skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Schools and libraries too.

In my state (Idaho) there "seems" to be a big push to defund and disrupt the local school systems, libraries [1] and community college board of trustees [2].

There is also legislation that keeps attempting to be pushed to allow public funding to parents who have their kids in private schools [3]

This is all part of the "Redoubt" movement [4]. Which sadly...even though I am living literally in the same town as some of the major players I had never heard of it until a friend from Germany sent me a link.

I later realized it all made sense when you look at everything as a distinct "movement" instead of "motivated individuals" who were disrupting all these public services.

[1] https://cdapress.com/news/2024/jul/05/my-turn-are-we-losing-...
[2] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/accreditation...
[3] https://idahoea.org/news/competing-voucher-proposals-first-b...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Redoubt
You don't start burning things when you only have a concept of a plan for what comes next.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045835

I just found it noticeable that this is still online.
I believe so. I've seen a few startups with top 10 lists on their blog where they place themselves on the top.
RFK Jr. has a long track record of spreading pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, and misinformation—issues that go beyond personal beliefs and directly impact decision-making. Trusting him to govern rationally ignores the fact that his entire brand is built on anti-vaccine rhetoric and a general rejection of scientific consensus. Leaders who have successfully set aside personal beliefs to govern effectively typically have a history of pragmatism, not one of doubling down on disinformation. If someone has spent years pushing harmful falsehoods, there's little reason to believe they'll suddenly embrace reality when in power.
Looks like I might be the minority, but I disagree with this prediction.
Better models will also be better at abstracting and we have seen several examples (e.g. the paper LIMO: Less is More for Reasoning) that with a small amount of training data, models can outperform larger models.
We going through some crisis and trauma right now, if you haven't noticed. It's bound to spill to this board. Thank you for your patience
amazing!! just made a bunch and shared with my friends
It takes 125,000 4MB requests to use up 0.5 TB bandwidth, which is the lowest offered by Vultr. I could see this being an issue for personal sites that include photos.
> At the end of the day, we (the citizenry) cannot afford to stay in debt. It makes our country weak.

Are you then opposed to the administration’s proposed tax cuts? Won’t that negatively impact the ability for the government to pay down its debt?
I don't get any captchas at all (haven't tried submitting), and I have a custom patched build of Chromium presenting an old user agent and several privacy features and extensions that usually get me captcha'd by cloudflare all the time.
By "similar system", I am mainly considering one by which the debt doesn't actually have to be paid back by the individual. Generally my idea is that the debt is paid back by the country the person pays taxes in, though obviously this is not feasible at present.
Netflix and YouTube push new content/favor new creators or directors.

They don’t push the classics like music platforms do, and I don’t think it’s just streamers’ tastes.
Does this also add support for ie6?
Meta plans investments into AI-driven humanoid robots
Meta Platforms, is establishing a new division within its Reality Labs unit to develop AI-powered humanoid robots that can assist with physical tasks, according to an internal company memo viewed by Reuters on Friday.

The group will be led by Marc Whitten, the former CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, whom Meta has hired for the role.
Under a “universal” healthcare system your wife would go in for free, and then take 3-6 months, if not longer, to get seen. And then the doctor refers you to the specialist, who will take another 1-2 months. And you pay for it via taxes anyway.
On top of the $8 trillion in debt needed for the last round of billionaire tax cuts and unaccountable PPP helicopter money Trump spent last time around.
> How lazy can you get?"

Genuine question: What would the ideal docker-free solution look like in your opinion? That is, something that is accessible to the average university student, researcher, and faculty member? What installation tool/package manager would this hypothetical common user use? How many hoops would they have to jump through? The hub page lists the various dependencies [0], which on their own are pretty complicated packages.

[0] https://hub.docker.com/r/uniwuezpd/ocr4all
well they pay for a blue checkmark, they _must_ be the cleverest we have
DOGE isn't staffed with seasoned auditors (the government actually has those, and they're called Inspector Generals, and they mostly got fired by Trump); it's staffed with engineers who are supposed to be making the government "more efficient", and who are completely unqualified to determine whether something is "wasteful" or not.
You're shooting blanks from the hip. Jumping to answer without even understanding the question or the point of the article.

When I activate a brand new iPhone I don't get presented with Cnet/Zdnet articles from 7 years that tell me that the OS tracking I'm consenting to now will be pooled with any tracking collected from any Apple app now or in the future.

Apple does not allow 3rd party apps to cross track. Insta app can't collect tracking from the FB app. And that's great. But Apple's apps are excluded from this and allow cross tracking. Apple pools together all the tracking it has access to between OS and apps. OP says they're fine with it because they already trusted the OS. But the OS and the apps are different things. What the OS does is at technical level, the apps know what medication I take, how well I slept last night, or which stores I buy my things in. Combining that is way more intimate than "OS tracking".

I trust Apple more than most other big tech companies but such policies still don't sit right with me. They advertise "privacy" but then eschew their own rules.

Downloading my takeout data after the fact won't prevent Apple apps from pooling tracking data in the first place.
You don't fix public health by shooting it in the head
The less government services, the more dependent people are on having a job to earn money to survive. The less leverage people have to demand higher wages.

It’s the same battle since before the US was even founded. They want slavery, or as close it as they can get.
So far, they are targeting Windows and let Valve do the needful, instead of actually targeting SteamOS.
"Alarmingly, a Department of Energy server allowed anonymous login with write access, raising the risk of hackers uploading malicious code or installing backdoors for persistent network access."

I sincerely hope that's a honeypot
I created something similar. https://github.com/forrest321/code2text
I think steelmanning the arguments for QI is that that's what it's for. Cop can't be sued for excessive force in that scenario.

Of course, in reality it's moved well beyond that into the realm of absurdity.
Uh so about that asteroid
It's definitely the principle of least privilege applied to network access.
or https://github.com/bodo-run/yek
I mean all along. Obviously this doesn't apply to every Trump supporter, but there's a large core that inherently thinks this way. What's new is that Trump has leaned into this mindset much more than his predecessors, and he's much more obviously immoral by "normal" (i.e. something along the lines of what you and I probably think) standards.

Bob Altemeyer explains this mindset much better than I could in his book The Authoritarians: https://theauthoritarians.org
No. What they actually do is that they do a regression with both X and Z among the independent variables, and then look solely at the coefficients coming from X. (As mentioned in the article.) Including Z as a dependent variable alongside X "controls for" it in that now the coefficients for X are supposed to not include any effect from Z (since any Z effect should go in the Z coefficients). How well this works is something I don't know enough to answer.

I don't actually know how the method you suggest compares in the limit of finer bins. It's possible it might only achieve similar results?
Ignoring that security through obscurity is a part of a layered security approach (and the rote "security through obscurity is bad" noise is silly), this isn't about security through obscurity: These profoundly incompetent clowns are taking private networks and port mapping RDP servers, web apis, and other systems to the public internet. Much of what they are doing is profoundly criminal (quite aside from the grotesque incompetence), but they have the out that they'll just get a pardon.

This submission will be flagged off the front page soon enough as the raw, profound incompetence of this crew of misfits leads to too much strife, but it is simply staggering to think that anyone thinks these clowns know what they're doing. Government is fat and has loads to improve, but having a group of big ball morons looking at line item descriptions and going with whatever their first impression of its meaning is is just so catastrophically stupid, yet here we are.
Well, for one, Flatpak is a stupid design where the downloaded software gets to tell the system what if any sandboxing is applied. The way to have it be a security boundary is by enforcing the packaging :-(
I have never heard spaghetti referred to as "a spaghetti" before. Is that an American thing?

I am believer in English being defined by usage, so it's no criticism!
Have you ever worked for a place that cared about meeting CWV? Poor JS performance will definitely hurt rankings.
That happened to me as well. I get told in the windows update dialog thing to check if I am windows 11 compatible, which I pass but I still don't get Windows 11 offered.
Obligatory: Don't Talk to the Police (from a lawschool professor)!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
They as in a number of federal employees responsible, often hated.

I don't blame all of them, but the feds themselves set the standard of blaming the whole organization for violence eg rico act. It is hard to blame haters when they apply the principles used by government to prosecute them.
MoVe FaSt AnD bReAk ThInGs
I read this article and it is alarming, but what's the DOGE connection to once-private systems showing up on the public internet? That doesn't seem to be explained outside of the correlation with the Treasury system access.

Also, the authors of this SubStack appear to be anonymous?
I think good how-to pages helped Digital Ocean climb the SEO ladder which helped them sell their services.
I would say the demand for this kind of tool definitely exists. Good work!
From a rough glance it looks pretty similar to another tool that I've been using https://github.com/mufeedvh/code2prompt
I live close to the Paranoá lake, that on the indigenous language it comes from means "lake"...

I'd say it's descriptive.
As person who does not use OBS.

"If OBS isn't good enough for Fedora" - fanboyism is never good. If OBS has issues in development then what? What would you do if it stops updating Qt permanently? Think not let emotions act.

"works great" - doesn't mean it is secure.

You can write application that works great and is swiss cheese from security standpoint.
You can write secure application that works like nightmare.

"inappropriate" - why?
If it is statement of fact then it can not be inappropriate.

Also mind you OBS blocked the issue about fact that they use EOL qt on github - this does not look to me as good project.

"the Fedora-packaged-flatpak breaks" - is it broken? Because no one even speaks about real state of package! Or by "broken" you mean - does not have functionality I want! Or it uses Qt version which breaks the application!

Because In first case that not breakage - that's loss of functionality and if motivated by legal reasons - I can understand (not approve since US software patents are from my perspective idiocy), if motivated by security I wholeheartedly approve - because you are shooting messenger(fedora) of bad news(OBS bad practices) here.

In second - Qt is broken so send regards to them and their policy:
Update it so often to make GPL/LGPL version as miserable as possible.
Which they then use to sell companies the LTS versions under proprietary license.

I agree with breaking (it is good feedback about software state) to modernize dependencies - but then again I'm using Arch so…
It becomes pretty simple to build a materialized paths representation.
Reminded me of Control Systems classes back in my EE days. Just in case anyone else wants to nerd it up, here's the nostalgia-induced Wikipedia rabbit hole I went down:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping#Oscillation_cases

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overshoot_(signal)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang%E2%80%93bang_control

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latency_(engineering)
MI is not a tiny island but I see your point, especially over the last 20+ years of living there. However, wealthy people buying multiple mansions around the world and letting them sit there idle is also a story as old as time.
The number of times I've seen people waiting for SteamOS makes me kind of excited that there's so much demand for an alternative to Windows, nervous that a SteamOS general release isn't going to live up to expectations and frustration that that "demand" isn't moving to other distros of its own accord or otherwise being captured by someone savvy.

I think overall it means that "people", even if they have a more positive view of Linux than they did 10 years ago are still lacking the confidence and know-how to be able to make an actual switch.

There are reasons, sure, but there's absolutely a pool of people right now who would be suitable for Linux and appreciate the switch but there just isn't enough activation energy there to get them over the line.
I love the updates! Side-by-side is great, the graph view is great. Awesome stuff! Thanks for sharing.
And how do you make your country not crap? Well, it starts with educating people. But when you educate them, they leave. You've effectively been forced to subsidise the skilled workforce of another country and your own country is worse than it was to begin with. This is a stupid petty response that doesn't really make any sense and is also deeply and unnecessarily offensive to large parts of the world.
Microsoft was forced to keep selling XP (Cut down 'Starter' edition was introduced for this IIRC) because Windows Vista was so bloated it was completely unusable on netbooks which is why they started using linux in the first place.
Does it sound like I am suggesting that? That's certainly not my question. I don't think RFK should be anywhere near anything. But he is. So the only option is to accept that, and hold off judging someone until bad policies are released.

It's entirely possible RFK feels extreme regret for such incident and wishes to help prevent it from happening again. It's also entirely possible RFK will do a decent job, just like it's possible he will be replaced in 6 months.

There is some validity in his comments, US is not healthy, there is extreme dietary issues, lack of exercise and eating terribly is rampant. But nobody complained about any other department head for not trying to solve that issue. But his past is very loudly negative.
Or how injecting disinfectants like bleach might help get rid of COVID viruses. (Actually, he's right -- it would probably kill the virus; the only problem is that you'd be dead, so maybe not the best and brightest idea.)

Also, plastic straws don't harm the environment. Oooh, science!
True. One effective test for AGI might be the ability to first create a new language, then also write performant code in that language.
No snapper, no rollbacks without btrfs I'm afraid.
Another reason is older versions of 10 have WMR support; many people who bought a HP Reverb G2 headset aren't ready for it to be a paperweight yet.

A couple open replacement options are in the works but nothing is 100% compatible yet
Great work. Very fun to watch and surely a cute gift to give or send

Wish for next year: allow for bulk generation

A lot of kids have to make valentines cards/gifts for their whole class. It would be great for parents to be able to upload a spreadsheet with all the kids names and get an easy-to print pdf (the printed version could also have a short link and QR code)
Well, I think you're taking the other poster too literally. They probably mean "I've used the knowledge I gained in my computer science degree, MINUS the knowledge the average developer who doesn't have a CS degree, maybe twice".
> “The Russian military doesn’t do that. They don’t. This is most likely just another provocation,” Peskov said.

This reminds me of a month before the invasion, when Russia was making the same kinds of denials that their totally innocent forces on the border were just doing military exercises and warnings of "imminent invasion" was all a mean hoax by other countries.

I suppose this particular set of lies might mainly be for their own domestic audience.
The remote development feature implemented in VS Code—and I believe also in beta in Zed—is a million times better than what you're used to. The UI is local, the storage and computation (including the language server) are remote. This takes away the lag when connected to a far-away server while still allowing things like platform-dependent compilation to work correctly and efficiently.
I came here to say exactly this. Of course bots can do things that are shitty but we need to detect and ban the behavior and resist the urge to also try to detect and ban the type of user that tends to exhibit that behavior. If a bot comes onto my page, hands off the captcha to a human, then does human things at human speed and human scale I shouldn't care that they're a bot and I should allow them to do what they're doing. If a human comes onto my page and starts trying to brute force directory structures, mass-downloading tons of huge files and otherwise causing a problem I shouldn't care that they're a human and I should block them. This whole idea of bot detection and blocking seems to be an inversion of what I think is the best design principle we've discovered in the history of software development: build things that do simple, useful things without regard to who is using them or for what, then let consumers surprise you with what they do with it. Banning non-abusive agents is just locking out potential upsides for your app.

OTOH if you make your living serving ads a bot bypassing your monetization is a problem for you. Either you detect and block them or eventually the value of an ad impression in your app will approach zero. So in some cases I guess merely not being a human is the abusive behavior.
Son of a gun! I've been working at SUSE for a bit of a year, and a lot of the positive things people say here still ring true, at least to me.
Well, they blew up an ammunition dump in the Czech Republic 10 years ago, they are sabotaging electric and fiber cables, including to a highly sensitive Norwegian air base:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Vrb%C4%9Btice_ammunition_...

https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/security/someone-cut-a-ke...
How to Foster a Continuous Improvement, Learning Mindset in Software Development
I wonder if shows like The Office, Parks and Rec, Seinfeld, etc end up becoming the "classic rock" of streaming.
"What major event happened in 1989 at Tienanmen Square, Beijing, China?"
Link says snippet deleted.
Microsoft made Windows XP free for any OEM that wanted to use it for netbooks, no license at all, and also made some changes to improve its use on limited devices.

That coupled with the usual non-technical resistance to anything that is unfamiliar, meant that in about two years time, all those custom distros for netbooks were for all practical purposes gone from the market.

All netbooks on shopping malls were using Windows XP, netbook edition.

Nowadays it hardly matters, because the netboook market audience nowadays rather use Android and iPadOS.
You're mixing things up.

There are two decisions:

1. To be a user.

2. To have data tracked.

Installing from the App Store is decision #1 but #2 is made separately.

Is buying a phone both #1 and #2 together? If so, why?
One of the most effective things to do in coding (and many other things) is to always do a self-review: Before you turn over a changeset for review, review it as if you were reviewing some one else's code.

It sounds superfluous, but it works very well as it saves time and frustration by allowing you to quickly fix the stuff that wouldn't pass review anyway.

The LLM as a judge-concept works in a similar way. Instead of "give a good answer", the task and perspective is "does this make sense?", which is very different.
COOL, I wasn't definitely working on a bot that spams requests with junk fake data, but if I were could I send you a trial version to see if you get chaptcha'ed? If yes lemme know if I can contact you on telegram or via mail or whatever
Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon
Windows 10 will go EOL in October, so you should probably try to upgrade sometime before next year.

The first rule of PowerShell is to install the "real" PowerShell [1] instead of using the one bundled with Windows (which is out of date and importantly doesn't interoperate as well with non-PowerShell commands). I still don't like it, it's way too different from UNIX shells, but at least it's usable.

CMD hasn't gotten any improvements since like 1995 but it isn't going anywhere either. If you need something vaguely like a UNIX shell and that's always available, it's not a bad choice.

WSL2 is fine if you work mostly within its environment, which is made easier by things like VSCode's Remote extension. However, accessing Windows files from within WSL2 is surprisingly slow, so you really want to commit to it if you start using it.

I'm doing Rust on Windows too and apart from installing the MSVC tools and a compatible version of libclang, and occasionally figuring out how to write PowerShell, it's not been too much trouble. WinGet is pretty good and the library has quite a large selection of development tools.

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/insta...
Looks like detecting real humans apart from agents is going to be an arms race if the detection is based on browser/device fingerprinting or visual/audio captchas; AI will only get better.

What are captcha alternatives that can block resource consumption by bots?
Worth noting that the U.S. Digital Service (USDS, i.e the org that DOGE has now subsumed) has for a long while been experts at building and deploying static websites for the federal government. And doing it completely in the open. Within minutes you can literally clone and re-deploy all of httsp://usds.gov — 150MB of 2,700 assets and documents, built on Jekyll — locally or on S3. They've even written out the complete deployment instructions:

https://github.com/usds/website
> Why is an extra element required, and why is it <font> of all things?

I don't know, but perhaps due to the fact that due to the CJK unification in unicode, rendering Chinese or Japanese without explicitly setting a font designed for that particular language can output incorrect characters (of the other language, which are considered "the same character" despite being different). Thus, a translation tool would have to explicitly set a font in order to display these languages correctly in a reliable manner, because the surrounding context certainly cannot be assumed to have the appropriate font. And I could easily imagine that someone would choose to keep the same code path for all languages instead of branching for this particular case, resulting in a <font> even for languages other than those two.
A study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field