skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But while bad/old power lines may have been what literally sparked this fire, they're not the root cause. Burying them will improve things (and is probably a good idea—though there's also the concern of earthquakes shearing through buried lines), but as long as the area remains bone-dry, any spark will cause the same outcome, and sparks can come from a wide variety of sources.
Ahh yes, that was definitely the core reason and not just something sensational to put out as the cause. We definitely care about drug deaths in this country wink.

Feels like the main reasons you institute tariffs, historically, is to 1- control the production/flow of goods and 2- to raise money for other endeavors. As tariffs are a much more difficult form of taxation for a payer to track (they're not getting a bill the way they do on income/real estate taxes, it's being hidden in the cost of the good) they're also a great way to obfuscate "raising taxes" if you're running on a platform of, say "I'm going to institute the largest tax break in American history".
Eh, it’s all politics. I’m sure they are trying to win however they can, don’t sit there and be so naive to think the other side wouldn’t be perfectly happy to let illegal immigrants vote if it benefited them.

I’m all for fairness. For example I think we should weight votes, where everyone gets one vote for each dollar of taxes they pay.

I also want to see all landlords structure rental contracts so that the renter pays the property taxes, if rent was 2k a month but there are $500 in property taxes a month, rent would become $1500 plus $500 property taxes. That way the immediate effects of voting for tax increases is felt acutely and their blame can go on themselves instead of their “greedy landlord”.
Is a UX Designer considered a technical founder?
I'm a UX designer and founder who is applying for the spring batch at YC. Would I be considered a technical founder? I don't code.
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This question came up on Soft Skills Engineering[1]. To cut through the noise it's more important to have a blog or a project you contribute to which you can point to. And then yes, whiteboard type of questions which unfortunately are not reflective of day to day work.

[1]: https://softskills.audio/2025/02/03/episode-446-wading-throu...
Where do you read this only affects flights between the EU and the US?

Article 2.1 clearly states it is applicable to all EU airlines *operating* flights to or from the US. That does not mean they ONLY have to provide PNR FOR those flights

Article 3 speaks about "Data in their (the airlines) reservation systems". There's no limitation to only US-related flights.

The specific mention of flights to and from the US you are likely refer to is in the preamble, referencing a law the US set up prior.
One explanation is that Microsoft is a collection of teams with different objectives. I suppose the security people would like something better than TPM to compete with Apple’s hardware security. OEM contacts will plead on behalf of their vendors to lower standards. And the sales people want to push end-users to buy a new PC that needs a new license. Ultimately everyone’s life at Microsoft will improve with users moving to Windows 11, to gain sales, improve the spying and to mitigate risks, and avoid bad publicity if problems arise with windows 10.
Whoa! You broke my brain a bit there (but your posts often do, in a Good way!)

Would you be so kind as to ELI5 what you did in that index.js?

I've used ollama to run models locally, but I'm still stuck in chat-land.

Of course, if a blog post is in the works, I'll just wait for that :)
This is lowkey cope. AI should be like talking to another human, at least that is the promise. Instead we're getting glorified autocomplete with padded language to sound like a human.

In its current form LLMs are pretty much at their limit, barring optimization and chaining them together for more productivity once we have better hardware. Still, it will just be useful for repetitive low level tasks and mediocre art. We need more breakthroughs beyond transformers to approach something that creates like humans instead of using statistical inference.
A bad comparison. Fentanyl deaths are fully avoidable, heart diseases have existed forever.
There are trade offs. That missile is expense and (see other discussion) might not even hit. A ship is mobile and moves erratically - the enemy needs to find it (not as easy as it sounds even with satellites all over). A missile that lands in the sea 100 feet from a ship does no damage. Hyper sonic often means limits to how you can maneuver it, so you have a chance of figuring out where it can be and thus getting the ship away (depending on your ability to detect it and predict where it is going). The rest of interception was covered by other comments.

A ship lets you get closer to the action. The closer you get the easier it is to overwhelm electric warfare - either because the slow drones can be programed and so don't need a radio (or fiber connections), or because you can make your signal strong enough to overcome it.

Missiles don't have infinite range. Different ones have different limits. Longer range costs both more money and payload. A ship can laugh off anything a tiny drone can do (even a commercial ship).

The above are all trade offs. However navy warfare is not dead and unlikely to die.
Windows and Intel (Wintel) have had a symbiotic relationship from the dawn of time. Intel is struggling, which means Windows will struggle. I would guess they are working together on this plan to boost sales of both
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>Of course, you can use a Fidelity account to own Vanguard ETFs if you wanted.

Which I would highly recommend if you ever want to change brokers. the fidelity ZERO products are great but can only be held at fidelity while VOO shares can be transfered to any broker.
With the waxy hair and pulsating microphone ?
Isn't this entirely an implementation detail of slack and discord search? What about email makes it more searchable fundamentally? The meta data if both platforms is essentially the same, no?
Yeah, frame drops hurt my brain a little. What's funny is that I'm totally fine in VR after using it for a few months for flight sims. Although, after the initial novelty wears off I just prefer head tracking and a flat screen now.
Just two tips/thoughts:

1) The first thing to improve chats as a genre of interface, is that they should all always be a tree/hierarchy (just like Hacker News is), so that you can go back to ANY precise prior point during a discussion/chat and branch off in a different direction, and the only context the AI sees during the conversation is the "Current Node" (your last post), and all "Parent Nodes" going back to the beginning. So that at any time, it's not even aware of all the prior "bad branches" you decided to abandon.

2) My second tip for designs of Coding Agents is do what mine does. I invented a 'block_begin/block_end' syntax which looks like this, and can be in any source file:

// block_begin MyAddNumbers

var = add(a, b)

return a + b

// block_end

With this syntax you can use English language to explain and reason about extremely specific parts of your code with out expecting the LLM to "just understand". You can also direct the LLM to only edit/update specific "Named Blocks", as I call them.

So a trivial example of a prompt expression related to the above might be "Always put number adding stuff in the MyAddNumbers Block".

To explain entire architectural aspects to the LLM, these code block names are extremely useful.
But that war (against metabolic syndrome) is already won because of Ozempic/Wegovy/Zepbound. Give it 20 years.
You seriously don't understand most computer users.
There are reasons they might think this would be different. That would be (probably) 30+ years in the past, in that case American civilians were targeted, on American soil, using flights full of American civilians as the weapons.

I do think that America would probably go to war if US military bases or carrier groups were attacked by the Chinese, but I think it's plausible that China might come to believe otherwise.
Claude AI is your technical co-founder.
The executive order could have included all sorts of "remember to do your job" directives to prisons.

I don't agree with the framing of the question. Men's prisons are typically more violent than women's prisons. So from that perspective, statistically the person is in more danger. However if we only look at that, we would transfer everyone to women's prisons.

You are implying but not stating that there is some extraordinary targeting of trans women by prisoners in men's prisons. I don't know if that is true or not but it seems plausible. My argument is that since prisoners are intentionally kept in a defenseless state, that it is the job and moral duty of prison staff to keep prisoners safe from each other, regardless of who the prisoner is. If a specific prisoner is at unusual risk of violence (like a convicted police officer, for example), then I expect that prisons have processes in place for that.
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”
If we could put tariffs on heart disease we would
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I agree with this and disagree at the same time. It depends what the goal is. If the goal is to have AI write the entire codebase for you, yes chat and human language is quite bad. That's part of the reason formal languages exist. But then only experts can use it. Requirement docs are a decent middle ground. However, I'm not sure it's a good goal for AI to generate the code base.

The mode that I've found most fruitful when using Cursor is treating it almost exactly as I would a pair programming partner. When I start on a new piece of functionality I describe the problem and give it what my thoughts are on a potential solution and invite feedback. Sometimes my solution is the best. Sometimes the LLM had a better idea and frequently we take a modified version of what one of us suggested. Just as you would with a human partner. The result of the discussion is better than what either of us would have done on their own.

I also will do classical ping-pong style tdd with it one we agreed on an approach. I'll write a test; llm makes it pass and write the next test which I'll make pass and so on.

As with a real pair, it's important to notice when they are struggling and help them or take over. You can only do this if you stay fully engaged and understand every line. Just like when pairing. I've found llms get frequently in a loop where something doesn't work and they keep applying the same changes they've tried before and it never works. Understand what they are trying to do and help them out. Don't be a shitty pair for your llm!
Go have a look at https://beta.dwitter.net - many of the examples there use this technique to fit more than 140 bytes into the "dweet" (many are also less than 140 characters, so don't need to use this compression technique). There is a convenient "compressed" switch to "decompress" the code. The rule on dwitter.net is no more than 140 characters (not 140 bytes).
Semi-related, one of the `imessage-exporter` contributors provided a great write-up on reverse engineering the handwritten and digital touch message protobufs [0]. The reconstructed proto files are [1] [2].

[0]: https://github.com/trymoose/handwriting2svg/blob/0eb56cf4582...

[1]: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/blob/beeb853b2...

[2]: https://github.com/ReagentX/imessage-exporter/blob/beeb853b2...
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>In its current form LLMs are pretty much at their limit

How do you know that?
They are also for the most part avoidable
Can't say for everyone, but I have terrible memory and rely heavily on the chat history (and other tools) to keep my mental model in shape.

Here, ephemeral means "this conversation might as well never had happened", so why waste time on that?
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Wake-up call? It’s a little late to close the barn doors.
The actual story is that Musk claims he deleted a group (18F) that assisted the IRS (among others) with the creation of the tax filing program. The group is (was) part of GSA.
Who's Behind the Seized Forums 'Cracked' & 'Nulled'?
Microsoft has been there before, this is right out of their playbook. On the verge of being deemed a monopoly is right where they like to be
Nothing in the article indicates that the administration will be taking Bukele up on his offer.

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/canadian-torture...

"Canadian Torture and Rendition Victim Denied Supreme Court Review" (2010)

>This morning, the Supreme Court announced that it would not hear the case of extraordinary rendition victim Maher Arar.

https://humanrightsclinic.law.harvard.edu/failure-to-prosecu...

"Failure to Prosecute Senior U.S. Government Officials for Torture Violates International Law" (2014)

>In preparation for the UN Committee Against Torture’s review of the United States, the International Human Rights Clinic has joined fellow members of the group Advocates for U.S. Torture Prosecutions in submitting a shadow report to the UN Committee. The report documents how the Obama administration is in clear violation of the law by shielding from criminal liability the senior government officials responsible for the post-9/11 US torture program.
https://archive.is/uZYql
Which comparably-priced ADC/DAC ICs are pushing 6 GSPS on 8x8 channels like the $500 (actual price, not fuck-you DigiKey price) RFSoCs?
In the same boat with one of my user's 6950x. Ridiculously fast machine over its lifetime, and still doesn't trip on much.

Unreal that a 64GB machine with plenty of love to go around is getting the shaft.

I could muck about with a TPM module because the mobo has a header, and there are supported chips on the market, but the 8th gen requirement is a dealbreaker.

I'm trying to get this user to just go Mac, but it's like pulling teeth.

If they insist on a new machine, then maybe I'll make it my BSD box.
Vanguard's grand UI redesign was poorly done. At the time each team was responsible for some software product, and had a good ownership model. The issue imo was that the internal UI component library was poorly made and funded, and that the UX team was very old (most of the people were lifers that were hired in the 90s, no real experience in UI/UX,etc.) So people were just making the designs they were given. The Grand UI Redesign was a single new team that just made a heavy Angular UI application for the major areas, forcing product teams to be backend only. This caused discontinuity and didn't really fix the core issue.
This a list of the data these SpaceX bros might now have on their drives,
for every single US citizen:

- Tax Return Info: Name, SSN, address, income, deductions, payments/refunds.

- Enforcement Records: Audit trails, payment plans, liens/levies.

- Federal payments (e.g., tax refunds, Social Security), direct deposit info, delinquent debt details.

- Accounts for U.S. Treasury securities (personal data, account activity).

- Sanctions Enforcement: Basic identifiers (name, address), transaction details for compliance checks.

- Financial Crime Data: Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs), limited personal/transaction info tied to money laundering or terrorist financing investigations.

- Investigative files related to Treasury programs (potentially includes personal data).
Pair Programming AI Agent
I believe the nit misja111 was picking was that just because this was the first confirmed sighting doesn't mean other ones weren't found there in the past 5K years by people who didn't report them.
> or you need a special precise subset to communicate with AI

haha, I just imagined sending TypeScript to ChatGPT and having it spit my TypeScript back to me. "See guys, if you just use Turing-complete logically unambiguous input, you get perfect output!"
>How does removing an easy tax filing solution improve government efficiency?

It was not removed.
"I dislike crypto as much as the next guy but this was clearly something else than a failure of the currency itself."

Zeke Faux who wrote the book "Number Go Up", a George Plimpton-styled account which was released last year, went to El Salvador and tried to use crypto as currency.

https://www.wwno.org/2023-09-19/tales-from-the-world-of-cryp...

BECKER: ... But also, I just want to point out that in 2021, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced that his government was going to be betting on Bitcoin. And we actually have a bit of tape from him at that year's Bitcoin conference with a lot of cheers from crypto enthusiasts about his government's use of Bitcoin.

Let's listen.

NAYIB BUKELE: Next week, I will send to Congress a bill that will make Bitcoin a legal tender in El Salvador. In the short term, this will generate jobs and help provide financial inclusion to thousands outside the formal economy. And in the medium and long term, we hope that this small decision can help us push forward (CHEERS).

BECKER: And following that announcement, the government of El Salvador encouraged businesses to use Bitcoin. Zeke Faux, you traveled to El Salvador. What did you
find out there?

FAUX: ... And people were literally, I was at this conference. People were, it was one of the first ones I went to, people were in tears, and I just, I was like, what is this weird world, and they all said, you got to go to El Salvador, you got to see, it's the future, it's going to help the poor, they're all using Bitcoin. And the listeners are probably asking themselves, "What does this even mean, how does this make sense?" And it doesn't make sense. I got there, and one of the first places I went to was this little roadside store.

And the president had passed this Bitcoin law, which meant that all businesses were supposed to accept Bitcoin as payment. The country's main currency is the dollar, and they didn't abandon that. But they're supposed to also use Bitcoin. And I went to the store, and I pulled, I grabbed, I asked for a bottle of water.

And the clerk gave it to me, so I'm holding the water. And then in my terrible gringo Spanish, I said, "Puedo pagar con Bitcoin, por favor?" And the clerk just said, "Basura!" Trash! And grabbed the water out of my hand, and just walked away. Get out of here, you dumb tourist. I don't want to use your Bitcoin.

And that was the attitude I got all over the place. Despite this huge push from the president, the currency was totally rejected by the people. Stores would only use it begrudgingly. And what using Bitcoin means is that they would have a special payment terminal and I could use an app on my phone to send my Bitcoins to them instead of using my credit card or my dollars, but the terminals never worked right.

They're very slow on there and people complained. "Hey, the price of Bitcoin goes up and down a lot. Why would I want to accept that for my surf lesson or to sell you a beer? How about you just give me some dollars?" So the ones that did accept that it was just as like a courtesy for the annoying Bitcoin tourists, which I
became one of."
I can't tell what you're arguing here – are you misunderstanding what you quoted from the FAQ? Only the person who creates the event needs to have an iCloud+ subscription. Everyone else can RSVP to it regardless of whether they have an iCloud+ subscription or even an Apple device at all.

> Do invitees need to have an Apple device with the app to attend an event?

> Apple Invites is for everyone. Guests don’t need the app, an Apple device, or an account to RSVP to an event.

Source: www.icloud.com/invites
If you start to ban cigarettes, mcdonalds and similar, also many heart diseases can be avoided
I was referring to how you'd conduct an audit. I don't mean adding extra security, I mean taking backups so they can't be tampered during the audit.
Are there any open source printer projects out there? It doesn't seem like it should be too hard of a technology to crack considering we have stuff like the frame.work laptop
Every time there is a chat interface for something I try to use it, then after 1-2 prompts I give up.

So I completely agree with this. Chat is not a good UI