CurtHagenlocher

I do not understand why we have not long ago adopted a national ID. This could be used for voting, for validating work eligibility, for potentially reducing whatever Medicare/Social Security fraud might actually exist, etc. Concerns for elderly, poor and otherwise disadvantaged people could be addressed by a relatively small amount of money to help those people acquire an ID. We would be lightyears better off than the current patchwork system of insecure social security cards, state driver's licenses, birth certificates and passports.

I can only conclude that there are too many people benefitting from the current stupid situation.

I'm pretty sure that's part of the point.

I can see how this might be surprising for people, but it's also basically how email has always worked -- so it's a bit weird to ding Gmail for it. The address book would need to have two entries for names: one for you to type as a shortcut, and one to put on the outgoing message.

With respect to DeepSeek, I assume you mean the relatively-low cost at which it was allegedly trained? Because the model itself can obviously be downloaded and tested directly.

This strikes me as an odd take. Reddit is a platform that allows users to create and moderate forums. Reddit as a platform isn't blocking anything. Individual forum moderators have always had the ability to delete posts for any reason they like. People who don't like the moderation being done in /r/reallyreallycutecats always have the ability to create a new forum /r/reallyreallycutecatsontwitter.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42666776

In an environment where everyone is quick to point their finger at their favorite villain -- whether that's "wokeness" or climate change or whatever -- I'm happy to finally read something which aligns with my biases.

This change is no less "virtue signaling" than the previous policy; it's just signaling to a different audience.

Is anyone else reporting this, or is there a link to the purported document which doesn't require supplying an email address to The Intercept?

This doesn't seem very consistent with what we know about Luigi. I can't find a Monterey within a four-hour drive of Maryland that's likely to have an aquarium; it looks like his mother now runs a boutique travel agency in a way that doesn't seem consistent with this description; and in general he seems to have grown up with affluence that's not reflected here.

It wasn't always as partisan in the United States as it is now. It's likely there are multiple reasons for this, but I think one that's underappreciated is that the actions available to us today for slowing or stopping climate change are basically limited to reducing consumption in general and energy consumption in particular -- and that these happen to align with preexisting policy preferences of some on the "left". Additionally, industries focused on carbon extraction have long been aligned in the US with the Republican party and these industries would feel the greatest sting from efforts to reduce consumption.

Over the past two decades, the dialog has shifted a bit along lines like "the Earth isn't getting warmer, and if it is then it's not humans that are responsible and if they are then we can't do anything about it anyway" which feels to me like the "truth" being projected is whatever doesn't require any action. Human nature being what it is, it's debatable whether any effort aimed at changing people's behavior could ever be successful, and trying to make them feel bad about it may even be counterproductive.

On the whole (and echoing another comment), you're not likely to get reliable information about climate change from any generalist source of information. Every time there's a slightly unusual weather event, there are a brigade of voices trying to tie it to climate change. Actual researchers understand that you simply can't ascribe individual events in that fashion; the best you can do is to look at trends and try honestly to look at all possible factors for them. Forest fires are in the US seem to be getting worse, and it's probable that some amount of that is a direct or indirect result of climate change. But there have also been a lot of changes in forestry management over the last century, and an increase in the number of people living in affected areas -- and both of these clearly have some role in our perception too.

So basically "X" has pivoted: they can't make money by selling something customers want to buy, so they'll spread misinformation with the goal of reducing Elon's tax bill instead.

I think a better explanation for it being out of the news cycle is that it's no longer news, and that there has been no additional information learned since the first 24 hours or so -- other than the Secret Service director resigning, which was briefly news.

Like the public that watches it, "the news" has the attention span of a gnat.

"Liquid Clustering" from Databricks also uses Hilbert curves.

Maybe I'm missing something, but why would a list like this be stored in Okta vs Twitter itself? Seems sketchy from a purely mechanical standpoint.

Tangentially, I find it especially important to question evidence which so easily confirms my preexisting biases.

Pete Buttigieg: "We've made it way too complicated; it's super simple. These are very rich men who have decided to back the Republican Party who tends to do good things for very rich men."

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> Maybe they have a DEI engineer that did this

Can confirm that as an upper-middle class heterosexual cisgender white man I have never dereferenced memory through an invalid pointer. That's just part of my "PRIVLIDGED".

I'm not aware that Microsoft has a "return-to-office" mandate. Maybe that's only for some employees? I know quite a few people on product teams who are 100% remote.

You can see additional papers from the same group at https://umbra-db.com/#publications

UPDATE player set name = 'Stonebraker' where name = 'Stonebreaker'

What am I missing? This seems to be a statistical analysis reporting apparent lack of bias rather than a declaration of intent to pay white employees less. The difference seems well within a margin of error.

Disclosure: I am a Microsoft employee. Also, "white".

I've implemented Delta support from scratch for a component of Microsoft Fabric, and my feeling is that the "spec" is fairly inadequate without additional experimentation on the Spark implementation. It also requires you to be able to support Spark SQL expressions if you want to make use of features like computed columns and check constraints, and those are even more-poorly documented.

(no more, I suppose, than it astounds me that "media" think it's actually worthwhile reporting on "news" like this)

It astounds me that so many rich people seem to think that they have a right to other people's money; that someone choosing not to do business with them is akin to a moral offense.

Maybe this is a (failed?) supply chain attack of some kind? But it seems more likely that the domain registration expired and was quickly renewed but that existing DNS records got wiped.

I'm sure I'm not the only person impacted by CI scripts which are now failing...

Seems to be a DNS problem. WHOIS shows a change to the registration earlier today.

I knew someone who worked on the Windows kernel in the "aughts". Apparently, Dave Cutler was still looking at kernel code reviews back then, and could be quite unsparing in his feedback.

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam.

The article does mention the excellent People Make Games documentary, though is somewhat dismissive of it. And of course, it could be true both that Kurvitz is an asshole who was very hard on his coworkers and that he was robbed.

Yes, as opposed to rich investors like Marc Andreessen who really are very smart and certainly don't "work through a screen and are totally abstracted from tangible physical reality and the real-world consequences of their opinions and beliefs."