skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump supporters are mostly quiet on this topic. If anyone speaks up, they tend to get downvoted.

I’m not a Trump supporter but try to be intellectually honest. A while ago, I posted that Atlas Plus would be back, and now it is [1], but I was heavily downvoted for saying so [2].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/about/atlasplus.html#cdc_generic...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897696#42898819
There are additional links and details about LazyVStack highlighted in the content. I thought the top level article focused on Lists would be more helpful for you.
Not to be cynical, but if anyone has looked at anything revealed about security agencies in the last few years it's very clear what's happening here - whenever US wants to do something unpopular/straight up illegal, it just asks the UK(or any other partner country) to do it instead. American government can't ask Apple for data on any American citizen, but if UK obtains that data and then it happens to be shared between agencies......that's all fine. It's been happening already for years.
That's the "democracy" part in "liberal democracy".

Regulations are constraints imposed by the government, which is elected by the people.

If you go full liberal (without the democracy), like the US is doing right now, you don't remove the fact that there are constraints. You just remove the fact that they are set by a government representing the people.

Without regulations, the powerful dictate those constraints (even if we don't call them "laws" at that point). And what we see over and over in history is that they usually don't care more about the average people than an elected government does. On the contrary.

If you'd rather abide by crazy, narcissistic billionaires laws, good for you.
And if I may take this yet a step further, this is the point of mathematical transformations: to find a domain in which desirable operations are easier such that the round trip to and from the domain are offset.

In the past, transformations, like logarithms, Fourier transforms, wavelets, had to be proposed. Enabled by advances in computers, machine learning automated all that away by composing differentiable building blocks into universal estimators. The parameters of these building blocks are estimated through gradient descent in conjunction with a user-chosen loss function, which guides the optimization of the transform. Good representations can be manipulated through basic algebra (like added, averaged, and compared for similarity, depending on the task) in a way that corresponds to semantic operations when their raw, untransformed representations can not.
Frankly, in the event of nuclear war, I'd rather be in a country that doesn't have nuclear weapons than in one that does. Australia and New Zealand will probably come out of such a scenario ~fine; India and Pakistan will not, the US and Russia will not, neither China, nor France, nor the UK will either. For Nigeria (e.g.) to build nuclear weapons today would certainly give them some level of international sway (though it could also result in the destruction of their economy thanks to international sanctions), but it would also put them on the map where they had not been before.
That's a better use case. I can skim a long document quickly but I can't quickly skim a 30 minute YouTube video. It's pretty fast though... Does YouTube already have a transcript that it's reading?
> we're already seeing it.

Where exactly are we seeing this? AFAIK, most people in Europe still has access to healthcare, and still be able to have a job + free-time, with parental leave and more. Has that disappeared from any countries where it used to exist?

I think the constant worry and focus on GDP is a great example of the differences of mindset between Americans and Europeans. As long as "number goes up!" is true, Americans seem to think that most things are fine and working alright, while a European might be more focused on things on the ground and around them in their daily life, rather than judging their quality of life based on how the economy is doing for the rich people.
Actual article: https://people.com/elizabeth-holmes-breaks-her-silence-in-fi... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030801)
https://archive.ph/uSznX
You have to be careful with screening tests.

Say that this test has a false positive 1 in 1000 times. If you test 100,000 people, you'll get 100 positives that need invasive further testing and followup, and 5 real pancreatic cancer cases.

Society will pay for 100,000 tests, and 105 cases of followup. You may cause lasting harm to some of those 105 people. And then it's not clear if you can improve the survival of the 5 pancreatic cancer cases much. They'll live longer after diagnosis (because you diagnosed earlier) but not necessarily longer overall.

(One other screening effect: You'll find more "real cancer" that is so slow growing that it may have always remained subclinical before the more sensitive testing; And the most serious cancers, you won't find so much sooner, because they grow so much in the interval between tests.)
In case anyone was curious, I computed some popular margins of victory defined as (%popular vote of winner) - (%popular vote of highest other candidate).

I got the following small margins of victory smaller than the 1.5% in 2024, five of which are positive and five of which are negative.

-7.8% in 1824, 1.4% in 1844, -3% in 1876, 0% in 1880, 0.6% in 1884, -0.8% in 1888, 0.1% in 1960, 0.7% in 1968, -0.5% in 2000, -2.1% in 2016.
Unfortunately, it's winner take all, and I don't think he's ever cared about the consent of the people he's taking advantage of.
Good for them. Being just 15 years late on tech adoption seems pretty quick for government.
Her notion of frequent and cheap diagnostics was correct. But the main difference with their solution was being able to just do a finger prick, which was maybe a nice idea but definitely did not work. And their claims, knowing it didn’t work, were fraudulent and harmed thousands of people who got bad test results.
The problem is that this is the first time any of us are hearing of these inefficiencies. Were these concerns raised with the author's state representative? The oversight committee? Why was the press not informed if lives were at risk? Why was pressure not heaped upon senior management and the powers that be to effect actual change years ago when the problems were first observed? Merely griping about how frustrating your job was categorically does no fucking good, and neither does writing about it after the fact. You may think you're fighting the good fight, but this isn't a grassroots protest if the only people you were complaining to were your manager and/or your colleagues.

Yes, inefficiency and bureaucracy suck. No, the answer is not to scrap it all without knowing what the hell you're doing and "just wing it", which is exactly what Musk and co are doing. Strangely enough, the solution is probably a compromise. Compromise takes two sides actually talking to each other, with people familiar with the matter present, and an acceptance that the goal is to make the process better without negatively impacting important things like security, safety and data integrity.

Please forgive the tone of this message, but I can't help wonder how many thousands of people are going to die because of the effective abolishment of USAID and other programmes.
On that note, the BBC deployed a temporary 5G SA non-public-network to broadcast King Charles' Coronation, giving over 1Gbps uplink over 1km of the procession route.
More details are in the award-winning white paper linked from this[0] blog post.

[0]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-05-5g-non-public-network-...
I’ve been using Whois every now and then to ban ip ranges outside the USA where there is suspicious activity coming from.

The variety of responses is a lot. And it seems like you’re not required to provide accurate information other than just one field (ipaddr or something like that). For example I’ll see an allocation that has over a million addresses but in their Whois text they say they’re a /24 network (256 addresses). This happens with Chinese networks every single time so I have to calculate the correct network…

(Sorry, commuting right now so I can’t show examples here)
Blaming "High living costs" is like blaming the victim of a theft for carrying something of value in the first place.

Come on use the words that are actually plaguing PhD programs, exploitation of cheap labor and minimum pay for working endless hours
Elon wasn’t elected.
I feel like this kind of statement requires a little more details to back it up.

And, to use a hot take here, I believe that the "left to right" political axis can be simplified using a "I believe I am better than X" statement, where X is a set of people(s), that grows ever wider the further right you go.

Therefore a person on the "far left" of the axis would complete the sentence as "I believe I am better than nobody" and thus it's not really plausible that they would need slurs to talk about others.

I realize that this sounds a little of the "no true Scotsman" fallacy, but people saying they are something, does not make them that something unless backed up by actions/beliefs. Using slurs is antithetic to being any kind of left, not just "far", so I suspect you might have met someone confused about things.
To me the one on the right looks slightly darker/bolder, but not qualitatively better. The stems on the letter "m" in "<meta" in lines 2 and 4 are badly hinted (smeared/mushy looking), and drawn differently even though they're in the same horizontal position in both lines.
A similar law passed in Australia a few years ago; various Australian law enforcement agencies can request or even demand companies to make changes to their code (read: introduce backdoors).

Until people and companies start treating Australian-made software as dangerous to the extent that it affects the economy, other countries will probably follow with similar laws.

That should include being hesitant to use American software as well. There's a good reason EU companies aren't allowed to store data on American servers.
Organizing publicly tends to require safe, advanced preparation in private.
the obvious answer is additional testing to reduce the likelihood of a false positive -- if additional tests are invasive those tests can be weighed on the balance of risk just the same. i think the real problem is cost, we cant afford/manage to do that correctly currently, which is exactly what improved non invasive tests could enable and disrupt this reactionary approach forever
'Madame Le General: Une femme d'exception'

https://usa.tv5monde.com/en/tv-guide/documentaries/madame-le...
There's an unavoidable amount of guilt. I should be remembering them more, I should be honouring them by keeping them in my thoughts, but I can't think about them 24/7 and now I feel guilty that I'm doing them a disservice. The callous answer is life goes on and you need to go on with it. The friendlier answer is you have to give yourself permission to live for yourself, thinking about them only some of the time is still keeping their memory alive. It can help to have a representation, be it a specific day like their birthday you assign to their memory or a physical item. I lost a parent when I was a teenager, it turned my world upside down, I found what helped was having a thing as dedication to them. It let me compartmentalise the emotion to that object and gave me permission to not think about them all the time because they're being remembered by that item existing. It's not easy but does get easier, ultimately just be kind to yourself. It's not a quick process.
Ok, this one’s baffling, especially learning at the end that FLOSS is bad because it’s meant to de-emphasize the “libre” part.

All OSS software is inherently without cost, that seems unquestioned here. So free only ever means one thing to non-laypeople, in this context. So isn’t FOSS already the neutral middle ground between OSS and FS??

Regardless, I’m struggling to conceive of how a piece of software could be OS but not F. I guess if it’s, like, surveillance software known to be used by governments…? Maybe OSS that is paradoxically restrictively licensed, threatening any forks or unauthorized compilations with legal action? That seems like a terribly naive proposition, but I’m sure it’s been floated by at least one MBA…

In other words: you can argue all day about the justifications for OS’ing your S being more related to removing cost barriers or to sharing control, but in the end, you clearly have to do both. Making “F[L]OSS” redundant at best, confusing at worst!

Surely I’m missing something, bc I know this has been litigated for many thousands of hours both pre- and post-Eternal September. But rn it just comes across as baseless pedantry
Pretty cool story of mainline Chrome benefiting from changes implemented in Edge.
it's a huge waste of life time, family life and money; but it can be fun if you are a no-life, or a Billy no-mates

on the other side, you see the world, you travel payed by the taxpayers and you meet curious people. and, of course, it might be intellectually fulfilling.
Really depends on your wiring and what’s on the circuit.

Using powerline as a single point-to-point in 2018 worked flawlessly for me with 0 drop outs, 0 latency problems, and 0 throughput problems for 4+ years and then my lines changed and it became useless.

If it works well, it can be a good way to put off the work required to hardwire.
I have been arguing since 2020 ( That is before majority of 5G being deployed ) that we need 6G not as another 10 - 1000x bandwidth / capacity improvement. We have enough within 5G roadmap already. 6G should make it cheaper for both devices and carrier, more efficient and simplified because current 5G is overly complex.

For those criticising 5G, most mobile network has yet to move to Stand Alone network with NR yet. And after that they will have to refarm all the 4G spectrum to 5G. They could also replace equipment that were 4G / 5G to 5G+ / 5G-A, allowing cheaper Massive MIMO hence much higher capacity. Doing all that while continue to tune the network both front and backend. Despite 5 years into 5G we are still behind in many aspect. Most likely due to COVID.

But it seems some network has NO interest to further improve on current tech. I assume they would do minimum investing once they force everyone to 5G.
"woke" is the new "communist" of our times.

I think this administration overestimates the power of "war time" thinking when most people are fatigued and couldn't care less. Of course it works with the 5-30% of the electorate that is engaged and consuming hate news all the time, but I suspect the rest of society is going to get fed up real soon when there are more practical issues knocking on their door (eg. inflation).
Sure but the current state of affairs is clearly not optimal from an individual patients perspective. You notice this as you hit 40, 50 years old.

I know multiple "woops we don't screen often/early/proactively for that" cancer deaths in mid 30s to mid 50s.

I even know a few "wow good thing you had that CT scan for xyz, we just found some unrelated Stage 2 cancer elsewhere" people.

I know ZERO "oops false positive, we killed you with an invasive procedure" deaths. I know they happen, just clear to me its less often than the above.
I want to clean up the environment I used before uploading it to GitHub; that has taken me like 4 days and still going. Yes, I've spent more time configuring the environment and documenting than actually programming. And the worst part? It's not even finished!
I disagree. This abstract is a mouthful, no doubt, but it's a highly information-dense mouthful, and it does its job well.

Along the spectrum between intra-disciplinary academic communication on one end and public-sphere science communication on the other, the abstract is and should be just above the level of the paper it's abstracting. It's meant to be a technical summary for academics, and should not be dialed down for the sake of non-technical consumption. This one - speaking as a geologist with a long academic history - reads quite well, I think.

In contrast, the sentence you propose should be the output of responsible and effective scientific communicators working closer to the public-sphere end of the spectrum, say, at the level of phys.org, here on hackernews, etc.
>I'm not personally convinced that minivans lend themselves to much differentiation.

I agree. That is why my original thesis was that Hondas are now uninspiring, undifferentiated and boring. Pretty much minivans are all those things, by default.
This is a bit of an understatement. Germans are both actively hostile to changing processes, and eager to add layers of process to every imaginable thing.

The result is a growing bureaucracy with no matching effort in efficiency or digitalisation.
“Malloy” is one one in the same spirit, but probably more comprehensive https://github.com/malloydata/malloy
The simple answer is they have low market value and aren’t a good investment for anyone - the student or the nation. Yes we need some researchers but not as many as we train.
I made a game similar to 2048 with my own spin
I was missing some info about subpixel anti-aliasing (ClearType) and Low- vs Hi-DPI screens.
Doesn't Facebook feed the beast with delicious personal data?
Don't know what problems are worthy of solving. How would you approach this?
We've all heard this:
Don't create solutions looking for problems. Instead, find a valuable problem first.

But pinpointing the right problem is tough.

I got stuck at overthinking: what is a worthy problem?

Right now, I'm thinking two potential ways out:

1. Build and publish as much as possible on any idea crossing mind. I hope this will help increase the surface area of getting lucky.

2. Do whatever I can to make the first dollar online.

How would you approach this? Any insight is appreciated!
Explaining my fast 6502 code generator (2023)
Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
If it's your first time hearing about it you haven't been paying attention. The healthcare.gov debacle was headline news, and the USDS that DOGE subsumed was established to address these problems but was ineffectual. The American people voted for effects, for better or worse.
This is actually pretty accurate, except ruby is just slower, not randomly fragile at scale.
> How will local/state prosecute it?

Lots of state laws around privacy and tort that wouldn’t gain supremacy if a federal court found the DOGE bros didn’t act lawfully. Pardons prevent them from being punished for that lawlessness by the U.S. But it doesn’t stop state courts from finding adversely.
Why would that be a good thing? Sounds like a bad thing to me
Anthropic is ridiculously expensive compared to (not at all)OpenAI. I pay $50 a month to a OpenAI while I spent $50 in a day with Anthropic during a coding session. Was Claude better than Chatgpt 4 at certain tasks? Sure, it was also worse on some.

I've been saying (not at all)Open AI are subsidising the costs of running the models.The moment we get really dependent on them, they'll hike the prices.!
Is magnetic field sorting a novel method for superconductors in general?
I would be wary of assuming that is true for purposes of RSUs. Whether these folks and the company consider them current "employees" is not the employee-employer test for tax withholding purposes.
Chromium can't render fonts at all after they got rid of GDI rendering. Just compare Verdana 12pt in Word/LibreOffice and Chrome, they're not seriously trying to tell me that's the correct font? The letters don't even look the same.

Left is Firefox with GDI, right is Chrome: https://i.redd.it/0fk50cgcexie1.png
> the ruling party

Monolithic ruling classes are the political scientific equivalent of spherical cows. The richer model (still spherical, but maybe incorporating drag) is that of elite constituencies.

> being a dissident may not be in one's best interest

If we’re going imperial, dissident status is less risky than being poor. Practically every autocratic transition in history has involved a massive wealth transfer up, together with the dismantling of expensive social safety nets.
It is intended that way, and the date of download can be in the front or end of the filename. However, Chrome API has been tricky to use. I am not sure if it can intercept downloads from WhatsApp Web. The extension cannot deal with downloads from some websites like Github based on our test.

Now I feel that we should've probably developed the desktop version with local AI modals and there wouldn't be as many technical problems as we can deal with renaming after the file is downloaded.

The web APIs also makes supporting images, excels or other files a bit harder. We only get blob data and have to figure out how to turn such raw data back to files, so we can feed the content to cloud AI providers.

Dark mode problem noted. And thanks very much for all the feedback.
Yeah, but for non-partisan reasons. Are these people going to stick with Signal in 4 years if their preferred party is back in charge?
Since you have a math brain, you can probably conceptualize the concept of statistical distributions, right?

In any discussion of this sort of thing, what people are saying is that different circumstances lead to different distributions in outcome.

Does that really seem surprising to you? To me it would be very surprising if wildly different characteristics turned out to have identical distributions across every metric.

But this constantly gets lost because some people want to ignore that distributions differ, and other people want to ignore that the distribution is not destiny for any individual.
No, that's still not a majority of the popular vote, just a plurality.
> Rails can become a ball of mud as much as any other framework can.

...but rails can fit this dysfunction on a single slide ;)
It is yet to be seen what the current administration is actually accomplishing. Tearing down administrative capacity without regard to leaving chaos and shortfalls is a lot easier than reform
My Facebook feed is full of unhinged content from random pages I never followed or interacted with. I'd be fine with some edgy content, but there's limits to what I'd consider acceptable. Most recently I see these "memes" where it's literally just an image of Elon with a hand pointing a gun at him, and a caption saying suggesting he should be murdered. The most worrying part is that I don't know if this sentiment is actually widespread and a seriously held belief. It makes me worry that we might see a continued escalation of political violence this year.
I agree. And then functional languages pick up the pipe, as it is roughly "poor man's method chaining" (so the object oriented languages don't need it).
The Obama initiative did not override security protocols though (what the article describes). It was basically installing modern IT management for the government.
In this case they are basically synonyms, the Free in FLOSS doesn't mean free of charge and open source doesn't mean source available.