skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2 tril is the only figure publicly advertised and I guess TFA is a sign they are starting to chip at this campaign promise

Not a campaign promise if it didn’t come from the campaign!

This isn’t cost cutting. The DHS budget hasn’t been slashed. This is deregulation. (Which was a campaign promise.)
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Tech Circles Sex Ed is done on Tiktok. Prove me wrong.
https://x.com/Suhail/status/1882069209129340963
I’m not necessarily going to comment on his behaviors directly, as everyone else has already stated that in part or in whole. My grievance, my perspective, is that it’s yet another white man getting a slap on the wrist for wrongdoing while doing nothing to correct any of the underlying problems or pardon others who engaged in similar or lesser behaviors.

The war on drugs has always been farcical, deliberately engineered to target minority groups who were opposing power dynamics at the time. It’s why - despite popular opinion to the contrary - cannabis remains broadly illegal at the Federal level and enforced globally through a web of treaties. It’s always been about creating the means of entrapment for those inconvenient to power.

Pardoning Ross smacks of a gift to cryptobros to earn their loyalty to the current powers that be, rather than an acknowledgement of a past mistake. It is nakedly political, pardoning a white man from an otherwise good background while others languish in prison on far less serious charges or convictions. Were any of the drug dealers on his black market similarly pardoned? Were any of his consumers? Of course not, because Ross was a Capitalist making profit in an untapped market, and the others were individuals who were not.

The entire thing is nauseating, and is enough to wash my hands of all involved were the need to dismantle this farce of a war not so grave.
The aviation and maritime industries use knots because the nautical mile is closely tied to longitude/latitude.

A vessel traveling at 1 knot along a meridian travels one minute of geographic latitude per hour.
I just don't think this is really a problem. My editor doesn't actually have trouble putting pasted code at the right indentation level...
Thanks. I appreciate your view on the sentence, but I'm interested in why Trump would issue a pardon.

I'm unconvinced that Trump in 2020 thought Ulbricht's total sentence was okay, but four years later has apparently changed his mind. So who's the client here? It doesn't seem to be Ulbricht - is it libertarians in general? Why does Trump, as a second term president, actually care?
Reading the original article, I can't help recalling what David Cutler said in an interview, that whenever he completed a piece of code, he always ran it in his head a few times to make sure that nothing could go wrong, and then submitted (presumably for testing). His NT code had very few bugs as per say.

I think 10x programmers are indeed usually smarter than ordinary programmers. They don't work out 10x amount of higher quality code, or 10x quality of code, but work in COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DOMAINS -- OS, Compilers, Emulators, etc., they simply solve tougher problems.

And they also have the capacity to hold a lot of code in their brains. This is so amazing. I usually lost myself after just maybe a couple of dozen lines, or a few function hops. Admittedly, my program uses more libraries so TBH the brain trace just stopped whenever it went into a 2000 line long library function. But my project is more trivial than theirs.
Simple minded solutions for simple minded people --- aka, people who would fail running a casino.
No one is forcing anyone to do anything, and everyone always knew what they were getting themselves in to. It was always a deal where everyone wins. That you don't like that choice for yourself is fine. No need to be so negative, dismissive, and cynical about how other people choose to spend their free time.
Except you aren’t choosing. You are having other people chose for you.

Defend it all you like. I think it is a move of people with weak character who aren’t actually so sure in their ideas that it makes them uncomfortable to be challenged.
It wasn’t designed for just drugs. There were many different categories.
This would be a terrible outcome. Elon Musk depends on China granting him market access for selling Tesla cars. If he owns this platform, he will continue whatever practice they have to manipulate recommendations and content to support the CCP’s agenda, so he doesn’t get shut down in China. Musk has also said publicly that he doesn’t support the forced divestiture of TikTok. It would be the same as not passing PAFACA at all.
Nautical miles are minutes of latitude and are useful for navigation on the sphere we live on. It’s not some conspiracy for English hegemony despite the previous posters insistence.
I miss n gate so much. I asked AI to generate one for this thread.

"In a stunning display of fiscal restraint, Sam Altman only asks for $500 billion instead of his previous $7 trillion moonshot. Hackernews rejoices that the money will be spent in Texas, where the power grid is as stable as a cryptocurrency exchange. Oracle's involvement prompts lengthy discussions about whether Larry Ellison's surveillance dystopia will run on Java or if they'll need to purchase an enterprise license for consciousness itself. Meanwhile, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son continues his streak of funding increasingly expensive ways to turn electricity into promises, this time with added patriotism. The comments section devolves into a heated debate about whether this is technically fascism or just regular old corporatocracy, with several users helpfully pointing out that actually, the real problem is systemd."
Ask HN: What's your biggest challenge with U.S. immigration?
Hi all,

I run an immigration law firm (Alaz Law Firm) specializing in helping startups and investors. I’m curious: if you’re a foreign founder or investor looking to enter or stay in the U.S., what’s been your toughest obstacle?

I’d love to hear real-world experiences—whether that’s dealing with H-1B caps, uncertain O-1 criteria, or the complexities of E-2 investments. I’m also happy to share any insights or experiences we’ve gathered along the way.

Thanks in advance!
I see. HTMX and others target the browser, which is primarily an HTML renderer. So there is nothing inherently bad about page transfers. That's what hypermedia is about.

React et al try to create a different paradigm on top of this. And that makes it like building a desktop UI AND a server app

To me, this is not in anyway better than building something for the browser - pages and html.
Authorization and IAM trends you'll see in 2025
As noted in the article this does not apply to enterprise IT managed systems.

I've got mixed feelings about the type of updates that happen, at the same time with security updates ... I feel like required updates can be justified as far as consumer editions go.
Look to the stagnancy of the UK to see where the US could be in a few more decades. They have the same high prices for housing, but far far lower wages. When the powerful political class (homeowners) has all their wealth tied up in their homes, they see little wrong with such broken basic arrangements, because it doesn't hurt them and they see their number going up for wealth. Canada and Australia have similarly destructive housing policies and outcomes.

And since the self-immolation of Brexit, they have far worsened their financial future. Similar politics of self-destruction masked as the appearance of strength are gaining a loooot of ground in the US as well.
Pihole is a simple effective solution for blocking right at the source, your incoming network connection. No need to faff around with different apps on different computers, etc. It will block on your entire network.

If you want to double (or triple) up on it, add the sites to your hosts file and send them to localhost and add them to your ad blocker and block the html tag. Now you've blocked all the sites in question 3 different ways.
are there any uses for crypto other that sanctions busting and drug dealing?

oh and pump and dump scams
> hallucinating

I hate the use of this word to describe when a sentence completer gives a wrong result. To hallucinate you have to have a concept of reality. Which those models don't have. They're just mathematical tools which some times manage to give a result humans think as human-like.
The missing piece of the puzzle is that the DNC does not represent the people, it represents corporations who are just fine with Trump. Your average person is very concerned and is likely to think that Trump does represent a very real danger to democracy. The corporate apparatus that is the DNC made some noise about it to see if they could rile people up into voting for them and that failed.
That’s because they are describing the inner workings of their visualization systems.

They saw him walk in because he was where it happened. The image of Ross, and others, was in mind, however.
Carrying a book is another helpful solution.
Jujutsu (Jj) in Practice
This was a very long winded way to spell money
Dutch pioneer files EU's second lab-grown meat application
Stanford AI expert's credibility shattered by fake, AI-created sources: judge
Are you willing/able to talk about the access point you're working on? Will this be one for public/commercial use? Or is this an internal project?
I guess more generally money laundering.
I don't feel like this was a good faith interpretation of my comment. What i'm saying is that in the US and China, censorship is decided by unelected officials. In one case it's CPC in another case it's corporate executives
How to survive being online.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42785927

Zero comments, but I shared the source elsewhere.

https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-survive-being...
> Also punishing a people for actions of their government is a war crime

Right, because we recognize that indirect, transitive blame is ethically problematic.

> He actively and deliberately enabled those activities for self benefit.

So did the Sacklers with the opioid epidemic, arguably even more directly than Ulbricht. Which of them is in prison?

"Enabling" is exactly the kind of weasel word that I find problematic. It has no strict definition and can be broadened to suit whatever is needed to condemn an action you happen to dislike in any given scenario.
> The only hard thing is to find something to fill the free'd up time with.

Like going outside, doing trips, enjoying nature? Oh boy...
How new is this engine? It was renamed to "Castle Game Engine" (from "Kambi VRML Game Engine") in 2011. Version 1.0.0 was released in 2007. Not sure if there were even older releases?

https://castle-engine.io/old_news.php?id=2011-8-22-engine_re...

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vrmlengine/files/kambi_vrml...
"I have no content and I must scroll"
This was almost two years ago, and at the time it was highlighting its centralized download service.
I also learned a great deal from answering questions.
Probably the post on jwz's site. I'm not linking because he serves up ugly images if you click from hacker news.
More comments of possible interest here,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41759112 ("AVX Bitwise ternary logic instruction busted (arnaud-carre.github.io)", 68 comments)
It's even more than before.

That being said, you still get a lot of stats with any analytics platform, just that they're skewed.

If you use GA4, you will track more non-savy users (not those who have ad-blockers, or use Brave or Firefox). With popular platforms, you will also get more spam/bot traffic.

I think the best solution nowadays is to self-host your website analytics, use your own domain, and keep your data to yourself. More accurate stats, and easier to respect privacy laws.
The Ethiopian nectar-eating wolf: A predator that may also act as a pollinator
I think in general regulation will go to other direction. Forcing operating systems providers to install security updates and if it mandates other updates that is accepted price for regulators.
So, in order to get that scholarship, you need to write 3 or 6 essays on quips of their choice? Hmm. I don't even the people who need to read the endless stream of generic verbiage.
You are right. What gitless does differently is it saves (git stash) the uncommitted files before switching: branches are well isolated, it doesn't let uncommited files be "copied over", if you understand what I mean.
That's by design. It's a strategy pioneered by Ronald Reagan called "starve the beast" [1]. Basically, you starve a public institution of funds and then use the inevitable failure for gutting it entirely and likely privatizing it.

We're seeing this in real-time in Texas [2] in particular with Abbott's takeover of the Houston ISD and the blatant corruption and racism going on with the Keller ISD.

Also, charter schools aren't cheaper either. They cherry pick students. Public schools don't have that luxury.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

[2]: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/campaign-to-sabot...
Remittances without fees
The amount of arrogance in this thread about what temperatures become fatal is baffling. Hyperthermia is not something that kills you on the timeline of minutes or even hours at wet bulb temperatures of 100F+, or even 105F+.

Remember, when people get sick it's not typically fatal for them to hold a body temperature of 104 degrees, even if sustained for more than 24 hours. Being in a work environment at 95+% relative humidity and 100F is going to be unpleasant, but as long as you are well adapted to it and you get to somewhere cooler within a few hours you are going to be fine.

People push well beyond a wet bulb of 105F in saunas all the time, often sustained for 30+ minutes. I think if you had yourself ever been in a room that's 110F and 100% humidity (meaning it's literally raining continuously from condensation) you'd realize that it's really not that extreme of a temperature, and that it takes hours for your core to heat up to a place where you will be at risk of dying.
The chat logs show that he was quite stoic about the whole thing and treated it as a mundane business action to protect himself ("is a liability and I wouldn't mind if…"; "I've received the picture and deleted it. Thank you again for your swift action.").

Given that he is now free, and may have access to substantial cryptocurrency wealth, I think it would probably be best under the circumstances if everyone forgot about these allegations and just left him alone to live a quiet life.
as somebody with family members who are "republicans in idaho" they mostly won’t care. many if not most republican idahoans think you should be able to own machine guns and do whatever you want without hurting others.

the mormon ones would be the most likely that would object, but even plenty of the republican/libertarian mormons i know are happy to have the massive government overreach corrected.
Stories I Refuse to Believe
> sins caused in name of DRY by juniors

A discussion of clones that can be OK and more: <https://cormack.uwaterloo.ca/~migod/papers/2008/emse08-Clone...>
Is it more on topic than the Musk Nazi salute thing, which you chose not to unflag? The comments are equally predictable in both cases.
The main contribution of the paper aside, I have to say that the background section 2 is very neatly and succinctly written.
Syria to dismantle Assad-era socialism, says foreign minister
The legality of it is not in question (the purpose of this quote). It was as unjust then as it is now.
As someone who lived in Russia for a while, I have personal experience with these mini-exchanges. They're the Internet equivalent of those currency exchange stands at airports, I wouldn't call them full crypto exchanges like Binance.

They're a pretty interesting phenomenon. Some do KYC, some don't. Some are fully automatic and just need to be "topped up" occasionally, some are fully manual. They usually provide an easy on/offramp to/from crypto, but they usually have high fees and minimum transaction requirements on top of an unfavorable exchange rate. Sites like bestchange exist to aggregate all the different rates and slice a cut from the affiliate revenue.

It's nice to see how they work (or don't) from the legal side. In my mind they've always existed in a grey legal area, since some mini-exchanges openly proclaim their registration in e.g. the UK and some just don't say where they're headquartered.

They do work, but they've always felt a bit shady, and I've felt anxious using their services. Centralized exchanges are way better in regards to support and have a better exchange rate to boot.
YESSSS thank you!
Fun to see the questions, but I would love even more to read the essays they got along with the mark scheme/examiner's comments.

What is they are looking for? And what in their eyes makes a good answer? That would be interesting for me to see and helpful in terms of developing my own thinking.
Interesting conversations happening in the comment sections on that site.
How would this be a Ponzi scheme? Who are the leaf nodes ending up holding the bag?
It initially referred to spending too much time scrolling through negative content, e.g. bad news, politics. But the term has at this point completed a transformation to meaning any excessive time-wasting scrolling.
That's brutal.

Canning 1800 people not because they were bad at their jobs or for any economic factors but as collective punishment for just 200 people joining a union.

Welcome to the oligarchy I guess.
and Twitter is bleeding money like anything, unable to retain users and advertisers. You may end up with less servers but not necessarily a stable and functional system.
I examined my 2024 November general election ballot carefully. Ever since 2020's election denial, I've had a heightened awareness of election procedure, going so far as to read the Colorado Secretary of State's web pages on risk limiting audits, and making some attempt to understand the math behind them.

My Colorado general election ballot contained nothing I could see that would associate me as a registered voter to the ballot itself. Colorado ballots are hand marked, machine readable, and human readable as has been the best and obvious practice since 2000's "hanging chad" debacle. There are certainly "index marks" on the ballots so that the tallying machines can get squared up, but they don't appear different per ballot. I compared to my wife's ballot, just in case.

Why do you ask?
New UK ID app yet again fumbles tech that Apple has perfected
true, but that's very easy to do as long as the LLM can create the code, which shouldn't be difficult... idk blender's code lang used (i know godot is very python-like), but most code is nowadays some form of cpp (or it is cpp), so with a few-shot it might be even possible to get a cpp trained llm gen the correct code
> create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world.

100s of 1000s of jobs seems a bit exaggerated.
2 parties and 2 choices certainly is a recipe for sending the wrong message.

I'd like to see some ranked choice voting.
They're still using the same label. They're just re-announcing the plans next to the new president.
DHS would fall under “other”.
Great advice. I wasn't aware of showdead. Someone else already found the link I was after but I will keep this technique in mind in case I need it in the future.
This is not necessarily true. In Burdick v. United States it does say "an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a confession of it" but there is debate about whether it is binding of not.

Apparently, there is something in Lorance v. Commandant, U.S. Disciplinary Barracks that indicates that accepting a pardon does not imply guilt, but I am not very knowledge on that.
No, it blocks that by default, but the program offers additional filtering options, too.
>Companies do not extract value,

Oil and minning companies too?
Too bad the post is locked. shout out to Menomonee Falls in the 90s!
Because much like the billionnaires already flanking Trump, the heads of Coinbase and A16Z are out-of-touch charisma black holes that have no clue how to talk to the average Trump voter to get them on their side. Ross Ulbricht is the avatar for their ultimate goal of legitimizing crypto in the US financial system.
CISA's censorship campaign was majorly focused on keeping the mainstream Covid-19 narrative alive: https://reclaimthenet.org/cisa-covid-censorship-industrial-c...

It was highly controversial as many believed it to be unconstitutional breach of the first amendment: https://reclaimthenet.org/fifth-circuit-expands-injunction-a...
FreeBSD 15.0 Aims for Reproducible Builds / Zero-Trust Builds with Fresh Funding
Musk Pours Cold Water on Trump-Backed Stargate AI Project
> are there any uses for crypto other that sanctions busting and drug dealing?

Have you lost your creative muscle completely, or does the hate for cryptocurrency blind you to even be able to evaluate if this bad thing might come with benefits too?

Personally, sending money (legal money, no sanctions nor involving drugs) between South America and Europe got a lot better as people started to learn how to receive/send USDC for example. I think that's the biggest change in my own life between before and after cryptocurrency became more commonplace. So much money spent on fees with Western Union and all those shitty platforms, before you could send USDC in half a minute with minimal fees.
Debugging a Vision Transformer Compilation Issue
Whatever El Salvador is doing might be another one?
Sounds good and noble to me. Most public schools are terrible and should be destroyed.
> If it isn't in writing you are not getting it.

Golden words to live by.
I do think that philosophy fundamentally is intellectual gymnastics, in the sense that it is a game or an art that shouldn't be expected to have any "productive/practical/useful" output.

I also think that philosophy is an extremely valuable human activity worthy of lots of respect, likewise generally with any kind of gymnastics (sports), games or art.

Productivity is not the only reason to live for humans, and many productive people are not driven by productivity. Most scientists and engineers are much more driven by curiosity, mastery, morality or aesthetics (not just visual, but intellectual beauty and elegance). It's generally the same with most ambitious people, sure they may be superficially driven by power or money, but I think it's much more about realizing a certain aesthetic vision of who you want to be as a person.

All of these activities lead to productive outcomes as side-effects. Games are not qualitatively much different, they may just be quantitatively less efficient. And, even if it shouldn't be expected (shouldn't be the reason to do them), they do tend to have some great productive output now-and-then.
Isn't that the old, pre gen alpha definition?
>strong vibes of manual j

In the simplest terms, they're all derived from the heat transfer equation of Q=U*A*deltaT so all load calculation models will seem similar to an extent. It ultimately comes down to how nuanced you want the model to be.

>does it take into consideration heat gain/loss by walls and insulation through the day

Yes, it has factors like heat gain coefficient that are used in conjunction with U-factors, weather, and the orientation of the structure. Most of the more widely used models include those aspects.
> The analysis also showed nearly all 56 exchanges used services from Cloudflare, a global content delivery network based in San Francisco.
Hey, this is a great idea! I've been trying the same thing for my community, but I decided to work at the neighborhood level rather than town level for a lot of the reasons folks mention in this thread. Feel free to shoot me a message through my site, https://www.communityally.org/, I would be happy to chat about my experience if it might help you.