skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CISA and FBI: Ghost ransomware breached orgs in 70 countries
It's mostly the Republicans fault, but it didn't help that Biden supported it too, in spite of how other top Democrats felt:

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/27/democrats-biden-som...
I've had the same PiHole rule (for years!) which blocks all the text-splash-over-ads... but it becomes very cat and mouse if you want to block the pre-roll video ads (any rule that initial works... won't for very long).

Instead, use yout-ube.com [insert a hyphen into any URL] and ALL ads disappear.
Even bigger than my Yukon Denali XL by .5 inches despite having the identical frame.
Google has a system where you pick who gets an email / information on how to recover your data. That at least allows an affirmative choice.
i had to use it when amazon was a client of my employer and it was hot garbage in my opinion
This is a great point. If a small percentage of the population is openly and aggressively negative towards another part of the population, it makes sense that they would both artificially appear as if they are a larger part of the population, to each other. I think it goes both ways.
I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of this ship.
Do you have any examples of digital media/apps in open formats which are no longer accessible?
In the back of my mind I'm wondering whether regular parentheses couldn't incorporate the curly infix syntax.

In particular, a Lisp-2 helps here. Suppose we have (x + y). If that is interpreted as arguments + y passed to function x, it makes no sense. There is no such function, and + has no variable binding. So we can take the second interpretation: swap the first two positions.

Even in a Lisp-1, we can simply have a rule that if the second position of a funcion call is the member of a set of math operators (which could be by symbol identity, without caring about the binding), we do the swap.

The users then just can't use + as a variable name in the second position of a function call.

This swap can be done during the macro-expanding code walk, so the interpreter or compiler only see (+ x y), just like with brace expressions.
We don't when said President illegally fires the inspectors general responsible for independent oversight.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fired-inspecto...
Thanks for the reply. I've always been a bit puzzled from my limited knowledge of quantum mechanics as to how they are supposed to work. I mean you make a measurement on a quantum system and sure the probability amplitude is the result of adding up all sorts of possible paths but you still only get the one measurement out which I'm not sure how that's supposed to tell you much. All a bit beyond me.
Fetuses aren't people (it could be argued that they become people some time between the second and third trimester, but that's not really relevant because D&C is almost never done in the third trimester). Pregnant women are people. Does a pregnant woman somehow magically lose rights once she becomes pregnant? If the answer is yes, pregnant women do lose rights, then how much? What weight do you put on the rights of a hypothetical person-to-be compared to a fully alive not at all hypothetical pregnant woman?

>>>IMO at that point you’re essentially asking who deserves to live.

The answer is the pregnant woman. She is the one who deserves to live, every time, full stop.
The lesson here isn't "don't fall for scams", that's obvious, and it just takes a more sophisticated set of lies to trick smarter people out of their money (Enron + Arthur Anderson).

The real lesson is "don't use other people's money for your own schemes", which is exactly how he got rich to begin with. Banking taught him the opposite lesson for years. And voters couldn't care less about primary'ing politicians for banking regulation even after the mortgage crisis, so it will never, ever stop.
1. I don't want the federal government to know much about me.

2. I think the federal government executive branch should be able to control itself and inspect itself.
> Really?

Yes

> ventilate an average sized house using 20-40W

Lets take your conservative estimate of 20w

Quote from Googling:
"As of July 1, 2023, there were 145,344,636 housing units in the United States"

145,344,636 x 20w = 2906892720W or 2906.89272MW.

Another quick google says that the average Nuclear power plant outputs 977 MW.

So thats 3 whole nuclear power plants required just to power the hrvs in American homes, using your conservative estimate.

That is without the power required to manufacture, transport, and install 145 million hrvs.

However you phrase it and whatever you say to justify it, thats a huge amount of power required to replace something which nature is quite capable of doing itself.

EDIT: I have just also considered the waste as well. The average HRV has a lifespan of 15 years, so that would be 145 million hrv pumps thrown out and new ones built every 15 years. Thats a massive amount of constant power being used, and mountains of unecessary waste, as well as the power to process that waste etc etc...
You would have to quantify what properly vetted is a unelected bureaucrat is. I guarantee vetting for three positions are probably little more than validating you don’t have outstanding warrants.
In my experience, your statement is opposite of true. Hence the term, 'die hard fan'. In fact, the more fans get abused, the deeper their love and loyalty grow.
“later” as in as soon as we can get the infestation removed, which would be the bigger fish needing frying.

Not to mention the open question of whether we will ever arrive at later.
You lost all credibility by linking to PETA imo
Very reminiscent of "Tube Poker" (2005), A short mockumentary film by Simon Levene.

("Tube" has long been a colloquial term for London's Subway system).

- https://www.simonlevene.com/portfolio/tube-poker

- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818537/

Edit : in fact the points are exactly as describes at around 03:45 https://youtu.be/UttaYUv5zYg?t=221
Not divine specifically but I like the Wikipedia List of Dreams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_based_on_dreams#...
Before you were in violation of the terms of use, and most companies would rather pay for a license than risk a lawsuit
I still have the APK for one called "Backitude" and have kept migrating it for years since the disappearance of the developer.

It's nothing special, just a location tracker that logs to a file every so often based on time and/or distance moved (could also ping a URL with encoded location info instead). Basically the underlying data for location history without relying on Google. Its notable feature years ago was that it would do location 'steals' - instead of just triggering a then-expensive location check, it would grab the most current available location info as triggered by some other application and only force an update if that information was too old.
While I agree that repos with docs should have "releases", in GitHub parlances, with compiled PDFs/ebooks/whatever, building it yourself is as simple as

git clone https://github.com/f8-arch/doc.git f8-doc && cd f8-doc
docker run --rm -v "$(pwd)":/data fabtesta/ubuntu-xelatex make # or any other container with XeLaTeX that you trust
xdg-open manual.pdf

The future is now, old man.
This seems sketchy in that they're giving themselves N*M opportunities to find significant correlations, which they acknowledge -- but with a bias that a significant correlation is not expected to be spurious if it aligns with a claim previously made elsewhere.

> Some of the additional statistically significant findings (e.g., the perception of Rubin’s Vase and openness, the Horse-Seal and intuitive decision making, and the Duck-Rabbit and extraversion and conscientiousness) appear somewhat isolated, are not related to previous research, or claims being made in social media posts and websites. As such, they may be the result of multiple analyses.

I know there's a body of work on "False Discovery Rate", and I think it would be more appropriate to use some of those tools to directly adjust for the number of attempts they're giving themselves.
Basically a docker image that can be hosted in the cloud (or on public facing machine), that allows you to "connect" any device, including your phone, to any other device. Kinda like ngrok but at the application layer. The idea is that you have a library that integrates with your web service running on localhost that defines an API, which then is publically accessible (with authentication) on the cloud container.

The use case would be just being able to interface with your stuff at home without a 3d party solution, in a programmatic way. So you can offload LLM inference, access stuff on your local network, and so on.

Additionally, the docker image should include ways to mesh with other instances, so you can form at hoc networks of devices.
> Fraud has already been posted everywhere ($55b and counting) so if you haven't seen it, you aren't looking.

Not too surprising to find another propaganda victim…

Here, I did your research for you:

> After correcting an apparent clerical error, it now shows $8.5 billion.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302705/doge-overstates...
I didn’t. It’s just a giant security scam to let doge access systems. Didn’t you read the article? The USAID people said they don’t trust the doge people so we shouldn’t either.
> they're banking on Musk generating government pressure (corruption) to MAKE business be better

The thesis banks on patronage. Musk de facto controls a $7tn money spigot [1]. Losing billions investing in X is a win if he even sputters your way.

This is the reason power concentration corrupts economies--Musk's proximity suppresses market signals in favour of political ones. Elon's ironically recapitulating the South African economic disaster.

[1] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/gover...
LOL

Maga: Move Fast Break Things

-In other news, the US has lost track of several Nuclear Weapons after cutbacks left building empty

Maga: YOLO. My Uncle Jed going to make the Oklahoma City Bomb look like nothing. Yeeee haaa. Wait and see science nerds. Taking back the country.
Change the constitution then.
Your point is also covered in the audit report linked by the parent.

Cost was not the only factor. They seem to be trying to handle missing data the right way rather than use a kludge.

They did not want to add inaccurate death data to Numident records, for a variety of reasons, one being that it could cause release of information for living people when they're accidentally added to dead people records.
The SSA also thought adding annotations would legally require a new regulation and would have impacts on other consumers of the data (ie. states, etc).

How to handle missing death data in this case does not appear to have a clear and simple solution. But it also does not appear to be evidence of poor record keeping for modern records or a major cause of concern for "eventual massive fraud".
I am making the parallel because I feel exams and interviews share some similarities.
Oh, wow...never heard of the E8 or Andes, but I guess RISC-V startups are thick on the ground these days. And I can't imagine searching for G8 and not getting carpet bombed with hits for HP servers. But the fundamental question is still "why would you even want a 2 character ID in a world where searching for it (even without the massive historical name collision with F8) will make it fruitless to search for".
The egg story in the US is so strange to me. I just checked my local "premium" (Pacific Northwest) grocery store, and free range eggs are $4/dozen. (https://townandcountrymarkets.com/shop#!/?id=156440568471307...) I guess US food desert type areas are paying much more from the media surrounding this, but even that price comes with a warning on the website that egg supplies are limited, and presumably therefore the price would be lower in times of higher supply.

I have chickens, and the cost including amortization of their real estate puts family eggs at something like $12/dozen.
What do your colleagues do?

I see people getting replaced by AI left and right.

Translators, illustrators, voice over artists, data researchers, photographers, models, writers, personal assistants, drivers, programmers ...
Charles Lindbergh was good enough- and lucky enough- to be the first person to fly New York to Paris and became the most famous man in the world when he won the Orteig Prize. Six other people weren't quite good or lucky enough, and died pursuing the Ortieg Prize. If you look it up on Wikipedia you can find their names, but I can only name one of them off the top of my head (Charles Nungasser was a famous French WWI ace), and I suspect that one makes me better than 99% of the people alive today at remembering these men.

Everyone would like to be Charles Lindbergh, but far more common to be Charles Clavier or Noel Davis, failing, dying, and forgotten.
This is specifically not selectlist. "Previously, the Chrome team was working on the idea of a selectlist element. What's described in this post is that feature redesigned to reuse the existing select element instead."
And prior to this he was forced to do a 'nazi death camp PR tour' because he agreed with the nazi agenda on X. But sure, it's unfortunately old boy just keeps accidentally being a nazi. Last is he now tweets 14 flags.
This seems like it could be a good way to manage multiple toolchains as well (multiple golang, etc)
> I suppose you could just throw up your hands and say "not doing that", and just skip most or all of the celebs for problem users

Random sampling? It's not as though the user needs thousands of posts returned for a single fetch. Scrolling down and seeing some stuff that's not in chronological order seems like an acceptable tradeoff.
I took home ec in 2001. I learned to use a sewing machine, it was great.

But none of the kitchen stuff we learned had anything to do with ensuring that this week's shopping list ensures that you'll get enough zinc next week, or the kind of prep that uses the other half of yesterday's cauliflower in tomorrow's dinner so that it doesn't go bad.

These aren't hard problems to solve if you've got time to plan, but they are hard to solve if you are currently at the grocery store and can't remember that you've got a half a cauliflower that needs an associated recipe.
I’d pivot away from targeting developers and focus on "normal" power users—maybe even pick a specific vertical. Most devs won’t pay for a form builder, but people *will* pay for beauty and ease of use (which is why Typeform works). If you want paying users, you’ll probably need to add integrations so they don’t have to mess with the backend.

Also, I’d rethink the UX for the AI era. Instead of a traditional form builder, what if users just *described* the form they need, and AI generated it instantly? Then they could refine it with natural language—“Add an email field” or “Make question 3 optional”. That way, they go from zero to a polished form in seconds.

You already have the structured data and the code logic—you'd just have to build the AI integration. Luckily, most of the models can speak JSON now with structured outputs, so it's entirely possible.
Yes ! I like it even more when you consider the brainwaves that deal with...frequency...hmm...
A robot will definitely cost less than $30/hr eventually. But you'll be running it a lot more than a few hours every other week.
That's not the goal at all. And that's not how its going.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302705/doge-overstates...
> we got 250 years so far without imploding

We may have arguably recovered from it, but we rather famously did not get 250 years without the union violently fragmenting. (Our best record on that is right around 160, currently.)
Ongoing discussion (170 points, 7 hours ago, 137 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43113397
Why is this a bad thing if their job is to audit budget and spending?
The article also does not go into technical details on what this supposed god mode actually is.
Just a reminder that we are in the middle of a silent epidemic of small jaws [0] and that if you feed your kids hard food they will grow up to be healthier and more attractive.

[0]] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32973408/
Go until just before it hurts, which is a moving target that you will have to calibrate carefully
This is a very dramatic take on something you (and many others) are making extremely broad presumptions upon. It’s clear that DOGE is reviewing payment data and has the same access to various components of the US Govt that Obama’s US Digital Services, created to rebuild the ACA website but also provisioned for a number of other digital services. DOGE has the same access to services that USDS had. USDS was praised for its “speed and cutting through red tape”
Their proof: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.20392 (2024)
The Utopia of Rules: Technology, Stupidity and Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (2015)
ExtraTools.dev – Privacy-Focused Dev Tools That Run 100% in the Browser
Hey HN,

I built ExtraTools.dev, a collection of privacy-first developer tools that run entirely in the browser—no data is ever sent to a server.

I was frustrated with most online dev tools requiring data to be uploaded, even for simple tasks like Base64 encoding, JSON validation, or JWT decoding. So I made a set of tools that developers can use without worrying about privacy or server-side processing.

What’s available so far?
Base64 Encoder/Decoder
JSON Beautifier & Validator
JWT Decoder
File Extractor (convert files to binary/Base64)

Why I built this?
Many online dev tools track users, show ads, or require unnecessary data transfers.
I wanted something fast, lightweight, and privacy-friendly.
Everything runs 100% client-side—no tracking, no logs, no third-party scripts.
Would love to hear your thoughts! What other privacy-focused dev tools would be useful?

Try it here: ExtraTools.dev

Looking forward to feedback!
thanks! I'm overly sensitive, so I'm sure I'll find something to hate about the new place!
A key point of Rorschach tests is that they are always the same plates, so there is a large body of literature and case studies specific to interpretations of each one. I think that like any sort of psychological inventory the results are extremely context dependent and require a trained professional to interpret. The trending stuff on social media as mentioned in the article strikes me as more akin to the pseudoscientific misappropriation of things like the MBTI to compare different people in a non-clinical setting, and AFAIU there is really no scientific basis for any such thing.
Seems like this would help enemies of the US, now they know the capabilities, they can observe and likely use telemetry against it, and than take active measures to combat it.
The oldest N64 emulators predate programmable shaders. They mapped possible configurations of the N64 GPU onto configurations of the host GPU. But this is really hard and some configurations are just impossible. It's basically a huge list of tricks and special cases. For reference, I think it was like 16K lines for the color combiner, which basically does (A-B)*C+D.
I respect the spirit, but I can't think of a system of controls, or a matroyshka doll of sign-offs, that ends up with the small bank CEO not being able to give orders, at least, without the bank being O(1000s) of employees as opposed to...10s, optimistically.
Question from a reverse-engineering noob:

Why can't ghidra (or any other reverse engineering tool) be used directly on the .exe? Why do you have to go through this emulator? Is it because the thing you want to debug only runs in x86 realmode?
An Arachnophobe Pays Homage to the Spider
The young relative of mine was required to read one non-western book to fulfill a high school obligation.

Hen came to me since I was known as a reader, and I suggested Siddhartha "but ask your teacher if it's ok". It was.

Few days later I saw my relative and a disgruntled friend. Disgruntled friend had picked War and Peace.
CISA and Partners Release Advisory on Ghost (Cring) Ransomware
I think the writer is neglecting how all of this predates Yarvin via the political doctrine on “truthiness”, for example see the Iraq War. The 2008 recession is a good example of a manufactured crisis, if analyzed from a different perspective.

The American Monarchy project has been a long planned goal since the Civil Rights movement.
> Fusion is initiated by bringing nuclei very close one of another, overcoming the electrostatic repulsion

Protons overcoming their electrostatic repulsion doesn't mean fusion--formation of a deuteron does [1]. Protons overcoming their repulsion creates the initial conditions for fusion, but in most cases no fusion occurs. The weak force "chooses" whether fusion occurs or two protons come unusually close and fly apart.

This is a bit of a pedantic line. But nuclear physisist say the weak force initiates fusion because if we take something with as low a cross section as proton-proton interaction to be the starting point of fusion, we might as well extend it to protons being in a star at all. (A greater fraction of protons in a star will fuse than proton-proton interactions graduate to fusion.)

Without the weak force, we have no stellar fusion. Without the weak force, artificial fusion is still possible. That's both a blessing and a curse, since the weak force permits lower-temperature fusion.

> When the input nuclei have enough neutrons

Irrelevant for proton-proton fusion.

[1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/526471/why-is-th...
> Even a baby boomer can do it.

Even a WSJ deputy editorial features editor can be a sycophant.
Looking in the Play Store at "Top Paid" seems like a bunch of one-time purchases listed. I think a lot of it may be a difference between Android and iOS - Apple software seems to have a lot more subscriptions, but that's just an anecdata 'feel'.
My aunt names all her chickens. She will also grab one and twist its head of with her bare hands while carrying on a casual conversation with you.
Do you give the same benefit of the doubt to the 10s of thousands of civil servants who have already been abruptly fired without cause? Do you assume that they are capable and productive members of their departments who have been making good faith efforts to improve the lives of their fellow Americans? If so, then shouldn't the administration take a bit more than 30 days of careful analysis and deliberation before declaring their jobs wasteful and fraudulent?
Credulity is a fine default for human interaction. It is gift of assumed sincerity.

Deciding at which point that gift was misplaced is a learned skill and one I cannot claim to have expertise in.

I may credulously assume that our poster friend is sincere. However, as I read replies that the poster has made to sincere responses, I observe:

* a claim of mutual empathy via mutual distrust "I've criticized Musk!" ... "I've been contradicting DOGE on things since they became a thing"

* a surrender of high-ground via tenuous appeal-to-authority "Bibi says he's not a nazi"

* a veneer of emotional maturity over others: "we don't have to be so stressed about needing to trust DOGE's changes"

I've seen enough of on-line conversations to understand the "I'm just asking questions" type -- the kind who
only grows in power as response after response is parried with "my goodenss, how rude?!" aplomb.

Buffeted yet calm, our poster friend claims the high-ground while having-and-eating cake.

Our poster is in an incredulous superposition of:

"So yeah, I don't trust him." and "I was shocked"

or

"I don't think they'd renege on it. I'm certainly not naive!"

I've wasted too much time discussing our mutual friend. I should not have done my drive-by, and I apologize to you both for the energy consumption of my this and my previous post. I shrink away cowardly from responding anymore.

I do not apologize for lacking credulity.
How much cheaper? I’m curious because I’ve seen the offers that Chinese tech companies pay and it’s in the millions for the top talent.