skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would flip this back on you. They gave a very good example of these rules being used for censorship with DeSantis prosecuting scientist for reporting numbers. Selective enforcement is a known thing so is your affection for the people in charge stopping you from seeing the obvious problem here?
Careless and hamfisted taxing/banning of "private jets" can have the unintended effect of also killing light piston general aviation, flight instruction, and the whole pipeline of training the next generation of airline pilots. Flight training is almost always low capacity (one-on-one) so uncarefuly-crafted legislation could catch it in the blast radius. Piloting is already one of the more expensive careers to train for.
Consider opening an issue to reconcile from other signal HN exposes (/active and such).
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The Gameboy one attempts to compensate for clumpiness by reducing the chance of repeating a piece, but it turns out that that's even bugged so that the overall randomization is unbalanced.

https://harddrop.com/wiki/Tetris_(Game_Boy)#Randomizer

L: 10.7 %
J, I, Z: 13.7 %
O, S, T: 16.1 %
I quit playing most first person video games due to motion sickness. The first game I remember being unplayable was Half Life 2 and that was even after changing things like FOV.
The article mentions that the subreddit was suspended for threats of violence.
Microsoft cracking down people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
The US made laws to make gun manufacturers completely unaccountable of what happens with their guns. Of course they'd do the same for cars.
AWS definitely has its place, but for personal projects, the complexity and cost risk can be overkill. The horror stories of surprise bills are real—misconfigured services, forgotten instances, and unexpected data transfer fees can add up fast. Even with alerts, by the time you notice, it’s often too late.

For those who need AWS but want to avoid these surprises, there are ways to keep costs in check. Cost allocation tags, savings plans, and budget alerts help, but they require ongoing effort. Tools like SpendShrink.com can automate cost analysis and highlight savings opportunities before they become an issue.

It’s great to see more people looking for simpler hosting solutions, but for those who do need AWS, better cost visibility is a must.
No one needs a standing clearance. Anyone can be read into any program by someone of sufficient authority on an ad hoc basis.

There seem to be a lot of misconceptions flying around about what "government access" entails.
This would be an excellent outcome (and probably the one intended).
I don't know why anyone even uses the GUI frameworks from Microsoft these days. WinForms is only good if you need to throw something together quick. Everything else should be Avalonia (https://avaloniaui.net/). Cross platform and does support AOT.
You're very welcome to! Please do. You can reach out to notpricedinyet@gmail.com
>Your marriage is a speculative asset that your wife doesn't cheat on you in future and actually loves you.

Because you wouldn't do either?
>How is social security adding to debt when its funded by payroll tax?

Simple - the payroll tax doesn't raise enough funds to cover the full cost of the program. Even if it did raise 100% of the needed funds, that's still money Congress cannot tax a second time. At the end of the day, the government has two buckets: income and expenses. It doesn't matter whether some of that income is called "payroll tax", and some of it is called "income tax". Every cent raised through a payroll tax, is a cent that cannot be raised through an income tax, and visa-versa.

>Replace Medicare and Medicaid with a socialised 1 payer system as it would be much cheaper.

Yet...none of the advocates of a socialized healthcare system have ever put forward a real bill that can be rated by the Congressional Budget Office. Instead, they put forward shell bills which importantly lack any funding mechanisms.

> The numbers I saw was that the current system costs 48t and 1 payer system would be 32t.

The current system is divided between public and private spending. Even if you could reduce the overall cost to 32T, that's still a net cost increase on the public side. How will the government raise that money? The advocates for social healthcare never say.
> Spotify pays out 80% of its money to its creators,

Creators or rights holders? There's a huge difference.
To those who know more about ATC: is there any hope of automation?
So far, the Equinix Metal shutdown affects Freedesktop, Alpine, WireGuard, and Flathub. Why can't these organizations use VMs? Is there something special about bare-metal services, or has Equinix not offered their VM service to these organizations?
> Overnight Wired reported that contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at the Treasury Department are limited to ‘read only’ access to department payment systems, this is not true. A 25 year old DOGE operative named Marko Elez in fact has admin privileges on these critical systems which directly control and pay out roughly 95% of payments made by the US government including Social Security checks, tax refunds and virtually all contract payments. I can independently confirm these details based on going back to the weekend. I can further report that Elez not only has full access to these systems and has already made extensive changes to the code base for this critical payment system.

> Josh, are you a little crestfallen they beat you to it? Well, sure but this is a business is an ocean of ‘arrgghhs’ and honestly the information being out is the big thing. Here are the additional details.

> I’m told that Elez and possibly other DOGE operatives received full admin level access on Friday January 31st. The claim of ‘read only’ access was either false from the start or later fell through. The DOGE team, which appears to be mainly or only Elez for the purposes of this project, has already made extensive changes to the code base for the payment system. They have not locked out the existing programmer/engineering staff but have rather leaned on them for assistance which they appear to have painedly provided hoping to prevent as much damage as possible – ‘damage’ in the sense not of preventing the intended changes but avoiding crashes or a system-wide breakdown caused by rapidly pushing new code into production with a limited knowledge of the system and its dependencies across the federal government.

> Phrases like “freaking out” are, not surprisingly, used to describe the reaction of the engineers who were responsible for maintaining the code base until a week ago. The changes that have been made all seem to relate to creating new paths to block payments and possibly leave less visibility into what has been blocked. I want to emphasize that the described changed are not being tested in a dev environment (i.e., not live) but have already been pushed into production. This is code that appears to be mainly the work of Elez who was first introduced to the system probably roughly a week ago and certainly not before the second Trump inauguration. The most recent information I have is that no payments have as yet been blocked and that the incumbent engineering team was able to convince Marko to push the code live to impact only a subset of the universe of payments the system controls. I have also heard no specific information about this access being used to drill down into the private financial or proprietary information of payment recipients, though it appears that the incumbent staff has only limited visibility into what Elez is doing with the access. They have however looked into extensively into the categories and identity of payees to see how certain payments can be blocked.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219987126
just find it hard to believe you could be on hacker news and be like "this is good" unless you yourself was a 20 internet troll you know?
Reminded of the urban legend of London's buried indoor excavators: https://www.quarrymagazine.com/buried-diggers-fact-or-urban-...

Once you've dug away the floor enough, I imagine it's harder to get it out.
Interesting, I thought having a too large FOV would result in motion sickness. Which is why when running you might reduce it, to compensate for the faster movement. I guess to clarify, you're mostly talking about PC gaming where you're sitting close to the screen, or is this something you also experience with console games?

In VR, one method of reducing motion sickness is covering the edges of the screen during movement to reduce motion sickness (a temporary tunnel vision effect), essentially reducing the FoV. I suppose playing in windowed mode would be similar :P
While I agree that the book presents a fairly negative view of science and scientists (it reminds me strongly of Margaret Atwood's more recent Oryx and Crake), the idea of a substance with the properties of ice-9 isn't that ridiculous -- it was actually suggested by Irving Langmuir (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1932) to H.G. Wells as an idea (although Wells never ended up using it)
Nitter etc are locked out as far as I know. That was likely a huge load on the site.
OMG I just tried it. Sooo much better.
We added a trillion dollars to the balance sheet a few years back. The USD is not backed by trust, it's backed by power. Power that is enforced through military might and resource control over vassal states like most of Western Europe. If you want to understand how power really works understand that Trudeau just threatened a tariff on maple syrup until one of his wiser advisors pointed out that all Canadian oil pipelines make a pitstop in the good ol' USofA for, checks notes, "refinement". Dunno, sounds important.

Checkmate, Justin.

Meanwhile, in the nursery the rule of law is quietly taking its afternoon nap.
I fear this would only exacerbate the problem of carriers selling more tickets than there are seats.
I think my question wasn't properly understood. I was thinking whether LLMs should be considered as a "fresh new" smart brain that can learn anything, just like a smart human kid.

Or should it be like a brain that comes with preloaded knowledge? (like how it is today)
They would just patch the software.
By making someone responsible for decisions no matter the source. Perhaps someone who could be the "lead" or maybe "chief" person in charge of making decisions for the business...
>Incredibly, we're still running NTFS and dealing with hacks on hacks on hacks.

It's the painful cost of maintaining backwards compatibility.

For context, I can still install and use Winamp 2.5 from 1999 on Windows 11. That's over 25 years of backwards compatibility. Not something most people need on a daily basis but still very cool.
You'd have to change more regulations, because airports don't close when ATC closes, it regresses to an untowered airport environment (and related airspace designation).

ATC is there to provide specific services that increase safety and throughput (mostly by sequencing and separation).

If you did this with the ruling class, they'd likely pass regulations that would benefit themselves disproportionately and hurt general aviation (the small little Cessnas flying around). There is already a bunch of problems with privatized ATC, don't make it worse.
In my opinion government focus should be on the education of young people, and not on trying to force and bend adults to behave in the narrow "correct" way. Again, with some exceptions. If we want more female representation in STEM - focus on education. If we want people not to use some slur or derogatory term - teach people in the school. And so on. The problem is that across the world education is a third tier activity for the government and is largely neglected. No big profits there.
RE: Fidelity Zero

The downside, as I understand it, is that Fidelity Zero doesn’t offer ETFs, and that the Fidelity Zero mutual funds can’t be transferred to other brokerages. Depending on your preferences their expense ratios might justify the vendor lock-in, but Vanguard ETFs are hard to beat IMO.
Computer Science is about computing theory, algorithms and such, not practical software engineering. You can actually learn computer science without programming.

Game Design should probably be an art school discipline.
Yes, exactly. It forces the poor (and the rich) to spend it.

When you take out a mortgage on a house its partly because someone took cash they received and deposited it in the bank. If they kept the cash the bank would not have reserves to loan.
I didn’t even know I could. Not that I want to obviously.
Ugly by most standards is simply not being desired by anyone. You don't have to be an acid victim like two-face to be ugly. I'd say someone is definitely ugly if you swipe on a few hundred average looking people and get zero matches back.

That's ugly.
Gosh, many of the folks at HN seem to be deeply invested in things remaining status quo with the administrative state.
I think this is what “Commonplace book” is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book
> "Appears to make gesture"

"Appears"??? It's on fucking videotape! Are you saying his arm was actually down by his side all the time, and it just "appears" as if he's raising it? (Perspective? Refraction? Water will find its level?)

And "gesture"??? Pray tell, what fucking "gesture" is that he "appears" to be making, and why are you resorting to "gesture" in stead of acknowledging what exactly it is we're talking about?

As someone said in a nearby sub-thread, ~[1]"many of his weird sycophants seem to be on HN"...

___

[1]: Quoted from memory, so probably not exact.
The first time this essay made the rounds, a bunch of people misunderstood his point the same way you're doing: https://www.paulgraham.com/cliffsnotes.html

He was talking about cultural dominance among people developing new tech, not revenue.

There was a time when being a programmer essentially meant writing C++ on Windows. I still remember getting a Mac as late as ~2013 and having my normie (non-engineer) friends chastise me for it -- "how are you going to get any serious coding done?" -- because that was their genuine impression of Windows vs Macs. Meanwhile, imagine you're the founder of YC in 2007 in a city where all the new tech startups are happening. Everyone's using Macs. Surely it's at least a valid argument or hypothesis that this is a leading indicator of where the forefront of tech is going.

And now if you go to any modern fast-growing tech company, you look around, everyone uses Macs. Even lots of Microsoft employees use Macs. It seems the hypothesis wasn't completely wrong. Incidentally, it's only with hindsight that we're able to refute this somewhat: Microsoft made a nice comeback in the tech world after Nadella became CEO. But that was a big surprise when it happened.

Was it really necessary to turn this into a talking point about rich people and their sins?
Your parser backtracking from a bool when it tried to parse an int is VALID behavior. Your parser tries to parse text into several possible types at runtime. Backtracking is STILL valid state. You’re not thinking clearly.

Look at my auto pilot example. You have a bug in your program you don’t know about. Altitude reads -9999 meters your heading and direction is reading at the speed of light. Your program sees these values and recognizes invalid state. There is a BUG in your program. Your program WAS never designed to go here.

You want to try to recover your autopilot program? How the fuck are you gonna do that? You don’t even know where the bug is. Does your recovery routine involve patching and debugging? Or are you gonna let your autopilot keep operating the plane with those nonsense values? That autopilot might hit the wind breaks to try to slow down the plane and end up crashing the thing.

You don’t recover this. You restart the program and pray it doesn’t hit that state again then when you are on the ground you debug it.

>>> The thing with functional programming (specifically, immutable data,) is that as long as the invalid state is immutable, you can just back up to some previous caller, and they can figure out whether to deal with it or whether to reject up the its previous caller.

This makes no fucking sense. Where the hell will you back up to? Your error came from somewhere but you don’t know where. Return an error value in the child function the parent function receives the error and returns an error itself and this keeps going until you bubble up to the main function because you don’t know where that error came from.

Now you have an error in the main function. Wtf are you gonna do? How do you handle an error in the main function that you have no idea where it came from? Here’s an idea. You have the main function restart the program loop. See a similarity here? It’s called crashing and restarting the program. Same effect!

This isn’t a functional programming versus non functional thing. It’s a concept that you’re not seeing.
I've seen a lot of talk about this phenomenon but not much about how to fight it. Has anyone written on that?
Reminds me of: 4mb of memory is more than you will ever need!!!

Also, ever heard of CDNs?
No, that is only the case if you assume the experimenter is free to choose the experiment. Bell shows that in that case either locality or realism is violated.

However, there is a simpler explanation, namely superdeterminism. You are in fact not free to choose the experiment, this choice also has physical causes.
"Accessibility" is on the list. Isn't the physical reality of needing a wheelchair ramp or scaleable web pages highly "relevant"?
If you pay attention to more than what is served up by our media masters then you would know the truth if my claim.
Right, you'll spend the absolute bare minimum and proactively invest approximately never.

This is bad.

In fact, you'll only ever invest in highly speculative investments because they're the only things that might possibly justify the opportunity cost of your currency just accruing value.

This is bad.
I was fine until I got a super-wide curved screen. Then I started to get motion sickness after playing a computer game for a while. I think the article makes a valid point about developers treating motion sickness like an accessibility feature allowing for changes. For me, narrowing the FOV helped.
This is true for mutual funds, but Vanguard ETFs are available on Fidelity with no fees.
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As one of few young people in my profession, there is much potential in making a fairly opaque industry better known, and I’ve seen very few of my older peers interested in sharing the knowledge we hold (which is also why it is so hard to get into this profession).

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How can I run this as non-root? This is not obvious to me.
> I'd be really surprised if Congress can stop the President from firing employees. He is the head of the Executive branch.

The President is bound by law in that role, and most of thr federal civilian workforce is covered by civil service laws that govern hiring and firing, they are not at-will employees serving at the pleasure of the President? And those laws create a legal property interest which means that no one in government can fire them without due process, and that to do so is a violation of not only the statute itself but the 5th Amendment as well. This has been litigated fairly extensively, as one might expect given the size of the federal workforce and the inevitability of disputes over thr legitimacy of adverse workplace actions.
You Slovakian? :)
It has always been and will continue to be more safe than driving to the airport. The fact that something extraordinarily safe is potentially less safe is a topic for discussion, but not at the expense of realizing the relative risks of everything else.

Prior to the midair at DCA, there had not been a fatal (edit) airliner crash in this country since 2009, and there had not been a midair collision involving an airliner since the 1970s. The fact that some people have an irrational fear of flying does not justify that irrational fear dictating policy any more than people who have an irrational fear of clowns wanting them banned.
Obviously no, 26² makes 676, and number of languages in the world is estimated to be around 4000 and 8000. Given that 26³ is 17576, you would probably start to have something vast enough with scheme like ab-cd-ef.
It's not black and white when there are other platforms that do a better job at distribution.
Arrested for ignoring the parliamentary commission's probe about Pegasus that he was required to attend, not "for illegal use of NSO Group malware" (well, at least not yet).

Though... he wasn't even arrested, merely detained and taken to the probe so far; a procedure that may lead to his 30-day arrest was just started.
Clearly it's not happening tomorrow, but eventually Democrats (and maybe even Republicans who want to uphold the constitution!) will be in the majority.
> Cut the hours back to something sane, and as much as possible time the airport closures in ways that affect the ruling class

The ruling class flies private aircraft and don't have to operate out of large municipal airports.
Here's a study[0] looking at data from 2022 that says flying keeps getting safer. The press release[1] has some nice quotes:

> “You might think there is some irreducible risk level we can’t get below,” adds Barnett, a leading expert in air travel safety and operations. “And yet, the chance of dying during an air journey keeps dropping by about 7 percent annually, and continues to go down by a factor of two every decade.”

0: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09696...

1: https://news.mit.edu/2024/study-flying-keeps-getting-safer-0...
But guns don't fire themselves. Also if there was a gun that shot the wrong way without user error, I bet there will be a lawsuit.
Interesting that this is always a big topic when discussing VR, but never really mentioned in connection to "traditional" games. I guess more people get motion sickness from VR, but unfortunately the article doesn't contain numbers on either...
Gleefully celebrating the defeat of my enemies is not complaining.
This is childish.
Let's not forget that Vanguard has taken a strong stance against crypto [0]. Claiming to significantly invest in technology while deliberately ignoring the latest advancements in financial technology, seems contradictory. If their business was doing so well, they wouldn't have to lower fees.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42832026
> It's a speculative asset precisely because people are hoping its value will only go up.

This is the same for any currency trading.
I sure hope none of the systems the DOGE boys are recklessly accessing end up having some dangerous malware like StuxNet on them that ends up disabling or destroying the DOGE systems.
I was being charitable by asking whether you are gullible or a parrot. Gullible is the charitable interpretation. This whole action has been done on a pretext of lies: getting politics out of science, when it fact is is putting politics into science.