skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find RooCodes mode selector drop down inferior to the way Cline handles Plan and Act mode.
I suppose with everyone on HUDs the subway train would be full of people catatonic staring straight ahead in their own little worlds, possibly recording everything around them on video.
They are fixing our non-democratic government that has been wasting trillions of our tax dollars, while we have increased homelessness, physical and mental health crisis, and other problems that have been ignored for decades.

The NYT just reported that the federal government lost $236 billion to apparent fraud ("improper payments") in 2023 alone.

The US GAO says "2018-2022 Data Show Federal Government Loses an Estimated $233 Billion to $521 Billion Annually to Fraud"

What Musk is doing is what the majority voted for. To finally put an end the unbelievable waste, fraud and abuse. This is exactly what he said he would do and most Americans are relieved and see hope for the first time in a long time.
I'm thinking the same thing that I was thinking when Biden was president, that Israel has corrupted our entire government. Nothing that's happening here even approaches what we've been enabling in Gaza, so if you weren't upset about that, it seems strange to be up in arms about what Trump is doing. I'd say it's a double standard that places way more value on the lives of Americans than those outside our borders.
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Without reading your link: this is a problem across new and existing builds, so it can't be an issue wih permitting. Housing cost growth has outpaced wage growth for decades. We are reaching an inflection point of unaffordability (unequally distributed geographically, of course). The problem is that market rates must support a number of (often unnecessary or inflated) concerns, including but not limited to permitting and litigation. Profit for a rotating cast of securitized mortgage holders is another major one. Insolvent municipalities that can't see property taxes fall is another.
Smart? Maybe. Wise? Definitely not.
At least in Firefox the search pane has a ‘Match Diacritics’ option. Turning it on causes it to match only the precise characters in the textbox. (It’s slightly misnamed, since it doesn’t just handle diacritics, but also cases like ⟨e⟩ vs ⟨ɛ⟩.)
SOX is for public corporations.
I once listened to a Pittsburgh-area local legend coroner named Cyril Wecht (RIP to one of the best public speakers it was ever my pleasure to see) go on about this for a half hour and the number of things that had to happen for the first time in human history in order for the warren report to not be entirely bullshit is staggering. A trained rifleman passing on an approaching shot in favor of a shot where the target is moving perpendicularly, hitting the shot anyway, then the target snapping back against the direction of applied force and developing an entrance wound bigger than the exit wound?
Torvalds likes Rust and believes it to be the future. He is disappointed that it hasn't been adopted faster.

> I actually was hoping that we'd get some of the first rust
infrastructure, and the multi-gen LRU VM, but neither of them happened
this time around.

https://lwn.net/Articles/904681/
I think that we should cut the amount of money going towards superyachts and 10,000 dollar bottles of wine, rather than education, infrastructure and healthcare. Which do you imagine will lead to a healthier economy in the long run?

Because when you cut taxes on the super wealthy, you are effectively taking money away from education and infrastructure and allocating it towards superyachts.
> A man in the emotional state you described wouldn't be able to lead a company like SpaceX

Clearly you haven’t been following his actions. This isn’t new. See for example when he called a rescuer a pedophile or when he told companies to not advertise on Twitter, or a myriad of other instances. You can literally search for “tantrum” with his name and find more examples than you’ll know what to do with.

> what's happening in the US government is your problem

Don’t assume everyone you talk to on the internet lives in or is a citizen of the USA.

> we have our own problems

Including a despot. Which is unfortunate. You shouldn’t wish it on anyone else.

> we all are a part of humanity and the wars will end some day.

Indeed they will. Probably because we’ll all die.
Elon and his inexperienced cronies are the last people who should be trusted with any government access. They don’t even have clearance.
In absolute terms, it happens to many people.

In practical terms, it happens to virtually no one.

Hundreds of people win $10,000+ in the lottery every month. That is a lot of people. You can post a thread and will likely get comments from those who have won before.

But as a percentage of the population, virtually no one wins big in the lottery.

If you are foolish and think social media accurately portrays reality, you might quit your job to play the lottery full time - because hey, look at all the winners in the comments.
I was talking about .NET's publish modes (NativeAOT, portable assembly, etc.).

You are also confusing what it means to produce a portable assembly with the ability to target across operating systems or CPU architectures.

(also, most native toolchains do not let you easily cross-compile, Go makes significant sacrifices to make it possible, as long as you have no dependencies which rely on C/C++, and there are many of those)
Not a lawyer, but it would seem that Elon and Doge employees are exposing themselves up to significant legal liability here. Maybe Trump pardons Elon (if they don't fall out before then), but is he going to pardon everyone who has a hand in this? And it seems likely that state crimes are being committed as well. The president may have broad immunity, but Elon does not.
Not playing the game at all is very different from playing the game according to the demands and rules of bullies. The only way to win is not to play, just ask WOPR.
Are they making new accounting records?
Doing Math Academy right now and I'd say it's working well.
https://www.mathacademy.com/
I just started with Math Foundations 1 and relearning from the beginning :)
Exactly. The crime is fraud on the bank. Nothing was stolen from me.
Ok I see we're very far from being on the same page.

Multilingualism in context of language models means something more than English, because that's what every model trained on the internet already knows. There aren't any I'm aware of that don't, since it would be exceedingly hard to exclude it from the dataset even if you wanted to for some reason. This is like the "what about men's rights" when talking about women's rights... yes we know, they're already entirely ubiquitous.

But more properly I would consider LLM multilingualism straight up knowing all languages. We benchmark models on the MMLU and similar collections that contain all fields of knowledge known to man, so I would say it's reasonable to expect fluency of all languages as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_XP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_Vista

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_10

???
There isn’t one at your stage. When I was looking for a job in 2023, 1 offer came from a referral by a former manager who still worked at our former company after it was acquired, another came from a director who was a former coworker who was going to create a job for me because he needed someone he could trust to lead the cloud migrations he was responsible for. The third offer came because I had experience in a niche AWS service.

All those only happened because I had years of experience and a stint at BigTech in cloud consulting.

When I was looking last year, an internal recruiter reached out to me for my current job.

I would have been screwed looking for a job both times as “just” an enterprise developer working with C# like I was before 2018. I looked for those types of jobs as a Plan B both in 2023 and 2024 and even with my experience my results were the same as yours for those types of jobs - crickets.
Why is the lack of a schema indicator the biggest flaw of protobuf?
Yes, but that standard should probably be met and exceeded by the government of the largest economy in the world, don't you think?
It's the opposite. This paints tech nerds as the heroes.
New Chapter for Ted
How NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump's orders
Seems also to relate to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42932760
This is the part that I'm so surprised about. It turns out that people don't actually care about the law when it's inconvenient. And it turns out that people are willing to accept and support crazy things: conflicted/unqualified leaders, the sacrifice of American influence and stability, the alienation of our allies, the purposeful cost-raising for American consumers. What matters most apparently is the culture war.

It's clear that we'll have to agree to disagree and leave it here -- so you're welcome to the final word if you want it -- but I think the feeling that resonates with me in these conversations is "I don't care about the law or other consequences as long as I get my way." That feels bad to me.

And when people making those points disagree with me on it -- this week it's justification to kill USAID and give treasury control to Musk, next week it will be the destruction of the department of education, soon it will be ignoring the 14th amendment of the constitution -- it's hard to tell if they aren't being honest with me or if they aren't being honest with themselves.
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Agree with this take.

It is also highly visible in nerd Linux circles where some people still think they fight to have Linux on Desktop.

Linux on Desktop is irrelevant just as Microsoft pre 2005 is irrelevant.

MSFT saw that cloud is the future and they are in that business and O365 is flagship product where Windows just a support nice to have part because they need OS so people can run their browser.
I think there's a middle ground. Very young people are inexperienced but old people are also manipulable too. Probably the most fruitful average ages for doing the right thing are between 40 and 65. I think there are a lot more exceptions for older people than younger ones.
Of course not. They’re wreaking having based on Elon’s whims. Much like when he drove Twitter into the ground.
Is anyone not concerned by this? Paying the bills due is not a political issue, making payroll is not a political issue.

Elected or unelected, politicians with an agenda should not be in charge here.
Where were you when the empire fell? I was at my computer, trying not to cry...
China responds to tariffs with antitrust investigations of Google, Nvidia
Python functions: value/reference, decorators, generators, lambdas, async
https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/4BD2D522-2092...

(report from October 9, 2024 released by Ted Cruz)

https://www.science.org/content/article/amid-uncertainty-her...

(Science article from November 6 which briefly discusses the Cruz report)
What are the best and most up-to-date resources for learning Ruby on Rails? I primarily work with PHP and Laravel, but I keep hearing great things about RoR and would love to learn it.
I don't think you need clearance for this, so not sure how that is relevant.
If they don't have clearance aren't they committing a number of offences under various acts of national security and computer misuse and thus liable for arrest?
Of course they are not in the hyperscaler space, but they are far from being "just" a VPS provider.

Their cloud always had on-demand, per-hour billing of servers and block storage volumes, all very easy to manage and provision via their API. Recently they got into object storage space. They even provide a switch to connect their cloud servers with a dedicated one, so you can have, e.g, a beefy GPU server running a LLM model and your web service auto running on the cheap.

I believe that the only thing that really holds Hetzner at their price levels is that the price-sensitive people can always threaten to move to OVH.
My impression was that most opposition to the jones act was that it has not really worked, and as a side effect drastically reduced the intra-us shipping industry.

Without the jones act, we would not have a ship building boom, but we probably would have more intra-US shipping via ship/rivers/etc.
Oh man hard to remember. I can just tell you it was not on the official EU website. It was on a thematic one that probably doesn't exist anymore, something like "The coalition for the development of X in Europe".

What I also discovered is often let's say the EU wants to give 10M to 10 projects in a particular domain. Then a there are companies specialised in applying as a project and saying: our project is actually to subdivide this 1M into 8 times 100K and we keep 200K as a fee (I am simplifying but that was the idea).
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Please go on about the regulations that libertarians love around allocation of stuff.
Building a Subscribe Feature, Similar to Substack
One thing I absolutely love about Substack is its classy way of asking users to subscribe. As you scroll down and read the article, the page gets blacker and blacker until the only thing visible is the subscribe box.

You can scroll up, and it disappears, or you can click Continue Reading, and the dialog won't bother you again.

I loved it so much that I decided to replicate it for my blog. Check out the article: https://neciudan.dev/building-substack-subscription
Just FYI to other applicants, be sure to read about their "warrior culture" (ie 60-80 hour weeks) before spending time applying.
Not sure if you realize, but the federal budget is already public and anybody can FOIA additional details..
Yes. But who is going to arrest them and charge them?
Musk already gained access to everyone's private Twitter data. He also gathers data from Tesla sensors. Now he has access to private citizen's federal data. Very dangerous for any private, unaccountable individual to have this level of access and especially someone as malicious as Musk.
Press release - A recent BEUC investigation found "gaping holes in the safety of products sold on Temu", with many failing EU safety standards. [0]

Test Results on Temu Products - Consumer groups tested various items sold on Temu, uncovering multiple safety failures. Full report here: [1]

There is also an ongoing investigation related to Temu violating the Digital Services Act (DSA) by failing to protect consumers and prevent deceptive practices. [2]

---

[0]: https://www.beuc.eu/press-releases/gaping-holes-safety-produ...

[1]: https://www.beuc.eu/sites/default/files/publications/BEUC-X-...

[2]: https://www.beuc.eu/enforcement/taming-temu#the-action
They don't kind of look like bacteria, there was a lot of gene sequencing and careful examination because it seemed like a very wild theory especially before we've really learned archaea. Quammen's "The Tangled Tree" has a nice writeup on on the process.
When I was a teenager, I really wanted to play Halo with my dad. I thought he would love it but he refused to even look at it, claiming that it would make him nauseous. I just didn't get it, we played Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil with no issue, why was this any different? I told him it was in his head or that these newer games would cause less nausea since they looked and performed better. I couldn't convince him and I went back to playing hours and hours of Halo, Call of Duty, and whatever other crap was on my 360.

15 years later, I'm in my 30s and I cannot even look at most modern 3D games. First-person games are an absolute no-go and third-person games are a toss-up. I missed out on a ton of games[1] and had to drop quite a few[2]. The ones I completed, I did so by forcing myself through the nausea[3]. I've even tried to go back to games I used to play[4] and even those kill me. It is really bad and at this point I mostly just play 2D games like Caves of Qud or top-down/isometric games like Disco Elysium.

The accessibility options in a lot of these games do help a bit, but it is never 100%. I usually turn things like camera shake/head bob off, lower graphics settings, tone down particles, mess around with FOV, adding a center dot... the whole kit and caboodle. At this point I'm not really sure if there is anything else that could be done to help me out, but I still really appreciate it when devs think about people with motion sickness issues.

[1]: Never even touched Overwatch or PUBG

[2]: I wish I could finish DOOM 2016 and Armored Core 6

[3]: The Witness and all those Resident Evil remakes have caused me countless hours of joy and pain, Elden Ring was mostly fine but some sessions I had to stop early

[4]: I will probably never beat HL2 again
Serious question: is there anything other than their own scruples keeping these guys from siphoning off a few billion dollars for themselves?
Author here :). Happy to answer any questions on this TLS tracing stuff.
The DoD has already been failing audits[1] for a while now.

[1] https://breakingdefense.com/2024/11/pentagon-fails-7th-audit...
It's flagged, like most others about this.
It's spelled "federal", not "fedaral".
Why do you think the spending of the government isn't already publicly available? Because it is.
Twitter is very much alive.
Yes, but the GOP senate and house members are unwavering sycophants. The Supreme Court has also been stacked.
What a comment! Do you use Twitter a lot, by any chance?
>If they don't have clearance aren't they committing a number of offences under various acts of national security and computer misuse and thus liable for arrest?

Arrested by who? The executive branch who ordered his actions? Americans voted for this, and now we have to live with it.
…therefore the operator is responsible?

Seems like the clearest legal principle to me, otherwise we ban matches to prevent arson.
When she proposed this hypothesis, there was not any molecule tool for this field.
> I am not so sure this completely discounts the statistical relevance of when Letby joined, more infants died.

There were mortality rate spikes happening at hospitals across the country. The common factor was defunding and understaffing.

> she brought along the same pattern of deterioration for the infants.

The investigators discarded cases but included a child that deteriorated seconds after Letby clocked in to the hospital before she even walked to her department. Everything I have read about the case screams fitting the data to match a predetermined outcome. This is how other nurses were jailed for mass murders that simply did not happen.

The case is really bizarre. The prosecution invented a new form of murder that every publicly interviewed expert claims is physically impossible, based on a paper about a single medical case from decades ago, of which the only surviving author supports Letby's defense (but was not allowed to testify).
How do you know they're amazing until you've used them yourself?
Yes, although then you have a lot more traffic to deal with. A typical garbage truck moves slowly down a city block, preventing a line of cars behind it from moving. Every change will upset some constituency, and their various needs need to be balanced. Life in the city!
I had some motion sickness when I first started VR. I made a little thing that I found on reddit that helped. It's just a vibration disk hooked to a battery and attached to a headband. You position it behind your ear on the mastoid bone. I don't know why it works, but it does. I eventually got my VR legs and can play for hours without motion sickness, most of the time. Some games still eff me up, though; like The Break In, which I love, but can only play for an hour before I get sick.
Ah yes, short form 4chan. It’s Elon’s blog — the remaining users are commenters.
> After being chased by police for stealing clothing from a Walmart, Seacat barricaded himself in a house at 4219 South Alton Street in Greenwood Village, Colorado. By the time Seacat was finally extracted from the premises, the house had been destroyed by law enforcement in their efforts to flush him out. The homeowner—Leo Lech—filed a lawsuit against the municipality for compensation, but was ruled against by the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; he appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, but the court declined to hear the case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_of_Robert_Seacat
I happen to have just come across another case of this, not in Rails.

In Asciidoctor, which is unfortunately written in Ruby, where is `convert_inline_anchor` called from?

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aasciidoctor%2Fasciidoctor...

Nowhere apparently!

Until you eventually find this monstrosity:

https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/blob/8d3f6230c964...
Build a link blog like Simon Willison
PlayStation 3 went down quite badly among game developers given how hard Cell was to program for, and users with the whole OtherOS fallout, this brought XBox 360 into the winning round.

Microsoft lost the plot afterwards with XBox ONE against the Playstation 4, and even with the Series S|X, they never recovered on the hardware side.

However this is kind of relative now, even if they don't public admit yet, the hardware is gone, they are going SEGA, and by being one of the largest game publishers, it hardly matters if the XBox console isn't going that well.

In one year they already recovered all the money lost in the ABK deal and litigations.
You don't have an argument, so you resort to insults instead.
I see. I guess then i have to just try again.
Criminal prosecution?
So why can’t they pass an audit?
It’s a straight up coup.
Show HN: A Toy CLI Torrent Client
Hi HN,

I built a simple CLI torrent client as a learning project and wanted to share it! This was my way of exploring how the BitTorrent protocol works under the hood. It can handle basic torrent downloading, but it's far from production-ready — definitely not something to rely on for serious usage.

The objective of this project was to gain a thorough understanding of how the BitTorrent protocol works (tracker communication, peer connections, piece downloading, etc.)

although it is not the ideal choice to make a torrent client due to performance issues, I chose to do it in NodeJS because it is the technology I feel most comfortable with at the moment.

Any feedback, suggestions, or discussions around torrenting protocols are welcome!

Cheers!
Heya! You had some excellent points earlier:

> What we're looking for includes: is the article not too repetitive of recent discussions? does it contain significant new information? is there a reasonable chance that it could support a substantive, thoughtful discussion, or is it too flamebaity/provocative?

This article is a personal attack on individual engineers that are evidently very talented.

There's now a bunch of people using HN for personal insults in the comments.

I think the flags were warranted and turning them off was unnecessary.