skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are some easy ones off the cuff: Kill a massive amount of wasteful private contracts. Remove the entire means-testing bureaucracy from every social program. Put more funding into stuff that actually gets ROI, like the IRS, the FTC, and the CFPB. Don't shoot ourselves in the foot by killing massively beneficial soft-power investments like USAID. That one in particular is essentially handing the mantle of cultural and economic hegemony to China on a silver platter. Maybe you don't believe America should be a hegemonic empire from a moral perspective, but it's hard to argue that it's not a beneficial position

The agenda here is just very clearly not efficiency, but cronyism, enabling autocratic control, and culture war vendettas. It really takes willful ignorance to think this is going to be good for the country overall. It will mostly be good for Elon Musk and his buddies, and maybe only in the short term

More broadly, I'd like to see the US return to a state of regulating finance and enforcing anti-trust in a sane manner. The boom-bust cycle and total crackdown on labor and consumer protection has turned the domestic economy into a casino that impoverishes the vast majority of its citizens, and the effect of bailing out this corrupt financier class every time they crash massive sectors of the economy has been the destruction of the real economy, an enduring public distrust of the government, and a class of insulated plutocrats who have been shielded from the consequences of their mistakes, believe themselves untouchable, and have now orchestrated a total takeover of the political process. We had economic stability before, and it was looted by the greed of our financial and industrial sectors.

Of course this all seems like a pipe dream. Those guys won. They have assumed control and they don't have to give a fuck what people on some forum say about them
Re trivia, I often find myself thinking "I would have definitely gotten that if it was multiple choice".

I agree with your second paragraph too. I often think of a certain tone of voice or pacing with which a line was delivered, and it ends up being completely different when I rewatch it. And yet there are still Mandela Effect people out there insisting their memories are 100% infallible and it's more likely there's a global time travel conspiracy to change a dot on a KitKat package than that they misremembered something small.
I mean , none of these photos is rare at all…

https://nationalpost.com/news/new-photos-reveal-inside-of-no...

2012
A lot of American urban neighbourhoods are quite impoverished too though. Probably more so than eastern Europe was, for the terrible Soviet architecture was functional, cheap and ugly but not necessarily bad. And eastern Europe didn't have the large divide between rich and poor that the US has.
Largest line item (via regex search) is this terminated DHS/ICE contract typo:

D&G SUPPORT SERVICES LLC
$8,000,000,000

PROGRAM AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES FOR OFFICE OF DIVERSITY AND CIVIL RIGHTS (ODCR)

$8M instead of $8B where it links on fpds.gov
Thanks, that looks like a good read too. I'll add it to my list.
screen studio + capcut + epidermic sound (and a little bit of inscribed xd)
I mean, yes. The total addressable market for some ideas is larger than others. But realistically, you have no clue what percentage of that market you'll be able to capture. You can guess, but that guess has a lot of uncertainty.

>Some people's entire jobs is to find a track them (whole VC industry)

I mentioned this. What percentage of companies that a VC invests in actually go big?

I'm not denying that VC's are great at their jobs. But I'm pointing out that the best of the best at this have ~5% of the companies make more than a 3x return. 50% lose money.
Despite the downvotes, this may actually have been happening, since a big part of Zizian theory was the idea that everybody has two hemispheres, one male and one female.
Not everyone does. My play style is much more touristy :)
There is incredible amounts of regulation around plane, maintenance. From specification of parts, to maintenance schedules, even all the way down to purity and composition of the materials.

This regulation is used to make sure that all airlines that operate in the US adhere to the strict and narrow requirements from the manufacturers and the safety testing done.

Whether or not you or other people ideologically agree with heavy regulations around this stuff is a whole separate conversation. Considering the complexity of this industry, I’d say that overall they’ve done a pretty good job.

That aside, whenever a major incident like this happens, it almost always means those regulations were incorrect, violated, or didn’t cover a specific scenario (increasingly rare). There will be extensive reviews, that will take months, if not years, to determine how to prevent something like this from happening again. Sometimes it’s regulation, sometimes it’s updates to pilot guidelines and training. Sometimes it’s something else.
> I'll give you $500k, top-tier career opportunities, and a resume that opens doors

And he is not going to spend three months grinding leetCode, after working for an unknown company and walk in the door making $500K. He will make significantly more than he is making now admittedly.

And being in BigTech doesn’t guarantee a job or really help on your resume in and of itself after you leave these days. As many people who have been laid off, it won’t even separate you from the noise. Especially if (hypothetical) you, don’t have anything to show for it but you pushed some code maintaining a service.

Again no shade toward the original poster. I was about where he is when I was 40. If you take away my AWS account , I turn into a pumpkin - an enterprise dev with above average soft skills.
Look up stress to failure tests on commercial airplanes.

They know how much peak load is supposed to be for the airframe, then they go well beyond it to see how the plane fails. Generally you want the wings to break not the fuselage.

You can in a lot of situations land a plane with 1.5 wings. But once the spine cracks you’re just a ballistic object.
Anything specific at all would be helpful.
You're right, but there are some things that are difficult to accept. Some dreams that hurt when they don't get to come true.
We don't have a deal with Brave. It was added almost 3 years ago, and nobody has even proposed removing it in the time since. Furthermore, it would be insane and likely illegal for a public charity to strike a deal to serve an undisclosed advertisement for a product from a private company.

I think our position on Brave is clear enough from the very first paragraph in the guide:

> We recommend Mullvad Browser if you are focused on strong privacy protections and anti-fingerprinting out of the box, Firefox for casual internet browsers looking for a good alternative to Google Chrome, and Brave if you need Chromium browser compatibility.

edit: ninja'd by justin lol
Genuine question, is separation of powers a thing in the US? Either it's not, or Trump/Musk will be stopped and possibly punished, or these articles are exaggerations and don't reflect the truth.
Is the particular issue here something that would be solved by more FAA staffing? Typically "give more money and headcount to the bureaucracy that is supposed to prevent this issue" is not actually an effective way to solve a problem, and a more intelligent approach is needed. IMO they need to be looking at more automation and less ATC headcount anyway. That DC crash wouldn't have happened if the pilots had a continuous data feed and collision prevention algorithm rather than relying on people in the control tower calling them and telling them do you see "the plane?"
How did the plane flip? Do we have any reason to believe it could be reasonably avoided with regulations?
I know the NUC I had had it's ethernet port put PERMANENTLY to sleep.

There was, eventually, a Windows program which hacked the device to take it out of sleep. But I had no Windows OS on it. Before I got around to installing enough Windows, the NUC died for other reasons :-(
The fact that people lived suggests after.
Did you miss the part about hiring being frozen so that they cannot hire the several hundred seasonal workers that they would normally be hiring now to handle the summer load?
Soul of a New Machine (Tracy Kidder, 1981) the experience building the DG 32 bit mini.
"Malicious compliance" then.
The median price for a Tesla Model 3 in 2024 was ~$47k. The median price for a 4-door compact sedan in 2024 was ~$26k, or almost half as much. I'm sure some working-class people can afford a Tesla. None of these are hard and fast rules, and there are exceptions. But, which do you think is going to be more affordable to a typical working class person? The $47k car or the $26k car?
American company, taking off from an American airport with mostly American passengers.

The only thing about this flight that wasn’t American is the destination…
In my case, the choice wasn't between AMD and Nvidia but between the iGPUs included in the CPUs, i.e. AMD or Intel.
This is why boomers and Xers are going to have to get used to the idea a lot more Kendrick Lamar style halftime shows. What even is the last mega mega band to make a dent in the zeitgeist? Coldplay? The Strokes? The Killers?
Basically there are no bands after the iPod era aside from indie sleaze and pop-country. 2017 is the hard limit/tipping point where hip hop and electronic music began to permanently outsell rock and roll.
If I just survived a plane crash that would be the last thing on my mind.
If you want to know what life is like when society is run by beings smarter than you, ask someone who flunked out of high school.

If you want to know what life is like when society is run by alien intelligences, ask someone who lives under an economy dominated by megacorps.
Maintenance is a regulatory problem. Otherwise it’s a race to the bottom looking for someone to sign off on a flight.
Gödel, Escher, Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas Hofstadter, 1979)
Because the apparatus for remembering is emergent, derived from accumulated training data. Only when the person's brain has gpt-2 level training data is what we call memory available. Of course actual memory as in persistent storage, is there from before birth.
sigh. I'm so tired of every LLM criticism being met with "well humans do this too"—if we are incapable of building something that doesn't have the flaws of typical human beings, why are we wasting our time and energy? We already have billions of fallible humans on the planet.
Ugh, too right. Going through that made me appreciate working on a legacy project later on, because I could improve things rather than watching things get worse.
It's strange to see so many negative responses that start with vague emotional language. It's almost as if a lot of critics didn't read the presentation. Or maybe they think the rest of us didn't read it.
The Dragon Book: Principles of Compiler Design (Alfred V. Aho, and Jeffrey D. Ullman, 1986)
Totally agree - apologies, looks like the monkey was at the keyboard again. It was well past the time I should be up and replying quickly despite even proof reading a couple of times - it was the last effort being the killer as I recall deciding it needed those extra commas ... lights on and no one home. Normally if I post the reply been sitting around for some time while I chew on it and check back if it's still relevant to the discussion, as such more replies end up not posted.

If not a full stop after 'cause' the comma should have included 'as' afterwards, also so needed to be 'more so,' no comma after extent or members.

> Social media as a platform to argue and discuss is a lost cause, as social media tends to groom to some extent the narcissistic trait in people, more so long term members, when there are serious disagreements, rather than discuss in good faith with a willingness to concede even simple misconceptions, the member has invested heavily, as the account is either solidly linked to their real life, or more often as an identity they've crafted of how they like to see themselves.
I don't think I've ever lost a setting from there. the manpage (path_helper) was last updated 2007, so I think it's fair to say it's not a very dynamic corner of the OS.
Is 1–2 orders of magnitude a lot or a little here? With exponential progress that could be a few years; with stalled progress that’s maybe never.
There are some things to have in mind here:

- the average person in Argentina has no clue how to buy crypto

- the link was available once, for only 2 hours

- to even think about buying it, you need some requirements such as a specific kind of wallet, previous interactions with certain crypto associated with that kind of wallet, have it linked to two sources, have your identity verified with the DNI (or other type of ID), and just then you could buy it.

Once applied all these filters, the amount of people that got to buy this is ridiculously small for the opposites to say that he scammed the country.

Take this with a grain of salt, since I'm far from being an expert on this topic.

tl;dr: It was very difficult to get that coin.
This is nonsense.

- Crypto building blocks are important basic research because it underpins everything.

- Good crypto (this exists btw) is impossible to beat, unless QC is available. That's why PQC is being researched. Think about what kind of crypto NSA wants to break, it's not your bank of america passwords.

- IDK why this guy thinks we need to shut down Los Alamos to do crypto, does he not think the NSA has datacenters of its own?

- The problem with "well, it's not a problem now, why are we preparing for it" is that nation states are storing everything that is going on in the internet, waiting for when QC becomes active. This essentially means you can assume every secret you have will not be secret in 10/20/50 years. Your password is probably fine, but if you sent secret diplomatic cable today, it might be unlocked for your adversaries some years later. These secret nation-state comms are designed to be unlocked after N years normally since keeping them secret forever is expensive; PQC is simply designed to withhold that number N.

- The NSA is generally known to be several decades ahead of the academia. They infamously knew and corrected a differential cryptography vulnerability in DES long before differential cryptanalysis was known in the public community. Saying QC isn't growing fast enough doesn't mean much.

- The 2008 financial crisis metaphor is the only one that seemed poignant
I'd go as far as saying, memory fabrication happens all the time - we recompute our memories when we reference them, and that result is affected by all the other experiences and memories we accumulated between subsequent recalls. Or, in other words, humans always confabulate (in the exact same sense as LLMs "always hallucinate", and I'm invoking this comparison on purpose) - the difference between "correct" and "false" memory is a matter of degree.
I noticed the same as GPT 4o tends to reply “Great question!” to my questions, supposedly to make me feel good.
Well based on your post they're apparently unrelated.
A Quarter Century of UNIX, (Peter Salus, 1994)
HN is full of clickbait messages like this. US and Canada can use a lot more trains, but air transport is more suitable for medium to long distance, such as this Minneapolis-Toronto route. They are complementary.

The accident occurred on the ground, any aircraft is susceptible, “more trains” doesn’t make it less so.
5% of total staff mostly frontline crew, could cause chaos. Especially if under staffed already.
What I'm not quite convinced of is that it is the regulation that keeps the airlines following the manufacturers' specifications. I see what happens to stock prices when these companies screw up and they lose a lot more money to that than they ever to do fines from regulators. Are the regulations actually doing much here or are they just repeating what the airlines would do anyway because they have a massive incentive not to crash even if the regulations didn't exist?
It's also important to remember how easy it feels to setup and use when it's all done and working.

When you're starting out you're learning everything and trying to adjust your current usage with the limits of the private alternatives. And then we live in a society there is the learning curve for those who want to interact with you and are somehow willing to cooperate and use a more secure/private thing than the tool/service they're used to.

Let people get better and encourage them to keep going is definitely the right advice. The tone, intent, and timing of telling people how to keep going further is as important as the advice or recommendations you're giving them.
John Ousterhout's "A Philosophy of Software Design" I liked. It was supposed to be assigned reading for Berkeley's data structures class CS61B, and I don't think I really internalized the lessons within, but after re-reading it recently, I appreciated it a lot more and found the material transcends how to write code but also how to architect things as well.
I gave up on the piece after a bit. It's purposefully and painfully obtuse and has far too much misdirection that serves no real purpose:

SOMEHOW MY FATHER CONVINCED MY mother to squander a date night and watch David Lynch’s Dune when it was in the theaters in 1984. I was seven; my sister, five. When we asked about the movie, my mother or my father or both—they may’ve coordinated their anecdote—told me they knew they were in trouble when the theater manager handed out to everyone in the audience a one-sheet that attempted to explain the intricacies of the film’s logic.

Now I am the theater manager. What’s worse, the production I hope to untangle is my own.

So:

In 1977, George Lucas released Star Wars. In 1980, he released a sequel, The Empire Strikes Back, and, in 1983, another sequel, Return of the Jedi. During Jedi’s production, and even after its release, Jedi was often referred to as Star Wars III. This is not to be confused with Star Wars Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith, a Star Wars prequel released in 2005. Also, until the end of 1982, Return of the Jedi was titled Revenge of the Jedi. This is not to be confused with Star Wars Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith.

And:

I write about two directors named David. David Lynch, who wrote and directed Blue Velvet and co-created/directed Twin Peaks, and David Cronenberg, who wrote and directed Videodrome and the 1986 remake of The Fly. I don’t mean for this to be confusing.

And:

Two excerpts from the screenplay for David Lynch’s Revenge of the Jedi appear in this essay. The first begins, “INTERIOR: DEATH STAR—MAIN DOCKING BAY”; the second begins, “INTERIOR: JABBA’S PALACE—HALLWAY.”

Okay. Let’s begin.

This, to me, is not an enjoyable read.

There are far too many attention sinks in the world, and unfortunately we're only alive for a geologically infinitesimal instant.
I really doubt the technology would've advanced as fast without such an adversarial setting. Economic warfare is child's play vs total war.

All that knowledge and redirected output ended up being extremely profitable once it could be used for civilians instead of the military when the war ended.
Landowning farmers is a gigantic chunk of the population, far bigger than you seem to be imagining. (Technically, many of them "rented", but "renting" land in medieval Europe was a stronger form of ownership than "owning" it in the modern United States is.)
For me personally, it comes down to diversity. If all other browser engines "go under" and we are only left with Chromium, websites can only be built for 1 browser. Although Chromium is a great engine (evidenced by how many browsers are built on top of it and how widely the underlying Chromium engine has been embraced), it's not without quirks, bugs, flaws, and vulnerabilities.

Firefox is built from the ground up in a different way from Chromium, with its own set of bugs, quirks, flaws, and vulnerabilities. There may be some overlap, but having entirely different architectures means we keep pushing the compatibility envelope, we get "copycat" features, where one engine does something great and the other implements it in a way that works with their own engine, etc.

It's just better to have more than 1 browser engine around. I wish it wasn't so difficult to start a new engine from scratch today, the sheer amount of features a web browser must have to get people to even consider reading your About page, and the overwhelming complexity of modern webstacks, mean you basically have to be grandfathered in as a browser that's been around for decades and has a huge amount of community support.

I am aware of alternative browsers, Arc and the like. I'm very happy to see someone seriously go after an entirely new browser engine that's not Gecko or Chromium, and the traction they're gaining while not being "fully featured" sort of sums up the sentiment of my message (I hope). Having alternatives is good.
I figured the reason why we cannot remember such a part of our lives is because our brains grew enough that the 'memory' neuron groups wound up converted to 'network connections', the connection and this is pretty much a result of a geometric constraints. Theoretically we could have a process of the brain relocate the memories before conversion, but it was probably selected against because it would increase calorie consumption by 5%.
Recruiting immune cells for cancer intervention is the future, but it will still take a while to get there.

>> Over seven years that followed the therapy, 12 patients died due to relapsed neuroblastoma. Among the seven that survived beyond this point, five were cancer-free when given the CAR T-cell therapy but had previously been treated for neuroblastoma using other approaches and were at high risk of relapse. All five were disease-free at their last follow-up, between 10 and 15 years after the CAR T-cell therapy, although the team note they may already have been cured when the therapy was administered.
“They go out of business”… is that way to say they rebrand themselves and blend in with the crowd? As that seems highly likely with a theoretically crowded but not regulated airline market.
>There is debate between memory experts as to the role of language in infantile amnesia. Human researchers suggest memories may be limited by an inability to give language to early experiences. “But there must be something more fundamental that also plays a role because we see this same [infantile amnesia] effect in non-linguistic animals like rats,” says Prof Rick Richardson of the University of New South Wales.

That opposition doesn't quite make sense to me. If you are examining the linguistic view of it, then what we're talking about is that memory requires symbolic understanding. Not just language (a fairly sophisticated symbolic tool), but also just the ability to schematize your various sensory impressions into conceptualized objects. My earliest memory is sitting in a high chair playing with Duplos (large Legos for young children) being frustrated that I couldn't connect two pieces. That requires a few concepts such as a high chair, the tray sitting in front of me, the pieces I was playing with, and emotions like anger. Symbolic understanding isn't necessary for any of that to happen, but it does seem necessary to store it for recall decades later.

The problem with comparing this to rat memory is that I'm not convinced that rats have anywhere near the same kind of symbolic understanding, so how can they be compared to humans in this capacity? Rats can remember things, but babies can also be taught sign language starting at around 6 months, which seems much closer to rat memory (the direct linking of a perception with an emotion, unmediated by a symbolic transformation).
I played one game against myself. As white, it was very difficult to keep my king from falling down and crashing against the black wall of pawns. Why isn't the symmetric version the default?
glad you like it.
Glad to hear that this tool will be useful for you!