skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Academics should keep in mind that they rely on the generosity of taxpayers to fund their research.

They don’t have an entitlement to other people’s money, and if they are perceived as wasting it or spending in discriminatorily then you should expect the public to become less willing to give it to you.
The people behind the california beat scene https://pitchfork.com/features/pitchfork-essentials/9716-the... made the blueprint then 'lofi' came after
I don't see any contradiction.

Say a lender has used machine learning to train some sort of black box to take in loan applications and respond with an approve/reject response. If they reject an application using that the Equal Credit Opportunity Act in the US require that they tell the applicant a specific reason for the rejection. They can't just say "our machine learning model said no".

If there were not using any kind of machine learning system they probably would have made the decision according to some series of rules, like "modified income must be X times the monthly payment on the loan", where modified income is the person's monthly income with adjustments for various things. Adjustments might be multipliers based on credit score, debt, and other things.

With that kind of system they would be able to tell you specifically why your were rejected. Say you need a modified income of $75k and you are a little short. They could look at their rules and figure out that you could get a modified income of $75k if you raised your income by a specific amount or lowered your debt by a specific amount, or by some combination of those.

That kind of feedback is useful to the application. It tells them specific things they can do to improve their chances.

With the company using a machine learning black box they don't know the rules that the machine has learned. Hence my suggestion of asking the black box what-if scenarios to figure out specific things the applicant can change to get approval.
I'm not sure what kind of point you're trying to make here, but you're a bit off on a tangent.
not my experience - almost always some edge case leads me to a git rabbit hole

tldr: even if you never plan to use anything advanced, you’ll end up in some weird situation where you need to do something even if you’re in the “95% of the users”

no shade, yes ofc you “could this, could that” to make things work and we have been stuck with this for so long that an alternative doesn’t even seem plausible
Yes. It also helps to have it document a plan or spec and refer to that document.
Would the FBI be able to do anything autonomously about the situation, such as arresting people suspected of illegal intrusion? They are already under threat and have motive to not tow the line.
Realistically, it's time for Microsoft to make some good karma, and give Javascript to the world.

They should wrest this from Oracle.

"Microsoft Edge: the browser that gave you <script> as no one else could."
Without more information, I think you're overreacting.

Don't get me wrong: It's not because the situation isn't serious. However you're in "the bay area", as opposed to some backwater white-supremacy proto-ethnostate. You already have neighbors and state legislators that are opposed to whatever is coming down the dumbest-timeline pipe, make your stand with them.

Not only will locally organizing give better results, it'll cost you a lot less in time, energy, and money than trying to emigrate in a panic.
Next up, Google drops "Don't" from their famous mantra, "Don't Be Evil".
I’m not calling for double blind study here, I’m not even sure how that would be possible.

Sometimes we’re stuck with “I don’t know” and recognizing that is IMO important.
Judge, jury and executioner? Acquittal.... okay but acting like Judge Dredd merits a job offer? That is sick.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42940371
> we have a strong bias for people in Colorado or Brazil.

Why?
That's funny because if I was running SIGINT at the NSA I would do all of the above, and also compromise Tor
Yes, and 4.8 billion fatal doses were intercepted at the US-Mexico border. Fentanyl is potent.
Cute little guy.

I didn’t expect that.
This is a great tip that I didn't know about. Thank you. It doesn't work for Numbers, since I need to DELETE not Cancel the file changes, but I'm sure it'll work in a ton of other places.
I think they’re pretty close to global max on “relationship-flavored entertainment app for single adults”

Optima for “stable-relationship-forming app” are yet to be discovered — and also, I think, to really be sought at all
Trump may revoke the extended auto-renewal for H-1B and L-1
Agreed, particularly on code reviews: the only useful code reviews I've had were either in an outright trainee/expert relationship or when the reviewer is very experienced in the gotchas of the project being modified and the reviewer is new.

Peer and near-peer reviews have always wound up being nitpicking or perfunctory.

An alternative that might work if you want two hands on every change for process reasons is to have the reviewer do something closer to formal QA, building and running the changed code to verify it has the expected behavior. That has a lot of limitations too, but it least it doesn’t degrade to bikeshedding about variable name aesthetics.
How does the base64 output become useful / usable information to an LLM?
How to best anonymize any crypto, 2025 edition
> It’s relevant here that “doxxing” here just means “exposing their names and internet posts”, right?

No, it quite obviously does not. "Doxxing" specifically involves information that was not intentionally public to begin with. If you write "John Lee Ratcliffe works for the CIA", that's obviously not doxxing, because he's the director of the CIA, which is a public title.

> In that case, yes, the OPM already “doxxes” most federal employees, even making their salary data public.

...which is clearly and categorically different than anything happening here, as OPM is the agency responsible for part of the management of said employees, and the rules that constrains it are decided by the President and/or Congress. That is categorically different than an individual, whether it's Elon or a Wired writer, going out of their way to publish private information that was not already intentionally made public, and who is not in a position of authority to have rightful custody of that information and has the ability to release it - especially if the intent behind publishing the information was to cause the individuals harm out of a political agenda, as in the Wired case.
People started realizing Temu/AliExpress/Shen are literally selling the same exact stuff.

Now Amazon is going to get their 50% markup. I'm literally going to just stop buying a lot of stuff if this policy isn't reversed.

It's not like you can buy an Xbox built in Texas, this has the potential to make almost every product more expensive.
I know, but it is still not practical or suitable for functional use. Just to help you understand what I mean: obtaining such a CPU (with the rest of the compatible hardware) and obtain & install Windows 98 is not as straightforward these days. Sure it may be for me because I still have my old hardware, but still. And by the way (for another PC) I had to install Windows 11 because I had Windows 7 and all my programs stopped supporting it. Not practical either, sadly. I was forced to install Windows 11.
With few exceptions.

In general, if I’m going to buy something that’s going to last 2 uses, I might as well just buy the cheapest one.
Though it's easy to write a tiny Lisp interpreter in ~100 lines of Python (or JavaScript, etc.):

http://norvig.com/lispy.html
Retention is at odds with the goals of the users of dating apps. I wonder if there’s a more aligned system that charges for premium features when there’s inactivity. Or you can only use the app’s premium features again after some period of inactivity if you pay

Inactivity serving as a potential signal that you found a match, or you’re no longer in the market. Although the incentive system would have to ensure the app isn’t aligned to make the experience so annoying you stop using it either
We recently open sourced Inkling [1] (which is a spiritual successor to Crosscut) and the iPad Wrapper [2] app we used to prototype Crosscut, Inkling, and other projects. We're also going to share some more similarly-interesting non-essay output from our research in the near future.

[1] https://github.com/inkandswitch/inkling

[2] https://github.com/inkandswitch/wrapper
This is a nice tip! This does not work for MacOS alerts that want you to enter data (like a file name to save), but I will be using this and the other guy's CMD + . (period) tip as much as possible in every other scenario.
I would say serves my interests, and not just my interests but all of those who voted a certain way. That’s what elections should be
> must have 20/20 vision in each eye, no contacts

The page doesn't say that. It says:

> Applicants must demonstrate distant and near vision of 20/20 or better in each eye separately. The use of bifocal contact lenses for the correction of near vision is unacceptable.

Some light Googling will tell you that glasses or contact lenses to fix distant or near vision are fine.
Simple disagreements suffice. I don't have to make an argument for something just because you bring it up. I'm just pointing out that you bringing it up (hmmm - without backing it up!) doesn't make it a valid point.

You seem to have a bone to pick. I said owned storage is cheaper, and you made up something about it not being redundant. You're not making a salient point as much as you're trying to handwave and dismiss owned hardware as complex, expensive, not worth the "value" one might get from S3, whatever.

If you REALLY think that storage can't be cheaper than "cloud" unless it's not redundant, then show us numbers. Otherwise, you're just making shit up.

You mention all your other things as if you're saying, "Gotcha!" You still have to monitor Amazon. You still have to manage backups. You still have to monitor resource utilization. You're not being clever by trying to imagine that other admins are as bad as you are because all those things seem hard. Good admins do those things no matter where their stuff is running.
The main thing the commercial players offer that open source doesn't do well is application level filtering. I want to be able to allow RTP across this giant port range but not just any UDP, or allow TLS exchanges with only certain SNI domains, not Cloudflare's entire address space.

If you want to do this, you need to select the least bad vendor.

In my experience, site categorisation is about the only 'feed' worth paying for.
causality might go the other way. having had a friend that was so, i wonder if a significant fraction of schizophrenics use cannabis to be functional in society
The SQL/PSM standard comes from Oracle, and is variously implemented in PostgreSQL, MariaDB, IBM Db2, and more.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/PSM

"SQL/PSM is derived, seemingly directly, from Oracle's PL/SQL. Oracle developed PL/SQL and released it in 1991, basing the language on the US Department of Defense's Ada programming language. However, Oracle has maintained a distance from the standard in its documentation. IBM's SQL PL (used in DB2) and Mimer SQL's PSM were the first two products officially implementing SQL/PSM."
If you're going to be morally bankrupt, why not just keep the pledge and lie.
It’s the short lived waste that’s really concerning, start talking geological timescales and that’s all gone.
Not a surprise that this comes from at least one person involved in dabbledb twenty years ago (later acquired by Twitter). Avi Bryant, now sponsoring very interesting work.
That last question is a cryptography question in disguise; the answer is "the fact that SHA-1 collisions are still impractical for most people".
Cert is for scimar.com, host redirects to:

https://gisapps.scimar.com/

Some kind of scam?
I like to imagine a world where the institutions that were supposed to protect us had done their jobs, and enforced the gentleman’s agreement we had, that worked so well these past 50 years.
I started to dislike that quote somewhat. Why should we celebrate the fact that our society doesn't place moral pressure onto executives? Why should we find it acceptable that this is the status quo?
The comment was less about the specific time and more about "see how other cities solve this". I get that it's a complex issue, but also many issues around it are self inflicted/imposed.

Some Sydney councils for example rotate the routes often to avoid one place getting a 3am pickup constantly. (it's stretched until midday or so) And that's before getting to the part where the traffic itself is a problem and how is emergency response supposed to work in a place that can't handle a garbage truck.
I find its exactly the opposite. With AI chat, I can define signatures, write technical requirements and validate my approach in minutes. I'm not talking with the AI like I would a human... I'm writing a blend of stubs and concise requirements, providing documentation, reviewing, validating and repeating. When it goes in the wrong direction, I add additional details and regenerate from scratch. I focus on small, composable chunks of functionality and then tie it all together at the end.
[1] https://beej.us/guide/bgipc/
Thatcher the milk snatcher.

That's her legacy.

That and sucking up to Pinochet
Is it correct that iCloud backups can lead to officials being able to unlock your physical device? That’s not consistent with my understanding of Apple’s circle of trust implementation.

I get that the backups can potentially be compromised, and of course having the backup means having most of what would be on the phone, but I would love to know more about how having a copy of a backup can compromise the physical device via iCloud.
OpenAI has undergone its first ever rebrand
As a population based study, how did they control for other substances? Acid in particular is notorious for flashbacks years later that can be psychotic. I also note that the period in question is also associated with massive increase in methamphetamine abuse. Greater access to THC being associated with an increase in crazy people using it makes complete sense, but is a causal link between legislation and schizophrenia really demonstrated amongst chronic potheads (the study is about psychosis in people with CAD), that being the subject of the paper?
I think you are assuming that inference happens on the same machine/VM that executes code generated by an AI agent.
This is what patently false because all of these companies already deploy moderation layers and none of their moderation layers are designed to catch things like "glue the pepperoni on".

The SOTA providers don't share much their research on factuality because they don't actually care if the LLM says that, and they view building LLMs that don't say that as a competitive advantage, not some moral obligation like bioweapon development.
I'm starting to love when text is not perfect. So genuine!)
>the Gaza/Canada/Greenland/* invasion force

LMAO!
nothing quite like the perspective of someone from within the walled garden
Messing up conflicts during a rebase, thinking I did it right, and then finalizing the rebase and losing work that accidentally disappeared. That's my most common mistake at least.
> realizing how much of our infrastructure is built around the assumption of a beaver-less landscape

That goes for both kinds of beavers. Europe is often a bit better, but access to public toilets in Canada where they went to feed their hat frenzy, is appalling; those without beavs can deal with it a little easier, but more toilets would still be helpful.
Eh, we saw how AI was used during "war" for the first time. It was used to amass as many even remotely "justifiable" targets as possible, with corresponding increase in killed civilians, because humans could not keep up creating justifiable targets by other means. And at the same time it was used to justify the killings of people in more ways than one.

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

And Google is profiting of this, helping enforce a brutal illegal occupation.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-provided-a...
this seems a domain that's distinctively suited for AI
I don’t think they were asking to quantify the existence of DEI, that would be silly. DEI’s existence is a fact, that’s not under debate.
I agree with you that if it actually goes through (always a doubt with this administration lol), it will be really bad. But, imo letting people getting bombed while doing nothing about it is not much better. If it actually stops the current large scale humanitarian disaster, it's still better than what has been going on for more than a year with complete inaction from the US.

Israel was open about their goal of razing the city to the ground, regardless of what it meant in terms of human cost. And Israel would have gone through with it, as they have had absolutely no consequences up until noe. It was their end goal since October 7.

Whereas this can at least stop the bloodshed, and Americans are much less likely to be fully committed to actually erasing Palestinians from the territory than Israelis would be.

Again, in this case I'm just in favor of any action that puts something between Israel and the Gaza population.

That they even seriously discuss nazi-like population displacement is insane, but this entire situation has become so desperate, and the Israel government has been given so much leniency by every western government... that this lunacy is still better than the inevitable results of letting israel have free reigns over Gaza.
How much does a Firefox 0-day cost these days on the grey market compared to a Chrome 0-day with sandbox escape?
Not sure why you're being downvoted. The link is well-documented. I'm pretty certain the only controversies here are in causality.
That's not at all what happened. One of Google's division offered a "voluntary exit" in lieu of or in addition to an upcoming layoff, and the email announcing it suggested that it could be a good option for some folks, for example people struggling or for folks who didn't like Google's direction.

That is not the same thing as asking everyone who doesn't believe in the mission to please resign.
Anecdatum: I personally know a mother who has a restraining order on her son, whom I also personally know, due to a psychotic episode. And the son's been smoking way too much weed for a long time. Heartbreaking.

So, I know.
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What's worse, and what people gloss over, is that you have to sync your contacts to Facebook/Meta in order to use WhatsApp. That's a lot of very private information that tells them a lot about you. There is a reason why Facebook paid bajillions for WhatsApp and maintains it, even though the communication is encrypted and there are no ads — it's not out of the goodness of their noble hearts.

But try telling this to anyone and watch their eyes glaze over in a matter of seconds.
"Russia hasn't tried to invade the EU" is quite weasel-word-y. They certainly have invaded countries in Europe, specifically Ukraine; the only reason they didn't invade countries in the European Union itself is that would trigger a war that they would face massive casualties from and inevitably lose, in part due to NATO alliances.

Military power is what has kept the EU safe, and countries without strong enough military power — such as Ukraine, which naively gave up its nuclear arsenal in the 90s in exchange for Russian promises to not invade — are repeatedly battered by the power-hungry.
This was my thinking too - data tables can often do this.

The negative of data tables is that it massively slows down your spreadsheet, and cause some weird errors/glitches, but it’s essentially the same thing.
Blocking a highway is not an act of violence, it is a form of peaceful protest.

Like a diner sit-in.

You are free to correct your post to explain all the acts of violence you saw which justify the term "riot".
I went down a path researching the viability of region based memory management (a form of arenas).

A language based on such a paradigm can be provably memory safe, and regions can have their own allocators and optionally provide locking when the regions are shared.

This approach obviates the need for reference counting individual allocations (since regions are tracked as a whole), but it suffers from excess memory usage in the event of many short-lived allocations (i.e. they leak until the entire region's allocations go out of scope). But those types of memory accesses can be problematic in every systems language as they can eventually cause memory fragmentation.

That problem can be minimized using per-allocation reference counting, but that can incur a heavy performance hit. Although not having to use it everywhere could minimize the impact.

The plus side is you don't have to worry about borrow checking, so such a language can be more flexible than Rust, while still maintaining the memory safety aspect.

The question, as always, is: is the juice worth the squeeze?

Truthfully, I suspect no. The Rust train has left the station and has a decade head start. Even if it is a pain in the ass, lol.
ya but why do they hate the sound of running water
Why, in God's name, do you require people to make an account just to apply?
Crazy how they present as a guild but behave like a cartel.
They never had any real pledge

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-provided-a...
of those four, only Crocuta crocuta has ever been spotted
> running things in production/self hosting is more annoying than just paying like 20-200/month

This is an important point. As people rely more on AI/LLM tools, reliability will become even more critical.

In the last two weeks, I've heavily used Claude and DeepSeek Chat. ChatGPT is much more reliable compared to both.

Claude struggles with long-context chats and often shifts to concise responses. DeepSeek often has its "fail whale" moment.
On network states, see perhaps "The bro-ligarchs have a vision for the new Trump term":

> All of these men see themselves as the heroes or protagonists in their own sci-fi saga. And a key part of being a “technological superman” — or ubermensch, as the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche would say — is that you’re above the law. Common-sense morality doesn’t apply to you because you’re a superior being on a superior mission. Thiel, it should be noted, is a big Nietzsche fan, though his is an extremely selective reading of the philosopher’s work.

> The ubermensch ideology helps explain the broligarchs’ disturbing gender politics. “The ‘bro’ part of broligarch is not incidental to this — it’s built on this idea that not only are these guys superior, they are superior because they’re guys,” Harrington said.

[…]

> The so-called network state is “a fancy name for tech authoritarianism,” journalist Gil Duran, who has spent the past year reporting on these building projects, told me. “The idea is to build power over the long term by controlling money, politics, technology, and land.”

* https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/395646/trump-inauguration...