skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the case at all. Tons of emulators are near 100% accurate.
I love diceware passwords, they’re the perfect way to keep things secure while allowing you to type them on a TV app, for example. Nice to use for the master password of your password manager too, since you can remember a very long one.

I wrote a Go package[1] that generates them (and random ones too) a while ago and also compiled a word list with about 23 thousand words[2]. I had it reviewed by a third-party, and, it seems, bias wasn’t introduced in the generation. There is a CLI app[3] using the package, if anyone is interested in something written in Go instead of Python for whatever reason.

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/acopw-go

[2]: https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/acopw-go/blob/trunk/words/...

[3]: https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/acopw-cli
It's not targeted. It's a blanket destruction of the nation. It is carpet bombing.
Yet, if I recall, they accepted the code into their source tree, but later judged that the style was so foreign to them that they were unable or at least unwilling to refactor or use the code in anyway. Seems if the code was flat out bad it would’ve been rejected initially.
The GP is not talking about removing CO2 from the air.

Even though no, it's not as simple as they put it, plants do remove particles from the air, humidify it, and emit plenty of stuff on their own (what may or may not be good). You don't need a lot of them to have a large impact.
Your position is any citizen should be able to access the private information of any other citizen? Because that is in essence what "wiretapping the Federal government" would lead to.

Personal privacy aside, how are secrets imperative to national security protected if you allow full audits by any American citizen?
You're welcome to come to ours, since you're so enamored with this corruption. Mark my words, this is all about corruption and nothing about savings.
To hedge against increasing electric utility prices, maybe. I installed solar recently and the cost of batteries to cover a decent power outage didn’t make sense to me. I just got a transfer switch and a portable propane generator instead. The battery tech / price is just not there yet IMO. And in case this isn’t well known, when there is a power outage and you don’t have battery backup, the solar generation shuts off — you’re not using solar AS the backup in most cases unless you have a very particular setup.
Excellent Pull Request Reviews
R1 came out when Grok 3's training was still ongoing. They shared their techniques freely, so you would expect the next round of models to incorporate as many of those techniques as possible. The bump you would get from the extra compute occurs in the next cycle.

If Musk really can get 1 million GPUs and they incorporate some algorithmic improvements, it'll be exciting to see what comes out.
And my axe…
Isn’t this basically triplebyte? I did their process and every company still wanted to do their leetcode interview after.
Easy for me to say, but I would like to think I would say, "Fire me, assholes." And have a good story for the grand children.
I'm sure your country has domestic Nazis you can use for this. You don't need the one we borrowed from South Africa.
Elon Musk has Canadian, US, and South-African citizenship
I don't think unelected bureaucrats should have more power than the elected leaders of the Executive.
Try the "shoe on the other foot" principle: Imagine if Trump put lifetime leaders in those agencies and they fought against the next Progressive president.
International aid is such a cheap way to get soft-power while also being able to, you know, help people. Even if a lot of it is misused or inefficiently used the soft-power is there.

A lot of that soft-power has been spent on getting other countries to be more democratic, which is a good thing. Although I don't doubt it has been used for bad reasons as well.
The easter egg carried over to the PDP-11 as well. I remember it being present in RSTS/E 7.0's TECO back in my high school days, and I just fired up SIMH and found it's definitely there.

On the other hand, I never really tried to do anything with TECO other than run VTEDIT.
> adding a repo for every app adds unnecessary security risks

Could you speak more to your security concerns about adding repos? To the very best of my knowledge it doesn't auto-download from all the repos, that would be crazy, and it for sure doesn't auto-install from them
Trillions of Viruses Live in Your Body. A.I. Is Trying to Find Them.
I imagine this scales with size.

By comparison, if you own a dog, you have to clean that too. And pick up it's excrement every day.
Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control
Show HN: Privatemode AI
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What is it? Inference, but we can't see your prompts.

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The salient difference is that Chrome kneecapped extensions, while Firefox has not. The more they get involved with ads, the more likely they become to mess with that. It will not go well.
Years ago I wrote one in ~50 lines of C using a wordlist of short, simple english, words:

https://gitlab.com/trobador/sdice
https://archive.ph/rCl5Y
It might be a good reflection for you to consider why you still somehow feel like a victim in this precise moment.
Stopped "purchasing" from them after i found out they wrapped their whole Store crap around apps and repackaged them.
I did that too but it turned out to be just too much trouble. Play store kept trying to update the handful of apps that exist in both Amazon's and Google's ecosystems, and it completely them.
Why should they "bat an eye" about killing animals raised on their own land? It's how we've lived since the dawn of time. Death is a part of life.

If you think it's wrong to kill animals to eat, I would ask you "By what moral standard?"
Memes, people will use it for the memes. I saw the NBA footage and yes, i want a gif of me posterizing Ben Simmons.
Amazon has become incredibly inhospitable. Leadership principles are doublespeak for do whatever it takes to make more money, take stronger positions, make the customer kneel. Did you know their returns can now take up to 90 days to receive a refund? It is just one of the many many ways.

I quit recently. I couldn't trust anyone to act in good faith. My days were getting worse. Stress at all time high. It comes down from the top aka Jassy and Bezos.

Edited per requests
Anecdote time!

Some years ago I had a password on an account that contained a space character. One day, out of the blue, couldn’t log in. Went through the reset flow, picked another password that also happened to contain a space, still couldn’t log in.

I started poking at it and realized that I had to enter the space as `+` at the login form. It worked that way. I never quite figured out what they would’ve had to do to get the form encoding so specifically wrong.

Since then, I’ve tried to carefully consider just how “special” I want my special characters to be.
Not if your HOA strictly forbids livestock or you live in an apartment, lol.
I usually just add a standard set of numbers and special characters at the end of an otherwise secure password to appease the complexity gods.
It doesn't take much of a search to find many strong contra arguments to your reply.
https://www.peta.org/features/egg-industry-cruelty/
In my experience with the people that I have worked with over many years, the best software engineers were always that ones that had a personal interest in software and programming and not just "assembly-line programmers". So I do think that passion plays a large role in the difference between adequate/good and "great".
> More people will start to find...

...that roosters are total assholes.

There's room for exactly one in the flock, and I have no emotional difficulty turning the rest into stew. The "chickens are cute" narrative only works in a carefully curated frame.
If cost is a concern, then Remote is a better option.
A lot of Government contracts that are on the surface multi-million, even billion dollars, aren't payed out immediately in full. Thus, at first glance it may look like they've spent more than has left their pockets
Ah, well state level actors are another thing altogether, and would definitely have the effect you mention; a general distrust of air travel would be quite disruptive, and not in a good way. It is certainly worth considering.

But the simplest cause I see so far is piling-on job-termination stress onto an already stressed-near-the-limit air traffic control workforce, and near-eliminating enforcement of maintenance regulations. Better yet, the results will be totally stochastic.
You are on the verge of discovering why non-chronological timelines exist :) It's not hard to imagine that there are 1200 people posting at least one thing a week that you would find interesting. The trouble is, if they also post 100 things that are not interesting, how does the software surface the interesting stuff without drowning you in the non-interesting stuff? How do you do that in a way that feels fair to the user ("I never see Friend X's posts because they're drowned out by the interesting stuff posted by the other 1199 people I follow")? It's tough!
Show HN: fixi.js – minimal general hypermedia controls
hey HN, i have been working on an extremely minimal implementation of htmx called fixi.js

the idea with this project is to boil the concept of generalized hypermedia controls down to the absolute essence, keeping the library as small as possible while still being useful

it doesn't have a lot of the niceties of htmx and almost certainly will require some javascript work for real-world usages (it's designed to be extended via events) but might appeal to people comfortable with JS and who like ultra-minimalism

the minimalism also extends to the project itself, which consists of three files: fixi.js, README.md and test.html. There are no dependencies (i wrote my own hack of a visual testing harness), no build step, no minification and fixi isn't distributed via NPM. The fixi.js file itself is 3268 bytes, unminified and uncompressed, and 1176 bytes when brotli compressed.

i don't expect this to be nearly as widely adopted as htmx due to the minimal ergonomics, but thought people here might find it interesting
> What’s next, uncontrolled violence?

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/how-did-adolf...

Hitler was elected, loved to hear himself talk, many people did not take him seriously, blamed Germany's weaknesses on minorities, anti democratic.

Even teamed up with Stalin's Russia to invade Poland.

If the pattern continues then the push back will be used to grant himself emergency powers.
If the abuse is serious enough, pursue legal avenues. Otherwise, these types of companies shouldn't be unmasking users based on a random persons assertion that someone is bad. That would be an abuse vector itself.
I think the general sentiment is correct, as the US is, for better or worse, much more laissez faire about prescribing and approving certain medications, like opiates and psychotropics. Which means, if something less common works best for you, there is a chance you won't get it in Europe, or at least it's not accepted as first-line medication.

Generally, if a medication is available on the market (can be purchased by pharmacies), a doctor can usually prescribe it to you privately ("off-label" etc). However, this implies they are accepting legal liability, if things go wrong. E.g. an ADHD psychiatrist may prescribe immediate release methylphenidate to an adult, but probably wouldn't take the risk of abuse with IR amphetamine, or "experiment" with "newer" drugs like guanfacine, which is not approved for ADHD in Europe. It's mostly a mentality difference tho, I think.

Another thing is, finding a psychiatrist knowledgeable in ADHD in adults may be a painful process to begin with. Depending on where you are your options may be very limited and if the doc is an idiot you may be stuck with them for the moment (depends heavily on the country). Smaller medical issues can be a bit bothersome with socialized healthcare processes, but it's really paying off when you become seriously sick, or unemployed. And of course, in Europe you got more leisure time, so you have more opportunities to break your legs hiking ;)
Of course some level of bureaucracy is essential for any human society but your generalization takes us nowhere because it's riven with assumptions about that 'human element'.
Why would you want a law that says government workers have zero accountability over how they spend the money they extract by threat of violence from the citizenry?

We should all have "root access" to everything but the most national-security sensitive topics.
Did you make SageMath? I used it a bunch in college. It was/is such a cool tool. There was a LaTeX plugin or something and I used it to grade students papers. It's also how I learned about hardware and software precision. Along with a whole bunch of other stuff.

Also very much thought it was cool to know someone can nerd out on math and skateboard.
I’m not downvoted at the moment, but in any case, it’s not really ‘at any cost’. Salient points from the linked report [1]:

* Data centers in the Netherlands use approx. 2% of nationwide electricity production (4% in the US [2])

* Data center electricity usage is nearly constant, while access patterns aren’t

* Even heavily used servers spend 1/3 of power usage on idle cycles, 99% for the most lightly used servers

* Power-saving modes save approx. 10% of electricity without affecting application performance

* Many respondents do not use power-saving modes because of a lack of knowledge, because they fear the consequences, or because they have been instructed not to by their sysadmin/vendor

* Nonetheless, latency-sensitive applications (e.g. HPC or HFT) are not well-suited to power-saving modes

Given these results, it seems sensible to use power-saving modes by default, unless your workload is extremely latency-sensitive.

In any case, I disagree that potential 10% electricity savings across the worldwide data center industry, without affecting application performance, are ‘environmentalism at any cost’.

[1, Dutch] Harryvan, D. et al. (2020). Analyse LEAP Track 1 “Powermanagement.” Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland. URL: https://www.rvo.nl/sites/default/files/2021/01/Rapport%20LEA...

[1, English] Harryvan, D. et al. (2021). Analysis LEAP Track 1 “Powermanagement.” Netherlands Enterprise Agency. URL: https://www.rvo.nl/sites/default/files/2021/01/Rapport%20LEA...

[2] Shehabi, A. et al. (2024) United States Data Center Energy Usage Report (page 5). Berkeley Lab. URL: https://eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12...
In Linux (with the necessary packages) this shell oneliner can more or less do the same.

shuf -n 5 /usr/share/dict/words
> Pick a small number of issues.

I'm not sure what you mean. I generally agree with you — but I think in the case of Trump you have to disregard at least 26 [1] public allegations of rape if you want to give him a pass, blame his fame, or partisanship, or whatever.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct...
Ducks are noisy.
And stinky unless you have a medium/large pond.
On the plus side they are indeed resilient and can forage a good portion of their food.
That was my problem with backyard chickens. The raccoons are too clever. They never got into the coop, but they were persistent about weakening the run, and eventually learned our schedule for putting them in the coop for the night, and got up early to beat us to it. Chickens are a tragic pet just because absolutely everything wants to eat them.
> Slavery is an excellent cognate to this.

No it's not. I always find the idea that humans are not in some way special (at least to other humans) off-putting. Even animals treat members of their own species generally better than they treat other species.

I love animals, I think we should treat them with dignity and respect as much as possible. At the same time I would not hesitate to kill an animal for food or if it endangered another human.
Yep. I've also been using an AI-proof interview for years. We have a normal conversation, they talk about their work, and I do a short round of well-tested technical questions (there's no trivia, let's just talk about some concepts you probably encounter fairly regularly given your areas of expertise).

You can tell who's trying to use AI live. They're clearly reading, and they don't understand the content of their answers, and they never say "I don't know." So if you ask a followup or even "are you sure" they start to panic. It's really obvious.

Maybe this is only a real problem for the teams that offloading their interviewing skills onto some leetcode nonsense...
In New Zealand public servants salaries were published in the “Public Service List” from 1866 through to 1988.

https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/33070/page-from-the-public-...

Anecdotally they were mainly used to evaluate potential dates.
The most surprising thing about the fascist takeover is that it’s so incredibly stupid.
I can understand that concern, and I think in the future some version of [Privacy Pass](https://privacypass.github.io/) will allow for site operators to differentiate between normal vs. abusive users without relying on IP reputation (which is more unreliable anyway since CGNAT is a thing).
Eat fewer eggs, watch prices drop.
I am actually really inspired by the Big Tech efficiency brought into gov't bureaucracy. I hope the next Democrat admin does the same.
Hint: the answer to the headline is "no", which means it should not have been the headline, but that's clickbait for you.

Growing your own food costs time and resources. People are attached to the (copious) amount of leisure time they have today.
The sibling comment to yours mentions that this is pretty common on Twitter, and I'd guess that it started as a way to making firing off tweets from a phone easier (since the extra effort to hit shift when typing on a phone keyboard is a bit higher, and the additional effort to go back and fix any typos that happen due to trying to capitalize things is also higher compared to using a traditional keyboard). Once enough people were doing it there, the style probably became recognizable and evoked a certain "vibe" that people wanted to replicate elsewhere, including in places where the original context of "hitting the shift key is more work than it's worth" doesn't hold as well.
I have grown up with chickens through out my childhood and I strongly disagree with that take. If anything, it makes it more reasonable to eat chicken given that backyard hens are more sustainable and more natural than processed food bought in the store. Chickens reproduce at a very fast pace, and it is not like one is going to eat the oldest and nicest ones.

It does however makes factory farmed animals much less fun to eat, both in term of taste and the knowledge of how much better backyard hens has it. It is like buying clothes manufactured from countries with less-than-stellar working environment.
You've got to remember that this comic came out at a time when password managers were not extremely common, and the general consensus for a "good" password looked something like this: X8woi$SD

The big thing (in my opinion) that the comic gets wrong, and that all implementations of the password spec follow, is that if an attacker has reason to assume you might be using this style of password, then each word sort of becomes a single "character," albeit from a much larger list of possible characters. But if you introduce some random numbers or special characters into the words, it's still easy to remember and type, but becomes much more difficult to crack.
Speaking of, I recently learned that Epic has started doing that on Android, too, but you have to sideload their .apk because of Google Hate: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/mobile

I was initially confused because I thought they were just pushing a mobile access pathway for the normal Epic store, and I had no interest in that, but Bloons TD 6 is pretty fun, so I was willing to give it a shot to see what they'll give away next month https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/mobile#:~:text=Free%20Give...
> There is a french say I like. If you need to cut a dog’s tail, don’t cut an inch every day, chop the whole thing quick

Well there’s cutting off the dogs tail, and then there’s accidentally cutting off your own fingers in your haste to get the dogs tail.

There is another saying:

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.

Act quickly when needed but not so quickly that you don’t have time to assess. You should know what you’re cutting before you cut.
if the api is cheap enough.
Depends on how they weigh the cost of a false positive versus false negative decision. The former seems to often be the key focus of a bureaucracy, slowing down the rate of diffusion of new technologies even among willing adopters.
Trump's biggest mistake was not firing all the Obama holdovers on the first term, like Obama did for GWB's. He isn't making that mistake this time around apparently.
for 3d design, consider FreeCAD or Blender
I think that the effects at the moment are highly exaggerated in the tech media than the reality on the ground.

How long that will remain true is a very open question, where different folks have widely differing timelines on when they expect AI to have highly meaningful impacts.
Unelected bureaucrats don't have more power than the elected leaders of the Executive. The power to remove them arbitrarily is simply not a power that the leaders should have. Ideally, Trump's lifetime leaders in those agencies would have been installed by committee between both parties and so are apolitical whose sole focus is their job duties and serving the people, and can fight against the next Progressive president purely on that basis.
The only problem with real VTs is you have to be careful not to get one where the CRT has severe burn-in, like in the ebay listing. Sure, some VTs (like the VT240 or VT525) are a separate main box + CRT, but then you're missing the "VT aesthetics". The VT525 is probably the easiest one to get which also uses (old) standard interfaces like VGA for the monitor and PS/2 for the keyboard, so you don't need an original keyboard / CRT. At least for me, severe burn-in, insane prices, and general decay of some of the devices offered on ebay are the reason why I don't have a real VT (yet).

The alternative is to use a decent VT emulator attached to roughly any monitor. By "decent" I certainly don't mean projects like cool-retro-term, but rather something like this, which I started to develop some time ago and which I'm using as my main terminal emulator now: https://github.com/unknown-technologies/vt240
yes for sure. you can't be good at something you don't give a shit about and only there for money.

Also being a "great software engineer" doesn't get you money more than being "good at people" so ppl who are great are doing it for love .
m4 is filled with quirks of its own. I tried using it once for generating code in a language without macros, only to get bogged down in the opaque quoting rules. It's worse than the \expandafter soup you get in TeX macros.

Also, you'd have a hard time finding a pair of quote characters that don't conflict with C/C++ source code, since string literals can contain just about anything. Any general-purpose preprocessor should at least conform to the lexical rules of the target language.