skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
18F - and its sibling the US Digital Service, before it was eviscerated to become the host for the DOGE parasite - is exactly the sort of thing you would create if you want government to run efficiently. Creating room for well-meaning technical experts to offer their expertise across the government, without being locked into a lifelong public-sector career path, is a fantastic idea. Even at its worst, it's taking work that could otherwise go to beltway-bandit contractors, but in-house, with all the cost and friction reduction that that implies. At its best, it's able to spot cross-agency opportunities that no other agency would see on its own.

If you're still on the fence about giving the current administration the benefit of the doubt, dismantling these agencies based on zero analysis is perhaps the clearest possible evidence that "efficiency" is not the primary goal, or in fact a goal at all.
Go and buy lots of toilet paper folks!
Debugging seems fine to me, theres even the {@debug …} tag.

TypeScript is a better scripting language than JavaScript, Svelte is a better language/model/platform than HTML+TypeScript.

React may be your cup of tea but I’d rather write Svelte templates every day! Not to mention per-component styles.

Sure, a component inspector devtool would be neat, though. Nobody’s going to complain about better tooling :)
Some more experimentation later, it seems to be more like just counting PROT_WRITE+MAP_PRIVATE mappings or so; i.e. mprotect(PROT_NONE)ing (or even just PROT_READ) a writable region results in it not being counted, even if the region was modified and thus must actually be persisted. So it can actually get meaningfully lower than RSS. :/

MADV_FREE doesn't affect anything afaict.
Perhaps more widely known very recently for being the subject of an Elon tweet saying "that group has been deleted," though whether he was referring to 18F as a whole or just those working on the free filing system for the IRS was unclear.
Personally really enjoyed Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
The Rust ecosystem needs more high-level frameworks like this. However, I've been shipping Django since 0.96, and I don't think Cot really addresses the main issues Django currently has. Performance isn't in the top 5.

Django's biggest issue is their aging templating system. The `block`, `extend` and `include` style of composition is so limited when compared to the expressiveness of JSX. There are many libraries that try to solve Django's lack of composition/components, but it's all a band-aid. Today, making a relatively complex page with reusable components is fragile and verbose.

The second-biggest issue is lack of front end integration. Even just a blessed way of generating an OpenAPI file from models would go a long way. Django Ninja is a great peek at what that could look like. However, new JS frameworks go so much further.

The other big issue Django has _is_ solved by Cot (or Rust), which is cool (but not highlighted): complicated deployments. Shipping a bunch of Python files is painful. Also, Python's threading model means you really have to have Gunicorn (and usually Nginx) in front. Cot could have all that compiled into one binary.
18F has been discussed on HN quite a few times, though not too much recently:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=18f

Here's its GitHub org:

https://github.com/18F
Simply securing funding and being a manager does not qualify for authorship (based on the read on multiple journals submission policy). I don't think this is universally observed or even really policed, so it's fairly common to see people who really did not contribute anything (even sitting in on a weekly progress report and giving feedback) listed as the last/corresponding author.
WhatsApp Faces Tougher EU Rules as Users Top 45M
We’ve integrated a new REST API and embedded web server directly into the pihole-FTL binary. This eliminates the need for lighttpd and PHP"

oh noes!
+1 to everyone saying the style is really hard to read. The second-person narration is part of that; but for my money the biggest problem is that the author can't decide whether the story is being told in present tense or past tense. Pick a point of view and stick with it! Either you're telling the story as it happens (present tense), or you're telling it after it happens (past tense), but you shouldn't keep switching viewpoints with every sentence. Frequently this story switches viewpoints within the same sentence. And it's not done in anything like an intentional style; my default assumption when reading something that feels like bad fanfic is that the writer simply doesn't know any better.

"This job, it was you. Every sentence, every bullet point, they all described you [...] You fire off a copy of your résumé. [...] As each employee taps their badge, the turnstile emits a pleasant green [...] You were directed to the gate at the far end, which the receptionist opens manually [...] you are absolutely speechless [...] The only words that were polite but nonspecific enough to fill the absolutely dead air that now fills the room."

Turnstiles emit green pleasantly, as Noam Chomsky might once have said.

Style points for gratuitous misuse of the word "catachresis." (Autocatachresis?)
Doesn't sound like you're doing any actual science there. What about the guy feeding the scientists or housing them, what about the government for providing roads and sewage? That's like putting Steve Jobs' name on all the patents that Apple produced.
“1,337 seconds.” Nice.
Came looking for this comment. I was a heavy Matlab user, having learned it during University. I started getting frustrated with it though, and wanted something else that would let me go from simulation or experimental data to visualisations as fast as possible. Spyder was the answer.
That's too long for me to read, so apologies if the answer was too subtle for "Find in page…"

> I’m not leaving under a “deferred resignation”.

> …

> Instead, I resigned from my position as a product designer, submitting two weeks’ notice…well, two weeks ago.

If they're offering you a buyout and you don't want to work there, why wouldn't you take it?
Official post: https://engineering.fb.com/2025/02/14/connectivity/project-w...
'MrBeast' please don't compare this nonsense to creativity. He's a business man, and an extremely dishonest one [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dslLBsHkVzE]. A genius at 'optimising' 'content' for 'the algorithm'. The man has not one creative or artistic bone in his body.

It's enormously disingenuous to compare the rise of hucksters like this to artists or creative professionals.

Further - gaming has just seen the greatest layoffs in history, as all the major studios and publishers attempt to reduce costs and leverage 'AI', since the games as a service model is winner takes all. Independent film is all but dead since the franchise film has taken the box office. And music, are you kidding? Spotify has so cucked musicians that it's actively replacing them with AI generated mush, trained on their work, and the economic disparity is so great there's nothing they can do about it - https://www.fastcompany.com/91170296/spotify-ai-music
"I do wonder How a good story taste?"

When I was a bartender if we had a wine that wasn't selling we'd do two things: raise the price and improve the story around it. The story involved researching the vineyard, the wine maker, and the grapes involved in the wine. Once the staff has the story then it's easy to sell it.

People are very gullible. About a lot of things. It's especially comical with wine because a lot of people are convinced they're super tasters.

Raising the price is an easy win. There's always some guy saying, "you get what you pay for!" as if wine were priced on it's taste or quality.

My experience as a bartender and a bachelors in philosophy have given me great appreciation for cognitive biases.
Good question - I guess if the interpretability folk went looking for these sort of additive/accumulative representations and couldn't find them, that'd be fairly conclusive.

These models are obviously forming their own embedding-space representations for the things they are learning about grammar and semantics, and it seems that latent space-y representations are going to work best for that since closely related things are not going to change the meaning of a sentence as much as things less closely related.

But ... that's not to say that each embedding as a whole is not accumulative - it's just suggesting they could be accumulations of latent space-y things (latent sub-spaces). It's a bit odd if Anthropic haven't directly addressed this, but if they have I'm not aware of it.
>but Bill Clinton's "Third Way" campaign was 35 years ago. China's admission into the WTO was under the Clinton administration.

I thought the support was bipartisan? For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93China_Re...
Show HN: Expressio – open-source Translation Automation
Exactly the right use-case. Discord has been requested a couple of times, and is coming soon! Happy to reach out when it's available.
Anything backing this up except that one report? I haven't heard of headaches or migraines causing permanent damage.
I want pihole to talk encrypted to the upstream dns server. I don't actually care if my devices talk encrypted to pihole.

I just don't want to leak dns requests to my isp. If there's a way to do this without DoH or DoT, I'd happily learn more about it.
Among given population X% are suspicious and Y% keep an eye on statistic and their heads below the radar.
The market is just plain cruel to Intel, and has been for years. It's essentially saying "There's no room for more than one company". Until this sudden increase in Intel's share price, Intel was valued at less than the value of the equipment alone (forget the value of the IP).

All this while Intel is still profitable, and although their margins suck compared to some other semiconductor companies, Intel's margin is way better than most traditional companies.

Compare AMD's market cap with Intel's. And then compare the actual revenues. Stark contrast.
> say goodbye to your job

How many times do you think I've heard that over the past three decades? And you know what? They've been right every time, except for this one little fact:

The machine cannot make you give a shit about the problem space.
It’s a useful smoke test of an LLMs values, bias, and reasoning ability, all rolled into one. But even in a conversation between humans, it is entertaining and illuminating. In part for the reaction it elicits. Yours is a good example: “We shouldn’t be talking about this.”
There should exist something like memtest86, but for S3 and S0, that you can run on the laptop to identify hardware that do not suspend properly.
Academia is filled to the absolute brim with scams, news at 11.

(I'm in academia)
Oops. Fixed. Thank you!
To eat the plasma? Hope they are missing an H
What a clown analysis. Sorry, that is not worth the bits it is written in. OpenAI is a privately owned company and does not publish its financials. The sources your link brags about are pathetic beyond belief,

> This report draws on a variety of sources, including those not easily found by search engines, e.g.:

> * Personal anecdotes of pricing info from sales calls

> * A blog that used DNS records to infer which Fortune 500 companies pay for ChatGPT Enterprise

> * Transcripts of OpenAI exec interviews

> Just as important are the data points FutureSearch rejected when they didn’t corroborate more trustworthy sources. The core assumption made here is the $3.4 billion in ARR that Bloomberg and TheInformation reported Sam Altman said in a staff meeting.
Boxers get paid.
I agree. I really wanted to like it, I do think a lot of what it purports to try to do would be better for the web and development in general, but my experience is that HTMX (even with Alpine) fails to succeed in practice.
Being public domain decreases the liklihood that I will meme a given piece of IP
Power Law in Popular Media (2018)
Related: Zipf's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law), Sturgeon's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law), and endless "most of ${X} on ${SOCIAL_MEDIA_PLATFORM} has no / few (views|prevalence|interaction).

An interesting corollary is that this makes moderation / management somewhat more tractable if one focuses not on all content but that which is gaining some prevalence. I've suggested multiple times, though am aware of no actual moderation practices, in which all content above a specified prevalence threshold receives some human moderation. This can be used both reactively (when an item / post reaches the threshold it receives moderation) or prescriptively (when a post reaches the threshold it is held for moderation and won't be recirculated / promoted until this occurs). Given the inverse-log relationship, it's reasonably straightforward even on enourmous platforms to moderate most items being presented to members with a relatively small staff.

That formula could of course be modified with automated risk assessment looking at content characteristics, e.g., has media (NSFW/NSFL/CSAM risk), keyword, Bayesian, and these days LLM/AI models, photo content analysis, distribution patterns, behavioural patterns, etc.), to focus attention on items more likely to be problematic at lower prevalence thresholds, e.g., when they've only been shared/viewed/presented a smaller number of times.
IIRC that requires having an account and being logged in, or maybe it just required a persistent cookie to remember the preference. Either way, my browser still aggressively clears cookies on exit so this solution was more permanent for me than the official solution.
I have had many times click an article link on reddit where everyone in the post comments complains about how the site is riddled with ads that it makes it unreadable and all I see is the article with a lot of whitespace.
For those of us not in your area in Norway, where does your electricity come from in the summer that it's that cheap?
For others: it is supposed to be a website promoting the article author's book, but since it is from (2008), the link is now to an Indonesian slots website.
>1,337 seconds: that was how long WEST, a tokamak run from the CEA Cadarache site in southern France and one of the EUROfusion consortium medium size

Is this a joke and reference to internet culture or a coincidence? Probably the latter, but i found it entertaining.
Sadly, this comment still works without the word "(financially)"
> 1337 seconds

AFAIU, no existing tokamaks can handle sustained plasma for any significant period of time because they'll burn down.

Did this destroy the facility?

What duration of sustained fusion plasma can tokamaks like EAST, WEST, and ITER withstand? What will need to change for continuous fusion energy to be net gained from a tokamak or a stellerator fusion reactor?
I also can’t get along with SvelteKit.

Astro + Svelte seems nice enough if you need it but for most of what I do, plain Svelte 5 is great.
Personal anecdote: I have tinnitus and noise-cancelling headphones sets it off worse than regular headphones. As in, I always have a constant low-level ringing, but certain triggers can 10X or 100X the intensity. As a developer, I was a heavy user of noise canceling headphones before this.
I also have migraine with aura. There are visual effects but also when I am looking into the mirror I can't see half of my face and give this is a wrong perception of reality you might consider it a hallucination?
Oh its not even the "bring it back 100% or 80%" or whatever for me.

I rented a car in Europe , I had to drive 165mi exactly. I reserved what I expected to be a ~260mi range model - tons of buffer!

They actually gave me a ~240mi range model that was maybe 70% charged. So now I'm thinking OK very very close but I'll charge along the route if needed.. there's a few rest stops on the highway!

Unfortunately guess-o-meter was very optimistic, the in car nav did no charge routing plus gave zero "you aren't going to make it" warning, and finally a non-trivial factor - the local traffic was going about 75mph+ so after some spirited driving I realized I was in trouble.

The local chargers were on charge networks that either didn't work via apps (required NFC cards I did not possess), or took credit cards directly but not US cards, or required pre-loading Euros into the app but gave obtuse app errors with US credit cards.

The chargers themselves were in a sorry state and needed to be remotely rebooted. Finally on the phone with Ionity they remotely activated a charging session and gave me a courtesy charge so I could make it to hotel. The courtesy charge probably cost me 1 hour and $75 in overseas cell phone use.

On return discussing with the rental agency they told me they do have NFC charging cards but customers had trouble so they don't give them out anymore, lol.

Another fun fact for Americans - while Teslas in Europes use the same plug as non-Teslas (unlike here), in some countries they still maintain Tesla-only charging stations!
So Why Don't Antibiotics Always Work?
1337 seconds... nice
Car T-cells enable record-breaking 18-year nerve cancer remission
> Is VAT a better system? Arguably, yes—given that the majority of countries worldwide have adopted it as their preferred taxation model

Most VAT countries I know that are not Saudi Arabia have VAT and income tax.
So I've read the comments deeper in the thread and I think it makes sense to come back to your original statement. Which is:

> US relies primarily on corporate and income taxes. This creates an asymmetry in taxation that affects trade. When US companies sell goods abroad, they don’t get a tax refund because the US has no VAT.

As other have pointed out, European companies also pay corporate taxes, so it's a moot point. In addition it's irrelevant because these are paid on profits, not income. No company includes taxes on its potential profits in the price of its products, that's nonsensical. You calculate the price based on your costs and the margin that maximizes your profit. Any taxes on those profits are not a burden on your costs of production or doing business in any way. Again, nonsense.

So there is no asymmetry.

And if the European companies get their VAT back, it's also moot because the US company never paid any to begin with.
For people more aware of the fusion industry, what is it that stopped the plasma at 22 minutes (or lower times in alternate tests)? Did they just stop injecting power to maintain the heat as they achieved their benchmark?

Is this something where it's on the precipice and small tweaks bridges from 22 minutes to basically indefinitely?
The part you cut out explains it:

> (Though it’s possible I almost was; more on that later.)

The part from later in the post that explains it:

> In a terrible coda, a large number of probationary employees were summarily let go at my agency just before my last day.

He wasn't offered a buyout. He quit, and then later, a lot of people were let go. He believes it's probable he would have been one of them had he stayed.
You could have asked any one of the dozen available LLMs to review this comment.

Most of them would have responded by explaining what a monopoly is, and why this reply makes little sense.
When I was younger one of my favorite punchlines was "What kind of (wo)man do you think I am?! ... Oh, we've already established that, we're just negotiating price"
Yes! Rerun can definitely make your life a lot easier!

Rerun natively supports the server and the viewer being on different devices (https://rerun.io/docs/reference/sdk/operating-modes). In your case, in the script you are dumping data into csv, I'd add the relevant lines to log data to rerun.

On the desktop side, you can spawn a viewer that can listen to the stream and visualize it.
Many things don't have quantifiable metrics like that. For example, is USA still a democracy in 4 years? Are people more or less free?. You know, important questions that aren't just economic numbers. Even semi-quantifiable stuff like "are Americans better educated" is debatable on many topics if you can't agree on truth. Oh, and that GDP growth rate number? That relies on a lot of trust as to who's doing the reporting. For example, many people don't believe China's reported GDP numbers. What makes you think the USA doesn't devolve to such a distrust as well.
Oh I was an aeronautical engineer (BS, MS aerospace engineering, concentration in fluid mechanics) for 8 years. Any pithy explanation of aircraft flight/engineering concepts that I post gets downvoted or ignored. Better yet, sometimes a java programmer tries to mansplain it to me in a worse way.
Is there anything we can do to increase the odds?
> Afterwards, the Matrix devs admitted they knew about the side-channels in libolm for years and never bothered to fix them.

For anyone reading: Matrix didn’t bother fixing libolm’s sidechannels because instead we switched to a new Rust implementation at https://github.com/matrix-org/vodozemac - which is what the vast majority (installwise) of Matrix clients use. The mea culpa is that libolm should have been explicitly deprecated much sooner.
Like it or not, AI is learning how to influence you
Many people I know aren't buying squat that they don't need. If they know they're going to need something over the next six months, then the time to buy is now. Everyone knows prices are rising, everyone knows Trump's policies are making it worse, whether that was his intent or not, everyone knows a recession is coming, and everyone knows more layoffs are coming. You don't have to be an economic wizard to see what's coming and to start preparing for it.
You have to imagine the press release being read in a French accent.
I started my career as a programmer in 1972, writing real-time systems in assembly language on DEC PDP-8s and PDP-11s. Back then all software was written in assembly and distributed as machine readable source. (This being DEC, not IBM, that meant paper tape, not punched cards nor magnetic tape :-)

Pre-microcode and mostly pre-CISC instruction sets were readily mastered.
The constraints of storage, distribution media, lack of any high-level system programming languages, the small number of programmers, etc... meant that there just never was not that much system code for any given architecture. Similarly, I/O devices were exteremely simple and limited in number. MMU hardware was still a rarity. All this meant that any reasonable system programmer mastered a machine entirely, its instruction set, all its I/O and all of its (system) software.

At the end of 1977 DEC shipped its VAX-11/780 and VMS V1. Less than a year later, I join DEC's compiler group to write VAX Pascal V2. I can only compare moving to VAX/VMS to being kicked out of the garden of Eden. Quickly I realized that never again would I enjoy that sense of mastery that I had felt on earlier machines :-(
It really is. The basic hipsterization cycle goes like this:

1. Humans suffer with crappy situation due to lack of technology for years. (In this case, water-borne illnesses that killed most humans for our first X years as a species, where X is like 1925 - whenever humans first came on the scene).

2. Humans invent technology that makes life better and stop suffering from crappy situation entirely.

3. Hipsters think crappy situation was probably kinda awesome and elect to go back to it. Before 2020, anti-vaxxers were largely hipsters. Unpasteurized milk is a good current example too.
After checking on my migraine with aura by doing a MRI they found a large AVM in my brain which could kill me any time.

So if you get the chance, take an brain MRI. You never know what they might find.
Yes. Now go out and get a can of tartan paint
Intel has "software defined, license activated" features baked in the silicon now. It's a wet dream for Broadcom.

> You need AVX only? It's only bundled with all AVX flavors and vector operations add-on pack, just for $500/socket/year* (*:for processors up to 10 cores. For higher core counts and SMT enabled options please reach out to your nearest Broadcom sales representative).

ref: Intel on Demand (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/ondema...)