skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just ask yourself if this AI generated software is what you want managing your bank account or the monitor next to your bed in the hospital. The lack of determinism makes LLMs unsuited for many tasks where precise outcomes are necessary.
We have a court system, it's just slower and draws far fewer headlines than the executive branch. The Trump administration EO banning birthright citizenship was put on hold. A U.S. District Court judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the OMB payments freeze for grants and other programs, which actually forced the administration to rescind the order. Don't believe the Trump admin when they claim they have the power to do something, they quite often simply don't.
Show HN: I made activities from the Science of Wellbeing into an app
Can you give me examples of services you think DOGE will cut that the economy depends on? Genuinely asking. I assume we have different mental models of what will go away.

When I think of spending cuts, I think of: USAID (23B), that rural fiber project (42.5B) and the electric charging stations (7B), stuff like that. I have a hard time imagining that these are net economic positives, but I am sure you have different services in mind that would be worse to cut. My impression is that the government is actually full of waste. I certainly don't feel like the citizens receive 8T of value in return for the taxes we pay.
The US has the death penalty, all implementations of which have been demonstrated to qualify as cruel by most people's definitions (e.g. the chemical method is not in any way based on science but rather pumping the victim full of overdoses of chemicals known to kill them, contrary to popular misconceptions it's not like being put down by a vet but more like suffocating until your brain shuts off).

Given the state of the US prison industrial complex, I also wouldn't be surprised if the prisons El Salvador would provide for US citizens are at least up to par during the likely contractually required inspections. They wouldn't need to be as good as the average US prison, they would only need to be no worse than the worst US prison.
> The IMF are an arm of the US "diplomatic" apparatus.

No, they aren't.

> The charitable interpretation of how they operate looks like this:

You misspelled “conspiratorial”, and it's not even the most reasonable conspiracy theory.
Improving MongoDB Queries by Simplifying Boolean Expressions
Ships can also loiter and provide better cargo capacity for that sustained presence compared to aircraft which is it's own benefit. To replicate that with an air based carrier you'd have to have more of them flying in shifts to maintain presence and coverage of the area.
No offense but this is a good demonstration of a common mistake tech people (especially those used to common law systems like the US) engage in when looking at laws (especially in civil law systems like much of the rest of the world): you're thinking of technicalities, not intent.

If you use Copilot to generate code by essentially just letting it autocomplete the entire code base with little supervision, yeah, sure, that might maybe fall under this law somehow.

If you use Copilot like you would use autocomplete, i.e. by letting it fill in some sections but making step-by-step decisions about whether the code reflects your intent or not, it's not functionally different from having written that code by hand as far as this law is concerned.

But looking at these two options, nobody actually does the first one and then just leaves it at that. Letting an LLM generate code and then shipping it without having a human first reason about and verify it is not by itself a useful or complete process. It's far more likely this is just a part of a process that uses acceptance tests to verify the code and then feeds the results back into the system to generate new code and so on. But if you include this context, it's pretty obvious that this indeed would describe an "AI system" and the fact there's generated code involved is just a red herring.

So no, your gotcha doesn't work. You didn't find a loophole (or anti-loophole?) that brings down the entire legal system.
At the end of the video there is a non-pinhole camera demo; could someone explain what exactly is different about this camera?

I.e. what exactly the video is showing? And what would the video look like if that was a pinhole camera?
You'd think the threat of having your bank accounts frozen and armed law enforcement officers showing up at your door were the most significant factors in making people "less averse" to paying taxes. I doubt reducing the barriers to filing your taxes correctly makes anyone happier about having to pay taxes either.
Because classified records don't always come with expiration dates on their classification status for obvious reasons - even if records are classified for a speficic reason you'd probably want to make sure that reason doesn't still apply ten, twenty or fifty years later. You seem to assume the default is for information not to be classified. The right question to ask is: what incentive would there have been to declassify them earlier?

As others have said, declassification is a process, not a rubber stamp. Declassified records can reference things which are still classified so you need to go through each document line by line and check for such references to make sure they're blanked. Likewise if you want to be particularly helpful you'd have to also go through all previously declassified documents referencing this document and then un-blank their references and republish them, though I doubt that often happens in practice.
Not the person you're replying to and I don't work for the MTA but some of the radio boxes you are seeing are likely Ultra Wideband radio beacons used for train positioning.

Similar concept to GPS but instead of satellites (which aren't so good when the trains go underground or even when they are above ground but have high building skyline obstructions) the train positions itself based on time-of-flight pings to these beacons with known locations and using multilateration to figure out where the train must be based on the distance information.

Source: Working for a company in San Diego (but travelling to NYC often) I wrote a now surely obsolete version of the positioning code (running in MISRA C on what were basically Raspberry Pi devices installed on the trains) back during the proof of concept phases of this system when it was only the 7 line 5-ish years ago back when Andy Byford was still running things.

Spent a lot of late nights on 7 line trains doing real world tests (exciting when we tested the failsafes and the train had to e-brake!) and had to get trained up to be able to walk the rail lines as we'd often be installing the track-side beacons ourselves during low traffic transit times (which is to say, usually in the middle of the night).

If you watch the video here:

https://www.railwayage.com/news/positioning-the-next-generat...

and go to 1:32 you can very briefly see another thing I wrote there, an app which would take the positioning information in real time and overlay it on to openstreetmaps data.

That app was written in Qt/C++ and wasn't even really part of the system, it was just something I wrote to make it easier to debug any problems with positioning when we could visualize them in a real world context. Generally the only time you'd have positioning errors to debug were due to some of the beacons having incorrect coordinates (I'm sure they've ironed this out a lot since the PoC). The debug app ended up being nice and flashy for the media attending the PoC demos though (more exciting to look at than some text logs) which was a nice side benefit.
The nebulous use of fraudulent is doing some rather heavy lifting here.
As an analog, I believe South Korean terrestrial armaments companies are doing the same thing with Poland, in order to gain access to European buyers. (Granted, Poland also has a labor cost advantage in Europe)
How would a default VS Code installation download the extension then? You don't need to log in with your MS account in VS Code.
> Graphene Flagship was an irredeemable disaster

According to whom, based on which metric?

This is foundational material and chemistry research, with UK, Germany and Spain at the forefront for an industry which will probably need another 10 years to fully unfold.

For sure other China and US were able to invest more, but should the EU have not invested at all?

> Clean Sky Joint Undertaking was also a disaster

Also here, based on which metric?

The cost was split in half among the EU and industry players, and those companies (i.e. Airbus, Saab, Rolls-Royce, Safran, Liebherr, Thales) are all still at the forefront of their respective industries, despite competition from much larger markets.
It's a sensible strategy to support them while steering aspects of their R&D towards a specific set of common goals for the EU.

Yeah, among others they had a goal of achieving a 50% cut in CO2 emissions just by improving fuel efficiency, a quite ambitious goal they didn't reach. But they set and co-funded the direction and achieved a 30% reduction.

They also had a goal of achieving 50% noise reduction for aircrafts, and ultimately developed concepts with up to 70% lower noise-production. Without such funding I doubt that such research would have even been conducted.

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So yes, there's a much larger list of failed Horizon projects, fully agree. And many of them shouldn't even exist in hindsight. But it's research, it's supposed to be an uncertain field with uncertain commercial value. I rather have the EU fund 5 moonshots with 3 of them questionable than decide to not fund any research in Europe unless the commercial value is first proven by someone else.

There are areas I don't know how they would even be funded by a for-profit market without such initiatives, like the Rail Joint Undertaking which aims to develop and harmonize the European rail system across borders of EU countries.
You mean an index fund?
This guy is wrong and this comment gives as much reason to believe me as he's given to believe him.
It's a shame Spotify is just going to get killed by large music groups and anti-competitive platforms from Google and Apple.

Spotify pays out 80% of its money to its creators, but you effectively have large middle men in the way.

Apple and Google don't even need to turn a profit on their platforms, and both of them are hurting Spotify directly by taking 30% of their subscription payments. Neither of them even directly report revenue from their services.

Think about it, Apple or Google make more net profit from Spotify subscriptions than Spotify does.

Meanwhile, TikTok only pays per the number of videos using your music, not the number of times the videos are played. The only worse deal for artists would to not be paid at all...
Hey! Just wanted to say thank you for wireguard :)

Hope you find a host soon!
In finance, nothing is illegal if the profits outweigh the fines.

Citaldel paid handsomely for order-flow information from Robinhood. They made a lot of money off retail traders. They paid a fine IIRC equivalent to a few day's profits.
Some quick ideas:

- Multiple links in the same post make it difficult to organize discussions and thoughts.

- Monthly posts require extra effort to maintain and update, which didn't align with our initial goal of sharing more casually and recording our thoughts in real time.

- Modern static site generators support maintaining archive pages by month, so we no longer need to do it manually.

Hoping those ideas make sense to you.
The IMF isn't run by the US any more than it is run by Russia or any of the other major members (those that have their own executive-director rather than being in a group that together shares one.)
I never, and I mean NEVER, want to hear someone talk about "cancel culture" of the left ever again.
Well, did he fire 90% of engineering team? I don't think so. That's the critical piece of mass thinking you are missing.
Ex-Palantir engineers think they can beat tech giants at the AI agent game
Red Hat's gambit has always been to hire engineers to do good work on Linux broadly, in many areas. As opposed to just dropping crates full of money at random on projects

Of course they still get tarred and feathered with the "Red Hat wants to control Linux!" brush because they...contribute the bulk of development to projects like GNOME
Talos Principle was especially bad in terms of inducing motion sickness! I normally do not get motion sickness, but even with the motion sickness reduction settings turned on, I could not play it for more than 15-20 mins at a time.
I can definitely find you autistic people who would hate having such a device pointed at them, because they don't mask the ""correct"" emotional state well enough.
Maybe I'm out of touch, but aren't women under the 'I' in DEI hires? They are a sub-target of DEI and are not exclusively being targeted?
It depends if you think there's a difference between a self-formed likely illegal group, doing likely illegal things for ideological purposes getting reported on by a reputable news source, and a civil servant who has been doing their assigned job getting picked on personally and publicly by one of the most powerful people in America who owns the media site he is using to attack them.

I see those as different in reality. We can argue that semantically they can get twisted around as the same thing (government employees getting publicly named in a critical way), but that ignores extremely relevant real-world circumstances.
Mysterious 'Chirping' Waves Detected 100k Miles Above Earth
I’m someone who was, uh, skeptical of the DEI stuff. One of my biggest complaints was that it seemed to be much ado about nothing. Re-writing laws and policies to fill them with fluff.

This is EXACTLY the same thing, it is 100% virtue signaling and we are burning so much time, money, and goodwill on fucking bullshit nonsense

Meanwhile the economy is in shambles, the executive branch is systematically destroying the rest of the government, and China and Russia grow ever stronger and ever more disdainful of us

I would elect a black trans president in a heartbeat if I thought they could win the inevitable conflict over Taiwan. It IS an existential threat and the most immediate one meaning it is the HIGHEST PRIORITY

And before anyone starts pointing fingers I did not vote for Trump in any election
There are no remaining checks and balances; the Republicans control all three branches of government and will pardon everyone involved.
> You wouldn't start by looking at a giant list of wire transfers from/to the company's bank accounts

Might be the first data you secure though.
Not everybody pays for subscription through those platforms afaik
I have a kid and a full-time job. I think you would have to learn a bit about energy management -- doing the most important thing in the morning or any time you are undisturbed and free of anxiety.

I can sacrifice a couple of hours after 10pm when my kid sleeps but I feels exhausted doing that for a few weeks. I'm trying to get up early, maybe around 5am so I can enjoy 2 hours of free time between 5:20 and 7:20, when I need to get my kid and wife out of bed. The ultimate plan is to move up to 4:30am so I have an extra 30 mins to make breakfast, exercise and shower.

It's tough. Good luck. If you don't have a kid, you should aim for 4 hours at least. Build up slowly. Manage your workload so you don't feel exhausted after work. 2 hours in the morning + 2 hours in the night are reasonable.
> And that Microsoft fixed it?

By becoming itself spyware.

And fixed it... Croudstrike, updates who won't install, ransomware, it even clicks on your links.
I think in the medium-term future we will have our own real-life Butlerian Jihad against thinking machines. Maybe they won’t be outright banned, but there needs to be some conservative force that pushes back against progress for the sake of “because we can”. Is this legislation premature? Maybe. But I don’t think it will be the last or the the most comprehensive within our lifetimes.
How many of those nerds who role play as air traffic controllers on flight simulations at home qualified to do it for real? How much extra training would they need?
What claims do you think needed some extra evidence in that parageaph?
From experience, regulation as an explanation for EU startup competitiveness is overused so much it's almost meaningless. Can you point out specific laws that you consider existential for startups?

What I find matters way, way more is two factors:

- Concentration of capital. The US has an ecosystem of wealthy people that want to put their money somewhere. This is good for startups, but can also backfire as we can see in the news.

- Unified market. EU is not a single market, it's several dozen markets with different regulations, different languages, and different cultures. You can't sell the same B2C product with the same marketing in Germany, Spain, and Sweden as easily as you can in California, Ohio, and Texas.
It's not that simple. Congress can't specify every pen and pencil expense, so they allocate large buckets. The executive can decide how each bucket is spent. Like when your mom gives you $20 to go to the movies. She doesn't care what movie you see, but she'd be mad if you skipped the movies and spent it on weed.
Predict or react to index changes faster than the funds that are compelled to follow the index.

But you can't front run shares of mutual funds; they always trade at close of business at NAV.

You could potentially front run ETFs, but if you're worried about that, you can use limit orders and get the price you want or not transact. As long as you use a competent broker that offers limit orders.
To be clear as there’s a lot of nuance. Assert unchecked is telling the compiler the condition must always hold. The optimizer and compiler don’t make any assumption about the assert. That information is then used by the compiler to optimize away checks it otherwise would have to do (eg making sure an Option is Some if you call unwrap).

If you have an assumption that gives unhelpful information, the optimizer will emit panic code. Worse, if the assumption is incorrect, then the compiler can easily miscompile the code (both in terms of UB because of an incorrectly omitted panic path AND because it can miscompile surprising deductions you didn’t think of that your assumption enables).

I would use the assume crate for this before this got standardized but very carefully in carefully profiled hotspots. Wrapping it in a safe call as in this article would have been unthinkable - the unsafe needs to live exactly where you are making the assumption, there’s no safety provided by the wrapper. Indeed I see this a lot where the safety is spuriously added at the function call boundary instead of making the safety the responsibility of the caller when your function wrapper doesn’t actually guarantee any of the safety invariants hold.
The Paper Cut Problem in Software Development
> People don’t, or should not be made to, sign up to support an organization with a definite position about everything under the sun.

I agree. This is about one particular issue: whether they're going to continue hanging out at the Nazi bar, and as someone who doesn't hang out there, I for one appreciate learning their stance on it. It's a very important issue, and as you said above, it is absolutely the virtuous thing to do.

> This would seem to me to be the opposite of diversity, a value they claim to support.

If your definition of "diversity" includes treating white supremacists, Christian nationalists, rapists, violent criminals, etc on equal ground as everyone else, I think you should carefully examine your own morality.
Musk appears to have thought so, quite recently.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858916546338590740
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Microsoft 365's VPN feature will be shut off at the end of the month
Fidelity's "Zero" funds are great, but only for specific scenarios IMO. They can't be held outside Fidelity accounts, so what happens if you get caught up in some KYC nonsense and Fidelity closes your account? Are you forced to liquidate and incur capital gains? There are also some embedded tax efficiencies inherent to ETFs, like 351 exchanges, which aren't popular now, but may become popular in the future. TBH, this mainly applies to taxable accounts. For nontaxable accounts, Zero funds don't have much downside.
Specific actions "by an uncleared individual" may in fact be illegal, not merely a bad idea.
I’m not sure you know what SOX is.
James Webb and Hubble telescopes unite to solve 'impossible' planet mystery
Normally the way you maintain China power equipment is that you go on Amazon or any other retail channel that sells junk from China and punch in your broken part or worn service part. These machines are usually loose integrations of the same sort of commodity hardware that gets packaged for retail sale and stacked on the shelves of Tractor Supply or shipped to you via Amazon. Sprockets, hoses, pins, valves, levers, seats, basically everything except the big weldments. The engines are generally Brigs or Predator clone depending on how the importer specs them but they're nothing special and any comparable engine would work.

The fact that the author is trumpeting the fact that he as a dealer has parts tells me that there's a need to, which I think is a downgrade over the gas equipment.

Source: have a buddy who imports comparable gas power equipment
If someone scraped those for the sites that are posted and arranged based on number of submissions, comments, upvotes etc. and layer on a bit of ML to classify then you'd have a reasonable blog directory. OP would probably benefit if people posted their OPML files but that does feel a bit personal.
Comments like this give me hope that we can pull through.
Why would you hire top software engineers to do anything else than build software systems?
I'd be interested to see the daily staffing levels over the past couple of weeks. If anyone knows where that could be found.
I have accounts at both, and my perception is that Vanguard is pretty much exclusively low cost, but Fidelity does have some very competitive options if you can find them. They just also have a lot of overpriced junk.

Fidelity’s technology and customer service does generally seem better. Although they were completely baffled when their app refused to run on a rooted phone with an error message along the lines of “your account is frozen” after I logged in. (It wasn’t, and worked fine after I realized that was the issue and put it on the deny list.)

Overall, I trust Vanguard more, but both have their strong points.
I’m not missing anything, seeing as I wasn’t part of the crowd convinced the site would be non-functional as a result of Elon’s decisions.
It’s pretty easy to learn how fidelity and others make money on fee-free index funds. Perhaps something to look into before accusing them of committing a crime.
That was the platform fees.
Care to explain how so?