skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. There are a class of workers who have unfair protections that none of the rest of us have. We pay their salaries. They should be subject the same market forces we are. They should exist under the same rules that the average taxpayer lives under. They should have the same healthcare and benefit that the average taxpayer has. This applies to everyone in government. If we pay their salaries, they cannot have it better than we do on average.

They should be competent at what they do. They should be qualified. And they should not be protected from losing their jobs if they are no longer necessary or are bad at what they do. This permeates many levels of society. The local example is just the tip of the iceberg. You could go up the chain to city, state and federal and find similar problems.

It's one of the most fundamental questions and one that a lot of people do not understand because they have never run a business (or ran something trivial). There are countries where getting rid of unnecessary or incompetent employees is nearly impossible. This leads to businesses not hiring people because they cannot afford the dead weight or risk involved (also leads to illicit job markets). Being able to manage your workforce is one of the most fundamental tasks in a business. It is no different in schools or government.

We cannot optimize for the best people and best outcomes because we cannot get rid of dead weight. We get stuck with the incompetent because they cannot be fired. This is madness. And, judging from the downvotes, the ignorance does not escape some HN readers. I hope one day they are stuck with people who just burn their cash and they get nothing for it. Maybe then they will understand. It is unbelievable to me that such a fundamental understanding is lacking from society. We let idiots burn the cash we send them. There is no such thing as government money, it's our money. And it must be treated with more respect than to burn it on layers of bureaucracy and incompetence.
After the Vietnam war, in the 1970s, there was a big RIF (reduction in force) at places like the NSA.

These agencies have not had a reduction since then and are oversized and wrongly sized.

The same issue faced the US Army prior to WWII. Roosevelt's solution was to find a young general (he found Marshal) and have him get rid of the dead wood because it was expected we'd be in a war in a couple of years.

Marshal created the "plucking commission" and got rid of a lot of dead wood. This put the US in a much better position to fight a war.
>I'm reading that as meaning something more like identify a problem and act on it.

we can't always act on it the way we want to. The Treasury is 3000 miles away. I know complaining at my rep isn't the solution people want, but it's all I can do.
Accumulation of Microplastics in Human Brain Tissue Rising Rapidly
I've compared it to finding the integral of a function. Unless it's trivial or closely resembles something I've done before, how am I going to have the faintest idea what it's going to be like until I start?

Sometimes the exploration is the design process.
So let me take on the burden of stupid here: how are a password hash and a string-based KDF different? (I mean, the oldest well-known example of the former literally calls itself a PBKDF.) I understand this particular function from strings to large fixed numbers was limited in the length of the string it would accept, and I agree that’s a problem, but it feels like a problem orthogonal to the distinction you’re drawing.
Correct. But Congress doesn't and didn't ever say "spend $250k on transgender operas." Congress' laws are ambiguous and rely on the administrative state to dish out money to a specific cause. The law probably said something like "promote health policy in the Europe".

The Trump administration will repurpose those funds to things more aligned with GOP preferences.
I think you are really young, so I am going to give you advice instead: do not open X, it fuels you adrenaline, but it is a trap for the gullible.

If you have honest policies, there is no need to ddos the democratic system, and it certainly does not require a bunch of insanely spoiled Accelerationist billionaires and the killing of science.
If that's what it turns out to be, that no matter what happens politically, the government absolutely cannot do anything to bring its spending under control, then the US is effectively a failed state, and in that case, DOGE's role is a diagnostician.

But I seriously doubt that's the case. What's more likely is that it is perfectly possible to bring spending under control, and that the people who are complaining are doing so because they've had their lips taken off the teat.
> within 7 hours of NYC

Literally the definition of "not local"

> help supply the 19 million people of NYC with fresh eggs

This sounds like it could be one of Kramer's schemes on Seinfeld, where he's loaded his rusted-out jalopy with 5k eggs to bring into the city to sell for a profit, but somehow they end up all over the freeway and chaos ensues.
I assume this is a prevalent mindset of a big chunk of Trump supporters. "I love it when half of my state government is at war with the remaining half, and I want the US government to be like that, so that it can't get anything done."

Well, I guess that's better than being outright neo-Nazi ...
I can see the incident was a jumping off point to talk about bad APIs (bcrypt probably should error >72) but it sounds like the actual bug was they weren't checking the value in the cache matched the data they used in the hash for the key. The authentication cache check should survive any arbitrarily bad hashing algorithm because all of them are going to have collisions (pigeonhole principal). Even an arbitrarily 'strong' hash function with no input truncation, as long as it has a fixed width result, will have this property. Thus, any arguing in the comments here about different hash functions with different truncation properties is moot.

The analogy is something like creating a hash map whose insert function computes the slot for the key and unconditionally puts the value there instead of checking if the keys are the same during a collision. No amount of tinkering with the hash function fixes this problem. The algorithm is wrong. A hashmap should survive and be correct even giving it a hash function that always returns 4.
I run a few Linux desktop VMs and Cloudflare's Turnstile verification (their auto/non-input based verification) fails for the couple sites I've tried that use it for logins, on latest Chromium and Firefox browsers. Doesn't matter that I'm even connecting from the same IP.

I'd presumed it was just the VM they're heuristically detecting but sounds like some are experiencing issues on Linux in general.
I intend to slur the DEI goons. My opinion of the DEI bureaucracy is such that there is no way to express it politely. 'Contempt' and 'hate' would be such an understatement as to be dishonest.
Also see:

Insecticide-treated nets significantly harm mosquitoes, but one can easily offset this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42940443

Looks like trolling to me, but maybe just Poe's law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
It's an intentionally edgy statement, got it...

The major problem: With any idea around decreasing all that social media circus, and coming back to the actual things a bit more, you lose entire generations of human beings nowadays whose only reason to exist, whose only driver, whose only source of energy, is their smartphone with the right social media silo apps installed.

It's at least a decade too late to stop that apocalypse. It will not get better before a big boom suddenly forces them from outside. Our societies are obviously not strong and not resilient enough for more than a few decades of existance before it makes boom.
It looks like the dead cross symbol on Wikipedia
I will have a best effort look for an old article but I cant guarantee anything.

>Here's a study that backs up my initial statement

They wanted the cop, or at worst the building to burn. Peaceful protests were never going to achieve either. They managed 1/2.
A revelatory read that is surely going to end as up one of the year’s standouts. I didn’t expect the twist at the end!
trading bitcoin. not a start-up idea, but a side hustle, I guess you can say
This is it? This the big meme of 2025? "Remember when eggs were expensive"?

Ukraine is at war, minorities are being oppressed at home, an economic tidal wave is about to hit us vis-a-vis Chinese imports, the economy is on the ropes, and big brother is literally banning the government from saying words like "sex" and "gender" - but, oh boy, can you believe the price of these eggs???

Is every person in this country eating thousands of eggs a week and I had no idea?
So what's your alternative? Living in ignorance until it's too late?
Modern CSV (app) version 2.2
Hi, I'm Evan, developer of Modern CSV, a tabular file editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

I posted about version 2 a year and a half ago and thought I'd do a follow up since I've added a lot of features since then. I just added printing and PDF export capability, a popular request among my user base. I've also added pivot tables, JSON and XML importing and exporting, improved statistics, ASCII Separated Values parsing, aesthetic improvements, and a bunch of little things to improve the user experience.

It's enough to justify a major version upgrade, but I have some lofty plans for version 3 which is in the works. If you have any requests, I'd love to hear them!
I've dried maybe > 2kg of desiccant in the microwave by now. Always as slow as possible on low power, but a small percentage of beads overheated anyways and turned a very dark color.
So now my silica is orange with black dots.

I noticed many of these beads are misshapen and smaller than normal. I suspect they got unlucky with the wavelengths somehow, even though they are so small.
> It is only possible to "socially engineer" people who are genuinely unsatisfied with what they have and how they are living...

Brother that's all of us! If anyone here wakes up each morning and goes "yup, this is my lot in life and I wouldn't change a thing" then please share your secret!
I think you maybe misunderstood what I was saying. I’m saying that neurodivergence is why some people thrive at certain jobs that others would find exhausting.

Ergo we should test for ability, not some arbitrary representation of race, sex, or other non-task related metric.
Imagine when they launch o4...
The thing about abuse is that, yes, you can ignore it. But it doesn't go away. It often gets worse. And part of the human condition is that you're a person with a brain that can handle only so much abuse before you start unraveling mentally, emotionally, physically, etc.

Yes, in general, it's a good thing to try to ignore random assholes. But when those assholes are in multitudes, they make you their focus and their harassment doesn't stop, ignoring it just makes the problem worse for yourself.

Just making this comment because I once believed the whole "just ignore it" thing myself. I had a relatively rough life and it takes a lot to really bother me, so I could "ignore" it and did. Eventually it gets to you, and when it does, you won't be in a place where ignoring it works anymore.

The lesson I learned was to walk away from toxic situations early. You don't get brownie points for sticking it out in shitty situations, what you do get is deteriorating health.
And now this one is dead too.

In case I mange to post this before it's dead again, this article is from a military historian and has a lot more substance: https://acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acquisitions-1933-and-the-...
The Bloomberg Terminal is rendered using Chromium and has been for many years. You don’t need to wait for new browser engines to use the existing ones, but you do need resources to contribute, maintain, bugfix, etc. because there is no such thing as a free lunch.
I wish more PDFs were generated as hybrid PDFs. These are PDFs that also include their original source material. Then you have a document whose format is fixed, but if you need more semantic information, there it is!

LibreOffice makes this especially easy to do:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq/Writer/PDF_Hybrid
It also doesn’t help that mtr ICMP handling code is just bad, it disregards packets that actually arrive as a loss.
thank you! Let's break the old way of needing months for data setup, model training, and integration deployment.
They don't though. The recommendations for new users are nearly universally to use Debian or one of its most popular derivatives like Ubuntu or Mint, which are all very similar to one another and share the large majority of their code.

It's like saying Windows has too many versions because there is Home/Pro/Education/Enterprise and then 23H2 vs. 24H2 etc. There is barely any difference between them.

The distro wars are a bunch of programmers arguing about which one has the best toys for power users. Any of them will run a web browser and the boring popular Debian Stable or LTS derivatives are the ones least likely to deliver unscheduled maintenance as a result of an update.
Maybe it’s become politicised or fetishized and we need a new word again. But yeah, that was kinda my point. Hire people that thrive in that environment.
The late 1700s predate most mathematical analysis of voting systems.
I’m not really judging other people here. I remember working on a project and realizing I was one of those cogs keeping ICBM’s operating and it really just hit home.

Not thinking anything about who you’re working for is just kind of the default. However, IMO if you do feel something is wrong then that’s when the obligation to carry through comes in.
Right, just like the DoD is "defending" us.
It's sorta remarkable how in the span of a few months the pendulum has swung back. It shows that companies do not lead trend, so much as follow them.
What an incredible resource. They have so much data, even from tiny countries - https://tradingeconomics.com/countries

I wonder how (where) they are able to get so much data. Maybe they are paying for data?
I actually prefer the smaller community of the jusia ecosystem. For one thing, when searching for issues online youre much less likely to hit spam “tutorials” or eternal september stuff.

And other peoples code is actually a pleasure to read
We assign fault precisely so that we know who to extract damages from. The burrito assembler is not going to be held liable for bad outcomes when they did everything right.

The mere fact that there are damages to extract means that someone was already damaged, not merely that we want to punish someone. If my neighbor is poisoned by food, I do not have standing to sue in my own capacity because my neighbor was poisoned. At this point, the moral question is whether or not you should be able to extract damages when you can show that you are damaged. Essentially every society has said "yes, of course," even though the specifics of what constitutes damage and recompense differs.

Why do people not universally (or at least generally) tend toward making Fail-Safe systems? I don't know, but they just do not. They must be compelled to.

Call it original sin or prevarication, the second law of thermodynamics, evolutionary inclination to save effort, whatever. But humans just default the opposite way of what you're saying.
> because it's explicitly in American interests to do so

Please elaborate, and be precise because every interventionist argument is like, "but our trading partners, but our allies" but always fails to link exactly how that improves the lives of Americans. So tell me exactly what we are afraid of. If its trade tell me exactly what the comparative advantage is or what the resource we need is. And if its defense, tell me exactly what the threat vectors are, not just, "the island chains".

We've doing truly stupid things in the name of bullshit concepts like "containment" which led us into Vietnam, or "stabilizing the region" which led us into the middle east.

We can start with the Burmese scholarships that gives 300k per student; please tell me exactly what the American interests are.
> Revelation 13:15.

Revelation 13:15 is about deception, not innovation. The passage is about a false prophet breathing life into an image to deceive the world. AI isn't deceiving anyone—it's an advanced autocomplete machine. The only ones fooled are those who choose to believe it’s something more than that.

If AI is the golden calf, then so is every other human-made creation that people have ever revered. The argument doesn't hold because it isn't about AI—it's about human nature.
They need to do it better!
Need Deepseek security validation and out-of-box integrations.
yes! we have foreign language support for better OCR on scans. Here's some more details.
Docs: https://docs.cloud.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse/features/parsing...
Notebook: https://github.com/run-llama/llama_parse/blob/main/examples/...
Emergence of collective oscillations in massive human crowds
I tell all my friends that Andrej was the best instructor I had in grad school, even though I didn't even go to Stanford--I just watched his CS321n videos on YouTube. Really thrilled that he's still making videos.
'DOS" retro pseudo-hackers [crackers] always have been a cancer like this, sadly. Elitism, tons of gatekeeping that would even blush most *BSD users, code stealing, non-acreditation... basically the opposite of the public FOSS/Nix/Lisp world.

They were like that in the 90's, and tons of them never acknowleckged their mediocrity against, well, serious systems.

Amiga diehard fanboys and microcomputer owners were like that with tons of 'secretive' software, too.

In my country (Spain) tons of people tolk about the 'Golden Age' of the Spanish software, were 90% of it was pure crap against what the French and the Brits where producing even for the ZX, not to mention what the Japanese did with the MSX.

A community built on snobbism and spoiled kids. Then when the international scene (the serious one) compares their IF 'work' against The Hobbit or, worse, isometric games (not the ones made with an infamous engine, the ones with amazing artwork and free roaming), the whole deck of cards collapses.
I did. I am not going to harp on this because it is unfair to the individual who is the topic of this post.
Since 1980 the top 1%’s share of national income nearly doubled, while the bottom 50%’s share fell from 20% to 13%. Real wages for most workers stagnated despite productivity rising 62% (1979-2019), ALL of that went to investors.

People who claim funding co-ops is a "wealth transfer" ignore existing policies which already funnel taxpayer money upward. Redirecting a fraction of subsidies like bailouts and fossil fuel breaks and the endless war machine... instead to worker owned models that reinvest profits locally and tie wealth to labor... that isn’t a new transfer but a correction. Co-ops reduce reliance on exploitative private equity (e.g., hedge funds buying 40% of U.S. rental homes) and ensure economic gains stay with the people generating value.

I have the controversial opinion that people who work should get money, not the people who don't work.
when did politics become like this.. nuremberg? the nazis killed 6m, i feel like you are living in a parallel reality

> never taught there are consequences to actions, even if you're free to perform the action

you are not free to perform an action if the government punishes you for performing that action
> Literally the definition of "not local"

lol that's hilarious. you can keep arguing about the semantics of that while panicking about the factory farmed egg shortage. it won't bother me because i'll be feasting on food grown by farmers i know, all within a day's drive from me. if you are lucky then the regional distributors will pick up the slack thanks to the "not local" farms.
Chat with GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini simultaneously (I call it Multi-Model AI)
I realized that some AI answer better to some things than the others, I was always switching from one to another, so I had the idea to merge all of them in one single conversation, to piggyback and have them collaborate.

It is a bit raw (I have to fix Python formatting for one thing), but it works, and it is free, and it is open source!

I hope you like it, guys. (and gals),

Pierre
This submission should not be flagged. There are worse articles on HN, constantly. Cowardice and obsequiousness are poor looks. Remember what Buffett said about reputations taking 20 years to build and 5 minutes to destroy
If Trump signed an EO to release this I might excuse a couple of his other ones.
That map does seem to be using H3 hexagons: https://h3geo.org/
> On the other hand, such long usernames are not very usual, which I agree with

Weird take. Usernames are often chosen by the user. Less so in corporate world but definitely not unheard of
[Edit] From what you are saying, if someone is looking to be in a tribe, I would agree the American right is a good fit for that.
Occasionally I’ll have large shared albums of photos and videos, but I always clean them up.
re mi, how about the very riverian:

> "Big whirls have little whirls, That feed on their velocity; And little whirls have lesser whirls, And so on to viscosity." —LFR
Is the functions in libsodium enough? Provided they are used correctly?
>There are advantages to diversity by itself. These have been well documented. So setting aside any concern about excluded groups, it was a good business decision to aim for a diverse workforce.

They wanted to have a diverse workforce, and came up with an excuse for it post-hoc. The best defense I've seen of this is that diverse opinions are good for business. Of course, hiring racially diverse people while being antagonistic towards those with different ways of thinking does little to increase diversity of thought.

>But taking those concerns up again, almost no one perceives their own biases as biases.

Says the pot to the kettle. The way to prevent bias is to come up with objective factors to evaluate people based on, not intentionally injecting bias of your own.

>If you are crossing a river and the wind blows you off course, you don't head to your goal but to the side. The net result is that you reach your goal. The diversity targets are just tacking against the wind.

We have a word for this: racism.
That is really not what I meant. I meant that people have a variety of innate cognitive strengths and weaknesses, similar to physical strengths and weaknesses. Clinical autism and other disorders are when a cognitive trait becomes so extreme that it represents a significant obstacle to normal functioning in the context of your cultural environment.
I'd be surprised if Trump's DOJ did
What is disable_ocr=True for? Is it for documents that already have a text layer, that you don't want to OCR again?
For me it's 1:1. I read aloud in my head at the same pace that I speak. It seems slow, but little by little I get through what I need. Also, I don't know how to do it another way. So it goes.
Perhaps. For now, it looks like we get a reprieve.
> My experience is that without at least one rooster the hens won't lay well

This is just not true. Hens will lay just as many eggs with or without a rooster. And a rooster doesn't do a whole lot to fend off predators, from my experience.
I don't understand, what about the context is changing here?
That’s over 20$/day per person. All 3 of you could literally eat exclusively fast food in most of the US on that budget.

You’re not just paying for food here. One possibility is you’re talking things you buy at the grocery store here, but laundry detergent is’t food.

So what’s the actual deal here.
I can also read about the same speed but I don’t enjoy reading at that speed at all...
I’d say there’s a 90% chance that they’re never seeing more than 5% of that severance package.
The way things are escalating between the two parties, perhaps even somewhat likely to occur. But who knows, perhaps presidential pardon can be generalized - before it becomes necessary to reign it back.