skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not just SSNs, it is earnings and payment data. One of the common ways to authenticate yourself to a bank is to provide the amount of a recent direct deposit. For millions of Americans that is a Social Security payment, and the other side of it is the Treasury payment system in question.

Tax data is also way more sensitive than just SSN, as it includes details about salary, investments, property ownership, marital status, what organizations one supports financially, etc.

Treasury payments also go to companies, including companies engaged in highly sensitive projects like classified weapons systems.

This is all just off the top of my head as someone who is somewhat familiar with the federal government. The article is worth a read for more details.

Typically security of this data is aided by compartmentalization; no one has access to aggregate and collate it all. But now random
people do.

And typically the people who secure and work with this data are carefully vetted to reduce the chance they are disgruntled, blackmailed, etc. But now it’s a bunch of random young guys with no clearances or background checks.

And usually many of these systems are air gapped from the Internet. But now they are being accessed with consumer laptops off the street and data is sent off in clear text to commercial data centers where it is likely logged, copied, stored.

It is a real problem that is being swept aside through political signaling. But the real consequences will likely bother Americans for a long time.
Dont.

until we have a solution to the problem that is Elon Musk, and potential future Elon Musks, this type of technology can only be a net negative to society.
If there's an actual problem with Chinese courts corruptly defending Tesla, why is this article presenting a case where Tesla seems to be in the right, rather than one in which the court made a clearly corrupt decision?
What is the problem with Musk? I know his many shenanigans, but what about his helmanship causes you to violently recoil?
You realize how much he makes from the government right? You won’t see him making cuts there. You are a rube if you think he will do anything except things to benefit himself.
Before the fall of Techshop, they offered me a setup where I could take all of the classes I wanted in three months. Muhahahahaha.

I already had a few advantages going in: a year of drafting in high school, a year of computer drafting in college (mind you the tools were long dead); the ability to think in parametrics; courses in engineering to go with my physics degree; and just being a general geek. Like a maniac, I took all but one class they offered.

Probably one of the happiest times of my life, scampering around the shop and churning out trinkets for friends and family, making weird art projects for myself.
Most other countries in the world also don’t tend to have the US’s extremely large distances either.

Things tend to be much closer than they are in the U.S.
I agree with you, I'm trying to add color to the situation by pointing out that America has benefited from this invention stemming from the conditions of pax americana where the alternative is international law via the UN and ICC and other institutions that are perhaps more independent than the US would like.
Sisyphean is the word I’ve come back to a lot myself since my wife took her life on November 6, 2024. Feeling like I’m now trying to live for both of us, grasping at ways of honouring her memory despite the incredible love we had being unable to “save” her, and somehow not at all myself anymore, but having to keep moving forward feels hopeless beyond belief.

I lost my dad suddenly just two months prior, and my grandma shortly before that, but the loss of your partner (and in this manner after she refused help and I watched helplessly as she spiralled in her last year) eclipses any grief or pain I had experienced before or could have even imagined.

But I wanted to show a little appreciation for the OP and others on here sharing their devastating losses. Knowing love inevitably turns into grief but that that is a more universal experience makes me feel a little less alone. Small blessings but at points like these, we take whatever morsels we can get.
In my opinion, there’s also a third (and certainly controversial) option: suicide is the ultimate expression of freedom, self actualization, and human dignity. I don’t plan to kill myself in the foreseeable future, but the thought that I could gives me hope, power, and removes any fear from my life. A friend of mine is 94 and lives in constant, non-treatable pain, and the thought that she can end her life when she decides to do so makes things bearable for her.

I know that this ultimate freedom is also ultimate selfishness, because the loss is felt by your close ones, not you. But this makes me perhaps an asshole, but not sick.
No - underperformance is relative to a benchmark, be it based on a median plus a set percentage or a set percentile. Only one person can take the top spot in a rank stack, which makes it a poor model for performance measurement. Overperformance is nice, but not sustainable for the majority of employees.
In this video we will discuss what would happen if an earthquake of magnitude 10 hits Mumbai. Since Mumbai is a coastal city with a very high population density and old infrastructure, an earthquake of such magnitude would wreak havoc on the city and its population with unimaginable level of destruction!!
which is obviously pure speculation, as is the assumption that these hypothetical texts were unaltered. there might be reasons to assume that this was the case but it's still speculation
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[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43021873
I just want to say how funny it is that this is posted after the spirited discussion in the previous related thread about exactly what 'writing your own html' means.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42996322
Yeah, good point. Or maybe it means people got slightly less-performant systems for Christmas than last year. Gates’ Law finally catching up with us all.
Absolutely they will & do. The kernel provides the necessary sandboxing & is faster, even with things like Firecracker.
And your point is ... what? That it's not possible for the US to come up with something like that on its own?
Someone who has genuine concern for helping people doesn't cut medical programs in fly-by-night operations to leave people with medical devices in their body and whatnot. Empathy and caring about suffering can be ruled out.

Generally speaking, the demo is always about finding the green ball on top of a red cube, or the person who went missing in a land slide, but what sells it is detecting and aiming at the dissident hiding under a truck.

And isn't it weird how "think of the children" is always ridiculed but "think of the paralyzed etc." is just fine? I've seen it countless times in the last decades. Just recently when I said on here I want "AI" art to be marked as "AI" made and someone claimed I don't care about the people who have Parkinson's and can't hold a brush, but wouldn't answer why we can't mark it anyway. It's not the people with Parkinson's that want to pass of their creations as hand-made. They're just getting used.

Sure, paralyzed people would love to be able to control a cursor with their mind etc., but even more than that they don't want cuts to social programs, that enable them a dignified life beyond "making them as functional as a healthy person", to allow tax cuts for the super rich. They want friends to have time for them instead of working 3 jobs, that sort of stuff. But Musk and his spiritual brethren are gleefully moving in the opposite direction, as fast and ruthlessly as they can.

So I say this particular doctor is three butchers in a trench coat. I can't prove it, because I can't read minds, but nobody else can either, and this is the "bet" I'm going with. Vulnerable and sick people can only have things that would a.) help super rich people with the same conditions and b.) enable more persecution and exploitation, and an easier discard of undesirable, unproductive or rebellious members of society.
Ad view counts and random comments praising the ad are just part of the ad.
Yes...cores (CPU and GPU) have large caches. If the cache (or associated slice) is busted, so is the core.
Funny story: was visiting Chengdu and got to test drive a BYD. The sales rep was super energetic and proud of how superior to Tesla their tech was.

And I was eating it up until she turned on self-driving and we crashed into a parked car.

Still a really great EV car at a great price. But I'm not ready for any car's self-driving after that...
I get your point and agree with that, but i think that the technique used here was interesting
Nearly any petrochemical derived polymer can also be constructed from plant sugars. Much of this has been known for a while and the real question is how to scale these processes industrially and integrate them with existing supply chains for plastic production. In this case it appears that alcohol is synthesized from plants for production:

... synthesis and characterization of a strong thermoplastic made from 2,3-dihydrofuran (DHF), a monomer made in one step from 1,4-butanediol, a bioalcohol already produced on the plant scale. ...

from https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.2c06103
I’m a huge fan of Pinboard owner’s talk on website obesity [1], and I like the brutal minimalistic look, so I’ve wanted to try it out for a while now. I am having second thoughts now: no responsive styles, even for the one feature your users are likely to be using on the go, is pretty frustrating at least.

[1]: https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
Related: There is a domain of study named Cyber-Physical Systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%E2%80%93physical_system) which is basically a inter-disciplinary approach combining mathematical theory, physical sensors/actuators/I/O devices, network communication and software architectures. I used to think it was just a buzzword for Embedded Systems but it is actually a distinct holistic view of looking at the whole entangled system.

This free book Introduction to Embedded Systems - A Cyber-Physical Systems Approach by Lee & Seshia gives a pretty good overview - https://ptolemy.berkeley.edu/books/leeseshia/
Oh wow good point! The existence of breakers lurked in the back of my mind, but I didn’t realize the implication there. That is nice.
>No worse then dumb he's lazy.

If you really think this given Trump's trajectory, visibly tireless and constant efforts to make something even more dramatic of himself (as repugnant as some of those efforts are to behold) and his self-serving successes across many years, now multiplied via one genuinely remarkable inroad into mainstream, top-level U.S politics just a decade after being considered a joke by most of the established political landscape, then i'd say you're being lazy about very basic research and dumb in forming a cliched caricature of someone you dislike mainly because you dislike them.
Great, never said other countries limit the data and ONLY sell it, but NOAA essentially does not commercialize anything (its so insignificant it doesn't show up on its budget). Maybe auxiliary services is a good start.
This sounds like an effort to drive up the price of a given crypto product similar to how concert tickets or sporting event tickets are price manipulated. Filling all the seats (promoting a crypto coin) would create an artificial scarcity driving up prices. Initial holders, would be able to sell their holdings at greatly inflated prices, which would be similar to a tax on society, but the profit going to the initial holders.

Also, with a crypto coin, I bet the risks of significant price swings would greatly challenge people who attempted this as a retirement vehicle.
When asked for use cases, they give a bunch of niche things like wildfire monitoring. What is the actual market for this stuff? Is it all spy satellites? Better versions of Street View?
What would be an use case for `os.Root`? Based on my understanding ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/67002 ), it is related to security. However, under the hood, it doesn't use `Chroot`, so I could imagine, that eventually someone finds a way to escape from the Root.
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You can always undo the most recent action using `jj undo`. To undo older actions, the easiest solution is to look for the state you want to get back to in the operations log `jj op log`, and then restore that state directly using `jj op restore <hash of state>`.

You really can undo every action in Jujutsu (and if you can't, that's a bug), but the `undo` mechanism can be a bit surprising - it doesn't behave like a stack, where undoing multiple times will take you further back in history. Instead, undo always undoes the most recent action, and if the most recent action is an undo, then it undoes the undo. This often catches people off-guard - in future versions, JJ will show a warning when this happens, and in even further future versions, there's a plan to make undo behave more like expected.

But if you use `jj op log` and `jj op restore`, you can always get back to any previous state, including undoing merges and other complicated changes.
An here's AP's statement about the administration's response: https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/ap-st...
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> rather than one in which the court made a clearly corrupt decision?

Are you aware of any clearly corrupt decisions?
This thinking is completely backward. If there is an established threshold, and you want to change it, it is on you to do the homework to determine that the lower threshold will be sufficient and won't cause harm. It's not the responsibility of the people currently doing research (the way they've done so for years) to justify the current threshold.
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WetterOnline sees "disproportionate effort" in complying with the GDPR
Ferroelectric soft materials formed with alkanolamines and unsaturated fatty acids

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016773222...

I don't understand cyclic voltammetry, but it seems from Fig 4a this tops out at about 75 µW/cm²?
Yeah but that isn't exactly the question - AI will presumably push up the median living standard because a bunch of things get cheaper and nothing gets worse. There are just more options and everything is better organised. A bit like being a king in ancient India vs a barista today. The barista still gets better medical care than the king, even though it is a much lower status role and quite competitive compared to ruling a country.

The real question is "what roles are going to be in a good position to capture value from all the wealth generation?". As far as people selling labour are concerned it could be the trades.
> You don't have to teach people about the limits, you could build a discord client on top of a "a method to query messages, and another to render to a framebuffer through software rendering" and show them how much faster it could be how much less memory it could use.

The problem is exactly that this is not that simple. I believe that there is a huge gap between the theory of a chat application, and the way they are implemented now. I do not believe it is about better abstraction layers, personally I have always found explanations using raw sockets and bits the simplest.

If you were to ask a programmer to write a discord client, you would very likely end up with a giant mess that somehow break a few months later at most (if ever). Even though they would be able to flawlessly go through the program flow step by step if you asked.

Discussions about efficient code kind of avoid the topic, I don't believe we are in a situation where multithreading is relevant, the bloat is on another level. The bloat is generally not related to whatever language you use, the O(1) or O(n) algorithm you choose, but more likely the overall control flow of the program which you already understand in your head but cannot figure out how to act on, and the inability to make simple problems simple to solve (like the calculator, text editor, or even games)

Now you are probably right about Casey ultimately doing what he likes, and even if suboptimal make other people aware. Although I would believe that this benefit comes somewhat in spite of himself.

> Have you looked at the Roc language? It has a lot of similarities to what you're describing.

Gave it a look and unfortunately, I don't think I have seen the similarities? It has environment/IO access, call host language functions, and doesn't really strive to be reimplemented by independent people.
Well I personally don't think he is trying to better the world for the sake of being some amazing person giving back to humanity, I do think he really wants to succeed being the first trilionaire. And even if he is not doing this for compassion of those who have lost so much, I do think he wants nothing more then this to be successful so he can sell it to those who need it. Even if his motivation is fully monetary, I don't think anyone with complete loss of mobility ultimately cares what it costs to get some freedom back even if it comes from the a person some see as evil.

He has access to a lot of money so maybe these people working on it should continue to work for him. Maybe he wants to charge an outrageous fee for it but ultimately at some point down the road if he can do it others will to and it will be common place for those who need it and probably common place for those who don't need it but want it.
That's the workaround I'm forced to use, but obviously the disadvantages are noise exposure and forgetting it's cracked resulting in rain entering the car. :-(

Yay for "progress" eh? I know the recirculate door servo can stop halfway, just let me control it...
The design of Pinboard exists in a similar but self hosted service called linkding [1]. I've been self hosting with Docker for a few years with no issues I can recall. Just checked and it does have the responsive forms as well.

[1]: https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
There are security benefits to WASM sandboxing of client-side parsing of untrusted image files, to avoid scenarios like https://imagetragick.com
Journalism is a masterclass in how to deceive without lying.
This article is by Bruce Schneier and worth reading.

There is actually an information security story happening in DC, it’s not just all partisan politics!
I don't care about you - I don't even know you. But in the interest of the whatever community you are a part of, I implore you to look for professional help. And put your smartphone away - it's obviously not good for you.
I am actually also enjoying the critical thinking about UX that is stemming from this design.

I'm starting to feel that full software modifiable screens are not the "new age" of in-car experience, but a v.01 of highly customizable, highly complicated settings control; a lazy first implementation. What we are seeing with your design is more of the refinement of the concept. So, kudos to you!

I concur with many people that this might still not completely cut for "eyes-free" usage which you need while driving a car. But for a lot of applications, it's a way more premium/refined interface. I'd limit the number of options on the main menu to 5 and already you've reduced the number of buttons from 10 to one knob.

On the note of just using the haptic feedback: did you compare things to the surface dial? I really expected that to gain more "mainstream" traction, but it seems to have fizzled out.
'Digital humans' in a virtual world
DEIA to be precise
Overt nazi salutes is one, but another is the intentional tinkering-with and partial dismantling of the US Government's system to dispense appropriated funds, and act that is blatantly illegal.
A Leftist Activist Group Helped Torpedo a Psychedelic Therapy
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Americans are paying a lot for cars not because western manufacturers cannot make cheaper cars.

American cars are expensive because Americans have been convinced buying big SUVs is AMERICAN and patriotic, and even the Americans who aren’t dumb enough to fall for that nonsense have to buy bigger cars because we’re in a car size arms race and it’s outright scary driving a normal hatchback around these massive Trucks masquerading as cars.

This has lowered demand for smaller and cheaper cars, giving auto manufacturers the perfect excuse to stop selling small cars in the U.S. especially since SUVs are just not profitable because they’re unsophisticated and yet super expensive.
>Dozens of Tesla owners had been publicly complaining about alleged brake failures, battery fires, unintended acceleration and other defects

Yep, "dozens" sounds like simply the base rate for humans pushing the wrong pedal, especially since they bizarrely lump that number in with fires (extremely rare compared to gas cars) and an absurdly sweeping catch-all category of "other defects."

Their one piece of 'data' is literally worthless, but I guess terrible journalism is fine as long as it's anti-Tesla.
When a company announces layoffs:
people suspect there's something wrong with their growth, cash flow, etc.

When a company announces layoffs because AI is making things more efficient:
people start arguing about whether AI can really replace humans.

If you were in company management and had to do layoffs, which would you choose?
Interesting comment, thank you.
Funnily enough the first thing I thought was ketamine.
a joke worth making a burner over?
Yeah, people (primarily developers) have always claimed HTML is so hard to get wrong and yet failure is well above 90% after consideration for accessibility, SEO, security, and more.