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sabotage
/ˈsabətɑː(d)ʒ/
verb

1. deliberately destroy, damage, or *obstruct* (something), especially for political or military advantage.

2. to intentionally prevent the success of a plan or action.

Definitions from Oxford, Collins, and Cambridge all fit the bill. Even dictionary.com has "any undermining of a cause."
> killing the whole program due to a bug anywhere in any part of the code is very foreign to me.

But getting the wrong answer due to a bug anywhere in any part of the code is not?
I've read that the relative contribution of planetary magnetic fields is overstated relative to atmospheres. The thickness of Earth's is the same mass as a 10 meter-high column of liquid water; not much radiation gets through that much shielding, magnetic field or no. (I think it's solely muons?)
at least include a MD5 of what you have redacted to prove that whatever you may publish in the future is pre-written
> the legal system only punishes general public.

In more general terms, the legal system punishes what can be made a profit or an example when punishing.

Also, I don't think the legal system itself wants to get too much into "big institutions against the work of others", save for the fictional TV representations of smart lawyers and clever arguments, 99.9% of the legal system output is copy/paste.
> It's only illegal if you get caught

Not quite. It's only illegal if you get caught and you are the wrong kind of person.

For the right kind of person not even a pat on the wrist.
Interesting that rates are higher at night. Most cities I've been in its the opposite due to there being much less traffic at night.
I don’t think visual explanation should be about writing colored versions of formulas or adding notes, it’s providing a visual that immediately unlocks the core idea. Many examples are given here: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/733754/visually-stu...
Approximately nobody has turned on advanced data protection.

When you go to an Apple store and buy and use an iPhone, as millions do, you are prompted to create an Apple Account and log in. iCloud and iCloud Backup are automatically and silently enabled. The device automatically runs non-e2ee backups nightly.

This is how almost every iPhone on Earth runs. Most people don’t even know the feature exists. Even amongst techies that know about it, almost nobody has it enabled.
Not to mention Rust tooling is painfully slow compared to C, last I checked. I wouldn’t want to switch unless that problem went away somehow.
I'm sorry but those links seem to talk about dozens, or hundreds, of paid or somewhat coerced donors. OP is talking about hundreds of thousands of people being perpetually harvested in captivity. I'm not say he's lying or exaggerating, but I would appreciate a much, much, much better source to support those claims.
I find the whole discussion around power of government branches and what different events mean and how will this or that branch react a bit surreal.

The guy has been impeached twice, exposing it as laughable, which it is. He has then been convicted as a felon, which hasn't slowed him down a bit in becoming a president again. He has then installed people of ridiculous backgrounds as some of the highest ranking officials in the country. He has then let Elon run amock within the government, accessing confidential data and doing things with absolutely no scrutiny or oversight. He has then already started nibbling at FBI, CIA and dozen other government agencies. It's been THREE. WEEKS.

I'm just not sure what mechanisms, checks and balances, and measures some people expect will be employed or will have any effect to control this. The government as was known up till now is no more. As long as people STILL try to frame Trump within traditional accountability mechanisms of the government, they will be floundering around the scandal or crime no. 3232, while he's committing no. 12768.

Once this slows down, there will be maybe 5% of tools and power left to revert things (and it would take decades), control the rich to any extent, and have any semblance of democracy, if they even bother to maintain it.
He does not need to consider those ramifications because it is up to the rust for Linux people to fix the issues. He does not need to care about them at all.

They reiterated that in the thread too.
They mention various alternatives, and the attack is hypothetical (but the vector is known).
I wouldn’t want to end up in Chorleywood, near the north western end of the Metropolitan line, late at night. It’s a nice little village, but I suspect it would be pretty dead.
Did we read a different article? It seems like the claim is that it pays for itself in under 2 years.

> For AI servers and the datacenters that wrap around them, as we have shown here, for every $1 you spend for an AI cluster and its datacenter (including its power and cooling), you get 87.8 cents back every year that you rent that AI cluster out to customers, assuming a reasonable mix of on-demand and reserved instance hours and a $9.40 per GPU-hour rate. In 410 days, you get your bait back on the entire AI datacenter investment if you rent all the GPUs out. The model we created (riffing on an Nvidia model) shows that for the three years after that, the 87.8 cents per year goes right into your pocket.
When the right wing says they want to cut spending, they don't actually mean it. They mean they want to cut spending for certain things. The fact that those certain things are a rounding error compared to their untouchable bits is irrelevant.
I use jsign and AWS KMS. It's a lot less expensive than a full on HSM or "cloud HSM" service.

There's a lot to it, and expect a ton of a back and forth emails with a CA to get an EV Cert.

Here's some example code for generating the CSR (Certificate signing request) to submit to a CA.

https://github.com/aws-samples/csr-builder-for-kms
What is up with the UK? I have always loved my British friends and appreciated England’s history (setting aside their brutality during the British Empire). I just don’t understand where they went wrong on curtailing free speech rights of their citizens, privacy rights, etc. I just hope we in the USA don’t follow their lead.

Democracies without free speech and privacy are not really democracies.
Use 100dvh!!!
With the increased caliber of software folks in Trumps orbit, my sense is we will have a much more informed decision from the Whitehouse on this topic and whether the US should weigh into the fray with the UK.

as a side note, its really baffling what this capability would actually provide for? Any serious criminal isn't using icloud backup or even an iPhone in the first place. So this is just a shit outcome for the general population.

If this goes through, I look forward to the news of the world expose on some cabinet members personal details
This is honestly a super delightful article. It has personality and charm, and actually provides some useful information, despite said information having literally no bearing whatsoever on my life.
Does everything need to be signed? Use a tool to much and you end up becoming it's slave.

For a long time a had problems with some websites not loading videos when opened in background because I had an addon which disabled the page visibility api.
So I download the source of the addon ( straight from the addons store right click the install button and save as..) changed the manifest to exclude the said sites, zip it back and install it again?

Well your addon needs to be signed to be installed permanent even when you manualy install it. I understand that this is to keep tech-illiterate users safe from malicious addons. So is there a flag/about:config setting for advanced users to enable which skips the check? Nope, there was one but not anymore. So what options do I have? Either use beta version of Firefox as my main browser (no thanks). Or create an account as a developer, upload my addon and wait for Mozzila to check and sign my addon (that I created for myself).
Everyone in the space only caring about (and therefore testing on) Nvidia/CUDA as suggested in GP is exactly why a software bug that seriously impacts results but only effects AMD GPUs would get through into released software very easily.
PG&E surely knows that if it lets one city do this, then more will follow quickly. It will be left with the least profitable regions and cities that can't afford to/don't have the credit for this transition. That would ultimately leave the remaining customers in an even less affordable position.
> The executives were earning significantly more than the employees who were keeping the company afloat.

The "Rules for Rulers" CGP Grey video[1] dug a fair bit into the difference between being a resource vs being a key player and how key players are not exactly the biggest contributors in a system.

This is unfortunately a rational result, so you cannot apply a moral or ideological argument to it & attempt to sway smart people enough.

"Take the throne to act, and the throne acts upon you. Accept that or turn back now before we discuss, The Rules for Rulers."

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
Ahhh, that reminds me of my year as an exhange student in Yohokama. Specifically the time when I cought the last train on the Den-en-toshi line from Tokyo towards my dormitory at Aobadai, only to realize that the last train doesn't go all the way - I think it stopped at Tama-Plaza, 5 stops early.

There was a line of at least 50 people at the taxi stand, and I didn't fancy staying for 4 hours until the trains would run again, didn't see any all-night restaurants either. So I walked.

Note that this was years before Google Maps, I didn't even have a cell phone. I just tried to follow the train lines, walking through unfamiliar, quiet, dark residential areas, occasionally passing the areas I knew, around the train stations, but seeing hardly any people even there.

Then the train line went underground - I think that must have been here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/AhUkt1HcvquknHpK6

With nothing else to do, I just continued through the night into the same direction, until I recognized the area around the Aoba Ward Office, where I had been to get my residence permit. I knew how to get back to the train line, across the flood plains of the Tsurumi river, and there I came across the only place that was actually busy at this time of night: a distribution center for the morning newspaper where delivery drivers loaded stacks of newspapers onto their scooters. I'm pretty sure it was this building: https://maps.app.goo.gl/YgEAFMGvrkbPkPxR8

I continued following the train tracks for another half hour or so until I finally reached my dormitory to catch at least a few hours of sleep.
This doesn't make sense to me, why is a manual language that requires validation better than a language that enforces some safety on its own?
They could get rid of this phenomena if they had the train schedule end in a lively area. Meaning the last train arriving an endpoint is followed by a single last train that only goes halfway. I imagine that extra half-route is opposite that most passengers are traveling though.
Yeah, but until American troops are actually in Greenland, Panama, etc., comparing this country to Russia is nuts.

Trump, even in his most incandescently orange rage, STILL doesn't make as many nuclear threats as Putin does. He certainly has been unable to imitate Putin domestically.
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I built my own similar tool for my wife and I, with the same goal of making entering transactions as fast as possible, and one thing I found useful was predictive form filling.

Some categories have the same thing logged over and over (like for the "Gas" category I always made the title "Gas") so when you select the "Gas" category it prefills the title field with the most common transaction title for that category. Also works in reverse, if you enter the transaction title first it will guess the category.

I also optimized the date picker. We budget month to month, so when you're in this month's budget, all you have to select is the day. No need to select month and year, as so many default date pickers do.

Just some tidbits in case they interest you as well!
> and have any semblance of democracy, if they even bother to maintain it.

Isn't this democracy? People voted for Trump and this is pretty much what he ran on.
I had a friend who used to fall asleep regularly on the first train after a night out and would wake up in the farthest reaches of the opposite direction of his home.
No need to OCR, just use Gemini Flash 2.0. It's great at this.
This looks like ICML formatting (and the submission deadline just passed).

ICML25 has an explicit call for position papers: https://icml.cc/Conferences/2025/CallForPositionPapers
> What really needs to be cut is spending on old people

They've been making more noise and there's more smoke about this than usual. I did see today (yesterday?) Trump was on about them booting fraudsters off of Social Security. It made me wonder if that was the playbook. They start turning off the spigot for SS and Medicare, but publicly the story parroted by the media is that all they're doing is removing criminals, waste, fraud, etc.

While that'd be untrue, because that's the narrative being slammed down everyone's throat, even though there'll be people with individual sob stories it'd probably work.
Also 5400rpm HDDs were common – that would be 1,5x factor.
The reason for that is like you expect, someone abused that, and we do not have nice things anymore. That's the same reason why apt-get doesn't allow you to remove essential packages on Debian, without modifying a configuration file.
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Depends. Ten thousand what?

I work on a "pretty large" site (was on the alexa top 10k sites, back when that was a thing), and we see about 1500 requests per second. That's well over 10k concurrent users.

Adding 10k requests per second would almost certainly require a human to respond in some fashion.

Each IP making one request per second is low enough that if we banned IPs which exceeded it, we'd be blocking home users who opened a couple of tabs at once. However, since eg universities / hospitals / big corporations typically use a single egress IP for an entire facility, we actually need the thresholds to be more like 100 requests per second to avoid blocking real users.

10k IP addresses making 100 requests per second (1 million req/s) would overwhelm all but the highest-scale systems.
Thread is 6h old and no mention of Elon Musk??
Agreed. I'm very curious to see how this unfolds.
good idea. Will do.
Once third party integrations like those come into play, I feel that this may become less “simple” and more of a full time job for the maintainer.

(Tools with integrations like these are generally incredibly useful though, they tend to be paid and would need to run as a service)
No dispute that he’s talking a lot of nonsense, but don’t rule out that he is bluffing in a major way with all of this stuff in hopes it will help him to win various concessions. If they can be convinced that Trump genuinely might roll in on an Abrams, pave Gaza from one side to the other, and fill it with Trump casinos, he thinks, then the parties will be more open to making a deal that isn’t ludicrous but is still painful to both sides (as a compromise must be).

Note that I don’t believe it is a genius 4D chess move, or a particularly well executed version of the strategy. But just because his pronouncements are so ridiculous and impractical, and just plain offensive, and just because he’s an idiot, that still doesn’t mean it’s not a bluff.
thank you! those are good thoughts!
I haven’t had to toggle anything with Wipr on iOS and macOS.
> I just don’t understand where they went wrong on curtailing free speech rights of their citizens, privacy rights, etc.

Isn’t this precisely the set of causes that precipitated The Declaration of Independence?
People can just include their own dma.rs in driver/.../mydriver/

Whether that's a good or bad approach is besides the point. It's what was suggested as an alternative, and clearly it's something that would work. "You can't use DMA from Rust" is just not true.
Not sure I got you right here but this is exactly the situation where you should calm your breathing and make triple sure you don't make things worse -- because things can always get worse.
It's not about caring it's about being aware of the ones who will abuse and exploit you with malice.

Life is not some break and forgive world, it's neutral if you bring a child in this world through rape and destruction, that is innately equal to consentual, kind and forgiving child rearing.
As always, there is nuance.

Tesla funded their initial Supercharger network buildout using margin from Model S and X sales. This was a requirement to sell these vehicles to well to do buyers who want to road trip and would not tolerate anything but fast charging. Tesla spent over $1B to build out the global Supercharger network. Other automakers could not be bothered. Electrify America was a compliance requirement for VW's Dieselgate; they were not required to build a good network, they were required to spend a dollar amount (which is why it was unreliable and rife with horror stories by users who attempted to rely on it). Tesla then licensed access this network, that they built and invested capital in, to every other automaker in the US (because to sell EVs, you must solve for range anxiety and road trip travel logistics). Tesla gets compensation for what they built and operate, legacy auto gets a chance at survival by making it easier to convince buyers to buy their EVs.

Without saturating highways with EV charging, it is a much harder sell to the masses (again, range anxiety). We fund highways with federal dollars (which will still be spent on highways even for combustion vehicles), why not fast DC charger deployment? It is straightforward to recoup both capex and opex through usage billing (which Tesla demonstrates current state with the Supercharging network).

With all of that said, this admin is very pro fossil fuels and anti anything EV and renewables, so that is likely the input into this decision. EVs will eventually get into the hands of those less well off as prices come down, and Americans will still drive long distances, so this only delays the inevitable (which is unfortunate, but very on brand, "you can always count on America to do the right thing after exhausting all other options"). If the argument is these dollars aren't being efficiently spent, sure, put someone in charge who will make it more efficient without handing the funds over to Tesla and demonstrate improved efficiency transparently.

https://supercharge.info/map

https://www.plugshare.com/

https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity-locations#/find/ne...

(tesla owner, early tsla investor, electrification enthusiast, etc)
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thank you! glad you like it!
currently the intent is to be a simple and fast expense tracker, so there are no plans to integrate banks and auto-combing transactions.
> Google itself got big by indexing other people's data without compensation.

So in other words, it got big by providing free user traffic to people's websites without asking for compensation?

You generally don't charge the phone book money to include you in it. It's actually the other way around.
Original source (33 points, 2 days ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42955009
I don’t see anything in State Farm’s history that indicates Berkshire Hathaway had anything to do with the company. It has always been a mutual insurance company, owned by its policyholders.
Are you referring to Hellwig saying, "No rust code in kernel/dma, please."? I took that to mean just dma.
Wow, great observation. Thank you. Makes sense. I'd never heard of a "position paper" before.
There are endless things that affect every person on this forum that are not a particularly great fit for the forum so that in itself isn't much of a practical criterion.
As others have suggested, running trains overnight hugely complicates routine maintenance. When people are working on the line, any train movements will hugely increase the risk profile.

The more sensible option is generally night buses, which are considerably less expensive. The London Underground runs a limited night service on some lines on Friday and Saturday nights, but London has a fairly extensive night bus service.
This [0] seems to be the closest to your parent's statement:

> The common ground is that I have absolutely no interest in helping
to spread a multi-language code base. I absolutely support using
Rust in new codebase, but I do not at all in Linux.

[0] https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250204052916.GA28741@lst.de/
I agree. Academic math is taught as a set of rote rules or steps. The focus is not on intuitive understanding. I was taught the usual method of long division and carrying all by rote. Only later on in my academic life did I work out on my own why it works as it does.
How do you find the right "medical professional"? I spoke to a psychiatric doctor about this recently, and he literally laughed in my face and said its all bogus.
I really enjoy Margaret Mitchell‘s podcast (she is the first author on the paper), and perhaps I missed something important in the paper, but:

Shouldn’t we treat separately autonomous agent we write ourselves, or purchase to run on our own computers, on our own data and that use public APIs for data?

If Margaret is reading this thread, I am curious what her opinion is.

For autonomous agents controlled by corporations and governments, I mostly agree with the paper.
Yet all of Europe has walkable neighborhoods with restaurants and cafes that have outdoor seating, surrounded by trees, lighting and other surroundings that please the eyes. And the same people who eat there, also shop in the other shops around there. It is profitable.
Good to see France handling antisocial behavior in mass transport system.

I only realized how bad the EU situation was once I moved to Japan. The train experience here is wonderful. Particularly the silence.
That's not the important problem and there's a simple solution with ZCTAs.

The big problem is zip codes are defined in terms of convenient postal routes and aren't suitable for most geospatial analysis. Census units, as the article explains, are a much better choice.
This could be formulated much better IMO but it's good that OP gave us this to check out and comment on.

I'd simplify this to "commercial hat" and "hobbyist hat", more or less, but there's another axis entirely and that's the hat OP kind of looks down on, namely "chef's hat".

Because making code readable and maintainable also makes it suitable for teaching and onboarding juniors -- or any other teammate really.

As a guy with 23 years in the profession I started getting sick of myself being a hobbyist at times so I just do whatever is needed for a code to work BUT I don't keep it together with spit and 5-year old duct tape; I also give it some of the "chef's hat" treatment. How much of the "chef" touch do you give it determines the readability and maintainability. And whether you or your employer care about those, well, this is where actual real-world nuance and spectrum come into play.
There was a brief stop off at 5400 at long the way.

Actually, still available. Good to have something quieter when performance requirements are not as high.
Actually, maybe this is what the government's end goal is. Free money!
Crewe is a station of despair for the British rail network despite not being a last stop, instead in fact because it's something like the heart of the network. If you try to travel far enough across the island (especially from the north, I think) and you depart lateish or don't have the right tickets or enounter delays, the chances are excellent that you will be spending several hours overnight in Crewe. You can forget about finding a convenient and affordable bed, so instead you'll be slumped on a chair in the little waiting room, which at least is lit and heated, and feels like it's the secret heart of Britain. Or at least that's how it all still was the last time I was there, but I doubt anything much has changed since.