Florida Lawmakers Sound Alarm Over Plans 'To Send Pregnant Women and Children' to 'Alligator Alcatraz'
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 11745 |
Comments: 799
Florida Democratic lawmakers are protesting plans to detain immigrant children and pregnant women at a controversial facility dubbed 'Alligator Alcatraz' in the Everglades. The facility has raised humanitarian and environmental concerns, with reports of flooding and lack of transparency from authorities.
Key Points:
Democratic lawmakers oppose detaining pregnant women and children at 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Florida.
The facility is located in an environmentally sensitive area near tribal lands, sparking dual concerns.
Lawmakers were barred from inspecting the site, citing 'inhumane political theater.'
Flooding issues at the facility have heightened safety worries.
Final decisions on detainees rest with federal agencies, which have not yet responded publicly.
""This is totally un-American. We cannot be silent.""
Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces Bill To Tackle 'Weather Modification'
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 4923 |
Comments: 770
Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced a bill to criminalize 'weather modification,' targeting the alleged release of chemicals into the atmosphere to alter weather or climate. The bill mirrors a Florida law and is based on conspiracy theories about 'chemtrails,' which federal agencies have debunked as contrails from aircraft.
Key Points:
Marjorie Taylor Greene is introducing a bill to make 'weather modification' a felony, citing concerns over chemicals released into the atmosphere.
The bill aligns with a Florida law that penalizes unapproved cloud seeding and similar activities.
Conspiracy theories about 'chemtrails' claim they are used for weather control or mind control, but federal agencies like the EPA and NOAA deny these claims.
Greene has previously suggested the government could control weather, referencing Hurricane Helene in 2024.
At least eight states have introduced legislation related to 'chemtrails.'
"I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity. It will be a felony offense."
ICE Barbie Dodges Blame for Disastrous Texas Flooding on Trump’s Watch
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 2776 |
Comments: 212
The article discusses Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's defense of the Trump administration's handling of the delayed warnings during the Texas flash floods, blaming outdated technology and previous administrations. It also highlights the impact of budget cuts on the National Weather Service and NOAA, and the ongoing criticism of the administration's disaster response plans.
Key Points:
Kristi Noem defended the Trump administration's delayed flood warnings, citing outdated technology and blaming previous administrations.
Budget cuts to the National Weather Service and NOAA have led to staffing shortages, impacting their ability to operate effectively.
At least 47 people, including 15 children, died in the floods, with many still missing.
Trump plans to phase out FEMA and distribute disaster relief funds directly from the White House, raising concerns about future disaster response.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has requested federal assistance for recovery efforts despite previous confidence in state-level emergency management.
""The National Weather Service is putting together plans to really help with this short-term challenge of short-staffing. But that’s really what it is—it’s a Band-Aid on the short-term challenge of that short-staffing," meteorologist Brian LaMarre explained."
Trump cut funding for weather forecasters – now dozens have died in Texas floods
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 2729 |
Comments: 243
The article discusses how budget cuts to the National Weather Service and NOAA under Trump's administration, combined with lack of local funding for flood warnings, contributed to deadly flooding in Texas. At least 51 people, including 15 children, died, with many still missing.
Key Points:
Trump's administration cut funding for the National Weather Service and NOAA, impacting weather forecasting and emergency warnings.
At least 51 people, including 15 children, died in Texas floods, with many still missing.
Local taxpayers' unwillingness to fund a flood emergency warning system exacerbated the tragedy.
Meteorologists had warned about the risks posed by the budget cuts prior to the disaster.
The worst-affected area was Kerr County, where 43 people died and 27 girls from a summer camp are missing.
"Budget cuts to the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ordered by Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), combined with the unwillingness of local taxpayers to fund a flood emergency warning system, appear to have contributed to the appalling loss of life that occurred in the early hours of Friday morning."
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 1232 |
Comments: 275
The article discusses how AI-generated content and code are creating new problems, leading to a demand for professionals to fix these issues. Businesses rushing to adopt AI tools like ChatGPT often face unexpected costs and inefficiencies, highlighting the need for human oversight.
Key Points:
AI-generated content often lacks quality and requires extensive human revision, creating new job opportunities for writers like Sarah Skidd.
Businesses using AI for quick fixes, such as website code, often encounter crashes and security vulnerabilities, increasing costs and downtime.
Human oversight is essential to prevent reputational damage and unexpected liabilities caused by AI errors.
Some professionals are spending more time educating clients about the risks and limitations of AI tools.
Despite its pitfalls, AI can be transformative for individuals with disabilities, such as dyslexia.
""Human oversight is essential," he says. "We've seen companies generate low-quality website content or implement faulty code that breaks critical systems.""
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 328 |
Comments: 128
The author reflects on their habit of spending excessive time setting up and tweaking self-hosted services rather than actually using them. They describe a cycle of constant migration and redesign without practical benefit, questioning if others share this behavior.
Key Points:
The author spends more time configuring self-hosted services than using them.
They frequently migrate setups (e.g., Docker to Kubernetes) without necessity.
Projects like Nextcloud are set up perfectly but then neglected.
The author questions if others experience similar patterns of over-tinkering.
"I spend *way* more time setting up, tearing down, redesigning, and tinkering with my self-hosted services than I do actually using them."
The article introduces a tool called 'claude-auto-resume' that allows users to automate task continuation with Claude AI during off-hours by running a simple command. It humorously refers to this as 'poverty-powered productivity,' suggesting a way to maximize free usage.
Key Points:
Introduces 'claude-auto-resume' for automated task continuation with Claude AI.
Suggests leaving the machine on to auto-resume tasks when usage resets.
Promotes free productivity during sleep hours.
Links to a GitHub repository for the tool.
Uses the phrase 'poverty-powered productivity' to describe the approach.
"Free work during sleep hours. Poverty-powered productivity 😎🌙"
Security researcher exploits GitHub gotcha, gets admin access to all Istio repositories and more
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 98 |
Comments: 13
A security researcher, Sharon Brizinov, exploited a GitHub vulnerability by accessing archived commits containing sensitive data, including a token granting admin access to all Istio repositories. The issue stems from developers' inability to fully delete commits, leaving them accessible via their SHA1 hashes. GitHub recommends best practices and tools to prevent such leaks, but the process to fully remove compromised data is complex and requires support intervention.
Key Points:
Sharon Brizinov found a personal access token (PAT) in an archived commit, granting admin access to all Istio repositories.
GitHub's design preserves commit history, making it difficult to fully delete sensitive data once committed.
GH Archive records all public repository activity, making orphaned commits accessible to researchers or malicious actors.
GitHub suggests using pre-commit hooks and tools like git-secrets to prevent accidental leaks.
Revoking tokens and changing passwords immediately can mitigate the impact of leaked secrets.
"The commit can still be accessible directly via SHA1. Force push does not delete the commit, it creates a new one and moves the file pointer to it. To truly delete a commit you must delete the whole repo."
The San Francisco Bay Area shows exactly why we need Georgism.
Posted on r/georgism |
Score: 54 |
Comments: 4
The article argues that the San Francisco Bay Area exemplifies the need for Georgism, as the tech industry generates significant societal value, but most of it is captured by landowners due to prohibitively expensive housing. Proposition 13 exacerbates the issue by preventing property tax increases after initial purchase, making the housing market illiquid.
Key Points:
Tech industry in SFBA produces immense societal value, but landowners capture most of it.
Housing is prohibitively expensive, forcing many tech workers into low-quality living conditions.
Filebrowser (original): New release(s) from the past 25 days
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 51 |
Comments: 14
The Filebrowser project has released 20 updates in the past 25 days, emphasizing quality over quantity. The updates include bug fixes, new features like language translations, and improvements to Docker integration and security.
Key Points:
20 new releases in 25 days, showcasing active development.
Key updates include bug fixes, security improvements, and new features like Persian translation.
Enhanced Docker volumes and permissions for better usability.
Focus on quality and user experience despite rapid release cycle.
Removal of deprecated features like Microsoft Tiles and addition of new language support.
"we've been declared dead, but there's life in the old dog yet!"
Getting close to 100% task-success with Claude Code
Posted on r/ClaudeAI |
Score: 43 |
Comments: 9
The article details the author's journey from a 50% to a 95% task-success rate with Claude Code by refining their process. Key improvements included adding README and CLAUDE.md files, creating task-plan.md files for each feature, and developing a CLI tool called Backlog.md to automate task file generation. The author now uses a three-step loop involving task generation, planning, and implementation with Claude and Codex.
Key Points:
Initial bare prompts led to poor results, but adding README.md and CLAUDE.md files improved success to 50%.
Creating individual task-plan.md files for each feature increased success to 75% by enabling parallel work and better planning.
Developing Backlog.md, a CLI tool for automatic task file generation, boosted success to over 95%.
The author now uses a three-step loop: generate tasks, generate a plan, and implement with Claude/Codex.
Simple features can be managed entirely from a phone using ChatGPT and GitHub apps.
"Writing tasks in my own words forces the model to prove it understands me. Of course I need to spend some time checking each detail precisely but this is way better and faster than correcting some messy code."
AI Found Sperm Where Doctors Couldn’t: A Fertility Breakthrough
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 11 |
Comments: 9
Columbia University's AI system, STAR, adapted from astrophysics algorithms, identified 44 sperm cells in samples previously deemed sterile by human embryologists, leading to a successful pregnancy. This breakthrough highlights AI's potential to augment human expertise in fertility treatments by automating tedious, high-stakes visual analysis. The technology also offers significant cost savings, making fertility treatments more accessible.
Key Points:
STAR, an AI system adapted from astrophysics algorithms, found 44 sperm cells in samples labeled as sterile by human embryologists.
The AI's success demonstrates its ability to automate repetitive, high-stakes visual analysis, augmenting human expertise rather than replacing it.
The breakthrough could significantly reduce the cost of fertility treatments, making them more accessible to couples.
The technology's adaptation from star-detection algorithms to sperm detection underscores the versatility of AI in pattern recognition.
The case raises questions about how often such scenarios occur and the broader implications for infertility treatment.
"This feels like a healthier model for medical AI than the 'doctor replacement' narrative we often hear. Instead of AI making independent diagnoses, we’re seeing AI augment human practitioners in specific, well-defined tasks where computational approaches have clear advantages."
Is there a pre-prepared narrative and set of material to explain Georgism to politicians and citizens after a major event happens?
Posted on r/georgism |
Score: 6 |
Comments: 1
The article discusses the need for pre-prepared materials to introduce Georgism into national conversations, especially after major events or crises related to housing. It emphasizes leveraging such moments to promote Georgist ideas effectively.
Key Points:
Political changes often follow major events or crises.
Housing-related events present opportunities to introduce Georgism.
Pre-prepared narratives and materials can help ensure Georgism enters the national conversation.
Strategic timing is crucial for promoting Georgist ideas.
"When there is some event relating to housing, how can we ensure Georgism enters the national conversation?"
The article argues that historically, national governments and conflicts have primarily been about acquiring and controlling land, with land rent being the central economic driver. It critiques modern economists for focusing on trivial rent-seeking behaviors while ignoring the fundamental role of land-grabbing in global conflicts.
Key Points:
National governments originate to acquire, hold, and police land, with sovereignty over land being their primary function.
Modern economists often overlook the basic concept of land rent, focusing instead on minor transfer rents and abstract models.
Historical conflicts, such as the Norman conquest of England and European invasions of North America, were fundamentally about seizing land rent.
Military spending is often rationalized as 'defense,' but it primarily protects the interests of those who control land rent.
Aggressive territorial expansion is often economically self-defeating, but certain parties benefit, driving such behaviors.
"When economists today speak of 'rent-seeking' they usually are thinking not of basic land rent, but in subtle and sophisticated terms, looking at dribs and drabs of transfer rent derived from contracting advantages. They develop abstract models for gaming optimally with imperfect information, and so on. By emphasizing the arcane while ignoring the basic they are in danger of matching the proverbial expert who fine-tunes all the details and elaborations as he forges on to the grand disaster."
1 Billion DB Records Update Challenge - My Approach
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 6 |
Comments: 0
The article discusses a challenge of updating 1 billion database records by adding a new column and populating it via an external API. The author proposes a solution involving batch processing, message queues, concurrent consumers, and rate limiting to handle the scale and constraints. The approach also includes an exponential retry mechanism for API failures and concurrent updates to avoid database overload.
Key Points:
Batch processing is used to handle 1 billion records in manageable chunks (e.g., 5,000 records at a time).
A message queue like Kafka is employed for parallelism, retry mechanisms, and monitoring.
Concurrent consumers and thread pools are utilized to manage API calls efficiently while respecting rate limits.
An exponential retry mechanism is implemented to handle API failures gracefully.
The author estimates the total time required for the update process to be approximately 81 days.
"Batch ProcessingInstead of loading 1 billion records at once for processing, we can load them in batches. We can process the first 5000 records and then the next 5000. This number is completely configurable according to your server resources."
Writergate by andrewrk · Pull Request #24329 · ziglang/zig
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 6 |
Comments: 0
The article discusses a significant change in the Zig programming language's standard library, deprecating existing std.io readers and writers in favor of new non-generic versions. The changes are highly breaking but deemed necessary for the language's future direction, with an upgrade guide provided to help users transition.
Key Points:
Deprecates all existing std.io readers and writers in favor of new non-generic std.io.Reader and std.io.Writer.
The new implementations are transparent to optimization, with concrete hot paths for buffer operations.
Changes are extremely breaking but considered necessary for Zig's future direction.
An upgrade guide is provided to help users transition, including replacements for deprecated functions.
The author expresses confidence in the changes despite the significant breakage.
"These changes are extremely breaking. I am sorry for that, but I have carefully examined the situation and acquired confidence that this is the direction that Zig needs to go."