skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I said that our government is for sale to the highest bidders, plural.

> This is what they were pointing out was incorrect, since the highest bidding faction didn't win.

I don't know why so many commenters are stubbornly refusing to understand a relatively simple point. I didn't say anything about which of the two major political parties will win elections. That varies and shifts with the winds. In any election, though, both of the candidates are for sale. The highest bidders are their wealthy campaign donors. Whichever candidate happens to win is beholden to their wealthy campaign donors and will behave accordingly.

The distinction is between the average, non-wealthy voters and the wealthy donors. The latter are the highest bidders, the former are not. The policies enacted by the winners of elections reflect the desires of the wealthy donors, not the desires of the average voters.

Average voters might make small campaign donations of $100 or less, but it's impersonal and not transactional. Small donors are not in a position to request or demand anything from the politicians. In contrast, the political donations of the wealthy are transactional. They get the ear of the politician, or even a seat at the table. Look at what happened to Musk, who bought his way into becoming the President's best buddy and constant companion.
withdraw it all immediately.

invest in cheap land somewhere warm, build/renovate housing, hire local property management and rent it out. the million & change will go a lot further if you do this internationally (Thailand, Belize, Kenya, etc).

now you have somewhere to retire & it will make money until you do.
Oh absolutely. The fact that that’s the best I could come up with is what concerns me the most.
Famously, literacy pedagogy briefly swung towards “memorize lots of english words, and then once you’ve ground on that task for a while introduce the abstract rules of phonics” with disastrous results.
With $12,000/month, it would only last you about 8 years.
I‘m fascinated by these projection setups ever since I learned they’re a thing! But Jesus is the Luxedo stuff pricey?! I’d love to learn about something similar but in a kinda OSS/DIY kind of style…
That's not an unreasonable question, however the larger point is that this sort of thing cannot be done perfectly accurately.

This was established mathematically, answering an old 1966 question from famous mathematician Mark Kac: "You can't hear the shape of a drum" -- there isn't a unique answer even when allowed to use arbitrary test sounds.

Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_the_shape_of_a_drum

Article in American Scientist 1996 Jan-Feb:
https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~kazdan/425S11/Drum-Gordon-Webb....
> I'm absolutely sure he's still looking, trying his best to find a job or a permanent solution to his situation. But there's no reason to complain and whine about things he can't change.

I'm baffled by these responses. The reason we're calling him out is because he literally says he is not looking, at least for another job, in his blog post. It's not about wanting him to be stressed and anxious, it's about trying to understand how he plans to not have a job in 2025 and just continuing on doing more of the same, when in previous years he said he started with 80k, and now he's starting with 0.
Linux EFI Zboot Abandoning "Compression Library Museum", Focusing on Gzip, ZSTD
Measuring would attract even more protest because not only am I using my experience to choose (likely) more efficient algorithms, I am also spending yet more precious company time to measure its performance.
That confuses accurate with detailed. It can be accurate even if it only reports one bit, like greenery proportion "low" or "high".
Is the shooting related to this? I have not stumbled upon any resources linking them, but it would interesting to learn more!

Saying that they are linked, then it is interesting that we are falling back on why we have a lot of regulations and protections. While you can make a legal system where exploitation is legal (as some would argue the US health care system is), there is a breaking point where it will result in civil unrest.

I am curious to see if that is the point we are reaching now.
Misleading headline. And misleading article.

Even the image used to illustrate shows that it's free only in certain regions.
Sounds like he did it so he could have a place to stay
I tried an extension once that provided these navigation shortcuts for all the links on a page. It was really convenient but then I was on an admin page for our team and accidentally hit a couple keys that pressed some random button. The page was full of buttons that had irreversible effects which were executed without confirmation. Of course that’s an issue itself for the page but that’s kept me from trying this again.

The convenience those shortcuts provide also makes it concerningly easy to press something on accident. Much more likely than accidentally clicking something. Having extra leader keys or some other approach to reduce accidental presses would detract from the convenience…

Curious if anyone else has run into this or configured their setup in a way that maintains the convenience but reduces the accident likeliness. Holding a modifier key or adding leader keys actually does seem like I’d go a long way in reducing accidents with minimal hit to effectiveness
> ”The initiative combines solar-powered sand-blocking technology with extensive vegetation planting to stabilize the desert’s edges.”

What sand-blocking tech is that? Does anyone know?
If the shooter is a contract killer I think the potential for jury nullification plummets.

I also think it’s impossible to predict any way. But I can definitely see that nullification is a real possibility.
Nyxt already exists, and fits your description perfectly
I’ve heard clips of hot water being poured vs cold water, and if you heard the examples, you would probably guess right too.

Time of day seems almost easy. Are there animals noises? Those won’t sound the same all day. And traffic too. Even things like the sound of wind may generally be different in the morning vs night.

This is not to suggest the researchers are not leaking data, or that the examples were cherry picked, it seems probable they are doing one or the other. But it is to say, if you were trained on a particular intersection, and heard a sample from it, you could probably train a model to predict time of day reasonably well.
This post has left me wondering: what is zizmor? What is ultralytics? Are these words actually real or is someone having a stroke?

Not all nerds know all projects so I decided to educate myself and followed OP’s links to learn about Ultralytics:

> Ultralytics YOLO11 is a cutting-edge, state-of-the-art (SOTA) model that builds upon the success of previous YOLO versions and introduces new features and improvements to further boost performance and flexibility.

Ultralytics’ readme doesn’t explain what ultralytics is or does. Thankfully Zizmor’s readme describes itself clearly:

> zizmor is a static analysis tool for GitHub Actions. It can find many common security issues in typical GitHub Actions CI/CD setups.

This isn’t a critique on OP: I enjoyed reading about the vulnerability(ies!) you found and I learned a lot. I’m just generally frustrated that so many readme files on GitHub fail to describe what the project actually does, Ultralytics being just one example.

Have fun and keep hacking
They haven't because this might actually finally wake up at least part of the people and cause problems for Dear leader. Let's hope Trump doesn't fold immediately and give the situation more time to develop.
If you can't measure the results then the entire thing needs a rethink.
One of the bullets had “deny” engraved in it.
This is not an informed perspective. Anesthesiologists are some of the most highly trained physicians in a hospital.

Human physiology is complicated and on the surface, any job can seem simple if you have no understanding of what is happening. While a large portion of the time, the surgeries go smoothly, sometimes it doesn’t and it can go downhill fast. In that moment, you want an anesthesiologist that can quickly and thoroughly think through a patients medical history, what drugs they’re on at home, the current surgery, variant anatomy, what drugs they’ve given so far, etc to decide on the correct next drug to give or action to take. That takes training and experience.
Support Ukraine against invasion from Russia. Support Taiwan against invasion from China. Investing in reusable rockets, pushing humanity out into space. Supporting new technologies like augmented reality, AI, satellite internet, self driving.
The German healthcare system covers hospital care, emergency services, some preventative care, prescription medication, some dental care, mental health care, it includes maternity care, it even covers sick pay.
The relevant comment here:
https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/e8346d0a889c89ec8a78e6...

2006-10-31: The default prefix used to be "sqlite_". But then Mcafee started using SQLite in their anti-virus product and it started putting files with the "sqlite" name in the c:/temp folder.
This annoyed many windows users. Those users would then do a Google search for "sqlite", find the telephone numbers of the developers and call to wake them up at night and complain.
For this reason, the default name prefix is changed to be "sqlite" spelled backwards. So the temp files are still identified, but anybody smart enough to figure out the code is also likely smart enough to know that calling the developer will not help get rid of the file.
This article is from nearly two years ago
How to Make Babies w/o Getting Screwed
"This highlights one major problem with democracy ..."

That sociology/psychology are modern-day phrenology and people are led by the results?
Depends on what their financial picture looks like and how they feel about debt.

If it was me I would do the following.
1) Pay off all consumer debt, cars, credit cards, personal loans, etc. 2) I would set aside at least 50% of what is left for long term savings 3) Depending on where you are in child's college savings I would put some money there maybe like $50k and let compounding interest do its thing 4) I would create a Toys and Play fund (aka TAP fund) say $100-$150k, this is for vacations and toys. Invest this money and every few years take out some of the gains for a really nice vacation or toys.

Anything left I would personally put towards the mortgage but that is because I HATE debt, not everyone feels the same though.

I will say this, that TAP fund can really be AMAZING for enjoying life. I don't know of anyone but me how has one as I started one by accident many years ago and it pays for all my vacations and cars now. Give it a few years to get going and you will be able to have several amazing vacations a year. One benefit of this fund is that it is setup specifically to ENJOY life. I now have zero guilt spending the gains in that fund. Some people are great at savings and become bad at spending/enjoying. I am one of those people. Having this fund removes all guilt, hesitation, or family friction when it comes to buying hobby items or nice vacations.
This is x86 assembly not C, but could be done just as easily in C. No kernel support either, since there isn’t one.

https://github.com/stillwwater/raycaster
You really cannot expect audio processing to yield color information.

Beyond that, you are correct that the 3D shapes themselves cannot be derived perfectly accurately (see my other post)
I agree with this. russia is being lured into continued commitment by giving it a chance. I'm unusually impressed with how American intelligence played russia in this conflict. Of course there's another reason: russia is a nuclear power, and even though everyone seems used to its threats and makes nothing of it, a nuclear war is an absolutely terrible threat, possibly wiping entire humanity if it fails to endure nuclear winter. As a result, America/NATO is doing a dance, where it waits for russia to do something morally wrong, then respond to it with escalation, ready to criticize and sanction on moral grounds all russia's allies if they decide to respond with (political) support to russia. We're quite successful in my opinion, the escalation of the west is validated throughout the world, and the response to it on the russia's side wouldn't be, and would result in stronger sanctions.

Had all the escalations of the recent 2 years be condensed to the first month of war, BRICS (and not only, e.g. the pope was quite supportive of russia, not sure if he still is) could unite and coordinate a response, and the west could possibly lose the war in the political sense, kind of like Israel lost it. I'm not putting an equal sign between Israel and Ukraine, but who would predict a few years ago common harsh criticisms against Israel in mainstream TV?
I think you have a lot of movie/book material. I would watch this play out.
Clearly raised to a higher peak by taking one of the words of a statement most easy to misread for the sake of outrage, and highlighting it, whilst ignoring the substance of the comment.

Babbage was insulting politicians who had, in the instance of his insult, a better grasp on the nature of intelligence than he had. It is a foolish quote to repeat, and reeks of the same smug obliviousness in which it was said.

If Babbage was fit to be so smug, he is fit to be called an idiot when having been so foolishly.

"Peak HN" is presumably when you can cite an oblivious smarter-than-thou Engineer at his most inastute, but not call one an idiot.
I bought the printed version as I find it easier to work through.

I was expecting it to be relatively out of date, but I was OK with that since the libraries in this ecosystem are relatively stable.

To my surprise and delight, in the first few pages I came across the sentence "As of October 2024"

So I think the printed version is either print to order or printed in very small batches, considering the book itself is several years old at this point.

I'm half way through it now, I can highly recommend it. And if you are like me and prefer a printed version, don't be afraid to spring for it.
So you were netting $30/day? Assuming you worked 21 days/month, that's $630/month before other expenses like food and rent. How on Earth did you survive at that rate, even with early 1990s NYC prices?
use only stable nix. override nixpkgs for inputs you add. after first build, use offline and no-substitute flags on reuse, alias such command. use nixdirenv.

read and setup store/gc settings work for you. do not use nixenv nor nix profile.
What I believe he is referring to is Jury nullification. I interpret your statement of open and shut case as you believe jury must convict if what they interpret to be facts of breaking a laws written by man. By a jury choosing not to convict there is another form of justice implied…
I just sent an email to hn@ycombinator.com in hopes ‘dang fixes it.
There is nothing at all ironic, inconsistent or otherwise strange about "I don't understand why others' implementations of X are so complex".
My understanding is that insurance will not cover issues caused by DIY work if you did not have it permitted and inspected properly afterward. I sincerely doubt that an insurance company would be required to cover losses due to DIY electronics using parts that have not been properly safety rated. I'm surprised you think the opposite is obvious. Could just be my US perspective.
Yes definitely, adding database schemas and queries is on our roadmap for capturing "indirect links" across codebases. We are thinking of something similar to Supabase studio's schema visualizer [1], but integrated with the map of the codebase so that which parts of the code read/writes to different tables. Is that what you have in mind? Or do you mean something else by database access patterns?

1: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-studio-3-0#schema-visuali...
I don’t follow how the insurance companies doctor escapes liability in this case. If they are interfering with a patients treatment plan, doesn’t that qualify as practicing medicine?

Otherwise the insurance company could easily staff itself with less scrupulous poorly qualified doctors and say “your job is to reject claims”. Why would that doctor have any motivation or requirement to fulfill the duties of a “doctor”?
Yeah, I agree with you that there are larger problems that still need to be addressed; and that this stop isn't necessarily permanent, but something temporary that might come back once there are more controls in place.

But situations like this are nuanced and complex, and we are in a better position than we were a month ago, due to actions by the Biden administration.

It is easy, especially in cases of such long running problems like civil asset forfeiture, to get cynical and fall into the mentality that there's nothing that can be done. That's not the case. It is possible to improve things, through political and legal processes. Not always as easy as you would like. Frequently slower, and with regressions. But progress is possible, and it's worth keeping track of who makes that progress to inform future voting patterns.

Cynicism can be an effective tool to blunt efforts at reform.
Don't forget bailing out banks that fueled bubbles. With the money that went into that we could had by now a the Sahara rainforest.
To me it puts me into my younger self mindset. But it does make me feel old to be part of this arc.
What trusted sources do you have on middle eastern conflicts? The Council on Foreign Relations, The Atlantic Council? Foreign Affairs magazine? These institutions are stocked with neocon stooges whose advice have only invaded half the middle east (always under false pretenses), killed countless innocence, displaced millions, brought "democracy", etc. Scott Horton and antiwar.com have been pumping out real journalism for 20+ years.
I didn't write the code originally; this was like 15 years ago. If the API still exists people will misuse it.
what % mortality rate are we anticipating when it happens?
"Audiophile" equipment has always seemed like the perfect breeding ground for snakeoil salesmen, with classic examples like the Shakti stone: https://www.shakti-innovations.com/product/shakti-stone/
Well, I run a retro-computing web site (https://twostopbits.com/) based on the Hacker News Arc code (https://github.com/jgrahamc/twostopbits) and the site makes me neither feel young or old. And not even particularly nostalgic. I mostly remember things I had great fun with a long time ago and it's fun to read about them again. I do like the preservation part of retro computing and helping keep things working, but even that is partly just personal satisfaction of making something work (again). For example: https://blog.jgc.org/2023/12/restoration-of-ibm-thinkpad-701...
Ah, good point. I was picturing this setup as hardwired.
With complex frameworks you’re not only far removed from
HW but to some extent from the SW as well.
The sane way to separate them is single-payer health care anyway, and AFAIK unions generally support that.
I only skimmed that blog post after a while because it reads like a pitch from an MBA targeted at venture capitalists.

I feel like thats not actually a distinction that matters to application developers, because they know thats just a technical detail that only concerns the developers of the database. Ultimately, all the compatibility has to be implemented in the storage engine. The fact that they're using Postgres's porcelain is surely a time saver for them, but of no consequence to the consumers/users of the database
One of these days, its going to dawn on people that every dollar somebody makes off of bitcoin is another dollar that somebody else has lost off of bitcoin.

It's not like stock in a company, which becomes more valuable as the company gets more efficient, or introduces some technological advance.

The total amount of profit people will make off of bitcoin is--like energy or momentum--a conserved quantity. Its total value never changes, and that value is ZERO dollars.
That's kind of the point of democratic institutions, though: centralizing a lot of these directive powers leads to explosive efficiencies at the cost of liberty to, for example, surface objections as you illustrate. Or, more dramatically, throwing people who object into dark cells.

That's how autocratic regimes can take on megaprojects without a lot of the red tape that leads to, for example, a paralytically slow rollout of Seattle light rail.

You choose your poison.
Even if you had all the money in the world, the medical system is very inadequate, for a variety of reasons. If you find a doctor that is competent AND conscientious, good for you, else you have to fend for yourself. Philosophically I'm an anarchist of sorts, and I believe that doctors should not have monopoly on practicing medicine. So if you can get away with doing safe medicine, be it pills or surgery, go for it.
Hmm, "cameras reported a 97.3% match". I would assume that for a random person, the match level would be random. 1÷(1 −.973) ~ 37. IE, 1 in 37 people would be tagged by the cameras. If you're talk China, that means matching millions of people in millions of malls.

Possibly the actual match level was higher. But still, the way facial recognition seems to work even now is that it provides a consistent "hash value" for a face but with a limited number of digits/information (). This be useful if you know other things about the person (IE, if you know someone is a passenger on plane X, you can very likely guess which one) but still wouldn't scale unless you want a lot of false positives and are after specific people.

Authorities seem to like to say DNA and facial recognition caught people since it implies an omniscience to these authorities (I note above someone throwing out the either wrong or meaningless "97.3% value). Certainly, these technologies do catch people but they still limited and expensive.
It is obviously extremely important who you choose to have children with. I completely agree. If I’d had kids in my 20s with my ex, I would have ended up with regrets for the rest of my life (not the kids, but my choice of with whom to have them).

If I have kids now, there’s no chance I’d have regrets. It’s a very different timeline in my life, being in a non-abusive relationship after 8 years of being in one and lots of therapy.

And yes, men can be in abusive relationships with women too.
My contention is that pronouncing doom for hiring in the software sector based on a graph that does not include any previous boom/bust cycles is, at best, misleading.

I actually didn't see that these data are HN-specific, but that only serves to reinforce my point in two ways: 1) HN is only a small sample of the overall industry, and 2) since HN hiring presumably skews disproportionately toward the startup/VC funded ecosystem, it's likely to be even harder hit by interest rate hikes and economic downturns.
It's not like people who buy those $30,000+ audiophile devices care about any facts.
I really wish they would drop the Google play requirement on Android. I have Google play installed on my Samsung but it's just not logged in. You don't need to be logged in for a lot of functionality like push notifications.

Every single app works fine that way, except ChatGPT. It opens the play store login page then exits. I have no problems with apps from 2 banks, authenticators etc etc.

It's just so weird that they force me to make an account with one of their biggest competitors in AI. I just don't want to, I don't trust Google with my data. By not logging in they have some but not a lot.

iOS isn't an option either because it's too locked down. I need things like sideloading and full NFC access for things like OpenPGP.
Study examines achievement gap between Asian American, white students
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