skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's literally lots of people excited to suffer to make number go down.

People are excited for other people to suffer:

> A federal prison here in Florida’s rural Panhandle lost much of its roof and fence during Hurricane Michael in October, forcing hundreds of inmates to relocate to a facility in Yazoo City, Miss., more than 400 miles away.

> Since then, corrections officers have had to commute there to work, a seven-hour drive, for two-week stints. As of this week, thanks to the partial federal government shutdown, they will be doing it without pay — no paychecks and no reimbursement for gas, meals and laundry, expenses that can run hundreds of dollars per trip.

[…]

> The shutdown on top of the hurricane has caused Ms. Minton to rethink a lot of things.

> “I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

* https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/flo...
From that link:

> Since mould contains a U, like United Kingdom, you can easily keep these words straight in your mental vocabulary.

Yeah, great trick, and it works for all other 'o' / 'ou' words too!

Except... "United Kingdom" only contains a U to the exact same extent as does "United States".
Keys to Understanding the Jobs to Be Done Theory
Twitter Vid Has Been Shut Down
Erm... probably a stupid question but I wonder how much need there is for armored vehicles for the U.S. State Dept?

In addition to the armored Cybertrucks, they're buying $40 million of armored BMW "sport utility vehicles".
to my knowledge, Sun never actually made money off of Java, their main source of revenue was always selling hardware (indeed, one of the reasons Oracle bought them out was because Oracle was one of the biggest consumers of Sun's hardware).
Use the Brave browser and `brave://settings/content/autoplay` is all you need.
> Whether you hate him or love him, Transparency is always good.

"The public won't get to see Elon Musk's financial disclosures. Here's why that matters."

* https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-public-wont-see-elon-musk-f...

"Elon Musk’s Financial Disclosure Will Not Be Made Public":

* http://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/poli...

> I think every country should have a watchdog like DOGE which can sniff out waste and take suggestions from general public.

If Musk-Trump actually cared about wrong doing they wouldn't have fired people:

"US inspectors general fired by Trump sue to win jobs back":

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/inspector-ge...

And this wasn't the first time:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_dismissals_of_inspectors_...
Whenever my sister and I had to share a single food item, like a brownie. Our mom would have one of us cut the item in half, and the other would get to pick their half first. Deciding which half was never a casual assessment.
What did Musk's promised driverless taxis provide that existing driverless taxis don't? The tech has arrived; it's a car that drives itself while the passenger sits in the back. Is the "gotcha" that the car isn't a Tesla?

Seems like we're splitting hairs a bit here.
I wrote one complete with a GUI in yBasic on my Palm Vx when I was bored during lectures, to me that makes it the one that has given me the most value!
I just wish they upped the storage a bit. 512GB on an $1100 machine in 2025 just feels like a bad deal, especially if you already have a machine from 10 years ago that has the same amount.
Does anybody have an example of federal data that has disappeared already? I'm interested what kind of data it's about.
The notice on the site reads:

Twitter Vid Has Been Shut Down (until we hear back from X)
In the meantime, here are our other sites:

We received an email from X regarding another website we owned and although Twitter Vid does not scrape from X's servers or API and used a 3rd party, we are shutting down for the time being to avoid any legal disputes. It is unclear whether Twitter Vid will return as we are awaiting a response from X.

We want to thank all our loyal users. This web app was created to provide a user-friendly interface compared to the alternatives that have been around much longer, but it seems like we were X's target.

If you work for X, clarity on this would be much appreciated since we sourced data from a 3rd party (and that 3rd party has not been shut down). Contact me here: contact@twittervid.com

My comment:

Adversarial Interoperability and Scraping is a digital human right. These evil nazi-run Megacorps do it to us all the time, we should be able to use our content/data on/from the sites as we please.
This arrangement makes ordering easier anyway which is probably why they chose it.

If we have some positive 32-bit integers A and B then if A < B, f32::from_bits(A) < f32::from_bits(B)

Edited to add anecdote:

I actually had a bug in realistic (my Rust crate to implement Hans Boehm's "Towards an API for the Real Numbers") which I only fixed recently, for converting my Real number into a floating point type where I might end up with too many mantissa bits, but then sometimes coincidentally the bottom bit of the exponent is zero, and so instead of increasing the exponent by one I actually overwrite it with a one and that's the same result.

I finally caught that when it occurred to me to do "thorough testing". That is, take all possible 32-bit floats, turn them into a Real, then, turn that Real back into a 32-bit float, this should be a roundtrip, if it's not we've found a bug. There are "only" a few billion of these values to test, a machine can do that.

I fixed the 64-bit routines for the same bugs, but I don't have enough years to run all the 64-bit tests the same way and discover any that aren't paralleled.

[Of course there are presumably still bugs in the conversion algorithms which may either be symmetric, and thus the bug doesn't impact a round trip, or they don't affect the binary fractions used exclusively by floats, Real has proper rationals and various other things like the square root of integers, Pi, etc. which we can convert to a float and lose precision but we never get these from converting a float because floats are always binary fractions.]
looolol! Excellent!
Sure, but that doesn't fit the desktop or server workloads I mentioned, I guess we need to except stuff like HPC out of those server workloads.

I would also add that modern Fortran looks quite sweet, the punched card FORTRAN is long gone, and folks should spend more time learning it instead of reaching out to Python.
In the US, I guess. Here in France we never get emails from any candidates, this is against the law (not specifically for politicians, for everything)
Yes, but the age of large powers invading their neighbors ended, again, for the most part.
Google Maps Admits Deleting Critical 'Gulf of America' Reviews
> China's economy remains on track to surpass that of the United States within just five years, and yet they did sign that agreement.

I'd be very happy to take a high stakes, longterm bet with you if that's your earnest position.
That's not strictly the reason. The surge in AI-generated content happened more recently than the uptick in users using "Site:reddit.com".

It actually goes back to Google's algorithmic updates favouring ads, and low-quality content from high authority sites, whilst purging a lot of question/answer-based content like Quora and StackOverflow. Users noticed and reacted accordingly.

I think Reddit are just trying to mush together two trends when they don't need to. Search users noticed that they got better Google results by using a parameter and limiting to Reddit. Reddit should take that win and at best run with it for a Google-like search landing page, sure. The AI stuff is at best buzzwords and hype for investors.
Very nice!

Thank you much. I like it.
What I'd like to know is: who's flagging legitimate articles like this, and why..?
> Lay people trust the peer review process way too much anyway. For a typical conference, it's usually just a grad student who goes through the paper in an hour or two and makes some comments.

Yep. I'm that grad student right now. From observing people across universities and countries do peer review, it seems that the main things that get checked are flagrant inconsistencies in any data presented, since this has recently brought a lot of bad reputation. Otherwise it's exactly as you described.

And reputation plays a huge huge role. One person our lab works with (is well known in the field) was telling a story, about a time they sent paper to a conference or a journal as a draft (for review, I suppose) and pointed out that there still are various mistakes that need to be ironed out. Despite this, they simply took the initial paper and published it. It also got the best paper award.

Another interesting thing I noticed was researchers "forgiving" each other's B.S. It might be a surprise to some, but most research papers published are just there to increase the count of papers published. Even the most prolific researchers send out a few of this type of paper every year to catch up on the metrics. For another researcher in the same field it's usually patently obvious that it's a "filler" paper, and so long as it doesn't contain anything egregious and is something innocent, it's let through. In AI/ML this is usually restating existing algorithms/theorems in an exotic setting to make it sound novel. Or they add a KL divergence term to some loss function in an existing setup. Since H-indexes are a thing, these papers within "friends" typically cite each other to help everyone. All in all it is very hard today to separate the signal from the noise especially for an outsider.
Like keeping all your money in some bank vault's, back in the "glory decades" of bank robberies, and before the FDIC.

It might have been the least-bad choice, but...
They are pretty clear about the pricing: $0 for the lowest tier, $20 for Plus, $200 for "Pro". They will probably keep that, maybe add some more tiers above that.
Thank you for a great answer; I did not mean any ill will and apologize if that was how it came across.

Perl, Tcl, Smalltalk etc are basically non-existant from where I'm from, so they didn't occur to me.

Perhaps I'm projecting a lot here. I have worked a lot in high performance systems and am often triggered by claims of performance, eg. 'X is faster than C' when this is 99.9% of the times false by two orders of magnitude. This didn't happen here.

Thank you for taking the time to answer.
you could argue that the Islamic caliphates were also relatively benign, as far as hegemonies go.
The other problem with "You are overcomplicating this" is the underlying confidence of the speaker that they know more about the problem domain than the addressee. Not infrequently, the addressee has engaged with the problem longer and thus is aware of complications that need to be addressed. It's the situation described in the xkcd "Physicists" episode: https://www.xkcd.com/793/

My preference is to restate this as a question: "Is there any reason why we can't just do <X>?". Sometimes the response I got was: "Hmm, you're right, that had not occurred to me", sometimes it was "Yes, we need to handle <Y> and <Z>".
Waste.gov locks down after people discover it's just a WordPress template
I agree, just posted to the same effect before I scrolled down and saw your post ;-)
It might also be the case that P=NP
I’m pretty sure that built-in TTS on Mac and iPhone is local (and has been for ages).
That's all BS. It works like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ZK_NjBoJI

Just lazy training. The relaxing power of the golden shower. Enjoy.
We need new ideas in OS/kernel development, not reiterations of the same old (boring) ideas ...

(imho)
As @ianpurton stated: Defense-in-Depth works.

The instructor is teaching a class with some people who may be bad programmers, some that may be good, and some that may be great. The safest general advice is to rely on well audited and community trusted third party libraries.

Ofc those libraries were built by someone in the first place, but a lot of them have 50+ contributors and have in-depth controls and standard reviews. A more generalized answer is "it depends".

Regarding the point that many libraries have been exploited, that's true, but the counterpoint is if that well audited library with tons of reviews and contributors was exploited, what makes a single individual or small team think their code is completely secure?

For the above statements, these are mostly made for questions surrounding security-related libraries; authN, authZ, middleware/routing, etc.
There's always a chance the random JS manipulation library might introduce an XSS vuln or something, but it pays to be safe, especially where it really counts.

For in-house vs. pulling a third-party, I'd look at:
- How active contribution is
- How much it's used
- Who is using it
- Does it solve the program's need exactly
- Where it's hosted / If it's had any reviews

The last point can help give a little reassurance because if it's a library being tracked by a body/org you'll probably get an update if a CVE is found. Also, if the library is hosted somewhere like GitHub it should have the added benefit of CodeQL access.
Hackers are helping their espionage counterparts and vice versa
I bought neodymium magnet tiny balls (toys) from China as far back as like 2008, and it was the only way to get them in Europe I believe
So we will soon see according to this price progression $2000 for the most advanced intelligence level starting with $0 for the working class tier.
This is a beautiful comment, but take a step back here: parenting today is more child centric than it has ever been in the USA, with parents spending more raw hours with their kids (because they are spending less time independently with each other or extended family) and more direct paternal involvement to boot. I do not mean to minimize the scourge of adult phone overuse or the importance of being sensitive to a child's emotional world, but kids today overall get a ton of time with their parents, and parents are exhausted.

EDIT: and the kids are not all right.
Not quite.

It was free with a request for donations, and he sold consultancy for people with big tasks or who might need quick detailed support (corporates using it to migrate large mail servers etc.). I remember donating a bit many years ago when it made our (a small company at the time) migration between mail systems much easier than it otherwise might have been, and I'd used it personally for backup & migration before that.

Looking at it for the first time in a long while, there isn't really much difference now – it is still free to use, the old licence still holds (https://imapsync.lamiral.info/LICENSE), he is perfectly happy with people using it freely, he still accepts donations and offers paid support. There is the convenience tax of the single-exe Windows build not being available by default (though nothing to stop someone else making one if they want to do that and support it, there are docker images that would qualify if you already have docker of some colour installed), I don't remember that existing at all back way back when. There also an online version to save you installing it at all (no use to some due to data safety due-diligence matters, but likely very handy for many home users), that is only free up to a point (fair enough, bandwidth isn't a free resource beyond a point that the service must be well beyond). Some also say he makes it less obvious how free it is on the home page, but I _really_ don't see that when I look at that page, it isn't exactly hidden…
Unless your or your kids immune system is compromised, that's probably a bit too much care (we did go to similar lengths with a preemie, but not with our second kid).
All those things you listed above still exist in China, e.g. I searched asbestos
based flame retardant on taobao.com, $1.5 per sqm with postage included.

You need to be totally naive to believe that materials shipped to the US are all checked to make sure they are asbestos free. You are provided with a report saying it is asbestos free, that is it.

Time to grow up.
An experimental game console on the web
I'm not sure what to make of it either, not my area but there's this sort of thing that happens https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/07/18/meta-stops-eu-roll-...
Vast majority of those were not destroyed or damaged. I think some of the tabloids may have conflated "any vandalism or attempted vandalism" with "actually damaged", but, well, that's tabloids for you.

> I see you're down to 5 damaged. Good for you.

Who's 'you' in this context?
Feels like the UI should be the least of your worry when wanting to port a task manager from Windows to Linux/macOS, but maybe I'm imagining it worse than it is.
Getting poor people to fight amongst themselves and ignore the huge and growing wealth inequality is a common strategy.
What Happens When You Stop Drinking?
Don’t you? They’ll need to do it sooner or later. The sooner - the less unwilling cobaye used.
The computers don't get slower, and light Linux distros should still work fine.

But what matters is the software you're using, and that will be modern software (mostly). Modern browsers visiting JS-heavy websites, or a heavier office suite than 15 years ago.

And if this is the context, then computers must get slower over time, right?
Yeah. Just the wording "trust issues" makes it sound like the issue is with the kid. When in reality it is possible that they have a well grounded, rational, and evidence based belief that adults tend to not fulfil their promises. Exactly as you say.
Your country thanks you.
But can it sync my 5th gen iPod Touch? Nope. Game over.
As a parent, you can't demand trust. It's a gradual process that requires mutual commitment and it will inevitably strengthen your relationship. It will also set your child up to develop healthy relationships in the future.
That is why they say an anecdote is not data
Examples:

> At the Department of Justice, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges and successful convictions of January 6 rioters was removed, according to a report from Donie O’Sullivan and Katelyn Polantz at CNN

> Several pages on the Center for Disease Control have also been removed, including information on LGBTQ+ rights, HIV and adolescent health, reports Will Stone and Selena Simmons-Duffin from NPR

From https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2025/feb/04/the-fight...
There’s as much transparency in this process as there is free speech on Twitter - none.

So much transparency happening...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/trump-musk-do...
"Another thing I’ve noticed is how much modeling matters. My daughter watches everything I do. If I tell her to wait and then lose my patience two seconds later because the internet is slow, what’s the lesson there?"

As a father of 3 kids, I can confirm 100% this is true. Once you understand that, your life changes completely. You realize there is somebody in this world, who will model their life after yours.
What kind of example you give them is up to you.

Suddenly, "be the change you want to see in the world" gets a whole new meaning !
The interior (and exterior) misfeatures is why wouldn't buy a Tesla... also, I'd prefer a slightly smaller car.
This should be in the title.
A look at the performance of expression templates in C++: Eigen, Blaze, Fastor
How would that matter in the case of malice? Modern cars are black boxes where the manufacturers could just choose to only hand over certain data or even modify it.
I bought a Prius Prime this time last year.

Last week, I finally got my second key fob which was absent because of a chip shortage. So even until last year, we were still seeing the effects of the supply chain disruption.
Yep. I mean Trump lied throughout his campaign, saying Project 2025 had nothing to do with him or his eventual policy. What if you were on the fence, and decided to vote for him after he distanced himself from that crazy religious establishment playbook? That person didn’t vote for this to be happen (even though the con was fucking obvious in the moment.)

Do his voters really want to loose Obamacare, Medicaid, social security, food stamps, whatever? No, of course not. Next to no one is interested in cutting a program that personally benefits them.

Though, we can’t forget the troll voters who are in it to own the libs because they’re upset over identity politics and cancel culture, and Elon seems cool to them. I guess they’re happy now, owning the libs, thinking they voted for this, but they’re really just owning themselves after a company or bank fucks them over when consumer protection is abolished. The incentives are just too strong for companies to absolutely screw everyone they can, so it will happen without question.
""It has been argued that the historiography of science is "riddled with Whiggish history"."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history
What is fatalism about what I wrote?

Mentality about having ideal solution is exactly what politics sell to us. Divide and conquer.

Thete is no ideal solution but we should talk about dependence on state, fiat money, increasing debt regardless of right/left politics, rising amount of bureaucracy, giving imaginary solutions by adding more regulations and vanishing freedom of individuals.

If you want more deep in problems connected with current politics and economy, I recommend authors such as Hayek, Mises, Rothbard, Popper... They give quite interesting view and arguments.

Solutions could be decentralisation of power, such as subsidiarity.
The way I see "safety" isn't really about what AI "can do", but about how we allow it to be used. E.g. an AI that's used to assess an insurance claim should be fully explainable so we know it isn't using racist biases to deny claims based on skin colour. If the AI can't give that guarantee, it isn't fit for purpose and its use shouldn't be allowed.

Same with killer robots (or whatever it is people are afraid of when they talk about "AI safety"). As long as we can control who they kill, when, and why, there's no real difference with any other weapon system. If that control is even slightly in doubt: it's not fit for service.

Does this mean that bullshit generating LLMs aren't fit for service in many areas: it probably does. But maybe there steps can be taken to mitigate risks.

I'm sure this will involve some bureaucratic overhead. But it seems worth the hassle to me.

Being against AI Safety is a stupid hill to die on. Being against some concrete declaration or a part thereof, sure, that might make sense. But this smells a lot like the tabacco industry being against warnings/filters/low-tar, or the car industry being anti-seatbelt.
Would You Rather Lend to the US Govt or Microsoft [pdf]
I don’t know what I thought CNC stood for (something with Cutting in the name presumably) but I definitely didn’t think it stood for Computer Numerical Control.
This one was always kind of buggy, it was hard to maintain my custom config and figure out which plugins actually worked.
Stopped using DeaDBeeF after my similarly whimsical Linux ricing phase. Can't recommend :/
I think there's an issue somewhere in Kokoro though which means it doesn't actually take advantage of MPS, I did get a modified version up and running, but it was no faster than CPU, even though it passed all the internal tests using mps.

I might try using F5-TTS-MLX instead actually (https://github.com/lucasnewman/f5-tts-mlx) and see how that does.
I'd rather pay the taxes directly than trust someone else to do it, especially when that someone is making it as difficult to get the money from your investment. Those RSU's were earned, and the whole point is you get to share in the liquidity event.