skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't bring this up because it would be controversial on this website. I think USAID is a tool for advancing US geopolitical interests aims first and foremost and I would like it to be abolished as well. But someone like Musk wanting it to be shuttered doesn't make sense because these organisation in one way or another advance the interests of US businesses and he would benefit from that as well.
While true, this is currently being debated if the access of public data should be reduced [0].

[0] https://lexing.network/swedens-latest-inquiry-into-protectin...
Decision anxiety, measuring things, and a preference toward bias are basically all you need to skewer anyone who has a different opinion than you. If they want more data they are anxious if you want more data they rush to an opinion.. Then they are either wasting your time with measurements when the project is done or not taking improvement seriously.
Awesome, so everything is trust based with 2 of the most untrustworthy people on the planet.

Phew, and I was worried for a second...

Edit: to the down voters, go do some basic fact checking for Trump and Musk tweets and then we'll talk.
It would probably actually work very well, considering my very limited experience with the dis VM.
Read the Bufferfly Revolution by Curtis Yarvin (April, 2022)

> We’ve got to risk a full power start—a full reboot of the USG. We can only do this by giving absolute sovereignty to a single organization—with roughly the powers that the Allied occupation authorities held in Japan and Germany in the fall of 1945.

> Trump himself will not be the brain of this butterfly. He will not be the CEO. He will be the chairman of the board—he will select the CEO (an experienced executive). This process, which obviously has to be televised, will be complete by his inauguration—at which the transition to the next regime will start immediately.

https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-butterfly-revolution
The so called "audit" is not "possible" in the US either, except nobody intervenes when the laws are broken. Where is the security clearance?
Because they already have something that works. Why switch if theres no advantage.
> What's the US equivalent of the first and second Chechen wars

Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, etc? We’ve killed millions of civilians in proxy wars over the last 70 years. And while we didn’t capture that territory, according to the sibling comments the justification was to maintain our status as the world’s reserve currency so I don’t see how that’s better.
People like Musk, Jobs, Edison and others are valuable because they see future possibilities - not pipe dreams but real possibilities - and turn their attention towards realising those goals by putting together teams of people who stand a chance to get there. Some of them - Musk and Edison in this list - do some of the work themselves, others - Jobs - are more 'visionary leaders' who somehow manage to inspire or scare others towards achieving the goal. Once the company is up and running these types of leaders tend to look elsewhere to break new ground because the day-to-day grind of running those companies is not their thing.

Mozilla does not need to find future possibilities, it got its goals handed to it by Marc Andreessen via Netscape: create and maintain a browser. The task of a non-profit CEO is to make sure the company remains funded. This takes a different type of person, someone who has or manages to create contacts within places where money is to be found. The last series of Mozilla CEOs saw this differently, these women convinced themselves that they were there to 'change the world' by means of pushing ideologically loaded programs and propaganda onto it. They considered the true reason for being of their organisation - create and maintain a browser which competes against the duopoly by giving control back to the user - no more than a means to get the funding for their ideological crusade. They also increased their own piece of the pie markedly in the process in some strange realisation of Orwell's All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than the others quote.
If you learn to program before learning to code then with AI you will never have to learn to code.
> What retaliation do you suggest, given that Russia tested isolated internet operations, and clearly demonstrated the state is robust against being cut off?

Their access to the world through the Baltic sea is not a given.
Me too. But it stalled after 64bit became a thing (there is a dis VM port to 64bit but I lost track of it)
Automotive brake wear particles perturb human alveolar cellular homeostasis
Darknet Lantern is a decentralized searchable directory. It's probably not going to take off, but it could inspire something else. Servers spider other servers with the same software, and synchronized their data.
Sounds like a system which could easily be abused. "politeness" and "decency" are ripe for all manner of interpretations.

In the US we see that the only things keeping authoritarianism at bay is larger the people following norms (like the peaceful transfer of power after losing an election), and the executive obeying orders from the judiciary. All it takes is for a group to not to that any more and boom.

Short road to where 'slander' means any criticism (however objectively true and justified) of people in power and you get a swat team at your door and steel boot on your neck.
`match/case` looks absolutely fine to me. What's the problem?

`try/except` is definitely weird, though.
You don't really need to assume anything about Musk other than self-interest.

If he got involved in a review of a program where he has a conflict, there's plenty of discontent government employees who would blow the whistle, moreover, if he made any recommendations relating to this, it would be obvious.

Regarding personal data, I'm not sure what technical safeguards they have in place, but given the potential reputational harm to the Trump admin if anything leaked, I'm sure they are doing everything possible to avoid touching it whenever possible, and anonymising it when they have to process it.
You can't use shor's algorithm with current quantum computers.

But if we were to get bigger and better quantum computers, we should use shor's algorithm. And that would, in fact, break the crypto behind HTTPS, SSH, smard-cards, and effectively all other forms of asymmetric crypto that are in use.

There is a question how likely bigger and better quantum computers are. A decent case can be made that it is unlikely they will grow fast. But it is going to far to say that shor's algorithm is useless because current quantum computers aren't good enough. You can't dismiss the possibility of quantum computer growth out of hand.
a lot of countries already have this, and without handing e.g. Elon Musk the keys to the kingdom.
America for example has this:
https://www.foia.gov/
Trump appears to contradict White House, says Elon Musk in charge of DOGE
I'm not sure that SCOTUS's immunity ruling is all that important here. It mainly served to delay Trump's federal criminal trials until it was too late to get anywhere. In the absence of that ruling, a president could still -- in collusion with their VP -- obtain immunity by:

1. While in office, relying on the DoJ's policy of never indicting a sitting president. (Not to mention the fact that they control the DoJ.)

2. On the last day of their presidency, they resign. The VP is sworn in as president, and pardons the now-former president for whatever they've done. (The former president can of course, before resigning, pardon the VP for anything they might have been involved in as well.)

Easy peasy.
0.1% market share.

Cute.
> beans

Have you tried various types? cannellini beans don't seem to have the same effect as others in my experience.
It's worth noting all those regimes were really only streamlined at getting people killed one way or the other. Their internal history is always a story of wild incompetence and corner-cutting. The Nazis in particular got a lot of undue credit for effectiveness.
> Sabine Hossenfelder

She really needs to stop commenting on topics outside of theoretical physics.

Even in physics she does not represent the scientific consensus but has some very questionable fringe beliefs like labeling whole sub-fields as "scams to get funding".

She regularly speaks with "scientific authority" about topics she barely knows anything about.

Her video on autism is considered super harmful and misleading by actual autistic people. She also thinks she is an expert on trans-issues and climate change. And I doubt she know enough about artificial intelligence and computer science to comment on LLMs.
No, they are not using the same algorithm: https://laurmaedje.github.io/posts/layout-models/
> Think Etsy, but for food.

So... Etsy

https://www.etsy.com/se-en/c/home-and-living/food-and-drink

https://www.etsy.com/market/food
That's what cervical dislocation is. The cervix is the neck. You're dislocating the head from the body, via the neck.
Lists, sequences, and arrays (Raku Documentation)
Economic stagnation is happening because the rich have been stealing everything that isn't nailed down for decades now, and "unrestricted migration" is the convenient scapegoat they have settled on (for the moment).
The common sentiment is that it's because of deepening cooperation because of ECSC, which was one of its explicit purposes. Not US military bases.
Bikeshedding is focusing on triviality at the expense of important issues. That is just what is happening here. The showstopper issues with tokamaks are size, cost, reliability, materials. This has nothing to do with any of those.
Obviously he's not literally saying that, but I think it's clear that this is where all of it is going to go.
I think that any sufficiently big organization has done bad things, this alone shouldn't be enough to close an agency.

However, I'm sure Cia has done, does, and will do much worse things than usaid
Big on authoritarianism and small on everything else.

Can you tell me a cost reduction plan involving police or military or do i have to label it law-and-order with a sharp salute for you to understand what i am talking about?

Communication is so messy man, two sides, same iterpretation ... just tell me when i can lower my arm of friendship, that absolutely noone could misunderstand.
Exactly. Being able to play old games is a solved problem. They might as well say that they need quantum computers on the blockchain to help people play pac-man.
Murder is also part of the “circle of life”, whatever that may mean, given that it’s pablum that means nothing. As is disease.

We rightfully find these immoral and don’t engage in them.

That’s not a defense of the immoral act. It’s just words to describe the immoral act.
Radical Pie
> Similarly the walrus operator. Other than an answer to “what is a new feature of python that you like” interview trivia question, really, who has actually used it?

At least in my case I use it all the time, to avoid duplicated operations inside comprehensions.
Ok, that's pretty damn funny. Thanks for bringing light in a sea of whatever the hell this thread is.
That's an interesting theory re Melania - that hadn't occurred to me. Though she doesn't really come across that way.

I think Katya Banks, wife of Brexit's main funder, is though:

>Cadwalladr said the file claimed Katya Banks had entered Britain on a passport sequentially numbered to the passport of Katia Zatuliveter, a woman MI5 had claimed was a Russian spy and who had had an affair with the Portsmouth MP, Mike Hancock. Katya Banks was also alleged to have had a relationship with Hancock.

Googling suggest the Russians have been on to Trump since 1977 while he only met Melania in 1998. (1977 source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia...)
Less termination of life based on numbers or some version of (sentience * number of individuals)? I find it hard to believe the sheer number of individual insects killed during harvest could match the killing of one cow, calorie for calorie.

Also, what if we increase the calories of the animal we choose to slaughter, say we start raising massive whale-sized animals instead, would that tip the scales?
You are gravely mistaken. How is the extensive union-busting, deregulation, wage theft and general disregard for worker protections going to help you?

Musk and Trump's class interests are diametrically opposed to ours, the real value-creating workers. They want you to work more for less pay. Watch you and your loved ones' situations dégrade over the next few years, and reconsider your position.
Are there any books or curricula you'd recommend to someone starting out, who wants to learn a more modern style? My main worry is just that everything is going to be geared to C++11 (or worse, 98).
>That's because slander isn't protected speech and is directly illegal.

In one case it wasn't slander. A person pointed out a politician's Nazi/Stati past on social media and he still sued abusing the "muh dignity" bullshit law.
I love those old terminals! I remember using them during late nights in college...
Okay, but this is a given if you don't run your own ISP. Your ISP can also see that you connect to Tor. Your data is still encrypted.
Thanks for pointing this out. I wasn't aware of NetFlow. I don't use IVPN, but I found this writeup informative:

https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/isp-netflow-surveillance...
Looks great! Reading through the docs it seems the subtrace process sends all data to your server. I'm reluctant to do that on a production environment, where API keys and personal data are being handled.

Is there any way to run it completely self hosted? If not, are there plans? And how will you monitize self hosted options (if it's possible)?
Humane (Or Red Flags to Spot for Next Time)
I’m a little surprised along this entire journey, no one reported that Imran Chaudhri paid to have a Wikipedia article written about him and his many patents to bolster his reputation years before Humane became relevant.
Dear unsupp0rted,

> If I don't want their products I don't have to buy them.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has helpful communication with vendors about promises made to consumers. Customer feedback on commercially advertised features is usually considered valuable market research.

Sep 2024, https://mashable.com/article/meta-rayban-smart-glasses-be-my...

> The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses are entering a new market, as the company announces a new collaboration with accessibility service provider Be My Eyes that will help wearers get the assistance they need.

May 2023, https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-previews-live-s...

> Apple today previewed software features for cognitive, vision, hearing, and mobility accessibility, along with innovative tools for individuals who are nonspeaking or at risk of losing their ability to speak. These updates draw on advances in hardware and software, include on-device machine learning to ensure user privacy, and expand on Apple’s long-standing commitment to making products for everyone.

Mar 2008, Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and CEO, https://allaboutstevejobs.com/verbatim/interviews/fortune_20...

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.
The Fed is a bit of an odd duck because it's structured quite a bit differently than most federal agencies.

But sure, Trump could absolutely instruct the FDA to rescind certain drug approvals. There are of course processes that legally need to be followed in order to do that, but he could do it.
Being against child slavery doesn’t exclude you from benefitting from child slavery when you use your phone.

I guess you should just be pro child slavery and enslaved some kids to do your housework then?

Cars kill 50k Americans a year. I guess we are just ok with killing peoplr and therefore shouldn’t be against murder either?

It doesn’t even take philosophy 101 to understand there’s a significant moral gulf between killing deliberately and incidentally.
Death of a thousand nits (better code reviews)
There are a handfull of artic and other locations worldwide that could benifit, but the 8 year refueling cycle would require twin instsalations to prevent disaterous chaos when service will be required, in any case delivery and the 8 year fuel cycle will require a huge infrastructure investment that would would need to have some way
to then generate income, further limiting possible
locations.
Vs, solar, wind, tidal, hydo,+ battery storage which can be scaled and built up in stages, availible off the shelf today.
One of the many things I dislike about the SaaS era is that this will never happen. Nobody in 2075 will boot up an old version of Notion or Figma for research or nostalgia.

Like the culture produced and consumed on social media and many other manifestations of Internet culture it is perfectly ephemeral and disposable. No history, no future.

SaaS is not just closed but often effectively tied to a literal single installation. It could be archived and booted up elsewhere but this would be a much larger undertaking, especially years later without the original team, than booting 1972 Unix on a modern PC in an emulator. That had manuals and was designed to be installed and run in more than one deployment. SaaS is a plate of slop that can only be deployed by its authors, not necessarily by design but because there are no evolutionary pressures pushing it to be anything else. It's also often tangled up with other SaaS that it uses internally. You'd have to archive and restore the entire state of the cloud, as if it's one global computer running proprietary software being edited in place.
Have you read Marbury v. Madison?
Singapore PISA average score beats that of the US by 110 points (1). The PISA is an exam which measures the relative performance of 15-yos in OECD countries.

Some information about the education system which produces these results: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Singapore

(1) https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=1
Wow. The ARC reactor is supposed to deliver 270 MWe (when/if it will be built) [1]. So 20% of the world annual production of beryllium for one power plant that would deliver about one quarter of the power of an AP-1000 fission reactor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_fusion_reactor
Ask HN: VR/AR – Current State of the Art
Hi HN,

I’m thinking of getting a Valve VR headset and was wondering if it’s on a par with the Quest headset?

Also I believe a Facebook account is a prerequisite for a Quest? Is there any such requirement for a Valve? I don’t want to get a headset that requires a social media account to run.

Any suggestions for alternative options?

Thanks in advance!
Show HN: New feature update – sharing link added to File Storage Manager
new feature update to my open source project - you can now use the sharing link to share files
Hm, it could be possible to engineer devices that use the excess photons reaching Earth along with environmental CO2 and H2O to assemble sugars and other carbohydrates. Depending on the specific reactions, we could even end up with O2 as a by-product, which would be additionally useful for us.
Yes, we used the Yahoo! “Feeding Frenzy” paper as the basis for the design of Haplocheirus (the timeline service).
No. The answer is to stop consuming eggs. Better for yourself, the animals and the planet.
Here’s a compromise.

Neither you nor I get to decide what the purpose of another sentient being is.
Same here in Germany, only recently we got the tax ID number as a global primary key to the objections of many privacy activists.

Ex-Yugoslavian countries have had a global ID forever - the JMBG or, in Croatia, OIB [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_Master_Citizen_Number
You might mix the approaches based on some cut off point
How far are we from making peanut butter sandwiches? Is that a valid benchmark to look towards, in this space?
It's not euro democracies that look like they are dying, comparing government to companies, yeah, iro ic that is USA that forgot the meaning of the word democracy
Also, this is a ridiculous argument.

If someone raises their human kid “to be eaten”, that would be the purpose of the kid.

Does that make it ok to eat the kid?
Funny enough, the songs from the website Coding For Nothing about grinding LeetCode and endless take-home projects seem very relevant, and everything nowadays feels like a meme.

Tech interviewing has become a weird survival game, and now AI is flipping the rules again. If you need a laugh: https://codingfornothing.com
They'll be following the safeguards that each agency has defined.

Most likely this involves scrubbing any personal data whenever possible, or anonymising it whenever it's not.

Most of their work doesn't involve personal data at all, and they only come across it incidentally.
> If I don't want their products I don't have to buy them.

You see thats why there is so much negative sentiment toward these glasses.

Meta, in their insatiable hunger for data, is trying to convince people to pay to record my life.

I have chosen not to use anything Meta, I will not purchase these abominations, yet I still have to deal with morons who pay to do their data collection.
I will happily replace my dishes with steel if a robot can load and unload the dishwasher
Has nothing to do with time pressure. They are actively fighting against transparency that doesn’t fit their narrative.
My post was not edited. While your post didn't directly answer with examples of what good they did as asked, I felt your response was apropos in recognizing the spirit of the question and provided the most relevant accomplishments.
There's the profit motive. It's funded by venture capital, so it has to grow at all costs (check) and then cash out.
All of these assertions are provably false.
Educators have gotten pushed out for having attending a 2-day course on DEI in 2019 because of 'standards', I guess. But having a known leaker access to ALL the data is ok. Glad this administration is hiring people based purely on merit and qualifications <\s>.

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5123000-education-dep...
The attitude is the same.
Your statement is missleading.

She doesn't say she is an expert on trans-issues at all! She analyzed the studies and looked at data and stated that there is no real transpendemic but highlighed an statistical increased numbers in young woman without stating a clear opinion on this finding.

The climate change videos do the same thing. She evaluates these studies discusses them to clarify that for her, certain numbers are unspecific and she also is not coming to a clear conclusion in sense of climate change yes, no, bad, good.

She is for sure not an expert in all fields, but her way of discussing these topics are based on studies, numbers and is a good viewpoint.

The funding scam you mention is a reference of "these people get billions for particle research but the outcome for us as society is way to small"
We never actually had a literal “Bieber Box”, but the joke took off.

Hot shards were definitely an issue, though.
Well, it'd better continue to be available, seeing that Amazon's devices don't support the Google Play store...
> They're positioned to make money hand over fist no matter how things go.

This is why they tend to move toward other things, like ... dismantling the US government.
Just to note here - with Mullvad you can pay via gift card that you can find at various retailers (to get a one-time code that you can use to create an account). Of course they can see your IP address but there is no payment/contact information on the system.