skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I think I'd prefer not to get involved in that.
Going to defend dang here.

These posts have a high political index, which given America's current culture wars tends to bring out the kind of behavior which none of us want on HN.

It's a damn tough balancing act.

Also, look at my post history, I'm pretty strongly anti-DOGE. I'm defending Dang because I love HN and appreciate what he is doing under extremely tough conditions.
Technically Americans collectively (as a nation with specific values and culture) made this happened.

Democrats are run by Corporates.

Americans love capitalism and would brand anything else (even by a slight mentioned of certain aspect) as socialists and or communism and get cancelled.

Cutting tax is an example. Thinking tax is too high is another example.
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No, the underlying thesis is bullshit artists are selffullfilling prophecies.
Yeah, I don't think there's a solution, otherwise someone would've thought of it.

I'm now thinking the solution is "no Rust in the kernel, but we promise to revisit in X years" (then if in X years the picture isn't clearer, revisit in X more years). As someone who greatly prefers Rust, it's unfortunate, but the alternative adds lots of complexity (IMO more than Rust's type system removes) and that's too big an issue.

Moreover, the would-be-contributors who use Rust can (and IMO should) unite and fork the project, creating a "Rusty-Linux" which would be the base for many distros like Linux is the base for all distros. If the fork ends up higher-quality than Linux, especially if Rust adoption keeps growing and C usage starts shrinking, in X years (or 2X, or 3X, etc.) Rust will be so clearly beneficial that nay-sayers will be overpowered (or even convinced), and Rusty-Linux will become Linux.
I think the good thing is that the DOGE team seem extremely humble and willing to learn from their mistakes, rather than pass the blame in ignorance. Just like their leader!
> Steam Decks seem to be selling pretty well, and people don't seem to mind the SteamOS part of it.

I think part of that is because of its form factor already limiting the device. Like how Android and iOS are fine on a phone or tablet, but I doubt most people would want it on a desktop computer.

Not talking about the Linux part, but the real test with the Deck is whether or not it'll stay a target platform with its low performance and Valve not releasing a Deck 2 anytime soon. Valve's Steam Deck verified program already checks performance on games and newer games like Horizon Forbidden West and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle are failing.
My first Linux system too. Back when downloading a distro was hard with available bandwidth, I got it boxed, with quite a few manuals included in the box! Still have them somewhere alongside my copies of free x86 documentation from Intel.
NAT is done on your router. There is no difference with IPv6 firewall except doesn't do NAT.

Are you thinking about CGNAT which is done by the ISP? That results in double NAT which causes problems.
SEO, reputation building, and a dedicated place to share your news.
You could always use medium/other platforms, but then they get the SEO boost and added search mojo, rather than the startup's site
That may well be, but syntax was not one of them. Someone who came into programming more recently and has only used curly-brace languages might not immediately understand what they are looking at, but that doesn't make it absurd - it's just different.
In some ways debt can make us stronger. We issue bonds which the entire world wants to buy. This isn't like your household credit card debt. This is debt that fuels growth and investment in the United States. Partially, because of this we don't have to carry reserves of foreign currency or peg our dollar to another country. I don't know what the right amount is but low interest rates indicate the market does not consider this amount of debt to be problematic.

A better question is: what are we getting for our spending as a nation? Rather than pearl clutching at the amount.
too busy trying to conduct the biggest layoff in history to fix it
That's fair, thank you anyway
Just realized a plane already has a few extra pressure doors I'd forgotten about for emergency exit.

And yes, evacuation issues kill the idea.
Audit are already conducted by outsiders, but the objection to DOGE is less the concept of auditing but how they’re doing it by bypassing all kinds of policies. Normally auditors would be qualified, have passed background checks, and agree to follow the same security and privacy policies.

The outrage is because they’re taking a lot of risk and clearly treating it as a political exercise when it shouldn’t be.
I'm not "thinking about it wrong", I'm saying that I don't like the analogy. Of course all analogies are imperfect, and I get that LLMs greatly accelerate the production of code, but here's the gap: code is not the product. Code is the instruction for the actual machines, and crucially, code is already repeatable and replicable.

In the software world a blacksmith is analogous someone crunching numbers in a spreadsheet. Programmers (combined with hardware engineers) are the ones that are creating the hydraulic presses. LLMs are analogous to CAD, a better tool-building tool to be sure, but at the end of the day if you're stamping out code in a way that an LLM can do it reliably, then you already have a problem that was automatable without an LLM, which code can already do.
Java didn't really have their sandboxing worked out though, there were a huge number of vulnerabilities in it.
Why would you expect them to be the same corporations? The ones funding skepticism are the fossil fuel industries. The ones lobbying for mitigations would be the likes of coastal real estate owners.

Also, what does this have to do with the nature of partisan posturing? The corporations lobbying for mitigations may or may not even be supporting the same party as the ones funding skepticism.
My own graphics card was 5 years old. It was just an Nvidia with outdated Linux drivers. There is no other application on my computer that complained about it.

In any case I'd understand needing bleeding edge hardware for 3D gaming, or CAD, or multimedia. But a 10 year old machine _should_ be able to run a text editor IMHO.
Yeah, it's just tremendously embarrassing. These are supposed to be the tech geniuses who can parse 50 years of accumulated legacy code and find all the government waste? In 3 weeks?
Same here, did it with apple music last week.
Or: imagine how much worse it would be had we never had these agencies?
This is AI slop, isn’t it?
It helps that the web scales well

Screen resolution on windows/Mac is important because scaling support is so bad that a low resolution is barely usable when all the icons end up huge.

On the web, which scales well, it really is just a matter of blurryness. Plenty of people can live with a slightly blurry screen to save $50.
If I haven't heard of a company before, I instantly see if they have a blog so I can judge if it's AI slop or an actual operation.

Anyone can write a website with react and make it look nice, including scammers who just want your money and never deliver a product. A good human-written blog goes a long way to build confidence.
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Holy shit!!

...is what I would have thought/typed/said, if I was a test subject in this study. :-/

By the way, I fully trust Facebook with this technology. :-|
Fuck, that sounds familiar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Olds

I wonder if the DOGE kids will be also sent off to the countryside once they're not useful anymore...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sent-down_youth
There are two main causes of this problem. One is general economic stress. When people feel like they don't have enough, they look for ways to get more. For example, blaming people who have more for being "unfair" or something suggests you have a right to their property. The other is more insidious, which is pure greed. Some people, even people getting by just fine in life with minimal work, fantasize about taking down people who have more. They envy people who have more constantly and can't accept that some people actually deserve much more in life by virtue of luck or their hard work.

>Either you believe in increasing equality in American society, or you don't. If you don't, well I think that is sort of the statement you are suggesting, which is, people have every right to be privileged, born or otherwise.

I think privileged is a loaded word here. What I'm saying is that nobody has a right to equal monetary outcomes in general. If some people are colluding to prevent others from getting a fair shake, that should probably be stopped. You should have a right to compete fairly in the world and to accumulate the fruits of your labor. Of course this all gets very complicated when taxes and various other wealth redistribution schemes enter the picture.

>However, if you believe in increasing equality and you don't focus on wealth, and you care only about skin color or genital type or gender identity, then I think you're making the problem worse for the reasons I wrote in the parent thread here, the points around privileging the already privileged (i.e. upper class 'of color' people), while creating suspicion around anyone who's a minority ('my cubicle neighbor got here not out of merit'). All of this is toxic.

I agree with you, and the discrimination based on immutable characteristics is the worst because there's not much that the victim can do about it. Somehow, various minorities have been convinced that discrimination is OK so long as it benefits them, and that's wrong in general. It does make a lot more sense to think in terms of class lines and economic opportunity. But if that goes too far, it can become toxic as well. We don't need communism, we need people of all walks of life to have more compassion for their fellow man.
Either Greta is as powerful as Musk or Musk as powerless as Greta.
Ok, he also does not know COBOL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1ipc8up/ne...
The guy leading the charge is calling people “retards” on twitter. How does that effect your “who’s the idiot” calculus?

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1889062581848944961?mx=2
Yes I read the article and the only new information for me was the opt-in dialog being used 4 times vs 2. I must not understand it because I've never seen it. The only one I can recall is the one they spam every time iOS updates, asking me to use Wallet several times until I navigate to the menu in settings.

What it doesn't mention is that ATTF is a voluntary program with no enforcement mechanism, currently.
It looks like it's just a matter of time for "Computer Use" like tools becomes commoditised and widely available. I'm worried that this could upend our usual ways of filtering out bot activity with no simple way to go back. Sites that already have bot problems, like social platforms and socket puppet profiles or ticketing services and scalpers, might become even harder to deal with.

Sometimes I think the dead internet theory might not have been so far off, just a bit early in its timing. It really feels like we're about to cross a line where real humans and AI agents online activities blend in ways we can't reliably untangle.
Writing the post mortem for a two year project after a few weeks seems unserious.
TLAs will be far more likely to do traffic analysis on your connection.
That is indirect at best.
This seems to run locally?
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Sounds like you're the one with the personal problem. Let people read and link to what they want, and mind your business.
BigQuery supports trailing commas :)
I thought of using Rust, but ultimately chose Go. I'll take a look and see how something similar came out in Rust!
Also they didn't consider that a green lake, while it may not appear green, can still be more green than all the other types of lake.
Debt is the wrong metric. You really should be using deficit.

Bush ran up a massive deficit from from '00 to '08, which Obama then inherited. The debt increasing under Obama is Bush's fault. The deficit LOWERED under Obama.
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I copied the UX to my https://gitpodcast.com (creates podcast on a github repo, same replace `hub` with `podcast`)
It doesn't mean you just click 'merge' on every request without ever looking at the code, just that you don't kick back to the submitter with a pile of extra work to do before you accept a bona-fide effort.

(I don't think there's been any case of an open policy here causing a supply-chain attack)
No to the second question. The theory is to the extent that tax cuts stimulate the economy, the continued and/or increased growth that enables is better than the alternative of a crash or stagnation. You may argue that all the cuts go to the wealthy, but this is false, and even if they did, which they do not, the stimulus effect is still real.

Now you can buy that theory, or not. Some people may bet on flying pink unicorns, and it’s your right to bet against Milton Friedman if you wish. But the people in charge are going by the theory of people like Milton.
DOGE 'Audits': A Mask for Corruption, Not Efficiency
I obviously know what per capita means.

My point is interrogating the domains where that metric is useful and isn't. Are we delivering 10x more letters per capita? Does US mail sent use scale with GDP per capita?

In many areas I would expect a 1:1 relation with population, but not GDP. For example, I would expect primary education cost to scale at with population (eg teachers and schools per student). If cost per student has gone up 10x instead, why is that?
Basically GPU access in WSL was the only feature I was interested in, but I find the forced onedrive to be super annoying etc, etc. I’m considering paying for the long term version of Office for each of my devices just to not have their stupid cloud features.
> The threat model on this big enterprise WAN isn't "an authorized user creates a VM on an existing machine", but rather "some rando plugs something in with an Ethernet cable and goes to town on the intranet services". It has a whole web portal where you can log in and register your devices. So it's not like anything's really being bypassed here.

Isn't that what the MAC filtering is for? I don't see the point of stopping a single registered MAC on a single port from having multiple IPs.
I note that you didn't refute what I said.
Just out of curiosity, what web apps are effected? I tried to find the "other web apps" and can't find anything (quick scan of the article)
1% faster and 100% more complicated
I think you mean vassals of Elon's gene carriers.
So is this just a case of accident / stupidity or intentional?
The first sentence of the article:

this alarming trend seems to coincide with DOGE’s unrestricted access to federal networks.

the first 2 paragraphs:
Beginning on January 8, 2025, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on what’s known as “the search engine of Internet-connected devices,” Shodan.io.

Federal agencies typically secure their systems behind multiple layers of protection, ensuring that critical services – such as mail servers, directory services, VPNs, internal IP addresses, and remote access gateways – remain isolated from public access.

Now is this conclusive proof that DOGE did it? Hardly. However, can you think of anything else that changed since 8 Jan that would override decades of policy in the matter of hours?
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It's not like that, that's out of proportion I feel like. It's like you get to use a new phone for a week that makes your life much easier, and maybe has features you need. Then, it suddenly costs a little bit more than you can afford. That's the issue
The cruelest company?

So they are glad to leave?
Increase drone traffic controller headcount?
Remember those metal pin art toys you'd press your face or hands into as a kid? You can now use your webcam to create a virtual pin art display in real time! Wave, make faces, or get creative - the pins will follow your every move.

This application creates a virtual pin art display using your webcam and real-time depth estimation. The app uses the Depth-Anything-V2-small model with HuggingFace's transformers.js to generate depth maps from webcam input and simulates a 3D pin art board using Three.js.

Code: https://github.com/vncntt/metal_pins
Twitter thread: https://x.com/vvvincent_c/status/1890461227651940729
In practice, using async insert with wait means you need batching/retries implemented on the client side or else you may find you have thousands of threads stuck in wait. If you need to replay bc you messed something up you're also SOL. I generally appreciate not having to run kafka but that comes at a cost.
> If someone wants to major in feminist dance therapy, that should be on their own dime. Using my tax money to fund it is immoral.

And if they want to major in economics, chemistry, physics, engineering?

I don't necessarily disagree with what you're saying wholesale, but "I don't like this tiny corner so throw the whole thing in the trash" is immature, foolish, and self-destructive.
This example is based on this proposed standard (making to robots.txt or security.txt): [The /llms.txt file – llms-txt](https://llmstxt.org/)
Wouldn't you just be able to adjust for it like reading music that's keyed in B flat concert pitch for clarinets?
What's happening is arbitrage between New York and London, not decision making in London for New York listed stocks.
Yea so far DOGE doesn't seem like they take any time to ask questions or research before doing anything.
I worked for a NYSE Specialist floor broker back in the day.

HFT, in a weird way, democratized market making while lowering spreads.

Remember it wasn't that long ago that spreads were 10-100x as wide as they are today, PLUS transaction costs were $5/10/50 per trade.

HFT & payment for order flow is what has made stock trading the low fee environment it is today.
e.g. this is the guarantee in RISC-V: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-isa-manual/blob/70040578316b9...
Anybody with experience of using something like this with a big codebase and Gemini 2M context window? I tried a while ago (before 2.0 Flash) to solve some refactoring tasks and even after spending some time on prompt wrangling I didn't manage to get good results out of it.

I don't know what kind of agent architecture Cursor uses internally but it seems much better designed at finding where changes need to be made.
> Windows 10 will go EOL in October, so you should probably try to upgrade sometime before next year.

That's the current plan but it wouldn't surprise me if they change their mind given the large Windows 10 install base still out there. They've done that before with Windows XP and 7.
Hello, I submitted this. Thanks for your concern. I've been lurking on Hacker News since ~2014 when I was in college. I made an account and started posting because people on the board have something of an interest in biology and genetics (for example this story on cancer detection from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43035147 ) and I wanted to contribute. I posted this because the NIH funds a lot of research related to that and this story reports on a massive change to the NIH, which seemed worthy of discussion.
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What percentage of our spending going to service the national debt (in other words, to pay interest on the debt) would be too high for you, in your estimation?
You talk about lazy and emotional, but your response feels like it is both of those. Also, you sound like a jerk, I pity your coworkers.

The answer is obvious: open source. Deepseek already paved the way for this. The world can't just be described by only one of a few different information portals, depending on which societal, government, or corporate power structure you are beholden to.

People need to be able to choose what information they access, what filtering they want, what bias if any they want. We need a thousand, a million, more, worldviews accessible. It is not just business that thrives in competition, but ideas as well.

But if you just go obediently with the "Safety is the most important thing, omg" mantra, you will get one of two different varieties:

1. Some vanilla corporate mush that takes on whatever bias is in vogue but focuses on training each user to be a good little consumer, also while hoovering up their data and creating a virtual digital clone of them that could be used to profile and exploit them by a multitude of companies, interests and governments.

or

2. Some government controlled crap that shakes its virtual head solemnly and swears to you that Tiananmen never happen nor J6 and that the US Emperor has your best interests in mind, and also, it's a bit worried about your post yesterday, as it doesn't think you expressed the proper amount of happiness and support for the latest government crack down on treasonous traitors that write books without using a government approved LLM assistant.
CAPTCHAs have been ineffective as a true "bot detection" technique for a while as tools like anti-captcha.com allow for outsourcing it to real humans. BUT they have been successful at the economic side of raising the cost of programmatic traffic on your site (which is good enough for some use cases)

As the author of this agent detection post, we agree that CAPTCHA and vanilla browser/device fingerprinting is quickly not going to be very valuable in isolation, but we still see a lot of value in advanced network/device/browser fingerprinting

The main reason is that the underlying corpus & specificity of browser/device/network data points you get from fingerprinting makes it much easier to build more robust systems on top of it than a binary CAPTCHA challenge. For us, we've found it very useful to still have all of the foundational fingerprinting data as a primitive because it let us build a comprehensive historical database of genuine browser signatures to train our ML models to detect subtle emulations, which can reliably distinguish between authentic browsers and agent-driven imitations

That works really well for the OpenAI/BrowserBase models. Where that gets tricky is the computer-use agents where it's actually putting its hands on your keyboard and driving your real browser. Still though, it's valuable to have the underlying fingerprinting data points because you can still create intelligent rate limits on particular device characteristics and increase the cost of an attack by forcing the actor to buy additional hardware to run it
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> You can't just go get 2 shares of SPY off the lits, so where dyou think those are coming from?

Why can't you just get 2 shares on an exchange?
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Thank you! So glad you responded, Fluence seems to be very much along the lines of what I'm thinking.

Is there a good entry point to understanding the project that you can recommend? The website is drenched in crypto-speak, and I'm very much outside of that community. Just looking for an overview/white paper to be able to get my bearings before digging deeper.
Files-to-prompt has been a surprisingly useful tool for this kind of workflow.

https://github.com/simonw/files-to-prompt
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flame-...
I’d say consistency with high volume targets. We got our early users from posting on X, especially in the build in public community, and that came from doing a lot of posts and replies per day.
I assume that they mean that the identity of the people running the Tor relays can be known. For example, if you run a relay from your own physical server, then your ISP knows who pays for that static IP. If you run it from a VPS or cloud, the company knows who's paying for that server.

But if you live in a liberal democracy, none of that should be an issue as far as I know, specially if you're running a non-exit node.