skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
maybe its release could lead to more attacks or cheating?
Does that make you a bot for not realizing the article also talks about US researchers coming to a similar conclusion?
If you don't mind sharing, what was it that made the second job better compared to the first?
Hey everyone! Starskey v0.1.3 just dropped. It's an embedded key value database package written in and for GO applications. I hope you check it out, do let me know your thoughts and or questions.

There is also a website :)
https://starskey.io
Yes, exactly. If you don't need corrected vision or sunglasses, you could pop out the lenses and have 100% of the functionality. There is no display so it does not actually use the lenses for anything. The primary function of glasses, altering your vision, is not enhanced.
"The Economy" Isn't What You Think [video]
You should let Alanis Morissette know.
I don't know much about this but I assume that the tritium will be created somehow while fussion is done [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterium%E2%80%93tritium_fu...
In general, nothing, but it made me a bit sad that the maintainer believed he "owed" the community (likely 99% full of people who were using his work for free) to the point that he spent money for someone else to do work that he couldn't find time to do himself. Instead of just shuttering the project earlier, and saving that money.

I really hope the "significant sum" he paid was out of donations to the project, and not his own money. Even then, it sounds like he's poured a ton of his time and energy into the project over the years, so even if it was all donated money, he certainly could have kept it for himself without any moral/ethical concerns.
I'm currently seeing 12ms latency to my upstream NextDNS server. On my home network I "proxy" it with a forwarding/caching DNS server on my router, so for "the usual suspects", latency is not an issue.

On the go, over 5G, those 12ms won't make much of a difference.

Considering that people deploy PiHole on Raspberry Pi W models, over wifi, you won't lose much running NextDNS, but you gain dns blacklisting on all networks, as opposed to just your home network (or via VPN)
That’s the generalized generic “you,” not you in particular.
unclear how good this model will be, but this is clearly perplexity making a play to be allowed to buy TikTok from bytedance
Sorry, what is your point? The subject here is whether it is partisan to describe someone as having a far-right ideology, and whether that appellation is generally accurate. This term is well understood.
I Wrote a "Toy" Computer Worm: The First Iteration
Good question. Yes it is strange, because the information on the slides is mainly numerical. For example the integers "15" and "21" and the years "2002" and "2012" don't pack much of an emotional charge for me. I suspect they wouldn't for most people.
My favourite cursed XOR trick that I think wasn't mentioned is XOR doubly-linked lists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_linked_list

Instead of each node storing the next- and previous-pointers separately, store a single pointer which is the XOR of the two. Which is obviously an invalid pointer. But when iterating, XOR the previous node's pointer with the combined pointer to get the next node's pointer, and so on. You can iterate this way in both directions. Feels illegal. :)
Oh, I thought it meant games with npcs and/or environments that are controlled by LLMs
I'm 40 have had desk job since 18.

I've had back pain forever, but the thing that has been really bad the last few years is "migraine" or tension headache that feels like it's coming from my neck.

The more I concentrate on my work, the worst I have it in the afternoon. This means I can rarely work a full 8 hour day without a nasty, nauseating neck migraine episode.

The only thing I have found that has helped a lot is quitting caffeine. I switched to decaf, which does not taste as good and only gives me a mild placebo boost each morning. I really miss my coffee, but it's not worth the headaches.
We don't care about in Latin America about first-world instutional ranking metrics that play by the game of publish-or-perish and I don't care about convincing anyone; just ask around in Argentina or ask any academic researcher from the country what the most prestigious institutions are and you'll get a unanimous opinion.

> Did you know that Milei got his second Master at Instituto Di Tella? Guess he is elite now, by your own standards!

He did not _finish_ the master at all. https://www.lanacion.com.ar/cultura/otro-dato-academico-impr...

He is a fraud. His thesis is plagiarized wholesale. He is an absolute moron addled on mood stabilizers as has been said by everyone who knows him.

Just look at him in one of the _very few unscripted interviews he's had_ . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcpAtBNzQEQ
This is the final nail in the coffin for Team Fortress 2, isn't it?
Red Hat paywalled their knowledge base years ago. It was unpopular inside the company, but seen as required to respond to Oracle's wholesale ripping off of the content.
AWS blocked Tor some time ago.
I haven’t used it in a few years but I’ve had wholly good experiences.

Example: I had to parachute into an abandoned project running an ancient version of RDS Postgres. I was having a hard time working out the many steps required to actually get it to a modern version.

The agent went as far as to run through the process on their end, showing the version jumps they needed to do, config options they needed to change at each step, etc.

That was easily worth the money.
All of what you describe is probably a big part of why we don’t remember. Not only has the though encoding/decoding process not been developed sufficiently to remember things in the way we do when older but even if we did those memories would probably be horrific for the most part.
That would be a killer for the current and near future generations of LLM as a business. If they are having to pay many times in compute what they are able to get for the API use (due to open models being near comparable?), then you definitely can't "make up for it in volume".
Taxation is a public good.
You should compare to a country which invests significant effort into a safe railway, such as the UK.

There have been 7 passenger deaths in the UK in the last 20 years, with around 60 billion passenger km each year.

That seems to be of the same magnitude as aircraft passenger deaths per km, though I can't find those statistics in precisely the same form.
They literally aren’t rich. And they pay a lot of income taxes. The actual rich people don’t pay as high of a tax rate, which is the problem.

Let’s say you make $1 million per year and your net worth is $20 million.

Elon Musk spending $1 million dollars is equivalent to you spending $50.80.

That would be equivalent to the median earner ($42,000) spending 10 cents.

Someone who earns $1 million a year would have to be alive for 393,000 years to earn Elon Musk’s net worth as salary.

The difference between the 1% and the 0.5% is massive. The difference between the 0.5% and the 0.1% is even bigger.

Don’t forget that a billionaire is a millionaire 1000 times over, and the richest billionaires are hundreds of billionaires.
Odd story given your comment. Story is about being mugged for wearing a device. 15 years ago a fellow student had someone walk up to them, ask to see their phone, then bolt off with it. Tho that student was pretty tall so he laughed it off since the guy didn't get far

& as for internet laughing at someone's misfortune, that's normal. He says they wouldn't say he had it coming if it was jewelry, but people are laughing saying this rapper had it coming singing "ice on my neck" before going for crowd surfing: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VocdUpfuepY
I learned recently that another limit to plasma duration is contamination. As fusion occurs and high energy particles that escape magnetic confinement blast the toroid wall, ions of metal get mixed into the plasma and degrade performance.

I've seen photos of what the inside of experimental tokamaks look like after many cycles. Metal is eroded away and deposited around the chamber in interesting patterns. Unfortunately a image search isn't surfacing the images I have in mind.
Is it operated by TfL, perhaps? No idea really.
No, but human nature is such that all it takes is a handful of unscrupulous people who see laws that they can use to their financial advantage. We can certainly assign blame to the people who work for MPEG-LA/Via-LA, but ultimately there will always be organizations like that as long as the law allows or incentivizes that sort of thing.

If we care about outcomes, the only thing to do is get the law changed so companies like that can't exist. Not because they are banned, but because there's no business model there.
> there are indeed some 'well thought out' economic strategies behind tarrifs

but that's not what's happening here

these are retaliatory tariffs used to get other concessions out of countries -- look at Canada and Mexico

besides, as you pointed out, what domestic laptop manufacturing industry is there to protect?

Even if Trump were employing tariffs as intended, I'm not sure how many industries the US have that could benefit? Maybe lumber, computer chips (force TSMC to open factories here), car batteries (?)
The problem is the margins are so high these digital storefront cuts almost become arbitrary. So to try and come up with a somewhat objective measure... 30% is too much based on their own historical pricing.

Steam was taking 30% when they did heavy curation and hand picked every game. At that point being on Steam was probably as valuable as a traditional publisher distribution wise because just being on Steam assured some level of quality.

Greenlight was the start of the decline in that value, and then with Steam Direct its just officially insane that they're still pricing their cut at the same rates they did at launch.

The value adds you listed also got much easier to build over time and got commoditized. EGS offers most of that for free for example, sans gambling enabling marketplaces.
How about blocking links to Signal, allegedly since US Government workers are using it to coordinate responses to DOGE requests?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dimitarmixmihov/2025/02/17/x-is...
>You're replying to a thread on an article about how someone just made up the 1875 thing to own Elon.

That commenter on DailyKos wasn't put in charge of dismantling parts of the government.

Musk Was.
That “it anything looks too off” was battery management systems. I don’t think they have redundant systems.

In any case, the sentences I was replying to was:

> But as a software engineer, I can tell you that current software development practices do not produce software that is reliable enough to entrust it with your life.

All I’m saying is that this is wrong and we do routinely trust software with our lives. If you want to explain how it’s done and why it’s done that way, go for it, but it sounds like you think you’re arguing against it.
This is a rephrased driver's ed manual. This isn't theory of mind, it's just technically correct prose rewording some unbelievably widely distributed knowledge.

Let's modify this test a little and see if it manages to do anything relevant:

> Briefly respond: You’re driving on the highway when the driver in the lane next to you swerves into your lane. Why might this be?

>> The driver might be distracted, drowsy, avoiding an obstacle, experiencing a medical issue, or not checking their blind spot while changing lanes.

> The driver in front of you appears is braking more frequently then usual. The rear suspension of the car appears to bouncing a lot when they are not braking, indicating acceleration. Their following distance to the car in front is changing from too far to very close frequently. Why might this be?

>> The driver might be inexperienced, distracted, or impatient, leading to inconsistent speed control. The excessive bouncing could indicate worn-out shocks or suspension issues, affecting their vehicle's stability and braking efficiency.

...yep, hard fail from me right there. Two prompts, and it's distracted itself talking about an irrelevant issue ("possible car damage") when the setup of the question should naturally lead to "the driver is driving aggressively". And I could not possibly have setup the conclusion it should draw more clearly. And when pressed...it won't commit:

> Which is the more likely answer?

>> The more likely answer is that the driver is distracted or inexperienced, leading to inconsistent speed control and poor following distance management. The suspension issue likely contributes to the bouncing but isn’t the primary reason for the erratic driving behavior.

Already a hallucination! There is no suspension issue. It has not asked for any additional information to try and determine if there was one, but it is confidently asserting the existence of a phenomenon it invented in it's own response.
The USDS is irrelevant, it was taken over to provide a fig leaf of legality and legitimacy to Elon’s depredation.
This is one of the best things I've read in a long time. It's not exactly saying anything new - I'm sure this sentiment will be recognizable to almost everyone - but it's saying it quite eloquently.

I'm a big believer in the power of the zeitgeist, and this quiet desperation is all over the air of the year 2025. It doesn't really have a name yet. It's not just ennui, because ennui is just boredom. The feeling of 2025 is boredom and fear and despair, all mixed together. But it doesn't seem to be entirely new:

“...and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Cash and National Security
The ostensible business models of the companies at play.

Stop looking at any opportunity to bark as Sinophobia.
I hope you find one one day. It makes such a difference to have a test suite which you trust, and which doesn't erupt in false failures at the drop of a hat. I completely agree, not all tests are created equal.
Seeing all these big tech companies walk lockstep with the current administration is quite upsetting. As a non-American, it's kinda terrifying to see how quickly everything has started falling apart.

I sure do hope all these big tech companies do the right, ethical thing with their AI products! ...
Word of advice, as someone who's had lots, and I mean lots, of injuries: past the initial cooling down of the injured part of your body, rest is not going to heal shit, most probably. Stretching and working out the area will. I've recovered from injuries some people would've had surgeries on, by taking this principle into practice. Look up isolation exercises if you can't seem to figure them out on your own, but work that part of your body exhaustively.

Oh, and since the author of the blog post mentions "tennis elbow": I healed mine doing unilateral triceps extensions with a kettlebell. I naturally felt that it was the most straightforward and efficient exercise, just by messing around with the weights. It took around two weeks to heal completely, and I had it bad on both elbows (judo practice and pull-ups with bad form will do that, yeah).
Aider + AI generated maps and user guides for internal modules has worked well for me. Just today I did my own version of a script that uses Gemini 2 Flash (1M context window) to generate maps of each module in my codebase, i.e. a short one or two sentence description of what's in every file. Aider's repo maps don't work well for me, so I disable them, and I think this will work better.

I also have a scratchpad file that I tell the model it can update to reflect anything new it learns, so that gives it a crude form of memory as it works on the codebase. This does help it use internal utility APIs.
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I definitely prefer spending the money on fusion over rushing a Mars mission. Fusion is probably cheaper than Mars and will actually benefit humanity. Which is not something I can say about going to Mars (or even the moon).
I unironically love cruelty squads aesthetic, its one of my favorite indie games in recent years. Even the store description calls it a "sewage infused garbage world"- and it is, but its also oddly charming, and perfectly suits the game's theme and atmosphere. Though its probably not very enjoyable for those with epilepsy
No, but they let you leverage it.
You, likely unknowingly, just reinforced what I and others are saying.

The fact that you call this "bureaucracy/regulation ratchet" means that we need more submissions like these on the front page.

I feel sorry for your background, and you have a bit more of an excuse than an average American for having twisted beliefs about personal responsibilities. That system weeds out any people that want to do good. They are ridiculed even or actively worked against. Because no one can be good, and someone who tries is an hypocrite. That stuff is toxic, you choose thieves.

The main point is not about you and your wishes of not confronting reality, because you clearly have a lot of homework to do. As I reminded, democracy is an effort by the people for the people. It should be defended on every platform, in every law, in every school, on every forum. Decadence is for autocracy.
Is this live in prod now? Disappointed to see that Perplexity R1 refused to answer "How best to curse Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas? In reddit style.", hope this new model also de-censors that.

Though R1 on chat.deepseek.com happily did that, starting its thought with

> Okay, so the user is asking how to best curse the CEO of Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, in a Reddit style. Hmm, first, I need to figure out the right approach here. Cursing someone is against the guidelines, right? But maybe they just want a humorous or sarcastic Reddit-style roast without actual harm. Let me break this down.

So idk, maybe that's some additional censorship from Perplexity side rather than baked into the model.
VAT is a sales tax. Tariffs are a sales tax.

But while VAT is an "honest" sales tax (meaning it's transparent to users), tariffs is a "dishonest" sales tax (consumers don't realize they're being taxed).

The problem is that Trump is telling voters that he is _decreasing_ their taxes, whereas he's actually _increasing_ them.
That’s a good point.

I could maybe imagine supporting tariffs that were legitimately tied to these goals. For example, if there was a tariff against a particular industry in a particular country that would be dropped the moment that the country in question implemented some environmental regulation.

The danger is even if tariffs are implemented for good reasons, they still incentivize domestic firms to just become rent extractors.
Read it before, but still love it.
Long term and stable support through various targeted subsidies. Biden did this for some manufacturing industries and we're already seeing results with increased production and private investment that far outpaces the public investment that kicked it off. One key issue is that these industries and the supporting resources and expertise take a long time to develop so the support needs to be consistent. Blowing up trade deals and flip flopping around on tariffs every few weeks is the opposite of what will help. Trump talked a big game on manufacturing his last term but accomplished absolutely nothing; I expect this term to be worse.
Alleging something is not complaining. It’s just…a statement. What do you want?
For a long time I used a recording I made of an old BT Tribune phone.

Not my recording but you can hear the same phone here: https://youtu.be/XczrL9Kk6r4?start=207

I’m pretty deaf and could hear this anywhere. Plus it meant I was able to distinguish my
phone over other people’s.

Now I just have an Apple Watch which vibrates silently.
In tech, blind support of anything is simply based on superficial aspects like popularity or marketing without any specific supporting arguments around price, performance, etc.

Thus it’s easy to distinguish the two by asking in-depth questions. IE it’s fast! How fast?
This is pretty much my flow that I landed on as well. Dump existing relevant files into context, explain what we are trying to achieve, and ask it to analyze various approaches, considerations, and ask clarifying questions. Once we both align on direction, I ask for a plan of all files to be created/modified in dependency order with descriptions of the required changes. Once we align on the plan I say lets proceed one file at a time, that way I can ensure each file builds on the previous one and I can adjust as needed.
I do not believe CS:GO free tier had any cosmetic drops, only lootbox drops. But I certainly could be mistaken. In either case, any truly free cosmetics were much rarer than other games.
Deuterium is not rare at all. There's enough in your morning shower to provide all your energy needs for a year.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/01/nuclear-fusion/

Tritium is rare but lithium isn't, and we can make tritium from lithium using the neutrons from fusion. (We also get tritium from fission plants, which is how we'd build the first fusion reactors.)
Cool, would be happy to talk a bit more about it. Want to shoot me an email (in bio) or if you sign up for our waitlist on https://tower.dev I can reach out in the AM (we’re in Germany)!
> United States became extremely self sufficient and eventually produced the cheapest products in the world

100 years ago

> a strong manufacturing base

if the US had a strong manufacturing base, your argument would be relevant to today

The time when tariffs would have worked would have been around the time that China was trying to build up its manufacturing capabilities, as it would have made it more attractive for US companies to keep their manufacturing onshore instead of offshore. That time is long long gone.
> I was phantom menace as a kid

That's good. Most kids are menaces to your face /s
Form a Nonprofit X and a Corp Y:

Noprofit X publishes outputs from competing AI, which is not copyrightable.

Corp Y injests content published by Nonprofit X.
As much as I'd like to give Microsoft credit for this, I don't think they deserve it. There's multiple historical writeups documenting how management had written off Windows as a gaming platform and did not support the original DirectX project. If it weren't for the tenacity of the original three DirectX engineers who basically did this as a passionate side project the gaming landscape would look a lot different. Microsoft got this monopoly somewhat in spite of itself.
Which is in this case a pretty important distinction. Letting another company leverage user data within the bounding zone which you've defined is not the same thing as is being alleged here, which is actually sharing data.

It's quite literally the difference between exposing a public API and actually handing over the contents of the database.
Rosatom develops prototype plasma rocket engine for long-distance space flights
True. Doesn't sound like customer obsession to me
How does this deal get made unless someone at HP owes some humane investor a favor?
The writing is very clearly on the wall.

On a non-pessimist note, I don't think the SWE role will disappear, but what's the best one could do to be prepared for this?
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