skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There really are urban trips that are 90 minutes due to congestion that could be 5 minute flights.

On the other hand I've known a few Air Force and Coast Guard fixed wing pilots who are terrified by the thought of a helicopter ride [1]; helicopters can autorotate to a landing in most situations but there is still a 'zone of death'

https://verticalmag.com/features/understanding-the-dead-mans...

[1] the high school teacher who inspired me to study physics flew tanker aircraft in the 1950s for the Air Force and later did computer work, there was a time he was helping out the Army, who gave him helicopter rides to their base, and he was scared the whole way
I find that a smaller monitor, further away, and on lower graphics settings helps.

If you limit your brain's exposure to visual information, it's less likely to get confused.
> But I think the reason virtual collaboration only doesn’t work is because you need to meet people, socialize outside of work with the business lunches and dinners etc.

And I'm saying there's more to it than that. A couple decades ago I worked on a collaborative mapping/whiteboarding/sketching for Cisco Telepresence rooms for military users. We managed to get pretty close to the bandwidth of in-person meetings: eye contact was slightly off and turn-taking still required more verbal structuring, but overall we were hitting our targets. After that I worked on digital collaboration tools for finance professionals and we found use cases where virtual collaboration was superior, cases where it was clearly deficient, and most fell into a fuzzy middle ground of "it depends". I haven't worked in CSCW for several years now, but still follow the research, and my understanding is that there are still tasks where remote work suffers, and not just for socialization.

Every company is different, many only need high-bandwidth collaboration in large groups once a quarter, while someone in a research/design/startup might spend a couple hours a day in small collaborative meetings. Every company is different.

And again, I acknowledge the many advantages of remote work for both employees and companies. Related to your point about remote workers being able to buy bigger houses in a lower cost of living area, my company has now been forced to pay at least 10-20% higher salaries for in-person hires compared to a similar caliber of remote hires, not to mention the costs of office space. Therefore, if you're not getting at least ~30% higher productivity out of being in person then it's probably a net loss, and there are many companies that are being irrational or deceitful about their RTO mandates. But I've also found remote work proponents overly dismissive of the downsides which makes it significantly harder for them to convince their companies and managers even in cases where remote work truly is a net benefit.
The US can't build a Supermax cargo ships for $0 profit at a price lower than Chinese shipyards can build one while making a profit.
See, every rule has an exception.
does delfina provide sponsorship?
... are you both sidesing elon and luigi?
If you don't vote, you effectively vote for the winner.

When the 49ers lost the 2024 Super Bowl, the second and third string players didn't go around saying they didn't really lose because they never hit the field. No, they lost.
Ah I wanted to try cloud gaming with it too, from time to time (stuff arbitrarily blocked here from geforce now etc).
An older take on this: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

Except that the process has accelerated faster than even Moore's Law.

Maybe parts of queerspace will survive because we come up with new identities faster than they can be commodified?
> It would be stupendous if voters were aware of where all this to date untraceable money is going.

It would be stupendous if, for example, everyone knew when I receive an interest payment on a savings bond, and for how much? Or some schmuck gets his social security payment?
Sounds like the principle in free software that software can either do what the user wants, or do what someone else wants, which will only sometimes be what the user wants
> Users hold their own keys.

This is an absolute killer for mainstream adoption. Normal people _absolutely do not want to manage keys_. And will lose them. Like, see Bitcoin; relatively enthusiast user base, and still people lose keys _all the time_.
Not in genetics, but the kind of cursory neuroscience education that "AI" courses contain often goes no further than a sample cell at one point in the first weeks. I have found that the majority of AI graduates believe each cell contains one Mitochondria, even those who can explain the chemical processes behind associative memory and understand how there are multiple binding sites/receptors in most of those processes.

It goes to show how much simple diagrams influence understanding. The synaptic gap diagrams show multiple receptors and abstracted neurotransmitters, and gradients of multiple Ca or K ions. The neuron diagram shows one Mitochondria. That start influences their understanding for years.
Ask HN: How do you discover and share blogs?
There’s a few options such as webrings, blog rolls, and marginalia. Wondering what other options exist for discovery and sharing?

I once had a project for summarizing websites to see if there was anything interesting to read. It got questionable fairly quickly as the internet does. So I stopped making it public.
I don’t believe all of those are from SOX.

> I specifically meant

You didn’t leave the comment. Was that your alt account?
That is literally the power of the Executive, to choose which laws to enforce and which to not. Congress makes the laws, and the Courts adjudicate. That is the whole basis of the federal government.
I wasn't quite sure what "longevity" meant here. It does in fact mean how many years you can drive the car. Key line from the abstract:

Here we show that although early battery electric vehicles (BEVs) exhibited lower reliability than internal combustion engine vehicles, rapid technological advancements have allowed newer BEVs to achieve comparable lifespans, even under more intensive use.

I had thought that BEVs were likely to be very reliable, since they have so few moving parts. I know that the battery life was a potential limiting factor, but car engines are also limited.

My ICE vehicles tend to get to about 300k miles before requiring repairs that are more expensive than replacement. It's usually the engine, and sometimes the transmission, neither of which battery vehicles have.

If it's solely a matter of build quality... well, that should be a fixable problem.
Clearly he's from the US. He's simply speaking from his perspective.
The law and law enforcement employees are not the same.
Thanks for reminding me why I don't read the comments on science articles on this site
lol why are you calling them north korean?
I started using E-trade because of this instead of transferring my vested stock to Vanguard. Already had an account so it was zero effort to convert to my usual funds as ETFs which has the bonus of being transferable between brokerages unlike mutual funds.
I'm curious about some of the suggestions people might have.

For art and design I subscribe to newsletters from Dezeen, Hyperallergic, and Artnet, among others, like local museums. Dezeen articles I usually like to read; the other two I don't read the articles of as often but when they do have things I'm interested in, I'm really interested in them. Smithsonian News is also good, not just for art but history as well. I regularly read that.

I should probably look into similar things from foreign museums or museums out of state.

Strangely enough, I also really like Google's Art and Culture app? I probably don't use it as much as I should, or as much as I like it. I kind of forget about it unfortunately. Sometimes it can be kind of superficial but it has a lot of content and alerts me to things I wouldn't otherwise see, and the articles can be just the right balance of length and depth.

I've found that newsletters are helpful just in terms of being reminded of blogs. I probably get too much email but it also pushes me to unsubscribe from things I don't like. Most of the noise is from retail business too and not blogs or nonprofits.

For books I should probably keep track of better but I like NY RoB, Los Angeles RoB, Paris Book Review off the top of my head. Guardian Books is a newspaper but one I track.

I also have found it really useful to pay attention to publishers and presses you like and subscribe to updates from them. They're not blogs per se but you can often get newsletters with new publications. In addition to The New York Review of Books, for instance, there's also the New York Review Books, which sends out newsletters about books they're releasing that I often find interesting.
I'm afraid you let that ship sail. You now have a king and a court with untrammeled power - good luck when a successor needs to be found.
A lot (if not most) bitcoiners think they are smarter than all the non-bitcoiners.

Do you object to that?
I would have said k9s (free) and k9s alpha (pay for additional features), but it looks like the k9s alpha site is not up/working at the moment. k9s itself still gets regular updates, but I’m not sure what the status of k9s alpha is anymore. I had assumed it was still available, but I never tracked it too closely.

https://github.com/derailed/k9s

https://k9scli.io/
> "Also, security, as we see every day, is all about backend infrastructure, like telcos not getting hax0red, amirite, and not about home users. After all, in my three decades of computing, 100% of harm to my "computing estate" came from companies being lax with their data in their "clouds", not from any movie-like hax0rology on my local systems."

Does the author not remember the days when connecting an unpatched Windows system to the internet got it hax0red in minutes? And how those hax0red Windows systems were a pain for the rest of us, being spam and DDoS sources and worse? And that Microsoft fixed it? And the author doesn't want to pay taxes for roads because they don't benefit from roads because they walk to the shops? Because they are a free thining independent Linux user who doesn't understand that the shop employees drive to work and the shop stock is driven to the shop.
This really is a "what if both sides were indifferent to the value of human life?" situation.
> And yet they make no move against Apple, and they are fighting EU in courts. Hence long term.

What “move” could they do against Apple?

> So you managed to give me a non-answer based on your complete ignorance of what GDPR is about.

You asked me how do I avoid it? I do it by being an intelligent adult who can make my own choices
the dems could have won easily if they ran a half way competent campaign
Civil society is a precious gift, one that is hard to build and easy to destroy.
This is an article about a temporary web server outage.
Sure, Trump flip flops all the time (in his previous term he negotiated the most recent trade agreement with Canada and Mexico that replaced NAFTA, touted it as a uniquely awesome trade deal, https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/pr..., and now is the one ripping it up), and he lies every other word.

But my point is that behavior is completely predictable at this point, and if anyone is shocked by what he's done so far, they haven't been paying attention. Stuff like:

1. His extreme narcissism, and the fact that loyalty is a one-way street with him.

2. His desire for revenge

3. 0 respect for any governmental norms

4. His ability to bend (or break) the law to suit his needs. Since the Supreme Court granted him complete immunity for any official acts, and since it's so obvious that Congress are completely feckless at this point, he is essentially unconstrained by law.

When you ask "Are his denials regarding project 2025 seen as obvious lies and thus deemed transparent" I would say absolutely. But of course, when people are angry about the direction of things, they tend to want to believe the stuff they want to believe ("Trump will get in there and shake things up!") and minimize the things they don't ("Trump will shut down programs and departments I depend upon").
It's shocking how many billions of spending are completely unaudited. Official gov't auditors have tried for years, but the target agencies stall and stall. You have to assume there is some malfeasance there.

Doing an audit starting with the treasury department seems like the right first step. Every outflow of money ultimately has to start there. It's the root node of the Sankey diagram. Then you follow the money outwards from there.
"Restrictive" in the context of licenses has a specific meaning: it's the opposite of "permissive" e.g. MIT and Apache. You can't ensure your licensees don't restrict their users without placing restrictions on what they can do with their work. The users aren't the ones agreeing to the license, after all; it's the people using GPL code to whom it's restrictive.
Do you pay federal taxes? (Yes)
Do you get federal service? (No)
Does your government gets federal grant money to fund projects and services? (No)
Do you rely on social security payments? (No)
Maybe your parents does. (No)
What about medicaid and medicare? (No)

My concern level is quite low.
all deponds on if you use Android or a FruitPhone
The first thing I do is turn off head bob, motion blur, screen shake, and anything else that induces animations of what should be static background elements.
This is very cool, congrats on the execution!

Seems great for grandparents. Have you tested with older people with frail or arthritic hands? I'm curious how much dexterity and force is required.
I brought this on myself for making a political comment on a forum, but I'm curious how much spending you think goes to this. Like of every $1 in taxes you pay - how much do you think goes to USAID (or the entire federal workforce)?

When you see the answer you might question the honesty of the cost-savings argument here.
If you were panicked when a developer at GitLab accidentally deleted the production database, just wait until some coder merges a half-tested patch into the Treasury’s production environment. The Musk bros might lose the US ability to reassure the global bond market... Hopefully Spacex has policies with this Dutch Insurance company...:https://youtu.be/3r7mIDycJsE
The Capitalist Agent
You could show them pictures.
The actual US constitution which gives Congress and ONLY congress the power to spend tax money. Musk has absolutely no legal authority to unilaterally stop payments approved by congress. What Musk is doing is a very intentional effort to usurp this authority illegally. Musk should really end up in prison or deported for what he is doing right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_of_the_purse#United_Stat...

In the federal government of the United States, the power of the purse is vested in the Congress as laid down in the Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 (the Appropriations Clause) and Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 (the Taxing and Spending Clause).

The power of the purse plays a critical role in the relationship of the United States Congress and the President of the United States, and has been the main historic tool by which Congress has limited executive power.

https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/not-confident-trump-...

Not confident Trump will prevail: Scholar on his attempts to take Congress' power of the purse
Professor Deborah Pearlstein joins Morning Joe to discuss her column for the NYT outlining some of Trump’s actions implemented in his first few days in office and why she says Trump is hardly the first president to claim broad executive power, but the difference is not just the enormity of his claims, it's that the administration mostly doesn't try to craft legal justifications for its actions.

https://www.marketplace.org/2025/02/04/congress-president-tr...

How Congress — and not the president — controls how taxpayer money is spent

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/trump-e...

‘It’s an Illegal Executive Order. And It’s Stealing.’
Disappointed that this got flagged.
Originally, actually there was a relationship between Cursor & OpenAI. Something like Cursor was supported by the OpenAI startup fund. So Cursor seems to have branched out. I think they are just emphasizing the models they find most effective. I'm surprised they haven't (apparently) incorporated Claude prompt caching yet for Sonnet.
Protip: It works better if you say "Bibbdi Bopiddi Bo" while waving the sticks.
I wish I could be as naive as you to think the people doing this are not corrupt and aren't further rigging the system for their benefit.
I think economic and social life in the United States will continue.
> This makes me wonder: are there any formal specifications on the complexity of this "optimizer as theorem prover"?

Basically, the promise here "We formally promise not to promise anything other than the fact that optimized code should have 'broadly' the same effects and outputs as non-optimized code, and if you want to dig into exactly what 'broadly' means prepare to spend a lot of time on it". Not only are there no promises about complexity, there's no promises that it will work the same on the same code in later versions, nor that any given optimization will continue firing the same way as you add code.

You can program this way. Another semi-common example is taking something like Javascript code and carefully twiddling with it such that a particular JIT will optimize it in a particular way, or if you're some combination of insane and lucky, multiple JITs (including multiple versions) will do some critical optimization. But it's the sort of programming I try very, very hard to avoid. It is a path of pain to depend on programming like this and there better be some darned good reason to start down that path which will, yes, forever dominate that code's destiny.
Those three steps at the end do a lot more heavy lifting than the author appears to suggest.
Yes it does. He knows how to solve hard problems. Ending the vaste waste, fraud and abuse is a huge spagetti code problem.
That isn't what they are actually saying.
Trump controls Congress. It's well within his power to address the deficit problem, if it is a problem, safely. Instead, he's directly modifying production without any CI checks.
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You'll be helping build the software backend for our operations. That means integrations for new marketplaces and suppliers, accountancy, pricing and order optimisation, logistics etc. You'll be reporting to the co-founder/ceo but also reviewing his code <'the most disorganised code I have seen in my entire life' said one person in a code review, apologies!!!> :)

What we do: we buy stock from suppliers and sell it online. Stock purchasing and logistics is handled by an internal backend which you will be helping to write!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_of_the_purse#United_Stat...

In the federal government of the United States, the power of the purse is vested in the Congress as laid down in the Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 (the Appropriations Clause) and Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 (the Taxing and Spending Clause).

The power of the purse plays a critical role in the relationship of the United States Congress and the President of the United States, and has been the main historic tool by which Congress has limited executive power.
> Anyone who tells you otherwise is deluding themselves.

Always good when a blog author ends with an ad hominem not supported by their claims.

It would have been more useful if they had explained how Rice's theorm was falsified, and that HALT/FRAME have been invalidated.

In my experience, for any problem that is non-trivial, LLMs require more knowledge and tacit experience.

Programming has always been more about domain understanding etc...

Things will change, but this is new tooling which requires new knowledge. I have had to start explaining Diaconescu's Theorem to a lot more people as an example.
> they would / should face severe consequences for defrauding the state. They are not above the law

I don't know how to reply to a statement this naive. What about the past 8 years makes you think these people are not above the law?

> I don't know what checks and balances are available for that case though.

SCOTUS declared the president immune to prosecution. The only check on a rogue president is a 60+ seat majority of the opposite party in the Senate, which hasn't happened since the 1980s.
That sounds like a repeated animation when you exit the tower and duck under the platform (I played it recently); a main issue I have with that game is that at that point it takes over your control without any real reason other than adding in a custom flavour animation / transition of sorts. But first person games should avoid that imo, motion sickness aside.

Outer Wilds I can definitely imagine, its warped perspective / scale / up/down/gravity will mess with your brain.
That explains it!
What a superficial and short-sighted take.

> Even he, subconsciously, knows it doesn't pay off to waste cognitive energy on what a machine could do instead.

> It's not laziness, but efficiency.

It's only efficient in the short-term, not long-term. Now the programmer never understood the problem, and that is a problem in the long-run. As any experienced engineer knows - understanding problems is how anyone gets better in the engineering field.
i meant “not more.”

i very much lack sleep today.
I tend to suffer from scope creep in my blogs. "Oh, I found a quicker way to compute X, lets write a blog about it" becomes "I should write a library, write docs, run extensive comparatives, then publish it".

I've been getting better at fighting that temptation, but I still suck at it. Setting deadlines for blog posts usually helps me focus my efforts.
who is liang wenfeng? (YouTube video lang:tr)
It's less a problem of the language and more of popular frameworks using reflections excessively. (usually for no gain other than creating platforms that are not controlled by normal readable/tracable code flow but annotations)
You can upload only the PDF on ArXiv. Useful when you for some reason (e.g. client request) publish in certain engineering conferences that only allow Word submissions...
Unless it can die. And understand death. And adapt behavior to avoid death.

Of course, that raises a whole new set of issues.
> They did have the appropriate security clearance to access the records.

That EO says:

The White House Counsel to provide the White House Security Office and Acting Chief Security Officer with a list of personnel

Where do you see that the CSO has granted access to those specific individuals? For the record, I'm not saying they are or are not on that list, we just simply don't know. If they have not been granted security clearance then there is in fact a law that makes it illegal to access federal systems and those boys are in for some trouble.
If you think that a politicians advertisements are the full picture of what they will do, I have a bridge you may be interested in buying.

That said, DOGE was well announced and widely publicized prior to the election, by Musk and the media. Musk was up on the stage with Trump quite a bit.

Those who did not know this was going to happen are either easily fooled or were paying no attention.