skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We do statistical modeling in Python in our company. When a statistician asked for R, I said "no, but you can have Julia". He's quite happy with it, and we're planning to move some stuff over.
They are still here in Vermont!

I hope this bird flu thing is a push for other places to re-establish demand for local eggs and chickens. As someone else pointed out, it’s also a great opportunity to push your local legislators to allow backyard chickens.
Netgear fixes critical bugs as Five Eyes warn about break-ins at the edge
There will be no one 'policing' things (even imperfectly)

Pirates (like actual sea pirates, not kids downloading warez) definitely look forward to this.

Although, that's a specific part of the "world policing" role that I can see China stepping into.

They certainly have the manpower and the shipbuilding capacity, and they certainly have the incentive to protect international shipping so they can sell their goods everywhere.

I don't think China (yet) wants any part of the other bits of world policing, like deploying armies and/or funding proxy wars on the other side of the world.
Omega-3s Can Slow Down Aging Process
Adblockers are part of a good security hygiene.
Chapel folk did a really nice benchmark last year including Julia, where it landed pretty much right on the Pareto frontier of code size vs performance

I know that's not exactly answering your question, but you might be interested
https://chapel-lang.org/ChapelCon/2024/chamberlain-clbg.pdf
Isn't that called ethnic cleansing?
Not sure if you’ve intentionally omitted it but I would also include YouTube in this list. YouTube can be very addictive with all the clickbait thumbnails etc.
Simultaneous Triboelectric and Mechanoluminescence Sensing
You’re looking for someone to suggest an alternative to a DVCS - git is the winner in that category. But if you go one step backwards and ask “do you really need distributed”, the answer for the vast, vast, vast majority of people is no, for the vast vast majority of use cases. To use your analogy it’s as if we all used rsync because it’s the best remote file management tool, but we use it locally because everyone else uses it.
Heartily disagree. I have had to fight with others over automated formatting because it obscured intent or clarity. For example (C#) mandating `var`, mandating one and only one line of whitespace between lines of code, mandating the => syntax for single-line functions (instead of

Function(vars)
{
...
}
)

I would say, when to use one or the other of each of those options is very much a craft.
Proton is still very much worth recommending, you can ignore the noise. The article you linked was debunked in this article which provides overwhelming evidence pointing to the org being liberal: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/1id5v21/does_pro...

Not that it matters though, since I assume all of us here know how encryption works.
When will they release Gemini 2.0 Pro Max?
> That massively increases their chances of picking up the bird flu, as opposed to those they are inside all day

Are they getting bird flu at a higher frequency?
Today Steam gives us the option of verifying whether a certain player has no life. Only half joking.
From what I'm seeing, this program started in 2014 and was killed in 2016.

Seems like this is dredging up an old issue to boost today's culture-war narrative.
Jesuits are usually ordained priests. Dominicans are usually not. The difference is black cassocks vs. white tunics.
> The mainstream press is mostly decent.

We really have no way of knowing that. It's not like there is any organization that analyzes and critiques the mainstream press in any regular fashion. For instance, the press clearly knew that Biden had major cognitive impairments but they misreported it to the public. There was no accountability at all when the truth was discovered. Same with the story of Trump colluding with Russia, or the many, many different racial hate crime hoaxes. There is ZERO accountability for misleading the public.

I'm skeptical of all the talk about "authoritarianism." All those ideas seem be based on shoddy social science theorizing after WW2 - e.g. "The Authoritarian Personality." I don't think you can accurately predict the rise of a totalitarian leader based on what happened in Germany.
Magnus Carlsen on why the future of chess lies in freestyle
Read the guidelines and in general don’t call people an “incel” because they disagree with you.
Sadly Wolfram Alpha doesn't understand the 'Easter Basket Packing' problem yet, but it's definitely do-able.

Edit: This is an interesting problem that ChatGPT can't quite hatch. It immediately gets confused and thinks 100 eggs fit in a 5L mixing bowl!
I think this is an unfair comment.

This is like complaining about an agriculturist being awarded money for a novel agricultural technique they developed, but they aren't saving the penguins in the Antarctic...
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From the article:

> Has this had a long-term impact on aviation safety and air traffic controller shortages? Likely yes.

This was a terrible conclusion. Ask any ATC person what's up with staffing and "COVID training and hiring disruptions" will be in the first few sentences they say.

The fact this article goes on and on without a single mention of the impact COVID has had gives me all the stock I need to place in it.

Some folks may find it hard to believe, but the 1-2 year interruption in hiring pipelines can cause large ripples that take years-to-decades to resolve.

Slapping a DEI strawman up and trying to tie it to a tragedy reflects on the changes some seek.
Gemini 2.0 works great with large context. A few hours ago, I posted a ShowHN about parsing an entire book in a single prompt. The goal was to extract characters, relationships, and descriptions that could then be used for image generation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946317
> "Elon Musk has said recently that his goal is to have no regulations at all"

Is there a source for this? I ask because this concern me.
I love that the top comment is a 10 level deep bikeshed about bikeshedding.
Great article! I enjoyed reading it
You can also use apt-pinning to set priority for which release to use.

A long time ago I ran stable, and pinned testing at low priority.

Across the decades I've slowly upgraded my stance. Now my machines run Debian Unstable, with testing and experimental pinned at very low priorities. Unstable does sometimes have unsatisfiable dependencies, so it's good to have some other options. And sometimes I just want what's coming for a specific package or kernel, and experimental will often be there.

https://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html
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> Zuckerberg particularly, what makes you think this was a 180?

There's a good summary of all the changes at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/technology/meta-mark-zuck...

> I must say though, this "billionaires as terrified victims" narrative is hilarious.

Do you not think Putin's oligarchs fear him? They're immensely wealthy, but they live within the reach of the guy in charge.

Trump previously threatened Zuck with life in prison. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/28/trump-zuckerberg-el...
> If they were not paid because they were on "admin leave", does that look bad for Trump, or does that look bad for Congress?

It would be Trump/Elon.

Someone told me the details of how they could not pay people. It’s administrivia. It will go unnoticed by most just like how the twitter folks not getting paid went unnoticed by most.

> And who in a Republican Congress will want to do that anyway?

They give zero fucks about fucking over feds or former Feds, as they are (allegedly) all lazy and useless.

The end result will be less money spent (trivial, but still) and a lower head count moving forward.

The Republican rhetoric on this largely doesn’t jibe with reality.

Yes, there are underemployed people in the federal government (as exist in any large org). Identifying that slack and cutting it is not something that can be done with laser shots from space. They can only be done from the ground, imho. The current way they are doing things is going to end with a lot of unpleasant unintended consequences.
Playing by those rules, it's nearly impossible to change any big law or enact any drastic change to an existing law unless you have some world-changing event. The rest is just the slow march towards the mean which is controlled by the people that can bully others into silence and agreement. The mean is controlled by those that control the conversation and by those career politicians and bureaucrats that "play the game". Look how magically everyone is agreeing to deporting violent criminals, yet somehow we didn't all think that was the right answer 6 months ago?

It's beyond me how so many of us think that continuously ignoring the will of the people is "OK". Either tell me my choice doesn't matter, or just shut up with the drama and enact safe and fair referendums on every single hot topic so we can all get to the right answer and then if we find we're in the minority, we'll shut up.

It should be clear as day to anyone that is unbiased that fixing the US/Mexican border was ridiculously easy (it's essentially been done in 2 weeks and they didn't even have to finish building their stupid wall). The only reason it didn't happen till now was precisely because the whole thing is broken and not really an expression of the peoples' will. It was rather an expression of an amalgamation of a giant mindless mass of bureaucrats, and you can't fix it unless you do what they are doing now. Not to single you out sorry, but opinions like yours ("we gotta do it the legal way and according to rules x, y, z, and 500 other rules") are precisely why nothing ever got done or fixed properly. And I say that as someone that is absolutely on board with following every rule to the T, with no exceptions.
That’s not at all the case here (VT). The local sellers are essentially all pasture-raised, free-range, etc., and their eggs are the only ones in stock. I have read some posts from them talking about the various ways they keep segments of the flocks separated, and they are being quite careful about any outside access.

Edit: I guess also the birds are indoors much more anyway, given the winter. It's 11 F here today, so probably they're huddled up inside :)
Yes.

Vegetarians don’t eat meat (including fish, although some religious sects have a marketing deal with fishermen to count fish as a vegetable for some reason), do eat animal products.

Vegans don’t eat meat and also don’t eat animal products.
My parents would break down in panic if they did as much as moved a single icon to the left on Android phones. To them it was almost as if they broke the phone.
You may also be able to simply exit() before your allocations get dropped.
>"but egg prices!!!". They might as well be.

Again, not at all. It's said when instead of actually working to help the average American this administration is starting trade wars with our allies and taking time out of their day to remove gender identity language from all federal websites. Try in good faith is some advice you might try to follow your self.
My sister is naturalized American, and the way she describes it — even if dems were well-intentioned, they had no guts to pull the trigger to make things better. Because pulling that trigger will, for sure, hurt a lot of people and they care about their image.

I can see some truth to it while living across the border. The things move extremely slow due to enormous amount of legislative barriers and opposition. When you make any big disruptive change, obviously families will suffer, incomes will be lost and etc. So, if you want gigantic changes (good or bad) for a huge country, you need either backing of super majority of people or ability to be above the law because everyone would be afraid to go after you. From my point of view, that’s why China can do drastic changes to their established sectors (tech, private education, construction and etc.) and keep pivoting as necessary. Sure, I don’t agree with their political ideology. However they have an enormous bureaucracy that will sit down and rewrite laws when the goals change.

I’ve met some Republicans throughout my travels, and after some drinks have heard how they want to feel proud of their country. How they used to be proud of their land, origins and etc. Nowadays, they just don’t feel it.

It would be very dumb of me to generalize, but when a good chunk of people don’t feel proud of anything in their lives, it shows signs of cultural weakness. A weakness that’s incredibly easy to exploit as the feeling of pride actually feels good. Current admins are giving a sense of hope that they’ll restructure entire government to some point where citizens will be proud of their progress.
I had the same reaction, but then some cursory searching led me to this discussion on the "Talk" page for Wikiquote's entry on Mussolini which casts some doubt on the accuracy of the attribution and/or translation of this line:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Benito_Mussolini#Fascism_...
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TPM isn't capable of the outlandish claims you're making. It stores textual content in PCRs, and is extremely limited at that, not at the very least of in size.

Unique IDs of a system don't require a TPM. Microsoft uses unique IDs from various hardware to bind a product key to a particular device, and has been doing that since the XP era.

Intel and gfx vendors already provide secure DRM paths. TPM isn't capable of doing so.

> Don't get me wrong, security devices should exist 100%. But. It should never be forced.

They should be forced otherwise users would continue leaving themselves open to attack. Security has moved on from ACLs. Microsoft recognizes the need for things like VBS to protect against modern threats, which in turn requires TPM.

Apple has been doing this for roughly 15 or so years now with no fanfare on consumer devices. TPM has been around on x86 since the late '00s with little-to-no fanfare.
You are begging the question that they were hired on anything other than merit. Do you have hard evidence that the people that were hired did not pass qualifications?

The main evidence of the scandal is that the recruitment funnel prioritized on things that were bad. And, make no mistake, that was a scandal. It does not, however, even attempt to show that recruitment forced hiring to accept people that lacked merit.

That is, it does show there is a good chance RECRUITING rejected qualified people. But that is not enough to show that HIRING was necessarily lowering the bar.

There is a begging of the question where we assume that they must have. But show the performance numbers! Without those, you don't know.

And again, in context of the current debate, realize that the last 4 years are the only growth years in that agency. Such that the last 4 years are the only ones that made ANY progress on helping understaffed towers.
Can you provide an example of what you would consider a good implementation of DEI efforts, as opposed to a "botched" one?
The TPM push predates the AI craze and I don't see this as a particularly strong compliment so this doesn't really follow to me. But the general idea isn't that crazy honestly. They already use your upload bandwidth via a bittorrent-like system to distribute Windows updates to other users so there is precedent to use client resources to lower their own operating costs.

I think an AI botnet is probably a poor fit for AI workloads not mention it would be a security nightmare.
consider the standard library case - e.g. there's a new kind of exception because new storage or network technology demands it. you can't add it without breaking the build of everything everywhere effectively freezing the standard library version for people who don't have the means to fix their build. that's super duper bad.
Generally, mixing livestock and people in the confined conditions of a city is a very bad idea (if you're talking about suburbs, then that's a completely different thing, and I would agree with you about supporting it).
In 2021, the Al Jezeera documentary on Boeing’s airframes was commented in Yt as a DEI scandal.

Post-reframing consists in telling people it wasn’t introduced as this, which may be true for journalists but clearly understood by the audience as a DEI issue, then claiming the DEI issue is slapped upon an existing problem.

Agressive DEI has been uniformly contested since it was introduced, by (practically) everyone who has ever lost a promotion on non-skills criteria. It’s just that today, the good side has finally won.
parent is quoting this
https://fossbytes.com/linus-torvaldss-famous-email-first-lin...
"Average Price: Eggs, Grade A, Large (Cost per Dozen) in U.S. City Average": https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111
> Intrusion Protection

Any ways to check the current updated official images against what is installed on the phone or notebook via a oneliner or an app?

Like in a couple of minutes like a virus scan.

Burning the hardware is one thing but having confirmation would be nice.
This works on my personal Google account, but not on my workspace one. So I guess there's no access to 2.0 Pro then? I'm ok trying out Flash for now and see if it fixes the mistakes I ran into yesterday.

Edit: it does not. It continues to miss the fact that I'm (incorrectly) passing in a scaled query tensor to scaled_dot_product_attention. o3-mini-high gets this right.
haha yeah that's where you inject custom CSS on the page to hide thumbnails, come to YouTube to see something? no thumbnails to distract your original intent
Monopolies have no incentive to lower prices.
Shocker, a majority white country voted to end programs that identified biases which benefitted them...

> Asians are in fact being discriminated against

I have a feeling someone fed you some false information about this case.

The judges ruled that Harvard's admission program violated the equal protections act, but never said once that Asian Americans were ever discriminated against.

The programs that these decisions got rid of impacted minorities other than Asians a lot more, but for some reason you don't want to talk about that?
Which was the original spelling of that word in Old English, which is why I've come to prefer the Old English pronunciation for gif: HYEEF.
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the uniqueness of the U.S. lies in its favorable environment for innovation

Our ability to attract talent from all over the world is a large part of this.

The Trump administration is doing serious damage to that ability on several fronts.
The best example I can think of is already mentioned up-thread, but just to drill down on that. Kung Fury[1] was initially released on Youtube (and a few other services, mostly in other countries I think) and became a pretty big viral hit. Enough so that the filmmaker eventually signed a deal to make a sequel[2] with distribution by a traditional film company and some big-name stars. Unfortunately the release of the sequel has been held up for "legal reasons" and FSM only knows when or if it will see the light of day. :-(

Anyway, not as big as BWP, but still a decent example of the concept under discussion, I think.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fury

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fury_2
I've been very impressed by Gemini 2.0 Flash for multimodal tasks, including object detection and localization[1], plus document tasks. But the 15 requests per minute limit was a severe limiter while it was experimental. I'm really excited to be able to actually _do_ things with the model.

In my experience, I'd reach for Gemini 2.0 Flash over 4o in a lot of multimodal/document use cases. Especially given the differences in price ($0.10/million input and $0.40/million output versus $2.50/million input and $10.00/million output).

That being said, Qwen2.5 VL 72B and 7B seem even better at document image tasks and localization.

[1] https://notes.penpusher.app/Misc/Google+Gemini+101+-+Object+...
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That's my thinking too. In fact, I was in a mood to watch OG film noirs, but between 3 streaming services, the only movie available was Sunset Blvd. Also failed to find any of the 1950s sci-fi movies I went looking for.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-eliminate-regulation...

It's not a fair paraphrase of what he said.

> "Regulations, basically, should be default gone," the head of the White House's Department of Government Efficiency said on the call, as spotted by HuffPost. "Not default there, default gone." "If it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in," he suggested.

It's to some extent advocating for the "first, do no harm" default of not treating doctors are supposed to have.

Musk's definition of "missed the mark" likely varies wildly from mine, though.