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Pretending this is some goo-goo (good government) initiative is ridiculous. Trump is the opposite of good government movement, he is literally the most corrupt president we've ever had. His administation is full of lies and attacks on the press and lack of transparency even when it is legally mandated.

Trump is the guy selling access and advice in Margo Largo. He's the guy doing business with people laundering money for Hezbollah https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-hotel-in-baku-tied-to-co...

"Totally unrelatedly" he has spoken out against the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which such actions likely violate.

Claiming this will save money is also ridiculous, its just about destroying large parts of the government. Some of which they dislike, other parts which they don't care about. Because they don't care about making things better.
This argument reads like whataboutism. If you believe it's immoral to force Americans to pay for foreign aid then I don't see how the argument "well that money could be spent worse" is valid.
What is special in starlark that makes it hermetic and deterministic?

Scala is deterministic.

If you call functions that have side effects and nondeterministic behavior you can fall outside the comforts of determinism. But you can stumble upon library functions someone wrote in Starlark that accidentally put you there as well.

The Starlark homepage says

> Hermetic execution - Execution cannot access the file system, network, system clock. It is safe to execute untrusted code.

But the last time I wrote Starlark it was to define build targets in Basel. And executing the builds definitely accessed my file system and the network, otherwise builds would have no results.
It's not beneficial at all. Don't do it. The only music that will sound "right" is autotuned crap from the most boring types of music. Anything interesting will sound "out of tune".
Howso? Existing solutions vs more widely deployed and frequent blood+fecal tests followed up by existing solutions in the case of a potential positive?
Almost nobody pays for a PhD. I didn't pay for mine. This isn't like student debt for undergraduate degrees, though I think the argument about the "opportunity cost" of getting a PhD has merit.
Not every was around when the web was obscure. It's hard to explain how magical that time was. The pinnacle of the web for me was Audio Galaxy. A website where you could find new music to download and even push music to your friend's computer (using the Audio Galaxy Satellite app) [1].

I spent so much time in IRC rooms and discussion forums. It wasn't doom scrolling. No one was trying to manipulate me for my time or money. Perhaps you can think of it like going down a rabbit hole of Wikipedia articles. But there were so many people sharing so many unique perspectives - some I became friends with and many of those remain today.

I felt something like neocities might recapture that feeling. I haven't put in enough time to see if that's the case. I do hope that for a future generation that they get to experience something like the very early web ... it truly was remarkable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiogalaxy
The only legislative changes we've gotten recently were actively designed to screw startups (thank the Republicans for Section 174 and a bunch of layoffs), so don't hold your breath.
>Yes, they're free to rewrite their own projects in Rust. They aren't free to force others to do the same to their projects. That's what this is all about: a prominent R4L community leader tried to use brigading and shaming to force a Linux kernel maintainer into accepting and maintaining Rust code (along with the entire toolchain to support it).

Nobody tried to force Christoph into accepting or maintaining Rust code. This was stated repeatedly.

I don't see how you can possibly have actually read the discussion and come to this conclusion. At this point you're just making false accusations and contributing to the flamewar.

https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/2b9b75d1-eb8e-494a-b0...
Yes, but I think massive technical improvements in munitions, methods of siege warfare and the switch to flintlocks and cartridges were much more proximal cause of destruction than the printing press.

Give a ruler and ruling class a new weapon and off they go killing and destroying more “efficiently”.
> This doesn't pass muster when there are literally millions of us living perfectly normal lives at $70k a year or less and living enjoyable, "simple" lives with plentiful hobbies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
The web is a garbage ecosystem now.

The sad thing is that it would take only about twenty of you people, you who came across this post on HN today and are now reading this comment, to build an alternative ecosystem.
I edited my comment for better wording.

No you got it backwards: Jamie Dimon isn't wrong—he is in fact a highly effective business leader. You are wrong. He knows that the company is more powerful than the workers and the at-will employment is theoretically fair but in practice tilts the balance of power towards the company. And yet you have not realized that.
I love not knowing whether the "pdf" in the title (and URL) refers to a probability density function or the portable document format.

...The answer will surprise you!
It's clearly not just about the chips.
China didn't attack Taiwan before 1987, when TSMC was founded.

There are many disincentives. The biggest one is that China is confident that they'll get full control of Taiwan without violence.

They believe that the US is in a state of terminal decline and Europe will never overcome centuries of infighting. A significant portion of the population of Taiwan wants to reunify. They fully expect that they can just continue to nurture supporters within Taiwan and wait out the West and Taiwan will just fall into their lap.

Why would they go to war when they think they can get everything they want without war?
I think TSMC is better off telling them to sod off. The whole goal of these deals is to transfer tech and knowhow to the competitors in the US. Threats of tariffs is irrelevant I think as the US also wants to put tariffs on China. They can just wait it out.
You are always free to use fully-qualified paths to protect yourself from any change in your dependencies (including std) that would break inference (by making more than one method resolve).
I feel everything in this article as somebody who first got online when I was 13 in 1994. In those days you got bullied for being "good at computers" (especially in the rural area I grew up in) and the communities formed on IRC and early multiplayer gaming networks were a lifesaver. Many websites were written by college students who essentially "blogged" their newly discovered free lives, which was so appealing to my teen-aged self.

It's cliche to malign mass market consumerism, but it really is a lowest common denominator phenomenon. I feel like the internet has made grifting so scalable that it's getting more and more difficult to consume.
It's true, but what I was responding to was "a project to take on that doesn't involve all of this mess".

The real answer is to either learn these skills or, as you suggest, delegate them. Hoping to find something that doesn't involve "all this mess" at all will be fruitless.
Doesn't matter what you think or didn't do, he is still your President.
If the system is implemented correctly then Kagi cryptographically can't link a particular search to a particular user.
> They couldn’t get enough customers to support enough launches.

No surprise, the only usecases back then for the price that Iridium and others commanded were SAR, a few military/secret service style use cases and execs who deem themselves to be of such importance that they need to be reachable on the globe 24/7 even if they are just taking a flight over the Atlantic or on a cruise ship, and Iridium can't be reasonably used for much more than that.

> Now SpaceX is eating their lunch.

Partially due to physics. Latency on Starlink is reportedly low enough to run online games or telephony and the bandwidth high enough to allow for video streaming in the outback, which makes the potential market size muuuuch bigger so the price point can be lowered enough to be competitive with landline DSL of all things.

The problem is, SpaceX isn't something that the US government can rely on forever. For now, its leader is in good standing with the 47th, but that may change overnight (it has happened with either of these characters before and both have quite the large egos that will collide rather sooner than later). And what to do then?
playing with the demo at https://maptcha.crown-shy.com/ , I had problems recognizing the outlines, as they often were colored similar to their structure (low contrast). Some examples I couldn't find any outline at all.

Also, seeing a rectangular outlined thing from above, it's often impossible to tell if it qualifies as a building.
And they won't have to bear any consequences for killing them.

If it was a local government taking that funding instead of using it to treat HIV, we would call it a genocide. They are calling it cost cutting.
We built the models for Phind 2
Sometimes what you need is less precision, much faster. Carmack's famous inverse square root falls into this category.

If anything it's a lesson that the definition of brilliance is being in the wrong place at the wrong time... ;-)
> GitLab is down, everybody is blocked

Everyone still has at least the base branch they're working on and their working branch on their machine, that's the beauty of working with Git. Even if someone decides to pull a ragequit and perma-wipe the server, when all the developers push their branches, the work is restored. And issues can be backed up.

> Also, is it something different what I'm used to? Great! I'll learn something new.

The thing is, it's harder and more difficult in a time that better solutions exist. Routinely, kernel developers complain about being overworked and onboarding of new developers to be lacking... one part of the cause certainly is that the Linux kernel is a massive piece of technology, and another one that the social conventions of the Linux kernel are very difficult, but the tooling is also very important - Ballmer had a point with "developers developers developers".

People work with highly modern tools in their day jobs, and then they see the state of Linux kernel tooling, and they say "WTF I'm not putting up with that if I'm not getting paid for it".

Or to use a better comparison... everyone is driving on the highway in the same speed, but one car decides to slow down, so everyone else overtakes it. The perpetual difficulties of many open source projects to accomodate changing times and trends - partially because a lot of small FOSS is written by people for their individual usage! - are IMHO one of the reasons why there is so much chaos in the FOSS world and many private users rather go for the commercial option.
This is largely the reason I gave up on rich text editors in favor of a plain text source and some sort of rich text compiler.

I have written a lot of words in troff/groff + various macros and adjacent tools (eqn, pic) over many years and produced consistently decent if plain looking documents. And I've started using it again. Still covers about 85% of getting words on paper in a readable format. Spent lots of time with LaTeX, too, which produced perhaps nicer looking documents over all (and beautiful mathematics), but at the expense of much more complexity; YMMV.

I suppose Markup is the inheritor.
DeepHermes-3 Preview, a new LLM that unifies reasoning
I didn't construct that link: It was the link that appeared when, as a New York Times subscriber, I clicked "Share this story."
Even worse, the LLM is supposed to already "know" Sudoku rules. Either that, or it doesn't "know" anything that was scraped from the web...
> "Typically" yes, but not always. I mentioned in a sibling thread that when I was fired from a job and was on COBRA, the premiums were almost 4 grand a month.

That sounds illegal. They have to charge the same premiums that the employer pays. Unless you had a really expensive coverage.

> It's pretty easy to fall through the gaps where you're "too rich for Medicaid" but "too young for Medicare".

I'm sorry, I meant that they are examples of universal healthcare that exists in the US, with some conditions.
It depends on how hard those companies work beforehand to prevent themselves from being able to comply with such requests beforehand. Signal is a good example of this, Kagi seems to be onboard also.

I haven't looked closely enough at this token thingy Kagi is doing but it seems on the surface like it might scratch the itch by letting them decouple the accepting-payment part of their service from the providing-results part such that they know that you've paid, but not which payer you are.
Was this all just an SEO play?
Department of Optimization Going to Elon?
Hey, I am the one that built it.

A spammer added a bunch of fake listings, which have since been removed.

Sorry about that.
Are Drinking Straws Dangerous? (2017)
I subscribe to an unlimited family plan. When considering how much cleaner my web experience is, it's a no-brainer. Default search engine on all our phones and devices.

They're my portal to the web. It's less like an optional web service (like a streaming service), and it feels more like I'm paying for them to be my ISP.
I can't believe you're the first person I find in this conversation who raises this issue. This is the exact reason why Marcan flipped his lid. Linus publicly championed a very technically complex initiative and then left all those contributors to the wolves when things didn't progress without a hiccup. Especially damning when you consider that at every step, the fief lords in Linux have seemingly done everything in their power to set up the r4l people for failure and Linus hasn't so much as squeaked at them. He personally cut the knot and asserted that Rust is Linux's future, but he constantly allows those below him to relitigate the issue with new contributors (who can't fight back because even though they're contributing by the supposed rules, they don't have enough social buy-in).
a 40yo code base. Eeeek!
I think the idea here is that it literally can't be traced to the user – at no point is there anything passed that would allow Kagi to make the association between the user and the query.
I get what you're saying, but "in some places, in some disciplines, you could be at a livable level of poverty" is not a very persuasive point
It was a SRAM torx, which are incredibly soft and I had the correct tool with me. I don’t like SRAM brakes. I do like the electronic shifting though. My brakes are now using Shimano Allan keys. I do fanaticise about using Shimano brakes, for a true mongrel bike.
> About 1,400 people visit the emergency room every year due to injuries from drinking straws.
XKCD #538 strikes again, and definitely extends to forcing people to lie about algorithms and possible backdoors.

I don't think, however, that this means we need to give up on crypto entirely. Just... be aware of the threat model for what you're encrypting.
But that is not how backwards compatibility works. You do not break user space. And user space is pretty much out of your control! As a provider of a dependency you do not get to play such games with your users. At least not, when those users care about reliability.
I feel like the only places a doctorate is useful is in the research field or academics and generally neither actually pay that well for the doctorate to be worth it.
The fact that Apple re-uses components from very long time ago in their SoCs is what enabled Asahi Linux to be where it is in the timeframe it took with the staff they had. Obviously marcan, lina and the others involved are damn geniuses, but even they built on the research of others like iPodLinux that laid foundational groundwork.
> Doctors mostly aren't gatekeepers for risk-free diagnostics

That's not entirely true. There are more than a few diagnostics in the US that the FDA explicitly discouraged companies from offering without physician referral. E.g. whole genome sequencing several years ago
It's a pity that even discussing policy/objectives/outcomes is fraught with danger here. Partisan sniping obviously doesn't belong, but we now live in a world where vaccines, energy production and efficiency of use, climate science et al, are all "politicized".

For those wielding power, that's a feature, not a bug.
I don’t really understand how the protocol can ensure that the server can’t identify the client.

As far as I understand, the client sends some information A to the server, the server applies some private key X and returns the output B to the client, which then generates tokens C from the output.

If the server uses a different X for every user and then when verifying just checks the X of every user to see which one is valid, couldn’t the server know who created the token?
It’s like how people complain about Apple users. You see more threads complaining about how annoying those Apple fanboys are than you see actual Apple fanboys being annoying.
Ask HN: How advisable is it to hire freelance hardware talent for a startup?
I am looking to build out a proper MVP for a consumer product I've been working on. I have enough experience with Arduinos/microcontroller programming that I was able to build a low fidelity prototype and test successfully with several users. However, I want something more robust now to test with a larger audience, which would likely require creating a PCB.

Is it advisable to hire freelance hardware support to build this or do I need a hardware-minded cofounder? (For further context, this is not a particularly complicated device). Wanted to learn what your experiences were with hiring freelance and if you had any recommendations for platforms to use/engineers to hire.
Yes. He is not fooling anyone else. We all know that marcan is Asahi Lina.

Out of the links that one other person posted in the replies, these are the most convincing and the most damning to conclude this. [0] [1] [2] [3]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35251905

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37550189

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43041525
If you are a young person today, your chance of getting Social Security is low because it will be scrapped by the time we reach that age. Medicare also is for seniors, Medicaid is for the impoverished. Veteran services are for veterans.

Most of what you describe is not for the average American citizen. But it is the average American citizen who has more credit card debt than ever before, whose wages don't keep pace with inflation, whose ability to buy a home for his family drifts further and further away every year.

Why can't we take that 1% that we send to foreign "allies" (who themselves have better social services and spend more on their populations than we do) and give it to the average American who works hard and makes this country what it is?
Games We'd Love to See on the Nintendo Switch 2
>I'm just going by what was mentioned in the thread. If that interpretation is wrong, the thread makes no sense.

You've now discovered why this blew up in the first place. All of the excuses used to reject the code were not just petty but also outright false, and trivially so.
i yearn for the days of dropping in unannounced , which is now a social faux pas
Yes absolutely and completely.

Here’s what would actually happen if this fictional scenario did occur:

If someone hands me something to consume, no matter how much I trust them, I would ask “cool thanks, what’s in the sandwich?”

Now you, a non-deceiver, would say “peanut butter and pharmaceuticals”. And I would say “oh, I’m not sure I want that, but thanks for being honest”

I hope you see how this analogy does not map to dogs.
Do you live in the US? There were supporters of a certain party complaining that the president wasn't hurting the right people fast enough..
Honestly the whole story sounds like a tall tale to me.

> He also learned C++ in a weekend and was vastly better at it by the end of that weekend than most people I’ve met in industry

I doubt this. Really, really doubt this. Sure, geniuses exist, but I don't buy it.
To me, this is more like a Rust cancer situation.

Supporting and developing Rust is a nice to have, but too often its proponent try to force stuff it deeply inside important stacks that are using other languages like for Linux, or what is going on with major things in Python also.

Here we can see the case, that is almost a blackmail that the Linux community is not nice and will die if they don't make Rust support core and mandatory.

My point is that, if you like Rust and Rust is so nice, just go all-in, do your own kernel, do your own stuffs, and we will see the result in the end. But don't ruin existing good stuffs that were working well on their own.
What a small, small man.
We're very sorry that the happenings in this branch of reality are not to your taste. What news would you prefer to be presented with?
No, it's the spending. I'm sick of looking at our "allies" having the social programs our "leaders" tell us we can't have while we subsidize their countries
And being that rich in and of itself, I imagine. Tony Hseih of Zappos is another interesting story where, if I had that kind of money, wouldn't I try and help all of my friends, if they knew about it?

It seems the real trick is changing who you are, and realizing that, counter to what you may have learned as a child, lying to everybody, especially your friends, is actually a good thing. We only hear about these stories because they get told. Far more mysterious is the lottery winner who got $20 million who calls up Dave Ramsey and asks what to do with it so their son doesn't become a waiter. That is, someone just waiting for their parents to die and get their inheritance. You'll never hear about their boring life where they lived comfortably and gave money to causes they believed in and helped people they know anonymously and didn't cause a scene.

If it's possible for money not to change a person, we wouldn't hear about it, almost by definition, so we can only conclude that it does.
Though, in some cases (like when it's your bank saying it), it's usually just them frontrunning reliable (coming from a payroll provider) and predictable (getting paid the same time each month) ACH transactions with a near-zero likelihood of not settling, then crediting you the money before the ACH is totally settled, so not ALL cases are fintech gimmicks.

But most are, and unfortunately, as the proliferation of payday loans shows us, there is no shortage of desperate people and organizations willing to take advantage of that.
I gotta say wow.

This is the first potentially viable mechanism I've heard of that might just do this, it's also easily verifiable - using existing non room temperature super conductors.

like panning for gold, but using their magnetic properties.

if you can sort say -127'C superconductors by putting them through the field at <-127'C

then you can sort 30'C superconductors by putting them through the field at <30'C

This sounds like it has great potential across the board - one of the biggest issues so far - at least as my very limited knowledge understand it - even for the lower temperature superconductors has been removing the "bad" material, a "cheap and easy" method to do that sounds like a great leap forward.
The reason they give in their docs is to “prevent abuse” (https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-pass.html).

It feels like they picked a number no user should hit, while keeping it low enough to not pass Kagi out “free” to all their friends.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030761

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43037892