skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's not likely at all.

Yes, beneficiary fraud is likely--if you said that hundreds of people were drawing Social Security for people who are deceased, I would believe you. But the reason we know this occurs is because we periodically audit the databases to find cases where deaths were unreported.

A claim of 150 years old would be older than the oldest verified age for the past 30 years. Saying that the SSA merely failed to notice the claimant's death is thus tantamount to saying that the SSA has never audited its database for unreported deaths in at least the past 30 years, despite welfare fraud being a salient political issue at multiple times in that timeframe.
Wow. I didn’t expect this. I agree with this in principal. But there must be some unintended consequences I am not thinking about.
Gordon’s actions in HL1 is why there’s even a resistance, I think Gordon’s legendary status isn't from Gman propaganda but more from the resistance itself needing/wanting an icon/martyr/founder. It’s an interesting contrast from the first game where you’re a nobody and expectations are at rock bottom for you, versus in HL2+ everyone expects you to be a messiah, but the odds are so stacked against you it’s hard to see how you can live up to the expectation.

I always felt embarrassed by the attention in HL2, more than ego-stroked. It’s awkward in-game but intentionally so, in my mind. Like with that Mossman line, Gordon is a nobody scientifically and famous for other reasons so that line says more about Mossman’s vanity and ego than anything about Gordon.
PSD: Symlinks browser profiles to RAM reducing HDD calls, speeding-up browsers
Avg price of a dozen eggs has nearly doubled since last year
People often can't see past their own hostility when figuring out what a system 'does'. And now they have have a clever sounding way to pretend that they're describing a system with detached reason, not just describing their attitude towards the system.

It's like a art review where a writer - completely unaware of what they're doing - talks only about the work, but says nothing about the work and opens a window into their soul. A lot of people don't even recognize when it happens in that context. It's even easier for a speaker to deceive a listener (and themselves) in the context of speaking on systems. Systems thinking is hard and almost everyone is terrible at it.
I think they mean that just because code is under github.com/google, it doesn't make it an "official" Google thing.

For example, yapf[0] is under the Google Github org but has the disclaimer:

>Note YAPF is not an official Google product (experimental or otherwise), it is just code that happens to be owned by Google.

libphonenumber doesn't have any similar disclaimer and does seem to be an "official" Google product, but it's hard to tell what Google considers official or not.

[0] https://github.com/google/yapf
Title is: Ruby on Rails on WebAssembly, the full-stack in-browser journey
How does that even work these days? Taking a picture of a bill physically mailed to you is bad enough, but all of my utility bills nowadays are nothing more than an email! How's that supposed to prove anything?

I mean, I guess you could do something with the DKIM signature, but good luck getting non-technical people to forward a mail in a way which leaves that intact. Realistically the best you're getting is a butchered screenshot.
Source: the beneficiaries of such fraud, were it to occur…
> but what does that proves?

That proves that its ok to criticise Musk on Twitter/X, which is what the OP was denying.
https://archive.ph/3ibpz
Every time I read this sort of stuff, I ask - do you think that the demand to live in San Francisco is infinite? For a city that’s less than one-half as densely populated as Brooklyn, NY, no less? This problem was solved 150 years ago.
This autistic geek finds the excessive cynicism here really tiresome.
Official Meta post: https://engineering.fb.com/2025/02/14/connectivity/project-w...
It doesn't, there are countless examples of coups, cancelled elections etc.
Books as a unit of time. Interesting :D.
Late Holocene "Turn-Off" of Coral Reef Growth: Implications for a Sea-Level Fall
500 ETH (almost 1.5M dollars) transaction containing a secret message
Someone sent 500 ETH to the null address (not owned by anyone) and basically burned 1.4 million dollars only to sent the following message:
宽德投资的老总：冯鑫，徐御之使用脑机武器迫害了所有公司员工以及前员工，甚至他们自己本身也是受控者。

Translation from DeepL:
Kuan De Investment's boss: Feng Xin, Xu Yu Zhi used brain-machine weapons to persecute all the company's employees as well as ex-employees, even if they themselves were the ones being controlled.
There’s tons and tons of facts. Just no stats. I can point you or you can point yourself to dozens of articles and opinion pieces. But stats I’m too lazy to find and they likely don’t exist.

You go continue to live in a universe where you ignore general sentiment and fill in reality with your own happy construct where a void of stats and science exists. Did they do a research study on whether people enjoy eating feces? No? I guess I can make up whatever garbage I want around this area now. Yes people love eating shit. (This is what you and all the science maniacs around HN love doing).

No science exists on how much people hate San Francisco even though there are reams and reams of people talking about how bad things are? Ok fill it in with your own delusion of reality. San Francisco is great. I love the whiff of fresh human shit I occasionally get when the right breeze just waffs by under my nose. I love stepping on broken syringes when I go run.
You just need to remember that homeless people have most of the same constraints and ties to location that you do. Everyone grew up somewhere, a lot of homeless people had relatively "normal" lives before the street and most have some connections lingering from that time.

So they probably still have family connections there, friends, maybe a church or AA group, case worker, friendly coffee shop owner, etc. They aren't any more eager to break these ties than you would be.
> I'm coming around to the Dark Forest theory, personally, as terrifying as it is.

Perhaps it's just that advanced technology is extremely rare given another comment's supposition that there could be other intelligent life, just unable to make advanced technology, or along those lines: if they have the appendages to do so, maybe their environment doesn't have the resources.

If you couple the above with the idea that FTL communication/travel is difficult or impossible, then it could take a long time for us to find evidence, and maybe by then we'll be extinct due to natural causes or devices of our own.

Or maybe there's some theistic evolution component and we are the only species in the universe with divine providence.

It seems to me that it would be impossible to prove or disprove any of those possibilities unless we actually discover extraterrestrial advanced intelligent life.

(And even then, who is to say that God didn't create Edens on other worlds? So meeting aliens still might not disprove any divinity.)
No, it's not OK, but I also don't think a president has any responsibility towards gamblers in the US or China. Also, "I invested because the president of a random country told me so" is a pretty bad excuse for losing money.
And I would add, you are not an "expert" until you had to reverse engineer a program who's source disappeared a decade or more ago :)

But an interesting article for modern times.
Great, now i'm hugry and off to cook steak.
Surprised to see this article with no mention of LTree: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ltree.html

First-party data structure for tree (directed, acyclic graph) data
Embarrassed to say, but I didn't know there are comments! I'll answer all of them asap and here is a second part https://safespace.is/blog/vilain-era-part-2
Sorry, guys, HN noob
> Rioting is rioting and not protesting.

This doesn't seem to hold well in practice.

> The moment protestors cross over to vandalism and violence, they're rioters and not mere protesters.

And this seem to be usually applied collectively (in obvious opposition to basic human rights) in practice. Often in cases where the violence wasn't done by the protesters and even in cases where the violence was against the protesters.

Also, police has a really shitty history of capturing and holding into account the actual violent people. They usually go free for turning the next protest violent too.

And both happen again and again, all over the world.
The Smalltalk Browser (2007)
Only a little senior, if you're still working and not sitting in meetings all day - rungs remain
That's what's great about it. And if a paying customer gives feedback, you already know that they represent an important user segment that are worth listening to: Paying customers.
> This is not how people typically use the term. And if you look it up the dictionary also doesn't use it that way.

Yeah fair enough, I am not a laywer and so am not knowledgable on exact legal definitions.
However you argued your point as if he was successful, which he is not, and so your point is moot until a ruling.

No need to go off on other tangents that I have not mentioned anything about, then again you have the right to free speech so feel free to rattle on about whatever you want!
> Why put lives on the line for political desires you know cannot be achieved by politicians who refuse to listen?

If the US and Russia negotiate a treaty in Ukraine without Ukraine or the EUs agreement, we could end up in a situation with US troops squaring off against EU/Ukraine military in order to enforce the treaty. Feels like everyone loses except maybe Russia.
Stata was a great building to take a walk in. I discovered new rooms, and new coffee machines, every few months, and even started making a Minecraft model of it (got only as far as the elevator shafts).

The people in various "fish tank" sections of the building did not like the Frank Gehry style as much, due to the lack of privacy, water leaks, drafts, and such. But some of us were lucky to have offices in the one part of the building that had 90-degree corners and regular brick walls. We got the best of both worlds... a regular office with a door and a window, and the fun architectural madness right outside.

One of the admins recalled an opening reception for the building in the Kiva conference room. "I call this the nauseatorium", she had remarked. A man in a black turtleneck had turned around, wine glass in hand: "There's a reason why I designed it like that..."
> How do I allocate memory for addressing it with FS/GS?

Allocate the variable normally, then compute the offset in one thread (e.g. offset = uintptr_t(&variable) - get_fs()), then access it by adding the offset to FS in any thread (e.g. (vartype *) (offset + get_fs())). The only difference from how it normally works is that you can manually force it to be inlined, sidestepping the codegen problems you described in your post. But if you can avoid those problems by not using constructors instead, that's definitely better.

I used "FS/GS" because GS is used instead of FS on some systems for the same purpose.

The shared library-specific issues are one of the reasons I was suggesting maybe looking into hashing, e.g. perhaps as a fallback solution when the TLS approach fails.
Sounds like the jobs probably already had people who can't find any other job and don't especially care, if you ask me. At least that makes as much sense as your argument about future hires.
Yeah imo they should've used "color palette". Similar to:

Open Color from OpenProps https://yeun.github.io/open-color/

Tailwind's color palette https://tailwindcss.com/docs/colors

As far as design goes, color palettes can be extremely difficult to choose while maintaining good scores on color contrast and other accessibility measures. A standardized palette is useful because it does all that work for you. Having these 3 options to choose from is pretty nice since I often reach for OC or TW palettes but often find them lacking in hues I want.
More discussion:

PASS on Firing of Probationary Employees at FAA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43074281
"malicious compliance path in meetings: take them over and wrest the agenda to conform to your desire."

We used to have an IT director who had mastered the art of stealing meetings. He contributed nothing during the meeting but in the end with an authoritative voice he summarized what was said and who would do what. And the meeting was his without ever contributing anything.
This is one of the core problems and I don't think people want to admit it "can't be solved."

When I was naive, out on my own after 18 I found a low-income/income-restricted apartment complex and thought I got a steal. It was $1k a month for a 2 bed when everywhere else was closer to $1.5k.

I soon realized I would _never_ live in a low income place if I could help it. Someone was killed in our building. Fights in the parking lot every other day. People leaving trash in the hall ways. People smoking 24/7. Of course, maybe only 25% of the people were "problematic" but that was more than enough to make you feel totally uncomfortable in your own home. The last straw was potheads causing a fire alarm at 3 AM and having to evacuate into the cold night in a panic.

Some people are simply selfish and will not be able to live close to/with others without causing problems. _Most_ people do not want to live next to them.
There were "reverse directories" for phone->name, though you didn't get one delivered to your house with your phone subscription. You could also call directory assistance.
And this war won't end either, if neither side gives in.
It allows links to bsky and Mastodon posts, but it doesn't auto-summarize bsky posts at the moment.
cool story. All programming students should be made to create a calculator in school and have them truly understand the issue at hand.
I had to look up what word you could possibly be talking about. You mean "Zionist"? How is that a slur? It's what the movement calls itself. That's like saying "Nazi" is a slur against Adolf Hitler.
the people who ensure government is broken and stealing from you are now in charge. they recently requested $4.3 trillion in deficit spending for tax cuts and the dissolution of medicaid.
Definition of antisemite: a person who is prejudiced against Jewish people

Prejudice is completely different to hate. They are often associated but are not the same.

> I see now that you're a promoter of exactly the insidious "hate as an equal right" mantra that turned Twitter into what it is today.

You seem very quick to label and categorise people into boxes about what they think about. Be careful, that is a very dangerous road to go down as history has proved time and time again.
It takes decades to build credible second strike or nuclear triad capabilities. A conventional war would be finished well before that.

For example, to launch into Russia, Poland and Germany would need Tactical, SR, MR, and LR Ballistic Missiles, but neither state has a ballistic missiles program so they would need to start from scratch or be entirely dependent on France (which the defense industry in both states have lobbied against).

If a Poland or Germany attempts to begin a nuclear weapons program, that is reason enough for a belligerent nation like Russia to start a war.
It's a tradeoff. "This meeting could have been an email" has an evil brother named "a meeting could have saved us all these emails".

(I have also seen a merely scheduled meeting doing wonders for reaching consensus over email. The meeting was then canceled as no longer necessary, which I think is the best result.)
What's exactly wrong with that? We live in a society fully online, virt and nudes are literally a part of normal healthy communication
For this setting, there is even more depressive game - Belong Nowhere[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P4-4nK4RR0
All the people he banned for criticizing him say otherwise.
Huh? We don't forget pioneering work just because it was on the wrong track. Aristotle was a great scientist despite being grossly wrong about anatomy. Lord Kelvin had an incorrect theory of heat and misestimated the age of the earth by an order of magnitude, but he was still a genius. Likewise, the word2vec people perhaps went down the wrong path, but it was a good start and enabled some of the earliest language ML applications.
Of course, since I was banned for criticizing Elon Musk.
Choosing a color palette is actually quite a difficult task from a design perspective. You have to take into account color contrast and many other accessibility measures. When I start small projects I often reach for Open Color[0] or TW's palette[1] (even if I don't use TW) because they've done all that work for me. Having a third option to choose from is something I look forward to

[0] https://yeun.github.io/open-color/

[1] https://tailwindcss.com/docs/colors
It was likely more than that, or at a bare minimum at least your delivery.

Check out the book ‘Extreme Ownership’ if you have time. There is a lot of good advice in it regarding ‘managing upwards’
Is there a significant amount of people not working on code that already exists? That's like the total opposite of my experience
It’s a lost cause. For every misinformation out there that you comment on there are thousands that that you don’t. All it does is increase engagement in a toxic environment. It drags you down and lifts no one up.
You could. Phone companies published reverse phone directories, with name and address listed by number.
Java was abandoned en masse by the younger generation

We tried. Java was fine, JBuilder was fine. When they instead started pushing J2EE, EJB and all the other acronyms I've forgotten, this 'youngster' realised he'd never be smart enough to be a Java developer and bailed back to C, Perl and Python.

Had they focused on Java and making Java a great language in its own right, it no doubt would have gone a lot better. But all the 'hype' and marketing around Java was focused entirely on these huge frameworks and enterprise 'solution' architectures which most 'youngsters' just didn't understand and didn't see the need for.

If someone makes it clear their product isn't for you and that they don't care about solving your problems, is it strange they abandon you?
Isn't it all about the context too?
Except that it wasn't about people at all? I was just referring to a _type_ of query
Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments
How well does Umami deal with detecting (and ignoring) bots?

Bot traffic is significant and I've noticed different vendors have varying degrees of success filtering out bots versus humans.
You won't get any reliable numbers during wartime. I heard Ukrainian government recently mention they ordered a million.

Hundreds of small companies (around 10 employees each) in Ukraine are making and assembling drone's right now (according to journalists who filmed them in Ukraine last month). I counted at least two dozen companies in the Netherlands, probably a few hundred all over Europe. Besides the frame that holds the 4 or six rotors together all other parts are off the shelf, mostly ordered from Shenzen. You can CNC mill a carbon fiber or aluminum frame from a single plate on an x-y flatbed cnc.

I researched all this last night because I need $20K-$200k investment right now to start my own startup making unjammable autonomous kamikaze drones with 20K payload on top of 20km optical fiber spools unreeling. I think it is possible to make them lighter without fibers if you put a few thousand microprocessors in with a wafer scale integration for $500.

Of course you could just make cheap drones that kill every warm body in sight[4] indiscriminately. To disable a tank you need these fiber tethered drones with bigger payloads[3][5][6]. You cab see two fiber strands still in the air in a few frames of the video.

What you need is a Paul MacCready style development cycle for drones in the field. You need to be able to make 10 crashes per hour, fix the drone by replacing with off-the shelf components and try again. The programming should be live-coding like Squeak Smalltalk, no recompiling, just fix and run while you are using the software to edit itself [1] as Dan did in 1976[2] on this 5.88 mhz computer. We still code like this today but most programmers and managers ignore this in favor of terminals and simulated punch cards. Remember that it took humans 200.000 years to invent written language or agriculture, we just are not that smart.

[1] https://youtu.be/NqKyHEJe9_w?t=433

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknEhXyZgsg

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3uAFBzzbTc

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx5_Hzbqv9s

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id48aVBj9Ak
> Which companies are making money off frauds like pig butchering scams?

Companies that own dating apps.

> I think you're overestimating how competent the state is

I fully agree. The U.S. state is quite incompetent.

> and underestimating how hard it is to solve problems like these

"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"

Have you thought of blocking countries that permit malicious activity to cross international borders? Have you thought of blocking their IP addresses?

Or is that international money just too good to let a "little bit" of malicious activity befall upon your fellow citizens?
> Having lots of highly-paid folks around is good for local workers' incomes

You're describing income inequality. Personally, I don't believe income inequality is good for everybody. I think it tends to benefit some people at the expense of others.
I really like Caddy, it used to do reverse proxying and file serving for my homelab, but more recently I've demoted it to just the file serving because of how awesome it is to be able to configure reverse proxying just using container labels, which is what Traefik allows me to do.
My recent experience with wanting analytics for an enterprise application was that for my limited needs, it was easier to roll my own than to deal with evaluating all the options and integrating with another service. There are already a ton of privacy focused alternatives to google analytics. So many such that finding one that serves a niche is practically ungoogleable.
Time will tell indeed. Question is if any progress could reasonably be attributed to DEI or happened despite of it. Compared to universal humanism DEI just had worse ideas and I think those need to be overcome. And all parties need to overcome them, not only the most obvious opposition.
I’d like to see you try that when trying to improve a flow at, say, a hospital where that involves separate teams of nurses, lab workers, doctors pharmacists and admin staff.
The original poster doesn’t seem to be just looking for increased compensation though. They want more “autonomy”. The preparation you do for interviewing is different than what you do for more autonomy and I assume he means leading projects.

It’s hard to both change companies and get a promotion if you haven’t demonstrated working at the next level. By promotion, I don’t mean more money. I mean increased responsibility.

I agree with you though about not staying at a job too long. I did the same thing for many of the same reasons between 1999-2008 and it took me 6-8 years to recover both to be competitive in the market and locally compensation wise.