skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The split of opinion on this in tech circles is quite surprising.

No agency would voluntarily modernize systems, which would inevitably reduce head count and put half of them out of jobs. This has been a on-going fight for 30 years. Every politician who previously tried to modernize agencies failed due to intense internal resistance.

Everyone in tech clearly fell on the modernization side. This is what many of us wanted since the 90s. Finally happening. In real time. Headed by one of the greatest tech disrupters since probably Edison. Now they act like the sky is falling?

I can’t find any steel-man argument against DOGE. No modernization plan proposed the traditional way through committees, consultants, contractors, has worked or will EVER work. You have to rip off the bandaid the hard way.

Only explanation I have for those opposing this is some combination of personality derangement spread by nefarious interests, financial incentive, or some crazy model of the world that glorifies bureaucratic power as some fundamental right enshrined in constitution.

Imagine being on the side of the Empire and trying to stop the rebels as they infiltrate the Death Star.
It's great because it gives politicians a foreign enemy to deride, generates lots of online engagement, doesn't impact people's lives in any meaningful way, and when it's implemented, it's only visible to people in the country ordering the rename.
European countries and the USA have an increased misalignment as the USA becomes more radicalized and less willing to work with other countries.
I'm surprised that both this list and the linked 'very comprehensive list' are missing pgbadger.
Will AI Agents Revolutionize How We Query and Use Data?
Snowflake just announced AI Data Agents in Cortex, a new way to automate and streamline data workflows with AI. Instead of just querying data or calling APIs, these agents can dynamically decide which tool to use—whether it's SQL, LLMs, or external APIs—depending on the task at hand.

This feels like a shift from traditional “query-driven” workflows to “goal-driven” automation, where agents choose the best approach rather than relying on static logic.

I’m particularly excited about building agents that select the right tool for the right job—instead of forcing everything into SQL, Python, or one ML model.

What do you think? Will AI-powered agents change how we interact with data? Or will traditional query-based approaches remain dominant?

https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/ai-data-agents-snowflake-cortex/
HFT peeps are Comfortable spending millions on custom high speed undersea cables to save few ms o'er request.

How about saving few hundred ms across the earth?
Sorry for being born there. It seems like North Korea, Haiti, Zimbabwe, or Eritrea are where you are born if god hates you.
Delete facebook and instagram. Use anything else. Much like moving away from twitter - nobody will really miss it.
I feel like the before/after picture is a prank. I can’t tell a difference, at least looking at it on my iPad.
Japan is… well, no. It just doesn’t appear to work that way here. The social conditioning is strong enough that the lane you fall into in life is basically predetermined based on your upbringing (and gender!).

Even at 6 there is a major difference between boys and girls that I just don’t see anywhere else.

The thing is you won’t even realize that’s what’s happening, and you just feel that the way you think is right and proper the rest of your life.

It’s honestly pretty anazing because people can be incrediy dissatisfied with how their neighbors are parayzed by social constraints while being bound a hundred times more strongly influenced by their own expectations.
When tech does it, it's on record because the Internet never forgets. And it's a very, very long record, and it saddens me a lot.
I do federal work and this is 100% correct. As a serious question, why couldn't a different administration accomplish this?

Obama's United States Digital Service, which the author worked for, did not practice the broad authorities to rewrite the federal service that the current administration is exercising. This suggests to me that a healthy democracy is perhaps subject to some kind of a "Chesterton's Fence Fallacy," wherein the assumption that rules should be respected somehow becomes a bad assumption when an organization gets large.

I've read a lot about the meaningless work at FAANGs that don't appear to tie to any bottom line, to the effect of "most employees at FAANGs seem to do nothing useful." In contrast, all federal work draws its authority to exist at all from Congressional direction, so there's always a clear connection to a "why" in the federal government for literally every role, and one that the person in that role seems to always be very aware of. None the less, federal work gets similarly mired in seeming ineffectuality where day-to-day action is so tied up in internal "red tape" the positive impact gets lost, like the 300k lives noted in the article. Government folks can always draw a straight line from their role to the impact on the public, but too often can't seem to get the authority to take any actions that move them along that line because of organizationally-imposed rules.

Which is all to ask my real question: is this "Chesterton's Fence Fallacy" an inherent feature of large organizations? How do we overcome it?
Wayland Color Management and HDR Protocol Support Merged
This makes fun at a dept of labor website for listing abilities:

> It tells veterans their primary skills are that they can "communicate by speaking" and "use [their] arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down." Thanks for your service. If you don't believe me, look for yourself.

But to me it’s clear why these abilities are listed: veterans with disabilities. The author not getting that is just… do you ever stop and think?

The author is also complaining that it took two years to get approval to use the cloud and using that to show that the govt is too slow. That’s a crazy take to me, there are countless large and small companies where this did and is taking longer.
What you're doing is using your opinion as just plain facts. It's easy to do with government and politics, but it's not very useful overall.
Oh cool! Thanks so much. (Btw, I didn't mean to suggest that the project should address an unanswered question. Ok to repeat known experiment if it's fun/insightful).

The gravitational acceleration one is cool. I remember doing this in high school back in the 90s. Let me suggest that to him. Thanks again.
Yep. Sulla didn't come out of nowhere, marching on Rome was only possible because the Senate had been corrupt for a long time, and institutions had already started decaying - but it was the arson that put an end to any hope of restoring the house.
I find that doctors are very resistant to ordering blood tests. I often get responses saying it isn’t necessary or whatever. I feel patients should be entitled to whatever diagnostics they demand. I don’t know why doctors are even needed to get that done. Other than the scam of insurance coverage of course.
Why do you not see the issue with some of us not wanting to give fraudulent extorting thieves money? The previous comment was pretty clear and blatant in it's example of unethical immoral even illegal advertisement...and your only reply is why not pay to stop it!

What's next.... Pay this subscription or we will install malware?or break your windows?
> Civilizations both advanced and not have collapsed.

Which one(s)?

> Building computers are not skills the average populace had

Which is not at all a reason for the average populace to give up on other skills, is it?
In this specific case: good. I don’t want USA companies cooperating with UK’s extremist policies like this one.
> A transpiling approach makes more sense to me.

That's the solution we've been using, oft referred to as ORM, to work around the lack of this syntax. But then you had to live in a world where you had an almost SQL, but not really, language that doesn't always quite map perfectly to SQL and all the pain to go along with that.

Now instead of that song and dance you can compose queries with plain SQL and simple string concatenation. That is a huge win, even if troubling that it has taken so long (and still not widely supported).
I had noticed this in Chrome, and it always irked me! I definitely can see the difference.
"one hand behind our back"? We're talking about who's going to be the first to build the thing that might kill all of humanity. Or, even in many of the happier scenarios, the thing which will impoverish and immiserate the vast majority of the population, rendering them permanently subject to the whims of the capital-owning few.

Why is it "our" back? The people who will own these machines do not consider you one of them. The people leading the countries that will use these machines to kill each other's civilians do not consider you one of them. You have far more in common with a Chinese worker than you do with Sam Altman or Jeff Bezos.

And frankly? I think choosing a (say, conservatively, just going off of the estimates Altman and Amodei have made in the past) 20% chance of killing everyone as our first resort is just morally unacceptable. If the US made an effort to halt research and China still kept at it, sure, I won't complain I suppose, but we haven't, and pretending that China is the problem when it's our labs pushing the edge on capabilities -- it's just comedic.
Honesty is not straightforward at that age. I know someone who grew up in a village and whose parents left her with an aunt to find work in a city when she was three. They explained to her what was happening, but she didn't understand what the city was or the time scales they were talking about. The next day she didn't understand why they were still gone. After a while she decided they had abandoned her and were never coming back. When they came back six months later, she was angry and confused because she thought they were gone forever.

The way she remembered it as a child was that she was told nothing. But being older and knowing her parents and her aunt as an adult, she realized that there was no point where the adult with her wasn't telling her exactly what was happening. She just couldn't comprehend it at that age. She didn't understand what a month felt like. She didn't understand that there were distances a thousand times longer than the length of her village. She didn't understand what a city was, or that her parents intended for her to come live with them there if they found good work. It just wasn't possible for her to understand. It didn't matter if she trusted her aunt or not, her parents were supposed to be there, and they were not.
pro tip: an insider action does count as a cyberattack. Your first argument is nonsensical.

re: mandate to audit government. If this was a serious audit, then DOGE would have put serious data privacy controls in place.

An audit without proper data protection IS a cyberattack; an exfiltration of protected data.
That's exactly what qstudio offers: https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/prql-ide a desktop client that translates prql to run against many databases.
All estimates are bad, some are useful
Thanks to what laws/regulations? Or was that just the meme "Europeans are lazy/slow" but tailored to HN readers?

AFAIK, things like specific the text and data mining (TDM) exceptions would allow you to even train on copyrighted materials without permission in certain cases, in the example of LLMs.

Mistral also seems to be making progress, and I'm not aware of any African, South American or Australian efforts that are further ahead, so while it might not be number 1, Europe is at least not last.
Andromeda – rapidly reusable high-performance upper-stage rocket engine
Good argument against 2FA.
I’ve always wondered why they don’t just call them “luxel displays”.

By borrowing the term from graphic rendering that describes abstract platonic idealizations, it perfectly captures the meaning of “the holy grail of each pixel being an ideal self-contained light emitter”.

Engineers in general often seem overly fixated on naming things to describe “what the thing is made of” instead of “what the thing does”.
It's never a good thing when the people who take on jobs in the public sector have to fear their own government. Especially when that government wilfully installs under-qualified and downright untrustworthy leadership.
There's a certain argument that accounts can haunt friends and family after you've passed- things like seeing you still there in their friends / contacts / feed / whatever.

I think it's worth talking about. There are far bigger problems facing many societies, but it doesn't hurt to think about this one too.
The text looks fatter / darker on the right
Codeberg is a FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) alternative to GitHub, in a way. Not sure if that's what you were asking about.

There are many other ways to prevent or mitigate this specific kind of situation, as were suggested in Codeberg (Forgejo is technically the software it builds upon), like limiting email notifications to a number of mentions/people, adding a "report" button in the comments, sending notifications in smaller batches, but in reality, while these limit the attack surface area, it'll still go out to someone initially, whereas with content moderation, it's much less likely it'll go out to _anyone_. I see those as _complementary_ to automated content moderation.
History just flies in the face of what you've said. We've done monarchies and serfdoms in the past. If the king is good, life is good. But you better hope they're good forever because if the king is bad, it's really bad.

Also, I would rather die than be someone's pet. Why should I have to rely on the charity and good humor of a ruler? Pardon my language but Fuck that entirely.
I have no experience with power line networking but I would start there and experiment.

If that doesn't work I would try two things: If the electrical cable is in a conduit or duct of some sort you could try to run a 600V rated Cat 6 cable (to comply with electrical codes) or fiber right alongside the feeders. That will not be easy as you likely have to pull the feeders, pair the network cable and then pull it back. And that is if the conduit hasn't collapsed or intruded by roots/water/dirt/etc. Second is an aerial line ran through trees or poles.

A third option is something most would avoid but just run a thin length of black poly tube with a fiber inside along the ground. Years ago a friend powered his shed at his parents countryside house by running a length of romex in a black sprinkler tube along the ground hugging the treeline of his property. Not exactly to code and illegal for power but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do and he never had a problem.

Industrial stuff isn't far from consumer gear. Most of it uses the same components but in a rugged DIN rail or panel mount housing. Even industrial stuff is embracing wireless.

And for fiber look up BiDi - bidirectional - SFP's that use a single fiber that is easier to route. They sell rugged outdoor simplex fibers for this kind of stuff.
Well I do wish Trump's staff was preserving the sites themselves. It seems logical in the internet era that the complete history of federal sites should be permanently archived.
"To save the village, we had to destroy it" comes to mind. Except the nuking irradiated the whole country, too.
Signal is the gold standard. Eschew the desktop app if you're particularly security-sensitive
There's also multiple existing federal agencies that aggregate data across multiple federal agencies (OBM oversees federal data collecting https://strategy.data.gov/overview/, GSA also centralizes federal datasets, OPM collects gov wide workforce data, etc). Aggregating gov spending data in a similar way is not a totally alien idea or even a new one... even if the concerns on data security and transparency are valid.
> The medical world weighs these things against each other and determines when the data shows that the risk of mortality from testing is smaller than the risk of cancer.

Let the patient weigh the odds. Especially when they can afford retesting or may be otherwise in good health or whatever. Plus the test’s algorithms can be tuned to provide more or less false positives.
Jajaja, yo llevo estudiando inglés desde los 3 años. No me arrepiento.
While I like many people have been doing this for years, it's not clear what this will actually solve. What will strategically benefit us is banding together in public, not talking in hushed tones in private.
I guess these federal workers haven't heard of Edward Snowden.
Most of these symptom-less-until-you-are-dead cancers are very very slow moving and mostly hit above certain ages.

It's all in tuning the population & frequency.

You could test those aged 30+ or 40+ every 5, maybe even every 10 years.
And in the meantime the real physical buttons that last for millions of presses have been replaced with finicky touch buttons that don't work when there's a drop of moisture on the screen, and the whole panel dies after 2 years (only 1 year warranty sorry) and they don't sell replacements so you have to buy a new dryer or get a janky offbrand replacement off of Ebay and spend an afternoon trying to figure out how to install it (if it's even possible).

This is robber baron behavior. We aren't sending our kids to the coal breakers anymore (at least not until OSHA is shut down and child labor laws are ruled unconstitutional violations of the 1st amendment), but we are all being squeezed to the limits of our incomes and sanities, so directors and investors and the CEO can buy more yachts.
But humans aren't living in the "untamed wilds". We figured out that it's possible to cooperate, even in large numbers, in many-thousands-of-years-BC. Since then we're been scaling up the level of cooperation. The last century provides many examples of successful cooperation between even states -- e.g. various nuclear test ban treaties. Why pretend that now of all times it's somehow impossible for us to cooperate?
We know what you ate: Detailed protein activity maps assess intestinal health
We should not normalize the idea that it's acceptable within a country's borders either.

It's a massive overreach to demand a backdoor to phones within the country. Don't allow the even bigger overreach to move the Overton window and make it seem like it should ever be acceptable.
This is inaccurate. I'm not going to litigate it with you though. Google it. It's a common strategy for a company to perform an 83(b) election on your behalf when they grant you RSU's. This way, you don't have to pay taxes as the RSU's vest.

Also, typically, your shares do not just vest all at once. There is a cliff (typically a year) followed by monthly vesting. That's why the OP's situation doesn't make a lot of sense. They are former employees, therefore a liquidity event would not have triggered any type of vesting.
If you look at the non-highlighted black text, in the new version - the text is darker. I agree it's minor, but it's definitely darker.

https://developer.chrome.com/static/blog/better-text-renderi...

Note: I'm not affiliated to Chromium in any way.
I've never heard of that. It looks like it packages some dodgy components, notably foo_spider_monkey_panel. I only know that fb2k with its official components work reliably.
The text is just higher contrast, if you pull out a color dropper tool or zoom way in on the text you can see the after image has darker text
Despite how much we know in medicine we still know too little. Bloodwork will give you a snapshot of that persons blood chemistry. It’s still up to the doctor and lab to put together what that composition means. In other words, if there is too much iron in the blood there could be x number of reasons for that. Most might be benign, and a small handful could be life threatening.

(Not a doctor just surrounded by them)
A few interesting technical aspects from diving into this:

The system uses Claude 3.5 Sonnet running inside Snowflake's secure perimeter for handling complex queries across both structured and unstructured data. This allows maintaining data governance while leveraging LLM capabilities.

Their search stack is using a hybrid approach combining vector and lexical search with semantic reranking. The benchmarks show a 12% improvement over OpenAI embedding models (measured on NDCG@10) using their Arctic-Embed-L-v2.0 model.

For structured data analysis, they're using semantic modeling rather than just pattern matching for Text-2-SQL generation. This helps handle complex multi-table environments and prevents common issues like JOIN hallucinations and double counting.

The quickstart [1] shows how to implement this in practice. Key components:

Agents that can plan multi-step queries
Semantic SQL generation for structured data
Hybrid search for unstructured content

There's a demo video [2] showing a practical insurance claims scenario that demonstrates:

How it handles complex document collections
Real-time semantic understanding of data structures
Multi-step query planning and execution
Integration between structured DB queries and unstructured document search

Would love to hear from anyone who's worked on similar orchestration challenges across structured and unstructured data securely, and gain meaningful insights.What challenges have you encountered with mixing structured and unstructured data processing?

[1] https://quickstarts.snowflake.com/guide/getting_started_with...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDqyB-yWaAE
how is information making that worse? you either have a scan that shows a blip and you can use that information to inform your decision making, or you have no scan and go on without any kind of decision making. i know which option id prefer
Sorry, that is explained in the linked article from Codeberg, but I just added this sentence in the beginning as well: "Attackers hijacked the commenting system to mention other users and use the email notifications to include hate speech."
Now I’m worried about what kind of conversations they were having on Facebook
> I see no mention of race or location

Location: "Think about Japan", "Compare that to the US" - this is a pretty straightforward comparison by location about culture based on location.

It presumes a bunch and I'm grunching (and showing my age by using that term), and I'm not trying to disagree with you . . . just highlight the comparison you said you could not see.
Seems rather extreme and unprovable... Malicious ads already blow up this argument
This is basically the reverse of the Microsoft Safe Harbor case. Europeans should be safe from US spying, Americans should be safe from UK spying, and so should everyone else.
Don't agree. It's just as complex (may be a bit more) as ProcessMonitor by Sysinternals https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pro...

It's dense, doesn't mean its bad.
That's like gen pop rate nowadays though
Oh, really? Given that USAID is investigating Starlink?

https://oig.usaid.gov/node/6814

Going after the Treasury, given that X is moving into finance?

https://fortune.com/2025/02/13/elon-musk-doge-cfpb-x-payment...
Valérie André, first woman to fly rescue missions in combat zones, dies at 102
The amount of blood drawn isn't enough to run all of these tests at once. They would need to multiple blood draws for tests that in most cases will end up being unnecessary.
It's a very subtle difference but noticeable in the anti-aliasing.

I don't have Windows right now, so I haven't tested if the change's closer to Firefox - but Firefox always had some heavy antialiasing on Windows, which I wasn't a fan of.
I think it's reasonable here to differentiate between acceptable and legal. It's completely unacceptable, but the British people have proven time and time again they're more than happy to make horrifically unacceptable things completely legal in the pursuit of "safety."