skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the "security reasons" from the orgs is just laughable. Most will do a half decent job of even securing the whole infrastructure and spend majority of their time checking boxes of an outdated compliance agreement. No wonder data breaches are at it's peak. There is no real security improvement, it's just bandages
Yes but: Gore v Bush

Aside: As you likely already know, Voter Action proved in court that Kerry won New Mexico. As in "got more votes" than Bush.

They chose NM, to make their point about electronic voting, because NM's electoral votes (alone) wouldn't change the outcome.

The chicanery in other states was much more blatant. eg Ohio. Alas, that lawsuit was abruptly ended when all the evidence was destroyed, despite the court ordered retention. (IIRC, that plantiff was Green Party candidate Codd.)

So it goes.
A few more I haven't seen mentioned yet:

* "Dob" is another old nickname for "Robert", giving us "Dobson";

* "Dodge" another nickname for Roger, hence Dodgson, as in Louis Carrol's real name, Charles Dodgson;

* "Tibb" is an old nickname for Theobald, giving surnames like "Tibbs" and "Tibbets";

* "Hud" for "Hugh", giving us the Hudsons.
Lix is a fork of Nix (the program, "CppNix") and also an alternative community. They provide a few ways to install, like nixpkgs itself, but also a DetSys installer fork.

It's generally a response to corporate interests (including Anduril, who put Nix on autonomous weapons) and elbow-shoving so-called meritocracy (including a very infamous concern troll) becoming dominant inside the Nix community and Nix leadership, by people who didn't want to work from inside the system to reform, but also know they can't maintain all of Nixpkgs by themselves either (which already bled a bunch of maintainers).
I enjoy this kind of tit for tat of this.

Do wish the whole stupid jr. high level "macho" posturing would end...
10 m/s = 36 km/h, I believe they started from a round number.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35441470/

> One year after withdrawal of once-weekly subcutaneous semaglutide 2.4 mg and lifestyle intervention, participants regained two-thirds of their prior weight loss

> Findings confirm the chronicity of obesity and suggest ongoing treatment is required to maintain improvements in weight and health
Is this against 3.12 and 3.13? I only ask because there was a noticeable drop in performance when I updated to those versions.
The US Stock Market as a Quasi-Ponzi Scheme
Bumpkin?

"an awkward, simple, unsophisticated person from a rural area" (dictionary.com)
I promise I’m not trying to sound like a jackass. But I’ve been told that my secret is offensive to some people.
But it’s the same secret I’ve used to quit all of the bad habits in my life and also pivot from a ~20 year career in manual labor to a successful software engineering career.

My secret is “self respect.”

That’s all I used.
No. My claim is it can reason. So my claim is along the lines of it can make claims that are within bounds such as 1 to 5 or it can make claims not within those bounds.

The opposing claim unbounded. It says LLMs can't reason period. They are making the claim that it is 100% for all possible prompts.

No one is making the claim LLMs reason all the time and always. They don't. The claim is that they CAN reason.

Versus the claim that they can't which is all encompassing and ludicrous.
Many moons ago I was tasked with extracting data from a bunch of PDFs. I made a tool to visualise how characters were laid out on the page and bounding boxes of all the elements.

The project was in the end a complete failure and several people were upset at me for not delivering what I was supposed to.

In present day, with the capabilities that are now available with LLMs to extract data from PDFs I 100% would go the route of utilising AI to extract the data they wanted. Back then that did not yet exist.
> I've only _once_ in my life encountered a tool that didn't have `--help` support

Never heard of echo? What do you expect this to do?

echo --help
> The same baseless accusations of “unreadable”, “write-only” and “impossible to learn” are leveled at all Iversonian languages, k included.

I'd be really curious to know if they really are baseless. It's very very difficult to imagine that K developers can really read a mess like this as easily as one might read Go or whatever.

https://github.com/KxSystems/kdb/blob/master/e/json.k

Has anyone tested this? Take a K program and ask a K developer to explain it? Or maybe introduce a deliberate bug and see how long they take to fix it compared to other languages. You could normalise the results based on how long it takes them to write some other code.

Free research project for any compsci researchers out there... (though good luck finding skilled K programmers).
Scientific society under pressure after DEI crackdown
What makes a person poor and what should we do about it? Essays
I'd expect augmentives for names to be rare because they're often pejorative and the opposite of endearing. I have occasionally known people whose nickname is something like "Big Fred".

In modern English, you could probably get away with a nickname like "Fredzilla".
Interesting but how can they squeeze all the information about an entire object into just 4 bytes that's not even enough for an address on 64-bit platforms
Looks like a great role. I've applied through linkedin. I've been working with payment systems and web3 lately, so I figured it would be a good fit. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions, and good luck!
Have you tried ChatGPT's advanced voice mode, and if so, what did you think of it?
Of course, though I got swatted for defacing another group's page and not stealing credit cards.

And honestly I never even used my card stash anyway and I had thousands and thousands-- not because I'm a good person or whatever but because I was paranoid after that. The rush of building a duplicate of LOVE@AOL and then trawling my way through chatrooms and building my email list "Someone liked you, sign into your premium love@AOL account to see who" was too exhilirating to give up for 13-year-old me even if I was essentially tag-and-release phishing.
Amen!

Some programs give a short help message when options are not understood. A good thing.

That said, in GNU/Linux a program that does not have --help is shitware.
Simpson (from Simon) is an interesting one. Most of the consonant adjustments are for simplification (e.g., Robkins -> Robins, and Adkins -> Atkins) but expanding Sim to Simp seems like an outlier in this sense because Simson doesn't seem particularly difficult to say. I believe dropping the /p/ is common, even, depending on the dialect.
GNU was established 10 years before Java.
We're using Olake and we absolutely love it. Great job team.
funny how r/rapmusic or /r/rap are not as popular as the less concise r/hiphopheads
This isnt a new product. Harvard made perma.cc over a decade ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perma.cc

It's unique in that, if you opt out of the paid account route, you need someone like a library to sponsor your access, and then when you archive something, it is akin to giving it to your library to store.
I'm pro Trump, you're anti. Neither of us want to see this rage bait.
Kaspersky finds hardware backdoor in 5 generations of Apple Silicon (2024)
Awww. Poor LLM companies worried about competing companies creating models based on … data “stolen” from their own model? Totally makes sense, since the original LLM was conceived without data, kind of like the Virgin Mary. Let’s just all pretend like OpenAI didn’t steal terabytes worth of data themselves in violation of a whole bunch of terms of services.
My last name - Beattie - is also in the "Bartholomew" nickname group along with Bates/Bateson.

Bartholomew means "son of Ptolemy", so the name is sort of "Ptolemy's son Bart's kid".

(Fun fact: Just to drive the Brits crazy, many families in the U.S with that surname (including mine) pronounce it "bee-AT-tee" instead of "bee-tee". God knows why. Maybe it's an attempt to get people to spell it correctly.)
It's even worse than that. Having various lab panels outside of the reference range can be perfectly normal temporal variation and not indicative of anything wrong unless it is very extreme. Good doctors treat a patient, not a number.

This doesn't mean I'm dismissing AI for diagnostics outright, but multiple good doctors have confirmed to me that many auto-immune diseases are fiendishly hard to diagnose as diseases in and of themselves vs. inflammation downstream from some other condition. The main problem isn't medical incompetence or apathy.
It's not about the origin of a single language.

It's about the origin of a population whose widely dispersed descendants often speak a language whose primary features descend from the language spoken by the original population (albeit changed via thousands of years of drift and borrowing from other languages).

That doesn't mean that a) all features of the descendant language come from the origin language or b) all speakers of the descendant language have ancestry from the original population.
While verbose, I do enjoy Patrick's writing. I appreciate this (similarly verbose!) meta-post as well.
An argument could be made that human agency is similarly frame-dependent
Microsoft Hit by French Antitrust Probe over Rivals' Bing Access
Well yeah, and cutting someone open can save his life in the context of a surgery.

The vast, vast majority of the time and the vast, vast majority of money spent on ads is nothing like this.
Yes people are claiming different things yet no definitive proof has been offered given the varying findings. I can cite another 3 papers which agree with my point and you can probably cite just as many if not more supporting yours. I’m arguing against people depicting what is not a forgone conclusion as such. It seems like in people’s rush to confirm their own preconceived notions people forget that, although a theory may be convincing, it may not be true. Evidence in this very thread of a well-known SOTA LLM not being able to tell which is greater between two numbers indicates to me that what is being called “reasoning” is not what humans do. We can make as many excuses we want per the tokenizer or whatever but then forgive me for not buying the super or even general “intelligence” of this software. I still like these tools though, even if I have to constantly vet everything they say as they often tend to just outright lie, or perhaps more accurately: repeat lies in their training data even if you can elicit a factual response on the same topic.
your claim (hypothesis): LLMs can reason

your evidence: "it works with these inputs I tried!"

...hmm seems you're not quite versed in basic mathematical proofs?
`ps ax | grep ffmpeg` sometimes will match grep itself, so either prevent the match from matching itself, or maybe instead use pgrep(1).

$ ps ax | grep ffmpeg
66898 pe S+p 0:00.01 grep ffmpeg
$ ps ax | grep '[f]fmpeg'
$ pgrep ffmpeg
$

As for PowerShell, it does not seem useful, but then again I live mostly on OpenBSD and in the terminal.
> I really lost trust in his ability to give us the truth about actual security issues at this time, because of this.

That's a shame. The article is really well written and has been received excellently by HN. Maybe he's popular because he doesn't waste his time blogging about conspiracy theories?

> Are people not allowed to be reformed?

Wow, now you're getting really defensive of a criminal. Surprising! Yes, you can reform if you accept your punishment for your crime, plead guilty and apologize. Otherwise you're still a criminal.

> Since guilt by association is a thing now, should we not hire anyone that speaks Russian?

Well yeah, half the planet is sanctioning them at the moment. Hiring Russian citizens or accessories of the Russian state would be stupid, dangerous and illegal. Equally as head-up-ass as hiring Chinese nationals to audit state secrets.

> All of the things Democrats claim to be against: bias, racism, bigotry all come back when it involves someone you hate.

I'm not actually a Democrat. I'm a Republican that was pushed out of my party for supporting common sense regulation. Now that we've failed to regulate our businesses, they've started paying Donald Trump for illegal favors and anticompetitive advantages. America is fucking itself in the ass and people like you are spreading the cheeks open.

> This phony behavior will not help you win elections in the future.

People said that in 2016, right before Democrats put a corpse in the primary who's only platform was "I'm not Trump" (and won).
I don't think pumpkin gets is name from the "-kin" diminutive.

Etymologyonline says: 1640s, "gourd-like fruit, of a deep orange-yellow color when ripe, of a coarse decumbent vine native to North America," an alteration of pompone, pumpion "melon, pumpkin" (1540s), from French pompon, from Latin peponem (nominative pepo) "melon," from Greek pepon "melon."

So the "n" has been on the end of the word for a long time.
My sister had an experience where she went to the doctor multiple times because she had felt something “off” about her health, fatigue, small aches in her chest.

Multiple times she was turned down for breast cancer screenings, she was told that she was too young (33 at the time). It was not until she had requested that the doctor write a note of their denial, along with reasoning, that they finally gave her some screenings.

It was stage 2(3?), it had affected several lymph-nodes, but she was lucky that she persisted and did not just say “oh ya it’s fatigue”. When I ask her about how she knew, it’s always the same response, that it was just a feeling, that she knew something was not normal.
This is why proper differential diagnosis skills is important - something a layman would not understand. You must consider ALL possible conditions that your symptoms match, and then work your way from the most common to the most unlikely. AI is remarkably pretty decent at doing DDX.
I know you’re being facetious, but there was a time that I did toggle a boot loader in with switches on the front of a mini computer. Now I feel super old.
Good points made. When looking at this, it occurred to me that It could have another goal, which is surviving a nuclear war or some other land based catastrophe. Definitely they are no where near to that being possible at the moment, but give it another 20 years, maybe this will be among someone's or an organization's calculations.
Similar story to you with non-celiac gluten sensitivity: I was having disabling flank pain for months, but after ruling out a couple things they shrugged and gave me an IBS diagnosis and a prescription for a drug with bad long-term side effects. Someone suggested cutting out gluten, which I tried and the pain went away. Intentional and unintentional reintroduction of gluten leads to the pain coming back within a few hours.
Coupling without using a core (or using an air core) is gonna hit efficiency pretty badly though.
Yes Apple has no RCS infrastructure, they do have a carrier profile system as you mentioned that means iOS devices won't support RCS on any given network until you get Apple to distribute the configuration for that network.
No benefit of the doubt is needed, I made a true statement, albeit a subjective one about who I consider "respectable".

To me, statisticians analyze data and make objective statements about what they see. The process of scientific research is a different beast altogether. The objective statements about the data can only be used to inspire or support an argument. The correctness of the argument can only be recognized if the listener is convinced.
Iran is mentioned in the paper several times. If you look at their data though, samples are heavily concentrated in black sea countries. Syria, Iraq, and Iran don't have many samples and those they do have cluster along the Caucasus cline on the PCA.
They may implement it, but it's questionable whether they'll have the best implementation in any particular category.
Very wary. Not weary.
If I’m working in Ubuntu, a GNU/Linux system, I expect to be pretty universal.

I’m BSD and Solaris guy, but when I’m in linux, I spect linux. It should be part of PORTING a program, if the option is not supported.
We have prefixes like “mega” and “super.”
Oh look, generic claims projected as fact. Where did I say anything close to this? Maybe re-frame your allegations here with actual links to specifics and I'll respond. If your emotionally charged response is in regard to stopping the medical transition of minors, yes I support that stance. It also has 0 to do with cuts as USAID and is more a larger complaint you have against the President vs the actual topic this whole post in based on. That's on you. Democrats lost, their views aren't the views in power. The american population has voted for the powers that be. It sucks losing and it can be an extremely emotional thing realizing that a large part of the population doesn't in fact toe the line with you on what you feel are the most critical issues in america. That's just how it is. You can be mad, you can sling mud, but like a broken record, there is only one way you can fix that and it's convincing people to vote like you.

This conversation has delved into hyper emotional responses, i've tried to keep it to the point of topic at hand. I've made it clear we have different opinions and it's not going to change. I'm not engaging further after this.
Grass ain't always greener.

Depending on your locale, you're going to need to replace all suspension, steering, exhaust, frame peices etc. on that 09' car you bought used for 6. Will quickly approach 20k in time and money, and at that point, most people bite the bullet and deal with new car bullshit/payments.
FYI - The CEO of Anchorage Digital. We're not talking Jamie Dimon.
And so we could follow the sex chromosome and mitochondrial DNA convention—you’d inherit the grandma’s surname from your mother and the grandpa’s surname from your father.
Software engineering followed by product research and product market fit. Those are less at risk.
That sounds like an upper bar for any actual change bearing in mind (i) some of the referral drop will come from people happily still using Google but getting more of their answers from Google's AI slop at the top of the results page and less from clicking through to corporate blogs and (ii) YC companies tend towards targeting early tech adopters
> I see you're "ready to label one of the “other side” as evil" but the article seems well researched

I meant here, in this forum.

> Criticism of the current administration is an important part of democracy, we need to hold the government accountable, no matter who runs it.

Typical american imperialist mentality where USA is the only country that exists and/or matters:

- I'm not american

- I don't need to (or can) hold your government accountable

- I still believe allowing any politically-inclined post like this is toxic to this forum
People will point out features they like about Rust, sure. But I've never seen anyone be smug about it, or claim they're novel features.

Edit: Maybe these types of low quality comments exist on social networks, but... Isn't that just the norm for social networks? You can say the same about cooking advice on social media, or "life hacks" content, etc
hah ok thanks
Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks!
Gee the whole article reads like the latest South Park episode on weight loss drugs and then “…navigate the medical system…” got me out of nowhere.

Was watching some comedy specials lately and looking into the crowd it’s quick to realise what a blessing these working weight loss drugs are for the US.
These comparison units are crazy. Normal people don't know how much energy was proposed for the Panama Canal thing either.
I don't know much about what it's like to do a PhD in physics at Berkeley, but many years ago I did a PhD in physics at Stanford starting out working in experimental quantum optics. I wound up doing something completely different, and felt supported in changing what I worked on. Stanford felt small in a good way, the grad student admin staff was wonderful. Stanford definitely has a different more suburban isolated vibe. Summers felt like you worked at a country club or something.

Who you work with really matters (obviously) and different PIs and labs can have very different cultures which you may or may not feel comfortable with. That alone can make your decision if you are very sure about what you want to do and who you want to work with.

Outside of that, I would say Stanford is a really great place to do graduate work, especially if you're not entirely sure what you want to do.

All of this is with the obvious caveat that my experience is from quite some time ago.
> The Rockefellers, Morgans, Larry Fink's all hold way more money in secret reserves than Musk or Bezos.

Where does this insight come from? How much money do you suppose these people have?

> USAID was a CIA slush fund to destabilize nations.

Do you have a source for this claim? This article [https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/06/what-the-...] breaks down how USAID money is spent. I don't see a line item for "CIA slush fund", so, unless you have a reliable source for such a claim, many might suggest that you're just making it up. Doesn't it seem like the CIA has more lucrative sources of money to siphon from which dwarf the USAID's budget?

> while also cutting out an insane amount of waste and kickbacks.

USAID represents ~1% of the US budget. They could cut the entire thing and it wouldn't make a dent. Take a long look at the defense budget if you're looking for waste and kickbacks.

> Beware the propaganda of the NY Crimes. You should be angry, but not about the bullshit and lies they pump out.

Goodness. Childish name calling invalidates your opinions in many eyes. I'm not sure there is a source of information regarding the truthiness of various news organizations, but if there were, I don't believe NYT would be a major offender relative to other sources, especially organizations like Fox News.

And we angry about the BS news organizations put out, we just don't agree on which news sources are the worst offenders.
Did any of those findings need teenage hackers to figure out?

Also, by the dates you supplied, it looks like Biden/Democrats were already successfully in-progress of cutting costs.

Every large organization needs reviews/audits to find waste. I think the problem with the 'right' is the idea that because there is waste, we should abolish government. But, every organization accumulates waste, and then needs to have a review process to make corrections. The whole burn it all down is pretty immature take on leadership.
I feel like I can tightly control where my comment shows up. It will always be tied to the comment or post I'm responding to. Hard to take out of context etc. But you're right, there isn't something like FB groups that I can scope a message to.
then the dns providers of the world step in and override it and redirect. hopefully cloudflare can save us.
wait, you actually believe all this dis-info?

The CIA doesn't control Trump. They have been passively and actively subverting him since 2015. It's sad to see someone fall for their psy-ops.
I did the same. I have a little dotfiles repo[0] on github that I clone on a new machine, then I execute a setup.sh file that installs a messy set of aliases and functions to set up my cozy unix world.

[0]: https://github.com/jmcguire/dotfiles
Smoot-Hawley and the Buy American Act, which protected/enabled the Arsenal of Democracy to win the Second World War. Europe's Common Agricultural Policy. Voluntary Export Restraints. Steel and aluminum tariffs. Tech/IP restrictions from the U.S./EU on communist Chinese firms.