skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In the Pelosis' circumstance, clearly their repeated actions of such trades and their connection to the timing of key legislation or lawsuits requires no further proof, given their long history of this front-running such that other congressmen and women are doing the same thing believing they can get away with the insider trading loophole.

Claiming this happens, no matter how many times you repeat it (without evidence) does not mean it happens.

Clearly, Your repeated denial of fact implies that it is instead _you_ are trading on insider information. The evidence is all right there. You should be locked up.

>it is quite obvious to see how one can repeatedly front-run legislation ahead of everyone else and outperform the market

Yes, by doing exactly what the the Pelosis and many of us did in the same time period: invest heavily in tech.
I have have about double the rate of return since 2020 than the Pelosis. Many of my moves independently mimic theirs. I personally got out of Visa in Spring of 2024, also in favor of NVDA. Am I insider trading?
Why are flutter careers dead?
It's interesting, in San Francisco, the streetcars got too heavy for the old tracks so they replaced them with about 4 feet deep of concrete. That is actual infrastructure and not "fake". (along with all the stops and handicap ramps and etc. obviously, a paved street is going to exist either way.)

Bribes and the mafia may have been a factor[0], but that's how American cities do things.

[0] eg. https://www2.startribune.com/streetcars-buses-minneapolis-st...
What the fuck are we using these things for? Are they a toy to argue about the culture war or are they serious tools for getting work done.

And like, if you’re really maximum truth seeking, there are no “sides”, there’s just ideas and nuance. But “both sides” is an extremely problematic place to start if only because of the false dilema cognitive fallacy. It leads me to believe Mark Zuckerberg is not a serious person who is doing this purely for political reasons.
As an American, do I imagine nature before or after Trump clear cuts the trees in our national forests?
Regular LLMs are quite bad at it (see simonwillison's blog post). However this paper [0] describes an apparently sound approach using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), however their github repo [1] has been "code coming soon!" for months now, so you can't really use it.

0 - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.03992

1 - https://github.com/SagiPolaczek/NeuralSVG
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-025-02865-1 (paywalled) and https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384256048_Shape-Rec...

I don't know how the popular mechanics author came to the conclusion they did; the paper says nothing about breaking any laws of thermodynamics.
Paris is not a city of 10 millions, it has only two million habitants. And cars are not reserved to rich people, why would they be? I grew up in Paris, my parents weren't rich, we were living in public housing and we had a car.

Families are not second-tier citizens, and currently the public transports are not suited for them. On top of the other problems, such as the pleasure of having to deal with crackheads and various homeless people in the metro when you have a baby.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Paris
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Supported features:

Creating and running JVM, Android, iOS, Linux, and macOS applications.

Creating Kotlin Multiplatform libraries.

Running tests.

Mixing Kotlin, Java and Swift code.

Code assistance for module files in IntelliJ IDEA and Fleet.

Multi-module projects.

Using Compose Multiplatform.

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Integration with Gradle version catalogs.

Gradle interop, including combining Amper and Gradle modules in one project.

Gradle-compatible project layout for the smooth migration of existing Gradle projects.

* only in Gradle-based projects
Defense Department scraps $5.1B worth of technology and consulting contracts
Which typescript features are improving runtime validation?
>, but if there were batteries inside, those weren't Swiss mechanical movements

Yes. The Cartier Tank watch is mechanical. I just lumped in the other nice jewelry watches with batteries to talk about them as a group because they've all been eliminated from her mindset.

>Also, I think the cheap product winning is pretty typical.

When I wrote "replace", I didn't mean in terms of sales. It was more about the cheaper product replacing the previous thinking in the mind about the old product.

For example, she used to color-coordinate the different jewelry watches with different outfits... If it's a blue outfit, wear the stainless steel watch ... if it's this other dress, wear the gold watch with black face. If the shirt has starfish, wear the seashell theme watch. That whole ritual is eliminated. (I guess one could also change watch bands on Apple Watches for different occasions but she doesn't bother with it. Maybe because arthritis makes it hard to squeeze the band's release mechanism.)

The new Apple Watch alters the psychological relationship with the previous jewelry watches so thoroughly that it makes her impervious to gp's praise such as, "Vacheron-Constantin [...], it will still be a testimony of the refinement and engineering of a fine craft that few can achieve, [...] you'll be very lucky if your Casio can last as long. Your mass commoditised Apple watch will likely be worthless."

Her comeback to the gp's "timeless" qualities is that she likes lifting the Apple Watch to her face and asking, "Hey Siri, how many inches is 5 centimeters? (when sewing clothes) ... Or how many cups in a liter? (when cooking from a recipe with metric quantities)." She thinks it's a miracle that a little watch can understand her voice and give her answers. Yes, everybody at HN is jaded and we all know Apple's Siri is the worst voice assistant technology out there but yet she loves it. If that means it's wearing a mass-produced watch that nobody cares about in 200 years after she's buried in the ground, that doesn't matter at all. Her "dressy watches" phase is over.

That's the type of rare product replacement situation I'm talking about. Usually, the opposite happens: we all get on some hedonistic treadmill with various consumer products and the next better thing we desire is more expensive. In the 1980s, CDs were actually 2x more expensive than vinyl records and cassette tapes. Vinyl was about $6.99. CDs were $15.99+. It took over 10 years for CDs to gradually lower in price such that Walmart was selling them for less than $10. The new CD players themselves were about $1000 in 1980s. Record players were $100.
Technically correct, but you are being pedantic.

It was pretty clear to me that the 3rd sense of "digital" pertains to modern-ish electronic digital computers. I would not call mechanical calculator, human or hydraulic logic "digital computer". (Relay computer is on the fence)
I'd be very interested in how to replicate parsing like this. Slow typescript inference has stalled my own exploration into things like this.
Leaking is vague. What part of what law?
It’s all by design. Car dependent suburbs with no transit access make it easier to keep “undesirables” out of your neck of the woods.

Robert Moses infamously made great use of infrastructure and urban planning to reinforce redlining.
Is there hard evidence of this beyond random anecdotes? Genuinely curious as I haven't visited there.
Private cars are an economic sinkhole. They make no financial sense. My town in the exurbs used to have rail service and stagecoaches. The necessity of private cars is a marketing triumph. Not a choice.
Netherlands have as many cars as most the developed nations.
Interesting, do you have any examples for that? I haven't used WebSockets in such a context yet but was always curious how it would be exposed to the application servers.
Yes battery is definitely a limitation. I’m able to get 15-16 hours on my Series 7 between charges. That works for me because I just charge it when I shower and it takes no time.

I wonder if for your use case a Watch Ultra might work better? It has a bigger battery.

That said, I agree with you that the battery could be better. Other smart watches have battery lives measured in days. (That said, they also do less)
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The citation is every American transit system in the 1950s. Even SF only kept the streetcars where they couldn't replace with a bus line.

I think you're making a different argument, where trains attract a more well-heeled commuter. Which is why many cities have brought back LRT as part of a redevelopment plan.
Yup. It seems like they're chasing diminishing returns, attempting to elicit smarter responses by feeding in more context. But many times I don't want a contextual tool, I want a more or less deterministic one I can iterate with.
Curious if this was forced on Google Cloud by Sundar, or was it something that Google Cloud as an org wanted to do?

At first glance, it seems Google Cloud might lose some revenue from customers who can now deploy Gemini in-house. On the other hand, it's not a complete loss, since presumably Google Cloud is still involved in providing some underlying tech? Not to mention, some customers would never consider using off-premises setup anyway.
Cory Doctorow has commentary at [1].

[1] Blue Cross of Louisiana doesn't give a shit about breast cancer - https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/12/pre-authorization/
Here's an alternate source,

https://www.flyingmag.com/china-approves-passenger-operation... ("China Approves Passenger Operations With Self-Flying Electric Aircraft")

With some clearer wording on what's been approved so far,

- "Early EH216-S operations will come with heavy limitations, which EHang said it aims to lift in phases. For example, flights are restricted to Guangzhou and Hefei and must land where they lifted off[...] In other words, the EH216-S is approved for applications like out-and-back aerial tourism but not air taxi services in cities."

(I don't want to derail this thread too strongly, but the current source looks very much like AI slop. The text is egregiously LLM, and, if you zoom in [0] on the people in the backgrounds of the photos, there's some Lovecraftian horror going on with those faces!)

[0] https://engineerine.com/wp-content/webp-express/webp-images/...
I'd be shocked if X is not training AI models with every bit of user data that has ever touched the company's servers.

I'd be as shocked as Captain Renault in Casablanca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
> but not worth it if you have other better job options

Pretty much any service job, really...

When I had occasion to take a ride share in Phoenix I'd interrogate the driver about how much they were getting paid because I drove cabs for years and knew how much I would have gotten paid for the same trip.

Let's just say they were getting paid significantly less than I used to for the same work. If you calculated in the expenses of maintaining a car vs. leasing a cab I expect the difference is even greater.

There were a few times where I had just enough money to take public transportation down to get a cab and then snag a couple cash calls to be able to put gas in the car and eat. Then I could start working on paying off the lease and go home at the end of the day with some cash in my pocket -- there were times (not counting when the Super Bowl was in town) where I made my rent in a single day.
That is begging the question. The question is not "Why are some people poor" that is the default state of humanity, and has been for the past 100,000 years Homo Sapiens have existed. The question is what are the succesful doing right. It is not because of "hoarding wealth infinitely" that a doctor has more money saved up than someone addicted to drugs and living on the street. It is their decisions that lead to their current circumstances. The doctor spending a decade in medical school and residency has delayed a lot of gratification getting their, while the drug addict likely had some issues with impulse control or delayed gratification.
It is common for electric cars to use harder rubber compounds in their tires. Not because of particulates, but because tire noise is particularly noticeable in an otherwise quiet electric car, and because tire life is a concern for EV drivers.

Luckily, both reduced noise and increased life are fairly well correlated with reduced particulate emission.
approach is similar, but it works better; it can run non-stop for minutes and really get the task done.

Its whole project understanding is a lot better.

It has great tool usage; I mean CLI.

There was a project I just would like to create as Vibe Coding, but Claude was not able to complete. Junie fixed it with a single prompt.
The prices of cars have “skyrocketed” because the price is now closer to what they actually cost. Meaning, less is being externalized.

Cars are inequality-creators because the drivers offload the cost to everyone, including those who don’t drive. Car centric decisions, air pollution, interstates and freeways, parking lots.

It’s very much akin to tobacco. Tobacco used to be cheap - when the tobacco wouldn’t pay for your addiction, or your COPD, or your eventual death. Now they do - a tiny bit - and tobacco is expensive.
Great! This could serve as an easy introduction for users new to Elisp.
>A lack of foresight is also very human.

Let's call it what it really is. The stubborn unwillingness to consider scalability in our designs and planning — even in an era where a machine can do calculation for us.
One of the best things about score voting is that it eliminates primaries. Each party just runs all of their candidates in the general election, and then the voters decide who is the best one.

PR puts the party instead of the voters in control of who gets the seats or otherwise requires the voters to support a party when they want to support a specific candidate.

Score voting also thwarts gerrymandering because you can't make two 55% districts for your party and one 90% district for the other party or the districts for "your" party would go to a moderate party instead.
What are you advocating for? Zero external dependencies? Write a new YAML parser from scratch? Rolling your own crypto?
Did you study anything from there (and can provide references) or just use your imagination?

KGB failed to prevent catastrophic dissolution of USSR and you suggest that they are some sort of masterminds who excelled in propaganda. That’s quite an exaggeration. Since 1990s both the West and Russia have lost their expertise in each other’s affairs. Russia may still have some influence in Central and Eastern Europe, but their conservative ideological drift limits significantly what they can achieve. A lot of local political mess there is basically local politicians shooting in the leg.
Either have a Bill of Rights or a king. These are mutually exclusive.
Spectre and Meltdown exploits stopped working, too. Some of them on some CPUs, anyway.
Easy. Think specialist equipment: a nice high-speed factory machine to put caps on bottles may be more than $100K new, but I doubt you can give it away for free on craigslist. It is huge, heavy, and has no practical value outside of soft drink factory.

The old clocks are getting the same status: it's specialist equipment for very rare circumstances.
> Is making decisions the hardest thing in life for so many people?

Should I take this job or that one? Which college should I go to? Should I date this person or that one? Life has some really hard decisions you have to make, and that's just life. There are no wrong answers, but figuring out what to do and ruminating over it is comes to everyone at some point in their lives. You can ask ChatGPT to ask you the right questions you need asked in order to figure out what you really want to do. I don't know how to put a price on that, but that's worth way more than $20/month.
I've used this to succinctly define a Sierpinski carpet on Wikimedia Commons a while ago: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sierpinski_carpet_6....

That file was able to lock up or crash most SVG renderers back then.
Dijkstra would've (incorrectly) HATED vibe-coding
Yes, but they're used less frequently. Most middle class people have a car, but they're often only used for irregular trips. Commuting and errands use alternative means at much higher rates than elsewhere.
You’re being needlessly pedantic. Obviously, “computers” also has varied meanings. In this case, it is referring to systems built with discrete electronics and ICs. That is, its operation is based almost entirely on the manipulation of electrons and their associated fields.

Watches are nice because it’s much less common to have such tiny precise physical machines anymore, since so many of these use cases have been replaced by “computers”.
Both are official https://www.gov.uk/guidance/999-and-112-the-uks-national-eme...

112 was made official by EU in 1991 when GSM did not exit yet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/112_(emergency_telephone_num...
> ad nauseum

I disagree. Abusive relationships need constant call-out and their BlueSky post was exactly that, a reminder.

Just because your fed up with hearing it; I am not. It's a a real history to how they acted, got away and demonstrates that they would happily screw you again.

They are just another $corp who show no respect to their users, they've done it once, they will do it again. Let it be a count of permanent mark of how they treat their user-base.
Well this seems needlessly hostile.
> long build times, monomorphization

Monomorphization is what causes long build times, but it brings better performance than dynamic dispatch.

> lack of stability

There was another comment which also never elaborated on how Rust is not stable.

> supply chain issues

Not a language issue, you choose your dependencies.

> no proper standard, not enough different implementations

Is that a practical problem?

> no dynamic linking

There is.
Trump exempts smartphones, laptops, and semiconductors from new tariffs
I try to watch silent films, but I just don't like:

1. reading dialog cards, especially since I can lip read a bit and that's not what the characters are saying

2. the truly awful "period" music added

3. the grainy black and white

I've seen some work on the 1929 film "Wings" that was done in high def, sound effects were added, and some small colorization of scenes.

I'd like to take that further:

1. remove graininess and fuzziness with AI, and of course all scratches, etc.

2. add foley sound effects

3. replace dialog cards with dubbed dialog, lip read if possible

4. add a decent music sound track (Like what was done with "Metropolis")

5. colorize it!

These are all very doable today, as I've seen each done in a small way.

Why should we suffer all the limitations of silent movies? I just want to enjoy it, not suffer.
I live in Riga, here cyclists ride on the sidewalk, along with e-scooters. I went out for a ten minutes walk with my son, I had to physically and verbally intervene three times to avoid him being hit by a cyclist or e-scooter. Last month our nanny was hit by a cyclist. In Paris it is very common and the main reason they banned e-scooters.

So, while the US paradigm is toxic, I'm not convinced about the one you are proposing, given that, in my experience, cyclists are ruthless and never behave unless I physically intimidate them. And I would rather walk in peace.
It's not vague. I'm not a lawyer but usually cases of trading with insider information are taken very seriously. It's theft, basically. And the scale here is enormous.
Don't forget the most important scarce resource they require: space.
We waste so much space for parking and other car friendly infrastructure there often is not enough left for a a bike line or even a sidewalk let alone some actually pleasant peaceful passage people could use.
I think they’re pretty young too. Hoping for a bright future ahead of them!
I haven't set a definition and really don't intend to, only saying the line must be quite far from where you are drawing it.

Tying it to willingness to kill for some goal cannot be it -- not every soldier, cop, and security guard is insane. There has to be some degree of break from reality, not disagreement with societal opinions of morality. (And of course all societies do endorse violence -- from the proper authorities, and against the right targets).

Osama bin Laden was a religiously-driven warlord. But not only was he not insane, he was quite effective for quite some time, and had significant support from the societies he was part.

The Unabomber absolutely could plausibly be argued to be insane -- his attorneys certainly pushed for it (though he rejected that attempt). And the psychological experiments he participated in could certainly have contributed to such a break. Throw in the standard trope of living as a hermit in the woods with limited social contact (which can both be a result of insanity and decrease mental stability), and there's enough there not to reject the label. But his bombing campaign just makes him a criminal, a problem for society, not insane.
I'm not familiar with Rust or WebAssembly, but isn't Flutter more appropriate specifically for such applications?
They were already not getting past the first step before AI came along. If AI helps them get to step two, and then three and four, that seems like a good thing, no?
Voting machine integrity was litigated in the election trump lost. Fox, trump's propaganda organ, had to pay $781 million because they could not substantiate claims of electronic fraud. There are adversarial reviews of voting data at all levels, and audits done at the physical and electronic level. 60 lawsuits found no evidence of fraud. You can't just say, "I think this might have happened because it sounds sinister." There is a ton of legal, procedural, monitored, and reviewed data that overwhemingly makes the case that electronic voting fraud did not happen. If you have evidence to the contrary, present it. Otherwise, its just vibes.
Just one example. He required bridges be built too low for buses to pass, limiting access to parks and beaches to those who owned cars…

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-09/robert-mo...
Rounding Up Some Recent Copyright Decisions (2025-04-12)
The fact that she had batteries in those Cartier and Omega says a lot, and explains why the Apple watch had such an appeal.
Have you tried ‘combine’ from moreutils? I learned about it just the other day. Very convenient.
It’s enough of a pain in the ass to swap summer and winter tires, and that’s something that (some) people only do twice a year. I can’t imagine people wanting to swap battery packs (either themself or by making an appointment at a service center) before and after every long trip.
I’m saying ‘free speech is an obvious weakness’, not ‘we should disallow free speech’. Very different things.
https://www.mta.info/fares-tolls/tolls/congestion-relief-zon...

Pretty trivial to discount/exempt people as is done in NYC.

An even simpler starting point (which we should actually do for all road-related fees like tickets IMO) is to set fees by the KBB value of the vehicle in question. Let people contest them in court if they want.
We have cars here, but you're not dependent on them to get everywhere unless you live in the countryside (and even then, I knew plenty of kids who lived up in the North who biked 10+ km 1 way to school) or one of the super small cities where the sprinters are sparse. And isn't that the point most people make? It's not about complete eradication of cars, it's about having viable transport alternatives and the infrastructure to support those. It's just that we live in such a world where it's unthinkable to not have half our countries paved in asphalt to make sure cars can get places, so things like these always end up falling into a 2-sided extremist camp.
I wonder how many of these Casios and Apple watches will be in working order, and as functional as day one.