skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, you can't rule out the corruption-like part of the situation.

When you have billions to communicate, and people like Musk have a full global network to brain wash his ideas, obviously a lot of people might be wrongly convinced that they elected the president that defend freedom and efficiency of the institutions to improve their life.

Not realizing that Trump, Musk, are just selfish bastards defending these ideas but only for themselves.
I think they define emergency a bit more widely than we are used to with other providers. For urgent change of router I was notified almost 2 months in advance.

For "real" unplaned emergencies I had in total like 5min of downtime last year, when some other router died.
> You can count on the FBI to protect itself, but never believe that what it is protecting is democracy.

Except the only thing that what makes them different from organized crime is also the shared belief in laws that form and direct them.

> will the FBI continue to enforce yesterday's laws?

If they don't, i.e. if they start to openly pick and choose which laws are valid and which are not, the whole thing will unravel. Laws won't mean anything anymore, and then suddenly the president is just a random dude, the FBI is just a bunch of thugs with guns and suits, and USA is just words on a map.

You don't want to go there.
imagine being energy dependent on a regime that bullies you from Washington, and being asked to increase security spending to 5% of GDP by purchasing US weapons systems. while being told by the same regime they might take over Greenland or the Panama canal.

when putting US foreign policy into perspective over the past 30 (or more depending where you are) years, then aligning with China suddenly looks a lot less awful all of a sudden.
No, how it works.
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This might be a sign of different schools of thought on the matter, but I'd alwys seen it referred to as endosymbiosis (as your article also notes).
Dont think the president want to live in el salvador.
"The over $40 billion USAID managed in FY 2023 was still less than 1% of the federal budget."
I think it's just a fancy description for service accounts, but possibly extended to any kind of access that is used for machine-to-machine interaction rather than for users; I guess tokens used by IoT devices to access an API would also count as NHI. I guess that "Non-Human" doesn't imply any AI around (nor other animals or extraterrestrials, although I guess nobody thought that...).
Can you configure the flipbook FPS?
The hypocrisy of Musk once again in full effect. Anyone who still thinks Musk is out to help anyone but himself, I have a bridge to sell you. It's sitting right next to 'free speech'.

When it comes to these people specifically, they need to be publicly called out. What's happening is unprecedented and possibly illegal. I know most of the press has been bought off or strong-armed to look the other way by the new administration, but at least someone is still doing reporting.
Probably one of the most important Wired articles in years. Surprising it isn't on the front page.
Sadly it was neither of those things, he bought, and received exactly what was expected, the headline was simply click bait.

I only clicked through as I expected something unusually-interesting, but read it anyway because electrified big-kid toys.
Fauci's statement was correct: the NIH does not fund gain-of-function research, according to the definition that has been drawn up to regulate such research.

You seem to think that any manipulation of a virus is "gain-of-function." The technical term that regulators use of "gain of function of concern." There's a specific definition of that term that was drawn up in the 2010s, and that's what NIH applies.
I have strong doubts they will learn anything, if they were capable of that you could expect them to have learned it already.
USA's own stockpile talk is to pump Doge and help the oligarchs get richer.

El Salvador's cryptocurrency was helping other people (not sure if actual citizens), so it had to go.
how are you personally benefiting from the billionaires billions? trickle down is a fairy tale ~ always was.
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I used to do MRI experiments in grad school for neuroscience.

One time, I got curious, and did some back-of-the-envelope math on how much they cost. In NYC, an MRI machine drew as much energy in 20 minutes, as my apartment did in a month.

Between electricity, keeping a superconductor cool, and personnel costs, it cost ~$100/hr in a medical facility, 20 years ago.
This is a link I stumbled on earlier today: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
I still have one from a conference I went! Very awesome swag.
Advance Publications needs to be stopped.
87 points and no comments? Strange!
More like Solana… Eth fees are also way too high.
Zig has some features to make C interop easier (for instance string literals are both ptr/length-slices and zero-terminated), but in general the problems are quite similar to Rust's.

There is a subset of Zig types that is compatible with C APIs, but most higher-level Zig types (like slices, odd-width integer types, optionals, error unions...) can't be tunneled through or mapped to a C API...

The main thing may be that the Zig compiler doesn't track ownership/lifetimes like the Rust compiler does, so it doesn't matter that this information would be lost at the C-API barrier.
Google will tell you how to make sarin. It's not even hard, any idiot can make it in their garage. You can even make it unintentionally when gas welding.
Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the US Constitution is crystal clear on this subject.

DOGE and Musk's appointment are blatantly illegal.
lightsail is just an EC2 instance plus storage. Its pretty much just a VPS. No extra locking. Its what I push people determined to use AWS because of the branding towards.
It's much simpler than that, they simply make selling bitcoin a capital gain event (which it is) and tax it. They could even make a separate special rate for cryptocurrency pretty easily.
Now maybe you think this is easy to avoid, in which case I would ask why you aren't already committing tax fraud.
After seeing Bush in office, the sensible thing to do would have been to reduce presidential power. Nobody bothered. Then again after Trump. Biden didn't do a damn thing to reduce presidential power, knowing what happened and what could happen. Way too late. The judiciary and congress are now both subservient to the president.
>Ultimately who killed JFK or MLK doesn't matter all that much today, except as a matter of historical accuracy.

Come on those would be the most high profile murders in the US in the 20th century?
what's your dns?
Hysteria. Who is paying for these articles? What is going on? There are clear waves of incoherent reaction being engineered.
Laws are nice, when they work, clear and applicable.

It is probably would be as useful, as GDPR. Like of course, it sounds nice on the paper, but in reality it will get drown in a lot of legalize. Like with tracking consent in forms nowadays. Do you know which companies you gave consent and when? - me neither.

The issue with such laws, is that they are extremely wide and hard to regulate/enforce/check. But making regulation would make a few political points. While probably not so useful in real life.

We already do a lot falling under these baskets for years, big tech uses AI for algorithms left and right. "Ooopsie, we removed your youtube channel / application, because our AI system said so. You can talk to another AI system next." - we already have these, but I don't hear any reasonable feedback from EU for this.

Basically, big companies with strong legal departments would find the way around the rules. Small startups would be forced to move.
Maybe HN could do something to incentivize giving feedback?

Something like more karma for participation in "Show HN" thread (and a karma cost for contributing to political posts)? Because it is true that right now it is easy to forget that every HN users have some unstated duty to contribute feedback to shown projects.

Just thinking out oud, but wouldn't it be useful if users also had some "field-of-interest/expertise" that ShowHN submitters could tag in their projects, that would somehow draw the attention of those potentially interrested in it? Because personnaly, one of the things that prevent me from browsing ShowHN more often is that most of the time I don't feel that I have anything of value to contribute ("Meh, your new javascript framework to automatize lense composition for svelte in amazon-lambda looks nice, but I noticed that typo in your homepage").
Yeah but OTOH I’ve just set up a vm host + guest on a N100 minipc for home assistant (migrating from a bare metal pi 4) and while I’m happy with the result, I’ve spent more hours than I’d like or planned to get it working reliably vs click ‘make a vm please’ and have it waiting for an ssh connection after a coffee break.

(Started with proxmox but the installer’s kernel doesn’t have the Ethernet driver and they don’t provide WiFi because it’s stupid for the installed system - but they allow upgrading to a kernel which supports my adapter, so got a bit catch 22’d. Moved to Ubuntu server that would stop booting after creating a bridge interface because ‘waiting for network. no timeout’ and then a few more interesting issues.)
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> These 5 people are our employees.

Part of the problem is we're not sure who is paying them and who ultimately they report to. Are they doing what's best for Musk and his business interests or what's best for the US? Even Altman has called out Musk in a similar fashion.

What's happening now is the exact opposite of transparency and accountability.
Hmm. $13M is three minutes of additional US money printing.

https://budget.house.gov/press-release/us-national-debt-surp...
I understand that... It was just a stupid joke, sorry...
Here is how OWASP define it:

> Non-human identities (NHIs) are used to provide authorization to software entities such as applications, APIs, bots, and automated systems to access secured resources. Unlike human identities, NHIs are not controlled or directly owned by a human. Their identity object and authentication often work differently to human, and common human user security measures do not apply to them.

https://owasp.org/www-project-non-human-identities-top-10/20...
I looked this up and this looks to be thoroughly debunked.
Got a source on that? Didn't realize USAID had so much political weight to throw around.
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A 55 year old learns to keep their hot-headed militant opinions to themselves. But from my experience in the insides they’re no different. And the 55 year old has held those opinions for 40 years and they’re not gonna change.
That.

The impact on commercial, technical, cultural influence of the USA is incredible.

How could we have any insurance that these (personal and professional) US-based infra/tools companies (even AWS, Microsoft, Apple) could be even operating as expected, and in good faith, now that some petulant, inconsequential mixed-business-political leader is able to trigger that level of damage on a whim?
The executive is just going to ignore any court orders.
This happened to me too (Safari on iOS).

Here’s a archived link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250204050500/https://blog.reve...
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Which is why the less Trumpy republicans should have supported the anti gerrymandering acts at the start of Bidens term. The primary problem only exists because of gerrymandering.
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Nothing special, just the secretary of state saying he's going to take "criminal" citizens and send them to overseas prisons. I'm sure they get to come home eventually, and it only applies after a conviction and all the appeals have failed, and it's only for "violent" citizens, not "enemies of the state" or "terrorists". I'm sure the foreign nation has even higher standards for their prisons than we do so nobody will get sick or die over there.
I didn't write that the goal is for this to work out great for you or for anyone you know. It is just that ways and means are clearly being applied, with literacy, towards goals.
A bit more nuance please, Zig doesn't attempt to solve compile-time memory safety like Rust does, but at least it provides spatial runtime memory safety (but also doesn't have a builtin solution for temporal memory safety - except a debug allocator which catches most use-after-free attempts on the heap) - so tl;dr: Zig is much better than C or C++ when it comes to memory safety, but isn't watertight like Rust.
because they started the experiment 20b in debt and have also managed to do a massive crime clean up + survive covid in that time. bitcoin is an overall benefit, but they are burdened but what has been
> I call it frog-boiling because it's easy for me to imagine that one day I would wake up and be horrified by the systems we had inadvertently let spring up around ourselves.

You're already removing the ability of users to vouch. That frog is boiled.

I'm saying tell them on their user page. Include a line that only they can see which says "can no longer vouch" or similar. That way they know what's happened instead of having to guess what's happened.
In a globalized world, every country specializes at what they can do best
You are obviously a far more knowledgeable person than I am, so please don't take the following questions as dismissive of your expertise. I'm genuinely trying to learn.

> for example calling directly from Rust into C without any expression of the semantics means you have no mechanism for reasoning about ownership

Right. But since C cannot express Rust's ownership semantics, could one really do better? Does that mean that as long as there's significant amounts of C in Linux, then Linux should never introduce any language with stronger semantics than C? That seems unfortunate.

> and that removes many of the security benefits of writing code in Rust in the first place.

I've always thought of the idea being that _as long as the necessary manual reasoning is correct_, downstream Rust users _do_ get those benefits. But of course interfacing with C, lacking the necessary semantics, requires the interface writer to manually assure them. Wouldn't anything more demand more than C can deliver?

> If you have a strong description of the semantics of the C code then you can write Rust bindings that expose that, but you're then constraining the maintainers of the C codebase in terms of their ability to make arbitrary changes without considering the impact that has on the Rust consumers.

OK, but that seems like a political/social/organizational aspect far more than a technical problem with C-Rust-interop?
A better link would be the dedicated site for it, also contains introduction which describes what NHI are: https://owasp.org/www-project-non-human-identities-top-10/20...
Advantages of Generating Clojure with LLMs
>Housed on a top-secret mainframe...

So is it System Z?
Hu… no, it is not « normal ». It displays a wild disconnect from the duties of the position (to protect the Constitution, among which).
A subdivision of the United Kingdom, like Virginia is of the United States.
That is not what they did: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

Passing laws to make it harder to vote, and easier to challenge a persons voter registration and ballot, and then running an operative campaign to specifically target voters on the other side of the political spectrum is a bit different than "just politics". Legal, sure. Ethical, moral, fair, absolutely not.
Cantonese is hardly a dying language as there are approximately 110 million native speakers of Cantonese across Southern China, South East Asia and Malaysia. Its status in Hong Kong, on the other hand, is indeed changing due to the HK government having to appease to the central government.

But just like most people in Gwong Dung learn to speak Cantonese as their first language despite having to speak the national language (Mandarin) too, the same will continue in Hong Kong as well. There is just too much history and cultural legacy associated with Cantonese that will keep the language going strong for generations to come, 咁…加油啦！
Loans get issued based on profit generation (or asset value), so no, it is not “to keep them afloat”. You can’t get a loan if your company is not doing well or too risky (that’s why startups raise equity - because they are still too risky for someone to lend them money).

A loan is a form of debt, which is one of the two main forms of capital - the other main one being equity. Debt is less expensive than equity, so companies prefer to issue to raise capital via debt than equity.
What's your point? This is what the regular JVM/HotSpot has been doing for ages (and GraalVM, too). Whereas native-image does AOT, with optional profile-guided optimization to identify hotspots on the fly.
Can you share a few more details about your company (e.g. a website)?
So it's fair to say that I'm pretty much worms that walk.

HP would be absolutely thrilled to know that. Or maybe terrified out of his mind. One of the two for sure.
>The goal of Trump, Musk and co. is to make life better for the rich.

I mean that feels right. But, they have more money than they can spend. They can make their lives better by stopping being so greedy... it's not about better.

It's greed. It's the number on their total net worth, or some other bullshit number.

It's exactly like Musk paying others to play games to get him the best apparent player character. He pays others to earn money to make him look, to himself, like the best fascist-capitalist oligarch, or whatever he's going for.

In reality, their lust for boosting some vanity metric is most closely aligned with "make life worse for the poor". Because whilst they do pay some top employees well, the whole pyramid sits on the exploitation of many millions more poor people who, through their greed, the capitalists push down further into the bloody, stinking, fetid soup below.

Oh, and the capitalists rape the planet too... just to make sure no lining thing escapes the accretion zone of their self-destructive insecurity.
The (well known) problematic bit about AI is that it furthers the diffusion of responsibility that already became so commonplace with computers.

People can just handwave catastrophic decisions away with a "the computer made an error, nothing we can do". This has been the case before AI, the differrnce AI makes is just that more decisions are going to be affected by this.

What we need is to make the (legal) buck stop somewhere, ideally in a place that can positively change things. If you’re a civil engineer and your bridge collapses, because you fucked up the material selection, you go to jail. If you are a software engineer and you make design decisions in 2025 that would have had severe security implications in the 80s — and then this leads to the leaking of millions of medical records you can still YOLO it off somehow and go to work on the next thing.

The buck has to stop somewhere with software and it doesn't really. I know that is a feature for a certain type of person, but it actively makes the world worse.
New stories routinely come out about the highest paid people in colleges typically being the head football coaches. The conservative media has been railing on academic administrator salaries for years.
For LLMs we have "for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments".
why strange, you really wanted to see my comment
"nice article with good research"? but I am not a hardware guy so it might be filled with mistakes.
That made me laugh out loud for some reason haha

Indeed!
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