skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talk about a sensational headline. Even if the worst doomsayers predictions come to pass it would not render huge parts of the US uninhabitable. This strikes me as someone who has not traveled around the world and seen the areas that humans have habitats in and are able to remain there unassisted by modern technology.

The other thing that they forget is that huge parts of the US are extremely difficult to live in on a permanent basis without industrial era conveniences. People forget what the settlers had to go through to settle these areas of the country and why the indigenous peoples never did. You have massive complex societies spanning thousands of years in Central and South Americas but in northern America that was rarely seen. They were nomadic societies and if they remained in an area for any given time it only seems like it was for a few hundred years or less.

The US is incredibly inhospitable throughout most of it. It is the advent of technologies and industrialization which has allowed us to spread across it and live essentially anywhere in it. There's no reason to expect that a climate upset would somehow remove the technologies that allow us to remain.
Make it public. Upvotes/downvotes/flagging should have usernames attached to it.
IMO there's no general solution to the HTTPS part that will work for all kinds of programs and the long tail of certificate pinning implementations.

As a proof by counterexample, imagine malware that uses TLS for communication and goes to great lengths to obfuscate its compiled code. It could be a program that bundles a fixed set of CA certificates into its binary and never open any files on the filesystem. It can still create valid, secure TLS connections (at least for ~10 years or so, until most root CA certificates expire). TLS is all userspace and there's no guarantee that it uses OpenSSL (or any other common library), so you can't rely on hooking into specific OpenSSL functions either. If the server uses a self-signed certificate and the client accepts it for whatever reason, it's worse.

With that said, it's definitely possible to handle 99% of the cases reliably with some work. That's better than nothing.
I currently see only one front-page thread about what's happening to the US government right now. I've searched for recent stories, and most of them have been flagged. This does look to me like suppression of the topic.
Firing is what is needed, but it won't happen for people that report spending, it will happen for those that hide it.
And guess whose fault that deficit is? Answer: Bush and Trump.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/tax-cuts-are-primar...

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-2017-trump-tax...

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump

https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/extend...

He campaigned (first time) to reduce the national debt and instead exploded it by giving massive tax cuts to corporations and the wealthiest of the wealthy.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-plan-boosts-bud...

Something something promises something kept?
Oh no.

No, death doulas aren't woo woo, at least the ones I've used.

They're more : Here's a the best brand of diapers, here' how to move a 200lbs man about in a bed to clean him, here's good local grief support groups, etc. In my experience, the paid home aids aren't really good at those things.
The Founding Fathers were responsible for a population of... just under 3 million though, as opposed to the US' current ~350 million.
When playing a game, honesty doesn't require you to announce your cards. But it would be considered dishonest to set up hidden cameras to see your opponent's cards.
No, NASA was specifically created by the "National Aeronautics and Space Act" [1], not by an executive order. USAID was created by executive order by JFK. [2]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Aeronautics_and_Space...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_Inter...
He'll wear an impeachment as a badge of honor. The rule of law is a mostly self-supporting system. When nearly the entire edifice of government stops being concerned with it, the system breaks irreparably. We're looking at nothing less than the fall of the Roman empire in speed run, in my opinion.
There were 3 or 4 yesterday.
Our legislative branch is unable to even minimally fulfill its Constitutional duties.

We haven't declared war since WWII, but we've waged a number of them.

The Congressional budget process is fundamentally broken and increasingly nondemocratic - the leadership of both parties get "continuing resolutions" passed while they draft a mountainous "omnibus" bill that includes all their pork and graft, then they whip the members of the majority party to pass it without reading it.

The Congressional oversight committees are usually captured by the industries and/or agencies they oversee.

Congressional hearings are not used to inform Congress or the people; they're nakedly partisan acting gigs for committee members.

Congress has unconstitutionally delegated much of its authority to a bureaucracy run by the executive branch, intending to have it operate independently of the president. Now we have a president who is choosing to exercise his authority over the executive branch.

Of course, it is illegal and unconstitutional for the president to eliminate programs that are established by law. But remember the executive branch bureaucracy ONLY exists to allow the president to implement the laws passed by Congress. If the laws aren't explicit or delegate to an executive branch agency HOW they law/program will be implemented, then the president has enormous authority over how to implement it, and there is nothing Constitutionally wrong with that. So if the president says "we don't need 10000 people to implement CFR 1.2.3 section 4, we only need 10", and he can implement the law/program as passed by Congress with 10 people, then he's allowed to do that.

The big problem is that Congress MUST depend on the executive branch to, er, execute. Whatever is required to implement the law, that isn't specified in the law, is up to the executive branch, and the President is the head of that branch.

And all this BS about "classification" again only exists to enable the president to do his job. If the president says someone can have access to something, that is non-negotiable, as two USAID folks found out over the weekend. The bureaucracy has for decades used classification to make a currency out of secrets and to try to avoid oversight. Looks like that ride has ended.
>I wonder how many people are telling the truth about something, and aren't taken seriously because they're problematic about something else.

(Un)fortunately, there is a quite famous experiment

>The Rosenhan experiment or Thud experiment was an experiment regarding the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. For the experiment, participants submitted themselves for evaluation at various psychiatric institutions and feigned hallucinations in order to be accepted, but acted normally from then onward. Each was diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder and given antipsychotic medication.
They are derived from statistical laws unlike moores law

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_bound

I agree with you that they require data
From the outside (that is europen view) it looks like they're planning that this change in four years - or even two - will not happen. We'll see.

A good read would be Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.
Also I’m curious if there’s opportunity for an all out perf variant from home brewers.

Eg. Throw away all spectre mitigations, find all the hacks to get each instructions timing down, etc.
I like the list. I'd add:

* Optimize for readability.

* The cost of a bug is exponentially proportional to the time between that it was introduced and the time is was discovered (some NIST study): prevent bugs from going to the next phase (requirements -> design -> dev't -> staging -> prod).

* Favor FP principles such as: separate data and logic (functions); immutability; explicit nulls; prefer pure functions; etc. Even in non-FP languages.

* Strong typing disciplines in languages are worth it.
20yos with max 2 weeks of experience in the job - given the inauguration date.
It seems like you didn’t understand my comment if you think I’ve changed my position from 30% efficacy.
I'm honestly terrified that they'll turn my savings to some sort of nothing by fucking over our currency.

I don't know how anyone isn't.
Just be careful if you believe the itch is the result of something you might be allergic to (e.g., food, or bug bites).

I had several bites from fire ants and ran them under hot water from the bath, which seemed to trigger (or accelerate) a full-body reaction (anaphylaxis?) and a harrowing trip to the emergency room!
I noticed the form in the job ad renders LinkedIn as a required field. I am curious if that's an intentional requirement/filter or if candidates without would be considered?
Explain the trade secrets contained in non-copyrightable AI outputs and the reasonable efforts OpenAI takes to keep its AI output “secret”. Or are you confused about what a “trade secret” actually is?
Trump isn't exactly subtle when he expresses his disappointment in one of his hires. We'll definitely hear about it if it happens. The idea that Musk is somehow acting against Trump's direction is ridiculous though.
There are penlike devices that apply heat and remove the itch as well. propably safer and more accessible that hot water.
The work by voyage team are admirable. If you want to test it, the only editor is continue, add it as an embeddings provider:

"embeddingsProviders": {

"provider": "openai",

"model": "voyage-code-3",

"apiBase": "https://api.voyageai.com/v1/",

"apiKey": ""
},

Aider, clien and roo code does not use embedding. Cursor and windsurf has their own setup.
Did they actually waive it then?
Thank you for the chuckle. Have an upvote.
“Slowed decline by 30%” is explicitly designating it as such.
It's inevitable that the two will break up, but it'll be after trump has used him to do all the deeply unpopular hacking apart of social safety nets that he wants to do. He's a useful idiot. A very rich useful idiot.
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Wisdom from '79!

Could also be wisdom from the fifties, found again.
If this kind of take is what I missed by never installing TikTok, I don't regret it.

Also, China did try it only a few decades ago. Murder, starvation, horrific torture, reeducation camps, brainwashed children denouncing their parents... impressively evil. Not that Tiananmen Square or Uyghur ethnic cleansing or kidnappings of expat dissidents are so much better.
It addressed most of the comment. Most directly, the "bacteria or..." part. And I'm sure the immune response to a parasite isn't exactly the same, but it's not hard to extrapolate that the same principle of increased immune activity being beneficial applies in that case as well.
I think you misunderstand where in the pipeline RDRAND would sit. It's not a high-performance RNG, that instruction takes hundreds of cycles and generates a couple bytes of data. It's used to derive keys for the actual CSPRNG providing e.g. /dev/urandom (which is basically a stream cipher). Having or not having RDRAND would have no performance impact on the CSPRNG.
I lived in a 2 letter town. For the longest time I couldn't order stuff off of websites as they required a 3 letter city.

Ah-well, I saved some money because of this.
I think that framing is close. One side doesn't think the government can do better. I'm usually in that camp. I don't think the federal government can do better. It is too far from the voters for oversight. The country is too big and diverse for what it is trying to do.

My dream government is that of Switzerland, which keeps the purse close to the people.
It's institutions who are investing on behalf of their elderly clients (for example pension funds and such).

That 100% return is guaranteed by the whip that the government so willingly cracks over the backs of productive young people. Why would it be in the interest of the non-entitled to have a government which keeps swinging that whip? To guarantee the investments of the elderly who only have bottomless hate towards the young?
We have a worldwide internet service now.

We have electric vehicles (something that would not have happened without TSLA)

On the other side, the corruption is obvious with billions spent on 8 EV chargers.
These kinds of vague rumours ("they have evidence" is weasel words) are used to legitimize the development of invasive programs (and software) that profile people; see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scand... that affected tens of thousands of people (causing children to be removed from their parents, divorces, suicides, etc), mostly justified because of a small group of people defrauding the benefits scheme. The total cost of setting this right is in the billions and increasing, many times more than whatever they saved on fraud.
I agree - this is also an issue for me!
Not entirely true. An example of a bug which will be fixed soon - https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/hardware/processors-me....
Pliny has already broken it.

https://x.com/elder_plinius/status/1886520475553337725
Getting expertise for an ad hoc system is more obscure than getting service from an established vendor.

So who are likely users? Obviously organizations that can devote software engineering resources towards building a system to monitor ad hoc sensor systems.

So the first cost has to have a cost advantage for building over buying. And the lifetime costs of in house application maintenance have to be better than vendor service.

To put it another way, when is it low hanging fruit for software engineering resources? Including developer moral (thinking of what developers might rather be doing) and the clout of a physical plant managers to redirect engineering resources.

My comment is social and economic not technical. It is about the C-suite’s problems.

But I could be wrong.
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Or we could repeal the Bush and Trump tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, that are largely responsible for the deficit exploding in the first place?

https://www.google.com/search?&q=trump+tax+cuts+defecit
Plenty of people are fine with snow and ice in the winter—certainly relative to places where the alternative is >100 degree F summers. But I don't really disagree that many people like a Mediterranean climate (that the coastal PNW also largely has except for the non-summer grayness) which tilts the scales. Also generally good outdoor recreation options for the most part.
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The courts have accepted his false words as "puffery". Maybe they really do "anticipate". Could become the favored car of AfD, who knows?
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You can use a hooking library like these [1].

[1] https://github.com/frida/frida/wiki/Comparison-of-function-h...
Fascinating. I read Byte Magazine, among others, back in the late 70's and 80's and I don't recall ever running across "mainframe" as a synonym for "CPU" or seeing it applied to mini- and micro-computers. I won't dispute the OP's citations from Byte, obviously, but I have to think it wasn't that common.
I don't think that Elon Musk can be singled out as the source of these changes, he's didn't just magically appear lur of nowhere and start doing what he's doing.
Disagree. I think adults with ADHD are well aware that they are not "normal" with respect to many of the symptoms, even if they don't know it's due to ADHD. At least that's my personal experience.

Few examples off the top of my head:

- being unable to pay bills/fines on time even with plenty of money in the bank.

- being physically unable to keep sitting in a chair after a while in meetings.

It's easy to see that most people around you don't exhibit such traits.
E.g., my signing offer was >1/3 stock at grant and with refreshers (at grant) my pay is significantly >1/3 stock, even if you model the stock price as flat. (Refreshers were 4-5x the size of salary bumps.) And I'm not especially senior.
America is a democracy, and the Trump won the election, and the Republicans won the majority of elections in the House and the Senate, and by virtue of those elections they also control the Judiciary Committee by a wide margin which can block attempts at impeachment. Trump is not going to be impeached less than a month into his term for doing exactly the kind of things he said he was going to do during his campaign. The best bet for Democrats is to focus on winning the midterms. Impeachment is not a serious option.
With ASUS leaking the fix in a beta bios one could go that route.
Military spending didn't explode the deficit. Bush and Trump tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations did.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=trump+t...
Microcode updates aren't persistent, they're loaded into on-CPU-SRAM by firmware and/or kernel.
> That's unclear to me. The idea that someone can just cheat the naturalization process by smuggling their pregnant selves onto our soil long enough to give birth is absurd.

But that's not true. Only their offspring gains US citizenship, not them.
First the coup starts happening, then the coup happens
AI will definitely, without a doubt, make executive decisions. It already makes lower level decisions. The company that runs the AI, can be held accountable. (meaning less likely OpenAI or the foundational LLM, but more likely the company calling LLMs that make decisions on car insurance, etc...)
How can we help our friends that buy into this self-victimisation?

Our culture accepts and normalises the behaviour of using self-deceptive excuses. Our culture provides prepackaged excuses which are socially unacceptable to confront. It is a self-reinforcing system including professionals and woowoo practitioners.

The word trauma gets trivialised to be used as an outcome for the normal vicissitudes of life: blame your parents for everything and accept you can never "recover" and you must never repress. Woowoo past-life trauma and regression therapies and discussions - arrrgh.

My responses so far are limited to (a) dropping people I like from my life because their behaviour was unacceptable, (b) playing along with the beliefs of other friends regardless of the damage of those beliefs, (c) slowly trying to influence those I care about the most (d) blithely ignoring everything - training myself to not care.

We can all clearly see faults in others. Our other problem is to recognise within ourselves when we are making self-deceptive excuses or blaming others for things under our own control. Should I buy into the self-help industry? Counselling, coaching, or woowoo?
Stop posting these kind of "I applied" comments. We'd have thousands of them if everyone does it.
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most of it doesn't cost any money. I believe "free" is an accurate description.
I suspect within our lifetimes people will grant AI and robots rights, but with rights come responsibilities, and finally we will be able to hold the computer accountable!
I worry more about what will happen to the US then. The backlash is going to be very tempted to fight fire with fire, to fight unconstitutionality with unconstitutionality.

Can we get back to a functioning rule of law and a limited government at the end of this? I'm... hesitant.
Collaborate with other people on your projects. You could do some of the initial work, and then hand it off to others to do the marketing and follow-up. You don’t have to do everything yourself.
Have we ever successfully thought through any new technology before implementing it, though? At the launch time of social media transforming society was clear VC hype and due to that implicitly ignored. "Dude it is just a website.".

I cannot think of a single time that a transformative technology was "thought through" ahead of time. Such standards just become basically intellectual NIMBYism, demanding onerous standards to try to make it go away.
This works until someone asks you to produce identity documents matching the computer records.

I've seen people put a single period (".") instead of a last name.
Interesting that the PS5 has been implicated - does this mean that there is an opportunity to jailbreak firmware again?
> Let yourself fail and learn from your mistakes.

In my experience, trying and failing is the very best teaching/learning method.

If you're observant and lucky during your career, you'll gain the skill of learning from other people's failures as well as your own.

(And from a management and mentoring perspective, it's important to assign tasks/projects to junior and mid level devs that have real risks of failure while shielding those devs from blame or blowback if/when they fail. All the very best devs I've worked with in my 30+ years in this game have a deep oral history of war stories they can dig into when explaining why a particular approach might not be as good as it seems on the surface.)
we keep having side debates about 'appropriate', 'ethical', 'traditional', 'conventional', 'legal', 'moral', whatever, but the fact remains that you can do whatever you want, until someone else stops you.

No one is stopping the people at the top of the US Government from doing what they want. In fact, there is a whole apparatus in place, at this point, to protect their ability to continue to operate unchecked.
The developers don’t have that obligation, the publishers do though.. They are the last in the chain here.. Those gaming agencies have a lot of beuracracy filtered in gaming senses.

I’ll say this, every single game dev I’ve ever met, has no clue how to navigate bureaucracy. I’m not saying it’s a type, but it’s not random, they have other things to worry about.
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