skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it says that they don't respect Ken Klippenstein, nor should they. I like some of his stuff and he's a good snooper, but of course UnitedHealth won't respond to his questions: he is a ginormous asshole who was openly gloating about the death of their CEO! He's completely unprofessional, he has a long history of dishonest trolling and sexist bullying, and AFAICT the only reason he left The Intercept was that he got tired of editorial standards and wanted that sweet Substack money.
Makes sense. I'm very curious as to why Romania was caught so off guard in comparison to Moldova despite a very similar disinfo campaign barely a few weeks ago against Sandu (heck, I'd assume this disinfo campaign used the exact same personnel).

On which note, was there any reuse found in comparison to the campaign in Moldova?

I'm predicating this on Georgescu's anti-NATO stance (that said, I don't really follow EE politics that closely).
Well I can confidently say it wasn't the toner drying up in your laser printer. Toner is a completely dry powder to begin with.
And he earned waayyy more than that in terms of tesla stock gains. I would say he has seen the highest RROI of anyone who has backed a political cause.
yeah I use Llama 3.2 3B and I'm blown away

but also wrestled with this mentally.

Meta both improves the technology or inference, while also trapping themselves alongside every other person training models to always update the training set every few months, so it knows what its talking about with relevant current events
People do put a lot of spin on this topic. Your initial reaction is completely understandable.

Thanks, hopefully they'll be home soon. I've been mowing his grass for nearly 3 years, hardly a commensurate sacrifice I must admit.
> At least 3.3 billion people, about 40% of the world population, now fall into the most serious category of "highly vulnerable", with the worst effects in the developing world.[35] If emissions continue on their current path, Africa will lose 30% of its maize cultivation territory and 50% of its land cultivated for beans. One billion people face flooding due to sea level rise.[34] Climate change, together with other factors, also increases the risk of infectious diseases outbreaks like the COVID-19 pandemic. The report also cites evidence that China will pay the highest financial cost if the temperature continue to rise. The impacts will include food insecurity, water scarcity, flooding, especially in coastal areas where most of the population lives due to higher than average sea level rise, and more powerful cyclones. At some point part of the country may face wet-bulb temperatures higher than humans and other mammals can tolerate more than six hours

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC_Sixth_Assessment_Report#I...

Plus however many lives could be lost due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_migration
downloading from fdroid as I type this
how did I not know?
awsome what contreversy can do!
exactly the oposite
thanks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stutenkerl
Show HN: Qtmonkeytype- A smooth typing software for PC; monkeytype.com clone
What my Project Does?
Qtmonkeytype is still not fully completed , but it has the majority of features of the original website like:

Smooth typing

Good UI

Customizable theme

it is cross-platform thanks to Qt

Target Audience
People who want to practice typing offline.

Comparison
honestly, I have been looking for a typing test desktop application, but most of apps that I found were bad and not comfortable and not as good as monkeytype.com so I tried to make One
How would you solve the problem of collecting data from servers?
Stop blaming ultra-processed foods for obesity: things to consider
> You don't have to be rich to afford a subscription for a dozen dollars a month.

It's not about being rich. It's about having disposable income and willing to spend it. A $10+/month subscription to some entertainment magazine? That's a clear sign you're open to spending money - a sign ads could make you spend on stuff in the first place.
It’s as the old punk lyric goes, “the guilty don’t feel guilty, they learn not to”.

It’s wild how much of the cyberpunk we read in the 80ies and 90ies are coming to pass though. This assassination was done in person, but how long will it take before someone flies a drone into their target instead?
>> All the disadvantages of a monopoly, none of the advantages of a free market.

Yes. One thing I hate is the coupling of insurance and employment in the U.S. These things don't belong together. Most employers offer different "plans" but all through the same insurance company. A good question to ask in an interview is "who is your insurance provider?" Some really are better or worse. But again, it's wrong that this can even be a consideration in finding work.
The court had already validated the first round of elections. This was a fait accompli. They could have let it stand, noting that people had voted and their votes were correctly counted, and that matters more than any other manipulation.

Consider we don't have any decision by any court (before this one) that confirms that any illegal action of any kind has taken place. It's only isinuations and beliefs, but nothing proven to the extent required by law.

The elections should have been allowed to continue. If needed, some special prosecutor whose independence from the next president, even if CG won, could be guaranteed could be appointed to continue investigating the facts of this campaign. Then, CG could be tried based on the findings, could be suspended by Parliament while this was going on, and he could be deposed if he indeed was found guilty, and new elections held at that time (in Romania, if the president's mandate ends suddenly for any reason, there is a temporary presidency, but only until snap elections are called).

Let's not forget that he might not even have won - the race was tight, but not unwinnable. So in that case, he could easily be investigated as a private citizen.
Is there any piece I can read that gives an overview of the ways in which modern LLM networks are trained and optimized?
My understanding is that naturally occurring fructose found in whole fruits is accompanied by fiber, vitamins, and minerals, which help mitigate any negative effects of fructose when consumed as part of a balanced diet.

However, it sounds like we should maybe be avoiding excessive amounts of certain fruit. See: A Definitive Guide to Fructose Content in Fruit [1]

There was a recent episode from Diary of a CEO with a cancer expert. He seems to have some really sound advice. One particular take away for me was his finding that when the body enters a ketogenic state due to fasting the body produces defences that eat up cancer cells [2]

[1] https://iquitsugar.com/blogs/articles/a-definitive-guide-to-...

[2] https://youtu.be/VaVC3PAWqLk?feature=shared
At some point there’s so much degradation with quantizing I think 8b is going to be better for many tasks.
The real deal today is to buy an EV second hand, not to sell it.

There’s still so much fear on how long the battery will hold up, however all statistics are pointing at > 80% capacity for 10 years old / 200,000 miles.

Expectations for replacement costs in 2026-2027 are around $40/kWh, which will be around $3000 for replacing the typical Tesla battery.
He was following "fruitarianism" on and off even before his diagnosis, I think it's reasonable to suspect it had something to do with his cancer, but I wasn't aware of those details, so thanks for providing them.
I don't think anyone would say web-standards are excellent, well designed and well-managed.

All the wonderful value is in that they are standard. The web is great in its ubiquity. Love the web! Sure it's a mess, how could it not be?!

<dialog> is a win here in my view, especially for internal admin tools, I don't want to care about the latest flavor of frontend insanity. I just want to save screen space and open content as modal overlay on top of a main view.
Around here EA's upgrading to CCS-only stations. The older non-upgraded stations only have a single CHAdeMO plug that is usually out of order because it's on very old hardware.
"but nobody was disqualified in this situation as the election was annulled and will restart from scratch" - how is this logical?

Nothing will change from the annulled election to the new election (candidates will not be invalidated, TikTok will still be there). So if the annulled election was invalid on whatever criteria, the new election would also be invalid on the same criteria...
let he who has never acted blasé towards safety protocols cast the first plutonium sphere
I agree. If I made 20% less money and worked 20% less at my main job, I would still need to make up for that 20% of my income. That could be a difficult position to be in.
Companies tend not to publish their costs, but we can find some info about the economics of charging stations. A grant program in Texas subsidized up to 70% of the cost of charging stations. Tesla bid $500k for a fast charging station with 17 plugs, and around $380k for a station with 9 plugs.[1] That's $29k per plug for the 17 charger station. Assuming they asked for the maximum subsidy, that means Tesla's costs are around $41k per plug.

If Tesla bills customers 20 cents per kWh above market electricity rates, they'll make back the cost of the plug after 205,000kWh. A typical EV has a 70-100kWh battery, so that's 2,000-3,000 full charges. If it takes an hour to fully charge a car, then each plug will be profitable after 2-4 months assuming a 100% duty cycle. Actual duty cycles are much lower. If we assume the charger is active 15% of the time, then it will be profitable after 18-30 months. Again, these are all rather pessimistic estimates. Actual markups and duty cycles are higher, and actual charging times are shorter. If we assume a 20% duty cycle, 45 minute charging time, and a 30 cent per kWh markup, it only takes 8-10 months to become profitable. I didn't include maintenance costs, but those are much lower than gas stations because charging stations require no full time staff.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2022/04/14/teslas...
This is the whole thing right here in this comment.

I work with mobx at work which just does a better job of letting us focus on business logic. Components observe computed models directly, no prop drilling, no context. The `createTransformer` map function is the key to mapping dynamic collections to computed models, handles GC in cases where you want to go from computed model to another computed model so you don't manage a bunch of WeakMaps yourself.

The React maintainers and community buy into complexity too readily. Probably why SolidJS (which unlike mobx also provides the view layer) is gaining traction.
This analogy is already a stretch (I didn’t come up with it, was just responding to someone else), and you’re torturing it beyond reason.
Optimizing Linux RAM for Gaming
Yes, but the original unedited texts still survive and are the basis for the better translations. Specially she edited his work to turn it into proto-Nazi antisemitic propaganda… which is something Nietzsche deeply disapproved of. To this day people associate Nietzsche with these ideas he abhorred, which is quite sad.
The A6000 predates Ada?

There is the RTX 6000 Ada (practically unrelated to the A6000) which has 4090 level performance, that what you're referring to?
Compassion is not an excuse for a Reality distortion field. This killed Steve Jobs and might kill many more.
For better or for worse, the charging networks have generally agreed that the aging Leaf population isn't worth supporting.

(Which makes it absolute lunacy that Nissan is still selling the Leaf)
“Who is UID 0?”

“You are UID 6.”
Thanks for the article but I don't think I have the sequence reversed.

Without access to the tracking signal, it's been more important to build out a system that can recreate the value from that lost signal by analyzing what users are actually sharing and saying on their platform. Hence the importance of chat (VR, text, video...) and AI that can be used to process and extract value from a chat signal.

I believe Meta's primary revenue source is still advertising (98%), so that is probably 98% of the why.
The hatred is largely misdirected, based on an outdated misunderstanding of how the health insurance industry works. A lot of people still have the mental model that health insurance works something like auto insurance, where they pay in premiums every month and the insurer bears financial risk for paying claims — and thus has a financial incentive to deny claims. But most health plans no longer operate that way. The bulk of the industry has now moved to large self-funded employer-sponsored plans in which the health "insurance" companies no longer provide any real insurance or bear any risk. Instead they act as administrators, constructing provider networks and processing claims. The actual risk has been transferred to employers who pay the claims. Large employers prefer this model because it ends up being cheaper for them.

In the short term at least, health insurance companies have no direct financial incentive to deny any claims. In fact, due to the minimum medical loss ratio imposed by the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) they actually make more profit by approving more claims. The coverage policies which lead to denied claims, step therapy, and prior authorization are really set by employers in order to hold down their costs. In other words, health insurers are really just doing the bidding of their customers.

If you don't like your health coverage then the fault most likely lies with your employer's HR department. To explain it another way, if a large company wanted to they could ask a health insurer to offer a custom plan which would pay every claim for any service, no questions asked. This would be enormously profitable for the insurer, but no employer wants to pay that much.

This is one of the reasons why tying healthcare access to employment via tax incentives was a bad idea. Unfortunately, for historical reasons it's politically difficult to move away from that coverage model.
I think this happens because the mathematical, or causal, or entropic, notion of conflicts has been conflated with semantic conflicts. In the past I have made the same mistake, though inversely and was adamantly informed that I had no clue what I was talking about :)

Things get way nastier when you start considering trees, e.g. yJS operates on JSON documents. From a UI standpoint (where the UI is showing some shallow level and hasn't been expanded to the deeper level) users could never even see edits that have been deleted.

I think that the class of CRDTs that preserve conflicts (IIRC that is when a register can hold multiple values) hold the most promise. Users should then be presented with those conflicts - and it could even be completely visual. Being able to scrub through history also seems like a viable alternative (allowing the user to figure out how a strange thing happened, or how their changes disappeared).
For some reason my brain thought you meant Falling Down with Michael Douglas (which also feels pretty apt for the situation)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106856/
Salt Typhoon
Hey HN,

Ever wondered how key generators work? Whether it’s securing Wi-Fi, managing app encryption, or cracking software licenses (), keygens are a fascinating mix of math and magic. Let’s break it down:

1. WPA Keys (160-bit)
When your router spits out those long random passwords, that’s a WPA key.
These 160-bit keys are designed to keep hackers out, as long as your Wi-Fi is set up with WPA2 or WPA3.

2. WEP Keys (64-bit and 128-bit)
Remember WEP? It used to be the go-to for Wi-Fi security.
Keygens for WEP created 64- or 128-bit keys, but these are outdated and easy to crack with today’s tools. Avoid using WEP at all costs!

3. CodeIgniter and App Encryption Keys
Frameworks like CodeIgniter use encryption keys for hashing passwords, securing cookies, or encrypting sensitive data.
A good keygen ensures these keys are long, random, and unique—important for keeping apps secure.

4. Software License Keys
This is where keygens get controversial. In software licensing, a keygen generates product keys that software checks to validate legitimacy.

How does it work?
Developers use algorithms to create keys with a specific format or checksum.
The app verifies the key by running it through the same algorithm.

A reverse-engineered keygen replicates this process, generating "valid" keys without paying. (Not condoning this, just explaining the tech!)

Example: Older software like games or productivity apps often relied on weaker algorithms, making them easy to crack. Newer methods tie keys to online authentication for better security.

5. Randomness in Key Generation
Whether for Wi-Fi, apps, or licenses, keygens rely on pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs).
Poor randomness can lead to predictable keys, which are a hacker’s dream.

Let’s Discuss!

Have you explored how keygens for Wi-Fi or software licenses work?

What’s the craziest (or most frustrating) keygen story you’ve run into?

How do you see key generation evolving with quantum computing on the horizon?

Would love to hear your thoughts, stories, or questions. It’s always fun geeking out about the tech behind what keeps (or breaks) our systems!
The two quoted statements aren't talking about the same thing.
There’s also some number of couples whose ideal is “no compromises” — that is, they hope to both provide the best for their kids and keep the nice house, vacations, comfortable retirement, etc.

While this isn’t strictly impossible, it’s well beyond the reach of most, and so I suspect that this group mostly ends up never having kids.
Delegation was one I struggled with a lot in the early days. Even as the CEO, I was reluctant to give up my customer service responsibilities of manning the inboxes. Eventually, I understand that even if someone handled it only 80-90% as well, that would be much better for the company than having me do it.
Learning the Language of Life with AI
"Not much evidence"? That is so far from the truth.
> Fructose in fruits is trapped inside webs of fiber, the gut can more capably deal with fructose in this form

that's bro science. With or without fiber, fructose will be separated and metabolized by the liver and go through the cycle described by the research. Read the thing.
It might make it a bit easier to hire engineers. Working for Facebook? Meh. Working for the "new Meta", on the other hand?
>>when something bad happens to someone, and the someone is aware of it

Well I mean that's pretty straightforward, is it not? Someone who is in a coma is not aware of what's happening to them = ergo, no harm is being done, no?

>>I'm claiming that nothing bad happens to you from information being traded about you

Ok let me follow this for couple more seconds then - any information? Or only specific kinds? Like if I take explicit pictures of my partner and put them on the internet(or sell them, to tick the "trading" box), but she _never_ finds out and it has zero impact on her life - was there harm being done?

>>"bad" you prefer

It's not a definiton of bad but a definition of harm we're differing on. You said no one was ever harmed by online tracking - I disagree on that point.
Ask HN: Are computers to blame for people not wanting to have children?
Computers will do what you tell them to do but children will eventually rebel and do the opposite.

Do you think this is a factor in people not wanting to have and raise children?
Surprisingly progressive policy.

I know this is mostly tangential, but I think that this should be the way humanity should benefit from technology. Better technology shouldn't just exist to make capitalists richer, but it should exist to make everyone richer. One of the most important ways you can be richer is to have more time.
Things that seem weird to me:

- Why are employment and insurance connected?
- Why can't you select an insurance company?
- Why are there no standardized 3 levels of insurance with a legal mandate for the coverage to be the same across all insurers (so they cant play games with denies). You can't have an efficient and competitive market if nobody understands what they are buying
- Costs are inflated due to legal and administrative fees...
- Costs are inflated due to high educational fees...
- Why are we effectively subsidizing research and medicine for the rest of the world?
- Food and health is a major part of what increases the costs

Hope someone fixes it one day
Yes, I think it's a coincidence. The language of the law specifies the ban will go into effect 270 days after the law's passage. I don't think any one law maker can perfectly predict how long it will take for a law to make it through the House, Senate, and Presidential signature. This law was introduced on March 5, 2024 and signed by Biden on April 24, 2024.
> I don't have anything else to say than the fact that Ads are not going anywhere.

Why? You state that as if Ads are a product of the universe we live in and we need to accept them like gravity.

> And it should NOT be done with data surveillance but with curated and useful ads.

Agree in principle. The problem is that you don't even need to do data surveilance in this case.

I pay money to the verge.
You can infer I have a) disposable income and 2) interest in tech
With those two alone you can start showing me ads. You don't even need to profile me.

And that's wrong in my book.

> Do you think the problem is ads here? And you still haven't answered to my POV. How is paywall stopping data surveillance? The reality is they are making you pay and serving ads. Which is the problem? How is paying solving it?

The problem is the ambiguity. The old mantra says "If you're not paying for the product then i'm the product"

Well i'm paying. The transaction should be clear. I give you money, you give me content. But instead that's not what you get. Because you still get profiled, you're still served ads, and sure, BETTER, ads. That's my problem.
"Almost" is doing heavy lifting there.

Why would they need additional chances when they have already expressed what they want? Oh, they dared to vote for a candidate that doesn’t suit the powers that be, so they’ll vote again and again until they choose the preselected candidate.
Angry America
Most infrastructure spending in the US happens at a local level. Cities don't build ports or railroads here but a big stadium or roadworks project would show up on the ballot.
>>and your original "if you don't like it, don't buy it" argument does not hold for that person

....I don't recall making such an argument? Maybe you replied to the wrong person?
The chemistry of Maya blue is fascinating since Indigo degrades quickly. To keep the color
vibrant, now over centuries, it was encased in palygorskite clay. If you are interested in this topic, see also:

Veiled Brightness: A History of Ancient Maya Color
with Stephen Houston and colleagues, University of Texas Press, 2009

https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292719002/