skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DHS didn't exist but most of the components existed (secret service, coast guard, customs and immigration, FEMA, etc). They just got moved from the departments of treasury, transportation, etc into DHS. It's not like all of that came out of nowhere. The big part of DHS that was new was TSA, for obvious reasons. There's also a ton of growth around cybersecurity, which is a good thing.
I see the argument made in the context of government snooping. What if I said that the government made it illegal to use any form of encryption that it did not have a backdoor to. In other words, they have the right to read every single message you ever send or receive. There are people who tell me "don't be concerned, if you've got nothing to hide this won't have any impact on your day to day life".

I don't think that argument is going to persuade you or most others on HN. But you're saying exactly that.
What are you talking about, the language gets better with each release. Using C++ today is a hell of a lot better than even 10 years ago. It seems like people hold "memory safety" as the most important thing a language can have. I completely disagree. It turns out you can build awesome and useful software without memory safety. And it's not clear if memory safety is the largest source of problems building software today.

In my opinion, having good design and architecture are much higher on my list than memory safety. Being able to express my mental model as directly as possible is more important to me.
Optimizing LLM Persuasion with Personalization and Fabricated Statistics
Oh yeah this an awesome tool, I used it at a company I worked for prior which had its own mailserver. Used it to migrate customers out of it.
Sure, but none of that was developed by dod in any real way. A litmus test to consider is that the dod still halls belig ml problems but you don't see phds funded by dod going to the dod. The good ones all go to industry because they know thier reseaech stops as soon as they start working for a contractor or warfare center. The money excuse is just a patsy. The government has plenty of money to pay these ppl if they can produce which they do well in industry. It's simply not a focus of darpa to do basic research in learning and intelligence in a meaningful way.
Yes because accessibility and DEI are different despite partisans' attempts to make "DEIA" a real thing.
Tool works well.
> Almost like it's designed to nerd-snipe someone into a PR to change the format based on Accept headers

pls
HN, WhatsApp, and Discord are also junk food depending on how you use them.
I do think it's basically universal that weight training when done correctly leads to positive outcomes. What I'm seeing you talk about is trying to teach yourself. I don't think that's safe or effective.
Are the intern positions for a technical role or is it an administrative one?
Short version: Bugs in bootable backup were fixed.

Recommended: (by me as well). Use the free version of SuperDuper to make a full bootable boot disk clone. It's on my "it's raining out" to-do list for the day.

It takes a long time compared to incremental backups, but runs unattended.

Just do it. If there's a disaster, you're covered, and can read the SuperDuper or the Apple disk recovery options at that time. For non-personal use, read them now and write up an InfoDoc.
Germany Targeted by the Pro-Russian Disinformation Campaign "Doppelgänger" [pdf] (2024)
Yeah the EU cookie banners are annoying, I'm hoping to do some automation to click out of them before taking the screenshots
My guess is that the music of Johan Röhr was not commissioned as PFC perfect fit content, at least not at first. Rather he just worked out how to game the system with large amounts of bland but competent music under a bunch of aliases... because he made $30 million from royalties in 2022, indicating that he did not have a PFC deal at that time.

It's entirely possible that Johan Röhr's success inspired the concept of PFC. So Spotify, seeing that a lot of people mostly want bland music, made a business decision to reduce their royalty costs.

I think Liz Pelly is doing a good job to highlight how this kinda dumbing down effect is happening, and how the streaming platform model is creating these market distortions. But I'm not sure if this is an evil conspiracy to steal from 'real' artists, or just a rational response to the demand for bland muzak.

As an aside, there's an artist called Relaxing Piano Therapy, which could actually be one of Johan Röhr's aliases, or something he's related to via his Overtone label. Anyway, they have one album before 2019 and 247 albums from 2019 to present (I detect a nice 1 album per week cadence). Some albums are very long, it's a lot of content. One album from 2019 has 50 tracks, each with about 350,000 plays (~17.5 million total). There's another album from 2024 with 0 plays. They have about 5,000 monthly listeners. I guess they used to be in official Spotify playlists, but not any more.
You can at least control who your posts are visible to on some social media platforms. Not so here. Your comments are public and after the edit window closes, permanent.
Actually curious - where have they? Zuck's claim didn't seem to be true.
I'd imagine a few places that have low technical acumen have tried, but I'll want to see how much they pay for SWEs willing to clean that codebase after they let LLMs run amok on it.
Whether or not 30k tps is slow depends on what kind of transactions you're talking about and whether you're measuring the whole system or one core.

One of the nice things about HTTP(S) is it has rerdirect semantics (to shed load) and requests are easy to send through a load balancer. 30k requests per second for static web data is well within the capability of a modestly scaled cloud or random assortment of machines in someone's data-center.

Also remember old networks that fed mainframe apps used to be pretty slow. I'm more familiar with old school travel agent tech. it was not uncommon to have offices of 5-15 travel agents all sharing a single 56 kilobit data line. So much of the coolness of mainframes was being able to aggregate hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of remote terminals in the time when a 1200 baud modem was considered "fast."

And when they say "transactions" they're not talking about web requests, they're talking about multi-phase commit over multiple sub transactions, all of which have to be unrollable if any of them fails.

When I was at IBM/AIX division in the early 90s, we were excited we could get 30 tpmC out of a $15k RS/6000. The AS/400 team down the hall would snicker at us and invite us to watch their $30k entry level machines doing something closer to 500 transactions per second.

But the thing is... they were using a much simpler data representation scheme that made it MUCH easier for data inconsistencies to creep into the process.

So... modern PCs are more architecturally similar to old mainframes than old 8/16 bit micros. And they're certainly faster. But those old systems had plenty of tricks up their metaphorical sleeves.
Hello! I'm also receiving the same error when trying to send an email to the one listed.
You started this shit by bringing up the past dude. If this story is gonna rise to a broader appeal it would be fuckin bullshit for it to die because oh it's just Pale Moon and/or SeaMonkey.

Cloudflare staff have a real hateboner for non-mainstream browsers and tell yourself what you like but I still actually care about the well being of this unmitigated disaster we call the Internet and the "Open Web".. Not to mention the lives and well being of users and contributors out there in the world..

Go be small minded on the Pale Moon forum, I'm busy.
All of the logic in this entire sub-thread is based on the idea that thet s/w has to be ssold by a vendor.

Large orginazations, representing classes of users (architects, engineers, people who type documents and calculate numbers) could produce s/w for their own use, not to sell, and make this s/w available under a free software GPL license.

They would save the money they would have spent buying this s/w, and spread those savings to everyone else who used the s/w.

I don't want to retype or paste the entry I made below, but please read it and respond to this alternative.

Thanks for the discussion!
I'll try to improve the vibes :(

I've been working at this startup for almost two years now and that page and branding etc has been changing a lot as you can imagine ...
It's really not a bunch of registers though...

If you could so something like LD[$0f] #65 - then yeah, you have registers. But you can't do that sort of thing with zero page. You'd still need to do:
LDA #65
STA $0f
Almost every story has sides. Multiple at a time. Depending on people and their cultural background involved or observing. Ask one people about a story, and might say completely different things than another. This is just the nature of humanity, nothing novelty was said here.

Choose something where they at least try.

My long time favorite is The Economist. They have writers there committed to a certain kind of message, true, like everywhere, putting on a glass supporting their preconceptions, yet the overall tone is somewhat analytical, at least trying to look behind and around, trying to use multiple viewpoints. If they miss some, you might add yours pretty easily (on your own or from other sources), and so you will be empowered by better vintage point at the matter than without their help. That's much more than nothing, at least compared to the vast majority (I believe).

I am sure there are even better alternatives where the being emotional first and professionally outraged all the time is frowned upon too. Definitely avoid bbc.co.uk despite their facade of being in depth and balanced. They actually say nothing more than repetition of the events mixed with lots of emotions nowadays, even their selection of topics are outrage oriented.
I think this is the same issue as is being discussed here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/421396

It sometimes blocks me on fairly major browsers, such as google chrome ( but on an older Ubuntu ).
> Google executive Jerry Dischler, insisted this was not a "hallucination" - where AI systems invent untrue information - blaming the websites Gemini had scraped the information from instead.

That doesn't sound any better, it's highlighting yet another problem with Gemini.
It might make sense if you occasionally use the full 100%. But for most people I expect it makes more sense to just use 100% of the capacity and then replace the battery if/when it degrades. For some reason, many people seem to have an aversion to replacing the battery in phones. Yes, it's expensive, but those same people will often replace the entire phone which is much more expensive!
> Call me a doomsday prepper, but frankly I haven't heard a compelling argument against this line of thinking that is actually in line with the absurd development curve.

Are the current economics viable indefinitely? I think not. This AI investment exuberance will be curbed as soon as investors start demanding returns, and we've already seen harbingers of that (the Deep Seek market scare). What appears to be a quadratic growth curve inevitably turns out to be sigmoid.

Right now, the Hype train is at maximum speed and seems unstoppable. Despite the early hype, the Internet didn't replace colleges or brick and mortar stores[1], iPads didn't kill computers[2], and AI won't replace software engineers. This is not to say there will be no impact, but it's being oversold.

1. Khan academy and Amazon notwithstanding. But physical retail stores are still here and doing okay, and have adjusted to leveraging the new paradigm.

2. Leading up to peak iPad, it was believable that the iPad would kill PCs - it was an unstoppable juggernaut lifting Apple profits to record heights https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-03-21/ipad-the-...
To add another link, I think this is the same issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/421396
Fascism is generally considered "far-right".

From Wikipedia:

>Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement,[1][2][3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.[2][3] Opposed to anarchism, democracy, pluralism, egalitarianism, liberalism, socialism, and Marxism,[4][5] fascism is at the far right of the traditional left–right spectrum.[6][5][7]

If you want to question their framing, I would recommend going after that their "leftists" are likely poorly defined (or only really exist in the US if you're so far to the right that everyone is the far left).
The similarities with WhiteHouse.gov’s design can’t be much help either, I imagine.
3Blue1Brown has a very interesting video about how holograms are made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmKQsSDlaa4
If you'd care for a semiotician's perspective about the attributes of fascism, and one that lived through a fascist regime to boot, there's the seminal essay by Umberto Eco about what "Ur-Fascism" is: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

They seem to be slightly different than the ones OP uses for the classification, but they are reasonably close.
Deepseek.cpp: CPU inference for the DeepSeek family of LLMs in pure C++
Then you are arguing with a strawman. I never proposed they do it across all products, only the products that they already have vulnerabilitys in that they already seek to disclose.

You can not change the parameters of my proposal to explicitly require a gigantic bureaucracy then argue that it is a poor idea because the gigantic bureaucracy you added is a problem. You could have argued that my proposal is untenable because it would be "unfair" and the only way to make it fair would be to do it comprehensively which would be too hard.

To which I would state:

1) That means we as a society care more about being "fair" to companies with inadequate software security than demanding adequate software security. Could be the case, but then everything other than roll over and accept it is off-the-table.

2) The government already requires certification against the Common Criteria for many software products in use by the government. You could restrict this policy to just systems that are used and require certification before use. Thus being applied "fairly" to government procurement and incentivizing improvements in security for procured systems.

3) This should actually just be general policy for everybody, but only the government, currently, has enough leverage to really pull off publicly announcing a problem and the vendor not being able to just shove it under the rug.

And, even if you disagree with those points, I am also making the point that the current policy of disclosing the vulnerability so the vendor can make a point-patch to resolve it instead of fixing their overall security process is a failed security policy at the societal level. We need mechanisms to encourage overall security process improvement. Currently, the only thing that does that is the exponentially increasing amount and severity of hacks, and it would be nice to get ahead of it instead of being purely reactionary.
I recall a web app, I believe in the New York Times site, a while ago that let you play "Balance the Federal Budget."

It had sliders over all the federal spending levers. The interesting part was that pretty much anything you did to enact the republican dream of gutting spending immediately led to recession/depression.

Anyway I'm feeling pretty good about being in an all cash position right now, these people aren't too bright and this is obviously going to get out of hand.
I hope they’re waiting til after Mardi Gras. Watch them get stuck in the middle of a parade.
It's one guy running his little AI startup fresh out of college. Claims to be a former national security analyst but makes no such claim on his LinkedIn.
Reminds me of this open source library I wrote to do the same thing: https://github.com/nextbigsoundinc/imagely

It uses puppeteer and chrome headless behind the scenes.
I find the use of a single type of bracket to be less cumbersome than Markdown's variant. The two extra characters don't bother me.
It's correct, but I think it's misleading. If you're now thinking that magnetic fields are just electric fields viewed from different reference frame and that the latter are the more fundamental, that's not right.

There are situations in which you have both fields and you can't attribute the magnetic field to a purely electrostatic field in another frame. It turns out that all observers agree on the value of k=E²/c² - B², so if you have k<0, you can't possibly find a frame with no magnetic fields, because that would imply k≥0.

So, you can use relativity to motivate the need for introducing a B field, instead of "pulling it out of the hat", but in general you need both E and B. In the modern formalist these are the components of a larger object called F, the field strength tensor.
It seems a placeholder for now? No content? Right?
One of the robotic meal delivery companies that operates around Santa Monica has a very good at communicating with pedestrians on the sidewalk that it sees them, and is giving them right of way.

It acts a bit like a confused, startled, and apologetic, simp (sorry, I can't find a better term) and it kinda shimmies and scuttles back and forth. It's difficult to describe, but it is definitely communicating "sorry human, don't mind me, I'm just trying to find my way in this world...you go first".

I was quite enamored with this little dance the first time I saw it.
For me it's always an adverse inference, suggesting one-or-more of:

1. They have bad support or don't see the API as important

2. They have something to hide

3. Their management doesn't understand or prioritize software
Cloudflare is discriminatory. They, and their fanbois, will likely claim that they can't publicly discuss their criteria for who they block, so some mysterious magic is going on in the background, and we're supposed to just trust them because they're big.

That in mind, I'd love even the most fawning of the fanbois to come up with rationalization for why for a very common browser (Safari on modern macOS), most links through Cloudflare work, but trying to get past the are-you-human checkbox on Cloudflare's abuse reporting page doesn't work half the time.

Obviously that shouldn't be on an abuse reporting page at all, but Cloudflare has been making abuse reporting extremely difficult for years. Adding rate limiting (a human can easily hit it) and prove-you're-human verification on their abuse page just unambiguously proves this.
Yes but many projects are usually restricted to specific websites. A few projects, such as the URLs project, are generally unrestricted.
Just a totally normal domain for an Anguillan perspective on all things America
Ask HN: Why did every YC startup move to hiring Founding Engineers?
It seems like every HN Hiring post over the last 6 to 12 months is for "Founding Engineers". When you read the job ads, what they are actually looking for is a unicorn engineer who can build the entire product including Backend, FrontEnd and DevOps while also being an AI domain expert and any number of other demands.

This post is a perfect example of this: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roe-ai/jobs/CZrzxk6-founding-engineer

They usually offer 0.25% to 2.0% equity and 150k to 200k per year.

I guess I am curious if there is a reason they all started doing this at the same time? Was there some kind of YC memo telling them to do this?

Why would someone with those skills and qualifications go work for a startup building their entire product for 2% or less vs just building it for themselves and retaining 100% equity?

This whole trend seems super misguided and somewhat exploitative from the outside but it must be working if they are all doing it?
As the sort of absent-minded human who (no matter how much I learn) will always have a deep-seated irrational fear of being "that student", I must say: sick burn
I think your sentiment encapsulates the hypocrisy of modern people where the systems have developed over thousands of years to further and further insulate us from all the less pretty aspects of life, to a point where we largely forget the fact that we shit and kill things for food and greed. Our meat comes pre-portioned on a polystyrene tray and wrapped under cellophane. Just abstract blocks of yummy protein. We also built garbage collection and sewer systems that lets most of us forget about the waste we produce. Out of sight, out of mind.

Humanely dispatching chicken is probably among the most mundane, natural, necessary, and arguably righteous aspects of what humans do to survive. While this part of the modern system is certainly not a "bad thing", I still think about my friend's opinion that everyone who eats meat should kill and process a living creature at least once in their life. If they can't handle it, then they shouldn't eat meat
From all the way back in 2015
https://www.eater.com/2015/2/11/8022235/never-burn-popcorn-a...
I'll definitely use it when it becomes usable. And, yes, it needs to support newer versions of Java. Crawl.. walk.. run. But you are right.. part of my motivation was just to see if it was possible. Many years ago, I worked on gcj, which was similar in concept, except that it mapped Java classes to C++ classes (as implemented by g++). I've been on a Common Lisp kick for the past few years, so it seemed like a fun challenge. The fact that the OpenJDK class libraries are free software now makes this more practical.
> If we’re embarking on a change that is not really refactoring (for example looking at a bug or an adjustment after a third party change), we can’t fix it with refactoring.

Funnily enough I did once fix a bug through refactoring. IIRC it was some intermittent race condition in some async code that I just couldn’t figure out, so I rewrote the code to do the same thing but simpler and the problem disappeared. I was too tired and relieved to continue figuring it out why it was originally broken.
I agree - I don't know what field it formally is, but computer science it is not. It is also related to information retrieval aka "Google skills", problem presentation, 'theory of mind', even management and psychology. I'm saying the latter because people often ridicule AI responses for giving bad answers that are 'too AI'. But often it is simply because not enough context-specific information was given to allow the AI to giving a more personalized response. One should compare the response to "If I had asked a random person on the internet this query, what might I have gotten". If you write "The response should be written as a <insert characteristics, context, whatever you feel is relevant>" it will deliver a much less AI. This is just as much about how you pose a problem in general, as it is about computer science.
I think a lot of other countries have it much more standardized. Or it's just more common so the bugs get fixed.

But in the US there are so many credit card providers, each one seems to do it differently, and the UX flows just break. And it seems difficult for a site to even test, and how will you even figure out if it's the provider or network or merchant or notification that's failing?
This one?

https://www.eater.com/2015/2/11/8022235/never-burn-popcorn-a...
Why under the table? Seems like someone like Canonical could just outright do the auditing itself.
Unrelated, but I continue to be confused by "ClaudeMind" a JetBrains Plugin by "73signals": https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/25082-claudemind

Their website doesn't even mention 73signals: https://claudemind.com/

Surely Anthropic must have an issue with this use of their trademark? And 73signals seems so similar to 37signals as to be intentional.
Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by maintainer
I love this comment. Conceptually its something that is so valuable but so difficult.