skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Our review of further records covering the previous 10 years found other government agencies paid a total of over $34 million to Politico (not just $8 million) over that decade. Again, however, the records displaying the biggest dollar amounts showed the money was spent on past subscriptions to E&E News, as well as to Politico Pro, a service designed for "professional policy makers," offering "critical news, alerts and tools that power policy."

Isn't this somewhat of a distinction without a difference? Donating money, or buying an expensive "service" so that Politico may lobby their causes at you at taxpayer expense. Not to mention the fact that an allegedly independent press shouldn't be getting tangled with government like this.
Looks great but it runs awfully and it's pretty wonky. Yes, the lightning is great, there are tons of rendered objects etc but the controls and camera suck?
Haven't used them, but for open source, SignPath might be interesting, they do require transparent builds, but do support GitHub Actions: https://about.signpath.io/product/open-source

Some other signing that works in the cloud and has support for GitHub Actions would be DigiCert's KeyLocker (note: every signed binary is counted and by default the subscription only contains 1000 signings): https://www.digicert.com/signing/code-signing-certificates#c...
Two things,

First, that's notably the FBI and not NSA. As gp says, NSA has greater powers with less legal oversight on national security grounds.

Second, a cynic might argue that Apple put up a noisy, principled fight that one time precisely to create the perception that you have here. It could be the FBI learned data requests to Apple are a dead end!

Or the two came to a mutually beneficial understanding: "don't come in the front door waving a court order for the cameras and we'll see what we can do when our reputation isn't on the line, see? And maybe if we help out, that antitrust investigation isn't necessary after all!"
Les pieds sur terre ia generated
Famous french radio program about lives and experience, like the moth meets Bourdieu. For this episode, they wrote and made the voices all in ai, relating to the Paris ai submit. The episode is used to trigger réflexions about gen ai.
My parent comment is especially jarring because Feynman's findings agree with, and propose a mechanism for, the findings of the study. The comment seems to imply that there's some great tension between "arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics" and "the students had memorized everything, but they didn’t know what anything meant". Or between "These findings highlight the importance of educational curricula that bridge the gap between intuitive and formal maths" and the less academically worded "There, have you got science? No! You have only told what a word means in terms of other words. You haven’t told anything about nature."

Nobody's quoting Feynman "as a counterpoint to actual authorities". Feynman's excerpt provides first-hand testimony from a teacher on the front lines that fully validates what the study found.
How many of those deaths are attributable to electrical plugs, though? Given the US CPSC report at [1], I suspect that most of them aren't - in fact, one of the leading causes of electrocution deaths is "fractal wood burning".

[1]: https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/Electrocutions-2011-to-2020...
I just went through this process. It's a racket. It's really poorly documented. I rolled my own. It's a lot of work. It almost inspired me to make a product, but it's not a business I want to be in, especially if Microsoft does eventually relax their 3 year old business requirement for their Trusted Signing product.

My formula was:
Github actions, Sectigo usb key, physical windows machine in the office that runs a self-hosted action runner that does the signing step.
I kind of hate it that the auto-complete in brain launched off in this direction:

> The one who got Hindu Sanskrit books translated in a horrible manner and then claimed: "I have no knowledge of either Sanskrit or Arabic. But

... Here's what they mean, from ChatGPT."
President Trump says he has directed Elon Musk to audit The Pentagon
... + special entertainment district + business renovation area + exception + exception + exception + ...
> More importantly, apple has customers in the UK. The business from captured apple users is more valuable than apple's privacy reputation.

Is it though? I wonder how much of Apple's revenue is from the UK, probably around 5-6%? Apple isn't exactly as popular in the rest of the world as they are in the US.

Would damaging their privacy reputation globally be more valuable than the UK market? I honestly don't know, but my hunch says no - they are likely to want to keep their reputation and dump the UK market. I think more likely is Apple is going to be able to get the UK to cave in. Apple is extremely competent with PR, and would be able to spin any kind of pull-out or degraded service in the UK as the government's choice and fault, to the ire of UK citizens.
There's lots more to enjoy on the front page! https://simplifier.neocities.org/
I think there is a money to be made in making huge slow inference chips

It needs,

* Does the very best model fit in ram

* Does it eventually produce an answer

I'm completely ok with waiting a few minutes for an inference answer if I can avoid spending $250k for an 8x
I found it was surprisingly easy to "populate with every instance of a given type". I've made a few maps based on grocery and transit where I did it by adding all >100 stores & stops.
Okay, you need an EV certificate (required to be on a hardware token), and next you need to integrate it in to a CICD pipeline.
Welcome to capitalism. And remember that we're the ones paying for the dog shit tacos that Amazon sells to the companies that then stuff them down our throats, whether we want them or not.
Almost all of the countries we label as "democracies" have constitutions, and many of those constitutions limit what can be "democratically voted for". In the United States, the constitution has strict limits on ceaseing private property. That does not mean the US is not "democratic" by common usage of the term. Those living in democracies that thus protect private property rights may find laws that encroach on those private property rights odd, and be against them. Even in a country that has no such protections, one may be against such laws.
You are mistaken. Discretionary spending is spending that Congress allocates during the annual appropriation process, while mandatory spending is spending that is required by prior law. See https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
If you don't know what the text says, do you have access to some other form of ground truth? Because otherwise you don't know if they're reading illegible labels correctly!
> highlighted by (among many things?) Obama's election and marriage equality being passed

Genuinely I can't imagine two things less to do with more people associating with the right in America than these two. It looks as though the Democrat party has gone further and further to the hard left, and more and more people in the US have felt they have no option but to vote for change over the status quo. Mostly because of economics.
Is that still true? I would imagine any reasonably modern computer could map every physical address in a huge region to a (route number, stop number) pair. I wouldn't think the +4 would add a lot of value anymore.
Throwing up a call to arms in unrelated discussion venues with the purpose of drawing people to the original venue, or to harass the original participants in other venues, would count though.

i.e. no one would consider it acceptable for me to go on reddit and start ranting about a Hacker News username, link the thread and argument, and imply either implicitly or explicitly that they should go and join the argument.
This is even how closed source development works. If you throw issues in a backlog and never follow up to advocate for it then it will never get done.
It seemed you were implying the article was naive to the earlier post, whereas the OP poses itself as a rebuttal. Perhaps a fault of my inference.
Or dump linux and move to freebsd / haiku
> Win-Win for everyone involved

The only losers are the 99%
From the readme:

$ echo 'cat' | trre 'c:da:ot:g'
dog

Why?

Elsewhere, the readme says that ":" is "non-associative", and I had a look at the language grammar but haven't figured out how to parse a sequence of ":".
I tried the square example from the paper mentioned with o1-pro and it had no problem counting 4 nested squares…

And the 5 square variation as well.

So perhaps it is just a question of how much compute you are willing to throw at it
IANAL but the pardon power (A) only extends to criminal punishments, not civil liabilities and (B) copyright lawsuits can be launched by anybody, not just the Department of Justice.

So, barring further Might Makes Right shit--which I'm not willing to fully rule out--Trump can't fully shield Zuckerberg et al.
Wow I found transcripts for Infocom games here (ClubFloyd) ! I've been looking for this for ages, thanks!
Off-topic: does the font on this site render horribly for anyone else? Windows, Firefox & Edge.
> Both the main subreddits and blue sky's default moderation prohibit things in the middle of the right's Overton Window (e.g. on Trump or trans rights) while X does not prohibit things in the middle of the left's Overton Window.

I think that's what the previous poster's 'Yes "when you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."' is talking about, given Twitter fell into the same camp as Bluesky and said subreddits, pre-Musk.
I can know what the text says cause I have the actual product available :) but you are right if the llm can't read it will fill in the gap with hallucinations probably
> if Apple did cede to the UK’s demands then it apparently would not be allowed to warn users that its encrypted service is no longer fully secure.

One would think this runs afoul of other laws though, truth in advertising and similar.

Its such a legal minefield, and the UKs request borders on violating the sovereignty of other nations I can't see Apple complying, but maybe that's hopium talking.
Signtool interfaces with any kind of certificate including on smartcard.

https://www.mgtek.com/smartcard

For automating pin entry
What does proving the Riemann Hypothesis accomplish?
> Nobody seems to actually believe in global warming.

The administration Musk is part of sure doesn't. It is halting permits for renewable energy projects and stopping funding for EV chargers:

https://apnews.com/article/wind-energy-offshore-turbines-tru...

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5105492-trump-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20px1e05w0o

If you actually believe in global warming then you can longer buy Tesla.

> you wouldn't let your hatred for Musk hurt any company that is helping our fight against global warming.

Your bizarrely submissive attitude won't save the planet. You can submit to Musk if it helps you. No one else should.

There are plenty of other EVs to choose from. Buy one of those.
BTW Politico is owned by Axel Springer SE, the owner of the right wing newspapers BILD and Die Welt. The later published a pro-AfD article by Musk endorsing the extreme right wing party as last hope for Germany, Musk is the winner of Axel-Springer-Award 2020 and was at the birthday party of Matthias Döpfner, the CEO of Axel Springer SE.
That's my reaction to the GP's comment. Shop owners will not optimize for agent ease of use. They will optimize for convincing agents to make a purchase. This will play out like SEO, with everyone other than the bad actors losing out.
You put a great deal of prose behind it, but what you have said is “don’t trust data from the administrators of this program, trust my personal anecdotes”.

That is not and should not be a compelling argument to anyone, for anything.

Surely if fraud on the scale you fervently believe exists, someone is tracking it. Until you can present that evidence, there is absolutely no reason to treat your beliefs as even probable.

Beyond that, by your admission you are a landlord who engages in crypto speculation. Two markets that provide you with profit that would be heavily stifled by common sense regulation. There is ample reason specifically to distrust anything you claim on this issue.
I'm not sure it'd be commercially viable. A stove is a major home appliance, and the Impulse Labs unit is a high-end one with a price tag of $6000. An electric kettle, on the other hand, is considered a near-disposable piece of home electronics with a price closer to $50; it'd be hard to build a substantial battery into one at an affordable price.
I wonder how much of this is related to the attention economy in combination with perhaps lack of sun, healthy diet, fresh air and regular exercise.
> That's exactly it. We are witnessing a private equity-style plunder of the entire US government – of the USA itself.

Wow.
i think we need to rethink our strategy for treating long covid, cfs/me, ibs, and related functional diseases
Invariant: A security and bug scanner for agent traces
site is javascript walled.

Any noscript/basic (x)html alternative? Or even txt?
Nobody's safe
How convenient does the law say that it has to be?
In my mind I was thinking it would be a more locked down parent/child relationship. So a parent could send a simple message to a child and child to then have predefined responses, ok/yes/no or perhaps a simple character input limit, whatever fits in the dead space of an AirTag message.

Then by it's nature it would be no more of an issue than a standard airtag ping.

I guess longer term you might have LoRa/meshtastic type networks that would make more sense.
one can't compare china and the uk.

china had leverage because of the manufacturing happening over there and the incredible market opportunity, UK doesn't have much.

technically i believe apple could get out of the UK market to provoke a backslash on the government.

If they concede, other government will use the exact same blackmailing technique and one can say it will be the absolute end of their "privacy" marketing campaign they spent so much money into.
Because generators -- where virtually _all_ AC power is created -- start running slower with high demand. They catch up, via increased power input through governors, but changes in load will necessarily have some impact on speed.
The article is literally just not on point. They're confused about what NPS is for, and wrote a confused article about it.

I agree that it's very useful to track where your leads come from, and I love the short radio button lists that allow you to select a source.

If you feel like you should only ask one question, and it's either that or the NPS question, then it really depends on what your goals are at that point. Are you trying to figure out if your customers are happy with your product, or are you trying to figure out which of your marketing channels is most effective?

I think tracking NPS over time is really powerful, so then you're tracking not an absolute number, but you're tracking if customers have recently changed their opinion of you.
MLS obscures the truth behind its withdrawal from the US Open Cup
He is celebrity. He is not authoritative about subject of teaching math to kids. He is authoritative about his area of physics. He also is authoritative about writing popular books for physics that demystify physics to adults. But again, not about kids and math.
the OS is the hardest part and they are developing it as open source. my understanding is that anybody can develop hardware for PebbleOs.
Those shifts were plainly and immediately obvious.

LLMs have yet to deliver on any of their promises and every interaction with them shows the fundamental limitations.
I have yet to see anyone argue that twitter has a right to operate in Germany in defiance of German laws. I have seen people in other threads argue that, rather than comply with Chinese laws, american companies should cease to to business in China.
> Musk lies about fucking everything and "geek" is just his polished marketing image.

He does lie all the time, and I definitely don't buy all the "he's a genius" talk, but I would be very surprised if he hadn't coded at all. His primary geek phase may have been mostly confined to childhood, though.
The idea of transferring knowledge being a separate skill reminds me of the Wason selection task[1]. I first learned about this in a course on education and it felt pretty shocking to see so many classmates struggling with the logic puzzle version of the question. But then if you set up the same task with a story about being a bartender then it becomes more straightforward to solve.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wason_selection_task
Argentina: Alarm as river runs blood-red
I'm not so sure, seemed to me like it confuses itself quite a bit.
I've seen a few attempts like this, like loc8 and google's plus codes. Is there any advantage to Digipin over existing solutions other than avoiding splitting major cities into very different codes? None stood out to me from that document. The description is written pretty well.

Always sad when these schemes don't include a check digit in them though, even if the layout of this one gets typo'd codes pretty close to their intended destination.
Knepp Rewilded
In case any scientist actually working on adaptive OCR is reading this, I was given a post-WWII newspaper archive (PDF scans, 1945-2006, German language) that I would like to OCR with the highest quality, compute demands are not an issue, I've got an army of A100s available.

I played with OCR post-correction algorithms an invented on method myself in 1994, but haven't worked in that space since. Initial Tesseract and GPT-4o experiments disappoint. Any pointers (papers, software) & collab. suggestions welcome.
> ANY messaging at all that dissuades the public from going EV

It isn't about messaging. It's what the current administration (which Musk is a part of) is doing.

This article is about the current administration stopping funding for EV chargers.

> Not everyone is paying attention

Yes. You should start paying attention. If you're serious about the fight against global warming, if you truly believe it's an existential threat, then you can no longer buy Tesla.
I actually came to the same conclusion. I am currently working on a side project that's an AI powered writing app for writers, and while I still provide chat because that seems to be the expectation, my goal is to abstract all the AI assistance a writer might need into curated UI options.
The drama is the problem, not rust. I don't know why, but either zealots choose rust or rust induces zealotry.

Its exactly what Linus said.
But it's behind certain controls such as rate limits and other anti-abuse techniques, hence the researchers' difficulty, right?
I don’t see why forking is not an option here.

If the upstream maintainers don’t want to adopt it, the Rust folks can gradually rewrite the bits they want to and let the market decide. Use the Ballmer “embrace, extend, extinguish” model.
Great news! The Pentagon is probably one of the worst areas of waste in a government rife with waste.
You miss the point that the 34M is the sum of lots of other agencies paying for an Enterprise subscription not USAID.

And Politco is owned by Axel Springer SE, not really a fan of left wing politics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42977774
I feel that it's kind of obvious by now that we, as humanity (ofc, in most cases passively), have resigned to not do anything big to prevent negative impact of climate change.

Which means several meters of rising sea level, loss of ecosystems etc. The timescale for these consequences is now (as opposed to 20-30 years ago) fairly close, in 20, 30, 50 years, so it seems significantly more inevitable and imminent. In my country (SE Europe), a hot summer day 20 years ago was 30 C. Now it's regularly 38-39 for days on end, some going to 40. I don't expect it to be 50 in another 20 years, but is it unreasonable to think so? Who would have thought 40 is expectable before?

Given the (even relatively) mild example we've had with Covid, of cascading supply chain issues and strained economies, I wonder what people think will happen when we start losing coastal cities, some of the big ports, crops, potable water etc, all combined, in different places in the world at once...Do we think that we'll somehow adapt quickly, overcome, is there a plan, or is it just a "future someone's" problem?
The drama, though, is due to personalities.

A directive from Linus on the technical roadmap isn't going to solve anything. It could declare someone the "winner" in this particular thread or this particular issue, but lets the personality issue fester.

It's probably best for Linux to work through its technical issues in boring email threads which never get any attention on social media. And its organizational issues and its personality issues, for that matter.

So it's probably good all around that Martin has bowed out. If you reach for the nuclear button whenever the people you're working with don't give you what you want, it's time to go work on your own (nothing wrong with that, BTW). It's not really a question of who's right, but whether people can find a way to work together. That's quite difficult in a big project, so you have to both really want it and be good at it or it's just not the place for you.
If it’s clear there’s a shovel bubble, though, then it’s a bad idea to over-invest in shovel factories.
That's not a neighborhood. That's an apartment complex! It covers roughly 200 by 300 meters.

For comparison, the average officially recognized neighborhood in San Francisco is around 3.3 km². That "neighborhood" covers around 0.07 km².
There's considerable losses involved when you want to convert between frequencies. DC also has considerable losses over long distance, so there's a lower bound on the frequency before the efficiency starts to go down again.
My understanding is that photosynthesis is optimized for CARBON, not light usage. Photons are abundant, CO2 availability is high, but plants run into the same problem that carbon sequestration does: Gas is not dense, and that low density reduces the gradients you can take advantage of to make things happen.

Some types of photosynthesis ALSO optimize for water usage.
Apple offers the same escrowed key and non-escrowed key (advanced data protection) features in China as far as I'm aware. The extra capability GCBD has would be access to protected at rest data like iCloud email.
Monero vs. ZCash: A Comprehensive Comparison of the Top Privacy Coins
Lawyers who file frivolous lawsuits should be civilly or even criminally liable themselves.
Better. Thanks.
In my opinion, calling the well-intentioned hard work of others "cancer" is undeniably hyperbolic and dismissive. It is clear that Hellwig used it in this way. To interpret it differently requires bending the mind. Most people would also consider it rude, but I'll grant that rudeness is more subjective.

There is an argument that being hyperbolic, dismissive, and maybe a bit rude isn't as bad as some people make it out to be, and that it is a fine way to hash out disagreements and arrive at the best solution - that it is simply a result of the passion of exceptional engineers. There has historically been much of it in kernel development. But it seems that as the background and culture of kernel maintainers has broadened, that a more measured and positive approach to communication is more constructive.

It doesn't seem like marcan exemplifies this very well either. It is a loss for someone so skilled to abandon collaboration on the kernel, and seems like the unfortunate result of someone being dismissive and rude, and someone else taking that harder than is warranted or healthy.
Use an LLM to summarize each page in one sentence. This takes too much effort to feel like TikTok.