skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the "drops in the bucket" mindset is the problem, the federal government absurdly overspends

The federal government almost certainly does absurdly overspend, but you’re missing the point: all of these drops in the bucket add up to far less than the deficit.

Also, for better or for worse, operating departments efficiently may well be the executive branch’s job, but setting all these budgets is Congress’s job, not the executive branch’s. In fact, Congress tried, not all that long ago, to allow the President to veto specific line items, and the Supreme Court struck it down:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_v._City_of_New_York
The U.S. has also become ridiculously expensive.

Yeah the dollar is stronger which is great to buy imports.

But you cannot import housing, most healthcare, most services like cooks, cleaners and bartenders.
In this direct to FCM model, does the application running on the untrusted user's device need to embed any sensitive credentials?

What prevents someone else from impersonating my app or other users on my app?
While the music played you worked by candlelight
Those San Francisco nights
You were the best in town
Just by chance you crossed the diamond with the pearl
You turned it on the world
That's when you turned the world around

Did you feel like Jesus?
Did you realize
That you were a champion in their eyes?

On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene
But yours was kitchen clean
Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home
Every A-Frame had your number on the wall
You must have had it all
You'd go to L.A. on a dare
And you'd go it alone

Could you live forever?
Could you see the day?
Could you feel your whole world fall apart and fade away?
in lieu of a cron server, I use scheduled jobs without any issues for a few production workloads on azure devops (AKA gh actions 0.1).
Reading the description of that book on Amazon — and skimming some reviews— makes it sound pseudo-science-y.
Unfortunately no DMCA exemption yet.

https://gamehistory.org/dmca-2024-statement/
Wake up babe. A new Beej’s guide just dropped.
Wow 200 page guide on git.
I had a daydream about programming with an LLM as something more like driving a car than typing, e.g. constant steering, changing gears and so on
> Federal employees working at the level these guys appear to be currently working are always ripe to have their names and photographs in public reporting, yes. This is not "doxxing", it is just reporting on the government.

It absolutely is doxxing according to the dictionary definition[1] of "to publicly identify or publish private information about (someone) especially as a form of punishment or revenge".

These are also not high-level senior officials or elected officials or those with public-facing personas - these are technical engineers whose positions do not mean that they are "always ripe to have their names and photographs in public reporting".

> Even if there was an effort to keep this information secret, it would almost certainly be subject to FOIA requests.

This is just factually wrong. Exemption 6 to FOIA[2] is "Information that, if disclosed, would invade another individual’s personal privacy." - which in practice means personnel names, among other things.

That's three falsehoods in a single paragraph.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doxxing

[2] https://www.justice.gov/d9/what_are_the_9_foia_exemptions.pd...
This research doesn't do that. It focuses on CBRN and does so so narrowly that until they removed "BRN" from CBRN it was refusing 44% of requests made to the model.
I think that nearly everyone who has an iPhone (at least who didn't get their phone deeply discounted second-hand) has a payment method set up with Apple. I don't remember the numbers from when I had to know ~5 years ago, but it was in excess of 95% in the US.
Well, first and foremost, Sandstorm uses Cap'n Proto because Cap'n Proto was built, first and foremost, to enable Sandstorm. :) Though of course, now it also powers Cloudflare Workers and a bunch of other things.

My favorite explainer on the object capability model is... the first half of this exceptionally long page: http://habitatchronicles.com/2017/05/what-are-capabilities/ It's worth the read, but read it when you have time to sit down.

So access to apps or documents by users, as well as those apps and documents being able to reach out to other resources, is all generally wrapped in capabilities.

I think as a self-hosting platform, the biggest advantages of Sandstorm is that we force developers to provide a no-config-file, no-sysadmin-required experience, so Sandstorm is probably the only self-hosting platform currently intended to be used by people who are not tech people. This naturally flows into some other things: If you don't have a sysadmin running it, it needs to be really secure (capabilities) and very good at self-managing it's own performance.

So Sandstorm apps do not consume any resources unless you are accessing them. Everything is spun up and closed down on demand. And the platform's security model not only means vulnerabilities in apps mostly aren't exploitable and apps don't need to be patched, but Sandstorm strives to safely allow non-technical users to install and run potentially even malicious apps without risk.
Wow 200+ pages, will def have fun sifting thru this one. Thanks!
These goons are already being called Bobs in honor of Office Space.
Do you think that Evite getting more and more aggressive about getting people to pay them for sending evites was partially because they knew this was happening? Or do you think them sucking so much was what made Apple think they could fix the problem? And what do you think the poor founders of Partiful are drinking tonight?
It's just incredibly inefficient if there's any other alternative.

Doing 4 sprints over 2 months to make a prototype in order to save 3 60 minute meetings over a week where you do a few requirements analysis/proposal review cycles.
You might already know the term Digital Garden, but I think it'd be of interest as well if you haven't.
Exactly. Freeways and airports and fallow fields fully paid for. Cheap imports and complete and utter physical security. BLM land to hunt and graze and drill and fell. Rivers that don't catch on fire, not even a little bit. And it would be so much better without the got-damn'd feds.
Carefully re-read my comments. AND read the links I provided. It will be a good educational experience.
In the early 2000s, nearing the launch of The Sims Online, Oracle sent their sales team to Maxis. I was a newish employee and wasn't involved in the decision process, but I overhead much of the conversation (my desk was just outside Will Wright's office[1]). Every time the Oracle rep said "if you invest in RAC..." (emphasis theirs) I absolutely cringed at the blatant attempt at NLP.

They bought it, and it was a disaster. Turns out you can't just take a system designed without partitioning in mind and put it on a distributed database. Not that it mattered; the system saw a tiny fraction of its expected usage. The whole game was an absurd amount of money spent on nothing.

To this day I have never used another Oracle product.

[1] I don't think Will Wright was involved in that decision either; I think he was fully checked-out by then and in any case ops wasn't his bailiwick. The conversation just happened to take place in his office.
I’m guessing they think the answer is robots? Same answer for armies.
Beavers get it. You can just do things.
https://magicloops.dev/ ?
This problem spans the sciences, not just ML. In the ML space I can see the IP issue people might claim given the commercial potential these days, but given that the same reproducibility issue arises in domains with no obvious IP protection motivation, that seems like a weak cause. In my experience the incentive just isn’t there to do the work to make stuff reproducible. Very few people get in much trouble if their work isn’t reproducible since most papers get very few reads and even fewer readers who would try to replicate it. I think publication venues (conferences, journals) should make artifacts a mandatory requirement for publishing.
I'm not at all a fan of the tactic of blocking highways as a protest move, I think that's not the same thing as a riot -- it's civil disobedience.

The link that I shared explicitly pointed out that the riot was started by a white supremacist. It's documented and a fact. So were dealing with 1+N cases here.

> Near me, I would say all of them that were riots were that way on purpose.

Look, it worked. It has framed BLM in millions of peoples minds as just black people rioting, and who wants to support riots eh?

Edit: research proving the peaceful intent of protests: https://acleddata.com/2020/09/03/demonstrations-political-vi...
That's only true in a very myopic sense. You don't get the US economy (and all of the benefits that come from that) without science and technology and basic research funding.
It's a slippery slope, considering that they're also known for building houses without getting shadow assessments done, going through years of permitting approvals, or ensuring it matches the character of the neighborhood. Criminals.
History has shown that _bad_ education about substances doesn't work, as most kids know that pot rarely turns you into an axe wielding homicidal maniac. Educate using the truth - pot probably won't turn you crazy, but it might cost a lot of money and waste a lot of time.
Not the person you asked, but it's dependent on what you're trying to chunk. I've written a standalone chunking library for an app I'm building: https://github.com/rmusser01/tldw/blob/main/App_Function_Lib...

It's setup so that you can perform whatever type of chunking you might prefer.
I wouldn't even mind paying extra for the Amazon return policy, but I hate the dozens of listings for the same product.
“and keep those damn Samsung (android) users away”

what is unsaid but implied here.
> if you are merely silent that means you waive your right to remain silent.

This is not my reading. For those who want to read the actual details: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/560/370/

Here are some nuggets from the case:

"At no point during the interrogation did Thompkins say that he wanted to remain silent, that he did not want to talk with the police, or that he wanted an attorney."

"Thompkins did not say that he wanted to remain silent or that he did not want to talk with the police. Had he made either of these simple, unambiguous statements, he would have invoked his “ ‘right to cut off questioning.’ ” Mosley, supra, at 103 (quoting Miranda, supra, at 474). Here he did neither, so he did not invoke his right to remain silent."

Omitting pertinent information is the tool of debate not of discourse.
Even during the darkest days, IBM made reliable unkillable overengineered stuff.

Oracle has been making only lawsuits for a while.
Well my last successful NSF award certainly uses the word polarization... In the context of electromagnetic fields....
> one time is really all it takes to cause serious psychological changes

So its the same as seeing your own mother naked
Heh. Can one eliminate the high from THC without removing its other impacts? This would be akin to taking pills preventing alcohol inebriation.

(Or, use high school freshman for the study and really convincing upperclassmen as actors to convince them it is a real bag.)
As a seventh generation American and 17 year Air Force veteran (long separated), I’m suggesting everybody the US who has any skills, talent, sociability or empathy to leave the United States as quickly as possible.

I think that that’s probably the best route for anybody who is currently in America and doesn’t want to deal with the next 20 to 50 years of total deprivation.

Unfortunately some of us can’t leave so the best most people can do is find some place safe to land.
Tbf imessage also allows people to message non iOS users but apparently the ‘color of the bubble’ has been a big thing in the U.S. among youth.
I agree it can cause those effects but it always seemed to me that the weed is just causing sleep deprivation which eventually leads to psychosis. IME it's not much different from alcohol in that way, they both disturb REM sleep so you end up deprived with daily use. It's just more apparent with weed because you don't get the hangover effects, so it's easy to overuse.
> If it actually stops the current large scale humanitarian disaster

There is absolutely no chance that it "stops" the large scale humanitarian disaster; the only thing on the table here is continuing the large scale humanitarian disaster to the exact same conclusion that Israel wanted.

> That they even seriously discuss nazi-like population displacement is insane, but this entire situation has become so desperate, and the Israel government has been given so much leniency by every western government... that this lunacy is still better than the inevitable results of letting israel have free reigns over Gaza.

Never forget that you said this; perhaps at least you will learn a lesson from it.
That sounds... pretty fun
What particular type system featured do you miss? I think Elm proved that a restricted type system DOES WORK for large amounts of software. It's been a few years since I've written Elm, so I don't recall specific painful memories I've had with the type system.

One thing that makes Go's restrictive type system more bearable is a fantastic stlib package for analyzing and generating Go code. I wonder if Roc will get anything similar.
Oh give the “goodwill, friendship and solidarity line” a rest. Canada has opposed the US many, many times (as is its right), so no need for the “but our feelings are really hurt” line.

Canadians aren’t stupid. They’ve been living next to the US for centuries and experienced the ebb and flow of its decisions.

It comes across as just so whiney.
Hey now, don't forget Mexico and Panama on that list!
> There's a difference between building nukes vs. building amphibious assault ships and transports.

Nukes have essentially zero "defense" purposes. Yet all the great powers have them. It's called "good defense policy." All great powers do this.

> Pretending like Chinese needs to stockpile amphibious assault capabilities for defensive purposes is sticking your head in the sand.

Pretending that building out a military = instant invasion is paranoia.

Take a look at the USA military posture, including in Asia. See what forces are available.

So this means the USA is prepared to invade China any minute now? Plus nuke China, Russia because of the nukes?
That's great!
I'm also currently developing a product to execute workflows with AI agents, so I understand those challenges very well.
Deepfake videos are getting good
They literally worship the flag.

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

― George Carlin
Reasons for Cannabis Use Among Youths at Ultra High Risk for Psychosis (2013)
The \ is a simplified lambda, because most programmers can't type λ easily.
Interesting. I read an article stating the opposite.

That to organise effective action on the ground, smart protesters were distracting the anti violence bleeding hearts while discussing and implementing more effective actions.

In particular it was stated that part of those particular riots were a distraction to (successfully iirc) lure the cops away from the police station.
> They supported scale-out clustering on linux with Oracle RAC.

That never worked right. Amazon got burned trying to use it, Sberbank in Russia went down hard for several days because RAC just crashed, etc.
That seems unlikely
Debt can’t increase to infinity, true - but that does not mean it can’t be a finite number indefinitely.

And the current finite number is nowhere close to causing a crisis for the US (Japan had two and a half times GDP in debt and did not collapse into hyperinflation or some other catastrophic fate, for example).
Personally? Like with their mouth or hands?
Steve Jobs conversation with the Comcast CEO [video] (2008)
The color of the bubble is, at least partially, a security feature for me. When it’s blue, I am certain there is a person on the other end, not a bot, spammer, ai, etc…
Conversation about how there’s a critical shortage of ATCs is at least a decade old, and likely older. “Best time to plant a tree” and all that.
DBeaver – AI Smart Assistance
I knew a few people when I was young (20s) that "pot does nothing" to them. Then one day they took a toke from a joint going round and were totally munged.

I've seen it a few times, and I have no idea why it's like that for some people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick_rotation
This is useful to me because a) it still allows http basic auth, which is disabled by policy in my workplace for Edge/Blink, and b) because it otherwise allows dual logins and credentials to the same site, in the same browser.
This is definitely not the case. Half these people had no connection whatsoever to “cultural doctrine” and a number were extremely conservative and completely mainstream before they started smoking late in life. As I mentioned one takes this same attitude to sports betting, another family member is always passing me some highly unconventional investment tip he’s just learned about from some random guy.

I’ve seen this pattern emerge time and again over decades in people with completely different backgrounds. It expresses itself in different ways but smoking absolutely rewires your brain, makes you more receptive to “secret insider information”.
You may be interested in Rust language proposals for local memory allocators and "storages"; they may be enough for something very much like this. The lifetime concept in Rust is quite close already to that of a "region", i.e. an area of memory that the lifetime can pertain to.
Are acid flashbacks real? I thought that was an urban myth.. I've never had one and I don't think I've ever encountered someone who has. It seems like one of those drug war era scare tactics or viral rumours.
I failed the assessment, RIP
But who maintains the robots! Lol
Nitters up: https://nitter.net/search?f=users&q=elonmusk

They just closed a single API which was also abused by botfarms. Closing the API immediately improved the site from a spam perspective and was welcome by most actual users, likely all users who understood the impact.

This is pure cope - the site is doing a TON more than it used to, and more stable than ever.

Also arguing that a site that is designed to scrape and re-represent a website without ads or other stuff 'was likely a huge load' is a very weird argument to try and claim the site is no longer being used.

I can say anecdotally I used to use nitter, and while it didn't work for a few days I switched to the regular site. Now I would never go back. The actual site works better now, I have no need. On old twitter 1.0, nitter worked better.

Thats a black eye on Dorsey twitter, not the new twitter (or X or whatever you prefer)
No, he didn't.

The final video available is titled "Handmade Hero Day 667 - Simplified Tile Occupancy Checking", and ends with Casey explaining his plan for next week's session.

Visiting handmadehero.org gives a message saying:

> Handmade Hero is currently on hiatus. The original set of daily source code archives can still be purchased here for those that are trying to follow along with the original series. You can also follow Casey's current programming courses at computerenhance.com.
> We hope to have more information in the near future about whether we will resume the series or replace it with a newly-designed one that better provides the educational benefits people ended up wanting.
The main flaw of The Network State is the concept of reverse diaspora.

The idea that multiple people with no shared background will magically come together and collaborate to the extent that they can form an scalable movement that results in a meatspace state that is one cohesive collaborative unit.

Whenever a group of people pool their effort and resources together, another group of opportunistic people will try to take advantage.

The Network State is inspired by cryptocurrencies, which are often affected by predatory speculative behavior. Pyramid schemes, pump and dump schemes, rug pulls, etc.

The more resources and effort are pooled together, and the more power is accrued, the higher the incentive for competitors to arise, both internal and external.

And this flaw is the aspect shared with most utopian theories that expect everyone to collaborate do not account for simple game theory. Give enough incentives and the doves turn into hawks.

Another flaw is that by having a highly sparse geographical distribution, the political representation of their members and the likelihood they will gain enough influence to take over tends to zero unless each member can attain local leadership and influence.

At most, that can get that to scale to city-states, but city-states are almost always vassal states.
This is going to utterly fuck so many R&D projects at my company. We actually do large-scale manufacturing of industrial valves in the USA. But a lot of our prototyping involves working with Chinese suppliers and getting small batches of samples / prototypes / revisions sent in packages on airplanes.

I literally do not know how the electrical and firmware engineers will do their jobs now if we cannot receive packages from China. It's going to halt all our R&D for at least 6 months while we onboard domestic contractor alternatives --- which will also just generally be shit. Not to mention the American contractors WONT BE ABLE TO SHIP IN THE FUCKING ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS FROM CHINA THEY NEED FOR THE PROTOTYPES.

Every single R&D department in the USA just got fuuuuuuuuucked by this.
Totally different type of latency. A person with a motor disability dragging a puzzle piece with their finger will look very different from an AI model being called frame by frame.
If you're working from the markup rather than the appearance of the page, you're probably increasing the incentives for metacrap, "invisible text spam" and similar tactics.
Part of my point was that "check for contention" is often a silly thing to do in the first place, when you can just avoid it entirely (and with simpler code too).

Admittedly, Java is fundamentally incapable of half of the solutions, but making a simple bump allocator (called once per statistic at startup) over per-thread arrays is still possible.
my understanding is that native compile isn't shipping a jit, but is running the jitted code that was produced during compilation. However, if your code is so "dynamic" (aka, has lots of deeply nested inheritance) that it slows down procedure calls from so many levels of indirection, then a JVM runtime will jit a better version of native code when running using runtime information (such as jump directly to the correct virtual function instead of indirection). The compiled version do not have access to this runtime information, so you can't get this sort of optimization.

However, for "simple" code (like arithmetic, or manipulation of bits, arrays etc), i think it's pretty much the same.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42930639
> still mystified if switching between the different base model matters, besides o1 pro always seeming to fail to execute the Deep Research tool.

You mean when it says it's going to research and get back to you and then ... just doesn't?
A new Beej guide? In this economy!?
whats the part youre disagreeing with?

the context to me still says that remaining silent does not invoke the right to silence.

unless tou break your silence to aay that you intend to be silent, yiu will be prosecuted for your silence
At least for China they have an environmental plan far and away better than the US’s “what do the rich want to do?”.