skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you assume they are both compromised by Russia and China(which they are), then all of their actions make much more sense by treating our allies as enemies because they are enemies of Russia and China.
Not being on the apps is a proxy for iq
Oh yeah just made a comment about it, I prefer it over F-Droid, too.
“Break” doesn’t mean repo integrity corruption. It means that you try to merge a branch, and it shits itself with hundreds of conflicts that shouldn’t appear and/or has changes that may partially revert the progress made by other merges.

if they're allowed to push somewhere and make it someone else's problem, that's not their fault

What? This made zeroest sense of the day. Like, I should walk to their desk and check if a feature branch is okay to push or what?
> However at a minimum formatting changes shouldn’t regularly complicate doing a diff.

If the code needs to be reformatted, this should be done in a separate commit. Fortunately, there are now structural/semantic diff tools available for some languages that can help if someone hasn't properly split their formatting and logic changes.
What I would love to see is a public payer heath plan paid with a VAT. Then every startup gets subsidized as do large corporations. It sucks when you have to think about health care costs when doing a startup or rolling the dice.
PopOS is more Mac than windows but it's what you're after.
The other big elephant in the room is that the self-appointed wanna-be ruler, Musk, owns companies which have received very large amounts of both government (taxpayer) grants and contracts.

Back in 2015, the LA Times reported Musk's companies had received nearly $5 billion in grants. That's taxpayer money. Plus there's the SpaceX contracts--not saying those are unwarranted, certainly SpaceX deserves the contracts more than Boeing--but my point is that it's a huge conflict of interest.

A person receiving very large amounts of money from the government is now deciding which parts of the government should be cut in order to "save taxpayers money".

If this sounds like something that would only happen in a place like Russia, or the DRC, it's because it's something that would only happen in those places.

In other democratic countries you go to jail for this sort of thing (i.e., Nicholas Sarkozy in France--not saying the situation is exactly the same, but there's an actual judicial system in place that doesn't exonerate someone just because they're president, like our SCOTUS did).
The Long Quest for Artificial Blood
It's not that the US will respond to every crisis, but that it's much easier to do so when you have resources nearby. Flashy rescue missions help justify the infrastructure and logistics networks that support such a sprawling military footprint. Also, humans are notoriously poor at thinking about low-probability, high-impact events.
If you have evidence of how the secure enclaves on mobile devices are compromised, you should share those details.

You can also believe that there is an industry-wide conspiracy in which everything is backdoored. But that's a philosophical/political claim, not a technical one.

Which type of claim are you making?
can you please elaborate on the wait tokens? what's that? how do they work? is that also from the R1 paper?
> My hope is that Linux gets wide enough adoption to prevent that from becoming a feasible option for them in the future.

This has already happened: Linux had wide enough adoption that Microsoft could be convinced to allow alternative operating systems in Secure Boot.
Here is a good explainer from a legal expert as to why some of the stuff is flagrantly illegal: https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/121-spending-coercion-and-com...
Yes, but where do you stop?
In make shell one would routinely call rm, sed, find... should they be included too? So instead of make including a shell, it would be simpler if busybox included a make.
Great news. First place I check for OSS android software. App needs a bit of work but there are open alternatives.
GiveWell may have made 1B dollars of bad grants due to harming animals?
Summary

- I investigate whether saving human lives globally, and in China, India and Nigeria may be harmful accounting for the meat eating problem, i.e. the nearterm increase in farmed animal suffering caused by increasing income or population. The problem is philosophically analysed in Plant (2022).

- I estimate a random person globally, and in China, India and Nigeria in 2022 caused 15.5, 34.6, 5.17 and 2.31 times as much suffering to poultry birds and farmed aquatic animals as the person’s happiness. Moreover, I expect the meat eating problem in those countries to become worse in the nearterm as their real gross domestic product (real GDP) per capita increases. So my results suggest extending human lives there is harmful in the nearterm.

- GiveWell has made 1.09 billion dollars of grants impacting people in the countries I mentioned. Ambitious Impact has incubated 8 organisations whose 1st target country was one I mentioned, and whose interventions significantly increase the nearterm consumption of farmed animals.

- Nevertheless, I am not confident that saving human lives globally, and in China, India or Nigeria is harmful to animals:
-- Even if it is so for farmed animals nearterm, it can still be beneficial overall. For example, I would say at least chickens’ lives can become positive over the next few decades in some animal-friendly countries.
-- Many of my modelled inputs are highly uncertain. However, this means extending human lives globally, and in China, India and Nigeria may be, in the nearterm, not only beneficial, but also hugely harmful.

- At the very least, I think GiveWell and Ambitious Impact should practice reasoning transparency, and explain in some detail why they neglect effects on farmed animals.

- In addition, I encourage people there to take uncertainty seriously, and, before significant further investigation, only support interventions which are beneficial in the nearterm accounting for effects on farmed animals. This favours interventions which mostly decrease morbidity instead of mortality, improving annual human welfare per capita without significantly affecting life expectancy, like ones in mental health.

- GiveWell and Ambitious Impact could also offset the nearterm harm caused to farmed animals by funding the best animal welfare interventions.

- I extend my recommendations to GiveWell and Ambitious Impact to all organisations and people supporting interventions significantly increasing the nearterm consumption of farmed animals.
Well, I am pondering this now, tbh.
You can do this now with all the On-demand stores. But it quickly becomes more economical to buy a bundle.
Timeless Virtues, New Technologies
Looks amazing. I don't see anything on Large File Support though. As annoying as it is, it's a hard requirement for some parts of the industry (especially games) and worth a mention.
That’s pretty black-and-white thinking, with no apparent recognition that there are shades of gray.
In the 1880s, Vanderbilt was worth $230m, or $7b today

1910s Rockerfeller peaked at nearly $1b. That's $33b today, or chump change. He, like Gates after him, gave away a lot of wealth.

Come 1995, Bill Gates took the mantle with a net worth of $15b, or $31b today.

So from 1910 to 1995 there was very little inflation in the super rich.

By 2000 Gates reached $60b ($110b). By 2010 he'd dropped to $56b ($81b today), still nearly 3 times richer than Rockerfeller

By 2015 he'd recovered to $105b in today's money, despite giving away lots of money.

In 2018 Bezos took over with $140b, a 40% real-terms increase on the "richest person" in just 3 years.

2022 Musk took over with $236b, but lost out to Arnault in 2024 when Musk was worth a mere $210b, but today he's nearly doubled his wealth. Maybe Musk is a special case due to the excessive corruption, but Bezos has increased 30% in 12 months.

in the last 30 years, the inflation rate of super-rich-wealth has increased on average 10% a year even ignoring the Musk outlier. Inflation meanwhile was 2.5%

At those rates, in the next 30 years the super-rich will be worth $4.2 trillion, but someone more normal with a net worth of $1m will be worth $2m.
>That's a vague slogan, not a meaningful strategy to accomplish anything of consequence.

Of course. The vast majority of America needs "sound bites" of info. Wish this wasn't the case. But it's worked for decades.

>Money is just a tool. The resources and incentives that the money is being spent on already exist, and it's being used to further ambitions and goals that were always present. Getting "money out of politics" in a formalistic way will just lead to corrupt ambitions being facilitated via some other means.

You're not wrong. But there is a happy medium. Super PACs/Citizens United....this is what he's targeting. Those are dangerous. They are not in the interest of all American people. They benefit the few.

And we cannot have hypocrites at every level. The insider trading that occurs due to politician privilege is insane. But not Bernie, his actions match his words. He lives by his principles. That cannot be said for many politicians.

>Bernie's ideas are very dangerous, because he offers simplistic, pat solutions to risks that are fundamental to politics itself (at the expense of the much more nuanced safeguards we've developed over the ages)

Is that's how things have played our for the folks in Vermont? I grew up in that area. I've watched his policies shape the landscape for decades. But his policies aren't why he's a great candidate.

While his policies are a big part of his platform, what really resonates with a lot of people is his unwavering commitment to first principles values like fairness, equality, social justice, and democracy. These principles drive his entire political career, and they shape his policy proposals, but they also make him stand out in a political landscape where many politicians change their stance based on what's politically expedient or donor-friendly.

Bernie's character and consistency are arguably just as important as his policies in defining who he is as a politician.

>while proposing to make the political state far more central to people's immediate lives and livelihoods than it has ever been before.

This is a concern of mine as well. It's the ultimate balancing act. Provide just enough support for folks that they still hold agency in their life. As Fred Rogers put it, "There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it."
Some quick math shows that if the $1T goal is reached, assuming taxpayer savings remain proportional to the numbers given now, the average taxpayer will save $6700.

(Edit: Oops, the goal is actually $2T, so average savings of $13,400, I guess.)

Of course, that won't be distributed evenly, so I suspect most people will see savings of $1K to $2K at most in a best-case scenario.
Where positive impact is purely defined as a reduction in investment on public initiatives and ignoring the much more complicated returns those investments may have produced both fiscally and socially.
I did and they responded. thanks.
the results aren't misleading, people just don't know how to read them, or understand why bidirectional traceroutes are necessary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0RUI5kHzEQ
Trump's plan for Gaza triggers international condemnation
Audiophiles are a self selected group. Membership has nothing to do with hearing ability. Most are of an age where they have less than “normal” hearing for a healthy child.

Audiophiles classically deliberately confuse measurable differences with audible ones. This they chase meaningless goals and convince themselves that anything which affects signal affects sound.

None of it would stand up to properly double blind testing. When it’s done things like “the sound of cables” disappears entirely outside incompetent engineering.

Even worse audiophiles tend to prefer distortion which flatters. I.e. exaggerated bass and treble to compensate for components and old ears.
>> the laziest and stupidest possible ways

> 70% of the many recruiter messages I receive are like this.

You're not disputing my core point.
I was having major issues each time F-Droid decided to update itself and then the only app I cared about on it implemented self-updating so I let it go. Has major GIMP vibes IMO.
Nope; the OP's argument was that the previous administration did the same thing. Stay on track with the discussion.
Such a manufacturer's attestation key would quickly be considered untrustworthy and their TPMs unattested. An unattested TPM will be ignored by any DRM or anti-cheat use-cases.
First article: "China's economy expanded in the third quarter at the slowest pace", second article, "Growth in the world’s second-largest economy is slowing "

"growing slowly" != "declining"
The key for me — as someone who has been around for a long time and is at JuliaHub — is that Julia excels most at problems that don't already have an efficient library implementation.

If your work is well-served by existing libraries, great! There's no need to compete against something that's already working well. But that's frequently not the case for modeling, simulation, differential equations, and SciML.
Yep. The number of people rallying behind superficial nonsense without any substantive policy positions backing them up has never been higher. Trump and Sanders are two sides of the same coin.

If there's any evidence of a decline, it's definitely found in the extent to which people are both (a) looking to federal politics to solve their local and personal problems for them, and (b) supporting incompetent sloganeers as the people they want managing federal politics.
> unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon

I guess the second coming of Nazism to an unprecedented scale and without any serious opposition anywhere is 1/ uninteresting and 2/ absolutely irrelevant to tech.
A lot of universities have found that female professors have significantly less lab space than male professors.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2023/02/09/uc-san-diego...
https://news.mit.edu/2014/research-reveals-gender-gap-nation...

In neuroscience there have been studies showing that the methods developed may not be effective for all races or sexes https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-022-01046-0

Historically studies have had an overrepresentation of white men as subjects. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1761670/
Hey there, code adventurers and data enthusiasts! Today, we're diving into the unconventional world of using GitHub as a database. Yep, you heard that right – we're turning the home of millions of repositories into our personal data playground. Buckle up, because this will be a commit-ment you won't forget!
> Frontend development is a nightmare world of Kafkaesque awfulness I no longer enjoy

Yep. At some point in React (maybe 5 years in) ‘how do I handle state?’ started to be ‘read this essay about the true nature of FRP from Dan Abramov’ and it just seemed to get worse from there. I worry Svelte will do the same in future.
That’s because it isn’t actually about qualification. It’s actually about a lack of accountability. Trump wants everyone to be able to hire their friends just like he does, optics be damned. I think a lot of people actually agree with this at a visceral level.

Left leaning people are more concerned with power controlled by nepotism and “unfair” connections. To me that is a kind of sour grapes view fueled by too many participation trophies.

A government full of cronies sucks but we can at least hope to get our own cronies in at some point. A meritocratic/technocratic
government sounds like a dystopian novel.
The majority of activists aren't going to be targeted by a 0-day. Most probably won't even be purposefully, directly targeted. They're more likely to have their data given/sold to the government as part of a larger batch (geo-fence, etc.). I would not recommend a Google product with that considered.

The activists that are legitimately, specifically targeted should probably be past the "101" series of infosec and not be using either without significant other considerations and protections.
North Korean IT teams infiltrate global freelance platforms
Is that what they are saying?
So your argument is that "nobody knows anything"? It's hardly an argument that you know something.

It's also a straw man to nitpick the number, as your claim "That leaves the U.S. still standing with economic growth" - was that China was not growing, at all.
>> always have to make sure the reader is aware of the exact length of data

32-bit is unambiguous.

If the exact length of data is important, why not just say "32-bit" or "16-bit" since those are exact lengths?
Shellz: Small utility to manage SSH, telnet, Kubernetes or custom shell
It is an F-Droid client.
The ideal AI interface is probably not a chatbot
Well, I would like to clarify that I was not criticizing any country. To me, all of those examples are just nations learning and exploring what's good and what's bad again under this new age. The world will adjust and slowly but surely get better. See? This time, so far no body is getting burned for claiming that the Earth is not the center of the universe.

And for all the other points, only time will tell.

BTW, I don't hate Mr. Trump either. When he was elected, I brought in some financial products anticipating his unconventional method (and most importantly, I did not buy in some other products). Now I seeing ~5% return in just half a month. I thank that man for his straightforward.

So if I'd say, fearmongering is useless and opportunity for goodness is still reachable.
The same idea is in both the R1 and S1 papers (<think> tokens are used similarly). Basically they're using special tokens to mark in the prompt where the LLM should think more/revise the previous response. This can be repeated many times until some stop criteria occurs. S1 manually inserts these with heuristics, R1 learns the placement through RL I think.
That's very relatable. I don't really have any specific project I could mention that would make anyone's jaw drop. But if I look back at how little I knew compared to now, and the fact that I completely self-taught myself everything, I did some insane stuff for my age. I was so determined and could lose myself for weeks into a project just because I was so positively driven. I could do the same stuff now, much better too. But I wouldn't have the same drive and inspiration to come up with something and build it to perfection.

One thing that comes to mind is a bot I made that played bejeweled blitz. It worked by taking screenshots and calculated the optimal move, and moved the mouse to make those moves. I was 13 and wrote it in VB6.
To teach someone to use something, in my mind, means that that someone should be able to use whatever they were taught.

After 10 minutes, the person unfamiliar with Perforce, will not know how to deal with read-only files. No chance of that happening.
TCP-over-DNS (2008)
Greenfield lasts only for at best 2 years or the first public release. After that it is legacy.

I'm am the "Dave" on my current code since I was one of the first engineers on the project and the others before me have long moved to management. There is a lot I don't know about how the code works. There are dark corners we just lifted completely from an earlier project where the guy who wrote it 30 years back is retired. This is normal.

I'm fighting desperately to keep this code in shape as I don't want to go to management to ask for $$$ (billions) to rewrite it. I regret many choices. I'm making other choices in response that I fear someone will regret in 15 more years. I'm hoping to retire before then - better talk to me now because soon the people who have talked to the person who wrote the code 30 years ago will also be a memory. (the guy who write the code 30 years ago is still alive and someone has his phone number - they talk once a year about something weird to see if why is remembered)
I would say it depends on your domain expertise and the expertise of the chosen programming language. Of course, for very large projects with multiple unknown integrations this is not the case.

But if you are an expert in both of domain and the technology itself, you can well design it before starting the coding, because you already know the technical issues you are likely facing.

At least I have personally managed to design some projects and implement them without any design changes. But I also read countless blog posts about the limitations of these programming languages every day.
-Sagan’s 1995 predictions are now being heralded as prophetic. As Director of Public Radio International’s Science Friday, Charles Bergquist tweeted, “Carl Sagan had either a time machine or a crystal ball.”

Prophetic, time machine, crystal call.

That's exactly the lenguage of darkness and superstition...
Bitbucket offered free Mercurial hosting before GitHub even existed, if memory serves. And it's all but dead.

And, I don't know if GitHub succeeded because of Git or the other way around.
Can't find it on youtube, link?
No it doesn't, if you're trained in constitutional law and actually know what you're talking about. Disagreeing with something doesn't make you a shill. Saying everyone who disagrees with you is a $PEJORATIVE_OF_CHOICE does. Maybe even it doesn't matter if you know what you're talking about or not as long as you approach it in good faith.

"The judicial branch is bought and paid for" is a ridiculous shill thing to say because 1) it assumes that smart, well-educated, successful people only believe a thing because of corruption. 2) it obviates the need to address any of the other side's claims on their merits, because they're just corrupt so who cares. 3) it sets up your side as the victors-by-default, because the other corrupt and you hate everything the other side does so by definition you're Good. It used to be a common refrain of the right when most judges and justices and most courts were left-of-center. But now that federal circuit courts are evenly split between R-appointed and D-appointed justices, and SCOTUS has more Republican appointees than Democratic, the judiciary is farcical.

"This is a hallowed, storied institution just so long as it does things I like, and a corrupt oligarchy when it doesn't" is the very definition of shill.
Well, latest windows 11 installer doesn't detect my laptop's touchpad nor trackpoint, nor wifi adapter. Sure, I usually have a mouse lying around which works, but not a network adapter. So I had to go look up on the internet how to convince it to go past the installer without insisting on connecting to the internet. Spoiler alert: it was some obscure command in the terminal.

This is a 2020 full-intel, basic enterprise machine, nothing fancy. Worked fully out of the box under Linux, including sleep. The display output was borken for about a year under Windows (wouldn't output 4k@60 without doing a stupid plug-unplug-replug-just-at-the-right-time dance). At one point, installing the latest driver from intel worked, but Windows would helpfully "update" it to an earlier, borked version every other day.

My point is that the current hardware situation seems pretty much hit-and-miss, and figuring that running windows to avoid fiddling with drivers and whatnot isn't such a sure-thing as people in this thread make it out to be.
I just think “elite” has no meaning if you’re just using it as a synonym for “people I don’t like”.

“Elite” is traditionally a synonym for rich white men educated at Ivy League universities working comfortable, high-earning jobs. Those people still exist! Trump is one of them, as is George W Bush, and his father before him.
A great read.

What's needed to actually implement FILE, are there any transputer emulators to run this on?
In this specific case the greater evil was clearly “the same or worse”, but with the opportunity for an irreparable, fatal outcome for Gaza.

I think lesser evils are present in every election. By your logic, total surrender is the only outcome.

I appreciate you engaging, but agree to disagree I guess.