skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your premise is flawed because the free market was corrupted by government-ordered shutdowns. PPP is compensation for that. You can't maintain entire payrolls with quite literally next to no revenue without external cash infusions.

In case you weren't aware, PPP stands for Paycheck Protection Program and the monies disbursed by it are only to compensate for payroll expenses during the specified timeframe. Forgiveness also requires resubmission of payroll and other financial documents at time of forgiveness application to prove the PPP money was used for payroll and noone was fired without cause.

PPP does not and could not make up for a fundamentally flawed business model, all it did was compensate for paycheck expenses that could have been impacted by top-down forced shutdowns, particularly since small businesses by their nature usually can't handle wholly unexpected adversities well.

Your overt mischaracterization of PPP is one of many things that made me vote for Trump, by the way. Fake news sensationalism can die in a fire.
More recent sources, lawyers advised him not to try for higher clearance because of the drug use: https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-denied-access-to-spa...
I am an EU citizen, 68 years old, long-time admirer of the USA and SpaceX but what happens now in the USA horrifies me, as it reminds me of the path that took another great nation in Europe nearly one century ago.
Monte Carlo isn't a city. It's a casino named after the Monaco neighbourhood where it's located:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_Casino
> you gonna count speeding too

Pushing/running red lights. Rolling stops. Not signalling.
Yes, they are. But I can imagine the fine/impact for this being much, much lower than the consequences of all their nefarious communication being used in trials.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42673628
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It's not nonsense. Meta will have a shadow profile of pretty much everyone, wherever the person in question is blocking their trackers or not.

It's still a good idea to block them, because it will reduce the amount of information they'll have about you, making their shadow profile less useful

Nonetheless, Meta knows you exist and will almost certainly be able to tell some things about you
Lots of people are blaming Trump for the abuse of those back in 2020. Let's not forget Congress played a role here (where Dems controlled the House). They passed the spending bill here. Meaning they are also responsible here. Congress controls the purse. They set the rules.

Also, let's not forget that businesses were forced shut down and everyone was crying that they were going to lose their business. If the government had spent the time to vet all these loans, there is no way they would have actually gotten the money out the door. There was a known calculus at the time that there would be fraud. But many businesses were in a rough spot and needed money.
It was not clear how to regulate the power of the hit until I've opened "Help". Maybe add some text under game field, "hold mouse button to set the power"?

Overall, nice little game, good work!
In a situation where a criminal used Whatsapp and decrypting it is needed for the conviction, why should I suffer because of your absolute views on privacy?

I hold neither of the extreme views, and frankly I am baffled by anyone in either of them.
kind of makes sense... I saw ADS as an addon to VSCode... it was built on top, so why not make it a plugin?
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We can sponsor visas for any engineering position.

English is the primary language at Monumental, and we have many non-Dutch speakers. However, Dutch is a _useful_ skill to have if you are frequently deployed on construction sites (and we do take that into consideration for the FDRE role).
User verification is optional.

If you only do user presence and non-discoverable, then WebAuthn is completely stateless and deterministic for a given (challenge,rpId,origin) triplet
Sounds like a great guy. I'm definitely not saying people should talk more than necessary. I generally don't talk much in meetings either unless I'm leading them or if I'm some kind of authority on the given subject like if it's a meeting about an app I am responsible for.

I'm not saying people should blabber on about anything, I'm just saying they should speak up when they have something important to say.

And if you never have anything important to say then why are you there? Either you dont know anything your colleagues don't know which makes you the least useful person on the team or you just don't care which also makes you useless.

I can sympathize with people who get jaded from working in places where nobody listens and the people in charge are morons, but if that's you then why are you still there?
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did they not seed enough, is that the crime? lol
I would say the proper solution is to add another grid for the second derivative, this time matching the original grid. That is

grid 0: water height in each cell

grid 1: water flow at each edge (first derivative)

grid 2: water acceleration in each cell (second derivative)

So each grid is the dual of the previous one and stores its derivative. In fact I don't think you even need to store edge data as a special case, just corner data and work purely with dual grids. You can derive the edge flow by taking the sum of the flow at the two corners of the edge. So you update the fluid height based on flow, then you update acceleration based on how much fluid mass flowed into the cell with what velocity, then you update the flow based on acceleration and current fluid height. I don't really know fluid dynamics, but looking at it purely from a numerical simulation standpoint, it sounds about right. It would also let you have diagonal flow.
Since it’s case law, everyone would benefit from the precedent
I was reading someone the other day (it might have been on HN) saying they use this strategy to prevent candidates from using LLMs in interviews.

E.g. a system design interview question about building an app to manage all your drug shipments and nuclear bombs.
Everyone picks on C, but we have a standard for this. We've been following it for decades in regulated industries. If people take the time, it can be perfectly safe. It requires thinking of a computer as a precision machine, rather than a semantic "do what i'm thinking" box.
If there was a gross over abundance of used cars, they would be extremely cheap. They aren't cheap.

Shifting new sales from gas to EV is also likely to be more effective than wishing for more transit.
As a semantic/parsing consideration the white space is preserved.
Citation from the article:

"At this point, if NASA waited for C213 to be ready to launch the Crew-10 mission, the space station program would start to approach 'redlines' on food, water, and other supplies for crew members on board the station"
Curtis Yarvin? None of the things these people say sound interesting in the least. Or maybe I'm just too dumb to get it.
We lost the plot when the MBA ass clowns took over and started adding "engagement" and other features that only serve the interest of the developer not the user.

The typical corporate software is now primarily serving the needs of the developer and the user is secondary. In many cases the user has no way but to succumb (due to lack of competition or enterprise/workplace policies etc) and eat their frustration because there's no alternative, or they're not allowed to use the alternative or the alternative is equally trash.
Minimum doesn't cover willful copyright infractions, for which maximum penalty is $150K per work. That comes out to quite a different number.
When there is a specific order after proceeding starts, but not before. There can sometimes be other orders as part of govt settlements like Google was recently accused of violating.

You may be thinking of certain financial institutions where it is a hard requirement, and maybe there are some other regulated industries too that have it.
Does that make America “a nation of immigrants?” Is it a defining characteristic or an incidental one? America is also a majority white nation. I wouldn’t say that’s a defining characteristic that should define our future immigration policies.
What reason are you talking about?!? It's market prices.
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Same hyperboles were said in 2017 and we were fine, and in fact, economy was booming and there was world peace during his first term.
Good, we know it. Nothing will happen, because nothing happens to billionaires and their companies. Musk is proving it every day now.
I have a simple question. If censorship is considered evil regarding the written word and communications between humans, why do we want to then censor LLMs differently? It is either counterintuitive or simply a false concept we should abandon. Perhaps it is more about training, similar to how children are 'monsters' and need to be socialized/tamed.
source: I've made it up

I guess it depends. Podcasts are often about story telling and story telling isn't about being information dense. Podcasts are hamburgers, which might be a good vehicle to deliver a piece of a vegetable into your body.
> For the forseeable future I think China mostly wants to stay as neutral as possible and make as much money as possible by selling as much crap as possible to as many countries as possible.

China is thinking long term and building capabilities:

> Except then a war comes, and suddenly you find that B2B SaaS and advertising platforms and chat apps aren’t very useful for defending your freedoms. Oops! The right time to worry about manufacturing would have been years before the war, except you weren’t able to anticipate and prepare for the future. Manufacturing doesn’t just support war — in a very real way, it’s a war in and of itself.

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/manufacturing-is-a-war-now
always remember the FIDO standard is more about validating identities than authorization.
Yeah interesting question. Presumably you can do it by having a border around each region, and a max speed of effect propagation (i.e. causality). Then if you want to simulate e.g. 10 time steps, you have a border of 10 grid cells. So do 10 time steps on each region, then synchronise border state with other parallel border sims. Then rinse and repeat.
Personally, I think the web is 200% to blame. It has wiped out generations of careful UX design (remember Tog in Interface?) and very, very responsive and usable native (and mostly standard-looking) UI toolkits in favor of bland, whitespace-laden scrolling nightmares that are instantly delivered to millions of people through a browser and thus create a low-skills, high-maintenance accretion disc of stuff that isn't really focused on the needs of users--at least not "power" ones.

I know that front-end devs won't like this, but modern web development is the epitome of quantity (both in terms of reach and of the insane amount of approaches used to compensate for the browser's constraints) over quality, and I suppose that will stay the same forever now that any modern machine can run the complexity equivalent of multiple operating systems while showing cat pictures.
The order does not seem to apply only to users in the U.K.

From the article, discussing the idea of Apple stopping offering encryption in the U.K.

“Yet that concession would not fulfill the U.K. demand for backdoor access to the service in other countries, including the United States”
The House holds the power of the purse, but the President is the sole holder of Executive powers. That is to say, Congress legislates the budget but the actual execution of that budget is up to the President.

If Congress feels the President isn't executing the budget as legislated, Congress can impeach the President. As for the judiciary, SCOTUS already ruled that the President enjoys absolute immunity in the course of executing his Constitutional duties.

So far the House "applauds"[1] DOGE, so all is well.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCH5zUKKpdE
Well, I opened them in a plain browser profile and in the non-translated page the options seem clear to me? The buttons literally say this:

- Settings / Einstellungen

- Accept / Akzeptierten

- Reject All / Alle Ablehnen

The English translation is on the buttons in the non-translated page and those translations are fine. There's even a reject all button, which is fine too. The only not so nice thing is that the "Accept" button is coloured green.

Again, I don't want to defend those banners.
I think you have a bit of rose tinted glasses, I remember back in the day how much people complained about every feature being shoved into the title bar menus of word and photoshop. Eventually growing the menus too long with a bunch of features no one cared about and obscuring the actual useful ones.
Yes, it's almost like it's a complicated legal question and the content of the required prompt to produce a copyright-infringing response would be something that would interest the judge and jury.

You're saying "it's complicated and lots of factors would come into play", which is the same thing I'm saying. The fact that it spits out copyright-violating text does not necessarily mean ChatGPT is the one at fault, it's messy.
It doesn't sound dull to me. The stories are about the periphery of the Culture because that gets the most storytelling value out of the effort that went into worldbuilding, not because it would be impossible to write interesting stories about ordinary Culture members. I don't think you need external threats to give life meaning. Look at the popularity of sports in real life. The challenge there is self-imposed, but people still care greatly about who wins.
The more concerning thing is that the best thing these overpaid people could come up with was.. download the torrent, like everyone else. Here you are, billions of resources, and no one is willing to spend a part of it to at least digitize some new data? Like even Google did?
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For creating a backup of library genesis. No. They should be awarded a philanthropic prize.
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listen to any episode and it's evident
I still run Fireworks under WINE in Fedora. The only real pain point is that the fonts are stupefyingly small in comparison to other apps due to the way modern GUIs and resolutions have grown (this is fixable, but not everywhere).
You are seriously underselling the potential impact of things happening has on planning. Any company worth their 2 cents has contingency plans ready for several situations - i.e. if President A wins vs B, if there is enough plausibility that it might come with serious impact to the business.
Based on my 25 yoe in the industry the article is extremely cynical but unfortunately very much spot on.

Today in the corporate world the MBAs are running the show and they need continuous, growth and engagement. All needs of the developer and they manifest themselves in the software as features that are only there to serve the needs of the developer, not the user often combined with (deliberate) dark patterns and confusing UX just drive up the KPIs.

What a load of BS.

And the user often has no choice but to eat their frustration due to lack of alternatives, corporate/workplace policies or the alternatives being equally bad.

Unfortunately I expect the whole concept of "PC" as in Personal Computing is going to go away and will be replaced by "locked down, you don't own shit computing".

All the major platforms today are more or less locked down, Android, iOS, MacOS and Windows is on its way. I expect in the next 5 years Microsoft will introduce mandatory app signing and will lock the platform down so that the Microsoft store is the only place for installing apps. They can shove all candycrush, azure etc garbage in the users face who have no choice but to eat it.

Linux but is the only bastion of hope but unfortunately that's still (on the desktop) alpha quality and will likely never move past alpha.

Hopefully I can retire soon.
Library genesis
Comprehensive intellectual property needs to happen for the modern (digital) era.

Basically the entire legal system needs to be retooled and rethought for computers.
Great observation, but post it on Blue Sky instead of supporting that authoritarian website.
Yes, but they are also the most pleasant and entertaining (in my person opinion).

While the Tortoise has been listening so podcasts for years, and the Hare is still there with very serious and boring books on his perfectly dense shelf standing still.

Was there an AI tool recently in the news which creates a podcast episode based on a topic to learn? This is just a brilliant idea.
>But in my normal waking life I am creatively constipated. My mind aggressively criticises and crushes ideas before they get a chance to grow organically. I have one side of the creative process in my waking life (filtering) but very little of the other (synthesis).

There's an exercise I've had a bit of success with over the years: Identify a problem, then write down the first ten solutions to it that come to mind, no matter what.

It's important to write down each response you think of, no matter how impractical, ineffective, implausible, or ridiculous. You'll start to notice when you hold back from writing something down, no matter if it's because you think it's unoriginal, it seems like it doesn't fit the problem, or if you think it's too taboo. It's that _noticing_ that you're training, that's the goal. All forms of preemptive filtering keep us from letting the beginning of an idea take root, so the other ideas that might have followed from it never even occur to us.

Children are much better at this game than adults. When asked to invent a better paper clip, adults tend to focus on how to improve a standard paper clip's paper-clipping, how economically it could be made, or to focus on and change one feature at a time. Children can come up with ideas like building-sized paper clips made of cotton candy, to suggest a pony could be a good paper clip because you could tell it when to open or close its mouth and because it makes them happy, or to tell you how faeries would make paper clips so they could fly around on them.

It can help to have a good way to avoid feeling too embarrassed to write down every idea. Maybe you feel less inhibited when you pre-commit to deleting everything you typed, or tearing up and burning the paper you wrote them on after you're done. I know that saving the ideas makes me more likely to judge them by how other people might react, but perhaps saving the ideas might help for others.
Read Tracing Woodlines’ articles. The biographical questionnaire was a means to achieve indirectly what the FAA couldn’t achieve directly (explicit racial preferences).

I’m not oversimplifying it. A lot of people want explicit racial preferences to achieve racial diversity. That’s both unpopular and (now) illegal, so you get lots of different workarounds.

Not everyone who supports DEI programs wants explicit racial preferences. But in practice DEI programs turn into racial preferences and quotas because those people won’t stand up to the ones who want preferences.
Yeah. This (and Fitt's Law) is actually why the ribbon UI came about. 80% of the most common stuff is right there, and you can customize or search for the rest.
So if I go on ChatGPT, copy in a chapter from a book and then ask it to repeat the chapter back to me, is ChatGPT violating the copyright of the book I just fed it?
If you're an author with a book likely to have be hoovered up, I wonder what you'd get from the fb models if you asked "complete this in the style of [author] in [book]: [quite a long excerpt]"

If you get a direct quote then you're good with your claim, surely.
Are the STL files available anywhere for printing ?
Apple ordered by UK to create global iCloud encryption backdoor
I'm surprised nobody mentioned GIMP in the 2 hours since you wrote this (I still use Fireworks inside WINE).
There is no doubt a debate around Client-side and Server-side connection pooler.
But, utilizing the Client-side connection pooling using such advanced drivers should never be taken lightly.
See also "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts":

> The law, known by critics as the Snoopers’ Charter, makes it a criminal offense to reveal that the government has even made such a demand. An Apple spokesman declined to comment.

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-e...

* https://archive.is/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology...

> The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (c. 25) (nicknamed the Snoopers' Charter)[1] is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which received royal assent on 29 November 2016.[2][3] Its different parts came into force on various dates from 30 December 2016.[4] The Act comprehensively sets out and in limited respects expands the electronic surveillance powers of the British intelligence agencies and police.[4] It also claims to improve the safeguards on the exercise of those powers.[5]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016
This sort of code (for, you know, Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely) should be written in WUFFS.

The nice thing about WUFFS for this specific problem is that although it's an entirely safe language† and is exactly the right way to do this, it also transpiles to C, so you can do the "Write file format code" stuff in WUFFS, transpile to C and then just land both in the kernel source.

[You might wonder: Why both? Surely the C is enough? No, the GNU GPL says you should provide preferred form for modification and clearly the preferred form for this code is WUFFS source not C, the provided C is just so that people don't need the WUFFS transpiler to build Linux if that's what they're doing]

† Entirely safe here meaning these mistakes won't even compile in WUFFS.
Best thing for Boeing is for it to have competent engineers take over the leadership.

Boeing needs to be Boeing not McDonnell Douglas.
I'm sure there is a historical reason we have "half" and "quarter" and no others but it's not my area of expertise but still, not using them when they're appropriate just seems...odd.
Inspired by this comment thread :)

9. Evaluate - after NNs will take over a majority of jobs, will bread be free, or will we starve and kill each other in a series of major land wars?
CLI presently selects for users with reading comprehension, who are a hard sell for trojan horses. If the great unwashed ever took a shine to CLIs, CLIs would become just as bad. You can already see a bit of this in PowerShell (i.e. marketing & telemetry).
> Google itself got big by indexing other people's data without compensation

Weird framing given how much value was and is still placed on Google driving traffic to you
Yeah, one of the things postgres is missing. Yugabyte seems to be addressing this thankfully
I mean, they are a vehicle to deliver ads.
Time to buy some beefy professional GPUs with plenty of VRAM and run models locally (for example, with Ollama and Continue.dev), to get around things like this.
As long as they keep to the tall grass and avoid staff predators they should be OK.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/QCqvC
Clojure is a Lisp, precisely, a language from the List family of languages.

Other known examples of Lisps are Emacs Lisp, Common Lisp and Scheme.
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I think your first premise is incorrect, ie the groups doing this do not largely think censorship is evil.