot sycophants, however, and so can’t actually do that because it’s hard. So we get random deportations to make the numbers while the gangs probably have the freest reign they’ve ever had amidst the confusion at the FBI and in D.C.

[1] https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2025/03/31/venezuel...
> (it's also very weird they don't have their equivalent of Homer or Gilgamesh)

i'm not sure if this is the case or not but if it is lack of evidence may not be evidence of a lack! they may have done and it may have not been transmitted to us
I think they're just throwing answers out they would find plausible.

They are not reflected by reality. (i.e. from inside, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pun18bi_0-g)
> The calculator did not erase math wizards

But it did. Quick, what's 67 * 49? A math wiz would furrow their brow for a second and be able to spit out an answer, while the rest of us have to pull out a calculator. When you're doing business in person and have to move numbers around, having to stop and use a calculator slows you down. If you don't have a role where that's useful then it's not a needed skill and you don't notice it's missing, like riding s horse, but doesn't mean the skill itself wouldn't be useful to have.
You lose consciousness for a few hours every night. If you've ever been put out for surgery the effect is even stronger. If someone could copy you when you were out, are you sure you'd have any idea it occurred? Could you prove you're not the copy? What if we're in that uploaded world now, would you be able to tell?
They do though— it's mostly because the pros aren't terribly good either. If your standards are "the top 0.001%"
of graphic and web design then yeah, AI designs aren't on the level. But if your standards are simply as good or better than your typical professional design consulting firm then AI is knocking it out of the park.
Just like IBM on "IBM and the Holocaust" (a must read). A genocide being supported by the US companies / media just in front of our noses.
Matt Cutts went from Google to the US Digital Service and did some amazing work. Maybe he’s an outlier, but I don’t think so. There are a lot of supremely talented people willing to take a massive pay cut to do good, meaningful work.
s/why there aren't/whether there are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pun18bi_0-g
Yes but only for the sake of the business conducted in that jurisdiction. The GDPR, according to the EU, applies to anybody anywhere in the world. You can have information on an EU citizen stored outside of the EU and they can fine you under GDPR. You don't even need to have ever been to an EU member state at any point in your life-they still claim to have jurisdiction over you if you have information stored on a computer they want deleted.

Most foreign extradition courts would laugh in their face for trying to use that, but if you have any assets in the EU (as most corporations inevitably will if they get big enough to go international) they can seize those as punishment for not following EU laws related to business conducted outside of the EU and that goes back to what OP tried to argue:

>if they don't break the law there's no way for the EU to collect the money

they actually can, because they can say you broke their law while conducting business outside of their jurisdiction that wasn't even illegal in the coutnry that actually had jurisdiction over that transaction.
Reproducible builds can improve software quality.

If we believe we have a reproducible build, that's constitutes a big test case which gives us confidence in the determininism of the whole software stack.

To validate that test case, we actually have to repeat the build a number of times.

If we spot a difference, something is wrong.

For instance, suppose that a compiler being used has a bug whereby it is relying on the value of an unitialized variable somewhere. That could show up as a difference in the code it generates.

Without reproducible builds, of course there are always differences in the results of a build: we cannot use repeated builds to discover that something is wrong.

(People do diffs between irreproducible builds anyway. For instance, disassemble the old and new binaries, and do a textual diff, validating that only some expected changes are present, like string literals that have embedded build dates. If you have reproducible builds, you don't have to do that kind of thing to detect a change.

Reproducible builds will strengthen the toolchains and surrounding utilities. They will flush out instabilities in build systems, like parallel Makefiles with race conditions, or indeterminate orders of object files going into a link job, etc.
> There is a big difference in ergonomics between String interpolation and something like fmt.Sprintf

On the other hand, there’s a difference in localizability as well: the latter is localizable, the former isn’t. (It also worries me that I see no substantive discussion of localization in PEP 750.)
Procreate is also owned by Apple, who is definitely not taking that position. Not saying both can't be true, but if a strong anti-AI stance is what you seek--I would be worried.
speaking as someone who gets a lot of their posts flagged (to the annoyance of dang), a less-inflammatory headline can be less satisfying but a post that isn't flagged will get a lot more traffic than one that is flagged
It doesn't matter if they're citizens or not if the government is skipping court thus not being required to prove it either way. Then when they oopsie you to another country they have to at least try to pretend to get you back but the courts need to show "deference owed to the executive branch in the conduct of foreign affairs".

Which is a long way of saying the executive can blackhole anyone it wants to a foreign country and no one is going to do anything because god forbid we step on the executive's role to give up people in our country to other countries.
Same. I gave up on netflix and just use Plex. Usually, I use this app on Android TV to play my plex library https://www.quasitv.app.

Sooo much better.
A neat use case for cloning is not truly duplicating a machine, but moving it from one machine that will go off to another one.

There's caveats in the network though, as packets targeting the old address need to be re-routed until all connections target the new machine.
This is something that a small LLM handles quite well. I’m using one to normalize MTA delay reports so I can aggregate stuff in a sane way.
>Meta’s Director of Public Policy for Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, Jordana Cutler, has also intervened to investigate pro-Palestine content. Cutler is a former senior Israeli government official and advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Concerning...as another billionaire would say
There were scenes from Black Panther in which Shuri drives a car in Korea remotely from Wakanda. I thought, wow, she can do that from thousands of km away with zero latency! They must have super advanced tech to have solved the network latency problem.
The new image generation released two weeks ago or so is a massive improvement, doesn't look like typical AI slop.

Everyone in these threads that dismisses AI needs to remember 5 years ago we didn't have somewhat human level intelligence that we could command to complete tasks in 30 seconds. There are a lot of cases where it fails right now, but imagine what it's going to look like in 5 or 10 more years. I think it's good to at least play around with it (prompt experimenting) to see what it can do, because your competitors, coworkers, etc are going to do that and get ahead whether you like it or not.
Stop using e for compound interest
"Please download and install the DarkMirror app to proceed to your booked destination, thank you"
Really? How often are blonde-haired men referred to as "blondes" vs women, and if you really feel the need to use "blonde" as your adjective, but insist it's a sexless "person", then how about "blonde engineer" instead of "blonde dancer"?!

I've got nothing against blonde dancers, and am far from politically correct myself, but in a scientific article about language and Bonobos, couldn't they have chosen a more appropriate example such as "yellow banana"?
The greatest reason they need to use contractors in general, not just "consultants," is that hiring a civil servant is opening a position forever. The federal government certainly can downsize, as we're seeing now, but they rarely do, and they don't hire people for six-month contracts. They hire them permanently, and would then need to go through a layoff process to reduce staff.

So if they have a project that needs 100 people to do and is expected to take two years, they have two choices. Hire 100 people, hoping you can find something else for them to do in two years, or you can offer a two-year contract to a private company, letting them deal with the problem of figuring out what to do with the 100 people once the project is completed.

The contraints of the GS pay scale aren't real constraints. The federal government already has special bonuses paid to medical doctors to make their pay commensurate with rates in private industry, in spite of the fact that those rates are way the hell higher than anything on the GS scale. They could easily do the same for engineering labor. What they can't easily do is hire people for six months guaranteed with only conditional renewals after that, because very few people would agree to that unless you're paying them far more than they'd get in normal industry.
Best part of 20 years ago, which is a long time in anything, it's a lifetime in tech.
About 15 years ago I used to work on some projects for greater London authority, we seemed to mostly be squatting on transport for London servers and they seemed to have good tech and people seemed to like using it. 5 years later they couldn't get away fast enough.
They /require/ it?
Not buying it.
oh man, idk if you've ever been to the metropolitan museum of art in NYC, but they have dozens, maybe even hundreds, of dead bodies that were removed from their burial sites without consulting any next-of-kin (not that you'd be able to figure out who that is) on display in glass cases. But apparently its alright since nobody's left to argue on behalf of whatever pagan religion or cult they participated in.
I use nix package manager on 3 of the systems I'm working daily (one of them HPC cluster) and none of them run NixOS. It's possible to carefully sculpt one's tools and use latest and greatest.
GPUs are just mitochondria that were absorbed into general purpose computers after evolving from early game consoles
They have released this data for at least ten years at this point. That's one of the sources the Human Rights group used.
> When an unexpected state is encountered, instead of either killing the entire process or trying to proceed and risking corruption, you just roll back to a known good state, at the most granular level possible.

> but only Erlang/BEAM made it a first-class concept in a production system.

Exceptions?
To be clear, under 50% of those who voted, but a plurality and enough to win in the electoral college.
It's easier to get a work visa or employment based permanent residency in most EU countries than in the US. Partly because there are no quotas for higher-end work visas or permanent residency permits. And partly because the EU does not have a large number of illegal immigrants available for lower-end jobs.

Imagine that H-1Bs would be available in unlimited quantities any time of the year, as long as you meet the minimum requirements. And that the H-1B would be extended to a green card after a few years, assuming the authorities don't find anything too bad in the background checks. That's how it works in the EU.

European countries are generally more protectionist about working class jobs than professional jobs. If you have the education, skills, and experience, they assume that your presence would be good for the economy. And the citizens don't really complain. I guess a major reason is that the primary identities are national, while legal rights are EU-wide. If there are already hundreds of millions of foreigners who could apply for the same jobs, who cares about a small number of additional immigrants.
Thank you, I actually am aware of the post and follow all the projects with hope they succeed.
> This finding doesn’t mean that bonobos have language, though, because language is the human communication system

I hate this attitude.

Also, I'm curious how advances in AI will shape our empathy towards animals.
> opposition party has no power in the US, as designed explicitly

The Republicans have shown this to be superbly untrue when they were in the opposition.

The Senate should be hellbent on delaying and disrupting. The House should be constantly throwing a spanner in everything.

Governors? Arrest the DOGE kids for breaking state law. Arrest the ICE agents defying court orders. They’ll be released, eventually. But you’ll buy time until the midterms. Ban Tesla FSD and promise to pardon people who non-violently cross the line. Ban the law firms who struck deals with Trump from state business for 20 years. Fight like the Republicans do; laws and republics don’t survive if the side defending them lays down its arms.
One of those rare occasions where I can't possibly just salute an excellent comment with a mere upvote. Superbly balanced effort, each bullet point equally devastating and perfectly expressed.
Private military contractor.
I agree.

Especially when reading Rust or C++.

That's code I would prefer to have generated for me as needed in many cases, I'm generally not that interested in manually filling in all the details.

Whatever it is, it hasn't been created yet.
Humans across cultures and historical periods conceptualize relationships
I agree that NixOS/nixpkgs would not be a good a basis for comparison. Do you have an opinion about the use of nix by app devs to specify their builds, i.e. as a make alternative, not as a Fedora alternative?

Quoting the article:

> Irreproducible bits in packages are quite often "caused by an error or sloppiness in the code". For example, dependence on hardware architecture in architecture-independent (noarch) packages is "almost always unwanted and/or a bug", and reproducibility tests can uncover those bugs.

This is the sort of thing that nix is good at guarding against, and it's convenient that it doesn't require users to engage with the underlying toolchain if they're unfamiliar with it.

For instance I can use the command below to build helix at a certain commit without even knowing that it's a rust package. Although it doesn't guarantee all aspects of repeatability, it will fail if the build depends on any bits for which a hash is not known ahead of time, which gets you half way there I think.

nix build github:helix-editor/helix/340934db92aea902a61b9f79b9e6f4bd15111044

Used in this way, can nix help Fedora's reproducibility efforts? Or does it appear to Fedora as a superfluous layer to be stripped away so that they can plug into cargo more directly?
The supply chain attacks you have to most worry about are not someone breaking into Fedora build machines.

It's the attacks on the upstream packages themselves.

Reproducible builds would absolutely not catch a situation like the XZ package being compromised a year ago, due to the project merging a contribution from a malicious actor.

A downstream package system or OS distro will just take that malicious update and spin it into a beautifully reproducing build.
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Nope, there's no forwarding either direction.
I've been working on https://joni-on-micro.site - which is hosted on an ESP32-S3 using the built-in esp-httpd, with Hugo for static site generation. This is the first time I'm posting it publicly, so I'm interested to see if it'll stay up.

I love the idea of a website with constraints that users can feel - and if I ever get too many concurrent visitors, I'll naturally stop serving requests.

(Still has some AI-generated content as filler - when I'm done, it'll be strictly human-only content)
This is close to what I wrote myself, but the problem here isn't being able to fire people because they underperformed. The problem is what to do about temporary jobs that finish. They performed exactly as expected, maybe even exceeded expectations, but when the work is finished, you still need to get rid of the position, and they can't do that with permanent civil servants.
Well it’s a bit of a chicken or the egg situation right?
None of those issues will get better if no one uses it.
It's easy to destroy things - especially when no heed is paid to laws or down stream effects.

I mean, carpet bombing New York City would demonstrate "incredible efficiency" - as it would probably take much less time than demolishing a single building in the city following the laws.
I'm curious what factors might cause the job start time to drift? Isn't this a coordination problem? You want all of you employees to start at the same time, so the assembly line can keep operating. All the kids start school at the same time, so they can all be instructed at the same time.
In US engineering practice, "I-beam" shapes are usually W's not I's. W is for wide-flange. The W's are more efficient than the I's because the flanges are wider...to the point that I's are a specialty shape with specialty shape costs...at least in terms of availability/lead-time when structural steel is sold by the ton and probably a mark-up due to non-commodity status.
hahahaha, yeah the RX450h is soulless

You're more of a car guy than me
This is an interesting suggestion. I'm curious what you mean by "sending grad students to top universities":
1.) the target universities have to accept the students, right?
2.) This implies some top-level RTS-game-esque control of the grad students when, in reality, they're making independent choices (albeit influenced by many factors, including govt promotion)
3.) Seems like the rational decision for ambitious grad students is to apply to said top universities (which may just happen to be abroad).

Same for "bringing many of them back": I read it at first like it was akin to some sort of spy agent network when in reality "bringing back" probably means various incentives, not some forced thing. Carrot, instead of stick.
Ahh, that‘s why university presidents were fired because they allowed students to protest against Israel‘s war crimes in Palestine? But no Meta employee is fired for suppressing criticism of war crimes?
I really wonder if that's a misquote or poor paraphrase. It's not in quotation marks.

> This finding doesn’t mean that bonobos have language, though, because language is the human communication system, says Berthet. “But we’re showing that they have a very complex communication system that shares parallels with human language.”
I'm writing a package called rixpress that leverages Nix to build reproducible pipelines with targets in either R or Python

Here's the github to the package https://github.com/b-rodrigues/rixpress/tree/master

and here's an example pipeline https://github.com/b-rodrigues/rixpress_demos/tree/master/py...
I think this idea applies beyond VIM and to text-based highly configurable tooling in general.

I'm a vim/tmux guy, and have been enamored with the new workflows possible with LLMs.

From the get-go, you can do things like:

`llm "Why is this build error happening? $(cargo build 2>&1)"`

It can write itself scripts and configs to trivially accomplish integrations:

`llm "Give me a new wrapper script for launching vim that uses the name of the current tmux window for its socket. Add an executable python script to ~/lib/llm/context/vim that uses the socket with the name of the current tmux window to dump all open buffers with headers indicating file name. Add another script to ~/lib/llm/context/tmux that dumps tmux pane scrollbacks with headers indicating pane numbers."`

Now you have a really useful coding assistant with minimal work:

`llm --context=vim,tmux 'tell me why I'm getting this compilation error'`

I had it build itself a tool to apply diffs to my files, so I can do:

`llm --continue --tool-cfg=editing 'Go ahead and fix that compilation error'`

I can have it build itself new tools.

`llm --tool-cfg=editing --context=toolbuilding 'Add a new toolset in ~/lib/llm_tools for running queries on the OpenSearch database running on localhost. One tool should dump the schema. Another should allow searching. Call the toolset config opensearch.yml. Write the backing script in python. Assume no auth necessary.'`

Now I'm able to use it:

`llm --tool-cfg=opensearch 'Are there any new records added to the incidents listings since yesterday?'`

llms aren't very good at solving novel problems in large-scale code-bases, so I'm not worried about them coming for my job, but they have made the annoying part of setting up my environment much easier! You still need to know how everything works so you can debug when it misses, but the quality of my dev tooling is now top-shelf and well customized to my projects with minimal investment.
I'm still waiting for that inkjet printer that can print transistors.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01391-2
> fresh perspective, embracing server-driven architecture

This is not fresh perspective. I used to be on "team everything on server" but it's a mistake on insist on that today.
I really like this book and while not catholic I'm close enough that the experiences and decisions of the characters are comprehensible to me, which probably helps.

The article mentions this briefly but many don't, and they downplay it significantly even here. The first act of this book is extremely homoerotic. Like it is a clear depiction of a chaste but certainly romantic love between these two young men. But it is also a friendship based on normal-for-the-time-and-place male camaraderie and college antics.

It's a nuanced and sophisticated depiction, not apparently trying to make any moral or ethical point about it and the book has a small but devoted following among contemporary gay men for this. Nor is this even plausibly deniable as a "sappho and her friend" type accident on the author's part, since homosexuality is pretty explicitly (though euphemistically) referenced elsewhere in the book. IMO one of the best depictions of a romance of its kind in modern literature. It's fascinating that it's here.
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As a recent example, the instagram of guardian journalist Owen jones (well known Israel critic) was suddenly suspended without any explanation today.

It has been since restored, after a predictable twitter storm.
sigh 1379 days...

It is scary that this could be used for... nearly anything? "Omg I am oppressed because this person has rights". Someone bad that someone else got a promotion and just looking for a "justifiable" reason to be upset that removes any personal responsibility or an easy explanation of "why".

I honestly don't even know how to respond to this anymore.

I feel like we are weeks away from Trump trying to actually make an official religion or some other crap like that.
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The real treasure was the friend I found along the way

https://github.com/keszybz/add-determinism
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