skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As is typical for media on this issue, that article is highly misleading. That's the House, not DOGE, asking a committee to cut an average of $88 billion per year over the next decade. That committee in particular also has oversight over a stupidly large number of things from commerce to energy (as per their name) and everything inside which somehow even includes healthcare as well.

But it's impossible to cut mandatory programs' spending directly without a law passed which would require a super-majority in the Senate due to filibusters. On that note, consider now how critical the filibuster is. It wasn't long ago that Democrats wanted to end the filibuster to try to roughshod some voting law changes. Had that succeeded then now the Republican party on a super-narrow majority in the Senate would similarly be able to pass literally any law they want. Checks and balances are important because tomorrow will not be like today - a truth that will remain forever.

So in any case, they're going to need to carry out cuts not related to mandatory spending, or indirectly cut mandatory spending which can be done by things like reducing administrative costs, not spending millions of dollars on Politico subscriptions, and so on. But healthcare (or any other mandatory spending) cuts themselves will be impossible unless the DNC is also on board with it.
Probably this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_headquarters_shootin...
> You are equating legitimacy with liquidity, and the that isn't necessarily true.

How so? Liquidity is a measurement of how easy it is to trade, and if it's easy to trade there are many people/entities that believe it's "legitimate" currency, or they wouldn't trade for it
Outside of Yanbian maybe yea. There's like 600,000 Korean in Yanbian alone, a huge chunk of which are North Korean.
> That there may have been people in the system that were 150 years old, due to the COBOL language.

Yes, but this is the whole aspect that is misinformation: there is no evidence that (alleged) “150 year old social security recipients” has anything to do with COBOL. That appears to be simply some speculative and likely incorrect theory that some random cooked up, and people that don’t know any better are repeating as fact

It is entirely possible that Musk/DOGE’s claims about this topic will turn out to be incorrect - but if they do, then I very much doubt that the actual reason, whatever it may turn out to be, will be due to any feature of the COBOL language (or the implementation of it SSA is using)
Invest as much as possible in retirement accounts. Compound interest is an amazing thing.
It's not like that though, especially when you have the *arr software + jellyfin all setup. It's literally a matter of type name -> watch at that point.

It definitely used to be like that, and it was enough of a hassle that I would get blurays and just watch them. Of course until I wasn't permitted to watch a legitimate bluray on a legitimate bluray player...
I did a lot of COBOL Y2K work in 1998-2000 and I have never once heard of any 1875 epoch related to COBOL until the last few days. We either modified code to use windowing functions or we just full converted to 4 digit years depending on severity. For instance, windowing code for front end, 4 digit years for DB, VSAM and flat files.

"The implementors* of the SS system chose 1875 as the epoch date for reasons"

So, they invented their own date system instead of just using the standard CENTURY-DATE or an ISO-8601 date from their DB. Highly doubt...
It's not that deep bro
What risk? To whom would you justify it?
> so you are limited to max of 6 concurrent connections to localhost.

I think a web server listening on 0.0.0.0 will accept “localhost” connections on 127.0.0.2, 127.0.0.3, 127.0.0.4 … etc., and that you could have six connections to each.

https://superuser.com/questions/393700/what-is-the-127-0-0-2...

( a comment there says “not on macOS” though)
Yes but they can also very well say "sorry, we're not tech support, bye" and stand there looking at you. This is exceptionally easy to do if there are 5 people a day coming in for that reason.
Well, I do know some people who really hate subnormals because they are really slow on Intel and kinda slow on Arm. Subnormals I can see being a pain for graphics HW designers. I for one neither love nor hate IEEE 754, other than -0. I have spent far, far too many hours dealing with it. IMHO, it's an encoding artifact masquerading as a feature.
It made me disconcertingly furious on behalf of that customer to read your message, which, however you meant it, echoed in my mind as "you have no hope, don't show up in person, don't do anything except accept that BigCo screwed you, the world is unfair and you lost hahahahaha".

We might wish for every customer to muster infinite patience no matter how poorly treated, but when a company behaves as unreasonably as described in this story about YouTube, it's not solely the fault of the customer finally losing their shit when "front desk" turns into "front line".

"Hire armed guards to protect the company from its own customers" is a wonderfully apt summary of the modern tech approach to customer service.
The way every other weird number gets into a computer: through math operations. For example, sqrt(7) is irrational. If you subtract something very close to sqrt(7) from it, then you need to keep making digits.
I love it when people justify escalation for the purposes of deescalation.

I spent too much time in sandy areas with a rifle.
> What has followed is people coming out of the woodwork to explain how this may have been reflected in the system since the system was written in COBOL

There’s zero evidence these “people coming out of the woodwork” have any idea what they are actually talking about. No evidence they have ever worked for SSA or have any insider info on how its systems work. It appears these “people coming out of the woodwork” are just random nobodies speculating in public (likely incorrectly), and people are repeating their speculation because they like how it sounds and they don’t know enough about the topic to realise that it probably isn’t true
How can anyone on the outside make all these guesses about the code and databases? It feels like a lot of speculation to try to prove a claim wrong, but without evidence.
Firefox has extensions on Android. I appreciate that switching your browser is potentially a whole thing, but the option is there.
It's still there: —
Is your reaction to someone eloquently saying something that it must be fake?
21.1 in under 57.
Haha, I had to look up to see...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdnqoVd7wY8
https://github.com/NeverCease/uchu/blob/primary/documentatio...
If you accept that Pi and Sqrt(2) will be represented as a terminating series of digits (say, 30), then 99% of the problems stated go away. My HP calculator doesn't represent the square root of 2 as a magic number, it's 1.414213562.
It's gonna be hilarious if: this is a data entry error (1957?), the payments are to a surviving widow because the dates just fit [0][1], simply the query was wrong, or more probably Musk just lied.

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_widows_who_...
[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_May_Fuller
if you can’t beat the Kenyans then join them

Zane Robertson famously moving from Hamilton in 2007 at age 17, along with his twin brother Jake, in part to escape bullying and a broken family, to live and train in Kenya with the hope of mixing it among the best distance runners in the world.

. . . and dabble in a bit of doping - https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/athletics/2023/03/26/zane-r...
I've heard prion disease can be transmitted by dentistry. Makes me wonder.
I know my EU country also had it, but you could opt out due to privacy.

I loved looking up number owners as a teen. I don't know why. It was right there on the monopoly telco's website.
Then don't compile in the drivers. This is the usual approach on embedded systems such as openwrt where flash storage is a precious resource. The Linux build system has a configuration system, complete with it's own UI, dedicated for doing just that. If that's your only reason there is no need for a new OS - Linux already does it.

But usually you don't bother. You just compile everything as modules, and Linux only loads the modules for the hardware it discovers. Doing creates zero long term overhead, except for the storage space the modules consume on disk. Disk is near free in cloud systems.
Also they do a heck of a lot more than retirement benefits. And really, it could actually be a survivor benefit and the deceased person could have been born 150 years ago and the survivor still living.
Great video. The narrator mentions ubiquitous surveillance and facial recognition multiple times as bad things. We have that in the USA and Europe too, getting more surveilled all the time, and lied to about it. At this point calling attention to the Chinese surveillance state as if America, Britain, Australia, or Canada occupy a moral high ground seems disingenuous and misleading.
There's some, pretty oldskool HTML in there. There are font tags, bgcolor="", color="" .. I guess you can say if it ain't broken don't fix it.
Some quick research yields a couple of open source CAS, such as OpenAxiom, which uses the Modified BSD license. Granted that Google has strong "NIH" tendencies, but I'm curious why something like this wasn't adapted instead of paying several engineers some undisclosed amount of time to develop a calculation system.

The article mentions that a CAS is an order of magnitude (or more!) more complex than the bifurcated rational + RRA approach, as well as slower, but: the complexity would be solved by adapting an open source solution, and the computation speed wouldn't seem to matter on a device like an Android smartphone. My HP Prime in CAS mode runs at 400MHz and solves every problem the Android calculator solves with no perceptible delay.

Is it a matter of NIH? A legal issue with the 3-clause BSD license I don't understand? Reducing binary size? The available CAS weren't up to snuff for one reason or another? Some other technical issue? Or, if not that, why not use binary-coded decimal?

These are just questions, not criticisms. I have very very little experience in the problem domain and am curious about the answers :)
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It kind of exists in IPv4, but is a lot messier. Also, the lack of IPv4 addresses makes this a lot harder to do something like this in IPv4.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6275
1) Not sure where you think I’m defending FDR, I’m saying Yarvin lies about what FDR said

2) I truly don’t understand the “none of your business?” Whose behavior am I obsessing over? Only candidates I can think of are POTUS and his inner circle which… is absolutely my business…?
Localias is not designed for your usecase and cannot solve your problem, sorry.
Having been homeless a couple times the way out is rather simple in most cases if you're sane and sober. A days day labor is enough for food, propane, and bus passes for a week. Anything beyond that us enough to buy a shower at a truck stop and get cleaned up for an interview at a warehouse. You can trivially survive outside with a weeks day labor wages worth of REI gear on the coasts and most the lower 49 ( of course a junky would hawk this as soon as they are dope sick )

On both occasions I used this equation homeless -> day labor for Airbnb to clean up for warehouse/factory interview -> work in factory until deposit on apartment earned to get out.

Most the people actually on the street are nuts or drugged out. People like me would clean construction site, then take a bus to edge of town and climb a flat roof and sleep where no one sees us.

What you're witnessing isn't so much poverty but insanity.
Every time I sign up for something that requires a phone number it says I already have an account because the previous user of the number signed up. I guess I should take over their Venmo/etc and hope a bank account is still linked.
Also tried and recommended mentioned by America's Test Kitchen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phJOOVqEmL0

https://www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/4325-for-a-bett...

https://www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/8086-how-should...
There are two almost distinct VTuber cultures. One is Twitch-based, livestream-oriented, and sees vtubing as an extension of individual livestreaming. Another is YouTube-based, balances livestreaming with VODs and recorded videos (particularly music videos), and sees vtubing as an idol-unit-style group activity.
There are a multitude of possibilities, of which none of them were addressed by Musk with no nuance at all.
Yes, you can draw a line wherever your moral compass tells you to. My point was not about morality. It is just that regardless of what you think of morals as an individual, these people are all still part of the same society, and parts of both problems and solutions.

And in many parts of the world you have to be lucky not to see/experience poverty from up close.
Microsoft I agree, same as Google if not worse.

Apple does have the occasional third-party review of cryptography and whatnot.

Apple also have an actual, single phone support number in multiple languages and countries that you can use as a paying customer. Day and night with Google.
Obama supported civil unions in 2004, but opposed same-sex marriage.[1]

[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2012/may/11/barack-oba...
And they can have you trespassed. Hang around after that and the cops can arrest you.
As mentioned elsewhere, this is literally impossible. Directly cutting mandatory spending would require new laws which, in turn, would require a supermajority in the Senate due to the filibuster, meaning the DNC would also need to be all-in on it. On the note, keep this in mind the next time some party, which can't see past tomorrow, tries to eliminate the filibuster.

Checks and balances are very important and I'm very happy to see the GOP making 0 effort to end the filibuster in spite of it currently being rather liberally used by the DNC.
I love the One wheel, but it's a trip that the design is inherently dangerous in edge states (over max power output or regen braking with a full battery)
But can you do it and have a social life, a family, a balanced diet, good health, etc...
> It could have been written by ChatGPT.

Wouldn't that be the ultimate irony?
> How about “fuck you NVIDIA”?

That got the appropriate response.

Hint: it wasn't replacing Linux, as that would be an impossibly huge task.

Instead NVIDIA rewrote their drivers, so secret source code no one was supposed to see run on their secret source hardware. The system that replaced was asking every customer work around the licences incompatibilities by compiling it themselves.
Atop the Oregon Cascades, team finds a buried aquifer
A lot of Americans support America being the world police, yes, among them capitalists who like having international waters and various canals and straits open for business, but also a lot of Christians who consider more atheistic nations a threat to global christendom (hence the weird alliance between the American right and Orthodox Russia)

I recognize America has a lot to answer for (Israel too) but I also consider it preferable to a world with Islamic and communist nations being ascendent (the presumed outcome of a weaker America among those of us who like the defense budget where it's at)
Parent said "store of value" not "currency". Liquidity is probably sufficient for a currency (depending on the features of the liquidity), but it is not sufficient for a store of value.
When there is an enormous budget somehow used up but with barely any noticeable effect (and frankly, without much of an expectation that there’s noticeable effect), you can bet there’s someone or a lot of someones siphoning from it.

Btw even $690m isn’t the full picture:

> While that amount does not include what the Department of Public Health or SF Public Works or many other departments spend related to the crisis
Is this just caller id? The system supports it but many end users choose not to pay to access it, or don't know how to configure it. Remember it generally is totally unverified.

I ended up being on a bunch of conference calls during COVID, and from what I recall, there was a roughly (it varied significantly between calls) even split between:

* caller ID shows the correct name (but maybe misspelled, though misspellings were more common when the host tried to add/correct information from one of the other types)

* caller ID shows the name of a spouse/parent/sibling (one notable example: husband and wife both joined the call separately, both with the husband's name, but one including the middle initial)

* caller ID shows the name of somebody vaguely involved with the actual person for some reason

* caller ID just shows something generic, like a brand or "wireless caller"

* caller ID fails so just a number

Maybe 1% of users used the app and so didn't have an associated phone number, just a username/email. At some point I was surprised to discover that video calls were in fact supported.
Cultural cannibalism amongst Magdalenian groups at Maszycka Cave, Poland
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I'd definitely prefer drawing dialogs manually using some basic graphics library (e.g. BGI for Turbo Pascal and C) over Windows 3.1.
> why this spread exists

"...when prices on the Comex surged above those in London late last year, baking in possible tariffs..."

It's anticipating tariffs on the import of foreign gold into the United States. (We import a lot of gold, mostly from Canada [1].)

[1] https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/gold/reporter...
Did he work on D2 or DOTO? Regardless, too soon. I feel this one.
No, that's something like 4:19 miles, or 64.9 400 meter runs, for nearly an hour.
Did you get my email?

What is email? I find alley near market to squat and make toilet and bright light and person in dingy cloth and colorful noose ask me about email. KPIs. Ready for one on one. Last year I kill 15 barbarians I tell them. They look blank and ask if I complete performance review.
"I was illegally fired for being disloyal to the administration," said the laid off government worker.

If us tax paying citizens posted crap like that after we got laid off we would be labeled a "bitter employee."

Gotta love these .gov workers getting a dose of the real world.
Trump can ignore the courts, and is already doing so by saying Federal judges are partisan and have no nationwide authority over EOs.

Impeachment by the house isn’t a high bar since Clinton; the senate is much harder.
I imagine the original use of "bull market" was derived from this practice. If this isn't the case i have no clue myself.
I always found it most useful to have up and down arrows search through history for what I've already typed. So to run my tests via Gradle, I usually just type ’.g‘ followed by up arrow.

I think I set it up with
‘‘‘
"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward
’’’
(Not near a computer right now to confirm)

I find this somehow much faster than C-r
In my daily walk to work it's gotten far worse. Often the "problem" just moves from neighborhood to neighborhood in my experience.
I mean... We constantly hear that European colonization was due to Christianity and yet that cannot account for the treatment of the Syriac Christians of Kerala by the European colonists supposedly driven by Christianity.

This is the heart of the matter: any ill by an atheist is determined to be caused by something other than atheism. Meanwhile any motivation of an evil doer who professes a religion is pinned on that religion.
That's great! Thanks!
> US Federal government reached its limit on borrowing on January 21 and is currently taking "extraordinary measures" to avoid a sovereign default

Based on the current MO at the Treasury, it would seem that--possibly to the greatest degree in generations--whether Treasuries keep paying is almost entirely unlinked from what the Congress does.
Doing stateless NAT through prefix translation is still much more pleasant than stateful port mapping.
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I’m Aaditya, an indie app developer from India, and I have a confession—I’m obsessed with gossip. I just can’t get enough of it. After spending six months deep in AI projects, I finally wrapped up all my work and, for the first time in half a year, had a free weekend. Instead of resting, I decided to build something purely for fun—something I truly enjoy using.

So in just two days, I created this gossip app. If you love catching up on the latest tea as much as I do, you should definitely check it out!
The edit was a response to multiple people including me calling out the framing of game exploits as a reflection of ethics at all, and it was an explicit admission of having done that, and perhaps indicated a change of perspective. You are contradicting that post.

I can see why you’re dropping assault now, since it undermined @krisoft’s argument. It was a mistake to defend it. And as for doping, you agree with me that anti-doping rules are universal? Okay so marathoners don’t have different norms than other sports, or at least you’ve run out of examples.

I disagree with your equating of TAS and doping. But that’s mostly irrelevant anyway. There is no ethics of TAS outside of a competition that disallows TAS. The only ethics we’re talking about is the ethics of cheating, which is universal; whether or not the agreed upon rules were broken. It’s the same for speed runners as it is for marathoners.
Aww man I wasn’t gonna cry but you got me tearin up now.
Given that some of the hatred was targeting specifically religious people (for example, the CCP bans religious people from their ranks), then I think it's safe to say that it is driven by a dislike of religion

You can agree with their take on religion or not, but their motivation remains the same.
This reminded me of WorldCoin and it was sad to see it's still trading 0.01 above its all time low. I had expected it to go much much down further.

My introduction to it was at a local mall here. A person just approached and me and I politely said "I don't want it" assuming it was the credit cards or donations and he chuckled and said "sir, it's not credit cards" but I kept moving and then he pointed me to that creepy looking shiny globe/round thing. The moment I saw "Sam Altman" mentioned on a print-out kept there, I couldn't run faster out of there. I later read about it and found out this time around the creepy bugger was out scanning everyone's iris.

I think there are many types of scams after all. Good scam, bad scam, legit scam, illegitimate scam et cetera.
This is a good article and it's not just about the new administration threatening to use the US military against US citizens, it's also and perhaps more about all recent administrations putting personnel into unwinnable and dangerous situations because they won't resource it sufficiently. Why put lives on the line for political desires you know cannot be achieved by politicians who refuse to listen?
For those who prefer the default Reddit UI:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/1hrwytr/all_kindles...
It's not the use of electric control that scares me, it's the inherently complicated control system. A primarminarily mechanical and hydraulic system just plain has less things that can go wrong.

Maybe I'm just biased, but I believe in using the simplest tech that will do the job. You don't need an Arduino to blink an LED.