skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a long time listener, lately to me he has become more of a republican mouthpiece. He can’t help but to consistently bring up republican talking points and whatever the democrats did that was crazy this week, while still trying to say “But I’m not democrat or republican”. It’s cringy when he has a good guest on (rare now) who doesn’t want to talk politics but he doesn’t stop. I quit listening after many years, and I tried for last few months to give it a chance.

Lets not forget how in his “comedy” special, he literally says he is like Elon’s puppy following him around believing whatever he says because he’s a “genius”. He changed.
> a world where everyone outdoors can reach help

Get a 406 MHz beacon [1]. They’re more effective in more conditions, unambiguous and easier to hone in on than phoned-in coördinates.

[1] https://www.sarsat.noaa.gov/emergency-406-beacons/
Did you get appropriate consent before adding them to your lead spam database?
That's a really well written post. Thank you for sharing it, really makes you think about all the thought that has went into http and how important Chesterton's fence is
One I’d add is, “Can it be used offline/without a browser?”

That’s something that’s been nice about Anki. As long as I’ve got my laptop I can do reviews, even if I don’t have a connection or the internet is awful or costs money (flights, etc). It runs on everything too which has worked nicely on the Linux ultraportable I’ve dedicated to study purposes.
This is really well polished.
WTF Are Popcorn Tasks?
It's funny, there used to be a pretty solid definition of AGI: a system that can pass the Turing Test. Then we got there, and it turned out that passing the Turing Test is actually pretty specialized and doesn't mean the system is as smart as a human in all aspects.
If just turning off ADP placates the UK, it implies that the UK already has a backdoor to unencrypted data.
I think there should be some balance. Passionless discussion never feels as satisfying. We're not all robots. Our reasoning should be clear, but our tone and the grounding of our opinions should also shine through.

I'd say it's a classic Spock vs. Jimbo take.
Watch what happens with countries new alliegances to China over the next few years.

Hell even in Canada were now exploring direct trade deals with China to avoid the US.

That is a very big deal for an economy like the US that is so global.
http://magenta.withgoogle.com has quite a few
Reading every paper in 27 years of the psychology in programming conference
Not all of them did. Beto O'Rourke is doing okay for himself.
Being good would be bad, therefore being bad is actually good.
You also forget commands and flags over time, leading to the responses you denigrated as a skill issue.
And this is not from a "rarely use" crowd like in your Windows example
https://xcancel.com/TechEmails/status/1888313183024074910
Query optimization doesn't work because SQL is declarative
It's troubling to see people from assumably technical backgrounds on HN seem to struggle with the very basic math you put forward.
dunno, I've seen some of the McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC, and Bane work... I'm skeptical anyone senior ever looks an anything. McKinsey specifically feels like the Jim Cramer of consulting with every blog post they write. Maybe your experience is different, but it feels like the consultants do the same as DOGE is doing.
Insert "no, that's a completely different sentence. Wtf are you talking about?" meme here.
I know it's like screaming into the void when there's a 1000+ comments but...

You remember the end of Gatsby where Nick turns up at the mansion and some sinister characters have the run of the place and you-know-who is floating in the pool out back...

This is what the US looks like right now. Party's over, no guests ever again. Crims have moved in instead.
Crypto Dorea: Crypto Cashback for WooCommerce
And I thought internet disruptions were annoying when someone accidintentionally breaks your undersea cable. Losing power is even worse
Relational Algebra Isn't Math
I’m curious, does [my blog](https://ziofil.github.io/) count as “raw html”? I do have some minor js and css, but I don’t rely on a static site generator and I do everything by hand…
The article is written for journalist (and investor). See the footnote.
Thank you! Could you say a bit more about that continuum? How do you understand the states on it?
>one quintillion connections

What a load of nonsense.
Hypothesised cranial haematoma after accident with tree, died aged 48. Reconstruction aligns with paintings, but it wasn't clear if the reconstruction model was informed by the paintings so somewhat meaningless they agree.

Also the diagnosis isn't informed by the craniometry from what I can read: it's a reconstruction and an unconnected diagnosis from reports of his death.

Amusingly a website which had (nc)register.com but not theregister.com..
I browse with Javascript disabled by default. This blog loaded as a plain markdown file.
I used to do that, now I just keep a OneNote with the things that would have been blog entries once upon a time - it's available across all my devices and I can export it to PDF when I do need to share something with someone - and I don't have to worry about someone defacing or hacking the site hosting it.
What you've never seen a chef on a cooking show geek out about his favorite knives and pans?
> It doesn’t save the engine, it keeps it from ripping the wing off. It’s a good system.

Sure, I get that it was added to prevent plane from disintegrating, but like you said integration thinking is gone and now we have those individual components that sure look homicidal from outside.

The other issue is that regulators are missing in action or worse. It’s no way to run the industry by relying on concerned youtubers..
Why? Is it just for culture war reasons?
From CNN[0]:

> Farritor was granted access to basic IT including email and Microsoft 365, one of the people said. The chief information office only does a small amount of IT and cybersecurity work for the National Nuclear Security Administration, they said, including providing connectivity and running basic internet services for NNSA’s headquarters. It does not run IT systems for the nuclear agency’s labs controlling the nation’s nuclear stockpile.

As to this part of your comment:

> and you think you've got sober and thoughtful take to offer on this situation, do you?

Please take note of Dang's comment at the top of the page, hyperbole and hysteria are not interesting.

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/climate/doge-energy-depar...
Because we know what LLM's do. We know how they produce output. It's just good enough at mimicking human text/speech that people are mystified and stupified by it. But I disagree that "reasoning" is so poorly defined that we're unable to say an LLM doesn't do it. It doesn't need to be a perfect or complete definition. Where there is fuzziness and uncertainty is with humans. We still don't really know how the human brain works, how human consciousness and cognition works. But we can pretty confidently say that an LLM does not reason or think.

Now if it quacks like a duck in 95% of cases, who cares if it's not really a duck? But Google still claims that water isn't frozen at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, so I don't think we're there yet.
As other comments mentioned, the content is written in Markdown and rendered in the browser. So “blog with raw HTML” feels like a stretch... that said, View Source in the browser shows the exact HTML document that's presumably hand-written in the source repo [1], so I guess it comes down to the definition of “raw”. It could mean “not pre-processed”.

[1]: https://github.com/poga/devpoga.org/blob/58a202485cedeae9157...
Seems reasonable. What’s the downside other than someone losing a zinc contract?
Complex Buggy Pthread_rwlock_t in Glibc
I should mention that Drepper's old implementation and thus uclibc/uclibc-ng's implementations are much simpler and do not have this bug. The musl libc does not have this issue because it puts an upper limit on the number of user-space spins in one try. Unlimited spin should NEVER appear in user space!

I cannot believe that such a highly-reproducible bug is left untouched for nearly a year.

PS: All versions of glibc since 2.25 are affected.
We're not looking for autarky, we're looking for strategic assurances and avoidance of dependency with adversarial consequences. It annoys me economic arguments delayed work to expand Australian rare earth sources, it would have been good not to get caught behind "cheaper is best" decision logic. The same logic shut down our microelectronics industry, local manufacturing, strategic policy in oil reserves and refining. Sure. Cheaper is great.. right up until it isn't because somebody else wants an outcome without price.
Never thought of that. Any investigation from this group or this data is tainted now. Goodness.
Hey HN, just sharing the way I've been adding Tailwind CSS to my Chrome Extensions lately.

tldr is that it's dead easy to save the CDN script locally and use it, plus it doesn't come with the typical drawbacks that websites face (ie: loading external resources).
> It's entirely possible someone will be denied clearance because of something they've done that makes them susceptible to coercion.

And that doesn't have to be something incriminating, either, just something that means they could be used as a lever against the individual seeking clearance. An example might be something like having a family member who lives in Russia - this would make the subject susceptible to coercion by the Russian government threatening to harm their family.
I think OP is defining Raw HTML as an excuse to not bother with themes, style, or clever use of HTML.

Just ignore the markdown and Javascript....
Even more worrying is the fact that some people think they have credibility.
Baja California should be returned to California! Commence special military operation!
I expect a light switch button on a plane act like any other light switch button everywhere else - switching the light when pressed. The fact that the you can point to the terminal manual that states that you must use --- triple tap for that is irrelevant - that's still very bad design, and you've just dismissed a real issue with an bad analogy.

> why it can't be like

Here is another mistake: in many cases it be.
Please clarify. Do you suggest that because a community is small it doesn't matter?
I was told you don't need to subscribe to the mailing list, but I've sent mailing list messages with patches, discussions on technical issues that were never accepted.
> What am I missing?

You're not missing anything, companies like mine have done just this.

We supported a messy situation of 7 webapps using different technologies looking 7 different ways. Once we got them to use Bootstrap, was a cinch to consolidate to a single company brand.

The "big reskin" UX was gearing up for was as simple as a new theme, and was done without any drama. They were almost disappointed it was so easy, ha.

I like Tailwind, but it's a rotten fit for reskinning (not just changing font or colors). I'd much rather have a single .card class, vs "p-3 border-1 shadow-sm rounded-2" or whatever. Not all of us have have the luxury of a single modern app all using the same React components.
> Little is known about Safe Superintelligence’s work. The company, which also counts ex-OpenAI researcher Daniel Levy and former Apple AI projects lead Daniel Gross among its founding team, has raised $1 billion so far. Existing investors include Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and DST Global.

Has any of those investors…. Seen some product or something other than some names?
My 12 yr old just spent a week in bed with flu A, fever over 100 consistently for the week.

A couple of weeks before he was wishing for flu so he could skip school, but I don't think he's ever had it.

Now he's learnt flu isn't worth it to get to skip school
Hey Dang!

First I want to thank you for the tireless job of moderating this form, it is really the thing that keeps it as a special place on the internet.

I genuinely wanted to ask if you feel out of depth on moderating the current and upcoming news on both the US and AI.

Both feel like we are heading towards things many of us have not experienced in our lives.

How do you find your previous moderation experience is leading you in the current environment?
I know. The question is: How much of the Internet trove, including the smart bits, but also the tremendous amount of inane content, is actually useful to building the foundation that allows 1,000 problems to have such an effect?
> There is clearly something unusual happening with flags

I'd say what's unusual is the macro environment. This is the most politically intense moment in years. HN can't be immune from macro trends (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

There have been periods like this in the past, such as 8 years ago when you-know-who first took power. I hear you that you don't remember it being this bad then; my memory is otherwise. Either way, the moment will subside. HN has gone through such swings before.

> I think this motivated flagging is preventing productive discussion on HN

I don't see how one can say that discussion is being prevented when the topic is is by far the most-discussed on HN (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42977160 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42978572 for recent posts on that). The current thread has been on the front page for 9 hours and counting, and has over 1000 comments and counting.

I know some people would prefer more, but that is always the case about any topic. Moreover, everyone has at least one topic they feel that way about. These are perennial conditions that come from the fundamentals of the site, not recent trends.

> it's healthier in the long term for Hacker News to allow perhaps excessive discussions on these currently popular topics

I have to disagree—I think the health of Hacker News depends on not doing this. Times like this are moments to reinforce HN's differentiation from other forums by insisting on its particular focus (i.e. that it's a forum for intellectual curiosity, not a current affairs site).If we lose users who get frustrated because they can't use HN primarily for political battle, that makes me sad, but the solution is not to use HN primarily for political battle.

> Otherwise HN risks developing a reputation that it systematically suppresses discussions critical of the current administration.

It's not true that HN does this, so anyone who believes it is jumping to a false conclusion. It bothers me a lot when people do that, but you wouldn't believe how often it happens, and how many kinds of false generalization people come up with—I could give you hundreds of examples. I've learned that it's a bad idea to worry too much about the false conclusions about HN that people jump to for reasons of their own. Not that I've stopped worrying too much about it—I still do, I've just learned that it's a bad idea.
Can you share your analysis of the data? Other commenters have included details. I think we all would be interested in more than vague value judgments that you took a look, didn't like it and therefore tried to flag to repress discussion of it
I'm a casual gamer at most lenient definitions of my gaming time. I got tired of having an hour to kill, and half of that time being spent on updates. It pretty much was the final nail in the coffin for my interest in gaming.
> "it didn't fail for ONE reason it failed for MANY reasons" is rebutting anything.

It could have been none of those reasons, or only some of them.

The point is your quoted line mentions one reason for failure to suggest the project/lead was naive,
but that may not have been a significant impediment.

> You're not sure how the idea of giving computers to African children with the expectation that they will be delighted to code their own computer games is similar to the idea of giving computers to Sentinalese children with the expectation that they will be delighted to code their own computer games?

The African delegation would rather spend money on infrastructure, schools, water; is this the same in uncontacted North Sentinel Island? Africa is still developing, NSI is undeveloped, I think that can make a big difference, yes.

> I can't quickly find if they have a writing system at all, or schools, or a concept of formal or informal schooling ... They likely have no electricity.

Doesn't that support my argument above?.. That NSI is v. different from Africa and hence the OLPC project?

> a copy of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is so ridiculous it shouldn't need pointing out

ok, but you're comparing the "same line of thinking" that seems specifically invalid in this case, but not for the OLPC case that you're comparing it to. It's also a bit of a straw man (in the case of OLPC) - the computers had many modifications made to them to make them require fewer cultural norms, it wasn't at all "Mavis Beacon". I don't see the original proposition "they will automagically understand them and enjoy them in the same way I do". As such they weren't designed or distributed for uncontacted tribes.
It won't be needed with inflation caused by the new import taxes.
Financial data that seems to be subject to those running massive fraud or allowing it through negligence, but somehow attempting to tackle that is more dangerous than a 19 year old holding an incredibly efficient weapon.

The foxes were already in the hen-house before DOGE turned up, either, as many seem to think here, there are now competing foxes in there, or a clean up is happening. I've yet to see any evidence of actual damage done by DOGE, so why is everyone ignoring the evidence of actual damage that they've found? Can we work that one out?
My guess is the side effects of the vaccine, the low effectiveness of the vaccine, and the relative rarity of the flu combine to make it a genuinely questionable choice for most healthy adults -- I get the flu vaccine annually now in an abundance of caution (I have an immunocompromised relative), but prior to that I went more than two decades without getting the flu vaccine and did not once get the flu. Since the vaccine itself reliably makes me feel miserable for 1-2 days and the flu makes me feel miserable for 1-2 weeks I came out substantially ahead.

Not saying that's necessarily the right choice from a public health standpoint, etc; just providing my anecdotal experience.
Please add a column whether it is an actual recording of a human voice or AI generated.
Only unclassified data was accessed. Which is still bad but I suspect those types of hacks happen nearly daily.
> very big, very blunt, rocket-powered sledgehammer to the budget

A simplistic approach--sounds nice to simpletons, won't have the effect they might desire.
Wait, what do you mean not fixable when you can just change the keybind in the terminal app to use ctrl-c to copy?
I, having decades of frontend development experience, asked this of my VP once. He said no designers would work for us if we did this.
We have examples of this kind of thing happening[1]; in the 1970s Eli Ron invented a new way of making concrete ceilings called Pal-Kal; it was easier, faster and cheaper. Also prone to be weak if done without care and sometimes extremely dangerous. Used a lot around Israel there were some non-fatal failures and a committee setup to investigate it banned it in 1996[2]. In 2001 the Versailles Hall in Jerusalem collapsed killing 23 people. Eli Ron was given four years in prison for manslaughter. There were no good records of every building built with Pal-Kal in Jerusalem to go and check them; now any that are known to use it can be structurally checked every year, and demolished if found unsafe because there isn't a good cheap way to strengthen them, but there may be more of them unknowingly using it.

Another is the Morandi Bridge collapse in Italy in 2018[3], it had been designed as a steel cable suspension bridge with the cables encased in concrete meaning there was no good way to check if they were rusting. The engineer who designed it (click his name in Wikipedia) was calling attention to risks and problems in his design since the 1970s without the responsible companies/government departments taking it seriously enough.

Also see how big Wikipedia's "List of bridge failures" is[4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pal-Kal

[2] https://www.newcivilengineer.com/archive/jerusalem-collapse-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi_collapse

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures
There's a lot to unpack here, so I hope you don't mind a long and nuanced reply.

UBI on its own is obviously inflationary, like any other government spending. But it can be combined with taxes to reduce the growth in the money supply, as necessary to keep prices stable. Those taxes will tend to be aimed at the wealthy, and will take more than $5k/month away from them, so people bidding for a $300k home might have less purchasing power, not more.

But also, AGI-fueled unemployment is likely very deflationary, and that is the premise of this conversation. Let's talk about your landlord's situation. Sure, your tenant is now getting $5k/month UBI, but they've also lost their job, and so has most of the population. There might not actually be more juice to squeeze out of that lemon than there used to be. Plus, workers won't be bidding up rents in (formerly) high-wage cities for jobs that don't exist anymore. Your unemployed tenant is only staying in town because they like the weather. They could move elsewhere if you charge too much rent; it won't affect their commute.

The effect on prices will really vary a lot by type of good. For things that get effectively automated by AGI (let's say, for example... legal services and architectural drawings), the price may drop precipitously due to increased productivity. For other things (plumbing), the price would go up a lot. It would become quite rewarding to be a plumber.

Lastly, depending on the types of goods demanded, prices can be quite stable. If you give everyone $1k and they use it to buy an iPhone, the price of iPhones might not even go up that much, because it gets cheaper to produce in large quantity. In fact, they may even get cheaper. However, if you give one person $100M and they use it to buy a yacht, you don't get the same efficiency benefits from economies of scale. A more even wealth distribution favors mass production of goods, which keeps prices low.

We don't end up back at square one because:

1) The goal of UBI isn't to make everyone $5k richer, but to shrink the gap between rich and poor in a world where a few people are very rich from owning capital and many are poor due to a decrease in demand for labor.

2) We don't end up back at square one because at the end of the day, an unemployed person getting $5k/month has more purchasing power than if they got $0/month, even if prices do increase.

3) But aggregate prices don't even necessarily have to increase, because of changes to taxes and productivity, and also because of economies of scale.
> He has broken several laws...

Elon has done none of the things you list here, as he doesn't have the power to do any of them.

> This man has not been elected to any office nor appointed by the president to any cabinet positions.

You can thank Obama for this. DOGE is acting as a temporary agency with a temporary appointed lead, much like Obama did to fix ObamaCare.

> A corporate CEO is attempting to move the power of the purse, constitutionally delegated to the congressional branch, away from elected representatives to himself.

Again, Elon has no power here. He just is advising the president. As well, Congress has done a great job of delegating powers to the executive for the last 100+ years. This is just the first time a Republican decided to wield it in a long time.